Are you smoking something? $US25 million to secure a movie that will pump a very large percentage of close to $US700 million into the local economy, such as the building industry, catering, accommodation, transport and other ancillary areas is a damned good deal. Other countries were willing to pay a lot more, but it is clear that Warners and especially PJ wanted the movie filmed in NZ if at all possible.
I just hope that Australian fuckhead Simon Whipp lives up to his promise and doesn't try and fuck around with the movie or he will have 4 million pissed off Kiwi's after his blood. the Aussie actors union have fucked up their industry and now it seems they were contemplating the same thing in NZ. An attempt by the US actors unions to try and drive the movie industry back to the US after FAG...sorry,. I mean SAG screwed up their own industry.
he will find that he will get a cricket bat to the face if he tries it in the UK, Australia, New Zealand or any other country that is more sensibly governed that the US.
I am hoping this will cause his whole media empire to crash and burn. That way we won't have to put up with his demeted, corrupt, senile twist on the news.
Chavez is just another tinpot dictator with a really small penis who doesn't like it when people don't bow down and kiss his ass. The sooner the people step up and bitchslap the little wanker the better.
I will stick with my 17 year old Holden (local GM owned car maker) with it's mechanical accelerator. That way I don't have to peel my face of the back of a truck due to a shitty piece of Jap crap.
Amazon can kiss my fat, hairy, unwiped ass in that case. I won't be buying that piece of crap if that is how Amazon are going to fuck people living outside the US.
Jobsientology doesn't give a flying fuck about their iPhone end customers. The only ones they care about are the ones lining their pockets year on end through the "exclusivity" scam.
Buying an iPhone is the equivalent of handing Jobsientology a signed blank check and a signed document reading "I hearby agree to bend over, spread my ass cheeks as wide asd possible and consent to Apple jamming ever larger and ever rougher objects up my ass and I will scream "Thank You Oh High And Mighty Saviour Steven Jobs" each time until my throat is hoarse".
We would be comepletely fucked, especially if Macro$lut, crApple and other malevolent beheamouths such as them manage to get their greedy, rapacious, self absorbede snouts in that particular trough.
Not when it comes to Corporate America and their victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers.
It seems that in the USA the corporates can just bend you right over and fist fuck you till they have extracted all they can then just toss you away like yesterdays garbage.
Blizzard does not have a clue about customer relations.
I play Eve Online and there are a number of player developed applications such as Evemon and Eve Fitting Tool which not only have the name of the game in their title but make use of an API system developed by CCP that allows these apps to connect to the servers and get information such as currently training skills, assets and their locations, the status of research or ship, module or ammunition building jobs, etc. CCP also release a database which contains information on all the ships, modules, etc so that people that create the player made apps can have the correct information for the modules and ships, such as their bonuses, etc.
The whole idea is to work with your player base rather than be a bunch of whiny bitches like Blizzard. Players will always try to create apps based around their MMOG. Blizzard should wake up to this and work with their player base (although I bet most of the "players" are nothing more than gold farmers), instead of against it.
So I guess you didn't bother asking for help in the appropirately named "Help" channel or in the corp chat channels. Eve Online players will help each other when they first start out. Also there are lots of websites, most of which are accessible through the Eve Online forums, which, incidentally, also contain lots of help if you look.
Let me guess. You play "World" of "Warcraft".
Of course the word "World" bit is more of a suburb, given that you have to screw around changing servers. The Warcraft bit is even funnier, given that player versus environment is not warfare, and indeed barely rates as a skirmish.
Warfare involves stratergies that last days, and even weeks or months. It involves logistics and support, intelligence gathering, fleet movements, controlling your own territory making and keeping allies.
Eved Online involves in vesting in your character over a period of months or years. WoW is just about spotty gits running about killing orcs and goblins
Prorietry lock-in FTL!
But then again, what do you expect from a company that produces a device that can only play a tiny subset of the audio codecs. Yet another example of Form Over Function Fail. Any portable musioc device that cannot natively play my OGG or FLAC files isn't worth the trouble.
I gave IE 8 a test drive on Vista 2.0b. I was not impressed. Plugins? What are they? But the biggest pain in the ass as far as I am concerned is that the IE crapware STILL does not support the incredibly simple function of resumption of interrupted downloads. This is typuical Macro$lut bullshit.
And this is why Eve will forever remain a niche MMO.
Fine and dandy with me if it helps keeps the whining assholes in WoW and Guild Wars.
That way all of us who want real PVP and the risk and reward of not having the game made into a bland soupy slop best suited to babies can enjoy ourselves without the incessant whining of some noob screaming becuase theior ship was killed and how everyone is a griefer.
Most gankers are almost certainly sociopaths. It's the best explanation for their behavior.
Please tell me where I can get a copy of your doctoral dissertation "Eve Online: Gankers, their reasons, motivations and psychological profiles." It should make interesting reading while taking a dump after a heavy curry and lager session.
Going by your reasoning most WoW players are almost certainly socially inadequate, skinny. pastey skinned, lunch moneyless, spotty little 13 year old trolls living at home with their solo mothers go work to the local strip bar.
Please come back when you know what you arer talking about and can back it up with proof.
Yes, I can imagine how thrilling it must be to spend months getting a ship and then losing it in a few seconds when you get ganked. It's probably as exciting as buying a 360 and getting a RRoD after a few weeks.
There is a very simple addage in Eve Online. Don't Fly what you cannot afford to lose. Also you can indure your ships so as to minimise ther finacial impact of losing a ship. And as for months to fly a ship, what sort of ships are you referring to? A mission cruiser costs in the region of 3 million ISK, which can usually be made in a few days missioning. Same with a mining cruiser. Insurance to cover the full replacerment cost of the ship about 1 mill. There would probably be enough left over to refit the ship from what you do not have in your hangar that was rat loot. The only ships I can think of that would take a while to mine or mission grind for are battleships and that would only be for the first one. Again insurance should always be bought. But you should not be looking at flying a ship till you can properly fit it out. Join a player corp. That offers you security that does not come from staying in an NPC corp, as well as large mining ops or running lucrative level 4 missions as a gang.
That is the way the game is meant to be played. As a group, not as a solo.
If you want PvP for real men then I suggest a FPS like Counter-Strike.
You own me a new monitor and keyboard. CS is to PVP as a dried dung heap is to luxury accommodation alongside Central Park.
How long did you play the game for? A week? A month?
I spent my first two years in a player owned corp, building up my character. I did the boring stuff like running missions, mining for hours on end, all the while learing skills and learning the game. Now I am in a 0.0 based alliance, shooting other people in 0.0, having great fun.
Unlike other MMO's which suit those short of attention span, Eve requires a long term commitment. Hell, just getting your toon to the point where it is learning skills at it's most effective rate takes a month. Being able to effectively able to fly a battleship (still the core PVP ship despite the proliferatio of capital and super-capital ships) takes months. Building up the assets for PVP can take even longer than that.
Sure, you could shortcut the process and buy a toon with all the required ingame skills to fly, for example a carrier, from someone else but you would not have the experience that is naturally acquired through coming up through the ranks and file, so to speak. Experience in things such as fleet flying, the feel for how the ship reacts, ship fitouts, handling lag, and how to react when suddenly faced with a large fleet of evil red ships, all hellbent on turning your ship into dust and you into a frozen corpse.
Unfortunately, one thing I have noticed is that WoW players who come over for a taste of real pvp will often just jump in their shiny new rookie ship and trundle off to losec, ignore the warnings about the dangers of losec space and that there is no protection from the law and then bitch and moan when they start solo mining in a belt only to get ganked by pirates.
Lowsec space tends to be the domain of people who see themselves as pirates. In the time I have been playing I have been ganked or ransomed by pirates twice. Once as a 3 week old noob when I was with a mate mining in lowsec and not paying attention to my overview and the other because I was flying a ship while tired, didn't pay attention to who was around me or to intel and had the wrong fit. Rather than bitch and moan about griefing I learned from the experiences and have not lost a ship in a non-combat situation since. I have flown my ship unmolested through hostile space, outsmarted gate camps and pursuit in my hauler but I know that I still have a hell of a lot to learn.
It is a long steep learning curve with many branches. But the good thing abut Eve is that, simply by buying the right skills you came do what you want, be that miner, builder, corporate or alliance leader, or ebil pirate. But it takes patience.
They are a company that cares more about cutesy looks rather resonably priced products, popping out stupid adverts and suing people who have the emerity to make mention of their products before Crapple can have yet another overblowen posefest launch than that do about fixing as soon as issues are found . Once again the problems of a monopolistic structure rather than the more effective and efficient OSS model is showing it's flaws, to the detriment of the customers of that monopolistic monolith.
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Are you smoking something? $US25 million to secure a movie that will pump a very large percentage of close to $US700 million into the local economy, such as the building industry, catering, accommodation, transport and other ancillary areas is a damned good deal. Other countries were willing to pay a lot more, but it is clear that Warners and especially PJ wanted the movie filmed in NZ if at all possible. I just hope that Australian fuckhead Simon Whipp lives up to his promise and doesn't try and fuck around with the movie or he will have 4 million pissed off Kiwi's after his blood. the Aussie actors union have fucked up their industry and now it seems they were contemplating the same thing in NZ. An attempt by the US actors unions to try and drive the movie industry back to the US after FAG...sorry,. I mean SAG screwed up their own industry.
he will find that he will get a cricket bat to the face if he tries it in the UK, Australia, New Zealand or any other country that is more sensibly governed that the US.
I am hoping this will cause his whole media empire to crash and burn. That way we won't have to put up with his demeted, corrupt, senile twist on the news.
Chavez is just another tinpot dictator with a really small penis who doesn't like it when people don't bow down and kiss his ass. The sooner the people step up and bitchslap the little wanker the better.
I will stick with my 17 year old Holden (local GM owned car maker) with it's mechanical accelerator. That way I don't have to peel my face of the back of a truck due to a shitty piece of Jap crap.
Amazon can kiss my fat, hairy, unwiped ass in that case. I won't be buying that piece of crap if that is how Amazon are going to fuck people living outside the US.
give them a right old anal fisting, yet again. What a surprise.
Jobsientology doesn't give a flying fuck about their iPhone end customers. The only ones they care about are the ones lining their pockets year on end through the "exclusivity" scam. Buying an iPhone is the equivalent of handing Jobsientology a signed blank check and a signed document reading "I hearby agree to bend over, spread my ass cheeks as wide asd possible and consent to Apple jamming ever larger and ever rougher objects up my ass and I will scream "Thank You Oh High And Mighty Saviour Steven Jobs" each time until my throat is hoarse".
Aby is the goth computer geek chick from NCIS
We would be comepletely fucked, especially if Macro$lut, crApple and other malevolent beheamouths such as them manage to get their greedy, rapacious, self absorbede snouts in that particular trough.
It seems that in the USA the corporates can just bend you right over and fist fuck you till they have extracted all they can then just toss you away like yesterdays garbage.
So what is Blizzard's excuse then?
Blizzard does not have a clue about customer relations. I play Eve Online and there are a number of player developed applications such as Evemon and Eve Fitting Tool which not only have the name of the game in their title but make use of an API system developed by CCP that allows these apps to connect to the servers and get information such as currently training skills, assets and their locations, the status of research or ship, module or ammunition building jobs, etc. CCP also release a database which contains information on all the ships, modules, etc so that people that create the player made apps can have the correct information for the modules and ships, such as their bonuses, etc. The whole idea is to work with your player base rather than be a bunch of whiny bitches like Blizzard. Players will always try to create apps based around their MMOG. Blizzard should wake up to this and work with their player base (although I bet most of the "players" are nothing more than gold farmers), instead of against it.
So I guess you didn't bother asking for help in the appropirately named "Help" channel or in the corp chat channels. Eve Online players will help each other when they first start out. Also there are lots of websites, most of which are accessible through the Eve Online forums, which, incidentally, also contain lots of help if you look.
Let me guess. You play "World" of "Warcraft". Of course the word "World" bit is more of a suburb, given that you have to screw around changing servers. The Warcraft bit is even funnier, given that player versus environment is not warfare, and indeed barely rates as a skirmish. Warfare involves stratergies that last days, and even weeks or months. It involves logistics and support, intelligence gathering, fleet movements, controlling your own territory making and keeping allies. Eved Online involves in vesting in your character over a period of months or years. WoW is just about spotty gits running about killing orcs and goblins
Clearly you are not a gaming nerd
Prorietry lock-in FTL! But then again, what do you expect from a company that produces a device that can only play a tiny subset of the audio codecs. Yet another example of Form Over Function Fail. Any portable musioc device that cannot natively play my OGG or FLAC files isn't worth the trouble.
I gave IE 8 a test drive on Vista 2.0b. I was not impressed. Plugins? What are they? But the biggest pain in the ass as far as I am concerned is that the IE crapware STILL does not support the incredibly simple function of resumption of interrupted downloads. This is typuical Macro$lut bullshit.
63 character key consisiting of non repeating characters selected from A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and !@#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\:;"'.?/ be sufficiently secure?
Well, at first my mind translated it as Plonker of the bUnited States but then I realised thay was only true until Jan 20
AC=Anonymous Corpse?
while watching Glen Miller play music with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
Fine and dandy with me if it helps keeps the whining assholes in WoW and Guild Wars.
That way all of us who want real PVP and the risk and reward of not having the game made into a bland soupy slop best suited to babies can enjoy ourselves without the incessant whining of some noob screaming becuase theior ship was killed and how everyone is a griefer.
Please tell me where I can get a copy of your doctoral dissertation "Eve Online: Gankers, their reasons, motivations and psychological profiles." It should make interesting reading while taking a dump after a heavy curry and lager session.
Going by your reasoning most WoW players are almost certainly socially inadequate, skinny. pastey skinned, lunch moneyless, spotty little 13 year old trolls living at home with their solo mothers go work to the local strip bar.
Please come back when you know what you arer talking about and can back it up with proof.
Yes, I can imagine how thrilling it must be to spend months getting a ship and then losing it in a few seconds when you get ganked. It's probably as exciting as buying a 360 and getting a RRoD after a few weeks.
There is a very simple addage in Eve Online. Don't Fly what you cannot afford to lose. Also you can indure your ships so as to minimise ther finacial impact of losing a ship. And as for months to fly a ship, what sort of ships are you referring to? A mission cruiser costs in the region of 3 million ISK, which can usually be made in a few days missioning. Same with a mining cruiser. Insurance to cover the full replacerment cost of the ship about 1 mill. There would probably be enough left over to refit the ship from what you do not have in your hangar that was rat loot. The only ships I can think of that would take a while to mine or mission grind for are battleships and that would only be for the first one. Again insurance should always be bought. But you should not be looking at flying a ship till you can properly fit it out. Join a player corp. That offers you security that does not come from staying in an NPC corp, as well as large mining ops or running lucrative level 4 missions as a gang.
That is the way the game is meant to be played. As a group, not as a solo.
If you want PvP for real men then I suggest a FPS like Counter-Strike.
You own me a new monitor and keyboard. CS is to PVP as a dried dung heap is to luxury accommodation alongside Central Park.
How long did you play the game for? A week? A month? I spent my first two years in a player owned corp, building up my character. I did the boring stuff like running missions, mining for hours on end, all the while learing skills and learning the game. Now I am in a 0.0 based alliance, shooting other people in 0.0, having great fun. Unlike other MMO's which suit those short of attention span, Eve requires a long term commitment. Hell, just getting your toon to the point where it is learning skills at it's most effective rate takes a month. Being able to effectively able to fly a battleship (still the core PVP ship despite the proliferatio of capital and super-capital ships) takes months. Building up the assets for PVP can take even longer than that. Sure, you could shortcut the process and buy a toon with all the required ingame skills to fly, for example a carrier, from someone else but you would not have the experience that is naturally acquired through coming up through the ranks and file, so to speak. Experience in things such as fleet flying, the feel for how the ship reacts, ship fitouts, handling lag, and how to react when suddenly faced with a large fleet of evil red ships, all hellbent on turning your ship into dust and you into a frozen corpse. Unfortunately, one thing I have noticed is that WoW players who come over for a taste of real pvp will often just jump in their shiny new rookie ship and trundle off to losec, ignore the warnings about the dangers of losec space and that there is no protection from the law and then bitch and moan when they start solo mining in a belt only to get ganked by pirates. Lowsec space tends to be the domain of people who see themselves as pirates. In the time I have been playing I have been ganked or ransomed by pirates twice. Once as a 3 week old noob when I was with a mate mining in lowsec and not paying attention to my overview and the other because I was flying a ship while tired, didn't pay attention to who was around me or to intel and had the wrong fit. Rather than bitch and moan about griefing I learned from the experiences and have not lost a ship in a non-combat situation since. I have flown my ship unmolested through hostile space, outsmarted gate camps and pursuit in my hauler but I know that I still have a hell of a lot to learn. It is a long steep learning curve with many branches. But the good thing abut Eve is that, simply by buying the right skills you came do what you want, be that miner, builder, corporate or alliance leader, or ebil pirate. But it takes patience.
They are a company that cares more about cutesy looks rather resonably priced products, popping out stupid adverts and suing people who have the emerity to make mention of their products before Crapple can have yet another overblowen posefest launch than that do about fixing as soon as issues are found . Once again the problems of a monopolistic structure rather than the more effective and efficient OSS model is showing it's flaws, to the detriment of the customers of that monopolistic monolith.