Re:Well, videogames aren't about the story.
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I can tell you right now why you think 90+% is less entertaining that B-list movies: you're looking at it wrong.
I hate to go all English major on you (I'm not an English major, I promise), but a look at the classics can show you quite simply that the story takes a back seat. One of the biggest things that makes great/classic literature last is that it teaches the reader something about herself and/or society. Take a look at Brave New World, for example. The story was not the important part, it was merely the vessel for presenting the world and the social commentary Huxley wanted to show us. Another classic, i>Great Expectations had one of the crappiest stories I know of IMO, but I love the book. Much more important than the story were the interactions, the symbolisms, and the commentaries.
As one might learn in a basic Literature course, great literature is not about the story, and is most definitely not about being Harry Potter. For somebody reading the classics with the right mindset, they will be much more entertaining than any pure entertainment book. Harry Potter might have an engaging story that has the reader captivated for hours at a time, but it's not likely to last a hundred years like great literature.
-Will they allow you to drink beer and eat wings? Probably not
-Will they let you pause the DVR so you can take a phone call or take a piss? Definitely not
-Will you be allowed to scream obscenities at the top of your lungs when you team screws up? Most likely not
From TFA: The cinemas brought in vendors to stroll the aisles with hot dogs, peanuts and beer, sold team gear in the lobbies and encouraged fans to loosen up as they would in the ball park.
I don't know about wings, but they'll definitely let you drink beer. And it appears that they won't mind the screaming so much, either. As for the DVR... well, you can't exactly do that at the stadium, can you? Nor was one able to do that a few years ago. I think a lot of fans will live with the theatre experience.
But even if they are simply variations of the same thing, they are individualized variations. That alone is extra value to the player. More importantly is the fact that the player can basically make the game they want to play by playing it that way. Sure, an aggressive player may never think of negotiation, but surely 99% of the people deciding to kill the king is better than 99% of the people being upset that you forced them to take a "noble" route.
Oh, I agree with you entirelt that it was a retarded use, I'm just saying that/. seems to think that any loose connection makes it oblig. That and the irony of telling *you* that you must be new here.
He was saying that DDO makes it essentially impossible to go on solo adventures, which is going to upset people that prefer that.
No he wasn't. Or, if he was, he did it crappily.
He specifically said that it's not for the casual gamer since you can't play without a group. It's quite a stretch to equate casual gamers with soloists. A large number of soloists are hardcore gamers, and most casuals probably wouldn't mind or care that they're in a group as long as they get to play.
While I love the "absoute evil" part of this, I think you're wrong.
Remember that i = sqrt(-1), right?
I still remember the table-of-i that we were to memorize in Al II...
i^1 = i
i^2 = -1
i^3 = -i
i^4 = 1
Which would seem to me to go against your reasoning.
A black sky is called a "night sky". Solid water is called "ice" and gaseous water is called "steam".
Let me guess: American, right? Only an American can be this bad at science.
A black sky is the way it is. Ever see that thing they call "space"? You'll see the sky is black. The aforementioned scattering of light in our atmostphere makes it look blue during the day, but the sky itself is black. Consult any primary school science class for further details.
Water is the name of a chemical compound, also known as Dihydrogen monoxide. The phase doesn't change what it is, it is still water, the same way liquid nitrogen is still nitrogen. If that doesn't satisfy you, there is solid water that is not ice. It is amorphous solid water. And gaseous water is also called water vapor. Notice how both of those specifically mention that they are water.
Thanks for trying. Get an primary school education before trying again.
Brilliant use of an irrelevant last line, by the way.
It's just a fact: "the sky is blue", "water is wet", Ubuntu is insecure.
Let's check your facts...
"the sky is blue" -- Well, the sky is actually black and it only appears blue because light is scattered in the atmosphere. So far you're 0 for 1.
"water is wet" -- This one is true... if you only consider its liquid form. However, its solid and gaseous forms are most definitely not wet. That makes you 0 for 2.
With a record like that, can we really believe your third so-called "fact"?
You know why Microsoft would get flack for it? It has nothing to do with them being Microsoft (except to the zealots and trolls). It's because they wouldn't have the patch out the same day it was discovered.
The strength in OSS has never been that the code is inherently more secure in any way. The strength is that the average time to patch is several times smaller than that of CSS.
I do enjoy e-books, but only the freely-available stuff on Project Gutenberg. I wouldn't buy an e-book unless I had a very specific reason for doing so because of formats and DRM, but the reason I do enjoy Project Gutenberg ebooks is because I can put them on my TI-89 Titanium and read them wherever I want. Not so with PDFs or proprietary formats.
I don't know about you, but I hear the term "frozen water" on a regular basis. "Water vapor", too. As far as I'm concerned, that's using water to refer to the solid and gaseous states.
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I hate to go all English major on you (I'm not an English major, I promise), but a look at the classics can show you quite simply that the story takes a back seat. One of the biggest things that makes great/classic literature last is that it teaches the reader something about herself and/or society. Take a look at Brave New World, for example. The story was not the important part, it was merely the vessel for presenting the world and the social commentary Huxley wanted to show us. Another classic, i>Great Expectations had one of the crappiest stories I know of IMO, but I love the book. Much more important than the story were the interactions, the symbolisms, and the commentaries.
As one might learn in a basic Literature course, great literature is not about the story, and is most definitely not about being Harry Potter. For somebody reading the classics with the right mindset, they will be much more entertaining than any pure entertainment book. Harry Potter might have an engaging story that has the reader captivated for hours at a time, but it's not likely to last a hundred years like great literature.
But seriously, it's not really a bad change, but I prefer it the old way. Of course, it's not really that big of a change to worry about either way.
That's only a theory, not an absolute.
I guess it's like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: You can't simultaneously know how smart and how fast you are.
-Will they let you pause the DVR so you can take a phone call or take a piss? Definitely not
-Will you be allowed to scream obscenities at the top of your lungs when you team screws up? Most likely not
From TFA:
The cinemas brought in vendors to stroll the aisles with hot dogs, peanuts and beer, sold team gear in the lobbies and encouraged fans to loosen up as they would in the ball park.
I don't know about wings, but they'll definitely let you drink beer. And it appears that they won't mind the screaming so much, either. As for the DVR... well, you can't exactly do that at the stadium, can you? Nor was one able to do that a few years ago. I think a lot of fans will live with the theatre experience.
As clearly mentioned on the page this is a *preliminary screening* process. There will be further screening for those who advanced.
But even if they are simply variations of the same thing, they are individualized variations. That alone is extra value to the player. More importantly is the fact that the player can basically make the game they want to play by playing it that way. Sure, an aggressive player may never think of negotiation, but surely 99% of the people deciding to kill the king is better than 99% of the people being upset that you forced them to take a "noble" route.
Oh, I agree with you entirelt that it was a retarded use, I'm just saying that /. seems to think that any loose connection makes it oblig. That and the irony of telling *you* that you must be new here.
You must be new here.
No he wasn't. Or, if he was, he did it crappily.
He specifically said that it's not for the casual gamer since you can't play without a group. It's quite a stretch to equate casual gamers with soloists. A large number of soloists are hardcore gamers, and most casuals probably wouldn't mind or care that they're in a group as long as they get to play.
If you XOR one byte against another byte, you get a third byte. XORing this third byte against the second will get you the first again.
In effect, double XORing is to bits what double ROT13ing is to letters.
The Fine Article states it clearly:
Marketing.
You win! And to think that I used my last mod point yesterday!
Remember that i = sqrt(-1), right?
I still remember the table-of-i that we were to memorize in Al II...
i^1 = i
i^2 = -1
i^3 = -i
i^4 = 1
Which would seem to me to go against your reasoning.
Sorry, that's the inverse. The converse would be saying that if you keep getting misery and pain, that's what you're giving (also false).
And I don't use Ubuntu (or at least, not yet), I just didn't like seeing his bad "facts".
If it makes you feel better, *I* am American, too.
Let me guess: American, right? Only an American can be this bad at science.
A black sky is the way it is. Ever see that thing they call "space"? You'll see the sky is black. The aforementioned scattering of light in our atmostphere makes it look blue during the day, but the sky itself is black. Consult any primary school science class for further details.
Water is the name of a chemical compound, also known as Dihydrogen monoxide. The phase doesn't change what it is, it is still water, the same way liquid nitrogen is still nitrogen. If that doesn't satisfy you, there is solid water that is not ice. It is amorphous solid water. And gaseous water is also called water vapor. Notice how both of those specifically mention that they are water.
Thanks for trying. Get an primary school education before trying again.
Brilliant use of an irrelevant last line, by the way.
Let's check your facts...
"the sky is blue" -- Well, the sky is actually black and it only appears blue because light is scattered in the atmosphere. So far you're 0 for 1.
"water is wet" -- This one is true... if you only consider its liquid form. However, its solid and gaseous forms are most definitely not wet. That makes you 0 for 2.
With a record like that, can we really believe your third so-called "fact"?
The strength in OSS has never been that the code is inherently more secure in any way. The strength is that the average time to patch is several times smaller than that of CSS.
I do enjoy e-books, but only the freely-available stuff on Project Gutenberg. I wouldn't buy an e-book unless I had a very specific reason for doing so because of formats and DRM, but the reason I do enjoy Project Gutenberg ebooks is because I can put them on my TI-89 Titanium and read them wherever I want. Not so with PDFs or proprietary formats.
I'm sorry, I don't speak Starbucks.
Same reason liquid nitrogen needs to be qualified as liquid.
I don't know about you, but I hear the term "frozen water" on a regular basis. "Water vapor", too. As far as I'm concerned, that's using water to refer to the solid and gaseous states.
Using water to refer to all of the phases is valid in English, even if it isn't common.