My personal worry about it is that they'll stop making single-player TES games after going MMO. Like WoW. Because WoW continued the lore line of War3 and beyond, there's no need and no point in making another RTS. Why would Bethesda make single-player games if they can include everything in their MMO through expansions?
Sometimes I want to play in peace, instead of waiting for people.
It does take resources to maintain things, but isn't it cheaper in the long run that to replace it? And while I do agree with you on the road department, it's not only that, but also with key buildings like the power generators in the article. It makes me wonder if they ever, ever constructed a train system in the US, if they would be able to maintain it.
They have two (three?) levels of protection. If you only use a "master password", then it's your own fault.
You can always use a database key file, store it an USB and carry it around. Or keep it away. Or lock it under seven keys. Whatever floats your boat.
Agree. Nook owner here too. But when the ebook price is just the same as the paperback, I go for the latter. I think they even use recycled paper in some degree so is not as bad. And I'm geek enough to feel proud of my collection and showing off my bookshelves. I can't do that with an e-reader!
He's the US citizen, I'm the immigrant. Yes, he did have to sign said affidavit, is another of our "you're stuck with me for a while" jokes (immigration is a source of jokes in our marriage). And I'm also aware about the crime part. I know it's really easy to get accused of something nowdays. I guess that part would be like playing the lottery, only in this case, winning is losing.
Interesting. Well, I'm the woman here, so if anything, if my husband is ever aggressive with me (highly doubt it), HE is the one who gets thrown in jail and I get insta-citizenship (or at least that's what he said, we usually joke about this haha). I also didn't get here under any fraud, I became a permanent resident by all the legal means. We even hired a lawyer to help us through the process. I obviously don't intend to commit any crimes and I just have to be aware not to commit any unintentional ones. I guess I *can* push becoming a citizen if I'm not interested in it at the moment, or if Chile allows double citizenship.
I can't agree more with this AC fellow. While you guys got decent people in the Mayflower, we got all kinds of criminals from Spain, because they didn't want to risk sending the "nice people" on such a long trip. They came later on when the land was "subdued". So central and south american natives got all kinds of nasty stuff from spanish military and criminals. Of course I don't mean to imply that native north americans got it easy at all. Just stating a small difference.
I'm Chilean. I got my US green card last year because I married an US citizen. But I don't want to become a citizen myself because then I'd lose my chilean citizenship and I find it useful in case we'd ever decide to go there to live. It just gives us more flexibility.
Is it there any very, very good reasons why I should apply for citizenship when the option becomes available? I have to admit I'm a bit oblivious about it. All I see with it is voting and jury duty hehe. Because so far I'm not interested in it, I'm happy with being able to live and work here without the "migra" being after me.
Yeah I guess what you say is true. But there are still a lot of inherent difficulty in old games that isn't related to poor programming/designing/other, but just pure, raw difficulty. I remember some Megaman (Rockman for the purists) games, where you had to actually jump in the last pixel of the platform you were in, because the jump wasn't long enough to reach the next one if you didn't do it. I guess you master it through trial/error and lots of repetitions, but isn't everything in life like that? Maybe I'm going too far in it, but old games looked more like real life than new ones heh. They taught you patience!
Old 8 and 16 bits games beat the crap out of most recent games when it comes to difficulty. Nowdays it seems it's all about eye candy (cough cough I'm looking at you FFXIII), but the games never last more than 20-30 hours unless they're mmorpgs or really good rpgs/adventure games. And even then they're rather easy and you go through content without much problems. Kids and teenager gamers have no idea what they missed.
LOL I remember that one, stupid game. I still find Zelda harder:)
I also had Snake: Rattle&Roll. I was never able to reach the last stage and I consider myself a pretty good gamer. Then some months ago I saw a youtube video where someone beats it in 11 minutes. I hated each and every minute of it, that game was a bit of a child trauma for me haha.
Indeed. It is frightening for some people to think for themselves and to feel "abandoned" or feel they're completely responsible for their actions in this world, so they rather follow other people's rules. That's basically organized religion. And not ONLY religion, it fits any other type of organization that puts rules to their followers. I'm not quite sure to call laws the same way, since they just try to give us basic rules so everybody can live together in a relatively harmony. But yeah, it is pretty much what you said.
Right, I agree with you about the truth parts. That's why I don't belong to any organized religion anymore. While I still believe in a "higher power" (Although I can't explain why, it's probably because I haven't been able to shake it off after years of catholic upbringing), I don't believe in many things the Church says, and I felt like nip-picking truths and beliefs wasn't really following the religion at all, so I just quit it. I rather be agnostic than an hypocrite.
But I still don't see why you can't be religious and have science. In my upbringing I never saw both things as a dichotomy, religion is faith and science is fact. One rules your actions towards people and the other teaches you about nature and the cosmos. Only here in the US I've seen how things mix up together. That's why I can say my mother is religious AND smart. I don't see why you can't be both.
And, really, why am I supposed to treat religion different from other mental diseases?
Because it is not.
My mother is very religious. She attends mass every Sunday, she's a roman catholic so she believes in God, Jesus, Virgin Mary, the apostles and the saints. Yet she doesn't believe the Sun goes around the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the Universe, or that we actually came from Adam and Eve. She's a smart, balanced, and certainly not mental diseased person. I think what you should consider a mental disease is fanaticism. Over anything. Specially religion. That's what really distortion reality for some.
There are so many odd things about growing wisdom teeth that I'm amazed they've survived evolution so far. My sister had to get hers removed because 2 of them were growing sideways against the other teeth and they were pushing them together, with the risk of having crooked teeth in a while if she didn't remove them. And the other ones didn't grow completely and they got cavities on the hidden sides so it was dangerous too.
Mine grew up fine, I actually liked having an extra set of chewing teeth. That one only that was hard to brush and got the cavity had to be removed. The rest are fine (so far, but my dentist want to pull them out. I can see $$ signs on her face:P)
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My personal worry about it is that they'll stop making single-player TES games after going MMO. Like WoW. Because WoW continued the lore line of War3 and beyond, there's no need and no point in making another RTS. Why would Bethesda make single-player games if they can include everything in their MMO through expansions?
Sometimes I want to play in peace, instead of waiting for people.
It does take resources to maintain things, but isn't it cheaper in the long run that to replace it? And while I do agree with you on the road department, it's not only that, but also with key buildings like the power generators in the article. It makes me wonder if they ever, ever constructed a train system in the US, if they would be able to maintain it.
I read somewhere that one of the first signs of a civilization deterioration is the inability/unwillingness to repair infrastructure.
While looking for a reference online, I found this, and it's eerily accurate.
Same in South America as far as I know. Everything is in metric except TV displays (or any kind of display)
They have two (three?) levels of protection. If you only use a "master password", then it's your own fault. You can always use a database key file, store it an USB and carry it around. Or keep it away. Or lock it under seven keys. Whatever floats your boat.
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Agree. Nook owner here too. But when the ebook price is just the same as the paperback, I go for the latter. I think they even use recycled paper in some degree so is not as bad. And I'm geek enough to feel proud of my collection and showing off my bookshelves. I can't do that with an e-reader!
Yeah the lawyer explained that to us when my husband had to sign it. Funny thing huh? Well I'm hoping my marriage lasts for more than 10 years!
He's the US citizen, I'm the immigrant. Yes, he did have to sign said affidavit, is another of our "you're stuck with me for a while" jokes (immigration is a source of jokes in our marriage). And I'm also aware about the crime part. I know it's really easy to get accused of something nowdays. I guess that part would be like playing the lottery, only in this case, winning is losing.
Oh wow you took me back 14 years. I did all this too just to make games load
I hate you with all my heart, conventional memory, EMS and XMS !!!
Interesting. Well, I'm the woman here, so if anything, if my husband is ever aggressive with me (highly doubt it), HE is the one who gets thrown in jail and I get insta-citizenship (or at least that's what he said, we usually joke about this haha). I also didn't get here under any fraud, I became a permanent resident by all the legal means. We even hired a lawyer to help us through the process. I obviously don't intend to commit any crimes and I just have to be aware not to commit any unintentional ones. I guess I *can* push becoming a citizen if I'm not interested in it at the moment, or if Chile allows double citizenship.
I can't agree more with this AC fellow. While you guys got decent people in the Mayflower, we got all kinds of criminals from Spain, because they didn't want to risk sending the "nice people" on such a long trip. They came later on when the land was "subdued". So central and south american natives got all kinds of nasty stuff from spanish military and criminals. Of course I don't mean to imply that native north americans got it easy at all. Just stating a small difference.
I'm Chilean. I got my US green card last year because I married an US citizen. But I don't want to become a citizen myself because then I'd lose my chilean citizenship and I find it useful in case we'd ever decide to go there to live. It just gives us more flexibility.
Is it there any very, very good reasons why I should apply for citizenship when the option becomes available? I have to admit I'm a bit oblivious about it. All I see with it is voting and jury duty hehe. Because so far I'm not interested in it, I'm happy with being able to live and work here without the "migra" being after me.
But you can't beat the lady that invites you over her house to "recover you". Link can't wait around for Zelda forever!
Eastmost peninsula is the secret!
I have, and I laugh so much at them because I feel so related to what he says and the problems he has with the games
Yeah I guess what you say is true. But there are still a lot of inherent difficulty in old games that isn't related to poor programming/designing/other, but just pure, raw difficulty. I remember some Megaman (Rockman for the purists) games, where you had to actually jump in the last pixel of the platform you were in, because the jump wasn't long enough to reach the next one if you didn't do it. I guess you master it through trial/error and lots of repetitions, but isn't everything in life like that? Maybe I'm going too far in it, but old games looked more like real life than new ones heh. They taught you patience!
Old 8 and 16 bits games beat the crap out of most recent games when it comes to difficulty. Nowdays it seems it's all about eye candy (cough cough I'm looking at you FFXIII), but the games never last more than 20-30 hours unless they're mmorpgs or really good rpgs/adventure games. And even then they're rather easy and you go through content without much problems. Kids and teenager gamers have no idea what they missed.
LOL I remember that one, stupid game. I still find Zelda harder :)
I also had Snake: Rattle&Roll. I was never able to reach the last stage and I consider myself a pretty good gamer. Then some months ago I saw a youtube video where someone beats it in 11 minutes. I hated each and every minute of it, that game was a bit of a child trauma for me haha.
Zelda: The Adventure of Link I dare you name a harder game than that.
Indeed. It is frightening for some people to think for themselves and to feel "abandoned" or feel they're completely responsible for their actions in this world, so they rather follow other people's rules. That's basically organized religion. And not ONLY religion, it fits any other type of organization that puts rules to their followers. I'm not quite sure to call laws the same way, since they just try to give us basic rules so everybody can live together in a relatively harmony. But yeah, it is pretty much what you said.
Right, I agree with you about the truth parts. That's why I don't belong to any organized religion anymore. While I still believe in a "higher power" (Although I can't explain why, it's probably because I haven't been able to shake it off after years of catholic upbringing), I don't believe in many things the Church says, and I felt like nip-picking truths and beliefs wasn't really following the religion at all, so I just quit it. I rather be agnostic than an hypocrite.
Well obviously I love her :)
But I still don't see why you can't be religious and have science. In my upbringing I never saw both things as a dichotomy, religion is faith and science is fact. One rules your actions towards people and the other teaches you about nature and the cosmos. Only here in the US I've seen how things mix up together. That's why I can say my mother is religious AND smart. I don't see why you can't be both.
And, really, why am I supposed to treat religion different from other mental diseases?
Because it is not.
My mother is very religious. She attends mass every Sunday, she's a roman catholic so she believes in God, Jesus, Virgin Mary, the apostles and the saints. Yet she doesn't believe the Sun goes around the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the Universe, or that we actually came from Adam and Eve. She's a smart, balanced, and certainly not mental diseased person. I think what you should consider a mental disease is fanaticism. Over anything. Specially religion. That's what really distortion reality for some.
There are so many odd things about growing wisdom teeth that I'm amazed they've survived evolution so far. My sister had to get hers removed because 2 of them were growing sideways against the other teeth and they were pushing them together, with the risk of having crooked teeth in a while if she didn't remove them. And the other ones didn't grow completely and they got cavities on the hidden sides so it was dangerous too.
:P)
Mine grew up fine, I actually liked having an extra set of chewing teeth. That one only that was hard to brush and got the cavity had to be removed. The rest are fine (so far, but my dentist want to pull them out. I can see $$ signs on her face