Dancing as a career and being a Jedi are the only two cool new things about it. Crafting is not. Trading is not, not even as a career.
And since I'll never unlock Jedi as I am not a college or high school student with 8+ hours per day of free time...and since I've been a dancer for 9 months, and it's starting to get boring...
> Star Trek could potentially be as messed up as SWG.
Or EQ or any other one out there. I can't wait:/kill SpaceStationRat
Jhames Tibherihus Khirk 73 says, "Have at thee, kn4v3!"
** You attack a SpaceStationRat with your phaser
You hit a SpaceStationRat for 2 points of stunning damage!
** A SpaceStationRat hits YOU for 7 points of damage!
You hit a SpaceStationRat for 1 point of stunning damage!
Jhames Tibherihus Khirk 73 says, "WTF"
(clicks phaser adjustment on HUD)
Majel Barret's Computer Voice says, "I'm sorry. Your Academy Level does not allow a phaser setting highter than '5 hits to stun a rat'. You need 3279 points of Ripped Shirt Experience to open up '2 hits to stun a rat, 5 hits to stun a Vulcan rat' level."
But think of the positive side to a continental or global disaster: all the Slashdotters who can turn to a girl near them (if there are any) and say, "(sniff) I don't wanna die a virgin!"
This is actually funnier than most of you people realize. See, they like to tout all this worker's paradise and power of the masses bullshit. Rather than have barges and machines dump sand to block an overflowing river, you have hundreds of people on the barge pushing sand off with their hands...whoo hoo!
Freedom is slavery and slavery, freedom? You just imagine yourself to be free; by granting the power hungry thugs absolute power over you, you will truly be free. Go ahead and get started on that menial task; I'll be back to check on your progress later.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Dyson sphere suffer from the same problem as the Ringworld? Because it is a solid, it won't remain in "orbit", but will degenerate, with one edge sliding into the sun, in spite of rotation?
Of course, on those scales, something with even diamond rigidity would probably be far more gossamer than a puff of smoke, so perhaps the orbiting of the Ringworld might work after all, without the need for stabilizer rockets.
Actually, I recall an astronomy professor discussing this very issue. In all human history, each step up in travel was readily available when the technology became available. Walking to riding a horse. Riding a horse to crossing the ocean. Crossing the ocean to going to another planet.
Then there's a huge break. Going to another star is a completely different matter due to the speed of light. However, once that is done, if you can get to a star reasonably, you can get across the galaxy (~5-20k times star-to-star). If you can get across a galaxy, you can get to another galaxy (~2500x the average galaxy diameter is intergalactic space average distance.)
My lunatic, idiot-savant friend. I, a die-hard Mac-o-phile, switched to the PC 3 computers ago at home. Why?
Both did Word
Both did Excel
Both did Surfing with all the browsers I might conceivably use
Both did C and C++ programming
Hmmmm...what might make the difference? Oh yeah, games, which I play all the damned time. I was tired of waiting 1 year or more for the Mac port of some PC game (which inevitably was almost as if it ran in an emulator rather than a true translation (like the very first D&D Gold Box game, RIP.) Which, for the most part, was true.
So I switched, stunning my colleagues and friends more than Rocky announcing he was having an affair with Adrienne's older brother/daddy/ugly guy.
Haven't looked back. Now I go to a Mac and I miss the mouse wheel. I miss the extra button. I miss the world-class 3D card. Yes, it may run Seti@Home a little faster, if I want to spend an additional 2k for like-styled systems. That ain't all that and a bag of potato chips, sorry.
It's down to what, 2.5% or something of the market? RIP, Mac.
The entire concept that there must be some other class that can fight a Jedi to a standstill, and win (and I know a non bounty hunter who did solo a Jedi recently) is rediculous, unless the hunter is skilled and the Jedi an incompetent 12 year old.
It reminds me of Horizons, which promised that an adult dragon could take on any 2 maxxed out of the other classes, only fighting physically and not having to use any spells. Yet it was hard to get there.
The only interesting thing about that game besides the Jedi is the dancer. For the first time in my last 30 lifetimes, I can do something besides murder monsters minding their own business and stealing their money and stuff. Oh, and besides the "fun" of simulating excruciating assembly line work.
Slashdot Mirror
Must be. Why else would someone think skinning a helicoptor would make it look like an insect?
In fact, that whole story sounds suspect, like the guy who was turned into a newt and "got bettuh".
(baby is born)
"He's GREEN! You bitch! You were with a Munchkin!"
"Uhh, honey, wait. He, uhhh, he, uhhh, Mini-me raped me. Yeah, that's the ticket!"
Dumb Husband: Oh, ok.
So tiny + human = green? Hmmmm, that doesn't compute on my basic Gregor Mendel dominant/recessive 4-square diagram.
I love the way some people demonstrate that a lack of the brainpower to recognize a joke should be a capital offense.
No, seriously.
No, no, seriously.
In any event, the other OZ would make a good MMORPG. I can't wait to get into all the Good Fairy costuming options.
No. Wait. The Wicked Fairy costuming options. The garters, the fishnets, omg, it'll rule!
Not to mention how silly it is either of those two could kill Dr. Doom...
Witness:
** Spiderman3764, who can lift a bus, punches a rat for 3 points of damage.
** A rat bites YOU for 8 points of damage!
** Hulk4885, who throws a 60 ton tank a mile, punches a rat for 4 points of damage.
** Hulk enrages!
** Hulk punches a rat for 5 points of damage.
etc.
Dancing as a career and being a Jedi are the only two cool new things about it. Crafting is not. Trading is not, not even as a career.
And since I'll never unlock Jedi as I am not a college or high school student with 8+ hours per day of free time...and since I've been a dancer for 9 months, and it's starting to get boring...
> Star Trek could potentially be as messed up as SWG.
/kill SpaceStationRat
Or EQ or any other one out there. I can't wait:
Jhames Tibherihus Khirk 73 says, "Have at thee, kn4v3!"
** You attack a SpaceStationRat with your phaser
You hit a SpaceStationRat for 2 points of stunning damage!
** A SpaceStationRat hits YOU for 7 points of damage!
You hit a SpaceStationRat for 1 point of stunning damage!
Jhames Tibherihus Khirk 73 says, "WTF"
(clicks phaser adjustment on HUD)
Majel Barret's Computer Voice says, "I'm sorry. Your Academy Level does not allow a phaser setting highter than '5 hits to stun a rat'. You need 3279 points of Ripped Shirt Experience to open up '2 hits to stun a rat, 5 hits to stun a Vulcan rat' level."
Jhames Tibherihus Khirk 73 says, "F***"
** You hit a rat for 2 points of damage!
Yes indeede doo! I can't wait!
Curiously, still available:
"After Quake and Doom, We're going to tap an unrealized game market that testing shows interest in. It's a 3D online game, code-named Poon."
But think of the positive side to a continental or global disaster: all the Slashdotters who can turn to a girl near them (if there are any) and say, "(sniff) I don't wanna die a virgin!"
Lefthand In Fondle it Out. It's a nerd computer one-handed surfing term.
This is actually funnier than most of you people realize. See, they like to tout all this worker's paradise and power of the masses bullshit. Rather than have barges and machines dump sand to block an overflowing river, you have hundreds of people on the barge pushing sand off with their hands...whoo hoo!
God damn it, you idiots! Have Aquaman call up a giant sea creature to block it, or have Superman freeze it.
> That shit scares the bejesus out of me.
Scatophobia, too? You are one screwed up dude.
Nah, ever hear of Newspeak?
Freedom is slavery and slavery, freedom? You just imagine yourself to be free; by granting the power hungry thugs absolute power over you, you will truly be free. Go ahead and get started on that menial task; I'll be back to check on your progress later.
That's true.
I wonder which will destroy us first, that tidal wave, or the giant supervolcano under Yellowstone?
You want fanbois? You haven't seen fanbois until you've suggested Superman should effortlessly beat up Thor on comicbookresources.com's Rumbles board.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Dyson sphere suffer from the same problem as the Ringworld? Because it is a solid, it won't remain in "orbit", but will degenerate, with one edge sliding into the sun, in spite of rotation?
Of course, on those scales, something with even diamond rigidity would probably be far more gossamer than a puff of smoke, so perhaps the orbiting of the Ringworld might work after all, without the need for stabilizer rockets.
> and Qigong
I thought he got killed by Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.
Hmmmm...People tend to fall asleep relaxing in a bed!
Read about this and other new amazing discoveries in this month's issue of the medical journal "Duh".
Actually, I recall an astronomy professor discussing this very issue. In all human history, each step up in travel was readily available when the technology became available. Walking to riding a horse. Riding a horse to crossing the ocean. Crossing the ocean to going to another planet.
Then there's a huge break. Going to another star is a completely different matter due to the speed of light. However, once that is done, if you can get to a star reasonably, you can get across the galaxy (~5-20k times star-to-star). If you can get across a galaxy, you can get to another galaxy (~2500x the average galaxy diameter is intergalactic space average distance.)
My lunatic, idiot-savant friend. I, a die-hard Mac-o-phile, switched to the PC 3 computers ago at home. Why?
Both did Word
Both did Excel
Both did Surfing with all the browsers I might conceivably use
Both did C and C++ programming
Hmmmm...what might make the difference? Oh yeah, games, which I play all the damned time. I was tired of waiting 1 year or more for the Mac port of some PC game (which inevitably was almost as if it ran in an emulator rather than a true translation (like the very first D&D Gold Box game, RIP.) Which, for the most part, was true.
So I switched, stunning my colleagues and friends more than Rocky announcing he was having an affair with Adrienne's older brother/daddy/ugly guy.
Haven't looked back. Now I go to a Mac and I miss the mouse wheel. I miss the extra button. I miss the world-class 3D card. Yes, it may run Seti@Home a little faster, if I want to spend an additional 2k for like-styled systems. That ain't all that and a bag of potato chips, sorry.
It's down to what, 2.5% or something of the market? RIP, Mac.
The entire concept that there must be some other class that can fight a Jedi to a standstill, and win (and I know a non bounty hunter who did solo a Jedi recently) is rediculous, unless the hunter is skilled and the Jedi an incompetent 12 year old.
It reminds me of Horizons, which promised that an adult dragon could take on any 2 maxxed out of the other classes, only fighting physically and not having to use any spells. Yet it was hard to get there.
The only interesting thing about that game besides the Jedi is the dancer. For the first time in my last 30 lifetimes, I can do something besides murder monsters minding their own business and stealing their money and stuff. Oh, and besides the "fun" of simulating excruciating assembly line work.