I am interested in TOR. I'm thinking of picking it up next Summer.
I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
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Poor Mrs Sarah Jude, suffering from cancer of the breast!
Good Day,
Calvary greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!! I am Mrs.Sarah Jude, a widow of 67years old suffering from cancer of the breast, My husband and my only son were killed last three years during the UK terrorist Attack when we visited London for holidays.
My condition is serious and according to my doctor, he said it is obvious that I may not survive. I have some funds that my late husband WILLED to me in cash; the sum of $5,900,000.00 United States of American Dollars. I packaged it in consignments and deposited it with a finance house.
After my prayers, I searched site in the internet, I found your email address and I decided to contact you for the usage of the funds in your Ministry. Therefore, child of God, if you are honest and faithful enough to use this fund strictly for the work of God, your response will be highly appreciated.This is my private E-mail address (sarahjude2010@yahoo.co.jp) kindly email me there.
Yours in His Vineyard
Mrs. Sarah Jude.
Yours in his vineyard
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edited September 2010
Okay, to save money I've pretty much stopped going to lunch with the rest of the guys altogether.
However, this means I sit at my desk all day and during lunch I get bothered to do all the shit while they're gone.
NO MORE, NO FUCKING MORE!
Phone is on "do not disturb" and if someone comes by I'm going to pretend to be stepping out.
I just had to get up and fix a bitches computer because she opened an e-mail from an employee she hasn't worked with in seven years that said "here's that file you requested" and linked, not attached, but linked to a .pdf(.scr) file from like "sharedfolders.com/superlinks" or some shit.
GODDAMIT!
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Some days I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be a programmer, or at the very least, I shouldn't be a programmer who's got the power of a project manager and a system architect. Mostly the latter. I'm pretty good at the programming, in and of itself, but system design/project mgmt is not my strongest suit.
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Okay, I did maybe come up with a hobbit concept, sort of a mothering backbone of the group type. Healer/defensive, keeps everyone up and alive while they do their stuff. I don't know if there's anything in LOTRO like that, but I'd be interested in it.
And then an elven minstrel and a human burglar.
Mori I think you might just want to get me a subscription from the get-go. I'm getting fairly excited myself.
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so i maintain that the alleviation of pain is categorically different than recreational hallucination.
i guess i feel like if someone wants to make a case that recreational drugs are okay, then it should be done on its own merits rather than a comparison to meduical "drugs" as a broad category.
i mean, drawing a corellary to alcohol is probably the easiest approach. lots of people drink for fun, but few people take advil for fun.
What about, like, Oxycontin?
"if it's okay for someone in extreme pain then it's also okay for me to take for fun" is not a reasonable position.
generally speaking, acceptable drug use is seen as a physical pallative. i guess if you were to break it down further, people tend to regard it as a necessary evil, made necessary by extreme pain.
without the counterbalance of "curing a medical condition" or "alleviating pain", the drug use is seen as gratuitious and morally suspect. i don't see it as morally incoherent to be anti- recreational drug use.
I am interested in TOR. I'm thinking of picking it up next Summer.
I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
Ditto. SpaceWoW here we come!
Man there devs were hella non plussed, especially compared to torchlight and Tera who were right next door, much more friendly and excited.
I meaning fucking firefall just had a live demo they ran every 15 or so minutes (next to the douchebags of dragon age 2, I seriously lost some respect for bioware based on the assholes they had at that booth) and their devs were chatting people up.
Bottomline Bioware needs to teach their people how to do some fucking PR if they are going to show up at fan shows.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Go to lunch with the guys AH, but bring your own lunch from home. Gets you out of the office but saves money. Or go sleep in you car, I use to do this.
so i maintain that the alleviation of pain is categorically different than recreational hallucination.
i guess i feel like if someone wants to make a case that recreational drugs are okay, then it should be done on its own merits rather than a comparison to meduical "drugs" as a broad category.
i mean, drawing a corellary to alcohol is probably the easiest approach. lots of people drink for fun, but few people take advil for fun.
Okay, that first statement is fair. I'll agree with that.
Your second statement implies that I'm making this argument in order to piggyback recreational drug use upon the legitimacy of medical drug use. I'm not. If anything, it's based on a more transhumanist notion that we currently have the medical technology to make ourselves "better than normal." You look at some of the things we treat with medical technology - say, acne through Accutane, or mild depression through SSRIs - and it calls into question why we consider a certain physical state "normal."
We talked a little bit about infections. Whether or not we tolerate an infection depends largely on how it makes us feel. Almost all of us have candida, staphylococcus, heliobacter, dust mite, and an uncountable number of other infections living on or inside our bodies at all times. This is why immune system impairments are so dangerous. Some of these infections are going to have minor, subclinical effects at any given time. Get an upside stomach when you're stressed out? Hi, heliobacter. Have an itchy, flaky scalp? Oh hey thar candida. Ever have an asthma attack? Might be (probably is) aggravated by dust mites.
Whether or not a physical condition is caused by infection is interesting etiologically but does not inherently define whether or not it is a medical condition.
Nobody lives up to their physical ideal. Not a single person. Some very healthy people come close. When people are below a certain baseline, they're considered to have a medical condition; when they're above that baseline we consider them particularly healthy. But that baseline itself is kind of a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing defined by a negotiation between the individual and his culture.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Abdhyius wrote:
A standard beer in a bar is 0,4 litres
a beer bottle or a small beer can is the standard size, 0,33
large beer cans are 0,5 litres
ten large ones is a lot, ten small ones isn't, ten bar-sized ones is a lot if you bought them all in a bar because that would cost $texas
Oh good, just making sure that 10 0.5 litres beers was not "a little". I know you drink a lot, but that would be obscene.
Uh, .33 liters is roughly 12 ounces so I think? 10 would be 120 ounces of beer. Unless someone is drinking that over a period of 6-7 hours most people are going to be intoxicated.
I am interested in TOR. I'm thinking of picking it up next Summer.
I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
Ditto. SpaceWoW here we come!
Man there devs were hella non plussed, especially compared to torchlight and Tera who were right next door, much more friendly and excited.
I meaning fucking firefall just had a live demo they ran every 15 or so minutes (next to the douchebags of dragon age 2, I seriously lost some respect for bioware based on the assholes they had at that booth) and their devs were chatting people up.
Bottomline Bioware needs to teach their people how to do some fucking PR if they are going to show up at fan shows.
I only interacted with one of the Bioware guys at the TOR booth, but he was very friendly, asking about the convention while I was in line and giving me a good introduction to the game before I got started.
Poor Mrs Sarah Jude, suffering from cancer of the breast!
Good Day,
Calvary greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!! I am Mrs.Sarah Jude, a widow of 67years old suffering from cancer of the breast, My husband and my only son were killed last three years during the UK terrorist Attack when we visited London for holidays.
My condition is serious and according to my doctor, he said it is obvious that I may not survive. I have some funds that my late husband WILLED to me in cash; the sum of $5,900,000.00 United States of American Dollars. I packaged it in consignments and deposited it with a finance house.
After my prayers, I searched site in the internet, I found your email address and I decided to contact you for the usage of the funds in your Ministry. Therefore, child of God, if you are honest and faithful enough to use this fund strictly for the work of God, your response will be highly appreciated.This is my private E-mail address (sarahjude2010@yahoo.co.jp) kindly email me there.
I am interested in TOR. I'm thinking of picking it up next Summer.
I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
MMOs are awful at launch, and I believe launch is going to be around the time of my exams
I'm rather happy with waiting a bit for it :P
the problem with starting an MMO well after launch is that so many people have run through all the content that it's hard to find people willing to poke around with you. they've seen it all so many times all they want to do is speed-runs by that point
I am interested in TOR. I'm thinking of picking it up next Summer.
I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
MMOs are awful at launch, and I believe launch is going to be around the time of my exams
I'm rather happy with waiting a bit for it :P
the problem with starting an MMO well after launch is that so many people have run through all the content that it's hard to find people willing to poke around with you. they've seen it all so many times all they want to do is speed-runs by that point
Seriously. Even when playing with friends who explicity say it's okay for me to take the time to read the quests and enjoy the content, I end up getting rushed around like a lame pig tied to the back of a monster truck.
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So apparently Mafia II was severely gutted to sell DLC and to put the better ideas into GTA 5.
See, this is why I don't fucking buy games anymore and just use gamefly. Shit like this. If I'm going to have to pay an additional $30 on top of every $60 game I'm not buying the $60 game and the devs can just blow me.
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I am interested in TOR. I'm thinking of picking it up next Summer.
I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
Ditto. SpaceWoW here we come!
Man there devs were hella non plussed, especially compared to torchlight and Tera who were right next door, much more friendly and excited.
I meaning fucking firefall just had a live demo they ran every 15 or so minutes (next to the douchebags of dragon age 2, I seriously lost some respect for bioware based on the assholes they had at that booth) and their devs were chatting people up.
Bottomline Bioware needs to teach their people how to do some fucking PR if they are going to show up at fan shows.
I only interacted with one of the Bioware guys at the TOR booth, but he was very friendly, asking about the convention while I was in line and giving me a good introduction to the game before I got started.
the only people that really bother me are people who say "i don't do drugs" and then get schwiggity wasted at bars and look down on people who do other things (like pot)
just because something's legal doesn't mean it's not a drug, and a dangerous one at that
alcohol is way more dangerous and worse for you than pot so don't snub your nose at people who smoke when you go out and get trashed every saturday night you fucking hypocrites
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Will hit the nail on the head with mmos. Even though they are buggy at release it is truly the only way you are going to run through the low level dungeons and get a sense of exploration and not, lets get this done quick I gotta farm it on my 100th alt for blah blah. Going to have a friend at max level help us rape the place.
so i maintain that the alleviation of pain is categorically different than recreational hallucination.
i guess i feel like if someone wants to make a case that recreational drugs are okay, then it should be done on its own merits rather than a comparison to meduical "drugs" as a broad category.
i mean, drawing a corellary to alcohol is probably the easiest approach. lots of people drink for fun, but few people take advil for fun.
Okay, that first statement is fair. I'll agree with that.
Your second statement implies that I'm making this argument in order to piggyback recreational drug use upon the legitimacy of medical drug use. I'm not. If anything, it's based on a more transhumanist notion that we currently have the medical technology to make ourselves "better than normal." You look at some of the things we treat with medical technology - say, acne through Accutane, or mild depression through SSRIs - and it calls into question why we consider a certain physical state "normal."
We talked a little bit about infections. Whether or not we tolerate an infection depends largely on how it makes us feel. Almost all of us have candida, staphylococcus, heliobacter, dust mite, and an uncountable number of other infections living on or inside our bodies at all times. This is why immune system impairments are so dangerous. Some of these infections are going to have minor, subclinical effects at any given time. Get an upside stomach when you're stressed out? Hi, heliobacter. Have an itchy, flaky scalp? Oh hey thar candida. Ever have an asthma attack? Might be (probably is) aggravated by dust mites.
Whether or not a physical condition is caused by infection is interesting etiologically but does not inherently define whether or not it is a medical condition.
Nobody lives up to their physical ideal. Not a single person. Some very healthy people come close. When people are below a certain baseline, they're considered to have a medical condition; when they're above that baseline we consider them particularly healthy. But that baseline itself is kind of a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing defined by a negotiation between the individual and his culture.
Right, I agree with this.
Funny how this was roughly what I was taught in sociology a year ago.
So apparently Mafia II was severely gutted to sell DLC and to put the better ideas into GTA 5.
See, this is why I don't fucking buy games anymore and just use gamefly. Shit like this. If I'm going to have to pay an additional $30 on top of every $60 game I'm not buying the $60 game and the devs can just blow me.
I don't want to get into the "used games thread" nonsense, but hell, unless you are talking about indie games, devs are way, WAY down the line in terms of who makes money off of a game purchase. You probably mean "producers?"
So apparently Mafia II was severely gutted to sell DLC and to put the better ideas into GTA 5.
See, this is why I don't fucking buy games anymore and just use gamefly. Shit like this. If I'm going to have to pay an additional $30 on top of every $60 game I'm not buying the $60 game and the devs can just blow me.
In fairness it's not the dev's fault. It's the publishers that push through the idea of DLC.
I am interested in TOR. I'm thinking of picking it up next Summer.
I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
MMOs are awful at launch, and I believe launch is going to be around the time of my exams
I'm rather happy with waiting a bit for it :P
the problem with starting an MMO well after launch is that so many people have run through all the content that it's hard to find people willing to poke around with you. they've seen it all so many times all they want to do is speed-runs by that point
Seriously. Even when playing with friends who explicity say it's okay for me to take the time to read the quests and enjoy the content, I end up getting rushed around like a lame pig tied to the back of a monster truck.
so i maintain that the alleviation of pain is categorically different than recreational hallucination.
i guess i feel like if someone wants to make a case that recreational drugs are okay, then it should be done on its own merits rather than a comparison to meduical "drugs" as a broad category.
i mean, drawing a corellary to alcohol is probably the easiest approach. lots of people drink for fun, but few people take advil for fun.
What about, like, Oxycontin?
"if it's okay for someone in extreme pain then it's also okay for me to take for fun" is not a reasonable position.
generally speaking, acceptable drug use is seen as a physical pallative. i guess if you were to break it down further, people tend to regard it as a necessary evil, made necessary by extreme pain.
without the counterbalance of "curing a medical condition" or "alleviating pain", the drug use is seen as gratuitious and morally suspect. i don't see it as morally incoherent to be anti- recreational drug use.
I didn't know what argument you were making. I just thought you were saying "no one takes painkillers for fun" and thought, I'm p sure that's how my cousin ruined his life and ended up in rehab.
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So apparently Mafia II was severely gutted to sell DLC and to put the better ideas into GTA 5.
See, this is why I don't fucking buy games anymore and just use gamefly. Shit like this. If I'm going to have to pay an additional $30 on top of every $60 game I'm not buying the $60 game and the devs can just blow me.
I don't want to get into the "used games thread" nonsense, but hell, unless you are talking about indie games, devs are way, WAY down the line in terms of who makes money off of a game purchase. You probably mean "producers?"
I mean anyone that bitches about me using gamefly when this is the final product that gets released. Generally yes, I mean producers, but sometimes the devs need to kiss my ass too.
edit: and by that I mean the small handful of devs that take it upon themselves to do that version of the "piracy kills the little guys" statements that they used to do with the set designers and stuntmen before a movie came on.
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I enjoyed the demo at PAX. I intend to play at launch.
Yours in his vineyard
Ditto. SpaceWoW here we come!
However, this means I sit at my desk all day and during lunch I get bothered to do all the shit while they're gone.
NO MORE, NO FUCKING MORE!
Phone is on "do not disturb" and if someone comes by I'm going to pretend to be stepping out.
I just had to get up and fix a bitches computer because she opened an e-mail from an employee she hasn't worked with in seven years that said "here's that file you requested" and linked, not attached, but linked to a .pdf(.scr) file from like "sharedfolders.com/superlinks" or some shit.
GODDAMIT!
MMOs are awful at launch, and I believe launch is going to be around the time of my exams
I'm rather happy with waiting a bit for it :P
<sigh>
So apparently Mafia II was severely gutted to sell DLC and to put the better ideas into GTA 5.
OOH BABY
GONNA GET
TO YA GIIIIIIIRL
And then an elven minstrel and a human burglar.
Mori I think you might just want to get me a subscription from the get-go. I'm getting fairly excited myself.
"if it's okay for someone in extreme pain then it's also okay for me to take for fun" is not a reasonable position.
generally speaking, acceptable drug use is seen as a physical pallative. i guess if you were to break it down further, people tend to regard it as a necessary evil, made necessary by extreme pain.
without the counterbalance of "curing a medical condition" or "alleviating pain", the drug use is seen as gratuitious and morally suspect. i don't see it as morally incoherent to be anti- recreational drug use.
Man there devs were hella non plussed, especially compared to torchlight and Tera who were right next door, much more friendly and excited.
I meaning fucking firefall just had a live demo they ran every 15 or so minutes (next to the douchebags of dragon age 2, I seriously lost some respect for bioware based on the assholes they had at that booth) and their devs were chatting people up.
Bottomline Bioware needs to teach their people how to do some fucking PR if they are going to show up at fan shows.
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Okay, that first statement is fair. I'll agree with that.
Your second statement implies that I'm making this argument in order to piggyback recreational drug use upon the legitimacy of medical drug use. I'm not. If anything, it's based on a more transhumanist notion that we currently have the medical technology to make ourselves "better than normal." You look at some of the things we treat with medical technology - say, acne through Accutane, or mild depression through SSRIs - and it calls into question why we consider a certain physical state "normal."
We talked a little bit about infections. Whether or not we tolerate an infection depends largely on how it makes us feel. Almost all of us have candida, staphylococcus, heliobacter, dust mite, and an uncountable number of other infections living on or inside our bodies at all times. This is why immune system impairments are so dangerous. Some of these infections are going to have minor, subclinical effects at any given time. Get an upside stomach when you're stressed out? Hi, heliobacter. Have an itchy, flaky scalp? Oh hey thar candida. Ever have an asthma attack? Might be (probably is) aggravated by dust mites.
Whether or not a physical condition is caused by infection is interesting etiologically but does not inherently define whether or not it is a medical condition.
Nobody lives up to their physical ideal. Not a single person. Some very healthy people come close. When people are below a certain baseline, they're considered to have a medical condition; when they're above that baseline we consider them particularly healthy. But that baseline itself is kind of a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing defined by a negotiation between the individual and his culture.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Michael Angelo baby!
Uh, .33 liters is roughly 12 ounces so I think? 10 would be 120 ounces of beer. Unless someone is drinking that over a period of 6-7 hours most people are going to be intoxicated.
Nice
I only interacted with one of the Bioware guys at the TOR booth, but he was very friendly, asking about the convention while I was in line and giving me a good introduction to the game before I got started.
I hope Turbine has some way to "gift" subscriptions.
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the problem with starting an MMO well after launch is that so many people have run through all the content that it's hard to find people willing to poke around with you. they've seen it all so many times all they want to do is speed-runs by that point
Between Star Wars tattoos and ear gauging, I don't know what I find more unappealing.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Ooor I could just set up an account, give you the info, and let you fix it from there.
Seriously. Even when playing with friends who explicity say it's okay for me to take the time to read the quests and enjoy the content, I end up getting rushed around like a lame pig tied to the back of a monster truck.
See, this is why I don't fucking buy games anymore and just use gamefly. Shit like this. If I'm going to have to pay an additional $30 on top of every $60 game I'm not buying the $60 game and the devs can just blow me.
what is TOR?
just because something's legal doesn't mean it's not a drug, and a dangerous one at that
alcohol is way more dangerous and worse for you than pot so don't snub your nose at people who smoke when you go out and get trashed every saturday night you fucking hypocrites
later, [chat]
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Right, I agree with this.
Funny how this was roughly what I was taught in sociology a year ago.
I don't want to get into the "used games thread" nonsense, but hell, unless you are talking about indie games, devs are way, WAY down the line in terms of who makes money off of a game purchase. You probably mean "producers?"
In fairness it's not the dev's fault. It's the publishers that push through the idea of DLC.
I wouldn't!
Flowers flowers flowers!
Okay, but we're both sticking to the 500 Turbine Points allowance and whatever we earn from the game.
I didn't know what argument you were making. I just thought you were saying "no one takes painkillers for fun" and thought, I'm p sure that's how my cousin ruined his life and ended up in rehab.
I mean anyone that bitches about me using gamefly when this is the final product that gets released. Generally yes, I mean producers, but sometimes the devs need to kiss my ass too.
edit: and by that I mean the small handful of devs that take it upon themselves to do that version of the "piracy kills the little guys" statements that they used to do with the set designers and stuntmen before a movie came on.