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Unwashed Village / Re: Research into a cure for homosexuality, unsurprisingly, bares no fruit.
« on: June 27, 2013, 05:33:18 AM »word Nazis are marching.
It always comes back to the nazis.
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Unwashed Village / Fallout New Vegas mod - Project Brazil
« on: June 13, 2013, 11:20:44 AM »
http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/45138//?
Has this been on anybody's radar? I'm gonna hit the download overnight and see how it plays, but from what I've read so far it looks promising. Only the first installment is available so far, which looks like it's probably going to mostly be in and around Vault 18. They're saying the playing area is about the same size as the capital wasteland from Fallout 3. And conversations will be much more stat driven apparently, so roleplaying should be a bit more immersive.
Has this been on anybody's radar? I'm gonna hit the download overnight and see how it plays, but from what I've read so far it looks promising. Only the first installment is available so far, which looks like it's probably going to mostly be in and around Vault 18. They're saying the playing area is about the same size as the capital wasteland from Fallout 3. And conversations will be much more stat driven apparently, so roleplaying should be a bit more immersive.
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Unwashed Village / Re: Add One Sentence - An alternative to "Add Three Words"
« on: June 13, 2013, 11:08:05 AM »
"Uh, well, there's this bear, you see," started the unfortunate impromptu spokesman for the slavers.
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Unwashed Village / Re: R.I.P. UVer David "Kama" Hartstein
« on: June 13, 2013, 11:01:51 AM »
Wherever he's gone, there's a whole lot less pain.
I'm glad he got to do so much with the time he had.
I'm glad he got to do so much with the time he had.
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Unwashed Village / Hi guys, sorry I've been away so long
« on: June 13, 2013, 10:57:08 AM »
I thought I'd stop in and say Hi.
I think the last I told anybody, I'd gotten married to my high school sweetheart and landed my high school dream job.
Well, I'm still married, but I quit the job. It was an eventful two years, what with a little old lady on a harley writing off the van and such, but in the end the pay didn't match the conditions, especially not after that laptop full of cockroaches I was expected to fix. So I quit, gave my replacement a crash course and applied to do a Bachelor of Education at uni. Because it's been so long since high school I had to take a STAT test, which I aced. I got my acceptance within a week of sitting the test, so either they looked at the results really quickly and decided to snap me up or I didn't actually need to do the test. The latter is slightly more likely.
Anyway, I'm now halfway through my first year of four (five if I go for honours, which I may yet do) and have exams next week. Every assignment so far has been an A and I'm feeling pretty darn proud of myself. If I can just solve the problem of perpetual poverty I'll be happy.
I think the last I told anybody, I'd gotten married to my high school sweetheart and landed my high school dream job.
Well, I'm still married, but I quit the job. It was an eventful two years, what with a little old lady on a harley writing off the van and such, but in the end the pay didn't match the conditions, especially not after that laptop full of cockroaches I was expected to fix. So I quit, gave my replacement a crash course and applied to do a Bachelor of Education at uni. Because it's been so long since high school I had to take a STAT test, which I aced. I got my acceptance within a week of sitting the test, so either they looked at the results really quickly and decided to snap me up or I didn't actually need to do the test. The latter is slightly more likely.
Anyway, I'm now halfway through my first year of four (five if I go for honours, which I may yet do) and have exams next week. Every assignment so far has been an A and I'm feeling pretty darn proud of myself. If I can just solve the problem of perpetual poverty I'll be happy.
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Unwashed Village / Re: The Politically (In)Correct Thread
« on: October 24, 2012, 08:28:07 AM »
Another quirk of electoral systems:
In Australia we have a representative system - people vote for someone to represent their electorate, whichever party wins the most seats runs the government.
Let's say there's 100 electorate all up (for simplicity of mathematics sake.) Each electorate has 100 voters (again, for simplicity)
In 60 of the electorates, 60 people vote for party A. In the remaining 40 electorates 90 people vote for party B.
In spite of the fact that 60% of voters chose party B, party A wins the election because they won in more electorates.
Changing the numbers around, with party A winning in 75% of the electorates with only 60% of the votes in those electorates and only getting 10% of the vote in the remaining electorates, they'd still control 75% of the seats in government having only received roughly 47% of the country's votes.
This leads to some electorates being sidelined, constantly overlooked for all but the most unpopular projects (I live in one party's safest electorate in the nation...coincidentally, when that party was in government, this electorate was chosen to take in the refugees from the Iraq and Afghan wars without any committment to improve the infrastructure in the area)
I could rant about the effects that's had on the local economy, but meh.
In Australia we have a representative system - people vote for someone to represent their electorate, whichever party wins the most seats runs the government.
Let's say there's 100 electorate all up (for simplicity of mathematics sake.) Each electorate has 100 voters (again, for simplicity)
In 60 of the electorates, 60 people vote for party A. In the remaining 40 electorates 90 people vote for party B.
In spite of the fact that 60% of voters chose party B, party A wins the election because they won in more electorates.
Changing the numbers around, with party A winning in 75% of the electorates with only 60% of the votes in those electorates and only getting 10% of the vote in the remaining electorates, they'd still control 75% of the seats in government having only received roughly 47% of the country's votes.
This leads to some electorates being sidelined, constantly overlooked for all but the most unpopular projects (I live in one party's safest electorate in the nation...coincidentally, when that party was in government, this electorate was chosen to take in the refugees from the Iraq and Afghan wars without any committment to improve the infrastructure in the area)
I could rant about the effects that's had on the local economy, but meh.
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Unwashed Village / Your gaming rig! (bragging time, because it's been too long)
« on: October 22, 2012, 04:56:40 AM »
I've just ordered parts for my new gaming rig and thought back to the times that other people have started these kinds of threads. It occurred to me that it's been quite a while, so everybody's probably running completely different things from what they did back then.
My new machine will have a pair of GTX660's in SLI with 16GB of RAM and one of those new i7 3930K processors. It's been 5 years since I upgraded, and that was to a few steps below the latest then. I figured it's time for a proper upgrade.
My new machine will have a pair of GTX660's in SLI with 16GB of RAM and one of those new i7 3930K processors. It's been 5 years since I upgraded, and that was to a few steps below the latest then. I figured it's time for a proper upgrade.
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Unwashed Village / Re: Some better news (well, sort of)
« on: October 21, 2012, 06:47:28 AM »
Good to see you've got some kind of support available there.
We've got a parliamentary enquiry going on over here into sexual abuse by catholic priests at the moment. It was pointed out last week that of all the cases investigated by the church, none were then referred on to the police by the church.
The other point that was brought up that I thought was noteworthy was that it generally takes 20-30 years for the abuse to be reported by the victims. So it's hard to know whether the abuse was stamped out in the 80's or if we're just waiting for the victims to report it.
We've got a parliamentary enquiry going on over here into sexual abuse by catholic priests at the moment. It was pointed out last week that of all the cases investigated by the church, none were then referred on to the police by the church.
The other point that was brought up that I thought was noteworthy was that it generally takes 20-30 years for the abuse to be reported by the victims. So it's hard to know whether the abuse was stamped out in the 80's or if we're just waiting for the victims to report it.
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Unwashed Village / Re: Even the BBC is not immune
« on: October 12, 2012, 09:16:25 PM »
Killers on our roads - Crossing a busy freeway could end your life.
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Unwashed Village / Re: Found a defintion of 'derp'
« on: October 12, 2012, 09:13:57 PM »
And there I thought it was just a short way of saying "The situation/information/person I am encountering right now has qualities resembling people with greatly decreased mental capacity."
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Unwashed Village / Re: Are politicians getting stupider?
« on: October 04, 2012, 11:02:17 AM »
I knew a donkey once, but his wife was a complete dragon and his friends were absolute ogres.
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Unwashed Village / Re: This. Is. Awesome.
« on: October 04, 2012, 05:33:48 AM »
Thankfully my first exposure to The Onion was the parents who wanted to euthanase their daughter because she was brain dead, only capable of grunting and basic thumb movements across her iphone.
I just wish the quality of their work wasn't so hit-or-miss.
I just wish the quality of their work wasn't so hit-or-miss.
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Unwashed Village / Re: Are politicians getting stupider?
« on: October 04, 2012, 05:31:48 AM »
Maybe it's a remake starring Sarah Jessica Parker?
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Unwashed Village / Re: OK, I admit it; the real BlueCross is really showing in this one...
« on: October 01, 2012, 01:17:56 PM »
Vat grown vaj?
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Unwashed Village / Re: Are politicians getting stupider?
« on: September 21, 2012, 04:25:53 PM »
Yep, the biggest problem with true democracy is that the vast majority of voters have absolutely no interest at all in any given issue and quite a large proportion of those who DO have an interest are completely misinformed.
I've been doing spreadsheets all evening, so I've got numbers in my head. Therefore I shall pull some out at random.
For any given issue:
70% of voters have no interest.
15% are interested but have their facts wrong.
10% are interested but want more information to weigh up the options.
5% are interested and ready to make an informed decision.
Thankyou for watching Swash's cynical political analysis.
I've been doing spreadsheets all evening, so I've got numbers in my head. Therefore I shall pull some out at random.
For any given issue:
70% of voters have no interest.
15% are interested but have their facts wrong.
10% are interested but want more information to weigh up the options.
5% are interested and ready to make an informed decision.
Thankyou for watching Swash's cynical political analysis.