You were never very good at the whole 'modding' or 'cracking' scene were you....
I do know that the modding/cracking communities have a little too high of an opinion of themselves and incorrectly think they simply can't be beaten. That much is clear.
There's a big difference between incremental OS releases and major OS revisions/rewrites. Windows 3.1 -> Windows 95 was a major revision. It's understandable why some games would be Win95 only. Windows ME -> Windows XP was a major revision. It's understandable why some games would be XP only (though they have been very rare). Windows XP -> Vista is like the transition from 98 to ME. It's a small upgrade, and the only reason to make a game exclusive to Vista would be for marketing purposes (pointless to anyone but Microsoft) or to take advantage of DRM features.
Hmm, I spent $500 on my video card.. but only because it was the only consumer-level NVIDIA card which would drive my monitor at full resolution at the time.
Hmm. Somehow, given Blizzard's 5 million * $15 / month (which, as players of WoW have realized is not being reinvested in architecture to increase capacity and performance), I'm not terribly concerned.
The comment about marrying a dolphin was part-jest, part serious. If marriage is just about commitment, why do you think it must be restricted to just two people (of any gender?) Why not more than 2? Why not a person and a non-person? Are you saying dolphins can't be committed?
Uh, yeah, pretty much, the dolphin has no way of providing what our society considers to be informed, legal consent, no matter what they say. Neither do 13-year-olds, no matter what they say. And so forth. Polygamy I would simply not legally recognize because it's too complex for a system to really handle. It would, administratively, be an absolute nightmare.
Great but you're not a political lobby, and your personal moitivations aren't relevant.
Neither is the original poster, neither is the person who want to wanted to make the gay friendly guild, neither are most of the people who want "equal rights" or "civil rights" or whatever they want to call it. I was fine with most of your points when it seemed to me that you launched into a tangent. I don't understand what the "political lobby" has to do with the discussion.
I am not the moderator (obviously, since I'm posting), but I do have an issue with your last paragraph:
Finally, YOU missed MY point. The gay lobby is JUST LIKE any other political organization, and your blind assumption that they are "asking for the same rights as everyone else" betrays your ignorance. They are a POLITICAL LOBBY, and like ALL the other political lobbies, they are about self interest. Make no mistake, if they could get what they wanted by trampling your rights, it would happen in a second.
The phrase "Make no mistake, if they could get what they wanted by trampling your rights, it would happen in a second" is the one that I particularly take exception to, as I have no intention on trampling on your rights, on the OP's rights, etc even though as a gay WoW player who is quite aware of the homophobia casually tossed around in each realm, I'd rather join a gay-friendly guild. I don't see how a gay person asking for political equality suddenly become the enemy "gay polical lobby" that wants to trample on other peoples' rights.
Or the/silly of a female troll character. Egads, "when enraged or in heat, a female troll will mate several times in one night.." That's quite blatant.
Or how about the Kill the Gryphons quest the horde has in the Hinterlands? "They say in that village the elves and the gryphons are as close as troll and mate. Disgusting, I know, but that's what they do." A bestiality joke! Huzzah. All played for laughs, but the hints are there.
Not true for the most part. "Any group with real-world ties is frowned upon" on RP servers (and RP-PVP servers of course) where environment immersion is much more important and real-world topics should only invade on the various ooc channels (this of course does not stop the various Chuck Norris jokes from being spammed in General in Orgrimmar, for instance). Normal and PVP servers have no such restrictions on content.
Let's think about this for a moment... Why should they be responsible for what someone else did to their product? The license agreements and such probably even specifically stated that you couldn't mod it, reverse engineer it, etc.
Doesn't matter. Whether it was locked out or not, Rockstar still distributed the content, something they did their best to hide before and after the Hot Coffee mod came out, until it was too late. What a huge way to drop the ball.
There only needs to be one "killer game" for linux that is not on windows and the jig is up. Linux would probably gain 10% penetration from that one event.
Mmmm, I'd say more likely Windows users will just wait until the game comes out on Windows. Because it will.
If email is stored on an imap/pop server, you won't need to spin the drives. After all, the poster did say "check your email" which generally implies checking for/reading new mail, not necessarily searching through all your old mail.
display properties, settings, advanced, then choose custom setting and adjust the ruler until the distance displayed is correct. Reboot.
On Linux, set the DisplaySize (or something like that, I forget) in xorg.conf
And then find out your display looks bad because you're no longer running at the native resolution of the screen. Not that important for CRTs, critical for flat panels.
I've reported several, mainly because I'm there to play the game not listen to some troll scream out about asian gamers, and never gotten a satifsactory response from blizzard.
Keep in mind, for privacy reasons Blizzard GMs will not tell you the results of a complaint like that. You will always get a form "we're looking into it and will take appropriate action. Thank you for your concern" reply, regardless of whether any action is taken or not.
Settle down. You're an idealist, the original poster is a pragmatist (though I think he could have phrased it better). His arguement is not that gay people deserve what harassment they get but that they should expect it and plan for it when in a homophobic environment.
Well, homosexuality, while I find it not morally wrong, it is naturally wrong, there is no reproduction, and therefore, no gene transfer and therefore no reason for life.
You would have to make the same arguement about a straight couple that just chooses not to have children.
There is no such thing as naturally right or wrong. Creatures of nature have always done whatever was needed, whatever that was, to survive. There was no morality of nature. There is no static set of rules for what was naturally right or naturally wrong. While a homosexual animal (or an imprinted one) is a drain on resources, this is only an issue if the race's survival is at stake and, last time I checked, the human race was hardly underpopulated in.. well, just about any region of the world. Therefore, the gay/bi person has just as much natural right/authority as anyone else. We're hardly to the point yet where we need to start looking down at those who won't breed.
Nor on mine, though my server is RP which might have something to do with it. I only have real experience playing Horde there, and I wonder if there's a different atmosphere between Alliance and Horde. But on that server, no one really cares either way. I haven't seen people recoiling in shock at the thought of a gay character, and people aren't running around saying, "Hi, I'm Grimgor and I'm gay. What's your name?" either. It seems to be a happy medium. Without the homophobia, it seems like the "gay pride" to counter it is toned down too.
Blizzard has already been discriminating against people by failing to enforce their anti-sexual harrasment policy. As long as someone if free to hurl 'fag' or 'gay' as an insult in game, then Blizzard is fostering a hostile environment for GLBT players.
An insult is not and should not be a bannable offense. Multiple insults that form a pattern of harassment is bannable, whether it involves terms like "gay/fag" or not.
"There are" does not mean "most Christians believe." The existance of a "Harry Potter leads to Satan" book does not mean most Christians believe such a thing.
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Actually we have the lawyers, we have the disease... isn't that the whole job right there? :( /doom!
Because wine on other platforms makes gaming so painless now! *big-grin*
I do know that the modding/cracking communities have a little too high of an opinion of themselves and incorrectly think they simply can't be beaten. That much is clear.
Hmm, I spent $500 on my video card.. but only because it was the only consumer-level NVIDIA card which would drive my monitor at full resolution at the time.
Apparently it explodes on a whim. :)
That is, at least, one of the theories about how matter could explode from a perfect vacuum.
Hmm. Somehow, given Blizzard's 5 million * $15 / month (which, as players of WoW have realized is not being reinvested in architecture to increase capacity and performance), I'm not terribly concerned.
Uh, yeah, pretty much, the dolphin has no way of providing what our society considers to be informed, legal consent, no matter what they say. Neither do 13-year-olds, no matter what they say. And so forth. Polygamy I would simply not legally recognize because it's too complex for a system to really handle. It would, administratively, be an absolute nightmare.
Neither is the original poster, neither is the person who want to wanted to make the gay friendly guild, neither are most of the people who want "equal rights" or "civil rights" or whatever they want to call it. I was fine with most of your points when it seemed to me that you launched into a tangent. I don't understand what the "political lobby" has to do with the discussion.
Finally, YOU missed MY point. The gay lobby is JUST LIKE any other political organization, and your blind assumption that they are "asking for the same rights as everyone else" betrays your ignorance. They are a POLITICAL LOBBY, and like ALL the other political lobbies, they are about self interest. Make no mistake, if they could get what they wanted by trampling your rights, it would happen in a second.
The phrase "Make no mistake, if they could get what they wanted by trampling your rights, it would happen in a second" is the one that I particularly take exception to, as I have no intention on trampling on your rights, on the OP's rights, etc even though as a gay WoW player who is quite aware of the homophobia casually tossed around in each realm, I'd rather join a gay-friendly guild. I don't see how a gay person asking for political equality suddenly become the enemy "gay polical lobby" that wants to trample on other peoples' rights.
Or how about the Kill the Gryphons quest the horde has in the Hinterlands? "They say in that village the elves and the gryphons are as close as troll and mate. Disgusting, I know, but that's what they do." A bestiality joke! Huzzah. All played for laughs, but the hints are there.
Not true for the most part. "Any group with real-world ties is frowned upon" on RP servers (and RP-PVP servers of course) where environment immersion is much more important and real-world topics should only invade on the various ooc channels (this of course does not stop the various Chuck Norris jokes from being spammed in General in Orgrimmar, for instance). Normal and PVP servers have no such restrictions on content.
I like how the dumbass who modded this comment down was too cowardly to give it a real mod, preferring to go with the invisible "overrated" instead.
I don't know whether to mod this Insightful or Funny...
Doesn't matter. Whether it was locked out or not, Rockstar still distributed the content, something they did their best to hide before and after the Hot Coffee mod came out, until it was too late. What a huge way to drop the ball.
Mmmm, I'd say more likely Windows users will just wait until the game comes out on Windows. Because it will.
If email is stored on an imap/pop server, you won't need to spin the drives. After all, the poster did say "check your email" which generally implies checking for/reading new mail, not necessarily searching through all your old mail.
And then find out your display looks bad because you're no longer running at the native resolution of the screen. Not that important for CRTs, critical for flat panels.
Keep in mind, for privacy reasons Blizzard GMs will not tell you the results of a complaint like that. You will always get a form "we're looking into it and will take appropriate action. Thank you for your concern" reply, regardless of whether any action is taken or not.
Settle down. You're an idealist, the original poster is a pragmatist (though I think he could have phrased it better). His arguement is not that gay people deserve what harassment they get but that they should expect it and plan for it when in a homophobic environment.
You would have to make the same arguement about a straight couple that just chooses not to have children.
There is no such thing as naturally right or wrong. Creatures of nature have always done whatever was needed, whatever that was, to survive. There was no morality of nature. There is no static set of rules for what was naturally right or naturally wrong. While a homosexual animal (or an imprinted one) is a drain on resources, this is only an issue if the race's survival is at stake and, last time I checked, the human race was hardly underpopulated in.. well, just about any region of the world. Therefore, the gay/bi person has just as much natural right/authority as anyone else. We're hardly to the point yet where we need to start looking down at those who won't breed.
Mmm, tauren...
What?
An insult is not and should not be a bannable offense. Multiple insults that form a pattern of harassment is bannable, whether it involves terms like "gay/fag" or not.
"There are" does not mean "most Christians believe." The existance of a "Harry Potter leads to Satan" book does not mean most Christians believe such a thing.