The thing is, on/. you get to see some of the crazy left, and some of the crazy right. But the craziest motherfuckers you see here? All self-professed libertarians.
So the country is 1.8 trillion (US) in the hole this year, yet someone, somewhere, is sitting on slashdot bitching about inane things. How do I best communicate to you that not eating or using energy for a year, or two, or ever, would actually do infinitely more for humanity than your comment here?
Stop arguing with the guy, he was in a REAL MEDIEVAL BATTLE OK? He knows what that shit is like. Don't try to convince him that your pansy video games are anything like fighting a REAL DRAGON.
The thing about nerfing 'creative' strats is that WoW is very competitive at the end-game raiding stage. A 'creative' strat takes away this competition. Imagine if the superbowl was won this year by the team that found a hidden rule which declares whoever ate the coin after a coin toss the victor.
A good boss should take weeks of wiping while everyone learns exactly what happens throughout each second of the fight and the best way to deal with any possible situation. Only when you play perfectly should that boss die.
Now enter Mr. Fukyostrat, who is astute enough to notice that if you delay DPS until the boss is doing his first timed phase switch so that he does his health-triggered phase switch at the same time, he will bug out and stand there drooling while you fireball his face off. This has now become THE way to do the fight. Phase three, with the friendly dragon NPCs helping out, the invulnerable adds that have to be kited, and the fires coming out of the walls, is gone. Phase four, with the crazy boss transformation scene, raid-wide haste buff, falling stalactites to dodge, and walls that close in, is gone. Nobody will see these phases, because they require dedication and skill to do, and hey, we can't let that get in the way of our phat loot. Don't get me wrong, if I was going for world 1st and I saw this bug I'd exploit the hell out of it. But then again, I did it FIRST, and I'd expect them to nerf it afterward so that everyone could get back to the actual competition: downing the boss as designed, not necessarily as implemented.
Nerfing bugs and 'creative' strats allow the end game competition that makes MMORPGs worth playing. It's called balance.
It's not like they've removed alternative strats from the game. Sure, the 'best' strats will appear online before the bosses are even on live servers, but when doing hard modes knowing what will happen is only half the battle. Quick planning and communication during the fight is the only thing that will allow you to adapt to the aspects of the fight that can't be conveyed in an online guide. Sure, you'll know where to tank the boss, but things don't always go perfectly. If a particularly bright DPS class drags fire through the tanking spot, then what are you going to do? Bad guilds will wipe, good guilds will form a new plan and pull it off. There is no 'one way' to do a boss.
Thanks for mentioning situational awareness, now I have to rant too...
I did a boss the other day which lays slow-moving fire in straight, unchanging paths to random players throughout the fight (Marrowgar for the informed). It is bright blue fire, and painfully obvious to see on the dark grey/black floor.
ELEVEN out of my twenty-five teammates died to this fire. ELEVEN people either A) fell asleep at the keyboard, B) failed to recognize the complex pattern that is 'moves in a straight line', or C) actually managed to start run away, but inexplicably ran STRAIGHT BACK along the path of the fire.
I felt sorry for our healers (the ones who didn't die in fire anyways)... one person managed to take 90k damage from fire alone. For those unfamiliar with standard health pools, that means he would have died over FOUR TIMES in the fight from completely avoidable damage. I can only hope he was RPing a hunter with cold feet that he wanted to warm in the fire.
WoW did do that, but it's not what he was talking about. Nobody switches roles really to deal with insanity.
There has been role-switching in WoW before though: ranged-tanking is fairly common for bosses who attack primarily with spells (Mimiron's flying head phase is best tanked by a ranged class standing away from the group), and an upcoming fight in Icecrown requires you to heal the boss to full rather than burn their health down.
No. It's already just as possible, as making a game 3D is as simple as adding an extra camera to the game; the issues are probably in the graphics drivers. That's all it took to make my PC 3D: new drivers.
You should turn up the depth then. You can't really do this at the theaters, but on home systems cranking the depth should stop anything from appearing like a 'cutout'. It will cause a bit more eye strain, but you're going to have to adjust to the whole 3d thing anyways so you might as well get used to a greater depth setting. Theaters likely have it set low to avoid the extra strain, but it does cause that cardboard effect.
You're going to want 120hz for shutterglasses. 30hz @ each eye can start to hurt after a bit. Even at 120hz there's still something slightly 'off' about the flicker, though it doesn't ACTUALLY, visibly flicker... if you know what I mean...?
Naive? Shut the fuck up. They have nothing to lose by releasing the data other than being proven wrong. Someone bitching about politics isn't a scientist, and when they hide their numbers you can't call what they do 'science'.
Maybe there will be a day when all you fucking morons realize there is no aisle, because not a single fucking person on this earth can be said to wholly reside on one 'side'. If left-wingers are accusatory then you must be Karl Fucking Marx.
[Seriously-OT] Why is it that stupid people have to bring everything back to their pet topic which they themselves can't think about long enough to realize the absurdity of? [/Seriously-OT]
I don't think you understand... if it's automated, it can't be wrong. That would involve a programmer making a mistake, and all code is peer-reviewed. Everyone knows that a code review removes all bugs and design issues.
"note: Until 1961 only sea level pressure, surface pressure, temperature, and precipitation are available"
Meaning that pre 1961 we don't have data for: Geopotential Height, Humidity, Sunshine, Surface Air Temperature (or Sea Surface Temperature, the quote above seems ambiguous as to which), and Surface Pressure.
Since these obviously factor in to the 'adjustments' people keep making on the data, and since we don't have hard data for them, any trend beyond 1961 is essentially a guess. Right? So our short term trends are meaningless, and our long term trends are based on guesses, right?
I missed this part "note: Until 1961 only sea level pressure, surface pressure, temperature, and precipitation are available", but my point still stands.
Variables (as copied from your link): Geopotential Height Humidity Precipitation Amount Precipitation Anomalies Sea Level Pressure Sea Surface Temperature Sunshine Surface Air Temperature Surface Pressure
So unless we have precise records for each of those variables alongside each temperature point, then the data can be shaped by miscalculating the effect of ANY of those variables. I don't even have to look at the data to know that you can't draw reasonable conclusions about temperature trends from crap like that. I don't care how certain climatologists are that their guesses are the right ones, because you can just as easily guess in the other direction.
So we should be calmed by the fact that the data is in such a horrible shape, fragmented and reinterpreted by every scientist's hands it passes through? Our skepticism should be assuaged by the fact that there is one man with an obvious agenda 'correcting' this data as he collates it? All of this makes you trust their conclusions MORE? Really?
If only we could invent some kind of machine to hold and organize data... then we could perhaps distribute these machines around the world and connect them with bits of wire. At that point it should be easy to let the machines communicate with each other to share data with a simple request. Maybe someday we'll be able to have such an 'internetwork' that allows scientists to share their data without all this hard work you describe.
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Who modded this flamebait? The whole frickin story's flamebait, just go with it!
The thing is, on /. you get to see some of the crazy left, and some of the crazy right. But the craziest motherfuckers you see here? All self-professed libertarians.
No android love?
Oh come on, how is that flamebait? He practically hosed the OP's flamebait down with an aqueous aspirated film-forming form.
So Raichu was just 'designed' that way then huh?
I don't know why you fundie pokemon trainers keep coming back to /.
Yeah what a bunch of stupid sheeple here, agreeing with the points of view that they themselves hold.
So the country is 1.8 trillion (US) in the hole this year, yet someone, somewhere, is sitting on slashdot bitching about inane things.
How do I best communicate to you that not eating or using energy for a year, or two, or ever, would actually do infinitely more for humanity than your comment here?
Stop arguing with the guy, he was in a REAL MEDIEVAL BATTLE OK? He knows what that shit is like. Don't try to convince him that your pansy video games are anything like fighting a REAL DRAGON.
Posers.
The thing about nerfing 'creative' strats is that WoW is very competitive at the end-game raiding stage. A 'creative' strat takes away this competition. Imagine if the superbowl was won this year by the team that found a hidden rule which declares whoever ate the coin after a coin toss the victor.
A good boss should take weeks of wiping while everyone learns exactly what happens throughout each second of the fight and the best way to deal with any possible situation. Only when you play perfectly should that boss die.
Now enter Mr. Fukyostrat, who is astute enough to notice that if you delay DPS until the boss is doing his first timed phase switch so that he does his health-triggered phase switch at the same time, he will bug out and stand there drooling while you fireball his face off. This has now become THE way to do the fight. Phase three, with the friendly dragon NPCs helping out, the invulnerable adds that have to be kited, and the fires coming out of the walls, is gone. Phase four, with the crazy boss transformation scene, raid-wide haste buff, falling stalactites to dodge, and walls that close in, is gone. Nobody will see these phases, because they require dedication and skill to do, and hey, we can't let that get in the way of our phat loot. Don't get me wrong, if I was going for world 1st and I saw this bug I'd exploit the hell out of it. But then again, I did it FIRST, and I'd expect them to nerf it afterward so that everyone could get back to the actual competition: downing the boss as designed, not necessarily as implemented.
Nerfing bugs and 'creative' strats allow the end game competition that makes MMORPGs worth playing. It's called balance.
It's not like they've removed alternative strats from the game. Sure, the 'best' strats will appear online before the bosses are even on live servers, but when doing hard modes knowing what will happen is only half the battle. Quick planning and communication during the fight is the only thing that will allow you to adapt to the aspects of the fight that can't be conveyed in an online guide. Sure, you'll know where to tank the boss, but things don't always go perfectly. If a particularly bright DPS class drags fire through the tanking spot, then what are you going to do? Bad guilds will wipe, good guilds will form a new plan and pull it off. There is no 'one way' to do a boss.
Thanks for mentioning situational awareness, now I have to rant too...
I did a boss the other day which lays slow-moving fire in straight, unchanging paths to random players throughout the fight (Marrowgar for the informed). It is bright blue fire, and painfully obvious to see on the dark grey/black floor.
ELEVEN out of my twenty-five teammates died to this fire. ELEVEN people either A) fell asleep at the keyboard, B) failed to recognize the complex pattern that is 'moves in a straight line', or C) actually managed to start run away, but inexplicably ran STRAIGHT BACK along the path of the fire.
I felt sorry for our healers (the ones who didn't die in fire anyways)... one person managed to take 90k damage from fire alone. For those unfamiliar with standard health pools, that means he would have died over FOUR TIMES in the fight from completely avoidable damage. I can only hope he was RPing a hunter with cold feet that he wanted to warm in the fire.
WoW did do that, but it's not what he was talking about. Nobody switches roles really to deal with insanity.
There has been role-switching in WoW before though: ranged-tanking is fairly common for bosses who attack primarily with spells (Mimiron's flying head phase is best tanked by a ranged class standing away from the group), and an upcoming fight in Icecrown requires you to heal the boss to full rather than burn their health down.
No. It's already just as possible, as making a game 3D is as simple as adding an extra camera to the game; the issues are probably in the graphics drivers. That's all it took to make my PC 3D: new drivers.
You should turn up the depth then. You can't really do this at the theaters, but on home systems cranking the depth should stop anything from appearing like a 'cutout'. It will cause a bit more eye strain, but you're going to have to adjust to the whole 3d thing anyways so you might as well get used to a greater depth setting. Theaters likely have it set low to avoid the extra strain, but it does cause that cardboard effect.
You're going to want 120hz for shutterglasses. 30hz @ each eye can start to hurt after a bit. Even at 120hz there's still something slightly 'off' about the flicker, though it doesn't ACTUALLY, visibly flicker... if you know what I mean...?
At least he knows how to verb.
Mod parent up so this thread doesn't get any longer. 15 posts here now, several of them with actual discussions under them. Embarrassing.
I ignored them because they can't be argued against. 'Oh no, they'll use our data to support their points!' NO FUCKING SHIT!
Sorry I'm not in the super science fun club. It's a shame I'll never know the truth because I'm too dumb to get peer reviewed.
Naive? Shut the fuck up. They have nothing to lose by releasing the data other than being proven wrong. Someone bitching about politics isn't a scientist, and when they hide their numbers you can't call what they do 'science'.
Maybe there will be a day when all you fucking morons realize there is no aisle, because not a single fucking person on this earth can be said to wholly reside on one 'side'. If left-wingers are accusatory then you must be Karl Fucking Marx.
[Seriously-OT]
Why is it that stupid people have to bring everything back to their pet topic which they themselves can't think about long enough to realize the absurdity of?
[/Seriously-OT]
I don't think you understand... if it's automated, it can't be wrong. That would involve a programmer making a mistake, and all code is peer-reviewed. Everyone knows that a code review removes all bugs and design issues.
"note: Until 1961 only sea level pressure, surface pressure, temperature, and precipitation are available"
Meaning that pre 1961 we don't have data for: Geopotential Height, Humidity, Sunshine, Surface Air Temperature (or Sea Surface Temperature, the quote above seems ambiguous as to which), and Surface Pressure.
Since these obviously factor in to the 'adjustments' people keep making on the data, and since we don't have hard data for them, any trend beyond 1961 is essentially a guess. Right? So our short term trends are meaningless, and our long term trends are based on guesses, right?
I missed this part "note: Until 1961 only sea level pressure, surface pressure, temperature, and precipitation are available", but my point still stands.
Variables (as copied from your link):
Geopotential Height
Humidity
Precipitation Amount
Precipitation Anomalies
Sea Level Pressure
Sea Surface Temperature
Sunshine
Surface Air Temperature
Surface Pressure
So unless we have precise records for each of those variables alongside each temperature point, then the data can be shaped by miscalculating the effect of ANY of those variables. I don't even have to look at the data to know that you can't draw reasonable conclusions about temperature trends from crap like that. I don't care how certain climatologists are that their guesses are the right ones, because you can just as easily guess in the other direction.
What have people been using this data to prove?
So we should be calmed by the fact that the data is in such a horrible shape, fragmented and reinterpreted by every scientist's hands it passes through? Our skepticism should be assuaged by the fact that there is one man with an obvious agenda 'correcting' this data as he collates it? All of this makes you trust their conclusions MORE? Really?
If only we could invent some kind of machine to hold and organize data... then we could perhaps distribute these machines around the world and connect them with bits of wire. At that point it should be easy to let the machines communicate with each other to share data with a simple request. Maybe someday we'll be able to have such an 'internetwork' that allows scientists to share their data without all this hard work you describe.