having moved to Seoul about 2 months ago, I can report that there is a plethora of ridiculous english signs, t-shirts and other things here. I've seen T-shirts that inexplicably contain paragraphs of random gibberish, or odd marketing phrases "Absolutely positively overnight!" I've seen businesses like popular cafes, Tom N Toms, Coffee bean, etc who have dozens upon hundreds of locations, yet have really strange signs. To me if you're going to open something with that many locations maybe have someone read over your mission statement who is a native speaker, hell I'll do it for $50. It has to be worth that much to you. A lot of sign problems come down to odd adjective choice (and I can understand their problem, if I look up "watch" in my English-Korean dictionary it gives me like 40 different korean words I can choose.. good luck.. ) and article issues (Koreans don't use the, an, or a in their language so they have no real concept of this) but good lord, Korea is crawling with English teachers who are actually native speakers.
Let me give you a piece of advice, when she is 21-22 you will be kicking your own ass up and down the street if you don't go for her now. One thing I've noticed in comparing Korean girls to western girls is that their beauty tends to mature a little later. Mainly because the traditional Korean teenager is driven by their parents and society to study like mad. A high school student typically doesn't get home until 10pm-midnight and this is up at 6 am to go to school again. They're required to study around the clock to get in to university. As you're a white guy you're probably not going to high school in Korea, but that doesn't mean her parents still aren't pushing her like that. If she is a nice girl, chances are if her parents are pushing her to study that hard they are raising her with traditional values and she will be, give her a chance. I think you will find yourself pleasantly surprised.
Which is the biggest percentage though? Who gets a better education if you split the class amongst a gender divide? Guys learn better, girls learn better. How many passive guys and aggressive girls exist and how does that compare to the amount of males being hamstrung right now? Many stereotypes are born of truth. It is how they become stereotypes. Whether people like being singled out for them is a different reason. They aren't true for 100% of the people all the time, but if they were only true for 5% of the people 5% of the time, they wouldn't be a stereotype would they? In the mixed environment that hampers regular guys, aggressive girls will also be hampered. The few passive guys present might flourish as will the regular girls, but for all you know you're helping only 50% of the people learn in a good environment. Gender splitting might result in 94% percent of the people learning in a good environment. There are far more ways males and females can be made okay with each other that the occasional splitting for a math class, or certain other wouldn't destroy.
You're thinking about human culture and motivation. Who knows what kinds of cultures and motivations an alien species might develop. Just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean another group of people can't.
Bingo. They were essentially called RPGs because they started off as swords and sorcery and had a stat system. When RPGs were first made, D&D was a popular game among the people who were the target audience. Making it resemble it as best they could, with the limited ability they had at the time, ensured an audience. They became more refined with fancier graphics and more fine tuned systems, but in reality they never actually became "Role playing games" because the role you played had no meaning. The story and what you did was really already laid out. MMORPGs are no different. The persistent worlds are utterly meaningless in this regard. Nothing you do means anything in those worlds.
Think about actual role playing games. Like D&D, Gurps, etc..etc.. The draw of these games is that you can do anything. Sure the DM might try and steer you in a certain direction, but any good DM will think on his feet if you don't take his bait and go in a completely opposite direction. The role you take and define has meaning in this game world. A video game role playing game though really doesn't have that meaning. The "role" I take in Final Fantasy 7 has no more meaning than if I wrote a backstory for the pilot in Space Invaders. The world in either of those games is no different no matter what role I imagine myself playing in them.
RPG is a term which has been abused by game publishers and developers to lend credibility to a genre of games and has seriously diluted the meaning of the term. I've seen people calling some of the various "tactics" style games RPGs... Why? Because you can level up in it. Yet table top RPGs exist with no levels, or hell no dice for that matter, (Amber springs to mind), because a role playing game is about the role playing, and not the underlying system or mechanics of the game. Those are utterly meaningless. If the role you play is just as meaningless, then it isn't really a role playing game. In order to play a meaningful role, you need to be able to make choices and the choices you make need to have permanent effects on the game world. Anything else is just a good interactive book.
And the alien ship could be equipped with some kind of energy weapon that could track the f22 for miles and vaporize it from a distance far outside its weapon range, instantly and with 100% accuracy. If we're going to speculate about alien technology, why hold back? A rock may also be no danger to them, perhaps they have shields or a hull strong enough that a rock would do nothing to them. Point is, random speculation isn't terribly insightful.
You assume other races would be reliant on some form of currency. Who knows what kind of technology they may have that might make the concept of commercialism and money irrelevant.
That's why I try to improve it (by criticizing its failures)
You seem to be making fantastic progress. You know how well people respond to having their failures criticized. The time for simply complaining about America's little screw-ups has passed. If the American people make yet another failed decision this year, someone is going to have to invade you to spread democracy.
Swords and levels are not "RPG elements" No more than doors and a steering wheel can give an RV "Ferrari elements"
Roleplaying games comes from the players ability to make choices which have lasting and meaningful effects on the game world in which he plays. "Should I use a sword or a mace?" is not one of those choices. "Should I save the child or slaughter this village?" are those kind of choices. The underlying game mechanics are meaningless. While many "RPGs" employ a level system, have some sorts, etc. That doesn't actually define what an RPG is in any manner. An RPG could exist without any levels at all, or skills for that matter. STALKER could very easily be an RPG if some of the choices had a little more far reaching effect.
I've been getting these kinds of voicemail on my home phone for at least 2 years. Apparently Gary from Century 21 hear I was selling my house and really wants to talk to me about it (I live in a high-rise apartment). I can't believe Canada had a feature for the US...
For example: playingcatchup therestoftheinternetalreadysawthis ondigg2daysago
There is already a running joke on digg about how everything shows up there a day or two after reddit..
since this is technology news, and your grandparents are always the last to hear about the latest and greatest technology, and it first was seen at reddit and then digg and now here, does this mean we're our own grandparents?
Second most guns are calibrated for approaching traffic,
That is the same thing, or in reality part of the same point. You can't measure someone "head on" if they are driving away from you, as head implies the front..
and the acceleration to make a 6 inch putt is too small for it notice. I took to just flicking my wrist, and while it gives a little finer control, it still tends to not respond about 80-90% of the time when I try to make those.
Does this mean I can make short puts in Wii Golf now? One of the most annoying things of any of the motion controlled games was having to make small movements if a situation arose and the controller not quite responding to it. You could sit there moving the wiimote a good 6-7 inches and it would act like you hadn't even moved it. Move it more and it was like you were hammering it. I tried a 6 inch putt once and almost drove it back to the tee.
forcing a restart for any change made in an attempt at making it more annoying./blockqouote Fixed that for you. I love linksys but I want to strangle them every time I try to forward a new port and have to restart the router. Typical scenario is: "I just installed a new app that apparently needs a port forwarded" "I could do that but I would have to interrupt what everyone else using the internet is doing to reset it" "Screw 'em I never liked them anyway"
It really doesn't change what I do, but it does make me appear like more of a jerk.
The shawshank redemption came out in September. Pulp Fiction came out in October. Do you want to play this game all day long or admit this was a stupid generalization?
I don't think that is a universal definition. Many people used to refer to counterfeit tapes, t-shirts, etc I often heard the term surrounding bands where someone would sell "bootleg tapes out of their car" after a concert.
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having moved to Seoul about 2 months ago, I can report that there is a plethora of ridiculous english signs, t-shirts and other things here.
I've seen T-shirts that inexplicably contain paragraphs of random gibberish, or odd marketing phrases "Absolutely positively overnight!" I've seen businesses like popular cafes, Tom N Toms, Coffee bean, etc who have dozens upon hundreds of locations, yet have really strange signs. To me if you're going to open something with that many locations maybe have someone read over your mission statement who is a native speaker, hell I'll do it for $50. It has to be worth that much to you. A lot of sign problems come down to odd adjective choice (and I can understand their problem, if I look up "watch" in my English-Korean dictionary it gives me like 40 different korean words I can choose.. good luck.. ) and article issues (Koreans don't use the, an, or a in their language so they have no real concept of this) but good lord, Korea is crawling with English teachers who are actually native speakers.
Dear USA,
Fuck off.
Hugs n kisses,
The rest of us
Let me give you a piece of advice, when she is 21-22 you will be kicking your own ass up and down the street if you don't go for her now.
One thing I've noticed in comparing Korean girls to western girls is that their beauty tends to mature a little later. Mainly because the traditional Korean teenager is driven by their parents and society to study like mad. A high school student typically doesn't get home until 10pm-midnight and this is up at 6 am to go to school again. They're required to study around the clock to get in to university.
As you're a white guy you're probably not going to high school in Korea, but that doesn't mean her parents still aren't pushing her like that.
If she is a nice girl, chances are if her parents are pushing her to study that hard they are raising her with traditional values and she will be, give her a chance. I think you will find yourself pleasantly surprised.
Which is the biggest percentage though? Who gets a better education if you split the class amongst a gender divide? Guys learn better, girls learn better. How many passive guys and aggressive girls exist and how does that compare to the amount of males being hamstrung right now?
Many stereotypes are born of truth. It is how they become stereotypes. Whether people like being singled out for them is a different reason. They aren't true for 100% of the people all the time, but if they were only true for 5% of the people 5% of the time, they wouldn't be a stereotype would they? In the mixed environment that hampers regular guys, aggressive girls will also be hampered. The few passive guys present might flourish as will the regular girls, but for all you know you're helping only 50% of the people learn in a good environment. Gender splitting might result in 94% percent of the people learning in a good environment. There are far more ways males and females can be made okay with each other that the occasional splitting for a math class, or certain other wouldn't destroy.
You're thinking about human culture and motivation. Who knows what kinds of cultures and motivations an alien species might develop. Just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean another group of people can't.
I see enough of these kinds of comments on Digg, you should be run out of town.
Bingo.
They were essentially called RPGs because they started off as swords and sorcery and had a stat system. When RPGs were first made, D&D was a popular game among the people who were the target audience. Making it resemble it as best they could, with the limited ability they had at the time, ensured an audience. They became more refined with fancier graphics and more fine tuned systems, but in reality they never actually became "Role playing games" because the role you played had no meaning. The story and what you did was really already laid out. MMORPGs are no different. The persistent worlds are utterly meaningless in this regard. Nothing you do means anything in those worlds.
Think about actual role playing games. Like D&D, Gurps, etc..etc.. The draw of these games is that you can do anything. Sure the DM might try and steer you in a certain direction, but any good DM will think on his feet if you don't take his bait and go in a completely opposite direction. The role you take and define has meaning in this game world. A video game role playing game though really doesn't have that meaning. The "role" I take in Final Fantasy 7 has no more meaning than if I wrote a backstory for the pilot in Space Invaders. The world in either of those games is no different no matter what role I imagine myself playing in them.
RPG is a term which has been abused by game publishers and developers to lend credibility to a genre of games and has seriously diluted the meaning of the term. I've seen people calling some of the various "tactics" style games RPGs... Why? Because you can level up in it. Yet table top RPGs exist with no levels, or hell no dice for that matter, (Amber springs to mind), because a role playing game is about the role playing, and not the underlying system or mechanics of the game. Those are utterly meaningless. If the role you play is just as meaningless, then it isn't really a role playing game. In order to play a meaningful role, you need to be able to make choices and the choices you make need to have permanent effects on the game world. Anything else is just a good interactive book.
And the alien ship could be equipped with some kind of energy weapon that could track the f22 for miles and vaporize it from a distance far outside its weapon range, instantly and with 100% accuracy.
If we're going to speculate about alien technology, why hold back?
A rock may also be no danger to them, perhaps they have shields or a hull strong enough that a rock would do nothing to them.
Point is, random speculation isn't terribly insightful.
You assume other races would be reliant on some form of currency.
Who knows what kind of technology they may have that might make the concept of commercialism and money irrelevant.
You seem to be making fantastic progress. You know how well people respond to having their failures criticized. The time for simply complaining about America's little screw-ups has passed. If the American people make yet another failed decision this year, someone is going to have to invade you to spread democracy.
Swords and levels are not "RPG elements"
No more than doors and a steering wheel can give an RV "Ferrari elements"
Roleplaying games comes from the players ability to make choices which have lasting and meaningful effects on the game world in which he plays. "Should I use a sword or a mace?" is not one of those choices. "Should I save the child or slaughter this village?" are those kind of choices. The underlying game mechanics are meaningless. While many "RPGs" employ a level system, have some sorts, etc. That doesn't actually define what an RPG is in any manner. An RPG could exist without any levels at all, or skills for that matter. STALKER could very easily be an RPG if some of the choices had a little more far reaching effect.
I've been getting these kinds of voicemail on my home phone for at least 2 years. Apparently Gary from Century 21 hear I was selling my house and really wants to talk to me about it (I live in a high-rise apartment). I can't believe Canada had a feature for the US...
They do call themselves the Facebook of China
http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/30/xiaonei-the-facebook-of-china-raises-430m-better-funded-than-facebook/
For example:
playingcatchup
therestoftheinternetalreadysawthis
ondigg2daysago
There is already a running joke on digg about how everything shows up there a day or two after reddit..
since this is technology news, and your grandparents are always the last to hear about the latest and greatest technology, and it first was seen at reddit and then digg and now here, does this mean we're our own grandparents?
uh....
what?
That is the same thing, or in reality part of the same point. You can't measure someone "head on" if they are driving away from you, as head implies the front..
and the acceleration to make a 6 inch putt is too small for it notice.
I took to just flicking my wrist, and while it gives a little finer control, it still tends to not respond about 80-90% of the time when I try to make those.
Carrier pigeons. Turns out they left a window open and they've been flying in and typing commands for him.
Does this mean I can make short puts in Wii Golf now? One of the most annoying things of any of the motion controlled games was having to make small movements if a situation arose and the controller not quite responding to it. You could sit there moving the wiimote a good 6-7 inches and it would act like you hadn't even moved it. Move it more and it was like you were hammering it. I tried a 6 inch putt once and almost drove it back to the tee.
Rumour has it the MPAA and RIAA have already filed injunctions as it could infringe on their ability to make a profit
Digg does..do you see quality articles based purely on fact sitting on their front page?
The shawshank redemption came out in September. Pulp Fiction came out in October. Do you want to play this game all day long or admit this was a stupid generalization?
I don't think that is a universal definition. Many people used to refer to counterfeit tapes, t-shirts, etc I often heard the term surrounding bands where someone would sell "bootleg tapes out of their car" after a concert.
I'm allergic to codeine (and probably morphine as well, but I've never taken it). It makes me hyper and paranoid.