I will say that Far Cry 2 did actually manage to be more tedious than GTA IV, if only because they made driving vital to the game and the only gave you 2 real options as far as vehicles go, then made you fight the same encounter over and over again for no apparent reason every five minutes the entire time you play the game.
That said, at least it runs without a hitch on my system, something I can't say for the memory-leak prone GTA IV.
GTA IV is a good example of this. I'm hours and hours into the game and I've just barely begun being able to drive cars that aren't a tedious chore to get from point A to point B (due to low speed, shitty handling, or what have you). Not to mention they love making me drive across that bridge over and over again, and every time I either have to slow to a dead stop and wait or I have to worry about dodging police when I run through the toll booth.
That toll booth is going to stop me from ever buying another GTA game.
I lost interest back when the level cap was 10 and my 4 ranger/6 fighter couldn't hit anything because I wasn't a pure fighter with the +10 to hit perk. Then my level 10 wizard went into the top end raid at the time and saw nothing but saves from every spell I cast, to the point that all I could do was magic missile my way through the game and occasionally buff people with resists. Then my level 10 paladin ran into the same missing thing my ranger hit.
Essentially, the house rules they tacked on to 3.5 to make it workable in their game also broke it for people who didn't min-max as fighters. Not being able to hit or do damage when I did manage to hit made the game unfun.
Then I raided the dragon and found out that in order to beat it, you had to exploit a flaw in its pathing AI and stand in a specific spot or you'd be insta-gibbed randomly. That was not fun either.
If your hypothesis is right, then any other earthlike planets are also spewing bacterial spores into deep space, which means that life all over the galaxy should be pretty similar.
So maybe the aliens really will be coming to eat us.
Believe it or not (I know you won't) but not everyone who disagrees with you is on some big oil company's payroll. You are just as bad a conspiracy theorist as anyone else here.
Honestly, if you're NOT on someone's payroll that means you're spreading propaganda for free. That actually makes you worse than the paid shills.
Or, you could just do it the obvious way that no one ever talks about:
1) You fill out your ballot electronically (on a touch screen or whatever) 2) Ballot box prints out a human-readable ballot. 3) You check over to make sure there are no mistakes 4) You carry your ballot over to the ballot box and drop it in, where a scanner scans the ballot in and counts your votes. 5) Later, if there is a problem, humans go back and count the votes by hand (as they do now) 6) There you go, all the benefits of electronic voting AND all the benefits of paper and pen voting all in one easy to understand system
Problem: it doesn't leverage the power of electronic information technology to make it ridiculously easy to steal an election. Thats why it will never happen in this country.
The Constitution protects people from discrimination based on Creed. If you live by a code that includes not wearing ties, they can't legally force you to do so without violating the clear meaning of the Constitution.
Again, look at the wording in the Constitution. In the US it is just as illegal to discriminate based on "creed" as it is to discriminate based on "religion" or those other things.
Assuming you can destroy a universe in the first place. It's also possible that Universes don't get destroyed, they just enter exponentially increasing states of entropy due to time travel. So, not destroyed, just unable to support life (or meaningful patterns of any sort).
Being nominated does not imply that he was chosen for the award 10 days after entering office. You can be nominated by a broad range of people, including (for example) history professors at Universities. Your argument is misleading and indicates that you haven't thought things through very much.
Well, the way I see it, if a jewish person has a constitutional right to wear one of those hats to work, and muslim women have a right to their hijab, then I have a right to not wear a tie. Discrimination extends to "creed," which is a pretty open term.
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No doubt. As computers get more complex games get more simple. What the fuck?
Forget open worlds, I want a living world.
I will say that Far Cry 2 did actually manage to be more tedious than GTA IV, if only because they made driving vital to the game and the only gave you 2 real options as far as vehicles go, then made you fight the same encounter over and over again for no apparent reason every five minutes the entire time you play the game.
That said, at least it runs without a hitch on my system, something I can't say for the memory-leak prone GTA IV.
GTA IV is a good example of this. I'm hours and hours into the game and I've just barely begun being able to drive cars that aren't a tedious chore to get from point A to point B (due to low speed, shitty handling, or what have you). Not to mention they love making me drive across that bridge over and over again, and every time I either have to slow to a dead stop and wait or I have to worry about dodging police when I run through the toll booth.
That toll booth is going to stop me from ever buying another GTA game.
I lost interest back when the level cap was 10 and my 4 ranger/6 fighter couldn't hit anything because I wasn't a pure fighter with the +10 to hit perk. Then my level 10 wizard went into the top end raid at the time and saw nothing but saves from every spell I cast, to the point that all I could do was magic missile my way through the game and occasionally buff people with resists. Then my level 10 paladin ran into the same missing thing my ranger hit.
Essentially, the house rules they tacked on to 3.5 to make it workable in their game also broke it for people who didn't min-max as fighters. Not being able to hit or do damage when I did manage to hit made the game unfun.
Then I raided the dragon and found out that in order to beat it, you had to exploit a flaw in its pathing AI and stand in a specific spot or you'd be insta-gibbed randomly. That was not fun either.
Fireball only does 3d6 these days, but it does it to a LOT of people. And most prison guards are probably minions anyways.
If your hypothesis is right, then any other earthlike planets are also spewing bacterial spores into deep space, which means that life all over the galaxy should be pretty similar.
So maybe the aliens really will be coming to eat us.
I'd rather have a sonic screwdriver.
Believe it or not (I know you won't) but not everyone who disagrees with you is on some big oil company's payroll. You are just as bad a conspiracy theorist as anyone else here.
Honestly, if you're NOT on someone's payroll that means you're spreading propaganda for free. That actually makes you worse than the paid shills.
Christians don't lie? LOL.
Tell Sarah Palin that it's an attempt to create a single world government. Sit back and watch the fireworks (and teabagging).
Cue SPOOOKS from Charlie Stross' Halting State.
Or, you could just do it the obvious way that no one ever talks about:
1) You fill out your ballot electronically (on a touch screen or whatever)
2) Ballot box prints out a human-readable ballot.
3) You check over to make sure there are no mistakes
4) You carry your ballot over to the ballot box and drop it in, where a scanner scans the ballot in and counts your votes.
5) Later, if there is a problem, humans go back and count the votes by hand (as they do now)
6) There you go, all the benefits of electronic voting AND all the benefits of paper and pen voting all in one easy to understand system
Problem: it doesn't leverage the power of electronic information technology to make it ridiculously easy to steal an election. Thats why it will never happen in this country.
Hey, I made almost this exact comment! Damnit!
Send six lesbians and install webcams. Might as well make some profit off it right?
You don't need to create a religion.
The Constitution protects people from discrimination based on Creed. If you live by a code that includes not wearing ties, they can't legally force you to do so without violating the clear meaning of the Constitution.
Again, look at the wording in the Constitution. In the US it is just as illegal to discriminate based on "creed" as it is to discriminate based on "religion" or those other things.
No sky daddy required.
Assuming you can destroy a universe in the first place. It's also possible that Universes don't get destroyed, they just enter exponentially increasing states of entropy due to time travel. So, not destroyed, just unable to support life (or meaningful patterns of any sort).
What series/season/ep was that from? Ballpark if you can't remember?
You realize, of course, that if this is the case then you will never die unless there is no possible universe in which you could continue existing.
Being nominated does not imply that he was chosen for the award 10 days after entering office. You can be nominated by a broad range of people, including (for example) history professors at Universities. Your argument is misleading and indicates that you haven't thought things through very much.
Well, the way I see it, if a jewish person has a constitutional right to wear one of those hats to work, and muslim women have a right to their hijab, then I have a right to not wear a tie. Discrimination extends to "creed," which is a pretty open term.
They carry the Daily Show because it is hilarious and extremely popular, and both Comedy Central and CNN are owned by the same people.
Newspapers fired all their full time fact checkers and researchers a long time ago. The reality you perceive has no relation to reality.
Why doesn't your legislative branch just change the law that requires a unanimous vote by the AGs? Seems easy enough.
There are no Brazilian Dollars. Our currency is the Real.
Whereas American currency is Imaginary?
Only if you try to take the square root of our net worth.