It's awesome once or twice (I have similar fond memories from when I was a kid), but imagine if every game session was a deathmatch or a game of paranoia (but not officially Paranoia). Gets old quick. Older gaming groups tend to tell the meat-space trolls to take a hike.
My group split into two groups: the parents and the childless. It's much easier that way, because the parents all have the same schedule mostly, and the childless can change their schedules around gaming sessions for the most part. Summer schedules get a little wonky, but hey, it's summer. Get some sun.
Well, failing that, you could try a potion of wisdom for them and a ring of charisma for you. Or a bit of Domination. You know, if they're into that kind of thing.;-)
"When we were dating, you told me you were a Dungeon Master. I thought you meant something entirely different." - Your S.O.
The games run most smoothly when there is no competition between players. That's the highest selling point to parents. Plus they're low cost hobbies (~$100 initial expense for the entire group, and decades of fun can be had with those materials; you spend more on the doritos).
In terms of describing them; just say it's cops & robbers for grown ups. Remember when cops and robbers stopped being fun? It was right around the time when some kid figured out the "Nuh uh! you missed!" line. Role playing games allow people to play a role, and if there's ever a question of whether someone failed at a task, there are rules (usually involving dice) that allow for a definitive answer. But as I said above, the games are usually structured in a way that the players are acting as a cohesive group against (or with) the rest of the game world. So cooperation is king, everyone has a good time, and yes, you can have a mountain dew, just go get one.
You don't work with beige boxes or servers I'm guessing. Plus bios settings can change power button behavior, and some rare ones come with a default to just power off (my tyan did five years ago).
It's rare these days, but there are still machines around where the power button does not send a soft-shutdown signal to the OS, and instead just kill power to the machine. Unless you know which yours is, it's a bad idea to just press the button. That's why we tell laymen to use a software shutdown first, and only use the physical button when software fails.
The news sites are miffed because search engines preview their pages in the search results, and the users just skim the results instead of clicking the links.
he was detained for psychiatric treatment. In the U.K. there's a handy verbified noun for this - 'sectioned'. I dunno if there's something equivalent in U.S. English.
"committed". As in "He was committed to the psych ward".
I recall seeing a video a short time ago in which a person volunteered to be zip-tied so they could demonstrate breaking them. It seemed to consist of getting your wrists beneath your backside and forcefully squatting down to snap them.
With any company, you are free not to use their services.
Well that us UNLESS regulations say that company has no competition, which is why usually you have but one choice for cable internet...
You are still free to not use their services... until the government requires you to have internet access.
Net neutrality would be a given in a truly competitive business environment.
Although I don't think you meant to say that you are exactly correct. So instead of fighting FOR limitations on the few ISP's you can choose, how about fighting for the right to have more ISPs as competition?
That should be the preferred option, but that's a local govt solution, and it's hard to get enough geeks locally to convince city councils to stop providing monopolies.
The UK didn't say it was going to "storm" Ecuador's embassy. (The origin of that claim? None other than Ecuador.) What the UK said is that Ecuador's embassy may be stripped of its diplomatic status [guardian.co.uk] (a move which would have serious diplomatic fallout), and police may arrest Assange.
I don't see how the two are any different. If UK strips diplomatic status, you think Ecuador is going to give up the embassy all cheery-like instead of hole-up and wait it out (attention-whoring on the global political front)? Ecuador interpreted British English (and its tendency to understate things of importance) quite well.
People who think this is "good news" for Assange and/or Ecuador and/or the world at large are certainly showing their true colors: not only a disregard and lack of respect for freedom (including that of speech), but a celebration of anything that attacks the US and the West -- institutions which, for all their many imperfections, actually promote ideals of freedom and liberal democracy.
Look, we all think Assange is an ass, but free governments require watchdogs to remain free, and sometimes those watchdogs have to bray like asses.
Why does it cost money to renew my car registration online via an automated system instead of at a building that costs rent and overhead with a human employee?
Because until they can do away with the brick and mortar, they have to pay for both the building/employees and the web-servers/sysadmins. That doesn't justify a 10000% markup for a non-service though.
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Fantastic Four? Future Foundation? Freedom Force? Fantasy Football? None seem to fit (unless you're play MSH; I'll let you figure out what MSH is).
It's awesome once or twice (I have similar fond memories from when I was a kid), but imagine if every game session was a deathmatch or a game of paranoia (but not officially Paranoia). Gets old quick. Older gaming groups tend to tell the meat-space trolls to take a hike.
for a lot of people, the term 'role playing' was a sexual term
Obligatory Family Guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtbZRqu5s7c
My group split into two groups: the parents and the childless. It's much easier that way, because the parents all have the same schedule mostly, and the childless can change their schedules around gaming sessions for the most part. Summer schedules get a little wonky, but hey, it's summer. Get some sun.
Well, failing that, you could try a potion of wisdom for them and a ring of charisma for you. Or a bit of Domination. You know, if they're into that kind of thing. ;-)
"When we were dating, you told me you were a Dungeon Master. I thought you meant something entirely different." - Your S.O.
The games run most smoothly when there is no competition between players. That's the highest selling point to parents. Plus they're low cost hobbies (~$100 initial expense for the entire group, and decades of fun can be had with those materials; you spend more on the doritos).
In terms of describing them; just say it's cops & robbers for grown ups. Remember when cops and robbers stopped being fun? It was right around the time when some kid figured out the "Nuh uh! you missed!" line. Role playing games allow people to play a role, and if there's ever a question of whether someone failed at a task, there are rules (usually involving dice) that allow for a definitive answer. But as I said above, the games are usually structured in a way that the players are acting as a cohesive group against (or with) the rest of the game world. So cooperation is king, everyone has a good time, and yes, you can have a mountain dew, just go get one.
When you teach to the test, what exactly has the student learned?
How many MUDs did you play back in the day?
"But those were multi-player!"
Okay. Ever play Rogue or Zork via telnet?
You don't work with beige boxes or servers I'm guessing. Plus bios settings can change power button behavior, and some rare ones come with a default to just power off (my tyan did five years ago).
I was very apprehensive about loosing the start menu search function
Obviously a grammar checker isn't one of those new features.....
That's actually proper grammar. Probably not what GP intended to say, but intention-checking is why people hated Clippy.
It's rare these days, but there are still machines around where the power button does not send a soft-shutdown signal to the OS, and instead just kill power to the machine. Unless you know which yours is, it's a bad idea to just press the button. That's why we tell laymen to use a software shutdown first, and only use the physical button when software fails.
I don't know, I'm inclined to believe GP's BS.
The news sites are miffed because search engines preview their pages in the search results, and the users just skim the results instead of clicking the links.
Helloooooo Nurse!
How do you know he's not formally a marine mammal?
he was detained for psychiatric treatment. In the U.K. there's a handy verbified noun for this - 'sectioned'. I dunno if there's something equivalent in U.S. English.
"committed". As in "He was committed to the psych ward".
They sell USB NIC dongles.
I recall seeing a video a short time ago in which a person volunteered to be zip-tied so they could demonstrate breaking them. It seemed to consist of getting your wrists beneath your backside and forcefully squatting down to snap them.
Snap your wrists or the ties?
If you can stifle copying you can become stagnant without fear of being overtaken.
With any company, you are free not to use their services. Well that us UNLESS regulations say that company has no competition, which is why usually you have but one choice for cable internet...
You are still free to not use their services... until the government requires you to have internet access.
Net neutrality would be a given in a truly competitive business environment.
Although I don't think you meant to say that you are exactly correct. So instead of fighting FOR limitations on the few ISP's you can choose, how about fighting for the right to have more ISPs as competition?
That should be the preferred option, but that's a local govt solution, and it's hard to get enough geeks locally to convince city councils to stop providing monopolies.
I have seen no evidence that any of them do. Republican or demonrat, it makes no difference.
Heck, plenty of slashdotters can't agree on what Net Neutrality means.
I wish bioware would buy them and start making games I would buy again.
Package contained a retina MacBook pro. Would not buy again.
The UK didn't say it was going to "storm" Ecuador's embassy. (The origin of that claim? None other than Ecuador.) What the UK said is that Ecuador's embassy may be stripped of its diplomatic status [guardian.co.uk] (a move which would have serious diplomatic fallout), and police may arrest Assange.
I don't see how the two are any different. If UK strips diplomatic status, you think Ecuador is going to give up the embassy all cheery-like instead of hole-up and wait it out (attention-whoring on the global political front)? Ecuador interpreted British English (and its tendency to understate things of importance) quite well.
People who think this is "good news" for Assange and/or Ecuador and/or the world at large are certainly showing their true colors: not only a disregard and lack of respect for freedom (including that of speech), but a celebration of anything that attacks the US and the West -- institutions which, for all their many imperfections, actually promote ideals of freedom and liberal democracy.
Look, we all think Assange is an ass, but free governments require watchdogs to remain free, and sometimes those watchdogs have to bray like asses.
Why does it cost money to renew my car registration online via an automated system instead of at a building that costs rent and overhead with a human employee?
Because until they can do away with the brick and mortar, they have to pay for both the building/employees and the web-servers/sysadmins. That doesn't justify a 10000% markup for a non-service though.