(1) Armor provides variable damage reduction. That means that every successful attack involves another die roll. This requires discipline, or it will really slow the game down. Every extra: "make an x roll" instruction from the DM is a slow mechanic. The power of the d20 system is its speed and ease, and I think this idea runs counter to that.
Why can't one just roll two dice at once? And only apply the 2nd die when necessary?
I think it does work. By the very reason it's something with value. I have it bookmarked and easly spend at least an hour on it a day.
One of the most important lessons of life is to ALWAYS take information with a grain of salt, and form your own conclusions with all your info sources. To be critical thinkers. Because this ANC nonsense is going on, should we completely dismiss Wiki? I completely disagree.
JAMIE HYNEMAN -- You read our minds! On a side note; I once asked Adam if he was given a rocket ship and told he would be able to travel anywhere in the universe, but he would never be able to return, would he do it? Well, both of us would (but not together).
I found this very interesting. I would love to travel to the far reaches of the universe, just to see what's out there. But I would get lonely eventually. And not being able to return? I feel people need interaction with others as much as sleep and food. OK, well maybe not AS much, you certainly wouldn't die from lack of human contact. But it'd mess you up. It'd mess me up.
I'm also a regular guy who loves girls with attractive little flaws.
It can be that rendering women with such flaws: pores, greasy skin, and all that, is still too hard to do convincingly. It was only recently when it was announced that some people got skin's natural translucency down in a good way.
Sometimes I flip through channels, come across some country music video, and wince at the heavily made-up, airbrushed, whatever singer on the TV. Who'd probably look much hotter without the goddamn paint. Olive Garden waitresses are also guilty.
I'm a man. You know what? I like looking at skinny women with giant boobs and monster heels. My biology is hard-wired like that. And I'm done with apologizing for it. It's who I am and I embrace it.
I also consider myself a feminist. I have tons of female friends that I love. I am very sensitive to their feelings -- I have an emotional empathy that I'm proud of and it shows. That's why I have lots of female friends.
There's my carnal lust and there's also my compassion for my fellow human beings. People are complex. We can have guys who drool over sexual fantasies and be sensitve to femine plights at the same time.
Of course I'm open to mature, emotional, complex representations of women in games. I also don't want my Lara Crofts taken away. Because she's hot! And I have a dick, goddamnit! Ladies, it's hard to repress millions of years of evolution. Lets all live with it and be respectful. I can do it.
It takes a minute to restart Windows. It takes a couple of seconds to restart Firefox.
I'm with you on your last point. About rebooting. In general, people are a bunch of reboot babies. I restart my Ubuntu machine all the time. And I hear shrieks and gasps from people. I just don't care.
I got one of the very first PS2s out. And at the end, I kept getting those disc read errors. I tried the online howtos before I said fuck it and bought one of the new, slim-downed PS2s. Not a disc read error since.
It wasn't merely a cosmetic change. They changed the CD holder from a tray to a spindle that works much better and eliminates the read errors.
Aren't you talking about Java? It comes with a pretty damn rich library that lets me write pixels and send data chunks to arbitrary IP addresses. On Windows, Mac, and Linux.
"The usual assumption is that Apple can't sell OS X x86 for generic x86 because they're a hardware company, and nobody will buy their hardware if they can buy x86."
That isn't a valid assumption. There are plenty of cheaper MP3 players out there, but everyone buys the iPod. Quality does sell, and Apple does make quality hardware.
Their hardware sales will suffer, but the market will not disappear. And the suffering will be made up, in part at least, by the massive increase in OS X sales. Should they offer it for generic x86.
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In all seriousness, I read somewhere that a human can survive in space without a suit for 30 seconds. I was all, woah.
Eh. Acronyms after a while become regular words. Radar stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging and laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and yet you don't catch people write RADAR and LASER, do you?
Uh, where does it say it requires Sun Java? All I see are version numbers. Doesn't Fedora Core use open source runtimes for the Java components of OOo?
Java is a wonderful technology. Personally, I'm glad OOo uses it. I myself certainly do.
The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program.
Yes, robotic space exploration is cool, but we can never lose sight of manned exploration.
This irritates me to no end.
Here is my password management strategy: I keep two passwords, one for secure things that would bug me if they got broken into, and another for things I don't care about. They're both strong, but unfortunately have to be only a mix of letters and numbers. Lowest common denominator, my experience has shown.
When work forces me to change my password, I generate a new one, discard the old one I used for non-secure things, and my old one for secure things becomes the new one for the non-secure things.
Because these password systems aren't standard at all, like the parent mentioned, I'm forced to use that lowest common denominator. And yes, I memorize two rotating passwords for everything. Having a separate password for everything (yes, I tried that) got old real fast.
So lets standardize on a password system!
I find wireless mice extremely useful. A mouse is a hunk of plastic that you constantly move around. My old one had a cable that looped around itself and got in the way. It was extremely annoying.
Because keyboards themselves tend to stay in one place, I don't mind it if they have wires.
Evolution in the traditional sense has stopped for humans. Before, the environment had a huge impact in what genes got selected to propagate and which failed.
We are the first species to be able to directly manipulate the environment, and each other, in order to prolong survival. Genetic traits, like blindness, are allowed to flourish to an extent where before, they would have died out. We can change the environment, by building ramps and audible street lights, so blind people can lead productive lives.
What's your reason for this? I myself cannot live without the tabs or the search box.
If you never hit Ctrl+T, or select New Tab from the File menu, Firefox might as well not have tabs. And you can remove the search box by customizing the Navigation Toolbar.
I have a friend who neglected to take an antimalarial with water. The pill burned the shit out of his esophagus. He had an endoscopic exam, here's the mp4 he made of the DVD souvenir they gave him.
The rest of the blog is very interesting. That same friend, and this other mutual friend, took a year off to visit every continent. Yes, that includes Antarctica. Take a look!
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(1) Armor provides variable damage reduction. That means that every successful attack involves another die roll. This requires discipline, or it will really slow the game down. Every extra: "make an x roll" instruction from the DM is a slow mechanic. The power of the d20 system is its speed and ease, and I think this idea runs counter to that. Why can't one just roll two dice at once? And only apply the 2nd die when necessary?
> Hell, the other day I inserted a gibberish statistic in an article about a city, and it's still there.
Why did you do that?
I think it does work. By the very reason it's something with value. I have it bookmarked and easly spend at least an hour on it a day.
One of the most important lessons of life is to ALWAYS take information with a grain of salt, and form your own conclusions with all your info sources. To be critical thinkers. Because this ANC nonsense is going on, should we completely dismiss Wiki? I completely disagree.
JAMIE HYNEMAN -- You read our minds! On a side note; I once asked Adam if he was given a rocket ship and told he would be able to travel anywhere in the universe, but he would never be able to return, would he do it? Well, both of us would (but not together).
I found this very interesting. I would love to travel to the far reaches of the universe, just to see what's out there. But I would get lonely eventually. And not being able to return? I feel people need interaction with others as much as sleep and food. OK, well maybe not AS much, you certainly wouldn't die from lack of human contact. But it'd mess you up. It'd mess me up.
Icons with text aren't i18nable. Check this out.
I'm also a regular guy who loves girls with attractive little flaws. It can be that rendering women with such flaws: pores, greasy skin, and all that, is still too hard to do convincingly. It was only recently when it was announced that some people got skin's natural translucency down in a good way. Sometimes I flip through channels, come across some country music video, and wince at the heavily made-up, airbrushed, whatever singer on the TV. Who'd probably look much hotter without the goddamn paint. Olive Garden waitresses are also guilty.
I'm a man. You know what? I like looking at skinny women with giant boobs and monster heels. My biology is hard-wired like that. And I'm done with apologizing for it. It's who I am and I embrace it. I also consider myself a feminist. I have tons of female friends that I love. I am very sensitive to their feelings -- I have an emotional empathy that I'm proud of and it shows. That's why I have lots of female friends. There's my carnal lust and there's also my compassion for my fellow human beings. People are complex. We can have guys who drool over sexual fantasies and be sensitve to femine plights at the same time. Of course I'm open to mature, emotional, complex representations of women in games. I also don't want my Lara Crofts taken away. Because she's hot! And I have a dick, goddamnit! Ladies, it's hard to repress millions of years of evolution. Lets all live with it and be respectful. I can do it.
It takes a minute to restart Windows. It takes a couple of seconds to restart Firefox. I'm with you on your last point. About rebooting. In general, people are a bunch of reboot babies. I restart my Ubuntu machine all the time. And I hear shrieks and gasps from people. I just don't care.
If it's yellow let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down.
I got one of the very first PS2s out. And at the end, I kept getting those disc read errors. I tried the online howtos before I said fuck it and bought one of the new, slim-downed PS2s. Not a disc read error since. It wasn't merely a cosmetic change. They changed the CD holder from a tray to a spindle that works much better and eliminates the read errors.
Aren't you talking about Java? It comes with a pretty damn rich library that lets me write pixels and send data chunks to arbitrary IP addresses. On Windows, Mac, and Linux.
"The usual assumption is that Apple can't sell OS X x86 for generic x86 because they're a hardware company, and nobody will buy their hardware if they can buy x86." That isn't a valid assumption. There are plenty of cheaper MP3 players out there, but everyone buys the iPod. Quality does sell, and Apple does make quality hardware. Their hardware sales will suffer, but the market will not disappear. And the suffering will be made up, in part at least, by the massive increase in OS X sales. Should they offer it for generic x86.
In all seriousness, I read somewhere that a human can survive in space without a suit for 30 seconds. I was all, woah.
Motorola is branching out into the laser rifle business?
Eh. Acronyms after a while become regular words. Radar stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging and laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and yet you don't catch people write RADAR and LASER, do you?
Uh, where does it say it requires Sun Java? All I see are version numbers. Doesn't Fedora Core use open source runtimes for the Java components of OOo?
Java is a wonderful technology. Personally, I'm glad OOo uses it. I myself certainly do.
The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program. Yes, robotic space exploration is cool, but we can never lose sight of manned exploration.
My hybrid does much worse in stop and go, my experiences have shown. I have a 2003 Civic with the manual transmission.
This irritates me to no end. Here is my password management strategy: I keep two passwords, one for secure things that would bug me if they got broken into, and another for things I don't care about. They're both strong, but unfortunately have to be only a mix of letters and numbers. Lowest common denominator, my experience has shown. When work forces me to change my password, I generate a new one, discard the old one I used for non-secure things, and my old one for secure things becomes the new one for the non-secure things. Because these password systems aren't standard at all, like the parent mentioned, I'm forced to use that lowest common denominator. And yes, I memorize two rotating passwords for everything. Having a separate password for everything (yes, I tried that) got old real fast. So lets standardize on a password system!
I find wireless mice extremely useful. A mouse is a hunk of plastic that you constantly move around. My old one had a cable that looped around itself and got in the way. It was extremely annoying. Because keyboards themselves tend to stay in one place, I don't mind it if they have wires.
Evolution in the traditional sense has stopped for humans. Before, the environment had a huge impact in what genes got selected to propagate and which failed. We are the first species to be able to directly manipulate the environment, and each other, in order to prolong survival. Genetic traits, like blindness, are allowed to flourish to an extent where before, they would have died out. We can change the environment, by building ramps and audible street lights, so blind people can lead productive lives.
What's your reason for this? I myself cannot live without the tabs or the search box. If you never hit Ctrl+T, or select New Tab from the File menu, Firefox might as well not have tabs. And you can remove the search box by customizing the Navigation Toolbar.
Wasn't the leap from Me to 2000 just as big?
Can't spammers just pay for those invites? Or get them through those online invite spooler deals?
I have a friend who neglected to take an antimalarial with water. The pill burned the shit out of his esophagus. He had an endoscopic exam, here's the mp4 he made of the DVD souvenir they gave him. The rest of the blog is very interesting. That same friend, and this other mutual friend, took a year off to visit every continent. Yes, that includes Antarctica. Take a look!