Gee, I have really been wanting Diablo 2 for such a long time. Ever since I stopped playing Diablo, my mousing skills have really gone downhill. Like I'll try to click on the button to close a window, and I'll totally miss. I need some of those skeletons to click on, because they move around and that's just a challenge right there. And clicking on a potion in your belt before you die, now that takes skill, and it's also so much like a roleplaying game, they way you have levels and weapons and stuff. I especially liked the way it works with Battle.net so you can download one of those shady "trainers" and click all over your friend's character, causing him to be dead! Woo hoo! Does it get any better than this?
Seriously, this game is gonna suck, just like that "RPG" that Blizzard released a few years ago. The only reason Diablo did so well is that there were few good RPGs released at that time. This year is looking to be the "Year of the RPG" with Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Vampire: The Masquerede Redemption, Deus Ex, and a whole assload of A-1 RPGs bent on ruining your real life forever.
Does Blizzard really think that they can compete with Vampire: The Masquerede (which just came out yesterday). I mean, this is one slick game.
AD&D:Neverwinter Nights::V:TM:Vampire: The Masquerede Redemption
Both these games have a multiplayer mode with a Storyteller (which is WoD speak, analogous to Dungeon Master for you AD&D people), so it's much more like playing your traditional pen & paper RPG, and it also includes, ahem, graphics that are not outdated (as in 3D).
I'm going out to EB first thing tomorrow to get Vampire, so if you need me, I'll be on Won.net playing a game that actually has more depth than Deer Hunter (which by Blizzard's standards is almost an RPG, since you click on Deer and you get to choose your weapons).
If you don't like Texas, don't live there, visit there, or drive through there. There's a reason we have states and that's so people can govern themselves in more of a direct democracy rather than be ruled by idiots in DC that wipe their asses daily with the 10th Amendment.
but your questions/flames are not the questions I'd ask. I'd ask something more along the lines of, "Whatever happened to 'The government that governs least governs the best'? When did we decide to follow Europe's lead and become a socialist society where 30-50% of my earnings is stolen from me and redistributed to irresponsible white trash and ghetto trash and old people that you've designated irresponsible (by forcing SS)."
Why is it that America has proven to be the ideal breeding ground for the current corporation-driven global economy that has gotten so out of hand?
Why is it that America makes every other country look like a welfare case, is that what you're asking? Because ambitious, money-worshipping people the world over have been immigrating to this country for the past couple hundred years. When's the last time you ever heard someone wanted to go to Norway to pursue the great Norweigan dream? Never, because that doesn't happen. It's not something in the water that makes us such jerks rather than the fact the we have been "collecting" jerks for such a long time.
I hate evil-encrusted corporatism as much as the next guy, but really, it's not the fault of capitalism at all. It's the fault of politicians in the pocket of these corporations, which seek to pass laws (UCITA, DMCA, others) and circumvent worthy, existing laws, that corporations perform such heinous acts.
Personally I think that the whole notion of the American Dream is one that needs to be abandoned. It has resulted in a society driven by violence towards acquisition and greed, in which the violence of its spirit is mirrored in its gun-obsessed, violent culture and media, and in its interventionalist foreign policy
Uh, can you say flamebait?
You don't like our acceptance of guns (relative to other developed, Western nations) or our interventionalist policies? Well then, the next time your Frenchie foo-foo country gets its faggoty ass invaded, don't expect us to come and save you, okay?
But seriously, violence in America is nothing like what is probably portrayed on your television. That's just your media trying to make Frenchies (or whatever you are) feel like they are better than us, in at least one way. And of course you want this to be true, so you tell yourself it is and that's that. From what the rest of the world hears, we Americans stagger around, dragging our 50 pound asses (22.7 kg for you Frenchies), sporting multiple bullet wounds, eating Big Macs, and making fun of the French. And while most of that is true, I don't have a single bullet hole in my chest, so there you go, America isn't as bad off as you'd like to believe.
To blame the United States and capitalism (what's left of it) for the world problem of evil coporatism is in just as bad of taste as making fun of the French. I'm sure if we lost WWII the way Europe did, rather than winning, the way that the US and Russia did, you socialists (though you'd probably never turn to socialism without the devastation caused by WWII) would be the ones with corporations breathing down the world's collective neck.
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The ruling already punished Microsoft by $80 billion of market capitalization. Gates himself lost $11 billion according to this CNNfn article from yesterdays topic.
I sure wouldn't want to lose $80 billion. That would kind of suck.
My dad is a stamp collector/dealer. A couple of months ago he placed an auction with eBay of a Cuban first day cover. eBay cancelled the auction, because the stamps were from Cuba and could not be sold in the United States (who would have ever thought of that?).
So eBay is definately watching everything that is posted. Why would they do this unless their lawyers informed them they had to by law? So the general consus of eBay's lawyers must be that if you profit from the sale of illegal items, then you're a crook. Maybe Yahoo needs some new lawyers.
Chuck Palahniuk has written 3 novels now, and all are very good, though Fight Club is head and shoulders above the other two. Who called Palahniuk a hack? An author who writes one good novel and can't write another is called a "Wonder Boy" (like Michael Douglas's character in movie of same name). You don't call someone a hack unless they suck.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure is fantastic in every way. It's visually Burton, with the comic genius of Phil Hartman and Paul Reubens. Plus that Danny Elfman soundtrack is unforgettable.
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Seriously, this game is gonna suck, just like that "RPG" that Blizzard released a few years ago. The only reason Diablo did so well is that there were few good RPGs released at that time. This year is looking to be the "Year of the RPG" with Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Vampire: The Masquerede Redemption, Deus Ex, and a whole assload of A-1 RPGs bent on ruining your real life forever.
Does Blizzard really think that they can compete with Vampire: The Masquerede (which just came out yesterday). I mean, this is one slick game.
AD&D:Neverwinter Nights::V:TM:Vampire: The Masquerede Redemption
Both these games have a multiplayer mode with a Storyteller (which is WoD speak, analogous to Dungeon Master for you AD&D people), so it's much more like playing your traditional pen & paper RPG, and it also includes, ahem, graphics that are not outdated (as in 3D).
I'm going out to EB first thing tomorrow to get Vampire, so if you need me, I'll be on Won.net playing a game that actually has more depth than Deer Hunter (which by Blizzard's standards is almost an RPG, since you click on Deer and you get to choose your weapons).
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Why is it that America has proven to be the ideal breeding ground for the current corporation-driven global economy that has gotten so out of hand?
Why is it that America makes every other country look like a welfare case, is that what you're asking? Because ambitious, money-worshipping people the world over have been immigrating to this country for the past couple hundred years. When's the last time you ever heard someone wanted to go to Norway to pursue the great Norweigan dream? Never, because that doesn't happen. It's not something in the water that makes us such jerks rather than the fact the we have been "collecting" jerks for such a long time.
I hate evil-encrusted corporatism as much as the next guy, but really, it's not the fault of capitalism at all. It's the fault of politicians in the pocket of these corporations, which seek to pass laws (UCITA, DMCA, others) and circumvent worthy, existing laws, that corporations perform such heinous acts.
Personally I think that the whole notion of the American Dream is one that needs to be abandoned. It has resulted in a society driven by violence towards acquisition and greed, in which the violence of its spirit is mirrored in its gun-obsessed, violent culture and media, and in its interventionalist foreign policy
Uh, can you say flamebait?
You don't like our acceptance of guns (relative to other developed, Western nations) or our interventionalist policies? Well then, the next time your Frenchie foo-foo country gets its faggoty ass invaded, don't expect us to come and save you, okay?
But seriously, violence in America is nothing like what is probably portrayed on your television. That's just your media trying to make Frenchies (or whatever you are) feel like they are better than us, in at least one way. And of course you want this to be true, so you tell yourself it is and that's that. From what the rest of the world hears, we Americans stagger around, dragging our 50 pound asses (22.7 kg for you Frenchies), sporting multiple bullet wounds, eating Big Macs, and making fun of the French. And while most of that is true, I don't have a single bullet hole in my chest, so there you go, America isn't as bad off as you'd like to believe.
To blame the United States and capitalism (what's left of it) for the world problem of evil coporatism is in just as bad of taste as making fun of the French. I'm sure if we lost WWII the way Europe did, rather than winning, the way that the US and Russia did, you socialists (though you'd probably never turn to socialism without the devastation caused by WWII) would be the ones with corporations breathing down the world's collective neck.
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I sure wouldn't want to lose $80 billion. That would kind of suck.
So eBay is definately watching everything that is posted. Why would they do this unless their lawyers informed them they had to by law? So the general consus of eBay's lawyers must be that if you profit from the sale of illegal items, then you're a crook. Maybe Yahoo needs some new lawyers.
Chuck Palahniuk has written 3 novels now, and all are very good, though Fight Club is head and shoulders above the other two. Who called Palahniuk a hack? An author who writes one good novel and can't write another is called a "Wonder Boy" (like Michael Douglas's character in movie of same name). You don't call someone a hack unless they suck.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure is fantastic in every way. It's visually Burton, with the comic genius of Phil Hartman and Paul Reubens. Plus that Danny Elfman soundtrack is unforgettable.