The problem is that Blizzard is edging over into the "Hollywood of Gaming". The more they cater to the masses, the more they lose credibility with the more serious gaming crowd. I'm fine with WoW and even the entire Warcraft series going over the top cartoonish, that's fine. But StarCraft and Diablo3 aren't meant to be that way, from my perspective.
I like all the Blizzard games, but the more cartoonish the quicker I get sick of them. Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft didn't do the trick in other words... and I didn't buy the expansions for either. Hence, I would LOVE it if at least Diablo3 stayed gritty and dark. Please Blizzard, at least keep one franchise serious for the grown up gamers!
It's simple... whoever has the highest top speed. Woot, Jo Blo is pusing 20mph for 2 seconds... OMG he can almost smell my overweight cat's butt as the kitty leaves him in the dust. Really, humans are big, weak, bulky, and slow when it comes to running.
And then there are the skydivers. They go a lot faster than any wussy sprinters anyway. =]
The first post is always an ultra skeptical "this is useless/fake/junk technology that makes things worse/same/fail." It doesn't take much thought to kneejerk call something new wrong, but if you stop and fucking think about it for more than a nanosecond maybe you can see some good in something. Or maybe not, everything sucks, status quo, kill everything, nuke it from orbit to be sure, bye, thanks, peace, out.
Wow, all police must be evil like that. I remember a couple of years back at college when I was on my way home late one Saturday night they pulled me over for speeding. They had another guy pulled over and he was obviously slobbering drunk falling down, so I figured they were mostly checking for drunks.
They asked me some questions and let me off with a warning. It was a good thing I used my Jedi mind tricks or I may have been KILLED ON THE SPOT!
Now of course not all cops are kind to me. When a guy rearended me the other month they let him off without a ticket and that pissed me off plenty!
All devil advocates comments aside, I have run into a couple of real asshole cops (no sarcasm here)... and I would have to say they were borderline psycho in appearance and manner. You could get one or the other... good luck!
it always cracks me up when people (including hacker/cracker types" think hackers are so smart. being devious and doing things you arent supposed to doesn't make you smart. messing around on computers isn't some rare talent... seriously.
so if you want to be a bad kid and play around, sure go ahead... get a few kicks, annoy a few people. but dont delude yourself into thinking you are special b/c you play a game that crosses the laws.
I hate both with a passion. I would consider it complete insanity to use one on top of the other. Literally, I would have to quit my job or have someone else deal with that system completely... whether it be supporting it or using it. Email over satellite would be my only option if I were you people.
If this case makes you cringe, the correct question to ask is, how can a company like Blizzard legally protect the legitimate players from having their whole game ruined by annoying buggers that create hacks for the game? I love gaming, but more than once I've stopped playing a game b/c hacks became rampant and completely ruined my experience. Screw the 3rd party people that are causing problems... although I'd like there to be a clearer definition of when someone should be sued or not.
My theory is that a lot of business minded (not necessarily good people either) look to the "big guy" on top of the computing world... at least in the public's view. That'd be M$. And Microsoft continually release lazy, half-finished, crap. Yeah yeah, sure things are more "complicated" now and it takes longer to get it right... that's part of the argument. But seriously, I think it's mostly a business decision. They figure, why waste time (and money hiring testers) beta testing when we can let the public do it for free. Fuck 'em!
It also helps to to know grammar to not sound like an uneducated person when stumbling through a foreign language. Speaking another language naturally is great and extremely useful, but speaking even more correctly than a native is just impressive (if quite difficult).
Louisiana: a bunch of hillbilly and/or crawfish eating religious nuts, who all died in a hurricane named Katrina. Blech... I hate reading the news sometimes.
As a resident of Louisiana, might I say that it will be nice when all politicians and news reporters are replaced with robots that clean gutters.
You know, there is something very wise in your post. Perhaps these people that are easily addicted to MMOs are the people that somehow need/want guidance... or are just too lazy to guide their own real life... or something. =\
1. The man makes you work your ass off so you are tired and need a "fix" when you get home. Beer, drugs, games, TV, whatever.
2. People are taught to value material things, which trick them into going into debt or working too much (both parents)... and the next thing you know, they are too tired to love their family or exercise or cook real food or whatever.
3. Welcome to America, land of the free... land of opportunity! Land where things aren't all that bad (as long as you aren't below the average middle class income rate or live in a polluted to shit city or whatever)!
We Americans like it easy, dumb, fat, lazy, and shiny!
The problem with WoW is that it caters to the average joe. It's not extremeley competitive... as those games end up frustrating most players after a certain level (it becomes a job instead of fun) and they quit. WoW doesn't have that "problem", it just requires you to basically veg out for 10 hours a day. And slowly, inch by inch, you get "better" at the game... as in you get more junk or whatever.
I totally agree that you have to have a certain mentality to be really addicted to WoW. I enjoyed it for a few months (actually more like a year, but that's becuase I had a job at the time that was basically sit at your PC and wait for an email or phonecall... so I needed something to kill time with that didn't require much concentration). And then it got really annoying/boring/repetitive and I promptly gave it up. Don't ever plan on playing it again... maybe I'll play another Blizzard MMO later, but not for very long. It's just a huge time sink with little rewards!
That McDonald's hot coffee thing had more to it than a simple 2 word description would give (go figure). Apparently McDonald's was the only big business in the US to have coffee that friggin hot... it was something ludicrous like 20 or 30 degrees hotter than normal coffee. Normal coffee would be like "ouch, that was hot, damn"... the old version before the lawsuit of McDonald's coffee was "OMFG I JUST GOT 3rd DEGREE BURNS, i'm DYING!". And the lid had a glitch or something to make sure you'd spill it if held a certain way. Notice how McDonald's lids now are like the best lids at fast food places... you can't spill shit now.
Umm, so what you are trying to say is "if you are poor and get paid minimum wage, kill yourself because you are fucked no matter what", right?
Seriously, the low pay people get screwed hard... and maybe a fraction of them actually deserve it. The rest are just normal people who can't get out of a rut. Increasing minimum wages doesn't cause them to be poorer, that's BS.
Damn you beat me to it. See my post below on my first Aliens quote. But while we are at it, I found the one I was looking for and it fits:
Gorman: Drake, check your camera. There seems to be a malfunction. [Drake smacks the camera against a nearby support. The picture clears] Gorman: That's better.
Apone: All right, sweethearts, you're a team and there's nothin' to worry about. We come here, and we gonna conquer, and we gonna kick some, is that understood? That's what we gonna do, sweethearts, we are going to go and get some. All right, people, on the ready line! Are ya lean? Marines: Yea! Apone: Are ya mean? Marines: Yea! Apone: WHAT ARE YOU? Marines: Lean and mean! Apone: WHAT ARE YOU? HUDSON! Get on the ready line, Marines, get some today! Get on the ready line! Move it out! Move it out, goddammit! Get hot! One, two, three, four! Get out, get out, get out! Move it out, move it out, move it out! Move it out, move it out, move it out! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! Aaarrrrr, absolutely badassess! Let's pack 'em in! Get in there!
If you think like that, we can say what probably happened is the end user did have admin rights due to some special situation or demand... and then he took his PC off site without telling IT... and that led to all the crap. Yeah, that exact situation has happened where I work. This guy may be perfectly innocent as far as the child porn, but when it comes to users being innocent and admins being up to no good... well, I've seen the opposite time and time and time again.
I tried one of these deals with Blockbuster, and quit b/c of the extreme annoyance at missing the end of movies due to a scratch. Is everyone else having the same issues? I mean, that happened to me several times... and personally twice is too much. So i quit the service and won't go back until I find out some fool proof way things won't be scratched.
" "Men and women think differently."
This is such shocking news. Unbelievable."
People would rather believe in stereotypes than measure the actual individual. This is such shocking news. Unbelievable.
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They had their cartoony bits, but they weren't huge blobs like in War3 or WoW. Seriously, they need to slim and sharpen their units/characters.
The problem is that Blizzard is edging over into the "Hollywood of Gaming". The more they cater to the masses, the more they lose credibility with the more serious gaming crowd. I'm fine with WoW and even the entire Warcraft series going over the top cartoonish, that's fine. But StarCraft and Diablo3 aren't meant to be that way, from my perspective.
I like all the Blizzard games, but the more cartoonish the quicker I get sick of them. Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft didn't do the trick in other words... and I didn't buy the expansions for either. Hence, I would LOVE it if at least Diablo3 stayed gritty and dark. Please Blizzard, at least keep one franchise serious for the grown up gamers!
It's simple... whoever has the highest top speed. Woot, Jo Blo is pusing 20mph for 2 seconds... OMG he can almost smell my overweight cat's butt as the kitty leaves him in the dust. Really, humans are big, weak, bulky, and slow when it comes to running.
And then there are the skydivers. They go a lot faster than any wussy sprinters anyway. =]
The first post is always an ultra skeptical "this is useless/fake/junk technology that makes things worse/same/fail." It doesn't take much thought to kneejerk call something new wrong, but if you stop and fucking think about it for more than a nanosecond maybe you can see some good in something. Or maybe not, everything sucks, status quo, kill everything, nuke it from orbit to be sure, bye, thanks, peace, out.
Wow, all police must be evil like that. I remember a couple of years back at college when I was on my way home late one Saturday night they pulled me over for speeding. They had another guy pulled over and he was obviously slobbering drunk falling down, so I figured they were mostly checking for drunks.
They asked me some questions and let me off with a warning. It was a good thing I used my Jedi mind tricks or I may have been KILLED ON THE SPOT!
Now of course not all cops are kind to me. When a guy rearended me the other month they let him off without a ticket and that pissed me off plenty!
All devil advocates comments aside, I have run into a couple of real asshole cops (no sarcasm here)... and I would have to say they were borderline psycho in appearance and manner. You could get one or the other... good luck!
Seriously, what is up with the commas?!
it always cracks me up when people (including hacker/cracker types" think hackers are so smart. being devious and doing things you arent supposed to doesn't make you smart. messing around on computers isn't some rare talent... seriously.
so if you want to be a bad kid and play around, sure go ahead... get a few kicks, annoy a few people. but dont delude yourself into thinking you are special b/c you play a game that crosses the laws.
I hate both with a passion. I would consider it complete insanity to use one on top of the other. Literally, I would have to quit my job or have someone else deal with that system completely... whether it be supporting it or using it. Email over satellite would be my only option if I were you people.
If this case makes you cringe, the correct question to ask is, how can a company like Blizzard legally protect the legitimate players from having their whole game ruined by annoying buggers that create hacks for the game? I love gaming, but more than once I've stopped playing a game b/c hacks became rampant and completely ruined my experience. Screw the 3rd party people that are causing problems... although I'd like there to be a clearer definition of when someone should be sued or not.
My theory is that a lot of business minded (not necessarily good people either) look to the "big guy" on top of the computing world... at least in the public's view. That'd be M$. And Microsoft continually release lazy, half-finished, crap. Yeah yeah, sure things are more "complicated" now and it takes longer to get it right... that's part of the argument. But seriously, I think it's mostly a business decision. They figure, why waste time (and money hiring testers) beta testing when we can let the public do it for free. Fuck 'em!
It also helps to to know grammar to not sound like an uneducated person when stumbling through a foreign language. Speaking another language naturally is great and extremely useful, but speaking even more correctly than a native is just impressive (if quite difficult).
Louisiana: a bunch of hillbilly and/or crawfish eating religious nuts, who all died in a hurricane named Katrina. Blech... I hate reading the news sometimes.
As a resident of Louisiana, might I say that it will be nice when all politicians and news reporters are replaced with robots that clean gutters.
You know, there is something very wise in your post. Perhaps these people that are easily addicted to MMOs are the people that somehow need/want guidance... or are just too lazy to guide their own real life... or something. =\
See, the problem is back to basics in life:
1. The man makes you work your ass off so you are tired and need a "fix" when you get home. Beer, drugs, games, TV, whatever.
2. People are taught to value material things, which trick them into going into debt or working too much (both parents)... and the next thing you know, they are too tired to love their family or exercise or cook real food or whatever.
3. Welcome to America, land of the free... land of opportunity! Land where things aren't all that bad (as long as you aren't below the average middle class income rate or live in a polluted to shit city or whatever)!
We Americans like it easy, dumb, fat, lazy, and shiny!
The problem with WoW is that it caters to the average joe. It's not extremeley competitive... as those games end up frustrating most players after a certain level (it becomes a job instead of fun) and they quit. WoW doesn't have that "problem", it just requires you to basically veg out for 10 hours a day. And slowly, inch by inch, you get "better" at the game... as in you get more junk or whatever.
I totally agree that you have to have a certain mentality to be really addicted to WoW. I enjoyed it for a few months (actually more like a year, but that's becuase I had a job at the time that was basically sit at your PC and wait for an email or phonecall... so I needed something to kill time with that didn't require much concentration). And then it got really annoying/boring/repetitive and I promptly gave it up. Don't ever plan on playing it again... maybe I'll play another Blizzard MMO later, but not for very long. It's just a huge time sink with little rewards!
That McDonald's hot coffee thing had more to it than a simple 2 word description would give (go figure). Apparently McDonald's was the only big business in the US to have coffee that friggin hot... it was something ludicrous like 20 or 30 degrees hotter than normal coffee. Normal coffee would be like "ouch, that was hot, damn"... the old version before the lawsuit of McDonald's coffee was "OMFG I JUST GOT 3rd DEGREE BURNS, i'm DYING!". And the lid had a glitch or something to make sure you'd spill it if held a certain way. Notice how McDonald's lids now are like the best lids at fast food places... you can't spill shit now.
Umm, so what you are trying to say is "if you are poor and get paid minimum wage, kill yourself because you are fucked no matter what", right?
Seriously, the low pay people get screwed hard... and maybe a fraction of them actually deserve it. The rest are just normal people who can't get out of a rut. Increasing minimum wages doesn't cause them to be poorer, that's BS.
Damn you beat me to it. See my post below on my first Aliens quote. But while we are at it, I found the one I was looking for and it fits:
Gorman: Drake, check your camera. There seems to be a malfunction.
[Drake smacks the camera against a nearby support. The picture clears]
Gorman: That's better.
Apone: All right, sweethearts, you're a team and there's nothin' to worry about. We come here, and we gonna conquer, and we gonna kick some, is that understood? That's what we gonna do, sweethearts, we are going to go and get some. All right, people, on the ready line! Are ya lean?
Marines: Yea!
Apone: Are ya mean?
Marines: Yea!
Apone: WHAT ARE YOU?
Marines: Lean and mean!
Apone: WHAT ARE YOU? HUDSON! Get on the ready line, Marines, get some today! Get on the ready line! Move it out! Move it out, goddammit! Get hot! One, two, three, four! Get out, get out, get out! Move it out, move it out, move it out! Move it out, move it out, move it out! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! Aaarrrrr, absolutely badassess! Let's pack 'em in! Get in there!
If you think like that, we can say what probably happened is the end user did have admin rights due to some special situation or demand... and then he took his PC off site without telling IT... and that led to all the crap. Yeah, that exact situation has happened where I work. This guy may be perfectly innocent as far as the child porn, but when it comes to users being innocent and admins being up to no good... well, I've seen the opposite time and time and time again.
I tried one of these deals with Blockbuster, and quit b/c of the extreme annoyance at missing the end of movies due to a scratch. Is everyone else having the same issues? I mean, that happened to me several times... and personally twice is too much. So i quit the service and won't go back until I find out some fool proof way things won't be scratched.
There was an article stating blue won more in TF2 a few months ago. What happened to that?
" "Men and women think differently." This is such shocking news. Unbelievable." People would rather believe in stereotypes than measure the actual individual. This is such shocking news. Unbelievable.
Wow, and to think I was actually considering using Windows 2008 or Windows 7. Vista + more crap? Thanks... thanks a lot.