I often wonder how many "obvious" ideas will be seen as completely retarded in not so many years.
"They thought objects attracted each other." "How? By pure will? By magic?" "They called it gravity." "Friking morons. No wonder they blew up Earthone"
I imagine a little dwarf coming out and saying, "I'm Linux, do you guys know how to get my wireless card working? I'm having trouble printing. Why can't I play this damn DVD?"
And then a tall handsome elf solves all his problems, right?
"Tonight we had a most unfortunate accident. A micrometeor hit the satellite, changing it's orientation. The accident, unfortunately, destroyed a coal plant. Again.
Probably the closest director payed directly from his pocket money and forgot about it.
"Hey Bob. I'm reading something about a fine in EU. Did you have any problem?" "Hmmm, Oh! So that's why the hotel was so expensive! I thought I miscounted the girls."
As has been proved over and over, we gamers are violent.
Our Google-fu is mighty, but we don't have apropiate sites of reunion. The sensible action would be to pay for the construction of gaming churches where gamers can go to get involved in a friendly community and thus avoid further killing sprees.
What possible difference does it make to any competition between you and someone else if instead of spending a year mindlessly grinding for gold, he paid someone a hundred bucks for it?
The differece is that some people consider time as one of the optimizable factors. So, if they do the same in less time it's as valuable as doing it better. For example, being the first to reach a certain point.
Aparently, unlike the world outside, being the richest in the server is considered less of an achievement.
How much people would play chess if players could pay 20$ to change one of his pieces into a queen?
Chess is an extreme example but the point is, some people play to compete. Maybe not in a direct confrontational way but they like getting some kind of advantage by playing "better".
Having people who directly buys advantages in the game makes it less interesting for the competitive players.
Usually, there are more competitive players than players willing to spend money for an advantage, and the game creators try to keep the bigger group.
If the spending players weren't heavily outnumbered they'd be a better marketing target and more games would be based on the "Buy the better gun" model.
"Being as this is Google, the most powerful media aggregator in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
The power to disrupt a nation's economy via information warfare measures represents a much clearer threat than people trying to get something through airport security.
Unless... They're bringing the virus by plane!
From now on, all computers will have to be formatted to pass security.
Don't worry, the stewardesses will give you a Windows CD to reinstall the internet in your portable during flight.
So you mean there are people capable of hacking the US energy grid but who can't start the attacks from a hacked box in Madagascar?
"Who's attacking us?" "Sir, the attacks come from half a million infected machines all around the world." "From all coutries?" "Yes, sir." "So China and Russia too?" "Hmm, Yes, of course, sir" "Damn commies... We should've nuked them a long time ago."
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What was wrong with "Node 3"?
Why do you ask, Child 1?
"Eat that donut"
"Don't eat it!"
"Eat it!"
"I am bored"
"Natalie Portman"
Burma Shave is Natalie Portman!
OMG There's no air in space!
Wait, I wonder if it was the other meaning of "space"...
I often wonder how many "obvious" ideas will be seen as completely retarded in not so many years.
"They thought objects attracted each other."
"How? By pure will? By magic?"
"They called it gravity."
"Friking morons. No wonder they blew up Earthone"
I imagine a little dwarf coming out and saying, "I'm Linux, do you guys know how to get my wireless card working? I'm having trouble printing. Why can't I play this damn DVD?"
And then a tall handsome elf solves all his problems, right?
Mr Jackson? Is that you?
Think of the surprise that the Somali pirates would get if they got on board and found no one. Just a sailboat with a locked server room.
"Just what do you think you're doing, pirate?"
couldn't this also be used as a weapon?
"Tonight we had a most unfortunate accident. A micrometeor hit the satellite, changing it's orientation. The accident, unfortunately, destroyed a coal plant. Again.
Oh, by the way. We're raising the prices 25%."
I think the point is that low prices stop the creation of games that might be good, because only large sales cover costs.
So we have to live just with the games that will surely be good. Thus less variety.
I know this is slashdot, but can we at least have complete sentences? Please?
The sentences, that won't be completed until slashdot gets pro editors.
Probably the closest director payed directly from his pocket money and forgot about it.
"Hey Bob. I'm reading something about a fine in EU. Did you have any problem?"
"Hmmm, Oh! So that's why the hotel was so expensive! I thought I miscounted the girls."
Dear UK government.
As has been proved over and over, we gamers are violent.
Our Google-fu is mighty, but we don't have apropiate sites of reunion. The sensible action would be to pay for the construction of gaming churches where gamers can go to get involved in a friendly community and thus avoid further killing sprees.
Yours dearly, F4T4L M4SS4KRE.
What possible difference does it make to any competition between you and someone else if instead of spending a year mindlessly grinding for gold, he paid someone a hundred bucks for it?
The differece is that some people consider time as one of the optimizable factors. So, if they do the same in less time it's as valuable as doing it better. For example, being the first to reach a certain point.
Aparently, unlike the world outside, being the richest in the server is considered less of an achievement.
How much people would play chess if players could pay 20$ to change one of his pieces into a queen?
Chess is an extreme example but the point is, some people play to compete. Maybe not in a direct confrontational way but they like getting some kind of advantage by playing "better".
Having people who directly buys advantages in the game makes it less interesting for the competitive players.
Usually, there are more competitive players than players willing to spend money for an advantage, and the game creators try to keep the bigger group.
If the spending players weren't heavily outnumbered they'd be a better marketing target and more games would be based on the "Buy the better gun" model.
I suppose it's for the same reason they can't sell the gold themselves.
Players who don't want to buy gold feel at a disadvantage and quit.
And when the majority quits, the game dies.
They found the universal solution to copyright infringement!
Stop selling the copyright protected content!
How could we miss such an extrardinary solution! ...
Oh. Right. Because it's a complete idiocy. I knew there had to be a reason.
You forgot:
"If the rules of physics are constant and don't just change completely every couple hundred billion years, being the next change tomorrow at 17:00."
"Being as this is Google, the most powerful media aggregator in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
Eric Schmidt's
they need two PCs.
What? No copy paste? You're talking crazy now.
Whenever you're starting to focus on the reality of life, new fear WILL be injected into it to distract you.
Oh god! I'm so afraid of the fear injecting big brother.
The power to disrupt a nation's economy via information warfare measures represents a much clearer threat than people trying to get something through airport security.
Unless... They're bringing the virus by plane!
From now on, all computers will have to be formatted to pass security.
Don't worry, the stewardesses will give you a Windows CD to reinstall the internet in your portable during flight.
this article reads like a well-crafted piece of BS, designed to put the N back into FUDing.
Nuding?
China, Russia, and other countries,
So you mean there are people capable of hacking the US energy grid but who can't start the attacks from a hacked box in Madagascar?
"Who's attacking us?"
"Sir, the attacks come from half a million infected machines all around the world."
"From all coutries?"
"Yes, sir."
"So China and Russia too?"
"Hmm, Yes, of course, sir"
"Damn commies... We should've nuked them a long time ago."
You're not re-imagining this correctly. That's Silent City and Raccoon Hill.
You forgot Tom Clancy's Silent Racoon.
Yes, the first mission is in Hill City.
When people are talking about how to get cheap airfare do you suggest using a bicycle instead?
No. A chair, some baloons and a shotgun, to land when you've reached destination.
So much investigation on how to multitouch the computer and so little about how to make the computer...
Ok, Ok.