You lost my interest when you said beer, but you didn't include one of those large square sheet pizzas! I thought that was the whole point of overtaking a table in the comic store... pizza, beer (or soda) and BS'ing about rules and kill counts.
I disagreed with you on the fact that this is just a game, but this I'll agree with.;) D&D isn't about levels and adding 10 more feels more like a slap in the face than anything. To me, D&D was about the skills and spells you selected. Now instead of that, the focus is on how fast you can get to the cap? So help me, if they add AA points and "Raid" rules, I'm seriously going to cry.
Also, I can't help but notice, this whole debate sounds like the forums of an MMO during a patch. Someone liked something that the devs took out. They stress their concern over it's loss and other people come in and give their idea on how the game should be played. Of course, their idea makes more sense (to them) and they can't see why you would want said feature. Somehow everyone must be tones down or up to an equal level and no character will have skills or talents that exceed the effectiveness of another class. Everyone must be equal. There is no exception. We can't play favorites!
Except: ...it's a job, not a career? ...it's a car, not a toy? ...it's a picture, not a piece of art? ...etc.
Different things are different to different people. If someone enjoys your "game" because it has a good storyteller doesn't make them wrong. It makes you shortsighted to the potential.
While I realize you were trying to be funny (smartass?)... why is it not the fault of the girls? Has society actually reached so low that a girl cannot talk or hang out with people because they enjoy a game?... that parents teach their kids that "nerdiness" is a bad thing? You realize that this notion is keeping the US in a union labor job rut, right? It's cool to work in a factory, but it's sooo uncool to be a scientist or a programmer? I don't know if you are in the US or another country, but keep thinking this and keep damning your kids to underpaid/overworked manual labor jobs.
Hey baby! Did you know the male three toed sloth stays in the same tree his whole life and the females tend to move around from tree to tree a lot? So, can I buy you a refreshing Ballz drink?
You forgot long walks on the beach, skiing, rock climbing and photography. (Which I find ironic since everyone loves these things and you rarely ever see photos of it happening...)
Calm down... This is the world run by Microsoft. The gimme-now generation. As long as it's fast and easy to make, it doesn't matter if it takes a cluster of quad-core processors to run it. Just cut and paste any code you find online that works and be done with it.
Tell me we haven't reached a point where friends will argue, know he location to the nearest cellular tower and debate simply because they know you can't Google it or look it up on Wikipedia... What did you do before the Internet? Carry around a complete set of Encyclopedias just to prove that your right all the time?
I'd find new friends. Seriously. NOTHING is that important.
I swear to you this day and forever forward. If I ever work with you and you use "LINQ" in your program, I will rip your cold dead heart out of your chest with a rusty spatula and feed it to baby otters.
I still think you can bump the premium of those people that tend to spend more per year on health care than others. If they are going to the doctor all the time, it might be an indication of poor health or hypochondria. Either way, they are costing the Insurance company more and should be alerted to that fact by the only means that seems to matter anymore. Money.
Actually, if you take out sleep, you still have 52 hours worth of your week that could be exercise. (7 days * 24 hours = 168 hours - (8 hours sleep * 7 days) = 112 hours - 60 hours of work = 52 hours.) Sure, we can cut... what? 2 hours a day off for driving to and from work? That leaves 38 hours.
Most exercise regiments I see are anywhere between 20 minutes and 45 minutes if your really going for it.. so lets figure in 1 hour a day. That still leaves you 31 hours to do whatever the heck you want to do with your life. If the 60 hour work week is tearing into your personal schedule, I suggest you find a new job. The place I work absolutely prohibits me from working over 40 hours a week thanks to some people in the state of California. I'm sure there are others.
Of course, if you really think about it, I'm sure you don't have to schedule exercise and can take steps to do mild exercise all day long. Park in the back of the lot or at the farthest side of the parking garage, walk to lunch if it's possible. Take the dog for a walk every night... There's tons of ways to be active even with a full life.
I see everyone blame something besides themselves for their poor habits. I blame myself for my bad habits. But there's only one person who can change that, and it's not someone with a PhD.
No, but as I said above, I'd like to tell them to stop breeding. For the sake of the world, if you have a lifelong illness and are always sick, maybe it's time to change something in your life, move, or stop passing along that genetic makeup that makes you prone to illness. Now is about the time your telling me how much of an ass I am for telling someone not to have kids, but think of what your kids will go through if it is truly a genetics problem? Think of what their life will be like... think of that their children will have to go through. Either man up and accept or start supporting genetic research.
Maybe too narrow, have things blocking the view at critical points, poorly graded, rutted slippery pavement, etc.
As a driver of a sports car and a person that loves to speed, let me tell you this right now. If you can't see around the corner you should not be approaching the intersection at mach speed, nor should you be speeding down a narrow alleyway. If it's raining and you think the road is slick? Slow the hell down. Ultimately you are responsible for your own life on the road, like it or not. There are few occasions when you should not be able to avoid a collision. Most of them involve meteors, stray missles and other things coming at you from places you likely can't see. All of them include getting off the damn cell phones, paying attention to your surroundings and driving.
Also, as someone who gets sick maybe twice a year, I vote for lower medical costs for those that show no signs of lifelong illness. And if you even mention genetic disorders... Maybe we'll start weeding out the genetic disorders by making those people less desirable? I mean, if they have to pay more for health care, they will definitely be cutting corners elsewhere. I know it's a harsh look at the world, but for everyone that complains about genetics and the like, I say nature has failed to weed them out.
Unfortunately, I've been playing something from SOE since 1999 starting with Everquest, moving on to Planetside for a bit, SWG, EQ2, and then Vanguard got sucked in. So, yeah, I've seen my fair share of massive changes and screw ups. But these latest changes (to Vanguard esp.) concern me.
I partially agree with you on this... Though I will say, the gaming community is pushing desktop technology (IE: enhanced video cards, faster memory, faster hard drives, etc.)
1. people assume GPL forces you to put anything you link to it into GPL as well. This is not the case, it just means you cannot distribute your changes.
This is what I was getting at. They don't have to release the source of the game, but if they modified the DOSBox program they ran it under, they must publish that change.
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You lost my interest when you said beer, but you didn't include one of those large square sheet pizzas! I thought that was the whole point of overtaking a table in the comic store... pizza, beer (or soda) and BS'ing about rules and kill counts.
I disagreed with you on the fact that this is just a game, but this I'll agree with. ;) D&D isn't about levels and adding 10 more feels more like a slap in the face than anything. To me, D&D was about the skills and spells you selected. Now instead of that, the focus is on how fast you can get to the cap? So help me, if they add AA points and "Raid" rules, I'm seriously going to cry.
Agree.
Also, I can't help but notice, this whole debate sounds like the forums of an MMO during a patch. Someone liked something that the devs took out. They stress their concern over it's loss and other people come in and give their idea on how the game should be played. Of course, their idea makes more sense (to them) and they can't see why you would want said feature. Somehow everyone must be tones down or up to an equal level and no character will have skills or talents that exceed the effectiveness of another class. Everyone must be equal. There is no exception. We can't play favorites!
Except:
...it's a job, not a career?
...it's a car, not a toy?
...it's a picture, not a piece of art?
...etc.
Different things are different to different people. If someone enjoys your "game" because it has a good storyteller doesn't make them wrong. It makes you shortsighted to the potential.
While I realize you were trying to be funny (smartass?)... why is it not the fault of the girls? Has society actually reached so low that a girl cannot talk or hang out with people because they enjoy a game? ... that parents teach their kids that "nerdiness" is a bad thing? You realize that this notion is keeping the US in a union labor job rut, right? It's cool to work in a factory, but it's sooo uncool to be a scientist or a programmer? I don't know if you are in the US or another country, but keep thinking this and keep damning your kids to underpaid/overworked manual labor jobs.
Hey baby! Did you know the male three toed sloth stays in the same tree his whole life and the females tend to move around from tree to tree a lot? So, can I buy you a refreshing Ballz drink?
You forgot long walks on the beach, skiing, rock climbing and photography. (Which I find ironic since everyone loves these things and you rarely ever see photos of it happening...)
Calm down... This is the world run by Microsoft. The gimme-now generation. As long as it's fast and easy to make, it doesn't matter if it takes a cluster of quad-core processors to run it. Just cut and paste any code you find online that works and be done with it.
Tell me we haven't reached a point where friends will argue, know he location to the nearest cellular tower and debate simply because they know you can't Google it or look it up on Wikipedia... What did you do before the Internet? Carry around a complete set of Encyclopedias just to prove that your right all the time?
I'd find new friends. Seriously. NOTHING is that important.
I swear to you this day and forever forward. If I ever work with you and you use "LINQ" in your program, I will rip your cold dead heart out of your chest with a rusty spatula and feed it to baby otters.
i cumpleetly understand wut ur sayin. its much esyer to reed things on teh internets than it evar wuz be4.
How can anyone write that with a straight face?
Those are the ones I left in. There were 5 before and 5 after that block I pasted. I'm assuming those are wasted cycles? Like the FTP NOOP command?
...one hack to find them, one hack to show them all, and in the code lines fry them?
And VS2005 puts the problem somewhere around here...
:p
mshtml.dll! 7dcaac6e() mov eax,dword ptr [ecx+4]
7DCAAC6C nop
7DCAAC6D nop
7DCAAC6E mov eax,dword ptr [ecx+4]
7DCAAC71 test al,1
7DCAAC73 jne 7DCB3229
7DCAAC79 and eax,2
7DCAAC7C ret
7DCAAC7D nop
Not that I have any clue what that means since I never learned assembly
We can't give it to you, you have to choose it. (Unless your workplace mandates)
same directoried... I think.
I still think you can bump the premium of those people that tend to spend more per year on health care than others. If they are going to the doctor all the time, it might be an indication of poor health or hypochondria. Either way, they are costing the Insurance company more and should be alerted to that fact by the only means that seems to matter anymore. Money.
Actually, if you take out sleep, you still have 52 hours worth of your week that could be exercise. (7 days * 24 hours = 168 hours - (8 hours sleep * 7 days) = 112 hours - 60 hours of work = 52 hours.) Sure, we can cut... what? 2 hours a day off for driving to and from work? That leaves 38 hours.
Most exercise regiments I see are anywhere between 20 minutes and 45 minutes if your really going for it.. so lets figure in 1 hour a day. That still leaves you 31 hours to do whatever the heck you want to do with your life. If the 60 hour work week is tearing into your personal schedule, I suggest you find a new job. The place I work absolutely prohibits me from working over 40 hours a week thanks to some people in the state of California. I'm sure there are others.
Of course, if you really think about it, I'm sure you don't have to schedule exercise and can take steps to do mild exercise all day long. Park in the back of the lot or at the farthest side of the parking garage, walk to lunch if it's possible. Take the dog for a walk every night... There's tons of ways to be active even with a full life.
I see everyone blame something besides themselves for their poor habits. I blame myself for my bad habits. But there's only one person who can change that, and it's not someone with a PhD.
No, but as I said above, I'd like to tell them to stop breeding. For the sake of the world, if you have a lifelong illness and are always sick, maybe it's time to change something in your life, move, or stop passing along that genetic makeup that makes you prone to illness. Now is about the time your telling me how much of an ass I am for telling someone not to have kids, but think of what your kids will go through if it is truly a genetics problem? Think of what their life will be like... think of that their children will have to go through. Either man up and accept or start supporting genetic research.
Also, as someone who gets sick maybe twice a year, I vote for lower medical costs for those that show no signs of lifelong illness. And if you even mention genetic disorders... Maybe we'll start weeding out the genetic disorders by making those people less desirable? I mean, if they have to pay more for health care, they will definitely be cutting corners elsewhere. I know it's a harsh look at the world, but for everyone that complains about genetics and the like, I say nature has failed to weed them out.
Unfortunately, I've been playing something from SOE since 1999 starting with Everquest, moving on to Planetside for a bit, SWG, EQ2, and then Vanguard got sucked in. So, yeah, I've seen my fair share of massive changes and screw ups. But these latest changes (to Vanguard esp.) concern me.
I partially agree with you on this... Though I will say, the gaming community is pushing desktop technology (IE: enhanced video cards, faster memory, faster hard drives, etc.)
Only if they can materialize out of thin air and fall to their death at the planet's surface.