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Horse racing is over too quick. NASCAR goes on for too long.
Back in SA, during the annual horse racing thing, the last race was all naked people. (13th race)
That seemed pretty interesting.
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Charlie Brooker has several other similar shows / short series that are in youtube. Most are quite funny.
and another said muddling
I am watching a British man talk about video games.
Egg whites?
*googles*
Oh God...
Nope.jpg
I will never make one of these.
I will never order one.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
or bullets
Or guns.
Yes.
That's white privilege right there.
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:^: :^: :^: :^: :^: this so much
See, fizzy drinks imo have to be the worst.
Seperating eggs to order is balls.
Muddling though? Man the fuck up, buddy.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
they're straight-up delicious
you owe it to yourself to make it for yourself and your lady at least once.
Good luck on the final!
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
Quarterhorses usually use chariots, but it's the least awesome form of racing... I like thoroughbreds because I like to handicap. I've been thinking of making a thread around here about handicapping, especially for thoroughbreds, as i just got done reading an awesome new book about it, and I also figure if I proffered some of the ones I've read in the past might help some people out/pique some interests.
hmm
the joke is that bros are uncomfortable with gays?
1) fill with steam
2) disable safety valves
I thought it was subliminal advertising to covertly make you vote yes for gay marraige.
Trying this
I thought it was the juxtaposition of ridiculous, over-the-top hetero sexism that gets chalked up to 'boys (and girls) will be boys (and girls)'... with the sincerity of two dudes wanting to get married (which is a thing that a good portion of this country finds deviant and repulsive).
But it could also be your thing.
Then again I put money on Frank Schleck finishing in the places in the 2012 TdF.
That's a good way to reduce what you give away. Pinnacle is an awesome resource for any serious overseas bettor, another thing I'm jealous of, but I heard they're in a bad spot right now. I just read the newest book by James Quinn which was pretty good, and sets out the basics of setting a line in races.. I've given up on any other sport, as it's the handicapping that attracted me to this and not the horses.. The fact I like animals is just kinda a bonus. I mainly decided to try it out seriously once online poker became defunct in the US.
<--- This guy.
(Please adjust the arrow so it continues pointing to me if you quote this post. I deserve it.)
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130503/191429/quotFreequot_is_Getting_Very_Expensive.php
and I just read something that is just perfect. The label "free to play" has become downright Orwellian lately in meaning the exact opposite of the literal words. What games like Neverwinter really are is O4P, "Optimized for Profit".
I think after living in the UK I've come to the point that I would flat put ban gambling.Turns out my liberal views don't mesh well with half a dozen bookies on every high street, who pay little tax
@irond will
i guess that my deal is i'm 100% willing to have the conversation about what's going on, what the problems are, and what we ought to do about them. but i often feel like when i discuss certain issues, the liberal preoccupation with conservative assholes stifles the conversation. like, yeah, i get that welfare queens are- wholesale, at least- just an invention, an insidious little rhetorical tool for dickheads. but i am an actual poor and i know some but it is this whole thing to work that into a conversation or to approach that- what do we do about people like my family? any response i get is a quarter useful and three quarters 'BUT REMEMBER THIS IS MOSTLY JUST REPUBLICANS BEING ASSHOLES'. it's like jesus christ, i get that you're tired of condescending conservative paternalism about poor people- but i'm not a conservative, i'm not a sandbagger. maybe we can at least look at the idea that poor people are fucked up and think about how to approach that, rather than handwringing about the invisible republican in the room who would enjoy that admission a little too much.
It's interesting, but he went completely off the rails by the time he reached War Inc.
Also, anecdotally at least, his comments about premium ammo in WoT doesn't match up to what I hear from the people I know that play competitively.
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- they're not teenagers! Or even students! They meet working as flaggers at a construction site
- the girl isn't some delicate flower with no personal history or desires. She works part time at a small fabrication shop, and she's trying to get a license as a commercial truck driver.
- Neither the guy nor the girl are the prettiest people in the story. They're both just kind of above average-ish.
- They have realistic problems: his widowed mom's not really that nice a person, the girlfriend totally has anger issues, they're both unskilled labor in a shit economy.
- Dude is a bit of a recovering neckbeard, so he's got to resist being overly clingy or an annoying sexmonkey.
- Neither the first kiss or the first time they have sex is a "Congratulations you win at romance!" end point. They have to keep working on the relationship, and that's really what the story's about.
then eat beef stew and crusty bread that aaron made for me
then i will menstrate everywhere
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I've been having a very similar experience to those which you describe with the newly open beta Neverwinter (though I haven't quite worked out what's still Beta about it other than using Beta as a safety net to soft launch and in a few exceptional circumstances excuse otherwise extremely poor support and community management).
Just to outline my point of view; as per recent F2P discussions, as smarter people than myself have pointed out. These games are not F2P, they are "Optimized for Profit" or O4P.
Neverwinter has two tiers of Founders pack, the most expensive costing $199.99 (or more if you're paying from Europe which is not recalculated until actually making the payment... -.-), this pack contains a fancy mount, a fancy title, a fancy companion character amongst over a dozen other items that for the most part diminish the potentially rewarding gameplay experience by instead giving you a rewarding payment experience. And on top of this you also get an extremely healthy injection of their 2nd in game currency (Astral Diamonds) that has it's own in game exchange market into their cash shop currency (ZEN coins) ... this is interesting, as beyond grinding daily quests etc to gain Rough Astral Diamonds (a limited number of which can be refined daily into usable Astral Diamonds) this leaves the normal Copper, Silver, Gold currency for the most part a weakened F2P currency ... this is all weaved together very confusingly by the various ways to exchange or move value between the different currencies...
For example. Nightmare Chests (aka Mystery Boxes that contain 1 of a number of potential items with a decreasing chance of getting one of the rarer items) and the Zen Keys that open them...
As you play you'll "randomly" receive drops of these Chests, many people I've spoken to have along with myself questioned how random these Mystery Box drops actually are as the first drop seems timed and successive drops seem to come at intervals random enough to be different from person to person but consistent enough to provide the player with an incentive to buy Zen every few hours, whilst winners of the Mystery Box jackpot are spammed in the chat and center of your screen every 30 seconds at peak.
... these boxes can be sold for aprox 100 Astral Diamonds, Astral Diamonds are currently valued at aprox 410 Astral Diamonds per 1 Zen, a Key to open a single box can be bought for 125 Zen, which gives a Key the aproximate value of 51250 Astral Diamonds. You can buy 540 Zen for €4.99, which gives us a €1.16 value per Key. You get 2 Million Astral Diamonds ... as stated previously Astral Diamonds exchange to Zen at aproximate 410 AD to 1 Zen, which means 2,000,000 AD = 4878 Zen, which means your seemingly excessive 2 million Astral Diamonds are worth about €45.27 or around $59.34 which seems incredibly low considering most people at first, second and third glance feel this is one of the most valuable benefits of the $700 dollar Founders Pack.
And neither this $700 dollar value pack, and certainly not it's smaller $140 dollar value cousin will do what is necessary to remedy the huge O4P issues such as bank and bag space, or tedious and monotonous travel, unless you spend your advantageous Astral Diamond edge on Mount Training to retrace and retrace your steps faster or buying bags and trading for Zen to buy bank space before the games drop system overloads you with items you'll instinctively want to sell who's Copper, Silver Gold value is actually so negligible that really you should be treating 50%+ of the games loot as trash drops to conserve what little space you have.
When it comes to how valuable these packs are in terms of gameplay experience, my own honest truth is that a €19.99 Zen purchase to buy one bag and one bank upgrade to remove the most obnoxious O4P issues has more "Gamer Value" than a $700 founders pack.
I didn't buy my mount, I earned my mount. I didn't buy a powerful companion, I trained one. I didn't burn through Profession progress on the back of Astral Diamonds time saving payments, I augmented my game experience as I played with an additional progress over time facet. I played the experience - I didn't buy the experience.
These types of super sized "Founders packs" are an acknowledgement by the Industry that they perceive the willingness of the public to invest these large sums. But as people begin to acknowledge that these packs for the most part only exist to extract money rather than expand or accentuate the games experience the growing familiarity with this practice will ostracize the vocal minority until the majority start to perceive them as just another bad F2P model.
Perhaps I'm wrong... but I feel Publishers need to realise that a good F2P model will potentially never be as profitable as an abusive or manipulative F2P model at face value. But as long as the games are good and the respect for players is clearly present the nurturing or their respective communities will pay dividends in regards to how much people are willing to pay over time rather than on impulse when they have little comprehension as to what they're actually receiving until hopefully big publishers and developers once again will have communities where players beget players, as with the likes of Steam, Eve, WoW and Ultima Online.
edit: and the reply
I actually get emails from Chinese monetization techs bragging about how dumb consumers are and how effective their models are. I won't publish these emails because I want to keep receiving them
The real-world economy in China, and to a lesser extent Korea, is very new. The younger generations are experiencing much more wealth than their parents ever saw and conspicuous consumption is praised. It is very different than in the West where we kind of got over that a while ago. So while we may see people buying their way through games as foolish, they see it as a status symbol. Western companies should not look at the metrics in the East and assume these models will work the same way here. This is one of the problems you get when metrics-driven professionals with little game experience make decisions in our industry.
TLDR: Neverwinter (run by Perfect World) is based on Chinese / Korean monetization models which are designed to deceive the player into overpay for assets they know are going to devalue rapidly in a game that is not intended to last.
The sex equals victory thing is a huge pet peeve of mine.
just played four games of poker night 2
lost miserably every time
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.