Well, forgiveness is a cardinal virtue of the church in the first place. Some of its greatest "saints" have apparently been at one point or another great enemies of the church (if not just plain "immoral" people, by the churches standards).
Cuban A: "My computer's hard-drive filled up browsing pure text-and-link pages the other day!"
Cuban B: "Oh? Did it try to load a Java applet?"
Cuban A: "Nope, got half a piece of spyware!"
If these people even want to talk about banning any type of pornography, they should be forced to show exactly which pornography they "get off on".
The results? Either they are into "missionarypositionasgodintendedit.com", or they aren't into pornography. If they aren't "into" pornography...that simply raises the question of their credibility and makes them seem "less human". Either way, there's bound to be (In a room of over 10 people, which I imagine there was to get this law written up) at least one guy with a fetish other people find disgusting.
Personally though, I believe everyone has some fetish other people find disgusting. Even if they don't know it yet. The simple fact I know some people are disgusted by "normal sex"...
Either way, this is the government getting into our private lies and doing more than...well...protecting our lives and right to private properties.
No. In 3.5, for example, I can play as MANY different types of characters that are more than a "role" in a party. For example (thought up on the wing, but all of these abilities exist in the game), I can play a pixie poisoner who specializes in diplomacy and subterfuge, relying on smoke bombs mixed with inhaling poisons and some amnesia crossbow bolt action during battle. I know, the easy argument against this is "but they only have 3 books now...wait and you'll get enough content to do all that." Well the sad part is, I shouldn't have to wait! The rogue can't use poisons anymore (the class was posted already). And you can't be a pixie! The first three books in 3.0 let me do all that and more!
I can't even remember the last time I had a defined "role" in a 3.5 game...I guess it would be my first game with my current group, in which I was the "evocation caster". Mind you I was a Sparrow Hengeyokai (Oriental Adventures) Wu-Jen, so I wouldn't say I was completely unoriginal (yet not too original considering Wu-Jen is the hengeyokai's favored class).
But the reason for all this is simple: 4E is being developed to support their $5/month software. Anything too complicated (like a ton of abilities from monsters combine with the abilities of players) is going to be scrapped to "simplify" the game. They've even admitted it themselves that the game is being "simplified in order to attempt to reintroduce a new generation of DnD players".
Which personally I see no need for.
You need proof? I'm co-GMing a 13 man group at my college, 10 of which have never played DnD before, and 9 of which have never played any tabletop RPG before. And they are doing fine! Heck, I self-taught myself most of the rules of d20, and those I didn't get I got the moment I messed up at the table! And trying to simplify it won't do much, because in the end role playing is not "simple". Ever. The moment a player in a "new group" trying 4E for the first time goes "I want to break the bar stool in half and slam the chunk of wood, nail side down, in to the opponent's skull", people are going to realise just how complicated an RPG is. Of course its having written rulings on weird scenerios like that which resulted in such an information overload we now have in 3.x.
But I digress.
The point is, Wizards is going to release this "new, simply 4E". People will migrate, because of a mixture of tactics like this and people coming to the table with "hey guys, check out what I got, lets try this system". Then more and more books will come out and it'll be the same bloated engine...just spit polished. If Wizards really wanted to make a simple RPG, they wouldn't need to say things like:
"...Will be released in future Modules."
Because the player's handbook would have everything you'd need to do anything you need. Don't think its possible? Pick up BESM 3.0 or Shadowrun and tell me what you can't do (in the case of shadowrun, tell me what you can't do that is still feasible in the setting).
Why do you enjoy no monster levels? They are effectively taking all those beautiful races you could use and going "Nope, stick to the 8-10 in the Player's Handbook." No longer can you run Dragon, kobold, pixie, will-o-wisp, etc... characters without "special permission" and homebrew stuff from your GM. And unfortunately, I doubt the homebrew stuff will carry over well to the computerized $5/month version they are so desperate to get people hooked on...
Don't forget your encouraging humans to go into Koala habitats. And place "litter" (glass vases with flowers, picnic supplies, or even worse depending on the family and their practices) and their smell around the area (wild animals hate the smell of us as much as we hate the smell of them and they hate the smell of one another...).
Really I totally agree with dumping bodies in the woods (ok, burying them deep even to make sure stupid animals don't try to eat our preserved, disease ridden, Prozac and Ritalin bloated corpses). It is "more natural" to some extent. But telling the family where the body is is rather...impractical.
Who wants to bet in about 5 years there will be gravestones and markers set up by families who are either sick of or found errors in the GPS software (or simply assume that in a few generations the company will go out of business).
Will their "DnD Online" software (the thing they are releasing with 4E) have enough breathing room to allow 3rd party stuff? Such as inserting your own class abilities, spells, feats, skills, etc...?
It should be noted that this does not mean "the one who changes the most", as many take it. The "change" is in the environment, and the "adaptation" need not be a change in direct response to the change of the environment. See: the sponge.
Considering the "secret" of Iron Man's suit has been an issue in the past (especially when it was sentient...wait, is it still sentient?...bah forget it), the idea that someone who'd want all code everywhere to be open source would be an important issue. After all, if Titanium Man was able to upgrade his suit using the software of Iron Man (note that Titanium Man's hardware is many times better than Iron Man's already...). Crazy Russians and their open source... (sorry, inside joke with my Russian co-worker).
But yeah, another Armor Wars would be a bad thing, from Iron Man's point of view at least.
I've tried to immerse myself. It ends up pissing me off when I get people saying like "oh, I did that quest. XY and Z happened." Plus the inevitable "LAWL NEWB JUST READ THE QUEST LOG FROM THOTTBOT!" when your in a group and want to skim the quest instead of just finding coordinates for the entity you need to talk with.
At this point its probably a money saver. They wanted the internet in the building, but didn't want to buy another set of computers when they already had internet capable computers probably (I'm guessing) as monitoring stations.
The short answer is: "Boss is cheap and employees will quit if they can't watch YouTube in one window as they watch the grid in the other."
Of course, they could be completely incompetant and simply be using the internet this way so they can monitor things from outside the building...which still doesn't make much sense to me. If anything, it should be one man's job to manually transfer the data via flash memory device to and from the non-networked computer and the networked computer every 15 minutes to ensure whoever was too lazy to come to work can get up to the minute information. or, you know, just connect it to the internet when its absolutely necessary. Its the same reason I don't keep my cell phone on all the time: I don't want people accessing it when I'm in the shower, class, driving, etc...
To continue your sentiments: if you don't want people accessing your device, turn it the hell off or snip the (many times, due to wireless technology, metaphorical) chord that connects it to everyone else. There is no shame in unplugging your Ethernet once in a while. If anything connect it with such a slow connection that by the time a virus got through, the connection would sever due to the person attempting to view two images at once (28.5 kbs moden FTW).
I see a bunch of WMM created slide shows where the images aren't created by the creator, rarely match the music being played and, worst of all, weren't even photoshopped correctly so they'd have a decent aspect ratio...
I'm not even going to go into the sad use of transitions...
A "brick" is not just "a fundamental unit shaped like a box with no working electronic parts". It is a masonry unit that can resist wear and tear over many years, including water damage. If the Pyramids were made out of iPhones, I highly doubt they would have lasted nearly as long.
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Or the right type of walkie-talkie, assuming you don't go too far...
Personally I think it would be interesting to see how many terrorists play video games.
Has anyone here both played video games and not killed anyone? Just curious.
Well, forgiveness is a cardinal virtue of the church in the first place. Some of its greatest "saints" have apparently been at one point or another great enemies of the church (if not just plain "immoral" people, by the churches standards).
Because nothing is more American than Sean Connery. Teamed up with Samuel L Jackson (because, you know, he's in everything).
Heh, I can see it now:
Cuban A: "My computer's hard-drive filled up browsing pure text-and-link pages the other day!"
Cuban B: "Oh? Did it try to load a Java applet?"
Cuban A: "Nope, got half a piece of spyware!"
If these people even want to talk about banning any type of pornography, they should be forced to show exactly which pornography they "get off on".
The results? Either they are into "missionarypositionasgodintendedit.com", or they aren't into pornography. If they aren't "into" pornography...that simply raises the question of their credibility and makes them seem "less human". Either way, there's bound to be (In a room of over 10 people, which I imagine there was to get this law written up) at least one guy with a fetish other people find disgusting.
Personally though, I believe everyone has some fetish other people find disgusting. Even if they don't know it yet. The simple fact I know some people are disgusted by "normal sex"...
Either way, this is the government getting into our private lies and doing more than...well...protecting our lives and right to private properties.
Is it a blog...
Or a captain's log.
Extreme sports would include skinny dipping and blowing up a balloon.
No. In 3.5, for example, I can play as MANY different types of characters that are more than a "role" in a party. For example (thought up on the wing, but all of these abilities exist in the game), I can play a pixie poisoner who specializes in diplomacy and subterfuge, relying on smoke bombs mixed with inhaling poisons and some amnesia crossbow bolt action during battle. I know, the easy argument against this is "but they only have 3 books now...wait and you'll get enough content to do all that." Well the sad part is, I shouldn't have to wait! The rogue can't use poisons anymore (the class was posted already). And you can't be a pixie! The first three books in 3.0 let me do all that and more!
I can't even remember the last time I had a defined "role" in a 3.5 game...I guess it would be my first game with my current group, in which I was the "evocation caster". Mind you I was a Sparrow Hengeyokai (Oriental Adventures) Wu-Jen, so I wouldn't say I was completely unoriginal (yet not too original considering Wu-Jen is the hengeyokai's favored class).
But the reason for all this is simple: 4E is being developed to support their $5/month software. Anything too complicated (like a ton of abilities from monsters combine with the abilities of players) is going to be scrapped to "simplify" the game. They've even admitted it themselves that the game is being "simplified in order to attempt to reintroduce a new generation of DnD players".
Which personally I see no need for.
You need proof? I'm co-GMing a 13 man group at my college, 10 of which have never played DnD before, and 9 of which have never played any tabletop RPG before. And they are doing fine! Heck, I self-taught myself most of the rules of d20, and those I didn't get I got the moment I messed up at the table! And trying to simplify it won't do much, because in the end role playing is not "simple". Ever. The moment a player in a "new group" trying 4E for the first time goes "I want to break the bar stool in half and slam the chunk of wood, nail side down, in to the opponent's skull", people are going to realise just how complicated an RPG is. Of course its having written rulings on weird scenerios like that which resulted in such an information overload we now have in 3.x.
But I digress.
The point is, Wizards is going to release this "new, simply 4E". People will migrate, because of a mixture of tactics like this and people coming to the table with "hey guys, check out what I got, lets try this system". Then more and more books will come out and it'll be the same bloated engine...just spit polished. If Wizards really wanted to make a simple RPG, they wouldn't need to say things like:
"...Will be released in future Modules."
Because the player's handbook would have everything you'd need to do anything you need. Don't think its possible? Pick up BESM 3.0 or Shadowrun and tell me what you can't do (in the case of shadowrun, tell me what you can't do that is still feasible in the setting).
Why do you enjoy no monster levels? They are effectively taking all those beautiful races you could use and going "Nope, stick to the 8-10 in the Player's Handbook." No longer can you run Dragon, kobold, pixie, will-o-wisp, etc... characters without "special permission" and homebrew stuff from your GM. And unfortunately, I doubt the homebrew stuff will carry over well to the computerized $5/month version they are so desperate to get people hooked on...
PS2 DVD player. PS1 CD player. Any Sony TV with a build in VCR.
Don't forget your encouraging humans to go into Koala habitats. And place "litter" (glass vases with flowers, picnic supplies, or even worse depending on the family and their practices) and their smell around the area (wild animals hate the smell of us as much as we hate the smell of them and they hate the smell of one another...).
Really I totally agree with dumping bodies in the woods (ok, burying them deep even to make sure stupid animals don't try to eat our preserved, disease ridden, Prozac and Ritalin bloated corpses). It is "more natural" to some extent. But telling the family where the body is is rather...impractical.
Who wants to bet in about 5 years there will be gravestones and markers set up by families who are either sick of or found errors in the GPS software (or simply assume that in a few generations the company will go out of business).
Wow! Only $1...oh wait, with 1.6 billion dollars shipping...
They sniped it at $5...with 3.1bn shipping...
Will their "DnD Online" software (the thing they are releasing with 4E) have enough breathing room to allow 3rd party stuff? Such as inserting your own class abilities, spells, feats, skills, etc...?
It should be noted that this does not mean "the one who changes the most", as many take it. The "change" is in the environment, and the "adaptation" need not be a change in direct response to the change of the environment. See: the sponge.
...I'm assuming your a government employee? Or just someone who leeches a federal internet line?
Considering the "secret" of Iron Man's suit has been an issue in the past (especially when it was sentient...wait, is it still sentient?...bah forget it), the idea that someone who'd want all code everywhere to be open source would be an important issue. After all, if Titanium Man was able to upgrade his suit using the software of Iron Man (note that Titanium Man's hardware is many times better than Iron Man's already...). Crazy Russians and their open source... (sorry, inside joke with my Russian co-worker).
But yeah, another Armor Wars would be a bad thing, from Iron Man's point of view at least.
Nah, they release enough (hot) air that they can produce sound in a void.
I've tried to immerse myself. It ends up pissing me off when I get people saying like "oh, I did that quest. XY and Z happened." Plus the inevitable "LAWL NEWB JUST READ THE QUEST LOG FROM THOTTBOT!" when your in a group and want to skim the quest instead of just finding coordinates for the entity you need to talk with.
At this point its probably a money saver. They wanted the internet in the building, but didn't want to buy another set of computers when they already had internet capable computers probably (I'm guessing) as monitoring stations.
The short answer is: "Boss is cheap and employees will quit if they can't watch YouTube in one window as they watch the grid in the other."
Of course, they could be completely incompetant and simply be using the internet this way so they can monitor things from outside the building...which still doesn't make much sense to me. If anything, it should be one man's job to manually transfer the data via flash memory device to and from the non-networked computer and the networked computer every 15 minutes to ensure whoever was too lazy to come to work can get up to the minute information. or, you know, just connect it to the internet when its absolutely necessary. Its the same reason I don't keep my cell phone on all the time: I don't want people accessing it when I'm in the shower, class, driving, etc...
To continue your sentiments: if you don't want people accessing your device, turn it the hell off or snip the (many times, due to wireless technology, metaphorical) chord that connects it to everyone else. There is no shame in unplugging your Ethernet once in a while. If anything connect it with such a slow connection that by the time a virus got through, the connection would sever due to the person attempting to view two images at once (28.5 kbs moden FTW).
I see a bunch of WMM created slide shows where the images aren't created by the creator, rarely match the music being played and, worst of all, weren't even photoshopped correctly so they'd have a decent aspect ratio...
I'm not even going to go into the sad use of transitions...
A "brick" is not just "a fundamental unit shaped like a box with no working electronic parts". It is a masonry unit that can resist wear and tear over many years, including water damage. If the Pyramids were made out of iPhones, I highly doubt they would have lasted nearly as long.
iPharoah?
Most of the animal activists still use products tested on animals. People in PETA use Insulin just as much as many Vegans.