Yeah, well, it helps to have a math/logic/IT background obviously. I'd like to see just one IQ test that doesn't rely on set theory & geometric puzzle solving or maths puzzles, no general knowledge questions or cultural dependencies & that is pretty much language & education-level independent. Yeah, good luck with that *guffaw*.
Ahhh, but was he mentally ill because he didn't have God at his school, or in spite of having him...? Can someone pls call the big fella & find out WTF is going on?
Just wastes yer time as far as I could see. Look, I really wanted to be impartial about Sony & like this game. But after 2 hours of aimlessly running around & getting 1-shotted from God-knows-where & having absolutely no fucking idea where I was, who I was, what I was meant to be doing or what all the colours & shit in the UI meant, I can only say...no thanks. As a *veteran* online fps & mmo player, I can only say that SOE dropped the ball on this one (surprise, surprise), certainly as far as accessibility & intuitive gameplay goes. I only briefly tried the 1st one & had a similar experience all those years ago, so perhaps it's just me, the sub-genre (mmofps), or I'm gettin too old for this shit. Back to GW2 nothing-but-goodness for me over the holidays:).
No surprises. As others have well dissected & analysed the sitrep with NCSoft, it's all about them saving face from their Korean mmo flops in the US & wrecking a long-term popular western mmo in the process...because they can. There simply isn't another reason I can think of a company ditches a core product line that's still making money, however little. Is NC a public company in Korea & is their balance sheet/P&L available to the public - does anyone know? Would be interested to do a bit of creative accounting with the CoX line & see what comes up.:)
> There is no reason why you should be able to copy movies, download art, or music which you didn't create and don't have permission to do so.
That is because the world is run by greedy, evil men who have created a paradigm out of the oxymoron "Intellectual Property", when the two are entirely mutually exclusive. They have grossly perverted patents & copyrights by buying out politicians and lawyers over the past 100 years. And then other greedy vultures (presumably like yourself) have created entire make-believe industries & careers out of the strangleholds on what should never have come into existence in a healthy, prolific species in the first place. Plain & simple enough for you? To put it another way, if the only reason you write books, or poetry, or make music or movies is to suck up a fat profit, then you should kindly fuck off with the rest of the cartels & dinosaurs, the sooner the better. Viva le revolucion!:)
Yep, the fact that the real story here, the ONLY fucking story, is Apple joining forces with Google, so I guess troll points for the troll for hijacking such a momentous event *sigh*.
Them's fightin words boy!;) Yeah, I can see how you would say/think something like that, but at the end of the day, the plain truth is, you don't want ANYONE other than the US controlling the Internet. Me, I'd rather see no one have control & let the ensuing chaos sort itself out.
I'm both European (originally) and Aussie (now). Either of those not doing anything *as well* as the US, doesn't make it all better, now does it...? We don't have the man-power or resources down under (unlike your multi-trillion $ military spend), to effectively get into large scale internal issues like those, but we did follow you blindly into 2 world wars, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq AND Afghan, and probably committed more troops per capita in some of those conflicts than you did. But hey, I guess a nation of 25 million should be seen to be doing as much for world peace & humanity as the only superpower left in the world that has 300m people, right?
Thailand, Haiti - did I blink and it was all over before it began? Those must have set you back at least a couple hundred bucks.
I don't recall saying the US wasn't doing enough, in fact quite the opposite, just not for any of the right reasons. Your motivations for foreign aid are well documented, as are the results.
And I think most non-US people have a much clearer, accurate picture of what exactly you do for them & how many bags of rice make it into their starving hands, than you ever will. But you keep believing your own ignorant, uninformed, propagandized bullshit that your government and repressed collective consciences feed you and the rest of the world will stick to the facts.
CoH was a fantasy mmo, let's be clear about that;-p
ArenaNet are worth supporting, NCSoft aside. They are also physically based in the US, so it will be a bit harder for NC to wreck them if they operate on their own currency & balance sheet, even if they wanted to. They could well walk away tomorrow & go work for another publisher, or self-publish, who knows, so long as they don't end up with EA or Activision *cringe* (that's funny - Chrome spell-checker suggests this replacement for the later: Vivisectionist:))). So long as the 3 amigo founders are still at the helm, I'm not too worried. And it's only $60 with no monthlies - not really a huge loss even if you only got 3 months our of it say. Remember, those guys broke away from Blizztard for all the right reasons & wouldn't have sold off ANet to NC unless they had some pretty good safety valves - and keep in mind, they're still working there...unlike the founders of Bioware & what EA did to them in recent times (though I would still recommend SWTOR now that it's F2P, if you haven't tried it already, as that's even more single-player friendly than GW2 in many ways).
And 'grind'...you want GRIND ffs??? CoH was far more of a grinder than GW2 will ever be. Clearly, you read between my lines, where there was nothing, to come to your own previous conclusions & pre-conceptions, rather than focus on the actual things I said & the similarities I suspect with our play styles. Your loss mate, but if you do sign up Chas, PM me & I'll even play with you, but only if you promise to be a carebear grumpy old bastard like myself & never break character!;).
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Yet again I must refer ya all to Mr Plinkett's reviews of eps 1-3
redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/ :)
Just to be clear, I'd do her even if she wasn't an infraops chickee-babe! <EG>
I'd be impressed if he just made the dough lol!
You clearly haven't played GW2. Your loss (of reasoning) ;-p.
TL;DR (just another thread about console cretinitis disease apparently destroying pc gaming lol)
No no that word is the present participal of 'masticate' I believe.
Yeah, well, it helps to have a math/logic/IT background obviously. I'd like to see just one IQ test that doesn't rely on set theory & geometric puzzle solving or maths puzzles, no general knowledge questions or cultural dependencies & that is pretty much language & education-level independent. Yeah, good luck with that *guffaw*.
I knew it was bullshit after I took several online IQ tests & kept getting a result of 130-140 back. I know I'm not THAT fucking smart lol!
Ahhh, but was he mentally ill because he didn't have God at his school, or in spite of having him...?
Can someone pls call the big fella & find out WTF is going on?
Just wastes yer time as far as I could see. Look, I really wanted to be impartial about Sony & like this game. But after 2 hours of aimlessly running around & getting 1-shotted from God-knows-where & having absolutely no fucking idea where I was, who I was, what I was meant to be doing or what all the colours & shit in the UI meant, I can only say...no thanks. As a *veteran* online fps & mmo player, I can only say that SOE dropped the ball on this one (surprise, surprise), certainly as far as accessibility & intuitive gameplay goes. I only briefly tried the 1st one & had a similar experience all those years ago, so perhaps it's just me, the sub-genre (mmofps), or I'm gettin too old for this shit. Back to GW2 nothing-but-goodness for me over the holidays :).
No surprises. As others have well dissected & analysed the sitrep with NCSoft, it's all about them saving face from their Korean mmo flops in the US & wrecking a long-term popular western mmo in the process...because they can. There simply isn't another reason I can think of a company ditches a core product line that's still making money, however little. Is NC a public company in Korea & is their balance sheet/P&L available to the public - does anyone know? Would be interested to do a bit of creative accounting with the CoX line & see what comes up. :)
> There is no reason why you should be able to copy movies, download art, or music which you didn't create and don't have permission to do so.
That is because the world is run by greedy, evil men who have created a paradigm out of the oxymoron "Intellectual Property", when the two are entirely mutually exclusive. They have grossly perverted patents & copyrights by buying out politicians and lawyers over the past 100 years. And then other greedy vultures (presumably like yourself) have created entire make-believe industries & careers out of the strangleholds on what should never have come into existence in a healthy, prolific species in the first place. Plain & simple enough for you? :)
To put it another way, if the only reason you write books, or poetry, or make music or movies is to suck up a fat profit, then you should kindly fuck off with the rest of the cartels & dinosaurs, the sooner the better. Viva le revolucion!
I'm rather partial to using the more correct term "copyright (or IP) revolutionary". Viva la revolucion! :)
Why? Are you suggestion that precession (in an astronomical sense) doesn't affect asteroids just like any other large space object...?
Not if he gets elected - diplomatic immunity :)
I'd just be happy if they ditched polygon-based 3D video h/ware & started using bezier curves so shit would actually start to look, u know, real...?
U like a whole lotta junk in da trunk too mate? Do u have a private ftp server perchance...?
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Yep, the fact that the real story here, the ONLY fucking story, is Apple joining forces with Google, so I guess troll points for the troll for hijacking such a momentous event *sigh*.
I had to ask ROFLMFAO! In hindsight, I should have put up Cartman as the pinnace of virtue at /. Next time I'll know better.
Them's fightin words boy! ;)
Yeah, I can see how you would say/think something like that, but at the end of the day, the plain truth is, you don't want ANYONE other than the US controlling the Internet. Me, I'd rather see no one have control & let the ensuing chaos sort itself out.
Also, one ball blank shootin mofo!
Anyone got anything on Ghandi or Mother Teresa? ;)
I'm both European (originally) and Aussie (now). Either of those not doing anything *as well* as the US, doesn't make it all better, now does it...? We don't have the man-power or resources down under (unlike your multi-trillion $ military spend), to effectively get into large scale internal issues like those, but we did follow you blindly into 2 world wars, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq AND Afghan, and probably committed more troops per capita in some of those conflicts than you did. But hey, I guess a nation of 25 million should be seen to be doing as much for world peace & humanity as the only superpower left in the world that has 300m people, right?
Thailand, Haiti - did I blink and it was all over before it began? Those must have set you back at least a couple hundred bucks.
I don't recall saying the US wasn't doing enough, in fact quite the opposite, just not for any of the right reasons. Your motivations for foreign aid are well documented, as are the results.
And I think most non-US people have a much clearer, accurate picture of what exactly you do for them & how many bags of rice make it into their starving hands, than you ever will. But you keep believing your own ignorant, uninformed, propagandized bullshit that your government and repressed collective consciences feed you and the rest of the world will stick to the facts.
CoH was a fantasy mmo, let's be clear about that ;-p
ArenaNet are worth supporting, NCSoft aside. They are also physically based in the US, so it will be a bit harder for NC to wreck them if they operate on their own currency & balance sheet, even if they wanted to. They could well walk away tomorrow & go work for another publisher, or self-publish, who knows, so long as they don't end up with EA or Activision *cringe* (that's funny - Chrome spell-checker suggests this replacement for the later: Vivisectionist :))). So long as the 3 amigo founders are still at the helm, I'm not too worried. And it's only $60 with no monthlies - not really a huge loss even if you only got 3 months our of it say. Remember, those guys broke away from Blizztard for all the right reasons & wouldn't have sold off ANet to NC unless they had some pretty good safety valves - and keep in mind, they're still working there...unlike the founders of Bioware & what EA did to them in recent times (though I would still recommend SWTOR now that it's F2P, if you haven't tried it already, as that's even more single-player friendly than GW2 in many ways).
And 'grind'...you want GRIND ffs??? CoH was far more of a grinder than GW2 will ever be. Clearly, you read between my lines, where there was nothing, to come to your own previous conclusions & pre-conceptions, rather than focus on the actual things I said & the similarities I suspect with our play styles. Your loss mate, but if you do sign up Chas, PM me & I'll even play with you, but only if you promise to be a carebear grumpy old bastard like myself & never break character! ;).
Would you rather starve to death than eat french fries...? ;-p