I'm sorry I wasn't aware that what other people think of a name on battle.net mattered. And still nobody can tell me why it matters to them when somebody acts like a dick during a game. You're opponents FFS! Reading that kind of text just makes you feel bad on the inside? I don't get it and I don't get why I was modded down either. If its screaming in voice chat thats one thing, if I'm spamming messages thats another thing, but just talking shit during a game? You guys need to sack up. A little bit of text can ruin a game for you? That's pretty weak.
A lot of games cater to trash talking, whoever modded me down is absolutely ridiculous. Nothing I'm saying is flamebait or trolling, its just contrary to what you believe. I'm smelch and I'm pro talking trash during games when it gets to my opponents, and I do strongly believe it is a defect of the other person when it does get to them, not a defect of me. Irrational feelings about yourself due to blatantly baseless and uninformed things I say are your problem.
I can see your point of view, though I disagree with it. I wish somebody else would chime in here, I'd like to see the general opinion. Is it ok to call somebody a super-pussy to distract them from the warp prism floating behind they're mineral line, or is that being plain rude and a troll?
If I sit there and say something like "I've already won, you should just give up." or in response to an attack "wow, that was terrible huehuehuehue" (my trash talking persona is brazilian) or even the rare I-don't-full-understand-your-language "You fat dick American", and you get insulted then thats stupid. The thing about trash talk online is I can't possibly know anything about you so it should not sting at all like if I insulted somebody I know or saw in person. Not to mention the profanity filter. If you are crushing me with Void Rays and I say "Pussy, try something other than Void Rays, n00b" you are either going to ignore what I said, pump out more to piss me off, or try something else because for some reason you want to prove yourself to a stranger you know nothing about. The conversation and your responses (if there are any) along with the way you've been playing the game will dictate what I think you are going to do and I will act accordingly. Its called mind games and if a stranger who knows nothing about you with a vested interest in making it seem like you aren't doing very well is getting to you, then you should probably look in to ways of boosting your self esteem.
eSport is a fine term as long as you realize that its not a sport, eSport is just the word for competitve gaming. Nothing bothers me more than people trying to claim their mental activity is a sport. Stop it, you're giving undue importance to the term and trying to mimic it to get mainstream acceptance. Its pathetic and desperate looking.
The way I define a sport is competitive physical and mental activity where the actions of your competition during the event directly influence how you perform the activity. This means no cheerleading, no chess, no starcraft, yes darts (certain game types), no 300 yard dash, yes jousting, yes fencing, no gymnastics, yes laser tag, yes paintball, no competitive dance. And as you said, being a sport or not is not an indication of difficulty or how big your muscles need to be.
I don't understand how "abuse" can ruin the multiplayer. At worst you just ignore the other team, at best you talk a bunch of shit and its fun. Are people seriously pissed off by the people at the other end of the internet telling them they're a butt-toucher, or whatever the popular insult of the day is? The people that get upset about trash talk are so much worse than trash talkers. If you're getting upset, you're taking the game or yourself too seriously. As more of a romantic player, I enjoy using taunts and insults and general shit over the chat to try to get the game to evolve in a different way than it normally would. I think its a perfectly fine way to play the game, and if you don't care for what I'm saying, stop reading my messages.
The only time it sucks is when the efficient or pro-style of playing is just no fun. Like with pokemon when people started using all their charts and graphs to get the perfect EV points or whatever the hell, I just decided to hell with that shit. That's not fun, thats work. Starcraft 2 is fun to play even when you are using the pro strategies (if you can). That's what makes me ok with playing even though I suck. To not suck isn't the same as ripping the fun out of it, so I'm not sitting there deliberately playing below the optimum just to keep it fun.
So its totally natural to assume that somewhere in those 0.0393 seconds between the first and second photo, the car slowed from 50mph to some amount below 35mph to make his average speed appear like it was within the legal limit.
Yes, thats a reliable conclusion to draw from that. "iPads sold so SD isn't a feature people want." Please, tell me you'll join my marketing department.
I think Speed is so ambiguous it should be applicable to bandwidth, otherwise we would be saying things like "Worlds Broadest Internet Service!" and use latency to describe the... uh.... network latency.
Let me break it down for you. Thats a ridiculous statement. Therefore, you should have assumed it wasn't serious. When I say something like "The only thing that comes out of my butt is Jolly Ranchers" you should take care not to put your tongue up my asshole because in fact my butt is for shitting.
More to the point Flash has been around for.... EVER. If not for Flash being adopted would HTML5 have even been started (then abandoned)? Fuck no. Seriously the F/OSSies are getting out of control. "WE ARE THE BEST AT INNOVATION! HURBLEGARGALA!" they chant with shit running out of their mouths as they have complained about Flash forever and still have nothing to offer. Tell me, none of you could sack up and fill the niche? Doesn't that really throw all of the open source "I can just do it myself" attitude right out the window? Its the most hated of all things on the internet and NOBODY came up with something. It seems by demonstration you can't do it yourself quite like commercial software can. The only thing that makes sense is the goal of F/OSS is to completely destroy proprietary software, make it so it can't be proprietary. This is clearly shown in the GPL license they love so much. In which case we never would have had any of the progress of the last 10 years on the internet.
F/OSS should just accept that their job is to go in after things are created and make the free version that everybody standardizes on 5 to 10 years down the road. And that has value, absolutely. But this warfare is ridiculous and they're losing while making themselves look like complete asswipes. I can't believe I'm not posting this anonymously.
Wow you're so cool. Tell me, what's it like living in a world so inconvenient? Have any of your apocolyptic corporate take-over scenarios happened yet? No? Didn't think so. Quit bitching.
Just out of curiousity, what happens when the other company fixes the bug and then an update comes out from Red Hat? That sounds like a pain in the ass.
Also, there doesn't need to be a difference. In fact, there not being a difference was the whole fucking point. "Dur her her you don't own your softwares! Shoulda used FOSS" is bullshit because FOSS is much more likely to end up abandoned, and any support you try to do yourself with it is surely going to be a bad thing and introduce security flaws. The whole concept of "Its open so I can change it" absolutely does not apply for business unless you are a top 10 tech company or your business is exclusively doing that sort of work. It doesn't even apply to home users beyond tinkering.
Let me clarify to get away from all you piracy fans who will nitpick any argument to death on semantics: The monetary value of a film for the people who had an investment in its creation that then entitles them to receive payment based on the amount of money the film brings in is lowered by downloads in that while not everybody who downloaded the movie would have paid to see it, some of them would have, some of them would have rented it, some of them would have purchased a netflix account and some of the friends they gave copies to or some of the friends they watched it with would have. If downloading movies or streaming illegally was not an option I know I for one would definitely spend more money on media. At the same time this does not mean that I would have paid to see all of my pirated collection. Pirate if you want to pirate, but you can't lie to Jesus.
When you have to ship via USPS because nobody else is allowed to handle that particular class of mailing, and the people working at the USPS keep stealing the discs, and when you act to correct that they start charging you more, does it really still seem like Gamefly is being unreasonable?
Thats a dumb argument, usually names are translated. I bet they don't call it "Microsoft Office" in Germany. Also the development team is English speaking for the most part. The name isn't even that bad, whats worse are Android and Ubuntu versions, and even somewhat Apple's cat themed versions. Snow Leopard > Leopard > Panther? What criteria did they use to reach that conclusion? Which one looked most likely to taste the best? LibreOffice is fine actually. It makes a hell of a lot more sense than Intrepid Ibex or Froyo. Granted those are version names, but still. LibreOffice is not at all the worst offender in FOSS naming.
Mostly I wanted to use the word "weenitude" in a comment. I get what you're saying but its local relevance to marketing right now doesn't mean it will change anything it just means right now it is the fad, no more relevant in the long term or in the sense that it actually changes things than toys in a cracker jack box.
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I'm sorry I wasn't aware that what other people think of a name on battle.net mattered. And still nobody can tell me why it matters to them when somebody acts like a dick during a game. You're opponents FFS! Reading that kind of text just makes you feel bad on the inside? I don't get it and I don't get why I was modded down either. If its screaming in voice chat thats one thing, if I'm spamming messages thats another thing, but just talking shit during a game? You guys need to sack up. A little bit of text can ruin a game for you? That's pretty weak.
A lot of games cater to trash talking, whoever modded me down is absolutely ridiculous. Nothing I'm saying is flamebait or trolling, its just contrary to what you believe. I'm smelch and I'm pro talking trash during games when it gets to my opponents, and I do strongly believe it is a defect of the other person when it does get to them, not a defect of me. Irrational feelings about yourself due to blatantly baseless and uninformed things I say are your problem.
I can see your point of view, though I disagree with it. I wish somebody else would chime in here, I'd like to see the general opinion. Is it ok to call somebody a super-pussy to distract them from the warp prism floating behind they're mineral line, or is that being plain rude and a troll?
If I sit there and say something like "I've already won, you should just give up." or in response to an attack "wow, that was terrible huehuehuehue" (my trash talking persona is brazilian) or even the rare I-don't-full-understand-your-language "You fat dick American", and you get insulted then thats stupid. The thing about trash talk online is I can't possibly know anything about you so it should not sting at all like if I insulted somebody I know or saw in person. Not to mention the profanity filter. If you are crushing me with Void Rays and I say "Pussy, try something other than Void Rays, n00b" you are either going to ignore what I said, pump out more to piss me off, or try something else because for some reason you want to prove yourself to a stranger you know nothing about. The conversation and your responses (if there are any) along with the way you've been playing the game will dictate what I think you are going to do and I will act accordingly. Its called mind games and if a stranger who knows nothing about you with a vested interest in making it seem like you aren't doing very well is getting to you, then you should probably look in to ways of boosting your self esteem.
eSport is a fine term as long as you realize that its not a sport, eSport is just the word for competitve gaming. Nothing bothers me more than people trying to claim their mental activity is a sport. Stop it, you're giving undue importance to the term and trying to mimic it to get mainstream acceptance. Its pathetic and desperate looking.
But when everybody uses them its not fun anymore and they aren't overpowered anymore its a game with one unit.
The way I define a sport is competitive physical and mental activity where the actions of your competition during the event directly influence how you perform the activity. This means no cheerleading, no chess, no starcraft, yes darts (certain game types), no 300 yard dash, yes jousting, yes fencing, no gymnastics, yes laser tag, yes paintball, no competitive dance. And as you said, being a sport or not is not an indication of difficulty or how big your muscles need to be.
I don't understand how "abuse" can ruin the multiplayer. At worst you just ignore the other team, at best you talk a bunch of shit and its fun. Are people seriously pissed off by the people at the other end of the internet telling them they're a butt-toucher, or whatever the popular insult of the day is? The people that get upset about trash talk are so much worse than trash talkers. If you're getting upset, you're taking the game or yourself too seriously. As more of a romantic player, I enjoy using taunts and insults and general shit over the chat to try to get the game to evolve in a different way than it normally would. I think its a perfectly fine way to play the game, and if you don't care for what I'm saying, stop reading my messages.
The only time it sucks is when the efficient or pro-style of playing is just no fun. Like with pokemon when people started using all their charts and graphs to get the perfect EV points or whatever the hell, I just decided to hell with that shit. That's not fun, thats work. Starcraft 2 is fun to play even when you are using the pro strategies (if you can). That's what makes me ok with playing even though I suck. To not suck isn't the same as ripping the fun out of it, so I'm not sitting there deliberately playing below the optimum just to keep it fun.
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So its totally natural to assume that somewhere in those 0.0393 seconds between the first and second photo, the car slowed from 50mph to some amount below 35mph to make his average speed appear like it was within the legal limit.
Yes, thats a reliable conclusion to draw from that. "iPads sold so SD isn't a feature people want." Please, tell me you'll join my marketing department.
I think Speed is so ambiguous it should be applicable to bandwidth, otherwise we would be saying things like "Worlds Broadest Internet Service!" and use latency to describe the... uh.... network latency.
Let me break it down for you. Thats a ridiculous statement. Therefore, you should have assumed it wasn't serious. When I say something like "The only thing that comes out of my butt is Jolly Ranchers" you should take care not to put your tongue up my asshole because in fact my butt is for shitting.
More to the point Flash has been around for.... EVER. If not for Flash being adopted would HTML5 have even been started (then abandoned)? Fuck no. Seriously the F/OSSies are getting out of control. "WE ARE THE BEST AT INNOVATION! HURBLEGARGALA!" they chant with shit running out of their mouths as they have complained about Flash forever and still have nothing to offer. Tell me, none of you could sack up and fill the niche? Doesn't that really throw all of the open source "I can just do it myself" attitude right out the window? Its the most hated of all things on the internet and NOBODY came up with something. It seems by demonstration you can't do it yourself quite like commercial software can. The only thing that makes sense is the goal of F/OSS is to completely destroy proprietary software, make it so it can't be proprietary. This is clearly shown in the GPL license they love so much. In which case we never would have had any of the progress of the last 10 years on the internet.
F/OSS should just accept that their job is to go in after things are created and make the free version that everybody standardizes on 5 to 10 years down the road. And that has value, absolutely. But this warfare is ridiculous and they're losing while making themselves look like complete asswipes. I can't believe I'm not posting this anonymously.
Wow you're so cool. Tell me, what's it like living in a world so inconvenient? Have any of your apocolyptic corporate take-over scenarios happened yet? No? Didn't think so. Quit bitching.
Don't you know real F/OSS advocates refuse to use javascript? What fucking hipsters they are. its so cool the way they are above it all.
Just out of curiousity, what happens when the other company fixes the bug and then an update comes out from Red Hat? That sounds like a pain in the ass.
Also, there doesn't need to be a difference. In fact, there not being a difference was the whole fucking point. "Dur her her you don't own your softwares! Shoulda used FOSS" is bullshit because FOSS is much more likely to end up abandoned, and any support you try to do yourself with it is surely going to be a bad thing and introduce security flaws. The whole concept of "Its open so I can change it" absolutely does not apply for business unless you are a top 10 tech company or your business is exclusively doing that sort of work. It doesn't even apply to home users beyond tinkering.
You should try it.
Let me clarify to get away from all you piracy fans who will nitpick any argument to death on semantics: The monetary value of a film for the people who had an investment in its creation that then entitles them to receive payment based on the amount of money the film brings in is lowered by downloads in that while not everybody who downloaded the movie would have paid to see it, some of them would have, some of them would have rented it, some of them would have purchased a netflix account and some of the friends they gave copies to or some of the friends they watched it with would have. If downloading movies or streaming illegally was not an option I know I for one would definitely spend more money on media. At the same time this does not mean that I would have paid to see all of my pirated collection. Pirate if you want to pirate, but you can't lie to Jesus.
When you have to ship via USPS because nobody else is allowed to handle that particular class of mailing, and the people working at the USPS keep stealing the discs, and when you act to correct that they start charging you more, does it really still seem like Gamefly is being unreasonable?
Downloading movies devalues creating movies. Idiot.
Theft of life, asshole. After you murder somebody, you get all of their remaining days.
Thats a dumb argument, usually names are translated. I bet they don't call it "Microsoft Office" in Germany. Also the development team is English speaking for the most part. The name isn't even that bad, whats worse are Android and Ubuntu versions, and even somewhat Apple's cat themed versions. Snow Leopard > Leopard > Panther? What criteria did they use to reach that conclusion? Which one looked most likely to taste the best? LibreOffice is fine actually. It makes a hell of a lot more sense than Intrepid Ibex or Froyo. Granted those are version names, but still. LibreOffice is not at all the worst offender in FOSS naming.
Mostly I wanted to use the word "weenitude" in a comment. I get what you're saying but its local relevance to marketing right now doesn't mean it will change anything it just means right now it is the fad, no more relevant in the long term or in the sense that it actually changes things than toys in a cracker jack box.