And you believe that no one ever lies about rape, that no one can be bought off or threatened, and that it's just a coincidence that a guy who had pulled out way ahead of a pro-U.S. administration and had just the day before began speaking out against the dollar suddenly decided to take up a career as a sexual predator after 62 years with no criminal record. You probably also believe that a similar coincidence happened in Julian Assange's case too.
Funny how many people who cross the U.S. these days are deciding to become rapists shortly thereafter.
Those comments are a rarity on PC exclusive forums. On console exclusive forums, they're quite common. PC gamers are actively offended when a game doesn't come to the PC. Console gamers usually just shrug it off.
Do I wish I could play WoW, Starcraft, The Old Republic, Minecraft, Witcher, etc. on a console? Sure. Do I go over to the message forums for those games and whine about it? No.
he guy made a perfectly natural (and non inflammatory) remark
In his second sentence, yes. But his first sentence was a snide shot at consoles, reeking of the typical PC snobbery so often seen these days in any thread where a console exclusive is discussed.
It's bad enough I have to hear this crap from the prick at my local game store every time I buy a console FPS. I made the mistake of telling him once that I used to be a PC gamer and now that I've switched to consoles (because I got tired of dealing with the constant upgrade race), he feels the need to tell me every time I buy a game "You know, FPS's can ONLY be played with a keyboard and mouse." I think the next time I hear someone say that, I'm going to shove a controller right up their arrogant ass, then ask them if they would have preferred a keyboard instead.
That's all great in wartime (Lincoln did similar things during the Civil War, like suspending Habeas Corpus). But now we're in a state of PERPETUAL war. Suspending freedoms during wartime or emergency may well be justified, but not if the war or emergency *never end*. This reminds me of so many of the dictators, whose "wartime powers" laws start at the beginning of their reign and only end when someone finally puts a bullet in their head a few decades later.
What is it with you PC snobs anyway? When a PC exclusive title comes out, you don't see scores of console gamers spamming the game's message boards complaining that it isn't coming to consoles (and there are *WAY* more PC exclusives than console exclusives). And yet every time a console exclusive comes out, you see scores of "When is this coming to the PC?", "The PC is so superior to consoles", "How could you bastards NOT release this on the PC?", "WAAAAAAHHH, I'M GONNA TELL MOMMY!!" posts on every one of the game's message boards.
Christ, get over yourselves. Developers don't owe you jack (if you want to blame someone, blame all the PC pirates, not the studio). And, believe it or not, your shit DOES stink.
Acknowledgment or not, MS needs to stop futzing around with the DVD drive and just design a new generation console with a blu-ray drive. They're still limping along with an increasingly obsolete DVD drive (becoming more and more problematic on newer games like L.A. Noire) because they're too proud to pay Sony royalty rights for blu-ray and because they've been so focused on their Wii knockoff Kinect add-on. So, here we are at the end of the traditional 5-year console lifespan, and they don't even have a new console on the horizon. And now they're trying to squeeze more life out of their aging console with a software fix that breaks a lot of their older versions (and which will only add one lousy gig to the disc capacity anyway).
Bad move, MS. You used to have the definitive lead (in the U.S. anyway), and could have secured it by sticking to the traditional 5-year life cycle. But now Sony (and even Nintendo now) is catching up and preparing to pass. And you're just standing still.
Why cant we get a nice polished and WORKING desktop UI group of programs that has a full click and drool interface that is complete and working? Why is it that every time they get close, KDE or Gnome, they decide that a radical change is needed that utterly breaks everything?
It's the basic formula that has plagued OSS software for decades:
100 programmers = 100 big egos + 1000 ideas of "must have" features (most of which conflict) + 0 experiences designing real GUI's
As with most lie detector exams, it's usually not so much the results that are telling as the subjects' reactions when you ask them to take it (and let them know it won't be the FBI administering it).
You mean the same universities who've been in cahoots with textbook publishers and many other contractors for decades? The ones who use their captive audience to sell $200 textbooks, who force students to buy overpriced meal plans and live in overpriced dorms, who nickel and dime everyone in their purview with lab fees, student fees, entertainment fees, etc.? Yeah, I can really see them coming together and fighting the power.
Most people know the difference, but still screw it up occasionally. In the final draft of my dissertation, even I used "there" instead of the proper "their" in a sentence (only caught it years after the fact). There's something about homonyms that still throw us off, even if we're well aware of the distinctions (I've known the difference since grade school).
It's more akin to a typo than ignorance. Pompous grammar nazis, of course, don't understand that--what with their propensity to use any grammatical mistake as a chance to make up for their small dick sizes.
Maybe he looked at Julian Assange and saw what happens to those who cross the U.S.
Making statements against the dollar, taking a decisive lead over a pro-U.S. administration, being a socialist...these are the kinds of things can can lead a man into a life of sex crime. tsk...tsk
Yeah, I bet the FBI is busy rounding up all that footage even as we speak. "Yes, we need ALL the copies. Having them all helps with our investigation. And if it's digital, we'll need all your hard drives too. It's all spelled out in this subpoena that was signed by a judge the day before the rape."
I bet they got her for a helluva lot cheaper than that. A not-so-subtle "You know, if would be a shame if we had to deport you and your daughter back to Guinea" thrown in probably saved them a lot of money.
I'm curious as to how involved the FBI is in this investigation. The NY police would be VERY smart to tell the J. Edgars to go fuck themselves on this one. But I bet FBI showed up surprisingly fast to offer their help. Not that the FBI would ever take part in something like framing someone to discredit them. Nope, not them.
If I were the lead investigator, the first thing I would do is ask both parties to take a lie detector exam. And I *WOULD NOT* allow the FBI or any other federal agency to administer it.
This whole thing smells fishy as hell to me. First Julian Assnage, now this guy. It seems that a lot of people these days are deciding to become rapists right after they cross the U.S.
Lucas neither wrote nor directed Empire. The credit belongs to the guys who did (you know, the guys who didn't spend the entire shoot arguing with Kenner for more money).
Yep. A lot of people don't realize that class actions suits are more often than not initiated (secretly) by the companies themselves. They get blanket lawsuit immunity for the relatively low cost of paying off some lawyers and sending out some worthless coupons to consumers.
Hey, not so fast. If you want to qualify for a position on Sony's security team, you'll need to get a certain score on this IQ test. Anything higher than a 75 and you're overqualified.
You spoiled brats with your modern "were" spelling just think your shit doesn't stink. If you we growing up in my day, you wouldn't survive for a minute!
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And you believe that no one ever lies about rape, that no one can be bought off or threatened, and that it's just a coincidence that a guy who had pulled out way ahead of a pro-U.S. administration and had just the day before began speaking out against the dollar suddenly decided to take up a career as a sexual predator after 62 years with no criminal record. You probably also believe that a similar coincidence happened in Julian Assange's case too.
Funny how many people who cross the U.S. these days are deciding to become rapists shortly thereafter.
Those comments are a rarity on PC exclusive forums. On console exclusive forums, they're quite common. PC gamers are actively offended when a game doesn't come to the PC. Console gamers usually just shrug it off.
Do I wish I could play WoW, Starcraft, The Old Republic, Minecraft, Witcher, etc. on a console? Sure. Do I go over to the message forums for those games and whine about it? No.
I'm on slashdot, aren't I?
he guy made a perfectly natural (and non inflammatory) remark
In his second sentence, yes. But his first sentence was a snide shot at consoles, reeking of the typical PC snobbery so often seen these days in any thread where a console exclusive is discussed.
It's bad enough I have to hear this crap from the prick at my local game store every time I buy a console FPS. I made the mistake of telling him once that I used to be a PC gamer and now that I've switched to consoles (because I got tired of dealing with the constant upgrade race), he feels the need to tell me every time I buy a game "You know, FPS's can ONLY be played with a keyboard and mouse." I think the next time I hear someone say that, I'm going to shove a controller right up their arrogant ass, then ask them if they would have preferred a keyboard instead.
That's all great in wartime (Lincoln did similar things during the Civil War, like suspending Habeas Corpus). But now we're in a state of PERPETUAL war. Suspending freedoms during wartime or emergency may well be justified, but not if the war or emergency *never end*. This reminds me of so many of the dictators, whose "wartime powers" laws start at the beginning of their reign and only end when someone finally puts a bullet in their head a few decades later.
What is it with you PC snobs anyway? When a PC exclusive title comes out, you don't see scores of console gamers spamming the game's message boards complaining that it isn't coming to consoles (and there are *WAY* more PC exclusives than console exclusives). And yet every time a console exclusive comes out, you see scores of "When is this coming to the PC?", "The PC is so superior to consoles", "How could you bastards NOT release this on the PC?", "WAAAAAAHHH, I'M GONNA TELL MOMMY!!" posts on every one of the game's message boards.
Christ, get over yourselves. Developers don't owe you jack (if you want to blame someone, blame all the PC pirates, not the studio). And, believe it or not, your shit DOES stink.
Acknowledgment or not, MS needs to stop futzing around with the DVD drive and just design a new generation console with a blu-ray drive. They're still limping along with an increasingly obsolete DVD drive (becoming more and more problematic on newer games like L.A. Noire) because they're too proud to pay Sony royalty rights for blu-ray and because they've been so focused on their Wii knockoff Kinect add-on. So, here we are at the end of the traditional 5-year console lifespan, and they don't even have a new console on the horizon. And now they're trying to squeeze more life out of their aging console with a software fix that breaks a lot of their older versions (and which will only add one lousy gig to the disc capacity anyway).
Bad move, MS. You used to have the definitive lead (in the U.S. anyway), and could have secured it by sticking to the traditional 5-year life cycle. But now Sony (and even Nintendo now) is catching up and preparing to pass. And you're just standing still.
Why cant we get a nice polished and WORKING desktop UI group of programs that has a full click and drool interface that is complete and working? Why is it that every time they get close, KDE or Gnome, they decide that a radical change is needed that utterly breaks everything?
It's the basic formula that has plagued OSS software for decades:
100 programmers = 100 big egos + 1000 ideas of "must have" features (most of which conflict) + 0 experiences designing real GUI's
As with most lie detector exams, it's usually not so much the results that are telling as the subjects' reactions when you ask them to take it (and let them know it won't be the FBI administering it).
You mean the same universities who've been in cahoots with textbook publishers and many other contractors for decades? The ones who use their captive audience to sell $200 textbooks, who force students to buy overpriced meal plans and live in overpriced dorms, who nickel and dime everyone in their purview with lab fees, student fees, entertainment fees, etc.? Yeah, I can really see them coming together and fighting the power.
Most people know the difference, but still screw it up occasionally. In the final draft of my dissertation, even I used "there" instead of the proper "their" in a sentence (only caught it years after the fact). There's something about homonyms that still throw us off, even if we're well aware of the distinctions (I've known the difference since grade school).
It's more akin to a typo than ignorance. Pompous grammar nazis, of course, don't understand that--what with their propensity to use any grammatical mistake as a chance to make up for their small dick sizes.
No. It's lonely out in space.
Actually, I'm pretty sure he was the one who got fucked that day.
Maybe he looked at Julian Assange and saw what happens to those who cross the U.S.
Making statements against the dollar, taking a decisive lead over a pro-U.S. administration, being a socialist...these are the kinds of things can can lead a man into a life of sex crime. tsk...tsk
Yeah, I bet the FBI is busy rounding up all that footage even as we speak. "Yes, we need ALL the copies. Having them all helps with our investigation. And if it's digital, we'll need all your hard drives too. It's all spelled out in this subpoena that was signed by a judge the day before the rape."
I bet they got her for a helluva lot cheaper than that. A not-so-subtle "You know, if would be a shame if we had to deport you and your daughter back to Guinea" thrown in probably saved them a lot of money.
I just wonder how much they had to pay her, and if there was a not-so-subtle deportation threat involved too.
I'm curious as to how involved the FBI is in this investigation. The NY police would be VERY smart to tell the J. Edgars to go fuck themselves on this one. But I bet FBI showed up surprisingly fast to offer their help. Not that the FBI would ever take part in something like framing someone to discredit them. Nope, not them.
Are you implying that the U.S. would use a bogus rape charge to discredit Julian Assa...oops, I meant Strauss-Kahn?
If I were the lead investigator, the first thing I would do is ask both parties to take a lie detector exam. And I *WOULD NOT* allow the FBI or any other federal agency to administer it.
This whole thing smells fishy as hell to me. First Julian Assnage, now this guy. It seems that a lot of people these days are deciding to become rapists right after they cross the U.S.
Lucas neither wrote nor directed Empire. The credit belongs to the guys who did (you know, the guys who didn't spend the entire shoot arguing with Kenner for more money).
Yep. A lot of people don't realize that class actions suits are more often than not initiated (secretly) by the companies themselves. They get blanket lawsuit immunity for the relatively low cost of paying off some lawyers and sending out some worthless coupons to consumers.
Hey, not so fast. If you want to qualify for a position on Sony's security team, you'll need to get a certain score on this IQ test. Anything higher than a 75 and you're overqualified.
You spoiled brats with your modern "were" spelling just think your shit doesn't stink. If you we growing up in my day, you wouldn't survive for a minute!
My original slashdot UID number was a negative integer, newbie.