Well there you are. I hit the comments and immediately searched for "Fox News". And yes, yes that's exactly what they do, But it's also what virtually everyone does. Any belief system (like Fox News) relies upon someone saying something with a straight face and hoping people who know no better will buy it. There isn't a bank, religion, family, product or sporting supplement manufacturer that does anything different. You may disagree, but with all due respect you'll only be proving my point.
Marketing gets a bad rep, but if you were a tech company would you want your coders or engineers selling your products to the general population? An engineer selling the benefits of their company's product to an engineer at a different company is pretty effective, but will produce a conversation that is meaningless babble to the average person in the street. Solution? Have these conversations behind closed doors, well away from the street.
I actually think they would be ideal as assembly line prototypes. Hire however many and set them up in a process line and jigger them about until you have it perfected, then commission cheaper, faster single-job robots to replace them. Probably from China. So, yeah, I'm suggesting that ultimately cheaper robots from China will take these American robot's jobs. Hmm.
You know, I reckon once most jobs can be automated you're going to see a massive shift away from "Right to Life" and family-friendly policies.
There was a big problem with scammers packaging wiki-ed information from community game sites to look like official game guides and selling it for stupid prices. I wondered why I hadn't seen any for a while. Personally I'm glad Amazon are actively blocking stuff like this because it was really poisoning their site.
What have you got against a policy that says games will have multiplayer? Nothing in the "story" says there won't be single player content.
Ah. That's easy. Firstly, as has been mentioned a lot, not all games need a multi-player component. But if your game doesn't have a multi-player component it won't get the green light from EA. Ergo, developers will tack on a half-assed MP component to all their pitches. These MP game modes will add no value at retail, because there are a very limited number of successful MP games. Nobody buys Crysis for the Multi-player, for instance. So developers will divert resources from making compelling single-player content to make inadequate MP content and the game suffers massively overall. Consequently the game tanks and the failure is blamed on the lack of MP focus. Thus, death spiral of the industry and we all end up playing piano and reading novels to kill the black emptiness of our spare time.
Nite Owl was inspired by Blue Beetle, the original Charlton character Alan Moore wanted to write about. And the Gauss rifle or coil gun was invented and built in the 60s by Kristian Birkelan, which then inspired 70s SF I guess.
When you start complaining about how Star Wars now isn't as good as Star Wars back then, YOU may have jumped a shark. In a land speeder. Star Wars is always good. Canon is over-rated. I'll read the comics, the books, watch the cartoons and you know what - none of it has an impact, or changes in any way, my love of the original trilogy. Those other three films by body-snatched, Cylon George.... not canon.
Can't speak for the AC but I also love this series. You're going to smell a lot of shit if you judge everything by how shitty it is. Explains that look on your face, it does.
It appears to me that Sweden is becoming the centre of internet freedom battles. Is this geographical, cultural,legal or just luck of the draw?
Interesting question, and one that made me question my own national bias. I love the UK because I know no better. Parts of it are great, parts of it are terrible, but overall I can't imagine anyone improving on the mix.
I read your comment and I thought to myself, I bet everyone thinks that. There's always somewhere better, there's always somewhere worse.
Maybe Sweden is it. I don't think the UK is it. I KNOW Ireland isn't it. France isn't it. Germany wants to be it, but it isn't it.
Re: Reaper Minis - I was kinda glad this was popular when I heard about it on Penny Arcade (I think) but hell it's gone REALLY popular now. Stupid popular. I'd pledge myself but I prefer the blocky feel of old 80s Games Workshop figures to this. Early Citadel figs looked like this with lots of detail on spindly figures. The GW figures, which were I think the first to use plastic multi-part casting, were bolder and consequently easier to paint and still look good. Not crazy about what they're doing now. Oh, with the pre-orders now committed there will be immediate tax liabilities and commissions to KS and Amazon - the Reaper guys now have a very real, very large headache on their hands. Hopefully the community will be understanding.
I'm still awful tempted for this KS though. Figs are a fortune nowadays and it's a pretty good deal. I haven't painted anything for about six or seven years and haven't RPed in a group for about two decades. Submitter should be happy to have a regular group and not give a flying crap about explaining anything to anyone. Anyone who has no clue what a RPG is, is culturally retarded so you're going to have a hard time explaining concepts like day and night to them, never mind your niche hobby.
You've highlighted the chief problem with detecting sporting cheats. Millions of dollars goes into finding cheats. Billions goes into getting around the tests.
I find your ideas fascinating and your argument compelling. I have one question. We speak of the value of Bitcoin, but relative to what? If the other cash systems collapse and only Bitcoin is left, will it be traded relative to its worth in goats or chickens?
...as to how many actually use Bitcoin, and how not being either a government-supported fiat currency and also not being specie with some inherent material value it can have value not intensely tied to being a trend.
After all, we've seen a lot of other essentially worthless things become very valuable, and then crash, and we've even seen valuable things like real estate also crash. In the end, bullion and real estate have tangible value. A string of characters does not, and without the backing of a government I don't see how it'll work.
It's identical to any other economic system. Basically, it's Tinkerbell. So long as you believe, everything will be okay...
Brian McNaughton - "Throne of Bones". A collection of short stories about ghouls and the ghoulish, set in a world very similar to Jack Vance's Dying Earth though a good deal more venal and depraved.
"For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot. Hunger is the fire in which they burn, and it burns hotter than the hunger for power over men or for knowledge of the gods in a crazed mortal. It vaporizes delicacy and leaves behind only a slag of anger and lust. They see their fellows as impediments to feeding, to be mauled and shrieked at when the mourners go home. They are seldom alone, not through love of one another's company, but because a lone ghoul is suspected of stealing food. Their copulation is so hasty that distinctions of sex and identity are often ignored."
everyone else is - the most under-appreciated SF writer is... Dan Brown. Clearly. Huh, what? Sure he's fabulously wealthy and successful, but so are most of the other writers being mentioned. Unlike many of them he's never - NEVER - won a Hugo or a Nebula. How under-appreciated is that? Very. Not a science fiction author? Have you even read "The Digital Fortress"? That had science in it and it was fiction.
Obviously the real most under-appreciated Science Fiction writer is John Steakley, who wrote the book "John Carpenter's Vampires" was based on. The sequel had Jon Bon Jovi in it.
I kid. John Steakley also wrote "Armor", which is one of the best armoured mobile infantry books ever written. No longer with us, sadly. Bit of a drinker.
Somewhere between one guy coding in his bedroom to "there's a committee for that", something goes wrong. You know the definition of politics? It's what happens when more than two people gather in one place.
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Skype? How retro. Chatroulette is on it.
Meh. Fleshlight plus internet porn requires two hands. Sure, you could compromise. But if you're going to do that you may as well try dating.
Nothing to add, but what a great idea. In fact it's advice I should probably take.
Why has this comment been modded down? Seems like a reasonable, if not slightly abrasive -- but tolerable -- self-defense.
Because there are elegant ways and non-elegant ways to defend yourself. Also, he was being a dick.
Well there you are. I hit the comments and immediately searched for "Fox News". And yes, yes that's exactly what they do, But it's also what virtually everyone does. Any belief system (like Fox News) relies upon someone saying something with a straight face and hoping people who know no better will buy it. There isn't a bank, religion, family, product or sporting supplement manufacturer that does anything different. You may disagree, but with all due respect you'll only be proving my point.
Marketing gets a bad rep, but if you were a tech company would you want your coders or engineers selling your products to the general population? An engineer selling the benefits of their company's product to an engineer at a different company is pretty effective, but will produce a conversation that is meaningless babble to the average person in the street. Solution? Have these conversations behind closed doors, well away from the street.
I actually think they would be ideal as assembly line prototypes. Hire however many and set them up in a process line and jigger them about until you have it perfected, then commission cheaper, faster single-job robots to replace them. Probably from China. So, yeah, I'm suggesting that ultimately cheaper robots from China will take these American robot's jobs. Hmm.
You know, I reckon once most jobs can be automated you're going to see a massive shift away from "Right to Life" and family-friendly policies.
... didn't "Let the Right One In" when they cast their votes. See what I did there?
There was a big problem with scammers packaging wiki-ed information from community game sites to look like official game guides and selling it for stupid prices. I wondered why I hadn't seen any for a while. Personally I'm glad Amazon are actively blocking stuff like this because it was really poisoning their site.
What have you got against a policy that says games will have multiplayer? Nothing in the "story" says there won't be single player content.
Ah. That's easy. Firstly, as has been mentioned a lot, not all games need a multi-player component. But if your game doesn't have a multi-player component it won't get the green light from EA. Ergo, developers will tack on a half-assed MP component to all their pitches. These MP game modes will add no value at retail, because there are a very limited number of successful MP games. Nobody buys Crysis for the Multi-player, for instance. So developers will divert resources from making compelling single-player content to make inadequate MP content and the game suffers massively overall. Consequently the game tanks and the failure is blamed on the lack of MP focus. Thus, death spiral of the industry and we all end up playing piano and reading novels to kill the black emptiness of our spare time.
Nite Owl was inspired by Blue Beetle, the original Charlton character Alan Moore wanted to write about. And the Gauss rifle or coil gun was invented and built in the 60s by Kristian Birkelan, which then inspired 70s SF I guess.
The service is meant for app developers. They are pitching in to get access to the API when it's written.
Sssshhh! You're going to confuse the angry mob with facts.
When you start complaining about how Star Wars now isn't as good as Star Wars back then, YOU may have jumped a shark. In a land speeder. Star Wars is always good. Canon is over-rated. I'll read the comics, the books, watch the cartoons and you know what - none of it has an impact, or changes in any way, my love of the original trilogy. Those other three films by body-snatched, Cylon George.... not canon.
Can't speak for the AC but I also love this series. You're going to smell a lot of shit if you judge everything by how shitty it is. Explains that look on your face, it does.
It appears to me that Sweden is becoming the centre of internet freedom battles. Is this geographical, cultural,legal or just luck of the draw?
Interesting question, and one that made me question my own national bias. I love the UK because I know no better. Parts of it are great, parts of it are terrible, but overall I can't imagine anyone improving on the mix.
I read your comment and I thought to myself, I bet everyone thinks that. There's always somewhere better, there's always somewhere worse.
Maybe Sweden is it. I don't think the UK is it. I KNOW Ireland isn't it. France isn't it. Germany wants to be it, but it isn't it.
Who IS it? Sweden?
Re: Reaper Minis - I was kinda glad this was popular when I heard about it on Penny Arcade (I think) but hell it's gone REALLY popular now. Stupid popular. I'd pledge myself but I prefer the blocky feel of old 80s Games Workshop figures to this. Early Citadel figs looked like this with lots of detail on spindly figures. The GW figures, which were I think the first to use plastic multi-part casting, were bolder and consequently easier to paint and still look good. Not crazy about what they're doing now. Oh, with the pre-orders now committed there will be immediate tax liabilities and commissions to KS and Amazon - the Reaper guys now have a very real, very large headache on their hands. Hopefully the community will be understanding.
I'm still awful tempted for this KS though. Figs are a fortune nowadays and it's a pretty good deal. I haven't painted anything for about six or seven years and haven't RPed in a group for about two decades. Submitter should be happy to have a regular group and not give a flying crap about explaining anything to anyone. Anyone who has no clue what a RPG is, is culturally retarded so you're going to have a hard time explaining concepts like day and night to them, never mind your niche hobby.
You've highlighted the chief problem with detecting sporting cheats. Millions of dollars goes into finding cheats. Billions goes into getting around the tests.
I find your ideas fascinating and your argument compelling. I have one question. We speak of the value of Bitcoin, but relative to what? If the other cash systems collapse and only Bitcoin is left, will it be traded relative to its worth in goats or chickens?
Gold is quite useful stuff, so you can't really say bullion has NO tangible value.
...as to how many actually use Bitcoin, and how not being either a government-supported fiat currency and also not being specie with some inherent material value it can have value not intensely tied to being a trend. After all, we've seen a lot of other essentially worthless things become very valuable, and then crash, and we've even seen valuable things like real estate also crash. In the end, bullion and real estate have tangible value. A string of characters does not, and without the backing of a government I don't see how it'll work.
It's identical to any other economic system. Basically, it's Tinkerbell. So long as you believe, everything will be okay...
99% of coding is dull and meticulous. It's basically Bob Cratchit's job. Working in IT is different every day.
Brian McNaughton - "Throne of Bones". A collection of short stories about ghouls and the ghoulish, set in a world very similar to Jack Vance's Dying Earth though a good deal more venal and depraved.
"For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot. Hunger is the fire in which they burn, and it burns hotter than the hunger for power over men or for knowledge of the gods in a crazed mortal. It vaporizes delicacy and leaves behind only a slag of anger and lust. They see their fellows as impediments to feeding, to be mauled and shrieked at when the mourners go home. They are seldom alone, not through love of one another's company, but because a lone ghoul is suspected of stealing food. Their copulation is so hasty that distinctions of sex and identity are often ignored."
everyone else is - the most under-appreciated SF writer is... Dan Brown. Clearly. Huh, what? Sure he's fabulously wealthy and successful, but so are most of the other writers being mentioned. Unlike many of them he's never - NEVER - won a Hugo or a Nebula. How under-appreciated is that? Very. Not a science fiction author? Have you even read "The Digital Fortress"? That had science in it and it was fiction.
Obviously the real most under-appreciated Science Fiction writer is John Steakley, who wrote the book "John Carpenter's Vampires" was based on. The sequel had Jon Bon Jovi in it.
I kid. John Steakley also wrote "Armor", which is one of the best armoured mobile infantry books ever written. No longer with us, sadly. Bit of a drinker.
Somewhere between one guy coding in his bedroom to "there's a committee for that", something goes wrong. You know the definition of politics? It's what happens when more than two people gather in one place.
Competent? The food ration was continually being reduced.
Uh, goodbye national obesity crisis!