Jeeze what are you doing? I keep two copies of firefox open with probably 60-90 tabs between them, several of which are hulu/crackle/youtube. They stay open for weeks at a stretch and it reads around 600-900MB.
FTFA With traditional MMOs you can choose to solo or you can find a good guild or party to play with. With GW2 there's a third option too: you can just naturally play with all the people around you.
They really aren't the first ones to do this, Warhammer had public quests that allowed un-grouped cooperation that rewards everyone.
I'll take ignorant rants for 500$ Alex? Should I congratulate you on hitting every incorrect stereotype and unsupported argument in one single post, this has to be a record. I'm almost impressed at the amount of fail you've managed to concoct, just well done sir. Let me know if you get your organization going, I'd gladly donate.
I'm finally getting around to setting up a webserver/ftp box and was going to throw Ubuntu on it when I ran into the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/521387 Now apparently it's fixed in a higher kernel used in the lynx, while the kernel I have under 9.10 is 2.6.31-20. Is there a relatively pain free way to get this fix under 9.10? or should I just stick with the centOS I put on the box instead until lynx comes out?
Unrelated to the real topic, but regarding your signature, you realize that isn't helping your case? If I save a minute every 8 miles traveled I'm saving almost an hour off my 400 mile trip, seems like a good idea to me.
The Hanar are pretty non humanoid. http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Hanar as are the Rachni. http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Rachni Both are intelligent races. I think part of it might be conformation bias, perhaps you're more likely to interact with races that you can communicate and share facilities with easily.
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You don't lose ammo by reloading early, which further kind of breaks the 'clip' mechanic. It really feels shoe horned in. Since I've got to wait around longer before I can post, I enjoy the fact that during the grindfest that is planet scanning you get to repeatedly hear Cyclon number 6 telling you 'Probe away.' Why yes, I will.
For overall game play I preferred the the first mass effect, but only because I miss numerical information on weapons. I'm left guessing about which weapon is superior to others, and trying to read something definitive out of vague wording. On the character development and cinematic side I much prefer mass effect 2. The characters feel richer, there is more humor throughout the game, and characters actually swear. (A good bit for realism, how many gang leaders are polite and well spoken?) Honestly if they inserted Mass effect 1's combat system into mass effect 2 it would be my perfect game, as it is I'm going to get 75+ hours of this game.
Surely I'm not the only one wielding the 4 monk party of doom? I mean sure the first 10-15 levels are the most painful thing I've ever done; Once you get healing items and start getting 2+ attacks your party becomes a lawnmower of death.
You've never seen SFW porn? Man you are missing out on one of the funniest things ever. They take images/videos and paint over inappropriate parts leaving thoroughly silly videos/images behind. Google for it some time it will brighten your day.
and also because you need to read through the full sentence as opposed to the easy to use dialogue interface of Mass Effect.
If you spend more time reading a sentence then you do thinking about what response you'd like to choose I think that says a lot. I disliked Mass Effects one/two word selections because they often didn't accurately reflect what he was going to say, I like more control over my character.
there is a bit too much dialogue in this game and not enough fighting.
Again I can't agree here, I spend a lot of time reducing things to rubble.
First, they are highly unbalanced. There are WAY too many "sustained" abilities because you can only active one at a time and yet they occupy nearly 1/3 of all skills. This is a waste because any build is simply going to pick 1 that remains active 99% of the time.
Many sustained abilities can be activated at the same time, I have 4 I keep up all the time on my character, and 3 others I use periodically. All of my other characters switch between their sustained abilities, maybe melee rogues only use one, but what you've said isn't true for any of the classes I've played.
Second, the skills themselves are highly unbalanced...some of them are awesome, and some of them totally suck. There's no way to tell which ones are good because the skill descriptions don't give any stats or equations, so the only way to figure it out is by trial and error. Trial and error works fine in an action RPG like Diablo, but it's not fun to re-do the same story lines over and over just to try out a different spell build, especially when there's no easy way to go out and level without having to go through the story.
This is a valid complaint, they could have used a lot more information on most spells.
The skills for the Warrior are even more unbalanced. The skill categories are broken into sections like "dual wielding," "sword and shield" and "two handed." Obviously a fighter is going to specialize in only 1 area, which makes 1/3 of all skills useless.
You meant 2/3d's, although if you have so many wasted skill points why not pick up sword and shield and either two hander or dual wield so you can switch depending on the situation?
Then because 1/3 of those are all sustained, this makes only 1 + 1/9N of all N skills actually by any one build. A further 1/3 of those are passive, leaving only a petty few active combat skills to choose from, and 90% of those are so useless
My warrior has 17 points spent, 3 of which are sustained (that's closer to 1/6th then 1/3), and only two of those can't be activated at the same time. so assuming you always use either "blocking arrows" mode or "increase defense but lower attack" mode you at most waste 1 talent that's a pre-req for others. (I know I use both modes, and have you ever played diablo 2?) I have 7 passive abilities, and 7 activated abilities, all of which get used regularly. (skills and spells have meaningful cooldown timers so you need multiple ones to interleave)
I can't think of a single skill to put a point into that would have any practical value...so sometimes I don't even bother to use the skill points anymore. Also, the skills all have level requirements for the Fighter, whereas the Mage skills (spells) have no level requirements. That's not really fair!
You are aware that you get 2 specialization schools to spend skill points in right? Also melee skills and caster spells are an apples to oranges comparison in relative power. The highest level requirement on a melee base skill is 12, hardly a huge hurdle. (And a mage even spending 66% of his leveling attributes on one stat won't meet the higher requirements until level 8-9)
but for the entire first act you can't open these locked chests unless you are a Rogue. It's really annoying to torture the other 2 more popular classes (Fighter and Mage) by not being able to open any chests, and not providing any party members t
I'm certainly enjoying it. The characters are just wonderful to interact with, and combat is actually challenging which is a fun change of pace. I've managed to glitch the game once so far in about 20-30 hours of playtime, which doesn't seem egregious. The only problem I've noticed is loading slows down the longer you run the game on PC, after a 4-5 hour stretch loading times are up from 5-15 seconds to 30-60. Exiting and re-opening the game solves that.
I love how they've broken out of the common Good Choice/Evil Choice decision trees, it's not uncommon to have 3 or more solutions to a given problem, and frankly none of them is wholly 'Good'.
I'm also enjoying the overall darker tone of the setting/game.
Well I'll post as someone who actually likes the series. I'm on my fifth read through as I wait on the new book. Some people certainly have valid criticism about certain stretches of the novels, however each time I've gone through the series I've been more impressed and enjoyed reading it more each time. He really displays an amazing attention to detail and he rarely puts in things which are pointless. The only exception I make to this clause are his common repeated characterizations. Namely skirt straightening, Perrin being cautious because he's large, etc. We've been with you for thousands of pages, no one is picking up the books at number 10 and starting fresh. He already asks a lot from the readers with regards to paying attention and putting together clues, it's odd that he belabors some parts so heavily (Note I say this before the series is over, maybe my opinion on this will change). One line offhand comments he makes I can now attach to something that will happen or be explained 3000 pages later. Some of the story threads I like less then others, however the ones I dislike are almost always different then the ones others dislike, and they all fit together to make the fabric of the world. As someone mentioned earlier it is vaguely Rube Goldberg-esque.
He weaves an incredibly detailed story line using an impressive amount of characters, and it's one of the best series I've ever read if you enjoy putting together clues as you go. I haven't had a read through where I haven't had new 'aha' moments as I find hidden meanings he's left. I like some characters, I find others infuriating, but that's the point, his characters make me feel something as I read and I don't hesitate to pick up the first book again every year or so when my reading to-do list is empty.
You can argue insignificance all day long, the point stands it has a negative caloric affect and so it fits the statement. You are ignoring the fact that eating it fills your stomach and takes the place of other food you'd likely eat, in that case it's effects could be much larger.
Also, what the vast majority of people do is in no way relevant to the base statement. It's like your getting pissed at your doctor because he told you running is good for you but your health has gone downhill even though you are running in between your stops to smoke crack. If you needed to be informed that covering something in peanut butter or cream cheese changes it's health benefits you have other problems.
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First time you've seen it, you've heard of googling something I hope?
Jeeze what are you doing? I keep two copies of firefox open with probably 60-90 tabs between them, several of which are hulu/crackle/youtube. They stay open for weeks at a stretch and it reads around 600-900MB.
FTFA
With traditional MMOs you can choose to solo or you can find a good guild or party to play with. With GW2 there's a third option too: you can just naturally play with all the people around you.
They really aren't the first ones to do this, Warhammer had public quests that allowed un-grouped cooperation that rewards everyone.
I'll take ignorant rants for 500$ Alex? Should I congratulate you on hitting every incorrect stereotype and unsupported argument in one single post, this has to be a record. I'm almost impressed at the amount of fail you've managed to concoct, just well done sir. Let me know if you get your organization going, I'd gladly donate.
I have to agree, guns offer a lot of interesting points for nerds from interesting mechanics, to ballistics of hand loads, etc.
I was going to mod this insightful until I saw the phrase "I'm torned"
I'm finally getting around to setting up a webserver/ftp box and was going to throw Ubuntu on it when I ran into the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/521387 Now apparently it's fixed in a higher kernel used in the lynx, while the kernel I have under 9.10 is 2.6.31-20. Is there a relatively pain free way to get this fix under 9.10? or should I just stick with the centOS I put on the box instead until lynx comes out?
Always liked geodesic domes, my father worked under a pretty big one when I was growing up. http://www.gardendome.com/asm/asm_dome3.JPG
Yeah I thought this article was going to be about actual heavy metal.
Unrelated to the real topic, but regarding your signature, you realize that isn't helping your case? If I save a minute every 8 miles traveled I'm saving almost an hour off my 400 mile trip, seems like a good idea to me.
The Hanar are pretty non humanoid. http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Hanar as are the Rachni. http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Rachni Both are intelligent races. I think part of it might be conformation bias, perhaps you're more likely to interact with races that you can communicate and share facilities with easily.
You don't lose ammo by reloading early, which further kind of breaks the 'clip' mechanic. It really feels shoe horned in. Since I've got to wait around longer before I can post, I enjoy the fact that during the grindfest that is planet scanning you get to repeatedly hear Cyclon number 6 telling you 'Probe away.' Why yes, I will.
For overall game play I preferred the the first mass effect, but only because I miss numerical information on weapons. I'm left guessing about which weapon is superior to others, and trying to read something definitive out of vague wording. On the character development and cinematic side I much prefer mass effect 2. The characters feel richer, there is more humor throughout the game, and characters actually swear. (A good bit for realism, how many gang leaders are polite and well spoken?) Honestly if they inserted Mass effect 1's combat system into mass effect 2 it would be my perfect game, as it is I'm going to get 75+ hours of this game.
Surely I'm not the only one wielding the 4 monk party of doom? I mean sure the first 10-15 levels are the most painful thing I've ever done; Once you get healing items and start getting 2+ attacks your party becomes a lawnmower of death.
You've never seen SFW porn? Man you are missing out on one of the funniest things ever. They take images/videos and paint over inappropriate parts leaving thoroughly silly videos/images behind. Google for it some time it will brighten your day.
and also because you need to read through the full sentence as opposed to the easy to use dialogue interface of Mass Effect.
If you spend more time reading a sentence then you do thinking about what response you'd like to choose I think that says a lot. I disliked Mass Effects one/two word selections because they often didn't accurately reflect what he was going to say, I like more control over my character.
there is a bit too much dialogue in this game and not enough fighting.
Again I can't agree here, I spend a lot of time reducing things to rubble.
First, they are highly unbalanced. There are WAY too many "sustained" abilities because you can only active one at a time and yet they occupy nearly 1/3 of all skills. This is a waste because any build is simply going to pick 1 that remains active 99% of the time.
Many sustained abilities can be activated at the same time, I have 4 I keep up all the time on my character, and 3 others I use periodically. All of my other characters switch between their sustained abilities, maybe melee rogues only use one, but what you've said isn't true for any of the classes I've played.
Second, the skills themselves are highly unbalanced...some of them are awesome, and some of them totally suck. There's no way to tell which ones are good because the skill descriptions don't give any stats or equations, so the only way to figure it out is by trial and error. Trial and error works fine in an action RPG like Diablo, but it's not fun to re-do the same story lines over and over just to try out a different spell build, especially when there's no easy way to go out and level without having to go through the story.
This is a valid complaint, they could have used a lot more information on most spells.
The skills for the Warrior are even more unbalanced. The skill categories are broken into sections like "dual wielding," "sword and shield" and "two handed." Obviously a fighter is going to specialize in only 1 area, which makes 1/3 of all skills useless.
You meant 2/3d's, although if you have so many wasted skill points why not pick up sword and shield and either two hander or dual wield so you can switch depending on the situation?
Then because 1/3 of those are all sustained, this makes only 1 + 1/9N of all N skills actually by any one build. A further 1/3 of those are passive, leaving only a petty few active combat skills to choose from, and 90% of those are so useless
My warrior has 17 points spent, 3 of which are sustained (that's closer to 1/6th then 1/3), and only two of those can't be activated at the same time. so assuming you always use either "blocking arrows" mode or "increase defense but lower attack" mode you at most waste 1 talent that's a pre-req for others. (I know I use both modes, and have you ever played diablo 2?) I have 7 passive abilities, and 7 activated abilities, all of which get used regularly. (skills and spells have meaningful cooldown timers so you need multiple ones to interleave)
I can't think of a single skill to put a point into that would have any practical value...so sometimes I don't even bother to use the skill points anymore. Also, the skills all have level requirements for the Fighter, whereas the Mage skills (spells) have no level requirements. That's not really fair!
You are aware that you get 2 specialization schools to spend skill points in right? Also melee skills and caster spells are an apples to oranges comparison in relative power. The highest level requirement on a melee base skill is 12, hardly a huge hurdle. (And a mage even spending 66% of his leveling attributes on one stat won't meet the higher requirements until level 8-9)
but for the entire first act you can't open these locked chests unless you are a Rogue. It's really annoying to torture the other 2 more popular classes (Fighter and Mage) by not being able to open any chests, and not providing any party members t
I'm certainly enjoying it. The characters are just wonderful to interact with, and combat is actually challenging which is a fun change of pace. I've managed to glitch the game once so far in about 20-30 hours of playtime, which doesn't seem egregious. The only problem I've noticed is loading slows down the longer you run the game on PC, after a 4-5 hour stretch loading times are up from 5-15 seconds to 30-60. Exiting and re-opening the game solves that. I love how they've broken out of the common Good Choice/Evil Choice decision trees, it's not uncommon to have 3 or more solutions to a given problem, and frankly none of them is wholly 'Good'. I'm also enjoying the overall darker tone of the setting/game.
That's not at all universally true. Writes software for defense and medical purposes some time.
Well I'll post as someone who actually likes the series. I'm on my fifth read through as I wait on the new book. Some people certainly have valid criticism about certain stretches of the novels, however each time I've gone through the series I've been more impressed and enjoyed reading it more each time. He really displays an amazing attention to detail and he rarely puts in things which are pointless. The only exception I make to this clause are his common repeated characterizations. Namely skirt straightening, Perrin being cautious because he's large, etc. We've been with you for thousands of pages, no one is picking up the books at number 10 and starting fresh. He already asks a lot from the readers with regards to paying attention and putting together clues, it's odd that he belabors some parts so heavily (Note I say this before the series is over, maybe my opinion on this will change). One line offhand comments he makes I can now attach to something that will happen or be explained 3000 pages later. Some of the story threads I like less then others, however the ones I dislike are almost always different then the ones others dislike, and they all fit together to make the fabric of the world. As someone mentioned earlier it is vaguely Rube Goldberg-esque.
He weaves an incredibly detailed story line using an impressive amount of characters, and it's one of the best series I've ever read if you enjoy putting together clues as you go. I haven't had a read through where I haven't had new 'aha' moments as I find hidden meanings he's left. I like some characters, I find others infuriating, but that's the point, his characters make me feel something as I read and I don't hesitate to pick up the first book again every year or so when my reading to-do list is empty.
Nice and subtle, if I had points you'd get +1 Funny :)
which I can only assume is a completely unveiled attack on people who wear turbans
Actually in America it's a reference to blacks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Imus#Rutgers_women.27s_basketball_controversy/
People just don't like being pegged.
speak for yourself.
Could you have any less clue about Blizzards development track record?
You can argue insignificance all day long, the point stands it has a negative caloric affect and so it fits the statement. You are ignoring the fact that eating it fills your stomach and takes the place of other food you'd likely eat, in that case it's effects could be much larger. Also, what the vast majority of people do is in no way relevant to the base statement. It's like your getting pissed at your doctor because he told you running is good for you but your health has gone downhill even though you are running in between your stops to smoke crack. If you needed to be informed that covering something in peanut butter or cream cheese changes it's health benefits you have other problems.
Celery has a negative calorie count after looking at energy spent consuming and digesting it, hence it does actively make you thinner.