A good point - assume say 30 years of one's life is spent in an unproductive or counterproductive state (childhood/frailty/etc). Someone who lives for 500 years will have a lot less overhead than five generations of 100 yearers.
Sure, death isn't to be feared, but that doesn't mean we need to set an egg timer. I'd rather die when I'm good and ready rather than have my world cut short because of "disease". You don't want to live beyond the arbitrary limit you have set? Fine. Just don't try and ruin other people's lives in some sort of misguided crusade against longevity.
Beats dying early due to disease. I'd much rather be given the choice of when to end my own life. If this doesn't sound like your cup of tea then kindly stand aside for those who long for this.
... won't be an issue as long as anyone who opts in for clinical immortality is also stripped of their fertility. In fact, i'd imagine underpopulation would be a significant risk if enough people take it.
I for one would love to live to see the day where we roam freely amongst the stars. With all the advancements in almost every area of existence that we are experiencing today, I don't forsee myself getting bored any time soon.
Holding your breath in hard vaccuum is not advised; there's a good chance your lungs will internally rupture. Best to just close your eyes and hope someone fishes you back in within two minutes.
Only water that is directly exposed to the hard vacuum of space evaporates - that is, any moisture on your skin or your tongue/mouth. it's also not the temperature that makes it evaporate - it's the low pressure. A cell's wall is enough to stop its waater content from reaching the low pressure required to cause it to evaporate.
The evaporation itself causes instantaneous heat loss, but on a very small scale (you'd experience more heat loss from momentarily brushing your arm up against a good conductor at room temperature, such as a metal railing). As the previous poster says it would take HOURS to freeze.
Interestingly enough, it's not the cold that will get you (that takes hours)... nor the vacuum's low pressure (that takes a few minutes). If you're ejected into space and you're not in the shade, you'll be blasted with a lethal dose of the sun's radiation within seconds. You will actually heat up.
Except that in fifty years time the UK will have dried into the likes of an african savannah, and africa itself will be uninhabitable... not to mention the very real possiblity of exponential global heating if the seabed's methane deposits are released.
Hmm, maybe that's why Venus' atmosphere is so crap these days:)
Try asking for a questing buddy in the general channel, or the LFG tool (not likely to be of much help unless you're looking for an instance group). Talk to random people you see in town. Talk to people that look like they're doing the same quest as you.
A *way* better solution is to start a character with a friend or three (meatspace or cyberspace) and play with them.
Other posts have mentioned the main drive behind WoW's appeal - other players. Specifically, friends. I have to admit on its own, WoW sucks the hard one. It's when you play with friends (with some soloing and pugging with randoms on the side) that the game shines.
To answer your questions though, I personally think the game picks up around the level 30 mark, a further boost at level 50ish, and then again at 60 when you hit Outland. As for fighting mobs in the same manner, that's fine - mobs aren't exactly the smartest things in the world and tactics to use against them are limited (depending on class). You'll find fighting other players a whole different game (assuming you didn't shoot yourself in the foot by rolling PvE), but failing that, instances and raids (where you group up with friends and fight high powered mobs) tend to have a lot more tactics and teamwork thrown in to the mix.
But again, it's all for naught if you just play on your own.
Blizzard had a choice: feed the skills and options in as the player levels, or lump it all on them right from the start. They chose the former. The result is a fairly boring game at lower levels, especially if you're used to fast paced action (don't worry, the fast paced action comes, especially if you're on a PvP server).
If you want an example of a game that gives it all to the player the instant they log in, try out EVE Online.
So you played what amounts to a tutorial for 30 minutes and didn't socialise with anyone, in a leveling bracket that is approximately equal to a game of snap in complexity. Good for you! Just please don't make posts as if you're an expert on the subject.
It's like looking at a car and mentioning to your buddy, "Pfeh! It looks like you just aim it and press the accelerator!". It's a little more than that. You may want to give it a test drive rather than just fondle the door handle.
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How dare people spend time having fun!
A good point - assume say 30 years of one's life is spent in an unproductive or counterproductive state (childhood/frailty/etc). Someone who lives for 500 years will have a lot less overhead than five generations of 100 yearers.
Sure, death isn't to be feared, but that doesn't mean we need to set an egg timer. I'd rather die when I'm good and ready rather than have my world cut short because of "disease". You don't want to live beyond the arbitrary limit you have set? Fine. Just don't try and ruin other people's lives in some sort of misguided crusade against longevity.
Beats dying early due to disease. I'd much rather be given the choice of when to end my own life. If this doesn't sound like your cup of tea then kindly stand aside for those who long for this.
... won't be an issue as long as anyone who opts in for clinical immortality is also stripped of their fertility. In fact, i'd imagine underpopulation would be a significant risk if enough people take it.
I for one would love to live to see the day where we roam freely amongst the stars. With all the advancements in almost every area of existence that we are experiencing today, I don't forsee myself getting bored any time soon.
"Whoa man, this brownie tastes really good!"
"That's a coaster."
Here in New Zealand we use Trademe. It's pretty much perfect and has made its creator shitloads of monies.
Localised auction site ftw.
One of these days, I'll take posts like yours as a warning not to expand the parent.
Cool, but I think first contact would be deliciously more awkward if we were still using valves.
Insightful. I wish I had mod points.
Fun.
They wouldn't have replied because they were busy mentally decapitating the social disaster standing in front of them.
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Google man :p
Holding your breath in hard vaccuum is not advised; there's a good chance your lungs will internally rupture. Best to just close your eyes and hope someone fishes you back in within two minutes.
Dogs, Monkeys and Humans. In the latter case, intentional as well as accidental.
Only water that is directly exposed to the hard vacuum of space evaporates - that is, any moisture on your skin or your tongue/mouth. it's also not the temperature that makes it evaporate - it's the low pressure. A cell's wall is enough to stop its waater content from reaching the low pressure required to cause it to evaporate.
The evaporation itself causes instantaneous heat loss, but on a very small scale (you'd experience more heat loss from momentarily brushing your arm up against a good conductor at room temperature, such as a metal railing). As the previous poster says it would take HOURS to freeze.
Interestingly enough, it's not the cold that will get you (that takes hours)... nor the vacuum's low pressure (that takes a few minutes). If you're ejected into space and you're not in the shade, you'll be blasted with a lethal dose of the sun's radiation within seconds. You will actually heat up.
Except that in fifty years time the UK will have dried into the likes of an african savannah, and africa itself will be uninhabitable... not to mention the very real possiblity of exponential global heating if the seabed's methane deposits are released.
:)
Hmm, maybe that's why Venus' atmosphere is so crap these days
We're getting a bit specific here :P
Try asking for a questing buddy in the general channel, or the LFG tool (not likely to be of much help unless you're looking for an instance group). Talk to random people you see in town. Talk to people that look like they're doing the same quest as you.
A *way* better solution is to start a character with a friend or three (meatspace or cyberspace) and play with them.
You treat people like shit. You're about as reliable as an inspiron. You work in a call center.
Redundant.
Other posts have mentioned the main drive behind WoW's appeal - other players. Specifically, friends. I have to admit on its own, WoW sucks the hard one. It's when you play with friends (with some soloing and pugging with randoms on the side) that the game shines.
To answer your questions though, I personally think the game picks up around the level 30 mark, a further boost at level 50ish, and then again at 60 when you hit Outland. As for fighting mobs in the same manner, that's fine - mobs aren't exactly the smartest things in the world and tactics to use against them are limited (depending on class). You'll find fighting other players a whole different game (assuming you didn't shoot yourself in the foot by rolling PvE), but failing that, instances and raids (where you group up with friends and fight high powered mobs) tend to have a lot more tactics and teamwork thrown in to the mix.
But again, it's all for naught if you just play on your own.
Blizzard had a choice: feed the skills and options in as the player levels, or lump it all on them right from the start. They chose the former. The result is a fairly boring game at lower levels, especially if you're used to fast paced action (don't worry, the fast paced action comes, especially if you're on a PvP server).
If you want an example of a game that gives it all to the player the instant they log in, try out EVE Online.
So you played what amounts to a tutorial for 30 minutes and didn't socialise with anyone, in a leveling bracket that is approximately equal to a game of snap in complexity. Good for you! Just please don't make posts as if you're an expert on the subject.
It's like looking at a car and mentioning to your buddy, "Pfeh! It looks like you just aim it and press the accelerator!". It's a little more than that. You may want to give it a test drive rather than just fondle the door handle.
You're a couple years late there buddy.
How did this xenophobic crap get modded so high?