There are plenty of examples of indigenous Americans allying themselves with Europeans, from the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire through the final closing of the frontier. When accusing folks of revising history, it helps to actually know said history; maybe reviewers should stick to the review and leave out the political commentary.
And...
Settlers in North America DID ally with Native Americans, frequently. The British used many native allies in the Seven Years War, as did the French. Of course, they exploited them at the same time.
I like political commentary in games reviews. But it sounds like Alice would have preferred the Native Americans to be passive bystanders rather than an active part of the game.
...for some reason, no one is surprised when MTV ("Music" TV) announces yet another half hour of programming devoted to something completely unrelated to the, you know, music.
Actually, I'm sure this program will have a few game montages set to music. Halo footage set to some rock, GTA-ripoff set to some hip-hop, a new Project Gotham racer... They could easily triple or quadruple MTV's weekly music video quotient.
Did you even read the guy's post? Perhaps you heard him, but weren't listening. Those particular Democrats have screwed up his state, and those particular Republicans seem, to him, to be a good alternative based on their rhetoric.
And then there are the facts of actually provable election shenanegans that were well within the margin or error. We're talking under a hundred votes here.
The democrats in general, and the Kerry campaign in particular, never pressed the issue of the national elections because they didn't have a case. At least not one that would possible make up for a 100,000 vote margin in Ohio. The national Democrat leadership was very serious about winning the national election, and had many highly-paid professionals look into it thoroughly.
What Ms. Boxer did was grandstand based on some flimsy internet rumors. Rumors which were pretty vague, at that. If the election feasibly have been won by the Democrats, they would have actually challenged the results.
America has ceased to be a country that others might aspire to.
Because, you know, America-bashing never happened before George W. Bush. Just ignore the Reagan years, the Vietnam years, and the French.
Other countries have experienced terrorism for many decades without becoming so draconian
Other countries have experienced terrorism for many decades without doing anything about it. Indeed, they worked to maintain the status quo in the Middle East.
I have no problem using a thumb-mounted trackball for FPS games. Depends on the model, I suppose.
The idea of a trackball in place of an analog stick is that movement can be fast but still accurate. 180 degree turns in a split second, as opposed to 4 seconds with a typical analog stick setup.
The only alternative is integrating a mouse into the controller, but then you'd have to rub it around on a flat surface. Sounds pretty silly to me.
And don't even kid yourself into thinking that private industry will do dick for pure science
Bringing down the cost of space flight will do "dick" for pure science? Giving NASA, or other independent research agencies, the ability to loft cargo into orbit for a fraction of the cost -- how does that not benefit us all? Not to mention all the other side-benefits that might arise.
Do you believe that Integrated Circiut technology should have been kept within NASA, instead of letting IBM, Motorola, Intel, etc. have a go at it?
Your post is so full of BS I'd be surprised if you hadn't taken a dump on your keyboard.
I think you have some kind of inferiority complex, or something.
Yes, it does get a little tedious when some bored 60's raid some out-of-the-way newbie town that has no flight point. (Camp Taurajo, anyone?) But usually a defense is mustered and everyone has a good time.
And once again you're pissed that some level 20 isn't PvP flagging themselves in front of some level 60 enemies. Does killing lowbies make you feel like a man? Is it, like, the only thing that turns you on anymore?
Huh? Why wouldn't the jump button be mapped to a shoulder button? Just keep tapping that and move the trackball in a rhythmic pattern. Picture a Playstation controller, which has four shoulder buttons that your fingers are natually over anyways. The face buttons and D-pad would not be used for quick-reaction actions such as fire, jump, crouch, etc.
Beyond FPSes, a nice trackball would make moving a pointer around more bearable. Good for point-and-click adventures and RTS games.
You could take a typical modern console gamepad, and replace the rightmost analog stick with a small-ish trackball.
Thus the trackball would be for mouselook, the left analog stick would be for movement (like WASD, but more precise), and the shoulder buttons could be for fire, jump, etc.
Yes - on thier side . You can't grief people on your own faction.
Original poster didn't specify which faction they belonged to. And speaking of him, he also said this:
Join a good guild, make some friends, and grief the hell out of other players, both on the other faction and your own.
LOL.
But I can't quite out what you're trying to say about "forum whining", though. First you say it's from PvE players, because they don't PvP as much. Then you concede that it's mostly from PvP server players, but try to cast the forum whining in a positive light.
And your notion that no PvP happens on PvE servers is just silly. Plenty of it happens already, and even more will happen once the honor system and Battlegrounds roll out.
First, WoW was in short supply because they stopped making it for a while, due to server problems. Better to have no new signups, than to make the server problem worse and piss people off. Now that character transfers are happening, hopefully things will get rolling again.
Second, playing to 60 is still fun in my book. If you get bored at 60, you can always cancel your account, then reactivate it at a later date to enjoy a bunch of new content (and new patches).
Likewise, the PvE servers keep most of the fucking carebears off the real servers
Which is why PvP players (like the original poster) are always inviting PvE players to switch to a PvP server, right? More specifically, to switch to their PvP server. That isn't altruism -- they're just looking for new people to grief.
Well, constant whining in game. Instead we have to listen to the carebears whining about PvP on the various forums.
Most forum whining comes from heavy PvP users. Plain and simple fact.
It really eats you up inside that somewhere, someone 30 levels lower than you is soloing a few quests, and you can't gank them. It's obvious from the vitrol and bile in your comments. But perhaps with therapy you could learn to overcome these feelings.
Yeah, again I agree completely. Reaching 60 is very anticlimactic because it means moster xp is now useless. Spending 6 hours in an instance dungeon hoping for a drop isn't enough to keep most people playing.
If bored, you can always cancel your account until Battlegrounds get released. Then simply reactivate and try out your old characters in the new content. (Blizzard has no plans on deleting accounts after cancellation.)
Join a good guild, make some friends, and grief the hell out of other players, both on the other faction and your own.
That's what I love about PvP servers -- they act like griefer magnets. Thus letting the more sensible players enjoy their PvE servers in peace.
Now, I do enjoy player versus player combat, but I like to decide how and when I want it. There are still plenty of town raids, and remember that we'll be getting the honor system and Battlegrounds also. But I like the ability to enjoy the content of the game, sans-griefing-assholes.
Huh? What culture does Microsoft export? None that I really know of. At least not compared to Disney, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, etc., etc.
Of course, the whole notion of "Cultural Imperialism" is bullshit anyways, at least when it comes to the United States.
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We refuse to trade with many other nations which are controlled by despots. Why not do the same for Saudi Arabia?
Because decades of media hype has prevented us from building nuclear power plants and drilling for more oil in Alaska. Thus our economy has become somewhat reliant on Saudi Arabian oil.
Fortunately, both of these problems are starting to be remedied as we speak.
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Agreed! Instead of dealing with them one at a time, we should take them on all at once. What could possibly go wrong?
As an American I've been wondering for a while why your government pretty much does whatever we tell them to do
Or perhaps we can work together without one nation being subservient to the other? How arrogant of you to immediately portray friendly cooperation as some kind of master/slave relationship.
I am severely disapointed with Oz over this one. I thought they had more balls than to be bullied like this.
"Bullied?" It's more like a case of treating others the way you'd like to be treated.
Clearly Australia would like more power to extradite suspects from the U.S., and they'll probably get it.
A nation can peacefully work with the United States for mutual ends -- it's not automatically kowtowing. Those who jump to that conclusion have an inferiority complex, I suspect.
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Actually, I'm sure this program will have a few game montages set to music. Halo footage set to some rock, GTA-ripoff set to some hip-hop, a new Project Gotham racer... They could easily triple or quadruple MTV's weekly music video quotient.
Did you even read the guy's post? Perhaps you heard him, but weren't listening. Those particular Democrats have screwed up his state, and those particular Republicans seem, to him, to be a good alternative based on their rhetoric.
And then there are the facts of actually provable election shenanegans that were well within the margin or error. We're talking under a hundred votes here.
The democrats in general, and the Kerry campaign in particular, never pressed the issue of the national elections because they didn't have a case. At least not one that would possible make up for a 100,000 vote margin in Ohio. The national Democrat leadership was very serious about winning the national election, and had many highly-paid professionals look into it thoroughly.
What Ms. Boxer did was grandstand based on some flimsy internet rumors. Rumors which were pretty vague, at that. If the election feasibly have been won by the Democrats, they would have actually challenged the results.
You are woefully ignorant of the anti-Americanism that has flourished in Europe since the end of WWII, and especially since the end of the Cold War.
And the retaliatory anti-Europianism pales in comparison.
Because, you know, America-bashing never happened before George W. Bush. Just ignore the Reagan years, the Vietnam years, and the French.
Other countries have experienced terrorism for many decades without doing anything about it. Indeed, they worked to maintain the status quo in the Middle East.
Yeah, and passenger/luggage space couldn't be converted into cargo space because...?
Don't you know that they've rigged 747s to carry cargo, giant telescopes, military weapons, and much more?
I have no problem using a thumb-mounted trackball for FPS games. Depends on the model, I suppose.
The idea of a trackball in place of an analog stick is that movement can be fast but still accurate. 180 degree turns in a split second, as opposed to 4 seconds with a typical analog stick setup.
The only alternative is integrating a mouse into the controller, but then you'd have to rub it around on a flat surface. Sounds pretty silly to me.
Bringing down the cost of space flight will do "dick" for pure science? Giving NASA, or other independent research agencies, the ability to loft cargo into orbit for a fraction of the cost -- how does that not benefit us all? Not to mention all the other side-benefits that might arise.
Do you believe that Integrated Circiut technology should have been kept within NASA, instead of letting IBM, Motorola, Intel, etc. have a go at it?
Your post is so full of BS I'd be surprised if you hadn't taken a dump on your keyboard.
NASA's full budget is $16.4 billion -- a 2.4% increase from last year. See it here.
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No offense to you, but how did your post get modded +5 Interesting? I guess the Washington Post does cause illiteracy.
I think you have some kind of inferiority complex, or something.
Yes, it does get a little tedious when some bored 60's raid some out-of-the-way newbie town that has no flight point. (Camp Taurajo, anyone?) But usually a defense is mustered and everyone has a good time.
And once again you're pissed that some level 20 isn't PvP flagging themselves in front of some level 60 enemies. Does killing lowbies make you feel like a man? Is it, like, the only thing that turns you on anymore?
Huh? Why wouldn't the jump button be mapped to a shoulder button? Just keep tapping that and move the trackball in a rhythmic pattern. Picture a Playstation controller, which has four shoulder buttons that your fingers are natually over anyways. The face buttons and D-pad would not be used for quick-reaction actions such as fire, jump, crouch, etc.
Beyond FPSes, a nice trackball would make moving a pointer around more bearable. Good for point-and-click adventures and RTS games.
You could take a typical modern console gamepad, and replace the rightmost analog stick with a small-ish trackball.
Thus the trackball would be for mouselook, the left analog stick would be for movement (like WASD, but more precise), and the shoulder buttons could be for fire, jump, etc.
Original poster didn't specify which faction they belonged to. And speaking of him, he also said this:
LOL.
But I can't quite out what you're trying to say about "forum whining", though. First you say it's from PvE players, because they don't PvP as much. Then you concede that it's mostly from PvP server players, but try to cast the forum whining in a positive light.
And your notion that no PvP happens on PvE servers is just silly. Plenty of it happens already, and even more will happen once the honor system and Battlegrounds roll out.
First, WoW was in short supply because they stopped making it for a while, due to server problems. Better to have no new signups, than to make the server problem worse and piss people off. Now that character transfers are happening, hopefully things will get rolling again.
Second, playing to 60 is still fun in my book. If you get bored at 60, you can always cancel your account, then reactivate it at a later date to enjoy a bunch of new content (and new patches).
Great, now my new car is going to crash into the surface of Mars.
Which is why PvP players (like the original poster) are always inviting PvE players to switch to a PvP server, right? More specifically, to switch to their PvP server. That isn't altruism -- they're just looking for new people to grief.
Most forum whining comes from heavy PvP users. Plain and simple fact.
It really eats you up inside that somewhere, someone 30 levels lower than you is soloing a few quests, and you can't gank them. It's obvious from the vitrol and bile in your comments. But perhaps with therapy you could learn to overcome these feelings.
If bored, you can always cancel your account until Battlegrounds get released. Then simply reactivate and try out your old characters in the new content. (Blizzard has no plans on deleting accounts after cancellation.)
That's what I love about PvP servers -- they act like griefer magnets. Thus letting the more sensible players enjoy their PvE servers in peace.
Now, I do enjoy player versus player combat, but I like to decide how and when I want it. There are still plenty of town raids, and remember that we'll be getting the honor system and Battlegrounds also. But I like the ability to enjoy the content of the game, sans-griefing-assholes.
> such a symbol of US cultural imperialism
Huh? What culture does Microsoft export? None that I really know of. At least not compared to Disney, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, etc., etc.
Of course, the whole notion of "Cultural Imperialism" is bullshit anyways, at least when it comes to the United States.
Because decades of media hype has prevented us from building nuclear power plants and drilling for more oil in Alaska. Thus our economy has become somewhat reliant on Saudi Arabian oil.
Fortunately, both of these problems are starting to be remedied as we speak.
Agreed! Instead of dealing with them one at a time, we should take them on all at once. What could possibly go wrong?
...we're started abbreviating acronyms!
Indeed. Too bad we don't have people who can judge whether extradition is suitable on a case-by-case basis...
Or perhaps we can work together without one nation being subservient to the other? How arrogant of you to immediately portray friendly cooperation as some kind of master/slave relationship.
"Bullied?" It's more like a case of treating others the way you'd like to be treated.
Clearly Australia would like more power to extradite suspects from the U.S., and they'll probably get it.
A nation can peacefully work with the United States for mutual ends -- it's not automatically kowtowing. Those who jump to that conclusion have an inferiority complex, I suspect.