Huh?
I'm closing in on the end of Blue Dragon right now (Side quest time) and I haven't had any problems with it. To be fair I don't know that I'd know the difference between a character unfairly getting too many turns and the natural timing of the game, but no issues with instability.
Winning big states actually doesn't do much for them. The DNC issues delegates proportionately, so if Obama get 49% of the vote in California and Clinton gets 50% the number of delegates they each receive is almost identical. 50% in a big state obviously means more than 50% in a small state, but as long as they both show up they're very likely to keep things close.
Witty, but I don't know whether you intentionally missed the point for the sake of it or whether you're actually confused, so I'll bite.
His point was that rugby fans call football rugby for pussies, but rugby players who actually attempt to play football are quickly relegated to being backups or put at positions that demand very little skill because they're unfit to play the rest. No one said that the only rugby players that play football are pussies, just that rugby players lack the skill, size, or speed, to play football.
If you feel like doing a little wikipedia reading, back when Rugby was an Olympic sport the entire US team was generally just some football players they rounded up before the games, and they were incredibly successful.
Don't worry, as a completely unsatisfied former Charter customer in a city where they have a complete monopoly on cable service I can assure you that they have absolutely no interest in fixing things or in how their customers feel. (6 hours on the phone to move service to a new address?)
There's actually legislation at the state level right now to attempt to loosen their stranglehold of poor service.
Or, becasue even during rush hour, driving to and from campus takes 20 minutes in each direction, regardless of whether I'm running late or ahead of schedule. Riding the bus takes over and hour in each direction because there's only one route between points A and B, it only comes every half hour, and you can bet it isn't a straight shot between the two.
For a full time student/full time worker, losing an hour and a half out of the middle of your day five days a week is completely unacceptable. Paying $5 a day for parking and gas was a small price to pay for having enough time to make it through the day without being in a constant rush.
Not to mention, having RTF, there are quite a few hand counted towns where Clinton beat Obama by 5-10%, and quite a few Diebold areas where Obama tied or won by 4-5%. I know we'd all like to assume fraud at all times, but couldn't this be another "Dewey defeats Truman" instead of a massive conspiracy involving the tamping of Diebold machines, but only some of them, and hand ballots, but only some of them, backed up by exit polls?
Kurt Russell doesn't deserve to be included there. There's a difference between B movie action heroes like Seagal and Russell's general "scruffy, reluctant hero with a troubled past". They're both in a lot of terrible movies the difference is that one has been in some great ones too.
I had a large number of friends who were pretty excited about the Wii, I know four who got them, all within the first couple months of the systems release. A couple got it fairly easily, one spent every weekend calling stores until she could find one but even that didn't take more than a month.
I also know one who still uses it. The supply of worthwhile games between Metroid and Supersmash Brawl has been such a desolate wasteland that they've all moved on. Yes the Wii is cheaper, but what am I going to do with it? I refuse to invest in a next-gen system at the prices they're sitting at especially with the continued production of new, quality, PS2 games.
I think rather than the problem be "I am not getting my due recognition and payment (if applicable)" is that someone else is taking all the time an effort of someone else which allows them to get the recognition and potentially payments if they incorporate a program they got for free and simply slap a $5 price tag on it.
There are times I honestly wish work would call me when I'm off duty to ask about things. At least once a week something happens where people aren't sure of what to do in a given situation so they just make something up and I'm left to clean up the mess the next day. Would it be worth the five minutes of personal time to save that hour of work time? Usually. The only downside I see is that if I didn't spend most of my days putting out fires I end up not having a whole lot to do.
I think it has something to do with me not thinking very highly of GoDs work in the first place. Assembling a supergroup of developers doesn't help when the best feathers in your hat are Max Payne and Railroad Tycoon II. I'll save my attention for people who produce. Love 'em or hate 'em, Valve, Bungie, Bioware, Blizzard, and the like don't need PR stunts. PC gaming is not an arena where a personal bad boy rep will get you anywhere. Case in point, John Romero wanted to make me his bitch, too bad the game was humiliating. He doesn't do this kind of work anymore. Rockstar is getting that reputation with the controversy over Manhunt 2 and the GTA games, the difference is they let their products speak for them, not some loud mouth programmer.
You're going for fuel efficiency, many others or not.
I'll be the first to tell you that most people who gun it between intersection and weave through traffic trying to go faster are just flailing their arms and panicking. They're not helping anyone, especially not themselves.
However, if you're like me, and you travel the same routes day in and day out you start to see where problems occur. Well calculated lane changes to avoid things like probable stopped buses a block down and left turners without separate lanes can safe you very noticeable amount of time. Suddenly, racing past someone even if it means getting caught at the same light with them means that they're behind you when it all merges down to one lane. Instead of being stuck behind someone going 50mph on the highway, or more than likely 30mph, you're in a position to be in front of the person instead of behind them. Did it save gas? Don't know, don't care. Did it mean I could leave for work ten minutes later and not have to frustrated by slow person in front of me? Yep, and that's what I was looking for.
It bothers me anytime people assume their experiences are the definitive norm.
I'm from the Midwest, I've driven from Washington DC to Seattle, and I've never seen a flashing green light in my life, or if I did I didn't given it enough thought to warrant trying to figure out what it meant and just drove through it. I'm glad someone posted the Wikipedia article about it too, or I never would have known that it can mean any number of things depending on where you are.
I rushed to see it because I love Judge's other work and really enjoyed the premise of it.
I was sorely disappointed with the movie however. For me the laugh potential of a fat redneck say "he talks faggy" is one, sadly the line was repeated roughly every ten minutes. The social commentary is fine, we can all see the Costco with a thousand aisles, but from all the hype it got from people I know about being hilarious I just didn't see it.
I don't think that's a completely unreasonable mistake to make. I was of the impression that the two were inseparably intertwined due to the relationship between the government and muslim militia's and their view of the resistance fighters and their possible support by certain populations. That's always the way I've heard it explained.
The way I heard it explained (by Dr. Sanje Gupta arguing with Micheal Moore) is that the reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is considered high, or even higher than it should be, is that the U.S. counts all delivered babies that die as infant mortalities rather than saying "any baby born before 6 months was never viable to begin with" (or similar criteria) and writing them off.
Unless, as his point was before taken out of context, you're in a really small boat getting hit by a really big boat. You might play chicken with a lot of semis on your sportbike, but if they don't swerve because they never even knew you were there I can tell you who's going to have a worse day.
I think a lot of people lack a certain sense of scale.
Close to 100 million casualties, spanning six continents, World War I and II are a slaughter that has thankfully never been repeated. In five years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan the death toll still sits at what could have been five days of fighting in the Somme.
So yes, I think Armistice Day is a pretty big deal and that an event that burned half the world to the ground should stay as fresh in out minds as possible.
Taken out of context and misrepresented by the Supreme Court?
Read the entirety of Miller vs. Texas which specifically defines the militia as not being a state or national guard entity, but simply a body of citizens possessing their own weapons.
And that's why "winning" doesn't mean anything anymore, because the team that lost every game or the kid that bombed the test was obviously the leader in "trying!" or "not giving up!".
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Huh? I'm closing in on the end of Blue Dragon right now (Side quest time) and I haven't had any problems with it. To be fair I don't know that I'd know the difference between a character unfairly getting too many turns and the natural timing of the game, but no issues with instability.
Winning big states actually doesn't do much for them. The DNC issues delegates proportionately, so if Obama get 49% of the vote in California and Clinton gets 50% the number of delegates they each receive is almost identical. 50% in a big state obviously means more than 50% in a small state, but as long as they both show up they're very likely to keep things close.
Witty, but I don't know whether you intentionally missed the point for the sake of it or whether you're actually confused, so I'll bite.
His point was that rugby fans call football rugby for pussies, but rugby players who actually attempt to play football are quickly relegated to being backups or put at positions that demand very little skill because they're unfit to play the rest. No one said that the only rugby players that play football are pussies, just that rugby players lack the skill, size, or speed, to play football.
If you feel like doing a little wikipedia reading, back when Rugby was an Olympic sport the entire US team was generally just some football players they rounded up before the games, and they were incredibly successful.
Don't worry, as a completely unsatisfied former Charter customer in a city where they have a complete monopoly on cable service I can assure you that they have absolutely no interest in fixing things or in how their customers feel. (6 hours on the phone to move service to a new address?)
There's actually legislation at the state level right now to attempt to loosen their stranglehold of poor service.
Or, becasue even during rush hour, driving to and from campus takes 20 minutes in each direction, regardless of whether I'm running late or ahead of schedule. Riding the bus takes over and hour in each direction because there's only one route between points A and B, it only comes every half hour, and you can bet it isn't a straight shot between the two.
For a full time student/full time worker, losing an hour and a half out of the middle of your day five days a week is completely unacceptable. Paying $5 a day for parking and gas was a small price to pay for having enough time to make it through the day without being in a constant rush.
Not to mention, having RTF, there are quite a few hand counted towns where Clinton beat Obama by 5-10%, and quite a few Diebold areas where Obama tied or won by 4-5%. I know we'd all like to assume fraud at all times, but couldn't this be another "Dewey defeats Truman" instead of a massive conspiracy involving the tamping of Diebold machines, but only some of them, and hand ballots, but only some of them, backed up by exit polls?
Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Blue Dragon... those are just the ones I've played personally.
Kurt Russell doesn't deserve to be included there. There's a difference between B movie action heroes like Seagal and Russell's general "scruffy, reluctant hero with a troubled past". They're both in a lot of terrible movies the difference is that one has been in some great ones too.
I must live in the oddity spot of America.
I had a large number of friends who were pretty excited about the Wii, I know four who got them, all within the first couple months of the systems release. A couple got it fairly easily, one spent every weekend calling stores until she could find one but even that didn't take more than a month.
I also know one who still uses it. The supply of worthwhile games between Metroid and Supersmash Brawl has been such a desolate wasteland that they've all moved on. Yes the Wii is cheaper, but what am I going to do with it? I refuse to invest in a next-gen system at the prices they're sitting at especially with the continued production of new, quality, PS2 games.
I think rather than the problem be "I am not getting my due recognition and payment (if applicable)" is that someone else is taking all the time an effort of someone else which allows them to get the recognition and potentially payments if they incorporate a program they got for free and simply slap a $5 price tag on it.
There are times I honestly wish work would call me when I'm off duty to ask about things. At least once a week something happens where people aren't sure of what to do in a given situation so they just make something up and I'm left to clean up the mess the next day. Would it be worth the five minutes of personal time to save that hour of work time? Usually. The only downside I see is that if I didn't spend most of my days putting out fires I end up not having a whole lot to do.
I think it has something to do with me not thinking very highly of GoDs work in the first place. Assembling a supergroup of developers doesn't help when the best feathers in your hat are Max Payne and Railroad Tycoon II. I'll save my attention for people who produce. Love 'em or hate 'em, Valve, Bungie, Bioware, Blizzard, and the like don't need PR stunts. PC gaming is not an arena where a personal bad boy rep will get you anywhere. Case in point, John Romero wanted to make me his bitch, too bad the game was humiliating. He doesn't do this kind of work anymore. Rockstar is getting that reputation with the controversy over Manhunt 2 and the GTA games, the difference is they let their products speak for them, not some loud mouth programmer.
You're going for fuel efficiency, many others or not.
I'll be the first to tell you that most people who gun it between intersection and weave through traffic trying to go faster are just flailing their arms and panicking. They're not helping anyone, especially not themselves.
However, if you're like me, and you travel the same routes day in and day out you start to see where problems occur. Well calculated lane changes to avoid things like probable stopped buses a block down and left turners without separate lanes can safe you very noticeable amount of time. Suddenly, racing past someone even if it means getting caught at the same light with them means that they're behind you when it all merges down to one lane. Instead of being stuck behind someone going 50mph on the highway, or more than likely 30mph, you're in a position to be in front of the person instead of behind them. Did it save gas? Don't know, don't care. Did it mean I could leave for work ten minutes later and not have to frustrated by slow person in front of me? Yep, and that's what I was looking for.
It works for sports fans, what makes you think gamers are a higher crowd?
It bothers me anytime people assume their experiences are the definitive norm.
I'm from the Midwest, I've driven from Washington DC to Seattle, and I've never seen a flashing green light in my life, or if I did I didn't given it enough thought to warrant trying to figure out what it meant and just drove through it. I'm glad someone posted the Wikipedia article about it too, or I never would have known that it can mean any number of things depending on where you are.
I rushed to see it because I love Judge's other work and really enjoyed the premise of it.
I was sorely disappointed with the movie however. For me the laugh potential of a fat redneck say "he talks faggy" is one, sadly the line was repeated roughly every ten minutes. The social commentary is fine, we can all see the Costco with a thousand aisles, but from all the hype it got from people I know about being hilarious I just didn't see it.
Are you a child molester?
Did you support Hitler?
Are you, or have you ever been, a communist?
Can you tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke?
Good thing that in the real world, I can't answer any of those question for you because I don't know.
I don't think that's a completely unreasonable mistake to make. I was of the impression that the two were inseparably intertwined due to the relationship between the government and muslim militia's and their view of the resistance fighters and their possible support by certain populations. That's always the way I've heard it explained.
I'm no expert though.
The way I heard it explained (by Dr. Sanje Gupta arguing with Micheal Moore) is that the reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is considered high, or even higher than it should be, is that the U.S. counts all delivered babies that die as infant mortalities rather than saying "any baby born before 6 months was never viable to begin with" (or similar criteria) and writing them off.
Just like all those lawsuits, DMCA notices, and napster bannings led to the death of filesharing.
Unless, as his point was before taken out of context, you're in a really small boat getting hit by a really big boat. You might play chicken with a lot of semis on your sportbike, but if they don't swerve because they never even knew you were there I can tell you who's going to have a worse day.
I think a lot of people lack a certain sense of scale.
Close to 100 million casualties, spanning six continents, World War I and II are a slaughter that has thankfully never been repeated. In five years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan the death toll still sits at what could have been five days of fighting in the Somme.
So yes, I think Armistice Day is a pretty big deal and that an event that burned half the world to the ground should stay as fresh in out minds as possible.
Better ban crying children and drunk old men too.
Taken out of context and misrepresented by the Supreme Court? Read the entirety of Miller vs. Texas which specifically defines the militia as not being a state or national guard entity, but simply a body of citizens possessing their own weapons.
And that's why "winning" doesn't mean anything anymore, because the team that lost every game or the kid that bombed the test was obviously the leader in "trying!" or "not giving up!".