I guess you can take this as your first life lesson at college. Do not post anything to any website that directly links back to you that you wouldn't want your mother, your father, a future employer, the police, a potential girl/(guy?) you don't even know yet, your children, etc. to read. Even posting to sites that INDIRECTLY link back to you can be sketchy. I learned this back in like 7th grade, it seemed like common sense to me at the time.
Assume that anything posted to the internet is both permanent and broadcast to everyone on earth.
If anything, you should be THANKING facebook for making it more obvious what exactly you idiots have been making public knowledge.
Some people play D&D to smash monsters faces in, and because they like to play numbers games, plan out a class build and see it in action.
These are also the players most likely to be drawn to MMORPGs and CRPGs in general, because they (meaning the software) excel in this area (lack of a human DM makes more roleplay-style pretty much impossible or at least extremely lame).
Everyone I used to play D&D with was this type of player (min/max) to some degree. We had fun. As you said, it is just a game. Does it make us dolts for wanting to play it a different way than you?
Man, every time I hear about something "new" in an FPS game, I can think of a Quake mod that did almost exactly the same thing. Ever heard of Custom TF?
I also remember a Quake mod that was basically the same concept as Portal, except without the fancy physics and visuals. You could even fire rockets/nails/grenades through the portable teleporter.
It's called "Team Fortress CLASSIC" for a reason. TF was for Quake first. If you're going to try and point out the origin of something, at least get it right.
Why is EVERYONE getting this wrong? You [b]CAN[/b] advertise a gay-friendly guild on the guild recruitment message board. You [b]CAN'T[/b] advertise any "X-friendly" guild based on something from outside the game [b]INSIDE THE GAME[/b].
So would you be comforted if the next version of Websters defined "theft" to include "copyright infringement"? This would move an entire class of crime from civil to criminal. That's a huge shift.
Laws are not written with knowledge of what a word may come to mean in the future. Judges should rule on the original intent of a law, not what a word within the law means in a dictionary. The meaning of words can change. The law should not change with the meaning of the word. The law should only change with the changing of the law by legistators.
People schedule softball and soccer games. Does that make it work? Just because you schedule a fun activity doesn't make it "work". Just because you don't enjoy raiding as a form of fun doesn't mean other people don't. Scheduling something doesn't make it "work".
Perhaps you should go find any evidence at all that liberals do want the age of consent dropped. Guess what, you won't find it. Please quit making shit up.
This belief comes from the 70's when the liberal movement picked up all the gay/lesbian/etc. organizations into the fold. At the time age of consent laws were in fact used against homosexuals in some states/cities, by making different ages of consent for homosexual activity than for heterosexual activity. Gay people wanted the age of consent lowered to be the same as the heterosexual age of consent.
Unfortunately, pedophilic organizations such as NAMBLA attempted to attach themselves to this same movement and lower it even further (or get rid of it completely) and unfortunately at first many of the gay organizations allowed them to speak with them simply because they wanted more support. They soon figured out what was really going on and distanced themselves appropriately.
So that's why some people still believe "liberals" want to lower the age of consent. It also doesn't help that many people calling themselves "liberal" defend "being attracted to children" and "computer generated child porn". But to claim this is a mainstream liberal belief is folly.
Yes, I once read the entire wikipedia page on NAMBLA.
In WoW, it's usually more efficient (if you're just going purely for gold, which incidentally is the highest monetary unit in WoW) to solo grind mobs by yourself in a generally unpopulated zone, and also absorb all the resources you find there, and list those in the AH, than to get a group together. The rewards from zones are bind on pickup and can't be traded, and the time investment vs. turnout for other items (cloth, cash, etc.) is generally not as good unless your entire group is skilled (and the gold farmers tend to be very unskilled, with only a rudimentary understanding of game mechanics).
There are quite a few instances of the gold farmers figuring out ways to get certain drops from dungeons, but this also usually involves being solo and using some trick to get by most of the mobs, then killing a boss through kiting or some other nonstandard means (or just finding a chest or other resource which is lootable after sneaking by mobs).
So no, in WoW it's almost never worth it for gold farmers to group up. Sometimes they will sneak their way into an instance group and attempt to steal all the boss loot, but I honestly don't understand why. It just doesn't seem like it'd be worth the time for them to come if they're just going to vendor the boss drops.
I was only refering to the one part of your argument. Not the entirety. Proof through concensus is not science. The majority has been wrong many many times before in science.
You can always watch the new episode on Saturday. It doesn't matter if it's "new" on Wednesday or "new" on Saturday, it will still always be the "newest" episode on Saturday. The holidays fucked up the schedule for a little while but I didn't have any trouble missing any new episodes.
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I guess you can take this as your first life lesson at college. Do not post anything to any website that directly links back to you that you wouldn't want your mother, your father, a future employer, the police, a potential girl/(guy?) you don't even know yet, your children, etc. to read. Even posting to sites that INDIRECTLY link back to you can be sketchy. I learned this back in like 7th grade, it seemed like common sense to me at the time.
Assume that anything posted to the internet is both permanent and broadcast to everyone on earth.
If anything, you should be THANKING facebook for making it more obvious what exactly you idiots have been making public knowledge.
Sorry, some of us just skim through and don't read entire threads before posting (like me).
If you want people to find it out from you personally at your own pace, THEN DON'T POST IT TO FACEBOOK.
Jesus Christ...
I disagree. This is one of the stupidest games I've ever played. I'd do it if google paid the user for it. Maybe.
Some people play D&D to smash monsters faces in, and because they like to play numbers games, plan out a class build and see it in action.
These are also the players most likely to be drawn to MMORPGs and CRPGs in general, because they (meaning the software) excel in this area (lack of a human DM makes more roleplay-style pretty much impossible or at least extremely lame).
Everyone I used to play D&D with was this type of player (min/max) to some degree. We had fun. As you said, it is just a game. Does it make us dolts for wanting to play it a different way than you?
Man, every time I hear about something "new" in an FPS game, I can think of a Quake mod that did almost exactly the same thing. Ever heard of Custom TF? I also remember a Quake mod that was basically the same concept as Portal, except without the fancy physics and visuals. You could even fire rockets/nails/grenades through the portable teleporter.
I hate to break it to you, but "increasing through use" is all but identical to "leveling system".
The big dig is not a failure of engineering, it's a failure of bureaucracy and a corrupt local government.
"Recent" is a bit of a stretch, in internet terms at least. The article is 4 months old.
You try making a procedural 3D FPS using only DirectX 3 or so (or was it DX5?) that runs at 25+ fps on a Pentium 100.
It's called "Team Fortress CLASSIC" for a reason. TF was for Quake first. If you're going to try and point out the origin of something, at least get it right.
I don't understand why everyone is spelling it "Hawai'i" instead of Hawaii. Did I miss a memo?
Damn I post on the blizzard forum too much. Stupid [b][/b] tags.
Why is EVERYONE getting this wrong? You [b]CAN[/b] advertise a gay-friendly guild on the guild recruitment message board. You [b]CAN'T[/b] advertise any "X-friendly" guild based on something from outside the game [b]INSIDE THE GAME[/b].
It didn't come from him. People actually say this seriously. They've been saying it AT LEAST since EQ1 came out.
Sad, really.
He said "don't advertise once".
As in they do it a lot.
Which is why they would be "screaming every minute".
Reading. Comprehension.
Mario64 was the first game (I noticed) that did this.
So would you be comforted if the next version of Websters defined "theft" to include "copyright infringement"? This would move an entire class of crime from civil to criminal. That's a huge shift.
Laws are not written with knowledge of what a word may come to mean in the future. Judges should rule on the original intent of a law, not what a word within the law means in a dictionary. The meaning of words can change. The law should not change with the meaning of the word. The law should only change with the changing of the law by legistators.
People schedule softball and soccer games. Does that make it work? Just because you schedule a fun activity doesn't make it "work". Just because you don't enjoy raiding as a form of fun doesn't mean other people don't. Scheduling something doesn't make it "work".
Perhaps you should go find any evidence at all that liberals do want the age of consent dropped. Guess what, you won't find it. Please quit making shit up.
This belief comes from the 70's when the liberal movement picked up all the gay/lesbian/etc. organizations into the fold. At the time age of consent laws were in fact used against homosexuals in some states/cities, by making different ages of consent for homosexual activity than for heterosexual activity. Gay people wanted the age of consent lowered to be the same as the heterosexual age of consent.
Unfortunately, pedophilic organizations such as NAMBLA attempted to attach themselves to this same movement and lower it even further (or get rid of it completely) and unfortunately at first many of the gay organizations allowed them to speak with them simply because they wanted more support. They soon figured out what was really going on and distanced themselves appropriately.
So that's why some people still believe "liberals" want to lower the age of consent. It also doesn't help that many people calling themselves "liberal" defend "being attracted to children" and "computer generated child porn". But to claim this is a mainstream liberal belief is folly.
Yes, I once read the entire wikipedia page on NAMBLA.
This is highly disturbing in and of itself.
In WoW, it's usually more efficient (if you're just going purely for gold, which incidentally is the highest monetary unit in WoW) to solo grind mobs by yourself in a generally unpopulated zone, and also absorb all the resources you find there, and list those in the AH, than to get a group together. The rewards from zones are bind on pickup and can't be traded, and the time investment vs. turnout for other items (cloth, cash, etc.) is generally not as good unless your entire group is skilled (and the gold farmers tend to be very unskilled, with only a rudimentary understanding of game mechanics).
There are quite a few instances of the gold farmers figuring out ways to get certain drops from dungeons, but this also usually involves being solo and using some trick to get by most of the mobs, then killing a boss through kiting or some other nonstandard means (or just finding a chest or other resource which is lootable after sneaking by mobs).
So no, in WoW it's almost never worth it for gold farmers to group up. Sometimes they will sneak their way into an instance group and attempt to steal all the boss loot, but I honestly don't understand why. It just doesn't seem like it'd be worth the time for them to come if they're just going to vendor the boss drops.
I was only refering to the one part of your argument. Not the entirety. Proof through concensus is not science. The majority has been wrong many many times before in science.
I would hope that top of the line cards would get LESS expensive.
They do. Only at that point, they are no longer top of the line.
You can always watch the new episode on Saturday. It doesn't matter if it's "new" on Wednesday or "new" on Saturday, it will still always be the "newest" episode on Saturday. The holidays fucked up the schedule for a little while but I didn't have any trouble missing any new episodes.