Anybody that converts real world assets to virtual ones deserves what they get. Seriously, what's on your mind when you convert your hard earned cold cash into bits in some virtual world ?
Let me take a stab at this.... Ever bought software? Were you paying for the disc or the code? Ever gone to see a movie? Ever paid to do something or experience something? Ever exchanged hard earned cold cash for a service?
Paying for intangibles that result in your enjoyment is something everyone does on one level or another.
The last time I checked....there were three core books and then a slew of additional books for each individual class subset, psionics, magic, magic items, etc... By boiling it down into just four books (PHB, DMG, MM, and Errata) it makes the game a bit more approachable by new players rather than a book of the week club.
I muddled around Eberron, but it just felt very.....ah....flat. Kind of like after you've played the first few modules of a Dark Sun campaign.
Can you publish an edition that likens back to 1st Edition AD&D where four books and a module pretty much could sum up a session? How about putting more energy into fleshing out a world instead of bloating the ruleset or creating more classes? Well designed modules/worldbooks will still generate the revenue that you are trying to force out of your clients with more core books.
The magic of AD&D (whether it be high, dark, monty haul, hack-n-slash, dungeoncrawling, or comic) is in the minds of the players....the world they mold around their characters. Then again....most gaming companies today don't really care about this. WotC, Whizkids, Games Workshop....they're all about the $$ and number of units sold.
Having played WoW since its release, I dropped my account a few months after the Burning Crusade. It was a very enjoyable game, but like most MMOGs it failed to evolve and remained a very simple game. It began to feel like a stagnant experience. While PvP and the Battlegrounds helped that a great deal....at the end of the day it was the same experience.
A few months ago I reactivated my EQ2 account. If the current version of EQ2 had been the release version, I would never have left it for WoW. Like WoW, you can accomplish things in a short period of time, you can solo, there is a banker, getting around is simplified to a degree, and the mechanics are complex while not detracting from the enjoyment of the game itself.
I can only hope that more people go back and give EQ2 a try...and build its subscriber base. Competition is good...and Blizzard needs someone to keep them pushing the envelope.
I personally think that only the time of singleplayer games on the PC will be over soon. Consoles are just easier to use and cheaper.
How many times have I heard this in the past 20 years? Ah, about the same number of times I've heard "Year XXXX is the year of Linux on the Desktop!!!"
There is a certain degree of prewire that comes with gender.
There was a young male child that had an accident while being circumcised. He was brought up to be a female and forced (yes, this is the correct usage) to play with dolls and wear dresses. The doctor cited this as proof of nurture over nature....though all evidence was to the contrary. Scientists skewing results to further a personal agenda...perish the thought.
Even in Communism where everyone was supposed to be equal, the leaders lived posh rich lives compared to the pheasants they ruled over.
Yes, but when the the rich started taking the pheasant eggs....they rose in revolt! They pecked the eyes out of all of those evil rich commie bastards!!!!
Yaknow... Zealots are always the first to toot their ubergeek horn, touting their technical prowess. Yet I keep running across these same Zealots whining about stability in Microsoft products. My company supports ~200 client companies with everything from Apples to BSD to Microsoft shops. When a Windows box is setup and utilized properly, we see excellent stability and reliability out of those systems. Everything functions in a straightforward manner and generally interoperates well. The issues with stability that we run across are generally user induced or shoddy third party packages. It seems to me if an ubergeek can create and maintain a stable Linux environ....surely they can do the same to a 'dumbed down' Microsoft environ?
Generally the clients we have the most issues with have developers on staff that seem to think that regular tweaking and testing on production servers is an acceptable pastime. Funny how that works...
The Martian economy took a serious blow today when the industrial sector was given a series of mandates to cut their emissions to a 'green' level. The infamous pseudoscientific Martian pinko brigade has introduced crumbling evidence that the recent shrinkage inthe polar caps was a direct result of sapient impact on the global climate. A previously unknown fringe group is trying to cast blame at the planet Earth, claming that emissions from that planet are the true cause.... Film at eleven.
Actually you'll note that DirecTV is not marketing them as DirecTivo any longer. About a year or so ago they began referring to the units as DirecTV DVRs. They also removed the Tivo logo from the remotes.
Why....I remember it like it was yesterday. There we all were...the greatest race in all of Norrath. Trollkin for as far as the eye could see (or at least as far as the swamp gas would allow). We were happy. We danced...we frolicked...we were peaceful and loved our neighbors and the wilderness of the swamp. All those stories of barshin' an squishin' were racist attacks by those anti-trollkin light-skinned races. The man was trying to hold us down but we remained free and happy....
Then the frogs came. In a blatantly racist attack, Sony sent legions of racist frogs in to take our land, rape our livestock, and kill our children. We found ourselves a broken people, forced to wander for years and years.
Even now we find ourselves singled out in towns. Children point at our warty skin and bulbous noses. They complain about the smell of our uncured hide armor.
How can we, as free thinking Americans, Europeans, Asians and the like allow this kind of blatant racism to exist in fantasy worlds!!!! Have you seen how they treat Dark Elves in EverQuest II?!?!?! It is shameful!!!!
.....considering that ~90% of the software in said country is pirated anyway. The big loss will be to the OSS community when they realize that more and more OS code will be incorporated into closed source apps with note even a by your leave given to the GPL.
Talk about a self serving work that's only purpose was to elicit preening from Slashdotters.... Why are geeks outcasts? Why, because they are just too darned devoted to exercising their dense gray matter. Because they're smarter than those silly popular kids. Wow. Such insight!!!
Anyone ever really think of why this is? Could it be simply because they're different? Because they don't share the same common ground with the majority of their peers. Because most of them whine about their situation, or hide behind a limp mask of superiority. Guess what, the bullshit doesn't end at college? People don't suddenly start flocking around the geeks and realize that they're some kind of second coming...
They HAVE to associate with them. They have jobs. They have social circles. They realize that all good machines need a little oil to keep turning smoothly. You can't beat the hell out of that sneering little prick in accounting or you might be fired....or even worse he'll screw up your budgeting nexst year. Being civil to that self aggrandizing fat fsck in IT...it won't really hurt your job, but he might give a little bit more attention to that damned TPS report reformatting that you requested two quarters ago....
Nothing changes.....kids are just a little less elegant/delicate about how they develop socially.
Incorrect sir. I have a client that was blocked by ORBZ... Initiated tests on their SMTP server from ORBZ site showed it as being clear. I petitioned and was told that there was a guilty server on the same subnet so the entire subnet had been listed. They suggested that I contact the guilty party....since it was their fault. Logical? I think not.
It's the spammers that should be targeted with HEAVY fines and penalties....not innocent users or admins of closed SMTP servers that are lumped into the guilty category through association (ie on the same damned subnet as a dumbass with an open relay).
Check out some of the anti-spam and anti-telemarketing laws being passed in CA and TX.
Why not hold the script kiddie that hacks the system responsible?
Do we hold the homeowner at fault because he doesn't bar all his windows and put a triple row of deadbolts on his door? There are always going to be new exploits coming out, be they security or DOS.... Lets hold the criminals responsible for their actions....even though personal responsibility has become anathema in American society.
Wow, how right you are!!!! Heavens forbid that these kids should go outside and get some sunlight and exercise.
Surely you're aware that American youth are suffering from obscene levels of obesity and diabetes due to geeking out in front of TVs, game consoles and computers while munching on twinkies and jolt.
Re:You're kidding about that Terrorism thing...
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Your arguements are myopic and fail to take into account the reality of everyday life.
If you want a real-world example of the effect of terrorist action on swaying public sentiment, please do some research into the past hundred years of history in Ireland and South America (particularly Columbia during the 80's and early 90's).
Israel's problem with terrorism is a bit different in that it involves terrorist actions by both parties involved. Tit for Tat if you will...
1. Condemn anything created by Micro$oft (wasn't the $ catchy?)
2. Pine over whether Linux will run on the hardware.
3. Whine that Linux could have done it better.
4. Quote a highly biased article from a rag of an online magazine. (the same magazine that recieved flak for it's poor content meer weeks ago)
5. Put synth-blood in the water to whip up the zealots into a frenzy.
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Let me take a stab at this....
Ever bought software? Were you paying for the disc or the code?
Ever gone to see a movie?
Ever paid to do something or experience something?
Ever exchanged hard earned cold cash for a service?
Paying for intangibles that result in your enjoyment is something everyone does on one level or another.
The last time I checked....there were three core books and then a slew of additional books for each individual class subset, psionics, magic, magic items, etc... By boiling it down into just four books (PHB, DMG, MM, and Errata) it makes the game a bit more approachable by new players rather than a book of the week club.
I muddled around Eberron, but it just felt very.....ah....flat. Kind of like after you've played the first few modules of a Dark Sun campaign.
Can you publish an edition that likens back to 1st Edition AD&D where four books and a module pretty much could sum up a session? How about putting more energy into fleshing out a world instead of bloating the ruleset or creating more classes? Well designed modules/worldbooks will still generate the revenue that you are trying to force out of your clients with more core books.
The magic of AD&D (whether it be high, dark, monty haul, hack-n-slash, dungeoncrawling, or comic) is in the minds of the players....the world they mold around their characters. Then again....most gaming companies today don't really care about this. WotC, Whizkids, Games Workshop....they're all about the $$ and number of units sold.
Don't you find your desire for censorship/alteration of findings to be a bit ironic?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/devolution
Having played WoW since its release, I dropped my account a few months after the Burning Crusade. It was a very enjoyable game, but like most MMOGs it failed to evolve and remained a very simple game. It began to feel like a stagnant experience. While PvP and the Battlegrounds helped that a great deal....at the end of the day it was the same experience.
A few months ago I reactivated my EQ2 account. If the current version of EQ2 had been the release version, I would never have left it for WoW. Like WoW, you can accomplish things in a short period of time, you can solo, there is a banker, getting around is simplified to a degree, and the mechanics are complex while not detracting from the enjoyment of the game itself.
I can only hope that more people go back and give EQ2 a try...and build its subscriber base. Competition is good...and Blizzard needs someone to keep them pushing the envelope.
How many times have I heard this in the past 20 years? Ah, about the same number of times I've heard "Year XXXX is the year of Linux on the Desktop!!!"
There was a young male child that had an accident while being circumcised. He was brought up to be a female and forced (yes, this is the correct usage) to play with dolls and wear dresses. The doctor cited this as proof of nurture over nature....though all evidence was to the contrary. Scientists skewing results to further a personal agenda...perish the thought.
As Nature Made Him
Yes, but when the the rich started taking the pheasant eggs....they rose in revolt! They pecked the eyes out of all of those evil rich commie bastards!!!!
The book was "Fallen Angels"....fiction.
Yaknow... Zealots are always the first to toot their ubergeek horn, touting their technical prowess. Yet I keep running across these same Zealots whining about stability in Microsoft products. My company supports ~200 client companies with everything from Apples to BSD to Microsoft shops. When a Windows box is setup and utilized properly, we see excellent stability and reliability out of those systems. Everything functions in a straightforward manner and generally interoperates well. The issues with stability that we run across are generally user induced or shoddy third party packages. It seems to me if an ubergeek can create and maintain a stable Linux environ....surely they can do the same to a 'dumbed down' Microsoft environ?
Generally the clients we have the most issues with have developers on staff that seem to think that regular tweaking and testing on production servers is an acceptable pastime. Funny how that works...
The Martian economy took a serious blow today when the industrial sector was given a series of mandates to cut their emissions to a 'green' level. The infamous pseudoscientific Martian pinko brigade has introduced crumbling evidence that the recent shrinkage inthe polar caps was a direct result of sapient impact on the global climate. A previously unknown fringe group is trying to cast blame at the planet Earth, claming that emissions from that planet are the true cause.... Film at eleven.
Actually you'll note that DirecTV is not marketing them as DirecTivo any longer. About a year or so ago they began referring to the units as DirecTV DVRs. They also removed the Tivo logo from the remotes.
Why....I remember it like it was yesterday. There we all were...the greatest race in all of Norrath. Trollkin for as far as the eye could see (or at least as far as the swamp gas would allow). We were happy. We danced...we frolicked...we were peaceful and loved our neighbors and the wilderness of the swamp. All those stories of barshin' an squishin' were racist attacks by those anti-trollkin light-skinned races. The man was trying to hold us down but we remained free and happy....
Then the frogs came. In a blatantly racist attack, Sony sent legions of racist frogs in to take our land, rape our livestock, and kill our children. We found ourselves a broken people, forced to wander for years and years.
Even now we find ourselves singled out in towns. Children point at our warty skin and bulbous noses. They complain about the smell of our uncured hide armor.
How can we, as free thinking Americans, Europeans, Asians and the like allow this kind of blatant racism to exist in fantasy worlds!!!! Have you seen how they treat Dark Elves in EverQuest II?!?!?! It is shameful!!!!
.....considering that ~90% of the software in said country is pirated anyway. The big loss will be to the OSS community when they realize that more and more OS code will be incorporated into closed source apps with note even a by your leave given to the GPL.
Trillian forums are strangely unavailable for comment as well.....
Anyone ever really think of why this is? Could it be simply because they're different? Because they don't share the same common ground with the majority of their peers. Because most of them whine about their situation, or hide behind a limp mask of superiority. Guess what, the bullshit doesn't end at college? People don't suddenly start flocking around the geeks and realize that they're some kind of second coming...
They HAVE to associate with them. They have jobs. They have social circles. They realize that all good machines need a little oil to keep turning smoothly. You can't beat the hell out of that sneering little prick in accounting or you might be fired....or even worse he'll screw up your budgeting nexst year. Being civil to that self aggrandizing fat fsck in IT...it won't really hurt your job, but he might give a little bit more attention to that damned TPS report reformatting that you requested two quarters ago....
Nothing changes.....kids are just a little less elegant/delicate about how they develop socially.
You _are_ a prick.
Incorrect sir. I have a client that was blocked by ORBZ... Initiated tests on their SMTP server from ORBZ site showed it as being clear. I petitioned and was told that there was a guilty server on the same subnet so the entire subnet had been listed. They suggested that I contact the guilty party....since it was their fault. Logical? I think not.
It's the spammers that should be targeted with HEAVY fines and penalties....not innocent users or admins of closed SMTP servers that are lumped into the guilty category through association (ie on the same damned subnet as a dumbass with an open relay).
Check out some of the anti-spam and anti-telemarketing laws being passed in CA and TX.
Do we hold the homeowner at fault because he doesn't bar all his windows and put a triple row of deadbolts on his door? There are always going to be new exploits coming out, be they security or DOS.... Lets hold the criminals responsible for their actions....even though personal responsibility has become anathema in American society.
Surely you're aware that American youth are suffering from obscene levels of obesity and diabetes due to geeking out in front of TVs, game consoles and computers while munching on twinkies and jolt.
If you want a real-world example of the effect of terrorist action on swaying public sentiment, please do some research into the past hundred years of history in Ireland and South America (particularly Columbia during the 80's and early 90's).
Israel's problem with terrorism is a bit different in that it involves terrorist actions by both parties involved. Tit for Tat if you will...
1. Condemn anything created by Micro$oft (wasn't the $ catchy?)
2. Pine over whether Linux will run on the hardware.
3. Whine that Linux could have done it better.
4. Quote a highly biased article from a rag of an online magazine. (the same magazine that recieved flak for it's poor content meer weeks ago)
5. Put synth-blood in the water to whip up the zealots into a frenzy.
Did I forget anything?
>sigh