since I'm only one person and what does the loss of my $50 mean anyway
If they actually responded this way, then please scan/copy and publish this somewhere.
Since it's just 1 persons $50, then they won't mind if just me downloads it online as well.
And since my friend is just 1 person, they won't mind if just he downloads it as well.
This is how many games start to die, they stop thinking of individuals to appeal to themselves. Cause hiring an extra person to help deal with it (the extra complaints, which even 1 person means $50, you could hire someone at $15/hr to keep 1 person satisfied and buy and still make profit), or offering a non-drm version for a few bucks more is far too hard.
Just recently I downloaded BioShock and Mass effect... why? Not because of the $30 price tag (I was willing to pay), but because of the DRM. Same for spore. If it still has DRM in about 3-6 months (which is when I will look at buying/downloading) I will be downloading it as well.
You can argue whatever point of view you like, but the fact is, BECAUSE of DRM, it has affected their sale. I do not want a maximum of 5 PCs installation, I do not want something phoning home every 10 days, I do not want something rootkitting (which I'm still uncertain because it seems more like rumors) my system to play (even the freaking DEMO had this DRM crap!)
I could not trust the original vendor, I would rather trust a warez site, and that's saying quite a bit.
Before you complain about being modded down, let me just say something.
It isn't about "I'm so clever" it's about courtesy and polite for getting modded into oblivion. Ask 1 of the twitters who lashes out randomly with racism and you'll know why he gets modded that way regardless of what he says.
Some people only "joke" about being smart. It's a certain type of humor you may or may not understand. But as far as us thinking we are better than you (or anyone else). It's nothing like that 99% of the time.
No... It's more along the lines of... They want attention all the time, that's why they swear all the time:P I agree with GP when it comes to verbally swearing (because it's more harmful to hear than to read). Whereas online, we are already desensitized by much worse things, and I tend to swear in jokes most the time. If you are offended by reading a swear word that you have little idea of the tone used, then you have problems.
That might be good, but who defines crime? Although I agree with you, especially for serial killers, but what about theft (especially if its out of need because of starvation)? Where do you draw the line on this brainwashing, and who will monitor it? If it's anything like the laws in our government, it would become yet another slippery slope.
Don't believe I saw the world peace one, I did watch a season 4 episode, and it seemed like they were running out of material, but so far: Season 1 and 2 have been pretty good. Sure, most is stuff you may already know (it's light on science, more on truth, but still talks about controversial issues so it isn't for the really close minded people anyways).
It has changed my view on secondhand smoking to be just a little more open about it though.
Tell him to go on "Penn and Tellers' Bullshit" where they bring to light all types of issues. For anyone who loves Mythbusters, I also recommend that show.
In fact, I hope that would be their next episode (or possibly already is, since I'm only halfway through season 2)
Fluorinert is not compatible with all materials and chip packaging and you must take a great deal of care in the design of a board/system intended to be cooled with it.
It's already been used in common PC setups, see the link in the comment for home tests done with it.
Besides... Why do you want to use it? What do you hope to achieve? You certainly don't need Fluorinert cooling for a PC. It's completely unnecessary.
Then I suppose you don't need that heatsink or fan on your PC? Technically because of heatsinks/fans, your computers are being overclocked. This cooling allows us to overclock them further, thus creating faster computers. This technology hasn't "matured" because it isn't common enough to buy from major dealers with liquid cooling.
It is expensive and will remain so because said niches are tiny.
Since when does size = cost? The first home computers made were expensive because they had "tiny" chips. Multiple reasons have made them cheaper (more factories, better computers making the old ones less useful, and the production lines within factories - making it more streamlined).
Seeing how you're AC I don't expect you to read this and become informed, but please do not squash the idea for those who are interested in this technology.
I just love all the articles that get past the firehose, that offer no scientific benefits except "theories" or rather predictions on the future... Still waiting on my flying car, and no, the German scientists haven't offered me sex for it yet.
$500/gallon for the fluorinert solution (from 3M).
Link within comment points to a few tests that were made (don't make this stuff too cold).
Otherwise search for pc cooling with mineral oil. There's a few overclocking websites for this.
I am actually just waiting a couple years for this "technology"/idea/concept to mature, for when I buy a new PC. I recommend the same, hopefully the price has gone down quite a bit or at least become more commercially available...
My best guess? Classes. Which define unnecessary things for each object made, so that gets a little bloat. Then you have sanity checking, which slows it down as well. Then most likely environment checking code/manipulation (a run "anywhere with any configuration" type of language needs those extra procedures... "just in case").
As far as penis size goes, yes, too long is quite uncomfortable
They must be doing it wrong... depends on the position, but lets not get into all of them. Lets just say that most of Kamasutra is about "penetrating deeper"
Larger penises more like dribble, and the pulsing effect is also lessened.
Again... doing it wrong...by extending the actual time during sex, men can actually give higher amounts of a "load", thus preventing the dribble (unless at the end, but that's always natural, like shutting off a hose). I suggest learning a technique called "edging", which also adds the benefit of allowing the girl to orgasm at least 2-5 times during that 2-6 hour period.
In my experiences... frustration has been based on luck. I am very unlucky in games (definitely watch me play, you will agree as others who have watched have).
I never understood why games try to "randomize" experiences based on luck. "Hit anywhere from 3-300!". The key point of frustration is removing luck, and requiring skill. If your player doesn't have skill, then they will get frustrated eventually anyways (otherwise you would have to make a game that 2 year olds can beat). Everyone will be on their own skill levels.
This is precisely why I loved RTS games, and hated most luck based games (RPGS/etc.). Although, I have gotten into them these past few years, I have started to lose interest based on the amount of unfair encounters based on the roll of a dice.
Huge difference here:
You quoted a guy who "develops" games. Really simple, obvious games, that came from SPORTS, if you don't see why this was a bad idea, then you may never understand the actual gaming community. He took already developed "fun" and just made it into a "video game". Nothing intuitive, then he wrote some books about making games? You consider him respected, that's your perspective.
I quoted a guy who "plays" the games. The "random douche bag" comment is irrelevant (again depending on your perspective, since you obviously never even HEARD of the site) and flaming. Now you can try and make the argument that "everyone" plays the games so why don't I use their quotes too about "needing" a story line. The difference is most gamers never played for story lines (as my game examples above stated), so this quote fits the more general population (not the slashdot community of "need more intellectual stimulation!")
Ask anyone around if Mario was a great game. Then ask what the storyline was. Guess what you get? "Bowser kidnaps the princess"... Because? "I don't know... I guess I really didn't CARE, it was FUN and CHALLENGING
The difference here is the same as the programmer vs user debate. The programmer can make a fantastic program that does everything, but if the UI sucks, then the program tends to suck and get bad reviews.
Tip: Don't quote game developers who are NOT innovative. Especially to support your debate on story-line, because I don't see what story line you could even throw in a football or figure skating game.
But if Square enix would've known you slayed a gold farmer, and knew it was a gold farmer they could've just banned them on the spot.:P
I have never played FFXI but am interested in how this Goblin Bounty Hunter system works. I have seen plenty of games try this "random event" (Runescape, Silkroad where players summoned fake monsters) but bots always get around it and are able to figure it out.
FFXI has remained more or less steady at 500,000 players for the past few years, only slightly off its peak.
Potentially means nothing, 500,000 could mean that 99% of them are just bots now. But since you say the bot community is mostly gone now, I could give you the benefit of the doubt. But... there's games where people actually monitor their characters botting every 10-15 minutes, making it harder to tell nowadays if it really is a bot. I would think a random event system that generated something every 1-3 hours wouldn't be so bad though, as long as it logs which players were killed by it and support followed up on it.
I certainly enjoyed the stories in Monkey Island, The Dig, The Longest Journey and a dozen of other games.
All games I vaguely heard of and never played.
Todays movies are really no better then todays games and even if their are, they still have the problem of just having 120minutes to get it done while games can have 20 hours, books simply lack the graphics and sound aspect, which I kind of like.
Sounds more like a problem with the movie industry than games. Unless you are requesting a 20 hour movie, in which case - find a trilogy or tv show series. Either way, a game is meant to be played, most games with stories nowadays are boring because they decide to force you to watch cinematics, and if you don't watch them, then you won't know your objectives and what you should do next.
Games should primarily be played, and a story should be an added benefit (seriously, the storyline was in the manual, where it should be). Don't expect every game to have what few games that you liked way back when to have.
I'm sure you and everyone else enjoyed games like; pong, asteroids, pac-man. How big of a storyline was there in those, and how much of it do you actually remember seeing how you didn't care to read the manual for the story?
You don't seem to understand the point that forums are mostly unofficial boards (not tied to companies, so they have no security obligations). I've been to plenty of boards, and a couple had the creator/admin snooping through passwords on the boards and trying to get all types of other crap (logging into e-mails). It is expected that online passwords at unofficial sites are not safe, therefor you do not use the same one everywhere, to go as far as unsubscribing seemed unnecessary if you were never going to go to it again.
I'm sure you have an "e-reputation/e-ego" to uphold and are worried about your anonymity though.
it's hard to find good stories in games compared to how damn many are coming out now.
Watch the first five minutes, and that sums up the quality of games and the quality of critics on games, and how I feel - I agree with this about 99%. When people keep crying about how there's no stories, I've been using this to make my counter example.
Quick summary: if you want a story, go read a book or a watch a movie, but a game is meant to be played. You didn't need a story line to go defeat Bowser in Mario. You didn't need to know the Princess' life story when rescuing her from Donkey Kong, you simply jumped over the barrels because it was FUN.
I tend to see it as "supporting" the game with the "pay per item" type deal.
Assuming the game is free to play (up until "x") I would be willing to pay for extra x features or "pay per item" on what I think the game is worth. If the game lacks support or frequent updates, I will not be paying, but if it's an indie developer or some kid in his basement, I would be willing to support with buying items I may or may not use. I consider it more of a donation system.
Whereas if it's a game where you get 2x better because you paid, and you utterly destroy the 99% of people who don't pay, then I won't bother, because it promotes playing to be better than someone. There has to be a balance, maybe 10% better, or something around there, where skill is required even if you do pay.
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since I'm only one person and what does the loss of my $50 mean anyway
If they actually responded this way, then please scan/copy and publish this somewhere.
Since it's just 1 persons $50, then they won't mind if just me downloads it online as well.
And since my friend is just 1 person, they won't mind if just he downloads it as well.
This is how many games start to die, they stop thinking of individuals to appeal to themselves. Cause hiring an extra person to help deal with it (the extra complaints, which even 1 person means $50, you could hire someone at $15/hr to keep 1 person satisfied and buy and still make profit), or offering a non-drm version for a few bucks more is far too hard.
Just recently I downloaded BioShock and Mass effect... why? Not because of the $30 price tag (I was willing to pay), but because of the DRM. Same for spore. If it still has DRM in about 3-6 months (which is when I will look at buying/downloading) I will be downloading it as well.
You can argue whatever point of view you like, but the fact is, BECAUSE of DRM, it has affected their sale. I do not want a maximum of 5 PCs installation, I do not want something phoning home every 10 days, I do not want something rootkitting (which I'm still uncertain because it seems more like rumors) my system to play (even the freaking DEMO had this DRM crap!)
I could not trust the original vendor, I would rather trust a warez site, and that's saying quite a bit.
Like a previous commenter mentioned:
The counter DMCA requires your name/address. Which is most likely what they are looking for in the first place.
Before you complain about being modded down, let me just say something.
It isn't about "I'm so clever" it's about courtesy and polite for getting modded into oblivion. Ask 1 of the twitters who lashes out randomly with racism and you'll know why he gets modded that way regardless of what he says.
Some people only "joke" about being smart. It's a certain type of humor you may or may not understand. But as far as us thinking we are better than you (or anyone else). It's nothing like that 99% of the time.
So please, have a nice day, and smile champ.
No... It's more along the lines of... They want attention all the time, that's why they swear all the time :P I agree with GP when it comes to verbally swearing (because it's more harmful to hear than to read). Whereas online, we are already desensitized by much worse things, and I tend to swear in jokes most the time. If you are offended by reading a swear word that you have little idea of the tone used, then you have problems.
That might be good, but who defines crime? Although I agree with you, especially for serial killers, but what about theft (especially if its out of need because of starvation)? Where do you draw the line on this brainwashing, and who will monitor it? If it's anything like the laws in our government, it would become yet another slippery slope.
Don't believe I saw the world peace one, I did watch a season 4 episode, and it seemed like they were running out of material, but so far: Season 1 and 2 have been pretty good. Sure, most is stuff you may already know (it's light on science, more on truth, but still talks about controversial issues so it isn't for the really close minded people anyways).
It has changed my view on secondhand smoking to be just a little more open about it though.
Tell him to go on "Penn and Tellers' Bullshit" where they bring to light all types of issues. For anyone who loves Mythbusters, I also recommend that show.
In fact, I hope that would be their next episode (or possibly already is, since I'm only halfway through season 2)
Fluorinert is not compatible with all materials and chip packaging and you must take a great deal of care in the design of a board/system intended to be cooled with it.
It's already been used in common PC setups, see the link in the comment for home tests done with it.
Besides... Why do you want to use it? What do you hope to achieve? You certainly don't need Fluorinert cooling for a PC. It's completely unnecessary.
Then I suppose you don't need that heatsink or fan on your PC? Technically because of heatsinks/fans, your computers are being overclocked. This cooling allows us to overclock them further, thus creating faster computers. This technology hasn't "matured" because it isn't common enough to buy from major dealers with liquid cooling.
It is expensive and will remain so because said niches are tiny.
Since when does size = cost? The first home computers made were expensive because they had "tiny" chips. Multiple reasons have made them cheaper (more factories, better computers making the old ones less useful, and the production lines within factories - making it more streamlined).
Seeing how you're AC I don't expect you to read this and become informed, but please do not squash the idea for those who are interested in this technology.
I just love all the articles that get past the firehose, that offer no scientific benefits except "theories" or rather predictions on the future... Still waiting on my flying car, and no, the German scientists haven't offered me sex for it yet.
$500/gallon for the fluorinert solution (from 3M).
Link within comment points to a few tests that were made (don't make this stuff too cold).
Otherwise search for pc cooling with mineral oil. There's a few overclocking websites for this.
I am actually just waiting a couple years for this "technology"/idea/concept to mature, for when I buy a new PC. I recommend the same, hopefully the price has gone down quite a bit or at least become more commercially available...
My best guess? Classes. Which define unnecessary things for each object made, so that gets a little bloat. Then you have sanity checking, which slows it down as well. Then most likely environment checking code/manipulation (a run "anywhere with any configuration" type of language needs those extra procedures... "just in case").
Which is why I always ask everyone who is east of me (USA)... whats it like in the future dude...? Totally excellent?
As far as penis size goes, yes, too long is quite uncomfortable
They must be doing it wrong... depends on the position, but lets not get into all of them. Lets just say that most of Kamasutra is about "penetrating deeper"
Larger penises more like dribble, and the pulsing effect is also lessened.
Again... doing it wrong...by extending the actual time during sex, men can actually give higher amounts of a "load", thus preventing the dribble (unless at the end, but that's always natural, like shutting off a hose). I suggest learning a technique called "edging", which also adds the benefit of allowing the girl to orgasm at least 2-5 times during that 2-6 hour period.
I don't know, I haven't seemed to get too much spam... Oh wait, I have 3 e-mail addresses... let me check this one.... Yep 400 since last year.
In my experiences... frustration has been based on luck. I am very unlucky in games (definitely watch me play, you will agree as others who have watched have).
I never understood why games try to "randomize" experiences based on luck. "Hit anywhere from 3-300!". The key point of frustration is removing luck, and requiring skill. If your player doesn't have skill, then they will get frustrated eventually anyways (otherwise you would have to make a game that 2 year olds can beat). Everyone will be on their own skill levels.
This is precisely why I loved RTS games, and hated most luck based games (RPGS/etc.). Although, I have gotten into them these past few years, I have started to lose interest based on the amount of unfair encounters based on the roll of a dice.
Huge difference here:
You quoted a guy who "develops" games. Really simple, obvious games, that came from SPORTS, if you don't see why this was a bad idea, then you may never understand the actual gaming community. He took already developed "fun" and just made it into a "video game". Nothing intuitive, then he wrote some books about making games? You consider him respected, that's your perspective.
I quoted a guy who "plays" the games. The "random douche bag" comment is irrelevant (again depending on your perspective, since you obviously never even HEARD of the site) and flaming. Now you can try and make the argument that "everyone" plays the games so why don't I use their quotes too about "needing" a story line. The difference is most gamers never played for story lines (as my game examples above stated), so this quote fits the more general population (not the slashdot community of "need more intellectual stimulation!")
Ask anyone around if Mario was a great game. Then ask what the storyline was. Guess what you get? "Bowser kidnaps the princess"... Because? "I don't know... I guess I really didn't CARE, it was FUN and CHALLENGING
The difference here is the same as the programmer vs user debate. The programmer can make a fantastic program that does everything, but if the UI sucks, then the program tends to suck and get bad reviews.
Tip: Don't quote game developers who are NOT innovative. Especially to support your debate on story-line, because I don't see what story line you could even throw in a football or figure skating game.
I have never played FFXI but am interested in how this Goblin Bounty Hunter system works. I have seen plenty of games try this "random event" (Runescape, Silkroad where players summoned fake monsters) but bots always get around it and are able to figure it out.
FFXI has remained more or less steady at 500,000 players for the past few years, only slightly off its peak.
Potentially means nothing, 500,000 could mean that 99% of them are just bots now. But since you say the bot community is mostly gone now, I could give you the benefit of the doubt. But... there's games where people actually monitor their characters botting every 10-15 minutes, making it harder to tell nowadays if it really is a bot. I would think a random event system that generated something every 1-3 hours wouldn't be so bad though, as long as it logs which players were killed by it and support followed up on it.
Am I the only one who read that and didn't even see a counter debate? It sounded like he was saying:
"FUN"? Shutup! Fun isn't important!
I certainly enjoyed the stories in Monkey Island, The Dig, The Longest Journey and a dozen of other games.
All games I vaguely heard of and never played.
Todays movies are really no better then todays games and even if their are, they still have the problem of just having 120minutes to get it done while games can have 20 hours, books simply lack the graphics and sound aspect, which I kind of like.
Sounds more like a problem with the movie industry than games. Unless you are requesting a 20 hour movie, in which case - find a trilogy or tv show series. Either way, a game is meant to be played, most games with stories nowadays are boring because they decide to force you to watch cinematics, and if you don't watch them, then you won't know your objectives and what you should do next.
Games should primarily be played, and a story should be an added benefit (seriously, the storyline was in the manual, where it should be). Don't expect every game to have what few games that you liked way back when to have.
I'm sure you and everyone else enjoyed games like; pong, asteroids, pac-man. How big of a storyline was there in those, and how much of it do you actually remember seeing how you didn't care to read the manual for the story?
Please get your facts right, as it's a discredit to the people who did the original pioneering work in this field. Thanks.
So... who actually did the original pioneering then...? Discredit and no credit at all could be considered the same.
1234.
You don't seem to understand the point that forums are mostly unofficial boards (not tied to companies, so they have no security obligations). I've been to plenty of boards, and a couple had the creator/admin snooping through passwords on the boards and trying to get all types of other crap (logging into e-mails). It is expected that online passwords at unofficial sites are not safe, therefor you do not use the same one everywhere, to go as far as unsubscribing seemed unnecessary if you were never going to go to it again.
I'm sure you have an "e-reputation/e-ego" to uphold and are worried about your anonymity though.
it's hard to find good stories in games compared to how damn many are coming out now.
Watch the first five minutes, and that sums up the quality of games and the quality of critics on games, and how I feel - I agree with this about 99%. When people keep crying about how there's no stories, I've been using this to make my counter example.
Quick summary: if you want a story, go read a book or a watch a movie, but a game is meant to be played. You didn't need a story line to go defeat Bowser in Mario. You didn't need to know the Princess' life story when rescuing her from Donkey Kong, you simply jumped over the barrels because it was FUN.
I tend to see it as "supporting" the game with the "pay per item" type deal.
Assuming the game is free to play (up until "x") I would be willing to pay for extra x features or "pay per item" on what I think the game is worth. If the game lacks support or frequent updates, I will not be paying, but if it's an indie developer or some kid in his basement, I would be willing to support with buying items I may or may not use. I consider it more of a donation system.
Whereas if it's a game where you get 2x better because you paid, and you utterly destroy the 99% of people who don't pay, then I won't bother, because it promotes playing to be better than someone. There has to be a balance, maybe 10% better, or something around there, where skill is required even if you do pay.
Well, if they send your PW in plain text through e-mail when recovering the password, who cares? Change it.
Or do you mean they sent it in html? So what? Its a forum...