It is interesting because in order to start the TDB quest line, you have to kill an "innocent" without getting caught. There is also a quest that requires you to eliminate a character that will also start the TDB quest line, but according to that quest line, the character is "evil".
I got a visit from the TDB, but I never bothered working it through. It doesn't fit me and I don't role play that character style. I'm usually on the good line or nuetral line when I role play.
I disagree. There will still be people who support going to war after knowing the costs. The USA would not have become a nation had the rebels decided to take oppression and life over liberty and potential death. The South USA decided the injustice they felt the North was heaving on them was enough to violently defend their way of life. The North USA decided a united nation was more important and disagreed violently that the South should be allowed break away.
Yes, war sucks. But sometimes it is very necessary to defend ones life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, no matter what nation they live in.
Interesting, but deceiving. If you want to get the average user, a lot of the "techy" stuff would have to be left off the ad page. Something like: Free and secure Office Suite, web browser, and operating system with plenty of simple and advanced features.
Registry keys, memory check, dual boot means something scary to them.
In essence you are paying to avoid having to play parts of the game!!!
Actually, I think it is not that the player is avoiding playing parts of the game, but rather avoiding the incessant grind to get to the point where the paid content becomes free.
However, a poor chap like myself would suffer the incessant grind if the game was good enough.
Just because you have a silver spoon doesn't automatically make you smart. Bill Gates was intelligent to jump at opportunities when they presented themselves. He was intelligent enough to continue on previous successes. He was very intelligent in getting the right marketing people.
My point is that there are a lot of kids with silver spoons. But that doesn't mean they will become the richest person in the world.
I think a good solution, if they want to rate online interaction is as follows:
Open: This defines an unmoderated forum. The user you may be playing with/against could be anybody from a 7 year-old girl to a 68 year-old pedophile. It could be some 13 year-old twerp with a "sailor's" mouth or a stuck-up nut-job. Moderated: There happens to be a moderator. All of the weird people may be kicked off the server if they show signs of societal deviance. Closed: Connection to multiplayer servers are by invite only. None: There is no multiplayer aspect to the game.
If you are 25, and started coding 22 years ago, you were 3 years old. I know lots of 3 year olds, they barely have the knowledge to hammer out sentences with their brains and mouths, let alone the dexterity to type them. Perhaps you meant you are 35 or 45 years old and made a typo.
In any case, I agree with your original statement. A person will burn out quickly if they code all day then code all night. But, for others, coding on a different project may be a release for them.
I, too, play games to zone out. But sometimes I play games for the interesting story. Now, what's a good story without political or social commentary, it's not a story at all.
Like reading a book can open horizons, expand thought, help you discover yourself and entertain through commentary or satire, so can games. Particularly, by discovering oneself, because a game is interactive, it allows the player to make a moralistic decision based upon the given circumstances.
For example, Fallout: Just how am I going to treat this village of potential destitute, trying to make their way through life in this vast wasteland, while attempting to achieve my objective and not die in the process.
Do I waste the town because it would be fun and I can use the town as a home base for my search?
Do I waste the town because they're lying to me?
Do I waste the town because they truly are evil?
Do I accept their help and attempt to help them with their problems?
Do I accept their help and do not help them?
Do I accept their help with empty promises?
...
Oh, goodness, I really don't have time to come up with a question for every option from Lawful-Good to Evil-Chaotic?
They would be the shareholders. It's a hostile takeover, they'd be the majority holders and can vote and direct the company how they wish. Many a public company have been bought with intention to sink it.
I bought a Yoshi's gameboy cartridge one time for $20 (1993-ish). I took it back to the store I bought it from the same day. I had completed the whole dang thing in a few hours. I didn't think that was worth $20.
Strangely, I'm still looking at the $15-$30 price point as my sweet spot. I had to control my wrenching when my wife picked up The Beatles Rock Band for full price. (Great game, but $60?!) All of the PC games I own have never been more than $30 for a single title. I picked up the entire Valve catalog for ~$90, but that included over 10 games. I also picked up a decent combopack of Popcap games through Steam for around the same price. Repeating this theme, I also got TF2, Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 as a pack for a decent price. Valve Software is just one example, but I could name the Blizzard packs that I pick up.
Also, only rarely, will I pick up a first release game. I was a year behind on Oblivion... this was partially due to my inadequate rig at the time, but still. I got it at a better price point.
After listening to the features, I would then ask, "Does it run Ogg Vorbis (or favorite other feature)? No? It has Linux, so some genius hacker can create a plugin that will run it? Yes, cool, I'm there." Another question I have: "Does it have WiFi and I would be able to listen to whatever Internet radio station I want from Yahoo's Launch to Shoutcast to Pandora, etc?"
If you drink beer. My company has beer-30 on Friday afternoons. I hang out sometimes, but get no supposed benefit from the generosity. (The break from work isn't too bad, though.)
But hasn't the world proved MS right? Microsoft as a whole heavily markets a mediocre product, but still rules the world in computing (so to speak). So it would make sense that to get ahead in that company, marketing is king.
More on topic, I do think marketing yourself is a very good idea. Yes, produce great results, but make sure the right people see those results. Many developers have a hard time with marketing. (That's why a successful software dev company should hire a marketer.)
I've always told my wife, when I get rich I'm going to be a high school teacher. I'll teach the way the kids need to learn and not the way some hack administration wants me to do it. What are they going to do? Reduce my pay? Fire me? It wouldn't matter, my livelihood would not depend on their money... in fact, I'd work for cheap to save the govm't some cash.
You know, I figured someone would misunderstand.
eBay is almost synonymous with Paypal.
Paypal says I got paid, I ship. Buyer disputes charge, wins the case (because buyer always wins), does not ship product back, seller out product and cash.
But should something be done by humans who have very little understanding of the mechanics of the thing? We're as likely to screw the environment more by trying to affect it, no matter how good our intentions to make it better.
They are growing but mostly due to foreign (often Chinese) vendors who can sell direct
e.g therefore
Almost nobody auctions stuff on ebay anymore; it's all stores.
my problem with eBay is that I have to mark up all my items so much to exceed eBay's costs and Paypal's costs. I'll lose less by selling items at smaller competition than at eBay./another stale eBay account
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It is interesting because in order to start the TDB quest line, you have to kill an "innocent" without getting caught. There is also a quest that requires you to eliminate a character that will also start the TDB quest line, but according to that quest line, the character is "evil".
I got a visit from the TDB, but I never bothered working it through. It doesn't fit me and I don't role play that character style. I'm usually on the good line or nuetral line when I role play.
Because we don't need a nation full shell shocked kids and adults with PTSD.
I disagree. There will still be people who support going to war after knowing the costs. The USA would not have become a nation had the rebels decided to take oppression and life over liberty and potential death. The South USA decided the injustice they felt the North was heaving on them was enough to violently defend their way of life. The North USA decided a united nation was more important and disagreed violently that the South should be allowed break away.
Yes, war sucks. But sometimes it is very necessary to defend ones life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, no matter what nation they live in.
Interesting, but deceiving. If you want to get the average user, a lot of the "techy" stuff would have to be left off the ad page. Something like: Free and secure Office Suite, web browser, and operating system with plenty of simple and advanced features.
Registry keys, memory check, dual boot means something scary to them.
In essence you are paying to avoid having to play parts of the game!!!
Actually, I think it is not that the player is avoiding playing parts of the game, but rather avoiding the incessant grind to get to the point where the paid content becomes free.
However, a poor chap like myself would suffer the incessant grind if the game was good enough.
Just because you have a silver spoon doesn't automatically make you smart. Bill Gates was intelligent to jump at opportunities when they presented themselves. He was intelligent enough to continue on previous successes. He was very intelligent in getting the right marketing people.
My point is that there are a lot of kids with silver spoons. But that doesn't mean they will become the richest person in the world.
And puts a permanent smug look on the consumer's face.
/smile, it's funny
I think a good solution, if they want to rate online interaction is as follows:
Open: This defines an unmoderated forum. The user you may be playing with/against could be anybody from a 7 year-old girl to a 68 year-old pedophile. It could be some 13 year-old twerp with a "sailor's" mouth or a stuck-up nut-job.
Moderated: There happens to be a moderator. All of the weird people may be kicked off the server if they show signs of societal deviance.
Closed: Connection to multiplayer servers are by invite only.
None: There is no multiplayer aspect to the game.
What do you think?
If you are 25, and started coding 22 years ago, you were 3 years old. I know lots of 3 year olds, they barely have the knowledge to hammer out sentences with their brains and mouths, let alone the dexterity to type them. Perhaps you meant you are 35 or 45 years old and made a typo.
In any case, I agree with your original statement. A person will burn out quickly if they code all day then code all night. But, for others, coding on a different project may be a release for them.
As a husband... I resemble that statement!
Wait... what?
I, too, play games to zone out. But sometimes I play games for the interesting story. Now, what's a good story without political or social commentary, it's not a story at all.
Like reading a book can open horizons, expand thought, help you discover yourself and entertain through commentary or satire, so can games. Particularly, by discovering oneself, because a game is interactive, it allows the player to make a moralistic decision based upon the given circumstances.
For example, Fallout: Just how am I going to treat this village of potential destitute, trying to make their way through life in this vast wasteland, while attempting to achieve my objective and not die in the process.
Oh, goodness, I really don't have time to come up with a question for every option from Lawful-Good to Evil-Chaotic?
They would be the shareholders. It's a hostile takeover, they'd be the majority holders and can vote and direct the company how they wish. Many a public company have been bought with intention to sink it.
Why waste the time?
I bought a Yoshi's gameboy cartridge one time for $20 (1993-ish). I took it back to the store I bought it from the same day. I had completed the whole dang thing in a few hours. I didn't think that was worth $20.
Strangely, I'm still looking at the $15-$30 price point as my sweet spot. I had to control my wrenching when my wife picked up The Beatles Rock Band for full price. (Great game, but $60?!) All of the PC games I own have never been more than $30 for a single title. I picked up the entire Valve catalog for ~$90, but that included over 10 games. I also picked up a decent combopack of Popcap games through Steam for around the same price. Repeating this theme, I also got TF2, Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 as a pack for a decent price. Valve Software is just one example, but I could name the Blizzard packs that I pick up.
Also, only rarely, will I pick up a first release game. I was a year behind on Oblivion... this was partially due to my inadequate rig at the time, but still. I got it at a better price point.
After listening to the features, I would then ask, "Does it run Ogg Vorbis (or favorite other feature)? No? It has Linux, so some genius hacker can create a plugin that will run it? Yes, cool, I'm there." Another question I have: "Does it have WiFi and I would be able to listen to whatever Internet radio station I want from Yahoo's Launch to Shoutcast to Pandora, etc?"
If you had written it in a stack, I probably would have understood it better. :^)
I
that they
so shortsighted
would be
can't believe!
If you drink beer. My company has beer-30 on Friday afternoons. I hang out sometimes, but get no supposed benefit from the generosity. (The break from work isn't too bad, though.)
But hasn't the world proved MS right? Microsoft as a whole heavily markets a mediocre product, but still rules the world in computing (so to speak). So it would make sense that to get ahead in that company, marketing is king.
More on topic, I do think marketing yourself is a very good idea. Yes, produce great results, but make sure the right people see those results. Many developers have a hard time with marketing. (That's why a successful software dev company should hire a marketer.)
I've always told my wife, when I get rich I'm going to be a high school teacher. I'll teach the way the kids need to learn and not the way some hack administration wants me to do it. What are they going to do? Reduce my pay? Fire me? It wouldn't matter, my livelihood would not depend on their money... in fact, I'd work for cheap to save the govm't some cash.
Speaking of this type of thing... It is "should have" not "should of". It is "could have" not "could of".
Also, They're there in their room.
Best of all Comodo's Internet Security package is completely free. This includes for business use. Something the other "free" offerings don't offer.
You know, I figured someone would misunderstand. eBay is almost synonymous with Paypal.
Paypal says I got paid, I ship. Buyer disputes charge, wins the case (because buyer always wins), does not ship product back, seller out product and cash.
But should something be done by humans who have very little understanding of the mechanics of the thing? We're as likely to screw the environment more by trying to affect it, no matter how good our intentions to make it better.
e.g therefore
my problem with eBay is that I have to mark up all my items so much to exceed eBay's costs and Paypal's costs. I'll lose less by selling items at smaller competition than at eBay. /another stale eBay account