If you'd bothered to read my post at all, you'd have noticed that I said I play Halo on the PC, and don't like playing shooters on controllers. Of course, since you're trolling, that would be inconvenient for you, so carry on.
Hell, I don't even own either generation of Xbox, so what little point you may have had completely falls apart there.
definitely should never be in any Top 10 games of all time list. Anywhere. I guess there's no room for opinions, eh? The fact that you don't like some of the game's elements doesn't mean that no one should. Call me a Halo fanboy (well, you already did in a way), but I DO think the game's story is breathtaking. No FPS, certainly has delivered anything close to that level of amazing plot which keeps me hanging on to see what happens next. Not a ton of RPGs, which are all about story, deliver a story as good as Halo's.
Mind you, I don't think everything about Halo is great. It's not a particularly great game mechanically (it's good, but nothing that hasn't been done before), although I'm led to believe the recharging health system (ie, shields) was fairly new when Halo 1 debuted. Multiplayer, especially in Halo 1, is uninspired... Halo 1's multiplayer is thoroughly mediocre by my standards, although Halo 2 is a lot more fun to me. The exception to this rule is CTF: Halo has some of the best CTF I've ever played.
In short, I think the music, story, and atmosphere of the single-player portion are amazing, but the multiplayer is a mixed bag. I also would like to point out that Halo isn't just a console series, PC ports of Halo 1/2 do exist. Hell, I play Halo only on the PC for that matter, dual joystick controls don't do it for me. I think the Halo games are the finest FPS games ever crafted... but I also think Half-Life is the single most overrated game ever released, so my opinions obviously aren't the majority's on the subject of FPS.
I'm going to guess that like anything else, this varies by store. At my local Gamestop, PC games have 4 racks devoted to them, and are decently priced. Still much smaller than the console section, but c'est la vie, I guess. It's generally a better option than Best Buy, they tend to have games which BB long since stopped carrying.
Or you could... plug your hard drive into another computer? I mean seriously, what were you planning to do if your motherboard got hosed or something? This discussion of your data being held hostage is moot (unless you use BitLocker, I guess), because no computer-savvy person worth their salt would be unable to think of the "plug the drive into another computer and copy the files off" solution.
Hate to break up a good MS-bashing, but not all Windows users hate their OS the way most slashdotters do. Most Windows users (that I've worked with at least) couldn't possibly begin to give a damn, and some of us, who are knowledgeable users, actually like Windows!
Honestly, slashdot is the only place I've ever seen where Windows is so almost universally hated. The rest of the world either likes it, or doesn't know enough to care. Just food for thought there, my AC homie.
I don't have an iPhone, so don't give me that. I get nothing out of this one way or another.
Anyways, yes, it IS legitimate for them to offer nothing. It's NOT legitimate to offer store credit. They should have offered cash or nothing, not a cop-out in-between solution that doesn't really satisfy anyone.
The biggest problem I have with Risk is that I can (and often do) see a good strategy break down because of bad dice rolls, which is pretty much the most frustrating experience ever. For some ungodly reason, whenever I play with my dad, he always rolls high, I always roll low. It gets painful after a while.
If your character was gone, I'd contact customer service (assuming you didn't). Blizzard has said more than once on the forums that they don't delete people's characters. That's not a guarantee, exactly, but you would probably get a decent response from customer service.
That doesn't mean that it's legitimate to offer you Apple store credit. If they really are trying to make it up to their customers, give them cash. Else, this is lip service, nothing more, in my opinion (and would be from any company, I was similarly disappointed in Google's decision).
Surely no one said that. It's clearly behind in terms of technology. $20 (of Apple store credit, heh heh) says that you could go through the articles here about the iPhone, and find one person who said that, if not multiple people. Most Apple customers may not be like this, but there are some raving Jobs fanboys who want to enshrine him as a deity because he regularly releases products which cure cancer and AIDS at the same time.
Reasonable Apple customers: you guys should go out and beat them up. They give you a bad name.
I fail to see how any iphone owner can feel like they're worse off by being offered this deal. Not worse off exactly, but I can see someone very reasonably being miffed by the fact that Apple is giving them store credit, not cash.
Hell, Slashdot was all up in arms (for the most part) a few weeks ago when Google did a similar thing with their video service, offering Google credit instead of a true refund... why not have the same hostility now?
Well, the early adopters may not feel ripped off, but that doesn't mean the iPhone is worth $600 (to most of us). It's just a phone, there are countless others out there for much cheaper.
Huh? I paid... $100 or so for my copy of Vista Home Premium, from Newegg. Unless we're talking the Ultimate edition or something, no way does it cost $299.
And what the hell is the Microsoft sidebar with live/msn search integration you're talking about? That doesn't ring a bell for me, where exactly is it?
Do you have any new material? I remember seeing this EXACT SAME flame yesterday, and it wasn't original or clever even then. Come on dude, entertain us here!
The IDEA of both those things is quite reasonable. Churches get breaks for being non-profit organizations, who are out to benefit others. They get funding for faith-based services, but the idea is that they turn that money into giving back to the community. In neither of these cases is the church supposed to benefit, both cases are supposed to benefit the community.
Reality is, as always, another beast entirely, but the theory is quite reasonable, imho.
Hotmail is actually pretty slick now, you should check it out. I still don't use my account (except to sign up for sites which I KNOW are going to spam me), I've switched over to Gmail for anything important, but I was really impressed the first time I logged in after the revamp (don't know how recent it was, I'm guessing 6 months to a year ago).
Being convicted has no bearing on whether or not what you're doing is wrong. Apple is just as wrong as Microsoft in this regard, whether that means they're not wrong, or they're very wrong. I mean, if Bob the Murderer and I were both running around killing people we didn't like, it wouldn't be a valid defense of me to say, "And which of those two people has been convicted of murder in the past?".
Wow, I was just strikingly reminded of Peter Wiggin when you said that. A prominent figure in the online debates who gets elected to power. Cool idea, to be sure.
Er, hit the button too soon. As I was going to add, I really like the touch interface idea. I'd totally buy one of these if it had enough space, but with that little space this is in the "no buy" category. That's why this is particularly aggravating to me, because it looks damn cool and I want one.
And it would've been worth it. It's pretty stupid, in my opinion, to have that little space on a music/video device. I have more than 16 GB of music alone on my 3G ipod, if I had videos too, I'd probably fill the 40 GB hard drive in there. 16 GB is reeeeally small for a device like this, imho. I honestly hope this was a cost/feasibility sort of decision, because if it was just done to make it a bit smaller... stupid stupid stupid.
Dalaran is a pretty heavily populated realm, and I didn't experience issues with the BC launch. Maybe Whisperwind was just particularly bad, not the norm.
forget that it is nowhere terribly important to Christianity *or* the bible... you *must* convert and follow our customs and worship in *our* designed structures and manner. Well, there is the fact that the Bible says in quite a few places that homosexuality is wrong... I mean, that couldn't possibly be the reason why Christians tend to be against it. If you're talking about trying to ban gay marriage, then yes, I agree that it's wrong, and some people need to be smacked around until they realize that it's none of their damned business. If you mean marriage in the church, then I can't find fault with the church for enforcing rules on who they will and will not marry. That IS their business.
I am mocking *your* religion. No you're not. Can't mock what I don't have.
How dare they preach about evolution? Jesus may have not said anything to contradict it, but hell with Jesus! You do realize that both of the Testaments are considered the word of God, right? The New Testament supersedes the Old, but where the New Testament doesn't contradict the Old, the Old Testament is considered authoritative as well.
That being said, I agree with you on this one too. What gets taught in schools is also none of their damn business, if they don't like it, they should request to have their child not attend science class and teach it themselves, or enroll their child in a different school entirely, or hell, simply teach their children "That's not what we believe, this is what we believe".
Okay so the age of consent in US is as low as 13 or 14 in many states... a 14 year old may have sex with a 16 year old... we don't have problem with *that*... it is terribly important that they don't do it with an older person. Christians, or indeed, any religious people, are hardly the only ones responsible for insane laws. There's a definite (and unfortunate) tendency to scream "Think of the children!!" in the US, but I'd find it rather hard to believe that it's solely due to Christianity, and not people just being good old-fashioned morons.
So this law you have about people not standing up and volunteering info being jailed up for obstructing justice... you guys are repealing it this year and freeing anyone arrested for it? If someone doesn't answers the draft in a war he doesnt agrees with, he is not doing anything wrong and won't get jailed? Let me know, when either of those are put into practice by your fine Christian populace. a) My opinions don't write the law, so just because I believe one thing doesn't mean the law is going to change soon, or ever.
b) Most of the populace isn't Christian any more beyond mere lip service, I'm pretty sure.
And Christianity and Islam, dear sir, are a *joke* in their modern context! Mere cults! While Islam is more questionable in this regard, I find it difficult to call Christianity a cult. The single biggest reason being... the church isn't running around killing its members, and putting undue pressure on them to stay if they even THINK of leaving. Islam is, to my understanding, the same way in the US, although this isn't true in fundamentalist Muslim countries, where people do, unfortunately, have to be afraid of getting killed or tortured if they want to leave the flock. But it doesn't seem to be true here, which is something.
You seem to be falling into the trap that many people in our country do when thinking about Muslims: you equate all of them with the radical ones. Just as most Muslims aren't suicide-bombing terrorists, not all Christians are the kind you describe. As far as I'm aware, imposing the Christian morals on others isn't even a part of the Bible, which means that Christians are free to do it or not do it, as they feel appropriate (from the perspective of following doctrine). The things you're taking issue with aren't even required by the religion, much less fundamental.
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Hell, I don't even own either generation of Xbox, so what little point you may have had completely falls apart there.
Mind you, I don't think everything about Halo is great. It's not a particularly great game mechanically (it's good, but nothing that hasn't been done before), although I'm led to believe the recharging health system (ie, shields) was fairly new when Halo 1 debuted. Multiplayer, especially in Halo 1, is uninspired... Halo 1's multiplayer is thoroughly mediocre by my standards, although Halo 2 is a lot more fun to me. The exception to this rule is CTF: Halo has some of the best CTF I've ever played.
In short, I think the music, story, and atmosphere of the single-player portion are amazing, but the multiplayer is a mixed bag. I also would like to point out that Halo isn't just a console series, PC ports of Halo 1/2 do exist. Hell, I play Halo only on the PC for that matter, dual joystick controls don't do it for me. I think the Halo games are the finest FPS games ever crafted... but I also think Half-Life is the single most overrated game ever released, so my opinions obviously aren't the majority's on the subject of FPS.
I'm going to guess that like anything else, this varies by store. At my local Gamestop, PC games have 4 racks devoted to them, and are decently priced. Still much smaller than the console section, but c'est la vie, I guess. It's generally a better option than Best Buy, they tend to have games which BB long since stopped carrying.
Or you could... plug your hard drive into another computer? I mean seriously, what were you planning to do if your motherboard got hosed or something? This discussion of your data being held hostage is moot (unless you use BitLocker, I guess), because no computer-savvy person worth their salt would be unable to think of the "plug the drive into another computer and copy the files off" solution.
Honestly, slashdot is the only place I've ever seen where Windows is so almost universally hated. The rest of the world either likes it, or doesn't know enough to care. Just food for thought there, my AC homie.
Anyways, yes, it IS legitimate for them to offer nothing. It's NOT legitimate to offer store credit. They should have offered cash or nothing, not a cop-out in-between solution that doesn't really satisfy anyone.
The biggest problem I have with Risk is that I can (and often do) see a good strategy break down because of bad dice rolls, which is pretty much the most frustrating experience ever. For some ungodly reason, whenever I play with my dad, he always rolls high, I always roll low. It gets painful after a while.
If your character was gone, I'd contact customer service (assuming you didn't). Blizzard has said more than once on the forums that they don't delete people's characters. That's not a guarantee, exactly, but you would probably get a decent response from customer service.
That doesn't mean that it's legitimate to offer you Apple store credit. If they really are trying to make it up to their customers, give them cash. Else, this is lip service, nothing more, in my opinion (and would be from any company, I was similarly disappointed in Google's decision).
Reasonable Apple customers: you guys should go out and beat them up. They give you a bad name.
Hell, Slashdot was all up in arms (for the most part) a few weeks ago when Google did a similar thing with their video service, offering Google credit instead of a true refund... why not have the same hostility now?
Well, the early adopters may not feel ripped off, but that doesn't mean the iPhone is worth $600 (to most of us). It's just a phone, there are countless others out there for much cheaper.
And what the hell is the Microsoft sidebar with live/msn search integration you're talking about? That doesn't ring a bell for me, where exactly is it?
Do you have any new material? I remember seeing this EXACT SAME flame yesterday, and it wasn't original or clever even then. Come on dude, entertain us here!
Reality is, as always, another beast entirely, but the theory is quite reasonable, imho.
If this guy were Twitter, he'd be far less rational. Unless Twitter has picked up that skill recently, I think they're different people. ;)
Hotmail is actually pretty slick now, you should check it out. I still don't use my account (except to sign up for sites which I KNOW are going to spam me), I've switched over to Gmail for anything important, but I was really impressed the first time I logged in after the revamp (don't know how recent it was, I'm guessing 6 months to a year ago).
Being convicted has no bearing on whether or not what you're doing is wrong. Apple is just as wrong as Microsoft in this regard, whether that means they're not wrong, or they're very wrong. I mean, if Bob the Murderer and I were both running around killing people we didn't like, it wouldn't be a valid defense of me to say, "And which of those two people has been convicted of murder in the past?".
Wow, I was just strikingly reminded of Peter Wiggin when you said that. A prominent figure in the online debates who gets elected to power. Cool idea, to be sure.
Er, hit the button too soon. As I was going to add, I really like the touch interface idea. I'd totally buy one of these if it had enough space, but with that little space this is in the "no buy" category. That's why this is particularly aggravating to me, because it looks damn cool and I want one.
And it would've been worth it. It's pretty stupid, in my opinion, to have that little space on a music/video device. I have more than 16 GB of music alone on my 3G ipod, if I had videos too, I'd probably fill the 40 GB hard drive in there. 16 GB is reeeeally small for a device like this, imho. I honestly hope this was a cost/feasibility sort of decision, because if it was just done to make it a bit smaller... stupid stupid stupid.
Dalaran is a pretty heavily populated realm, and I didn't experience issues with the BC launch. Maybe Whisperwind was just particularly bad, not the norm.
That being said, I agree with you on this one too. What gets taught in schools is also none of their damn business, if they don't like it, they should request to have their child not attend science class and teach it themselves, or enroll their child in a different school entirely, or hell, simply teach their children "That's not what we believe, this is what we believe".
Okay so the age of consent in US is as low as 13 or 14 in many states... a 14 year old may have sex with a 16 year old... we don't have problem with *that*b) Most of the populace isn't Christian any more beyond mere lip service, I'm pretty sure.
And Christianity and Islam, dear sir, are a *joke* in their modern context! Mere cults! While Islam is more questionable in this regard, I find it difficult to call Christianity a cult. The single biggest reason being... the church isn't running around killing its members, and putting undue pressure on them to stay if they even THINK of leaving. Islam is, to my understanding, the same way in the US, although this isn't true in fundamentalist Muslim countries, where people do, unfortunately, have to be afraid of getting killed or tortured if they want to leave the flock. But it doesn't seem to be true here, which is something.You seem to be falling into the trap that many people in our country do when thinking about Muslims: you equate all of them with the radical ones. Just as most Muslims aren't suicide-bombing terrorists, not all Christians are the kind you describe. As far as I'm aware, imposing the Christian morals on others isn't even a part of the Bible, which means that Christians are free to do it or not do it, as they feel appropriate (from the perspective of following doctrine). The things you're taking issue with aren't even required by the religion, much less fundamental.