If I ask someone, where are your testicles located? and the answer is not, "I am a woman, you dolt." or "Between my legs, you dolt." or "In a box, I had them removed you insensitive clod!", but instead is "Clowns are TYPICALLY brown."...they have not addressed the question. It's really sad that OP is the typical game rag reader.
MMORPGs are FILLED with power hungry individuals who love to grief, both allies and foes. Saying that the nature of the average gamer will magically change in Huxley, so that players will seek out the challenge (of someone who can possibly defeat them) instead of killing defenseless players, for the standard reward of their cries and vows to quit the game...is completely naiive. You sir, are a moron.
The big question is, how do you avoid the problem of a level 50 player absolutely destroying a level 1 newcomer? Kang had an answer. Basically, the idea is that the levels are divided by class. The first 10 levels are the basic class, while the highest 10 levels (41-50) are the elite class. Level 50 characters will have more socket skills at their disposal, as well as more weapons and armor, and they'll usually battle other players that fall into their class. Meanwhile, lower-ranked players will battle in their class, so the disparity isn't so great.
So the answer, Kang, is...nothing. Perhaps it's something we were not told, but that's beside the problem. What a shitty journalist AND editor. Simply write the lies and misdirection that the mindless journalist is presented, then present them to us as facts. Well done.
6 years in the future, people just turned into elves and trolls. We're gonna toss the Politically Incorrect racial tensions and just assume that everyone loves every elf and troll. We're gonna toss the distinction between mages and shamans and make magic ridiculously common and take away all the drawbacks to altering reality. We're gonna turn the idea of a Shadowrunner into a Shadowcommando who shoots, rather than sneaks or engineers, their way in. Shadowcommandos with almost no fear of death (insta-ressurection!) or reprecussion from a single all-powerful megacorporation. It's fun to Shadowcommando!
I'm sorry, how does Cybereyes all of a sudden make it SHADOWRUN when it's obviously a re-hash of Savage.
Of COURSE the majority of the posters read the article. We're SHADOWRUN FANS. The problem with taking it one part at a time is that it isnt SHADOWRUN. Shadowrun isn't unique because of how the world EVOLVED but HOW IT ENDED UP.
"Wow, we need need more game concepts...oh look, here's a license we have been sitting on. Fanbase is kinda small, so we're going to BUTCHER the universe in the interest of simplicity and release date. When the first game comes out to a lukewarm reception, we can always try to adapt the next to market pressures to end up with a better game. Cause that's what sequels are about."
How many times has this actually WORKED? The SR univers isn't exactly a huge seller NOW. Chances that FASA and MICROSOFT is going to release some revolutionary game that will bring thousands of people into a NON-SHADOWRUN world using the SHADOWRUN NAME and then a sequel? The word nil comes to mind, but I think it's substantially LOWER than that. This signs a deathwarrant for the genre. This game is an admission that the people in control of SR have no interest in making a true-to-Shadowrun game. Either they aren't talented enough or smart enough to capitalize on the rich history, that they already own. That's SCARY and SAD.
My mom is from Kansas. The midwest is the first stop in illegal alien trafficking. The concentrated urban areas are heavily monitored, with an expensive cost of living. If you are from Kansas, you know the towns that are pure illegal aliens and probably know some traffickers. I have no reason to think that the mandatory vaccination records at Kansas colleges are forged, causing the outbreaks.
Lemme do a quick reality check. How many ppl do I know who are not vaccinating their kids because they are liberal whack-jobs afraid of autism? 0. How many illegal aliens from Mexico (with no health coverage) do I know, about 200. I think the "number of issues" is much like the "number of issues" with the spread of HIV. Yes you could theoretically spread it through toilet seats. How many people do I know who got AIDS that way? 0 More likely it's the young, poor, irresponsible, and needle users...of which I have known 5.
Wrong. In your opinion, a news organization's purpose should be to inform. In fact, any organization's purpose is whatever the leaders of that organization decide it is.
I don't think the OP is wrong, insomuch as they have a different philosophy from you. For all I know they are right. While an organization's leadership may want Fox to become a fastfood service, it's highly unlikely that it could survive that transition. That being said, are you any more right than the OP? (in that an organization's purpose is whatever the leadership decide it is).
The problem is scaling. They followed the typical Vivendi hardware cluster solution. Have load problems? Scale by adding more hardware. They did very well in comparison to previous attempts, having learned from all previous attempts. However, when a major chunk of the market is playing...it's still impractical. Of course AT&T wont say anything. Anything they would say about it could...and WOULD endager either AT&T or Blizzard's distributed networks.
I dont _believe_ an actor can play a role alone. If there is no one to observe an actor, how can it be judged they are playing a role? Am I playing the role of me or am I just being me? Let's not forget the multitude of roles that spawned The Method (acting). Can I troll alone? Perhaps I'm just playing the role of an annoying/. troll (that one scares most people off).
FYI, I think that "Can a person play a role alone?" is a complex question without a clear answer. It continues to pique my interest.
The inference is that those aren't RPGs either. I tend to agree. Without other people to observe and react to it, it's like trying to roleplay. Much like throwing food at someone's open mouth for an hour is not NECESSARILY the same as saying they are being fed. It's a subtle line and I dont expect everyone to agree on new subdivisions.
So let me get this straight: you're looking for an engine which allows you to build something you readily admit you are unable to build?
This is rather baffling.
There's nothing out of the ordinary about a person admitting that they are not very familiar with how to properly implement a very complicated system. Looking for a packaged suite is quite typical.
While you may be competent enough to write an inventory control system, that doesn't mean you are confident or even interested in discovering, coding, and implmenting the features that stock managers would consider "basic"...especially with the wide variation from industry to industry (discovery!).
This guy is a nothing, and should be treated as such.
That's an opinion. I'm sure you can tell the difference.
Wiki isn't a storage house of everything that has ever happened.
It potentially is. In fact that's part of why it's supposedly useful. I dont think it can practically be but I'm not really interested in the myriad of reasons.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. -- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation
Do you think that this is still a core purpose of Wiki and that someone who thinks differently than you is spouting BS? Or is it you're just arguing for ego?
The fact that it's well know removes it from the noise category. It's a recognizeable sound (to extend the metaphor). It's interesting that you believe that your opinion of a topic should preempt a wider audience, from being able to decide themselves simply because you have examined and dismissed it as BS.
There was no harm. The selective nature of the enforcement of policy shows that the ideal that WP aspires to is likely flawed. You can't collect, classify, and manage all information the same way. Therefore the automated system that WP embodies has some fundamental problems. This is an apt illustration of the symptoms.
That's an interesting perspective. Selective information collection is not an option when you are attempting to collect a comprehensive collection of information. Why you would oppose specific information, is a bias and detrimental to the effort.
How does the failure of Wikipedia to manage conflicting information about a specific LIVING person affect you? If you don't use Wikipedia (*raises hand*) it doesnt. If you do (*point at you*) you come off sounding like an idiot. This issue could have easily been about an issue you cared about but you're a very lucky boy. There's few conflicting viewpoints regarding pokemon sapphire versus pokemon ruby.
Part of the argument that porn is not detrimental to society, which I attempted to touch on, is the DEFINITION. Nowhere in the "pornoff" did I see what constituted "resisting" versus "engaging". I read...
to try to quit porn.
Well, the secretary at work wears some tight pants and my coworkers can't help but simulating some scenarios every lunch hour. Did I just fail the pornoff?
I dont think the pornoff qualifies as anecdotal evidence that porn "devalues the humanity of the person being used for that pleasure, and damages people's ability to relate to one another in a healthy way."
There's much more to life and human relationships than sexual expression.
Children are unable to understand this, much less accept or BELIEVE it. Children are primarily instinctive, curiosity machines. Please don't continue to argue that morality trumps reality. In the US, children tend to stay in the same town, even when they run away. In other parts of the world where this problem is more prevalent (upbringing in contradiction to radical liberalism of europe, for example) children simply disappear to a different part of europe.
Porn is a trap - it feeds the pleasure centers of the brain, devalues the humanity of the person being used for that pleasure, and damages people's ability to relate to one another in a healthy way.
I have never seen evidence of this. If this is true, then TV, the computer, the toaster and the ubiquitous back-scratcher is a trap. Maybe the back-scratcher isn't as big an impact, but I can't really give you my undivided attention while using it...most of the time. I'm not an absolutist, but I am not prone to demonize human behaviour that predates the written word. Porn is just the visual representation of fantasy. You cannot outlaw fantasy and art at the same time.
If you ran the world, what would you do to "outlaw porn"? What's porn to you? What's a medical journal versus a sex-ed book versus a dirty cartoon? How does this contrast with the rest of the world which we all still have to live in?
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If I ask someone, where are your testicles located? and the answer is not, "I am a woman, you dolt." or "Between my legs, you dolt." or "In a box, I had them removed you insensitive clod!", but instead is "Clowns are TYPICALLY brown."...they have not addressed the question. It's really sad that OP is the typical game rag reader.
MMORPGs are FILLED with power hungry individuals who love to grief, both allies and foes. Saying that the nature of the average gamer will magically change in Huxley, so that players will seek out the challenge (of someone who can possibly defeat them) instead of killing defenseless players, for the standard reward of their cries and vows to quit the game...is completely naiive. You sir, are a moron.
The big question is, how do you avoid the problem of a level 50 player absolutely destroying a level 1 newcomer? Kang had an answer. Basically, the idea is that the levels are divided by class. The first 10 levels are the basic class, while the highest 10 levels (41-50) are the elite class. Level 50 characters will have more socket skills at their disposal, as well as more weapons and armor, and they'll usually battle other players that fall into their class. Meanwhile, lower-ranked players will battle in their class, so the disparity isn't so great.
So the answer, Kang, is...nothing. Perhaps it's something we were not told, but that's beside the problem. What a shitty journalist AND editor. Simply write the lies and misdirection that the mindless journalist is presented, then present them to us as facts. Well done.
In java, you add a method to reorg the data and redisplay. just like RealBasic!
Let's follow the decent start...
6 years in the future, people just turned into elves and trolls. We're gonna toss the Politically Incorrect racial tensions and just assume that everyone loves every elf and troll. We're gonna toss the distinction between mages and shamans and make magic ridiculously common and take away all the drawbacks to altering reality. We're gonna turn the idea of a Shadowrunner into a Shadowcommando who shoots, rather than sneaks or engineers, their way in. Shadowcommandos with almost no fear of death (insta-ressurection!) or reprecussion from a single all-powerful megacorporation. It's fun to Shadowcommando!
I'm sorry, how does Cybereyes all of a sudden make it SHADOWRUN when it's obviously a re-hash of Savage.
Of COURSE the majority of the posters read the article. We're SHADOWRUN FANS. The problem with taking it one part at a time is that it isnt SHADOWRUN. Shadowrun isn't unique because of how the world EVOLVED but HOW IT ENDED UP.
"Wow, we need need more game concepts...oh look, here's a license we have been sitting on. Fanbase is kinda small, so we're going to BUTCHER the universe in the interest of simplicity and release date. When the first game comes out to a lukewarm reception, we can always try to adapt the next to market pressures to end up with a better game. Cause that's what sequels are about."
How many times has this actually WORKED? The SR univers isn't exactly a huge seller NOW. Chances that FASA and MICROSOFT is going to release some revolutionary game that will bring thousands of people into a NON-SHADOWRUN world using the SHADOWRUN NAME and then a sequel? The word nil comes to mind, but I think it's substantially LOWER than that. This signs a deathwarrant for the genre. This game is an admission that the people in control of SR have no interest in making a true-to-Shadowrun game. Either they aren't talented enough or smart enough to capitalize on the rich history, that they already own. That's SCARY and SAD.
Is this joke article or rejected Cowboy Neal poll?
My mom is from Kansas. The midwest is the first stop in illegal alien trafficking. The concentrated urban areas are heavily monitored, with an expensive cost of living. If you are from Kansas, you know the towns that are pure illegal aliens and probably know some traffickers. I have no reason to think that the mandatory vaccination records at Kansas colleges are forged, causing the outbreaks.
Lemme do a quick reality check. How many ppl do I know who are not vaccinating their kids because they are liberal whack-jobs afraid of autism? 0. How many illegal aliens from Mexico (with no health coverage) do I know, about 200. I think the "number of issues" is much like the "number of issues" with the spread of HIV. Yes you could theoretically spread it through toilet seats. How many people do I know who got AIDS that way? 0 More likely it's the young, poor, irresponsible, and needle users...of which I have known 5.
then that's Fox News' new purpose.
It is not Fox News' purpose, it's Murdoch's goal. I still dont see how your point of view can be any more accurate than a differing perspective.
Wrong. In your opinion, a news organization's purpose should be to inform. In fact, any organization's purpose is whatever the leaders of that organization decide it is.
I don't think the OP is wrong, insomuch as they have a different philosophy from you. For all I know they are right. While an organization's leadership may want Fox to become a fastfood service, it's highly unlikely that it could survive that transition. That being said, are you any more right than the OP? (in that an organization's purpose is whatever the leadership decide it is).
There isn't always an answer.
Nope, Dvorak doesn't have a point. No point at all other than to troll for traffic.
The problem is scaling. They followed the typical Vivendi hardware cluster solution. Have load problems? Scale by adding more hardware. They did very well in comparison to previous attempts, having learned from all previous attempts. However, when a major chunk of the market is playing...it's still impractical. Of course AT&T wont say anything. Anything they would say about it could...and WOULD endager either AT&T or Blizzard's distributed networks.
I think an RPG requires an audience. Schizophrenia comes in a wide variety of severities...
You have asked a philosophical question.
/. troll (that one scares most people off).
I dont _believe_ an actor can play a role alone. If there is no one to observe an actor, how can it be judged they are playing a role? Am I playing the role of me or am I just being me? Let's not forget the multitude of roles that spawned The Method (acting). Can I troll alone? Perhaps I'm just playing the role of an annoying
FYI, I think that "Can a person play a role alone?" is a complex question without a clear answer. It continues to pique my interest.
The inference is that those aren't RPGs either. I tend to agree. Without other people to observe and react to it, it's like trying to roleplay. Much like throwing food at someone's open mouth for an hour is not NECESSARILY the same as saying they are being fed. It's a subtle line and I dont expect everyone to agree on new subdivisions.
So let me get this straight: you're looking for an engine which allows you to build something you readily admit you are unable to build?
This is rather baffling.
There's nothing out of the ordinary about a person admitting that they are not very familiar with how to properly implement a very complicated system. Looking for a packaged suite is quite typical.
While you may be competent enough to write an inventory control system, that doesn't mean you are confident or even interested in discovering, coding, and implmenting the features that stock managers would consider "basic"...especially with the wide variation from industry to industry (discovery!).
This should help relieve your baffle.
This guy is a nothing, and should be treated as such.
That's an opinion. I'm sure you can tell the difference.
Wiki isn't a storage house of everything that has ever happened.
It potentially is. In fact that's part of why it's supposedly useful. I dont think it can practically be but I'm not really interested in the myriad of reasons.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. -- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation
Do you think that this is still a core purpose of Wiki and that someone who thinks differently than you is spouting BS? Or is it you're just arguing for ego?
The fact that it's well know removes it from the noise category. It's a recognizeable sound (to extend the metaphor). It's interesting that you believe that your opinion of a topic should preempt a wider audience, from being able to decide themselves simply because you have examined and dismissed it as BS.
There was no harm. The selective nature of the enforcement of policy shows that the ideal that WP aspires to is likely flawed. You can't collect, classify, and manage all information the same way. Therefore the automated system that WP embodies has some fundamental problems. This is an apt illustration of the symptoms.
That's an interesting perspective. Selective information collection is not an option when you are attempting to collect a comprehensive collection of information. Why you would oppose specific information, is a bias and detrimental to the effort.
How does the failure of Wikipedia to manage conflicting information about a specific LIVING person affect you? If you don't use Wikipedia (*raises hand*) it doesnt. If you do (*point at you*) you come off sounding like an idiot. This issue could have easily been about an issue you cared about but you're a very lucky boy. There's few conflicting viewpoints regarding pokemon sapphire versus pokemon ruby.
Yes, nothing you mentioned is an MMORPG. We're mixing definitions here. Learn2read.
Part of the argument that porn is not detrimental to society, which I attempted to touch on, is the DEFINITION. Nowhere in the "pornoff" did I see what constituted "resisting" versus "engaging". I read...
to try to quit porn.
Well, the secretary at work wears some tight pants and my coworkers can't help but simulating some scenarios every lunch hour. Did I just fail the pornoff?
I dont think the pornoff qualifies as anecdotal evidence that porn "devalues the humanity of the person being used for that pleasure, and damages people's ability to relate to one another in a healthy way."
There's much more to life and human relationships than sexual expression.
Children are unable to understand this, much less accept or BELIEVE it. Children are primarily instinctive, curiosity machines. Please don't continue to argue that morality trumps reality. In the US, children tend to stay in the same town, even when they run away. In other parts of the world where this problem is more prevalent (upbringing in contradiction to radical liberalism of europe, for example) children simply disappear to a different part of europe.
Porn is a trap - it feeds the pleasure centers of the brain, devalues the humanity of the person being used for that pleasure, and damages people's ability to relate to one another in a healthy way.
I have never seen evidence of this. If this is true, then TV, the computer, the toaster and the ubiquitous back-scratcher is a trap. Maybe the back-scratcher isn't as big an impact, but I can't really give you my undivided attention while using it...most of the time. I'm not an absolutist, but I am not prone to demonize human behaviour that predates the written word. Porn is just the visual representation of fantasy. You cannot outlaw fantasy and art at the same time.
If you ran the world, what would you do to "outlaw porn"? What's porn to you? What's a medical journal versus a sex-ed book versus a dirty cartoon? How does this contrast with the rest of the world which we all still have to live in?