Granted it can slow the process down, but - one could say that in redoing the work, you are proving it before commencing your work for which the previous work is apparently a foundation. Kinda like checking your facts before writing an article. Everyone has to do it. CYA. Cover Your Ass.
So many people spend so much time making the graphics of a game gorgeous you end up with a game that lasts only 8 hours. At the risk of sounding old - I remember when games lasted 40 hours. All of them. Whats the point of having an ultimately gorgeous game if its done in a day? I'll tell you. NONE WHATSOEVER. Industry needs to pull their heads out of their asses.
If you ask me I blame the fact they were using HP servers. Wheres a photoshopped picture of a guy with his head up his own arse when you need one? HP has got to be the worst experience I have ever had with anything that wasnt a printer (and even then their printer driver update system is laughably buggy). Go ahead and blame windows all you want. But dont forget to ALSO blame crappy HP hardware. They cant make anything resembling good regular desktops or laptops why would you trust their servers?
Quite simply WoW is the most successful game of all time because of two things: its low cost (15$ a month to be entertained anytime you want?), and the casual dedication (or rather lack thereof) it requires. All the hardcore players, for all their pompous self righteousness wouldnt be playing if they had to work to make up a deficit from dying. And neither would I.
As an example of the inverse. Ive been playing this online civ like game called Evony. The game runs 24/7 and its pretty much blind luck that I havent been annihilated yet. If you dont have powerful friends a week into the game when your "newb protection" wears off. You are toast. And where is the fun in that? Knowing the 8-20 massive fortresses nearby are going to have their way with you after 7 days? May as well make your login name RedHeadedStepChild.
After playing WoW for 4 years. I dont think I will ever touch another MMO again. They are cool at first. But the end game is generally unsatisfying. And it has to be that way because otherwise people wouldnt keep their subscriptions.
I just wish there was another Quest For Glory like series. Best games ever IMO.
I love how IBM makes a selling point of Lotus Notes that everytime you type a character in your password it generates a random low number of characters to keep on lookers from knowing exactly how many characters were typed. How about you focus on making notes work nearly as well as Office. Then add goofy crap like this on at the end? I dont mind asterisks for passwords. If not being able to see your password as you type it in is slowing you down and is wasting business time. Pack your bags and GTFO. Plenty of hungry kids out there quite capable of remembering a damn password more than willing to take your job.
This reminds me of the lyrics of a comic song I heard once.
What does squaring numbers and doing women have in common?
If their under 13 its best to do em in your head.
Pills are quickly becoming the easiest drug to spread in schools. They can be harder to identify by the untrained. Can be hidden in pre existing prescription bottles, and dont generally require anything fancy to facilitate consumption. What I really dont understand is why people are trying to smuggle the drugs in school. Do drugs after school. Away from school. Before parents get home. Where you are less likely to be caught. Thats what...uhm... I hear... other people do.... like in movies and stuff
An iPhone could be a mobile pc, do my laundry, my dishes, drive me to work, and pack my lunches and I wouldnt buy it because it ment signing on with AT&T.
To me Service is everything. To them. Service is something that ends once the contract is signed.
This chart clearly illustrates that in the scope of MMO's FF was not terribly successful. It was successful in staying alive this much is true. And it has seen more success than few other MMO's. But are they a success in he general meaning of the word? No. They aspired to mediocrity expecting clients to rush in because the game had the final fantasy name stamped on it. And the results show. If they had made a fantastic game they would be trouncing WoW.
Do everyone a favor and keep your clueless mouth shut.
Not that Im trying to encourage the trolling but you made a terrible choice calling him clueless when its a known fact the game did in fact go limp pretty quickly. Personally I find Square Enix really needs to up their game now. Final Fantasy hasnt been anything remotely interesting in a long time. Always the same formula. Always the same everything. And fanbois keep yumming it up so they think they are doing a good job and keep putting out the same old stuff. They need fresh new ideas if they want to be competitive. Otherwise the only clients they are gonna get will be ones that choose not to renew their subscription after the initial free month.
I mean really IMO thats all it was ment to be in the start. A nice religious based tax exemption and then they realized people were buying the BS they had to sell so they took it a step further. If you want a lovely afternoon of Scientology hating you can always watch the Anonymous videos on Youtube. I like to watch Scientology try to make moves and totally screw up. It really makes my day.
Also, we need a new mod rank called "BUSTED!" IMO. Or how about a +1 where you get to write your own little thing. Put a character limit like 12 letters?
I can say with 100% surety that a benchmark in the lowering of performance on windows has always been the installation of MSN Messenger. So why discourage them installing it when you are trying to hurt them? Also - morons - could like euh I dunno perhaps MONITOR the communications? Win win? Are we stupid or is today a special holiday?
There is a pretty funny theory that the vast majority of WoW players are well-respected professionals who play the game in their free time. Through the playing of WoW, they not only practice their leadership skills, but also organizational skills and planning skills. The idea is that the game reinforces and promotes cooperative game play while preserving a fun environment.
But we all know the truth. It's 30 year old lardballs who still live with their parents that play this game. The lack of friends and human companionship drives them to seek out online communities where they can be accepted as who they portray themselves as rather than for who they, unfortunately, are. Seeking companionship is one of the most primal of human urges.
I don't know how you can say the game is addictive, in that sense. I'm not addicted to breathing or eating, but I'd die without doing either of those. We are talking about something very close to the core of being a human, not a dependency developed through repeated exposure.
Apparently quoting the same thing old tired recycled line of "30 years olds in their mothers basements" is worth 5 points Insightful. Who would have known?
I wont deny these 30 year olds of which you speak dont exist. But Im quite sick of seeing that tired old line recycled. Worse - being subjected to the gall of essentially repeating the worst most repeated joke of the last few years, and doing so with condescension towards others about a product you seem to know so little about.
The people I met in WoW. Came from all walks of life. Sure there may be your generic nerds in there. But there are also doctors, singers actors, producers, truck drivers, restaurant owners, bell boys, chefs, and social workers. And thats just the tip of the iceberg. There are 11 million people playing this game right now. To say its all one type of people doesnt explain why past MMOs were not nearly as successful. But Im sure according to your 5 point INsightful original and trailblazing opinion. The world was just waiting for a large population of people to hit 30 and then go live with their parents. And when I say met - I mean I met these people. I even went to one of their funerals IRL.
And more players than you think are tired parents trying desperately to get a single hour at the end of the day just for themselves. A single hour away from their entire day spent working to provide for and take care of the family. And even then their ghetto little hour to mellow out most times is interrupted anyways.
Is it addictive? If you are unemployed and need an escape - very much so. But for a good number of people. Its an alternative to going out and spending a ton of cash on a single nights activities that provides a bare minimum of companionship and relaxation. 15$ a month vs a bare minimum of 15$ a night to go out. Thats a hrd pitch to resist financially.
Sorry but these people werent the first to think of this. Only the first to publicly announce they had.
I mean really. I never tried but I had this idea in the late 90s. Others probably thought it up before even I conceived of it.
Then again, the layers was probably the biggest snoozefest I ever had to sleep through in class. So maybe it took so long because people kept falling asleep while trying to do it.
Oh well better find me a copy of netmon and start sniffin.
I don't understand how people associate the word "fuck" so exclusively with sexual meaning. It seems to be a more prevalent attitude in America, affecting even supreme court justices.
"Even when used as an expletive, the F-word's power to insult and offend derives from its sexual meaning," Scalia said.
Such a conclusion is a pretty unfair typecasting of such a versatile swearword. While "fucking" or "to fuck" is often used to describe sexual intercourse, the word has a great many other meanings. "Fuck off" being the most classic and familiar example, used to gruffly tell someone to remove themselves, or to desist from an action, etc, but perhaps only to express disbelief or some such. "What the fuck" shows the ability to use the word in an undirected fashion. Alone, "Fuck" can be an effective emotional outlet. "Fuckers" turns the verb into a noun, that is, if it were ever a verb in the first place. Things like "fan-fucking-tastic" show just how versatile this unique utterance can be, as it transcends classical descriptions.
So, "Fuck" is not just a sexual swearword. Perhaps, lacking any other terms, American's take it to primarily refer to intercourse. In fact, other english speakers have many other words at their disposal for describing sexual activities. "Shag","ride", etc. Lack of such words in someones personal or cultural lexicon should not be used to imbue unwarranted meaning to a speakers words in some kind of reverse irony.
When Bono said "fucking brilliant" at the Golden Globes, it was clear to any reasonable person that he meant the word as an adjective to brilliant, not as a sexual reference. This is doubly clear to anyone from Ireland. Nevertheless the FCC claimed that the word had and "inherently has a sexual connotation", in any context. And worse, the US supreme court agreed with them.
As someone who has been told on countless occasions by friends, family and countrymen to "Fuck off", or some such like, I'm personally offended far more by the suggestion that all these people's comments had an underlying sexual meaning than I am by any of the expletives themselves. But once again I find my culture, my traditions, my airwaves, and my internets subjected to the interpretations and censorship of conservative bible bashers in rural America. It's fairly insulting.
So please accept my sincerity when I say that you, and all those that would corral honest swearwords into narrow definitions, respectfully, Can All Fuck off with Yourselves!
If only seeding generously could increase the number of peers who could appreciate the perspicacity of your diatribe.
In Ubuntus defense. I just installed ubuntu over a Windows system and it performed admirably. My only issue right now is finding drivers for an outdated POS sound card. Really I think Im gonna just drop the 80 bucks and upgrade it.
I daydream while driving. At first when I realized this it scared the living bajeebus out of me. Eventually I got over it. So this really is not surprising in the least.
What about others rights to peace and quiet? Go ahead and say whatever you want, as long as you are using the appropriate forum to communicate your ideas.
Secretly I hope more bad stuff happens to twitter. Im tired of moving social sites because everyone else is. Facebook is fine. We dont need MORE.
We cant actually REMOVE the products from the market because then we would loose money. Nor can we just better control them with the ESRB and other legislative type solutions. No the real solution is for US to make the parents - who obviously have no time for their children in the first place pay MORE to keep their children off the streets and out of gangs.
Hey mr Politician. Would you rather a crip or blud mug you in the street? Or would you rather some fat kid try to take off in your porsche he doesnt actually know how to hotwire, and definately cannot outrun a police officer?
Would you rather your kid gettin fat off candy or getting lean and muscular from all the drugs, and crime he has to commit to keep up the drug habit?
Oh wait what was I thinking... there is no logic, or compassion for others in this. Just another opportunity for you to get richer.
I think if there is anything we should learn from flics like I, Robot - is that the real problem in all these situations where robots go crazy is that some lazy programmer forgot to properly define "harm" and or "injure".
And can I toss in a 5th law?
5) A robot cannot make any decision about any human and or the fate of human kind "for its own good"
At least a mini series. Kinda like Mythbusters except they destroy hard drives each week a different way and then see what kind of information can be salvaged off them by real experts.
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Granted it can slow the process down, but - one could say that in redoing the work, you are proving it before commencing your work for which the previous work is apparently a foundation. Kinda like checking your facts before writing an article. Everyone has to do it. CYA. Cover Your Ass.
If I slam the trilogy can I be cool like you guys?
Title says it all. I think Infamous and Prototype have been the only games Ive seen recently that actually last very long at all.
So many people spend so much time making the graphics of a game gorgeous you end up with a game that lasts only 8 hours. At the risk of sounding old - I remember when games lasted 40 hours. All of them. Whats the point of having an ultimately gorgeous game if its done in a day? I'll tell you. NONE WHATSOEVER. Industry needs to pull their heads out of their asses.
If you ask me I blame the fact they were using HP servers. Wheres a photoshopped picture of a guy with his head up his own arse when you need one? HP has got to be the worst experience I have ever had with anything that wasnt a printer (and even then their printer driver update system is laughably buggy). Go ahead and blame windows all you want. But dont forget to ALSO blame crappy HP hardware. They cant make anything resembling good regular desktops or laptops why would you trust their servers?
Quite simply WoW is the most successful game of all time because of two things: its low cost (15$ a month to be entertained anytime you want?), and the casual dedication (or rather lack thereof) it requires. All the hardcore players, for all their pompous self righteousness wouldnt be playing if they had to work to make up a deficit from dying. And neither would I.
As an example of the inverse. Ive been playing this online civ like game called Evony. The game runs 24/7 and its pretty much blind luck that I havent been annihilated yet. If you dont have powerful friends a week into the game when your "newb protection" wears off. You are toast. And where is the fun in that? Knowing the 8-20 massive fortresses nearby are going to have their way with you after 7 days? May as well make your login name RedHeadedStepChild.
After playing WoW for 4 years. I dont think I will ever touch another MMO again. They are cool at first. But the end game is generally unsatisfying. And it has to be that way because otherwise people wouldnt keep their subscriptions.
I just wish there was another Quest For Glory like series. Best games ever IMO.
I love how IBM makes a selling point of Lotus Notes that everytime you type a character in your password it generates a random low number of characters to keep on lookers from knowing exactly how many characters were typed. How about you focus on making notes work nearly as well as Office. Then add goofy crap like this on at the end? I dont mind asterisks for passwords. If not being able to see your password as you type it in is slowing you down and is wasting business time. Pack your bags and GTFO. Plenty of hungry kids out there quite capable of remembering a damn password more than willing to take your job.
This reminds me of the lyrics of a comic song I heard once.
What does squaring numbers and doing women have in common?
If their under 13 its best to do em in your head.
Pills are quickly becoming the easiest drug to spread in schools. They can be harder to identify by the untrained. Can be hidden in pre existing prescription bottles, and dont generally require anything fancy to facilitate consumption. What I really dont understand is why people are trying to smuggle the drugs in school. Do drugs after school. Away from school. Before parents get home. Where you are less likely to be caught. Thats what ...uhm... I hear... other people do.... like in movies and stuff
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An iPhone could be a mobile pc, do my laundry, my dishes, drive me to work, and pack my lunches and I wouldnt buy it because it ment signing on with AT&T. To me Service is everything. To them. Service is something that ends once the contract is signed.
The internet is amazing. I found a site with charts!!
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html
This chart clearly illustrates that in the scope of MMO's FF was not terribly successful. It was successful in staying alive this much is true. And it has seen more success than few other MMO's. But are they a success in he general meaning of the word? No. They aspired to mediocrity expecting clients to rush in because the game had the final fantasy name stamped on it. And the results show. If they had made a fantastic game they would be trouncing WoW.
Going longer != Success
Do everyone a favor and keep your clueless mouth shut.
Not that Im trying to encourage the trolling but you made a terrible choice calling him clueless when its a known fact the game did in fact go limp pretty quickly. Personally I find Square Enix really needs to up their game now. Final Fantasy hasnt been anything remotely interesting in a long time. Always the same formula. Always the same everything. And fanbois keep yumming it up so they think they are doing a good job and keep putting out the same old stuff. They need fresh new ideas if they want to be competitive. Otherwise the only clients they are gonna get will be ones that choose not to renew their subscription after the initial free month.
I mean really IMO thats all it was ment to be in the start. A nice religious based tax exemption and then they realized people were buying the BS they had to sell so they took it a step further. If you want a lovely afternoon of Scientology hating you can always watch the Anonymous videos on Youtube. I like to watch Scientology try to make moves and totally screw up. It really makes my day.
Also, we need a new mod rank called "BUSTED!" IMO. Or how about a +1 where you get to write your own little thing. Put a character limit like 12 letters?
I can say with 100% surety that a benchmark in the lowering of performance on windows has always been the installation of MSN Messenger. So why discourage them installing it when you are trying to hurt them? Also - morons - could like euh I dunno perhaps MONITOR the communications? Win win? Are we stupid or is today a special holiday?
Title says it all.
There is a pretty funny theory that the vast majority of WoW players are well-respected professionals who play the game in their free time. Through the playing of WoW, they not only practice their leadership skills, but also organizational skills and planning skills. The idea is that the game reinforces and promotes cooperative game play while preserving a fun environment.
But we all know the truth. It's 30 year old lardballs who still live with their parents that play this game. The lack of friends and human companionship drives them to seek out online communities where they can be accepted as who they portray themselves as rather than for who they, unfortunately, are. Seeking companionship is one of the most primal of human urges.
I don't know how you can say the game is addictive, in that sense. I'm not addicted to breathing or eating, but I'd die without doing either of those. We are talking about something very close to the core of being a human, not a dependency developed through repeated exposure.
Apparently quoting the same thing old tired recycled line of "30 years olds in their mothers basements" is worth 5 points Insightful. Who would have known?
I wont deny these 30 year olds of which you speak dont exist. But Im quite sick of seeing that tired old line recycled. Worse - being subjected to the gall of essentially repeating the worst most repeated joke of the last few years, and doing so with condescension towards others about a product you seem to know so little about.
The people I met in WoW. Came from all walks of life. Sure there may be your generic nerds in there. But there are also doctors, singers actors, producers, truck drivers, restaurant owners, bell boys, chefs, and social workers. And thats just the tip of the iceberg. There are 11 million people playing this game right now. To say its all one type of people doesnt explain why past MMOs were not nearly as successful. But Im sure according to your 5 point INsightful original and trailblazing opinion. The world was just waiting for a large population of people to hit 30 and then go live with their parents. And when I say met - I mean I met these people. I even went to one of their funerals IRL.
And more players than you think are tired parents trying desperately to get a single hour at the end of the day just for themselves. A single hour away from their entire day spent working to provide for and take care of the family. And even then their ghetto little hour to mellow out most times is interrupted anyways.
Is it addictive? If you are unemployed and need an escape - very much so. But for a good number of people. Its an alternative to going out and spending a ton of cash on a single nights activities that provides a bare minimum of companionship and relaxation. 15$ a month vs a bare minimum of 15$ a night to go out. Thats a hrd pitch to resist financially.
Sorry but these people werent the first to think of this. Only the first to publicly announce they had. I mean really. I never tried but I had this idea in the late 90s. Others probably thought it up before even I conceived of it. Then again, the layers was probably the biggest snoozefest I ever had to sleep through in class. So maybe it took so long because people kept falling asleep while trying to do it. Oh well better find me a copy of netmon and start sniffin.
I don't understand how people associate the word "fuck" so exclusively with sexual meaning. It seems to be a more prevalent attitude in America, affecting even supreme court justices.
Such a conclusion is a pretty unfair typecasting of such a versatile swearword. While "fucking" or "to fuck" is often used to describe sexual intercourse, the word has a great many other meanings. "Fuck off" being the most classic and familiar example, used to gruffly tell someone to remove themselves, or to desist from an action, etc, but perhaps only to express disbelief or some such. "What the fuck" shows the ability to use the word in an undirected fashion. Alone, "Fuck" can be an effective emotional outlet. "Fuckers" turns the verb into a noun, that is, if it were ever a verb in the first place. Things like "fan-fucking-tastic" show just how versatile this unique utterance can be, as it transcends classical descriptions.
So, "Fuck" is not just a sexual swearword. Perhaps, lacking any other terms, American's take it to primarily refer to intercourse. In fact, other english speakers have many other words at their disposal for describing sexual activities. "Shag","ride", etc. Lack of such words in someones personal or cultural lexicon should not be used to imbue unwarranted meaning to a speakers words in some kind of reverse irony.
When Bono said "fucking brilliant" at the Golden Globes, it was clear to any reasonable person that he meant the word as an adjective to brilliant, not as a sexual reference. This is doubly clear to anyone from Ireland. Nevertheless the FCC claimed that the word had and "inherently has a sexual connotation", in any context. And worse, the US supreme court agreed with them.
As someone who has been told on countless occasions by friends, family and countrymen to "Fuck off", or some such like, I'm personally offended far more by the suggestion that all these people's comments had an underlying sexual meaning than I am by any of the expletives themselves. But once again I find my culture, my traditions, my airwaves, and my internets subjected to the interpretations and censorship of conservative bible bashers in rural America. It's fairly insulting.
So please accept my sincerity when I say that you, and all those that would corral honest swearwords into narrow definitions, respectfully, Can All Fuck off with Yourselves!
If only seeding generously could increase the number of peers who could appreciate the perspicacity of your diatribe.
In Ubuntus defense. I just installed ubuntu over a Windows system and it performed admirably. My only issue right now is finding drivers for an outdated POS sound card. Really I think Im gonna just drop the 80 bucks and upgrade it.
- I buy used but never trade in my old games
- I trade in my old games but only buy new games.
- I trade in used games and purchase used games
- I never trade in old games and only purchase new games.
- Donde esta la vacca?
Id be curious to see what the final statistics look like.
I daydream while driving. At first when I realized this it scared the living bajeebus out of me. Eventually I got over it. So this really is not surprising in the least.
Secretly I hope more bad stuff happens to twitter. Im tired of moving social sites because everyone else is. Facebook is fine. We dont need MORE.
We cant actually REMOVE the products from the market because then we would loose money. Nor can we just better control them with the ESRB and other legislative type solutions. No the real solution is for US to make the parents - who obviously have no time for their children in the first place pay MORE to keep their children off the streets and out of gangs.
Hey mr Politician. Would you rather a crip or blud mug you in the street? Or would you rather some fat kid try to take off in your porsche he doesnt actually know how to hotwire, and definately cannot outrun a police officer?
Would you rather your kid gettin fat off candy or getting lean and muscular from all the drugs, and crime he has to commit to keep up the drug habit?
Oh wait what was I thinking... there is no logic, or compassion for others in this. Just another opportunity for you to get richer.
I think if there is anything we should learn from flics like I, Robot - is that the real problem in all these situations where robots go crazy is that some lazy programmer forgot to properly define "harm" and or "injure". And can I toss in a 5th law? 5) A robot cannot make any decision about any human and or the fate of human kind "for its own good"
At least a mini series. Kinda like Mythbusters except they destroy hard drives each week a different way and then see what kind of information can be salvaged off them by real experts.