Did anyone want to hunt the guy down and punch him in the balls for that one? Anyone? Just me? Oh. (kicks pebble)
And what is "tech savvy" anyway? I design stuff for space involving chips that have nearly 2000 I/O pads, and the whole board might have 5000 signals and the processing power of a small computing cluster. Am I tech savvy? Or do I need a Facebook account to be elevated to that level?
Here in SoCal, other than a very short heat wave, we're having the mildest summer in recent memory. We broke a record a couple weeks ago for the lowest daily high temperature in Los Angeles. My house's heating system is still kicking on in the morning. I usually have the system turned off by early June. It's starting to piss me off. I go for a bike ride to the beach, and I'm needing a damned sweatshirt. I be hatin.
Yeah, I know, weather != climate. I'm just sayin' is all.
We are never going to get off this rock and expand into space
I'm skeptical of it as well, but I'd never say never. The keys are [1] reduce cost to orbit by at least two orders of magnitude and [2] better interplanetary propulsion.
See, I don't get that. *Nothing* beats the old ones? Mass Effect. Heavy Rain. Limbo. Civilization. Starcraft II. Silly Wii party games. WOW. Western RPGs. Japanese RPGs. The range is enormous. There's so many games out these days that there has to be something for everyone.
Well, everyone except those weirdos who don't like to play games. Ever meet one of those? Seriously, what's up with those poeple? Not even card games or checkers. It's like they are missing some part of what makes us human.:-\
I started with the Magnavox Odyssey in 1974, but I love every generation of gaming even better. I have all three current gen consoles and a gaming PC. Yeah, once in a while I go play something old. I D/L Final Fantasy 1 from the Wii store because it was the one FF I never played. It's fun for a bit, but soon I'm like, eff this, where's Fallout: New Vegas already?
The only games I go back and really play are ones I missed the when they were new, so they are at least new to me. Steam and GOG are handy for that.
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on the Accessibility of Web Information and Services Provided by Entities Covered-
I got that far and lost interest, and I'm hardly a person with a short attention span.
It takes a special sort mind to go into law. You may interpret "special" however you wish.
Someone recently linked an image comparing the CNN homepage with Al Jazeera Home page. The difference is extreme. One is a gossip rag, the other a, highly biased, news source.
Yeah, Al Jazeera's 10 page photo spread on Lindsay Lohan was really silly.
Did you ever go to some of the message boards for the game? Cripes, if you dared suggest maybe the box art could have been better you are verbally drawn and quartered and called a coward in life and, geez, all sorts of non sequiturs. I didn't dare post a thing.
Someone did a great parody of a review for Demon's Souls where the guy raves on endlessly about how wonderful it was that it took him 50 hours to get past the first level, and how the game has the best "You Died" screen ever in the history of gaming.:)
I ran into the same thing. I played the free online month that came with GTA4 quite a bit. Got owned a lot at first, but I adapted the gamer part of my game to face real humans rather than AI, and began to give as good as I got. Then after three weeks I was all, eh, is this it?
I really only had one time when I felt it surpassed single player when I was playing cat and mouse with some other player for half an hour. I was on foot in the Manhattan area and he had a helicopter. I took him out, but he managed to crash on me for mutual destruction. Pretty fun- almost like we made our own little movie.
I dunno. Maybe I should look into MMOs with their guilds and cooperative quests. Maybe The Old Republic will be more up my alley.
Great game. Challenging but not nearly as hard as I expected given some of the whining, and I'm not even one of those weirdos who think dying 1000 times per level is just the bestest fun.
But eventually I had to go offline with it to finish it. For those who have not played, you can, given certain conditions, be sent into the game of another player online and attack them without any permission on their part other than the fact that they are playing the game. It seemed at some point I had interlopers coming into my game to attack me every two fracking minutes, and I didn't want to have to play in soul mode all the damn time (which prevents attacks).
The occasional challenge was fine, but I think it got to the point where a lot of people finished the main game, so you had legions of OCD guys sitting in their dorms just attacking other people all day. It supposedly connects you to another player at random, so how many people had to be playing that way for that frequency of attack? Sheesh!
So, neat experiment, but maybe for Demon Soul's 2 they should have a checkbox that disallows that, or separate the single and multiple player a bit more. The "tips" left by other players were rarely useful.
Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series was sort of similar. If a change happens, as long as you are in the timeline before the moment of change, or in transit "outside" the timeline, you are fine, even if the world that produced you is completely gone.
I used to love following theoretical physics until they trotted out holographic cosmology. I decided to find a new hobby. Maybe write an RPG or something.
My friend got an iPhones, and it had some stupid application for making phone calls! Phone calls! How 20th century! Who the heck does that anymore? Sheesh, I tells ya, sheesh!
No, I meant exaggerating by tying in a simple oil change with dealer service. Was that you or the other guy? I've lost track.:) I think everyone who owns a car knows what typical labor rates at the dealer are.
I have no idea when I would have the time to learn how to replace an axle. We all have different skill sets based on our particular interests in life. You guys are saying I should be able to service a car from front to back. Behind you is the Linux guy telling be to build my own PCs from scratch, and how dare I use a higher level programming language where I can draw my GUI beforehand! Behind him is the one telling me to build my own DVR. Next to him is the guy saying I need to be a master carpenter and do all my own home improvements. And so on. Savvy? I don't want to be working 24/7.
You labor is free only if you place no value on your time.
Hiring prostitutes is quite illegal, and really quite stupid of you to suggest to someone who's complaining about too many things being illegal.
You really couldn't tell that was a joke? Really?
Actually, he's complaining that cars are harder to work on, and also that today's youth don't know how to work on cars anymore, other than bolting on lights or whatever.
Ok. So? The world has moved on. People voted for safety and emission controls and performance and whatnot.
How many kids these days change their own oil or do other required maintenance (which even the newest cars still require)? No, they just take it to the dealership to let a "qualified technician" do it for $75/hr.
Wow. Exaggerate much? They go to Jiffy Lube and have it done for $20 and the oil gets disposed of in an approved manner. I never understood the boner "car guys" get over changing your own oil. Some of us just are not interested in working on cars and have other interests. And, yes, I used to change my own oil way back when I was in college and didn't have a fraction of the responsibilities I have now.
With my Honda, I just get a jump-start and drive to the nearest AutoZone, and with nothing more than a 10mm wrench, the guy there replaces my battery in 5 minutes because it's easy to get to (I let him do it because the last time I did it, battery acid ate holes in my shirt!,
OK. My Ford and my Dodge are both 5 minute battery replacements. My friend had a Mercedes where you nearly had to disassemble the rear end to replace a tail light. Another one had a Mini where it seemed a replacement part had to be shipped from Pluto it took so long. We could trade individual anecdotal cases all day and never prove anything.
Eh, I've just never had a very morbid curiosity. I don't even get most horror movies (or what passes for "horror" these days) which are just simulated snuff films as far as I'm concerned.
So because a private company operating under its own volition shuts down its server, that's the United States government's fault and equates them to China?
China. It's the new Nazi.:-) Reductio egg fu yung.
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Another annoying generation label!
generation @
Did anyone want to hunt the guy down and punch him in the balls for that one? Anyone? Just me? Oh. (kicks pebble)
And what is "tech savvy" anyway? I design stuff for space involving chips that have nearly 2000 I/O pads, and the whole board might have 5000 signals and the processing power of a small computing cluster. Am I tech savvy? Or do I need a Facebook account to be elevated to that level?
Can I drive it on the highways?
You mean on the sparkling new 20 lane superhighways? Of course!
Maybe this could be the Flying Car we've been promised!
The new AwesomeBlimp will gently waft flying cars into everyone's driveway! Yay!
Let's see... this is about the fifth "Second Age" of the airship, isn't it?
Let me guess. They'll be fusion powered and piloted by AI? Oh, and don't forget the emergency jetpacks!
While the southwestern U.S. will probably suffer
Here in SoCal, other than a very short heat wave, we're having the mildest summer in recent memory. We broke a record a couple weeks ago for the lowest daily high temperature in Los Angeles. My house's heating system is still kicking on in the morning. I usually have the system turned off by early June. It's starting to piss me off. I go for a bike ride to the beach, and I'm needing a damned sweatshirt. I be hatin.
Yeah, I know, weather != climate. I'm just sayin' is all.
We are never going to get off this rock and expand into space
I'm skeptical of it as well, but I'd never say never. The keys are [1] reduce cost to orbit by at least two orders of magnitude and [2] better interplanetary propulsion.
See, I don't get that. *Nothing* beats the old ones? Mass Effect. Heavy Rain. Limbo. Civilization. Starcraft II. Silly Wii party games. WOW. Western RPGs. Japanese RPGs. The range is enormous. There's so many games out these days that there has to be something for everyone.
Well, everyone except those weirdos who don't like to play games. Ever meet one of those? Seriously, what's up with those poeple? Not even card games or checkers. It's like they are missing some part of what makes us human. :-\
I started with the Magnavox Odyssey in 1974, but I love every generation of gaming even better. I have all three current gen consoles and a gaming PC. Yeah, once in a while I go play something old. I D/L Final Fantasy 1 from the Wii store because it was the one FF I never played. It's fun for a bit, but soon I'm like, eff this, where's Fallout: New Vegas already?
The only games I go back and really play are ones I missed the when they were new, so they are at least new to me. Steam and GOG are handy for that.
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on the Accessibility of Web Information and Services Provided by Entities Covered-
I got that far and lost interest, and I'm hardly a person with a short attention span.
It takes a special sort mind to go into law. You may interpret "special" however you wish.
"I'm tired of kids coming to school and not learning and getting credit for it," said Superintendent Larrie Reynolds in a Daily Record report.
Yeah, well, I'm tired of kids going to school and not learning.
Y'all are missing the obvious.
Put the heat pain guns on the *whales*.
They can be supported by the laser sharks.
Whale Wars II: The Whales Strike Back
I think you missed the point. Al Jazeera was the highly biased news source, CNN was the gossip rag. I dunno, maybe I missed the point, too--
No, you missed the joke.
I really need to start putting smileys again. :-)
Someone recently linked an image comparing the CNN homepage with Al Jazeera Home page. The difference is extreme. One is a gossip rag, the other a, highly biased, news source.
Yeah, Al Jazeera's 10 page photo spread on Lindsay Lohan was really silly.
Did you ever go to some of the message boards for the game? Cripes, if you dared suggest maybe the box art could have been better you are verbally drawn and quartered and called a coward in life and, geez, all sorts of non sequiturs. I didn't dare post a thing.
Someone did a great parody of a review for Demon's Souls where the guy raves on endlessly about how wonderful it was that it took him 50 hours to get past the first level, and how the game has the best "You Died" screen ever in the history of gaming. :)
Ha!
It comes back if you move your hand, though, so, no, you can't remove it after all. ;-)
I ran into the same thing. I played the free online month that came with GTA4 quite a bit. Got owned a lot at first, but I adapted the gamer part of my game to face real humans rather than AI, and began to give as good as I got. Then after three weeks I was all, eh, is this it?
I really only had one time when I felt it surpassed single player when I was playing cat and mouse with some other player for half an hour. I was on foot in the Manhattan area and he had a helicopter. I took him out, but he managed to crash on me for mutual destruction. Pretty fun- almost like we made our own little movie.
I dunno. Maybe I should look into MMOs with their guilds and cooperative quests. Maybe The Old Republic will be more up my alley.
Great game. Challenging but not nearly as hard as I expected given some of the whining, and I'm not even one of those weirdos who think dying 1000 times per level is just the bestest fun. But eventually I had to go offline with it to finish it. For those who have not played, you can, given certain conditions, be sent into the game of another player online and attack them without any permission on their part other than the fact that they are playing the game. It seemed at some point I had interlopers coming into my game to attack me every two fracking minutes, and I didn't want to have to play in soul mode all the damn time (which prevents attacks). The occasional challenge was fine, but I think it got to the point where a lot of people finished the main game, so you had legions of OCD guys sitting in their dorms just attacking other people all day. It supposedly connects you to another player at random, so how many people had to be playing that way for that frequency of attack? Sheesh! So, neat experiment, but maybe for Demon Soul's 2 they should have a checkbox that disallows that, or separate the single and multiple player a bit more. The "tips" left by other players were rarely useful.
Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series was sort of similar. If a change happens, as long as you are in the timeline before the moment of change, or in transit "outside" the timeline, you are fine, even if the world that produced you is completely gone.
There is more awesome in that site than the most awesome thing ever. :-)
Seriously- Hoagland, Birthers, Truthers, AntiVaxxers- none of them will ever top timecube.
I used to love following theoretical physics until they trotted out holographic cosmology. I decided to find a new hobby. Maybe write an RPG or something.
You can rent satellite phones.
My friend got an iPhones, and it had some stupid application for making phone calls! Phone calls! How 20th century! Who the heck does that anymore? Sheesh, I tells ya, sheesh!
No, I meant exaggerating by tying in a simple oil change with dealer service. Was that you or the other guy? I've lost track. :) I think everyone who owns a car knows what typical labor rates at the dealer are.
I have no idea when I would have the time to learn how to replace an axle. We all have different skill sets based on our particular interests in life. You guys are saying I should be able to service a car from front to back. Behind you is the Linux guy telling be to build my own PCs from scratch, and how dare I use a higher level programming language where I can draw my GUI beforehand! Behind him is the one telling me to build my own DVR. Next to him is the guy saying I need to be a master carpenter and do all my own home improvements. And so on. Savvy? I don't want to be working 24/7.
You labor is free only if you place no value on your time.
Hiring prostitutes is quite illegal, and really quite stupid of you to suggest to someone who's complaining about too many things being illegal.
You really couldn't tell that was a joke? Really?
Actually, he's complaining that cars are harder to work on, and also that today's youth don't know how to work on cars anymore, other than bolting on lights or whatever.
Ok. So? The world has moved on. People voted for safety and emission controls and performance and whatnot.
How many kids these days change their own oil or do other required maintenance (which even the newest cars still require)? No, they just take it to the dealership to let a "qualified technician" do it for $75/hr.
Wow. Exaggerate much? They go to Jiffy Lube and have it done for $20 and the oil gets disposed of in an approved manner. I never understood the boner "car guys" get over changing your own oil. Some of us just are not interested in working on cars and have other interests. And, yes, I used to change my own oil way back when I was in college and didn't have a fraction of the responsibilities I have now.
With my Honda, I just get a jump-start and drive to the nearest AutoZone, and with nothing more than a 10mm wrench, the guy there replaces my battery in 5 minutes because it's easy to get to (I let him do it because the last time I did it, battery acid ate holes in my shirt!,
OK. My Ford and my Dodge are both 5 minute battery replacements. My friend had a Mercedes where you nearly had to disassemble the rear end to replace a tail light. Another one had a Mini where it seemed a replacement part had to be shipped from Pluto it took so long. We could trade individual anecdotal cases all day and never prove anything.
and is not safe enough without 16 airbags and electronic stability control.
You're actually complaining that cars are safer and more technologically advanced? You're actually *complaining* about that? Really? Wow.
Sorry, but I'll take my 7-speed, twin clutch roadster over that '55 Dodge any day. It's a convertible. Is that unsafe enough for you?
Damn, I hope I don't turn into a bitter old man like you.
You entire post has been said by every generation before you, and will be said by every generation afterward.
Cheer up and go have some fun. Get drunk and hire a hooker or something. Sheesh.
Eh, I've just never had a very morbid curiosity. I don't even get most horror movies (or what passes for "horror" these days) which are just simulated snuff films as far as I'm concerned.
So because a private company operating under its own volition shuts down its server, that's the United States government's fault and equates them to China?
China. It's the new Nazi. :-) Reductio egg fu yung.
Yes, they are called sociopaths, but they already have far deeper issues to deal with.
And they soon become *our* deep issues once they inevitably win the election.