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The book (and Le Carre in general) is like this too.
I don't know if that was deliberate or not but I've always had the impression that as a writer he tried to cultivate that sense of never being quite sure that you haven't missed something important. Which obviously works well for spy novels.
@irondwill
Thanks, I wasn't ignoring this. Just had to look. No Land's end within 200m of me and the nearest BB is in New Orleans (100+miles)
bleh.
Blazing Saddles closing 15 minutes are so majestic that if you don't crack a grin you are broken inside.
am I doin it rite
You like Archer, which is all dialog and alcoholic jokes. You don't like Mel Brooks and Carrot Top, which is all prop humor and visual absurdity.
tree fiddy?!?
woman, i ain't givin you no gawd dayum tree fiddy
dayum loch ness monster be comin back round here askin fo gawd dayum tree fiddy...
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
I say this because it had sense and wasn't especially difficult to follow, so I must have missed enough to even realise I was missing things. This worries me as it's a bit like believing people speaking foreign languages are just making nonsense noises at one another.
needs less neck
Mmm, I don't think so. I think it's because free to play is inherently deceptive in many cases - it's trying to make you spend more money than you normally would by dividing it into small, negligible purchases or fees. And because it's so often poorly implemented, it often makes games unbalanced or badly designed as well.
This gives a bad rap to the whole model, even when some are done well.
land's end is almost all mail-order, though most sears stores will have a small "lands end" section
what i would do is order stuff, and if it didn't fit or i didn't like it, i'd drop it off at sears and they'd refund my account
their customer service is really fantastic. mail-order is kind of a pain in the ass, but they make it as painless and risk-free as possible.
Yessss. This has replaced naked sock man!
What my hair should look like
I did a very, very weird combination of laugh and frigthened shout just now
what i read the first time having been in [chat] for some of ravens recent confessions
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
I've never read him, and I need to.
I should put that on the docket after I finish this book of Bruce Sterling shorts.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
You said it would be worth it for text alerts!!
oh shit, dude
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
get a hitler youth
He said "Luke, stay away from the darker side,
And if you start to go astray, let the Force be your guide.
I know Darth Vader's really got you annoyed,
but remember, if you kill him, then you'll be unemployed."
Yoda, yo yo yo yo yoda, yo yo yo yo yodaaaa.
i read an interesting novella a while back (can't remember the particulars) about cold war human intelligence, where more assets were in the field rather than analytical, overheads, etc
anyway there was this long section on how a clean pass from one person to another- of microfilm or whatever- could be such a practiced maneuver that even a trained intelligence offer couldn't 'see' the exchange. you could know your targets and be watching them directly and still just not see it happen- but extrapolate that it had based on auxiliary intelligence.
i thought that was incredible, and quirkily relevant to what you're saying about how this narrative is woven with the viewer not really sure what they saw or learned.
and did you text me?
NO, YOU DIDN'T
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
this shouldnt be botp
I think this is kind of a generational thing. There's a particular segment of gamers/nerds who went through their formative years of having no money at the same time as that period of mass piracy being a thing that the media industry generally hadn't woken up to.
It does give a certain urge to reread his books in general.
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
Canna hav yo numba.
and then he says "git er dun"
cracks me up every time
There is a ton of PvE in EVE. It's just really dull.
it's like he's lived the same life i have, collected the same welfare checks
and ears and nose
deal
with
it
this is so very untrue
"nerds" have a shitty attitude towards FTP games because they are accustomed to getting X amount of content or play value per dollar. Most "free to play" (an Orwellian backwards-phrase is ever there was one, the accurate moniker is "Optimized for Profit") are usually set up in a way to extract far more money for far less content than what was previously the norm.
People without much experience gaming are those for whom the F2P model works best because they don't have a previously set opinion for what is a "ripoff" in games pricing. Also, some F2P games (mostly those coming from Korea, including Neverwinter) make their model deliberately confusing and so make it as difficult as possible to judge the value of what your dollars are getting you or how much you will be expected to cough up later (see: your own post about spending money on Neverwinter)
I disagree, only in so much that always-online and free to play server-side gaming's explosion is probably a direct industry counter to the problem.
Admittedly, there have been some successes and a lot of failures, but don't think that F2P came out of nowhere; they saw the writing on the wall and tried to do something about it.