You can experience what you just described any time you want. The glory of world first and realm first achievements is something you can only experience once.
Can you fathom how any given player in that raid felt when they were standing on the final bosses' corpse, their achievement broadcast to the entire 30,000 player server and picked up by major sites such as slashdot and digg?
Over the weekend we saw the first players hit level 80. Some background; there are "realm first" achievements that, you guessed it, can only happen once. They're broadcast to the entire server when achieved. There's one for level 80, one for each race to 80, one for each class to 80. The first level 80 on our server (Qiin on Jubei'Thos) thus got three achievements: First to 80, first human to 80, first paladin to 80. The other achievements were gradually mopped up over the weekend by other players hitting it.
The global announcement is nice but has a shit side effect: the general zone chat channel erupts into an hour's worth of the exact. same. conversation. It goes something like this.
[Quinn] has gained the achievement: [Realm First!: First level 80 player] [Legolol]: wow [Xxlegolasxx]: lol nerd [Sepherothh]: omg get some sleep [Legoliroth]: wtf what a nerd probly has no life [Legless]: lol ur playing wow, dont call people nerds [Sexychickgirl]: yeh lol its just an achievment not worth playing all day [Moulinrogue]: sexychickgirl a/s/l [Siphiroth]: id want it ur just jealous [Sexychickgirl]: my names steve [Timthesorcerer]: omfg wat a nerd lol [Leggylass]: if ur playing wow ur a nerd stfu ...etc...
It's the exact same conversation every time, just shuffled a bit. At least it'll be over soon... until the raids...
Seconded on Azjol-Nerub. The first of them, aptly titled "Azjol-Nerub: Azjol-Nerub", is a 15 minute instance (!) yet so much effort and work has gone into the detailing of the level. It's a surreal vertical adventure. For half of it, think of a dungeon. Now, have a mass of spider webbing totally mess up all the paths, corridors, pits and doors to create a completely different spacial structure: you walk on suspended webbing rather than the dungeon paths. This was best demonstrated to me when walking along a bridge above a huge open pit, then hitting some steep webbing in the middle of it. Unable to proceed forward, I noticed.. that the steep webbing covers slopes down the pit. We slid down it and walked around above the sprawling dungeon below us. Truly surreal and the awesomeness is difficult to convey in text.
The second, which I forget the name of, is some sort of deep "open air" city with a babylonian flavour to it, inside a gigantic abyssal cavern. Within 10 seconds of walking in you can see the entire thing. Everyone on ventrilo simultaneously went "whoa."
I hate to say this, but it could just be that Vista might not be all that bad. It has been markedly improved since its buggy release, after all.
I'd be interested to see how Wista 7 compares to XP.
I was modifying an old script that somebody had written a long time ago. Part of it finds files in one directory and moves them to another. I eagerly started the test and jumped in to view the log. It was full of mv errors of non-existent files. To my horror the log just kept filling up and up... I tried to kill the script but it wouldn't have it.
I jumped over to paw through the code and noticed my error: $DATA_DIR wasn't defined.
When the script finished half an hour later, almost every single file on the system resided in $BACKUP_DIR. It was restored from backup but we lost pretty much a day's work. Ironically I didn't lose a thing as I still had my script open in memory:)
I want to steal it, because I feel dirty, even somewhat used, whenever I give real, actual money to people who treat me like a criminal. Whenever the pirated version of something is a superior product. Whenever game developers think that forcing secuROM down customer's throats is good practice.
I was going to buy it. Game prices in NZ are insane -- $90 a title -- but I'm not particularly thrifty and with my income/expenditure, I have no need to be. CD key? Fine, I'll write it down in my notebook to be safe and be done with it. CD check? Useless but whatever, I'll crack it and keep the CD safe on my shelf.
Invasive software that forces me to uninstall dvd-writing software? It's off to www.thepiratebay.org. Principle -> shoddy imaginary property law.
Step 1: Bring a friend. Find someone of your own level in a pvp zone and gank them. You might feel a tinge of guilt -- this is temporary and a necessary step to getting some world pvp action going. You'll get over it.
Step 2: Travel a short distance around the person's corpse and gank anyone else nearby. When anybody rezzes, don't kill them until they have had time to rebuff and regen or they are more likely to get bored or sick of it and log off/log on an alt/run away.
Step 3: After a short period of time you should have a group of pissed off [opposite faction] trying to gut you. Win or lose, be prepared to have a lot of fun. World PvP doesn't give much/any material reward but this is offset by it being the single most entertaining thing in WoW.
EDS in the UK have a reputation for fucking up. It seems that while the rest of the world (post-2004, the dreaded "Brown years") are posting major contract wins and successful implementations, EDS in the UK is stuck in the year 2000. Please don't use their performance as any sort of baseline for EDS as a whole. The performance and culture of the corporation differs widely amongst countries.
That would be a narrow way of looking at it, yes:). The traits that adapt the best, survive, and are technically superior -- including those traits that involve powering down existing functions.
The reality is, though, that we're pretty much all living these days. The geneticist in TFA was probably misquoted or something but I know what he means. Slightly shorter or longer legs in this age are not going to affect one's survival. A smarter brain may still affect one's survival but definitely not to the degree that it did "in the wild" where there were two clear groups of humans: those that made the cut and those that didn't. Nowdays we all make the cut.
What does that mean for human evolution? Well, we'll get all sorts of interesting mutations in people that survive to pass such genetic information on so we'll become a more diverse species, and we'll probably become smarter. This is all academic though, as it would take hundreds of thousands of years for any noticable evolutionary traits to surface. I think it far more likely that we'll have taken evolution into our own hands (via technology) by then.
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You can experience what you just described any time you want. The glory of world first and realm first achievements is something you can only experience once.
Can you fathom how any given player in that raid felt when they were standing on the final bosses' corpse, their achievement broadcast to the entire 30,000 player server and picked up by major sites such as slashdot and digg?
Over the weekend we saw the first players hit level 80. Some background; there are "realm first" achievements that, you guessed it, can only happen once. They're broadcast to the entire server when achieved. There's one for level 80, one for each race to 80, one for each class to 80. The first level 80 on our server (Qiin on Jubei'Thos) thus got three achievements: First to 80, first human to 80, first paladin to 80. The other achievements were gradually mopped up over the weekend by other players hitting it.
...etc...
The global announcement is nice but has a shit side effect: the general zone chat channel erupts into an hour's worth of the exact. same. conversation. It goes something like this.
[Quinn] has gained the achievement: [Realm First!: First level 80 player]
[Legolol]: wow
[Xxlegolasxx]: lol nerd
[Sepherothh]: omg get some sleep
[Legoliroth]: wtf what a nerd probly has no life
[Legless]: lol ur playing wow, dont call people nerds
[Sexychickgirl]: yeh lol its just an achievment not worth playing all day
[Moulinrogue]: sexychickgirl a/s/l
[Siphiroth]: id want it ur just jealous
[Sexychickgirl]: my names steve
[Timthesorcerer]: omfg wat a nerd lol
[Leggylass]: if ur playing wow ur a nerd stfu
It's the exact same conversation every time, just shuffled a bit. At least it'll be over soon... until the raids...
Seconded on Azjol-Nerub. The first of them, aptly titled "Azjol-Nerub: Azjol-Nerub", is a 15 minute instance (!) yet so much effort and work has gone into the detailing of the level. It's a surreal vertical adventure. For half of it, think of a dungeon. Now, have a mass of spider webbing totally mess up all the paths, corridors, pits and doors to create a completely different spacial structure: you walk on suspended webbing rather than the dungeon paths. This was best demonstrated to me when walking along a bridge above a huge open pit, then hitting some steep webbing in the middle of it. Unable to proceed forward, I noticed.. that the steep webbing covers slopes down the pit. We slid down it and walked around above the sprawling dungeon below us. Truly surreal and the awesomeness is difficult to convey in text.
The second, which I forget the name of, is some sort of deep "open air" city with a babylonian flavour to it, inside a gigantic abyssal cavern. Within 10 seconds of walking in you can see the entire thing. Everyone on ventrilo simultaneously went "whoa."
Blizzard has really delivered.
Could be that. Could also be the whole not-funny thing that put them off.
Two by two, hands of goo
I hate to say this, but it could just be that Vista might not be all that bad. It has been markedly improved since its buggy release, after all. I'd be interested to see how Wista 7 compares to XP.
Are those stairs on the radiator? That thing is SO COOL :O!
/10yearsoldagain
So... more is less than less, and less is more than more, more or less?
I was modifying an old script that somebody had written a long time ago. Part of it finds files in one directory and moves them to another. I eagerly started the test and jumped in to view the log. It was full of mv errors of non-existent files. To my horror the log just kept filling up and up... I tried to kill the script but it wouldn't have it.
:)
I jumped over to paw through the code and noticed my error: $DATA_DIR wasn't defined.
find $DATA_DIR/ -name "*" -exec mv -f '{}' $BACKUP_DIR (paraphrased)
When the script finished half an hour later, almost every single file on the system resided in $BACKUP_DIR. It was restored from backup but we lost pretty much a day's work. Ironically I didn't lose a thing as I still had my script open in memory
5,000 WoW addicts a minute lose their marriages and jobs because of WoW. True statistic.
On the flip side, 20,000 people are saved from second-hand smoke per year because of smokers switching their addiction to WoW.
It is? Shit, I'm off to murder a prostitute!
Obama would be considered right-wing in most western countries.
As for McCain... well, he belongs in pre-war Afghanistan.
I'd imagine that would send the wrong message in India.
I suddenly have the strangest urge to join the police force.
Damn, and I'm out of mod points.
I want to steal the game.
I want to steal it, because I feel dirty, even somewhat used, whenever I give real, actual money to people who treat me like a criminal. Whenever the pirated version of something is a superior product. Whenever game developers think that forcing secuROM down customer's throats is good practice.
I was going to buy it. Game prices in NZ are insane -- $90 a title -- but I'm not particularly thrifty and with my income/expenditure, I have no need to be.
CD key? Fine, I'll write it down in my notebook to be safe and be done with it.
CD check? Useless but whatever, I'll crack it and keep the CD safe on my shelf.
Invasive software that forces me to uninstall dvd-writing software? It's off to www.thepiratebay.org. Principle -> shoddy imaginary property law.
Daily panorama? Mo' like daily paranoia amirite?
Is there a demographic less worthy to vote, than people who ride judgemental bandwagons?
It's a shame Flagship didn't bring the "when it's ready" philosophy with them when they parted from Blizzard.
And some people just love playing games, especially with friends. No other reasons or excuses need to enter the equation :p
A good question I think: why does this guy want me to stop doing what I love?
Only because you stoeld my megahurtz.
Step 1: Bring a friend. Find someone of your own level in a pvp zone and gank them. You might feel a tinge of guilt -- this is temporary and a necessary step to getting some world pvp action going. You'll get over it.
Step 2: Travel a short distance around the person's corpse and gank anyone else nearby. When anybody rezzes, don't kill them until they have had time to rebuff and regen or they are more likely to get bored or sick of it and log off/log on an alt/run away.
Step 3: After a short period of time you should have a group of pissed off [opposite faction] trying to gut you. Win or lose, be prepared to have a lot of fun. World PvP doesn't give much/any material reward but this is offset by it being the single most entertaining thing in WoW.
That's no way to talk about him. He's only in his eighties and probably would live long enough to get a shot at a second term.
EDS in the UK have a reputation for fucking up. It seems that while the rest of the world (post-2004, the dreaded "Brown years") are posting major contract wins and successful implementations, EDS in the UK is stuck in the year 2000. Please don't use their performance as any sort of baseline for EDS as a whole. The performance and culture of the corporation differs widely amongst countries.
Disclaimer; I speak as an EDS NZ employee.
That would be a narrow way of looking at it, yes :). The traits that adapt the best, survive, and are technically superior -- including those traits that involve powering down existing functions.
The reality is, though, that we're pretty much all living these days. The geneticist in TFA was probably misquoted or something but I know what he means. Slightly shorter or longer legs in this age are not going to affect one's survival. A smarter brain may still affect one's survival but definitely not to the degree that it did "in the wild" where there were two clear groups of humans: those that made the cut and those that didn't. Nowdays we all make the cut.
What does that mean for human evolution? Well, we'll get all sorts of interesting mutations in people that survive to pass such genetic information on so we'll become a more diverse species, and we'll probably become smarter. This is all academic though, as it would take hundreds of thousands of years for any noticable evolutionary traits to surface. I think it far more likely that we'll have taken evolution into our own hands (via technology) by then.