Some curmudgeon, some funny, some informative. I still don't actually know what game you're talking about. I'm sure I'd recognize the full name, possibly even smack myself, but the acronym is not in my mental dictionary. And even if DotA is that common, is HoN also common enough everyone (but me) knows what it is?
Your ire is misplaced. I'm not criticizing, I'm expressing empathy for the situation. I've been hiding under the covers like everyone else, because the more you look at it, the more difficult it appears to be to fix.
For example, I play HoN (a DotA clone from the days before DotA2; I still prefer it over DotA2)
I understand the tendency to abbreviate long names, but if you're telling someone about something that they possibly don't know about, it may be worth spelling it out. I know I could try googling, but I'm just going to assume you're talking about a game called HoNoR GuArD, which is a clone of Dragon of the Ages (and its sequel).
Great, that's just what we need. Africanized Asian elephants. Have you not heard what happened when we Africanized honeybees? We'll have swarms of tempermental pachyderms stampeding through every village in the Great Plains before mid-century.
the real reason has traditionally been that if virtual goods (like the account or items in the game world) can be shown to have a legitimate real-world value then there is a good possibility that they might end up with legal liability in the event that their server code screws up and erases the account (or, possibly, even if a bug in their code causes items in the game economy to loose significant value in the real-world).
In my case, it was because I didn't want to deal with "I bought/sold an account but the other person ripped me off" reports. It's worthwhile to be very vocal up front that it's not allowed, even if you don't actually care, just so people realize they're doing such transactions at their own risk.
I never used 1and1 as a registrar, just for hosting, but they had some ridiculously bad tech support. Example: I was having trouble receiving email, and had to argue with support about how he didn't like how I filled out the initial form for about half an hour. This might be understandable if he was just trying to properly verify I was me, but after it was all over he then said, "Well, you're not getting email because we're experiencing a DDOS and it's down for everybody." If he'd said that first, it would have saved a lot of trouble. I felt like most of my interactions with them went like that.
A college "friend" shouted the spoiler line as a group of us were headed to see the movie. Then she turned and asked, "You've all seen the movie, right?" Very poor order of operations.
My wife and I were wondering the other day how the flock determined who was going to be out front. We also wondered about them trading positions, which we haven't observed, but if there's cycling through the ranks that part is answered, I guess.
I didn't follow the link, but I'm assuming French + taunts means Holy Grail. To me the real hilarity is whenever they speak to each other in French, they never understand each other. They're always saying "eh?" and "what?" back and forth.
Yeah, for a brief moment I thought they'd created a spelunking game. Which actually sounds kind of fun. I could do with something like the old Atari Adventure, just spruced up a bit (i.e., not pointless and completely infuriating). Crystal caverns, rope swinging, rattlesnake jumping, fully destructible/cave-in-able 3D environment. Maybe an easter egg bonus cave with ravenous semi-human predators, just for fun.
I keep thinking it's time for some of the other undead to break out. Where's the best-selling ghoul story? Maybe a skeleton romance (shame the title "Lovely Bones" is already taken). The Mummy had one and a half good movies out of three, so there's probably more potential there. Wistful wights, wandering wraiths, maybe a misunderstood banshee - you can be friends as long as you leave your earplugs in.
Nearly two decades ago I read a comment by an author (sadly can't remember who at the moment) who asked for some originality. "Where's the lamia story?" she said, and I thought that was a good idea. I still haven't seen one of them, even though I've seen multiple cycles of vampire and werewolf boom and bust since then.
Ah, mine has all three, and it's still selling poorly. I suspect it's the puns and spoonerisms keeping people away. I mean, how many bestsellers have spoonerisms? Other than Lolita, which is probably the exception that proves the rule.
I was in northern Ohio in '94, as a college student with no car. I remember days so cold I didn't want to go out even at noon, and some really frigid walks to the grocery store a mile away. Of course I was also foolish enough to go out sledding one night when the wind chill was -30. It was hilarious to come inside completely dry and then turn wet as our clothes went from frozen to thawed. One friend had his eyebrows freeze to his hat.
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Ha ha. I've got to hand it to you for that one. I don't know whether to clock you or chime in with a pun of my one.
These things come in cycles, when a new generation is ready to be introduced to a whole new breed of nightmares.
Some curmudgeon, some funny, some informative. I still don't actually know what game you're talking about. I'm sure I'd recognize the full name, possibly even smack myself, but the acronym is not in my mental dictionary. And even if DotA is that common, is HoN also common enough everyone (but me) knows what it is?
Your ire is misplaced. I'm not criticizing, I'm expressing empathy for the situation. I've been hiding under the covers like everyone else, because the more you look at it, the more difficult it appears to be to fix.
For example, I play HoN (a DotA clone from the days before DotA2; I still prefer it over DotA2)
I understand the tendency to abbreviate long names, but if you're telling someone about something that they possibly don't know about, it may be worth spelling it out. I know I could try googling, but I'm just going to assume you're talking about a game called HoNoR GuArD, which is a clone of Dragon of the Ages (and its sequel).
Great, that's just what we need. Africanized Asian elephants. Have you not heard what happened when we Africanized honeybees? We'll have swarms of tempermental pachyderms stampeding through every village in the Great Plains before mid-century.
the real reason has traditionally been that if virtual goods (like the account or items in the game world) can be shown to have a legitimate real-world value then there is a good possibility that they might end up with legal liability in the event that their server code screws up and erases the account (or, possibly, even if a bug in their code causes items in the game economy to loose significant value in the real-world).
In my case, it was because I didn't want to deal with "I bought/sold an account but the other person ripped me off" reports. It's worthwhile to be very vocal up front that it's not allowed, even if you don't actually care, just so people realize they're doing such transactions at their own risk.
I never used 1and1 as a registrar, just for hosting, but they had some ridiculously bad tech support. Example: I was having trouble receiving email, and had to argue with support about how he didn't like how I filled out the initial form for about half an hour. This might be understandable if he was just trying to properly verify I was me, but after it was all over he then said, "Well, you're not getting email because we're experiencing a DDOS and it's down for everybody." If he'd said that first, it would have saved a lot of trouble. I felt like most of my interactions with them went like that.
And then after all that, even if they see the truth laid out in front of them, they'll just want to go home and hide under the covers.
I tried to play the pan pipes once, but it was all Greek to me.
And we're stuck here in the middle with a turtulation? Simurtle?
A college "friend" shouted the spoiler line as a group of us were headed to see the movie. Then she turned and asked, "You've all seen the movie, right?" Very poor order of operations.
It does. I know Spaceward Ho! had events like that occasionally. Did Master of Orion 2 as well?
They have wind storms to put our hurricanes to shame. A donut-sized rock surely moves.
Oh, good, if they've got the brackets down, it shouldn't take much more to teach birds how to write sky HTML.
My wife and I were wondering the other day how the flock determined who was going to be out front. We also wondered about them trading positions, which we haven't observed, but if there's cycling through the ranks that part is answered, I guess.
I didn't follow the link, but I'm assuming French + taunts means Holy Grail. To me the real hilarity is whenever they speak to each other in French, they never understand each other. They're always saying "eh?" and "what?" back and forth.
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No, they call it an IPA. I was watching Dexter last night, and that's what they called it.
Wait, is the Mallrats stereogram intelligible to viewers? And what is it?
Yeah, for a brief moment I thought they'd created a spelunking game. Which actually sounds kind of fun. I could do with something like the old Atari Adventure, just spruced up a bit (i.e., not pointless and completely infuriating). Crystal caverns, rope swinging, rattlesnake jumping, fully destructible/cave-in-able 3D environment. Maybe an easter egg bonus cave with ravenous semi-human predators, just for fun.
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The technologist's humorous paradox. Brilliant.
I keep thinking it's time for some of the other undead to break out. Where's the best-selling ghoul story? Maybe a skeleton romance (shame the title "Lovely Bones" is already taken). The Mummy had one and a half good movies out of three, so there's probably more potential there. Wistful wights, wandering wraiths, maybe a misunderstood banshee - you can be friends as long as you leave your earplugs in.
Nearly two decades ago I read a comment by an author (sadly can't remember who at the moment) who asked for some originality. "Where's the lamia story?" she said, and I thought that was a good idea. I still haven't seen one of them, even though I've seen multiple cycles of vampire and werewolf boom and bust since then.
Ah, mine has all three, and it's still selling poorly. I suspect it's the puns and spoonerisms keeping people away. I mean, how many bestsellers have spoonerisms? Other than Lolita, which is probably the exception that proves the rule.
I've been campaigning for Michigoon for decades, but nobody seems to like that one. Can't imagine why.
I was in northern Ohio in '94, as a college student with no car. I remember days so cold I didn't want to go out even at noon, and some really frigid walks to the grocery store a mile away. Of course I was also foolish enough to go out sledding one night when the wind chill was -30. It was hilarious to come inside completely dry and then turn wet as our clothes went from frozen to thawed. One friend had his eyebrows freeze to his hat.