Yeah, I figured I'd get modded down by some WoW freak. Nobody has any actual arguments, just dislike for opinions. I'm sure I'll get modded down again, but my karma can take it.
I'm sure I'm going to be modded troll, but I don't see anything either unique or particularly engaging about WoW compared to any of its contemporaries. It's certainly not, in my experience, any more (or less) enjoyable than, say, EQ, AC, DAOC, or any of its predecessors. My theory is that the genre simply hit critical mass as of late, and WoW was there to herd in the flocks of eager new gamers. It was also particularly popular within the "nerd crowd" (us) in the early days because of its fairly open beta period, and because it was (finally!) something new to play besides the aforementioned predecessors which had been the top dogs from '99 to '04 -- particularly EQ. EQ in particular was probably the #1 game of its type during that time. But in its evolution, it had become so difficult, time-consuming, complicated, repetitive, and frustrating to play that its established player base got sick of it, and potential new players were too put off. Then WoW came out beating EQ2 to the punch, and it didn't require a group to play. While the simplicity was certainly refreshing at first, I found it to be ultimately tedious and unengaging.
At any rate, my opinion is not that WoW spawned, or even stoked, the popularity of the genre, but rather that its popularity as a game happene(d/s) to coincide with the rapidly increasing number of people who are getting into gaming. I believe this is more likely due to the aging of the population which has grown up with the internet rather than any specific draw of WoW in particular.
Personally, after 20 years of gaming, and about a decade of MMORPG, FPS's, and RTS's, I'm getting tired of the same old same old, and I hope to see more new creative efforts rather than simply refining the existing genres. I'm not sure that's possible at this point, but I'm hopeful.
Are americans SO moron that they can conclude they have the right to arrest someone according to their own laws, WHEREAS ALL they NEED to do and HAD to do is to bar all access from u.s. to that u.k. site ? Huh ?
First of all, if you're going to refer to refer to a group of people as moron (sic), it only helps your position to write properly when doing so.
Second, law enforcement doesn't have much of a choice once a warrant has been issued; they would be negligent, or worse, to ignore it. Bear in mind that an arrest is not a conviction.
Third, the US does not/cannot block websites. That's censorship, and it's illegal. (Yes, yes, now's the perfect time for an NSA joke, but please bear with me.)
Fourth, the State of Louisiana, where the warrant was issued, is not "America," any more than you are Slashdot. Believe it or not, they have their own agenda which may or may not coincide with public opinion.
Now I tend to believe that this whole scandal is a reckless abuse of power, however I'm hopeful that some case law will help settle the matter and prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.
That's probably just another reason why Visa dwarfs AMEX's annual sales volume. IIRC, 70% of bankcard transactions in the US are Visa, 15% are MasterCard, and 5% are AMEX. Can't find a reference offhand, but I'm pretty sure that's about right.
Communism is neither a form of government, nor is a communist state inherently single-party. Your statement would be equally (il)logical by saying "...one more party than environmentalism."
There is no English word for a single-party state; only the phrase itself. I realize it isn't as catchy as the current incarnation of your sig, but at least it makes sense.
There has been lots of debate in the past few days over Microsoft's plan to make the startup sound in Windows Vista something that can't be specifically silenced
I'm guessing most of the debating has been done by the same people who argue over which Captain of the Enterprise was the best. You know.. master debaters.
Next up, the stunning results of the debate over whether my subject is comprised of uppercase I's, lowercase L's, or some bizzare combination of the two.
For some reason, it seems to me that many people have changed their pronounciation of Uranus to Urinus, perhaps to try to deflect attention from the obvious pun. To me, that just draws more attention since I just wonder why aren't they pronouncing it like most people. Unfortunately, it also creates an only slightly less obvious pun of its own.
FWIW, I had the predecessor to that model. It was exactly the same, except the remote was an egg shaped joystick, and you pressed the direction button in to make a selection (not unlike the L3/R3 buttons on the Playstation controllers except it was 4-direction rather than analog). It was a horrible, horrible, clunky interface though, and you needed the TV on to do anything.
Fortunately, other Sony remotes (such as the one for my TV) could also control it effectively, at least as far as volume. I think it may have actually been able to switch inputs as well, but I can't recall for sure.
Weird.. for a second I thought your post said "Hi, I just created a Slashdot account yesterday to announce that I speak for all musicians. For the record, they all like exactly the same thing, so please address your comments directly to me in the future and I will tell you what that is."
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I figured I'd get modded down by some WoW freak. Nobody has any actual arguments, just dislike for opinions. I'm sure I'll get modded down again, but my karma can take it.
I'm sure I'm going to be modded troll, but I don't see anything either unique or particularly engaging about WoW compared to any of its contemporaries. It's certainly not, in my experience, any more (or less) enjoyable than, say, EQ, AC, DAOC, or any of its predecessors. My theory is that the genre simply hit critical mass as of late, and WoW was there to herd in the flocks of eager new gamers. It was also particularly popular within the "nerd crowd" (us) in the early days because of its fairly open beta period, and because it was (finally!) something new to play besides the aforementioned predecessors which had been the top dogs from '99 to '04 -- particularly EQ. EQ in particular was probably the #1 game of its type during that time. But in its evolution, it had become so difficult, time-consuming, complicated, repetitive, and frustrating to play that its established player base got sick of it, and potential new players were too put off. Then WoW came out beating EQ2 to the punch, and it didn't require a group to play. While the simplicity was certainly refreshing at first, I found it to be ultimately tedious and unengaging.
At any rate, my opinion is not that WoW spawned, or even stoked, the popularity of the genre, but rather that its popularity as a game happene(d/s) to coincide with the rapidly increasing number of people who are getting into gaming. I believe this is more likely due to the aging of the population which has grown up with the internet rather than any specific draw of WoW in particular.
Personally, after 20 years of gaming, and about a decade of MMORPG, FPS's, and RTS's, I'm getting tired of the same old same old, and I hope to see more new creative efforts rather than simply refining the existing genres. I'm not sure that's possible at this point, but I'm hopeful.
Don't forget unidentified energy -- The Other Dark Light(TM).
Considering that he denies even writing the decryption part of DeCSS, that's not saying much.
Are americans SO moron that they can conclude they have the right to arrest someone according to their own laws, WHEREAS ALL they NEED to do and HAD to do is to bar all access from u.s. to that u.k. site ? Huh ?
First of all, if you're going to refer to refer to a group of people as moron (sic), it only helps your position to write properly when doing so.
Second, law enforcement doesn't have much of a choice once a warrant has been issued; they would be negligent, or worse, to ignore it. Bear in mind that an arrest is not a conviction.
Third, the US does not/cannot block websites. That's censorship, and it's illegal. (Yes, yes, now's the perfect time for an NSA joke, but please bear with me.)
Fourth, the State of Louisiana, where the warrant was issued, is not "America," any more than you are Slashdot. Believe it or not, they have their own agenda which may or may not coincide with public opinion.
Now I tend to believe that this whole scandal is a reckless abuse of power, however I'm hopeful that some case law will help settle the matter and prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.
But highly unlikely.
In-flight WiFi highly unlikely?? Get it? Highly unlikely? In-flight?
Ahh..
That's probably just another reason why Visa dwarfs AMEX's annual sales volume. IIRC, 70% of bankcard transactions in the US are Visa, 15% are MasterCard, and 5% are AMEX. Can't find a reference offhand, but I'm pretty sure that's about right.
Unless you know what you're talking about, and then it's just...
not.
Communism is neither a form of government, nor is a communist state inherently single-party. Your statement would be equally (il)logical by saying "...one more party than environmentalism."
There is no English word for a single-party state; only the phrase itself. I realize it isn't as catchy as the current incarnation of your sig, but at least it makes sense.
You know what they say.. One man's trash in the hand is worth $200 on eBay.
Or something like that.
Sometimes people get picked multiple times -- that's how random distribution works.
For example, I've been randomly selected as a finalist in the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes almost every year. What are the odds?!?!
My sources indicate that this incident was a direct result of his failure to heed the warning:
DO NOT TAUNT Maxtor Hard Drive.
You mean it eats Soylent Green Jr.
I guess the master debaters have mod points today.
Yes.
There has been lots of debate in the past few days over Microsoft's plan to make the startup sound in Windows Vista something that can't be specifically silenced
I'm guessing most of the debating has been done by the same people who argue over which Captain of the Enterprise was the best. You know.. master debaters.
Next up, the stunning results of the debate over whether my subject is comprised of uppercase I's, lowercase L's, or some bizzare combination of the two.
Just tell them it saves the children -- that's all they need to know.
For some reason, it seems to me that many people have changed their pronounciation of Uranus to Urinus, perhaps to try to deflect attention from the obvious pun. To me, that just draws more attention since I just wonder why aren't they pronouncing it like most people. Unfortunately, it also creates an only slightly less obvious pun of its own.
Don't take up golf just to get in the mix
Yeah, sure. If we all followed that advice, nobody would be playing golf.
Perhaps -- and this is just a thought -- a chronically underfunded school district shouldn't be buying laptops for the students.
FWIW, I had the predecessor to that model. It was exactly the same, except the remote was an egg shaped joystick, and you pressed the direction button in to make a selection (not unlike the L3/R3 buttons on the Playstation controllers except it was 4-direction rather than analog). It was a horrible, horrible, clunky interface though, and you needed the TV on to do anything.
Fortunately, other Sony remotes (such as the one for my TV) could also control it effectively, at least as far as volume. I think it may have actually been able to switch inputs as well, but I can't recall for sure.
Weird.. for a second I thought your post said "Hi, I just created a Slashdot account yesterday to announce that I speak for all musicians. For the record, they all like exactly the same thing, so please address your comments directly to me in the future and I will tell you what that is."
That's because it is blasphemy!
Naturally God didn't want to start from scratch with every creature, so he just flipped a few DNA bits and Blam! a worm.
(Obviously "Blam!" isn't the exact sound that it made, but it's the closest approximation that humans can utter).
You had tablets?!? We only had dirt and a stick, and we just hoped the intended recipient happened to wander by before it rained.
Monsoon season was a bitch.
I see your prefrontal lobe is intact.