Quit yer bitchin' and lobby your politicians to change it then. Your Slashdot comment has zero effect on the legal system in the United States.
Also you can't be surprised that people take advantage of the legal system when it is obviously flawed, just look at how many people take advantage of the financial, tax, welfare, disaster relief, and other systems of government. People were ripping off FEMA for thousands of dollars by applying as others who were deceased or incarcerated, and using a P.O. Box or the address of an abandoned lot (prior to the hurricane) for the application. If the system is broken, then fix it. Don't just stand around pointing at it and going, "Damn, that shit is broken."
It's the installed loyal userbase, not necessarily the exact codebase, which was worth that much to Newscorp. The name cache alone is probably worth a fortune in the eyes of some people.
The Catholic church only officially acknowledged that Galileo was right 150 years later... is this really the timetable what you want scientists to be working on? Yes, lets all discover wondrous things and then sit on our hands until after we die to even acknowledge them, so that a bunch of ponces can think up a way not to frighten a bunch of idiots.
Since DirecTV is ditching TiVo I would totally switch if they plan on using the dual tuner cablecard HDTV TiVo's, or something similar in feature set w/ the TiVo software.
Given how Miyamoto's game designs are directly to the juvenile segment of the market I'm not surprised that he would OK the Nintendo Wii. He probably thought it would be a great joke and viral marketing tool among the vital 4-9 year old segment that Nintendo covets.
they're called mp34's and they're being sold in Hong Kong and Japan's Akibhara (sp?)... in addition to that you can find them on eBay. They look similar to the Nano's casing but the software is more akin to that of the iRiver stuff.
It was stated by one of the developers on a fan games forum that the art required in the Orrey took over a month for a single artist to create. What a terrible use of resources and planning by the producers at Bethesda. Either reduce the art needed for the mod or assign an equivalent amount of manhours to a programmer and/or game scripter to add enough content that this wonderful art can be appreciated as a reward payoff in of itself for unlocking it or give it enough reasons to be experienced repeatedly during further quests that it isn't visited once and then never again.
Like the others here have said, it isn't the same type of game (other than being fantasy world and an RPG, although WoW is less of a standard rpg in terms of story progression and npcpc interaction and effecting lasting world/plot change) but it is definitely as engrossing. You may even like it better than WoW... With all the mods coming out there is an even higher ability to tweak the game to your own liking beyond the simple UI and macro mods made for WoW.
If you want a game that is exactly like WoW you may want to try EQ2...
With how many copies of the same functionality that you see in the modding community, I don't think that there is much problem in them taking the ideas and reproducing them. As long as they don't take fan created artwork (textures, models) or directly copy dialogue/story that are copyright to the fan and use them as their own in a mod (without express permission or license) then they should be OK, right?
There are people porting TES:III items and features to TES:IV already! Such as missing armor types-- certain furs, nordic, chitin, etc, and skills like unarmored!
seriously, why no sex in these games? you can murder people in an assassin's guild and they been progressively shying away from the topless and/or naked temple priests from Daggerfall, or anything remotely sexual in nature... what's the game's rating, anyway? Teen? It blows, and I hope enterprising modders out there will restore it back to its Mature roots.:)
attack and hide is pretty good except the indicator gets a little wonky when you do the quests where you have to follow someone and not be seen, but still have to overhear them... i think i got bugged because i ended up very close but hidden and the indicator light was bright on, and the quest conversation triggered anyway even though i wasn't hidden at all afterwards...
I recommend using Mighty Magicka in conjunction with a longer summons mod, and the mod to allow you to summon 2 at a time. There is a 10 at a time summons mod but it seems a little too powerful with Mighty Magicka *and* the longer summon time. Mighty Magicka has several components but the conjuration bit makes all the creatures level up with you except for those "made from corpses"... ghosts do but skeletons and zombies don't I guess.
I prefer Francisco's mod to a separate equipment loot list, as I was using the "no obsolete" paired mods before, but I prefer the additional mods included with Francisco's set for randomizing the levels of the guards slightly and capping them out, along with enemies, making randomized bosses in the same level range and capped out, etc. Very cool.:)
Try defragmenting your hard drive? How about visit one of the tweak site guides on tweaking the Oblivion.ini file? (If so already then maybe you goofed something up?)
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Just curious what settings you need to use in Oblivion in Windows XP on Parallels in order for it to run "WELL" (your word).
Quit yer bitchin' and lobby your politicians to change it then. Your Slashdot comment has zero effect on the legal system in the United States.
Also you can't be surprised that people take advantage of the legal system when it is obviously flawed, just look at how many people take advantage of the financial, tax, welfare, disaster relief, and other systems of government. People were ripping off FEMA for thousands of dollars by applying as others who were deceased or incarcerated, and using a P.O. Box or the address of an abandoned lot (prior to the hurricane) for the application. If the system is broken, then fix it. Don't just stand around pointing at it and going, "Damn, that shit is broken."
It's the installed loyal userbase, not necessarily the exact codebase, which was worth that much to Newscorp. The name cache alone is probably worth a fortune in the eyes of some people.
By that analogy just by knowing how Doom 3 works on the surface that magically makes you able to program the 3D engine's internals. ::rolls eyes::
The Catholic church only officially acknowledged that Galileo was right 150 years later... is this really the timetable what you want scientists to be working on? Yes, lets all discover wondrous things and then sit on our hands until after we die to even acknowledge them, so that a bunch of ponces can think up a way not to frighten a bunch of idiots.
If Mario is softcore porn then is Power Rangers on TV hardcore porn?
Mod this up please! Very interesting!
I know!! Linux isn't even out of alpha too!! Crashix! Updates/patches each week! Doesn't support your hardware!
Mac getting viruses! OMG SKY IS FALLING
Since DirecTV is ditching TiVo I would totally switch if they plan on using the dual tuner cablecard HDTV TiVo's, or something similar in feature set w/ the TiVo software.
Given how Miyamoto's game designs are directly to the juvenile segment of the market I'm not surprised that he would OK the Nintendo Wii. He probably thought it would be a great joke and viral marketing tool among the vital 4-9 year old segment that Nintendo covets.
Now if they switched from the standard Norton Antivirus to the Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, we'd really be making some progress. :P
Gabe's so fat that when he puts on a Redskins jersey people yell out, "HEY ITS THE KOOL-AID MAN"
OHH YEAHHHH
they're called mp34's and they're being sold in Hong Kong and Japan's Akibhara (sp?)... in addition to that you can find them on eBay. They look similar to the Nano's casing but the software is more akin to that of the iRiver stuff.
It was stated by one of the developers on a fan games forum that the art required in the Orrey took over a month for a single artist to create. What a terrible use of resources and planning by the producers at Bethesda. Either reduce the art needed for the mod or assign an equivalent amount of manhours to a programmer and/or game scripter to add enough content that this wonderful art can be appreciated as a reward payoff in of itself for unlocking it or give it enough reasons to be experienced repeatedly during further quests that it isn't visited once and then never again.
Like the others here have said, it isn't the same type of game (other than being fantasy world and an RPG, although WoW is less of a standard rpg in terms of story progression and npcpc interaction and effecting lasting world/plot change) but it is definitely as engrossing. You may even like it better than WoW... With all the mods coming out there is an even higher ability to tweak the game to your own liking beyond the simple UI and macro mods made for WoW.
If you want a game that is exactly like WoW you may want to try EQ2...
Otherwise, onward to Cyrodiil!
With how many copies of the same functionality that you see in the modding community, I don't think that there is much problem in them taking the ideas and reproducing them. As long as they don't take fan created artwork (textures, models) or directly copy dialogue/story that are copyright to the fan and use them as their own in a mod (without express permission or license) then they should be OK, right?
With fast travel, why do you need to fly? Just for fun? Pretty sure someone has already made a levitation mod, but not a flying one yet.
There are people porting TES:III items and features to TES:IV already! Such as missing armor types-- certain furs, nordic, chitin, etc, and skills like unarmored!
you'd have to be able to deflower them first :(
:)
seriously, why no sex in these games? you can murder people in an assassin's guild and they been progressively shying away from the topless and/or naked temple priests from Daggerfall, or anything remotely sexual in nature... what's the game's rating, anyway? Teen? It blows, and I hope enterprising modders out there will restore it back to its Mature roots.
attack and hide is pretty good except the indicator gets a little wonky when you do the quests where you have to follow someone and not be seen, but still have to overhear them... i think i got bugged because i ended up very close but hidden and the indicator light was bright on, and the quest conversation triggered anyway even though i wasn't hidden at all afterwards...
I recommend using Mighty Magicka in conjunction with a longer summons mod, and the mod to allow you to summon 2 at a time. There is a 10 at a time summons mod but it seems a little too powerful with Mighty Magicka *and* the longer summon time. Mighty Magicka has several components but the conjuration bit makes all the creatures level up with you except for those "made from corpses"... ghosts do but skeletons and zombies don't I guess.
:)
I prefer Francisco's mod to a separate equipment loot list, as I was using the "no obsolete" paired mods before, but I prefer the additional mods included with Francisco's set for randomizing the levels of the guards slightly and capping them out, along with enemies, making randomized bosses in the same level range and capped out, etc. Very cool.
Try defragmenting your hard drive? How about visit one of the tweak site guides on tweaking the Oblivion .ini file? (If so already then maybe you goofed something up?)
OOO seems good but there are better options elsewhere, IMO.
They also did Armed & Dangerous:u s/
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you can still write books about natural occurance of homosexuality