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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    Does SR3rd have a plot, or is it just all sandboxy like GTA where I'm going to be bored from all the poor combat mechanics?

    Cause now I wanna play.

    It is kinda like GTA in a lot of ways, but it's also silly. It is funny and knows it, and the combat is really not bad (it's sort of a standard third person shooter).

    Oh and hey it may or may not let you coop the entire campaign with your sexy queer friends online.

    Just sayin'.

    (I... I think it lets you, anyway >.>)

    MOST IMPORTANTLY THOUGH

    It lets me dress up pretty ladies.

    I may look for this sexy dress-up game.

    I played the game with jeans and a purple hoodie and bandana worn as a headband and never changed, and that was still my favorite part of the game.

    I think I spend as much time in character creation as I do playing any given game.

    Which Bethesda goes and fucks me over with by not giving my character anything to do or say.

    My only complaints are that I want more clothes and that if you pick male the sex appeal slider makes your crotch bulge and female your chest.

    They should have been separate sliders, duh :P
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    My boss rocked a lot of elegant dresses and heels stepping in and out of her assorted sports cars.

    But then sometimes she would wear tattered cargo shorts, striped tights, combat boots, a bra, tactical gloves, and that plated paintball mask because sometimes one needs to teach lessons.

    Let's trade bosses. Holy shit that is awesome.
  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Heh. I have the road to reality.

    Also, not afraid of a bit of maths (OU student. Have done this and currently studying this.)

    May just get the classic ebooks (in fact, I already have, since they're available free) and see what I can get out of them.

    I think I may have noticed it on your bookshelf!

    economics underwent a revolution with Paul Samuelson, who practically invented the whole field as it exists today during the 1950s. It's like comparing physics without linear algebra to physics with it.

    ... which means that mining classic texts for insights can be useful, but not very productive without the modern toolset. At best you re-invent Samuelson. At worst you pick the wrong side of an ancient long-resolved dispute and wander down the merry road toward fringe theory.
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy Registered User regular
    one time i had a zit which was actually 3 zits that merged together

    when i popped it, it exploded all over the mirror
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    one time i had a zit which was actually 3 zits that merged together

    when i popped it, it exploded all over the mirror

    isn't that an unlockable in the tech tree in Heart of the Swarm
  • AtomikaAtomika (citation needed)Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Kalkino wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    London in the summer is great. Beer and musical festivals every weekend of you want it.

    At a festival now with London's craft scene and bluegrass music. Fantastic

    The very idea of bluegrass in London is weird to me. It's such a specific cultural thing to Appalachia.

    You are right, but London appropriates and assimilates culture


    True, but bluegrass music is just Irish music filtered through bad education and shitty bourbon.
    Atomika on
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    My boss rocked a lot of elegant dresses and heels stepping in and out of her assorted sports cars.

    But then sometimes she would wear tattered cargo shorts, striped tights, combat boots, a bra, tactical gloves, and that plated paintball mask because sometimes one needs to teach lessons.

    Let's trade bosses. Holy shit that is awesome.

    now I kind of want to play SR again.

    I had a lot of princess outfits going.

    I also had a lot of cars. Sometimes I would own multiples of the same car so I could have it in black and white depending on mood/attire.

    These things are important.
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    japan wrote: »
    @ronya

    is there a decent primer out there for a person looking to learn about economics?

    There are ebooks of Keynes' General Theory and The Road to Serfdom, and there's always Wealth of Nations but I suspect they may be more along the lines of academically interesting classic works than something for an amateur to plunge into.

    Wealth of Nations is very readable, actually.

    I'm also very fond of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class.
  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    And, yes, Saints Row The Third has something approximating a plot. There are events and things change a little and at the penultimate moment, Holding Out For A Hero starts playing.


    Mostly it's just really fun to drive really fast, dress up, and shoot rocket launchers at pedestrians.
    Tamin on
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    My boss rocked a lot of elegant dresses and heels stepping in and out of her assorted sports cars.

    But then sometimes she would wear tattered cargo shorts, striped tights, combat boots, a bra, tactical gloves, and that plated paintball mask because sometimes one needs to teach lessons.

    Let's trade bosses. Holy shit that is awesome.

    now I kind of want to play SR again.

    I had a lot of princess outfits going.

    I also had a lot of cars. Sometimes I would own multiples of the same car so I could have it in black and white depending on mood/attire.

    These things are important.

    I like your style.

    More games need to be like up to four or eight person coop.

    Atomika and you and I should be able to connect and have the craziest trio of classy people fucking up pimps.
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Heh. I have the road to reality.

    Also, not afraid of a bit of maths (OU student. Have done this and currently studying this.)

    May just get the classic ebooks (in fact, I already have, since they're available free) and see what I can get out of them.

    I think I may have noticed it on your bookshelf!

    economics underwent a revolution with Paul Samuelson, who practically invented the whole field as it exists today during the 1950s. It's like comparing physics without linear algebra to physics with it.

    ... which means that mining classic texts for insights can be useful, but not very productive without the modern toolset. At best you re-invent Samuelson. At worst you pick the wrong side of an ancient long-resolved dispute and wander down the merry road toward fringe theory.

    Hmm. Will bear this in mind.

    I am a terrible subject whore. I flit from interest to interest as and when I get bored and things present themselves for consideration. Economics is obviously in the news a lot so it is the target of a lot of consideration at the moment.

    I have an exam in June and then nothing until my next course starts in October so I'm thinking about what to do in the interim.
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    My boss rocked a lot of elegant dresses and heels stepping in and out of her assorted sports cars.

    But then sometimes she would wear tattered cargo shorts, striped tights, combat boots, a bra, tactical gloves, and that plated paintball mask because sometimes one needs to teach lessons.

    Let's trade bosses. Holy shit that is awesome.

    now I kind of want to play SR again.

    I had a lot of princess outfits going.

    I also had a lot of cars. Sometimes I would own multiples of the same car so I could have it in black and white depending on mood/attire.

    These things are important.

    I like your style.

    More games need to be like up to four or eight person coop.

    Atomika and you and I should be able to connect and have the craziest trio of classy people fucking up pimps.

    SOunds good to me. I never played co-op SR so that sounds like lulz. Actually ... hmm. I need to reinstall. I wonder if I have my old saved game.
  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Registered User regular
    hey core

    you can go ahead and have fun describing what's happening on Therum
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    My boss rocked a lot of elegant dresses and heels stepping in and out of her assorted sports cars.

    But then sometimes she would wear tattered cargo shorts, striped tights, combat boots, a bra, tactical gloves, and that plated paintball mask because sometimes one needs to teach lessons.

    Let's trade bosses. Holy shit that is awesome.

    now I kind of want to play SR again.

    I had a lot of princess outfits going.

    I also had a lot of cars. Sometimes I would own multiples of the same car so I could have it in black and white depending on mood/attire.

    These things are important.

    I like your style.

    More games need to be like up to four or eight person coop.

    Atomika and you and I should be able to connect and have the craziest trio of classy people fucking up pimps.

    SOunds good to me. I never played co-op SR so that sounds like lulz. Actually ... hmm. I need to reinstall. I wonder if I have my old saved game.

    I haven't either, actually. It's only two players, also, I think - I just meant that it should be more (and while we're at it approximately 100% of games should be co-op).

    But yeah I have a friend who has it and I got it partially to co-op with him and never did, but need to because it sounds hella fun. Plus then I can admire my looks more since I have cover and need to spend less time bustin' heads.
  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    @ronya

    is there a decent primer out there for a person looking to learn about economics?

    There are ebooks of Keynes' General Theory and The Road to Serfdom, and there's always Wealth of Nations but I suspect they may be more along the lines of academically interesting classic works than something for an amateur to plunge into.

    Wealth of Nations is very readable, actually.

    I'm also very fond of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class.

    Galbraith's The New Industrial State is wonderful in capturing the 1960s economic policy zeitgeist, and for being accidentally prescient.
  • QuidQuid The Fifth Horseman Registered User regular
    Man Marvel Heroes really is like Diablo.

    Which is to say boooooooooooring.
  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    That 60s OU video was a bit annoying at the start, but it got better toward the end.
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    Bro-op games > all other games
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    @ronya

    is there a decent primer out there for a person looking to learn about economics?

    There are ebooks of Keynes' General Theory and The Road to Serfdom, and there's always Wealth of Nations but I suspect they may be more along the lines of academically interesting classic works than something for an amateur to plunge into.

    Wealth of Nations is very readable, actually.

    I'm also very fond of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class.

    I've noticed that a lot of scholarly works of that era are.

    I think it comes from the fact that many of the people writing them were assuming an audience that was educated, but not necessarily a subject specialist.
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    London in the summer is great. Beer and musical festivals every weekend of you want it.

    At a festival now with London's craft scene and bluegrass music. Fantastic

    The very idea of bluegrass in London is weird to me. It's such a specific cultural thing to Appalachia.

    You are right, but London appropriates and assimilates culture


    True, but bluegrass music is just Irish music filtered through bad education and shitty bourbon.

    What the heck is Irish music then?
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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    That 60s OU video was a bit annoying at the start, but it got better toward the end.

    The one Atomika posted?

    I think that's current. I'm fairly sure the narrator is David Mitchell.
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    So wait open beta Neverwinter characters are just going to carry through?

    Hrm. Maybe I should have been more patient in creating my dude.
  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    i went to brunch at Talde (the Dale from top chef's place)

    one thing they had was breakfast ramen

    tumblr_midqe4zuUl1qao5wpo1_500.jpg

    i googled and found the recipe for the broth:
    Cooking Directions
    Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
    Melt butter in a saucepan.
    Spread bread slices on a baking sheet; it’s OK if they touch. Pour melted butter evenly over the bread.
    Place bread in oven and toast until golden brown.
    Place toasted bread in a pot, pour excess butter into the pot as well.
    Cover contents with chicken stock and bring to a simmer. Allow bread to break down.
    Meanwhile, cook bacon in pan to preferred doneness.
    Cook eggs for six minutes in boiling water.
    Reserve eggs and bacon.
    Pour chicken stock and bread mixture into a blender, and mix until smooth.
    Pass mixture through strainer.
    Serve resulting broth with ramen noodles, bacon and egg.

    good god
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    That 60s OU video was a bit annoying at the start, but it got better toward the end.

    The one Atomika posted?

    I think that's current. I'm fairly sure the narrator is David Mitchell.

    the mentions of hayek and friedman and keynes did not accurately capture any of them! :nerdrage:
  • QuidQuid The Fifth Horseman Registered User regular
    Since Marvel Heroes fell through I guess there's only one thing to do.

    Drink brandy and watch DBZ Abridged.
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Heard about this on conservative radio:Registered User regular
    Ah, I love mowing the grass on a sunny day. All the little birds fly down from the trees and hop around on the lawn where I've already mowed, looking for worms. They're not scared of the lawnmower at all.
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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    i also ate shrimp toast with fried egg and chinese sausage gravy

    and lobster baos with chili butter

    and a really good bloody mary with ginger
    | Steam & XBL: Shazkar |
  • spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User regular
    I haven't watched the Office since the episode with the farm. Should I bother watching from that point, or just say fuck it and never watch again?


    "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing." -- Andrew Jackson
    SKFM annoys me the most on this board.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    Bro-op games > all other games

    I played through the entirety of Tales of Symphonia with a friend of mine and most of Tales of the Abyss, and a lot of FFVI with another.

    I will turn anything that lets you have two inputs into a coop game.

    Also I fucking love Tales games and need to find a girlfriend or roommate or someone that does too and we'll play through them cooping all the battles and do amazing synergy attacks and it'll be amazing

    ALSO IT LITERALLY JUST OCCURRED TO ME that that thing I want to do to the ends of my hair, with white and red?

    Totally didn't come up with it, got it from Tales of Graces' quirky genius inventor science girl, Pascal:
    Nj9vuSSGI1je7511rvuaiM5TZMjq9256.jpg

    My point is I like coop games.

    I... think.
  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    keynes did not think that the market merely took a long time to equilibrate. he did not think it equilibrated at all! This is a crucial issue in whether, e.g., partial steps toward market adjustment would help.
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Heard about this on conservative radio:Registered User regular
    I haven't watched the Office since the episode with the farm. Should I bother watching from that point, or just say fuck it and never watch again?

    Keep watching until Steve Carrel leaves the show.
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  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    Since Marvel Heroes fell through I guess there's only one thing to do.

    Drink brandy and watch DBZ Abridged.

    Neverwinter you nerd.
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  • QuidQuid The Fifth Horseman Registered User regular
    Co op games are awesome.

    Marvel Heroes is just a boring co op game.
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    That 60s OU video was a bit annoying at the start, but it got better toward the end.

    The one Atomika posted?

    I think that's current. I'm fairly sure the narrator is David Mitchell.

    the mentions of hayek and friedman and keynes did not accurately capture any of them! :nerdrage:

    That is a common gripe about OU marketing materials. The idea is to basically go "Hey! Isn't this interesting?" in the hopes people will sign up for courses on that basis.

    And they do.
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Heard about this on conservative radio:Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    My point is I like coop games.

    I... think.

    Play Terraria with me this weekend.
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    @ronya

    is there a decent primer out there for a person looking to learn about economics?

    There are ebooks of Keynes' General Theory and The Road to Serfdom, and there's always Wealth of Nations but I suspect they may be more along the lines of academically interesting classic works than something for an amateur to plunge into.

    Wealth of Nations is very readable, actually.

    I'm also very fond of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class.

    I've noticed that a lot of scholarly works of that era are.

    I think it comes from the fact that many of the people writing them were assuming an audience that was educated, but not necessarily a subject specialist.

    cosma shalizi observed that krugman's pop econ writings have a generic flavour of just smacking stupid theories with five-minute look at data. Over and over again.

    the sophistication that audiences expect has rather declined, perhaps.
  • AtomikaAtomika (citation needed)Registered User regular
    Which ever season it is where Jim and Karen are dating, when it ends, that's where you should stop watching.
  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    keynes did not think that the market merely took a long time to equilibrate. he did not think it equilibrated at all! This is a crucial issue in whether, e.g., partial steps toward market adjustment would help.

    And then Friedman went balls crazy the other way.

    But also introduced falsifiable hypothesis as the basis. Which is good. But then he also screwed up by saying do the falsifiable hypothesis just don't look at the man behind the curtain aka the assumptions. Because those shouldn't be held to the same standard if the hypothesis part works.

    And then North came along and said fuck that your assumptions must hold up to both modern and historical scrutiny.

    I like North.
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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    My point is I like coop games.

    I... think.

    Play Terraria with me this weekend.

    I might be busy, but if I'm not, sure. <3 Terraria
  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Krugman's scholarly work is actually interesting to read.

    I find his NYT columns more intellectual masturbation about how awesome he is.
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