> "Over half of the posts evidenced systems based on reason, one in ten > evidenced model-based reasoning, and 65% displayed an evaluative > epistemology in which knowledge is treated as an open-ended process > of evaluation and argument."
Ya, a ranger should optimize for large team-based PvP by going for max ranged damage at the expense of melee and AC, and get the damned purps, got it.
1. Consoles have always been highly developed for compared to PCs. It's just a little different now because consoles have more or less caught up in power -- keep in mind they have to produce 3D for a much smaller screen resolution (what is the worst case, 1080p? Bah. That's so 1997) so they'll always have higher quality in some aspects (smooth motion, mirroring, etc.) while PC games are always trying to jam that into a much higher resolution, which they can't without having 1 fps. Thus the PC lags in the latest and greatest visual tricks beyond pure resolution.
Quite frankly, you need something on the order of 60-70 fps to truly get a "looking through a window" feel due to smoothness of motion. Worse, many PC games have loading glitches where the picture freezes for half a second when you start to move or turn fast, which also costs in immersion.
In any case, there've been tons of games only on consoles, it's just that you expect to see them on the PC now because of the roughly comparable quality of the visuals and depths of the game.
2. "Gaming is dead" - Or maybe it's just in a draught. In music, we can go for months, if not years, between huge hits with a catchy tune, with the #1's being some mildly catchy thing that wouldn't even make it into the Beatles' top 50 hits.
Halo, World of Warcraft, sorry, I know they're huge, but I've been playing video games since the mid '70's. I've seen 'em come, and I've seen 'em go. These are just the latest that managed to suck in a new generation of players.
Something else will come along and dwarf them in turn. Then you can join me in waxing nostalgic about the good old days.
By the way, Microsoft is sticking in the console market until the bitter end because they see that, eventually, TV, PC, TiVo, console game, web surfing, and so on are all gonna merge eventually as the whole family sits there in front of a giant screen divided up into 9 pictures ALA Back to the Future.
Oh, by the way. Monkey wrenches are always on the way. Supposedly NVidia is going to introduce 3D goggles that, combined with their 3D cards pumping out 120fps, will give you 3D, assuming you have a monitor that can handle 120fps as it swaps the left and right views back and forth. Maybe true 3D gaming will finally stick this time.
Attention wannabees: Please do not screw with cooling off the Earth. There's debate whether global warming is even a problem (I mean that it occurs, but isn't a problem even so.)
But accidently inducing an ice age? Now that actually will kill billions.
So, buffoons, pleeze, stop it. Just stop it.
Gene Wilder Willy Wonka Resignation Voice: Stop. No. Don't do it.
the watcher class is supposed to be a support/utility class but they can beat a purped slayer easy!!! Once they get the att accolade they can use it to stun or debuf buffs but since they also can delay-cast any spell on their glasses then zap it when they want, they can cast the debuff on their glasse, go find a buffy, zap stun, zap debuf, then beat on her, when 10s is up re-stun with 5s watchun then more beats and poof she hm's. pvp its way worse they denad the stake and pop it on a lamp for the hps.
> than at CERN since LHC is about to start the hunt for the Higgs particle that remains > elusive even for the experiment that just discovered the Omega-sub-b
was in cleef the other day and this hord zomb hibee stuns me and shit off to gold I go man id shard his purps in a sec if i cud. by when my friend logged his pewpew cowgirl dumass was gone. putz
> Sixty-hour work weeks with no overtime or comp time, a BlackBerry hitched to your belt 24/7, > mandates from managers who have no clue what you actually do -- all for a job that could be > outsourced tomorrow. 'Is it finally time for technology workers to form a union
form a union...to aid in forcing the jobs overseas. Brilliant.
But I'm sure Congress will ride to your aid the same way they did the auto unions and steel unions and garment worker unions and so on because your union would have just as many members as those ones, and would be just as valuable to a politician.
Post 3269: Nerf Watchers!!! Posted by SMGRulz416, 3:44 AM 12 July 2010
the watcher class is supposed to be a support/utility class but they can beat a purped slayer easy!!! (Ed. Note: loaded with purple quality equipment and upgrades) Once they get the att accolade (Ed. Note: Ancient Tiki Taboo accolade, a reward for completing a long quest arc) they can use it to stun or debuf (Ed. Note: refers to the ATTs power to debuf the defense of a target by 90% or stun the target, either for 10s, 2 hour recharge time) buffs (Ed. Note: "buffs", i.e. slayers, i.e. Buffies, not to be confused with buffing someone) but since they also can delay-cast any spell on their glasses then zap it when they want, they can cast the debuff on their glasse, go find a buffy, zap stun, zap debuf, then beat on her, when 10s is up re-stun with 5s watchun (Ed. Note: watchun, bvsbbsspeake for inherent watcher stun ability) then more beats and poof she hm's. (Ed. Note: Hellmouths, or goes to the Hellmouth, where dead characters come back to life.) pvp its way worse they denad the stake and pop it on a lamp for the hps (Ed. Note: take the buffy's best wooden stake, usually teh bravery stake, hence de-nad, i.e. de-balls, i.e. de-bravery-ify, and expend it on a low level vamp yard trash to get the ash left from the disintegrated vamp, which is worth tons on the hall pass market because it's imbued with the method of destruction, in this case the 1-use-per-week special stake.)
Preferring to run around behind a female ass instead of a male one, for hours after hours, days after days, months after months, and now, years after years, destined to be decades after decades, isn't enough reason to always play a hot chick?
City of Heroes, build slider max, waist slider min, boob slider max, low riders or bikini or skin, tight or short top, Ms. Liberty or Kalinda, notutorialthxbie, go!
"No way, I ain't installing the new OS at home!" by a dev who worked on the product should be a warning sign.
I don't know that they've learned anything -- MS's current ad campaign involves showing a code-named "new" OS to technologically illiterate 50-somethings and having them say "gosh that's nice!" to the interviewer standing over them looking pleadingly and not letting them out until they make a comment of some kind and can finally leave to grab an icy Orange Julius off the folding serving table just outside the door.
All those people who bought Lucent stock because of those ads bragging about how they invented the laser, transistor, etc. should get their money back.
"Mega" was hopelessly busted in the early '90's when that round of consoles had game cartridge companies boasting over whose cartridge had the biggest memory in it, as if that had anything to do with the game's quailty.
"8 MEGA!!!!!!" cartridges were not unusual as an advertising burst sticker.
Apparently "viruses", an English construction, is preferred, as virus in Latin was a mass noun, and, although conversion of mass nouns to singular nouns (thus requiring a plural form) is not unknown in Latin, there are no known other examples of the form from which virus comes. Hence one couldn't pluralize it via Latin rules even if one wanted to, barring a time machine to go visit ancient Rome, and an anal retentive etymologist in ancient Rome, at that.
Tell me about it. Why go through all the effort to implement start="0", as opposed to start="A", "a", "i", "I" (Roman numerals), etc., but not allow start="2", start="3", etc. to start at a number other than 1?
Yes, I know ordinal isn't cardinal, but wft. For 20 extra seconds implementation effort, it buys you a huge extra amount of functionality. Someone needs-a-slappin'.
Also, I don't know if inviting nerds into your campaign is all that good idea, Republican or Democrat. They're the most likely to know about and understand Rand, Julian Simon, and so on, i.e. the flaws with big government and their intervention in the economy. Oh, I'm sure you, dear reader, are vastly superior intellectually to those types of nerds...
> I want my FIOS. > I want congress to SMACK THE TELCOS HARD. They have been collecting Billions > of dollars in fees to provide Broadband and have delivered nothing.
How much has Congress been charging you in fees? Happy with their work? At least with Comcast you can walk away.
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The Earth is already covered in green goo from a green goo scenario that got out of control, in case nobody's been paying attention.
I imagine a robot world would be damned scared of plants and bacteria and so on.
> "Over half of the posts evidenced systems based on reason, one in ten
> evidenced model-based reasoning, and 65% displayed an evaluative
> epistemology in which knowledge is treated as an open-ended process
> of evaluation and argument."
Ya, a ranger should optimize for large team-based PvP by going for max ranged damage at the expense of melee and AC, and get the damned purps, got it.
Two things:
1. Consoles have always been highly developed for compared to PCs. It's just a little different now because consoles have more or less caught up in power -- keep in mind they have to produce 3D for a much smaller screen resolution (what is the worst case, 1080p? Bah. That's so 1997) so they'll always have higher quality in some aspects (smooth motion, mirroring, etc.) while PC games are always trying to jam that into a much higher resolution, which they can't without having 1 fps. Thus the PC lags in the latest and greatest visual tricks beyond pure resolution.
Quite frankly, you need something on the order of 60-70 fps to truly get a "looking through a window" feel due to smoothness of motion. Worse, many PC games have loading glitches where the picture freezes for half a second when you start to move or turn fast, which also costs in immersion.
In any case, there've been tons of games only on consoles, it's just that you expect to see them on the PC now because of the roughly comparable quality of the visuals and depths of the game.
2. "Gaming is dead" - Or maybe it's just in a draught. In music, we can go for months, if not years, between huge hits with a catchy tune, with the #1's being some mildly catchy thing that wouldn't even make it into the Beatles' top 50 hits.
Halo, World of Warcraft, sorry, I know they're huge, but I've been playing video games since the mid '70's. I've seen 'em come, and I've seen 'em go. These are just the latest that managed to suck in a new generation of players.
Something else will come along and dwarf them in turn. Then you can join me in waxing nostalgic about the good old days.
By the way, Microsoft is sticking in the console market until the bitter end because they see that, eventually, TV, PC, TiVo, console game, web surfing, and so on are all gonna merge eventually as the whole family sits there in front of a giant screen divided up into 9 pictures ALA Back to the Future.
Oh, by the way. Monkey wrenches are always on the way. Supposedly NVidia is going to introduce 3D goggles that, combined with their 3D cards pumping out 120fps, will give you 3D, assuming you have a monitor that can handle 120fps as it swaps the left and right views back and forth. Maybe true 3D gaming will finally stick this time.
Attention wannabees: Please do not screw with cooling off the Earth. There's debate whether global warming is even a problem (I mean that it occurs, but isn't a problem even so.)
But accidently inducing an ice age? Now that actually will kill billions.
So, buffoons, pleeze, stop it. Just stop it.
Gene Wilder Willy Wonka Resignation Voice: Stop. No. Don't do it.
Without debabbelizing, it's quite intense:
the watcher class is supposed to be a support/utility class but they can beat a purped slayer easy!!! Once they get the att accolade they can use it to stun or debuf buffs but since they also can delay-cast any spell on their glasses then zap it when they want, they can cast the debuff on their glasse, go find a buffy, zap stun, zap debuf, then beat on her, when 10s is up re-stun with 5s watchun then more beats and poof she hm's. pvp its way worse they denad the stake and pop it on a lamp for the hps.
> than at CERN since LHC is about to start the hunt for the Higgs particle that remains
> elusive even for the experiment that just discovered the Omega-sub-b
was in cleef the other day and this hord zomb hibee stuns me and shit off to gold I go man id shard his purps in a sec if i cud. by when my friend logged his pewpew cowgirl dumass was gone. putz
Even worse:
> Sixty-hour work weeks with no overtime or comp time, a BlackBerry hitched to your belt 24/7,
> mandates from managers who have no clue what you actually do -- all for a job that could be
> outsourced tomorrow. 'Is it finally time for technology workers to form a union
form a union...to aid in forcing the jobs overseas. Brilliant.
But I'm sure Congress will ride to your aid the same way they did the auto unions and steel unions and garment worker unions and so on because your union would have just as many members as those ones, and would be just as valuable to a politician.
Oh, there'll be problems, alright.
Post 3269: Nerf Watchers!!!
Posted by SMGRulz416, 3:44 AM 12 July 2010
the watcher class is supposed to be a support/utility class but they can beat a purped slayer easy!!! (Ed. Note: loaded with purple quality equipment and upgrades) Once they get the att accolade (Ed. Note: Ancient Tiki Taboo accolade, a reward for completing a long quest arc) they can use it to stun or debuf (Ed. Note: refers to the ATTs power to debuf the defense of a target by 90% or stun the target, either for 10s, 2 hour recharge time) buffs (Ed. Note: "buffs", i.e. slayers, i.e. Buffies, not to be confused with buffing someone) but since they also can delay-cast any spell on their glasses then zap it when they want, they can cast the debuff on their glasse, go find a buffy, zap stun, zap debuf, then beat on her, when 10s is up re-stun with 5s watchun (Ed. Note: watchun, bvsbbsspeake for inherent watcher stun ability) then more beats and poof she hm's. (Ed. Note: Hellmouths, or goes to the Hellmouth, where dead characters come back to life.) pvp its way worse they denad the stake and pop it on a lamp for the hps (Ed. Note: take the buffy's best wooden stake, usually teh bravery stake, hence de-nad, i.e. de-balls, i.e. de-bravery-ify, and expend it on a low level vamp yard trash to get the ash left from the disintegrated vamp, which is worth tons on the hall pass market because it's imbued with the method of destruction, in this case the 1-use-per-week special stake.)
Preferring to run around behind a female ass instead of a male one, for hours after hours, days after days, months after months, and now, years after years, destined to be decades after decades, isn't enough reason to always play a hot chick?
City of Heroes, build slider max, waist slider min, boob slider max, low riders or bikini or skin, tight or short top, Ms. Liberty or Kalinda, notutorialthxbie, go!
> Spammers will now alter their programs to start
> with "z" and numbers, so they can get the
> people who aren't as desensitized by spam.
A or Z, just be glad your name isn't Lorenzo.
"No way, I ain't installing the new OS at home!" by a dev who worked on the product should be a warning sign.
I don't know that they've learned anything -- MS's current ad campaign involves showing a code-named "new" OS to technologically illiterate 50-somethings and having them say "gosh that's nice!" to the interviewer standing over them looking pleadingly and not letting them out until they make a comment of some kind and can finally leave to grab an icy Orange Julius off the folding serving table just outside the door.
Oh wait. They did learn. Duh. n/m
I was wondering how odd D&D shit like the Bullette land shark, the Otyugh, and half-elves came to be.
> Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research
All those people who bought Lucent stock because of those ads bragging about how they invented the laser, transistor, etc. should get their money back.
The time spent swapping and reading and writing the 200 DVDs is worth a hell of a lot more than $30 to me, pal.
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"Mega" was hopelessly busted in the early '90's when that round of consoles had game cartridge companies boasting over whose cartridge had the biggest memory in it, as if that had anything to do with the game's quailty.
"8 MEGA!!!!!!" cartridges were not unusual as an advertising burst sticker.
That's mega bits, i.e. 1 megabyte.
And to answer the follow-up question, no, she is not required by law to date other nerds.
BTW, she went from a BA in Creative Studies to a PhD in chemistry studying nanotech construction techniques?
Kind of like Homer, but they forgot to put back the crayon.
Apparently "viruses", an English construction, is preferred, as virus in Latin was a mass noun, and, although conversion of mass nouns to singular nouns (thus requiring a plural form) is not unknown in Latin, there are no known other examples of the form from which virus comes. Hence one couldn't pluralize it via Latin rules even if one wanted to, barring a time machine to go visit ancient Rome, and an anal retentive etymologist in ancient Rome, at that.
> The M13 viruses used by the team can't reproduce by themselves
> and are only capable of infecting bacteria.
In related news, uranium isn't capable of exploding by itself, and is only capable of exploding in a nuclear bomb.
Tell me about it. Why go through all the effort to implement start="0", as opposed to start="A", "a", "i", "I" (Roman numerals), etc., but not allow start="2", start="3", etc. to start at a number other than 1?
Yes, I know ordinal isn't cardinal, but wft. For 20 extra seconds implementation effort, it buys you a huge extra amount of functionality. Someone needs-a-slappin'.
Also, I don't know if inviting nerds into your campaign is all that good idea, Republican or Democrat. They're the most likely to know about and understand Rand, Julian Simon, and so on, i.e. the flaws with big government and their intervention in the economy. Oh, I'm sure you, dear reader, are vastly superior intellectually to those types of nerds...
Actually, follow the money.
In this case I'd look for someone shorting NVidia stocks in hopes of making a killing when Intel buys it.
See also: Sudden release of deaths-by-Taser stories right after Taser, Inc. goes public. Someone shorting, or didn't get pay-yay-yaid.
Radeon/ATI has problems too. They finally stopped replacing my 9800XT when the warranty period was up after 3 years.
WoooooooooooooSH!
> I want my FIOS.
> I want congress to SMACK THE TELCOS HARD. They have been collecting Billions
> of dollars in fees to provide Broadband and have delivered nothing.
How much has Congress been charging you in fees? Happy with their work? At least with Comcast you can walk away.
> I want the money paid back with interest NOW!
Say it brother!
96450 bytes per second, round the clock.
Not all that much by modern surfing standards, but a decent clip. And it adds up.
I wonder if Comcast will do either of the following:
1. Refund money to people who use less than 250 a month (or less than 50GB, say)
or
2. Lower the prices for everybody, on average, to account for these statstical outlying hogs.
Let's all hold our breath, shall we?