I think the truth of the matter is that what is lost here is critical thinking skills. Most people these days no longer have them. Kids are never taught to actually stop and think. They go to school, do their homework, go to 12 different after school activities, all while their parent (or parents) work 60 hour weeks trying to pay for everything. And any down time is spent wasting their brains away in front of the TV.
True philosophical thought is, for the most part, dead. Who has spent the time to actually sit down and ponder anything? Most are trained to react based on emotional response and call it thinking, but it's not. It's a robotic programmed reaction to something. Critical thinking of a higher order requires just as much time and practice as anything else. You don't get it from soccer practice or football or watching the latest sitcom on TV.
There seems to be this delusion that in some magical golden age past the general population had time to sit an ponder the mysteries of the universe. Bollocks. As a general rule they were busy with the activities of supporting subsistence living until quite recently (historically speaking). Kids may not have had after school activities like soccer, they were probably herding stock, chopping wood, looking after smaller children, and quite probably didn't go to school at all.
TV may not provide us with the greatest opportunities for deep thought, but it quite possibly provokes deeper thoughts that the alternatives for the general population.
Hopefully society will evole to the point where the masses do spend time considering the great questions of life. But the trends to date suggest it will still be the province of a handful of elites.
We have an axiom from 15 years or so of writing and running tounaments at roleplaying convertions: "No plot survives first contact with the players".
This is especially true of LARPs vs tabletop. Tabletop players tend to be more conservative when it comes to following the plot, this breaks down as soon as you get LARPers at the table.
I have a friend who is a game designer at the story level (as opposed to asset level), I don't entirely know the path he took to get there, I know at one point it was a partner in a UNIX IT consultancy, but part of his background was he was a roleplayer and wrote roleplaying games for games conventions and ran these games and others.
The designing part of being a game designer is more than a desire to program something more interesting that a banking system (which is interesting in it's own way, if you get off on security protocols etc...), it's understanding game theory and player interactions. Much of that comes from a far more abstract place and is closer to psychology/philosophy than it is to computer science.
While the news services have all been reporting that Daily Sex will improve fertility - surely a more accurate description would be that daily ejaculation (via whatever means) improves fertility.
"With each act of violence, a piece of us grows cold, calloused, and uncaring towards the well being of others. Repeat that, and we become slowly desensitized to pain and suffering."
Good thing I don't need to kill animals for food then, imagaine how much damage that would do to the psyche as opposed to the detatchment we get from buying meat vaccuum sealed at the supermarket.
It's not that long ago in terms of human history that death was far more familiar to everyone, we killed for food, people were born and died at home, wars broke out far more frequently and we most likely on your doorstep, life in general was far more girtty and voilent on a daily basis.
Oddly enough the average 'man in the street' didn't turn into a serial killer through simple exposure to all this banal violence. Maybe that was the difference, the banality of it all. Why do we believe the exposure to fantasy violence will be so damaging when exposure to real violence typically wasn't?
There are still people in our communities who are exposed to massive violence on a daily basis - slaughtermen, emergency services personnel, etc... Do they have a higher than average likelihood to commit violent crimes?
There are times I think this is all a beat up for someones honours thesis.
To play the devils advocate here (I'm bored at work, why not) how can you asusme that simpy becuase a terror plot is documented in the style of a script that it isn't in fact a plan to commit an actual act? In today's media obsessed world where every second person seems to have a pitch for a book, movie or television series, wouldn't it be the easiest way to distribute such information without raising suspicion?
Most intelligent women would have difficulty in trusting a man to be honest about being on hormonal birth control - newsflash, guys lie to get sex. At the end of the day, women are the ones left holding the bag if an unplanned sexual encounter results in a pregnancy. Cue comments about child support payments, but most women, given the choice, wouldn't plan to be a single parent, and plenty of guys avoid child support through whatever means.
While condoms are a form of birth control, even women on hormonal birth control would ask their partner to use a condom if they have any doubts about STDs. The love glove is here to stay until all STDs are eliminated, or an alternative barrier product is invented.
The passwords are only slightly more of an issue that the usernames - even without the passwords, they have stipped these potenial employees of their ability to anonymously post their opinions.
You might be able to change your password at the drop of a hat, but how do you migrate your online persona from one id to another without shedding anyone you want to retain as a social link, without bringing along the corporate snoops you where moving to avoid.
I think the point the OP was trying to make is that Romeo and Juliet is heavily based around the concept of marrying off a 13 year old girl, which is Ok because it's 'art' but Manga is not considered 'art' so it is bad.
Why is pedophilia Ok if it's written by Shakespeare but not Ok if it's written by a Japanese comic artist?
I can't remember for certain whether this applies to the Superscripts, but many desktop later printer cartridges incorporate the drum, especially those with a higher yield (in excess of 4k pages).
To get the best quality output form inkjet printers requires coated papers. There are a number of finishes available, but most of them use paper coated in a ceramic slurry on one side. Price ill vary according to manufacturer and grade/weight of paper.
You can use 'laser' grade paper with inkjets, but won't get the same sharpness or colourfastness as you would with coated stock. It really depends on how important that is for your document whether it is worth the investment.
'Laser' grade paper is also dusty by comparison and can cause damage to the print heads or increase the chance of nozzles blocking on inkjet cartridges.
In fact your raid leader probably shouldn't be a tank or healer, they have too much to do at the tactical level to be effective at the strategic level (generally).
Couldn't disagree with this more. Any time I've had a DPS foccused RL they've not understood the constraints the tanks and healers are operating under. They've been all about speed and pewpew and how can I get my numbers high (positioning) and not about how do we keep the tank alive and ensure the healers ilwl have mana to last the fight, or range on who they have to heal or whatever other tactical decisions the RL needs to make.
Cultural note for Americans: In Australia, the Thong is a commonly worn form of sandle-like footwear. It comprises a sole with a y-shaped strap that anchors between the first and second toes and on either side of the foot near the rear of the arch. These are often worn in hot and humid environments such as the beach in summer.
Not to be confused with a g-string, a piece of underwear which comprises rougly the same surface area as a piece of dental floss, and approximately as comfortable to wear in sweaty weather.
YMMV, but my experience of most pure DPS class players is that you can't get them to do anything that is class specific that doesn't add to their DPS meter somehow. The only class we have to nag for buffs during raid is the Mages, and if you think they will interrupt thier cast sequence to decurse, think again.
Most of them chose to play DPS because they want to see big numbers. Hybrids wanted variety, or at least the illusion of variety - you still need to respec and build the gear set to actually perform in any given spec, most hybrids cant switch roles at the drop of a hat - it takes planning.
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I think the truth of the matter is that what is lost here is critical thinking skills. Most people these days no longer have them. Kids are never taught to actually stop and think. They go to school, do their homework, go to 12 different after school activities, all while their parent (or parents) work 60 hour weeks trying to pay for everything. And any down time is spent wasting their brains away in front of the TV.
True philosophical thought is, for the most part, dead. Who has spent the time to actually sit down and ponder anything? Most are trained to react based on emotional response and call it thinking, but it's not. It's a robotic programmed reaction to something. Critical thinking of a higher order requires just as much time and practice as anything else. You don't get it from soccer practice or football or watching the latest sitcom on TV.
There seems to be this delusion that in some magical golden age past the general population had time to sit an ponder the mysteries of the universe. Bollocks. As a general rule they were busy with the activities of supporting subsistence living until quite recently (historically speaking). Kids may not have had after school activities like soccer, they were probably herding stock, chopping wood, looking after smaller children, and quite probably didn't go to school at all.
TV may not provide us with the greatest opportunities for deep thought, but it quite possibly provokes deeper thoughts that the alternatives for the general population.
Hopefully society will evole to the point where the masses do spend time considering the great questions of life. But the trends to date suggest it will still be the province of a handful of elites.
We have an axiom from 15 years or so of writing and running tounaments at roleplaying convertions: "No plot survives first contact with the players".
This is especially true of LARPs vs tabletop. Tabletop players tend to be more conservative when it comes to following the plot, this breaks down as soon as you get LARPers at the table.
Resisstence is futile?
Too late ;p
Shouldn't have let us womin get edumacated - we can read to the end of the article all by ourselves.
I have a friend who is a game designer at the story level (as opposed to asset level), I don't entirely know the path he took to get there, I know at one point it was a partner in a UNIX IT consultancy, but part of his background was he was a roleplayer and wrote roleplaying games for games conventions and ran these games and others.
The designing part of being a game designer is more than a desire to program something more interesting that a banking system (which is interesting in it's own way, if you get off on security protocols etc...), it's understanding game theory and player interactions. Much of that comes from a far more abstract place and is closer to psychology/philosophy than it is to computer science.
I believe you'll find they are bugs, not buggers.
don't you mean "Screen Shot or it didn't happen"?
I would prefer the headline to stay as it is, or perhaps to be changed to "Daily Receipt of Fellatio Helps Improve Fertility".
Shush - you're getting my husband all excited with the concept.
While the news services have all been reporting that Daily Sex will improve fertility - surely a more accurate description would be that daily ejaculation (via whatever means) improves fertility.
"With each act of violence, a piece of us grows cold, calloused, and uncaring towards the well being of others. Repeat that, and we become slowly desensitized to pain and suffering."
Good thing I don't need to kill animals for food then, imagaine how much damage that would do to the psyche as opposed to the detatchment we get from buying meat vaccuum sealed at the supermarket.
It's not that long ago in terms of human history that death was far more familiar to everyone, we killed for food, people were born and died at home, wars broke out far more frequently and we most likely on your doorstep, life in general was far more girtty and voilent on a daily basis.
Oddly enough the average 'man in the street' didn't turn into a serial killer through simple exposure to all this banal violence. Maybe that was the difference, the banality of it all. Why do we believe the exposure to fantasy violence will be so damaging when exposure to real violence typically wasn't?
There are still people in our communities who are exposed to massive violence on a daily basis - slaughtermen, emergency services personnel, etc... Do they have a higher than average likelihood to commit violent crimes?
There are times I think this is all a beat up for someones honours thesis.
To play the devils advocate here (I'm bored at work, why not) how can you asusme that simpy becuase a terror plot is documented in the style of a script that it isn't in fact a plan to commit an actual act? In today's media obsessed world where every second person seems to have a pitch for a book, movie or television series, wouldn't it be the easiest way to distribute such information without raising suspicion?
Most intelligent women would have difficulty in trusting a man to be honest about being on hormonal birth control - newsflash, guys lie to get sex. At the end of the day, women are the ones left holding the bag if an unplanned sexual encounter results in a pregnancy. Cue comments about child support payments, but most women, given the choice, wouldn't plan to be a single parent, and plenty of guys avoid child support through whatever means.
While condoms are a form of birth control, even women on hormonal birth control would ask their partner to use a condom if they have any doubts about STDs. The love glove is here to stay until all STDs are eliminated, or an alternative barrier product is invented.
The passwords are only slightly more of an issue that the usernames - even without the passwords, they have stipped these potenial employees of their ability to anonymously post their opinions.
You might be able to change your password at the drop of a hat, but how do you migrate your online persona from one id to another without shedding anyone you want to retain as a social link, without bringing along the corporate snoops you where moving to avoid.
I think the point the OP was trying to make is that Romeo and Juliet is heavily based around the concept of marrying off a 13 year old girl, which is Ok because it's 'art' but Manga is not considered 'art' so it is bad. Why is pedophilia Ok if it's written by Shakespeare but not Ok if it's written by a Japanese comic artist?
I somewhat suspect he is an ex-bat, gone to join the choir eternal.
Last time I checked, small flying animals with feathers were called birds.
Bats are mammals and have fur.
I can't remember for certain whether this applies to the Superscripts, but many desktop later printer cartridges incorporate the drum, especially those with a higher yield (in excess of 4k pages).
To get the best quality output form inkjet printers requires coated papers. There are a number of finishes available, but most of them use paper coated in a ceramic slurry on one side. Price ill vary according to manufacturer and grade/weight of paper.
You can use 'laser' grade paper with inkjets, but won't get the same sharpness or colourfastness as you would with coated stock. It really depends on how important that is for your document whether it is worth the investment.
'Laser' grade paper is also dusty by comparison and can cause damage to the print heads or increase the chance of nozzles blocking on inkjet cartridges.
We called the Rule Lawyers.
Munchkins were people who QQ and don't don't bother understanding the rules properly, they just want the biggest +dmg whatever item is going.
In fact your raid leader probably shouldn't be a tank or healer, they have too much to do at the tactical level to be effective at the strategic level (generally).
Couldn't disagree with this more. Any time I've had a DPS foccused RL they've not understood the constraints the tanks and healers are operating under. They've been all about speed and pewpew and how can I get my numbers high (positioning) and not about how do we keep the tank alive and ensure the healers ilwl have mana to last the fight, or range on who they have to heal or whatever other tactical decisions the RL needs to make.
I'm still waiting for Sleeping Beauty 2: Back to Sleep" though.
Surely that should be "Sleeping Beauty: A short nap".
In otherwords, thongs and thongs. :P
Cultural note for Americans: In Australia, the Thong is a commonly worn form of sandle-like footwear. It comprises a sole with a y-shaped strap that anchors between the first and second toes and on either side of the foot near the rear of the arch. These are often worn in hot and humid environments such as the beach in summer.
Not to be confused with a g-string, a piece of underwear which comprises rougly the same surface area as a piece of dental floss, and approximately as comfortable to wear in sweaty weather.
At least your use of the word 'prey' seems close to appropriate in context, as oppsed to everyone elses. It's 'pray' when you are talking to $deity.
YMMV, but my experience of most pure DPS class players is that you can't get them to do anything that is class specific that doesn't add to their DPS meter somehow. The only class we have to nag for buffs during raid is the Mages, and if you think they will interrupt thier cast sequence to decurse, think again.
Most of them chose to play DPS because they want to see big numbers. Hybrids wanted variety, or at least the illusion of variety - you still need to respec and build the gear set to actually perform in any given spec, most hybrids cant switch roles at the drop of a hat - it takes planning.