Sadly, the industry has changed. It's evident in the fact that we are talking about game studios selling out to "the man" just like musicians selling out to record labels and producing pop pablum.
It would be nice to see what interaction you'd get when someone implements a proper ai.
Since most people couldn't pass a Turing test while playing, yes it would.
Player One: "I just had the most fascinating conversation in WoW..." Player Two: "You talked to a bot." Player One: "Can't be..." Player Two: "Did they ask for gold?" Player One: "No..." Player Two: "Did they ask to join your guild?" Player One: "No..." Player Two: "Did they ask you to run them through a low level instance?" Player One: "No..." Player Two: "Then it must have been a bot... Did they use leet speak?" Player One: "No..." Player Two: "Defiantly a bot"
There is a flaw in your logic though. You can see it in the fact that the list includes many activities not related to WoW and if you apply the same logic to those items as well, well, you can see where this is going. Regardless of what you do, you're fucked.
No matter how much bubble wrap you use to try to use to protect it, you can't change the fact that it's already broken.
I assume he means PHP code on a Mac OS X server running Apache or something. Some second hand distribution of a PHP application or distributed in a user contributed patch.
Chief Engineer Olson ( red shirt ) managed to kill himself. That was a welcomed and unexpected plot twist and I applaud the creativity in which it was accomplished.
He "lived inside SL" for a week, albeit three years ago. You can hardly call that a quick dash and look.
Ask any fan of any outdated MMO about the game they've put so much time and effort into and they will tell you it's the best thing in the world. Point out to them the MMO's faults and they will will quickly dismiss it. Tell them that the world is empty and they will say they are surrounded by friends and players. What they often fail to see is that, for them, all of that is true. For a noob, it isn't.
Sadly enough, Lindens seem to believe that if anybody is offended by X, they should completely ban V, W, X, Y, Z and anything remotely related to alphabetic capitals.
Or move it to it's own island and screen those who enter the zone? I think the Author of this submission's article comes to the unsaid conclusion that the only thing left in SL is offensive and, from what I've read from the article, "War of the Jessie Wall" is pretty tame and low key by comparison.
No. You have edited it to be less objective. Removing a fact because you disagree with it or think things are more 'balanced' with its removal, is not objective. The griefers were conservatives. That is a fact. Why delete it?
Because the other side isn't quite innocent and even the edited version isn't quite correct.
Jessie was home to most WWIIOLers in Second Life, and many of them felt boxed in from all sides by hostile communities. Some outsiders would make frequent guerilla raids into Jessie, targeting members at random; but when the WWIIOLers got their guns and went after them, to retaliate, the insurgents would flee into an adjoining simulator, where violence was strictly forbidden. Killing them off-territory meant risking the wrath of the international authority -- i.e., Linden Lab. (And a lot of them did, and were duly punished with suspensions.) The Jessie residents would get terrorized by sniper attacks, firing with long-range rifles from the safety neighboring sims. To be sure, the WWIIOLers who’d caused so much mayhem had provoked much of this prankster hostility. But they were still isolated in a single geographic area, where they could be easily targeted, and antagonized.
It would be more correct to say:
"Your facts have been checked, and found wanting. The real story is now there for all to see: conservative ( by the WWIIOLers leaders own observation ) assholes moved into an area that didn't want them and started griefing the locals. The locals retaliated."
To use a forum analogy; Yes, one side trolled but the other kept feeding them.
The first culture to display their nascent fascism were the liberal peacniks, who objected to ardent patriotism of a number of players during the Iraq war. They tried to bottle up and hem in the pro-US players, who reacted violently (within the rules of the Jesse zone, where killing was possible).
I seriously doubt it was unprovoked and from what I've read, the picture isn't painted quite the same way in the article. Excerpt from: "WAR OF THE JESSIE WALL" ( the link above )
Nothing doing: WWIIOLers swooped down on the Outlands, loaded for bear, and used its longtime residents for live target practice, killing them again and again, and maybe yet again. Because most Residents, unsurprisingly, set their home point on their home property, many folks living in the Outlands were stuck in an infinite cycle of violence, to be shot on their land then resurrected and shot again, in perpetuity, until they logged off the game entirely, or their antagonist finally got bored. All of which was perfectly permissible by Linden Lab since, after all, this is precisely what the Outlands were designed for.
Permitted or not, griefing sucks and corpse camping is the pinnacle of griefing in any MMO.
"Their originally-stated goal was laudable: a lassaiz-faire (sp?) world with basic physics, to see how people would operate"
I think they came to the end of that experiment and concluded that some people are assholes.
You see, some Internet Technologist were rich enough to afford elaborate burials. They were placed in tombs underneath their Mother's abode and were buried with their accumulated wealth. Heirloom electronics that has been passed down through generations, ritual energy drinks ( long since gone ), and other goods thought to be needed in the afterlife. And although the ages have toppled these revered accouterments needed to make the passage into the afterlife into piles of debris, they also allowed for the preservation of some and it is from these fossilized remains that the scientific community draws these conclusions.
Thank God Obama hasn't been restoring those dangerous freedoms, or this attack might have succeeded!
Obama is also cranking up the U.S. socialist machine so we can have more low income, South American, welfare mom/baby factories to crank out Christians [ insert picture of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro ] to combat the fact that "the Muslims are moving in and taking over" the U.S. way of life [ insert youtube Muslim population explosion scare video ] because those damn, middle class Republicans are not keeping up with their civic duty and helping combat this threat with their 1.27 kids.
Reality isn't fun. If it was we wouldn't play games.
There's this thing called "sex". I highly recommend trying it. It can be awkward at the beginning, but once you find a suitable partner I'm confident you'll find that some kinds of real life play are quite fun.
There are some requirements though... You need to get your partner into "the mood", which at times is very challenging. "Protection" is also important, otherwise you might get a nasty infection or possibly spawn unwanted processes.
I'll never be able to look at the phrase "Fat-finger the keyboard" the same way again.
As unfortunate as the incident is, I could make the same argument for a mechanical failure that would reproduce the same effect in part or in full* for incandescent traffic lights. An incandescent traffic light can and do burn out and LED traffic lights fail less in that regard.
* If the driver saw just a green light and not the green and red mix of a stop with permission to turn, would he verified that it wasn't the green turn arrow with the red light out? I doubt it because his defense is based on this very same argument.
Bernie Madoff had a nice sign on his door and charged big bucks for his services. Perhaps you should point this fact out to your Uncle as a clear indication that he is using the wrong gauge for quality?
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You parse 16 gigs, and what do you get?...
Alex made me laugh. Drink came out nose fast. Spun alot. New drinking game: must do shot every rotation. Set rec. of 5.3rpm. Very dizzy...
Then get the huge shark into orbit.
No! It could be a robotic shark built in space!....
( thus laying the groundwork to "Tinfins 2" the sea-quel )
There is good news. CCP is seeing steady growth.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart2.html
But it's hard to not be tempted by the lime green line.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html
Sadly, the industry has changed. It's evident in the fact that we are talking about game studios selling out to "the man" just like musicians selling out to record labels and producing pop pablum.
plagiarism - copy and paste from one source.
research - copy and paste together from multiple sources.
Cue the "cue the" comments in 3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2, -3....
It would be nice to see what interaction you'd get when someone implements a proper ai.
Since most people couldn't pass a Turing test while playing, yes it would.
Player One: "I just had the most fascinating conversation in WoW..."
Player Two: "You talked to a bot."
Player One: "Can't be..."
Player Two: "Did they ask for gold?"
Player One: "No..."
Player Two: "Did they ask to join your guild?"
Player One: "No..."
Player Two: "Did they ask you to run them through a low level instance?"
Player One: "No..."
Player Two: "Then it must have been a bot... Did they use leet speak?"
Player One: "No..."
Player Two: "Defiantly a bot"
There is a flaw in your logic though. You can see it in the fact that the list includes many activities not related to WoW and if you apply the same logic to those items as well, well, you can see where this is going. Regardless of what you do, you're fucked.
No matter how much bubble wrap you use to try to use to protect it, you can't change the fact that it's already broken.
*golf clap*
I assume he means PHP code on a Mac OS X server running Apache or something. Some second hand distribution of a PHP application or distributed in a user contributed patch.
Chief Engineer Olson ( red shirt ) managed to kill himself. That was a welcomed and unexpected plot twist and I applaud the creativity in which it was accomplished.
He "lived inside SL" for a week, albeit three years ago. You can hardly call that a quick dash and look.
Ask any fan of any outdated MMO about the game they've put so much time and effort into and they will tell you it's the best thing in the world. Point out to them the MMO's faults and they will will quickly dismiss it. Tell them that the world is empty and they will say they are surrounded by friends and players. What they often fail to see is that, for them, all of that is true. For a noob, it isn't.
Sadly enough, Lindens seem to believe that if anybody is offended by X, they should completely ban V, W, X, Y, Z and anything remotely related to alphabetic capitals.
Or move it to it's own island and screen those who enter the zone? I think the Author of this submission's article comes to the unsaid conclusion that the only thing left in SL is offensive and, from what I've read from the article, "War of the Jessie Wall" is pretty tame and low key by comparison.
No. You have edited it to be less objective. Removing a fact because you disagree with it or think things are more 'balanced' with its removal, is not objective. The griefers were conservatives. That is a fact. Why delete it?
Because the other side isn't quite innocent and even the edited version isn't quite correct.
Jessie was home to most WWIIOLers in Second Life, and many of them felt boxed in from all sides by hostile communities. Some outsiders would make frequent guerilla raids into Jessie, targeting members at random; but when the WWIIOLers got their guns and went after them, to retaliate, the insurgents would flee into an adjoining simulator, where violence was strictly forbidden. Killing them off-territory meant risking the wrath of the international authority -- i.e., Linden Lab. (And a lot of them did, and were duly punished with suspensions.) The Jessie residents would get terrorized by sniper attacks, firing with long-range rifles from the safety neighboring sims. To be sure, the WWIIOLers who’d caused so much mayhem had provoked much of this prankster hostility. But they were still isolated in a single geographic area, where they could be easily targeted, and antagonized.
It would be more correct to say:
"Your facts have been checked, and found wanting. The real story is now there for all to see: conservative ( by the WWIIOLers leaders own observation ) assholes moved into an area that didn't want them and started griefing the locals. The locals retaliated."
To use a forum analogy; Yes, one side trolled but the other kept feeding them.
you can google it
And so I did
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2003/07/war_of_the_jess.html
The first culture to display their nascent fascism were the liberal peacniks, who objected to ardent patriotism of a number of players during the Iraq war. They tried to bottle up and hem in the pro-US players, who reacted violently (within the rules of the Jesse zone, where killing was possible).
I seriously doubt it was unprovoked and from what I've read, the picture isn't painted quite the same way in the article. Excerpt from: "WAR OF THE JESSIE WALL" ( the link above )
Nothing doing: WWIIOLers swooped down on the Outlands, loaded for bear, and used its longtime residents for live target practice, killing them again and again, and maybe yet again. Because most Residents, unsurprisingly, set their home point on their home property, many folks living in the Outlands were stuck in an infinite cycle of violence, to be shot on their land then resurrected and shot again, in perpetuity, until they logged off the game entirely, or their antagonist finally got bored. All of which was perfectly permissible by Linden Lab since, after all, this is precisely what the Outlands were designed for.
Permitted or not, griefing sucks and corpse camping is the pinnacle of griefing in any MMO.
"Their originally-stated goal was laudable: a lassaiz-faire (sp?) world with basic physics, to see how people would operate"
I think they came to the end of that experiment and concluded that some people are assholes.
It's a little distasteful to insult the dead.
Dead caveman around the world applaud your stance against Geico.
I'm trying to figure out just what the fuck this movie IS about...or have the gist of it before I go see it.
Think: "Dances with Blue Aliens"
I still like it though :)
You see, some Internet Technologist were rich enough to afford elaborate burials. They were placed in tombs underneath their Mother's abode and were buried with their accumulated wealth. Heirloom electronics that has been passed down through generations, ritual energy drinks ( long since gone ), and other goods thought to be needed in the afterlife. And although the ages have toppled these revered accouterments needed to make the passage into the afterlife into piles of debris, they also allowed for the preservation of some and it is from these fossilized remains that the scientific community draws these conclusions.
Thank God Obama hasn't been restoring those dangerous freedoms, or this attack might have succeeded!
Obama is also cranking up the U.S. socialist machine so we can have more low income, South American, welfare mom/baby factories to crank out Christians [ insert picture of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro ] to combat the fact that "the Muslims are moving in and taking over" the U.S. way of life [ insert youtube Muslim population explosion scare video ] because those damn, middle class Republicans are not keeping up with their civic duty and helping combat this threat with their 1.27 kids.
( to Hell, first class, one way... )
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Crap! Nobody told me I was being graded on this. I thought this was just a stupid web forum for nerds to argue over trivial issues.
Well, there is only one clear course of action then. Start an argument over this trivial issue.
I guess it didn't involve screwing ... she wouldn't have noticed. Or maybe it did, and that was the problem.
Where's the "WTF?!" mod when you need it?
Reality isn't fun. If it was we wouldn't play games.
There's this thing called "sex". I highly recommend trying it. It can be awkward at the beginning, but once you find a suitable partner I'm confident you'll find that some kinds of real life play are quite fun.
There are some requirements though... You need to get your partner into "the mood", which at times is very challenging. "Protection" is also important, otherwise you might get a nasty infection or possibly spawn unwanted processes.
I'll never be able to look at the phrase "Fat-finger the keyboard" the same way again.
As unfortunate as the incident is, I could make the same argument for a mechanical failure that would reproduce the same effect in part or in full* for incandescent traffic lights. An incandescent traffic light can and do burn out and LED traffic lights fail less in that regard.
* If the driver saw just a green light and not the green and red mix of a stop with permission to turn, would he verified that it wasn't the green turn arrow with the red light out? I doubt it because his defense is based on this very same argument.
Bernie Madoff had a nice sign on his door and charged big bucks for his services. Perhaps you should point this fact out to your Uncle as a clear indication that he is using the wrong gauge for quality?