Never bothered to record it? What the hell?
I like remixes, what do you have against them? And who's going to refrain from buying music because it may be remixed in FORTY YEARS?
What a stupid post.
Never bothered to write it? What the hell? I like jokes, what do you have against them? And who's going to refrain from writing jokes bnecause it may be misunderstood in FORTY MINUTES? What a stupid poster.
Comments on TFA say that the situation was not exactly as represented in TFA.
From here:
I'm actually a CoH player who PvPed both with and against Twixt (I am not any of the players named, and my verbal interactions with Twixt were quite limited). I'd like to clear up a few things that seem to be missing. Note that I am, in no way, discounting the seriousness of death threats, but maybe a little more understanding of what really took place will allow people to relate better to the frustration.
1) Twixt's actions in PvP translated to an investment of time. By teleporting (the action described) villains into a row of firing squad computer-generated enemies, he would give the other character debt. This debt would impede the character's ability to gain experience by cutting it in half for a certain period of time. Thus, anyone who suffered from what Twixt did would pay for it by having their progress cut in half the next time they got the opportunity to play. A full portion of debt could take upwards of 3 hours of nonstop play to be worked off.
Imagine you go play miniature golf. Directly in front of you is a group of 10 children who have no idea what they're doing. You are unable to skip past them, and as is allowed, they refuse to let you pass. Due to this inconvenience, you only get to play 9 holes (or 4, if you're only on a 9-hole course). Would you be frustrated? I sure would be. They didn't break the rules, but they hurt the fun of my outing by specifically robbing me of the time that I had dedicated to accomplishing my goal. It's not much different than traffic, bowling balls getting stuck in the lanes, people talking during a movie, or any other issue that would rob an individual of their free time. The individuals causing your frustration may not be breaking the rules, but they are affecting your enjoyment.
2) Twixt's account of what took place in the PvP zones he visited just plain isn't accurate.
People did chat because many of the players had played together prior to the release of City of Villains (CoH was released in May of 2004 while CoV in October of 2006). Most of us already knew each other. However, that didn't result in a lack of fighting. Many times, Twixt would simply teleport people from battles already in place to his computer-generated death squads. He's presenting the situation as if he was the only one using the zones correctly when, in actuality, he was just the only one manipulating loopholes to allow him to generally be mean to other players. That's the biggest reason why he was despised.
3) Twixt commonly made fun of players he killed.
He did not simply say random hero-supporting things, he oftentimes bragged openly after using his computer-generated helpers to kill someone. Like any other competitive situation, bragging and talking trash will earn people talking back and becoming more upset. He worked to goad individuals into becoming angrier at what he did.
He mentions the forums as a place where people speculated about parts of his life, but he seems to have left out where he posted kill-logs from his time spent in PvP zones. He posted quite frequently on those boards, and he went out of his way to fuel the hate that developed for him. Professional athletes who do such a thing are widely derided by the media and fans. Twixt worked hard to generate hate, he was not simply an innocent victim.
4) Twixt died. A lot.
Twixt perfected his method of generating debt for other players by dying a whole lot along the way. Statements like, "But no one could stay alive long enough to defeat Twixt..." completely misrepresent what happened.
5) Twixt's research plays a role by examining another realm of society, but his results are predictable.
It's not surprising that people get upset when you're mean to them without reason. On an unmarked curb, it's legal for me to park 5 fee
Netrek, an ancient unix game, had a primative form of DRM to prevent cheating ages ago.
While interesting, that statement is very poor in actual information. At the very least, a link to some page will let people easily see what you're talking about. Actually saying that it had "an anti-cheating mechanism using an RSA-based public key cryptography authentication system that also attempts (with limited success) to detect and prevent Man-in-the-middle attacks." is even better, especially if you give references. Now I know wikipedia is not the best source but it does give more information than simply saying it had a primitive form of DRM.
This is why we need "-1 Whoosh". As well as "-1 Factually wrong". And in a perfect world, we'd also have both highest % moderated tags displayed, so we could have funny/Whoosh, or insightful/funny, or interesting/factually wrong. But then, welcome to metamod hell!:-) Better post this AC, will most likely end up as offtopic...
The whole thing is a hoax. It never happened. The pic is of a medical robot and has nothing to do with the story. There was no robot designed to be a facsimile of human emotion involved, just a joke/hoax that got picked up and posted here as a story.
The Pirate Bay is about theft, plain and simple. [...] but the propaganda is propaganda on both sides.
It would appear that one side's propaganda is working. There is no theft in piracy. Unauthorized copying, yes, but no theft. This has been explained countless times here. I find it saddening that even here on slashdot, we hear people who bought the "theft" propagands from the *IAAs.
This appears to be yet more LVMH shenanigans. They want their products to only be available through their retail network and attack any perceived affront to the brand. It's not the first time they use the courts to try to get their way.
Each snail is equipped with a small glass capsule attached to its shell. The capsule contains a tiny chip and coil antenna that can be activated by a reader at a range of 3 cm.
Each snail is equipped with a small glass capsule attached to its shell. The capsule contains a tiny chip and coil antenna that can be activated by a reader at a range of 3 cm.
All of those are available through emulation, but actual remakes I have not seen. Sure, there's a version of Bubble Bobble with better graphics, but it doesn't have the same levels as the original so it can't really be seen as a remake. Of course, the remakes would have to keep the difficulty level of the original, I wouldn't want to play a Ghosts'n Goblins remake that didn't make you tear your hair out in frustration, it just wouldn't be the same!
I have never gotten around to reading Long Dark Teatime of the Soul...is it any good, in relation to Holistic Detective Agency?
I haven't read HDA yet, but read Long Dark Teatime of The Soul years ago and loved it. It includes Thor lugging around a Coke machine, Odin lusting after fresh, crisp linen, Tsuliwaensis attempting suicide at every opportunity and Dirk Gently getting his hands one a hell of a hot potato.
Slashdot Mirror
Link in the article is 404.
I think your boss got moderator access. Otherwise I don't understand the "Troll" moderation.
In this case, the spammer is also a distributor of malware. (see the wiki for Virtumuno for more info)
To stay in your terminology I guess that would make them vandals or something...
Never bothered to record it? What the hell? I like remixes, what do you have against them? And who's going to refrain from buying music because it may be remixed in FORTY YEARS? What a stupid post.
Never bothered to write it? What the hell? I like jokes, what do you have against them? And who's going to refrain from writing jokes bnecause it may be misunderstood in FORTY MINUTES? What a stupid poster.
I'm actually a CoH player who PvPed both with and against Twixt (I am not any of the players named, and my verbal interactions with Twixt were quite limited). I'd like to clear up a few things that seem to be missing. Note that I am, in no way, discounting the seriousness of death threats, but maybe a little more understanding of what really took place will allow people to relate better to the frustration.
1) Twixt's actions in PvP translated to an investment of time. By teleporting (the action described) villains into a row of firing squad computer-generated enemies, he would give the other character debt. This debt would impede the character's ability to gain experience by cutting it in half for a certain period of time. Thus, anyone who suffered from what Twixt did would pay for it by having their progress cut in half the next time they got the opportunity to play. A full portion of debt could take upwards of 3 hours of nonstop play to be worked off.
Imagine you go play miniature golf. Directly in front of you is a group of 10 children who have no idea what they're doing. You are unable to skip past them, and as is allowed, they refuse to let you pass. Due to this inconvenience, you only get to play 9 holes (or 4, if you're only on a 9-hole course). Would you be frustrated? I sure would be. They didn't break the rules, but they hurt the fun of my outing by specifically robbing me of the time that I had dedicated to accomplishing my goal. It's not much different than traffic, bowling balls getting stuck in the lanes, people talking during a movie, or any other issue that would rob an individual of their free time. The individuals causing your frustration may not be breaking the rules, but they are affecting your enjoyment.
2) Twixt's account of what took place in the PvP zones he visited just plain isn't accurate.
People did chat because many of the players had played together prior to the release of City of Villains (CoH was released in May of 2004 while CoV in October of 2006). Most of us already knew each other. However, that didn't result in a lack of fighting. Many times, Twixt would simply teleport people from battles already in place to his computer-generated death squads. He's presenting the situation as if he was the only one using the zones correctly when, in actuality, he was just the only one manipulating loopholes to allow him to generally be mean to other players. That's the biggest reason why he was despised.
3) Twixt commonly made fun of players he killed.
He did not simply say random hero-supporting things, he oftentimes bragged openly after using his computer-generated helpers to kill someone. Like any other competitive situation, bragging and talking trash will earn people talking back and becoming more upset. He worked to goad individuals into becoming angrier at what he did.
He mentions the forums as a place where people speculated about parts of his life, but he seems to have left out where he posted kill-logs from his time spent in PvP zones. He posted quite frequently on those boards, and he went out of his way to fuel the hate that developed for him. Professional athletes who do such a thing are widely derided by the media and fans. Twixt worked hard to generate hate, he was not simply an innocent victim.
4) Twixt died. A lot.
Twixt perfected his method of generating debt for other players by dying a whole lot along the way. Statements like, "But no one could stay alive long enough to defeat Twixt..." completely misrepresent what happened.
5) Twixt's research plays a role by examining another realm of society, but his results are predictable.
It's not surprising that people get upset when you're mean to them without reason. On an unmarked curb, it's legal for me to park 5 fee
Netrek, an ancient unix game, had a primative form of DRM to prevent cheating ages ago.
While interesting, that statement is very poor in actual information. At the very least, a link to some page will let people easily see what you're talking about. Actually saying that it had "an anti-cheating mechanism using an RSA-based public key cryptography authentication system that also attempts (with limited success) to detect and prevent Man-in-the-middle attacks." is even better, especially if you give references. Now I know wikipedia is not the best source but it does give more information than simply saying it had a primitive form of DRM.
This is why we need "-1 Whoosh". As well as "-1 Factually wrong". And in a perfect world, we'd also have both highest % moderated tags displayed, so we could have funny/Whoosh, or insightful/funny, or interesting/factually wrong. But then, welcome to metamod hell! :-) Better post this AC, will most likely end up as offtopic...
The whole thing is a hoax. It never happened. The pic is of a medical robot and has nothing to do with the story. There was no robot designed to be a facsimile of human emotion involved, just a joke/hoax that got picked up and posted here as a story.
The Pirate Bay is about theft, plain and simple. [...] but the propaganda is propaganda on both sides.
It would appear that one side's propaganda is working. There is no theft in piracy. Unauthorized copying, yes, but no theft. This has been explained countless times here. I find it saddening that even here on slashdot, we hear people who bought the "theft" propagands from the *IAAs.
Somehow I feel the need to post here.
Where is "+1 Disturbing" when you need it?
Try Europe where you can get 35 hour work weeks and 35% unemployment.
I guess that the statistics would disagree, but why let facts get in your way!
Sounds great! I guess once it's out I'll have to get it blocked at work or I'll never get anything done.
This appears to be yet more LVMH shenanigans. They want their products to only be available through their retail network and attack any perceived affront to the brand. It's not the first time they use the courts to try to get their way.
from the linked Real Snail Mail blog:
Each snail is equipped with a small glass capsule attached to its shell. The capsule contains a tiny chip and coil antenna that can be activated by a reader at a range of 3 cm.
ooops! Wrong thread, sorry!
from the linked Real Snail Mail blog:
Each snail is equipped with a small glass capsule attached to its shell. The capsule contains a tiny chip and coil antenna that can be activated by a reader at a range of 3 cm.
You are wrong: Canada does NOT have more guns per capita than the US. If you have any statistics to back up what you're saying I'd be interested in seeing them.
Put me down for a box of Burrito fart mandles, I have some gifts to give.
From TFA:
Q: When do you predict we will see the real e-paper revolution?
A: It has already started but will become a real mass market in about 2012.
So that 's what the Mayans were worried about!
Could this be the one place where it would be appropriate to mention that in Russia, crashes compute?
Or would that be "In Russia, crashes compute you!" ?
Ghosts'n Goblins
Shinobi
Twin Cobra
R-Type
DoDonPachi
Bubble Bobble
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
Rygar
Xain'd Sleena (Solar Warrior)
All of those are available through emulation, but actual remakes I have not seen. Sure, there's a version of Bubble Bobble with better graphics, but it doesn't have the same levels as the original so it can't really be seen as a remake. Of course, the remakes would have to keep the difficulty level of the original, I wouldn't want to play a Ghosts'n Goblins remake that didn't make you tear your hair out in frustration, it just wouldn't be the same!
I haven't read HDA yet, but read Long Dark Teatime of The Soul years ago and loved it. It includes Thor lugging around a Coke machine, Odin lusting after fresh, crisp linen, Tsuliwaensis attempting suicide at every opportunity and Dirk Gently getting his hands one a hell of a hot potato.
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