VCH

No doubt, Homage, no doubt. Any way, lucky you.

 

On a related note, 3D movies really piss me off: 3D adds nothing of value, the glasses are not comfortable and make every scene way darker than it should be.

Does it play current movies or only older ones, because that is amazingly cheap.

Wow, 20.00 a ticket?

My town's small 150 seat theatre charges $9.00 a ticket—$6.00 for matinees. But I know what you mean, tickets are damn expensive at most theatres, especially for 3D movies.

Drakefyre gave me one way back but then I got canned or banned or whatever (by i* ) and that replaced the custom title. Unfortunately, I never got it back afterwards. It used to be Puck Fin.

Goldenking's linked article has this quote: "Police said he had been in the process of withdrawing from his PhD studies at the University of Colorado-Denver."

 

I guess I did make some assumptions about the cause of the event. But then, like I said, many people drop out of their PhD programmes, and a hell of a lot of them have mental issues. Additionally, Goldenking, I understand that high standards are needed to conduct research but there's a difference between that and taking yourself far too seriously. That sort of thing leads to mental breakdowns—when your whole life revolves around some question and the people that should be supporting you are not. We all need some perspective on things at times, obsession may win you gold stars in the science journals but usually not in life: which is more important.

 

(But like you people said, I am speculating on the cause.)

 

And I agree that we should listen to this guy. The people that are dead are dead, what do we gain by not analysing this event.

As a Canadian I like Ron Paul. But Obama is probably less crazy.

Universities really need to take a look at their PhD programs. I mean, supposedly 50% of candidates drop-out and never finish; that is horrible, and universities need to do something about it, whether that be Psyc screenings, which they may already do, or just limiting how anal professors etc get about research. The fact is, your research, your profs, and probably most of the universities, is not that earth shattering, not that important, and more or less just ego-tripping—sorry but that's how it works. We have way too many professors that think their area of research is all that matter in the world, when in reality they could not do it and nobody would notice. I'm not saying research is inherently bad just that the people doing it are sometimes self obsessed narcissists, and that sucks. Everyone: PhD students, profs, whatever needs to get some perspective on the whole higher education thing—get over yourself.

Rural people voted wildly in favor of Nephils (69%/13% vs 27%/57%)

 

 

I wonder, are people from rural areas more likely to have a cat?

The paradigms and theories that are worth anything aren't complicated, at least not if you don't want them to be. Island biogeography, trophic-pyramids, trophic cascades, natural selection, metapopulation theory—all are pretty simple guiding paradigms (of course I'm biased as an ecologists, so maybe geneticists or biochem people have more complex thoughts). In my opinion it's not a question of incorporating as much as you can get away with, as much as it is getting away with incorporating as little as possible and still having the result sync up with real communities and ecosystems. But I agree that a lot is lost in simplifying an idea, however, a lot is gained too, like communication.

Are you guys talking half lockers or full lockers? My high-school had half lockers that were I'd guess 3 feet in height. It was really awkward when someone tried to get to their locker which just so happens to be at about your crotch height.

 

What's worse though is that nothing much fits in a half locker.

Seems to me that many of the best webcomics don't have ads.

Of course there were already people there, Vahnatai I guess.

I don't worry about password security. You want to use my Spidweb account or read my email, go ahead, idk.

 

(And by that I mean if you guess my password, good for you.)

End of the world = Sun going Red Dwarf = Planet gone.

That wouldn't be fair. The BBC wouldn't make a joke poll that had only one option

Minion

 

Your results suggest that Minion type work suits your interests and preferences.

 

Minion types prefer menial labour to anything that requires actual intelligence. They tend to like jobs in which they can work for someone greater than themselves for minimal pay. Typical roles that suit Minion types are helmet polisher, shark tank cleaner, and soldier in the Legions of Terror.

 

Most options sounded boring so I just went with the easiest jobs/roles.

 

We should all do one of those horrible job placement tests that US highs-schools used to, or maybe still do, make students fill out.

 

Just have to find a "good" and free one.

Do I win because I have a 1% extravert score?

 

ESTP

 

Extravert(1%) Sensing(25%) Thinking(38%) Perceiving(33)%

 

You have marginal or no preference of Extraversion over Introversion (1%)

You have moderate preference of Sensing over Intuition (25%)

You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (38%)

You have moderate preference of Perceiving over Judging (33%)

 

NVM: Peach wins that contest.

extra senses are useful

Yeah, don't quit, but perhaps modify what you're doing (number). Stuff takes time and not everyone progresses at the same rate.

What does formal mean for the field of study question?

 

 

I'd be interested in seeing if there is a significant correlation between being in the upper-middle class and having a Mac. Also, the correlation between job status and childhood economic status would be interesting too.

This is exactly why G1 does not have the best story. It was a good game, perhaps the best game overall, but definitely not the best story-wise.

Amazing atmosphere though, like I said earlier.

But construction workers generally aren't doing the exact same movement over and over and over, not in succession any way.

 

(Yes, I know there is a lot of repetition of tasks, but the movements aren't exactly the same every time.)

 

How is E2 non-linear? It seems pretty regimented to me. Aren't there chapters in the game?

 

Also, I wouldn't say that G1 has the best story, but it does have amazing atmosphere. The poll question asked for best game not best story.

 

Edit:

 

Nevermind: I though this thread was about how linearity effects game story, not overall game quality. My mistake.