I seriously dont know of any other game except maybe Everquest which has been responsible for ruining so many of my friends lives lol. I dont mean to laugh but several have lost their jobs calling off fake sick and being caught on the servers by their supervisors who are ALSO playing WOW on their legitimate days off, not very smart lol. Several close friends of mine have also lost their girlfriends and one ended his marriage all over this damn Game. Ya cant blame the game or the game designers I am certain that they didnt develop the game with the intention of wrecking homes but that is indeed what it does. They need self help groups like AA for WOW players who obsess over their DPS lol. This new expansion is going to haul friends of mine who managed to pull themselves away from the game after months and months of grinding their social interaction percentage will now fall to 0 as they quest for ever highter dps lol.
Thing about that for a moment... you FEAR speaking your mind, in a country which is supposed to be a icon for the restoration of a free world? Doesnt that strike you as odd? When the common man has to fear the the entity put in place to govern their rights and freedoms... I am not afraid to speak my mind, to disagree with what I feel in my heart is simply wrong. To be branded as a possible security risk simply because you disagree with the practices of Big Brother, because you choose to read materials which might paint Big Brother as not being so kind, gentle and humane as they may want you to think they are... Thats just my opinion I could be wrong.
That our generation and those before us have made the world a place to fear for children, they cant even be safe at halloween anymore. They have to be wary of people who have far from their best interests at heart. There was a time where you could set your kids loose on their own to explore the world. You really cant do that anymore. Its so hard nowadays to protect kids from a world which is full of danger, and you cant keep them away you can only prepare them the best you can. The internet is the same way I fully support introducing kids to technology it will be a large part of their lives for the rest of their years. Much like the world outside though the net has its dangers too. So its our responsibility to try and protect them from those dangers as well.
To each their own obviously, but i find a 4 yr old on WoW ridiculous, be like me letting my daughter play COD with me. We can argue the differences all day long but they are both violent and in the case of WOW, personally, ive seen friends lives ruined by the game. It was there choice to let the game interfere with their relationships granted but the idea that any game would have that sort of pull on a person is extremely disturbing, and giving it to a 4 yr old might as well be allowing your 4 yr old to smoke a joint with dad.
Man is a highly advanced technological marvel with data processing capabilities far beyond any man made machine. We have self replicating ability akin to a virus, we have the ability to download and store information much like a HDD. We learn through input, the more information we feed on the more efficient the machine we become. We are now in a trend where we are de-evolving technologically. Actually discovering inferior technologies to compensate for the flaws that we as superior tech are hardcoded with. Like our inability to cheat death, and our inability to keep our system from degrading. Life compensates for this by allowing us to transfer our most vital information through DNA adding information along the way. This isnt good enough for us. We, unlike most computers, have the ability to overcome obstacles set in our path. One could argue that this is a preprogrammed skill set. Much like a complex computer application which is designed to react depending on the external stimulae.. I dont prescribe to the soul idea. I do believe however that man is just a shell like a PC case to house all the data we harvest. I dont know what happens when the physical body dies but I would suspect that the pure information we are composed off exists in some form or another.
As i understand it having copies of your own purchased materials is legal, so regardless of where you get that copy from as long as you have a original to indicate that you did at one time in fact purchase the product. You can legally have a backup of that software, its distro that the government is really hungry for.. back on IRC piracy was rampant through the use of XDCC servers, for those who dont know this was like logging into a virtual flea market where everything was free. You are given access to the host computers libraries and able to download whatever they give access too. Torrents have made the practice a lot less practical but it was also more descreet.. The big issue with XDCC and distro is the host computers were often bot-infected machines hosting hundreds of gigs of files and the most popular content was often expensive software, movies games and music far before release.
People are stupid! There is no solution, no real truth, to any of this its all point and counterpoint and no one wins. Music has been dubbed and shared for as long as i can remember. Hell I was turned on to Metallica because someone gave me a mix tape! When CD copying became rampant my friends didnt change. It just made the sharing faster and more convenient. And then P2P came about and the sharing became even faster and more convenient. There are bands I never would have stumbled across if it wasnt for Napster (old). There are bands that never would have reached popularity if it wasnt for P2P sharing and Youtube. They should allow free sharing of music. Dave Mustain said it best that his songs are his business cards and his live concerts are where he makes his real money. The RIAA is a joke a foaming at the mouth bully hell bent on making their point by destroying random peoples lives, they are like a rabid attack dog for a music industry which, in my opinion, is enveloped in the same maelstrom of bullshit as gaming and the movie industry. Make it faster, and quicker and sacrifice quality in favor of glitz. With music it is 'Come up with a chart topper, doesnt matter if the other 12 songs are shit we can sell Cds with a #1 hit'. That has always been my issue is that i was at one time being forced to purchase (if i legally wanted the song that is) a CD that had one song on it i really wanted but the rest was garbage. At that time a disk from Metallica cost me 24 to 29 bucks! Nowadays though I cant complain about prices because HMV often has amazing deals on CDs (5 to 7 bucks) maybe a bit more for classics like Metallica and AC/DC. It remains though that Mp3s and downloading music is just much more convenient, it saves time, money and space. Rant complete! Legalize piracy of music and pot!
I worry about any country that has the power to nullify nations. In that aspect there is no country I fear more than the US. Evil is a matter of perception, and from the eyes of the adversary it is the western nations and their allies which are evil. They are better at shrouding their illicit activities because they have a better intelligence network. The US will gladly toss human rights to further their goals in the pursuit of freedom. There are countless examples of the US blatant disregard for international policy, law, treaty etc. I am in no way anti-us i am simply stating that any government with a game changing power should be feared. And, that as much as we demonize entire nations, their citizens and their way of life. Its the governments that ultimately execute policy. Conflict breeds hate, and when you have 2 sides to a coin and both sides are living in line with their beliefs and fighting for causes that they believe is just. Who really is evil? Is the horror of seeing someone get their head sawed off as a political statement really any more insidious than someone clean killing a city block full of civilians from a mile away on a boat to inspire terror and fear....? Can anyone see the logic or just brand it a flame?
Console or PC they are not in the business anymore of entertaining, they find a marketable concept and run with it. Atleast with consoles I know that any content coming out for it will be completely compatible with it. With PC you always have to have a open door to you wallet to purchase new RAM, new processors, new mobos' to keep up with the straining demands of higher end PC games. This may appeal to some of course but for me? I enjoy the pick-up-and-play one button into the action fix that i get from consoles. Like most things however it has become less and less about making a quality, immersive, detailed game and more about the bottom line and it doesnt matter in that case if your pro PC, pro console or both.
im 32 play games faithfully, i dont much like people, so outside a close circle of friends (also gamers) and my girlfriend i dont do much in the way of social interaction. gaming is my release, my job entails getting paid to get yelled at all day, and gaming keeps me from going postal:D there is a stigma around adulthood which gives the aire that one should just go all responsible and no fun loving clown... fuck that. I am a clown I am a 15yr old in a 32yr olds body and my family loves me for it (girlfriend and 3 kids). The perfect hybrid of responsibility and fun. My primary poison is COD i love first person shooters especially the squad mentality its just a good way to relax man. Some people go golfing some go to the gym... i choose to game. Oh I also collect transformers and have over 500 atm you can grow up and still keep the inner child alive is all im saying.
Is it really any wonder why i am an anti-person? Seriously you have to have a mental flak jacket to live in todays world. Nowadays there is not many things that DONT offend people. You cant censor xbox live you can try reaaaaaaalllllly hard but guess what as long as their is a medium of communication there will be ways to exploit it and insult people through it. Either verbally or symbolically or other. The fact that this is a issue is ridiculous its a part of history, albeit a dark part of history but a part of it regardless. Where does the line get drawn? Do we ban crosses because Christianity and the drones it produces offends me, do we ban digits so people cant put 666 in their gamer tag or how about Slayer because they are a iconic symbol of modern satanism.. Or maybe we ban tags referring to Justin Beiber because I hate his brand of music and find him to be a teenage jackoff... honestly where does the madness end?
I find it amusing that Microsoft has no problems making profit off of nazi symbolism as it applies in a game environment, i mean hell look at Zombies its all about killing undead germans and its chalk full of crap that alludes to Nazi germany.. but a kid wants to rock a Shwastika and the whole world rises up against him. Give me a fuckin break COD:BO is rife with people creating every animal under the sun fucking every other animal with a pickle dick, people creating all sorts of satanic and anti-religious symbolism... wtf did they expect really. Dont get mad at the kid creating the Shwastika get mad at the producers of the game who gave them the ability. Or i dunno, stop being a over sensitive twat if i was to report everything that offended me the list would be really short. My girlfriend on the otherhand is easily offended but even she knows that when she signs onto live she knows the environment she is going into and shes not about to crusade to get someones gamer tag banned.
^^Speaking from someone who works with one of these major OEM what Trip says is basically the truth, I dont see that as being a troll at all its lashing out against the poor consumer who gets it in their head that their level of self importance somehow weighs in against the bigger picture of the inner workings of a multi billion dollar corporation.. its easy for joe public to shout out that Dell or Hp have lots of money and should just replace their computer.. that would be fine if you didnt have forum posters reading their complaints and saying...hey! thats me too.. and then what you have is 50,000 joe public crying fault...soooo big business calls in these units they capture and replace thousands of units to investigate the issue... and what do they find? 49,000 claims which have no bearing on the original problem at all.. Its not so easy to just decide to up and replace a unit, even if a company IS at fault it can take a long time for a proper investigation to be complete... complaint/trend/capture/investigate/determination of issue/course of action to take when fault is determined/legal department to make sure everything and i mean everything is reviewed and re-reviewed to be accurate and legal/authorization to implement course of action/implementation of course of action.... and none of that process is completed very quickly.
Could be because Hp wasnt at fault, that their engineering dept in light of the revelation that this issue caused on OEM machines regarding faulty nvidia chipsets was not actually the fault of the OEM. They did not knowingly install faulty hardware on the units. While the issue was being investigated Hp most certainly did put in place a program to assist customers that were sold these units once the time line for these installations was determined. For a period of 24 months after this came to light Hp was replacing the mobos on these affected units, after that 24 month period Hp offers a reduced cost of repair. Now there is a official website for people affected by the nvidia chipset issue and the suit that was filed. I suspect that Hp and other OEM companies will be compensated by nvidia for any loss they may have suffered because of this. Although on the official website it states that nvidia itself admits no fault.
It really doesnt being human means being wrong and being wrong a lot, it also means being ignorant and believing your right when you are wrong..
I would fully support killing cell phones in cars because I had a relative who had their head physically separated from their body when a oncoming driver was texting his 'bro' about the score of the game earlier that night. A few weeks later a newly married kid i went to school with got intimate and interactive with a tree, they had to cut the tree down because they couldnt get all the blood and bone shards out of the bark. He had been texting about picking up KFC on the way home.
I am anti-human completely, for all the intelligent people we have in the world we squabble and argue and compartmentalize absolutely everything. We spend so much time bickering and arguing and debating absolutely EVERYTHING and this forum and others like it are perfect examples of this. STUPID is STUPID and its a sad commentary on humanity when we have to develop laws to protect people from what should be common sense. And when you have laws created by stupid people to govern stupid people (and i am by no means excluded) what we end up with is the world we live in. Where the laws do as much to protect criminals as it does to protect the innocent. I am sure this will be cried out as a flame but its not its a harsh reality most of us are to IGNORANT to admit to, too much pride to believe we may be wrong, about just about everything. Blind leading the blind has never rang so true.
While the comparison may have been a little extreme the meaning is the same: the unaware get taken by people who guise themselves as professionals. There are some which are blatantly obvious as being a scam, but there are other infections which emulate trusted brands. I just dont think calling the victims of these things 'idiots' is fair.
Jesus, it takes a lot to make a game as complicated as Fallout its stupid if your not in that industry to make comments on the bugs and whatnot and how they are lax when releasing the title. For all the bugs that they do catch your only going to find the obscure ones and lets face it some of the more obvious through widespread use, that being said though, i loved Fallout 3 and Vegas on console and even it wasnt without its bugs.
- Quests would simply dissapear with no real reason
- NPC followers would get trapped in the environment
- Occassionally objects that I shot in vats would attach themselves to my barrel
- Gradual increase in load times until the game just crashed
- Items appearing and dissapearing from my inventory
- Allies inexplicably recognizing me as a enemy while others remain friendly.
- At one point at the cave at Camp Guardian when I entered the cave and exited the graphics remained blurry for over a hour before i went back and repeated the process and fixed it.
And you know, despite all that crap Fallout New Vegas was STILL amazing and I put more than 86 hours into the game overall.
True story! I believe that my passion for FPS like Call of Duty are largely responsible for saving my life and that of my family. It was only because of quick reaction time (out of my peripheral) that I noticed a SUV about to sideswipe me coming off a side road and because I am so used to adjusting my vision quickly to scope into windows and whatnot off the left and right of the screen when im gaming (attention to my peripheral vision was always lacking)i was able to swerve to the opposite lane as the truck screeched to a halt. Had i not swerved the SUV would have taken my girlfriend or my 5 month old out and likely caused more damage as the vehical spun around from the impact. I really do believe that my adoration of Call of Duty improved my reflexes, and my ability to see out of my periphery(sp).
Having worked with virus removal for some time. I am displeased to see people who are in the know about computers calling the average PC user derogatory terms especially when it comes to intelligence. I look at it this way I am not a doctor I know little to nothing about medecine does it make me a idiot because I dont know what a doctor knows? Or that (even with legitimate doctors) they make a wrong diagnosis am I a idiot because I dont pick up on it? It just seems unfair to blame the user for the actions of those who prey on them. I know a fair amount about technology, but my grandfather is altogether clueless and has fallen victim to these online scams and why wouldnt he? For all he knows of the internet and computers these applications are legit, until I educated him otherwise.
Now though the game has changed it used to be a anonymous application that was the problem but now you have help desk clients like iyogi which claim to be affiliated with major OEM vendors they charge you for service, generally a fraction of the OEM cost, and if anything goes wrong and you request a refund they send you back to the OEM who obviously will not refund the victim the cost of the service.
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I seriously dont know of any other game except maybe Everquest which has been responsible for ruining so many of my friends lives lol. I dont mean to laugh but several have lost their jobs calling off fake sick and being caught on the servers by their supervisors who are ALSO playing WOW on their legitimate days off, not very smart lol. Several close friends of mine have also lost their girlfriends and one ended his marriage all over this damn Game. Ya cant blame the game or the game designers I am certain that they didnt develop the game with the intention of wrecking homes but that is indeed what it does. They need self help groups like AA for WOW players who obsess over their DPS lol. This new expansion is going to haul friends of mine who managed to pull themselves away from the game after months and months of grinding their social interaction percentage will now fall to 0 as they quest for ever highter dps lol.
Thing about that for a moment... you FEAR speaking your mind, in a country which is supposed to be a icon for the restoration of a free world? Doesnt that strike you as odd? When the common man has to fear the the entity put in place to govern their rights and freedoms... I am not afraid to speak my mind, to disagree with what I feel in my heart is simply wrong. To be branded as a possible security risk simply because you disagree with the practices of Big Brother, because you choose to read materials which might paint Big Brother as not being so kind, gentle and humane as they may want you to think they are... Thats just my opinion I could be wrong.
That our generation and those before us have made the world a place to fear for children, they cant even be safe at halloween anymore. They have to be wary of people who have far from their best interests at heart. There was a time where you could set your kids loose on their own to explore the world. You really cant do that anymore. Its so hard nowadays to protect kids from a world which is full of danger, and you cant keep them away you can only prepare them the best you can. The internet is the same way I fully support introducing kids to technology it will be a large part of their lives for the rest of their years. Much like the world outside though the net has its dangers too. So its our responsibility to try and protect them from those dangers as well.
To each their own obviously, but i find a 4 yr old on WoW ridiculous, be like me letting my daughter play COD with me. We can argue the differences all day long but they are both violent and in the case of WOW, personally, ive seen friends lives ruined by the game. It was there choice to let the game interfere with their relationships granted but the idea that any game would have that sort of pull on a person is extremely disturbing, and giving it to a 4 yr old might as well be allowing your 4 yr old to smoke a joint with dad.
Man is a highly advanced technological marvel with data processing capabilities far beyond any man made machine. We have self replicating ability akin to a virus, we have the ability to download and store information much like a HDD. We learn through input, the more information we feed on the more efficient the machine we become. We are now in a trend where we are de-evolving technologically. Actually discovering inferior technologies to compensate for the flaws that we as superior tech are hardcoded with. Like our inability to cheat death, and our inability to keep our system from degrading. Life compensates for this by allowing us to transfer our most vital information through DNA adding information along the way. This isnt good enough for us. We, unlike most computers, have the ability to overcome obstacles set in our path. One could argue that this is a preprogrammed skill set. Much like a complex computer application which is designed to react depending on the external stimulae.. I dont prescribe to the soul idea. I do believe however that man is just a shell like a PC case to house all the data we harvest. I dont know what happens when the physical body dies but I would suspect that the pure information we are composed off exists in some form or another.
As i understand it having copies of your own purchased materials is legal, so regardless of where you get that copy from as long as you have a original to indicate that you did at one time in fact purchase the product. You can legally have a backup of that software, its distro that the government is really hungry for.. back on IRC piracy was rampant through the use of XDCC servers, for those who dont know this was like logging into a virtual flea market where everything was free. You are given access to the host computers libraries and able to download whatever they give access too. Torrents have made the practice a lot less practical but it was also more descreet.. The big issue with XDCC and distro is the host computers were often bot-infected machines hosting hundreds of gigs of files and the most popular content was often expensive software, movies games and music far before release.
People are stupid! There is no solution, no real truth, to any of this its all point and counterpoint and no one wins. Music has been dubbed and shared for as long as i can remember. Hell I was turned on to Metallica because someone gave me a mix tape! When CD copying became rampant my friends didnt change. It just made the sharing faster and more convenient. And then P2P came about and the sharing became even faster and more convenient. There are bands I never would have stumbled across if it wasnt for Napster (old). There are bands that never would have reached popularity if it wasnt for P2P sharing and Youtube. They should allow free sharing of music. Dave Mustain said it best that his songs are his business cards and his live concerts are where he makes his real money. The RIAA is a joke a foaming at the mouth bully hell bent on making their point by destroying random peoples lives, they are like a rabid attack dog for a music industry which, in my opinion, is enveloped in the same maelstrom of bullshit as gaming and the movie industry. Make it faster, and quicker and sacrifice quality in favor of glitz. With music it is 'Come up with a chart topper, doesnt matter if the other 12 songs are shit we can sell Cds with a #1 hit'. That has always been my issue is that i was at one time being forced to purchase (if i legally wanted the song that is) a CD that had one song on it i really wanted but the rest was garbage. At that time a disk from Metallica cost me 24 to 29 bucks! Nowadays though I cant complain about prices because HMV often has amazing deals on CDs (5 to 7 bucks) maybe a bit more for classics like Metallica and AC/DC. It remains though that Mp3s and downloading music is just much more convenient, it saves time, money and space. Rant complete! Legalize piracy of music and pot!
I worry about any country that has the power to nullify nations. In that aspect there is no country I fear more than the US. Evil is a matter of perception, and from the eyes of the adversary it is the western nations and their allies which are evil. They are better at shrouding their illicit activities because they have a better intelligence network. The US will gladly toss human rights to further their goals in the pursuit of freedom. There are countless examples of the US blatant disregard for international policy, law, treaty etc. I am in no way anti-us i am simply stating that any government with a game changing power should be feared. And, that as much as we demonize entire nations, their citizens and their way of life. Its the governments that ultimately execute policy. Conflict breeds hate, and when you have 2 sides to a coin and both sides are living in line with their beliefs and fighting for causes that they believe is just. Who really is evil? Is the horror of seeing someone get their head sawed off as a political statement really any more insidious than someone clean killing a city block full of civilians from a mile away on a boat to inspire terror and fear....? Can anyone see the logic or just brand it a flame?
Console or PC they are not in the business anymore of entertaining, they find a marketable concept and run with it. Atleast with consoles I know that any content coming out for it will be completely compatible with it. With PC you always have to have a open door to you wallet to purchase new RAM, new processors, new mobos' to keep up with the straining demands of higher end PC games. This may appeal to some of course but for me? I enjoy the pick-up-and-play one button into the action fix that i get from consoles. Like most things however it has become less and less about making a quality, immersive, detailed game and more about the bottom line and it doesnt matter in that case if your pro PC, pro console or both.
im 32 play games faithfully, i dont much like people, so outside a close circle of friends (also gamers) and my girlfriend i dont do much in the way of social interaction. gaming is my release, my job entails getting paid to get yelled at all day, and gaming keeps me from going postal :D there is a stigma around adulthood which gives the aire that one should just go all responsible and no fun loving clown... fuck that. I am a clown I am a 15yr old in a 32yr olds body and my family loves me for it (girlfriend and 3 kids). The perfect hybrid of responsibility and fun. My primary poison is COD i love first person shooters especially the squad mentality its just a good way to relax man. Some people go golfing some go to the gym... i choose to game. Oh I also collect transformers and have over 500 atm you can grow up and still keep the inner child alive is all im saying.
lol it had a CYBERNETIC HITLER complete mith moustache and dual gatling guns! People are just way way to easily offended nowadays its sad really.
Is it really any wonder why i am an anti-person? Seriously you have to have a mental flak jacket to live in todays world. Nowadays there is not many things that DONT offend people. You cant censor xbox live you can try reaaaaaaalllllly hard but guess what as long as their is a medium of communication there will be ways to exploit it and insult people through it. Either verbally or symbolically or other. The fact that this is a issue is ridiculous its a part of history, albeit a dark part of history but a part of it regardless. Where does the line get drawn? Do we ban crosses because Christianity and the drones it produces offends me, do we ban digits so people cant put 666 in their gamer tag or how about Slayer because they are a iconic symbol of modern satanism.. Or maybe we ban tags referring to Justin Beiber because I hate his brand of music and find him to be a teenage jackoff... honestly where does the madness end?
I find it amusing that Microsoft has no problems making profit off of nazi symbolism as it applies in a game environment, i mean hell look at Zombies its all about killing undead germans and its chalk full of crap that alludes to Nazi germany.. but a kid wants to rock a Shwastika and the whole world rises up against him. Give me a fuckin break COD:BO is rife with people creating every animal under the sun fucking every other animal with a pickle dick, people creating all sorts of satanic and anti-religious symbolism... wtf did they expect really. Dont get mad at the kid creating the Shwastika get mad at the producers of the game who gave them the ability. Or i dunno, stop being a over sensitive twat if i was to report everything that offended me the list would be really short. My girlfriend on the otherhand is easily offended but even she knows that when she signs onto live she knows the environment she is going into and shes not about to crusade to get someones gamer tag banned.
^^Speaking from someone who works with one of these major OEM what Trip says is basically the truth, I dont see that as being a troll at all its lashing out against the poor consumer who gets it in their head that their level of self importance somehow weighs in against the bigger picture of the inner workings of a multi billion dollar corporation.. its easy for joe public to shout out that Dell or Hp have lots of money and should just replace their computer.. that would be fine if you didnt have forum posters reading their complaints and saying ...hey! thats me too.. and then what you have is 50,000 joe public crying fault...soooo big business calls in these units they capture and replace thousands of units to investigate the issue... and what do they find? 49,000 claims which have no bearing on the original problem at all.. Its not so easy to just decide to up and replace a unit, even if a company IS at fault it can take a long time for a proper investigation to be complete... complaint/trend/capture/investigate/determination of issue/course of action to take when fault is determined/legal department to make sure everything and i mean everything is reviewed and re-reviewed to be accurate and legal/authorization to implement course of action/implementation of course of action.... and none of that process is completed very quickly.
Could be because Hp wasnt at fault, that their engineering dept in light of the revelation that this issue caused on OEM machines regarding faulty nvidia chipsets was not actually the fault of the OEM. They did not knowingly install faulty hardware on the units. While the issue was being investigated Hp most certainly did put in place a program to assist customers that were sold these units once the time line for these installations was determined. For a period of 24 months after this came to light Hp was replacing the mobos on these affected units, after that 24 month period Hp offers a reduced cost of repair. Now there is a official website for people affected by the nvidia chipset issue and the suit that was filed. I suspect that Hp and other OEM companies will be compensated by nvidia for any loss they may have suffered because of this. Although on the official website it states that nvidia itself admits no fault.
It really doesnt being human means being wrong and being wrong a lot, it also means being ignorant and believing your right when you are wrong.. I would fully support killing cell phones in cars because I had a relative who had their head physically separated from their body when a oncoming driver was texting his 'bro' about the score of the game earlier that night. A few weeks later a newly married kid i went to school with got intimate and interactive with a tree, they had to cut the tree down because they couldnt get all the blood and bone shards out of the bark. He had been texting about picking up KFC on the way home. I am anti-human completely, for all the intelligent people we have in the world we squabble and argue and compartmentalize absolutely everything. We spend so much time bickering and arguing and debating absolutely EVERYTHING and this forum and others like it are perfect examples of this. STUPID is STUPID and its a sad commentary on humanity when we have to develop laws to protect people from what should be common sense. And when you have laws created by stupid people to govern stupid people (and i am by no means excluded) what we end up with is the world we live in. Where the laws do as much to protect criminals as it does to protect the innocent. I am sure this will be cried out as a flame but its not its a harsh reality most of us are to IGNORANT to admit to, too much pride to believe we may be wrong, about just about everything. Blind leading the blind has never rang so true.
While the comparison may have been a little extreme the meaning is the same: the unaware get taken by people who guise themselves as professionals. There are some which are blatantly obvious as being a scam, but there are other infections which emulate trusted brands. I just dont think calling the victims of these things 'idiots' is fair.
Jesus, it takes a lot to make a game as complicated as Fallout its stupid if your not in that industry to make comments on the bugs and whatnot and how they are lax when releasing the title. For all the bugs that they do catch your only going to find the obscure ones and lets face it some of the more obvious through widespread use, that being said though, i loved Fallout 3 and Vegas on console and even it wasnt without its bugs. - Quests would simply dissapear with no real reason - NPC followers would get trapped in the environment - Occassionally objects that I shot in vats would attach themselves to my barrel - Gradual increase in load times until the game just crashed - Items appearing and dissapearing from my inventory - Allies inexplicably recognizing me as a enemy while others remain friendly. - At one point at the cave at Camp Guardian when I entered the cave and exited the graphics remained blurry for over a hour before i went back and repeated the process and fixed it. And you know, despite all that crap Fallout New Vegas was STILL amazing and I put more than 86 hours into the game overall.
True story! I believe that my passion for FPS like Call of Duty are largely responsible for saving my life and that of my family. It was only because of quick reaction time (out of my peripheral) that I noticed a SUV about to sideswipe me coming off a side road and because I am so used to adjusting my vision quickly to scope into windows and whatnot off the left and right of the screen when im gaming (attention to my peripheral vision was always lacking)i was able to swerve to the opposite lane as the truck screeched to a halt. Had i not swerved the SUV would have taken my girlfriend or my 5 month old out and likely caused more damage as the vehical spun around from the impact. I really do believe that my adoration of Call of Duty improved my reflexes, and my ability to see out of my periphery(sp).
Having worked with virus removal for some time. I am displeased to see people who are in the know about computers calling the average PC user derogatory terms especially when it comes to intelligence. I look at it this way I am not a doctor I know little to nothing about medecine does it make me a idiot because I dont know what a doctor knows? Or that (even with legitimate doctors) they make a wrong diagnosis am I a idiot because I dont pick up on it? It just seems unfair to blame the user for the actions of those who prey on them. I know a fair amount about technology, but my grandfather is altogether clueless and has fallen victim to these online scams and why wouldnt he? For all he knows of the internet and computers these applications are legit, until I educated him otherwise. Now though the game has changed it used to be a anonymous application that was the problem but now you have help desk clients like iyogi which claim to be affiliated with major OEM vendors they charge you for service, generally a fraction of the OEM cost, and if anything goes wrong and you request a refund they send you back to the OEM who obviously will not refund the victim the cost of the service.