I remember Battle for Wesnoth when it was just beginning. I love fantasy wargames, but most other people don't. Wargamers want hardcore reality, and fantasy fans want roleplaying, so they don't often meet and when they do it usually pisses off one camp or the other. I played it, enjoyed the hell out of it (it's basically Panzer General with some bits rearranged), and was disappointed when the main campaign ended abruptly in an unfinished scenario. Oh well, it was clearly under development, I'll come back later. That's how this kind of thing works.

When I finally saw a link to it a few years later, I remembered it and excitedly tried it again. This time the main campaign worked and there were other campaigns to download. Great! But...the campaign I played was poorly written because it was easy to get into a walking dead situation, where you had no chance to win, none. I complained about it on the official forums and was told I needed to have developed at least 2 third-level healers by the scenario I couldn't finish. Are you kidding? How was I supposed to know that? Isn't this kind of bullshit that killed the adventure game?

Larry had GRASS, but GRASS is also a word for CANNABIS, which in turn is a kind of HEMP from which you can WEAVE a ROPE, so WEAVE GRASS and you have a ROPE.
-- Adventure game logic

I started hanging around the forums since I liked the game so much and was disturbed by what I saw. The game was chosen for a "Google Summer of Code" project and had all sorts of artists and other nongamers hanging around. Super, you think, right? Not really. These people weren't with Wesnoth to make a better game, they were here to as a sort of training session. They didn't give a crap about the game itself, and it showed. They were real keen on doing the 90% of fun work, and leaving the 10% of hard work unfinished. And hell, why not? It's for your class project, after you get your letter grade for class or your SoC participation verified or your bullet point on your resume, leave it for others to finish. It's open source, if you don't like it change it yourself. And IMO this is why Wesnoth is where it is today. It's not a game, it's a continual software development project first and foremost. It can never be finished. If that ever happened, there would be no more resume polishing, and that would be a great tragedy.

I'm probably going to get an angry Wesnoth fan rebutting me with something like, "you're not a member of the community! Your opinion doesn't count because you're not a part of our ecosystem." And you know, you're right. I'm not. I'm just someone who likes fantasy wargames.

I wish the US government would stand up to the people and tell them "NO!" when something is clearly bad for them, instead of pandering and vote-grabbing. A lot of people in this world think China's curated system is better. The people in their government are educated scientists and engineers, and they can concentrate on doing the right thing instead of constantly running for office.

People don't take taxis every day, and a taxi isn't an extra room of your house. I've been in some cars that were freaking filthy, in my own family no less. What with the erosion of trust-based society, you can count on the fact that there will be plenty of people who think it utterly hilarious to wipe boogers everywhere and take videos of themselves vomiting under the seats.

Nope! They're an arm of the U.S. government, and report to the American people. If you find it embarrassing, you are free to ignore them. They don't report to you, if you get anything at all from them, consider it a bonus and divide everything by 0.621. You can do math, right?

Seriously, the metric flame is such a slashdot cliche. I feel embarrassed for you. Does anyone else embarrassed that cliche-spewing posters infest every NASA thread?

How can you be as hardcore left as you can possibly get? You're pro-nuclear! If you're not anti-nuclear, you can possibly get further left. Geez, don't you love people who contradict themselves in the middle of their own sentences?

A pro-nuclear leftist is like a pro-tax conservative. It's just a contradiction in terms, and anyone who claims to be so is either crazy, lying, or outright intellectually challenged. Or they are so out of touch with their own side as to be a unicorn.

Well, it's a good thing fewer and fewer Americans are taxpayers these days. In fact, "taxpayer" is a right-wing code word.

In other words, Americansâ(TM) taxes are parallel with taxpayers' consent, suggesting that expenditures that do not correspond to an individualâ(TM)s will are some kind of affront.

I've seen any number of low-flow toilets in my time, and they almost always need multiple flushes to clean the bowl from #2. Although I'm glad you can trumpet the superiority of white Australia in public. Seriously? How did you even get up to +4? I love the tagline, instructing the inferior people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Right-wingers like you are on the way out, you're headed for the dustbin of history, and you just can't stand it, can you?

There are three professions where being untruthful is the key to success: Lawyers, salespeople, and marketing. All three are hired to portray their client in the most favorable light possible, and the very best ones lie through their teeth. The worst of these three are the marketers because they have legions of psychologists and scientists trying to figure out the best way to lie to people.

How horrible it must be to go through life like that, only looking at labels instead of people. So, so limiting. Oh well, whatever the narrative tells you to believe, eh?

My impression isn't that it's age discrimination per se, it's the culture of twentysomethings. The way they were raised, they are simply uncomfortable with anyone but their own kind. It's not that they hate old people or anything, it's just that they feel weirded out and feel they couldn't possibly work every day with such a person. It's lack of empathy with "the other". It's also a form of oikophobia, in which they welcome people from other cultures but fear and loathe people from their own.

You can trot out the tired cliches about GET OFF MY LAWN LOLZ but at a certain point, there is truth there. I never felt weirded out by working with age 50+ people, even when I was a new recruit. It was just something everyone did. But now, unless you're one of their own kind, they just get freaked out and think they can't deal with having you around day in and day out. When it comes to making a decision, they drop the black ball in the fishbowl and that's it. No regrets, they just prefer the company of their own generation.

And I can sort of see where they're coming from. What happens when they share the latest meme from Tumblr around the office? You're going to show a blank look and keep on working. You're not on Tumblr, nor Twitter, nor Facebook, and this not only weirds them out, but makes you automatically suspicious. What are you trying to hide by not making your life public? You're probably a child molester of the kind that their parents constantly warned them about. "Stranger danger!"

It's a good thing that Linus didn't think that way. Otherwise we'd never have Linux.

You know, I was ready to read your comment until the bigoted attack against lower-class, powerless people. That sort of shit makes me hate you. Get back to your luxury apartment and plastic surgery, you classist right-wing fuckbag, and never post on Slashdot again.

Because there's a wide, yawning gulf between breaking into an occupied home at night and breaking the fish & game laws? Seriously, people aren't aware of this? There are hundreds of years of precedent. You gotta crack open a book one of these days and learn about your own culture. "Reason is the life of the law," and all that. Here's a good place to start. Remember, education is always a good thing. Then, you can learn the answer to your question. You're welcome in advance.

Gosh, better not break into people's houses and rob them, then. There's a thought! Or at least do it somewhere else. My, this whole "people voting for the laws they want" thing is hard to understand, isn't it? We would all be much better off if the Council of Alphas made decisions for us, since they're more intelligent and therefore much less likely to make bad choices. (chuckle)

In Japan? Seriously? You really think the cops do that? There aren't any black people, the ones they do have are concentrated in Tokyo, and the majority of them are from Africa, not America. The violent culture just isn't there. The Africans are just happy to be out of Africa and the African-Americans are playing up the hip-hop bit to screw lots of Japanese girls.

I'm curious if you can point out a time in human history when everything made logical sense. Much like your post above, it doesn't make any sense and never did.