Quote from: ggroy;533498I watch the show every now and then, mostly in reruns when random channel surfing.  (Though not every week).

Sometimes funny.  Other times kinda tragic.

I much prefer the IT crowd - always funny, sometimes tragicomic . It takes shots at both sides of the barricade, so to speak.

Quote from: Rincewind1;533490For a man of such 'high standards', I find it quite sad that he spelled "A 80s game" rather then "An 80s game", since Eighties obviously begin with an "e".

I normally wouldn't care, as I consider it unnecessary to correct someone else's grammar and spelling, especially since this is just an internet forum. But this does open an opportunity to correct something that has been consistently bugging my inner 5th Grade Teacher grammarian for months now about your posts. Please don't take this as hostility, just a helpful clarifier on usage.:

It's "Rather THAN."

Then v. Than
http://grammartips.homestead.com/than.html

Then is about time, either as a time marker or sequentiality.

Than is not about time. It is used in comparison.

Here's mnemonic aids:

"If not then, when?"
"If you can, do that rather than..."

Or, as it relates to ice cream (in an imperfectly grammatical conversation):

I'm deathly allergic to chocolate and nuts. So I'm going to eat vanilla than rocky road ice cream. (This is choosing one versus the other, to stay alive.)

I'm deathly allergic to chocolate and nuts. So I'm going to eat vanilla then rocky road ice cream. (This is a delicious form of suicide.)

See? That one letter, it's important!

Quote from: Rincewind1;533499I much prefer the IT crowd - always funny, sometimes tragicomic . It takes shots at both sides of the barricade, so to speak.

I was never really into comedy much.  (Even when I lived with somebody who did stand up comedy on open mic nights almost every week).

The only comedy stuff I ever really got into, was really cheesy stuff like Cheech & Chong, and later Beavis & Butthead.

Quote from: Opaopajr;533503I normally wouldn't care, as I consider it unnecessary to correct someone else's grammar and spelling, especially since this is just an internet forum. But this does open an opportunity to correct something that has been consistently bugging my inner 5th Grade Teacher grammarian for months now about your posts. Please don't take this as hostility, just a helpful clarifier on usage.:

It's "Rather THAN."

Then v. Than
http://grammartips.homestead.com/than.html

Then is about time, either as a time marker or sequentiality.

Than is not about time. It is used in comparison.

Here's mnemonic aids:

"If not then, when?"
"If you can, do that rather than..."

Or, as it relates to ice cream (in an imperfectly grammatical conversation):

I'm deathly allergic to chocolate and nuts. So I'm going to eat vanilla than rocky road ice cream. (This is choosing one versus the other, to stay alive.)

I'm deathly allergic to chocolate and nuts. So I'm going to eat vanilla then rocky road ice cream. (This is a delicious form of suicide.)

See? That one letter, it's important!

Now, I never claimed to be a man of high standards though, have I? Interesting enough, I must had forgotten about this ages ago - thanks. Although the link'd had sufficed, I'm not a idiot, you now.

Quote from: Novastar;533489Tis a shame you don't extend those same standards to common courtesy.

Common courtesy should be checked at the door to therpgsite, or one will be ganged rape.

Quote from: Rincewind1;533506Now, I never claimed to be a man of high standards though, have I? Interesting enough, I must had forgotten about this ages ago - thanks. Although the link'd had sufficed, I'm not a idiot, you now.

But how often do you get to create an example of suicide by ice cream for a good cause?

Quote from: Opaopajr;533511But how often do you get to create an example of suicide by ice cream for a good cause?

Are you threatening me? ARE YOU? Because I am not allergic to nuts, so you villainous plan is undone!

PS If I read any note about "mysterious death of a rich women", involving a grieving (now rich) widower and a tub of ice cream, I will know what IP to report to the police .

Quote from: Rincewind1;533512Are you threatening me?

I am cornholio!

Quote from: gleichman;533509Common courtesy should be checked at the door to therpgsite, or one will be ganged rape.

But boo-boo-kitty-fuck, how else are we to tell the children of how we met?

And so the paranoia begins... excellent.

I was going to re-post my Sapir-Whorf hypothesis about effects-based point buy RPG systems being a form of language, but frankly watching gleichman dance like an organ-grinder's monkey for our amusement is much more fun.

Dance, monkey, dance!

Quote from: Novastar;533489Tis a shame you don't extend those same standards to common courtesy.
But I guess we all have a dump stat somewhere.

If you're a real gamer, courtesy isn't EVEN a stat.  

JG

Quote from: gleichman;533509Common courtesy should be checked at the door to therpgsite, or one will be ganged rape.

That's "gang rapeD."  

JG

Quote from: James Gillen;533532If you're a real gamer, courtesy isn't EVEN a stat.  

JG

I'm a big fan of courtesy.  I try to show it, even if I don't expect it in return.

To the OP.  I used to be a fanboy of GURPS from way back.  I could sing it's praises and point out it's faults, but you know these better than I.  But despite my love of GURPS, I've decided to walk away from it.

GURPS does what it claims to do, and does it (arguably) very well.  Yet it is burdened by unnecessary complexity.  In it's earlier life, It was the only universal game in town, but now there are about a dozen or more excellent alternatives that do the same thing as GURPS with less time/money/energy investment.  I consider GURPS to be obsolete by comparison.

I prefer rules-lite, modifiable, universal systems.  I create my own content: settings, monsters, NPC's, etc.  I've found that other system serve my purposes far better than GURPS did in the past.

So I'd argue that an additional reason for GURPS' fading popularity is the availability of other game systems that can do the same thing it can, but (arguably) better.

I just discovered Risus and GenreDiversion, and the more I play around with them, the less I'm interested in GURPS or HERO.

Quote from: estar;533465No, uncertainty at the quantum level has effectively ruled out a perfect simulator.

I believe Estar is correct. To be more specific, in order to simulate this universe exactly, we would have to amass a perfect record of everything in this universe. And the fundamental laws of physics ensure this is utterly impossible.

There are limits on, for example, knowing the speed and position of an electron. The more you know about one, the less you can know about the other. This is not a limitation on equipment or process. It is a law of the universe. No matter what equipment you use, there is a limit on the knowledge one can acquire.

Also, even with an arbitrarily large amount of information, there are events that cannot be predicted. If a specific atom will decay in the next minute for example. This is a purely probabilistic event, it cannot be predicted from any amount of knowledge you could gather before the event.

There is also the limitation on information storage. To construct a simulator, you have to store all of the information you can't get. And the laws of the universe (in specific, the Laws of Thermodynamics) ensure that, even if you could get all the information that you can't get, you couldn't store it.

The universe ensures that there is a limit on the knowledge and information we can gather, store, and use. It's odd, but its the laws of physics we live under.