I'd like you to quote some studies contradicting the notion that the average full-on WoW player is in-game for less than 3.3 hours a day...
I never contradicted that notion.
I have known a lot of people who play WoW, and 40+ hours/week seemed to be the minimum (for those with a job) and 80+ hours/week seemed to be about right for anyone without a job.
I've met a few people who played MMO games for more than 6 hours a day. Most of them wound up alone (wife/girlfriend left them) and unemployed. Including my brother.
$15 a month for what (for most people) amounts to hundreds of hours of entertainment *per month* is a steal...
Wow (no pun intended)! Hundreds of hours a month. Like maybe 200? Most people spend an average of 6 hours and 40 minutes per day playing WoW? I guess most people who play that game have ABSOLUTELY no life. Even if "hundreds of hours" means just 100, that's 3 hours and 20 minutes every day of the month. Most people who have a full-time job and a family (or any social life outside of "the box" of your PC screen) probably don't average more than 2 hours a day.
I guess, by your definition, a casual gamer is anyone who doesn't play 3 hours a day?
Casual doesn't mean you only play a game for an hour a day. Casual means you don't play regularly.
If you spend 6+ hours a day on a game, you're not a regular gamer, not a hard-core gamer... the game is practically your whole LIFE.
Most people don't know how to get good deals shopping. The way I shop, I'd typically get at least 40 packs of ramen for $5. No way you can honestly say that a $5 pizza rivals 40 packs of ramen.
The way I shop, my family of four will typically eat all day on $8, all home-cooked meals. You can eat that cheap if you really try, and I'm not talking about eating ramen every day. You just have to have a large pantry and watch prices in store ads. Find the best price on a product that you've seen in a year and buy a ton of it. And name brands CAN be significantly cheaper than store brands if you get a good sale price and use a coupon. Shop for products that are discounted because they expire soon. Watch dates and stock, figure out when something will have a better sale price soon because it's approaching the sell-by date. And get rain checks whenever possible. If the store is out of 1 variety, ask for a rain check for the product because they were out of one of the varieties you wanted, even if you didn't. You may never need it, but if you find that what you bought is being used faster than you anticipated, you can go back for more before the rain check expires. Also, you may find coupons for the product in the mean time, then you can go get some more at an even bigger discount. Don't be shy about using up shelf space (fridge and freezer space is something to be concerned about though).
WTF? You don't think that the US is at the doorstep of bankruptcy?
With our 0% (to 0.25%) fed rate (even 0.25% beats inflation by quite a ways, FREE MONEY!), trillion dollar annual deficits for the next 10 years, social security insolvent, over $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities (they have to tax, borrow or monetize debt, to the tune of around $2 trillion a year -- on average -- more than they're doing now, over the course of the next 50 years, not counting what new spending they'll come up with), and you think that things are PEACHY?
I just wish we would use this 'event' to see the true downside of nuclear and move our investment money towards sustainable power.
It doesn't have to be this way. It's only this way because TPTB insist on running nuclear plants that (as a byproduct) produce weapons-grade nuclear material.
Thorium is much safer, much cheaper, and much more abundant than uranium. The downside? No weapons-grade nuclear byproducts.
Government is basically a structure designed to make up for the fact that most people won't act in their own interest. Or, you know, take advantage of it.
Really? I thought that one of the primary purposes of government was to act as an impartial intermediate, to act on the part of victims to seek justice, so that the people don't NEED to seek their own retribution for crimes committed against them. Ideal criminal law is a contract between the government and the people that the government will attempt to right wrongs on their behalf and the people give up that right. This is to end the uncivilized endless cycle of retaliation that begets retaliation.
Pretty much any time someone makes a reference to tea bagging in relation to the tea party movement, that's a good indication of someone who's following the misinformation of the MSM. Maybe FoxNews is the worst. Glenn Beck and FoxNews were dismissive of the tea party movement before they started attempting to hijack it. Everyone else just continues to try to dismiss it.
The Tea Party's defining day was the Tea Party moneybomb raising over $6 million in one day for Ron Paul's presidential campaign. Aside from a 5 minute blurb about that record, all the MSM including FoxNews was dismissive and always only showed the "bad side" (the few rotten apples) from the Ron Paul grassroots.
Yes, we were around while Bush was in office. Yes, we were yelling and screaming in objection to his deficit spending (among many other things). No, nobody paid attention, cause we supported Ron Paul and he was "unelectable".
My 4-year old daughter carries a sign that says "The National Debt is My Inheritance". She doesn't understand that now, but one day she will, and it would be my shame if I knew I never did anything about it.
Still want to call me a teabagger? Fine. I know who you are. You're the asshole that doesn't care that my daughter's current share of the national debt is $47,000 and her share of the current unfunded liabilities is $375,000, all this before she even starts preschool.
Or how about what makes it so unacceptable to call it an app when Google installs a bookmark (shortcut) to a web applet? Does it really matter if the content is hosted locally vs remotely? Or is the gripe with the bookmark, which is analogous to a simple desktop shortcut? Still, the difference is that the bookmark is a remote address while the shortcut is (typically) a local address.
Ever since the end of Reloaded, I had hoped that's where the story would go. Neo had powers "outside" of the Matrix? His powers just branched out into the "real world" layer of the Matrix, where all who thought they were free were still enslaved. He has to re-learn his skills in this second layer, which was built just to contain "the anomaly" of the one and all the destruction he could inflict. The prophecy, the real world et all are a bunch of programs created to guide and distract the anomaly and in part to study it, to learn how best to keep it under control.
In the moment that Neo died, he finally saw through the Matrix, and he awoke in the real world. Now the prophecy is all bunk and Neo is in control of his own destiny, but he is finally able to do what Morpheus said he would do, free us all. Morpheus was still enslaved, and perhaps deep down inside he knew it. Neo is more than the prophecy ever foretold and the path before him now is new and fresh.
Probable cause? Like arresting you for resisting arrest?
You can be taken into custody and held without charge for what, up to 48 hours? And there are enough laws out there that they could probably arrest you at any time for a number of things. So they can seize and search your phone, laptop, and any other possessions you have at any time, all without a warrant, should they decide that you're worthy of investigation. All they have to do is come up with some reason to arrest you. Like maybe for sneezing too loud in public.
Well, there's 4 cups in a quote, and 4 quotes in a gallon. If that's too complicated, we can just get rid of the quote and count 16 (10 hexadecimal) cups in a gallon.
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I'd like you to quote some studies contradicting the notion that the average full-on WoW player is in-game for less than 3.3 hours a day...
I never contradicted that notion.
I have known a lot of people who play WoW, and 40+ hours/week seemed to be the minimum (for those with a job) and 80+ hours/week seemed to be about right for anyone without a job.
Now, how about those who have a family?
I've met a few people who played MMO games for more than 6 hours a day. Most of them wound up alone (wife/girlfriend left them) and unemployed. Including my brother.
$15 a month for what (for most people) amounts to hundreds of hours of entertainment *per month* is a steal...
Wow (no pun intended)! Hundreds of hours a month. Like maybe 200? Most people spend an average of 6 hours and 40 minutes per day playing WoW? I guess most people who play that game have ABSOLUTELY no life. Even if "hundreds of hours" means just 100, that's 3 hours and 20 minutes every day of the month. Most people who have a full-time job and a family (or any social life outside of "the box" of your PC screen) probably don't average more than 2 hours a day.
I guess, by your definition, a casual gamer is anyone who doesn't play 3 hours a day?
Casual doesn't mean you only play a game for an hour a day. Casual means you don't play regularly.
If you spend 6+ hours a day on a game, you're not a regular gamer, not a hard-core gamer... the game is practically your whole LIFE.
I think that, at this point, people would be surprised if ANYONE was rushing to play DNF...
I saw it on the store shelves this weekend. I thought, for Father's Day, I might get it for myself.
But I don't have the cash for it right now. And if there's one thing that game has taught me, it's patience. Maybe I'll get it next year.
I'm pretty sure the pope can show prior art.
Theft of life, asshole. After you murder somebody, you get all of their remaining days.
Which just happens to be 0 because you killed them, idjit.
The big health problem is fast food restaurants are the french fries and soda. Both are massively high in sugar
And sodium.
Most people don't know how to get good deals shopping. The way I shop, I'd typically get at least 40 packs of ramen for $5. No way you can honestly say that a $5 pizza rivals 40 packs of ramen.
The way I shop, my family of four will typically eat all day on $8, all home-cooked meals. You can eat that cheap if you really try, and I'm not talking about eating ramen every day. You just have to have a large pantry and watch prices in store ads. Find the best price on a product that you've seen in a year and buy a ton of it. And name brands CAN be significantly cheaper than store brands if you get a good sale price and use a coupon. Shop for products that are discounted because they expire soon. Watch dates and stock, figure out when something will have a better sale price soon because it's approaching the sell-by date. And get rain checks whenever possible. If the store is out of 1 variety, ask for a rain check for the product because they were out of one of the varieties you wanted, even if you didn't. You may never need it, but if you find that what you bought is being used faster than you anticipated, you can go back for more before the rain check expires. Also, you may find coupons for the product in the mean time, then you can go get some more at an even bigger discount. Don't be shy about using up shelf space (fridge and freezer space is something to be concerned about though).
WTF? You don't think that the US is at the doorstep of bankruptcy?
With our 0% (to 0.25%) fed rate (even 0.25% beats inflation by quite a ways, FREE MONEY!), trillion dollar annual deficits for the next 10 years, social security insolvent, over $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities (they have to tax, borrow or monetize debt, to the tune of around $2 trillion a year -- on average -- more than they're doing now, over the course of the next 50 years, not counting what new spending they'll come up with), and you think that things are PEACHY?
Here it comes. Wake the fuck up.
I just wish we would use this 'event' to see the true downside of nuclear and move our investment money towards sustainable power.
It doesn't have to be this way. It's only this way because TPTB insist on running nuclear plants that (as a byproduct) produce weapons-grade nuclear material.
Thorium is much safer, much cheaper, and much more abundant than uranium. The downside? No weapons-grade nuclear byproducts.
I assumed it was a frat house of trolls or something.
Government is basically a structure designed to make up for the fact that most people won't act in their own interest. Or, you know, take advantage of it.
Really? I thought that one of the primary purposes of government was to act as an impartial intermediate, to act on the part of victims to seek justice, so that the people don't NEED to seek their own retribution for crimes committed against them. Ideal criminal law is a contract between the government and the people that the government will attempt to right wrongs on their behalf and the people give up that right. This is to end the uncivilized endless cycle of retaliation that begets retaliation.
That kind of logic and reason should float for the rest of the world, too.
Silly. People don't buy houses with money any more. They buy houses with debt.
The one where they demonstrated those "state's rights" by participating in armed revolution against their country?
You know what the difference is between a civil war and a revolutionary war? Winning.
The rebels won the revolutionary war. They were heroes.
The rebels lost the civil war. They were traitors.
Tell me, what exactly is the difference?
So yes, he aided the Taliban!
What aid did he give? Material to leverage in the course of recruiting terrorists? Then the whole war is an act of treason.
Finding a way to wiggle a little Python into slashdot conversation is a long-standing meme. I'm sorry you missed out on that.
What you're looking for is an argument.
Pretty much any time someone makes a reference to tea bagging in relation to the tea party movement, that's a good indication of someone who's following the misinformation of the MSM. Maybe FoxNews is the worst. Glenn Beck and FoxNews were dismissive of the tea party movement before they started attempting to hijack it. Everyone else just continues to try to dismiss it.
The Tea Party's defining day was the Tea Party moneybomb raising over $6 million in one day for Ron Paul's presidential campaign. Aside from a 5 minute blurb about that record, all the MSM including FoxNews was dismissive and always only showed the "bad side" (the few rotten apples) from the Ron Paul grassroots.
Yes, we were around while Bush was in office. Yes, we were yelling and screaming in objection to his deficit spending (among many other things). No, nobody paid attention, cause we supported Ron Paul and he was "unelectable".
My 4-year old daughter carries a sign that says "The National Debt is My Inheritance". She doesn't understand that now, but one day she will, and it would be my shame if I knew I never did anything about it.
Still want to call me a teabagger? Fine. I know who you are. You're the asshole that doesn't care that my daughter's current share of the national debt is $47,000 and her share of the current unfunded liabilities is $375,000, all this before she even starts preschool.
Or how about what makes it so unacceptable to call it an app when Google installs a bookmark (shortcut) to a web applet? Does it really matter if the content is hosted locally vs remotely? Or is the gripe with the bookmark, which is analogous to a simple desktop shortcut? Still, the difference is that the bookmark is a remote address while the shortcut is (typically) a local address.
Ever since the end of Reloaded, I had hoped that's where the story would go. Neo had powers "outside" of the Matrix? His powers just branched out into the "real world" layer of the Matrix, where all who thought they were free were still enslaved. He has to re-learn his skills in this second layer, which was built just to contain "the anomaly" of the one and all the destruction he could inflict. The prophecy, the real world et all are a bunch of programs created to guide and distract the anomaly and in part to study it, to learn how best to keep it under control.
In the moment that Neo died, he finally saw through the Matrix, and he awoke in the real world. Now the prophecy is all bunk and Neo is in control of his own destiny, but he is finally able to do what Morpheus said he would do, free us all. Morpheus was still enslaved, and perhaps deep down inside he knew it. Neo is more than the prophecy ever foretold and the path before him now is new and fresh.
No waterguns allowed. One piss, one play.
I assure you, you are doing something wrong. There are enough laws to make us all criminals.
The bottom line is, no matter how innocent you think you are, if they decide that they don't like you they will find something to charge you with.
Even a criminal defense attorney will retain the services of another attorney when faced with criminal charges.
Probable cause? Like arresting you for resisting arrest?
You can be taken into custody and held without charge for what, up to 48 hours? And there are enough laws out there that they could probably arrest you at any time for a number of things. So they can seize and search your phone, laptop, and any other possessions you have at any time, all without a warrant, should they decide that you're worthy of investigation. All they have to do is come up with some reason to arrest you. Like maybe for sneezing too loud in public.
Well, there's 4 cups in a quote, and 4 quotes in a gallon. If that's too complicated, we can just get rid of the quote and count 16 (10 hexadecimal) cups in a gallon.
Thanks for reading my post./facepalm