I agree with your general statement however, what about us 'foreigners' (aka non-mormons) who are stuck in this state.
I had to move to Utah for a job right out of college. The environment out here is nice so is the scenery, however I often I feel I have nothing in common with anyone in this state because I'm a "far left Obama supporter". You cant believe some of the looks I got after election day. They were all like "how could you vote for him O.O".
To any one considering about moving to Utah and leans to the left: dont. Utah is a great place to visit, but the Democrat ideals are not welcomed here.
I fell for this yesterday. I went to my local CC to see if I could find some good deals. I got a 2GB Flash drive for $20 and was feeling good about it(huge upgrade from my 4year old 128MB). I just saw the above post and checked on Best Buy's web site. I could have gotten the exact same drive for $10, I could have gotten it for $5 on Amazon.
Now I'm really glad CC is going out of business, they ripped me off for the last time.
EXACTLY! I was just gona post this. I played Alpha Centauri when I was in high school and just learning about the internet. That phrase gave me the motivation to bypass my parents internet lockout when they were not home so I could have free access to the internet.
And making a fool out of yourself and realizing that people just don't give a rats ass about it (and have surprisingly short memories) are the keys of getting rid of those problems.
See, I have a hard time believing that because I remember so much. It might be due to the fact that I over-think social interactions and "save" the information to review and analyze later. I can remember what people did/said a month ago. If I can do that, and I dont credit my memory with being the best in the world, then I can't imagine what other people can remember.
American law is biased on "innocent until proven guilty". I tend to apply something simular to what people say "assume it is the truth until evidence contradicts it". Maybe that is too optimistic view point, but if people did tell the truth more often then not then maybe this would be a better world.
I find it very interesting and very sad, at the same time, that you just described my entire life. I guess that is why I have an eaiser time makeing friends in MMOs, no body language clues to pick up on.
For exactly those reasons I wish I could have taken these classes in college. What alot of people underestimate is just how paralyzing the fear of not knowing what to say can be. It is extra hard when you have no idea if you share any common interest with the other people.
Case in point. I recently went to a Final Fantasy XI fan festival and I was going to meet up with some people I knew in-game. I had never met any of them IRL before. We began talking and it was not that hard to get in the "social swing of things" because I knew if I brought up something strange or uninteresting to them I could always fallback on the "Hey, remember that time so-and-so trained like 20 mobs and killed us all". Even just talking to random people there it was easy because you knew they all shared similar experiences. I could fall back on the "When I was a noobie I was walking through this area and saw that mob and was like omg omg wtf!" It is alot harder to find a fall back topic IRL.
If you have to fake it...do so. Again, being able to 'put a face on'...is a people skill that will help you get laid too.
I'v spent my whole life trying to not fake anything. I'v spent my whole life trying to be comfortable with who and what I am and figure out what I want to be doing. I'm not gona dress a certian way just because it is the "popular" thing to do. What is this, high school again? I did not fit in then so if it is then I guess I'll never fit in.
I dont want to start going out with someone who appears a certain way at first then when I get to know they they are completely different.
If people would just "be themselves" then I think the world would have alot less deceit and two-faceness.
Bottom line: yes I'm a nerd, I'm into technology and video games. If you cant accept or dont like that then I dont want to be with you anyways. This will likely lead me to being alone my whole life, but the alternative is lieing to myself and others.
This is something I really enjoy about FFXI's interface. The fact that it is a complex game that has a interface designed to be efficient with a PS2 controller. Instead of having the 4987 macros I have in WoW I only have/need 20, both are accessed with a push of the shoulder buttons. I am mainly a Red Mage so I have a tone of spells but I only use a few of them constantly. If I need any others they are easily accessible via the spell menu.
For me I can normally see a whole scene at once, then as I focus on the details I would lose other parts of the scene.
Using your example, I would place a generic forest, river, road and mile marker. Then I would focus in on the forest and remember it was a pine forest, and move some trees around. Then I could "zoom" out and because I have a visual reference of the scene before I started adding detain I would be able to remember how the river should flow and zoom in to add rocks and waves.
Being able to pain a general picture then go back and fill in the details latter, I think, would be the general process to use.
So THAT explains why us computer types have such crappy handwriting. Yet another part of our brain (besides the social center) that gets damaged from computer radiation.
I'm sorry, you must be new here. I did not RTFA before I posted. I just posted the first thing that came to my mind after reading the summary like 99.9% of the other posters here at/. do.
That is EXACTLY what I was talking about. I have tried for years to model some spaceship ideas with many different 3D modeling programs. A direct mind to picture system would finally let me show my ideas to other people instead of crude 3D models of them.
I have lots of cool images in my head for comics and wallpaper, however I lack the artistic talent to bring those images from my mind to paper/photoshop. Maybe soon I will be able to compensate for my lack of artistic ability.
A resounding YES!!! Final Fantasy 11 is the ONLY MMO I have encountered that included cut scenes as a normal part of game play. Unlike WoW when you down the final boss and you and all your friends are seeing the event at the same time, the cut scenes make YOU the center of the story. The NPCs realize that there are other adventures in the world, however to them YOU are the only one that matters. The final cut scene in the Chains of Promathia missions have your shoot a beam of divine light from your body to finish the boss. Instead of seeing 5 of your friends do the same thing you only see you with all the NPCs that have come with you along the way watching you, knowing that you are their last hope. Next to the ending of the Rize of Zilart final boss fight it was the best cut scene in the game.
However, make no mistake. You will need a linkshell/guild to get through the missions however there are some fights where you will want lots of Red Mages or Summoners, there is also on fight that is optional near the end of Rise of Zilart mission chain that you need a full alliance for. I dont know how hard all the missions are now with all the nerfs but I did the first 3 boss fights of the Chains of Promathia after the first round of nerfs and it was still really hard.
I dont want to scare you off but I was only able to get through the missions because I was in college and did not have anything but time on my hands, now that I have a full time job I dont think I would make it through them. I am having a hard enough time finishing the original rank 1-10 missions for the 2 other nations.
I have played so many other MMOs that I cant remember and they have all had something fun/cool to them (from The Matrix Online's combat system to Star Wars Galaxies' crafting system) Final Fantasy 11 is the only MMO that not only had a story but conveyed it perfectly and it truly was EPIC.
I have no idea what makes games a special case. If we need to rein in the used games industry then we also need to rein in used DVDs, used computers, used books, used VHS because the publishers/makers of those products are not seeing any money from the resale.
Just come coments about your proublems with the game, not trying to be mean here.
Yes, it sucks to have to hack the registery to get good looking game, but you do it once and your set till you have to reformat, also the newer version of the windower (www.windower.net/) has a easy to use GUI that changes it for you.
I am a BIG fan of the interface. It helps with the immersion factor, my screen is not cluttered with ability icons/minimap/large health bars. Everything is hidden till you need it then it is right there unlike WoW where you have 50 abilities on your screen and you only use maybe 10 all the time.
Every game has end-game content that is almost entirely guild biased. They have been introducing some new solo content like Campaign but it has been slow comeing. A big reason why FFXI is so group biased is because of where it came from. Americans have the mind set that they can do any task set to them, the Japanese are more group focused.
I agree with the other posters in that your server must just suck or the time most people play on your server is different then the times you play.
You can communicate decently with the auto-translate feature. I really wish some more games would include one so it would be easier to communicate with other people, at least when talking about boss strategy.
Actually I thought the story peaked with Chains of Promathia and has gone down hill since then. It was a major disappointment when I got to the East and I found out it was not Tenzen's East. I liked how they continued the story from Rise of Zilart to Chains of Promathia and I was hoping they would continue it with ToAU. I'v been disapointed with WotG story so far, maybe it will pickup after the December patch.
Wow...I RTFA and more on the S-E blog and I am very excited about going to USA Fan Fest next week. They plan to announce Dancer Group 2 merits at Fan Fest and I wonder what else they will be announcing. The new Goblin Dungeon sounds cool, I hope I get to play with it.
The story (and the way that it is conveyed) is the main reason I have stuck with FFXI for the past 5 years and I do prefer to pay a little extra every few months to get a nice dose of new story.
And here I was starting to get bored with FFXI and went out and got Litch King....guess I'll have to get my Hunter and Death Knight to 80 before spring.
Yes, a huge issue. After accelerating for just one year, the heat that exists in space (microwave background cosmic radiation) will be hitting the spacecraft will be hotter than any known material could withstand. We would have to have some sort of 'light shield' that we have not yet invented or something.
What about those cloaks we have been seeing alot about. We can make materials that are invisible to some wavelengths of light so it would just be a matter of adapting it to a large scale with a wide range of wave lengths. Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterials#Cloaking_devices This is not counting actual space dust impacts because that would tear a hole through it very fast. However, I think this is basically the 'light shield'.
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I agree with your general statement however, what about us 'foreigners' (aka non-mormons) who are stuck in this state.
I had to move to Utah for a job right out of college. The environment out here is nice so is the scenery, however I often I feel I have nothing in common with anyone in this state because I'm a "far left Obama supporter". You cant believe some of the looks I got after election day. They were all like "how could you vote for him O.O".
To any one considering about moving to Utah and leans to the left: dont. Utah is a great place to visit, but the Democrat ideals are not welcomed here.
There is a TV movie coming out latter this year called "The Plan". It is supposed to show what the Cylon's plan was and what went wrong with it.
I dont know why the above got modded troll. I thought he was being sarcastic.
I fell for this yesterday. I went to my local CC to see if I could find some good deals. I got a 2GB Flash drive for $20 and was feeling good about it(huge upgrade from my 4year old 128MB). I just saw the above post and checked on Best Buy's web site. I could have gotten the exact same drive for $10, I could have gotten it for $5 on Amazon.
Now I'm really glad CC is going out of business, they ripped me off for the last time.
EXACTLY!
I was just gona post this. I played Alpha Centauri when I was in high school and just learning about the internet. That phrase gave me the motivation to bypass my parents internet lockout when they were not home so I could have free access to the internet.
And making a fool out of yourself and realizing that people just don't give a rats ass about it (and have surprisingly short memories) are the keys of getting rid of those problems.
See, I have a hard time believing that because I remember so much. It might be due to the fact that I over-think social interactions and "save" the information to review and analyze later. I can remember what people did/said a month ago. If I can do that, and I dont credit my memory with being the best in the world, then I can't imagine what other people can remember.
American law is biased on "innocent until proven guilty". I tend to apply something simular to what people say "assume it is the truth until evidence contradicts it". Maybe that is too optimistic view point, but if people did tell the truth more often then not then maybe this would be a better world.
I find it very interesting and very sad, at the same time, that you just described my entire life. I guess that is why I have an eaiser time makeing friends in MMOs, no body language clues to pick up on.
For exactly those reasons I wish I could have taken these classes in college. What alot of people underestimate is just how paralyzing the fear of not knowing what to say can be. It is extra hard when you have no idea if you share any common interest with the other people.
Case in point. I recently went to a Final Fantasy XI fan festival and I was going to meet up with some people I knew in-game. I had never met any of them IRL before. We began talking and it was not that hard to get in the "social swing of things" because I knew if I brought up something strange or uninteresting to them I could always fallback on the "Hey, remember that time so-and-so trained like 20 mobs and killed us all". Even just talking to random people there it was easy because you knew they all shared similar experiences. I could fall back on the "When I was a noobie I was walking through this area and saw that mob and was like omg omg wtf!" It is alot harder to find a fall back topic IRL.
If you have to fake it...do so. Again, being able to 'put a face on'...is a people skill that will help you get laid too.
I'v spent my whole life trying to not fake anything. I'v spent my whole life trying to be comfortable with who and what I am and figure out what I want to be doing. I'm not gona dress a certian way just because it is the "popular" thing to do. What is this, high school again? I did not fit in then so if it is then I guess I'll never fit in.
I dont want to start going out with someone who appears a certain way at first then when I get to know they they are completely different.
If people would just "be themselves" then I think the world would have alot less deceit and two-faceness.
Bottom line: yes I'm a nerd, I'm into technology and video games. If you cant accept or dont like that then I dont want to be with you anyways. This will likely lead me to being alone my whole life, but the alternative is lieing to myself and others.
This is something I really enjoy about FFXI's interface. The fact that it is a complex game that has a interface designed to be efficient with a PS2 controller. Instead of having the 4987 macros I have in WoW I only have/need 20, both are accessed with a push of the shoulder buttons. I am mainly a Red Mage so I have a tone of spells but I only use a few of them constantly. If I need any others they are easily accessible via the spell menu.
So your saying that the IDEA of being gay is bad?
I guess Gay now = thought crime.
OK, one question for you. How does being gay harm others?
For me I can normally see a whole scene at once, then as I focus on the details I would lose other parts of the scene.
Using your example, I would place a generic forest, river, road and mile marker. Then I would focus in on the forest and remember it was a pine forest, and move some trees around. Then I could "zoom" out and because I have a visual reference of the scene before I started adding detain I would be able to remember how the river should flow and zoom in to add rocks and waves.
Being able to pain a general picture then go back and fill in the details latter, I think, would be the general process to use.
So THAT explains why us computer types have such crappy handwriting. Yet another part of our brain (besides the social center) that gets damaged from computer radiation.
I'm sorry, you must be new here. I did not RTFA before I posted. I just posted the first thing that came to my mind after reading the summary like 99.9% of the other posters here at /. do.
That is EXACTLY what I was talking about. I have tried for years to model some spaceship ideas with many different 3D modeling programs. A direct mind to picture system would finally let me show my ideas to other people instead of crude 3D models of them.
I have lots of cool images in my head for comics and wallpaper, however I lack the artistic talent to bring those images from my mind to paper/photoshop. Maybe soon I will be able to compensate for my lack of artistic ability.
A resounding YES!!! Final Fantasy 11 is the ONLY MMO I have encountered that included cut scenes as a normal part of game play. Unlike WoW when you down the final boss and you and all your friends are seeing the event at the same time, the cut scenes make YOU the center of the story. The NPCs realize that there are other adventures in the world, however to them YOU are the only one that matters. The final cut scene in the Chains of Promathia missions have your shoot a beam of divine light from your body to finish the boss. Instead of seeing 5 of your friends do the same thing you only see you with all the NPCs that have come with you along the way watching you, knowing that you are their last hope. Next to the ending of the Rize of Zilart final boss fight it was the best cut scene in the game.
However, make no mistake. You will need a linkshell/guild to get through the missions however there are some fights where you will want lots of Red Mages or Summoners, there is also on fight that is optional near the end of Rise of Zilart mission chain that you need a full alliance for. I dont know how hard all the missions are now with all the nerfs but I did the first 3 boss fights of the Chains of Promathia after the first round of nerfs and it was still really hard.
I dont want to scare you off but I was only able to get through the missions because I was in college and did not have anything but time on my hands, now that I have a full time job I dont think I would make it through them. I am having a hard enough time finishing the original rank 1-10 missions for the 2 other nations.
I have played so many other MMOs that I cant remember and they have all had something fun/cool to them (from The Matrix Online's combat system to Star Wars Galaxies' crafting system) Final Fantasy 11 is the only MMO that not only had a story but conveyed it perfectly and it truly was EPIC.
I have no idea what makes games a special case. If we need to rein in the used games industry then we also need to rein in used DVDs, used computers, used books, used VHS because the publishers/makers of those products are not seeing any money from the resale.
Just come coments about your proublems with the game, not trying to be mean here.
Yes, it sucks to have to hack the registery to get good looking game, but you do it once and your set till you have to reformat, also the newer version of the windower (www.windower.net/) has a easy to use GUI that changes it for you.
I am a BIG fan of the interface. It helps with the immersion factor, my screen is not cluttered with ability icons/minimap/large health bars. Everything is hidden till you need it then it is right there unlike WoW where you have 50 abilities on your screen and you only use maybe 10 all the time.
Every game has end-game content that is almost entirely guild biased. They have been introducing some new solo content like Campaign but it has been slow comeing. A big reason why FFXI is so group biased is because of where it came from. Americans have the mind set that they can do any task set to them, the Japanese are more group focused.
I agree with the other posters in that your server must just suck or the time most people play on your server is different then the times you play.
You can communicate decently with the auto-translate feature. I really wish some more games would include one so it would be easier to communicate with other people, at least when talking about boss strategy.
Actually I thought the story peaked with Chains of Promathia and has gone down hill since then. It was a major disappointment when I got to the East and I found out it was not Tenzen's East. I liked how they continued the story from Rise of Zilart to Chains of Promathia and I was hoping they would continue it with ToAU. I'v been disapointed with WotG story so far, maybe it will pickup after the December patch.
Wow...I RTFA and more on the S-E blog and I am very excited about going to USA Fan Fest next week. They plan to announce Dancer Group 2 merits at Fan Fest and I wonder what else they will be announcing. The new Goblin Dungeon sounds cool, I hope I get to play with it.
The story (and the way that it is conveyed) is the main reason I have stuck with FFXI for the past 5 years and I do prefer to pay a little extra every few months to get a nice dose of new story.
And here I was starting to get bored with FFXI and went out and got Litch King....guess I'll have to get my Hunter and Death Knight to 80 before spring.
Yes, a huge issue. After accelerating for just one year, the heat that exists in space (microwave background cosmic radiation) will be hitting the spacecraft will be hotter than any known material could withstand.
We would have to have some sort of 'light shield' that we have not yet invented or something.
What about those cloaks we have been seeing alot about. We can make materials that are invisible to some wavelengths of light so it would just be a matter of adapting it to a large scale with a wide range of wave lengths. Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterials#Cloaking_devices
This is not counting actual space dust impacts because that would tear a hole through it very fast. However, I think this is basically the 'light shield'.
YES! I want Ironman's computer. Also, his HUD would be nice in my car.