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| Title | Electric Sheep One |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 26 2007 02:35
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*UBB glitch that chops through the fabric of reality as Richard's sword through iron* The 500 must be just a rough estimate. [ Tuesday, June 26, 2007 02:36: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, June 22 2007 10:54
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I tried to give RWG a fitting end, and it pretty much worked, for a while. But then the place clung foolishly to life for several days after our tasteful ceremonies, and things went downhill. If you want to die with dignity, you have to die on time. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 07:34
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'Drunk as a lord', people say. My dismay at Saunders's perverse reading of my harmless little play on verbs is tempered by the conviction that her reading of 'peer' is still bound to be a far better role than her reading of 'peep'. [ Wednesday, June 20, 2007 08:37: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 20 2007 02:59
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Also, consider how much time you spend where. Your friends see many sides of you, and the amount of time they spend listening to chicken/muffin/undead/whatever jokes is a tiny fraction of their time with you. Here, that fraction may be larger, conveying an impression you may not realize. And the impression can last longer than you realize, too. I don't think Thralni has actually posted much about chickens or their gods for a long time; most of his posts seem to be serious ones about BoA. But a lot of people here still think of him as chicken-obsessed. The point is that no-one ever comes to know anyone else on a message board; we only see whatever comes across in posts. As far as the boards are concerned, we are our posts. It's worth bearing this in mind. For one thing, if you don't make people write you off by overdoing some schtick, there's a better chance they'll play along with your other gags, which can be fun. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 23:49
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Welcome to the boards. But I wish to point out that I am not a peep. I consider myself a peer. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 23:33
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Hello Greeta, These boards suffer from wide range of hosting issues, especially lately, I don?t know what to say either. One thing is for certain ... they don?t always screen out bots. You're welcome, Student of Trinity. [ Tuesday, June 19, 2007 23:36: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 11:22
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I think the idea is that it raises what the market will bear, by giving more money to people for whom children's education is an overriding financial goal. That's probably indistinguishable from more intuitive ways of raising demand, such as making more customers or making them want the thing more. That argument assumes that the pool of education-keen parents exists independently of their income levels — that these people were always going to give their last dime to school their kids, and now they have more dimes. While it's true that a lot of American parents have always been keen on education, the strong desire to send kids to college and the motivation to have two careers are probably correlated, making the double income effect as much a symptom as a cause. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 06:40
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Losing your house if your spouse gets fired. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 00:07
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quote:There's nothing worse than flith. [ Tuesday, June 19, 2007 00:08: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 19 2007 00:03
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We assume the chance of losing your job is low, so that squaring survival chance is essentially the same as doubling disaster chance. If this chance is not low, you don't really have two incomes. [ Tuesday, June 19, 2007 00:05: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 18 2007 21:21
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That can happen, and child care alone can do it. Preschools in the Boston area can cost around $20K per year, per child. But if both your incomes are high compared to that, then it's a difficult thing to assess. If you're not just working for money, but because professional careers interest you both more than housework, then it shouldn't bother you that you're getting less than the doubly high lifestyle you could have enjoyed if you were the only working couple in the land. You probably won't be able to afford one of those wise-cracking live-in servants that used to populate sitcoms, and so your home will not be the elegant haven it could be if your talented spouse worked full-time at maintaining it. But you'll both get the careers you want, and you'll be fine financially. From an economics standpoint, I'm not sure the trap quite makes sense. Injecting lots of extra cash into an economy, and doing nothing else, is sure to be inflationary. But a second salary means a second person working, and presumably earning that income with what they produce. And indeed, overall inflation has been low in the US for a long time now. But housing prices have certainly risen a lot in certain areas, and I bet that two-income couples are indeed responsible for a lot of that. And although two breadwinners don't have any higher risk to average income than one, they do have double the risk of experiencing any significant income loss. So if a couple with negligible savings gets a mortgage they can only barely carry together, making any significant income loss tantamount to catastrophe, their risk of financial disaster is indeed double what it would be for a mortgage-maxed single income without a savings cushion. On the other hand, if you exercise the same prudence that a single-income household should, keeping enough savings to endure possible periods of underemployment, then I think the proportion you save ought to be the same, to achieve the same high level of security. I don't think a careful double income requires any more care than a careful single income; it's only that a reckless double income is twice as reckless. Playing Russian roulette twice is twice as dangerous. You can play tiddlywinks as much as you like. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 18 2007 08:00
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Why didn't we think of this until now? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Dead Forum Walking: Epitaphs in Richard White Games | |
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written Sunday, June 17 2007 23:25
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Maybe there was a last minute call from the governor. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, June 17 2007 09:22
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I hope they kill this forum first, so that RWG can finally attain the bottom rung before it dies. Perhaps whoever does the deed can take a screenshot or something? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Dead Forum Walking: Epitaphs in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, June 17 2007 08:16
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It was a forum, take it for all in all, I shall not look upon its like again. The forum, like the games, was strange, Distinguished not for depth, but range. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Order of the Stick in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 16 2007 08:48
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I believe most people here have already discovered OOTS, but you're right, there haven't been any threads about it here that I can remember. So I reckon we can skip the snide elitist remarks this time. What I wouldn't mind knowing is how long people think the series stays good. I wasted an hour or two reading it from the beginning once, but somehow lost interest long before catching right up. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 16 2007 08:32
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I think that if you throw the name 'Toshiba' around, you're either legit or living dangerously. So they must have given Jeff a decent reason to offer his games to them, even when they then sell them at a discount. I can imagine a number of possibilities. I expect Jeff knows what he's doing, since it's his mortgage on the line. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, June 15 2007 13:09
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What's bad about two incomes? -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, June 15 2007 04:30
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I know of it, but I've never actually read it. Maybe I will. After The Man in the High Castle I seem to be somehow reluctant to try more Philip K. Dick. I think it's some combination of fear that the next book of his won't live up to that one, and fear that it will. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, June 14 2007 11:43
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So these two guys walk into a bar. A subversive bar! -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, June 14 2007 06:17
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Unless you're unlucky with the random encounters. They might give you problems. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, June 14 2007 04:04
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I know what you mean, but on the other hand, how many real alternatives were there? The game has to end sometime, and this means that the most Jeff could really have done would be to have written a few different ending texts, and made the outcome depend on one or two final challenges. If these final challenges were not too hard, then everyone would do them, perhaps with some save-loading, and get the 'good' ending for each side. Yahoo; again you save the world in an RPG. Does it really make so much difference how it ends? The current version has the merit that, either way, it fits with actual history. So you can go away imagining that it was all real. On the other hand, it could be that if you did something really, really hard, you would either destroy the Nethergate as the Romans and avoid Sylak's curse, or achieve Sylak's goal without any disruption, and destroy Rome with crystal wands as the Celts. That would give another reason for replay, to power-game everything so well that you could be strong enough to fully win the endgame. Yeah, that might have been neat. But it's just not really Spiderweb style. The challenges that really matter to the plot in his games are always doable by the average, casual gamer customer. The harder challenges are easter eggs. That's probably important for the business: no customer left behind. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 13 2007 04:05
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I'm surprised that anyone who was able to express a complaint about elitism would also have had grounds for it. I think people usually only get snippy here with blatantly juvenile behavior. Our regulars are a somewhat older crowd, and we do sometimes get cranky when those darn kids show up, shouting and playing their crazy music. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, June 12 2007 06:43
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Many implant processes are of course triggered by seemingly innocuous keywords, which can be transmitted in public forums like this one. Due to the bone idleness of some of our programmers, however, some of the trigger codes aren't so well innoculated; they can appear as suspiciously meaningless characters, like these. Fortunately, the routines launched by such ill-disguised triggers are generally harmless and unimportant. I am authorized to release the information that this particular pair of characters corresponds merely to a hilarious jest. Jadewolf's delivery needs work, though. Some people just can't tell a joke. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, June 10 2007 06:17
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quote:Well, yes. Except that the government has the right to print money, so it can always fulfill its obligations. Printing too much extra money might generate enough inflation that the money isn't actually worth much, which is why people do eventually begin to worry about government debt. But there's no chance of the government abruptly running out of dollars. And, after all, money in general is something of a Ponzi scheme. The biggest turning point so far in my own understanding of capitalist economics was when I learned how not only governments, but also private banks, effectively create money. When a bank makes a loan, it does not take that money away from any of its depositors. So it effectively raises the amount of money in circulation. This process is a cornerstone of capitalist economies, but it's pretty shocking the first time you appreciate it. Money, credit and debt are not the same things for governments, banks, and big businesses, as they are for ordinary people. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |