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Off Topic / Re: I'm in big trouble by the HOA

« on: November 10, 2013, 02:38:03 AM »

you've misunderstood that experiment if you take it as being applicable to all situations. there are far more factors at play in this scenario.
if someone is past the threshold of caring what uniform you're in (as a result of alcohol, drugs, general aggression, etc (factors not in the study btw)), what good is your experiment then? are you going to quote the study to them while they've got you pinned down? lol

The essence of the experiment (whether or not an being an authority figure actually makes a difference on judgement of others) is applicable to all situations. I'm not saying there aren't more factors at play, but on a psychological level everyone (including people who may break into gated complexes) is predisposed to obeying implied and expressed commands from authority. Drugs may deteriorate their ability to make intelligent decisions, but that's besides the point. What I was saying is that authority is derived from the uniform, not your muscular build. If someone's going to attack a security guard, it's not their muscular build they consider before doing so.

Regardless to that, and onto the original point: it isn't a security guard's job to use force to prevent unauthorized entry nor crime from occurring on premises. If someone fails to be reasoned with upon being confronted (this includes attacking you), it isn't your job to stop them. It's your job to call the police. Being attacked by potential criminals is an occupational hazard of the job regardless of the employee's muscular build and while you're correct in that being stronger will make it easier to protect yourself it's sort of irrelevant to your ability to actually perform the job you're hired to do. A gate guard is not a body guard.

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Off Topic / Re: I'm in big trouble by the HOA

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:23:38 PM »

Petty criminals don't defy psychology simply because they're in such a situation. That's an absurd claim to make.

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Off Topic / Re: Car thread

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:22:51 PM »

I don't think the Prius is ugly, but that's subjective so I'm not gonna argue it. I've never heard the song though, so I can't really make a point there either.

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Off Topic / Re: Car thread

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:18:22 PM »

What cars does everyone hate?  Here's a few that I hate....

Toyota Prius

Don't hate on the Prius. It's a great car and will go forever before needing a tank of gas. Sure, it's not very fast, but if the primary goal of automotive innovation was speed then every car would be running Veyron engines.

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Off Topic / Re: I'm in big trouble by the HOA

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:14:19 PM »

more than? lmao no. might be a contributing factor but no way in hell it would be more of a deterrent

I don't know, according to the Milgram experiment people will actually go to the extent of killing other human beings simply because a perceived authority figure (in this case a scientist in a lab coat) tells them to.

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Off Topic / Re: I'm in big trouble by the HOA

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:09:34 PM »

you would not be a very good deterrent either

That's the HOA's problem, not mine. I've seen some pretty scrawny guards though, I think the psychological phenomenon of observing a perceived authority figure via uniform would act as the deterrent more than the physical capability of the person in uniform.

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Modification Help / Re: Disable collision between players/bots

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:07:48 PM »

The answer to your request is that you can't. Electrk didn't do this either, I don't know what you saw but if you did happen to import a player without a collision box safely, I'm absolutely sure that the outcome would be the player falling through the ground.

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Off Topic / Re: I'm in big trouble by the HOA

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:04:14 PM »

and what if stuff goes wrong? i dont see you being able to put up much of a fight

They're not allowed to actually do anything anyway, just call the police and act as a deterrent.

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Off Topic / Re: Car thread

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:03:35 PM »

I like the old version a lot but I also like the new one a lot. When I imagine the Viper I visualize an older one, but if I were to get one I'd go for the 2014.

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Off Topic / Re: I'm in big trouble by the HOA

« on: November 09, 2013, 08:58:39 PM »

no one wants to stand guard 24/7
even if I was offered a little money (We're talking 30 bucks an hour or less to do it.)

You wouldn't?

I wouldn't mind getting paid to sit at my ass in a guard tower surfing the web and playing games on a laptop all day, with the catch being once every hour I have to get up and talk to someone that pulls up to the gate to visit. I especially wouldn't mind if I was getting paid $30 bucks an hour, holy stuff I'd be making $1200 a week to surf the goddamn Blockland Forums!

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Off Topic / Re: Guess what I woke up to...

« on: November 09, 2013, 02:34:45 PM »

Hey look, it's snowing here too!

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Modification Help / Re: Homing Projectile

« on: November 09, 2013, 02:31:38 PM »

Code: [Select]

%p = new (%this.projectileType)()
{
dataBlock = %projectile;
initialVelocity = %velocity;
initialPosition = %obj.getMuzzlePoint(%slot);
sourceObject = %obj;
sourceSlot = %slot;
client = %obj.client;
};
MissionCleanup.add(%p);

                // your code to find %object

%p.getDatablock().schedule(300, HomeToObject, %p, %object);
%p.setScale(%scaleFactor SPC %scaleFactor SPC %scaleFactor);


Try changing it to that.

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Drama / Re: Lukas "Okiver" Larsen - Master Hacker

« on: November 09, 2013, 09:31:44 AM »

Remember when plaz was a thing because he got his key revoked? Oliver is now also a thing. We'll all laugh in the future and Oliver is dealt a tremendous fine from danish police.

Plaz is legit the funniest dude I've ever talked to. Like aside from all the gay as forget stuff he did on BL, he's so loving funny that it's unbelievable. I've cried on skype laughing so many times from his stories.

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Off Topic / Re: I have a 14 second clip of the Android mascot in space on my Dropbox???

« on: November 08, 2013, 11:55:08 PM »

yes because if you pay enough money you can put anything you want in someone's dropbox

Is this sarcasm? I'm pretty sure if Bill Gates offered Dropbox a few billion to put some files in everyone's' dropboxes they'd say "forget, sure!"

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Modification Help / Re: Homing Projectile

« on: November 08, 2013, 11:47:34 PM »

Uh, you may as well just do initContainerRadiusSearch(%this.getPosition(), 100, $TypeMasks::PlayerObjectType); %target = containerSearchNext();