Entry testing. The real question you should be asking is why should a higher education institution that doesnt even HAVE grades give a damn?
Standardized tests are pretty much utterly worthless. They're easily circumvented, only as secure as their proctor, and in the meantime drag down the quality of that education that everyone is so concernced with measuring by ensuring that people are taught every loophole about the test but not very much real material.
That's more related to "social promotion" or whatever they call it now, going to the next grade is more about keeping you with other people your age than actually being competent enough to progress.
To some degree I agree with it, you can't exactly have a 6th grader in an elementary school or a ~20/yo in highschool with a bunch of people 4+ years younger than him, but on the other hand it makes it pretty hard to deal with idiots.
3/10, lacking any real effort and not very convincing. When working with something as widely known (and widely despised) as zero tolerance you need to be more subtle when attempting to troll by defending it.
In other news politicians still haven't made the connection between an arbitrary and inherently abusive disciplinary system of absolute authority with no accountability or responsibility layed over the top of a system of "education" designed around teaching students to do well on a few standardized tests and students becoming "disengaged".
Ditch zero tolerance and standardized tests and the problem will solve itself.
You forgot that they also use special tripolarity magnetic alignment cordage with tru-neg vacuum standoffs to perpendicularly align the electrons and thus properly reproduce the non-hertzian frequences.
you forgot the protestant belief predestination also leading to the cultural belief that anyone suffering in this world had it coming because they were going to hell anyway and deserved it.
Still, the more money they pour into it trying to spam us with ads the more money goes into developing the tech and assuming it doesn't die out entirely (which I doubt, too many people concurrently trying to do useful things with it, too well known as one of the SciFi dreams of the future) eventually someone will grab it and run with it in the right direction. Probably all the way to the bank.
Actually I think absurdist's post had it, this is all just him repeating the lie enough times that he can get his followers to back him up and then challenge fair use entirely.
The problem is they're ignorant and shortsighted enough to not realise that they'd make a damn sight more doing it valve's way than by screwing over the end user.
Which was largely my point, ~200k concurrent players at peak time is a damn sight more impressive than 200K total. I don't even know how many active unique users valve's games have but it's probably somewhere between an imperial and a metric fuckton.
I wouldn't call ~200,000 people a day between only three games from ONE COMPANY when the most populous of those three games averages ~80-90K a day peak users despite being about 5 years old a remnant of the early days of PC gaming. I'd call that proof of how important dedicated servers and proper mod support are.
Occasionally I am just absolutely struck fuck-dumb by the sheer level of pants on head retardedness displayed in decisions like this. Then I realise the 1st and 2nd amendments come into play.
Are you seriously claiming that it's only "serious art" if the good guys win, the bad guys lose, and everyone lives happily ever after?
Sorry but that's bullshit, sometimes, many times, bad people win. It sucks but it's real. There are plenty of people out there who can and will commit an atrocity like this without any problems and will get away with it just fine. There is no requirement that something have an ending that fits our stereotype of justice for a given thing to have serious artistic merit.
And yes the player probably will go on to do all that, but knowing Call of Duty it might not be the same character that the player is playing. Eventually the player's character (or, knowing CoD, characterS) should have happen to them whatever makes for a good story.
Life is controversial, people do horrible things to each other, and sometimes part of games and movies is depicting those horrible things.
To me this just says that games are finally reaching a level where they're willing to make a statement and are willing to make the audience uncomfortable to do it, they aren't treating significant subjects with kid gloves anymore. Movies have been making the audience uncomfortable about horrific things for a long time, a lot of the time by tricking them into enjoying it on some level (combining nudity and violence for example...), in this instance a game is doing the same by combining completing the game with slaughtering civilians. That in and of itself isn't anything new but there's a pretty big difference between being explicitly told by the game to open fire on a crowd of innocent people and finish off the wounded afterwards in a serious situation and GTA/Saints row style blood comedy.
Unfortunately the actual effect this is going to have is that every store that can get away with it will now treat air fresheners like fratboys treat axe.
Except that arguing the supposed communist nations against socialism doesn't work, there's a big freaking difference between the USSR, Cuba, China, and... well basically everyone else in the world.
Unfortunately, this and worse is pretty much true. There are people out there that no matter what you do will still make stupid mistakes anyway for the dumbest reasons and then they'll be angry with you for not magically protecting them from their own incompetence.
Your only real solution is to either keep cleaning up after them or try and get their internet access revoked somehow.
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Entry testing. The real question you should be asking is why should a higher education institution that doesnt even HAVE grades give a damn?
Standardized tests are pretty much utterly worthless. They're easily circumvented, only as secure as their proctor, and in the meantime drag down the quality of that education that everyone is so concernced with measuring by ensuring that people are taught every loophole about the test but not very much real material.
That's more related to "social promotion" or whatever they call it now, going to the next grade is more about keeping you with other people your age than actually being competent enough to progress.
To some degree I agree with it, you can't exactly have a 6th grader in an elementary school or a ~20/yo in highschool with a bunch of people 4+ years younger than him, but on the other hand it makes it pretty hard to deal with idiots.
3/10, lacking any real effort and not very convincing. When working with something as widely known (and widely despised) as zero tolerance you need to be more subtle when attempting to troll by defending it.
So is the 14th.
In other news politicians still haven't made the connection between an arbitrary and inherently abusive disciplinary system of absolute authority with no accountability or responsibility layed over the top of a system of "education" designed around teaching students to do well on a few standardized tests and students becoming "disengaged".
Ditch zero tolerance and standardized tests and the problem will solve itself.
You forgot that they also use special tripolarity magnetic alignment cordage with tru-neg vacuum standoffs to perpendicularly align the electrons and thus properly reproduce the non-hertzian frequences.
you forgot the protestant belief predestination also leading to the cultural belief that anyone suffering in this world had it coming because they were going to hell anyway and deserved it.
Three words: Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. Clone it, get everyone using it and start putting your proprietary stuff in it, kill it.
GP just wants someone to hate on, you don't get much more neutral in phrasing than that without making a two word post saying only "Streisand effect."
it will probably be all over the rest of the internet and general common knowledge within the week.
Still, the more money they pour into it trying to spam us with ads the more money goes into developing the tech and assuming it doesn't die out entirely (which I doubt, too many people concurrently trying to do useful things with it, too well known as one of the SciFi dreams of the future) eventually someone will grab it and run with it in the right direction. Probably all the way to the bank.
Actually I think absurdist's post had it, this is all just him repeating the lie enough times that he can get his followers to back him up and then challenge fair use entirely.
The problem is they're ignorant and shortsighted enough to not realise that they'd make a damn sight more doing it valve's way than by screwing over the end user.
Don't most cameras have the viewfinder right in the center of the camera along the top edge?
That's concurrent users still, not total system users.
Which was largely my point, ~200k concurrent players at peak time is a damn sight more impressive than 200K total. I don't even know how many active unique users valve's games have but it's probably somewhere between an imperial and a metric fuckton.
I wouldn't call ~200,000 people a day between only three games from ONE COMPANY when the most populous of those three games averages ~80-90K a day peak users despite being about 5 years old a remnant of the early days of PC gaming. I'd call that proof of how important dedicated servers and proper mod support are.
Apple quality? Last time I was inside an apple they were still using leaky electrolytic caps and even worse hardware than low end PCs.
I rent an apartment, am I fucked as well?
Occasionally I am just absolutely struck fuck-dumb by the sheer level of pants on head retardedness displayed in decisions like this. Then I realise the 1st and 2nd amendments come into play.
Are you seriously claiming that it's only "serious art" if the good guys win, the bad guys lose, and everyone lives happily ever after?
Sorry but that's bullshit, sometimes, many times, bad people win. It sucks but it's real. There are plenty of people out there who can and will commit an atrocity like this without any problems and will get away with it just fine. There is no requirement that something have an ending that fits our stereotype of justice for a given thing to have serious artistic merit.
And yes the player probably will go on to do all that, but knowing Call of Duty it might not be the same character that the player is playing. Eventually the player's character (or, knowing CoD, characterS) should have happen to them whatever makes for a good story.
Life is controversial, people do horrible things to each other, and sometimes part of games and movies is depicting those horrible things.
To me this just says that games are finally reaching a level where they're willing to make a statement and are willing to make the audience uncomfortable to do it, they aren't treating significant subjects with kid gloves anymore. Movies have been making the audience uncomfortable about horrific things for a long time, a lot of the time by tricking them into enjoying it on some level (combining nudity and violence for example...), in this instance a game is doing the same by combining completing the game with slaughtering civilians. That in and of itself isn't anything new but there's a pretty big difference between being explicitly told by the game to open fire on a crowd of innocent people and finish off the wounded afterwards in a serious situation and GTA/Saints row style blood comedy.
Unfortunately the actual effect this is going to have is that every store that can get away with it will now treat air fresheners like fratboys treat axe.
Except that arguing the supposed communist nations against socialism doesn't work, there's a big freaking difference between the USSR, Cuba, China, and... well basically everyone else in the world.
Bacon's cheaper and works just as well for most gentiles.
Unfortunately, this and worse is pretty much true. There are people out there that no matter what you do will still make stupid mistakes anyway for the dumbest reasons and then they'll be angry with you for not magically protecting them from their own incompetence.
Your only real solution is to either keep cleaning up after them or try and get their internet access revoked somehow.