It's not like millions will be displaced AT ONCE and suddenly. I DO happen to live on high grounds, and guess what: there's plenty of room here. Nothing stopping you from moving all your shit right now, the water line's not going to chase you or anything.
The candy-like feeling comes from assuming it can fix itself. Are you saying that I, as a (relatively) giant organism with the capability to repair damage to myself, never need to see a doctor? That if I get pneumonia, I should just be 'left to my own devices'? It's entirely possible that the Earth has been 'dying' on a geological time scale long before we screwed it up.
Millions of landowners would gain the ability to call their property 'beachfront'. Desert-like areas may become lush tropical forests. Permafrost would melt, giving us huge tracts of arable land.
Why do people always assume that any change is bad? If you're that worried about rising water levels then just don't buy any property near the water.
Yeah well the sun can blind me from the frickin' SUN.
"Yeah, those morons should've made their tanks from black holes. (Hint: if you can see it, it reflects light.)"
OK so according to you, something that can blind you after traveling millions upon millions of miles through space will also inevitably blind you upon reflecting off any visible surface? Just like, you know, looking outside during the day?
Thanks for letting me know I've been blind since the first time I looked out a window. I feel real silly wearing these glasses, since I apparently haven't been able to see at all for quite a while now.
"Fall had come to an end, and as the bitter, cold winds of Winter came sweeping through what was left of the once great forest, the last of the rare northern striped bunny rabbits fought in vain to keep warm. With no shelter left in the clear-cut forest their days were few, and soon they had all succumbed to the biting cold. A great loss, truly, but it was not the only tragedy to befall our Earth that day, for something sinister still stirred among the fallen corpses: a virus!
Sensing that its host population had become extinct, it swarmed from the rabbity remains in search of a new host. Crawling slowly but surely over the frostbitten ground, it encountered first the very creatures that had annihilated its original host's habitat. Sensing the evil that had destroyed its former life, the virus began to attack the humans, mutating until the first of us had fallen to the now infamous H2N1 bunny flu of 2083."
Haha, everyone look at this idiot. He said 1200 morons would pipe up, and there's only been about 25 so far. Hell, I don't remember the last slashdot story that had 1200 comments total, much less in reply to one troll. I wish the douchebag would learn his numbers before attempting to communicate.
Really though, I wish you a quick recovery. I've laughed my ass off before too; I know how bad it can hurt. Here's hoping yours grows back.
- True, in a way. The battery is fine when idling, but when you have music and IRC in the background and you're trying to browse the internet, it will only last 3-4 hours. Of course, you can only do two of those at once on the iphone, so who knows what the battery life would be if it could actually multitask? - This is my one big complaint, but there ARE adapters out there. - I haven't noticed this at all. Maybe you should point it at something prettier. - It's too quite what? Really though, it's fine. I have it at minimum volume in quiet areas, and when I turn it to max it works fine even in a crowded area. - You must be good at dropping things or have a shitty memory. I've dropped mine 5 feet. Onto asphalt. While on a moving bike. It has two small scratches in the case and the battery cover popped off, but the phone didn't even restart. I'm seriously curious to know how you managed to crack it on 'carpet'. - You're ugly, and you can go ahead and take an inch or two off the screen size for anything that involves typing. - Yeah, I hate having the option to upgrade my own phone -_- -
I'm starting to suspect they did it on purpose... I mean, what better way is there to glean the raging-est of nerds from their playerbase than to remove an antiquated and largely unnecessary feature? The best part is that out of the 100 or so people who will actually boycott it, I'd bet that only 10 of them or so actually threw a LAN party that lacked internet access within the past five years.
"Some of us really liked getting together with other humans in the real world and playing Starcraft and are rightfully pissed at the growth of DRM and built-in-obsolescence."
What?! Not only did they take out LAN features, but they implemented anti-human-proximity features? How will my computer KNOW that the others connecting to Battle.net through my IP are next to me? What's that you say? It utilizes an anti-internet force field? Those BASTARDS.
Seriously, you could probably could the number of internet-less LAN parties held last year on one hand.
Looking back, qualifying them as 'fighting game' combos might have been off. I don't play fighting games generally, but what I meant by it was that by using one skill multiple times you actually perform different moves. I guess in most -fighting- games that doesn't happen, and combos are only activated by certain sequences. So the monk's is more of a Mario64 combo actually, like Mario jumping three times in a row to do a triple jump or punching three times to do his little kick, only the monk could turn his punch punch kick combo into a punch punch crazy-high-frontflip combo.
Hahahah he must feel like a giant asshole. I wanted to flame the guy, but this...
I feel sorry for him now:(
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YEAH! I mean it was only yesterday that I was playing Diablo 2 and thought to myself, "This game is PERFECT. Anyone who tries to make a newer, better version of it is a fool. I bet the heathens would even try to bring its resolution above 800x600!"
I bet you cry every spring when the new flowers don't look like last year's, huh?
Never played the assassin, but from reading about it, and having seen the monk gameplay videos at Blizzcon, I think I can explain:
The assassin uses his base attacks to generate charges, and each of these charges add an effect (depending on the ability that created the charge) which is released when you use the 'finisher', which is an entirely different skill/button altogether. I'm not sure how many of these charges you can build up, but I'm sure it's more than three.
The monk has no charges, but instead does your classic fighting game 'combos' when you repeatedly use one skill. So, each skill has three 'stages', as you saw in the description. These stages can be mixed and matched (oh look, I'm just repeating what you pasted). So if you have two skills, one which does stun/slow/lots of damage and another which does damage/more damage/poison, you can make your own combo which does damage/more damage/lots of damage by clicking second skill/second skill/first skill.
Thank god. The best part about your unreasonable boycott is that those of us who don't spazz out about the.01% of time we lack internet access will be able to play on Battle.net without running into the freaks who nearly go into a full blown seizure when they think about actually needing to buy a game to play it (which probably still won't be necessary; I doubt they're actively going to prune the Spawn Copy feature).
I don't even remember the last game I bought which actually had a physical CD with it. You can even download Blizzard's old games, right now, off their site. What makes you think that they would actually REQUIRE a CD for any of these (especially since the authentication itself is even being done server-side)?
Well aren't you lucky that the authentication will work perfectly well over a slow connection as it is not latency dependent. All the game data will still travel over the LAN, you know.
Yeah, that pisses me off. Just like how I had to pay three times to see all the LotR movies. I can't believe they cut one story in to three parts just to milk money out of me. Bastards.
You guys do know that in the new Battle.net account system you can add all your Blizzard game keys to their website where they're kept for all eternity along with a link to a free download of the full game, right?
Continue ranting though, change tends to freak a lot of people out. I understand.
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It's not like millions will be displaced AT ONCE and suddenly. I DO happen to live on high grounds, and guess what: there's plenty of room here. Nothing stopping you from moving all your shit right now, the water line's not going to chase you or anything.
The candy-like feeling comes from assuming it can fix itself. Are you saying that I, as a (relatively) giant organism with the capability to repair damage to myself, never need to see a doctor? That if I get pneumonia, I should just be 'left to my own devices'? It's entirely possible that the Earth has been 'dying' on a geological time scale long before we screwed it up.
So pessimistic...
Millions of landowners would gain the ability to call their property 'beachfront'. Desert-like areas may become lush tropical forests. Permafrost would melt, giving us huge tracts of arable land.
Why do people always assume that any change is bad? If you're that worried about rising water levels then just don't buy any property near the water.
"This thing can blind someone on the moon."
Yeah well the sun can blind me from the frickin' SUN.
"Yeah, those morons should've made their tanks from black holes. (Hint: if you can see it, it reflects light.)"
OK so according to you, something that can blind you after traveling millions upon millions of miles through space will also inevitably blind you upon reflecting off any visible surface? Just like, you know, looking outside during the day?
Thanks for letting me know I've been blind since the first time I looked out a window. I feel real silly wearing these glasses, since I apparently haven't been able to see at all for quite a while now.
You're a moron.
Right...
"Fall had come to an end, and as the bitter, cold winds of Winter came sweeping through what was left of the once great forest, the last of the rare northern striped bunny rabbits fought in vain to keep warm. With no shelter left in the clear-cut forest their days were few, and soon they had all succumbed to the biting cold. A great loss, truly, but it was not the only tragedy to befall our Earth that day, for something sinister still stirred among the fallen corpses: a virus!
Sensing that its host population had become extinct, it swarmed from the rabbity remains in search of a new host. Crawling slowly but surely over the frostbitten ground, it encountered first the very creatures that had annihilated its original host's habitat. Sensing the evil that had destroyed its former life, the virus began to attack the humans, mutating until the first of us had fallen to the now infamous H2N1 bunny flu of 2083."
^ How parent thinks the world works.
"This is especially true in any thread about video games, where every discussion is dominated by stunted mental teeenager console fanboys."
Sounds like you're a little 'stunted mental' yourself there, buddy.
It's called a parody, referencing the fact that you apparently think someone's a liar when they are not, in fact, gone for 'a minute'.
You're so bad at trolling it hurts.
Haha, everyone look at this idiot. He said 1200 morons would pipe up, and there's only been about 25 so far. Hell, I don't remember the last slashdot story that had 1200 comments total, much less in reply to one troll. I wish the douchebag would learn his numbers before attempting to communicate.
Really though, I wish you a quick recovery. I've laughed my ass off before too; I know how bad it can hurt. Here's hoping yours grows back.
Android? Is that like some kind of new iPhone prototype?
Note the douchebag in the preceding comment.
- True, in a way. The battery is fine when idling, but when you have music and IRC in the background and you're trying to browse the internet, it will only last 3-4 hours. Of course, you can only do two of those at once on the iphone, so who knows what the battery life would be if it could actually multitask?
- This is my one big complaint, but there ARE adapters out there.
- I haven't noticed this at all. Maybe you should point it at something prettier.
- It's too quite what? Really though, it's fine. I have it at minimum volume in quiet areas, and when I turn it to max it works fine even in a crowded area.
- You must be good at dropping things or have a shitty memory. I've dropped mine 5 feet. Onto asphalt. While on a moving bike. It has two small scratches in the case and the battery cover popped off, but the phone didn't even restart. I'm seriously curious to know how you managed to crack it on 'carpet'.
- You're ugly, and you can go ahead and take an inch or two off the screen size for anything that involves typing.
- Yeah, I hate having the option to upgrade my own phone -_-
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I'm starting to suspect they did it on purpose... I mean, what better way is there to glean the raging-est of nerds from their playerbase than to remove an antiquated and largely unnecessary feature? The best part is that out of the 100 or so people who will actually boycott it, I'd bet that only 10 of them or so actually threw a LAN party that lacked internet access within the past five years.
"Some of us really liked getting together with other humans in the real world and playing Starcraft and are rightfully pissed at the growth of DRM and built-in-obsolescence."
What?! Not only did they take out LAN features, but they implemented anti-human-proximity features? How will my computer KNOW that the others connecting to Battle.net through my IP are next to me? What's that you say? It utilizes an anti-internet force field? Those BASTARDS.
Seriously, you could probably could the number of internet-less LAN parties held last year on one hand.
A few choice words:
"a few years back"
"while in college"
Meanwhile, you were on a luxury cruise in the Pacific with beautiful models feeding you grapes, etc.
Right?
Looking back, qualifying them as 'fighting game' combos might have been off. I don't play fighting games generally, but what I meant by it was that by using one skill multiple times you actually perform different moves. I guess in most -fighting- games that doesn't happen, and combos are only activated by certain sequences. So the monk's is more of a Mario64 combo actually, like Mario jumping three times in a row to do a triple jump or punching three times to do his little kick, only the monk could turn his punch punch kick combo into a punch punch crazy-high-frontflip combo.
Hahahah he must feel like a giant asshole. I wanted to flame the guy, but this...
I feel sorry for him now :(
YEAH! I mean it was only yesterday that I was playing Diablo 2 and thought to myself, "This game is PERFECT. Anyone who tries to make a newer, better version of it is a fool. I bet the heathens would even try to bring its resolution above 800x600!"
I bet you cry every spring when the new flowers don't look like last year's, huh?
Never played the assassin, but from reading about it, and having seen the monk gameplay videos at Blizzcon, I think I can explain:
The assassin uses his base attacks to generate charges, and each of these charges add an effect (depending on the ability that created the charge) which is released when you use the 'finisher', which is an entirely different skill/button altogether. I'm not sure how many of these charges you can build up, but I'm sure it's more than three.
The monk has no charges, but instead does your classic fighting game 'combos' when you repeatedly use one skill. So, each skill has three 'stages', as you saw in the description. These stages can be mixed and matched (oh look, I'm just repeating what you pasted). So if you have two skills, one which does stun/slow/lots of damage and another which does damage/more damage/poison, you can make your own combo which does damage/more damage/lots of damage by clicking second skill/second skill/first skill.
tl;dr: No, they're not the same, l2read.
Thank god. The best part about your unreasonable boycott is that those of us who don't spazz out about the .01% of time we lack internet access will be able to play on Battle.net without running into the freaks who nearly go into a full blown seizure when they think about actually needing to buy a game to play it (which probably still won't be necessary; I doubt they're actively going to prune the Spawn Copy feature).
I don't even remember the last game I bought which actually had a physical CD with it. You can even download Blizzard's old games, right now, off their site. What makes you think that they would actually REQUIRE a CD for any of these (especially since the authentication itself is even being done server-side)?
Have some faith, they're not retarded.
They are comparable, dumbass.
SC: 30 missions.
SC, Brood War: 24 missions.
SC:II, Terran edition: 30 missions.
Are you seeing a pattern here yet? Now for the analogy:
LotR I: 178 minutes.
LotR II: 179 minutes.
LotR III: 200 minutes.
Here's a Wikipedia link that may help you understand what's going on here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
Well aren't you lucky that the authentication will work perfectly well over a slow connection as it is not latency dependent. All the game data will still travel over the LAN, you know.
Yeah, that pisses me off. Just like how I had to pay three times to see all the LotR movies. I can't believe they cut one story in to three parts just to milk money out of me. Bastards.
Priceless...
You guys do know that in the new Battle.net account system you can add all your Blizzard game keys to their website where they're kept for all eternity along with a link to a free download of the full game, right?
Continue ranting though, change tends to freak a lot of people out. I understand.