MUDs allow for back stories, detailed descriptions of yourself and an ever increasing population of people who actually crave story
Out of all the posts, I think you're the only one that understood the GP.. everyone else was blubbering on about stats.. talk about thinking inside the box..
I wished MMOs had much more depth and story to them, perhaps through player created content somehow.. Why with playing the hero all the time? Sometimes I just want to be the evil wizard in the tower, controlling things.. There has to be a way to do that without:
a) Having to spend 100+ hours doing something else first before you can be privileged. b) It being non-fun for everyone else.
I can see where Spore's massive multi-single player could really breath fresh air into this stagnant genre.
Calm down.... It's not a nuclear power plant. This is fun. Now go away little troll.
I don't know where you got the idea from my text comment that I was at all angry... but you completely missed my point.
I said the following..
I hate it when elitists compare playing a high level character as though you're operating a nuclear power station.
If you read closely you'd see I was saying that eve-online isn't difficult to play and that pretending you have some kind of "flying skill" is ridiculous. If this was a flight sim we were talking about things would be different.
My comment had nothing to do with the "fun" of the game. Perhaps next time you'll read more closely instead of angrily firing off comments.
Mod points be damned, this argument is so false...
I've played multiple MMOGs at very high levels including EQ, DAOC, AO, Eve-online, EQ2, etc before I burned out and never really played them to that degree anymore. What it comes down to is sitting watching TV, with auto-follow on. When you hear noises coming from your computer you just heal whoever is hurt and the group does the rest. Granted it only works for healers but it's not exactly rocket science or even needs much of your attention to play an MMOG.
Yeah if someone is really really retarded its easy to spot by their chatting. I don't think anyone would argue otherwise, but it's not always the case and some people are just really stupid, which leads to false positives. I've been playing MMOGs where I was gathering resources. People would call me a bot just because I ignored them and got to all the resources before they did.
It's that kind of crap that pisses me off because it gets honest players in trouble. So yes, I call bullshit on your claim that it's easy to spot a fake. Please don't stop me from trying to convince you that you gained something from your hours of integer increments, but I'd prefer it if you'd stop spreading the myth that it's easy to spot a fake in any game, especially one where your main skill is in timing when to press hotbar icons.
You must have played a different version to eve-online then I did, there was no "flying" skill in eve as you double click to move in certain directions. Since you don't directly control your ships I fail to see any "skill" in it.
Combat as in most MMOGs is about pushing the right combo buttons at the right times, that is all. There is no skill involved in pushing buttons and having your random damage count upped by your characters statistics.
Sorry if this makes all that time you spent feel worthless but I hate it when elitists compare playing a high level character as though you're operating a nuclear power station.
No, seriously. The only answer I can think of is "So the developers have sufficient time to leech money from you."
Makes sense, spend over $150 on WoW subscriptons and then get to a high level or just purchase an account for less money then it would have cost you in subscriptions.
Don't you remember? It was the 1st and 2nd revisions that were being rejected. MS made their patent claim, the FSF clear up the revisions a bit and then people started jumping on board because of the Novell threat.
Revisions aren't the released license, everyone was told to not use it until it was released.
Then perhaps you'd like to purchase the rights for public demonstrations of the "happy birthday" song that you will inevitability sing when something increments their age count.
Yes the "Happy Birthday" song is copyrighted and still collecting fees to this day from radio stations, etc. It's set to expire in 2030 apparently (i'm sure copyright extensions will prevent that).
The real question that should be asked is, at what point does a piece of music become part of the public domain culture? What's next? A patent on Christmas?
For an awesome (legal download) documentary on piracy, copyright, etc I highly recommend Steal this film 2.
When the FSF took hold of it and used it to champion the largely rejected until that time, GPLv3, it took on a life MS hadn't originally expected but they continued it because of all the infighting it caused within the FOSS communities.
Except for the fact that GPLv3 came out AFTER MS had issued the patent threats. So how could the GPLv3 be rejected before it was released?
It took on a life of its own because it was then RELEASED, hence why it got more popular, because people could start using it.
People on Slashdot arguing over GPL2 v GPL3 isn't the FOSS community and I'd hardly call it fighting, it's like saying that emacs vs. vi has caused a huge rift in the open source community, what crap.
I can't believe this is news! Surely the fact that photoshop 5 runs well in wine is more important then who funded the effort.
Photoshop 5 through CS2 install and works pretty well on wine! Here are some tips you'll need to run it successfully:
* You shouldn't have to copy Photoshop from Windows; just install it under Wine by running its Setup.exe. (To run a.exe under wine, you have to doubleclick it, right click and choose "Run with Wine", or run it from the commandline using the 'wine' command, depending on how your Linux distribution integrates Wine.)
* Never use a cracked version of Photoshop.
* Never run Wine as root.
* Use a recent version of Wine (0.9.54 or later).
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Before installing Photoshop, install the Times32 font by downloading and running http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/times32.exe
* The Clone tool uses the ALT key in a way that conflicts with many window managers. Here's how to fix that:
o Ubuntu: System / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt".
o Kubuntu: K / System Settings / Look and Feel / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt"
o Suse with Gnome: Computer / Control Center / Look and Feel / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt"
o
Suse with KDE: Gecko / Favorites / Configure Desktop / Desktop / Window behavior / Window Actions / "Inner Window, Titlebar & Frame" , and pick "Meta" instead of "Alt"
o Fedora 8 with Gnome: System / Preferences / Look and Feel / Windows
* Some UI elements might use a too-small font. In CS2, you can fix this with Edit / Preferences / General, and change UI Font Size from Small to Medium.
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He needs more time out because he is starting a new career in break dancing.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls
Does this mean he will have more time to work on HURD and get that out the door before Duke Nukem Forever?
I wished MMOs had much more depth and story to them, perhaps through player created content somehow.. Why with playing the hero all the time? Sometimes I just want to be the evil wizard in the tower, controlling things.. There has to be a way to do that without:
a) Having to spend 100+ hours doing something else first before you can be privileged.
b) It being non-fun for everyone else.
I can see where Spore's massive multi-single player could really breath fresh air into this stagnant genre.
I said the following..
If you read closely you'd see I was saying that eve-online isn't difficult to play and that pretending you have some kind of "flying skill" is ridiculous. If this was a flight sim we were talking about things would be different.
My comment had nothing to do with the "fun" of the game. Perhaps next time you'll read more closely instead of angrily firing off comments.
Your proof is a joke..
An article written 4 years ago..
Some random guy with no factual information that he actually lost his email.
and the best link of them all... a wikipedia page bitching about Google censoring their beloved child porn...
You fail..
Mod points be damned, this argument is so false...
I've played multiple MMOGs at very high levels including EQ, DAOC, AO, Eve-online, EQ2, etc before I burned out and never really played them to that degree anymore. What it comes down to is sitting watching TV, with auto-follow on. When you hear noises coming from your computer you just heal whoever is hurt and the group does the rest. Granted it only works for healers but it's not exactly rocket science or even needs much of your attention to play an MMOG.
Yeah if someone is really really retarded its easy to spot by their chatting. I don't think anyone would argue otherwise, but it's not always the case and some people are just really stupid, which leads to false positives. I've been playing MMOGs where I was gathering resources. People would call me a bot just because I ignored them and got to all the resources before they did.
It's that kind of crap that pisses me off because it gets honest players in trouble. So yes, I call bullshit on your claim that it's easy to spot a fake. Please don't stop me from trying to convince you that you gained something from your hours of integer increments, but I'd prefer it if you'd stop spreading the myth that it's easy to spot a fake in any game, especially one where your main skill is in timing when to press hotbar icons.
Combat as in most MMOGs is about pushing the right combo buttons at the right times, that is all. There is no skill involved in pushing buttons and having your random damage count upped by your characters statistics.
Sorry if this makes all that time you spent feel worthless but I hate it when elitists compare playing a high level character as though you're operating a nuclear power station.
3 usb cables? : /
Still don't believe me here..
Microsoft Patent Claims - Wednesday November 08 2006
GPL 3 Released - 29 June 2007
Months apart from each other, although don't let facts get in the way of your trolling.
At least Google censor web links you send to your friends.
Who gives a crap if a machine reads my email?!! It's going through the intertubes, EVERYONE can read my email unless I encrypt it.
You are completely missing the point.
It's not about how long copyright should last. It's about the fact that they should not have copyright on that song at all!
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear,.. ah crap..
Then perhaps you'd like to purchase the rights for public demonstrations of the "happy birthday" song that you will inevitability sing when something increments their age count.
Yes the "Happy Birthday" song is copyrighted and still collecting fees to this day from radio stations, etc. It's set to expire in 2030 apparently (i'm sure copyright extensions will prevent that).
The real question that should be asked is, at what point does a piece of music become part of the public domain culture? What's next? A patent on Christmas?
For an awesome (legal download) documentary on piracy, copyright, etc I highly recommend Steal this film 2.
It took on a life of its own because it was then RELEASED, hence why it got more popular, because people could start using it.
People on Slashdot arguing over GPL2 v GPL3 isn't the FOSS community and I'd hardly call it fighting, it's like saying that emacs vs. vi has caused a huge rift in the open source community, what crap.
I use Avidemux for video editing and it works quite well, although the UI is a bit meh.
The eye toy on the playstation had this type of UI already and it sucked as a menu interface, great for actually playing the games though.
They both kill people and the earth so what's the difference?
I installed and played Portal via steam at Christmas just fine with no problems in wine. What the hell are you talking about?
or maybe it does and they just don't want you to use it.
http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop