I did hear that SWG is in beta so I stand corrected.
I don't buy/subscribe to these games anymore. My point is why do other people buy them and why are they so insistant on paying monthly fees for a game they will always complain about.
... through Slashdot alone. It has been a while since I have spent one fucking penny or wasted one fucking second on a CMMORPG and my life has been great ever since.
Sometimes, curiosity gets the best of me and I have to read the responses to any CMMORPG announcement in/. Gawd in the 4+ years of CMMORPG's infecting our computers and corrupting young mind's impression of what a Role Playing Game should be, not a fucking damn thing has changed. People are still bitching about the same shit in UO, EQ, DAoC, The Sims and any other CMMORPG out there. At one time, DAoC was suppose to save us from UO and EQ. The Sims in general were suppose to be the end all to all CMMORPG's. Now we are suppose to salivate over the vapourware of the first decade: SWG?
On top of all this, I am suppose to not only pay for the software but actually give them money to be frustrated as hell while running the treadmill of leveling?
... I endure this sickness and disease waiting for Neverwinter Nights [http://nwn.bioware.com/] to come out.
I got so tired of EQ, I quit one year ahead of the release of NWN.
What is so sad is that we don't pay month-to-month to play, our significant others actually enjoys us playing this game (because we are not so enthralled with the game) and Bioware supports hacks (see workaround patching for camera hack and the entire hakpak community).
MMORPG's are a sad state of existance and unfortunately, companies such as EA, LucasArts and the like are trying to find the perfect cash cow at the expense of gaming itself.
Every Sony product I have ever purchased over the last 10 years has gone to shit: from countless cordless phones to TV's.
In retrospect, the only make that stood the test of time is all of my (still going strong and still using quite often) Panasonic equipment.
My pride and joy is my 9 year old Panasonic boombox. A very powerful system, 20+ pounds and despite tons of moving parts (top portion flips to a console for control, CD player with a slide out tray and dual cassettes) it has been my one CD player connected to my 20 year old Sansui Integrated Amp. The kickass remote fell victim to my 9 month old son in his quest to study the laws of physics. Oh well.
I was quite please to hear that the Panasonic SC-HT75 (Home Theatre in a Box) received favorable reviews. Hopefully, this will be in my living room for the Christmas holidays (Santa, are you listening?!:)
From the one supporter of Opera comes more flamebait!
Opera can do all of this and it does not have the #102 that the author forgot to include:
102. Renders webpages slower than Internet Explorer. This is a technological breakthrough because I never thought something could be slower than IE but Mozilla beats it by a long shot.
... but to set myself apart from other employees, I have started wearing business casual with dress shirts.
A year ago I would have told you, "You are out of your mind." if you try suggesting wearing something nice.
I am working into a position at one company and being that I have been underemployed for the last year, I do not want to lose my job again.
While I was on this one server
on
Unmaking The Game
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
... and I was able to automatically level my character to Level 5 with appropriate equipment in order to go through a DM-ran quest. What was even cooler, I can customize my character the way I want to with multiple character classes.
Maybe I did not like my character or my server. I made another one, level him/her if need be and equipped accordingly and go to search for other worlds.
May I will pick a server where I have to start from ground zero. That is okay because I am not worrying about catching up with the Jones' or Smith's because I can actually roleplay my character. If I die due to the storyline, then I can choose to remain dead forever.
I went to one server who had every type of weapon imagined and to help you buy those weapons, you could exchange 1GP for 50,000GP.
In my game, I can play gawds or mere mortals on a whim. I can have weapons which destroys waves of enemies or I can tough it out with a humble longsword and the clothes on my back. I play on servers where there are dedicated staff wanting to help those players. The DM-to-player ratio is no more than 1-to-10.
All of this at the cost of buying the game.
The game I am refering to should be quite obvious.
My gawd, why in the hell do people still play and pay MMORPG's especially UO, EverQuest or DAoC? Do you actually think that spending days upon days in a room killing the same creature over and over again just so you can get one item is fun? Is killing the same MoB's over and over again just so you can level up just so you can do it all over again fun?
The only thing that disturbs me about it is that it is so very slow compared to Opera and the lack of mouse gestures. If I was to use a slow browser, I would have sticked with IE.
Beyond Open Source, beyond community, beyond the-feel-good-software-of-the-year, why is Mozilla so great?
Personally, despite payware, nagware or freeware, I like using the best tool for the job. Opening all of my daily sites (/., ActiveWin, RootPrompt, ONLamp, evolt, The Onion, WWDN, ESPN, Neowin, etc.) with two menu clicks, mouse gestures, block pop-up windows (easily turned off, on or load in background), auto-fill-in for text boxes such as e-mail addy's, usernames, addys, etc., toggling images, cached images or no images with a button click, keyboard style navigation, "if you do not know how to make webpages, it will show it's true colors in Opera" and being fast as hell, Opera is the best browser for me.
I have tried Mozilla 0.9x all the way up to 1.0 release and was never impressed. I tried to like Mozilla and tried to share other geek's enthusiasm about this software. But in the end, I was still using Opera to do 98% of all my surfing (IE, Netscrape and Mozilla used to check my HTML/CSS/PHP).
... when I was a SysAdmin back when jobs were plentiful.
I enjoyed coming in and completely fixing the last "sysadmin's" handy work.
I enjoyed migrating all servers from Windows to Linux (funny how you can get your way when you do not have to spend thousands of dollars) while all the users can still use the os's that they are familiar with (Windows, Unix, Macintosh) and still be able share the same files and printers.
I enjoyed uptimes of months (only downtime was due to upgrading the UPS... funny you have to actually unplug the server to utilize the UPS... sheesh:).
I enjoyed rebuilding all workstations to MY SPECIFICATIONS so that I get no more than one call a day from a user having issues with whatever.
I certainly did not mind helping my fellow employees making their home computers that much better. Actually kind of flattering because they see that I can take a low-end workstation (similar specs to their home pc) and make it run for weeks without problems. I wouldn't blame them for wanting the same thing at home.
I enjoyed sharing my enthusiasm about whatever was leet going on in technology with other people and seeing them started to get interested in that same technology.
I enjoyed supporting and helping people without making them feel stupid because they asked a question about computers.
I don't care for an appreciation day. I just want to be a sysadmin again.
To get a MMORPG right, first take out the first M. In all of my years of enjoying RPG's whether it be pen & paper or video games, I have never enjoyed it with 2500 other people, I only enjoyed it with 4 or 5 other people.
As soon as people realize that camping out spawns is not a true RPG, more and more people will realize that anything multi-massive anything is not the way to go.
My hope is not for NWN to be kickass (because the geek boy in me is wishing to God that it is) but for the game to be revolutionary.
If your code is not crap, IE is very forgiving and will attempt its best to display the code.
Opera is not forgiving and is possibly a webmaster's very best friend.
I do not code my pages for IE (despite the number of people who use it because they do not have the sense to use a better browser) but rather for Opera.
... I stop playing games at work because I am so damn busy. Nice that I got laid off and haven't found shit since.
The next job I get I will work my ass off. Playing games at work is cool when I was younger but if you are that bored, you are going to be canned sooner or later.
I went from Windows-junkie to Linux geek and the more and more I used Linux, the painful, stabbing-in-the-eye feel I got everytime I used Windows.
What kills me is when NT Admins talk about "user friendly" (for a server OS?!?), I still cannot understand how a point-and-click is faster and simplier than command line interface.
Like changing the IP addresses or editing files... you mean I have to use a mouse to do this? Don't even get me started about click Control Panel or each and every directory to get to the file.
NT Admins fire back with "you can use the Run command" but is there a vi for Windows?
Apple has increased support for mounting shared drives. You can now connect to servers via AFP (AppleTalk File Protocol), SMB (Server Message Block), NFS (Network File System) or Samba servers. I was able to connect to my Microsoft Windows NT box by typing smb:// Borgcube/share me and supplying my Windows NT user name and password. You cannot yet browse the Windows network, so you must know the server's name and shared directory before you can connect.
That is funny, I setup a Linux server running Samba and Atalk and MacOS 9.x and 10.1 people can see the server in the list of servers and double-click in order to connect just fine.
... it should be "distro of pain" referring to Mandrake.
I have been running numerous Red Hat versions on small-time servers while I had a VB Programmer friend (forgive him for he does not know) dorking around with a Mandrake distro that has been given him tons of problems.
In all of my 6 young years of SysAdmining (is that a verb?), I have never fathom running Mandrake for a server. Never been told otherwise but I was under the impression that Mandrake is more of a desktop distro rather than server distro.
Slackware or Debian for the servers? Definitely. Maybe SuSE or even Red Hat if I am desparate enough but Mandrake. eeek.
Slashdot Mirror
I own vinyl and cd's of Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles. Are they going to target me because I have the freakin mp3's?
I cannot believe Keith Sweat is listed. "Make It Last Forever" should be exempt because I think that album is out of print.
Mary J. Blige's "Everything" is by far not her best song.
Those ones listed under Nas? WTF? There are 10 better Nas songs then those... it is call the "Illmatic" LP.
The one they have listed for Mobb Deep is the snip-snap-snip.
Anyways, sorry for the dumb post.
I did hear that SWG is in beta so I stand corrected.
I don't buy/subscribe to these games anymore. My point is why do other people buy them and why are they so insistant on paying monthly fees for a game they will always complain about.
"C" stands for Crap
... through Slashdot alone. It has been a while since I have spent one fucking penny or wasted one fucking second on a CMMORPG and my life has been great ever since.
/. Gawd in the 4+ years of CMMORPG's infecting our computers and corrupting young mind's impression of what a Role Playing Game should be, not a fucking damn thing has changed. People are still bitching about the same shit in UO, EQ, DAoC, The Sims and any other CMMORPG out there. At one time, DAoC was suppose to save us from UO and EQ. The Sims in general were suppose to be the end all to all CMMORPG's. Now we are suppose to salivate over the vapourware of the first decade: SWG?
Sometimes, curiosity gets the best of me and I have to read the responses to any CMMORPG announcement in
On top of all this, I am suppose to not only pay for the software but actually give them money to be frustrated as hell while running the treadmill of leveling?
WTF.
... I endure this sickness and disease waiting for Neverwinter Nights [http://nwn.bioware.com/] to come out.
I got so tired of EQ, I quit one year ahead of the release of NWN.
What is so sad is that we don't pay month-to-month to play, our significant others actually enjoys us playing this game (because we are not so enthralled with the game) and Bioware supports hacks (see workaround patching for camera hack and the entire hakpak community).
MMORPG's are a sad state of existance and unfortunately, companies such as EA, LucasArts and the like are trying to find the perfect cash cow at the expense of gaming itself.
I go to ESPN.com like 5 times a day... I don't notice any popups... ohhh, wait a minute! I use a real web browser called Opera.
Every Sony product I have ever purchased over the last 10 years has gone to shit: from countless cordless phones to TV's.
:)
In retrospect, the only make that stood the test of time is all of my (still going strong and still using quite often) Panasonic equipment.
My pride and joy is my 9 year old Panasonic boombox. A very powerful system, 20+ pounds and despite tons of moving parts (top portion flips to a console for control, CD player with a slide out tray and dual cassettes) it has been my one CD player connected to my 20 year old Sansui Integrated Amp. The kickass remote fell victim to my 9 month old son in his quest to study the laws of physics. Oh well.
I was quite please to hear that the Panasonic SC-HT75 (Home Theatre in a Box) received favorable reviews. Hopefully, this will be in my living room for the Christmas holidays (Santa, are you listening?!
From the one supporter of Opera comes more flamebait!
Opera can do all of this and it does not have the #102 that the author forgot to include:
102. Renders webpages slower than Internet Explorer. This is a technological breakthrough because I never thought something could be slower than IE but Mozilla beats it by a long shot.
I am sure this has been submitted already:
Browser is the slowest browser in the world. Fix it.
... but to set myself apart from other employees, I have started wearing business casual with dress shirts.
A year ago I would have told you, "You are out of your mind." if you try suggesting wearing something nice.
I am working into a position at one company and being that I have been underemployed for the last year, I do not want to lose my job again.
... and I was able to automatically level my character to Level 5 with appropriate equipment in order to go through a DM-ran quest. What was even cooler, I can customize my character the way I want to with multiple character classes.
Maybe I did not like my character or my server. I made another one, level him/her if need be and equipped accordingly and go to search for other worlds.
May I will pick a server where I have to start from ground zero. That is okay because I am not worrying about catching up with the Jones' or Smith's because I can actually roleplay my character. If I die due to the storyline, then I can choose to remain dead forever.
I went to one server who had every type of weapon imagined and to help you buy those weapons, you could exchange 1GP for 50,000GP.
In my game, I can play gawds or mere mortals on a whim. I can have weapons which destroys waves of enemies or I can tough it out with a humble longsword and the clothes on my back. I play on servers where there are dedicated staff wanting to help those players. The DM-to-player ratio is no more than 1-to-10.
All of this at the cost of buying the game.
The game I am refering to should be quite obvious.
My gawd, why in the hell do people still play and pay MMORPG's especially UO, EverQuest or DAoC? Do you actually think that spending days upon days in a room killing the same creature over and over again just so you can get one item is fun? Is killing the same MoB's over and over again just so you can level up just so you can do it all over again fun?
That sounds like torture to me. Thanks but no.
... period.
/. to throw out there:
I cannot stand these story post about "Ideal work environments" and "If you have a choice..." bullshit.
Here is a good
"If you could get a job, would you be the best damn ___________er that company has ever seen, public or private?"
Sonova!
The only thing that disturbs me about it is that it is so very slow compared to Opera and the lack of mouse gestures. If I was to use a slow browser, I would have sticked with IE.
Beyond Open Source, beyond community, beyond the-feel-good-software-of-the-year, why is Mozilla so great?
Personally, despite payware, nagware or freeware, I like using the best tool for the job. Opening all of my daily sites (/., ActiveWin, RootPrompt, ONLamp, evolt, The Onion, WWDN, ESPN, Neowin, etc.) with two menu clicks, mouse gestures, block pop-up windows (easily turned off, on or load in background), auto-fill-in for text boxes such as e-mail addy's, usernames, addys, etc., toggling images, cached images or no images with a button click, keyboard style navigation, "if you do not know how to make webpages, it will show it's true colors in Opera" and being fast as hell, Opera is the best browser for me.
I have tried Mozilla 0.9x all the way up to 1.0 release and was never impressed. I tried to like Mozilla and tried to share other geek's enthusiasm about this software. But in the end, I was still using Opera to do 98% of all my surfing (IE, Netscrape and Mozilla used to check my HTML/CSS/PHP).
... now I can use a browser as though I am playing NWN.
Mouse Gestures? -sheesh- Yea, that is called Opera, a superior browser.
Son of a gun. Why is it that other geeks want to shove the so-called greatness of Mozilla down my throat?!
... when I was a SysAdmin back when jobs were plentiful.
:).
I enjoyed coming in and completely fixing the last "sysadmin's" handy work.
I enjoyed migrating all servers from Windows to Linux (funny how you can get your way when you do not have to spend thousands of dollars) while all the users can still use the os's that they are familiar with (Windows, Unix, Macintosh) and still be able share the same files and printers.
I enjoyed uptimes of months (only downtime was due to upgrading the UPS... funny you have to actually unplug the server to utilize the UPS... sheesh
I enjoyed rebuilding all workstations to MY SPECIFICATIONS so that I get no more than one call a day from a user having issues with whatever.
I certainly did not mind helping my fellow employees making their home computers that much better. Actually kind of flattering because they see that I can take a low-end workstation (similar specs to their home pc) and make it run for weeks without problems. I wouldn't blame them for wanting the same thing at home.
I enjoyed sharing my enthusiasm about whatever was leet going on in technology with other people and seeing them started to get interested in that same technology.
I enjoyed supporting and helping people without making them feel stupid because they asked a question about computers.
I don't care for an appreciation day. I just want to be a sysadmin again.
You stole my thunder :)
To get a MMORPG right, first take out the first M. In all of my years of enjoying RPG's whether it be pen & paper or video games, I have never enjoyed it with 2500 other people, I only enjoyed it with 4 or 5 other people.
As soon as people realize that camping out spawns is not a true RPG, more and more people will realize that anything multi-massive anything is not the way to go.
My hope is not for NWN to be kickass (because the geek boy in me is wishing to God that it is) but for the game to be revolutionary.
If your code is not crap, IE is very forgiving and will attempt its best to display the code.
Opera is not forgiving and is possibly a webmaster's very best friend.
I do not code my pages for IE (despite the number of people who use it because they do not have the sense to use a better browser) but rather for Opera.
... I stop playing games at work because I am so damn busy. Nice that I got laid off and haven't found shit since.
The next job I get I will work my ass off. Playing games at work is cool when I was younger but if you are that bored, you are going to be canned sooner or later.
... period
But then again, I am probably repeating whatever anyone else is saying.
... I thought he was talking about those punk-ass bitch 13 year olds who cheat in Counter-Strike.
My bad.
I went from Windows-junkie to Linux geek and the more and more I used Linux, the painful, stabbing-in-the-eye feel I got everytime I used Windows.
What kills me is when NT Admins talk about "user friendly" (for a server OS?!?), I still cannot understand how a point-and-click is faster and simplier than command line interface.
Like changing the IP addresses or editing files... you mean I have to use a mouse to do this? Don't even get me started about click Control Panel or each and every directory to get to the file.
NT Admins fire back with "you can use the Run command" but is there a vi for Windows?
How do I get a security clearance?
Apple has increased support for mounting shared drives. You can now connect to servers via AFP (AppleTalk File Protocol), SMB (Server Message Block), NFS (Network File System) or Samba servers. I was able to connect to my Microsoft Windows NT box by typing smb:// Borgcube/share me and supplying my Windows NT user name and password. You cannot yet browse the Windows network, so you must know the server's name and shared directory before you can connect.
That is funny, I setup a Linux server running Samba and Atalk and MacOS 9.x and 10.1 people can see the server in the list of servers and double-click in order to connect just fine.
Why are people running NT for file serving?
... it should be "distro of pain" referring to Mandrake.
I have been running numerous Red Hat versions on small-time servers while I had a VB Programmer friend (forgive him for he does not know) dorking around with a Mandrake distro that has been given him tons of problems.
In all of my 6 young years of SysAdmining (is that a verb?), I have never fathom running Mandrake for a server. Never been told otherwise but I was under the impression that Mandrake is more of a desktop distro rather than server distro.
Slackware or Debian for the servers? Definitely. Maybe SuSE or even Red Hat if I am desparate enough but Mandrake. eeek.
Could someone please tell me what does RTFM stand for?!?!