Those high velocity rounds are meant to peirce armor. Against an armoured opponent it causes a lto of damage to the organs because of the disappation of energy tearing though the armour, how ever on unamroured opponents they sail clean through wiht just a hole. Using hollow points would shred the tissue on and stay in the body btu is less usefull againt armor.
The leasson from somalia is a opponent is still dangerous even if you shoot him 5 times with 5.56 rounds, The Rangers were prepared to meet a similair force but instead faced civillian militia. You need the right rounds for the right job.
lol. Let see, most people can't dunk, thus all NBA players are cheaters. Most poeple can't throw curve balls so all Baseball pitchers are haxxors. Most drivers can't apex turn so NASCAR driver are cheap Apex whores.
The divide is this, if you can do it with the game you bought, then it's fair. if you need a additional program to modify the game yoru cheating. Like playing poker on a table is playign the game while doing so wiht a camera behind your opponent it's cheating.
You know yoru right, Lets play chess like the players want it, knights can move 3 spots in any direction and attackanythign withing 3 squares and the queen was ultra cheeese so she can only move 1 square at a time. And the pawns are under pwoered let's beef them up and make them need 2 units to take downa nd the bishops need a nerf.
1 shot != 1 kill if your using standard nato rounds on unarmoured targets. Thats the problem the Rangers had in somalia, they shot eh and the bullet went clean through with the target hurt but still shooting. Thy should have used hollow points.
Even so, if you want to be good, it's not about how serious you are or how much tiem you put in. Being great is dependant on time, being good is about a minset.
In starcraft the rush is 1 strat new players can't counter. because it happens fast. But it rarly works against anyone with any skill(ladder 1100 and up).
Your admission that you stopped means you will never get better. I'm at a very average skill level but I can overcome the cheese, the key is to play and to lose. Lose and lose and lose and learn from your lose. Eventually you'll find your reflexes getting better, your timing improves. You can predict the cheese and coutner and eventually you can beat most people online.
I play Warcraft casually but I own literally all my friends. I'm not all twitchy but I have an enlightened view of the AI and play deep strategy learned form Starcraft. I play Starcraft casually as well. In every Counter strike game or Quake game I'm 2nd or 3rd because I choose a strat suitable to my skills. I'm nto good twitchy but I can be a good observer so I'm a flanker, I take odd routes to try and surprise the enemy.
I don't have mad skillz or mad reflexes but I'm a compeditor. I don't want to be good according to my rules, I want to be good according to the games rules. And no madder how many people share the same idea that "throwing is cheap" or "he's a camping shithead", it won't change the fact he owns you and that you two are playing different games. You will find players with skill won't complain, they will get even whiel all the low skill players whine.
I play warcraf III a lot. I use strategies with a lot of variety because I bore easily. But thinks liek hero rushes of even zerg rushes in Sc I can beat with my eye closed because I grown past the point where i'm vulnerable to that. Thus they go for a short term gamble to try to gain an atvantage later and it ussualyl back fires. I'd love to see the expression of the faces of the players who just lost 12 zealots in a 3v3 to me and my 1 sunken. Or when I lay the smack down on a team of hero harrassers with my 1 tower and my puny lich. There are conters in most well thought out games.
Thats silly, Fair play is shakign hands afterwards and sayign good game. Would you call neutral zone trap or heavy defence basketball cheesing? because they let lower skilled teams compete? No it's part of the game. defeat it or be defeated. A sense of fair play? Fair play is no using aim bots, not using map hacks, not using server hacks and wall hacks.
Glitch is one thing, reflex is another. Reflex is a skill you build and a natural ability. Complaining about it is like complaining Jordan kicks your ass all the tem in basket ball because he has better eflexes or Gretzky is chezing you in hockey because he has better reflexes and his cheap wristshot too. Or Thresh is just cheapness for being faster then you or tillerman is owning yrou ass because he's simply cheap for havign good reflexes.
Winning=Reflexes. Skill = reflex + stratagy. if reflex is high but strategy low then he's still skilled. I'mm low reflex high strat. I own all my friends in War3 even the hyperactive micro munchkins because I'm a devious litle bastard who knows the AI in and out. By your definition My micro happy friend is a chepa because he has better reflexes (he has a ver generalized strategy that I exploit because he never does anythign different), while you'd considered me skilled (I use every trick I can get).
I haven't played DOA but perhap rollign away would work? or nto choosing the slow guy? In Soul Calibur, the slow guys get compensates with range and damage, and if you knwo how to use them the round ends ridiculously early.
lol. Soul Calibur II has a interestign learning curve. IT's easy to get into, the moves are easy but theres also depth. For soul calibur it's timing versus combo memorization, I'd argue in a 11 game set I would own every new player (actually I would win (get more wins) then almost anyone). Not because I know mad combo's, but because I have a odd sense of timing and am a tricky little bastard. I've gone up against people who worship the game and play day and night at hoem and at the arcade and I can beat them 80% of the time just by not doing what most people do. Then again I'd get my ass handed to me by the elite players. There is a distinct skill gradient.
So whats stopping you from cheesing? Also most cheese moves out there like continous kick sliding are easily blocked. How about Rapheal and his overhead sword pokes, just side step and smash. Cheeser vs button masher = dead button masher and thats where I hear the most whining. No-skill player vs a low-skill player. When learning a game you have to learn the whole game not just your set of rules for it.
Perhaps, but thats the game. Artificial rules are just that, artificial rules. Like "no throw" rule. Throwing is preventable, don't get close, but a lot of new players whine about it because it breaks their block. spamming slide kicks? try getting airborn. If their slick kicking/anti-air comboign right after then they got skills and are just ensuring a win.
Perhaps thats why you lose consitantly. Because you believe in an artificial standard in games. In a RTS you'r problbly the one who says "20 min no rush", in a fps your problbly claiming "everyone is hacking". Most campers have limited ability. Camping in death match means you'll likly get out paced by everyone else in kills, while in a team enviroment thier servince a purpose guarding somethign important. as for spawn camping, it's rather difficult to keep well stocked and spawn all the spawn points. Don't like spawn camping, play CS. No power ups to camp, spawns are too far away, and if you camp an area your more or less doing your job and likly to get shot in the back by a flanker.
We're already ahead of you. Our political leaning is as close to the states as it can get. We'd be the texas canadian politics and we're very unhappy about the current state of affairs. Our feds see us as a cash cow who should share with the rest of the nations and we do but they still treat us like dirt. We're one US sponsored campagn away from beign Americans.
There is already a division, profit seekers have technical and community college. Academics have the Universities.
The seperation already exsists. If you want a php system for profit seekers seperate from pure academics then that will never happen. Neither party makes up the bulk of University student. Both groups are a sever minority. The vast majority of students are there either because it's their parents wish or they view it as a natural progression liek high school, and could not envision not going to university.
As for politics in science, when ever 2 or more people get together you'll have politics and greed and envy and back stabbing ect.. Thats the nature of people. There is austere learnign and it's in the church, you can still be a monk(cathalic/buhdist).
A brief history on education: There are 2 basic school from which teaching/education has come. The greek model and the chinese model. We currently follow the chinese model more closyl although we don't have a pure form. The greek model is about learning as a goal in itself. Where asking the questions and discussing them was education. It was flawed, it was a nice past time for the elite but it's incredibly time and labour intensive and the quality of your out-put will be related to the quality of your teachers.
A teacher like Aristotle can do much, but he's once in a generation. Most teacher int he greek era were flakes. Self important and pompous without a original though intheir head and made their students into mental clones of themselves.
On the other hand the chinese system was oen where education was a stepping stone to a better life. Education fed the chinese buracracy which maintained china. It's ciriculum was standardized, and even if your teacher was bad an exceptional student could learn on his own.
Before 1900 The wester education system was based partly on the chinese(indirectly) but mostly on the greek. Most of the west except Germany which used their education system to power their industry. This lead to a gigantic lead time in science and a huge technological advantage over the rest of the world. After the world wars the other western powers started to adapt the German way(indirectly the chinese way).
The benifit is that it turns out more educated people per dollar then the older way and made education available for all.
To bifurcate the system now would regress it. You want to set up pure learnign liek the greek style for some and the chinese style for others. It doesn't work that way. Everyone would rathe rhave the mor eliberal, more fun, and often more productive (individually) greek way, but it's economically unfeasible. If you did split it the profit seekers would all claim to be pure academics.
Also Pure academic go on to Msc and PHd's while profit seekers ussually stop at Bsc. Ba are now next to worthless and MA and Arts based PHP's aren't much better.
Those little colleges that offer the certs work as you explained. Incremental information on demand. As a whole it works btu it lacks the rigor that a formal education is. University is not about knowlege, it's about attrition. Having a degree is not about what you know, but instead means you had enough dicipline and mental dexsterity to endure the riggors of university which is an incredible amount of work. Having a degree makes you part of a small elite society. Having a diploma/cert means you went through a course.
My degree gets me better auto-insurance, preffered treatment in most banks and havign the BSC nect to my name improves my credit rating.
When I was younge rI tried to write down all the dialogue in FF6 to make a guide/faq. Theres a lot more dialogue then you think. Key dialogue I mean, not just random NPC dialogue. I got up to 6 pages and just got past the friggin moggles.
Resident evil wasn't so bad. it played out like a decent action film. The full frontal nudity by mila jovovich helped. IT was fairly consitent of the RE series, wit the exception of some stupid computer stuff and some mediorchre acting. IT wasn't horrible. Just not astondingly good.
Zelda in an arch-type. The story in Zelda is superficially really similiar to Star wars/ Matrix/ Lord of the rings.
Humble every-man is called on a quest, it's ussualyl pretty epic. Thats the story. in the original zelda not much story exsists, but with each subsequent re-telling more is added.
A better example is, for every American beuaty theres 57 small indie type films that bore you to death, like K-Pax , Contact, almost all amatuer film by a film student.
With respect to the security counsil, France and the UK are over represented. Their permenant members without the influence that a permanant member shold have. France and the UK represent as much power as Japan or the rest of europe. There shoudl only be 3 member of the permanant counsil, China, the US, and Russia.
Both of these games from both of these studios aren't meant just to be a game. Their basically graphic demoes for their engines. They have to have high requirements because they will be at the vanguard of the next generation of games. Just like Quake 3 was pretty but sorta bland, but it becamse the heart of dozens of fun games. Half life was cool bit it powered dozens more games. They aim high so when those who licence their engine come out with games, the sweet spot for the hardware market has caught up. I doubt D3 of HL2 will offer anything to justify the cost of hardware but when "Counter strike 3" and "No One Lives Forever 4" and "deus EX: we found a new director and script writer" show up, they will justify the expenditure.
Well, the "fundementalist" christian game all suck btu I'd argue a lto of good games are christian influenced. Take for example Warcraft, Since it's lifted from tolkien there's a lot of christian ideals in it. The valiant paladin/holy warrior crusader. The power of temptation (Arthas), the notion of a benevolent god (all the priests get power from somewhere).
then theres the messiah allegory that manifests itself in DOOM, and somore overt Christian game slike Messiah. We may see them as nothing more then using christian symbolism and imagery but theres a christian influence.
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Those high velocity rounds are meant to peirce armor. Against an armoured opponent it causes a lto of damage to the organs because of the disappation of energy tearing though the armour, how ever on unamroured opponents they sail clean through wiht just a hole. Using hollow points would shred the tissue on and stay in the body btu is less usefull againt armor.
The leasson from somalia is a opponent is still dangerous even if you shoot him 5 times with 5.56 rounds, The Rangers were prepared to meet a similair force but instead faced civillian militia. You need the right rounds for the right job.
lol. Let see, most people can't dunk, thus all NBA players are cheaters. Most poeple can't throw curve balls so all Baseball pitchers are haxxors. Most drivers can't apex turn so NASCAR driver are cheap Apex whores.
The divide is this, if you can do it with the game you bought, then it's fair. if you need a additional program to modify the game yoru cheating. Like playing poker on a table is playign the game while doing so wiht a camera behind your opponent it's cheating.
You know yoru right, Lets play chess like the players want it, knights can move 3 spots in any direction and attackanythign withing 3 squares and the queen was ultra cheeese so she can only move 1 square at a time. And the pawns are under pwoered let's beef them up and make them need 2 units to take downa nd the bishops need a nerf.
1 shot != 1 kill if your using standard nato rounds on unarmoured targets. Thats the problem the Rangers had in somalia, they shot eh and the bullet went clean through with the target hurt but still shooting. Thy should have used hollow points.
but theres so much post move and pre move latency that if he should miss (which is likly) he's a sitting duck.
Even so, if you want to be good, it's not about how serious you are or how much tiem you put in. Being great is dependant on time, being good is about a minset.
In starcraft the rush is 1 strat new players can't counter. because it happens fast. But it rarly works against anyone with any skill(ladder 1100 and up).
Your admission that you stopped means you will never get better. I'm at a very average skill level but I can overcome the cheese, the key is to play and to lose. Lose and lose and lose and learn from your lose. Eventually you'll find your reflexes getting better, your timing improves. You can predict the cheese and coutner and eventually you can beat most people online.
I play Warcraft casually but I own literally all my friends. I'm not all twitchy but I have an enlightened view of the AI and play deep strategy learned form Starcraft. I play Starcraft casually as well. In every Counter strike game or Quake game I'm 2nd or 3rd because I choose a strat suitable to my skills. I'm nto good twitchy but I can be a good observer so I'm a flanker, I take odd routes to try and surprise the enemy.
I don't have mad skillz or mad reflexes but I'm a compeditor. I don't want to be good according to my rules, I want to be good according to the games rules. And no madder how many people share the same idea that "throwing is cheap" or "he's a camping shithead", it won't change the fact he owns you and that you two are playing different games. You will find players with skill won't complain, they will get even whiel all the low skill players whine.
I play warcraf III a lot. I use strategies with a lot of variety because I bore easily. But thinks liek hero rushes of even zerg rushes in Sc I can beat with my eye closed because I grown past the point where i'm vulnerable to that. Thus they go for a short term gamble to try to gain an atvantage later and it ussualyl back fires. I'd love to see the expression of the faces of the players who just lost 12 zealots in a 3v3 to me and my 1 sunken. Or when I lay the smack down on a team of hero harrassers with my 1 tower and my puny lich. There are conters in most well thought out games.
Thats silly, Fair play is shakign hands afterwards and sayign good game. Would you call neutral zone trap or heavy defence basketball cheesing? because they let lower skilled teams compete? No it's part of the game. defeat it or be defeated. A sense of fair play? Fair play is no using aim bots, not using map hacks, not using server hacks and wall hacks.
Glitch is one thing, reflex is another. Reflex is a skill you build and a natural ability. Complaining about it is like complaining Jordan kicks your ass all the tem in basket ball because he has better eflexes or Gretzky is chezing you in hockey because he has better reflexes and his cheap wristshot too. Or Thresh is just cheapness for being faster then you or tillerman is owning yrou ass because he's simply cheap for havign good reflexes.
Winning=Reflexes. Skill = reflex + stratagy. if reflex is high but strategy low then he's still skilled. I'mm low reflex high strat. I own all my friends in War3 even the hyperactive micro munchkins because I'm a devious litle bastard who knows the AI in and out. By your definition My micro happy friend is a chepa because he has better reflexes (he has a ver generalized strategy that I exploit because he never does anythign different), while you'd considered me skilled (I use every trick I can get).
I haven't played DOA but perhap rollign away would work? or nto choosing the slow guy? In Soul Calibur, the slow guys get compensates with range and damage, and if you knwo how to use them the round ends ridiculously early.
lol. Soul Calibur II has a interestign learning curve. IT's easy to get into, the moves are easy but theres also depth. For soul calibur it's timing versus combo memorization, I'd argue in a 11 game set I would own every new player (actually I would win (get more wins) then almost anyone). Not because I know mad combo's, but because I have a odd sense of timing and am a tricky little bastard. I've gone up against people who worship the game and play day and night at hoem and at the arcade and I can beat them 80% of the time just by not doing what most people do. Then again I'd get my ass handed to me by the elite players. There is a distinct skill gradient.
So whats stopping you from cheesing? Also most cheese moves out there like continous kick sliding are easily blocked. How about Rapheal and his overhead sword pokes, just side step and smash. Cheeser vs button masher = dead button masher and thats where I hear the most whining. No-skill player vs a low-skill player. When learning a game you have to learn the whole game not just your set of rules for it.
Perhaps, but thats the game. Artificial rules are just that, artificial rules. Like "no throw" rule. Throwing is preventable, don't get close, but a lot of new players whine about it because it breaks their block. spamming slide kicks? try getting airborn. If their slick kicking/anti-air comboign right after then they got skills and are just ensuring a win.
Perhaps thats why you lose consitantly. Because you believe in an artificial standard in games. In a RTS you'r problbly the one who says "20 min no rush", in a fps your problbly claiming "everyone is hacking". Most campers have limited ability. Camping in death match means you'll likly get out paced by everyone else in kills, while in a team enviroment thier servince a purpose guarding somethign important. as for spawn camping, it's rather difficult to keep well stocked and spawn all the spawn points. Don't like spawn camping, play CS. No power ups to camp, spawns are too far away, and if you camp an area your more or less doing your job and likly to get shot in the back by a flanker.
We're already ahead of you. Our political leaning is as close to the states as it can get. We'd be the texas canadian politics and we're very unhappy about the current state of affairs. Our feds see us as a cash cow who should share with the rest of the nations and we do but they still treat us like dirt. We're one US sponsored campagn away from beign Americans.
There is already a division, profit seekers have technical and community college. Academics have the Universities.
The seperation already exsists. If you want a php system for profit seekers seperate from pure academics then that will never happen. Neither party makes up the bulk of University student. Both groups are a sever minority. The vast majority of students are there either because it's their parents wish or they view it as a natural progression liek high school, and could not envision not going to university.
As for politics in science, when ever 2 or more people get together you'll have politics and greed and envy and back stabbing ect.. Thats the nature of people. There is austere learnign and it's in the church, you can still be a monk(cathalic/buhdist).
A brief history on education:
There are 2 basic school from which teaching/education has come. The greek model and the chinese model. We currently follow the chinese model more closyl although we don't have a pure form. The greek model is about learning as a goal in itself. Where asking the questions and discussing them was education. It was flawed, it was a nice past time for the elite but it's incredibly time and labour intensive and the quality of your out-put will be related to the quality of your teachers.
A teacher like Aristotle can do much, but he's once in a generation. Most teacher int he greek era were flakes. Self important and pompous without a original though intheir head and made their students into mental clones of themselves.
On the other hand the chinese system was oen where education was a stepping stone to a better life. Education fed the chinese buracracy which maintained china. It's ciriculum was standardized, and even if your teacher was bad an exceptional student could learn on his own.
Before 1900 The wester education system was based partly on the chinese(indirectly) but mostly on the greek. Most of the west except Germany which used their education system to power their industry. This lead to a gigantic lead time in science and a huge technological advantage over the rest of the world. After the world wars the other western powers started to adapt the German way(indirectly the chinese way).
The benifit is that it turns out more educated people per dollar then the older way and made education available for all.
To bifurcate the system now would regress it. You want to set up pure learnign liek the greek style for some and the chinese style for others. It doesn't work that way. Everyone would rathe rhave the mor eliberal, more fun, and often more productive (individually) greek way, but it's economically unfeasible. If you did split it the profit seekers would all claim to be pure academics.
Also Pure academic go on to Msc and PHd's while profit seekers ussually stop at Bsc. Ba are now next to worthless and MA and Arts based PHP's aren't much better.
Those little colleges that offer the certs work as you explained. Incremental information on demand. As a whole it works btu it lacks the rigor that a formal education is. University is not about knowlege, it's about attrition. Having a degree is not about what you know, but instead means you had enough dicipline and mental dexsterity to endure the riggors of university which is an incredible amount of work. Having a degree makes you part of a small elite society. Having a diploma/cert means you went through a course.
My degree gets me better auto-insurance, preffered treatment in most banks and havign the BSC nect to my name improves my credit rating.
When I was younge rI tried to write down all the dialogue in FF6 to make a guide/faq. Theres a lot more dialogue then you think. Key dialogue I mean, not just random NPC dialogue. I got up to 6 pages and just got past the friggin moggles.
Resident evil wasn't so bad. it played out like a decent action film. The full frontal nudity by mila jovovich helped. IT was fairly consitent of the RE series, wit the exception of some stupid computer stuff and some mediorchre acting. IT wasn't horrible. Just not astondingly good.
Zelda in an arch-type. The story in Zelda is superficially really similiar to Star wars/ Matrix/ Lord of the rings.
Humble every-man is called on a quest, it's ussualyl pretty epic. Thats the story. in the original zelda not much story exsists, but with each subsequent re-telling more is added.
A better example is, for every American beuaty theres 57 small indie type films that bore you to death, like K-Pax , Contact, almost all amatuer film by a film student.
Originality 1= Quality.
With respect to the security counsil, France and the UK are over represented. Their permenant members without the influence that a permanant member shold have. France and the UK represent as much power as Japan or the rest of europe. There shoudl only be 3 member of the permanant counsil, China, the US, and Russia.
Both of these games from both of these studios aren't meant just to be a game. Their basically graphic demoes for their engines. They have to have high requirements because they will be at the vanguard of the next generation of games. Just like Quake 3 was pretty but sorta bland, but it becamse the heart of dozens of fun games. Half life was cool bit it powered dozens more games. They aim high so when those who licence their engine come out with games, the sweet spot for the hardware market has caught up. I doubt D3 of HL2 will offer anything to justify the cost of hardware but when "Counter strike 3" and "No One Lives Forever 4" and "deus EX: we found a new director and script writer" show up, they will justify the expenditure.
Well, the "fundementalist" christian game all suck btu I'd argue a lto of good games are christian influenced. Take for example Warcraft, Since it's lifted from tolkien there's a lot of christian ideals in it. The valiant paladin/holy warrior crusader. The power of temptation (Arthas), the notion of a benevolent god (all the priests get power from somewhere).
then theres the messiah allegory that manifests itself in DOOM, and somore overt Christian game slike Messiah. We may see them as nothing more then using christian symbolism and imagery but theres a christian influence.