the thing about simcity is that, as with diablo 3, the title easily met sales forecasts. so the executive team are not likely to push hard for a rejigger. it's gotta be the creative direction
Characterizing an adult child with CP as a special needs child is at worst an exaggeration. Its fairly likely a person with CP actually was in special needs classes, so its probably not even really that. Munchhausen-by-proxy involves inducing a medical condition (or death) and/or seeking medical treatment for a non-existent condition. It often involves killing your children. Its pretty unfair to make that comparison regardless of whether she's a weirdo or trashy or whatever.
I heard this on the radio this morning. Great story
Best part, IMO:
"Farquhar is now 81 years old. He's been called the master of getting to places. His genius is inventing esoteric flight plans that take advantage of gravitational boosts from the moon and close flybys of Earth to send space probes zipping around the solar system in surprising ways. He's so adept at calculating these exotic trajectories that often, just for fun, he's made sure that key mission events fall on birthdays or anniversaries."
xkcd did a comic on this a few weeks ago. It was pretty great. http://xkcd.com/1337/
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Characterizing an adult child with CP as a special needs child is at worst an exaggeration. Its fairly likely a person with CP actually was in special needs classes, so its probably not even really that. Munchhausen-by-proxy involves inducing a medical condition (or death) and/or seeking medical treatment for a non-existent condition. It often involves killing your children. Its pretty unfair to make that comparison regardless of whether she's a weirdo or trashy or whatever.
Munchhausen's isn't explicitly harming a child; it can be the exaggeration of an existing condition for the same purpose.
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Haha, reading the Shadowrun wiki, I discovered that in that universe, Charles became king of England in 2009.
Remember that post about the horrible spreadsheet rules, verifying each and every use of one? I can one-up that now.
They have opted to apply the 'prove all calculations are performed correctly' SOP rules to our software as well, including our commercial statistics package: Minitab. In short, before we can use Minitab for any GMP purposes, we have to prove that it generates the correct outputs. For everything. In all contexts. For all inputs. (The problem's obvious, right?)
Yep... the CSV group has informed us that we cannot use Minitab for any official purposes until it is proven that the software's outputs match a hand-calculated verification study for each and every possible numerical combination. This is impossible, as those are (no duh) literally infinite.
We have no functioning statistical package now, and our control-charting / production history group has slammed on the brakes and ceased all work as they can no longer do their jobs. I cannot use any advanced statistics in any report now unless it's something I can do in excel (using those same shitty old rules I posted about for spreadsheet verification each and every time).
I am in Hell.
Who verified excel is always correct?
For excel apparently they just required a sampling of the formulas to make sure it was correct a few dozen times.
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I assume that the eventual goal is to link The Sims and SimCity into a unified game where you can play the Sims in the town you built, and so forth.
This seemed like the plan when sims 3 hit. Now almost seems like they wanted to make second life, but in a walled garden where you paid cash for everything with them at least as a middleman. And you dont need player cities for that. I'm surprized simcity hit at all. They could be selling a ton of little cosmetic customization for .50 each and just churn them out, but instead they focus on mechanic changing 3 buildings for 15$ a pop.
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heroes of the storm will be at pax east yaaay
not that I ever tried to hide it but my blizzfanboyism is gonna be disgusting when I start playing their moba after officially Not Liking Mobas for years.
Oh, hey. Sim City: The Version You Actually Wanted comes out today.
oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?
Banished?
I am intrigued by banished! Have you played it? Do you like it?
Yeah its fun. You'll kill everyone a time or two if you go in cold or with only the tutorial (which is a funner way to do it). I wouldn't say it has a great late game (my biggest settlement is like 250 ppl so it might after that) but its a fun balancing act
Once when I was a kid I was invited to stay over for dinner at a friend's house. My friend's mother poured a large quantity of ketchup into a cereal bowl, which the entire family all casually dipped their fingers into and licked throughout the meal.
not that I ever tried to hide it but my blizzfanboyism is gonna be disgusting when I start playing their moba after officially Not Liking Mobas for years.
now I'll never be President.
My report thus far is that it's kinda fun -- the objectives are interesting, there are some dumb quirks that will almost certainly be fixed by the time it goes live like it not letting you rejoin games if the client crashes. My only real problem with the overall gameplay is that currently there's no way to tell what map you're going to be playing on and some people are good on certain maps and not on others.
not that I ever tried to hide it but my blizzfanboyism is gonna be disgusting when I start playing their moba after officially Not Liking Mobas for years.
now I'll never be President.
I thought you were all about LoL. Maybe I've made you and eddy into one person in my head. How is your boyfriend?
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not that I ever tried to hide it but my blizzfanboyism is gonna be disgusting when I start playing their moba after officially Not Liking Mobas for years.
I was invited over to a friend's house for dinner for the first time. Now, for staging purposes, they all sit around the living room to eat as a family. They have these two large dogs. So, I ask beforehand, as I always do, what the rules are with the dogs and food.
Am I supposed to ignore begging? Can I give them a bite? What kind of stuff can I feed them? Do they have to do a trick to get some?
They tell me that not only can I feed them whatever I want, but that all the plates are given to the dogs after the meal and that the dogs would hassle you if you took the plate straight to the kitchen.
So, I finish my meal. Which was decent... And I lay my plate down for the dogs. They clean it up quite nicely. I pick it up to take to the kitchen and I ask if it goes in the sink or the dishwasher. They said to put it back in the cabinet because the dogs clean it good enough to eat off of. I laughed at the joke and then kinda reiterated my question.
IT WASN'T A JOKE!
My friend walked in to the kitchen and put her plate, her boyfriend's plate, and her mom and dad's plate all in the cabinet with the other "clean" dishes. I could have been sick. I dropped all contact with them. That was just too much.
Tl;dr: Their dishwashing was done exclusively by the dogs.
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I was invited over to a friend's house for dinner for the first time. Now, for staging purposes, they all sit around the living room to eat as a family. They have these two large dogs. So, I ask beforehand, as I always do, what the rules are with the dogs and food.
Am I supposed to ignore begging? Can I give them a bite? What kind of stuff can I feed them? Do they have to do a trick to get some?
They tell me that not only can I feed them whatever I want, but that all the plates are given to the dogs after the meal and that the dogs would hassle you if you took the plate straight to the kitchen.
So, I finish my meal. Which was decent... And I lay my plate down for the dogs. They clean it up quite nicely. I pick it up to take to the kitchen and I ask if it goes in the sink or the dishwasher. They said to put it back in the cabinet because the dogs clean it good enough to eat off of. I laughed at the joke and then kinda reiterated my question.
IT WASN'T A JOKE!
My friend walked in to the kitchen and put her plate, her boyfriend's plate, and her mom and dad's plate all in the cabinet with the other "clean" dishes. I could have been sick. I dropped all contact with them. That was just too much.
Tl;dr: Their dishwashing was done exclusively by the dogs.
where is this from?
Im assuming this is a bullshit "That Happened" story for the sake of my sanity.
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Munchhausen is really nasty. I'm cool calling mountain dew lady worthless trash, but calling her child murder-ish is p unfair is all.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Banished?
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
xkcd did a comic on this a few weeks ago. It was pretty great.
http://xkcd.com/1337/
75% of my friends are close to or over 40
Munchhausen's isn't explicitly harming a child; it can be the exaggeration of an existing condition for the same purpose.
He should be so lucky!
and that's me finished for the day. so hearthstone and sc2 and watching heroes of the swarm and maybe I'll finally finish skagboys.
I need more DINK friends.
The ones I've had have started squirting out crotch droppings like cray.
hang out with me @podly
For excel apparently they just required a sampling of the formulas to make sure it was correct a few dozen times.
While sending your sim-children to college and running your own sim-business no doubt.
Have your sim pissed off over the parking situation you created.
I am intrigued by banished! Have you played it? Do you like it?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This seemed like the plan when sims 3 hit. Now almost seems like they wanted to make second life, but in a walled garden where you paid cash for everything with them at least as a middleman. And you dont need player cities for that. I'm surprized simcity hit at all. They could be selling a ton of little cosmetic customization for .50 each and just churn them out, but instead they focus on mechanic changing 3 buildings for 15$ a pop.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Goddamn.
lez hang dis weekend
but i am 12 and what is this
not that I ever tried to hide it but my blizzfanboyism is gonna be disgusting when I start playing their moba after officially Not Liking Mobas for years.
now I'll never be President.
Yeah its fun. You'll kill everyone a time or two if you go in cold or with only the tutorial (which is a funner way to do it). I wouldn't say it has a great late game (my biggest settlement is like 250 ppl so it might after that) but its a fun balancing act
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
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if i had proper major label backing, i would totally write a song called "u dont know my story" for some celebrity's kid
that's fucking gold right there
I've put probably 30ish hours into it and it's pretty fun. I'll be curious to see if some good overhaul mods spring up.
My report thus far is that it's kinda fun -- the objectives are interesting, there are some dumb quirks that will almost certainly be fixed by the time it goes live like it not letting you rejoin games if the client crashes. My only real problem with the overall gameplay is that currently there's no way to tell what map you're going to be playing on and some people are good on certain maps and not on others.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
diablo 3's auction house has officially closed
I thought you were all about LoL. Maybe I've made you and eddy into one person in my head. How is your boyfriend?
bitcoin, you're on notice
Aren't there going to be lines to play it?
if they recompile it for xbone i will buy it in a second
where is this from?
Im assuming this is a bullshit "That Happened" story for the sake of my sanity.