Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Well, i actually believe this is more some politician wanting to do cheap marketing acting like hes “solving” something, when in fact, its not doing ***.

In the past, we had two robberies case where the victim was killed by knife.

What the politician did? Wrote a law draft to forbid knife possesion.

This actually just made the citizen that work with knifes harder, but the politician had his day of free marketing.

And nothing else was changed

Banishing them to fellowships would be nice, but I'm clearly biased.

XIV has very strict moderation while FFXI has very light moderation, mainly because of the mindset of the players of each game.

The problem is, both games have the same kind of strike system. You get one warning and then you get parma banned. These people got a warning for posting RP stuff on the party builder system. I think it's stupid but they should not get an account strike for that imo.

Yeah. Especially if they didn't technically break any rules. It sounds to me like the devs are covering for their own poorly-designed setup.

Step 1: Come up with means for all players to have fun in their own way.
Step 2: Rewrite the part of the TOS about interfering with others' ability to enjoy the game to include crossing those newly-established boundaries.
Step 3: THEN if someone posts RP in the party finder they get a warning.

It sounds to me like they went straight to step 3, and maybe in the future they'll do steps 2 and 1. That's not a good way to run a business.

I agree on some level. If SE plans to enforce rules a certain way, they should publicly announce the intent before slapping people with warnings and bans.

Edit: Didn't see Jessikah's post. Yeah, that sounds fair. I've just never seen them operate that way in any game. I wish they would.

taking a three day weekend since my days off last week were iced in and horrible. ordered some tacos and fruit punch jarritos. now to get pld xp and be lazy all day =D

WHAT AM I? YOUR GOOGLE?!




mexican sodas. quite delicious.

yeah. they also have a strawberry one that is super good too.

yes and no. it really depends on what you're going for. if you're wanting something to over power the alcohol taste like fruit juice and vodka (orange/cran/etc) then it wont work well, but if you don't mind the taste of booze then it can mix well with some things. ex; fruit punch or pineapple with rum. the flavors compliment each other well. would be ok as a chaser for a shot i suppose. sharp sweet flavor. otherwise a vodka and strawberry jarritos just tastes like a watered down strawberry jarritos with an after taste of vodka fumes.

Pineapple is the best, running away.

Nice. I'm taking Friday off myself. Work's got me heckin' stressed, and I've got vacation time to burn before I quit lol

Sorry.

Work's got me heckin' stressed, 'eh?

/stares

What makes it a "crackhead mail truck?"

Oh yeah, their iconic vehicles have no a/c, and as they drive with the window down... (I'm not sure if they had heat, I'm assuming at least a little from the engine).

Decent paying gig if one can get on and stay with it though.

My province just finished La Poutine Week, where hundreds of restaurants came up with ridiculous poutines to compete for votes. Next year if the borders aren't closed, you'd best come up here! :D

Interesting video about movie miniature film making.

The way this starts you think it's going to be garbage, then at the end he blows you away with the quality of his work.

I really like the tamarind.

On the XIV front my PF looks no different than usual.

Sony Reportedly Censoring Violent Depictions in Games

https://www.dualshockers.com/sony-reportedly-censoring-violent-depictions-in-games/

Well you don't have to worry about politicians censoring your games if the video game companies decide to do it instead! Thank's Sony!

Actually I just realized: in FFXI no one ever "dies" outside of cutscenes. Players are simply "knocked unconscious" and monsters are "defeated". Our PvP is considered a training exercise, and even the magic used to resuscitate fallen allies is called "Raise" and worded "Revives target from KO".

Not only does this make this game one of the least violent ever, it also helps make sense of why you don't just cast Raise on NPC's who die in cutscenes lol

EDIT (so to not double-post) There's something to be said about people who write software with several means to irreversibly erase hours of work with no warning.
"What's that? You hit Save? I guess you didn't notice that I undid that ply change in the sister program. And since the plies are now mismatched, I don't know what else to do but overwrite the entire job with a blank file!"
"Sure, I can move that floor joist 1/4 inch to the right for you! Wait, what's happening? Ugh, AnAlYsIs ErRoR! MUST AUTOSAVE TO ENSURE CORRUPTION OF ENTIRE PROJECT BEFORE CRASHING! Blaaaah..."

Yeah, but given the kinds of drops that you can get (chunks of meat, fur, bone, organs, etc.) it's clear that most of the things we "defeat" are straight up murdered.

Then again, there could be exceptions....

https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Siegemaster_Assassination

On the one hand, I like the new episode. Building Yuffie's story relevance early is great, and Deepground as a concept was cool even if the execution in DoC was less than stellar.
On the other, this having a different name likely means it's not bound by the same exclusivity contract as the original release, so even if a PC version of Remake comes out once the original exclusivity period ends in April, it won't have any of the new content.