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Drama / Re: I AM loving PISSED OFF AT HORRIBLE SERVER ADMINISTRATORS

« on: June 25, 2016, 07:20:46 PM »

A vip actually rdmed me for no reason then I rdmed him back and the admins slayed me.
Its pretty damn stupid if you ask me.

I seriously doubt that. If the VIP killed you and the game didn't detect a potential freekill, then he wasn't freekilling you. When you went to kill him back, you did freekill him, and the admins punished you.

Maybe if you talked to staff instead of going with street justice, it would have went better for you?

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Off Topic / Re: Do you have sunburn

« on: June 25, 2016, 07:18:25 PM »

A+ thread

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Off Topic / Re: Valve faces suit alleging role in gambling on video games

« on: June 25, 2016, 07:15:43 PM »

What are you even trying to do? I've made more money than I've spent on the game, end of story.

No, you spent money on a game, and then received more in game items that could conceivably sell for actual money. Have you liquidated any of the items you've traded for? Like, into actual US dollars? If not, you've made no money.

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Drama / Re: I AM loving PISSED OFF AT HORRIBLE SERVER ADMINISTRATORS

« on: June 25, 2016, 06:28:06 PM »

EVER BEEN ON THAT SERVER? YOU KNOW THE ONE. THE ONE WITH THE forgetTARD ADMINS WHO DO ANYTHING TO TORMENT OTHERS (COUGH*TEZUNI'S PRISON ESCAPE*COUGH)
AND THEY IGNORE IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS IF THE GUY WHO DID THE HORRID THING IS A BUDDY OF THEIRS? THIS ISN'T EVEN ONLY A BLOCKLAND THING! forget. SERVER. ADMINS.
SO, IF YOU PLAY DAYZ IN GMOD (BECAUSE LIKE ME YOU ARE TOO POOR TO AFFORD THE REAL stuff) YOU PLAY POPULAR SERVERS.
THIS friend SMITTY

This kind of behavior is symptomatic of bad players. It sounds like our admins are doing the right thing by kicking you out.

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Off Topic / Re: How profitable is the Air industry?

« on: June 25, 2016, 06:26:07 PM »

Air has been trading at 0$ for millennia. That makes it one of the most stable options for your stock portfolio.

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - UK VOTES LEAVE | 51.89% // 48.11%

« on: June 25, 2016, 06:23:45 PM »

get ready for the nwo brotherrr

is hulk hogan gonna run the nwo?

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Off Topic / Re: Valve faces suit alleging role in gambling on video games

« on: June 25, 2016, 06:11:04 PM »

He probably did a lot of scamming then.

His backpack on CS:GO was worth ~$700 at one point in time, but he's invested 1388 hours into the game. That equates to about $0.50/hr, or roughly 7% of the federal minimum wage. I'm not sure whether his backpack has depreciated from ~$700 to the current ~$50 because he's cashed out or because the value of his items has decreased. The website I used isn't clear, but either way he's not making bank.

I'm sure he's going to come back and say "it was mostly spent AFK!" or "that's not my trading time!" or all the other BS that people come up with to justify their slave-labor video game 'day job', lol.

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Off Topic / Re: Why are mostly straight white males dominating the world?

« on: June 25, 2016, 06:01:29 PM »

If you want to read a really good book that explains the geographical roots of why societies developed differently, you should read Guns Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond. It'll change your entire perspective on anthropology.

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Games / Re: Haven & Hearth 2: World 9 | A Blockland Tradition

« on: June 25, 2016, 05:57:22 PM »

so i've got a lil house set up and i'm tanning hides and claiming stakes n stuff,

is there a village yet? or soon?

We're just using a personal claim as our setup right now because there's no immediate advantage to investing the 30k LP into a village idol.

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Off Topic / Re: Valve faces suit alleging role in gambling on video games

« on: June 25, 2016, 05:52:05 PM »

I hate how people always make a big deal about items costing money. Sure, I might have spent a couple hundred dollars on some virtual items. I've also made about a thousand dollars in return.

If you're talking about TF2, you're lying to yourself. The TF2 item market is not even nearly volatile enough to get those kinds of returns, unless you've invested literally thousands of hours into this.

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - UK VOTES LEAVE | 51.89% // 48.11%

« on: June 25, 2016, 05:27:55 PM »

i'm not too well-versed on the specifics of it all, but globalization economically and culturally is probably a very good thing for us.

Economists pretty much unanimously agree that globalized, free economies are a good thing. One of the few agreed absolute facts of economics is that restricting trade damages economies in the long-run. This is why Annoying Orange looks especially terrible in the eyes of economists.

'Culturally' is more of a tricky business. The cultural argument against globalization tends to be rooted in a lot of fear-mongering and racism, so I don't really have a fact-based counterargument for that. If you're pathologically afraid of foreigners, obviously you won't like globalization.

essentially the desire for a world government or larger governments spanning several countries

This is not globalization. This is the conspiracy theorist interpretation of globalization that views any step away from nationalism as a sign that we're going to enter some kind of new world order governed by an all-powerful world government. This will not happen, as even though there's plenty of international organizations (NATO, UN, EU, etc) our definition of sovereignty hasn't changed at all.

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Off Topic / Re: Valve faces suit alleging role in gambling on video games

« on: June 25, 2016, 05:01:18 PM »

Anti-gambling laws are stupid as forget. If I want to play some back-alley dice games with my friends, I shouldn't have to drive to the Rez to do it.

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - VOTE LEAVE CLOSE TO PASSING

« on: June 25, 2016, 03:40:06 AM »

Yeah it looks like a big fall, because it is. But that doesn't make it look like its worth nothing.

The area under the graph changes by like 80%, while the actual value changed by only 10%. Even mathematically speaking, it's deceptive.

If you misinterpret what data is showing, sounds like your own damn fault.

If someone constructs a graph in such a way that an observer is likely to misinterpret it, they are responsible for representing the data in a deceptive fashion. Yes, the numbers aren't changed, but the way that the data are actually plotted has a huge impact on what the graph actually says.

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Off Topic / Re: Hey blogland, I'm afraid of getting MRSA

« on: June 25, 2016, 03:35:34 AM »

iirc, hand sanitizer is one of the things that's made this problem worse than it should be

It's because it helps bacteria evolve immunity, right?

This is wrong. Alcohol-based sanitizers kill pathogens in a fashion that they cannot adapt to. Anti-hand-sanitizer hysteria is comparable to worrying about the plague developing fire-resistance after burning corpses.

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Off Topic / Re: [UK EU Referendum] - VOTE LEAVE CLOSE TO PASSING

« on: June 24, 2016, 09:51:42 PM »

It's not deceptive because it's raw data.

But it's not raw data. 'Raw' data implies ungraphed data points, like "1.375 GBP/USD on 6/24/2016". The fact that they aren't lying about the numbers doesn't mean that it isn't misrepresentation. Go back to where I posted two graphs of 'true' data showing completely different things.

The USD and GBP are in the 1 to 2 area so other values are absolutely arbitrary.

If the y-axis went from 1-2 GBP/USD, it would actually show a realistic relative change. The graph you showed was between something like 1.5 and 1.3, which meant that the 10% drop looked more like 80%.