How do you expect to have people, say, grow their own food when they literally don't have the strength to pull a small weed? Plant the garden/orchard for them? What happens when they eat everything? You expect them to magically make a new one with no knowelge or experience? Foundations for feeding people exist, so other foundations can teach them to live on their own.
About your seatbelt comment, I knew a guy in high school who only survived a crash because he WASN'T wearing his seatbelt. I don't remember the exact details of the crash, but he was drunk, and managed to hit something hard enough to roll his SUV. He was thrown out the front windshield, but the roof of the car crumpled to about a foot above the seat. If he had been wearing his seatbelt, it would have crushed his skull and spine.
I admit that he is the exception, and that wearing your seatbelt is always the best choice, but seat belts are not the only safety feature on a car for a good reason.
Reminds me of playing a zombie-bashing Pen-and-paper RPG (One which I was running), and the players walk into an abandoned school. As they're walking down a hallway, they hear noises, like people thumping on the walls. They also hear screaming. One gets the bright idea to open the door into the room where people are screaming. So I'm describing the walk to get to the door, taking my sweet time, when one person suddenly gets up and leaves without a word.
Just a "holy crap" moment, as to the power of suspense. Most of the time, the "horror" parts of the movies aren't the scary parts, it's the suspense. When you're walking into the creepy mansion with the walls painted blood red, that's scary. When the zombie jumps out, you're not scared. You have an adrenalin rush and have no time to be scared.
Play "We don't go to Ravenholm" in Half-Life 2 to see a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
Well, he could have meant "designer" in the metaphorical way, as I took it, so evolution itself "designed" us the way we are. Or, the earth "designed" us. A designer isn't nessicarily a person.
Blue shift left me feeling robbed.
Maybe it's because I got the Platinum Pack in the bargain bin, but Blue Shift was the most fun I had in a Half-Life game. After HL1 and OpFor, where you're running away, using stragaty and weapon selection to outsmart your foes, it was nice to play a game of Half-Life where I could quite easily kill everything with a shotgun. It wouldn't be nearly as fun without both HL and OpFor, but it's great in it's own way.
And if you want some more to play, find the single player mods. Poke 646 kept me for about 10 hours, and it was free.
The X-wing games had the nonessential parts of the HUD there for a reason, though. The whole game was designed to make you feel like you're in the cockpit of an X-wing/TIE fighter/Whatever, and that means blocking off parts of your view. It's the whole "immersion" part again.
I think that you should get your glasses from your optometrist, but then again, my optometrist is related.
Just don't go try on perscription glasses until you find some that seem to work. Just. . . no.
If you do much with computers, it is reccommended that you get computer glasses. I spend upwards of three hours a day on a computer, and my optomotrist told me that my astigmatism (of which I aquired through genetics) had worsened by three percent, and gave me bifocals. I'm nearsighted anyway, so no-line bifocals are the way to go, IMO
Do not go anywhere other than an actual optomotrist's office to get glasses. My experience with places like Costco and Shopko is that their optomotrists, while certified, are told to only find problems that they can fix, and if the patients don't have any problem, to give them a mild perscription so they can sell the glasses anyway. Your optomotrist will find EVERYTHING wrong with your eyes, and can usually fix them or refer you to someone who can. Just think, would Costco really send you to eye surgery? Your optomotrist would.
Note: Forgive the spelling, I'm tired.
1 - 'Serious' would be the key word and with adulthood come all those distractions (wife, kids, career, other interests). Also, remember realizing how sad/lame that 40-year-old guy was that'd still come down and play D&D with you 15-year-olds because he *had no life?* Don't be that guy.
What about the 40-year-old guy who goes and plays D&D with his 18-40 year old friends because he enjoys it? Is he still pathetic?
I can imagine taking it to a computer lab. "What's the russian quake II console command for jump?" or making the keys all screwed up and watching some poor sod try to play with the WASD keys all over the keyboard.
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How do you expect to have people, say, grow their own food when they literally don't have the strength to pull a small weed? Plant the garden/orchard for them? What happens when they eat everything? You expect them to magically make a new one with no knowelge or experience? Foundations for feeding people exist, so other foundations can teach them to live on their own.
About your seatbelt comment, I knew a guy in high school who only survived a crash because he WASN'T wearing his seatbelt. I don't remember the exact details of the crash, but he was drunk, and managed to hit something hard enough to roll his SUV. He was thrown out the front windshield, but the roof of the car crumpled to about a foot above the seat. If he had been wearing his seatbelt, it would have crushed his skull and spine.
I admit that he is the exception, and that wearing your seatbelt is always the best choice, but seat belts are not the only safety feature on a car for a good reason.
Reminds me of playing a zombie-bashing Pen-and-paper RPG (One which I was running), and the players walk into an abandoned school. As they're walking down a hallway, they hear noises, like people thumping on the walls. They also hear screaming. One gets the bright idea to open the door into the room where people are screaming. So I'm describing the walk to get to the door, taking my sweet time, when one person suddenly gets up and leaves without a word.
Just a "holy crap" moment, as to the power of suspense. Most of the time, the "horror" parts of the movies aren't the scary parts, it's the suspense. When you're walking into the creepy mansion with the walls painted blood red, that's scary. When the zombie jumps out, you're not scared. You have an adrenalin rush and have no time to be scared.
Play "We don't go to Ravenholm" in Half-Life 2 to see a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
Well, he could have meant "designer" in the metaphorical way, as I took it, so evolution itself "designed" us the way we are. Or, the earth "designed" us. A designer isn't nessicarily a person.
Well, that's what I call an assload of traffic. . .
Although it can be argued that the greatest feature of the Gamecube was the handle.
That's like saying Edison and Tesla are to blame every time someone gets electocuted.
You mean they aren't?
Try http://www.stepmania.com/Stepmania for the computer. If you get a converter for your dance pads (I've heard you can get them at Radio Shack), you can have any style of music on DDR that you want! For songs, try http://www.ddruk.com/DDRUK and http://www.bemanistyle.com/Bemani Style.
Blue shift left me feeling robbed. Maybe it's because I got the Platinum Pack in the bargain bin, but Blue Shift was the most fun I had in a Half-Life game. After HL1 and OpFor, where you're running away, using stragaty and weapon selection to outsmart your foes, it was nice to play a game of Half-Life where I could quite easily kill everything with a shotgun. It wouldn't be nearly as fun without both HL and OpFor, but it's great in it's own way. And if you want some more to play, find the single player mods. Poke 646 kept me for about 10 hours, and it was free.
this is SO sigged on my rpgnet account!
The X-wing games had the nonessential parts of the HUD there for a reason, though. The whole game was designed to make you feel like you're in the cockpit of an X-wing/TIE fighter/Whatever, and that means blocking off parts of your view. It's the whole "immersion" part again.
I think that you should get your glasses from your optometrist, but then again, my optometrist is related. Just don't go try on perscription glasses until you find some that seem to work. Just. . . no.
If you do much with computers, it is reccommended that you get computer glasses. I spend upwards of three hours a day on a computer, and my optomotrist told me that my astigmatism (of which I aquired through genetics) had worsened by three percent, and gave me bifocals. I'm nearsighted anyway, so no-line bifocals are the way to go, IMO
Do not go anywhere other than an actual optomotrist's office to get glasses. My experience with places like Costco and Shopko is that their optomotrists, while certified, are told to only find problems that they can fix, and if the patients don't have any problem, to give them a mild perscription so they can sell the glasses anyway. Your optomotrist will find EVERYTHING wrong with your eyes, and can usually fix them or refer you to someone who can. Just think, would Costco really send you to eye surgery? Your optomotrist would. Note: Forgive the spelling, I'm tired.
That's nothing. I can clear the whole bank simply by walking in with a ski mask and a tuba, weither I look like I'm going to use it or not!
I prefer to call it a suicide inducer.
Well, I want the LCD skin and a full Alienware system in my arm. Half-life 2 on the go, FTW!
Or they might just get sued by Nintendo
1 - 'Serious' would be the key word and with adulthood come all those distractions (wife, kids, career, other interests). Also, remember realizing how sad/lame that 40-year-old guy was that'd still come down and play D&D with you 15-year-olds because he *had no life?* Don't be that guy. What about the 40-year-old guy who goes and plays D&D with his 18-40 year old friends because he enjoys it? Is he still pathetic?
And yet it would be so much better.
I can imagine taking it to a computer lab. "What's the russian quake II console command for jump?" or making the keys all screwed up and watching some poor sod try to play with the WASD keys all over the keyboard.
The moral to this story, kids, is that I hate math.
Eeh, I estimate it's about 125000 beetles tall, or 1250000 1/10 size models. Now I just want to know where I can buy that many.
Dammit, too late. Good thing I have a Braille computer screen or I'd never get my news. . .