you don't think having substantial female characters is important?
There are very few substantial characters of ANY gender or race in Hollywood movies. You fix that with better writers, not some silly software. Leave it to Silicon Valley idiots to think software is the solution for EVERYTHING.
"We need to build a house. Grab that hammer and let's get started."
As part of the strict scientific nature of this rigorous experiment to get us closer to a manned mission to Mars, participants were limited to only ordering pizza no more than once a day, and only allowed to leave the facility when they couldn't find a sitter and on family movie night. They were also under strict orders to pretend the gravity was two-thirds lower.
Hey don't knock it. This experiment didn't accomplish anything that will get us any closer to Mars. But it did accomplish its primary goal of getting NASA a week of good PR.
As always, a useful tip for anyone who may have run afoul of the government (be it the U.S., UK, any any other):
If a new girl seems to come out of nowhere in your life (at a club, at work, at your hotel room door) and tells you she's DTF, think with your head and not your dick.
I posted this in another post below, but I just wanted to reiterate it here, for those who might not fully understand the situation.
It might help your understanding of the situation to understand that the CIA and NSA now use fake rape and sexual assault/harassment claims as their preferred method of character assassination (much easier, less messy, and just as effective as actual assassination). It happened to the poor bastard IMF head who made the VERY stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar. It also happened to Julian Assange and others.
No tin-foil hats here. It's just their modern way of doing business. So any time you hear of sex crimes charges against any member of the hacker/security community (or anyone else the NSA or CIA might have a vested interest in silencing or ostracizing), you should be VERY, VERY skeptical of the charges (and take a long hard look at the accusers).
It might help your understanding of the situation to understand that the CIA and NSA now use fake rape and sexual assault/harassment claims as their preferred method of character assassination (much easier, less messy, and just as effective as actual assassination). It happened to the poor bastard IMF head who made the VERY stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar. It also happened to Julian Assange and others.
No tin-foil hats here. It's just their modern way of doing business. So any time you hear of sex crimes charges against any member of the hacker/security community (or anyone else the NSA or CIA might have a vested interest in silencing or ostracizing), you should be VERY, VERY skeptical of the charges (and take a long hard look at the accusers).
Nine years developing a game that anyone could have told them would be banned almost immediately.
Either they are naive enough to think the attention will get them a job at Nintendo (it won't), or they are naive enough to think Nintendo wouldn't notice or care (they always will). Either way, pretty naive.
No, the harsh reality is that it's almost impossible to release a modern triple-A uber-complex game WITHOUT bugs and glitches. And even if it were possible, it wouldn't be anywhere close to practical, especially for an indie dev.
People always talk about the glory days of the NES when game released without major bugs. But they forget that those games had a few KB of code, were simple as fuck, and often were developed by a "team" of 1 or 2 people. There are several orders of magnitude difference between bug-testing Super Mario Brothers and some modern massive open world game. Today's games are simply far too complex to catch every bug, or even most of them, before launch. Until it's in the wild, with millions of play-testers, there is simply no way to catch every glitch. Add to this the almost infinite number of modern PC configurations possible, and it's an even more difficult task to bug-test for PC vs. a console.
Add to all that the realities of studios working on a strict timeline and budget, and well, all I can say is you had better get used to it. The alternatives are:
1) Delay every game several years and charge $120 for them instead of $60, so devs have the time and money to test for every bug.
-or-
2) Go back to the days when every game was as simple as an NES title.
It still amazes me how entitled modern gamers really are. You get massive incredible games that we could have only dreamed of 30 years ago, and for CHEAPER that the shit games we used to play, and all you can do is bitch about it. In the early 80's, we paid $35 for shit games like Pitfall (over $90 in today's money). And today you can buy a huge game like Fallout 4 for a mere $50-$60, and all you can do is BITCH about it!? You lucky pricks don't even know how great you have it.
Because they surveyed the five people who game on Linux and three of them weren't interested in the game at all, and the other two said they would only buy it if they would open source all their code.
Yeah, leakers who embarrass uber-powerful political figures get gunned down all the time in affluent neighborhoods by robbers who don't take their cellphones or wallets. I see it every day on the local news.
Everything's a crazy conspiracy theory until it comes out decades later in declassified documents that it was true. I remember back in the 80's when charges that the CIA was helping South American drug lords import shit-tons of cocaine into the U.S. was just a crazy conspiracy theory too.
I'm far from a tinfoil hat wearing kook. But the fact that this guy was murdered in a decent neighborhood just weeks after he leaked a bunch of sensitive documents about major political figures, by a "robber" who didn't even bother to take his cellphone or wallet, seems more than a little suspicious to me. It strains belief that it was all just a coincidence.
Make no mistake, Edward Snowden would have met the same fate if he hadn't been smart enough to get the fuck out of the country.
Yeah, except when the SJW's post a counter-argument, they don't have their videos labelled as "harassment" or get banned from Twitter for doing it. Pretty important distinction there.
Haven't you heard? It's impossible for an SJW to be a troll or harasser, since "troll" and "harasser" implies a power relationship, it's impossible for an SJW to be one (since they don't have any power on the social media platforms they now completely control). So the powerless SJW's who now have all the power on all social media CAN'T harass or troll. Only the powerful conservatives and liberal dissenters who have no power on any social media platforms have the power on social media to be trolls/racists/sexists/abusers.
Also, it's very important that we protect LGBT rights and the rights of Muslims who support killing LGBT's.
I remember in Cincinnati back in the late 90's or early 21st there was a police shooting of some black guy in one of the shitty black neighborhoods. There were the usual protests, calls for the heads of the evil racist cops, etc. The police there responded by simply parking their cars and stopping patrols in said shitty black neighborhood. Crime shot up 600% in the shitty black neighborhood almost immediately. Pretty soon the same people attacking the evil racist cops were literally BEGGING them to come back. Problem solved.
I seriously doubt Apple's lawyers give two fucks about their emojis (or even one fuck, for that matter). The GP was right, this is more about a pussified SJW mentality at Apple. It's one of the many reasons that when I hear the word "Apple" I somehow always flash back to Beaufort T. Justice's line in Smokey and the Bandit: "Happens every time one of those dancers starts poon-tangin' around with those show-folk fags."
Agreed. Hiring some token female or minority who everyone else knows is unqualified to do the job DOES NOT help the problem. If anything, it only makes it worse. Just think of the resentment such practices will cause over the long-term, and the repercussions it's going to have on white and Asian male perceptions of women and minorities.
Every time you hire a woman or minority to sit in a corner while everyone else has to actually work, you're only making racism and sexism worse.
Sadly, Chris Rock said it best when he pointed out how fucked up it was that, in the neighborhood he grew up in, you got more respect coming back from prison than you did coming back from college.
That's a problem that can't be fixed from the outside, no matter how many scholarships you offer.
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you don't think having substantial female characters is important?
There are very few substantial characters of ANY gender or race in Hollywood movies. You fix that with better writers, not some silly software. Leave it to Silicon Valley idiots to think software is the solution for EVERYTHING.
"We need to build a house. Grab that hammer and let's get started."
"Um....can't I just build an app for it?"
"No idiot, an app won't build a house."
"But what if it's a REALLY GOOD app?"
The airlock is RIGHT THERE.
It's only an airlock if you're in space or underwater. In this case it was just a door.
As part of the strict scientific nature of this rigorous experiment to get us closer to a manned mission to Mars, participants were limited to only ordering pizza no more than once a day, and only allowed to leave the facility when they couldn't find a sitter and on family movie night. They were also under strict orders to pretend the gravity was two-thirds lower.
Hey don't knock it. This experiment didn't accomplish anything that will get us any closer to Mars. But it did accomplish its primary goal of getting NASA a week of good PR.
As always, a useful tip for anyone who may have run afoul of the government (be it the U.S., UK, any any other):
If a new girl seems to come out of nowhere in your life (at a club, at work, at your hotel room door) and tells you she's DTF, think with your head and not your dick.
I posted this in another post below, but I just wanted to reiterate it here, for those who might not fully understand the situation.
It might help your understanding of the situation to understand that the CIA and NSA now use fake rape and sexual assault/harassment claims as their preferred method of character assassination (much easier, less messy, and just as effective as actual assassination). It happened to the poor bastard IMF head who made the VERY stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar. It also happened to Julian Assange and others.
No tin-foil hats here. It's just their modern way of doing business. So any time you hear of sex crimes charges against any member of the hacker/security community (or anyone else the NSA or CIA might have a vested interest in silencing or ostracizing), you should be VERY, VERY skeptical of the charges (and take a long hard look at the accusers).
It might help your understanding of the situation to understand that the CIA and NSA now use fake rape and sexual assault/harassment claims as their preferred method of character assassination (much easier, less messy, and just as effective as actual assassination). It happened to the poor bastard IMF head who made the VERY stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar. It also happened to Julian Assange and others.
No tin-foil hats here. It's just their modern way of doing business. So any time you hear of sex crimes charges against any member of the hacker/security community (or anyone else the NSA or CIA might have a vested interest in silencing or ostracizing), you should be VERY, VERY skeptical of the charges (and take a long hard look at the accusers).
Nine years developing a game that anyone could have told them would be banned almost immediately.
Either they are naive enough to think the attention will get them a job at Nintendo (it won't), or they are naive enough to think Nintendo wouldn't notice or care (they always will). Either way, pretty naive.
Wow! a +5 insightful for a person who just said every single conspiracy theory is 100 percent true.
Nope not all of them. Just a lot more of them than any of us would like to think.
No, the harsh reality is that it's almost impossible to release a modern triple-A uber-complex game WITHOUT bugs and glitches. And even if it were possible, it wouldn't be anywhere close to practical, especially for an indie dev.
People always talk about the glory days of the NES when game released without major bugs. But they forget that those games had a few KB of code, were simple as fuck, and often were developed by a "team" of 1 or 2 people. There are several orders of magnitude difference between bug-testing Super Mario Brothers and some modern massive open world game. Today's games are simply far too complex to catch every bug, or even most of them, before launch. Until it's in the wild, with millions of play-testers, there is simply no way to catch every glitch. Add to this the almost infinite number of modern PC configurations possible, and it's an even more difficult task to bug-test for PC vs. a console.
Add to all that the realities of studios working on a strict timeline and budget, and well, all I can say is you had better get used to it. The alternatives are:
1) Delay every game several years and charge $120 for them instead of $60, so devs have the time and money to test for every bug.
-or-
2) Go back to the days when every game was as simple as an NES title.
It still amazes me how entitled modern gamers really are. You get massive incredible games that we could have only dreamed of 30 years ago, and for CHEAPER that the shit games we used to play, and all you can do is bitch about it. In the early 80's, we paid $35 for shit games like Pitfall (over $90 in today's money). And today you can buy a huge game like Fallout 4 for a mere $50-$60, and all you can do is BITCH about it!? You lucky pricks don't even know how great you have it.
Why no Linux version???
Because they surveyed the five people who game on Linux and three of them weren't interested in the game at all, and the other two said they would only buy it if they would open source all their code.
Yeah, leakers who embarrass uber-powerful political figures get gunned down all the time in affluent neighborhoods by robbers who don't take their cellphones or wallets. I see it every day on the local news.
Everything's a crazy conspiracy theory until it comes out decades later in declassified documents that it was true. I remember back in the 80's when charges that the CIA was helping South American drug lords import shit-tons of cocaine into the U.S. was just a crazy conspiracy theory too.
I'm far from a tinfoil hat wearing kook. But the fact that this guy was murdered in a decent neighborhood just weeks after he leaked a bunch of sensitive documents about major political figures, by a "robber" who didn't even bother to take his cellphone or wallet, seems more than a little suspicious to me. It strains belief that it was all just a coincidence.
Make no mistake, Edward Snowden would have met the same fate if he hadn't been smart enough to get the fuck out of the country.
Yeah, except when the SJW's post a counter-argument, they don't have their videos labelled as "harassment" or get banned from Twitter for doing it. Pretty important distinction there.
of course they are going to support the 99.99999% of SJW's who don't want to be disagreed with.
FTFY
Haven't you heard? It's impossible for an SJW to be a troll or harasser, since "troll" and "harasser" implies a power relationship, it's impossible for an SJW to be one (since they don't have any power on the social media platforms they now completely control). So the powerless SJW's who now have all the power on all social media CAN'T harass or troll. Only the powerful conservatives and liberal dissenters who have no power on any social media platforms have the power on social media to be trolls/racists/sexists/abusers.
Also, it's very important that we protect LGBT rights and the rights of Muslims who support killing LGBT's.
I just can't keep up with all these new computer languages these days.
You have been fined 1 credit for violation of the verbal morality code.
Who could have known that a Sylvester Stallone action movie would be so fucking prescient? It even predicted tablet computers and car AI's.
I remember in Cincinnati back in the late 90's or early 21st there was a police shooting of some black guy in one of the shitty black neighborhoods. There were the usual protests, calls for the heads of the evil racist cops, etc. The police there responded by simply parking their cars and stopping patrols in said shitty black neighborhood. Crime shot up 600% in the shitty black neighborhood almost immediately. Pretty soon the same people attacking the evil racist cops were literally BEGGING them to come back. Problem solved.
I don't know why everyone is so impressed with this algorithm. It's really quite simple:
If poster = heterosexual.white.male Then abuse = true;
I seriously doubt Apple's lawyers give two fucks about their emojis (or even one fuck, for that matter). The GP was right, this is more about a pussified SJW mentality at Apple. It's one of the many reasons that when I hear the word "Apple" I somehow always flash back to Beaufort T. Justice's line in Smokey and the Bandit: "Happens every time one of those dancers starts poon-tangin' around with those show-folk fags."
You actually RTFA?!?
I hereby revoked your /. membership. sir!
Agreed. Hiring some token female or minority who everyone else knows is unqualified to do the job DOES NOT help the problem. If anything, it only makes it worse. Just think of the resentment such practices will cause over the long-term, and the repercussions it's going to have on white and Asian male perceptions of women and minorities.
Every time you hire a woman or minority to sit in a corner while everyone else has to actually work, you're only making racism and sexism worse.
Sadly, Chris Rock said it best when he pointed out how fucked up it was that, in the neighborhood he grew up in, you got more respect coming back from prison than you did coming back from college.
That's a problem that can't be fixed from the outside, no matter how many scholarships you offer.
And, to think, several of those sites had the nerve to chastise me for using it.