True, until a developer realizes that you can store progress on an account seperate from characters. Many faces, same soul. I know, I know, lots of problems, etc. I don't think any of those problems are insurmountable though.
Eh, you were being nice. I got about 2/3 of the way through the first book, to the point where the plot literally began to repeat itself almost verbatim from what had happened earlier, and shortly after the guy who was playing the Diablo-Hardcore-Mode MMO where you die once and you're gone forever died because of some weird portally bullshit, and I gave up. Nothing interesting happened in all those pages, only bare mentions of the "Otherland," whatever the fuck that ended up being... ug, it was horrible. Just like the MMO based on it is going to be.
No, anything big enough to effect the kind of area we're talking about would have shown a lot of other effects too, like tsunamis and distinctive changes to the chemistry of the ocean as released lava interacts with ocean water. This is pretty clearly happening because of the increase in ocean water temperature, which has nothing to do with point source deep ocean geothermal effects. You're welcome to keep looking like an idiot and post again though.
Yes, near geothermal vents, which is like saying that if I light a match in my house that the entire house is burning at 1000 degrees. The ocean is very very big, the small hot spots you speak of are not enough to melt the kind of area we're talking about here. This scenario was in fact exactly what scientists were worried about when these fields of methane were first discovered. Of course, at the time they talked about it more out of a sense of wilf speculation on possibility, not as something they thought was going to happen in their lifetimes.
I'm just telling it how it has been for me when I was in-country before. And look, I don't know if you're working for the party or not, but you surely sound like you are, and essentially you just sound like you're repeating party approved propaganda. I'm sure it goes over well with your commisar, but it isn't going to impress people here in the real world. Tighten up your prose.
Uh, the whole point is that the world isn't at risk. In fact, only people standing around near the coolant lines are even potentially at risk. Even then this seems like an inside joke that got out of hand.
I doubt it. I saw a special on the discovery channel about this stuff once, and they basically said it is so diffuse and spread out on the ocean floor that there is no economic way to recover it. And I doubt it is concentrated enough to achieve ignition in open air.
Um.. what? You do know that the depths of the ocean tend to be very cold, right? Or are you suggesting that somehow the crust is thinning beneath the methane deposits and warming them, but at the same time there are no seismic events tied to this phenomenon, even though it is happening across a very large geographic region? Or are you just talking out your ass?
Not only that, but women are better psychologically suited to endurance missions: we're biased toward consensus,
Right. Women are so good at getting along. Thats why the whole 'cattiness' meme is so perplexing. Women are just as competitive as men, and just as prone to antiscoial behavior.
Ever since his price controls went into effect, certain staple foods have become harder and harder to find. Milk is hit or miss, same with eggs and the like. Hugo is a weird case, he seems to be trying to do some good things, but unfortunately his actions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and economics, much in the same way that opposite end of the spectrum small government no-regulation types do.
Actually, Mexico is in the first world. Well, it was, when that and terms in its family had meaning. Since Mexico was pretty firmly in the US sphere of influence, it lands squarely there. A country like the former East Germany would have been in the 2nd world, along with other Soviet aligned sattelite states. A country like, say, Kenya, would be in the 3rd world of unaligned non-powers. Mexico could be called poor, except that it is actually a resource rich country with a lot of potential that is being wasted due to a controlling oligarchy. Perhaps the best current term would be "developing," though even that is not fully accurate. Mexico does, however, serve as a good example of the type of country you get if you let libertarian ideals of no regulation and limited government go to their natural conclusion: a few rich families control basically everything worth controlling, and a majority of everyone else is dirt poor and suffers.
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True, until a developer realizes that you can store progress on an account seperate from characters. Many faces, same soul. I know, I know, lots of problems, etc. I don't think any of those problems are insurmountable though.
Eh, you were being nice. I got about 2/3 of the way through the first book, to the point where the plot literally began to repeat itself almost verbatim from what had happened earlier, and shortly after the guy who was playing the Diablo-Hardcore-Mode MMO where you die once and you're gone forever died because of some weird portally bullshit, and I gave up. Nothing interesting happened in all those pages, only bare mentions of the "Otherland," whatever the fuck that ended up being... ug, it was horrible. Just like the MMO based on it is going to be.
No, anything big enough to effect the kind of area we're talking about would have shown a lot of other effects too, like tsunamis and distinctive changes to the chemistry of the ocean as released lava interacts with ocean water. This is pretty clearly happening because of the increase in ocean water temperature, which has nothing to do with point source deep ocean geothermal effects. You're welcome to keep looking like an idiot and post again though.
You're so far off, you're not even wrong.
Yes, near geothermal vents, which is like saying that if I light a match in my house that the entire house is burning at 1000 degrees. The ocean is very very big, the small hot spots you speak of are not enough to melt the kind of area we're talking about here. This scenario was in fact exactly what scientists were worried about when these fields of methane were first discovered. Of course, at the time they talked about it more out of a sense of wilf speculation on possibility, not as something they thought was going to happen in their lifetimes.
Ah, good point. I misunderstood what you were saying.
I'm just telling it how it has been for me when I was in-country before. And look, I don't know if you're working for the party or not, but you surely sound like you are, and essentially you just sound like you're repeating party approved propaganda. I'm sure it goes over well with your commisar, but it isn't going to impress people here in the real world. Tighten up your prose.
No, it was feeding my girlfriend too much blackbean and leek stew.
I believe the phrase you are looking for is "cascading exothermal inversion".
Holy shit, I just found the name for my firstborn child.
Uh, the whole point is that the world isn't at risk. In fact, only people standing around near the coolant lines are even potentially at risk. Even then this seems like an inside joke that got out of hand.
None. Unless you hit it with 700,000 liters of antihelium, in which case you'd probably blow a big hole in the Galaxy.
Bone fragments riding the front of the shockwave coincidentally hit the enter key. Weird, huh?
It changes the spectrum of the flash a little.
I doubt it. I saw a special on the discovery channel about this stuff once, and they basically said it is so diffuse and spread out on the ocean floor that there is no economic way to recover it. And I doubt it is concentrated enough to achieve ignition in open air.
Um.. what? You do know that the depths of the ocean tend to be very cold, right? Or are you suggesting that somehow the crust is thinning beneath the methane deposits and warming them, but at the same time there are no seismic events tied to this phenomenon, even though it is happening across a very large geographic region? Or are you just talking out your ass?
We're advising all our customers to put everything they have into canned foods and shotguns.
Hmm, you're right. I guess movies aren't art then.
You might be overestimating the overall surface area covered by "black roofs." There is still a lot of undeveloped surface area out there.
He probably bet against the launch making it up in Vegas and lost all his money. Ha ha!
Not only that, but women are better psychologically suited to endurance missions: we're biased toward consensus,
Right. Women are so good at getting along. Thats why the whole 'cattiness' meme is so perplexing. Women are just as competitive as men, and just as prone to antiscoial behavior.
god forbid Venezuelan people actually get to eat.
Ever since his price controls went into effect, certain staple foods have become harder and harder to find. Milk is hit or miss, same with eggs and the like. Hugo is a weird case, he seems to be trying to do some good things, but unfortunately his actions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and economics, much in the same way that opposite end of the spectrum small government no-regulation types do.
I suppose you believe that intense regulation and vast government intervention makes everything better?
Your straw man is pathetic.
Thanks for the clarification. Glad someone was paying attention to the actual point of my post. :)
I should have known the libertarians would come out of the woodwork and ignore what I actually wrote.
libertarian ideals of no regulation and limited government
I never said Mexico had a government run by the Libertarian party. But, methinks she doth protest too much.
Actually, Mexico is in the first world. Well, it was, when that and terms in its family had meaning. Since Mexico was pretty firmly in the US sphere of influence, it lands squarely there. A country like the former East Germany would have been in the 2nd world, along with other Soviet aligned sattelite states. A country like, say, Kenya, would be in the 3rd world of unaligned non-powers. Mexico could be called poor, except that it is actually a resource rich country with a lot of potential that is being wasted due to a controlling oligarchy. Perhaps the best current term would be "developing," though even that is not fully accurate. Mexico does, however, serve as a good example of the type of country you get if you let libertarian ideals of no regulation and limited government go to their natural conclusion: a few rich families control basically everything worth controlling, and a majority of everyone else is dirt poor and suffers.