The Gaming Den

getting pissed off with the worms that travel through the ground in caves. Hence sky fortresses. I build everything at least 50 blocks off the ground before I even start building. When I fight the Eater of Worlds (giant death worm), I sort of channel him up through my house to get a good fighting p...

Avoraciopoctules wrote:Terraria is awesome, and it has been eating up large amounts of my time. That is all.

Same here. I'm in the Jedi Space Man phase of the game (meteor armor, rocket boots, lightsaber). It's pretty great.

I played through the campaign on hard the first time, with the exceptions of two missions; the last level and the protoss mission that's basically the same as the last level. I just did not have the patience to grind through all those zerg on hard. Incidentally, if you want to play a round sometime...

Also, Starcraft 2 I'm impressed with so far. Trying the Single Player Campaign again on hard. I played through the campaign on hard the first time, with the exceptions of two missions; the last level and the protoss mission that's basically the same as the last level. I just did not have the patien...

Differs by state. Start by asking your attorney general: http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/tenants.shtml On a thirty-second reading, I think your best bet is this: "You have a right to demand that the landlord repair any condition that materially affects your health and safety. Under Texas la...

Hey, anyone want to play some Starcraft II? The beta's up until Monday, I'm free most evenings after 5 EST.

Isn't that basically admitting to fraud? "We know it's wrong, but we will continue to do it untill someone sues us AND a judge tells us to stop" I'm not a lawyer. But basically... seemingly yes. They came out and said that they signed contracts which they have no real intention of honorin...

So...rich people live longer than poor people. And that's supposed to be news?

It's an option in a mortgage, whereby there's a written response: They take the home. Or a car loan. Etc. ... You could say 'there's always the option of murder'. But that's not a legal nor ethical option. So don't act like it's a real option. -Crissa It's also an option in a contract, whereby ther...

So the number is totally immaterial and a specious argument. Not true. I do get where you're coming from, but the number of regulations matters because more regulations are more costly to enforce. Regulations are not free, in any sense of the word. They cost actual time and effort and money from ac...

And if you read Upton Sinclair, you'd know that there are good reasons to have many regulations involved in making of a hamburger. But it still doesn't stop this[url] or [url=http://burgerbeast/]that which kill people every year, either. We still have to try. -Crissa If you're upset that the forty-...

Heh, Rising Mists creates a massive area of pea soup+ thick mist, but seeing it dispelled must look weird as hell; seeing a multi-kilometer diameter area suddenly look normal because salt was thrown into the air I imagine it being a big shhhhhoooooooommp! as the fog gets sucked into the grains of s...

Smeelbo wrote:In hard copy, it is on page 21 of Wizards of the Coast 2010 Product Catalog, July - December, which was sent to me to solicit for my fall and winter D&D orders.

Smeelbo

Wait, I thought you had to be joking. There is no fucking way Wizards is selling booster packs of D&D, right?

Seriously, at what point was Avatar set in the future of Earth? The eco system isn't devastated and there are no relic computers. -Username17 I think at one point where Roku's talking about Sozin's Comet he says something to the effect of, "Every one hundred years it passes near earth ." ...

People don't actually draw their opinions from the bible. They alter their perception of God and their interpretation of their holy texts to match their pre-existing ideas. That a believer could easily "get so far away" from any religious message is not at all surprising. They were never ...

Such a great TV show, such a bad movie. What a waste. I'm waiting for a fan-made movie to come along, because really, it seems like a trained monkey could do a better job at this point.

Tell your seditious buddies to quit getting their info from Jack Chick, the 700 Club and Tom Hanks and to do some actual reading instead of just bashing the game they don't want to even try to understand: Um...you sound insane. And not just because you're screaming about sedition (which I never eve...

After a discussion with a friend of mine I'm not even sure how our current tax system works. The way it was put to me this weekend while I was offline was some bit about there being some legal snafu that allows people to not have to pay taxes in America. I can't find a precise figure on how large t...

The original Tea Party was to protest taxation without representation. The US currently has taxation with representation. Thus, using tea is an inappropriate action that accomplishes nothing except pointing out which people are not clever enough to research what they are protesting about. That's a ...

Ganbare Gincun wrote:BEHOLD! Google explains it all!

Not as good as Are You Afraid of the Dark.
Anyway, some more useful background would be why the OP thinks these things are usually presented as a bad thing. I'm pretty sure they're great.

How about a little background for those of us not immediately familiar with the topic?

Could someone give me, like, a two paragraph explanation of what SQL is and what it's used for? I've only ever done substantial coding in Java, but apparently I'm gonna need to learn SQL for my new job.

virgileso wrote:The court decided to effectively remove public domain

/facepalm

You know, I had a lot more respect for U.S. legal institutions before I learned how many boneheaded decisions are coming out of them.

Of course, for the most part, SSDs have removed the reason to defrag and if you're obsessing over moving files to the edge of the disk, I think they're very much worth the cash. I hear that solid state disks are much more expensive per gigabyte than normal hard disks. I've heard about people puttin...