It's been a few years since I was in high school, so I don't hear "what a fag" or "that's gay" tossed around much anymore, but back then they knew exactly what they were saying. If someone complained, they'd switch to "this is so homosexual", "he likes men", etc. - avoiding the word but keeping the sentiment. The meaning behind the comment is clear: "I don't like gays, gay is bad, this is bad, so this is gay." People around here use "Jew" the same way; if you call someone a Jew as an insult, that's anti-semitic whether he's really Jewish or not.
Some people sure, but not everyone. Some people use the terms because they've been inundated with that stuff for years and have grown used to hearing it being said. Hell, I remember an openly-gay friend of mine (about 17 at the time) once chuckling and saying, "Oh geez, that's so gay!" He didn't really even think about what he was saying.. it was normal to him, it was socially accepted.
player vs. player? remember...the reason people play games online? to play with/against other people?
Also not terribly friendly to casual people. Casual people get absolutely steamrolled by the professionals (and I do say professional because the weeks leading up to high warlord status require people to pvp enough to fill a full time job) and they'll be weaker than other characters because they don't have the gear for it. No raiding? Can't pvp enough to rise high enough in the pvp ranks to get the pvp armor sets? Then they'll be owned in the level 60 game. Some of the lower-level brackets (30s, 40s, 50s) are much more casual-friendly and are probably the funnest brackets to pvp in. For a level 60 though, there are enough people who are hardcore to make this extremely difficult.
I laugh in the face of people that say more people required = harder content. Zul'Gurub is a 20 person raid that requires concentration and coordination most of the time. Molten Core is 40 man, but I can go auto-follow for 30 minutes and never even be missed. The only thing epic about 40 man raids is the bellyaching over who got what item.
That sounds like your group simply knows how to do MC more than ZG. Not a lot of groups have the ZG encounters down to a science yet (and it helps that the boss encounters are scripted more creatively).
Much of the griping about Zul'Gurub right now is that it's about as hard as Molten Core and yet the equipment rewards aren't as good. What is there to do at level 60? You have two options, socialization (which I get by running either ZG or MC) and character progression (which, aside from ZG enchants, I'll only get from MC due to the poorer drops in ZG). Right now my guild runs ZG for the novelty factor and for the reputation, but that probably won't last that long.
So, Pixar calls Disney and says, the film won't be ready for another eight months. Chicken Little bombs (who saw that one coming?), and Pixar still has a chance.
Actually, more like: Pixar and Disney see the success of Shrek 2 during the long summer months. They notice that the Incredibles, although doing extremely well, suffered in the longevity department where it would have been more successful had it been able to take advantage of the bored out-of-school teen summer market. Disney and Pixar see that Cars is more of a "summer" film and decide it might do better financially if it come out in the summer.
Does this herald the rise of creativity in Disney's output? If so, it'll be a difficult one to sell to the accountants and the more conservative shareholders: re-runs are provably successful; improving the brand is more nebulous. Ultimately, you can never know the real cause for higher sales across the board.
Every single new character added to the Disney parades in the last decade have Pixar characters (except maaaaybe Lilo and Stich, one of Disney's rare hits lately). The quality of filmmaking represents an investment. It's not a quick buck, but all the accountants and the shareholders can see that Disney's current financial stream is based upon using characters that were made popular through quality filmmaking. It's an investment in the long term, which, despite popular opinion, most bean-counters and shareholders will understand. For Disney to generate the revenue stream that they have now, they need a good base to build upon.
You're right, I was thinking of "NYPD Blue." Weren't they the first to show brief nudity on a non-cable channel?
I think so. And some cursing. South Park made some fun of them ("the show 'Cop Drama' will feature swearing.. on tv!") for the trumpeting of that sort of thing.
I've never watched it myself because just the commercials turn me off so I cannot comment on it directly. I will say that I've never heard anything good about it from my co-workers who watch it.
I have little use for most non-cable dramas anyway.
Shortly afterwards they purchased ABC. For perhaps nine months, it could have been the Family channel. Then the numbers dropped and they resort to typical shock TV. "The Shield."
Not that it derails your point at all, but "The Shield" is an FX production, which is owned by Fox. Maybe you're thinking of NYPD Blue?
Right now, the possible downsides are in the "What If?" department.
Basically.. what if Iger retires early, gets hit by a bus, or, if profits go south, gets kicked out, and someone with less of a mind to keep the Pixar creativity alive comes in? All the spectacular promises that have been made could come to nothing and Pixar could find itself shackled. That seems to be the biggest negative. It doesn't seem likely while Iger is there though.
It's uncertain whether Roy will be back, but he's ecstatic about the deal (no surprise). A quote from Roy from a recent Information Week article: "This clearly solidified the Walt Disney Company's position as the dominant leader in motion picture animation and we applaud and support Bob Iger's vision."
Yes, I have seen an HDTV's picture. Yes, I have 20/15 vision. No, I cannot see what the big fucking deal is.
You may want to get your vision checked again, because my vision is nowhere even close to that good and I can see the difference with a simple glance.
It could be that he simply saw the TV at his local Circuit City and thought (rightfully) "that image looks like crap. I don't see what the fuss is about." The usual places that sell HDTVs usually do an absolutely terrible job at highlighting the advantages of the platform, usually by blasting the same low-quality non-native-resolution signal to every box as if they were exactly the same. It takes a high-quality signal (ie, not something with tons of video compression or noise) on a box tuned to display it to really see the difference, and that's something you'll rarely see at a big A/V store.
I believe a master looter threshold can be set where you can have master looting only for items of a specific quality level. IE, blue and up will be master looted, green and below would be need before greed.
I'll bet part of that is Lassiter himself, he strikes me from interviews as having more than a strong enough personality himself to handle Jobs and keep him at an appropriate distance.
And both of you are leaving out one of the central characters to that roll -- Ed Catmull. He doesn't grab the headlines like Lassiter and Jobs, but he's a central figure in mix of corporate and creative cultures.
Farmers don't run end game instances, there's no point. They ninja a BOP armour that sells for to vendor for what?
They sometimes run semi-endgame instances (Blackrock Spire) and ninja the random BoEs that sometimes drop.
I was in a group a week ago in UBRS and a very quiet rogue ninjaed a random BoE when the looting was not set on master looter for non-bosses. Three raid members quit in disgust, the ninja was kicked, and the raid was left with too few people to continue much further.
What a shame. Many of us use level 1 alts to store things.. and also to sell the items we've collected. When I'm puttering about in the Badlands, I don't have the time to hearth back to Orgrimmar and put stuff up for auction and then fly all the way back when instead I could simply mail any valuable items to a level 1 alt.. and then keep going. Less downtime, less pointless waiting.
The Press Democrat is a Santa Rosa area (well, Redwood Empire/Sonoma County area) newspaper, so the grandparent poster had it wrong -- the local paper did cover it.
But everybody knows the retailers are the real profiteers of the interactive entertainment industry, brutally extracting marketing development funds and ruthlessly returning product in the name of the all-mighty dollar. Right?"
... Huh? Since when has that been conventional wisdom? Seems the prevailing view is that margins in retail, such as game stores, are pretty thin in general, and competition keeps it that way. Only by growing unbelievably large (like Wal-Mart share) can you have a lot of power in that sector.
I remember seeing the videotape Bin Laden originally released in 2001 celebrating the effectiveness of the original attacks. I did a quick search for it and came up with something else instead, a reference to a tape he released shortly before the 2004 US Presidential elections.
Specifically, he said about President Bush and the September 11 attacks: "It never occurred that the highest leader of the military armed forces would leave 50,000 people to face the horror that they faced all by themselves when they needed him most... He was more interested in listening to the child's story about the goat rather than worry about what was happening to the towers. So, that gave us double the time for us to execute our attacks."
But on the flip side, Maxtor had a 'no quibble' warranty. I could call up, say aliens flipped me off, replace my HD, and as long as it was within the warranty window, it'd get replaced. No questions asked, no running diag software, nada.
Probably because Maxtor drives are of such poor quality that they'll believe just about any story about why the drive failed.
Maxtor's drives are some of the cheapest for a reason. Seagate's are some of the most expensive for a reason.
I really hope the acquisition of Maxtor doesn't lower Seagate's sterling drive quality.
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Some people sure, but not everyone. Some people use the terms because they've been inundated with that stuff for years and have grown used to hearing it being said. Hell, I remember an openly-gay friend of mine (about 17 at the time) once chuckling and saying, "Oh geez, that's so gay!" He didn't really even think about what he was saying.. it was normal to him, it was socially accepted.
Oh, I wouldn't be so sure of that. I've seen bestiality jokes written into the game. There's certainly innuendo scattered around.
Also not terribly friendly to casual people. Casual people get absolutely steamrolled by the professionals (and I do say professional because the weeks leading up to high warlord status require people to pvp enough to fill a full time job) and they'll be weaker than other characters because they don't have the gear for it. No raiding? Can't pvp enough to rise high enough in the pvp ranks to get the pvp armor sets? Then they'll be owned in the level 60 game. Some of the lower-level brackets (30s, 40s, 50s) are much more casual-friendly and are probably the funnest brackets to pvp in. For a level 60 though, there are enough people who are hardcore to make this extremely difficult.
That sounds like your group simply knows how to do MC more than ZG. Not a lot of groups have the ZG encounters down to a science yet (and it helps that the boss encounters are scripted more creatively).
Much of the griping about Zul'Gurub right now is that it's about as hard as Molten Core and yet the equipment rewards aren't as good. What is there to do at level 60? You have two options, socialization (which I get by running either ZG or MC) and character progression (which, aside from ZG enchants, I'll only get from MC due to the poorer drops in ZG). Right now my guild runs ZG for the novelty factor and for the reputation, but that probably won't last that long.
Actually, more like: Pixar and Disney see the success of Shrek 2 during the long summer months. They notice that the Incredibles, although doing extremely well, suffered in the longevity department where it would have been more successful had it been able to take advantage of the bored out-of-school teen summer market. Disney and Pixar see that Cars is more of a "summer" film and decide it might do better financially if it come out in the summer.
Every single new character added to the Disney parades in the last decade have Pixar characters (except maaaaybe Lilo and Stich, one of Disney's rare hits lately). The quality of filmmaking represents an investment. It's not a quick buck, but all the accountants and the shareholders can see that Disney's current financial stream is based upon using characters that were made popular through quality filmmaking. It's an investment in the long term, which, despite popular opinion, most bean-counters and shareholders will understand. For Disney to generate the revenue stream that they have now, they need a good base to build upon.
I think so. And some cursing. South Park made some fun of them ("the show 'Cop Drama' will feature swearing.. on tv!") for the trumpeting of that sort of thing.
I've never watched it myself because just the commercials turn me off so I cannot comment on it directly. I will say that I've never heard anything good about it from my co-workers who watch it.
I have little use for most non-cable dramas anyway.
Not that it derails your point at all, but "The Shield" is an FX production, which is owned by Fox. Maybe you're thinking of NYPD Blue?
Right now, the possible downsides are in the "What If?" department.
Basically.. what if Iger retires early, gets hit by a bus, or, if profits go south, gets kicked out, and someone with less of a mind to keep the Pixar creativity alive comes in? All the spectacular promises that have been made could come to nothing and Pixar could find itself shackled. That seems to be the biggest negative. It doesn't seem likely while Iger is there though.
It's uncertain whether Roy will be back, but he's ecstatic about the deal (no surprise). A quote from Roy from a recent Information Week article: "This clearly solidified the Walt Disney Company's position as the dominant leader in motion picture animation and we applaud and support Bob Iger's vision."
It's not a gun's role to analyze a situation and decide whether to allow itself to be shot or not.
Fresh college grad is considered "over the hill" these days? Not even in the gamer market is that true.
You may want to get your vision checked again, because my vision is nowhere even close to that good and I can see the difference with a simple glance.
It could be that he simply saw the TV at his local Circuit City and thought (rightfully) "that image looks like crap. I don't see what the fuss is about." The usual places that sell HDTVs usually do an absolutely terrible job at highlighting the advantages of the platform, usually by blasting the same low-quality non-native-resolution signal to every box as if they were exactly the same. It takes a high-quality signal (ie, not something with tons of video compression or noise) on a box tuned to display it to really see the difference, and that's something you'll rarely see at a big A/V store.
I believe a master looter threshold can be set where you can have master looting only for items of a specific quality level. IE, blue and up will be master looted, green and below would be need before greed.
Only on PvP servers.
On PvE servers it's effectively impossible to corpse camp someone unless they're in the opposing faction's capitol city.
Then everyone, including farmers, will just level up to 5 and the situation will remain unchanged. How will that fix anything?
And both of you are leaving out one of the central characters to that roll -- Ed Catmull. He doesn't grab the headlines like Lassiter and Jobs, but he's a central figure in mix of corporate and creative cultures.
They sometimes run semi-endgame instances (Blackrock Spire) and ninja the random BoEs that sometimes drop.
I was in a group a week ago in UBRS and a very quiet rogue ninjaed a random BoE when the looting was not set on master looter for non-bosses. Three raid members quit in disgust, the ninja was kicked, and the raid was left with too few people to continue much further.
What a shame. Many of us use level 1 alts to store things.. and also to sell the items we've collected. When I'm puttering about in the Badlands, I don't have the time to hearth back to Orgrimmar and put stuff up for auction and then fly all the way back when instead I could simply mail any valuable items to a level 1 alt.. and then keep going. Less downtime, less pointless waiting.
Some people -claim- to do fine on five hours a day. Whether they are actually operating at their peak is debatable.
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl e?AID=/20060104/NEWS/601040328/1033/NEWS01
The Press Democrat is a Santa Rosa area (well, Redwood Empire/Sonoma County area) newspaper, so the grandparent poster had it wrong -- the local paper did cover it.
But everybody knows the retailers are the real profiteers of the interactive entertainment industry, brutally extracting marketing development funds and ruthlessly returning product in the name of the all-mighty dollar. Right?"
I think I lost count of the number of Americans I've met who use broken English in-game.
I was away on vacation for awhile. :)
I remember seeing the videotape Bin Laden originally released in 2001 celebrating the effectiveness of the original attacks. I did a quick search for it and came up with something else instead, a reference to a tape he released shortly before the 2004 US Presidential elections.
Specifically, he said about President Bush and the September 11 attacks: "It never occurred that the highest leader of the military armed forces would leave 50,000 people to face the horror that they faced all by themselves when they needed him most... He was more interested in listening to the child's story about the goat rather than worry about what was happening to the towers. So, that gave us double the time for us to execute our attacks."
Probably because Maxtor drives are of such poor quality that they'll believe just about any story about why the drive failed. Maxtor's drives are some of the cheapest for a reason. Seagate's are some of the most expensive for a reason. I really hope the acquisition of Maxtor doesn't lower Seagate's sterling drive quality.