I'm in the same boat. It's funny too, because just yesterday I was bemoaning the death of the space sim to some colleagues here at work.
It's particularly sad because they were really just coming into their own when they died out. X-Wing: Alliance was pure joy and hinted strongly at a sequel or expansion. Wing Commander -- after a couple of bad games -- seemed to have found it's balance & fun again in WC:7 (or 6? I can't remember). Then -- BOOM -- no more Origin! Even more galling was that meant the end of hope for a Privateer sequel (a true one, not that one that got published though it wasn't bad).
Though of all of them the one I enjoyed most was Descent: Freespace (I believe it was just Freespace 2 for the sequel). Those were -- to my great surprise -- great games with good stories. I was heartbroken when the developer (whose name escapes me now) went under.
Freelance was a lot of fun, but again -- no follow-up. I always thought that Lucasarts was crazy not to offer up an X-Wing: Smuggler, or some such that lifted the incredibly fun Privateer style and plopped it down in the Star Wars universe -- I'd have paid through the nose for that.
I guess there just aren't enough fans out there to warrant the big production costs anymore, though that makes me pretty sad.
Apparently they'll just post anything anything now.
I've got some hot news! Apparently I heard a rumour about someone I don't know told some guy that Microsoft was releasing an X Box 720! It'll have robotic legs and kick you in the ass whenever you fail at something!
I could have sworn in Doom II that monster corpses didn't vanish. I have memories of some of those balls-to-the-wall firefests that ended with me low on health and frazzled looking out over a field dead brown imps.
Seems I was wrong, at least on one point. The ToS & ToU do not prohibit the use of Caldega/WINE. That said, Blizzard has posted saying Warden doesn't flag users using Caldega for suspension. Supposedly they're following up on it now. Sounds like there's more to this than what's on the face of it.
Sure you can complain. Just means they don't legally have to do anything about it. But it is bad customer service not to listen to your customers whether they have to listen or not.
This is true up to a point. I mean, I'm sure they're reading all those complaints -- they're almost certainly not just dumping them into the bit bucket. But there are customers who complain they can't fly for God's sake -- you're bound to ignore the crackpots.
Which isn't to say that Linux users are crackpots -- but they are a minority. I thought that line "...the list of affected people continues to grow" was rather spurious. Grow, sure, but how many Linux-based WoW users are really out there? You'd have a hard time convincing me they're a significant user base. Which, again, isn't to say they should be banned -- but I think they'll have a hard time arguing they were within the limits of the ToU & ToS. That explicitly says you can't use 3rd party software in combination with WoW. And no matter how you slice it, that's what WINE (or whatever it's called today) is, even if it's purpose is benign.
Still, they've made exceptions before -- I believe Warden has, in the past, detected physical impairment assistance software as hacks & they relented on that once it was sorted out. I suspect the Linux people have a tougher road ahead of them, but there's hope.
TheSo, my comments stand, if games are released for all three consoles, the Wii version will have to be butchered down graphically to work.
That's what they said about the Cube & the X-box/PS2. They were, frankly, dead wrong in nearly every case (and even backwards in a few notably games!).
I think what you're overlooking is that the successive jumps between console generations have shrunk. The 360 doesn't look all that much better than it's predecessor. Neither, frankly, does the PS3 IMO. They're better sure, but looking at the hardware specs you'd expect more. Sure, down the road developers will squeeze more out of the systems, but rember last genation? How much better the Cube & PS2 looked over their precursors? Do you feel that way about this generation? I sure don't.
I think we're at the point where they'll have to puch the specs a LOT too see a real, immediate difference in graphics power. I also think Nintendo's the only one who's grokked this. That's why they've opted for putting their money in innovative inputs rather that graphics power; that gets a lot more bang for their buck than sinking that budget into more graphics power that adds 4 more light sources, 3 of which most people won't noticed.
The author's a little flamebait-astic, but he's right about a lot of things, particuarly FF7's popularity being driven by 'firsties'. Though I have to wonder, if he hated FF7 how much he must despise the trainwreck that was FF8!
It's like he crawled into my head and managed to coalesce a lot of the things I hated about FF7. I never liked it much; it was okay but it never engaged me like the previous FFs did.
My only question -- after reading the article -- is how one would tell the difference between a Microsoft that is quietly amassing a host of breakthrough technologies and a Microsoft that is quietly (and desperately) wracking its collective head about what to do about its competitor?
More to the point, how often has Microsoft really come out with something innovative that took the world by storm? It's released rehashes of products it bought from other people, but I can't think of many cutting edge, out-of-nowhere advancements that have come from them. It's not really their core competancy is it? Which isn't to say they can't produce some slick stuff when they want to, but rather they're more often riding the coat tails of smaller trailblazers (who they either crush or swallow in the following years).
...drug dealers, car thieves & other criminals are suing Hollywood because they claim movies encourage people to dress up like spiders and beat them up.
In related news, the Plate Glass Association of America (PGAA) is contemplating class action suits of their own, citing numerous examples of films, games & other media where violence is perpetrated on -- or more commonly through -- their members.
I knew Louis Savain was wrong: time travel is possible!
At last, those who claim World of Warcraft & it's brethren are "too easy" or "too fun" have a way to recapture those heady Everquest I days, where games were work & fun was a dirty word!
I didn't feel good qualifying Vista, it's mostly that no matter how sure you are of any of the other entries, Vista is more sure of coming out. Some things are simply inevitable: death, taxes & a new version of Windows. Still, given it's checkered past and changing feature set, you're right, it's pretty much a sterling example of vapourware.
Personally, I don't consider something vapourware that's delayed from the end of the year in question to first quarter of the following. Maybe I'm picky, but I prefer my vapourware to be talking in years, not months. But every year, they pick at least one or two. Zelda being delayed 3 months does not, I think, get it the 'vapourware' sticker.
And c'mon, Google? That's a real strech. All the things they mention you can use just fine. By other people's definition, they're finished, but Google's fussy. That's not 'vapourware'. Geez, they must have been seriously hard up for ideas or something.
Starcraft: Ghost is more on the nose, though not in Duke Nuke Em's league. The Phantom is aptly named. Complaining about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD seems a touch premature I think, given how long it takes hardware standards to formalize, but at least there's a little substance there. TF2 has been in the works forever.
Vista, well, it's been delayed a couple of years so I guess it qualifies, even if it's one of those things that's guranteed to come out, in a way like nothing else on that list, even if does take another three years.
Heh, you're right on both points. I should have clarified -- they don't allow such discussion...in General chat. They specifically avoid policing guild chat & whatnot, so supposing you had a GLBT-type guild, you'd be free to discuss whatever you want there.
Since I wrote my post they've said exactly that in fact. One of the Community Managers said to post in the Guild Recruitment forum, where they also don't police for that kind of discussion. So they've more or less said straight out "We don't care what kind of guild you form, just don't discuss things that are against policy in the Generel channels".
Actually, they're quite consistent. They don't allow the discussion of sexual orientation in any way. This is in keeping with their desire to maintain a 'family safe' environment.
You wouldn't even be allowed to discuss whether Elton John is gay or not -- in fact, I know of a player who was suspended for 3 hours for doing so. Rightly or wrongly they've decided that rather than try to evaluate such discussion on a case by case basis they'd rather simply disallow discussion of the topic. This would include bannig discussion about whether or not Brad Pitt is straight so it's not discrimination.
Thus, it'd be hard to recruit for a GLBT guild without discussiong policy-banned topics. In the end, it's their game, it's their policy, and if someone is playing, they've agreed agreed to it. If someone doesn't like it, they're always free to not pay them to play.
This is purely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.
I got a DS for Christmas from my brother, mainly because neither of us could come up with something better (we always consult each other on giving each other gifts). In the end we figured my GBA SP had taken a bit of a beating of the last couple of years and at the very least a DS would simply be a fresh platform to play my existing GBA games.
Much to our surprise, the DS blew us both away. Enough that he & I went out looking for ANOTHER DS, for his Christmas present. This being Boxing Day (yeah, it means I didn't have something for on Christmas day, so sue me;) we had to fight our way through throngs of bargain hunters at several EBs until we finally found one that still had the Mariokart DS bundle (saving me about CDN$25).
While waiting in a fairly long line, I found myself carefully inspecting what everyone in line was buying. I expected to find a fairly healthy cross-section, but to my surprise found that most people were buying DS games & accessories. This surprised me because I'd been under the impression from the displays in Best Buys & such that the DS was being barely noticed market-wise next to the splasy PSP. Now there were PSP customers in the crowd, but they were very clearly a minority. Mostly 20-somethings whereas the DS buyers tended to be what I assume were parents (when they weren't clearly WITH their children in line).
Hell, I almost freaked when I watched the two people directly in front of me in line ask for the Mariokart bundle -- I was sure I was going to step up and find out they'd sold the last one to the person in front of me. When I'd left that morning to find one I'd expected the only trouble would be finding a store that still had the bundle, not that there'd be competition from other potential customers!
Of course, a day or so later I read that 'DS outselling PSP 3:1' article and that seemed to fill in the rest of the blanks.
Ironically, I play a priest as well, but obviously on the Alliance:) I completely agree with 'healers that are impossible to kill', and I'm sure you find -- as I do -- that this point in particuar is a little grating given how damned easy we are to crush.
Personally I think the pally changes are, for the most part, pretty fair. They seem to have evened out the trees a little, making them more sensible. They've eliminated what is a large source of annoyance for both pallies & their raid team (5 minute blessing).
We get our love next patch and frankly, it'd better be good. I don't know how you're spec'd, but I'm getting awfully sick of being Holy spec'd or 'Free HK' spec'd as it's also known.
Incidentally, I think when Shaman get their review we'll see similar things brought in, like totems that last longer and affect more people. I think their trees need a little work too.
I can't believe how much of what you wrote I disagree with.
First, my guild has several pallies and thier intial reactions were mixed. Some liked what they were getting and some hated it. Once they'd all had a chance to mix around on the test server though, they'd pretty much come together at "reasonably happy" to "okay with it". None of our pallies are unhappy anymore, the most displeased now of the opinion that it simply "doesn't do much for what I'd hoped, but at least it does X, Y & Z". About half our pallies PVP too, and a couple of them are consistently high (ie. first, second or third) in the standing at the end of a battleground. Pallies who say their class sucks at PVP are, frankly, poor paladins.
Second, the 'nerf' to hunter pets (as in making them uniform) is hardly unexpected and actually makes a lot of sense when you look at from a different angle. Bliz has been saying for MONTHS that this was coming, and explained why: they have always wanted pet customizability to be soley from pet points, and not from the base pet. The reasoning is actually very simple: if base pet mattered, eventually all hunters would have the same two or three pets, because those two or three would be the 'best'. Not only would this reduce uniqueness, it would create competition for those few pets. The vision of the pet is that players will choose an animal that they like (whether for the slight variation in abilities it can learn or for aethetics) and that will help provide player distinction. In my opinion, this is a far better tack to take.
Finally, I laugh at the notion that unified LFG & General channels will result in only 'local players' being accepted into groups. I can't remember the last time I joined a pick-up group (PUG) and found all 5 (or 10, or whatever) were in Ironforge (I play Alliance); inevitably at least one person is on the other continent and usually more. This is because you could always join a General chat channel from elsewhere if you knew how, and by the upper levels most had figured it out. Linked auction houses is nothing but a Good Thing(tm).
Frankly, this is looking like one of the better patches unless you're one of those Paladins that for some reason thought they'd be promoted into Gods.
Only Slashdot & linux users (myself included) could argue the merits of a boot loader:)
Now, having said, I'm sure someone will post a reply explaining in excruciating detail how my choice of boot loader could make or break my system. Hell, maybe you'll convince me. It'll be a hard sell though; I've used both in the last few years and, frankly, barely noticed a difference.
Seriously...I think Grace is a decent enough actor, but can he pull off Eddie Brock?
I had the same initial reaction but remember, there are two Eddie Brocks. There's weightlifter psycho Brock (Amazing Spiderman) and there's childhood friend Brock (Ultimate Spiderman).
As much as I love the former, the Ultimate Spiderman series has proved that good, careful storytelling can really elevate the comic book medium above it's peers. The Ultimate Venom storyline seems to me to a lot more fertile ground from which to spring a movie version. Topher Grace could fit that role well, especially given that he could probably have pulled of Peter Parker -- as Venom & Brock they might go for a darker, path-not-taken version of Parker. That'd be a pretty interesting contrast.
And, of course, this all assumes that Dunst hasn't mixed up her mix up. She doesn't seem the sharpest knife in the drawer, so maybe Church really is meant to be the musclebound psychotic. I guess we'll find out eventually.
...it must make use of the widely adopted RFC 7812, i.e. the Illegal Flag. This popular RFC was derived off of RFC 3514, known to many as the Evil Bit. Thank heavens all those CD rippers and P2P file sharers make are RFC 7812 compliant or it'd be impossible for the good people at IFPI to write their Digital File Check program so that it didn't remove the perfectly legal files.
Actually, no, according TFA, they plan to literally destroy any information not indexed, solely so they can satisfactorily know there is nothing that is not indexed.
Of course, this is an Onion article, so it's a joke.
I am confused about one thing: while I'm used to Slashdot reporting non-news as news, and incorrect news as news, outside of April Fool's I don't think I've ever seen them report satire as if it were real news.
Hyperbole much? I really enjoyed Half-life, but it hardly saved the platform. FPS can be done quite satisfactorily with a little work on a console. If anything, RTS games like C&C or War/Starcraft, or MMORPGs like City of Heroes & World of Warcraft have kept PC gaming healthy, you know, things that can't be done on a console? (Yes, I know, the odd MMORPG makes it to a console but really, how good is it compared to it's PC cousin?) Valve seems like a decent bunch of game makers, but let's not cannonize them quite yet.
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I'm in the same boat. It's funny too, because just yesterday I was bemoaning the death of the space sim to some colleagues here at work.
It's particularly sad because they were really just coming into their own when they died out. X-Wing: Alliance was pure joy and hinted strongly at a sequel or expansion. Wing Commander -- after a couple of bad games -- seemed to have found it's balance & fun again in WC:7 (or 6? I can't remember). Then -- BOOM -- no more Origin! Even more galling was that meant the end of hope for a Privateer sequel (a true one, not that one that got published though it wasn't bad).
Though of all of them the one I enjoyed most was Descent: Freespace (I believe it was just Freespace 2 for the sequel). Those were -- to my great surprise -- great games with good stories. I was heartbroken when the developer (whose name escapes me now) went under.
Freelance was a lot of fun, but again -- no follow-up. I always thought that Lucasarts was crazy not to offer up an X-Wing: Smuggler, or some such that lifted the incredibly fun Privateer style and plopped it down in the Star Wars universe -- I'd have paid through the nose for that.
I guess there just aren't enough fans out there to warrant the big production costs anymore, though that makes me pretty sad.
Apparently they'll just post anything anything now.
I've got some hot news! Apparently I heard a rumour about someone I don't know told some guy that Microsoft was releasing an X Box 720! It'll have robotic legs and kick you in the ass whenever you fail at something!
You heard it here first!
I could have sworn in Doom II that monster corpses didn't vanish. I have memories of some of those balls-to-the-wall firefests that ended with me low on health and frazzled looking out over a field dead brown imps.
Or am I misremembering?
Seems I was wrong, at least on one point. The ToS & ToU do not prohibit the use of Caldega/WINE. That said, Blizzard has posted saying Warden doesn't flag users using Caldega for suspension. Supposedly they're following up on it now. Sounds like there's more to this than what's on the face of it.
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Read the Community Manager response here:
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Sure you can complain. Just means they don't legally have to do anything about it. But it is bad customer service not to listen to your customers whether they have to listen or not.
This is true up to a point. I mean, I'm sure they're reading all those complaints -- they're almost certainly not just dumping them into the bit bucket. But there are customers who complain they can't fly for God's sake -- you're bound to ignore the crackpots.
Which isn't to say that Linux users are crackpots -- but they are a minority. I thought that line "...the list of affected people continues to grow" was rather spurious. Grow, sure, but how many Linux-based WoW users are really out there? You'd have a hard time convincing me they're a significant user base. Which, again, isn't to say they should be banned -- but I think they'll have a hard time arguing they were within the limits of the ToU & ToS. That explicitly says you can't use 3rd party software in combination with WoW. And no matter how you slice it, that's what WINE (or whatever it's called today) is, even if it's purpose is benign.
Still, they've made exceptions before -- I believe Warden has, in the past, detected physical impairment assistance software as hacks & they relented on that once it was sorted out. I suspect the Linux people have a tougher road ahead of them, but there's hope.
That is pretty much the textbook definition of tasteless.
TheSo, my comments stand, if games are released for all three consoles, the Wii version will have to be butchered down graphically to work.
That's what they said about the Cube & the X-box/PS2. They were, frankly, dead wrong in nearly every case (and even backwards in a few notably games!).
I think what you're overlooking is that the successive jumps between console generations have shrunk. The 360 doesn't look all that much better than it's predecessor. Neither, frankly, does the PS3 IMO. They're better sure, but looking at the hardware specs you'd expect more. Sure, down the road developers will squeeze more out of the systems, but rember last genation? How much better the Cube & PS2 looked over their precursors? Do you feel that way about this generation? I sure don't.
I think we're at the point where they'll have to puch the specs a LOT too see a real, immediate difference in graphics power. I also think Nintendo's the only one who's grokked this. That's why they've opted for putting their money in innovative inputs rather that graphics power; that gets a lot more bang for their buck than sinking that budget into more graphics power that adds 4 more light sources, 3 of which most people won't noticed.
The author's a little flamebait-astic, but he's right about a lot of things, particuarly FF7's popularity being driven by 'firsties'. Though I have to wonder, if he hated FF7 how much he must despise the trainwreck that was FF8!
It's like he crawled into my head and managed to coalesce a lot of the things I hated about FF7. I never liked it much; it was okay but it never engaged me like the previous FFs did.
More to the point, how often has Microsoft really come out with something innovative that took the world by storm? It's released rehashes of products it bought from other people, but I can't think of many cutting edge, out-of-nowhere advancements that have come from them. It's not really their core competancy is it? Which isn't to say they can't produce some slick stuff when they want to, but rather they're more often riding the coat tails of smaller trailblazers (who they either crush or swallow in the following years).
In related news, the Plate Glass Association of America (PGAA) is contemplating class action suits of their own, citing numerous examples of films, games & other media where violence is perpetrated on -- or more commonly through -- their members.
At last, those who claim World of Warcraft & it's brethren are "too easy" or "too fun" have a way to recapture those heady Everquest I days, where games were work & fun was a dirty word!
I didn't feel good qualifying Vista, it's mostly that no matter how sure you are of any of the other entries, Vista is more sure of coming out. Some things are simply inevitable: death, taxes & a new version of Windows. Still, given it's checkered past and changing feature set, you're right, it's pretty much a sterling example of vapourware.
Personally, I don't consider something vapourware that's delayed from the end of the year in question to first quarter of the following. Maybe I'm picky, but I prefer my vapourware to be talking in years, not months. But every year, they pick at least one or two. Zelda being delayed 3 months does not, I think, get it the 'vapourware' sticker.
And c'mon, Google? That's a real strech. All the things they mention you can use just fine. By other people's definition, they're finished, but Google's fussy. That's not 'vapourware'. Geez, they must have been seriously hard up for ideas or something.
Starcraft: Ghost is more on the nose, though not in Duke Nuke Em's league. The Phantom is aptly named. Complaining about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD seems a touch premature I think, given how long it takes hardware standards to formalize, but at least there's a little substance there. TF2 has been in the works forever.
Vista, well, it's been delayed a couple of years so I guess it qualifies, even if it's one of those things that's guranteed to come out, in a way like nothing else on that list, even if does take another three years.
Heh, you're right on both points. I should have clarified -- they don't allow such discussion...in General chat. They specifically avoid policing guild chat & whatnot, so supposing you had a GLBT-type guild, you'd be free to discuss whatever you want there.
Since I wrote my post they've said exactly that in fact. One of the Community Managers said to post in the Guild Recruitment forum, where they also don't police for that kind of discussion. So they've more or less said straight out "We don't care what kind of guild you form, just don't discuss things that are against policy in the Generel channels".
Actually, they're quite consistent. They don't allow the discussion of sexual orientation in any way. This is in keeping with their desire to maintain a 'family safe' environment.
You wouldn't even be allowed to discuss whether Elton John is gay or not -- in fact, I know of a player who was suspended for 3 hours for doing so. Rightly or wrongly they've decided that rather than try to evaluate such discussion on a case by case basis they'd rather simply disallow discussion of the topic. This would include bannig discussion about whether or not Brad Pitt is straight so it's not discrimination.
Thus, it'd be hard to recruit for a GLBT guild without discussiong policy-banned topics. In the end, it's their game, it's their policy, and if someone is playing, they've agreed agreed to it. If someone doesn't like it, they're always free to not pay them to play.
This is purely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.
;) we had to fight our way through throngs of bargain hunters at several EBs until we finally found one that still had the Mariokart DS bundle (saving me about CDN$25).
I got a DS for Christmas from my brother, mainly because neither of us could come up with something better (we always consult each other on giving each other gifts). In the end we figured my GBA SP had taken a bit of a beating of the last couple of years and at the very least a DS would simply be a fresh platform to play my existing GBA games.
Much to our surprise, the DS blew us both away. Enough that he & I went out looking for ANOTHER DS, for his Christmas present. This being Boxing Day (yeah, it means I didn't have something for on Christmas day, so sue me
While waiting in a fairly long line, I found myself carefully inspecting what everyone in line was buying. I expected to find a fairly healthy cross-section, but to my surprise found that most people were buying DS games & accessories. This surprised me because I'd been under the impression from the displays in Best Buys & such that the DS was being barely noticed market-wise next to the splasy PSP. Now there were PSP customers in the crowd, but they were very clearly a minority. Mostly 20-somethings whereas the DS buyers tended to be what I assume were parents (when they weren't clearly WITH their children in line).
Hell, I almost freaked when I watched the two people directly in front of me in line ask for the Mariokart bundle -- I was sure I was going to step up and find out they'd sold the last one to the person in front of me. When I'd left that morning to find one I'd expected the only trouble would be finding a store that still had the bundle, not that there'd be competition from other potential customers!
Of course, a day or so later I read that 'DS outselling PSP 3:1' article and that seemed to fill in the rest of the blanks.
Ironically, I play a priest as well, but obviously on the Alliance :) I completely agree with 'healers that are impossible to kill', and I'm sure you find -- as I do -- that this point in particuar is a little grating given how damned easy we are to crush.
Personally I think the pally changes are, for the most part, pretty fair. They seem to have evened out the trees a little, making them more sensible. They've eliminated what is a large source of annoyance for both pallies & their raid team (5 minute blessing).
We get our love next patch and frankly, it'd better be good. I don't know how you're spec'd, but I'm getting awfully sick of being Holy spec'd or 'Free HK' spec'd as it's also known.
Incidentally, I think when Shaman get their review we'll see similar things brought in, like totems that last longer and affect more people. I think their trees need a little work too.
I can't believe how much of what you wrote I disagree with.
First, my guild has several pallies and thier intial reactions were mixed. Some liked what they were getting and some hated it. Once they'd all had a chance to mix around on the test server though, they'd pretty much come together at "reasonably happy" to "okay with it". None of our pallies are unhappy anymore, the most displeased now of the opinion that it simply "doesn't do much for what I'd hoped, but at least it does X, Y & Z". About half our pallies PVP too, and a couple of them are consistently high (ie. first, second or third) in the standing at the end of a battleground. Pallies who say their class sucks at PVP are, frankly, poor paladins.
Second, the 'nerf' to hunter pets (as in making them uniform) is hardly unexpected and actually makes a lot of sense when you look at from a different angle. Bliz has been saying for MONTHS that this was coming, and explained why: they have always wanted pet customizability to be soley from pet points, and not from the base pet. The reasoning is actually very simple: if base pet mattered, eventually all hunters would have the same two or three pets, because those two or three would be the 'best'. Not only would this reduce uniqueness, it would create competition for those few pets. The vision of the pet is that players will choose an animal that they like (whether for the slight variation in abilities it can learn or for aethetics) and that will help provide player distinction. In my opinion, this is a far better tack to take.
Finally, I laugh at the notion that unified LFG & General channels will result in only 'local players' being accepted into groups. I can't remember the last time I joined a pick-up group (PUG) and found all 5 (or 10, or whatever) were in Ironforge (I play Alliance); inevitably at least one person is on the other continent and usually more. This is because you could always join a General chat channel from elsewhere if you knew how, and by the upper levels most had figured it out. Linked auction houses is nothing but a Good Thing(tm).
Frankly, this is looking like one of the better patches unless you're one of those Paladins that for some reason thought they'd be promoted into Gods.
Only Slashdot & linux users (myself included) could argue the merits of a boot loader :)
Now, having said, I'm sure someone will post a reply explaining in excruciating detail how my choice of boot loader could make or break my system. Hell, maybe you'll convince me. It'll be a hard sell though; I've used both in the last few years and, frankly, barely noticed a difference.
Seriously...I think Grace is a decent enough actor, but can he pull off Eddie Brock?
I had the same initial reaction but remember, there are two Eddie Brocks. There's weightlifter psycho Brock (Amazing Spiderman) and there's childhood friend Brock (Ultimate Spiderman).
As much as I love the former, the Ultimate Spiderman series has proved that good, careful storytelling can really elevate the comic book medium above it's peers. The Ultimate Venom storyline seems to me to a lot more fertile ground from which to spring a movie version. Topher Grace could fit that role well, especially given that he could probably have pulled of Peter Parker -- as Venom & Brock they might go for a darker, path-not-taken version of Parker. That'd be a pretty interesting contrast.
And, of course, this all assumes that Dunst hasn't mixed up her mix up. She doesn't seem the sharpest knife in the drawer, so maybe Church really is meant to be the musclebound psychotic. I guess we'll find out eventually.
...it must make use of the widely adopted RFC 7812, i.e. the Illegal Flag. This popular RFC was derived off of RFC 3514, known to many as the Evil Bit. Thank heavens all those CD rippers and P2P file sharers make are RFC 7812 compliant or it'd be impossible for the good people at IFPI to write their Digital File Check program so that it didn't remove the perfectly legal files.
What an age we live in!
What did you expect? This is a company that ignores ALL customer feedback on their own forums
Have you read those forums? They make Slashdot postings look informed and mature. That's a technological marvel in and of itself!
Of course, this is an Onion article, so it's a joke.
I am confused about one thing: while I'm used to Slashdot reporting non-news as news, and incorrect news as news, outside of April Fool's I don't think I've ever seen them report satire as if it were real news.
undisputed saviors of PC gaming
Hyperbole much? I really enjoyed Half-life, but it hardly saved the platform. FPS can be done quite satisfactorily with a little work on a console. If anything, RTS games like C&C or War/Starcraft, or MMORPGs like City of Heroes & World of Warcraft have kept PC gaming healthy, you know, things that can't be done on a console? (Yes, I know, the odd MMORPG makes it to a console but really, how good is it compared to it's PC cousin?) Valve seems like a decent bunch of game makers, but let's not cannonize them quite yet.
Yeah, my bad, that's what I meant. I'm was replying using the same contextual 'i-Pod' that the article did -- which is to say, the mp3 player.