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Aces High General Discussion / Re: Back in the Game
« Last post by Brooke on Today at 12:52:04 AM »Welcome back.
We will have a scenario near October. Hope you can join us.
We will have a scenario near October. Hope you can join us.
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The O' Club / Re: An intersting discussion on AI augmented programming
« Last post by Brooke on Today at 12:43:06 AM »
Is that why life in New York city is so much nicer place to live than average mid sized middle American town?
I wouldn't say NY is a nicer place to live than say Denver or Sante Fe.
But it does have a lot more people packed in tight. Coincidence?
I have pals who could live anywhere who prefer NYC. There are lots of people with preferences like that. To them, NYC goes through waves of better and worse, depending on who runs the place and their policies, not depending on density fluctuations.
Manhattan (to choose a defined area) peak population was in 1910 (2.3M). Its population as gone up and down. Today is 1.7M. What was its best decade? 1960's had 1.7M. 1870's had 1M people.
Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore are high density but safe.
Density is pretty high in some old European towns that people think have good quality of life (ones built up a hill, or crammed into a little valley).
In college, I lived in a dorm of 1300 people packed in. It was a blast. And safe. It was sort of like living on a space ship. But I wouldn't want to live in a 1300 person favela in Brasil.
I don't think density is the main determiner of quality of life for a locale.
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: TO Better Help New Players
« Last post by Mongoose on Today at 12:19:38 AM »It has been pointed out that new players will usually just dive in without reading any instructions or tutorials. For this reason there are instructional videos that play whenever a new player starts up the game. Once someone figures out that this is fun, and they need to learn some more about it, then they will sometimes go looking for instructions.
Most of the players I know are happy to help new players. But we don't always recognize the need when we see it.
Most of the players I know are happy to help new players. But we don't always recognize the need when we see it.
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The O' Club / Re: An intersting discussion on AI augmented programming
« Last post by CptTrips on Today at 12:11:37 AM »Among the good things, humans have been stressed out, fighting and killing each other, starving to death since before recorded history. From the invention of the first city onward, humans have periodically died in disease-ridden hordes in close quarters.
People have romantic notions of the past, or pick 1982 or whatever as a spot in time that was best. But on average over time and over people, life has gotten better and better. Not worse. Life expectancy, wealth per person, energy per person, quality of life per person, all better today than before.
Is that why New York city is so much nicer place to live than average mid sized middle American town?
I wouldn't say NY is a nicer place to live than say Denver or Sante Fe.
But it does have a lot more people packed in tight. Coincidence?
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The O' Club / Re: An intersting discussion on AI augmented programming
« Last post by Brooke on Yesterday at 11:59:09 PM »Does this not sound like modern Americans?
Among the good things, humans have been stressed out, fighting and killing each other, starving to death since before recorded history. From the invention of the first city onward, humans have periodically died in disease-ridden hordes in close quarters.
People have romantic notions of the past, or pick 1982 or whatever as a spot in time that was best. But on average over time and over people, life has gotten better and better. Not worse. Life expectancy, wealth per person, energy per person, quality of life per person, all better today than before.
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The O' Club / Re: An intersting discussion on AI augmented programming
« Last post by Brooke on Yesterday at 11:51:24 PM »Pfft.
I got a friend who always says that. For when the asteroid come we have to be out in space to save the race.
Not just that, but the aspect of what you get when you have 10^N worlds instead of 1.
None of this is a math proof, though. Depends what one thinks is the purpose of existence, or what to strive for long term. All subjective.
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The O' Club / Re: An intersting discussion on AI augmented programming
« Last post by Brooke on Yesterday at 11:48:50 PM »"Gentlemen! We can not allow fighting in the War Room!"
Contaminating our precious bodily fluids.
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Aces High General Discussion / Re: To HTC...
« Last post by Spikes on Yesterday at 08:35:47 PM »Free to Play, I would love to see this happen. Add a small group of planes and vehicles to a FTP setup in the MA. Granted these players are going to get hammered, but if they stick around long enough to see how deep this game really is I think you could get some turn over to subscriptions. The only downside would be players that cancel their subscriptions to fly the free stuff. Personally I really dont see that happening. Most of the players here have been paying the $15 a month for years, many who dont even fly. With that kind of loyalty I think your safe from that happening.
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The O' Club / Re: Theme song for MASH, disturbing.
« Last post by bj229r on Yesterday at 08:11:03 PM »First heard the haunting acoustic lines when I was a kid, when the series first came out. Never heard the actual SONG until years later, even MORE haunting