If she has no interest in violent video games, she ought to leave the critiques to people who DO play them and, by extension, will have at least a basic understanding of them and be able to explain things in context and proportion.
What's so great is that so many of the examples are presented as though they are constant and prevalent throughout the game and/or only happen to women.
I loved when it shows Red Dead Redemption (RDR), GTAIV & V, Saints Row 3/4 as examples of how women are disposable because they can be killed with little consequence. Guess what? All NPCs in these games can be killed with little to no consequence. Someone who plays these games knows this and doesn't need to be reminded; someone who doesn't play them could be forgiven for coming away with the idea that only the women can be killed without consequences. There might be an even deeper, sadder point in that one time when women can be truly equal to men in these types of games is in their disposability.
One of the more fascinating things I've noticed is that none of these types of critiques ever aim their lens at the last three Quantic Dreams, of which the last two received heaps of (undeserved in my opinion) praise and are misogynistic as all hell. I guess playing through them for more than 10 minutes is too much for a supposed avid gamer who loves video games (as her supporters like to portray.)
Assuming the posts are valid, I always doubt the 'sincerity' of someone who threatens like that. I figure that the average stalker/murderer type doesn't announce their intentions for the world to see. They post them in their little circles like the lunatic who won't be named in California not too long ago, but I lean towards the idea that direct and over-the-top threats against a relatively high profile person via twitter is for intimidation and show.
I suppose she can go stay with some of the other shallow SJWs until this all blows over.
It costs more but doesn't need internet connectivity to customize settings.
The fact that my (free, won in a drawing) Plantronics BT earpiece needs internet connectivity to change its settings is the dumbest thing in the world. An app is still downloaded to my PC, but I need an internet connected browser to make the changes.
If Sprint has $32B to spend on a merger, perhaps they could spend $16B to upgrade their AWFUL network. I bailed from Sprint to T-Mobile due to coverage and usability issues.
Yes, T-Mobile seems to have coverage issues in some areas, but I've been able to completely, and to my satisfaction, mitigate them with the Wifi-calling feature.
Sprint had huge sections of my company that poor to no coverage. Calls dropped, data was unusable. 9 hour battery life on an S3. We had wifi for the data, but no relief for the calls. The other 3 major carriers had strong 4g signal throughout the property (Casino resort in Las Vegas).
Sprint pathetically fumbled the ball when it came to 4g, leaving some areas with 3g and 4g-wimax. Then they stopped selling Wimax phones in favor of 4g LTE phones. This seriously degraded the 3g experience everywhere I went. Orlando, Miami, Boston, Reno, Biloxi, Philadelphia, etc. were all places where I found the 3g to be unusable and on the rare occasions I got 4g it performed like 3g. My guess was that they were using the same 3g bandwidth backhaul to towers that had 4g equipment.
The short version for me was that it was years after every other carrier had 4g before I started to see the little 4g icon on my phone and a good year after that where it performed like everyone else's 4g in the much smaller number of places it was available.
In places like the LV Convention Center, I eventually had to turn off 4g because the phone would hold onto an unusable 4g connection rather than connect to the usuable (yet still slow by 3g standards) 3g connection that was apparently an in-building thing. Luckily the convention center had wifi so I could get data, but my call/text experience was pretty poor.
I don't have these problems with T-Mobile, nor my Verizon work phone. Some people here would use their work phone as a hotspot for their Sprint personal phone. My t-mobile phone does drop down to Edge at times, it's slow but consistent and has pretty good latency. The few places where I've lost voice AND data had wifi so I was fully functional which couldn't have happened with Sprint.
I can't help but think that for many years, this will be a bad experience for T-Mobile customers no matter what and a mixed bag for Sprint customers if they transition away from CDMA. I see a lot of people reluctantly jumping ship to Verizon or AT&T once the merger is final and network changes begin rolling out.
They never put a stop to shouting "fire!" in a theater. A Supreme Court judge tossed that poor analogy out in a case upholding the conviction of someone handing out pamphlets opposed to WW1 with horribly threatening statements like "Do not be intimidated".
I've noticed that the Let's Play channels I watch pretty much stopped doing Nintendo games altogether. Whether Nintendo liked it or not, these channels can bring exposure to their games.
I've bought about a dozen games after watching short LPs of them on Two Best Friends Play's channel or their subchannel on Machinima.
When this first started, I heard podcasts or interviews with people from shows like Hey Ash Whatcha Playin', TBFP, etc. where they basically said they weren't planning any Nintendo game based shows until the situation was changed.
An easily copied token (in the case of most cars) is not really that secure and certainly quite different from the supposed security built in to so-called smart guns.
The irony is especially sweet here considering you're posting anonymously on an internet forum, exploiting "old fashioned" speech laws (that were drafted with printing presses and quill pens in mind).
From Google Play, I can select apps and tell it to install them on my phone, which it does over wifi/cell connection. This happens without me touching the phone.
I was being a little presumptuous about Apple - I was given the impression by a few iPhone users that you could push apps to your phone the same way.
Give it a few years, maybe a decade, and people who don't regularly use a smartphone/messaging system to interact and/or exchange paper notes will be viewed as highly suspicious.
Given that Apple, like Google, can push apps to the phone, what's to stop them from just pushing a custom app that just copies everything to a designated place?
Part of any future spectrum auctions should require that the company getting the new spectrum develop technology that allows the use of their new service with minimal guard bands and minimal interference to adjacent users.
If this means Verizon, AT&T, et al have to develop newer better filter technology for the other users' equipment, so be it. Though I understand the necessity of guard bands right now, I hate seeing 1-7mhz chunks of supposedly valuable spectrum basically unused to mitigtate interference.
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If she has no interest in violent video games, she ought to leave the critiques to people who DO play them and, by extension, will have at least a basic understanding of them and be able to explain things in context and proportion.
What's so great is that so many of the examples are presented as though they are constant and prevalent throughout the game and/or only happen to women.
I loved when it shows Red Dead Redemption (RDR), GTAIV & V, Saints Row 3/4 as examples of how women are disposable because they can be killed with little consequence. Guess what? All NPCs in these games can be killed with little to no consequence. Someone who plays these games knows this and doesn't need to be reminded; someone who doesn't play them could be forgiven for coming away with the idea that only the women can be killed without consequences. There might be an even deeper, sadder point in that one time when women can be truly equal to men in these types of games is in their disposability.
One of the more fascinating things I've noticed is that none of these types of critiques ever aim their lens at the last three Quantic Dreams, of which the last two received heaps of (undeserved in my opinion) praise and are misogynistic as all hell. I guess playing through them for more than 10 minutes is too much for a supposed avid gamer who loves video games (as her supporters like to portray.)
It worked before to the tune of $160K.
Assuming the posts are valid, I always doubt the 'sincerity' of someone who threatens like that. I figure that the average stalker/murderer type doesn't announce their intentions for the world to see. They post them in their little circles like the lunatic who won't be named in California not too long ago, but I lean towards the idea that direct and over-the-top threats against a relatively high profile person via twitter is for intimidation and show.
I suppose she can go stay with some of the other shallow SJWs until this all blows over.
Intel doesn't have to spend tens of millions on processor trials with a Federal Department of Technology before it can market its processors.
You can always pick the airline that doesn't allow calls.
It's why I eschew Nest and the similar offerings from other companies for something like this:
http://www.temperaturemanager....
It costs more but doesn't need internet connectivity to customize settings.
The fact that my (free, won in a drawing) Plantronics BT earpiece needs internet connectivity to change its settings is the dumbest thing in the world. An app is still downloaded to my PC, but I need an internet connected browser to make the changes.
If Sprint has $32B to spend on a merger, perhaps they could spend $16B to upgrade their AWFUL network. I bailed from Sprint to T-Mobile due to coverage and usability issues.
Yes, T-Mobile seems to have coverage issues in some areas, but I've been able to completely, and to my satisfaction, mitigate them with the Wifi-calling feature.
Sprint had huge sections of my company that poor to no coverage. Calls dropped, data was unusable. 9 hour battery life on an S3. We had wifi for the data, but no relief for the calls. The other 3 major carriers had strong 4g signal throughout the property (Casino resort in Las Vegas).
Sprint pathetically fumbled the ball when it came to 4g, leaving some areas with 3g and 4g-wimax. Then they stopped selling Wimax phones in favor of 4g LTE phones. This seriously degraded the 3g experience everywhere I went. Orlando, Miami, Boston, Reno, Biloxi, Philadelphia, etc. were all places where I found the 3g to be unusable and on the rare occasions I got 4g it performed like 3g. My guess was that they were using the same 3g bandwidth backhaul to towers that had 4g equipment.
The short version for me was that it was years after every other carrier had 4g before I started to see the little 4g icon on my phone and a good year after that where it performed like everyone else's 4g in the much smaller number of places it was available.
In places like the LV Convention Center, I eventually had to turn off 4g because the phone would hold onto an unusable 4g connection rather than connect to the usuable (yet still slow by 3g standards) 3g connection that was apparently an in-building thing. Luckily the convention center had wifi so I could get data, but my call/text experience was pretty poor.
I don't have these problems with T-Mobile, nor my Verizon work phone. Some people here would use their work phone as a hotspot for their Sprint personal phone. My t-mobile phone does drop down to Edge at times, it's slow but consistent and has pretty good latency. The few places where I've lost voice AND data had wifi so I was fully functional which couldn't have happened with Sprint.
I can't help but think that for many years, this will be a bad experience for T-Mobile customers no matter what and a mixed bag for Sprint customers if they transition away from CDMA. I see a lot of people reluctantly jumping ship to Verizon or AT&T once the merger is final and network changes begin rolling out.
That's like saying you have a right to an abortion, but not the right to pay someone to perform it.
It actually forbids gun control ie., "shall not be infringed"
They never put a stop to shouting "fire!" in a theater. A Supreme Court judge tossed that poor analogy out in a case upholding the conviction of someone handing out pamphlets opposed to WW1 with horribly threatening statements like "Do not be intimidated".
It actually does. Sorry.
I have as much right to 'print' a gun as I do a book, paper, pamphlet, etc. as well as making one from raw parts made from a backyard steel smelter.
" because it removes sensible control of the spread of killing weapons."
Do you want to try that again?
The person shooting them is violating their rights, that is who needs to be held accountable.
My right to possess a gun doesn't go away because SOMEONE ELSE might use a gun to violate someone's right not to be shot.
I've noticed that the Let's Play channels I watch pretty much stopped doing Nintendo games altogether. Whether Nintendo liked it or not, these channels can bring exposure to their games.
I've bought about a dozen games after watching short LPs of them on Two Best Friends Play's channel or their subchannel on Machinima.
When this first started, I heard podcasts or interviews with people from shows like Hey Ash Whatcha Playin', TBFP, etc. where they basically said they weren't planning any Nintendo game based shows until the situation was changed.
An easily copied token (in the case of most cars) is not really that secure and certainly quite different from the supposed security built in to so-called smart guns.
How's that?
People still have the "right" not to be shot by a "stupid" gun, but that right doesn't supercede my right to own one of these non-"smart" guns.
Hey man, those ghost guns with 30 round magazine clips are totally real.
The irony is especially sweet here considering you're posting anonymously on an internet forum, exploiting "old fashioned" speech laws (that were drafted with printing presses and quill pens in mind).
Yes.
From the google play website, I select an app, click install and it lets me choose which devices to install to.
From Google Play, I can select apps and tell it to install them on my phone, which it does over wifi/cell connection. This happens without me touching the phone.
I was being a little presumptuous about Apple - I was given the impression by a few iPhone users that you could push apps to your phone the same way.
Sort of like they've been doing with cash.
Give it a few years, maybe a decade, and people who don't regularly use a smartphone/messaging system to interact and/or exchange paper notes will be viewed as highly suspicious.
Given that Apple, like Google, can push apps to the phone, what's to stop them from just pushing a custom app that just copies everything to a designated place?
Press X to Json.
Part of any future spectrum auctions should require that the company getting the new spectrum develop technology that allows the use of their new service with minimal guard bands and minimal interference to adjacent users.
If this means Verizon, AT&T, et al have to develop newer better filter technology for the other users' equipment, so be it. Though I understand the necessity of guard bands right now, I hate seeing 1-7mhz chunks of supposedly valuable spectrum basically unused to mitigtate interference.