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#1  Edited By CatsAkimbo
@PixelGorilla said:

PC users will get these maps even if they didn't purchase the "limited edition" (tho they'll probably get them later), it's only the console players that need to worry about getting the LE or paying extra for them.  

I didn't read that anywhere, so I hope you're right!  It'd be a shame to have a fractured user-base once the "limited editions" stop being produced.
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#2  Edited By CatsAkimbo

I think this is kind of a terrible idea.  These are my favorite maps from Battlefield 2--some of my favorite maps from any FPS--and I really want to play the shit out of them in BF3.  So not including them in the main game or giving them out for free really bugs me, because it's only going to limit how many people will be available to play with. 
 
A year after the game is out, it'll be pretty depressing if only 40% of the people have these maps.  I have faith that DICE can create some good new maps, but damn if I don't want to just hop on a karkand server for a couple hours without pulling out my old BF2 dvd's.

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#3  Edited By CatsAkimbo

The funniest podcast I've listened to in months.  Thanks for making look like like a moron, unable to hold back my laughter on the bus this morning :D

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#4  Edited By CatsAkimbo

Another hint: Pedro runs for office in this movie

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#5  Edited By CatsAkimbo

Hint I haven't seen anyone get yet:  This movie has John Travolta in the role he may be most well known for.

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#6  Edited By CatsAkimbo

Such a pain in the ass :(  luckily I don't use that password for much, but now I can never use it again

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#7  Edited By CatsAkimbo

I played a few demos for the PC client and was fairly impressed.  It definitely depends on the game.  Twitchy stuff like racers or quake were pretty bad, but less demanding games like red faction worked just fine.

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#8  Edited By CatsAkimbo

Why did activation put bloodstone out a week before black ops? They set bizarre up to fail

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#9  Edited By CatsAkimbo

@Brad  Thank you for posting this.  I don't check teamliquid that often cus their site is messy, and thats the only other place to find out about sweet tournaments like this.

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#10  Edited By CatsAkimbo
@FourWude said: 
"

The Protestant Work Ethic was about the substitution of actual worship for work. It regarded work as a form of worship.... and yet that's not really how work in the modern western economies has turned out. Work is almost devoutly secular if not atheistic in its belief of leaving God out of the equation.

I would also go into a discussion on Usury, the impact of usury on western countries and the secularisation of societies, but this ain't the thread and I'm busy.

"
Yep, but it has evolved over time and can be largely attributed to Ben Franklin's writing as I said in the original post.  Franklin was not very religious, but his writing contained a lot of that protestant work ethic.  This is what Max Weber referred to when he said he "secularized Calvinism".  He took the religous part out of it and left the work ethic.  
 
@LackLuster
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" You should listen to A life well wasted podcast "

I do and I love it :)  I wish Robert Ashley would post some more of them. 
  

@Zithe

said:

" @Ragdrazi: I have an honest question: Do non-gamers in China think gaming is a waste of time? If so, does the "Protestant work ethic" ideology apply to them as well? "

I'm not sure.  According to Prof. Goodrich "the Japanese traditional devotion to duty requires a similar self-discipline (to workaholism), but in other respects is very different from the usual U.S. workaholism".  This could apply to other far eastern philosophies such as China.  I would love to know if people in other countries experience the same dismissal of gamers that we have in the U.S.  
 
@Everyones_A_Critic
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" It's all about stereotypes. "  

Certainly.  Stereotypes are a type of ideology that are perpetuated because people tend to only see things that reinforce the stereotype.  They see the gamer sitting around being lazy but not when they're at their job.  If you know anything about how depression works it's kind of like that.  A depressed person often only sees things that reinforce their belief that they are a terrible person, and ignore things that are positive about themselves.  It's an irrational way of thinking because you're not looking at the broader picture, only at points that agree with your own viewpoint (this is called "gestalt" in philosophy if anyone cares :).
  

@ the others who pointed out that this doesn't really apply only to gaming.  You're absolutely right.  This topic is largely attributed to general "group think" where some groups carry (irrational) beliefs that put down other groups (often racism).  This is a gaming forum though, so I'm applying it only to our hobby here, which is only a very small part of the bigger issue.