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Actually, in a way it does.
I'd been adjusting the volume up to 100% but for some unknown reason, I kept rotating the mouse-wheel and it went up to 200%, 300%, and finally 400% of the default volume the.avi provided. I'd had trouble getting it loud enough before using the standard system audio controls.
* People using laser pointers in movie theaters before it was made illegal/against the rules. * People using cell phones in movie theaters when there are no ushers to enforce the rules. * People calling their friend ON the cell phone and talking about the movie with them. * People who have SEEN the movie before and purposely and repeatedly say what scene is coming up before it happens (and I'm not talking RHPS here-- I'm talking about a new release).
* People who come home and play their music at 140db, on the front lawn, after midnight on a weeknight-- because it's not illegal. (It's illegal to play it from a car- but not from a boom box on the lawn-- because a state senator's kid was arrested 7 or 8 years ago-- and yes- he was a major asshole too).
* Girls buying the same unique outfit for a party after they found out someone else was going to get it.
Reading the article further, it looks like he wasn't even hugging the guards nuts.
Twixt proved difficult to beat. From a distance, he could transport villains anywhere he wished.
He always **took** them to a cartoon robot firing line that instantly defeated whomever he zoomed before it.
It looks like there was no place in game that he couldn't teleport you from. Perhaps by repeated teleportations until they were in range of the guards.
A telling point for me was this exchange with his own side.
>>>Twixt eventually asked his fellow heroes why they never came to his aid. A hero named "Cryo Burn" answered with another question:
>>>"Who would disrespect them(selves) and their family enough to do that?"
>>>"It started to not be fun," said Myers, a video game aficionado. "I became the most hated, most reviled player." --- that takes a lot of work.
His email is easy enough to find, along with a phone number.
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I suffered from griefers like you in Everquest who trained me more than once.
You rationalize "If you aren't a member of the tribe, you get whacked with a stick," he said. "I look at social groups with dismay" but I'll give it to you straight.
People didn't like you because you were a Jerk.
You made your point- you cleverly created a hero who couldn't be beat.
Then you proceeded to spend months ruining the game for a lot of people who just wanted to sign on and have fun. In short, you made a lot of people angry and unhappy. You added a lot of hostility to the world that I'm sure got vented on others.
It has nothing to do with "tribes" or "eye color" or anything like that. You were just a major jerk and despised for it. You put your feelings ahead of hundreds of other people. You didn't care at all how many people you made angry- and like most griefers, you probably enjoyed it and got a sick ego thrill out of your "power".
You might not be that way in real life where you are not anonymous.
If it had been my game and you were upsetting that many of my customers- I'd have suspended you or disabled your character's power and then, I'm sure you would have forced me to ban you.
"he aimed the pointer at his opponent, the virtual comic book villain "Syphris." Myers, 55, flicked the buttons on his mouse and magically transported his opponent to the front of a cartoon robot execution squad. In an instant, the squad pulverized the player."
The other player didn't do anything to him first. There was no way to avoid this while this person was in the game. And it is clear from his own quotes that he repeatedly griefed the same player into insta death.
I don't even play CoH and I'm angry at him and think he's an asshole griefer.
You angered one or more bad monsters and dragged it (them) across the entire zone to the lower level area *Most outdoor zones had a 10 to 15 level spread). Then you zoned or died next to them and they got killed.
For bonus points, you then logged on your twink and took the camp.
This happened on p2p AND on pvm servers.
In Warcraft, it consisted of sneaking a high level character to the opposing newbie area and then killing newbies as they spawned... for hours or until you were banned.
For PvP Everquest, it consisted of camping the respawn spot and killing people *repeatedly until they quit trying to log in*. Often, their next action was to cancel their account.
So I agree, it sounds like the person was being a dick and camping them. Not clear why they could not get out of range of the police. Not clear why they couldn't kill the guy's character and camp him.
He played the game as designed. He was a hero who defeated villains in a PvP server. He played the game correctly, while everyone else wasn't.
This is the thing with MMOs and really modern gamers. People lament that you can't actually role play in a computer RPG, but here's a guy doing that, and he's an outcast. Heros don't hang out and chat with villains. They fight.
In my experience... First, I'm really shocked he wasn't hounded by PVP types from the second the logged on repeatedly killing him.
Second, of course heroes and villians talk- they spend entire comic books fighting AND talking. And a lot of time, they spend a good third of the comic book talking before they fight and a couple pages talking after they fight. The fight is the sideline- the underlying philosophical point is the important thing (recall the recent joker/batman movie-- is society good / bad? was more important than killing or beating batman in a fist fight).
Thirdly, if I"m running a business and one or two customers are causing a lot of complaints and costing me business- they would be suspended or transferred, and then banned unless after review, it looked like the complaining people were harassing them.
on the other hand...
Fourthly, if you play on a PVP server, what do you expect?
And finally, it seems kind of foolish to give the guys name/location when people have already made death threats against him. What if the professor is beaten or killed now?
I understand it, and their recent bonuses (after being bailed out by the government to avoid bankruptcy only a few months ago) to know that they should be split up/shut down and replaced with smaller firms with less power. Evidence is that they are already taking on increased levels of risk again-- why not-- they know the rest of us suckers will cover their losses. Heads they win, tails we lose.
Not sure you can say that lusting after a 17 year old is sick and disgusting in general. It's an artificial construct and of very recent construction and not even true world wide.
Not only that-- it's a moving target. There seems to be more age sorting going on as the baby boomers get older.
At least it is okay to lust after the actress that plays Hermione these days. I guess we have to wait 120 days or so to convert from being sick and disgusting with regard to Miley.
Of course by developing standards, if Hermione was made up to look under 18, it might be illegal.
Oh... and what if you had a miley cyrus face on a popstick and a nude woman held it up in front of her face? And they took a picture of it. Or they took a video of it? Or someone drew it?
Or miley cirus face was attached to an aroused stallion? (of course.. by the rule of 32, someone has probably already done so).
"When you have the face of a small child affixed to a nude body of a mature woman"
Hmmm What if it was fixed beside the mature ladie's face giving a two headed monster? What if it was attached to the elbow? The knee? Completely replacing her crotch? One copy over each breast like a bikini (so what if you made a real bikini with miley faces and a lady with big breasts wore it?). What if it was attached to the body of a nude mature male? How about a mature nude obese woman? How about a mature very ill woman? How about a *very* mature nude woman (in her 90s?)
I've seen a lot of frankensteins. My reaction to them was not sexual-- it was more of a novelty.
Funny story, a friend of ours always talked about his girlfriend, "X" and yet we never met her. We finally asserted that "X" was really him. Finally he brought a picture of him and her to magic the gathering night to *prove* that he had a girlfriend. While he played his first game, I scanned the picture and frankenstiened his head onto her body. When someone new showed up, we mentioned that he had brought the picture-- and showed it to the newcomer who broke out laughing-- which prompted him to look at his picture to see why it was so funny. It was the most amazing exasperated, surprised, amused reaction. Hysterical.
I started on a low carb (no bread, no potatoes, no sugar), higher fat (mainly olive oil but some cream too) diet as an experiment a year ago. The result has been a stable and slowly dropping weight and (combined with limited exercise) slowly increasing lean muscle mass.
Not so sure about my arteries of course. I could be pulling a James Fix.
I recently started swimming--- it is high calorie but I hear raises your appetite.
One thing Mr 12 hour could do is a few pushups at work. He could also bring a 20lb weight to work as I do and sneak in little 10 rep sets.
I made a deal with my company when I hired on that I get the option to take up to 5 days without pay. I usually only take 2-3 days (balance between keeping the right and getting the money). I feel like we work until we are too old to enjoy life in America.
Grrr.. misspoke. The climate is very hot and miserable 3-4 months of the year. (I.e. we have a nice climate for about 8-9 months-- winter is about 1 week long and gets down to 28).
I live on a lot less. I live on about $36k a year-- I save the rest of my salary.
$36k a year - about $48k gross equivalent gets me a new car, house, ski trip, 2 weeks in a beach house, movies, concerts, regularly eat out, a dog, new clothes, etc.
Since I make over double that, my goal is to be ready for retirement by the time I'm 55. Once I'm set for retirement, I'll spend more.
Fact is the cost of living is substantially higher in california and new york by cost of living calculators.
You might have some special deal, or you may be making choices which are not sacrifices to you but which would be sacrifices to most people.
I drive an Element. Technically an SUV but it gets about 22mpg. Useful for moving stoves, construction supplies, and durable at the beach and after ultimate. Two week overseas vacation seems like it would cost $4200 if you skimped it up to $6000 for a no holds barred "middle class" vacation ( I know the wealthy could drop $10k a day easily but I'm not talking about them).
I save about $18k a year for retirement. Another $8k a year in company stock. On top of that I'm currently saving $1k a month until I hit a year's living expenses- the economy has me worried. On top of that I spend a couple weeks a year in a nice beach house on a cruddy beach (because we invite our friends to party we can't go to the nice beaches 200 miles away) and I go skiing for a week. The low cost of living gives me a very high degree of freedom. I'm not back up to my contractor wages in 1996-2000 but life is good.
I see a lot of movies and concerts but few plays. In the end, I basically live on about 1/3 of my salary. That's what the low cost of living will get you. Once my savings goals are reached, I'm going to spend like a drunken sailor.
The figure is probably for manhattan-- is that where friends is set? That's where about 80% of the prices I've seen came from- discussions on friends boards. Others were from movies set in new york or discussions about housing on those movie boards.
But using craigslist to look around generally
It looks like new jersey is $1600 to $4000 for 3br's, bronx is $1500 for 2br's, queens is $1500 for 3br's- including a couple very nice looking ones.
My parent post was responding to this post: "80K/year is "barely a living wage"? If you want a 4 bedroom house with a three car garage, 2 Hummers, 3 kids, a couple of dogs, and a 2-week overseas vacation every year, maybe. Don't confuse "living wage" with "the American dream". There's a huge difference."
$80k a year will not afford that life style in california or new york. $80k a year will not afford that life style in texas.
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Actually, in a way it does.
I'd been adjusting the volume up to 100% but for some unknown reason, I kept rotating the mouse-wheel and it went up to 200%, 300%, and finally 400% of the default volume the .avi provided.
I'd had trouble getting it loud enough before using the standard system audio controls.
Juries can use common sense if the law says otherwise.
In this case they were either idiots or pissed off at the lady.
Or doing some kind of double kung fu think that such a gross award would destroy this particular law.
I'll give you some other analogies.
* People using laser pointers in movie theaters before it was made illegal/against the rules.
* People using cell phones in movie theaters when there are no ushers to enforce the rules.
* People calling their friend ON the cell phone and talking about the movie with them.
* People who have SEEN the movie before and purposely and repeatedly say what scene is coming up before it happens (and I'm not talking RHPS here-- I'm talking about a new release).
* People who come home and play their music at 140db, on the front lawn, after midnight on a weeknight-- because it's not illegal. (It's illegal to play it from a car- but not from a boom box on the lawn-- because a state senator's kid was arrested 7 or 8 years ago-- and yes- he was a major asshole too).
* Girls buying the same unique outfit for a party after they found out someone else was going to get it.
etc. etc.
Reading the article further, it looks like he wasn't even hugging the guards nuts.
Twixt proved difficult to beat. From a distance, he could transport villains anywhere he wished.
He always **took** them to a cartoon robot firing line that instantly defeated whomever he zoomed before it.
It looks like there was no place in game that he couldn't teleport you from. Perhaps by repeated teleportations until they were in range of the guards.
A telling point for me was this exchange with his own side.
>>>Twixt eventually asked his fellow heroes why they never came to his aid. A hero named "Cryo Burn" answered with another question:
>>>"Who would disrespect them(selves) and their family enough to do that?"
>>>"It started to not be fun," said Myers, a video game aficionado. "I became the most hated, most reviled player." --- that takes a lot of work.
His email is easy enough to find, along with a phone number.
---
I suffered from griefers like you in Everquest who trained me more than once.
You rationalize "If you aren't a member of the tribe, you get whacked with a stick," he said. "I look at social groups with dismay" but I'll give it to you straight.
People didn't like you because you were a Jerk.
You made your point- you cleverly created a hero who couldn't be beat.
Then you proceeded to spend months ruining the game for a lot of people who just wanted to sign on and have fun. In short, you made a lot of people angry and unhappy. You added a lot of hostility to the world that I'm sure got vented on others.
It has nothing to do with "tribes" or "eye color" or anything like that. You were just a major jerk and despised for it. You put your feelings ahead of hundreds of other people. You didn't care at all how many people you made angry- and like most griefers, you probably enjoyed it and got a sick ego thrill out of your "power".
You might not be that way in real life where you are not anonymous.
If it had been my game and you were upsetting that many of my customers- I'd have suspended you or disabled your character's power and then, I'm sure you would have forced me to ban you.
I'm not sure you read the article where it says,
"he aimed the pointer at his opponent, the virtual comic book villain "Syphris." Myers, 55, flicked the buttons on his mouse and magically transported his opponent to the front of a cartoon robot execution squad. In an instant, the squad pulverized the player."
The other player didn't do anything to him first. There was no way to avoid this while this person was in the game. And it is clear from his own quotes that he repeatedly griefed the same player into insta death.
I don't even play CoH and I'm angry at him and think he's an asshole griefer.
In Everquest, it went like this.
You started a low level character.
You angered one or more bad monsters and dragged it (them) across the entire zone to the lower level area *Most outdoor zones had a 10 to 15 level spread). Then you zoned or died next to them and they got killed.
For bonus points, you then logged on your twink and took the camp.
This happened on p2p AND on pvm servers.
In Warcraft, it consisted of sneaking a high level character to the opposing newbie area and then killing newbies as they spawned... for hours or until you were banned.
For PvP Everquest, it consisted of camping the respawn spot and killing people *repeatedly until they quit trying to log in*. Often, their next action was to cancel their account.
So I agree, it sounds like the person was being a dick and camping them. Not clear why they could not get out of range of the police. Not clear why they couldn't kill the guy's character and camp him.
He played the game as designed. He was a hero who defeated villains in a PvP server. He played the game correctly, while everyone else wasn't.
This is the thing with MMOs and really modern gamers. People lament that you can't actually role play in a computer RPG, but here's a guy doing that, and he's an outcast. Heros don't hang out and chat with villains. They fight.
In my experience...
First, I'm really shocked he wasn't hounded by PVP types from the second the logged on repeatedly killing him.
Second, of course heroes and villians talk- they spend entire comic books fighting AND talking. And a lot of time, they spend a good third of the comic book talking before they fight and a couple pages talking after they fight. The fight is the sideline- the underlying philosophical point is the important thing (recall the recent joker/batman movie-- is society good / bad? was more important than killing or beating batman in a fist fight).
Thirdly, if I"m running a business and one or two customers are causing a lot of complaints and costing me business- they would be suspended or transferred, and then banned unless after review, it looked like the complaining people were harassing them.
on the other hand...
Fourthly, if you play on a PVP server, what do you expect?
And finally, it seems kind of foolish to give the guys name/location when people have already made death threats against him. What if the professor is beaten or killed now?
I understand it, and their recent bonuses (after being bailed out by the government to avoid bankruptcy only a few months ago) to know that they should be split up/shut down and replaced with smaller firms with less power. Evidence is that they are already taking on increased levels of risk again-- why not-- they know the rest of us suckers will cover their losses. Heads they win, tails we lose.
Not sure you can say that lusting after a 17 year old is sick and disgusting in general. It's an artificial construct and of very recent construction and not even true world wide.
Not only that-- it's a moving target. There seems to be more age sorting going on as the baby boomers get older.
At least it is okay to lust after the actress that plays Hermione these days. I guess we have to wait 120 days or so to convert from being sick and disgusting with regard to Miley.
Of course by developing standards, if Hermione was made up to look under 18, it might be illegal.
Oh... and what if you had a miley cyrus face on a popstick and a nude woman held it up in front of her face?
And they took a picture of it.
Or they took a video of it?
Or someone drew it?
Or miley cirus face was attached to an aroused stallion? (of course.. by the rule of 32, someone has probably already done so).
"When you have the face of a small child affixed to a nude body of a mature woman"
Hmmm
What if it was fixed beside the mature ladie's face giving a two headed monster?
What if it was attached to the elbow? The knee? Completely replacing her crotch? One copy over each breast like a bikini (so what if you made a real bikini with miley faces and a lady with big breasts wore it?).
What if it was attached to the body of a nude mature male?
How about a mature nude obese woman?
How about a mature very ill woman?
How about a *very* mature nude woman (in her 90s?)
I've seen a lot of frankensteins. My reaction to them was not sexual-- it was more of a novelty.
Funny story, a friend of ours always talked about his girlfriend, "X" and yet we never met her. We finally asserted that "X" was really him. Finally he brought a picture of him and her to magic the gathering night to *prove* that he had a girlfriend. While he played his first game, I scanned the picture and frankenstiened his head onto her body. When someone new showed up, we mentioned that he had brought the picture-- and showed it to the newcomer who broke out laughing-- which prompted him to look at his picture to see why it was so funny. It was the most amazing exasperated, surprised, amused reaction. Hysterical.
Yes, but the root password list consists of having large numbers of government positions filled with former (and future) GS employees.
Hard to put that in a suitcase.
A lot of money was funneled to GS by Paulsen (a GS alumni) and some of their major competitors were crippled.
Recently close to 40% of NYSE volume was GS which gives them enormous power to manipulate prices.
He would probably give an angrier rant if not for the meds.
We are very happy that a solution has been found. REALLY HAPPY!!!!!!!!!! JOY AND BUTTERFLIES OH THE WORLD IS WONDERFUL ...
oh what the heck, there is no point, I might as well just give up.
Or female butts to investigate?
http://www.halhigdon.com/Articles/Fixx.htm
James Fixx.
Left off an "X".
He ran a lot, ate a fatty diet. fell over dead at 52 with 3 arteries blocked.
Appeared to be in fabulous shape in pictures because he ran so much.
However, he could have had problems with the sneaky things they are doing to our food to maximize profits.
http://www.bhia.org/saturatedfats.htm
And he may have just been doomed- his dad died at 49.
Another aspect of this is getting over 8 hours a night's sleep (or sleeping until you wake up naturally if you wake up before 8 hours.
Sleep starved == gaining weight.
I started on a low carb (no bread, no potatoes, no sugar), higher fat (mainly olive oil but some cream too) diet as an experiment a year ago.
The result has been a stable and slowly dropping weight and (combined with limited exercise) slowly increasing lean muscle mass.
Not so sure about my arteries of course. I could be pulling a James Fix.
I recently started swimming--- it is high calorie but I hear raises your appetite.
One thing Mr 12 hour could do is a few pushups at work. He could also bring a 20lb weight to work as I do and sneak in little 10 rep sets.
I agree that our vacation sucks.
I made a deal with my company when I hired on that I get the option to take up to 5 days without pay. I usually only take 2-3 days (balance between keeping the right and getting the money).
I feel like we work until we are too old to enjoy life in America.
I'm sure the gasoline and other annual taxes to deliver the products to the customer cover the wear and tear on the roads.
Amazon is not using sewer, electrical, police or road services locally as brick and morter store would.
Grrr.. misspoke.
The climate is very hot and miserable 3-4 months of the year. (I.e. we have a nice climate for about 8-9 months-- winter is about 1 week long and gets down to 28).
I live on a lot less. I live on about $36k a year-- I save the rest of my salary.
$36k a year - about $48k gross equivalent gets me a new car, house, ski trip, 2 weeks in a beach house, movies, concerts, regularly eat out, a dog, new clothes, etc.
Since I make over double that, my goal is to be ready for retirement by the time I'm 55. Once I'm set for retirement, I'll spend more.
Fact is the cost of living is substantially higher in california and new york by cost of living calculators.
You might have some special deal, or you may be making choices which are not sacrifices to you but which would be sacrifices to most people.
I drive an Element. Technically an SUV but it gets about 22mpg. Useful for moving stoves, construction supplies, and durable at the beach and after ultimate.
Two week overseas vacation seems like it would cost $4200 if you skimped it up to $6000 for a no holds barred "middle class" vacation ( I know the wealthy could drop $10k a day easily but I'm not talking about them).
I save about $18k a year for retirement. Another $8k a year in company stock. On top of that I'm currently saving $1k a month until I hit a year's living expenses- the economy has me worried.
On top of that I spend a couple weeks a year in a nice beach house on a cruddy beach (because we invite our friends to party we can't go to the nice beaches 200 miles away) and I go skiing for a week. The low cost of living gives me a very high degree of freedom. I'm not back up to my contractor wages in 1996-2000 but life is good.
I see a lot of movies and concerts but few plays. In the end, I basically live on about 1/3 of my salary. That's what the low cost of living will get you. Once my savings goals are reached, I'm going to spend like a drunken sailor.
The figure is probably for manhattan-- is that where friends is set? That's where about 80% of the prices I've seen came from- discussions on friends boards. Others were from movies set in new york or discussions about housing on those movie boards.
But using craigslist to look around generally
It looks like new jersey is $1600 to $4000 for 3br's, bronx is $1500 for 2br's, queens is $1500 for 3br's- including a couple very nice looking ones.
My parent post was responding to this post:
"80K/year is "barely a living wage"? If you want a 4 bedroom house with a three car garage, 2 Hummers, 3 kids, a couple of dogs, and a 2-week overseas vacation every year, maybe. Don't confuse "living wage" with "the American dream". There's a huge difference."
$80k a year will not afford that life style in california or new york.
$80k a year will not afford that life style in texas.