I wasn't aware that comparing a Middle Eastern person to a monkey was racist. I was under the impression that comparing someone to a monkey was racist when the subject was black.
Valkyria Chronicles was a great game but it didn't do so hot in the US as compared to the Japan market. That's why there hasn't been much of it translated over.
There is a reason for that closed distribution service.
The console makers (Sony, MS, etc) doesn't make money on the consoles themselves for a long period of time doing their life-cycle, they get the bulk of the income from software sold on their distributions service and psychical game sales.
If they spend a huge amount of money developing the console hardware, it doesn't make sense to allow third party distribution services on their consoles. Which is also why they are locked down so tight, unauthorized third party distributions is even worse.
Sony, however, has been more open to other methods of distribution with their console. They allowed Valve to implement a steam client for the PS3 for Portal 2. They're allowing CCP a method of distribution for Dust 514 that Microsoft simply would not allow. Sony at least seems open to the possibility of other methods of getting games on their system.
Aye. You can't ignore all the underlying economic activity that has to happen in EVE. Mining, Refining, Construction.
Even if you can buy a super cap it will still take 6 weeks just to built it so unless people have super caps lying around they're will to sell it's not an instant transfer.
RMT is questionable as to how much money it adds to the system. If they acquire the gold through methods that don't involve hacking or selling vendor trash then it may not add gold either. You could argue that money for RMT gained through auctions can possibly increase the gold supply (as players may farm stuff that creates gold just to buy the stuff off the auctions) but that is an indirect increase in supply at best.
When that mount came out it was the only mount that altered based on your flying skill.
What did this mean?
If you had regular riding it functioned as a regular 60% mount ground. If you had epic riding it would function as a 100% mount on ground. If you had flying it would function as a 100% mount on ground and a whatever the basic flying speed was. If you had epic flying it would function as a 100% mount on the ground and a 280% flying mount. If you had a mount with 310% movement speed that mount would function as a 100% mount on the ground and 310% flying mount.
You never had to dick around with changing your mount. You never had to make extra effort to go buy a mount, just upgrade the skills. Further it was account bound so every character you created had a mount they could use for eternity. Now factor in that a lot of riding skills got turned into BoA skill books that you can send to other characters on your account and it becomes a little more valuable. It may not be worth $25 but it did have some value beyond just a vanity item.
The lil XT vanity pet also had a very nice function. It would destroy those irritating choo choo train sets that dipshits liked to drop in the AH or bank.
Too bad these items are all permanent mods to the account. It means that they'll be great money makers for the early investors. As more and more people buy them through gold demand will drop and the amount of gold you can get for them will drop as well. Eventually it will reach zero as there's no longer any players that want the item. So this sort of transaction really isn't going to help that in the long run.
Compare that to EVE's PLEX, a consumable, which means demand will be kept up and provides a much more consistent value for the dollars you put in.
Any such system will have a finite supply of ammunition to use.
If it uses physical bullets they must be stockpiled beforehand. These take up space and one you besiege their fortresses they cannot resupply their caches. Enough time and enough bodies later and you will break through.
If it uses lasers it requires power. I doubt that enough power can be generated solely through the use of solar and wind to defend the fortress for a long period of time. Once again, enough bodies and enough time and you will break through.
The question becomes whether the 99% can keep their morale up long enough to win. That may be hard to do when people get slaughtered left and right trying to sap away all the ammunition can get inside.
You know, I was pretty sure the movie empire was going to collapse in on itself because all they do is regurgitate the same fucking idea over and over and over.
I've seen two movie trailers on TV that stick in my mind.
The first is for The Thing. It's not as if they haven't done that movie before.
The second is for some movie where you only have 25 years to live. Performing certain actions takes time from that. I'm assuming this is a remake or ripoff of Logan's Run, though I've never seen Logan's Run.
You want to know what is fucking annoying about Origin?
I took part in the BF3 Alpha. I pre-ordered BF3 via Origin so I got access to the open Beta.
I have three fucking BF3 games in my Origin Client.
BF3 Alpha Test BF3 Open Best BF3 Limited Edition
When BF3 launches. I bet you I will still have 3 fucking Battlefield games in Origin, two of which are entirely pointless. At least Steam deletes temporary shit from your listing.
Do you mean shoot the lowest 10% of each graduating class or shoot the lowest 10% of students each year?
Because in the first case you'd start with 100 students in a graduating class and end with 90. In the second case you'd start with 100 and end with 34.
So.... what you're saying is they naturally recreate how social cliques work in high school?
You mean your typically below average intelligence individuals such as jocks and bullies didn't look down upon the high achieving nerds? God damn it must be raining cats and dogs.
In fact, they speak about reactors, but there are not any "reactors" any more, as most of the fuel is in the ground. Therefore, measuring the temperature of a nearly empty pierced steel container makes absolutely no sense.
You are aware that most sensors can indicate more than just what they're designed to measure, right? The could be something very simple that the sensor no longer responding can indicate physical damage to that region of a reactor.
For example, most reactors (including the ones at Fukushima) have a temperature sensor installed at the bottom of the reactor vessel. As long as that sensor is still providing temperature information one can safely conclude that the full is still contained in the reactor. The bottom of reactors are usually bowl shaped with the temp sensor being at the bottom of that bowl. Since the fuel would have to melt through the container and destroy the temperature sensor in the process to get out of the reactor. You know, the very sensors that took the temperature readings that showed the temperatures below 100 Celsius.
I imagine some economies of scale are going on as well as the ability to launch more frequently since you don't have to fabricate a whole new rocket for each launch.
As long as the extra cost from the extra fuel needed plus the cost of the fuel for soft landing the rocket is less than the cost of building a new rocket it's a winning game.
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It wasn't because of how grime was on the average $1 bill?
I wasn't aware that comparing a Middle Eastern person to a monkey was racist. I was under the impression that comparing someone to a monkey was racist when the subject was black.
Valkyria Chronicles was a great game but it didn't do so hot in the US as compared to the Japan market. That's why there hasn't been much of it translated over.
The fuck?
This is good and all but can you put it into a car analogy?
There is a reason for that closed distribution service.
The console makers (Sony, MS, etc) doesn't make money on the consoles themselves for a long period of time doing their life-cycle, they get the bulk of the income from software sold on their distributions service and psychical game sales.
If they spend a huge amount of money developing the console hardware, it doesn't make sense to allow third party distribution services on their consoles.
Which is also why they are locked down so tight, unauthorized third party distributions is even worse.
Sony, however, has been more open to other methods of distribution with their console. They allowed Valve to implement a steam client for the PS3 for Portal 2. They're allowing CCP a method of distribution for Dust 514 that Microsoft simply would not allow. Sony at least seems open to the possibility of other methods of getting games on their system.
You can build a gaming PC for $300 that plays games at decent settings?
Aye. You can't ignore all the underlying economic activity that has to happen in EVE. Mining, Refining, Construction.
Even if you can buy a super cap it will still take 6 weeks just to built it so unless people have super caps lying around they're will to sell it's not an instant transfer.
What you call incompetence, I call optimization.
Now I could spend 16 hours grinding the money or I could spend $50 to buy gold.
Let's see...... I get paid more than $3.13/hr. Yep, buying gold makes a lot more sense.
RMT is questionable as to how much money it adds to the system. If they acquire the gold through methods that don't involve hacking or selling vendor trash then it may not add gold either. You could argue that money for RMT gained through auctions can possibly increase the gold supply (as players may farm stuff that creates gold just to buy the stuff off the auctions) but that is an indirect increase in supply at best.
When that mount came out it was the only mount that altered based on your flying skill.
What did this mean?
If you had regular riding it functioned as a regular 60% mount ground.
If you had epic riding it would function as a 100% mount on ground.
If you had flying it would function as a 100% mount on ground and a whatever the basic flying speed was.
If you had epic flying it would function as a 100% mount on the ground and a 280% flying mount.
If you had a mount with 310% movement speed that mount would function as a 100% mount on the ground and 310% flying mount.
You never had to dick around with changing your mount. You never had to make extra effort to go buy a mount, just upgrade the skills. Further it was account bound so every character you created had a mount they could use for eternity. Now factor in that a lot of riding skills got turned into BoA skill books that you can send to other characters on your account and it becomes a little more valuable. It may not be worth $25 but it did have some value beyond just a vanity item.
The lil XT vanity pet also had a very nice function. It would destroy those irritating choo choo train sets that dipshits liked to drop in the AH or bank.
Ulduar was beatable with no epic gear.
Too bad these items are all permanent mods to the account. It means that they'll be great money makers for the early investors. As more and more people buy them through gold demand will drop and the amount of gold you can get for them will drop as well. Eventually it will reach zero as there's no longer any players that want the item. So this sort of transaction really isn't going to help that in the long run.
Compare that to EVE's PLEX, a consumable, which means demand will be kept up and provides a much more consistent value for the dollars you put in.
Any such system will have a finite supply of ammunition to use.
If it uses physical bullets they must be stockpiled beforehand. These take up space and one you besiege their fortresses they cannot resupply their caches. Enough time and enough bodies later and you will break through.
If it uses lasers it requires power. I doubt that enough power can be generated solely through the use of solar and wind to defend the fortress for a long period of time. Once again, enough bodies and enough time and you will break through.
The question becomes whether the 99% can keep their morale up long enough to win. That may be hard to do when people get slaughtered left and right trying to sap away all the ammunition can get inside.
You know, I was pretty sure the movie empire was going to collapse in on itself because all they do is regurgitate the same fucking idea over and over and over.
I've seen two movie trailers on TV that stick in my mind.
The first is for The Thing. It's not as if they haven't done that movie before.
The second is for some movie where you only have 25 years to live. Performing certain actions takes time from that. I'm assuming this is a remake or ripoff of Logan's Run, though I've never seen Logan's Run.
You want to know what is fucking annoying about Origin?
I took part in the BF3 Alpha.
I pre-ordered BF3 via Origin so I got access to the open Beta.
I have three fucking BF3 games in my Origin Client.
BF3 Alpha Test
BF3 Open Best
BF3 Limited Edition
When BF3 launches. I bet you I will still have 3 fucking Battlefield games in Origin, two of which are entirely pointless. At least Steam deletes temporary shit from your listing.
Very important question and distinction.
Do you mean shoot the lowest 10% of each graduating class or shoot the lowest 10% of students each year?
Because in the first case you'd start with 100 students in a graduating class and end with 90. In the second case you'd start with 100 and end with 34.
So.... what you're saying is they naturally recreate how social cliques work in high school?
You mean your typically below average intelligence individuals such as jocks and bullies didn't look down upon the high achieving nerds? God damn it must be raining cats and dogs.
Taxes need not be a percentage.
In fact, they speak about reactors, but there are not any "reactors" any more, as most of the fuel is in the ground.
Therefore, measuring the temperature of a nearly empty pierced steel container makes absolutely no sense.
You are aware that most sensors can indicate more than just what they're designed to measure, right? The could be something very simple that the sensor no longer responding can indicate physical damage to that region of a reactor.
For example, most reactors (including the ones at Fukushima) have a temperature sensor installed at the bottom of the reactor vessel. As long as that sensor is still providing temperature information one can safely conclude that the full is still contained in the reactor. The bottom of reactors are usually bowl shaped with the temp sensor being at the bottom of that bowl. Since the fuel would have to melt through the container and destroy the temperature sensor in the process to get out of the reactor. You know, the very sensors that took the temperature readings that showed the temperatures below 100 Celsius.
Well, there's some sane Republicans in office, such as Mitch Daniels, but his term as an elected official is soon to be over.
Kudos to the guy that wrote the summary. He gave us an infoworld link that wasn't dumb by giving us the printer version.
It made Slashdot because...
1. Microsoft dun screwed up (no matter how innocuous it may have been).
2. Google is a shining child of goodness and can do no evil.
I imagine some economies of scale are going on as well as the ability to launch more frequently since you don't have to fabricate a whole new rocket for each launch.
As long as the extra cost from the extra fuel needed plus the cost of the fuel for soft landing the rocket is less than the cost of building a new rocket it's a winning game.