Rin

I don't think it would be that profound though. If we had extra time, it would just seem to pass by faster.

Like we live many times longer than cats and dogs now, and we have a higher level of consciousness than them. But is it really a blessing or a curse? We just see the cat and dogs territorial fights as really trivial while we worry about bigger things like Trump presidency and climate change. Sometimes we even envy the cat who lives happily as a pet.

Even if we became more significant, like 1000000 year old planet eaters, it would just make everyone else relatively trivial and we'd still have to worry about bigger things.

Maybe. Made some bad decisions. Some actually are just more traumatizing and resulted in worse decisions in the future. Not all lessons are learned from in a positive way.

But would it really make things better? Like I'd maybe be a millionaire or something if I changed some things, but it's not like extra money would mean more happiness.

Thriller. A series of shows of me doing increasingly stupid things and surviving.

Oh, Buor's post, for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20167-albion-online/

Looks like Albion is P&W's pick. IMO it's right in the sweet spot of MMOs. 

It's not free to play which means you don't have the P&W effect which relies on a few people paying big money to support all the people who aren't paying anything. It lowers the incidence where some people join but quit almost immediately after. Very little microtransaction reliance and the cash currency and in game currency are interchangeable like P&W credits. Basically you just have to pay an entrance fee.

The premium months don't give special parts of the game. They just lower the grind by giving bonus XP/resources and free points every day regardless of whether you log on. Stuff that is bought with real world cash can all be looted. So you can experience the full game without monthly payments.

The scale is nice. Hundreds of thousands of players, with mid sized guilds having hundreds of players.

Guilds can build cities and conquer territory. The more dangerous the territory, the higher the rewards. If you want to play casual, you can do so in no PvP areas, but the deadly PvP areas are the best for gathering and looting. So technically people can make raider guilds as well as strongholds.

Classes/skill are all item based, so if you want to be a mage, just pick up a mage staff and blow things up. Items determine your skills.

The crafting aspect is really detailed. Everything major is built by players. Good gatherers will find enchanted resources, good crafters will forge higher quality, even legendary artifacts. The crafting can be really specialized too. So someone can be the best at sewing mage boots whereas someone else could be a legendary pick axe crafter.

The game is still in beta, but will be reset for the final time next month. Everything bought with real money in the beta will be given back after reset, so it's a great time to just spend gold and points experimenting with things.

https://albiononline.com/?ref=74L6ANWUBS is my referral code in case anyone wants to play. The referral codes are a bit weird. You'll have to register an account after clicking, doesn't matter if you're going to buy the game or not. They're linked to the account.

2 hours ago, Lordship said:

I'm a Marvel fan boy so I'm opposed solely on principle rather than actual merit

They can both be good. Question isn't asking whether they'll be better. 

The Dark Knight trilogy was really good at some parts. I liked it way more than Wonder Woman

Yeah I feel like I've already lived a few dozen 60-year lives in the past. It's not a bad deal so far, so I'll take it.

1000 years seems like a curse when you're living 400 years with a bad back. I assume that things like strokes and lost body parts will happen, so that means I'd probably be seriously crippled or cyborged by 300 years.

I just like fucking with people's heads. Everything else is just a part of that. Like you can't threaten people without a strong enough military force, and the econ, IA, etc is a build up to that.

boo slack. Facebook workplace is the way to go. Get chatbots running milcom.

I've been both. I'm definitely going for forgotten this time lol

lol micchan went way up in those rankings

8 hours ago, Angevin said:

 

Rin should stop slumming it with the commes then and come home

closer to home than you think  

needs more Rin

I wouldn't even prefer a dog sized rat. Rats are way scarier imo. Cockroaches are squishy at least.

Where do I sign up? Guerrilla wars with no goals sounds like a lot of fun.

Road Rash. idk why. Was the only thing I played with the emulator besides Tekken

oh that is a good story

Yes. CB: weapons of mass destruction

20 hours ago, japan77 said:

Yeah, I guess I can see that. I just run an adblocker 24/7, and don't visit sites that require me to turn it off, so I've never really cared. As for the government tracking, I'm actually kinda curious to your response regarding tracking being done by research institutions for big data purposes. I know a number of people that oppose NSA's tracking because it's personal, but don't oppose the research institutions.

I don't mind. I mean for example, every time you make a police report, it's tracked and used for data - where, when, what, just not always who. It's usually the who that creeps people.

19 hours ago, japan77 said:

You do realize most US banks and utilities also track what they can right? That's why I've never really understood the argument. There's no realistic way around getting tracked at this point, as various corporations that you interact with are tracking your data in an attempt to try and maximize profit. Utilities and banks care about certain things due to the fact there is no data out there showing some interesting correlations regarding certain things.

A lot of that is anonymized data. So they will probably sell info like a 3 person household uses this much energy and when. But rarely the names and people involved. Statistics/big data is nice in that way.

Big difference to wiretapping where they track what you say about your boss. It's much less damage if they're just running numbers on how many people talk shit about their bosses.

Or Google and Facebook's business model is finding out that you have a stamp collection habit and then selling your personal info to people who want to look for stamp collectors.

3 hours ago, japan77 said:

That's true. I'm just kinda curious why people are so worried about governments doing it specifically. Because basically every major corporation that can does track your actions. For example, Google does it if you use chrome or google to conduct any searches, as well as any actions you do on youtube, etc.

Well more that you can actually avoid corporations doing it. I personally absolutely hate LinkedIn's privacy policies and boycott that. If you don't like Google doing what they do, you have the option of DuckDuckGo. Don't like Chrome, use Tor.

But if you don't like the US government reading your emails, you can't practically move to Norway or whatever. These things take months and force you away from family. It's not like changing your email provider.

But if it were something you can't avoid, like banks or utilities, it would be a very bad thing.

Riyadh weather is fun now. Coldest and wettest it's been in months and then goes to 42 C for the rest of the week.

On 5/5/2017 at 8:46 AM, emperorpenguin said:

yes. if you don't want that, move.

That's exactly the problem isn't it? If everyone does it, there's not a lot of places left to move to. The same principle applies to every other rights violation. If some governments decide it's fine to strip search people in airports, it will become the norm.

I thought she was one of the best prime ministers. One of the very few who did what she thought was right and not what was popular.