Simple: over there they're probably actually having to, yknow, compete. Over here they just bitch to the government about how its just so HAAAAAAAARD and get regulations passed to let them get off with doing less work.
I disagree, I think that a "game" is an extremely effective way of conveying the true horror of history. You can show people movies, you can have them to read books and sit while a teacher lectures, and they can find some way of going into dummy mode for it all.
A videogame as media for this kind of message does not need to be fun to be effective. Actually if anything it would be extremely effective to have people play a game where they are basically horrified at their own actions and disgusted by continuing to "win". What better way to get the horror of this across than to make the player as uncomfortable with their actions as possible?
Except that BF2's unlocks were almost universally Strictly Better whereas TF2's unlocks are things like a revolver that gives you extra cloak time on hits but does 20% less damage, a rocket launcher that fires faster and more damaging shots at the cost of virtually nonexistence splash damage, and so on.
The items that are broken aren't broken because they're Strictly Better, they're broken because the break the field that class is supposed to be in.
Do I REALLY need to explain to you why comparing one country doing stupid shit like that in 1770 is not a valid justification for ANOTHER country to do it in 2010?
That's like arguing that it's ok for a hospital to believe in the miasma and humors as a cause of disease because somebody somewhere believed it 200 years ago, even though you can go three blocks away and SEE a virus under a microscope do it's thing right before your eyes.
They aren't lying though, they do drive efficiency... right through the floor. And I'm pretty sure that it really does take a pretting innovative mind to find new ways to piss 48 million pounds up a single pole.
In the universe where if you get someone drunk and screw them while they're passed out, although some places just place that under regular rape laws instead of filing it under statutory rape laws with the same punishments as the normal ones.
Serious Sam's crosshair was dual-function. It had a minimum size where it behaved like a normal crosshair and then it could also appear as though it were being projected onto whatever was closer than it's maximum distance.
It IS possible for something to just be terrible and still widely used for reasons of pure inertia and arbitrary (likely unintelligent) mandates. Not everything that is popular is also necessarily good.
Believe it or not there are people in this world that still use physical mediums to transfer data. It's possible to actually buy a disc that has a game (or games) on it, install them from the disc, and them play them all without permission from an outside source.
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"When you work in a monkeyhouse you're more used to having shit thrown at you".
It's Fuckwad.
Not really since most of the stupid shit IN congress comes from the religious right.
Sounds nice but at least here in America the problems mainly come from protestant denominations, particularly southern and midwestern ones...
Simple: over there they're probably actually having to, yknow, compete. Over here they just bitch to the government about how its just so HAAAAAAAARD and get regulations passed to let them get off with doing less work.
Google voice, problem solved.
I disagree, I think that a "game" is an extremely effective way of conveying the true horror of history. You can show people movies, you can have them to read books and sit while a teacher lectures, and they can find some way of going into dummy mode for it all.
A videogame as media for this kind of message does not need to be fun to be effective. Actually if anything it would be extremely effective to have people play a game where they are basically horrified at their own actions and disgusted by continuing to "win". What better way to get the horror of this across than to make the player as uncomfortable with their actions as possible?
Except that BF2's unlocks were almost universally Strictly Better whereas TF2's unlocks are things like a revolver that gives you extra cloak time on hits but does 20% less damage, a rocket launcher that fires faster and more damaging shots at the cost of virtually nonexistence splash damage, and so on.
The items that are broken aren't broken because they're Strictly Better, they're broken because the break the field that class is supposed to be in.
Because the whole article basically can be summed up as: "THIS JUST IN: Users prefer doing less work!"
Do I REALLY need to explain to you why comparing one country doing stupid shit like that in 1770 is not a valid justification for ANOTHER country to do it in 2010?
That's like arguing that it's ok for a hospital to believe in the miasma and humors as a cause of disease because somebody somewhere believed it 200 years ago, even though you can go three blocks away and SEE a virus under a microscope do it's thing right before your eyes.
... Really because I don't remember smacking my face on the tube going to someone's laptop when I walk past a starbucks...
Or, even better, don't bother. By then IT should be able to call me itself.
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Exactly. Call me when my prey stops being too weak minded to be sentient.
As long as someone has physical posession of the device there is no such thing as absolute security.
They aren't lying though, they do drive efficiency... right through the floor. And I'm pretty sure that it really does take a pretting innovative mind to find new ways to piss 48 million pounds up a single pole.
Which is basically what I was trying to get at from post #1 while keeping the joke running.
In the universe where if you get someone drunk and screw them while they're passed out, although some places just place that under regular rape laws instead of filing it under statutory rape laws with the same punishments as the normal ones.
...Yeah... but it's still statutory rape if you need wine to ply her.
Yeah but it's still statutory rape if you need wine to ply her.
Serious Sam's crosshair was dual-function. It had a minimum size where it behaved like a normal crosshair and then it could also appear as though it were being projected onto whatever was closer than it's maximum distance.
That was NINE YEARS ago.
I had to read that three times to get it, well played you magnificent bastard.
In answer to your question though the trick is recognizing that it's an infinite loop to do that.
It IS possible for something to just be terrible and still widely used for reasons of pure inertia and arbitrary (likely unintelligent) mandates. Not everything that is popular is also necessarily good.
Like I'm about to be told I want to fuck my mother, why?
Only in countries with broken IP law.
Believe it or not there are people in this world that still use physical mediums to transfer data. It's possible to actually buy a disc that has a game (or games) on it, install them from the disc, and them play them all without permission from an outside source.