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Quote:Which is a rediculous sentiment.Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
But I do believe other people feel like they are getting shafted, because yanno thats what they said. -
Quote:Damnit, GG, how many times do we have to tell you that common sense and logic has no place on these forums? What we need is more tinfoil hattery, rampant doomcrying, and sensless frothing.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
But aren't merits and tickets already tied to a single avatar too?
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Quote:Except the "Loyal Players" like us are getting to play around with Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning far sooner then those who pre-order through Gamestop get to.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Your loyal players are the ones that didn't get this preorder. They're the ones that bought this the day or week it came out. So here we are, posting angrily and listening to Family Guy when we should be doing their job filling in Excel sheets. Who's fault is that? It's MINE, I tell you. I LIKE Family Guy and find Seth McFarlene's voice soothing. I don't even mind that it has pervaded my posting so much that it's undermined a very serious and very angry rant.
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That's nothing. Hamidon was listed as one of Bill Cosby's 10 best uses of Jell-O.
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Quote:Those are not Kid's movies. Those are FAMILY movies.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Kids' movies (I am a HUGE fan of kids movies):
- Coraline (and read the book)
- The Last Unicorn (probably my favorite animated movie of all time)
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Quote:Because some of his newer work has been less then stellar. However, he works *really* well in more serious roles, like in Awakenings. But yeah, *WATCH IT*. It's a fantastic movie.Originally Posted by Quasadu
Why would that turn me off? Robin Williams is great!
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Also, if you haven't seen it, you *HAVE* to watch "Awakenings". From Wikipedia:
Quote:Don't let the fact that Robin Williams is the lead turn you off. He pulls an excellent performance here.Awakenings is a 1990 drama film based on Oliver Sacks' 1973 memoir Awakenings. It tells the true story of Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer and played by Robin Williams who, in 1969, discovers beneficial effects of the then-new drug L-Dopa. He administered it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917-1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Leonard Lowe (played by Robert De Niro) and the rest of the patients were awakened after decades of catatonic state and have to deal with a new life in a new time. -
Going with TV series, if you haven't seen them, check out:
The Critic: Focuses on film critic Jay Sherman (Voiced by John Lovitz). As well as making many awesome movie parodies (Many which still hold up today), there's various other subplots, and some *really* great characters, like Jay's super rich and powerfull boss Duke Phillips (Birds seem to really like the sound of his voice).
Exo-Squad: a great cartoon taking place in the future, focusing on an uprising of Neo-Sapiens, genetically created humanoids. Features some really bitchin Mech designs.
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles: A CGI series based on both the original novel and the film adaptation. (Which means both the Power Armor Suits and the "Skinnies" are featured) -
Quote:I've actually seen a few episodes, and I can confirm that it's *HILLARIOUS*. Especially if you've ever worked Tech Support.Originally Posted by Foundsavant
Feeling British? The IT Crowd: Seasons 1-3. Very surprised that I don't read or see more about this show in my general web crawling. Maybe I need to expand my territory, but regardless, an excellent show.
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If you haven't watched them, then do everything you can to watch the anime's Tokyo Godfathers and Millenium Actress.
Tokyo Godfathers focuses on three Homeless people (Gin, a gruff alcoholic, Hana, a gay crossdresser, and Miyuki, a 16 year old runaway) who find an abondoned baby on Christmas Eve. The trio decide to find the baby's parents, and crazy hijinks ensue. It's both hillarious and really, really touching.
Millenium Actress focuses on Genya Tachibana, a director who is making a documentery about the actress Chiyoko Fujiwara. Having reached old age, Chiyoko has withdrawn from the public life. As Chiyoko recounts her life, much of the retelling is interspersed with "clips" from her films. Also, one of the subplots is Chiyoko's quest to reconnect with a subversive dissident artist she ran into as a teenager (And develops a crush on). Much like Tokyo Godfathers, it's both hillarious at times, and incredibly touching. It is also one of the very few movies (Up being another) to make me cry. -
I'd get you a Cake, Mr. Brawler, but those Facist Pig-Dogs have removed Cake from the forums.
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Quote:giggidy!Originally Posted by samuel_tow
the last one i have is 69.
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Quote:...Marry me.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Alrighty then:
Two things:
1. It isn't only public companies that have that mentality. In the IT industry of which I have been a player for more than twenty years, *most* of the service companies I've seen have imploded after large bursts in growth, driven completely internally by the notion that expanding the business for the best possible work environment doesn't have the fatal flaw that all other moments in time won't be that optimal.
2. Conversely, public companies are accountable to shareholders, but usually in one of two ways: they are presumed to either be able to make money of which the shareholders get a cut (through shareholder dividends) or they are presumed to take that money and reinvest it in the company which should make the company more valuable (through shareholder capital gains). Both expectations are reasonable for investors. The problem isn't the push to make money, its the time horizons involved. And actually, it is rarely the rank and file shareholders that are pushing these get rich quick metrics, it is the management and the board which are, for their own personal purposes, usually incentivised purposes (hit this mark, get a bonus). And those people would be just as driven in privately held companies.
In fact, of the three major problems with the financial industry, this is one of them. There are many jobs in the financial industry in which you're allowed to take this gamble:
1. 90% chance everything fine, you win 5 million dollars.
2. 10% chance everything goes to hell, you lose your job.
This is an easy choice for a lot of people. The problem is two fold. First, the downside is far too low compared to the upside. In purely quantitative terms this is a good bet to make.
Second: most intelligent people know that's a lie, and the bet is really this:
1. 90% chance everything fine, you win 5 million dollars.
2. 9.999999% chance everything goes to hell, you lose your job, someone else loses a lot more.
3. 0.000001% chance you destroy a larger section of the planet than you have the authority to.
Supposedly intelligent people** round the last one off to zero and tell themselves that #2 has no innocent victims so they can sleep at night. The round-off error in particular is also one of the two root causes of the last financial system collapse (the other one is one statisticians might call the inverse gambler's fallacy).
** People keep calling the people who caused this problem "highly intelligent people" as if this is a given. This is at least somewhat of a lie: there are only two possibilities: these people were smart and took unacceptable risks deliberately, in which case they were evil, or these people did not understand what they were doing, in which case they were idiots. There's no in-between. It took me only a few minutes of research after the meltdown happened to be able to state mathematically what happened to the CDS market. It shouldn't take intelligent financial wizards very much more time than that. -
Did you know that Capcoms Net Profit was down 73.1% over last years?
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Quote:Because you need to be able to look them in the eyes when they inevitably rise up and kill us all.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Why do robots need to have human-looking faces?
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Quote:And how exactly did adding a feature that people have been requesting since the early days of CoH Beta, that has absolutely no negative impact on your ability to actually play the game, make it a "less than stellar design decision"?Originally Posted by minago
content wise it has been lacking for awhile and let's face it ...less than stellar design decisions that has changed the game for the worse, yeah AE i'm looking at you.
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Quote:The more important question is, Can you [censored] it?Originally Posted by Warkupo
I hadn't really contemplated it until now but...
Why was it deemed that the robots needed to have an aesthetic gender difference?
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Is IS aesthetic, right? -
Quote:Marcian, Marcian, Marcian... Of *COURSE* theres something sinister and diabolical that's motivated the maitenence. I mean, just check out this high school yearbook photo of the guy they hired to maintain the servers:Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
I love how everyone proclaiming something negative and cynical claims to be wearing garments spun of the finest Truth.
When the truth is that they're just oblivious to the irony of their own statements.
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Quote:Personally, I've found that whenever someone disagrees with your views, your always the Vocal Minority.Originally Posted by DKellis
To be fair, the majority of the posts were of appreciation for both the removal of the star system and the humour in the Katamari Damacy reference. It was just one of the more illustrative examples of the concept of the Vocal Minority that I'd seen.
But yeah, that Katamari Damacy reference was *hillarious*. Which is one of the reasons I miss Cuppa. -
Quote:You should have been here when he had the equally idiotic "Star" system.Originally Posted by enrious2
The reputation system is the 2nd dumbest thing I've seen the mods do here on the boards in the last 2 years.
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I'll take the cult of personality.
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Quote:Quite frankly, I don't think the dev's ever used the word "Impossible". Things like "Can't be done with the current system", or "Can't be done without a years worth of work", certainly. But never "Impossible".Originally Posted by DMystic
Don't forget those things that were impossible were when we only had the 15 devs.
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Quote:They said it would take at least a year. Sure enough, when they got the manpower to work on it and still provide other updates, it did indeed take a year.Originally Posted by Steampunkette
They never said "Never" on either of those. In both cases they said "Not without a huge amount of manhours put to the task" At one point some of the Devs commented that Power Customization would take 2 years (give or take) during which no issues would be launched. Eventually they got the manpower needed to hammer both of these items out.
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Quote:Wait, there's NOT?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
There's no special initiation ceremony or entrance exam to pass
...Damnit, Castle told me *EVERYONE* had to go through the initiation spankings! -
Quote:Oh, so your saying that somehow the *BLACK* lies are worse then then *WHITE* lies? Like the White lies are *SUPERIOR*?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I've been brought up to admit mistakes when I make them, and to apologize if they're serious ones, and to avoid telling lies, even little white ones, because they can still lead to big black ones
Racist.