(no subject)

So, let me get this straight ...

The Apple iPod mini is smaller, holds only 4GB (granted, that's 1,000 songs, give or take, but still), and is $250.

At that price, I'd rather spend $50 more and get the 15GB model, or save for a while and get the larger models. Not that I even HAVE that much music, but it's the principle here.

This post got muddled with a couple of different topics. I can cope.

Apparently a lot of people are pissed off that the newest expansion for Neverwinter Nights, Hordes of the Underdark, is single-player only. They want their money back, despite the fact that it says quite clearly on the box, 'Single Player 20 hour campaign' or something equally clear.

To those folks, I say: Bark my schlonky, spork-boy!

Some people. Yeesh. If I could afford it (and if my PC was a little better -- I have Shadows of Undrentide and haven't played it much because it taxes my PC a bit too much for my liking), I'd snap it up -- I PREFER good single-player stories to multiplayer.

But that's just me.

The bigger issue, of course, is this idea people seem to have that they're entitled to a refund. The same thing cropped up when WoTC released the Revised Core Rulebook for Star Wars d20 -- a bunch of raving dipshits wanted WoTC to give them the free revision or a credit/trade-in of their old books.

Excuse me? It's a product, kids. You bought it. You used it. If a new version comes out, you don't have to buy it. I could easily have continued running my game with the original CRB, but at the time I could afford the RCRB and so I switched -- because I liked most of the changes -- and specifically told my players "don't buy this unless you really want it" because I didn't want them to feel forced to buy it -- one copy is sufficient for most gaming tables. I felt neither entitled nor in need of a trade-in credit.

Where does this sense of entitlement come from? Why do people think they're owed so much these days? Is it the schools? Is it the years of frivolous lawsuits with big payoffs? Or is it just that parents are spending too little time raising their kids, and letting the TV do all the work?

I don't know. But I will tell you this for certain: my children will not grow up thinking the world owes them anything. They will never want for anything important, but they'll also learn that you can't have everything you want (and even when you can have it, you can't always have it when you want it) and that most of the time, you have to work for the good stuff.

(no subject)

People need to see this. Spread it: 'Free-speech zones' sponsored by ShrubCo.

Thanks to wicked_wish for the link.

(no subject)

This test is actually pretty neat, in that the questions are very much "You either get it or you don't."

69.04761904761905% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?

(no subject)

I went back to my old basic LJ style. Don't know why; I just did it.