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DocDelicious posted...

adjl posted...

nonsense

DocDelicious posted...

You're being paid to be there. Do your job.

What a well-reasoned argument. I can see you've put some real thought into your position.

wwinterj25 posted...

Choosing to do so means I'm hungry so I want to eat.

Presumably, yes. That is typically how people feel when they order food. Being hungry doesn't mean you aren't choosing to annoy employees who you know will be annoyed by your actions, though. Your choice can have more than one implication at a time.

wwinterj25 posted...

I don't give a s*** about some disgruntled employee.

Ergo, inconsiderate, also known as being an asshole. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Revelation34 posted...

Well I mean that argument was nonsense. A scenario that would never happen anywhere in the world.

I'm not sure you understand thought experiments...

DocDelicious posted...

Full time job of 10 years with UPS, I sleep in my office almost every day from October to January and work over 60 hours a week year-round.
I just have no sympathy for lazy people.

Sounds like a variant of Stockholm Syndrome to me. That's not really normal, and you should probably stop projecting your addiction onto other people. You should also stop leaving people's packages on doorsteps without waiting to make sure that they receive them, but that's a broader gripe with UPS and you may or may not actually do that.
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Hop103 posted...

This is impossible to be written off a dumb mistake, pushing someone 60 ft down can kill.

Eh, if they were jumping anyway, she may not have considered how dangerous it would be to fall in a less controlled fashion. Really stupid? Of course, but I can understand how she could have failed to recognize that.

Golden Road posted...

adjl posted...

As I understand it, she was initially inclined to write it off as being a stupid mistake that she was willing to forgive, but the one who pushed her has since openly said that she doesn't care and isn't sorry. In the former case, choosing not to press charges isn't unreasonable, but with the latter development, it's pretty reasonable to not forgive somebody who dioesn't want forgiveness.

Did she? That's kinda' a big part of the story for Ducky to leave out. On the other hand, ol' Ducky has been known to "accidentally" leave out details to create bias in these stories...

https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/14/teenager-pushed-girl-16-off-bridge-doesnt-care-isnt-sorry-7836145/

Having actually looked for a source for what I'd heard, that doesn't really sound all that credible. Huh. Perhaps I was mistaken, then.
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Out of curiosity, I did the math, and 76% of the US population is contained in only 20 states, or 40% of them (compared to 3/13=23% of Canadian provinces/territories). If we look at the top 23% of states (11 or 12), they comprise 57-60% of the US population. That's also without counting US territories, which isn't necessarily a proper comparison because Canadian territories are being counted, but the numbers get more complicated if I start doing that.
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It's not really a matter of opinion that there's unequal coverage. Look at the number of open missing persons cases, then look at the number of cases that have the VP pledging government aid for them. Why this particular one has gotten to be such a big deal, I have no idea.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

Wii3Kings posted...

I'm sorry to here that. My niece was born with a cleft pallet. It is not cosmetic.

the cleft lip is

Once you get past the age where eating involves sucking on things, you can maybe make that argument. Prior to that point, though, a cleft lip is a fantastic way to end up seriously malnourished.
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Firewood18 posted...

It's either her parents/lawers are influencing her decision or she's been pushed to wise up on who her real friends are.

As I understand it, she was initially inclined to write it off as being a stupid mistake that she was willing to forgive, but the one who pushed her has since openly said that she doesn't care and isn't sorry. In the former case, choosing not to press charges isn't unreasonable, but with the latter development, it's pretty reasonable to not forgive somebody who dioesn't want forgiveness.
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mrduckbear posted...

despite Canada having 12 different provinces

Technically it's ten provinces and three territories, but regardless of that, it hasn't been a total of 12 for over 20 years. Methinks Duckbear needs to update his information.
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A+.

EnvyFox posted...

Not a clue. Would like to find out, honestly.

They'll tell you if you ever donate blood, if satisfying that curiosity is enough incentive to get you in there.
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Full Throttle posted...

Stanley points out in a facebook post that the handbook also says "Since all children are created in the image of God

So all he needs to do is bring in a picture of Jesus as he's typically depicted and they should be fine with dudes having long hair.
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wwinterj25 posted...

To be honest I don't ask every food establishment I eat in "hey are you happy cooking this?" before I order.

It's almost like there's some degree of middle ground between being completely inconsiderate of workers and personally asking them if they're going to be annoyed or upset by everything you do. Obviously you don't have to take it extremes; I said "if you know you'll make them unhappy," not "if you haven't checked to see how they're going to feel about it." You know full well that workers are going to be annoyed if you sit down and order five minutes before closing, regardless of what the establishment's rules say. Ergo, choosing to do so means you are choosing to annoy them, and the establishment's rules don't change that that's what you're doing (unless you're really so clueless as to not realize what you're doing, in which case... that's what you're doing and now you know).

Does that mean you should never visit a restaurant near closing no matter what? Of course not. They are open that late, however annoying it may be, and sometimes that's the only time you can make it in. Just try to be considerate about it. If you can avoid it, try to. If you can't, try to make it easier for them, like ordering quickly, picking something that you expect will be simpler to make, and not paying in cash when they've already counted the tills. And tip well.

DocDelicious posted...

You're being paid to be there. Do your job.

Let's take that attitude to its logical extreme, and see if it holds up. Say there's a restaurant with a policy that they'll stay open past their posted closing time until they go 15 minutes without getting an order. Workers will still be paid full wages and even overtime for that full time, but they are expected to stay until the place closes no matter what their shift was scheduled to be. Knowing this, you organize a 120 people to call in orders at 10-minute intervals, starting five minutes before they close. This results in an additional 20 hours being added to their shifts.

Would you not, in this scenario, be an asshole (along with everyone who participated)? Would the workers not be entitled to complain about this steady stream of orders that resulted in them working obscenely long hours, despite getting paid quite reasonably for the time? Obviously, that's a stupid policy that probably violates a number of labour laws, so it's unlikely to continue after this particular incident draws attention to it, but the focus is on your decision to orchestrate these orders that so extended the shifts. Can you claim to be a reasonable, considerate person if you do this?

Quite simply, getting paid to do a job doesn't mean you can't complain about that job. That's an absolutely ridiculous attitude to take. There are reasonable limits on how much complaining is justifiable, certainly, but complaining about a customer who willfully makes the job worse is well within those limits. You know full well that most people in food service would rather go home at the scheduled end of their shift (which is often quite late, if they're closing) than make an extra 15 minutes' wages. Don't be that guy.
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Tangentially relevant:

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wwinterj25 posted...

Again though if said establishment allows it the customer isn't in the wrong. The owners of said place are at fault.

If you know that doing something is going to make the workers unhappy, and you do it anyway, you're an asshole. The owners are also assholes for establishing and enforcing rules which allow you to make the workers unhappy, but you can't suggest that you are in no way responsible just because you're the proximal cause of that unhappiness instead of the root one.
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Mead posted...

Because wanting to enforce immigration laws that everybody agreed on makes people racist.

Are you suggesting that Zeus is exaggerating and/or misrepresenting an opposing viewpoint to make it easier to discredit?
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Cool. I've been half-meaning to pick up D3 for a little while, but wanting to get the whole package meant I was holding out for some sort of deep discount and/or complete bundle. This gives that, plus portability. I have my doubts about playing it on a console, but supposedly the existing ports have been very good, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I'll probably pick this one up some time.

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Truth_Decay posted...

Why? They're completely different games.

Yeah but choose the better online RPG that will take over your life.

But they're completely different games. You can't so directly compare them as being better/worse because that comparison is going to depend on one's genre preferences.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zikten posted...

it said that humans fight on both sides of the war between Heaven and Hell. there are human champions on Hell's side too. I always wanted to play as a Hell champion in Diablo

Considering how most humans who wind up on Hell's side turn into horrific abominations (like the Rogue player character from the first game becoming the Act I boss "Blood Raven" in Diablo II), you'd probably have to have radically different mechanics for each side, and you couldn't just palette-swap normal classes with either "good" or "evil" versions.

And that would take far more effort and cost more than they're willing to commit to on a game these days (even games with morality systems are rarely willing to do must to differentiate both sides), so I doubt you're ever going to see it.

If they did, I imagine they'd sell it as two games, possibly with one being available as discounted DLC if you own the other (like Nintendo did with FE14). It'd be a lot of work, but I don't see that being an issue provided they can come up with a model that can make it profitable.
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Mead posted...

Sad. Shes probably already dead and the cartels will likely upload her death. Why are we at war with ISIS and not the Cartels again?

Because ISIS kills more white people.
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VixYW posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

sushi.

Hot fried sushi is a thing.

For that matter, I've had normal sushi where the rice was still a little above room temperature. I was a little put off at first, but it actually tasted really good because that was a good fit for how the rice was seasoned. The temperature of food affects which of your taste buds are more active, and therefore how the food tastes. Ice cream's a really obvious example of this, because being cold reduces the activity of sweet taste buds. As such, while it tastes fine cold, once it gets warm, it often ends up tasting too sweet.
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Dynalo posted...

Bit of a downer holiday, recognizing the horrors of residential schools.

It's not like there isn't precedent for holidays based on things that suck. Remembrance Day springs immediately to mind.
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Good to know that you hate freedom.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Using a disability as a excuse for doing bad things is irksome. Just because said person has mental disabilities that doesn't give them a free pass to do whatever they want. If he doesn't know rape is bad then he shouldn't be left unsupervised.

He should indeed not be left unsupervised. The fact that he has a diagnosed mental disability, however, means he needs support to help control and overcome that disability, not to have it ignored and then be crucified when it drives him to do something bad. You can supervise somebody like him without jailing him. At least, you can in countries with actual mental health supports, a list which the US seems bent on excluding itself from.
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In practice, I think a similar shield that just covers the door would be more practical and cost-effective, provided it can be effectively locked from the inside (which would have to happen with this solution anyway). It still won't be cheap to outfit every school in the country with such a system, but probably cheaper than actual solutions like providing adequate mental health care and properly restricting guns.
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JixHedgehog posted...

So instead of starting from scratch, they slapped a fresh coat of paint on it and gamers are eating it up

I really don't understand why so many people are calling Ultimate a port. It's changing no less than any other sequel in the series has.
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DPsx7 posted...

It was your choice to label OS's as malware.

And it was your choice to decide that that label sounds good instead of amending your definition or explaining how they don't fit it. I gave you your options. Not my fault you didn't take any of them.

What a silly human this is.
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DPsx7 posted...

And for that it does. I'm not telling you Steam is the only malware out there. I'm not saying these 'rules' are the only thing that qualifies as malware. Nor am I saying that everything which phones home is malware, sometimes I allow programs to do so.

I gave you three options for responding to the challenge issued. You have chosen to instead double down, as though repeating yourself somehow qualifies as a rebuttal. As outlined when I gave you the options, this has been interpreted as choosing option 1, wherein you say that operating systems are malware and we all laugh at you. Lol.
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DPsx7 posted...

although this topic has run out of gas

Read: "I've been too thoroughly proven wrong to have any hope of digging myself out of this so I'll run away and try again later when people have hopefully forgotten how I failed here."

Silly human. The Internet never forgets. Never.

likehelly posted...

pretty much terrisus, yeah

I believe they were around at the same time before, with Terris being one of his favourites because Terris kind of agreed (despite also having no meaningful experience with the platform and mostly arguing from an "any DLC is bad" sort of stance).
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Yellow posted...

yeah, the switch should be able to auto rotate

Why? Do you really think there would be an appreciable number of games that wouldn't be locked to one aspect ratio or another?
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

If you were a rational human, you'd realise that it's wasted opportunity to not spite people who upset you.

Acting out of spite is never a rational choice. It's purely an emotional one. Rationally, you can recognize that hurting people can ultimately be beneficial. Acting accordingly is acting out of rationality, not spite. It's only spite if there's no benefit beyond satisfying that desire, which any rational person will recognize is a pointless waste of effort.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It also leaves you with unsettled emotional discomfort

Unless you don't suck at emotional self-regulation. Then you can acknowledge that acting out of spite would be dumb and feel no discomfort for not doing so.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Nintendo isn't getting paid for a service they don't provide (internet).

Instead, they're getting paid for providing the servers required for online play. What made you think they were charging for the internet itself?
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

adjl posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

If you are never motivated by emotion, what's even the point of life?

You can be motivated by emotion without letting said emotions get the better of you. By definition, spite hurts everyone involved. Therefore, acting on it is stupid.

spite
spt/
noun

1. a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone.

By definition it is fulfilling a desire, it pleases the attacker.

And if you're a superior human, you recognize that you can achieve that pleasure without wasting effort pointlessly hurting people. Acting out of spite is never not stupid.
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Zeus posted...

Given that a million devices can stream Netflix, not sure why you'd even see it a problem.

My apartment's currently set up to have a single HDMI cord running to the TV that I swap between the WiiU and Switch as needed. As it stands, I use the WiiU for Netflix, but it'd be kind of nice to not have to swap the cable back and forth. Beyond that, given my lack of a smartphone, it'd be nice to have it available for portable use, since it's more convenient than a laptop in that regard.

In practice, I personally wouldn't end up using it all that much, but there's definitely reason to want Netflix on the Switch. I understand Netflix dragging their heels on developing the app when the Switch was new, given that there was no guarantee it would be successful enough to be worth the effort (especially after the WiiU), but it's done a good enough job so far that they should get on that.

Zeus posted...

Oh look, *another* thing it doesn't need. After Sony discontinued Linux support, I think I used an internet browser on my ps3 a total of zero times. Likewise, the Wii had some sort of a browser I barely used because, honestly, what's the point?

I used the browser on the WiiU on a number of occasions to look stuff up for the games I was playing. For something like Monster Hunter that has a lot of external resources to reference, it saved me having to have a laptop setup nearby, or run between rooms to use my desktop. Already I can say that would have been handy on the Switch for Xenoblade 2, to say nothing of using it as a general-purpose browser while out and about.

Does it *need* it? Of course not. It's a game system, all it *needs* is to play games. However, other conveniences are, well, convenient, and these are extra functions that have been standard on consoles for over a decade. It's really not unreasonable to expect that they get a browser out, nor to want them to do so.

Yellow posted...

there's no auto-rotate

Most of the rest of your post was exaggerating launch defects that a handful of individuals had that haven't been much of an issue on a larger scale, so a certain degree of silliness is par for the course, but I don't even know why this is in there. Why would it have auto-rotate? What possible purpose would that serve when every program for it is designed for a single aspect ratio and everything but the touch controls become unusable if you rotate it?
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SkynyrdRocker posted...

It keeps releasing Wii U games again instead of new games

Eh, I'd say the balance has been pretty good, especially getting past the first year. Given that the Switch has already outsold the WiiU, it's guaranteed that there are Switch owners who never had a WiiU to play any of the games being ported, so porting them just makes sense. It hasn't really been all that many, either.
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DPsx7 posted...

There was. People fought with Nin to back up their saves. Users tried to recreate PT. Players of WoW tried to run their own retro server too I believe. Pay attention sometimes, k?

Nintendo and Blizzard didn't arbitrarily revoke games. Updating WoW is not destroying people's games, people just get butthurt that their FotM class gets nerfed. Making digital purchases system-based instead of having a proper account system to allow transfers between systems was a dumb move on Nintendo's part, but it wasn't arbitrarily revoking them. And PT was just one more reason Konami's so universally hated by the gaming community now, so that exists as a cautionary tale against any other company doing the same.

DPsx7 posted...

Once more - Steam is malware. OS's are not and aren't the focus of the topic. Stop trying to switch the subject.

I'm not switching the subject, I'm using your definition for malware. Many operating systems can fit your definition of malware. That means you have to do one of three things:

-Accept that you also consider operating systems to be malware (in which case we laugh at you and then also sob a little because Windows 10)
-Explain - using solid, well-reasoned logic - how operating systems do not in fact fit your definition
-Amend your definition to be less broad and vague and apologize for being so arrogantly confident of something so silly

"Steam just is malware we're not talking about OS's" will not be accepted as a valid rebuttal to this point, and will be interpreted as you choosing the first option. Anything other than the latter two options will be interpreted as you choosing the first option.

DPsx7 posted...

Software that bad doesn't change for the better.

Citation needed. Good luck, since proving such an absolute negative is pretty much impossible.
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Blighboy posted...

The controller design is shit and they know it hence why they're releasing the gamecube controller again

The pro controller is fantastic. Rereleasing the GC controller is more for Smash purists than anything else.
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likehelly posted...

and if it was a picture he would just say you photoshopped it,

He has actually done literally this before, when he was trying to deny the mere existence of an offline mode and somebody showed him a picture of the option.
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DPsx7 posted...

I think fear of backlash is enough to say they won't.

You think there wouldn't be just as much backlash if companies started arbitrarily revoking digital games?

DPsx7 posted...

Ah, no. I described why Steam meets all the requirements of being malware. Malware can do much more. Nor am I applying it to anything else because the focus is Steam.

You are asserting that Steam is malware because it meets all of the requirements you're listing. The logical extension of that is that anything else which meets the requirements you're listing is also malware. If something else which meets those requirements is not malware, then you can no longer conclude that Steam is malware based on those requirements. That's just how logic works. You can't choose when to apply or not apply logic.

DPsx7 posted...

I used it too, trust me that everything above is no lie.

Not since the incident in question you haven't. I'm willing to believe that you had a game catastrophically glitch out on you, especially that long ago (historically, PC gaming hasn't been the most stable thing out there). That's not the issue here. The issue is your refusal to accept that computer things change in over a decade, and that Steam is now a very stable, user-friendly distribution and DRM platform. All this paranoid nonsense about malware and infections is just ridiculous.
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DPsx7 posted...

Who said there was a warning?

If it was on the box, you were notified that Steam would be installed. Not Valve's fault you didn't bother to research what you were installing to see if you'd like it.

DPsx7 posted...

They can't touch me or my discs/carts.

We've been over this. It's in the EULA; your usage rights may be revoked at any time. Will they do so arbitrarily? Of course not, because it'd be highly impractical (especially where you're so paranoid as to cloister yourself away like you do) and do more harm than good with the bad press it'd generate (also true of digital), but they are legally entitled to it.

DPsx7 posted...

I did because the Doom 3 PC was old and the following PC was built around the time of Quake 4, Fear, and Serious Sam 2. There wasn't anything wrong with the system.

So you had the spare RAM and therefore nothing to complain about.

DPsx7 posted...

Great, then I'm telling you how it worked since you weren't there.

And I'm telling you how it works since you aren't here. I'll accept that it may have been a problem for you, but that problem's been fixed.

DPsx7 posted...

If they didn't tell us what it was doing to our PC

Can you name a single commercially-available program that tells you everything it does to your PC?

DPsx7 posted...

I'm not applying anything.

You've defined malware (as you see it). By stating a definition, you are applying the label of "malware" to anything which fits that definition. Ergo, in your eyes, a number of OS's can qualify as malware.

DPsx7 posted...

It didn't.

It did. Trust me, I've actually used it since 2006.
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DPsx7 posted...

adjl posted...

DPsx7 posted...

once in a while I do find people who used it in its early days and agree it was s***.

And what do those people say about how its early state compares to the present day?

The conversation would kinda stop there. They knew the pain and didn't act like you looneys by constantly asking questions.

And you never thought to ask if it got any better?
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DPsx7 posted...

Of course being the first to deliver the infection if I saw 'Steam required' on the box I wouldn't know what that meant.

In which case it's your own fault for not heeding the "warning." Nobody sneaked anything onto your system, you just didn't pay attention. Probably clicked blindly through the installer, too.

DPsx7 posted...

Yeah it's no secret Steam is a large reason why I despise digital releases today. Physical lets me control the gate, nobody else.

We've been over this. If a publisher wanted to stop you from playing a copy of their game, owning a physical copy wouldn't protect you from that. It's easier with digital, yes, but in practice that'd just mean you'd be slapped with a lawsuit if you continued to play the game, rather than being able to revoke access directly. It is no less illegal to distribute copies of a physical game than it is a digital one. Digital's just easier to enforce.

DPsx7 posted...

I never wanted anything running in the background when I was gaming, no matter how little resources it used. Rather than keep my PC top of the line I'd just turn down the settings if I got something more demanding. You shoulda saw me playing Doom 3 on my Win ME system. None of the enemies had any textures.

You explicitly said there was nothing wrong with your computer when people blamed your computer for your troubles with HL2. If you were barely scraping by the minimum requirements such that you didn't have the extra RAM needed to run Steam in the background, I think we can safely blame your computer for your problems.

DPsx7 posted...

No it doesn't. I distinctly recall the game being disabled because they were working on the lines. Broadband was new to the area at the time.

I couldn't tell you about 10+ years ago, but nowadays, offline mode is pretty seamless, even if you don't enable it before losing connection. If that was a problem, it's not anymore.

DPsx7 posted...

Being I didn't use it I thought it was a phishing scam and hit delete. Afterwards I thought it said something about changes were made and this was sent to confirm them. Mighta been a phone number?

That still doesn't support your conclusion, nor is it even remotely credible due to how vague you're being about it.

DPsx7 posted...

I know what it did, what it would continue to do, and wanted it gone. It left traces in the registry. Besides, it's not a terrible idea to clean out the system once in a while.

It isn't, but that's entirely ancillary to the claim that you had to wipe the drive to be rid of Steam. Saying that you "knew what it would continue to do" hardly qualifies as substantiating your claim.

DPsx7 posted...

Nah OS's are way easier to work with.

Irrelevant, your criteria could still be applied to them. That's cause to review your criteria, not double down on them and add explicit exceptions.
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DPsx7 posted...

once in a while I do find people who used it in its early days and agree it was s***.

And what do those people say about how its early state compares to the present day?
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

If you are never motivated by emotion, what's even the point of life?

You can be motivated by emotion without letting said emotions get the better of you. By definition, spite hurts everyone involved. Therefore, acting on it is stupid.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

This sounds like you're not getting it out of spite instead of actual reasons...

Spite is an actual reason; if somebody makes you spiteful, they deserve to be spited.

If you let spiteful feelings drive you to do anything, you're an idiot who sucks at emotional self-regulation.
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Greenfox111 posted...

What does he mean by "phones home?"

No ET jokes please

Communicates with a central server of some sort. In the case of malware (specifically spyware), that's for the purposes of relaying personal information from the victim of the infection to the entity that infected them. Pretty much any internet-connected program relays some sort of information from the client to the server, though, since that's just how they work, so that's kind of a ridiculously broad criterion.
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Blaqthourne posted...

Wow! 49 over is $359, but an extra kph is $9,641.

Eh, there are always going to be borderline cases like that where somebody doesn't quite meet the threshold for the "we don't want scum like you driving anymore" charge. Really, at that point, you don't have room to complain about being hit by a major fine. You crossed the line for "too fast" quite some time ago.
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DPsx7 posted...

I wanted to install the game, was never asked to install Steam.

My physical copy of The Orange Box mentions that Steam will be installed on the box, if memory serves. Dunno about HL2 back when it first came out, but I can tell you I was not remotely surprised by Steam in 2008, even without knowing much about it beforehand.

DPsx7 posted...

It blocked me from running the game on several occasions.

That is indeed how DRM works. Your license of the game does not allow you complete, unfettered access to it. You have to go through the proper channels.

DPsx7 posted...

I watched it using my resources when I preferred to leave everything to the game

If Steam uses enough resources to qualify as a "resource hog," you should consider upgrading your RAM.

DPsx7 posted...

It phones home because it doesn't work if you don't have an internet connection.

It does work without an internet connection.

DPsx7 posted...

I know it stole my info because Valve changed my account details a year or two ago and I haven't touched it in years.

That conclusion would be a flagrant non sequitur even if you could remember what was in said email.

DPsx7 posted...

And yeah the only way I was sure to be rid of it was to wipe the drive.

That was your own decision made out of absurd paranoia, not a decision made after failing to remove it by normally uninstalling all associated processes.

So... you're 1 for 6 there, and even that's being pretty generous given that it sounds like you're just describing ordinary DRM restrictions. Heck, with criteria that vague, you could make a case for most operating systems being malware, and then we'd really get to laugh at you. You're arguing about something you know nothing about, then calling others - who have actual experience in the matter - ignorant for disagreeing with you. It really shouldn't surprise you that you're being laughed at.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Unions are unnecessary when the law is properly formed.

In theory, but in practice it's fairly difficult for legislators with no experience in the field in question to legislate it properly. As such, unions exist to let workers drive that regulation instead of leaving it up to people that have no idea what they're talking about.
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DPsx7 posted...

Do I need to be that specific every time?

You need to not try and broaden your statement more than it can actually be broadened.

DPsx7 posted...

the quick answer is you can't make a lot without access to buttons.

The DS had no shortage of quality touch-only games, and that was with a relatively small, primitive touch screen. Sounds to me like you just lack creativity.
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Zangulus posted...

Nichtcrawler X posted...

What were they expecting? The investigation after a young child dies is always very strict.

Tell that to all the times parents leave their kid in a car to cook to death and theyre not even charged because theyve already suffered enough.

I mean, if we're going with criminal charges and sentences as a means to deter them from ever committing the crime again, having a child die as a result of an honest mistake may well be more deterrent than a prison sentence could ever be. I think it largely boils down to how repentant the parents are as a consequence of their loss. There was a case in Alberta a couple years ago where a toddler died of meningitis after his parents tried treating him with naturopathic remedies instead of going to a doctor. That one ended up being controversial because it was challenging the parents' right to treat their child how they saw fit for what they believed was croup, ultimately boiling down to the fact that they had both a naturopath and a nurse friend tell them he needed to go to a hospital (at one point, he was so stiff that they had to drive him around on an air mattress because they couldn't get him into his car seat), and they disregarded that until it was too late (they took him to a hospital after they found him not breathing).

What swayed my opinion on that case was the fact that, rather than admitting fault, the parents are still denying any sort of wrongdoing. The father (who coincidentally has some degree of ownership a line of naturopathic products) spent his prescribed three months in jail, and they're still working to appeal the ruling (they were granted the appeal on the grounds that the jury didn't receive adequate instruction from the judge and there was too much medical jargon from the expert witnesses). Everything about their conduct says "I would do it again," which means their attitudes and behaviours need to be changed. There's a world of difference between that and somebody who is devastated by the loss of their child and will move heaven and earth to keep it from happening again.

Here, they don't exactly sound repentant. This also goes beyond carelessness because they chose to conceal what they knew was a medical problem. There's ample reason to expect that they will similarly neglect their other children, so a harsher penalty is warranted.
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LinkPizza posted...

DPsx7 posted...

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DPsx7 posted...

I'd ask why she thinks you'd want it.

It's not you, it's them. People are annoying.

Ever stop and think it's not them, it's you?

Not even once. If it wasn't them then I wouldn't have reached this conclusion. Customers, people who call phone support, anyone wandering the mall, telemarkers... There's also a growing list of turds here who need to be swept out to make room for more common sense.

You'd be able to find someplace else, right?

It sounds more like a list of anyone you don't like or anyone who doesn't agree with you. It doesn't really sound like it's them...

Argumentum ad populum is very weak arguing, but if everybody disagrees with you, that's usually a good sign that you should be taking a long, hard look at yourself.
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green dragon posted...

whoa whoa whoa, hold on a sec. Steam link isn't cloud gaming(well, technically it is, but people mostly refer to cloud based gaming as playing games from on outside server), it's just streaming from your pc to whatever device you have your steam link on (or similar app).

It isn't, but it's a similar concept. Performance is very much going to depend on network speeds, so if your network isn't fast enough, you're gonna have problems. The difference arises in that Steam Link relies on ethernet speeds, whereas cloud gaming relies on internet.

DPsx7 posted...

I hope you're right. While the points all make sense I wouldn't put it past the s***tier companies (EA, Act, M$) to try anyway.

Oh, I'm sure they'll try. The game industry will try any bad idea at least once. Ultimately, though, it's just not going to work, and trying to push it after arriving at that very obvious outcome would be more idiotic than even they can be expected to do.

DPsx7 posted...

I didn't see any links to Wally

likehelly posted...

most recently? this, specifically
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/76873954/906387708

There are two in there, both of which demonstrate that you can get a smartphone for cheap and conclusively prove wrong your assertion that they're all prohibitively expensive.
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Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

His word choice aside, he speaks true.

True enough, yeah. Streaming games doesn't work tremendously well for anything twitchy, unless the game isn't particularly demanding. Playing Rogue Legacy via a Steam Link was fine, but playing Dark Souls II didn't work at all. The concept of it being an "infection" is just laughable, though, hence I lol'd.

DPsx7 posted...

Infect is the word I wanted to use because this is something we can't allow to spread.

And that's laughable. Streaming games is never going to be more than an option for the vast majority of games. From a publisher perspective, digital distribution remains the superior option because it uses less of their bandwidth and computing power. From a consumer perspective, it's only ever going to be at all useful for those with a weaker system, and only then for games with relaxed timing. I'm sure some publisher will try making a streaming-only action game, but that's just not going to work at all and the game will flop too badly to inform anyone else's policy. Don't be so ridiculously paranoid.

DPsx7 posted...

Anyone can make a site with guessed numbers but it's not gonna hold up as proof.

He linked you to Walmart's website, where you could buy that very phone if you wanted to. Those aren't "guessed numbers," that's the price Walmart is charging.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Mead posted...

Gosh what a coincidence that the one major country still involved in the asbestos mining industry is Russia

Canada was as well but Canada ships it off to India... And apparently shuttered the mines in 2011 so never mind

I'm glad they stopped that. They weren't even putting warning labels on the stuff. There were pictures and videos of Indian workers unloading and handling asbestos with no protection whatsoever. While it's not entirely our responsibility to get them to wear PPE, the fact that Harper's government was so willing to say nothing about its risks was just disgusting.

Lokarin posted...

Real question: Is asbestos more effective than contemporary products?

For some things. These days, with all the regulations around it, it's probably not cost-effective anymore, but the reason it ended up in bloody everything was because it was an extremely versatile and useful substance, as well as being pretty cheap.
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