Soul of Wit

1. Every member of every profession is capable of performing every task that someone else in that same profession is capable of performing. 2. The only way to balance a budget is to eliminate (or come close to eliminating) a single category of spending that will have this result. Ignored are possibilities like eliminating several things, or cutting several things, or cutting some things and raising taxes, or ... Inflow - Outflow = Surplus (Deficit) 3. A government can be (or should be) run like a business. Accounting principles point out how ludicrous this idea is. 4. One's top priority, during an economic crisis, should be eliminating a deficit (as opposed to: keeping people employed, keeping people housed, incarcerating the felons responsible for the economic crisis, etc.) 5. One's top priority, during an economic crisis, should be unseating the leader of the opposing political party (as opposed to...)

Originally Posted By: bot.net MMXPERT, that post doesn't add anything to the thread. Please don't post if you aren't contributing to discussion. —Alorael, who particularly has a hard time with posts that involve zero words in the English language. Borked is in my dictionary: bork |bôrk| (also Bork) verb [ trans. ] informal obstruct (someone, esp. a candidate for public office) through systematic defamation or vilification : [as n. ] ( borking) is fear of borking scaring people from public office? ORIGIN 1980s: from the name of Robert Bork (born 1927), an American judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court (1987) was rejected following unfavorable publicity for his allegedly extreme views.

Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Soul of Wit There are plenty of people within 1,000 miles of Chicagoland who do not reside within the Central Time Zone. Of the Midwest states, most of Michigan and Indiana (and all of Ohio) do not share a time zone. Many of these tens of millions of people fail to suck. Fewer still frequent these forums. False. If someone lived within 1,000 miles of Chicago and did not suck, they would move to Chicago. Since they have not moved, we can only assume the null hypothesis. QED. False. I exist and would rather visit than live there. My non-suckiness is self-evident. It's all relative. To the bicoastal set, Chicago is just another flyover dot.

Originally Posted By: The Mystic ... And back in the day, my aunt and uncle used to let me play games on their Commodore 64; they probably still have it in their basement. I was especially fond of a game called "BC's Quest for Tires." I thought it was the neatest thing ever, until I saw Windows 3.1 for the first time. There was this thing called a Mac. It first appeared almost a decade before Windows 3.1. It was pretty neat, too.

Originally Posted By: Dantius ... "central" time is actually a quarter of the way around the earth from the Prime Meridian. I mean, both are arbitrary designations, so why not just move one to match the other? It would make way more sense that way. Time zones were the invention of a Canadian railroad man, so Central makes sense in that context.

Originally Posted By: Dantius I am disappointed by the fact that more people going to Spiderweb hail from Oceania than the Midwest. Clearly, this is more proof that the everything within a thousand miles of Chicago that isn't Chicago just sucks. There are plenty of people within 1,000 miles of Chicagoland who do not reside within the Central Time Zone. Of the Midwest states, most of Michigan and Indiana (and all of Ohio) do not share a time zone. Many of these tens of millions of people fail to suck. Fewer still frequent these forums.

What's all this about millstones? On topic:

http://basicinstructions.net/ That is all.

Why don't image tags work? I'm really far too lazy to figure out an alternative on a Sunday.

Originally Posted By: dave s I filled up all the quests except areana fangs and magical notes without buying anything Those two quests have no limit on redemption. I suppose there are a finite number of magical notes, but you can keep finding Aranea that will respawn.

I can confirm that Mentta is always there.

Originally Posted By: Dispatches from the Back 1. No, but all scientific work is carried out in SI units, and all non-metric units are now defined in terms of SI units. 2. While they don't use standard base-10 prefixes, the minute, hour, and day are officially accepted SI units. They're whole number multiples, and everyone's far more familiar with those than with kiloseconds, so it works out. —Alorael, who can't tell you what's in a mole. He can only tell you that there's a lot of it. Alternately, the usual mammalian viscera, probably including what it recently ate. I want a kilosecond clock, I tell you. And none of this either. As for what's in a mole, everybody knows that it's this.

Be careful driving. You never know when Toivo will pull out.

Two thoughts on numbers: 1. The US has not officially adopted SI (the metric system.) 2. Time is generally not measured using SI. The second has been standardized, but there's not a whole lot of kiloseconds being referenced (outside the field of astrophysics.)

Originally Posted By: Lilith ... Even if it could be shown to work, is systematically lying to people an ethical or sustainable thing to do? This could have been lifted from one of the political discussions in this forum. In general, lying is sustainable, if far from ethical. The bigger the lie, the easier it is to sustain.

Calvinball: Create your own tutorial.

I think this is an exercise in semantics. I'm using retro to define a more recent vintage of games. Now, classic games--those had no tutorial.

Has anyone considered that male and female brains are simply not wired the same way? I'm not limiting this just to the ability to think like a <your favorite career here>. I'm also looking at communication among peers. Oral communication shows a pronounced difference between the sexes. Women tend to use less nouns and to rely more upon earlier conversation to get a point across. Men tend to be more explicit and to repeat nouns to get a point across. This has obvious ramifications in social interaction. Women perceive men as not listening. Men perceive women as being illogical. The reality, in my opinion, is that men listen as well as women and that women are as logical as men. The difference is in speech patterns.

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S How is a forced tutorial retro? It is retro in the sense that modern games often make the tutorial a preference. The default is to run the tutorial. Uncheck the box and no tutorial.

I've always seen the forced tutorial as a part of the retro appeal of Jeff's games.

How can you not like Biden? Always entertaining and usually accurate.

Originally Posted By: Beer and Motor Oil Your daughter is a "Pegasister", not a Brony The web filter is called Ponify. I also use it. She considers herself a Brony. This is true for many teen/adult, female fans. http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Brony Ponify would be quite annoying for a primary web browser. Try reading any article with a high percentage of "ponifiable" terms and you'll go nuts.

Originally Posted By: kafkaesque / kafkan I'm not one to pass judgment, but you have failed as a parent. Just kidding, because I am jealous I don't understand the appeal of My Little Ponies. I stopped worrying about my skills the day I first saw my daughter playing a Spiderweb game.

Upon quizzing my daughter, an actual brony, I have to ask: Why no choice of Dr. Whooves? http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Whooves http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Brony My daughter has a filter applied to one of her web browsers. It alters words to brony speak. A popular movie is transformed into The Filly with the Dragon Cutie Mark.

A representative sample of 20, with system where first played. Lots of retro and pinball sims. Exile III (Mac) Escape Velocity (Mac—space classic from Ambrosia) Marathon (Mac—out-doomed Doom) Beyond Zork (Mac—a text adventure is still a PC game, correct?) Crystal Caliburn (Mac—pinball) Pro Pinball: Timeshock (Mac—pinball) Devil's Crush (TurboGrafx/PCE—pinball) Virtual Pinball (PC—many pinball games) Pinball Arcade (iOS—many pinball games) Super Breakout (dedicated Atari console) Enduro (Atari 2600—a racer, one of Activision's many gems for the system) Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) Miner 2049er (Atari 5200—platformer) Montezuma's Revenge (Atari 5200—platformer) Space Dungeon (Atari 5200—a two-stick shooter/maze escape) Bonk's Revenge (TurboGrafx/PCE—sequel to the TG-16 flagship platformer) Alpha Centauri (Mac—the best of the Civ series) Diablo II (Mac—supported for an amazing length of time by Blizzard) Plants vs. Zombies (Mac—guilty pleasure) Canabalt (iOS—low res endless runner)