I definitely remember a similar experience in that game. Also, the first time seeing the final boss of the first episode... the big robot guy with machine gun hands running out at you all of a sudden? Made me jump about half a foot out of my seat.
This reminds me of something that happened about 2 years ago. I found this game and put it on my laptop to play around with when I went to visit a friend. (She's in university and I knew she'd have to spend part of the time on schoolwork, so I brought it since I know I'd have downtime.) I played it for about an hour and had to stop because of... of all things... motion sickness. It never had that effect on me before, and I'd play for hours. I can't help but wonder, are we that spoiled by all the smooth pretty graphics of today? (Or have I just turned into a big wimp? Ha... I'm not that old...)
Mod parent up--I miss the days where gameplay trumped pretty graphics. Sure, what they can do with rendering and polygons and all the rest of it is amazing, but if the actual game is boring and uninspired, it won't hold my interest. Back in the day your characters, weapons, environment, etc was nothing but a handful of pixels, you had to use your imagination, and online gaming didn't exist. Therefore the primary competition between companies, the sole focus, was on the actual game premise. As a result, they rocked (well, mostly. ET for the Atari2600, I'm talking to you). Now there are so many other aspects that the designers' attention is divided, and the games themselves suffer. In a nutshell, the spell is broken.
Sorry, but as a female I consider a guy who takes advantage of a heartbroken girl and pretends to be a kind gentle soul just so he can "bang" her, along with three other girls, to be a heartless bastard. In the long run that just makes things even more painful for her.
I think sometimes it's overlooked that maybe you're going about it all wrong. Maybe these average chicks need average dicks to date. If you're a more intelligent/sensitive/creative/etc, etc guy, you need a girl who can match that. You wouldn't be well-suited with whatever ditzy, shortsighted, base-instinct women you're referring to.
True, I forgot you are speaking of most women, and not nerdy women.
But at that point you have to decide if you want one of the average majority, or if it's worth finding one of the rare type of woman who would be more suited for you.
Mod parent up... as a female, I agree almost 100% with what he's said. As a female who likes nerds, intelligence is the number one thing I am attracted to, but after the initial attraction, I'd be eventually bored and frustrated if he was passive and unmotivated.
...helped us learn a lot of things we didn't know about anatomy, and enabled us to do a lot of things that we now take for granted. If one day, Jennifer (I refuse to use the stupid 'name' she's taken on) needs a life-saving surgery on some major organ, she can thank dissection for the docs having the knowledge to perform it.
I like the analogy, but it doesn't quite fit. Cars have been around since before Palin, or any of us, were born. (McCain maybe not, hehe.) Cars are also pretty much mandatory in order to function in our environment today. Computers are newer, and the use of them in business (and certainly the home) is not something they would have grown up on, and while it seems difficult, one can get by without having to use them. It's quite documented (and on here, joked about) that past a certain point, a lot of adults get to the point where anything new is "too newfangled" and "for the kids". That being said, I certainly don't think that email and the internet is anywhere approaching rocket science, or unheard-of technology (the whole 'mail' thing has been around for centuries). She clearly knows how to use email, how to type, how to send them. It just doesn't surprise me that she didn't think far enough and deep enough to make super-complicated security questions for the account. Most people don't.
I think it's funny that Palin gets knocked for not having enough experience to be President, and she's not even running for that office. Obama, who has much LESS experience than she does, IS running for President. His lack of qualification to handle the situation we are currently in is the number one reason I am not voting for him. (The FISA thing is definitely number two.)
Along with his financial advisors, 3 of which left Wall Street with their multi-million-dollar golden parachutes after royally screwing it (and us) over.
Yeah... look it up.
Other closed-minded people who share the same political bias as the original poster. Likely someone who's quick to call other people closed-minded, completely ignoring their own debilitating prejudices.
Would also like to add that "reasonable suspicion" might need to be in place as well before something like this would be justified. And no, "she's a Republican" doesn't count.;)
No, it isn't. The US is not a company that produces a product called "email provider" or even "internet". You're comparing apples and oranges, and you're also missing my point entirely.
For the slow: Lots of older folks, especially, are not completely tech-savvy. It doesn't mean that they are incompetent at their jobs.
I'm also willing to bet that if this had happened to Joe Biden, these types of comments wouldn't be thrown around so liberally (har har, pun not intended, but realized and appreciated after typed).
Justified, maybe, if you end up finding evidence of something big. Still doesn't excuse the initial crime of some average citizen breaking his way into someone's personal email account, and even if you expose something you still have to pay the price of the crime. Call it "taking one for the team" since you obviously care enough about the situation to do so if you're going to take the time and effort to break in.
Or maybe they won't find anything incriminating, like in this instance, and he just looks like an asshole.
Or maybe they're like a lot of folks who didn't grow up with computers, and they are experts in other fields besides technology. This is like saying that a doctor is stupid because he couldn't fix your carburetor.
I'm sorry, but I read TFA and didn't see anywhere where it said she was using this for business. Did I miss something? It just said this was her personal account.
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I definitely remember a similar experience in that game. Also, the first time seeing the final boss of the first episode... the big robot guy with machine gun hands running out at you all of a sudden? Made me jump about half a foot out of my seat.
This reminds me of something that happened about 2 years ago. I found this game and put it on my laptop to play around with when I went to visit a friend. (She's in university and I knew she'd have to spend part of the time on schoolwork, so I brought it since I know I'd have downtime.) I played it for about an hour and had to stop because of... of all things... motion sickness. It never had that effect on me before, and I'd play for hours. I can't help but wonder, are we that spoiled by all the smooth pretty graphics of today? (Or have I just turned into a big wimp? Ha... I'm not that old...)
Mod parent up--I miss the days where gameplay trumped pretty graphics. Sure, what they can do with rendering and polygons and all the rest of it is amazing, but if the actual game is boring and uninspired, it won't hold my interest. Back in the day your characters, weapons, environment, etc was nothing but a handful of pixels, you had to use your imagination, and online gaming didn't exist. Therefore the primary competition between companies, the sole focus, was on the actual game premise. As a result, they rocked (well, mostly. ET for the Atari2600, I'm talking to you). Now there are so many other aspects that the designers' attention is divided, and the games themselves suffer. In a nutshell, the spell is broken.
Sorry, but as a female I consider a guy who takes advantage of a heartbroken girl and pretends to be a kind gentle soul just so he can "bang" her, along with three other girls, to be a heartless bastard. In the long run that just makes things even more painful for her.
So they've just traded one asshole for another, really.
I think sometimes it's overlooked that maybe you're going about it all wrong. Maybe these average chicks need average dicks to date. If you're a more intelligent/sensitive/creative/etc, etc guy, you need a girl who can match that. You wouldn't be well-suited with whatever ditzy, shortsighted, base-instinct women you're referring to.
True, I forgot you are speaking of most women, and not nerdy women.
But at that point you have to decide if you want one of the average majority, or if it's worth finding one of the rare type of woman who would be more suited for you.
(if he were* passive and unmotivated. Dammit, I hate when I change my sentence three or four times and forget to double-check my grammar.)
Mod parent up... as a female, I agree almost 100% with what he's said. As a female who likes nerds, intelligence is the number one thing I am attracted to, but after the initial attraction, I'd be eventually bored and frustrated if he was passive and unmotivated.
...helped us learn a lot of things we didn't know about anatomy, and enabled us to do a lot of things that we now take for granted. If one day, Jennifer (I refuse to use the stupid 'name' she's taken on) needs a life-saving surgery on some major organ, she can thank dissection for the docs having the knowledge to perform it.
Idiot.
Maybe if we had better choices...?
-raises hand-
...I like nerds. But I don't want children. They get in the way of all the game-playing and interweb-surfing...
I wouldn't want to put my finger on it... worms are slimy and dirty...
I like the analogy, but it doesn't quite fit. Cars have been around since before Palin, or any of us, were born. (McCain maybe not, hehe.) Cars are also pretty much mandatory in order to function in our environment today. Computers are newer, and the use of them in business (and certainly the home) is not something they would have grown up on, and while it seems difficult, one can get by without having to use them. It's quite documented (and on here, joked about) that past a certain point, a lot of adults get to the point where anything new is "too newfangled" and "for the kids". That being said, I certainly don't think that email and the internet is anywhere approaching rocket science, or unheard-of technology (the whole 'mail' thing has been around for centuries). She clearly knows how to use email, how to type, how to send them. It just doesn't surprise me that she didn't think far enough and deep enough to make super-complicated security questions for the account. Most people don't.
I think it's funny that Palin gets knocked for not having enough experience to be President, and she's not even running for that office. Obama, who has much LESS experience than she does, IS running for President. His lack of qualification to handle the situation we are currently in is the number one reason I am not voting for him. (The FISA thing is definitely number two.)
Along with his financial advisors, 3 of which left Wall Street with their multi-million-dollar golden parachutes after royally screwing it (and us) over.
Yeah... look it up.
Who mods this stuff insightful?
Other closed-minded people who share the same political bias as the original poster. Likely someone who's quick to call other people closed-minded, completely ignoring their own debilitating prejudices.
And again, without a very reasonable suspicion of a crime, they would not be able to subpoena the records from Yahoo anyway.
Would also like to add that "reasonable suspicion" might need to be in place as well before something like this would be justified. And no, "she's a Republican" doesn't count. ;)
No, it isn't. The US is not a company that produces a product called "email provider" or even "internet". You're comparing apples and oranges, and you're also missing my point entirely.
For the slow: Lots of older folks, especially, are not completely tech-savvy. It doesn't mean that they are incompetent at their jobs.
I'm also willing to bet that if this had happened to Joe Biden, these types of comments wouldn't be thrown around so liberally (har har, pun not intended, but realized and appreciated after typed).
Justified, maybe, if you end up finding evidence of something big. Still doesn't excuse the initial crime of some average citizen breaking his way into someone's personal email account, and even if you expose something you still have to pay the price of the crime. Call it "taking one for the team" since you obviously care enough about the situation to do so if you're going to take the time and effort to break in.
Or maybe they won't find anything incriminating, like in this instance, and he just looks like an asshole.
Or maybe they're like a lot of folks who didn't grow up with computers, and they are experts in other fields besides technology. This is like saying that a doctor is stupid because he couldn't fix your carburetor.
I'm sorry, but I read TFA and didn't see anywhere where it said she was using this for business. Did I miss something? It just said this was her personal account.
It said this was her "personal" email, not an official business account. So... no.
Oh thanks for that, now I've got coffee all over my keyboard ;)