-- I give it another quarter of a century before these priests ^H^H^H^H scientists ^H^H^H^H clowns discover the 2 missing forces: #5 strong intergalactic force, and #6 the weak intergalactic force, and the white hole at the center of the galaxy.
> l4d1 has a better dark atmosphere... But that's about it !
You've fallen for the fallacy "More is better" bullshit.
IMHO L4D1 is a far better game then L4D2 because it has better characters (and voice lines), no bullshit "melee spam", no bullshit spitters or jockeys. But the main reason L4D1 is a better is because it is more focused. It focuses on doing 1 thing well. The "bright pastels" of L4D2 is beside the point -- even though it sets the wrong "mood."
What's REALLY strange is that Turtle Rock initially designed L4D1 -- I don't understand how they _completely_ fucked up Evolve ???
> Gameplay in l4d2 is a lot more rich
Riiight, when a spitter fucks you over because it doesn't like you have an "solid defense position." L4D2 is _cheesy._
> pvp teamplay
No idea about PVP in either L4D1 or 2 so you could be right.
Your point about Diablo 2 is noted. I played Diablo 2 for 7 years. We used to joked "D2 was the game you played while you waited for other games to come out."
1. The way "magic find" works in D2, D3, and most other games is that it rolls "IF" you get phat loot. TF2 doesn't roll "if" you get loot, but "when". This means you are _guaranteed_ to eventually get the item -- instead of being at the mercy of some shitty RNG. This change in focus allows you to just play the game and worry less about having "GGG gear"
2. Also, NONE of the upgrades in TF2 change the core gameplay. In Warframe if you don't have the right "mods" (cards) you build just isn't going to work. period.
So while TF2 _can_ be a grind the items don't really matter like they do in Warframe.
* unskippable cut-scenes * MTX (micro-transaction) because the game devs don't respect your Time, Space, nor Wallet. * Season Pass * bullshit DLC(DownLoadable Content) * QTE (Quick-Time Events) You remember Dragon's Lair ? Yup, that's what modern "AAA" gaming has devolved into. * Grindfests aka Skinner boxes * Flat UI that you can't fucking tell what are UI elements you can interact with vs static elements. * Multiplayer games that don't allow you to run your own server -- typical EA bullshit.
When the "gaming industry" refers to its customers as "whales" you know they don't give a fuck about you -- only how long they can keep "milking" you. If you wat to know the general state of the "industry" Jim Sterling excellent Jimquisition pretty much sucks up the fuckery that publishers and devs try to pull.
With that said I'm a professional game developer and have over 500+ games in my Steam Library. This is my "best of the best" of modern games are in alphabetical order (I've included the "genre" in parenthesis):
* Borderlands 1 and 2 (FPS) * Dishonored 1 and 2 (FPS) * Doom (2017) (FPS) * Elite: Dangerous (Space) * Inside (Adventure) * Left for Dead (1 not 2) (FPS) * Limbo (Adventure) * Luftrausers (2D shmup) * Minecraft (3D Survival) * Path of Exile (RPG) * Portal 1 and 2 (Puzzle) * Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 1 and 2 * Serious Sam 1, 2, and 3 (FPS) * Terraria (2D Survival) * Team Fortress 2 (FPS) * The Stanley Parable (Story) * The Talos Principle (FPS) * The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (Puzzle) * The Witness (Puzzle) * Torchlight 1 and 2 (RPG)
The fact that teachers and parents are too stupid to do anything about corrupt politicss and having OPEN, FREE, STANDARDIZED, textbooks is precisely the problem -- NOT the greey publishers who want to change a few here and there then slap on a $150 sticker on "new" version.
-- ~2017 - ~2023 Trump nukes North Korea ~2024 First Contact
You seem to be confusing "money" with "life." The _entire_ purpose of animals existing is to support the food chain above and below. Animals do NOT use _tokens_ to trade with one another. So no, animals don't use "money".
Furthermore, money _also_ means time, skill, and labor. I don't have the skills, time, or labor to build a house but I can pay someone to do it.
You don't really seem to grasp this "concept" of money. Maybe you should go back to living with your monkey ancestors?
> 1. This is an informal thread. For someone who's supposed to be so intelligent, you might have noticed that
No one loves reading a fucking Wall-of-Text. Making excuses for shitting formatting is still an excuse -- informal or formal is an orthogonal issue.
> 4. I'm glad that 4 scientists agree with Demore. There are nearly 6 million scientists and engineers in the US alone. > I would say globally, several million. Let's take the US number. So, your 4 scientists work out to...OMG, its infinitesimal.
Quantity != Quality.
McDonalds serves BILLIONS. That doesn't make then experts in _quality_ food -- only cheap, shit food in _quantity._
Of those ~6 million scientists how many have a degree in Biology? You don't ask a Prof of Basketweaving how do Computer Science. Why would anyone pay _any_ attention to yet-another-armchair critic instead of the experts ???
But let's keep talking about things that don't matter and ignore the issue the term "diversity" is an oxymoron and coming to conclusions that are NOT mentioned in the paper.
> But if everyone gets a copy for free, then there's no incentive for people to create new works.
Incorrect.
1. You are assuming money is the _only_ reward. HINT: It is not.
2. Operating Systems are free yet people still create new ones. Did you _really_ ignore the ENTIRE open source movement???
> So we set up a system where for a LONG time PUBLISHERS have exclusive rights to distribute their works in exchange for money.
FTFY.
The dirty secret of Copyright is that it was invented by --> Publishers <-- to maintain control by preventing other publishers from making a profit !!
I've posted about this in the past...
"The history of copyright law starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned", was the first copyright statute. Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books."
and
"Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time."
and
"The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton. The privilege gives a monopoly for the term of two years. The date is 15 years later than that of the first privilege issued in France. Early copyright privileges were called "monopolies,"...
and
"In England the printers, known as stationers, formed a collective organization, known as the Stationers' Company. In the 16th century the Stationers' Company was given the power to require all lawfully printed books to be entered into its register. Only members of the Stationers' Company could enter books into the register. This meant that the Stationers' Company achieved a dominant position over publishing in 17th century England"
Animals have lived for millions of years without any money.
And yet somehow humans are the only stupid animal who can't figure this shit out.
> The right is inherent in the very nature of society
[[Citation]] because you are talking about only _one_ government and assuming that there is nothing better.
> real society
Define "real society".
Taxation IS theft. PERIOD. It is fantastical thinking has absolutely no relation to how a advanced society could ever function.
Your entire concept of money is based in a flawed premise -- there is never enough -- so we are going to create artificial scarcity to give it some "perceived" value -- and then take it from you without your permission.
As one alien said : "You mean you have to PAY to live on the planet you were born on???"
If people could dictate what X% of their taxes went towards education vs the genocide (military) far less people would have a problem with the complete and total mis-management of it. What other company do you know that is allowed to run decades with TRILLIONS of debt -- yet somehow it is magically OK when the government does it ??? WTF!!!
Lastly, the problem is not the taxes per say. Instead of having over 2,600 pages of BULLSHIT you could summarize the ENTIRE tax law with one sentence -- but since everyone is too fucking stupid to do anything about it we are stuck with a broken, in-debt, slave system.
5. You are the one not thinking properly -- your logic is broken. **THINK** about what is _actually_ being said. I'm going to quote the last part from the link above because you _completely_ missed the paradox.
The memo didn't address this paradox directly, but I think it's implicit in the author's critique of Google's diversity programs. This dogma relies on two core assumptions:
* The human sexes and races have exactly the same minds, with precisely identical distributions of traits, aptitudes, interests, and motivations; therefore, any inequalities of outcome in hiring and promotion must be due to systemic sexism and racism;
* The human sexes and races have such radically different minds, backgrounds, perspectives, and insights, that companies must increase their demographic diversity in order to be competitive; any lack of demographic diversity must be due to short-sighted management that favors groupthink. The obvious problem is that these two core assumptions are diametrically opposed.
Let me explain. If different groups have minds that are precisely equivalent in every respect, then those minds are functionally interchangeable, and diversity would be irrelevant to corporate competitiveness. For example, take sex differences. The usual rationale for gender diversity in corporate teams is that a balanced, 50/50 sex ratio will keep a team from being dominated by either masculine or feminine styles of thinking, feeling, and communicating. Each sex will counter-balance the other's quirks. (That makes sense to me, by the way, and is one reason why evolutionary psychologists often value gender diversity in research teams.) But if there are no sex differences in these psychological quirks, counter-balancing would be irrelevant. A 100% female team would function exactly the same as a 50/50 team, which would function the same as a 100% male team. If men are no different from women, then the sex ratio in a team doesn't matter at any rational business level, and there is no reason to promote gender diversity as a competitive advantage.
Likewise, if the races are no different from each other, then the racial mix of a company can't rationally matter to the company's bottom line. The only reasons to value diversity would be at the levels of legal compliance with government regulations, public relations virtue-signalling, and deontological morality â" not practical effectiveness. Legal, PR, and moral reasons can be good reasons for companies to do things. But corporate diversity was never justified to shareholders as a way to avoid lawsuits, PR blowback, or moral shame; it was justified as a competitive business necessity.
So, if the sexes and races don't differ at all, and if psychological interchangeability is true, then there's no practical business case for diversity.
On the other hand, if demographic diversity gives a company any competitive advantages, it must be because there are important sex differences and race differences in how human minds work and interact. For example, psychological variety must promote better decision-making within teams, projects, and divisions. Yet if minds differ across sexes and races enough to justify diversity as an instrumental business goal, then they must differ enough in some specific skills, interests, and motivations that hiring and promotion will sometimes produce unequal outcomes in some company rol
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> I'm sure the Canadians would have liked their entries as well, eh?
> I'm sure the Australianswould have liked their entries as well, mate
FTFY. :-)
Another very interesting read is the complete clusterfuck of the universal constant G -- except it isn't constant -- it oscillates!
Final Demystification of the gravitational constant variation
Considering that Newton's Universal Gravitational Force equation is ...
Have you read The Electro-Magnetic Radiation Pressure (EMRP) Gravity Theory, specifically Speed of Gravity?
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I give it another quarter of a century before these priests ^H^H^H^H scientists ^H^H^H^H clowns discover the 2 missing forces: #5 strong intergalactic force, and #6 the weak intergalactic force, and the white hole at the center of the galaxy.
Yeah, BioShock is a good addition. I personally didn't like any of the ones I've played, but YMMV.
> l4d1 has a better dark atmosphere... But that's about it !
You've fallen for the fallacy "More is better" bullshit.
IMHO L4D1 is a far better game then L4D2 because it has better characters (and voice lines), no bullshit "melee spam", no bullshit spitters or jockeys. But the main reason L4D1 is a better is because it is more focused. It focuses on doing 1 thing well. The "bright pastels" of L4D2 is beside the point -- even though it sets the wrong "mood."
What's REALLY strange is that Turtle Rock initially designed L4D1 -- I don't understand how they _completely_ fucked up Evolve ???
> Gameplay in l4d2 is a lot more rich
Riiight, when a spitter fucks you over because it doesn't like you have an "solid defense position." L4D2 is _cheesy._
> pvp teamplay
No idea about PVP in either L4D1 or 2 so you could be right.
Diablo 1 is good, but short.
Your point about Diablo 2 is noted. I played Diablo 2 for 7 years. We used to joked "D2 was the game you played while you waited for other games to come out."
> Terraria and Minecraft are both child games,
I think I found your problem. You just want to play childish genocide games instead of actual _thinking_ about building and construction.
When are you going to grow up and realize there is more then just mindless killing in a video game ???
1. The way "magic find" works in D2, D3, and most other games is that it rolls "IF" you get phat loot. TF2 doesn't roll "if" you get loot, but "when". This means you are _guaranteed_ to eventually get the item -- instead of being at the mercy of some shitty RNG. This change in focus allows you to just play the game and worry less about having "GGG gear"
2. Also, NONE of the upgrades in TF2 change the core gameplay. In Warframe if you don't have the right "mods" (cards) you build just isn't going to work. period.
So while TF2 _can_ be a grind the items don't really matter like they do in Warframe.
Of course there are exceptions.
For example, the beautiful:
* Limbo,
* Inside, and
* The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
have no HUD -- and they pull it off perfectly! They are gems in an otherwise turd filled landscape.
But yeah, that is one of the downsides of older games -- the UI tends to be a _little_ less streamlined. I'll take clunky UI over MTX any day though.
> Facebook, ... and all that crap and host it for everyone else to see.
FecesBook, noun, a place where people post their crap that no one gives a fuck about.
--
Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking a red square and white plus symbol in video games.
You'll probably be interested in my list of good games.
> Games haven't changed, I have.
Yes they HAVE changed -- often times for the worse. FPS Map Design 1993 vs 2010
Modern games are full of bullshit:
* unskippable cut-scenes
* MTX (micro-transaction) because the game devs don't respect your Time, Space, nor Wallet.
* Season Pass
* bullshit DLC (DownLoadable Content)
* QTE (Quick-Time Events) You remember Dragon's Lair ? Yup, that's what modern "AAA" gaming has devolved into.
* Grindfests aka Skinner boxes
* Flat UI that you can't fucking tell what are UI elements you can interact with vs static elements.
* Multiplayer games that don't allow you to run your own server -- typical EA bullshit.
When the "gaming industry" refers to its customers as "whales" you know they don't give a fuck about you -- only how long they can keep "milking" you. If you wat to know the general state of the "industry" Jim Sterling excellent Jimquisition pretty much sucks up the fuckery that publishers and devs try to pull.
With that said I'm a professional game developer and have over 500+ games in my Steam Library. This is my "best of the best" of modern games are in alphabetical order (I've included the "genre" in parenthesis):
* Borderlands 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Dishonored 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Doom (2017) (FPS)
* Elite: Dangerous (Space)
* Inside (Adventure)
* Left for Dead (1 not 2) (FPS)
* Limbo (Adventure)
* Luftrausers (2D shmup)
* Minecraft (3D Survival)
* Path of Exile (RPG)
* Portal 1 and 2 (Puzzle)
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 1 and 2
* Serious Sam 1, 2, and 3 (FPS)
* Terraria (2D Survival)
* Team Fortress 2 (FPS)
* The Stanley Parable (Story)
* The Talos Principle (FPS)
* The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (Puzzle)
* The Witness (Puzzle)
* Torchlight 1 and 2 (RPG)
Stay away from grind-shift-fests like:
* Defiance
* Destiny
* Diablo 3
* Evolve
* Fashionframe, er, Warframe
There are still some good games out there -- but about 95% of them are shit. i.e. Any game that has non-cosmetic MTX is crap.
> I learned long ago you should just stop fucking asking why.
Sticking your head in the sand, trying to ignore the problem, doesn't make it go away.
> Education is as much a racket as anything else these days.
Indeed. Nothing has changed from when Feynman wrote about it:
Judging Books by Their Covers
Greed is a cancer that destroys everything.
The fact that teachers and parents are too stupid to do anything about corrupt politicss and having OPEN, FREE, STANDARDIZED, textbooks is precisely the problem -- NOT the greey publishers who want to change a few here and there then slap on a $150 sticker on "new" version.
--
~2017 - ~2023 Trump nukes North Korea
~2024 First Contact
... and nothing of value will be lost.
> Nuclear is better for the environment too,
Bullshit. How's that working out for Japan ?
We _already_ have safe clean energy: Solar, Geothermal, Wave, and Wind.
Nuclear is idiotic in this day and age when we have clean alternatives.
--
2017 World War III started in Auguest
??? Trump nukes the fuck out of N. Korea
2024 First Contact
You seem to be confusing "money" with "life." The _entire_ purpose of animals existing is to support the food chain above and below. Animals do NOT use _tokens_ to trade with one another. So no, animals don't use "money".
Furthermore, money _also_ means time, skill, and labor. I don't have the skills, time, or labor to build a house but I can pay someone to do it.
You don't really seem to grasp this "concept" of money. Maybe you should go back to living with your monkey ancestors?
> 1. This is an informal thread. For someone who's supposed to be so intelligent, you might have noticed that
No one loves reading a fucking Wall-of-Text. Making excuses for shitting formatting is still an excuse -- informal or formal is an orthogonal issue.
> 4. I'm glad that 4 scientists agree with Demore. There are nearly 6 million scientists and engineers in the US alone. ...OMG, its infinitesimal.
> I would say globally, several million. Let's take the US number. So, your 4 scientists work out to
Quantity != Quality.
McDonalds serves BILLIONS. That doesn't make then experts in _quality_ food -- only cheap, shit food in _quantity._
Of those ~6 million scientists how many have a degree in Biology? You don't ask a Prof of Basketweaving how do Computer Science. Why would anyone pay _any_ attention to yet-another-armchair critic instead of the experts ???
But let's keep talking about things that don't matter and ignore the issue the term "diversity" is an oxymoron and coming to conclusions that are NOT mentioned in the paper.
Ad authoritum is a bullshit cop-out.
You don't ask a Prof. of Basketweaving about Computer Science problems.
The point is he _STILL_ knows more then armchair critics such as the OP.
> But if everyone gets a copy for free, then there's no incentive for people to create new works.
Incorrect.
1. You are assuming money is the _only_ reward. HINT: It is not.
2. Operating Systems are free yet people still create new ones. Did you _really_ ignore the ENTIRE open source movement???
> So we set up a system where for a LONG time PUBLISHERS have exclusive rights to distribute their works in exchange for money.
FTFY.
The dirty secret of Copyright is that it was invented by --> Publishers <-- to maintain control by preventing other publishers from making a profit !!
I've posted about this in the past ...
and
and
and
History of Copyright Law
Only a capitalist pig would make it illegal to share knowledge.
> "Pro Choice and Pro Life" -- can you have both at the same time? I believe so.
Are you really that fucking stupid???
How do you "half-murder" a baby???
Murder is a pretty binary operation. To kill or not to kill. There is no imaginary third choice.
Animals have lived for millions of years without any money.
And yet somehow humans are the only stupid animal who can't figure this shit out.
> The right is inherent in the very nature of society
[[Citation]] because you are talking about only _one_ government and assuming that there is nothing better.
> real society
Define "real society".
Taxation IS theft. PERIOD. It is fantastical thinking has absolutely no relation to how a advanced society could ever function.
Your entire concept of money is based in a flawed premise -- there is never enough -- so we are going to create artificial scarcity to give it some "perceived" value -- and then take it from you without your permission.
As one alien said : "You mean you have to PAY to live on the planet you were born on???"
If people could dictate what X% of their taxes went towards education vs the genocide (military) far less people would have a problem with the complete and total mis-management of it. What other company do you know that is allowed to run decades with TRILLIONS of debt -- yet somehow it is magically OK when the government does it ??? WTF!!!
2001 $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2004
http://blog.visual.ly/wp-conte...
2008
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs1...
2009
http://www.infohow.org/wp-cont...
2011
http://www.coolinfographics.co...
2012
http://chiefmartec.com/post_im...
* A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Lastly, the problem is not the taxes per say. Instead of having over 2,600 pages of BULLSHIT you could summarize the ENTIRE tax law with one sentence -- but since everyone is too fucking stupid to do anything about it we are stuck with a broken, in-debt, slave system.
Touche. Well played.
1. And yet in all that time working with computers you still haven't figured out how to Preview and add line breaks??
2. Your link is broken -- it should be: james-damore-diversity-manifesto-science-logical-fallacy-2017-8
* http://www.businessinsider.com...
3. James has a Ph.D. in Biology. What are your degrees?
4. Four scientists agree with James' analysis.
http://quillette.com/2017/08/0...
5. You are the one not thinking properly -- your logic is broken. **THINK** about what is _actually_ being said. I'm going to quote the last part from the link above because you _completely_ missed the paradox.
> the chicken or the egg?'
Can we get that stupid cliche at least updated.
You DO realize dinosaurs laid eggs millions of years _before_ chickens, right?