Didn't think Sofia Coppola was terrible. Not memorable, but not bad either. Plus, for me she atoned for any mishaps with Lost in Translation.

Now conversely, huge fat fuckers whom you'd expect would be horrible in the water are quite buoyant.-This is why if you are ever involved in a cruise ship mishap, all you'd have to do is tether as many fat people together left onboard after all life boats are gone. If there's one fat guy big enough, you can use him as a personal, shark-feeding flotation device....

With the pimp-Air show mishaps happen (plenty examples on the VS already) and human tragedy for human tragedy sake is always a loser in choggieland-

I'd like to think the snide description reflected your distaste for drama as spectacle though instead of a, "WHOA!! Did you see that shit?!" rally-race reaction...

Thin ice suggests some pending mishap-Perhaps I'll watch both offerings now...

All of the regular information sources were pointing at a failed DRM launch. Looking to beta sources can only get you so far, beta is a beta. Whose to say that a "bug" isn't a "feature". After playing the game for a bit, I can see that much of the "first impressions" done by reviewers who looked passed the DRM still didn't uncover some of the real underlying problems and instead were stuck on problems where there was a lack of understanding.
Example; Often the focus would be on things like "I have enough power, yet my buildings arent getting powered". Took me a little while to figure out that each building has a capacity that needs to get filled before it will stop sucking up power from the grid and allowing further buildings down the electrical grid to take in power.
I bought the game knowing I could live past most of the problems presented. (I play mostly on off-peak hours and my play style meant that it would take about 3-4 hours before I came close to maxing out the size of the city, compared to the commonly reported 1 hour)

I enjoyed the game for a while, it was a new and different type of simcity. But after a while, once the understanding of the mechanics settled in, there is an inherent problem with how the current game is running. It goes back to the original point of not enough focus on the actual game, even if the DRM, marketing mishaps, and community backlash/suppression is ignored.

Yo man, she was under a lot of pressure and she blew out the end of her answer with a jam-packed-battery of well-articulated and enunciated garbledy....She was able to endorse the wholesale use of marijuana and pull it off looking genuinely concerned about the potential for any mishaps....I am gonna pick very smart and not-so-stupid

Grace under pressure.

That is tragic. If you're going to have a firearms appreciation day (which I support) then you better damn well make sure it has zero mishaps - otherwise you'll get judged by the actions of the minority that don't practice up to date strict gun safety.

Let's talk about death. Ban fast food, ban alcohol, ban the bucket soda. America is unhealthy and living a consumer/me first life style. The problem isn't with the guns -- it is with the people. It's the "have's" and the "have not's". The divide has only grown. I'm so tired of the gun issue. How about talking about cars. There are far more traffic deaths than gun deaths in the US. Hell there are a lot more deaths from a few kids to bullets. I hate saying it, but we look a blind eye to it.

Go sue GM, Ford, McDonalds, <insert factory>

For far as Europe vs. US... How does a young country of US fair against the centuries of mishaps the collective group of europe have made?

At least we tried to learn from your fuck ups.

i ran a rather succesful pizza franchise for a while. i was quite generous with my pay and even in a low-mid income pizza store, i could easily afford to pay $15/hr to all my staff (of 20). Tim Hortons (canada) sells enough volume of coffee at roughly $2 a cup (plus other things) to afford starting wages of $11/hr in my town (plus benefits like basic health care stuff/drug palns blah blah blah) and pay/hour only goes up from there.

big corps have the margins to support this, in theory based on experience, for most low level income areas (10-15k sales a week) have a 10-15% proft margin. thats a week. once the mortgages and other build loans are paid, a business runnings expenses half. and that margin doubles. so in practice, most major fast food chains could easily afford to pay more and the only people who suffer most is the top level. they would raise prices to make the same yearly income. so, yes, an economy could sustain and only really gain from paying its own employees more. happy employees at home means less drama and stress related "mishaps" (food industry is very stressful) in the kitchen, would in theory benefit the company.

primarily, the only real people to suffer is the top level. the guys that skim the left over (profit margin) after expenses are paid.

if a company raised its prices because its employees wanted more wages, and they actually did pay them more and treated them better, i would shop there more often as that is a business i want to succeed. but thats another issue altogether to discuss is the need for people to spend as little as possible, making places like walmart and black friday sales so succesful. in part, we are to blame for what is happening, but we do not ask those companies to treat their staff the way they do to achieve this goal.

um, also good for them, most of those franchises lost thousands in one day due to loss of sales. so remember that if you think this wasn't successful.

like this? http://videosift.com/video/PHY-NYA-Aircraft-carrier-mishap
>> ^AeroMechanical:

Wow, that's a lot of energy. I had a friend who worked deck crew on an aircraft carrier, and he told me about how occasionally the wires used to catch the jets when they land would snap. He says he saw a guy have to jump over the same wire three times as it snaked around (it's the sort of thing that would cut you in half if it hit you).

People != world class athletes. Your body also simply gives warnings, it won't stop you from doing anything unless your physical body literally fails, at which point, no will power will produce any steam.

>> ^renatojj:

Proof that people have more steam then their bodies lead them to believe.

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>> ^spoco2:

They played with fire there with some of the stuff they did in an apparently open plaza. High speed vehicles, shooting firearms (with blanks, but still) etc. all in an uncontrolled area.
You'd never be allowed to do this in Australia or, I dare say, America.
And I agree. That's not Drama 'We know Drama'. No you don't. If you pick a movie in the 'drama' genre you're going to get very little of what was just shown and far more deep discussions and crying and long stares into the middle distance.
Apparently "We know Action but think it's called Drama"
Oh, and women in underwear, we know that too, doesn't really fit into Action or Drama.


Given the amount of cameras and the way everyone was standing around expectantly I think it's clear it was a controlled performance with no chance of any mishap.

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My feeling on the matter is that under the presumption of innocence, we should give Paul the benefit of the doubt and attribute the publication of such idiocy to incompetence rather than malice on his part. Now, that's still not a great attribute for a presidential candidate ("Hello, Mr Putin? Hi, I just wanted to say that it wasn't me who sent you that letter declaring war, it was an aide. Hope that clears things up, sorry about the mishap"), but hey, we've all made mistakes, and fair enough Ron Paul's a busy man.

Unfortunately there's still a whole host of other damn good reasons not to vote for him and this is just the straw that broke the camels back.

I very much doubt he'll get the nomination anyway.