So at around 4000 megaparsecs (13 billion light years) the outer rim hits the speed of light...? Hey, isn't that about the age of the Universe anyway....could I be onto something here...?;)
Ya think? Check out the more intellectual *real science* fiction movies, like Moon, Love, Primer & Solaris, to name a few recent ones - they all probably barely made their budgets back at the box office. And there's that...*sigh*
So it's like deducing if the cat is alive by listening very closely if any sound is coming from the box; or measuring minute vibrations from it, or perhaps even using IR to measure the body heat through the cardboard...? Ok, we're stretching metaphors a bit far now, BUT, is it possible with QM that the cat is actually *dead* to begin with (if that even makes sense for any solution of the wave function) AND you then bring it back to life by observing/interacting with it...?
> A serious misstep by the market leader leaves the market open for someone new. Pandas in WoW for example has had millions of WoW players looking for anything that's almost as good, but without pandas. Unfortunately SWTOR was a trainwreck and Guildwars 2 is a very different game (and nothing else has survived long enough to match them).
Ummm...on the off chance yer not just throwing opinions around from under a bridge...ever heard of LOTRO, or EVE or CoH (yes, I know it's finished) or Aion/RIFT/EQ1&2/AoC/AO/DDO/DCUO/STO/TSW/ATITD/2nd Life, or hell even GW1, or any of a number of older, p2p & f2p mmos that are still kicking & doing quite well...? Not to even mention Asian, browser-based or kids mmos like Runescape, Lineage1/2, etc. And SWTOR most def wasn't a 'trainwreck', not for most SW story fans anyway. And thank GOD GW2 is a 'very different game', in all the good ways that count:).
Some of the Asian & browser mmos beat the pants down off WoW on subscribers anyway, but putting that metric aside, I certainly wouldn't base 'success', commercial or otherwise, for a mmo purely off sub nums - there's just so much more to it as far as what makes a great mmo (for most serious mmo players anyway...ymmv).
2) Skill synergies in 1.10 were a poorly veiled attempt to push ppl into multiplayer & in effect over to WoW, which certainly wasn't subtle nor appreciated (long with that BS Warden filthware that destroyed online gaming with its lag!). If nothing else, it made Hell almost unplayable in single-player (apart from a couple very specific builds). Gone were tri-sorcy builds, versatile necros, druids & 99% of 3-tree builds that may not have been uber, but were at least *fun* & viable in Hell to some degree.
There was a lot wrong with D2, and luckily Blizz didn't carry those features across to D3. BUT, there was also a LOT right with D2 and most/none of those made it across either:-/. I could start listing them, but then I'd show up whatever morons are left at Buzzard HQ that I know better what made the Diablo series so great than what's left of the cannibalised team there...and I'm just not like that (or Jay Wilson:).
An example of a GOOD always-online game: Guild Wars 2 - pay once, play forever!:)
D3: an example of the other kind & everything that is wrong with greed & the almighty $ driving gaming development & companies.
(hey, I knew Blizztard's time was up when they rolled out D2 patch 1.10 with their skill synergies crap & Warden filthware trying to push customers over to the WoW pay-per-month payola scheme...but still I got sucked into D3...*sigh*...ok, ~300hrs for me & the Mrs was money fairly well spent, minus the Inferno agony we hit in act 3, so now we've started hardcore chars ).
This. And the fact that their insistence on making it online-only has jack shit to do with piracy or security, and far, far more to do with skimming our money from the RMAH (along with Paypal). Even if you only use the GMAH, you are still indirectly supporting the payola model, by virtue of simply playing - gold gets changed into $US & vice versa. Nuff said.
Does this mean they will take away youporn.com as well!? My GOD, by the prophet's light, how/where will young Iranians learn what real sex (i.e. that not involving institutionalised slavery & rape) is all about now? This is a cruelty of Biblical & genital proportions I say to the Iranian gubment!!!
Ummm...piss-poor excuse which shows those with the most power have IQs inversely proportional usually.
i.e. If they wanted to stop that video, wouldn't they just block IT (or the link to it), or just all of YouTube...NOT all of Google/Gmail ffs...?
Just because the G-men stood up for freedom of speech & true democracy across the board for the millionth time & this time it affects their ongoing spread of ignorance, lies & evil...? Pftt.
And WTF is it with deifying human prophets anyway FFS...?:-/ It's sad to think half the world share the same 1st 5 books of the bible, ergo the same OT God, and yet cannot seem to get along with each other (or the other half of the world) most of the time...Jesus wept! *sigh*.
If you hate all other races equally, that's actually Bigotry.
If you include all other people (your own race not excepted), then it's just being a GOB (Grumpy Old Bastard). And I am not far away from that .
I like yer sig. I read something similar a long time ago: "Evil, like a mathematical proof gone wrong, cannot be 'fixed' - it must be removed entirely & re-started from scratch".:)
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So at around 4000 megaparsecs (13 billion light years) the outer rim hits the speed of light...? Hey, isn't that about the age of the Universe anyway....could I be onto something here...? ;)
Ya think? Check out the more intellectual *real science* fiction movies, like Moon, Love, Primer & Solaris, to name a few recent ones - they all probably barely made their budgets back at the box office. And there's that...*sigh*
AYBABTU FTW!!!
Anyone else concerned that Ender only gets 5th billing, whereas Valentine is in 2nd pos...? Hmmm...
Now, Old Man's War - there's a series they should turn into a movie. A lot more sex too than this kid's crap! :)
Whatchu talkin bout Wiggin?
So it's like deducing if the cat is alive by listening very closely if any sound is coming from the box; or measuring minute vibrations from it, or perhaps even using IR to measure the body heat through the cardboard...? Ok, we're stretching metaphors a bit far now, BUT, is it possible with QM that the cat is actually *dead* to begin with (if that even makes sense for any solution of the wave function) AND you then bring it back to life by observing/interacting with it...?
I'm still trying to work out if it's an ad for the steel industry or an online dating service lol!
> A serious misstep by the market leader leaves the market open for someone new. Pandas in WoW for example has had millions of WoW players looking for anything that's almost as good, but without pandas. Unfortunately SWTOR was a trainwreck and Guildwars 2 is a very different game (and nothing else has survived long enough to match them).
Ummm...on the off chance yer not just throwing opinions around from under a bridge...ever heard of LOTRO, or EVE or CoH (yes, I know it's finished) or Aion/RIFT/EQ1&2/AoC/AO/DDO/DCUO/STO/TSW/ATITD/2nd Life, or hell even GW1, or any of a number of older, p2p & f2p mmos that are still kicking & doing quite well...? Not to even mention Asian, browser-based or kids mmos like Runescape, Lineage1/2, etc. And SWTOR most def wasn't a 'trainwreck', not for most SW story fans anyway. And thank GOD GW2 is a 'very different game', in all the good ways that count :).
Some of the Asian & browser mmos beat the pants down off WoW on subscribers anyway, but putting that metric aside, I certainly wouldn't base 'success', commercial or otherwise, for a mmo purely off sub nums - there's just so much more to it as far as what makes a great mmo (for most serious mmo players anyway...ymmv).
Hey, I like the closing cinematic. Shades of US gubment vs tourism, with a splash of ID4 thrown in for good measure. Ahem.
It's not a high horse, but a cash cow - a much bigger, more powerful beast! ;)
Agree with most of that, except for:
2) Skill synergies in 1.10 were a poorly veiled attempt to push ppl into multiplayer & in effect over to WoW, which certainly wasn't subtle nor appreciated (long with that BS Warden filthware that destroyed online gaming with its lag!). If nothing else, it made Hell almost unplayable in single-player (apart from a couple very specific builds). Gone were tri-sorcy builds, versatile necros, druids & 99% of 3-tree builds that may not have been uber, but were at least *fun* & viable in Hell to some degree.
ROFL! Never mind that fact that even Ghom is far harder in Inferno than him.
<ESC> and <spacebar> are your best friends on 2nd & subsequent run-throughs of D3.
There was a lot wrong with D2, and luckily Blizz didn't carry those features across to D3. BUT, there was also a LOT right with D2 and most/none of those made it across either :-/. I could start listing them, but then I'd show up whatever morons are left at Buzzard HQ that I know better what made the Diablo series so great than what's left of the cannibalised team there...and I'm just not like that (or Jay Wilson :).
I use to love the D2 start music, as well as the dirge-full strings when entering Tristram.
Now in D3 we get a fucking crow squawking every time at the login screen. :-/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment#Companies_created_by_former_employees
Every day, Mon-Fri, I have a banana, pear & apple, which my loving wife packs for me to take to work. Bananas are my favourite though.
An example of a GOOD always-online game: Guild Wars 2 - pay once, play forever! :)
D3: an example of the other kind & everything that is wrong with greed & the almighty $ driving gaming development & companies.
(hey, I knew Blizztard's time was up when they rolled out D2 patch 1.10 with their skill synergies crap & Warden filthware trying to push customers over to the WoW pay-per-month payola scheme...but still I got sucked into D3...*sigh*...ok, ~300hrs for me & the Mrs was money fairly well spent, minus the Inferno agony we hit in act 3, so now we've started hardcore chars ).
This. And the fact that their insistence on making it online-only has jack shit to do with piracy or security, and far, far more to do with skimming our money from the RMAH (along with Paypal). Even if you only use the GMAH, you are still indirectly supporting the payola model, by virtue of simply playing - gold gets changed into $US & vice versa. Nuff said.
Does this mean they will take away youporn.com as well!? My GOD, by the prophet's light, how/where will young Iranians learn what real sex (i.e. that not involving institutionalised slavery & rape) is all about now? This is a cruelty of Biblical & genital proportions I say to the Iranian gubment!!!
ROFL! Is that an African's or European's anus may I ask...?
Ummm...piss-poor excuse which shows those with the most power have IQs inversely proportional usually. i.e. If they wanted to stop that video, wouldn't they just block IT (or the link to it), or just all of YouTube...NOT all of Google/Gmail ffs...?
Just because the G-men stood up for freedom of speech & true democracy across the board for the millionth time & this time it affects their ongoing spread of ignorance, lies & evil...? Pftt.
And WTF is it with deifying human prophets anyway FFS...? :-/ It's sad to think half the world share the same 1st 5 books of the bible, ergo the same OT God, and yet cannot seem to get along with each other (or the other half of the world) most of the time...Jesus wept! *sigh*.
If you hate all other races equally, that's actually Bigotry. If you include all other people (your own race not excepted), then it's just being a GOB (Grumpy Old Bastard). And I am not far away from that .
I like yer sig. I read something similar a long time ago: "Evil, like a mathematical proof gone wrong, cannot be 'fixed' - it must be removed entirely & re-started from scratch". :)
Sure, but does wikipedia have links to torrents of nekkid ScarJo pics I ask ya, huh? ;-p
We all know what The Duke would have had to say about privacy, now don't we pardner!?
He, he, ever tried d/ling FF or Chrome from a vanilla Win2K8 server without using IE at all...? <G>