Comment Re:Thank God (Score 1) 298
"We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you."
Ha.
"We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you."
Ha.
They're obviously doing this so that their employees provide a better experience to the customers (as in come off as happier/friendlier).
It is silly though as well as overboard. And from my experience the Japanese are polite/respectful enough that a smile (forced one at that) really isn't needed.
I'll tell you who does need this though: US Customs agents. Seriously. Only instead of measuring the 'smile' factor it should measure power-trip probability and general douchebaggery. Then they can wear the results around all day so we civs will know which agent booths to avoid.
I don't disagree with the second amendment per se, but implying that it holds the government in check has always seemed silly to me.
I agree. It made a lot more sense when guns were really all there was. Course there were cannons and such, but still. Primarily guns.
Now days I don't think we'd do a whole lot trying to go up against the US Armed Forces. Heck, you can't even get an automatic weapon (legally) without a ton of paperwork and being put on a watch list because of it.
We should be allowed a hell of a lot more fire power in keeping with the second amendment.
How refreshing. It's because of people like you that our rights are continually being eroded. "What's that? There be terrorists!? Perform whatever security theater is necessary to make me feel safe!"
Also, I don't see how your private property comment relates to anything. The only reason this whole security theater exists is because the feds force the airlines into it.
Are you daft? The point is they had no business pulling him aside to begin with just because he had a stack of cash on him.
I'm so sick of mentalities such as yours. "He's just being an asshole!" No, he's exercising his god damn rights. Again, the whole point is TSA has been stomping all over people's rights searching them and detaining them and we can't let them do that.
It's bad enough when real law enforcement think they can get away with anything they like. But these guys are just fake cops...god damn.
And this is how Stardock's Impulse client works. You can use it to download/redownload games you've purchased but you don't actually need to run Impulse to play the games. My recent purchase of Demigod was influenced heavily by this (in addition to it being fun).
The only thing you actually need to run the Impulse client for are game updates.
Seventy-year-old people going commando, the business man in the penis pouch, shemales, the list of things I would not want to see goes far beyond the overweight.
You say that as though it's a bad thing!
Unlike Steam, you do not need to be logged in to Impulse (it doesn't even need to be running) to play your games. You only need to log in to patch games.
I realize that Steam has an 'offline' mode but I still find it annoying. You have to start up Steam in order to play anything and if your cached creds get bombed you need an internet connection to re-authenticate. Hassle.
Exactly. You stand up for yourself and somehow you're the bad guy. It even extends to parents, man. The whole "don't stoop to their level" crap.
My wife and I have a son who is one and a half years old and we've already discussed and agreed upon situations like this. When our kid is old enough to understand we're going to reassure him that if he's ever picked on and defends himself we'll defend him all the way. If we get called in to the school because of an 'incident' and it turns out he was only defending himself I don't think the school administration will be too happy when we 100% condone what our kid did.
I realize this may cause problems with him being in that school, but that's something we'll deal with if/when the time comes. I refuse to preach bullshit to my kid about 'stooping to their level'.
I was a complete pussy when I was a kid and got picked on a lot and never once tried standing up for myself. I'm going to constantly ensure my kid that he'll receive no objection from me.
HOLY MACRO!