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I've been reading the Av wish list topic, I realise how boring my post is in comparison. I haven't played the Spiderweb games long enough to include my own opinions, but there is one thing
in particular which, despite the lack of 3-D graphics, cutscenes, music, etc, which makes these games the best I have ever played. Games like these rely on the players imagination. I don't care about how things move/look so much, because I can imagine them in my head so much better. When I read text describing my surroundings, I imagine the huge cave, the green light from the fungus.. It's awesome. When I am fighting a battle, I imagine different moves used by the fighters, the bloody wounds, the complexities of casting spells, It's a tense, exciting event. The problem for me with the bigger, more flashy games is that they're too explicit. I can't immerse myself in them. Perhaps if you don't have a good imagination...

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Originally written by *i:

If we have even more rigor to the problem as suggested. Suppose we have a multiplicative factor n. This determines how many times more money we could make. We pick an envelope with an amount k. The other envelope either has: k/n or nk inside of it.

Note: in our previous example n was equal to 2. Now we can let this be arbitrary.

If we do the same analysis as before, we get that the breakeven value of p is:

p = 1/(1+n)

So for n = 10, we should pick the other envelope if the probability of making money (p) is greater than 1/11 or about 9 percent.

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Originally written by Marx' Martyr:

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Member A calls Member B as composing the entire population of a locale called "fagotville", populated presumably by "fagots". The resulting, tumultuous rancor demands that Member A be banned. Member C raises a valid point that "fagot" has no definition as such.
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Hello Hay i wus wonderin if enybodie wus willen to tell me there key to get into full vershin

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You do realize that your skin color and genitalia (shriveled though they be) are more important in the long run, right? But hey, who am I to stick the dong of communism into your wet dream of meritocracy.

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Originally written by Unpleasantness for its Own Sake:

Is it really necessary to expend so much effort in being bland? For certain members, unfavourably comparing Bush to dictators is entirely par for the course and not even Ben is still likely to get terribly offended. That's not to say that I particularly want this to disintegrate into Recriminations 101, but doesn't it seem somewhat hypocritical to try to start arguments over feuds everyone assumed had long ago died the death yet to have a pathological phobia of controversy at ever other turn?

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