Damn all those omniscient people that can read maps of where trains are going and make a decision on which train will take them to the place they wish to go!
So you failed to read the map, what now? We are stuck on this train going to the wrong place. Bummer. Quit. Jump off the train and lose your $60 ticket. You would not want to continue going somewhere you have no desire to end up. However, If you bought your ticket thinking, "Hey I'd be entertained to know where this goes" and then you jumped off because you don't like the scenery, well, your a quitter. I'd probably continue to the destination, others might not. Different stokes.
I'll identify the flaw in each of these examples.
- Entertainment, or being entertained, can not have a set value like money. You value different aspects of your gaming experience than I. You may think these endless puzzles are worth nothing, I may think they facilitate the end/progress though a game and therefore I value them more. Kind of like if your ROI for X is $500 but my ROI is $800 and your ROI for Z in $800 but my ROI is $500. In theory I could put any arbitrary number as a ROI as its an unquantifiable value when assumed as entertainment/being entertained.
- I don't play Go. But, it looks like your still playing regardless of which pieces your holding.
- So, you have an hour? Is this quitting? I think this is more time management. If you were to never pick up this game again because you only have an hour to play right now then I suppose yes that is a great example but I can not think of any reason to permanently end a game because of a time restraint not set by the game itself. I don't know about everyone else but I need to sleep every once and awhile. I do not consider myself a quitter because I need to manage my time to include 8 hours of sleep between gaming sessions. = )
Why would I ride the wrong train? I would not go to GameStop and buy the latest Hello Kitty video game as I have no interest in progressing through such a game. Just like I have no interest in travelling on the wrong train.
Its more like this... why get off the train just because, while getting on/off, one car you walk through smells bad. Your getting to your destination but you have to walk through this smelly car. Why end the trip early? Your not in that car the whole trip.
Its all relative to the person I suppose. I have no problem entertaining the notion of running around a house 100 times to progress through a game. Others (most?) may not have such an attention span. Now if there was no progression or end to this 100x house then I suppose I would quit or, more likely, would have never picked it up to begin with.
I like this post, well written and throughly thought out. However, I disagree on many points. GP seems to be talking about gaming, not real life. There are obviously an innumerable amount of differences between the two, up to and including, the consequences of decisions. Your "trivial" examples are countered in many games. Ever have had a game vendor that will only sell you something once you have bought so much stuff from them? Rarely will this ever happen in real life, citing your examples, but this happens all the time in the gaming world (Think vendor reputation).
Lastly, entertainment is personal preference. I hate being a quitter in games and actually it makes me even more determined when I see that Game Over screen. You may have an opinion that a game stops being entertaining when your grinding or stuck at one spot but imo its a means to an end. It makes the progress you have mean something and its that perseverance that I find entertaining. I would take it one step further actually, Gaming 101 - Never Quit.
Its 6 vs 8 pin. The 8 pin has +2 grounds. The advertised power consumption is a difference of 25w between the cards w/ the 6970 being the higher draw.
Agreed, I should have noted "recommended to be served at a halfway house".
I am pretty sure the actual sentence was 1 year 1 day in custody; to be served at a halfway house.
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more fullscreen and Facebook in iPhoto, Audio editing and automatic trailers in iMovie, Rhythm correction and lessons in Garage Band
Why can't all this functionality be available through one integrated program instead of being fragmented over many sources?! The end user will get confused!
Yes, great idea. Have the Egyptian American who is on the watch list take an unmarked black box w/ blinking LEDs and antenna onto an airplane. He should also carry a brick wrapped in duct tape and label it c4...
It was my understanding that the current torrent implementation is set because of the bottleneck at Blizz ISPs in LA and Dallas. I'm fairly sure about 3 years ago the LA ISP (ATT?) bombed locally for an hour or so right after a WoW patch was released. I am not sure how much of this is rumor but the use of torrents over direct DL access may not be entirely Blizzard's idea (fault?).
I give this 2 days before it is modded back to Taliban.
Atleast they'll understand Pi.
Some reptiles hibernate during the winter (Diamondback Rattlesnakes) while only 1 primate (Female Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur) hibernates. If we are talking about temperate zones, I would think a reptile has a better chance of surviving a winter. Although, I guess it would depend on the actual species of Gorilla and/or reptile.
Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
"You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you take a gun and shoot him." -- Pat Robertson, TV Evangelist, about Muammar Kadhafy
