[Pretext]'s not necessary for the victims of their empires - they usually know what's going on
On the contrary, framing the invasion as just is nowhere more important than at the target of invasion. Do you think we hold elections and set up ostensibly sovereign governments in the places we invade for our own benefit?
If the war goes well, there's no need to give more than some small token justification (if that) to the citizens of the invading nation, whose default attitude is to "support the troops".
Third, of course, is justifying your invasion to the rest of the world, a problem made obsolete by the brilliant strategy of fucking a people over and then declaring that you have the moral obligation to stay and make things better, changing your head of state and declaring the criminal nature of your actions to be no longer relevant.
At the time of their publication, they were fairly ground-breaking, but that style of humor just hasn't aged well at all (which tends to happen to all kinds of humor).
Topical jokes get old, but otherwise I have no idea what could lead a person to make a statement like this. Really, can you name another example (not that I agree with this one in the first place)?
Besides the fact that the expectations, especially those of slashdot's community, are so high you have little chance of being honored with anyone other than "mainstream" media who may have water on the brain, but enough money to throw at people to make them happy, even if slashdot or many fans don't approve.
On the contrary, the expectations are going to be very, very low. It's the standard against which it will be measured - largely due to that cynicism - that's unreachable.
Blizzard, please DON'T port Diablo 3 to consoles unless you're willing to let it be its gameplay be worse than the PC version. In other words, don't cripple the PC version because you're going to make a console version.
Do you have any plans for integrating World of Warcraft with the internet? People have speculated for ages about the ability to access the Auction House, receive and send in-game mail, schedule raids/events, and even chat with players in the game from a web-based console, or even a mobile phone.
To the World of Warcraft team: your work is censored in China [slashdot.org]. Is this negative or an unavoidable necessity?
Uhm, both?
Would you rather error on the side of cultural sensitivity?
All game designers worry about cultural offenses. The difference here is that we're talking about a culture different from our own offended by things we don't expect.
(For reference, Spore was supposed to have "unbreakable" drm to protect it, yet it was also considered the most pirated game of all time and in fact the cracked version was available up to a week before its official release.)
Personally, Spore is one of the few games I didn't pirate and actually paid for. The reason is that, in fact, it hasn't been cracked - that is, you can't access the online content, which is, in fact, everything that makes the game unique (the "massively single-player" part).
I might actually pay for Starcraft 2 as well, to be able to play on Battle.net. But that doesn't make taking out LAN play any less stupid, since there will without a doubt be a way around it.
adaptive deviations from that pattern that serve to carry false information can be considered "deceptive".
But that's the thing, nowhere does it say the robots gave false information. It simply said they chose not to give any information.
The article is very brief, though. It mentions that some robots actually learned to avoid the signal when they saw it, so there may be more to the story than reported.
Further, tabs should be attached to the pages they represent, not floating around at the top, in limbo. That was the worst design decision I have seen in ages.
I'm trying, but I can't think of what you might be talking about here.
Unless I just missed it, forcing all links to open in the same tab hasn't been an option made easily available for quite a while. Anyway, all you need is Tab Mix Plus.
I know that if I bought a Mac, the first thing I'd do is buy a mouse that wasn't designed for the imaginary person who never existed that can't handle multiple buttons.
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You're right except for one part:
[Pretext]'s not necessary for the victims of their empires - they usually know what's going on
On the contrary, framing the invasion as just is nowhere more important than at the target of invasion. Do you think we hold elections and set up ostensibly sovereign governments in the places we invade for our own benefit?
If the war goes well, there's no need to give more than some small token justification (if that) to the citizens of the invading nation, whose default attitude is to "support the troops".
Third, of course, is justifying your invasion to the rest of the world, a problem made obsolete by the brilliant strategy of fucking a people over and then declaring that you have the moral obligation to stay and make things better, changing your head of state and declaring the criminal nature of your actions to be no longer relevant.
(I was going to make a Soviet Russia/Communist China joke here but I decided not to)
Which would have been ironic, because China is here going all-out to demonstrate their dedication to capitalist (private) property.
At the time of their publication, they were fairly ground-breaking, but that style of humor just hasn't aged well at all (which tends to happen to all kinds of humor).
Topical jokes get old, but otherwise I have no idea what could lead a person to make a statement like this. Really, can you name another example (not that I agree with this one in the first place)?
Besides the fact that the expectations, especially those of slashdot's community, are so high you have little chance of being honored with anyone other than "mainstream" media who may have water on the brain, but enough money to throw at people to make them happy, even if slashdot or many fans don't approve.
On the contrary, the expectations are going to be very, very low. It's the standard against which it will be measured - largely due to that cynicism - that's unreachable.
Can anybody lend me $780? You know I'm good for it.
Blizzard, please DON'T port Diablo 3 to consoles unless you're willing to let it be its gameplay be worse than the PC version. In other words, don't cripple the PC version because you're going to make a console version.
How in the world is charing for it the only or best way to limit how often it's done?
But the answer to both is obvious. The merger did them good because it made them money, and they're creating DRM because they want to deter pirates.
Has Blizzard ever tried to justify requiring payment to transfer characters to a different server?
Not that I don't agree, but your entire post is a series of accusations dressed up as a question.
Do you have any plans for integrating World of Warcraft with the internet? People have speculated for ages about the ability to access the Auction House, receive and send in-game mail, schedule raids/events, and even chat with players in the game from a web-based console, or even a mobile phone.
Hint: Internet != World Wide Web
Now that's a softball question if I've ever heard one.
To the World of Warcraft team: your work is censored in China [slashdot.org]. Is this negative or an unavoidable necessity?
Uhm, both?
Would you rather error on the side of cultural sensitivity?
All game designers worry about cultural offenses. The difference here is that we're talking about a culture different from our own offended by things we don't expect.
(For reference, Spore was supposed to have "unbreakable" drm to protect it, yet it was also considered the most pirated game of all time and in fact the cracked version was available up to a week before its official release.)
Personally, Spore is one of the few games I didn't pirate and actually paid for. The reason is that, in fact, it hasn't been cracked - that is, you can't access the online content, which is, in fact, everything that makes the game unique (the "massively single-player" part).
I might actually pay for Starcraft 2 as well, to be able to play on Battle.net. But that doesn't make taking out LAN play any less stupid, since there will without a doubt be a way around it.
adaptive deviations from that pattern that serve to carry false information can be considered "deceptive".
But that's the thing, nowhere does it say the robots gave false information. It simply said they chose not to give any information.
The article is very brief, though. It mentions that some robots actually learned to avoid the signal when they saw it, so there may be more to the story than reported.
If i say "i saw a UFO", i am NOT saying i saw something from outer space, just that it was in the air and i don't know what it was.
Maybe that's what *you'd* be saying, but for most people, if they say "I saw a UFO", they mean a craft from outer space.
For example: when you buy a new car, all of a sudden you see that same model car everywhere.
Add to that peoples inability to think critically, and you get UFO's.
Actually, your example would indicate that shows like the X-Files caused people to notice UFOs that they previously missed.
No doubt all fiction can be traced right back to a factual account of early humans' journey out of Africa
I'm pretty sure that's not the root of African fiction.
"Begs the question" is not a technical term.
Further, tabs should be attached to the pages they represent, not floating around at the top, in limbo. That was the worst design decision I have seen in ages.
I'm trying, but I can't think of what you might be talking about here.
Unless I just missed it, forcing all links to open in the same tab hasn't been an option made easily available for quite a while. Anyway, all you need is Tab Mix Plus.
Please refrain from posting while drunk and irritable as you may end up fighting an argument that isn't taking place.
Other submitters go to the trouble of linking a print page
Uhh... where?
I'm not sure how you couldn't figure it out, but the interesting part isn't that it's news that there were mice that didn't make it.
I know that if I bought a Mac, the first thing I'd do is buy a mouse that wasn't designed for the imaginary person who never existed that can't handle multiple buttons.