The unveiling and first attempt at this game requires:
- A projector. - A camera to record footage for posterity. - A celebrity guest, Either CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, or one of the Diggnation guys. - Huuuuuge quantities of alcohol.
This has the potential to be one of the most successful parties in/. history. There could easily be as many as 5, even 6 guests! Rock on!
Check out quinoa. Awesome nutritional value, 12-18% protein content and AFAIK the only plant food with a near-perfect amino acid profile for human consumption. Not saying it should replace your meat intake, but it's good stuff.
What about resources that can be mined from the moon? At the very least, wouldn't it make sense to take off from Earth as lightly as possible and pick up heavier resources (water, building materials) on the way? Of course that relies on an established lunar infrastructure to be in place first, but once that's up and running...
Ditto. I know a couple of friends who have semi-regular Ethnic Slur Days, which used to be fairly superficial with drunken name-calling, and have now (d)evolved to the point of researching historical events to find new things to blame each other for. When it gets to the point where, for example, you're yelling at the token Catalan in the group for Ysabella bringing the Inquisition to the Canary Islands in the late 15th Century, it starts getting downright educational.
Off the top of my head, I remember when we first started getting charged for SMS messages. They were free for a good year or two at least after they were introduced in Australia, and then suddenly it was 20c a message and the early adopters were burning through what used to be a month's worth of credit in a matter of days. Now it's accepted as the norm.
Thanks for that, and glad you're alive to tell the tale. I've got a few friends who've done fairly intensive Krav Maga training and loved it, so I think I'm gonna give that a shot.
As a rough guide, calling people names to put them down is bad. In certain contexts it's considered unacceptable. There's no hard-and-fast universal rules here, so for a deeper understanding than that, it's easiest to just look up the name/word in question.
I definitely don't want a gun myself, and living in Australia I wouldn't be able to carry one anyway, but that's solid advice, I'll keep it in mind and hope I never have to use it. What fighting style do you study, and have you ever been forced to use this strategy in an altercation?
My case was a lucky one. Thanks largely to my friend presenting a cute female barrier for the few seconds it took me to find my feet, not fighting became a potential option even if the situation was far from defused. I was happy to pursue that first, and by that point I was at least facing him, so if he came at me again I *might* have been able to do something.
The problem is not that he's making movies, it's the movies he's making. He's being put at the helm of some of our favourite game franchise crossovers, and then butchering them mercilessly.
Imagine your favourite game in the world. You've beaten it on Legendary 15 times. You've read every spinoff novel. You've unlocked every single outfit and cooking utensil. Not only have you rescued the princess, you've persuaded her to get hot-coffee-mod-freaky with you. You own figurines of every single character AND the entire dev team. There's a personal dedication to you on the inside cover of the walkthrough. You've taken out whole battalions with 100% headshots using a catapult and a bag of frozen peas.
This game is your everything. Others might not understand, but it makes you happy, and that's all that counts. Then you find out that there's going to be a movie. On a given release date in the near future, your life will be complete. You impose a media blackout on yourself - no previews, no trailers, no interviews. Nothing that will spoil the anticipation, the cloud of pure joy on which you're floating. This is going to be the best shit ever.
The day arrives. You're at the first screening in the country, sitting front and centre. You've driven 1500 miles to be there. Your hands are shaking. You can't stop grinning....
Two hours later, your eyeballs are bleeding. The only reason you're still alive is that you chewed your own foot off. All that you know and love lies in smoking ruins.
Well, that's pretty much exactly the thing - I'm not refuting the GGP at all, but inductive reasoning based on anecdotal evidence is a constant target of attack here on/. I couldn't find any other numbers that looked reliable, so I wanted to get the discussion rolling and hope that someone more knowledgeable would be able to contribute. Somewhere in the middle of all this is a rough idea of how likely one is to be a victim of crime - in this case, racially motivated assault or harrassment.
This probably going to devolve into a racial profiling flamewar, but I'm still curious.
Having just recently been the victim of an attempted bashing (still got bruises), I can understand how events like that put you on edge. Mine was pretty random - I was walking through a park, heard "fucking faggot!" yelled behind me, and turned around just in time to cop a fist to the face. It was mildly ironic, since I was walking with a young lady I'd picked up that night, who yelled and screamed until he went away while I was figuring out how to stand up again, but he obviously knew how to throw a punch, which I sure as hell don't, he didn't care that I was a complete stranger, and I shudder to think how I would have ended up if I'd been on my own.
I'm curious, if sounding intelligent doesn't get you out of one of these situations, what other options do you have at your disposal? Do you or would you consider carrying a firearm? Have you done any martial arts or self-defence training?
A counterpoint to your question, though: The first site I could find that didn't look like a hatespeech outlet still suggests that black-on-white gang violence, US-wide, is approximately 8 times more prevalent than white-on black, in a country with 6 times as many whites as blacks. If you have any other numbers I'd like to see them.
I'm not excusing anyone's behaviour here, and I admire your restraint in dealing with the fuckwits you've encountered thus far. There are obviously heavy social, cultural, historic, economic and legal factors in the equation, and the above is just one type of crime out of many. I assume there are also rampant reporting discrepancies - yelling "nigger" at someone is a crime pretty much anywhere with hatespeech laws, but I doubt it gets reported or enforced frequently, if ever.
I worked merch at the last Combichrist concert in Sydney, and we sold more knickers than albums. Never underestimate the power of awesome branding/merchandising.
Hi. I copied a few tracks by Pendulum from a friend's laptop(most notably Slam). Based on what I heard, I bought Hold Your Colour the next time I was in a record store, as well as tickets to their next concert in Sydney. It's some of the best drum and bass I've ever heard, the album artwork is stunning, I like having it sitting on my shelf, and the price was reasonable thanks to the record store in question having a sale at the time.
I also paid for Saul William's latest album after downloading his earlier works. I'll happily buy those too if I find a local store stocking them, but given his attitude to the industry I doubt he minds all that much either way. I'll definitely be purchasing tickets to any live show of his that I can attend.
Then there's one of my new favourite psytrance outfits, ITP, who've just released their latest album as a free download on its first birthday. I'll be buying the next one, sight unseen, I know it's going to be amazing. If you're into the genre, then check them out.
So yeah, I download music. I download movies. I buy CDs. I buy DVDs. More and more often, one of those actions will arise from another, and whilst the former two result largely from curiosity, the latter two now result only from quality.
Fisting can refer to anyone getting wrist-deep in any suitable orifice, their own or anyone else's. It's by no means a solely homosexual activity. [/pedant]
I think either's appropriate, since Vista's getting worse over time (viz., SP1), but is also the result of Microsoft trying to insert something unnececessarily large into their customer base.
Unfortunately, the onlydetermining factor in response time is the LCD panel itself. DVI/VGA cables, screen resolution, and signal refresh rates won't make a lick of difference, any more than standing on one leg when you turn on the microwave will cook your food faster.
Asus, Viewsonic, Samsung and many others have 2ms LCD monitors out nowadays that should set you in good stead for gaming, and prices are as always dropping rapidly.
First off, I'm really sorry you've had to go through this shit. It sucks, and I feel for you. Second, standard disclaimer: IANAwhatever, and could be wrong about all of the below.
Unless there's something about this guy that you don't know or aren't telling us, your ex is a gold-digger and that spiritual connection you felt was you being a hopeless romantic idealist. It's easier to write off half the human population as lying, treacherous harlots than to admit that you might have been wrong about her specifically, but it'll ruin your life more than she ever could have without your help.
Whilst I doubt your situation is unique, I can assure you it's not universal, and hopefully caution you from overextrapolating from it. Whilst I've had three partners (that I know of) cheat on me, admittedly done the same to one of them when I was much younger, and been presented with one or two opportunities to be 'the other guy' in ostensibly monogamous relationships (none of which I went through with), not a single one of those situations has never had anything to do with money.
I'm making this worse, aren't I?
The point is, there are more reasons for relationships beginning and ending, and for those beginnings and endings overlapping, than you can possibly keep track of without ending up not only alone, but alone with one or more A.V.O.s against your name. I'm great friends with two of those three ex-partners, and the one I don't talk to is for entirely separate reasons. Turning bitter and cynical, or paranoid and stalkerish, isn't going to help your cause.
There's someone better than you, or me, at just about anything. If you make the game about money, and attract a partner who thinks the same thing, then there's going to be someone with more money, and you know what happens then. If you make it purely about physical attraction, there's going to be someone coming along who's taller or handsomer or cuddlier or whatever it takes to catch your significant other's eye. If you pick a specific criterion or criteria like that, you're going to lose. She might cheat on you, she might have the decency to dump you first, or she might stay faithful and spend the rest of her life quietly and unhappily imagining what could have been, but none of those sound especially appealing to me.
This bit is going to sound like self-help wank, but the only thing you can do better than anyone else is be YOU. It's up to you to make sure that's a good thing (i.e. staying healthy, not living in Mom's basement, soaking food stains etc.). It's up to you to make sure that you're actually putting some effort into it and allowing yourself to evolve (i.e. working towards the job you want, allowing yourself creative outputs, growing past OS fanboyism). It's up to you to find someone whose tastes intersect significantly (maybe even perfectly) with what you are, and what you're happy being, and who intersects similarly with your tastes.
Hell, I know furries who are in happy decade-old relationships; trust me, there's someone for *everyone*.
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The unveiling and first attempt at this game requires:
/. history. There could easily be as many as 5, even 6 guests! Rock on!
- A projector.
- A camera to record footage for posterity.
- A celebrity guest, Either CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, or one of the Diggnation guys.
- Huuuuuge quantities of alcohol.
This has the potential to be one of the most successful parties in
Check out quinoa. Awesome nutritional value, 12-18% protein content and AFAIK the only plant food with a near-perfect amino acid profile for human consumption. Not saying it should replace your meat intake, but it's good stuff.
That's true, I was thinking more in the context of manned missions.
What about resources that can be mined from the moon? At the very least, wouldn't it make sense to take off from Earth as lightly as possible and pick up heavier resources (water, building materials) on the way? Of course that relies on an established lunar infrastructure to be in place first, but once that's up and running...
Ditto. I know a couple of friends who have semi-regular Ethnic Slur Days, which used to be fairly superficial with drunken name-calling, and have now (d)evolved to the point of researching historical events to find new things to blame each other for. When it gets to the point where, for example, you're yelling at the token Catalan in the group for Ysabella bringing the Inquisition to the Canary Islands in the late 15th Century, it starts getting downright educational.
(fucking spaniards.)
Off the top of my head, I remember when we first started getting charged for SMS messages. They were free for a good year or two at least after they were introduced in Australia, and then suddenly it was 20c a message and the early adopters were burning through what used to be a month's worth of credit in a matter of days. Now it's accepted as the norm.
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Thanks for that, and glad you're alive to tell the tale. I've got a few friends who've done fairly intensive Krav Maga training and loved it, so I think I'm gonna give that a shot.
Any pair of polarised sunglasses with do the trick.
I'm down with being post/trans-human. Bring on the Singularity.
It's all about context. If you're interested, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigga have some interesting background and usage info.
As a rough guide, calling people names to put them down is bad. In certain contexts it's considered unacceptable. There's no hard-and-fast universal rules here, so for a deeper understanding than that, it's easiest to just look up the name/word in question.
I definitely don't want a gun myself, and living in Australia I wouldn't be able to carry one anyway, but that's solid advice, I'll keep it in mind and hope I never have to use it. What fighting style do you study, and have you ever been forced to use this strategy in an altercation? My case was a lucky one. Thanks largely to my friend presenting a cute female barrier for the few seconds it took me to find my feet, not fighting became a potential option even if the situation was far from defused. I was happy to pursue that first, and by that point I was at least facing him, so if he came at me again I *might* have been able to do something.
The problem is not that he's making movies, it's the movies he's making. He's being put at the helm of some of our favourite game franchise crossovers, and then butchering them mercilessly.
...
Imagine your favourite game in the world. You've beaten it on Legendary 15 times. You've read every spinoff novel. You've unlocked every single outfit and cooking utensil. Not only have you rescued the princess, you've persuaded her to get hot-coffee-mod-freaky with you. You own figurines of every single character AND the entire dev team. There's a personal dedication to you on the inside cover of the walkthrough. You've taken out whole battalions with 100% headshots using a catapult and a bag of frozen peas.
This game is your everything. Others might not understand, but it makes you happy, and that's all that counts. Then you find out that there's going to be a movie. On a given release date in the near future, your life will be complete. You impose a media blackout on yourself - no previews, no trailers, no interviews. Nothing that will spoil the anticipation, the cloud of pure joy on which you're floating. This is going to be the best shit ever.
The day arrives. You're at the first screening in the country, sitting front and centre. You've driven 1500 miles to be there. Your hands are shaking. You can't stop grinning.
Two hours later, your eyeballs are bleeding. The only reason you're still alive is that you chewed your own foot off. All that you know and love lies in smoking ruins.
The credits roll... "Directed by: Uwe Boll"
You get where I'm going with this, yeah?
Well, that's pretty much exactly the thing - I'm not refuting the GGP at all, but inductive reasoning based on anecdotal evidence is a constant target of attack here on /. I couldn't find any other numbers that looked reliable, so I wanted to get the discussion rolling and hope that someone more knowledgeable would be able to contribute. Somewhere in the middle of all this is a rough idea of how likely one is to be a victim of crime - in this case, racially motivated assault or harrassment.
This probably going to devolve into a racial profiling flamewar, but I'm still curious.
Having just recently been the victim of an attempted bashing (still got bruises), I can understand how events like that put you on edge. Mine was pretty random - I was walking through a park, heard "fucking faggot!" yelled behind me, and turned around just in time to cop a fist to the face. It was mildly ironic, since I was walking with a young lady I'd picked up that night, who yelled and screamed until he went away while I was figuring out how to stand up again, but he obviously knew how to throw a punch, which I sure as hell don't, he didn't care that I was a complete stranger, and I shudder to think how I would have ended up if I'd been on my own.
I'm curious, if sounding intelligent doesn't get you out of one of these situations, what other options do you have at your disposal? Do you or would you consider carrying a firearm? Have you done any martial arts or self-defence training?
A counterpoint to your question, though: The first site I could find that didn't look like a hatespeech outlet still suggests that black-on-white gang violence, US-wide, is approximately 8 times more prevalent than white-on black, in a country with 6 times as many whites as blacks. If you have any other numbers I'd like to see them.
I'm not excusing anyone's behaviour here, and I admire your restraint in dealing with the fuckwits you've encountered thus far. There are obviously heavy social, cultural, historic, economic and legal factors in the equation, and the above is just one type of crime out of many. I assume there are also rampant reporting discrepancies - yelling "nigger" at someone is a crime pretty much anywhere with hatespeech laws, but I doubt it gets reported or enforced frequently, if ever.
Your thoughts?
I worked merch at the last Combichrist concert in Sydney, and we sold more knickers than albums. Never underestimate the power of awesome branding/merchandising.
Hi. I copied a few tracks by Pendulum from a friend's laptop(most notably Slam). Based on what I heard, I bought Hold Your Colour the next time I was in a record store, as well as tickets to their next concert in Sydney. It's some of the best drum and bass I've ever heard, the album artwork is stunning, I like having it sitting on my shelf, and the price was reasonable thanks to the record store in question having a sale at the time.
I also paid for Saul William's latest album after downloading his earlier works. I'll happily buy those too if I find a local store stocking them, but given his attitude to the industry I doubt he minds all that much either way. I'll definitely be purchasing tickets to any live show of his that I can attend.
Then there's one of my new favourite psytrance outfits, ITP, who've just released their latest album as a free download on its first birthday. I'll be buying the next one, sight unseen, I know it's going to be amazing. If you're into the genre, then check them out.
So yeah, I download music. I download movies. I buy CDs. I buy DVDs. More and more often, one of those actions will arise from another, and whilst the former two result largely from curiosity, the latter two now result only from quality.
That's my take, anyhow. I doubt I'm the only one.
Fisting can refer to anyone getting wrist-deep in any suitable orifice, their own or anyone else's. It's by no means a solely homosexual activity. [/pedant]
I think either's appropriate, since Vista's getting worse over time (viz., SP1), but is also the result of Microsoft trying to insert something unnececessarily large into their customer base.
Unfortunately, the onlydetermining factor in response time is the LCD panel itself. DVI/VGA cables, screen resolution, and signal refresh rates won't make a lick of difference, any more than standing on one leg when you turn on the microwave will cook your food faster.
Asus, Viewsonic, Samsung and many others have 2ms LCD monitors out nowadays that should set you in good stead for gaming, and prices are as always dropping rapidly.
First off, I'm really sorry you've had to go through this shit. It sucks, and I feel for you. Second, standard disclaimer: IANAwhatever, and could be wrong about all of the below.
Unless there's something about this guy that you don't know or aren't telling us, your ex is a gold-digger and that spiritual connection you felt was you being a hopeless romantic idealist. It's easier to write off half the human population as lying, treacherous harlots than to admit that you might have been wrong about her specifically, but it'll ruin your life more than she ever could have without your help.
Whilst I doubt your situation is unique, I can assure you it's not universal, and hopefully caution you from overextrapolating from it. Whilst I've had three partners (that I know of) cheat on me, admittedly done the same to one of them when I was much younger, and been presented with one or two opportunities to be 'the other guy' in ostensibly monogamous relationships (none of which I went through with), not a single one of those situations has never had anything to do with money.
I'm making this worse, aren't I?
The point is, there are more reasons for relationships beginning and ending, and for those beginnings and endings overlapping, than you can possibly keep track of without ending up not only alone, but alone with one or more A.V.O.s against your name. I'm great friends with two of those three ex-partners, and the one I don't talk to is for entirely separate reasons. Turning bitter and cynical, or paranoid and stalkerish, isn't going to help your cause.
There's someone better than you, or me, at just about anything. If you make the game about money, and attract a partner who thinks the same thing, then there's going to be someone with more money, and you know what happens then. If you make it purely about physical attraction, there's going to be someone coming along who's taller or handsomer or cuddlier or whatever it takes to catch your significant other's eye. If you pick a specific criterion or criteria like that, you're going to lose. She might cheat on you, she might have the decency to dump you first, or she might stay faithful and spend the rest of her life quietly and unhappily imagining what could have been, but none of those sound especially appealing to me.
This bit is going to sound like self-help wank, but the only thing you can do better than anyone else is be YOU. It's up to you to make sure that's a good thing (i.e. staying healthy, not living in Mom's basement, soaking food stains etc.). It's up to you to make sure that you're actually putting some effort into it and allowing yourself to evolve (i.e. working towards the job you want, allowing yourself creative outputs, growing past OS fanboyism). It's up to you to find someone whose tastes intersect significantly (maybe even perfectly) with what you are, and what you're happy being, and who intersects similarly with your tastes.
Hell, I know furries who are in happy decade-old relationships; trust me, there's someone for *everyone*.
So do elephants. Are you getting one of them too?
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