While I've never played Everquest, I am familiar with obsessive\compulsive behavior (through my own experiences). The problem, I think, is that by the time a game like this stops being fun you have a huge time investment in it. Walking away from the game at that point would be difficult, because then it would feel like all those hours (or weeks, months, years) were wasted. Even if you are not having fun, I imagine that it feels like you have to keep playing simply to justify all the time you've already put into it. Of course, the sad thing is that this time is already "wasted", since there can never be a conclusion to these games. Since the only real reward of these games is the fun you have, then if it stops being fun you should stop playing. For a while, at least. Maybe it will be fun to play again if you stop for a few months. As an aside, I think Everquest addicts should stop playing EO and maybe start up a D&D (or other pen and paper based rpg) with their friends, to wean themselves away from it (sortof like methadone:). Pen & paper RPG's have several advantages over online, in that the players interact face to face, there is more room for creative input, more options for character development, and ultimately costs less. It still won't get you laid, though:)
"Yes, if you're a grown man, then I *would* say that there is something wrong with you for playing kiddie games and watching kiddie movies. I really hope that you're not "into" little kids, too. A grown man that plays little kids' video games and watches little kids' movies makes me really fucking nervous." Good god. This guy was talking about how he still likes to play games and watch movies that some (ignorant) people label as "kid's stuff" and you suddenly suggest he's a pedophile? What the hell is wrong with you? Are you really that ignorant or are you trolling? Just because some people might label something "for kids", and just because some media might be interesting to kids, that doesn't mean that there is nothing in it that would entertain an adult. I'm not talking about stuff like Seseme Street here... Inoshiro's example of Monsters Inc. is a good example. Even though it was primarily marketed for kids, there was plenty of really good humor in there that adults liked. Another example would be the Lord of the Rings movies. My 10-year old nephew likes them, and so do I.
It seems to me that any advantage you would have by loading a smaller file would get eaten up pretty quickly by the extra step of decompressing it, especially if the OS decides to use the swap file to decompress it. I'm probably not the best one to ask, though, seeing as I have no idea for sure, and I'm just talking out of my butt right now. In the case mentioned above, all I can tell you is that by compressing her whole C drive, her system ran so sloooowly that might have been faster to just reinstall the OS (NT4.0, in this case) instead of decompressing everything.
Good to know about not booting if you remove the pagefile drive, thanks. We actually have a few machines here with the pagefile on a seperate drive or partition (don't look at me, I didn't set them up that way). You actually can have no pagefile in NT, but only by setting the min/max size to zero. It'll throw an error msg at you every time you log in, though.
I'm sure none of us are still running NT, though, right? We all work for nice corporations who realize that we should have up to date software and hardware, right? Sure, and maybe purple flying pigs will shoot outta my butt.
Heh, quite sure. This is actually culled from real-life experience from someone I did have to support. The woman is question did a lot of her own "fixes". Like deleting the pagefile (to increase disk space), running virus scan non-stop (can't be too careful, can we?) and starting up every service she could (what if I need it?) I forgot to mention that, according to this person, you should compress all files on your C drive (smaller files run faster) It took me a while to get her system working normally again, and it took even longer to explain why all of her "tweaking" was a bad thing. An idiot with a little bit of knowledge and admin rights to the local machine is a dangerous thing.
Delete your pagefile. Have every possible service running. Now, run your game while doing a continuous virus scan. I can guarantee that your "fast" system will run much slower then an optimized "slower" system On the plus side, it is a great way to increase your frustration level.
Since ugly people can only get laid by other ugly people, what we are looking at is not so much a case of the human race getting prettier as it is a case of there being a widening gap between the beautiful and the ugly... a sort of "Beauty Divide" if you will. If that sounds innacurate, then... well, okay, I just made it up.
There are theaters in my area that feature "crying rooms", where parents with crying babies can sit and still watch the movie. It's a nice feature. Too bad nobody uses it.
What I wonder about this is that the end user installed the software that is doing this, and agreed to an EULA that said that is was OK. Does this make the end user liable for any infractions?
The "Mature" switch is actually a really good idea. They can just put that in the PS2 firmware and password protect it, with options to keep little kiddies from playing Dad's adult games or surfing for naughty stuff (once the broadband\HDD combo takes off).
Tie it into the game rating system (ie. this console can only play rated "E" games unless unlocked) and there you have an end to problems like people buying GTA3 for their 8 year old and blaming the manufacturer.
What would be even better is if they had Seven of Nine do some kinda time warp thing and she can be in the decontamination room with the vulcan chick and they can be spreading goo on each other and and Troi could be there too and for some reason the blue chick from Farscape and... urgh..
*GASP!*
*INHALE!*
*EXHALE!*
Whew, just had a little ubergeek hyperventilation there.
"You kill 2 birds with one stone. Increased stability + cost efficiency." Where I work, stability and cost efficiency has nothing to do with our choice of OS. We need something that will run all those damned legacy apps we still have left over from the DOS 6.22 days. It's so much easier, it seems, to accomodate these old apps then to replace or upgrade them. A lot of other big companies probably stay on Windows for the same reason.
Not necessary to inject them, they can be delivered through the umbilical cord. Problem is, how do we prevent nano-machines from destroying or damaging a fetus (they might think it's an invading hostile organism)
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Try a little harder next time
While I've never played Everquest, I am familiar with obsessive\compulsive behavior (through my own experiences). :). Pen & paper RPG's have several advantages over online, in that the players interact face to face, there is more room for creative input, more options for character development, and ultimately costs less. It still won't get you laid, though :)
The problem, I think, is that by the time a game like this stops being fun you have a huge time investment in it. Walking away from the game at that point would be difficult, because then it would feel like all those hours (or weeks, months, years) were wasted. Even if you are not having fun, I imagine that it feels like you have to keep playing simply to justify all the time you've already put into it.
Of course, the sad thing is that this time is already "wasted", since there can never be a conclusion to these games. Since the only real reward of these games is the fun you have, then if it stops being fun you should stop playing. For a while, at least. Maybe it will be fun to play again if you stop for a few months.
As an aside, I think Everquest addicts should stop playing EO and maybe start up a D&D (or other pen and paper based rpg) with their friends, to wean themselves away from it (sortof like methadone
Only if he builds enough supply depots and a barracks.
This is all part of the Berman Bill.
"Yes, if you're a grown man, then I *would* say that there is something wrong with you for playing kiddie games and watching kiddie movies. I really hope that you're not "into" little kids, too. A grown man that plays little kids' video games and watches little kids' movies makes me really fucking nervous."
Good god. This guy was talking about how he still likes to play games and watch movies that some (ignorant) people label as "kid's stuff" and you suddenly suggest he's a pedophile? What the hell is wrong with you? Are you really that ignorant or are you trolling?
Just because some people might label something "for kids", and just because some media might be interesting to kids, that doesn't mean that there is nothing in it that would entertain an adult. I'm not talking about stuff like Seseme Street here... Inoshiro's example of Monsters Inc. is a good example. Even though it was primarily marketed for kids, there was plenty of really good humor in there that adults liked. Another example would be the Lord of the Rings movies. My 10-year old nephew likes them, and so do I.
It seems to me that any advantage you would have by loading a smaller file would get eaten up pretty quickly by the extra step of decompressing it, especially if the OS decides to use the swap file to decompress it. I'm probably not the best one to ask, though, seeing as I have no idea for sure, and I'm just talking out of my butt right now.
In the case mentioned above, all I can tell you is that by compressing her whole C drive, her system ran so sloooowly that might have been faster to just reinstall the OS (NT4.0, in this case) instead of decompressing everything.
Good to know about not booting if you remove the pagefile drive, thanks. We actually have a few machines here with the pagefile on a seperate drive or partition (don't look at me, I didn't set them up that way).
You actually can have no pagefile in NT, but only by setting the min/max size to zero. It'll throw an error msg at you every time you log in, though.
I'm sure none of us are still running NT, though, right? We all work for nice corporations who realize that we should have up to date software and hardware, right? Sure, and maybe purple flying pigs will shoot outta my butt.
Are you sure you are not a (L)user I support?
Heh, quite sure. This is actually culled from real-life experience from someone I did have to support. The woman is question did a lot of her own "fixes". Like deleting the pagefile (to increase disk space), running virus scan non-stop (can't be too careful, can we?) and starting up every service she could (what if I need it?)
I forgot to mention that, according to this person, you should compress all files on your C drive (smaller files run faster)
It took me a while to get her system working normally again, and it took even longer to explain why all of her "tweaking" was a bad thing.
An idiot with a little bit of knowledge and admin rights to the local machine is a dangerous thing.
Delete your pagefile. Have every possible service running.
Now, run your game while doing a continuous virus scan.
I can guarantee that your "fast" system will run much slower then an optimized "slower" system
On the plus side, it is a great way to increase your frustration level.
Since ugly people can only get laid by other ugly people, what we are looking at is not so much a case of the human race getting prettier as it is a case of there being a widening gap between the beautiful and the ugly... a sort of "Beauty Divide" if you will.
If that sounds innacurate, then... well, okay, I just made it up.
If you're going to fight to the death... er... again, you'd best make sure you have some phoenix down.
I know a girl like that. The problem is, we were being intimate once, and now they call me "Stumpy"
There are theaters in my area that feature "crying rooms", where parents with crying babies can sit and still watch the movie.
It's a nice feature. Too bad nobody uses it.
They both suck goats, yes... But in Microsoft's case that's not a bug, its a feature.
I would recommend the Ronco (tm) Electric Penis Dryer (patent pending).
He was trying to get to the end boss in Tetris.
What I wonder about this is that the end user installed the software that is doing this, and agreed to an EULA that said that is was OK. Does this make the end user liable for any infractions?
The "Mature" switch is actually a really good idea. They can just put that in the PS2 firmware and password protect it, with options to keep little kiddies from playing Dad's adult games or surfing for naughty stuff (once the broadband\HDD combo takes off).
Tie it into the game rating system (ie. this console can only play rated "E" games unless unlocked) and there you have an end to problems like people buying GTA3 for their 8 year old and blaming the manufacturer.
Funny that you have a problem with Troi, but not with "the blue chick from Farscape" ;)
How in the name of geekdom could you leave Skully out of that? ;)
Ran outta breath, sorry
What would be even better is if they had Seven of Nine do some kinda time warp thing and she can be in the decontamination room with the vulcan chick and they can be spreading goo on each other and and Troi could be there too and for some reason the blue chick from Farscape and ... urgh..
*GASP!*
*INHALE!*
*EXHALE!*
Whew, just had a little ubergeek hyperventilation there.
"You kill 2 birds with one stone. Increased stability + cost efficiency."
Where I work, stability and cost efficiency has nothing to do with our choice of OS. We need something that will run all those damned legacy apps we still have left over from the DOS 6.22 days. It's so much easier, it seems, to accomodate these old apps then to replace or upgrade them.
A lot of other big companies probably stay on Windows for the same reason.
Not necessary to inject them, they can be delivered through the umbilical cord. Problem is, how do we prevent nano-machines from destroying or damaging a fetus (they might think it's an invading hostile organism)
Nobody said he was a smart fella.
The look on your face when you open the bill: priceless.