OK, some of it was "nonsensical", you're saying that automatically makes it not entertaining? Hell the majority of the US enjoys worthless crap like gameshows and "reality" shows that encourage people to stab each other in the back. That's pretty successful. I don't see the worst in "time travel" stories as NOT being better that that kind of garbage.
Besides, Star Trek 4 was one of the most successful Star Trek movies ever. It brought in more non-fans than any other movie in the series.
It was entertaining. It brough in non-fans. THere is no reason not to like it other than elitism. I even like "cheap laughs" episodes.
It is, after all, just a TV show. It's just one that I don't happen to want to see go away simply because the network is filled with incompetant fuckwits, and many of the supposed fans of the "franchise" are too busy displaying what Elite Conneseurs of SF they are to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the show.
Angel was killed for the same reason Firefly was. It was a Fuck you from Fox to Joss Whedon for taking Buffy to UPN. By killing the two remaining shows of his on the air, they nullify much of the "push" he has in entertainment circles.
Yes, because everyoune should be one hundred percent selfless all the time and live in poverty to be one with the masses.
Give me a fucking break.
So some people give money to something that gives them pleasure as well as donating to disaster releif? So fucking what. I suppose you donated every last cent that you don't need to survive to the disaster relief effort?
You still have internet access, so I'll take that as a no, hippocrite.
Doesn't help much that affiliates like WRBW in Orlando would rather show fucking NBA games than the network content that they supposedly signed on for. When 1/3 your markets vanish on any given week, it's hard for ANY show to maintain decent numbers.
Sorry, but seriously FUCK YOU. I don't particularly want to not have a Star Trek to watch for a whole generation. I'm enjoying Enterprise. Especially this season. Sorry I'm not the Elitist Fuckwit you appear to be.
All of you 'just cancel it and bring it back when enough time has passed' people seem to be under the delusion that it will be replaced by something that is somehow better. Newsflash: Enterprise will be replaced on UPN by yet another inane REALITY SHOW, not "better" science fiction.
This is Cobb County, Georgia we're talking about here. Certainly doesn't suprise me that ignorant people who rely on their polyester suit-clad highschool dropout clergy to provide their "facts" might decide that passing their ignorance on to their children was a good idea.
Excellent point. However I do employ an important element to local system security. I make it quite clear to anyone that might attempt to comprimise my systems from the console that they could concevably "disappear". Fortunately, my cats do not appear to be too unnerved by the severity of my policies...
Probably because SoE inspires that kind of hatred in those that aren't so blinded by addiction that they defend SoE like a crack whore trying to keep her abusive pimp out of jail because he's the only one who will give her drugs.
Just look at any thread about the character slot thing, and you'll see some of the most sycophantic idiots that ever lived praising SoE for taking more money out of their pockets for a feature that should have been in the game from the start. A feature that STILL doesn't compare with any other MMORPG out there not published by Sony.
Common arguement by those who think charging more for 4 more slots is ok: "Well you only got ONE slot in SWG, so 4 is really more than you need". Comparing one piece of shit move by SoE with another. Honest to god, these people make crack whores look RATIONAL.
Since release, people have been asking for more than 4 character slots per account (that's right, not 4 per server, which is still a little low, 4 per ACCOUNT). SoE didn't comment for a month. A couple days before the new billing cycle, someone discovered that when he switched to the $22/month "Station Pass" (which gives access to all SoE games a person might own, except for SWG) he got an additional 4 slots. After about a day of debating on the boards, one of the Mods formally announced that yes, they would be adding 4 character slots, but only for the people who paid an additional $7/month.
I'm what's known as an alt-o-holic, I like to experiment with the diffent classes. I'm not going to validate SoE's decision to gaff people who want more than 4 characters. Hell, when I switch to WoW next week, I can get something like 8 characters per SERVER if I really wanted to. For the same price as the BASE EQ2 subscription.
I'm guessing that SoE really didn't want to announce this "special option" (which isn't so special for those like me who had no interest in any of their other games) until after the billing cycle, so they could get another $15 from the people they knew would quit. Yea I"m out the $50 for the game, but I'm not throwing new money after bad, I cancelled my account.
I'm certain that Sony will try to get at least $30/player by mid year next year for a "reasonable" level of features.
Same old Sony. I should have known better. Never again.
No kidding. I've never even SEEN the RSS feed from/. and when I tried to add an RSS bookmark with Firefox earlier today, I got a "your RSS client has been BANNED"
Yea you guys are REAL damned competant. Your explaination page goes on about X times in Y minutes. I haven't even QUERYED yet.
I believe they discount deeper than Happ. I got a couple of their sticks and buttons for a machine I'm building (around an IPAC, similar circuit board to this). They are identical in quality to the OEM sticks that came in the cabinet I'm converting. Same stuff that goes into the XArcade unit.
I have one of the original X-arcades. Great piece of equipment. I imagine the difference in price would account for "assembly, testing, etc" in addition to the nice logo.
As to the weight of the solo unit, MDF is pretty heavy stuff, even at that size. 11 pounds sounds about right for the single player unit.
Actually, if Fires of Heaven is headed to WoW rather than EQ2, I consider that a point against WoW. The kind of elitist zone controlling ueberguilds like FoH are exactly what I do NOT ever want to deal with in a game again.
Obviously there will be some in EQ2, but if FoH will be elsewhere, it will be a much more pleasant environment.
Competition griefing. Screw you and your PvP buddies. No one has to pay to be a victim anymore, with all the compitition out there. Your day is over.
Plus, griefing is now quickly and harshly penalized in many games (whoot!). Grief in City of Heroes? you'll never get to play any other NCSoft published game. Blacklists for fuckwits. Thats what the gaming world has needed for a LONG time.
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OK. Still doesn't make sense to spend billable airtime talking to someone you don't know/care to talk to, does it?
Agreed. No idea how the grandparent got modded +4"insightful" More like -99 "Telemarketer, Astroturfing"
I was briefly elated at this headline, until I realized that it wasn't preceded by
"President of MMOG Currency Seller Slaughtered"
and
"President of MMOG Currency Seller Butchered"
So I suppose we're not going to be reading
"President of MMOG Currency Seller Fed to Swine at Remote Pig Farm"
Anytime soon. Still, hope lives on.
Hey, maybe the board Out-sourced her...
That would be poetic justice.
Well for one thing, I heard that they will be bundling the beta of Duke Nukem Forever...
OK, some of it was "nonsensical", you're saying that automatically makes it not entertaining? Hell the majority of the US enjoys worthless crap like gameshows and "reality" shows that encourage people to stab each other in the back. That's pretty successful. I don't see the worst in "time travel" stories as NOT being better that that kind of garbage.
Besides, Star Trek 4 was one of the most successful Star Trek movies ever. It brought in more non-fans than any other movie in the series.
It was entertaining. It brough in non-fans. THere is no reason not to like it other than elitism. I even like "cheap laughs" episodes.
It is, after all, just a TV show. It's just one that I don't happen to want to see go away simply because the network is filled with incompetant fuckwits, and many of the supposed fans of the "franchise" are too busy displaying what Elite Conneseurs of SF they are to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the show.
/rolls eyes
/!rolls eyes
Yes because time travel OBVIOUSLY always equals crap.
I love BG, but I see no reason why I should't have both series.
Angel was killed for the same reason Firefly was. It was a Fuck you from Fox to Joss Whedon for taking Buffy to UPN. By killing the two remaining shows of his on the air, they nullify much of the "push" he has in entertainment circles.
Yes, because everyoune should be one hundred percent selfless all the time and live in poverty to be one with the masses.
Give me a fucking break.
So some people give money to something that gives them pleasure as well as donating to disaster releif? So fucking what. I suppose you donated every last cent that you don't need to survive to the disaster relief effort?
You still have internet access, so I'll take that as a no, hippocrite.
Doesn't help much that affiliates like WRBW in Orlando would rather show fucking NBA games than the network content that they supposedly signed on for. When 1/3 your markets vanish on any given week, it's hard for ANY show to maintain decent numbers.
Sorry, but seriously FUCK YOU. I don't particularly want to not have a Star Trek to watch for a whole generation. I'm enjoying Enterprise. Especially this season. Sorry I'm not the Elitist Fuckwit you appear to be.
All of you 'just cancel it and bring it back when enough time has passed' people seem to be under the delusion that it will be replaced by something that is somehow better. Newsflash: Enterprise will be replaced on UPN by yet another inane REALITY SHOW, not "better" science fiction.
Last I heard, Scott Jennings was working for Mythic, doing Customer Service software for DAoC.
His blog is here: http://www.brokentoys.org/
This is Cobb County, Georgia we're talking about here. Certainly doesn't suprise me that ignorant people who rely on their polyester suit-clad highschool dropout clergy to provide their "facts" might decide that passing their ignorance on to their children was a good idea.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Excellent point. However I do employ an important element to local system security. I make it quite clear to anyone that might attempt to comprimise my systems from the console that they could concevably "disappear". Fortunately, my cats do not appear to be too unnerved by the severity of my policies...
And now, I'm "banned from accessing" the EQ2 site. Fuck you Sony, think I don't know how to clear a cookie?
I second the Pronto recommendation. Remote Central is a godsend, as well. Wouldn't be without my Pronto.
Good to know. Due to holiday budgeting, I won't get to pick WoW up until Wednesday, but I am looking forward to it. Thanks for the info!
Probably because SoE inspires that kind of hatred in those that aren't so blinded by addiction that they defend SoE like a crack whore trying to keep her abusive pimp out of jail because he's the only one who will give her drugs.
Just look at any thread about the character slot thing, and you'll see some of the most sycophantic idiots that ever lived praising SoE for taking more money out of their pockets for a feature that should have been in the game from the start. A feature that STILL doesn't compare with any other MMORPG out there not published by Sony.
Common arguement by those who think charging more for 4 more slots is ok: "Well you only got ONE slot in SWG, so 4 is really more than you need". Comparing one piece of shit move by SoE with another. Honest to god, these people make crack whores look RATIONAL.
before I got billed for my first month...
Since release, people have been asking for more than 4 character slots per account (that's right, not 4 per server, which is still a little low, 4 per ACCOUNT). SoE didn't comment for a month.
A couple days before the new billing cycle, someone discovered that when he switched to the $22/month "Station Pass" (which gives access to all SoE games a person might own, except for SWG) he got an additional 4 slots. After about a day of debating on the boards, one of the Mods formally announced that yes, they would be adding 4 character slots, but only for the people who paid an additional $7/month.
I'm what's known as an alt-o-holic, I like to experiment with the diffent classes. I'm not going to validate SoE's decision to gaff people who want more than 4 characters. Hell, when I switch to WoW next week, I can get something like 8 characters per SERVER if I really wanted to. For the same price as the BASE EQ2 subscription.
I'm guessing that SoE really didn't want to announce this "special option" (which isn't so special for those like me who had no interest in any of their other games) until after the billing cycle, so they could get another $15 from the people they knew would quit. Yea I"m out the $50 for the game, but I'm not throwing new money after bad, I cancelled my account.
I'm certain that Sony will try to get at least $30/player by mid year next year for a "reasonable" level of features.
Same old Sony. I should have known better. Never again.
It would be reasonable, but I got banned before I had accessed the RSS feed ONCE.
That's fucking retarded.
No kidding. I've never even SEEN the RSS feed from /. and when I tried to add an RSS bookmark with Firefox earlier today, I got a "your RSS client has been BANNED"
Yea you guys are REAL damned competant. Your explaination page goes on about X times in Y minutes. I haven't even QUERYED yet.
Idiots.
I believe they discount deeper than Happ. I got a couple of their sticks and buttons for a machine I'm building (around an IPAC, similar circuit board to this). They are identical in quality to the OEM sticks that came in the cabinet I'm converting. Same stuff that goes into the XArcade unit.
I have one of the original X-arcades. Great piece of equipment. I imagine the difference in price would account for "assembly, testing, etc" in addition to the nice logo.
As to the weight of the solo unit, MDF is pretty heavy stuff, even at that size. 11 pounds sounds about right for the single player unit.
Well... you had a problem, and the Gentoo user did not. I don't see that as making Debian better...
Actually, if Fires of Heaven is headed to WoW rather than EQ2, I consider that a point against WoW. The kind of elitist zone controlling ueberguilds like FoH are exactly what I do NOT ever want to deal with in a game again.
Obviously there will be some in EQ2, but if FoH will be elsewhere, it will be a much more pleasant environment.
Competition griefing. Screw you and your PvP buddies. No one has to pay to be a victim anymore, with all the compitition out there. Your day is over.
Plus, griefing is now quickly and harshly penalized in many games (whoot!). Grief in City of Heroes? you'll never get to play any other NCSoft published game. Blacklists for fuckwits. Thats what the gaming world has needed for a LONG time.