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No, it isn't reasonable at all. And there's nothing more you can say about the subject that would at all enlighten me about why it's so easy for you to so marginalize and stereotype about half the world's population so flippantly.
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Quote:LOL, fine. Let's say it's all the masters of the hard sciences that suddenly disappear. All of the doctors, physicists and engineers who perform all the research, run all the experiments, and create the designs. That will still leave you with the people who know how to maintain all systems that are already in place, but who would not necessarily know how to improve on them or create new ones....Doesn't it depend on what your definition of "smart" person is?
Are we just losing scientists, physicians, engineers or are we also losing mechanics, electricians, carpenters, cement masons, and plumbers?
Are you talking "Life After Smart People" or "Planet of the Liberal Arts Majors"?
...until they also disappear!!!
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Quote:To this day, my old blaster still has 3x Nucleolus Exposures and 3x Centriole Exposures, all at 50++. I only wish they were all level 53.Oddly enough though, sniper attack IOs have range in them ... because sniper attacks really need that longer range in there.
For a time, I did play with those sniper IO sets, but none of them ever impressed me. I haven't done anything with my blaster with regards to the Incarnate system yet, save for unlocking the Alpha slot almost a year ago. My intention though is to boost damage as much as possible: I really want to be able to 1-shot even con minions again! Haha. -
Quote:Well I remember a time when you just paid for the TV and the DV... I'm sorry, the VCR. Of course the channel selection was tiny compared with cable TV. But my point there is beyond that one-time cost, TV was free!Again, you don't pay for TV by watching commercials, you pay for TV by literally paying for it. The commercials are how the network pays part of the costs, and you are in no way obligated to watch them.
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Quote:I think you just hit on an idea for yet another Discovery Channel series: "Life after smart people".Reinventing technological civilization, even with documentation, always tends to sound easier than it actually is, because so few people are aware of all the tiny details that are critical to making it all work correctly. Real scientists, engineers, and doctors know when the books are misleading or wrong or incomplete. Most people will not, and it will be costly in many ways to discover. Its not that its impossible, its more a question of how many human beings would be left alive by the time we figured it out, and also whether we would all collectively put enough effort into actually doing it. We're not really marshalling humanity's best efforts to combat global climate change even though the potential downstream effects could be catastrophic. Is it automatically true that humanity would marshal its best efforts to preserving, and then reproducing modern technology if they were told all the people who used to do it are now gone and this will have a potentially serious impact at some indetermined future date.
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He's so good at doing that, I say he should run for congress. He'd do incredibly well!
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Quote:I wouldn't be so hard on the retail slaves, myself. They're required to upsale like that to everyone. Those companies hire secret shoppers to pose as actual customers in order to spy on their performance, and if they don't do things like that, they'll get written up. The whole store gets blamed for it and the poor wage slave gets chewed out by their boss just because he or she forgot to say "would you like fries with that?"I do get really wound up when the servers at fast food joints ask me "wpuld you like to go large/a drink/fries/a desert with that?", though. I want to respond with "Are you insinuating that I'm a cretin? Because surely only a moron would come into your esrablishment wanting fries/a drink/a desert/to go large and then FORGET TO ACTUALLY ASK FOR IT?"
But I don't. No point. Sometimes I say something like "I'd like a Bigmac, and only a Bigmac, and I don't want you to offer me anything else at all, ok?" though.
You wanna get mad at anyone, get mad at the guys in the monkey suits who probably live nowhere near you and work at the corporate HQ. They have a marketing department who swears that their research says that upselling to customers increases sales and revenue, and so they command all their little trained minions to say dumb things like that all the time.
EDIT: Or better yet, take your business to an independantly operated local burger place. And I'm not talking about a privately owned franchise, either! You're likely to get a better burger at that local place run by some crotchety old guy who gets annoyed with you if you take too long to make an order, and where the workers have a bit more freedom and don't have to follow a silly set of rules. And the portions will likely be a lot bigger. -- Unless the owner is a tightwad, in which case, go to the other indy burger place! -
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We all think that Nemesis is responsible for directing the Well of the Furies into becoming more active lately, but really, he is behind the whole Praetorian goings on. Somehow, he's responsible for the Praetorian Hamidon getting as strong as it did.
I'm more convinced that it's Professor Echo who is directing the Well. -
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First we need the Coulromancy set for MasterMinds.
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Did you just chastise someone for "getting personal", and then turn right around and do just that to someone else in the exact same post?
EDIT: Oops. I meant to say that this entire thread is dumb. It's just an elf, for crying out loud. My only complaint is that it's badly drawn. -
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Quote:I used to have the Help channel on the same tab as where I kept those LFG type channels (there are several that exist on Virtue, of which some I am a member). Since CoH Freedom though, the Help channel has been given its own special tab! Otherwise, it would totally drown out all those other channels.I just make multiple tabs so I can easily decide what I want to listen to. I don't go back and check the other sets of tabs typically; I switch what frame of mind I am in for how much communication, and exclusively use those tabs on my chat windows for a while.
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I'd 2-star someone like that. Can't tell me what trial he wants to form or even thinks he wants to form, and then says something like that at the end?
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It's kind of like chastising someone who doesn't like walking by asking if they're paraplegic (edit: when you're already certain that they are not!). Whether or not they should be walking more isn't the point. The comparison is in extremely bad taste.
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Quote:I'll bet he goes back and starts editing his older comments in an attempt to make it look like he didn't say things we remember him saying. I'd say for someone to take screencaps, but I actually don't care enough!Yes. Yes you did. If you're going to say you never said things, please be sure there's no proof you said it.
Quote:So you automatically think that because a person says "sometimes I like to solo and that's how it is" that they NEVER team? I team a lot. I really do. I form stuff in Virtue LFG Beta, I hit up Roleplayers LFT, I invite people to run newspapers with me, I join WST runs regularly.
But guess what, doc? I also like to solo. We all do. Sometimes we like to run the game at our own pace, on our own terms, with no need to explain to other people why we're doing what we're doing.
Evidenced by every post you've made in this thread, this is obviously a problem to you. You've gone so far as to make incorrect, rude assumptions about everyone who tells you you're wrong, even questioning their mental stability.
This isn't our problem with teaming, it's your problem with us soloing. Take it elsewhere, kid. You're just embarrassing yourself.