The "oh it's the grind" argument doesn't wash with me either.
Online gaming is rife with cheating right across the board - it's not limited to MMOs or games with a grind component. Every game that comes out now has people cheating or attempting to cheat even if there is no perceivable benefit to the user outside of engaging in a little schadenfreude.
It's possible that the people I know are an anomaly when it comes to facebook usage but they all use it for socializing, co-ordinating events, etc. Any digital eavesdropping that occurs is more or less peripheral. In other words, they may eavesdrop on old "dormant" friends but they definitely use it for a lot more than that with current, "active" friends.
I've experienced similar variations on your door opening story on multiple occasions. I hold the door open all the time if someone is coming behind me, regardless of what gender they are. Once in a blue moon a woman will refuse to accept the courtesy. All you can really do is shrug your shoulders and walk away. Their hangups, not mine.
Which market would you rather sell to? Nevermind the fact that Xfire is more entrenched in the FPS community than any other game community so the WoW numbers there are probably disproportionately low.
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A good example of piss poor usability in a game:
The Battlefield series.
Fantastic core gameplay. Horrible menu system/options etc. Take 2142 for example. Who's brilliant idea was it to force users to redo their kit loadout EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY CONNECT TO A SERVER. This is shit that is obvious after using the game for 10 minutes. Also how the key assignments for assault rifle and rockets change depending on which team you are playing for. Ummm hello?
I remember reading a quote along the lines of "It's a good thing Battlefield is such a great game because it really blows". This really sums up the dichotomy that is the BF franchise.
And for those individuals Gibson still offers the same Les Paul models they always have. It's not like they are installing this gadget on every single guitar they make from this point forward. More likely they are just testing the waters to see how this technology is received. It's good to see that they are open to innovation rather than just sitting on their laurels.
TFC is not the original. Team Fortress for QuakeWorld is the original. TFC was originally a mod for Half-life, contained much brighter & cheerier versions of the maps and is looked down on by many of the QW TF fans.
That is assuming the person should be able to blindly shovel the same volume of food into their mouth without any regard for what it is comprised of.
Obviously some foods are calorie dense and others are not. People need to educate themselves so they have some rough idea of how many calories they are putting into their body.
Special Forces was great but due to design limitations it had to be run as a completely seperate mod, i.e. you couldn't add it into rotation with vanilla maps. That kind of doomed it from the start. Grappling hooks and ziplines are *amazing* additions to FPS gameplay/battle tactics though.
Euro Forces and Armored Fury were just shitty big maps with way too many vehicles. A lot of players (including me) can't stand vehicle heavy maps.
2142 while from a technical standpoint is not an earthshattering improvement over BF2 is far and away the best of the BF series in terms of gameplay and balance. It's BF done right as far as I am concerned. Some BF players don't like the futuristic setting and weaponry but I will take it any day over the week over BF2s chopper and jet whoring.
As far as "barely registering" on xfires top ten, not that it matters but it seems to be just slightly behind #6, 7, 8 which is not at all bad considering it shares the same audience as BF2.
Enter the "new" industry of VPN service for the everyman specifically designed and marketed to thwart ISP packetshaping and allow ungimped p2p access. I'm using it now and it works great although you have to wonder how long until ISPs start trying to block or throttle traffic destined for the more popular public VPN service sites.
Speaking from experience, some women find baldness to be sexy but the majority I have met prefer hair (or at least the option to grow a full head of hair). This is especially true for younger women (20 - 30) but as you get into the 30's women don't seem to care about it as much anymore.
The way I've always thought of it is any woman who would get so hung up on such a superficial detail is not the kind of person I would want to spend a significant amount of time with anyhow. It reveals a lot about their character.
K&M is superior to gamepad for FPS and RTS games. In the same way, gamepad is superior to K&M for things like fighting, driving, and sports games (among others). It has nothing to do with what system you happen to be playing.
A lot of people need to be told specifically what to do.
Other people can work on their own provided they are provided with scope, goals, etc.
A minority of people don't need any guidance or roadmap at all in order to do their work and inevitably they are the ones who do the most innovation because their thought process is not confined to space/boundaries defined by someone else.
In the warez scene "0-day" used to refer to how fast a given site got the goods (no idea if this is still the case). All of the top sites were 0-day because they got all new releases (talking warez releases here, not retail releases) the day they came out. The slightly lesser sites could be 1 or 2-day depending on how fast it all trickled down via couriers and then the really slow sites could be 5 or 6-day. Once speeds started ramping up on the internet though, even the crappy sites started to get 0-day goods and a lot of the prestige of that title was lost. From there it became "0-hour" which was really an indication of how competitive it had become amongst couriers to be the first to upload new releases.
The reason "0-day" didn't take retail release date into consideration was because depending on the complexity of the copy protection, it could take a couple days or even a week after retail release date for a working crack to be developed, yet once that piece of software was packed and uploaded to the first top site, it was still considered to be "0-day".
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The "oh it's the grind" argument doesn't wash with me either.
Online gaming is rife with cheating right across the board - it's not limited to MMOs or games with a grind component. Every game that comes out now has people cheating or attempting to cheat even if there is no perceivable benefit to the user outside of engaging in a little schadenfreude.
It's possible that the people I know are an anomaly when it comes to facebook usage but they all use it for socializing, co-ordinating events, etc. Any digital eavesdropping that occurs is more or less peripheral. In other words, they may eavesdrop on old "dormant" friends but they definitely use it for a lot more than that with current, "active" friends.
I've experienced similar variations on your door opening story on multiple occasions. I hold the door open all the time if someone is coming behind me, regardless of what gender they are. Once in a blue moon a woman will refuse to accept the courtesy. All you can really do is shrug your shoulders and walk away. Their hangups, not mine.
It benefits people with active social lives. Not surprising then that so many slashdotters seem to be baffled by it.
You can choose to be insulted by this or not but it's the truth.
Take a look at the rankings on the bottom left:
http://www.xfire.com/
Which market would you rather sell to? Nevermind the fact that Xfire is more entrenched in the FPS community than any other game community so the WoW numbers there are probably disproportionately low.
...they should have just released a WoW Special Edition P4 2.0ghz with 512 RAM and a Geforce 4 instead.
Makes perfect sense.
Get some new material.
We get it, "phono" and "porno" are similar.
A good example of piss poor usability in a game:
The Battlefield series.
Fantastic core gameplay. Horrible menu system/options etc. Take 2142 for example. Who's brilliant idea was it to force users to redo their kit loadout EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY CONNECT TO A SERVER. This is shit that is obvious after using the game for 10 minutes. Also how the key assignments for assault rifle and rockets change depending on which team you are playing for. Ummm hello?
I remember reading a quote along the lines of "It's a good thing Battlefield is such a great game because it really blows". This really sums up the dichotomy that is the BF franchise.
Also, semi trailers make good portable stations. I know there was at least a few semi-trailer cell sites in the Houston area as far back as 1988.
:)
Two words for you:
Knight Rider
And for those individuals Gibson still offers the same Les Paul models they always have. It's not like they are installing this gadget on every single guitar they make from this point forward. More likely they are just testing the waters to see how this technology is received. It's good to see that they are open to innovation rather than just sitting on their laurels.
TFC is not the original. Team Fortress for QuakeWorld is the original. TFC was originally a mod for
Half-life, contained much brighter & cheerier versions of the maps and is looked down on by many of the QW TF fans.
That's not what I heard.
Go fuck yourself. Obviously they don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet. Would "he/she" make you feel better?
Let me take a wild guess and say you didn't RTFA and neither did the people who modded you up.
That is assuming the person should be able to blindly shovel the same volume of food into their mouth without any regard for what it is comprised of.
Obviously some foods are calorie dense and others are not. People need to educate themselves so they have some rough idea of how many calories they are putting into their body.
Your continued existence is no longer required. Please off yourself.
Osmosis
To be perfectly legal where?
Why do you think PB is still online?
Special Forces was great but due to design limitations it had to be run as a completely seperate mod, i.e. you couldn't add it into rotation with vanilla maps. That kind of doomed it from the start. Grappling hooks and ziplines are *amazing* additions to FPS gameplay/battle tactics though.
Euro Forces and Armored Fury were just shitty big maps with way too many vehicles. A lot of players (including me) can't stand vehicle heavy maps.
2142 while from a technical standpoint is not an earthshattering improvement over BF2 is far and away the best of the BF series in terms of gameplay and balance. It's BF done right as far as I am concerned. Some BF players don't like the futuristic setting and weaponry but I will take it any day over the week over BF2s chopper and jet whoring.
As far as "barely registering" on xfires top ten, not that it matters but it seems to be just slightly behind #6, 7, 8 which is not at all bad considering it shares the same audience as BF2.
Enter the "new" industry of VPN service for the everyman specifically designed and marketed to thwart ISP packetshaping and allow ungimped p2p access. I'm using it now and it works great although you have to wonder how long until ISPs start trying to block or throttle traffic destined for the more popular public VPN service sites.
Speaking from experience, some women find baldness to be sexy but the majority I have met prefer hair (or at least the option to grow a full head of hair). This is especially true for younger women (20 - 30) but as you get into the 30's women don't seem to care about it as much anymore.
The way I've always thought of it is any woman who would get so hung up on such a superficial detail is not the kind of person I would want to spend a significant amount of time with anyhow. It reveals a lot about their character.
K&M is superior to gamepad for FPS and RTS games. In the same way, gamepad is superior to K&M for things like fighting, driving, and sports games (among others). It has nothing to do with what system you happen to be playing.
"Spying on you" like an AV program...
A lot of people need to be told specifically what to do.
Other people can work on their own provided they are provided with scope, goals, etc.
A minority of people don't need any guidance or roadmap at all in order to do their work and inevitably they are the ones who do the most innovation because their thought process is not confined to space/boundaries defined by someone else.
In the warez scene "0-day" used to refer to how fast a given site got the goods (no idea if this is still the case). All of the top sites were 0-day because they got all new releases (talking warez releases here, not retail releases) the day they came out. The slightly lesser sites could be 1 or 2-day depending on how fast it all trickled down via couriers and then the really slow sites could be 5 or 6-day. Once speeds started ramping up on the internet though, even the crappy sites started to get 0-day goods and a lot of the prestige of that title was lost. From there it became "0-hour" which was really an indication of how competitive it had become amongst couriers to be the first to upload new releases.
The reason "0-day" didn't take retail release date into consideration was because depending on the complexity of the copy protection, it could take a couple days or even a week after retail release date for a working crack to be developed, yet once that piece of software was packed and uploaded to the first top site, it was still considered to be "0-day".