It had been almost a full week and a company hadn't announced a new MMORPG yet. Was starting to worry.
Now we can add yet another new game to the list of announced-but-will-never-be-released MMORPGs! And in about a year or two we can add it to our ever growing list of cancelled MMORPG's.
And for the love of God, don't try to create anything innovative or different or try new things or be original, as it will totally screw up the list.
Well, I had no idea that Fry, Zoiberg, Farnsworth and Zap were all the same actor until the series was canceled...so he certainly didn't sound the same to me at all.
Even now, I go back and try to see if I can tell if it's the same actor and I still can't tell. Guess I have a deaf ear...which explains why I make my living as a musician. lol.
One *purported* Dell "explosion" (I certainly did not see the emblem clearly on the pictures) pales in comparison to a series of Macs suffering from either swelling/failing batteries or discoloration on the laptop itself.
True...but taking the two problems in perspective I'll take the swelling and failing over the bursting into flames thing. But that's just me.
I've been working on this for years now...decades actually....but now I'm totally protected from people stealing my identity and ruining my credit. Here's how I did it:
I've personally destroyed my credit so badly over the years that if someone were to steal my identity, the joke would be on them! Hell, it may actually even help my credit.
Oh sure, people laughed at me over the years...but who's laughing now?!! Ok....so they're still laughing at me...but that's beside the point.
Anyone else have a hard time reading Slashdot with this new layout/theme? I've given it a few weeks now, but I just can't get used to it. Is there anyway to just go back to the old layout for those of us that prefer content over style?
But you don't "have" to download it and test it if you don't want to. Microsoft isn't relying on us totally to weed out and find the bugs, but they DO know that more eyes looking at something can find more things. To test something totally in-house with something this big is a little foolish...because no matter what they do, there's always some goofball out there that will do something totally and completely unexpected with the OS that they couldn't possibly have foreseen. That's where THIS goofball (me) comes into play. And you're right, it's not your job. BUT, if you wanted to pitch in and test it anyway you're more than welcome. If you don't, why shit over anyone that does?
I personally don't mind testing it out. You obviously mind. Should we call the police? Can you give us your whereabouts? We can dispatch an officer to your location so they can arrest the person that's holding a gun to your head making you download and test this for MS for free.
You didn't like it, you were bored after 3 months...therefore EVERYONE shouldn't like it and be bored stiff.
Lineage has the second highest...have you played that? I can't see the draw for that one either, but obviously someone likes it.
Hey, we're all different. Blizzard can't please everyone all the time. You either like it, or don't. Don't take it so personally. Should everyone like or dislike the same movies? Books? You ask what makes the game interesting...but what could anyone say to change your mind? What list of things would make you reconsider it after you played it already for 3 months? You've made your mind up and we'd be wasting our time and yours trying to convince you.
And in the end, it's really no big deal. Go play something else as is your choice.
I played Eve for a while. It's a great way to get to sleep if you're an insomniac as it has to be one of the most boring games I've ever played. But that's just my opinion...and I know several people that just love Eve.
1. Find a proxie server 2. log into gmail 3. send email out 4. pay no taxes
Can't that be done? You're not going through a pop server from your ISP, in theory the ISP just sees you going to a proxy server. Right? Or is there much more to this than that?
WoW is not impressive by most veteran RPGers, by any stretch of the imagination.
Veteran RPGer here. Started playing AD&D back in 1980...then went on to Call of Cthulhu, Morrow Project, Danger International and Fantasy Hero blah blah blah. Me and my group of friends were pretty hard core about it all, but just to have a lot of fun and laugh our asses off.
Then I got into MMORPG's, got on to EQ a few days after it's original release. I knew from the very start it was NOTHING like role playing games. No computer game I've ever played...EVER...was like a role playing game. Not one. But I still had fun with them and I had a blast with EQ.
I tried the other games when they came out like Camelot and Anarchy Online and Star Wars Galaxies....but they didn't grab me like EQ had and I actually became a little nostalgic with EQ and missed some of the places I used to run through. Like visiting a town you grew up in or something. Also EQ seemed bigger back in the old days as it would take a LONG time to run from Qeynos to Freeport if you didn't have a port. It was a challenge. Now, you can just hop over to where you need to go...though I'll admit, it's been years since I've played it.
Then WoW came along. It seemed interesting and the style looked nice. I played in the beta for a while and got hooked in. It was fast, it was fun and I still play it. Is it an RPG? Of course not. As I said before, none of these games are RPG's. That doesn't mean that I like it. I'm a "hard core RPGer", yet I love WoW and the friends that I've met there.
Not even Oblivion is a real RPG...it's a videogame. Yes, I play it. I'm still playing it and it's a lot of fun, but in the end it's all scripted stuff and can't for a moment throw a really WEIRD curve ball at you like a live person controlling another character. It has great stories. It's very deep and of course it's very beautiful to run through...but not for once did I feel like I'm inside the game. I always feel like I'm playing a video game. No matter where I went, I always knew that nothing could happen to me because if I died I was a quick save-game away...and that's really the crux of the problem. When you play a pen-and-paper RPG, when you're character died, that was it for the night for you. At least it was when we played. But it was still a blast to watch how everyone else was playing after you died and see if they could get out of it....or depending on what game we were playing if they could drag my corpse to a healer or not (if they didn't loot my corpse and use me for food, but that's another story).
So what am I saying? I would suggest not trying to compare apples and oranges. To me, videogames and RPG games are two totally different things. I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just they're different and you're not going to get the same experience from either. I simply sigh when I see yet another developer trying to chase this elusive demon and then proclaim: "it's like the old RPG games of old!".
Also, hard-core gamers DO play WoW, as you've just met one. But if you don't like to play, then by all means don't play. I'm still looking forward to Vanguard and it will be interesting to see what Brad will do with it, if it ever comes out.
But how big is the "hard core" MMORPG market? Is it worth it to spend all this money on something to develop if they're going to have a small core population? There are people that like playing Zork style text adventure games....should a company cater to them too and charge them 14 bucks a month? There has to be a give and take attitude. You have to make it fun (it's a game you know...fun enters into the equation at some point) while also making it challenging and interesting. You can't please everyone, but there IS a balance. It just takes a talented mind to find that balance.
As far as non-instanced housing is, I hope this NEVER comes out for Vanguard or WoW for that matter. Did you ever play Star Wars Galaxies before it died? There were player made houses all OVER the fricken place...and it actually just turned into useless clutter. But it doesn't matter anymore as SWG is gone now.
I was just kidding around, didn't know it was going to turn into all this.
My reasoning behind all the goofiness? It just struck me that the heliopause was shrinking based on two measurements. Shrinking in this day and age seems to be seen as bad for some reason so I just put it that Al Gore will say that the shrinking heliopause is due to mans dumping of blah blah blah blah...I mean, it's absurd right? Of course he won't say that. Of course there's nothing we know about why it's smaller one measurement and larger in another. We didn't cause it, we just measured the damn thing....hence my lame attempt at humor along with the fact that Al Gore is coming out with a movie based on a presentation he's been giving all over the world about global warming. Sorry...
Hmmm...could this be one of the reasons why the kernel in Linux is so SO bloated now until you rebuild it for your specific system? I mean, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink sure does support a lot of different hardware...but come ON. And what average user is going to rebuild/recompile their kernels?
Do they have an installation yet that scans for your hardware then builds/compiles the kernel to the specifics of the system it's being loaded onto? If so that would be great!
I used to work nights as a Photoshop guy at a color pre-press shop in the burbs of Chicago. They had an SGI server running IRIX and the people that ran it were two guys that knew a little about computers. One used to be in the sales department, and the other guys dad got him his job there straight out of high school. Neither one had any formal training in IT or even a basic computer course...let alone Unix security. To be fair, I wasn't a computer expert either, but I read a lot and knew a few things...but hardly an IT professional.
Anyway, when I first started there, I offered my help at night since they weren't there and sometimes it got slow in my department. They declined with an attitude of like "pfft....yeah, we're fine guy, just go away". So I did, and I didn't want to ruffle any feathers as I had just started there. But what I DID notice is that everything they did on the server they did in root mode. All the terminals were in root, all the back-ups they did were in root and even just normal maintenance was all done with root! Now, I thought that was basic 101 computer security and SAFETY not to do everything in root. Plus, none of the terminals were locked away in a room...anyone could walk up to any terminal and just start typing away, from the CEO to the janitor. I pointed out this very basic breach of security and again got the attitude of "we know what we're doing, go back to Photoshop"...so I did and kept my mouth shut.
Well, to make a long story longer, they had the whole system hacked into, a guy set up a spam-bot network using their equipment and T1 line....but did they lose their jobs? No, not at all...they actually got promoted later on, but it was pretty funny at the time.
Easy, the "cracker" should have formed a corporation first with the intent of being a "security consultation firm".
"Hey, the worm we were developing to track down...um...terrorists...got away from us and got released to the net. Sorry about that. Hey, we'll bankrupt the company ok? We'll dissolve it and go on our merry way....oh, can we get some venture capital cash from you government types so we can continue our...um...research? Yeah yeah, national security and all that."
See, bullshit your way out of it and act just like a real company like Sony.
...it holds you all captive (want to try and get out of America is they ban you from public transport of all kinds, including boats and planes?)
Well, we do have land neighbors to the North and South where you can walk across the border. Millions do it all the time, and it's been illegal for decades...but only recently have people been totally up-in-arms about it.
I'm personally thinking of leaving the country. I've had it with America. I've tried to vote to change things....it did nothing. I've tried to get others involved, tried to get people to vote and change things....it did nothing. Now we're in a bullshit war, the world hates us and our economy is going down the dumper. Then to add fuel to the bonfire, the government is stepping all over us and taking away our rights (well, not taking them away, just blatantly ignoring them), and the religious nuts are gaining more and more ground when they should actually be fading away and going extinct.
I don't want to leave because I hate America...I'm afraid of the direction it's going. Fear is the main issue with me now. I'm not pissed off anymore...I'm not saying I want to get out to piss others off or to make some political statement. I'm scared. I'm afraid for myself and my family. It's gotten to that point. Some people in Germany back in the 1930's saw how the climate was changing in that country and many fled. Many fled Russia right before the Revolution because they saw what was about to happen. Now is the time for people to start fleeing America. In the next few years Canada and Mexico should be prepared for refugees fleeing this once great country. My advice is to leave while you still can with relative ease. Don't get sucked into the "stay and fight with your vote" nonsense...because it may be too late.
But he's not directing it. And PJ is working on a MUCH smaller movie now with "The Lovely Bones"...not that being the executive producer on Halo isn't a big job, I don't blame him for taking a smaller film to direct after LOTR and Kong.
But, having said that, they still haven't found a director for Halo so who knows, he may just take it over himself which would be quite interesting.
Yeah, loved those movies that had Mecha-Cthulhu vs. original Cthulhu...but they're hard to watch because every time you actually see Cthulhu, you lose sanity points.
It also means that no matter what it's called today, the name will change again. Just when you get used to something, it changes....for no good reason really.
DeBeers will give you all sorts of fud saying that they will eventually have a process for telling the difference between the two, but they won't. Ever.
While I have no love for De Beers and they do spread a TON of FUD out there, I've read several trade publications about the amount of nickle and/or hydrogen traces in these synthetics that will give away it's origin...though not in every case of course. This is independent of De Beers also, but they certainly have a vested interest in finding this out.
But to say they won't ever have a process for telling the difference is a little short-sighted don't you think?
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It had been almost a full week and a company hadn't announced a new MMORPG yet. Was starting to worry.
Now we can add yet another new game to the list of announced-but-will-never-be-released MMORPGs! And in about a year or two we can add it to our ever growing list of cancelled MMORPG's.
And for the love of God, don't try to create anything innovative or different or try new things or be original, as it will totally screw up the list.
Well, I had no idea that Fry, Zoiberg, Farnsworth and Zap were all the same actor until the series was canceled...so he certainly didn't sound the same to me at all.
Even now, I go back and try to see if I can tell if it's the same actor and I still can't tell. Guess I have a deaf ear...which explains why I make my living as a musician. lol.
One *purported* Dell "explosion" (I certainly did not see the emblem clearly on the pictures) pales in comparison to a series of Macs suffering from either swelling/failing batteries or discoloration on the laptop itself.
True...but taking the two problems in perspective I'll take the swelling and failing over the bursting into flames thing. But that's just me.
Yeah, it's only Apple that's having problems like this.
Good thing some company like Dell doesn't have any problems with swelling in their laptops.
Hey, check this out! http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550
I've been working on this for years now...decades actually....but now I'm totally protected from people stealing my identity and ruining my credit. Here's how I did it:
I've personally destroyed my credit so badly over the years that if someone were to steal my identity, the joke would be on them! Hell, it may actually even help my credit.
Oh sure, people laughed at me over the years...but who's laughing now?!! Ok....so they're still laughing at me...but that's beside the point.
Anyone else have a hard time reading Slashdot with this new layout/theme? I've given it a few weeks now, but I just can't get used to it. Is there anyway to just go back to the old layout for those of us that prefer content over style?
What if you don't have Web 2.0. I'm pretty sure my ISP hasn't upgraded to 2.0 and I'm still stuck at 1.0.
I'm being left behind! What ISP's support Web 2.0?
I'm worried now!
(/sarcasm off)
But you don't "have" to download it and test it if you don't want to. Microsoft isn't relying on us totally to weed out and find the bugs, but they DO know that more eyes looking at something can find more things. To test something totally in-house with something this big is a little foolish...because no matter what they do, there's always some goofball out there that will do something totally and completely unexpected with the OS that they couldn't possibly have foreseen. That's where THIS goofball (me) comes into play. And you're right, it's not your job. BUT, if you wanted to pitch in and test it anyway you're more than welcome. If you don't, why shit over anyone that does?
I personally don't mind testing it out. You obviously mind. Should we call the police? Can you give us your whereabouts? We can dispatch an officer to your location so they can arrest the person that's holding a gun to your head making you download and test this for MS for free.
You didn't like it, you were bored after 3 months...therefore EVERYONE shouldn't like it and be bored stiff.
Lineage has the second highest...have you played that? I can't see the draw for that one either, but obviously someone likes it.
Hey, we're all different. Blizzard can't please everyone all the time. You either like it, or don't. Don't take it so personally. Should everyone like or dislike the same movies? Books? You ask what makes the game interesting...but what could anyone say to change your mind? What list of things would make you reconsider it after you played it already for 3 months? You've made your mind up and we'd be wasting our time and yours trying to convince you.
And in the end, it's really no big deal. Go play something else as is your choice.
I played Eve for a while. It's a great way to get to sleep if you're an insomniac as it has to be one of the most boring games I've ever played. But that's just my opinion...and I know several people that just love Eve.
1. Find a proxie server
2. log into gmail
3. send email out
4. pay no taxes
Can't that be done? You're not going through a pop server from your ISP, in theory the ISP just sees you going to a proxy server. Right? Or is there much more to this than that?
Really? Now that IS interesting. I may have to look more into that.
WoW is not impressive by most veteran RPGers, by any stretch of the imagination.
Veteran RPGer here. Started playing AD&D back in 1980...then went on to Call of Cthulhu, Morrow Project, Danger International and Fantasy Hero blah blah blah. Me and my group of friends were pretty hard core about it all, but just to have a lot of fun and laugh our asses off.
Then I got into MMORPG's, got on to EQ a few days after it's original release. I knew from the very start it was NOTHING like role playing games. No computer game I've ever played...EVER...was like a role playing game. Not one. But I still had fun with them and I had a blast with EQ.
I tried the other games when they came out like Camelot and Anarchy Online and Star Wars Galaxies....but they didn't grab me like EQ had and I actually became a little nostalgic with EQ and missed some of the places I used to run through. Like visiting a town you grew up in or something. Also EQ seemed bigger back in the old days as it would take a LONG time to run from Qeynos to Freeport if you didn't have a port. It was a challenge. Now, you can just hop over to where you need to go...though I'll admit, it's been years since I've played it.
Then WoW came along. It seemed interesting and the style looked nice. I played in the beta for a while and got hooked in. It was fast, it was fun and I still play it. Is it an RPG? Of course not. As I said before, none of these games are RPG's. That doesn't mean that I like it. I'm a "hard core RPGer", yet I love WoW and the friends that I've met there.
Not even Oblivion is a real RPG...it's a videogame. Yes, I play it. I'm still playing it and it's a lot of fun, but in the end it's all scripted stuff and can't for a moment throw a really WEIRD curve ball at you like a live person controlling another character. It has great stories. It's very deep and of course it's very beautiful to run through...but not for once did I feel like I'm inside the game. I always feel like I'm playing a video game. No matter where I went, I always knew that nothing could happen to me because if I died I was a quick save-game away...and that's really the crux of the problem. When you play a pen-and-paper RPG, when you're character died, that was it for the night for you. At least it was when we played. But it was still a blast to watch how everyone else was playing after you died and see if they could get out of it....or depending on what game we were playing if they could drag my corpse to a healer or not (if they didn't loot my corpse and use me for food, but that's another story).
So what am I saying? I would suggest not trying to compare apples and oranges. To me, videogames and RPG games are two totally different things. I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just they're different and you're not going to get the same experience from either. I simply sigh when I see yet another developer trying to chase this elusive demon and then proclaim: "it's like the old RPG games of old!".
Also, hard-core gamers DO play WoW, as you've just met one. But if you don't like to play, then by all means don't play. I'm still looking forward to Vanguard and it will be interesting to see what Brad will do with it, if it ever comes out.
Take care.
But how big is the "hard core" MMORPG market? Is it worth it to spend all this money on something to develop if they're going to have a small core population? There are people that like playing Zork style text adventure games....should a company cater to them too and charge them 14 bucks a month? There has to be a give and take attitude. You have to make it fun (it's a game you know...fun enters into the equation at some point) while also making it challenging and interesting. You can't please everyone, but there IS a balance. It just takes a talented mind to find that balance.
As far as non-instanced housing is, I hope this NEVER comes out for Vanguard or WoW for that matter. Did you ever play Star Wars Galaxies before it died? There were player made houses all OVER the fricken place...and it actually just turned into useless clutter. But it doesn't matter anymore as SWG is gone now.
I was just kidding around, didn't know it was going to turn into all this.
My reasoning behind all the goofiness? It just struck me that the heliopause was shrinking based on two measurements. Shrinking in this day and age seems to be seen as bad for some reason so I just put it that Al Gore will say that the shrinking heliopause is due to mans dumping of blah blah blah blah...I mean, it's absurd right? Of course he won't say that. Of course there's nothing we know about why it's smaller one measurement and larger in another. We didn't cause it, we just measured the damn thing....hence my lame attempt at humor along with the fact that Al Gore is coming out with a movie based on a presentation he's been giving all over the world about global warming. Sorry...
Don't worry, I won't try it again.
Yes, yes I do...but not EVERYTHING can be used as a module.
Wait a few days....Al Gore will have a new PowerPoint slide that shows how this is all caused by global (now solar system) warming.
Hmmm...could this be one of the reasons why the kernel in Linux is so SO bloated now until you rebuild it for your specific system? I mean, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink sure does support a lot of different hardware...but come ON. And what average user is going to rebuild/recompile their kernels?
Do they have an installation yet that scans for your hardware then builds/compiles the kernel to the specifics of the system it's being loaded onto? If so that would be great!
I used to work nights as a Photoshop guy at a color pre-press shop in the burbs of Chicago. They had an SGI server running IRIX and the people that ran it were two guys that knew a little about computers. One used to be in the sales department, and the other guys dad got him his job there straight out of high school. Neither one had any formal training in IT or even a basic computer course...let alone Unix security. To be fair, I wasn't a computer expert either, but I read a lot and knew a few things...but hardly an IT professional.
Anyway, when I first started there, I offered my help at night since they weren't there and sometimes it got slow in my department. They declined with an attitude of like "pfft....yeah, we're fine guy, just go away". So I did, and I didn't want to ruffle any feathers as I had just started there. But what I DID notice is that everything they did on the server they did in root mode. All the terminals were in root, all the back-ups they did were in root and even just normal maintenance was all done with root! Now, I thought that was basic 101 computer security and SAFETY not to do everything in root. Plus, none of the terminals were locked away in a room...anyone could walk up to any terminal and just start typing away, from the CEO to the janitor. I pointed out this very basic breach of security and again got the attitude of "we know what we're doing, go back to Photoshop"...so I did and kept my mouth shut.
Well, to make a long story longer, they had the whole system hacked into, a guy set up a spam-bot network using their equipment and T1 line....but did they lose their jobs? No, not at all...they actually got promoted later on, but it was pretty funny at the time.
Easy, the "cracker" should have formed a corporation first with the intent of being a "security consultation firm".
"Hey, the worm we were developing to track down...um...terrorists...got away from us and got released to the net. Sorry about that. Hey, we'll bankrupt the company ok? We'll dissolve it and go on our merry way....oh, can we get some venture capital cash from you government types so we can continue our...um...research? Yeah yeah, national security and all that."
See, bullshit your way out of it and act just like a real company like Sony.
...it holds you all captive (want to try and get out of America is they ban you from public transport of all kinds, including boats and planes?)
Well, we do have land neighbors to the North and South where you can walk across the border. Millions do it all the time, and it's been illegal for decades...but only recently have people been totally up-in-arms about it.
I'm personally thinking of leaving the country. I've had it with America. I've tried to vote to change things....it did nothing. I've tried to get others involved, tried to get people to vote and change things....it did nothing. Now we're in a bullshit war, the world hates us and our economy is going down the dumper. Then to add fuel to the bonfire, the government is stepping all over us and taking away our rights (well, not taking them away, just blatantly ignoring them), and the religious nuts are gaining more and more ground when they should actually be fading away and going extinct.
I don't want to leave because I hate America...I'm afraid of the direction it's going. Fear is the main issue with me now. I'm not pissed off anymore...I'm not saying I want to get out to piss others off or to make some political statement. I'm scared. I'm afraid for myself and my family. It's gotten to that point. Some people in Germany back in the 1930's saw how the climate was changing in that country and many fled. Many fled Russia right before the Revolution because they saw what was about to happen. Now is the time for people to start fleeing America. In the next few years Canada and Mexico should be prepared for refugees fleeing this once great country. My advice is to leave while you still can with relative ease. Don't get sucked into the "stay and fight with your vote" nonsense...because it may be too late.
But he's not directing it. And PJ is working on a MUCH smaller movie now with "The Lovely Bones"...not that being the executive producer on Halo isn't a big job, I don't blame him for taking a smaller film to direct after LOTR and Kong.
But, having said that, they still haven't found a director for Halo so who knows, he may just take it over himself which would be quite interesting.
Yeah, loved those movies that had Mecha-Cthulhu vs. original Cthulhu...but they're hard to watch because every time you actually see Cthulhu, you lose sanity points.
It also means that no matter what it's called today, the name will change again. Just when you get used to something, it changes....for no good reason really.
DeBeers will give you all sorts of fud saying that they will eventually have a process for telling the difference between the two, but they won't. Ever.
While I have no love for De Beers and they do spread a TON of FUD out there, I've read several trade publications about the amount of nickle and/or hydrogen traces in these synthetics that will give away it's origin...though not in every case of course. This is independent of De Beers also, but they certainly have a vested interest in finding this out.
But to say they won't ever have a process for telling the difference is a little short-sighted don't you think?