barbos
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Not a gamer here. Can someone explain to me character level, item level and required level?
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Musk getting pretty damn pathetic
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Think of it like degrees. Lower School, Upper School, Undergrad, Grad, PhD. Musk paid people to grind out the Undergrad to PhD of gaming for him. People became suspicious because he was trying to discuss quantum physics (what his PhD is in) but kept asking "What the fuck is a Wave Function?"
thebeave
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Well, one sign of a good businessman is that he knows how to delegate tasks, amiright?
barbos
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I understand all of that - Musk is a miserable but very confident cheater/BSer. The guy in the video talked a lot about Musk clearly not understanding mechanics of the game. I just want to know the relation between character level and items level.
Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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Let me try to explain this in a way you would understand...
Different games might handle these differently, but a common way of implementing those features might be something like this:
Imagine Putin is part of a MMA fighting game. The max level is 200. So, Putin would be 200 or maybe 201. He has a 50th degree black belt and let's call that an item. Let's say that the item level is 200 because it's a really good item with great armor and +agility stats or whatever. Then, it might be implemented to be only possibly worn by levels 200+, could be required level to use it.
Now you join the game as a level 1 noob and somehow you get this item, but you can't wear it. It's not that you are going to get thrown out a window by Putin's men, it's that the required level is 200 and you are just a newbie.
Putin and maybe Steven Segal could wear it though.
hurtinbuckaroo
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Is there much overlap between the gamer and hacker communities? If so, this is the equivalent of wearing a t-shirt with a bullseye on the back.
No, no overlap at all.
Hackers never play video games. There's no time for it because they are busy hacking (sometimes video games), and when they aren't hacking they enjoy outdoor activities such as birdwatching.
Meanwhile gamers refuse to hack because the entire community values sportsmanship, decency, and the spirit of fair competition.
barbos
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Who is Putin and Steven Segal?
barbos
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Does not need to be an overlap. Musk showed himself as a fake and poser. That's enough to piss off people of different hobbies.
Swammerdami
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I learned a new word today! Pay, From Old French peier, from Latin picare (“to cover with pitch”).
Was it the wrong word? In our post-Democracy, workers who don't toe the line in obeying the Orangist overlords may end up being payed and feathered.
By the way, a boat deck can be "paid." Both wiktionary and Merriam-Webster admit this as an alternate past-tense form. And, although "to pay out a rope" derives from the usual etymology, it is allowed either "paid" or "payed" for its past tense.
And -- I am so sad -- it appears wiktionary has changed the lay-out of its pages. The quick summary at the top with links is gone. Who ordered that?
A boat deck can be payed, a rope can be payed out, but employees are usually paid.It's not cheating if your employees do what they are payed for.
A word spelled wrong is a terrible thing.
Was it the wrong word? In our post-Democracy, workers who don't toe the line in obeying the Orangist overlords may end up being payed and feathered.
By the way, a boat deck can be "paid." Both wiktionary and Merriam-Webster admit this as an alternate past-tense form. And, although "to pay out a rope" derives from the usual etymology, it is allowed either "paid" or "payed" for its past tense.
And -- I am so sad -- it appears wiktionary has changed the lay-out of its pages. The quick summary at the top with links is gone. Who ordered that?
is that related to the etymology of paypig?
Swammerdami
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And now I learn yet another new word today! Clicking to Wiktionary I see
Just to get that far on the Wiki page, I must scroll past a bold-faced warning:
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hurtinbuckaroo
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Then he has nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
Derec
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Not quite doubled, but the stock did well. The entire stock market did well though, recovering from the Pandemic slump.
Decitrillionaire?
Again, not quite doubled.
But, I think you mean me here?
Well, let me retort. This fits perfectly with my model of the recent inflation.
The increased spending in the aftermath of the Pandemic led to people having more disposable income. That caused them to spend. A lot of people were wary of in person services so they bought stuff. Often on walmart.com. As people resumed more in-person shopping, well, Walmart has a huge brick-and-mortar footprint.
More money chasing fewer goods and services leads to inflation.
This is fundamentally misunderstanding cause and effect. Greater demand leads to increase in price and that increases profits. So inflated dollars often ended up in higher corporate profits, yes, but that was a consequence of the inflation, not the cause.
It's not like mustache-twirling CEOs decided to want more "profit-taking" and increased prices entirely independent of all the fiscal stimulus that flooded the economy.
Now, let me repeat what I said before many times. Some inflation was inevitable and it was good to have some fiscal stimulus. But it should have been ended sooner. There was no need to have programs like expanded unemployment and child tax benefits continue well into 2021, since the economy had reopened by late 2020 anyway. There was no need to delay student loan repayment until October 2023.
There was no need to seek to pass a $3,500,000,000,000.00 Spendapalooza as inflation was already increasing.
And that's where AOC/Bernie wing of the Party come in. They had dragged Biden to the left, especially on spending.
Swammerdami
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It's this pedantry -- this insistence on calling attention to every misspelled word, this "need" you have to find an objection to every clause in a post you think you're refuting -- that leads some of us to ignore your posts, or even add you to an Ignore list. If you do have something pertinent to say, please put it in red ink. When I see you focus on trivia, I often stop skimming.
Since you want to "micromanage" the important topic of whether WMT value grew by a whopping 101% or just an unimpressive 99%, let me point out
- WMT stock pays dividends. The dividends are smallish but -- You do the math, please. Remember that WMT paid SIXTEEN dividends during the term. I think they were more than ample enough to push the 99% return on WMT to 101% !!
- Did you define the beginning of Biden's term as Election Day, Confirmation Day (Jan 6), Inauguration Day, or -- as many do -- wait a quarter or two to start the reckoning when the President's agenda becomes clear to traders? No doubt, you'd pick whichever served your immediate purpose.
- I posted Monday, but may have had an edit buffer active from Friday: WMT reached 93.44 on Friday. By Tuesday WMT was fluctuating near 91. Next time, do we need to synchronize our watches if we post about a share price?
- Neither of us actually knows yet whether or not WMT stock doubles during Biden's term. We won't know until next Tuesday at 12:00 Washington time. Is it OK if we just assume the exact clock position? Or will we need to check WMT's price at the precise second where Trump spits on the Bible?
You may have made other points in the post that started "Not quite doubled, ... Again, not quite doubled" -- I'm sure you honed in on your single-cause-for-inflation theory -- but since the value of WMT stock is so dear to you, I addressed that.
I just thought it interesting that WMT's stock doubling pushed the number of decitrillionaires from 14 to 17. But in that stratosphere, individual fortunes rise or fall by several billions in a single day. Maybe there are 19 decitrillionaires right now. Or only 15. Should we quibble about that?
I pointed out this story to a mate of mine and his reaction was, "Patooka, I'm not the least bit fucking surprised Blizzard games have become so shit you have to pay someone to play them."
Fucker made me choke on my coffee.
Fucker made me choke on my coffee.
barbos
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I remember playing this a little. Have not played anything similar since then.
1) How about something about what the video contains?
2) Why in the hell should I watch a video whose title reveals a blatant error? Why should I expect it to be any more accurate than it's title?
I see nothing terrible about w-r-o-n-g. There are times a spelling error can be pretty bad, though...A boat deck can be payed, a rope can be payed out, but employees are usually paid.It's not cheating if your employees do what they are payed for.
A word spelled wrong is a terrible thing.