*Boggle* At 2 years in the business you think you know it all? Vacation time exists for a reason, the same as the 40 hour week. People are more productive if they get a reasonable break every now and again (some studies say a minimum of 2 weeks interrupted at a time is required to reset stress levels to base). Even people doing what they love need a vacation.
And had an unerring capability for the battery to go flat at 3:00am, and beeped repeatedly to tell you it was going flat until you replaced the battery.
Oh, and don't rebut with BDSM. It's not really my thing, but I've got friends in the scene and I can tell you with absolute certainty that while BDSM is variably painful and variably dramatic... it does not count as "violence" in this context. If it does, then it's not BDSM, it's assault.
Within the scene there is a concept of "Safe, Sane and Consensual" for any BDSM activity. Sane is taken to mean that you are capable of giving consent through an understanding of what is being asked of you and being mentally competent to give consent (i.e. of average IQ and not affected by drugs, alcohol or intimidation).
There are however total tosspots who think that by calling themselves 'Master' or 'Mistress' they can demand any kind of sexual behaviour from others and excuse it as BDSM play. As a couterpoint there are also a number of damaged people whose self-worth is so in the toilet they seek to be abused as validation for their own self-perceived failings.
You do not blame someone who is doing legal actions for the immoral and illegal actions of another. I mean seriously, we don't blame the woman for her own rape just because she wore a miniskirt and halter top in public.
The jury system would like a word with you, people have been blaming women for being raped (look at the way she was dressed? She provoked him) for millennium.
Why do you think that certain religions require women to cover a varying amount of their bodies from simply their hair to the entire being.
Back in the day you had to be L40 to get your first mount and they cost 100g which was a huge amount to accumulate. Many people didn't get their first mount until much closer to L60.
These days there are many times more flight points to make it easier to get around, several classes/races have movement speed increases that make getting around easier.
On top of that, the questing experience no longer seems to require the level of run to one end of Darkshore (for example) to the other or between zones like it used to.
Given you wouldn't actually get the mount until L20 (the trial cap), there is no incentive for them to let you buy a mount at that point - they want you to become a paying customer and keep leveling, at which point the 10g limit goes away.
You are assuming the the player already knows how to play. If you actually read the quest text, need to familiarise yourself with the UI, have no mental map of the game world to navigate by, L20 will take much longer than 1 day.
And if your friend is dragging you around by the nose not allowing you to experience it for yourself they are doing you a disservice.
That kind of expedited leveling would require heirloom items in every slot available (which requires a max level character with significant resources and time played), L25 guild XP bonuses (and possibly some rest XP, though it would be burnt pretty quickly in the starting levels), possibly a RAF XP bonus to 80 and an intricate knowledge of the optimal leveling path - even queuing in instances as a tank for instant queues would be lucky to get you there in a single day.
Go have a sleep study done. Chances are that if your snoring is that bad you have some kind of breathing obstruction while asleep. Before getting a CPAP machine, my husband registered a 3.5 on a scale of 1-3 for snoring (the specialist's description). All I know is that it used to rattle the windows.
He used to sleep so badly and have such terrible nightmares he was afraid to go to sleep and would hallucinate from lack of sleep. His condition was pretty extreme, but it started somewhere.
My husband suffers from extreme apnea and was thought to maybe suffer from narcolepsy as well. He spent a week in hospital with sensors stuck on his head where they did a sleep deprivation test on him while trying to establish why he had random fits, seizures and blackouts.
The worst bit, other than when he start hallucinating, was getting the 'glue' out of his hair when he got home.
You weren't transformed from apes, you were transformed from a descendant of the human and ape strains.
Hrm... I'm pretty sure it would have been an ancestor, evolving from a descendant would take more than faith in a theory, it would require magic and/or a time machine.
Did the accident affect the Apple iDevice supply chain? Probably not, therefore not as controversial to drag it through the press globally.
Note: It is not my intention to play down the affect on family, friends and colleagues of the 2 workers cited above, instead to point out the laser bright spotlight all Apple-related news seems to attract.
No the Electric company looks for unbalanced loads and determines if there is a problem. The people who got raided may not of been using drugs but I would be willing to bet they were stealing electricity.
Or having electricity stolen from them. I work for an electricity distributor, and from talking to people involved in the investigations team, the most common situation with grow houses is they steal power form their neighbours. So having an excessively high power bill can be a sign that someone near them is growing pot.
Or: No, that particular device is NOT bus powered. Result of a 90 minute support call with a user who was adamant they knew it was plugged in and switched on. I really don't miss the 'Magic' of SCSI.
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*Boggle* At 2 years in the business you think you know it all? Vacation time exists for a reason, the same as the 40 hour week. People are more productive if they get a reasonable break every now and again (some studies say a minimum of 2 weeks interrupted at a time is required to reset stress levels to base). Even people doing what they love need a vacation.
And had an unerring capability for the battery to go flat at 3:00am, and beeped repeatedly to tell you it was going flat until you replaced the battery.
You've obviously never encountered Amiga users.
Which witch?
:)
Oh, and don't rebut with BDSM. It's not really my thing, but I've got friends in the scene and I can tell you with absolute certainty that while BDSM is variably painful and variably dramatic... it does not count as "violence" in this context. If it does, then it's not BDSM, it's assault.
Within the scene there is a concept of "Safe, Sane and Consensual" for any BDSM activity. Sane is taken to mean that you are capable of giving consent through an understanding of what is being asked of you and being mentally competent to give consent (i.e. of average IQ and not affected by drugs, alcohol or intimidation).
There are however total tosspots who think that by calling themselves 'Master' or 'Mistress' they can demand any kind of sexual behaviour from others and excuse it as BDSM play. As a couterpoint there are also a number of damaged people whose self-worth is so in the toilet they seek to be abused as validation for their own self-perceived failings.
On the whole they give scene play a bad name.
Plus it's humiliating to explain. :)
"Micro-facial expressions"... Is that what people look like after they get really tiny facials
So, that would be slightly grossed out mixed in with a bit of relieved and somewhat sticky?
You do not blame someone who is doing legal actions for the immoral and illegal actions of another. I mean seriously, we don't blame the woman for her own rape just because she wore a miniskirt and halter top in public.
The jury system would like a word with you, people have been blaming women for being raped (look at the way she was dressed? She provoked him) for millennium.
Why do you think that certain religions require women to cover a varying amount of their bodies from simply their hair to the entire being.
Back in the day you had to be L40 to get your first mount and they cost 100g which was a huge amount to accumulate. Many people didn't get their first mount until much closer to L60.
These days there are many times more flight points to make it easier to get around, several classes/races have movement speed increases that make getting around easier.
On top of that, the questing experience no longer seems to require the level of run to one end of Darkshore (for example) to the other or between zones like it used to.
Given you wouldn't actually get the mount until L20 (the trial cap), there is no incentive for them to let you buy a mount at that point - they want you to become a paying customer and keep leveling, at which point the 10g limit goes away.
10 per server - there's more than one server. And you can delete characters you don't want to keep and level a fresh one.
You are assuming the the player already knows how to play. If you actually read the quest text, need to familiarise yourself with the UI, have no mental map of the game world to navigate by, L20 will take much longer than 1 day.
And if your friend is dragging you around by the nose not allowing you to experience it for yourself they are doing you a disservice.
A new player isn't getting to 85 in a day.
That kind of expedited leveling would require heirloom items in every slot available (which requires a max level character with significant resources and time played), L25 guild XP bonuses (and possibly some rest XP, though it would be burnt pretty quickly in the starting levels), possibly a RAF XP bonus to 80 and an intricate knowledge of the optimal leveling path - even queuing in instances as a tank for instant queues would be lucky to get you there in a single day.
Also, TSR advised against changing the bonuses on those weapons, so if your GM was handing out +5 Vorpal weapons, he was Monty Hauling you.
Unless of course you were about to face the dreaded gazebo, at which point even a +5 Vorpal long sword isn't going to help you/
Thank you Arthur.
Go have a sleep study done. Chances are that if your snoring is that bad you have some kind of breathing obstruction while asleep. Before getting a CPAP machine, my husband registered a 3.5 on a scale of 1-3 for snoring (the specialist's description). All I know is that it used to rattle the windows.
He used to sleep so badly and have such terrible nightmares he was afraid to go to sleep and would hallucinate from lack of sleep. His condition was pretty extreme, but it started somewhere.
My husband suffers from extreme apnea and was thought to maybe suffer from narcolepsy as well. He spent a week in hospital with sensors stuck on his head where they did a sleep deprivation test on him while trying to establish why he had random fits, seizures and blackouts.
The worst bit, other than when he start hallucinating, was getting the 'glue' out of his hair when he got home.
You weren't transformed from apes, you were transformed from a descendant of the human and ape strains.
Hrm... I'm pretty sure it would have been an ancestor, evolving from a descendant would take more than faith in a theory, it would require magic and/or a time machine.
I see your Android and Palm Pilot references and raise you a Newton.
Maybe they should check down the back of the sofa...
Did the accident affect the Apple iDevice supply chain? Probably not, therefore not as controversial to drag it through the press globally.
Note: It is not my intention to play down the affect on family, friends and colleagues of the 2 workers cited above, instead to point out the laser bright spotlight all Apple-related news seems to attract.
9.3mm? That's not sand, that's coarse gravel or possibly crushed rock.
No the Electric company looks for unbalanced loads and determines if there is a problem. The people who got raided may not of been using drugs but I would be willing to bet they were stealing electricity.
Or having electricity stolen from them. I work for an electricity distributor, and from talking to people involved in the investigations team, the most common situation with grow houses is they steal power form their neighbours. So having an excessively high power bill can be a sign that someone near them is growing pot.
Only if they are all HAN devices. Then they really can talk to each other.
*Groan*
You'd better duck too after that...
Or: No, that particular device is NOT bus powered. Result of a 90 minute support call with a user who was adamant they knew it was plugged in and switched on. I really don't miss the 'Magic' of SCSI.