And you'd be wrong, since the person the doing the uploading whom they sent the notice to is American and in residing in America and working for an American corporation.
So according to your rant just why would they care about English law in this area?
I guess they might want to visit England at some point and hence not want to be subject to a judgment there.
If the world is too large and travel to slow then the game is boring, interacting with NPCs isn't as fun as with other players.
If rabbits breed to fast then go higher up the food chain.
If a swarm of newbie archers can kill the dragon in seconds then it is hardly going to destroy the environment as it roams, since it'll be killed by said swarm within said seconds.
If the guards aren't wimps then that dragon will be killed by them instead. Making the game rather boring - lead monsters to guards, rinse, repeat.
If a player really can affect the world, then dickhead players will ruin the game for everyone else.
If a large group of players are needed to affect the world, then you've cut out a good portion of the fun for a good portion of the players and of course a group of dickheads will still ruin the game for everyone else.
As I said I'm waiting for such a game, and I try MMOs every so often to see if anyone has got close (cities XL is installing on the other machine at the moment). So I must hold out some hope that smarter people than me will work it out.
1. The technology/designs they come up with will still occasionally apply to more traditional vehicles, so that's useful. Allowing such small and slow vehicles makes costs lower resulting in hopefully more experimental entries.
2. You aren't in it (and I'm not either) but I suspect there is a market for pure commuter vehicles. One person only, small, just needs to get the person from home to the train/bus/whatever car park (or even all the way to work, though in the US commute distances are so long that market is probably very small). Small becomes an advantage in the parking lot as well. Basically motor cycle replacements that aren't horrible in bad weather. Need to be cheap of course, since they'd be in addition to the family car.
I'm sure there are more cases for which such competitions provide useful outputs.
Take an article that goes out of its way to state up front that it isn't about player skill since that would be an easy mistake to make.
And have the slashdot discussion torpedoed (for those of us who find the actual article topic interesting) anyway by an idiot editor who decides to write about that completely unrelated aspect of video games.
But I guess "relatedly" makes it all fine, even though it's not even vaguely related other than happening to use the same word in the description.
I see one mention of player skill in the article (other than the intro saying that that isn't what it is about) and 7 pages of skill versus level discussion.
None of the meat had anything to do with player skill, it was all about skill based systems being harder for the developers and more confusing for the players and yet lots of people like them.
Since it is under a BSD style license it doesn't require either the GPL of the LGPL code so your whole argument disappears into a void of stupidity.
And yes they published the spec of the format and yes it is up to date. And yes it isn't a standard from whatever standards body you like this week which in practice means you don't have to pay for it.
If when the exceptions presented themselves they were thrown in jail like the rest of us would be for the same behavior you'd have a point.
But they aren't so those "pretty good people" are complicit in keeping them around.
Even when something gets caught on film and makes it to the media, they still close ranks, suspend the offender with pay (a vacation I guess...) and when it's all forgotten slap on the wrist and back to work. Whereas if a member of the general public did the exact same thing (beating a defenseless mentally disabled person, as the extreme but all to common example) they'd be doing years in prison.
Obviously not, but sweeping generalizations are perfectly reasonable since every cop is either such a thug, or knows other cops who are and doesn't arrest and charge them but looks the other way making them just as responsible.
I guess there might be a third group, the amazingly stupid who don't notice, but I was trying to be nice and assuming they don't exist.
I mean most police officers don't do the job for the cash, as far as I'm informed, they don't make much money. Wouldn't you agree that they'd rather go after those who hurt and kill other people, rather than those who've been made into bogeymen?
They don't care, as long as they get to exercise authority over someone. Preferably being able to hit them a few times. A dream day they get to shoot someone.
Yes because rather than being the chance of the position of the sun, the earth, the ISS, and their orbits, it's a conspiracy by Americans.
They make sure it doesn't pass over Europe - makes for some rather hard orbital mechanics - magical ones even as it makes hard turns in its orbit to avoid a continent- but well worth it!
Vaccines just stop you getting the thing, rather than curing you once you already have it.
Who knew?!?
It's pretty obviously (without even RTFA) a vaccine for HIV with the intention of hence stopping you getting AIDS if you get exposed to HIV later. Like every other bloody vaccine in the universe.
You confusion is stupid. No one with AIDS would be given the vaccine since it's pointless at that point. Even if they were why would they think it would stop them infecting others? Do people who get flu shots start coughing on everyone they meet???
Vaccines don't cure things so there's no need to specify that. The unusual case would be a vaccine that did cure an existing condition that would be worthy of mentioning.
The only thing that could have been better was some sort on censure motion on the prosecution for abusing the legal system and generally being idiots. Probably not allowed to do that though.
That's not the government telling you what you can and can't eat. That's the government telling you what they will and won't serve at a government institution.
A few people think they can commit suicide by swallowing the whole prescription, but what happens is the codeine-based painkiller part wears off in hours and then the agonizing abdominal pain of liver failure begins until they're dead 3 days later.
So why the "but"? If they're dead 3 days later than they were right about the suicide idea.
Whereas other people have a need to do *everything* in the game before they stop playing it. Find all the damn packages in GTA, do all the stunts, etc, etc. Even when they are no longer actually having fun.
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And you'd be wrong, since the person the doing the uploading whom they sent the notice to is American and in residing in America and working for an American corporation.
So according to your rant just why would they care about English law in this area?
I guess they might want to visit England at some point and hence not want to be subject to a judgment there.
There are 8 weeks in a month where you are?
Maybe your crappy batteries don't fuse hydrogen...
If the world is too large and travel to slow then the game is boring, interacting with NPCs isn't as fun as with other players.
If rabbits breed to fast then go higher up the food chain.
If a swarm of newbie archers can kill the dragon in seconds then it is hardly going to destroy the environment as it roams, since it'll be killed by said swarm within said seconds.
If the guards aren't wimps then that dragon will be killed by them instead. Making the game rather boring - lead monsters to guards, rinse, repeat.
If a player really can affect the world, then dickhead players will ruin the game for everyone else.
If a large group of players are needed to affect the world, then you've cut out a good portion of the fun for a good portion of the players and of course a group of dickheads will still ruin the game for everyone else.
As I said I'm waiting for such a game, and I try MMOs every so often to see if anyone has got close (cities XL is installing on the other machine at the moment). So I must hold out some hope that smarter people than me will work it out.
It all sounds good but in practice will never work because too many people are idiots or dickheads.
If you implement an ecosystem someone will kill every last rabbit and break the food chain so that everything dies.
The dragon in your example would be led to the newbie spawn area about 41 seconds after it appeared.
Every town in the game would be razed.
And so on.
If you stop them from doing so then you haven't really got a world in which the players can affect things so much after all.
EVE online is the closest I've seen but it's essentially pure player based. There's no NPC empire trying to expand in 0.0 space.
Of course I haven't met an MMO I didn't get bored with before the free trial ran out. OK EVE went a little over and I actually paid for a month.
I keep looking because I'm a sucker, and hope someone will pull it off.
Why?
1. The technology/designs they come up with will still occasionally apply to more traditional vehicles, so that's useful. Allowing such small and slow vehicles makes costs lower resulting in hopefully more experimental entries.
2. You aren't in it (and I'm not either) but I suspect there is a market for pure commuter vehicles. One person only, small, just needs to get the person from home to the train/bus/whatever car park (or even all the way to work, though in the US commute distances are so long that market is probably very small). Small becomes an advantage in the parking lot as well. Basically motor cycle replacements that aren't horrible in bad weather. Need to be cheap of course, since they'd be in addition to the family car.
I'm sure there are more cases for which such competitions provide useful outputs.
Take an article that goes out of its way to state up front that it isn't about player skill since that would be an easy mistake to make.
And have the slashdot discussion torpedoed (for those of us who find the actual article topic interesting) anyway by an idiot editor who decides to write about that completely unrelated aspect of video games.
But I guess "relatedly" makes it all fine, even though it's not even vaguely related other than happening to use the same word in the description.
I see one mention of player skill in the article (other than the intro saying that that isn't what it is about) and 7 pages of skill versus level discussion.
None of the meat had anything to do with player skill, it was all about skill based systems being harder for the developers and more confusing for the players and yet lots of people like them.
Do you know what "there is some probability" means?
Hint, it doesn't mean "always".
Since it is under a BSD style license it doesn't require either the GPL of the LGPL code so your whole argument disappears into a void of stupidity.
And yes they published the spec of the format and yes it is up to date. And yes it isn't a standard from whatever standards body you like this week which in practice means you don't have to pay for it.
And why exactly did you look at the pictures in the first place?
Doesn't seem a required step in copying files. Did you look at every other file you copied too?
If when the exceptions presented themselves they were thrown in jail like the rest of us would be for the same behavior you'd have a point.
But they aren't so those "pretty good people" are complicit in keeping them around.
Even when something gets caught on film and makes it to the media, they still close ranks, suspend the offender with pay (a vacation I guess...) and when it's all forgotten slap on the wrist and back to work. Whereas if a member of the general public did the exact same thing (beating a defenseless mentally disabled person, as the extreme but all to common example) they'd be doing years in prison.
Obviously not, but sweeping generalizations are perfectly reasonable since every cop is either such a thug, or knows other cops who are and doesn't arrest and charge them but looks the other way making them just as responsible.
I guess there might be a third group, the amazingly stupid who don't notice, but I was trying to be nice and assuming they don't exist.
credit card here: https://pubs.aaas.org/membership/new_member_setup.asp
and you can have it.
Always assuming that correlation means causation is stupid.
Always assuming it doesn't and hence we should never try and determine cause and effect and just call everything random is even stupider.
They don't care, as long as they get to exercise authority over someone. Preferably being able to hit them a few times. A dream day they get to shoot someone.
They don't care about the actual situation.
Yes because rather than being the chance of the position of the sun, the earth, the ISS, and their orbits, it's a conspiracy by Americans.
They make sure it doesn't pass over Europe - makes for some rather hard orbital mechanics - magical ones even as it makes hard turns in its orbit to avoid a continent- but well worth it!
No way!
Vaccines just stop you getting the thing, rather than curing you once you already have it.
Who knew?!?
It's pretty obviously (without even RTFA) a vaccine for HIV with the intention of hence stopping you getting AIDS if you get exposed to HIV later. Like every other bloody vaccine in the universe.
You confusion is stupid. No one with AIDS would be given the vaccine since it's pointless at that point. Even if they were why would they think it would stop them infecting others? Do people who get flu shots start coughing on everyone they meet???
Vaccines don't cure things so there's no need to specify that. The unusual case would be a vaccine that did cure an existing condition that would be worthy of mentioning.
They can. Just keep downing an entire bottle of them every 2 hours... May be an expensive way to go I guess.
Well partially restored.
The only thing that could have been better was some sort on censure motion on the prosecution for abusing the legal system and generally being idiots. Probably not allowed to do that though.
That's not the government telling you what you can and can't eat. That's the government telling you what they will and won't serve at a government institution.
So why the "but"? If they're dead 3 days later than they were right about the suicide idea.
Because it is impossible for a kid to play baseball in the park all day and then play a video game for half an hour after dinner.
And there's never weather conditions that make playing outside not such a great option.
Oh wait you could have your atari and still do sports, but no one else can take part in more than one activity? You are special!
Whereas other people have a need to do *everything* in the game before they stop playing it. Find all the damn packages in GTA, do all the stunts, etc, etc. Even when they are no longer actually having fun.
People aren't all the same, who new?