I suspect that Amtrack is behind all of this. By making flying as miserable and as shitty an experience as possible they'll convince everyone to start taking the train.
It seems that everytime someone tries something bad they ban it from flights. So all I have to do is design exploding underwear (nitrocellulose?) and convince someone to try to carry it on. I'd drop a dime on them before they got on of course. Then just hang out at the airport watching security guards confiscate everyone's undies.
Sort of like how every Woman's magazine in supermarket checkout aisles (Redbook, etc) has an article titled "Make this delicious chocolate cake for your family!" followed by and article titled "Lose 10 lbs in two weeks!".
"how can I compete with the college kids that are skipping class and playing in shifts"
Maybe they should start servers that have monthly time limits on how long you can play each character. It would be for the benefit of casual players. Set it to a reasonable amount and everyone would be close to being on the same page.
"the friends he'd stolen from said he's kinda nomadic now, traveling around, mooching shelter and bandwidth; relegated to Everquest since his ancient computer cannot play newer games"
It sounds almost romantic, like a Western except it would be shot in suburbia.
Love Interest: "But Ricardo, what about us?"
Addict: "Sorry, I can't love you the way you want. I have to move on. I have to find a new wireless connection."
Love Interest: "But after all of the raids we've been on? How can you leave me!?"
Addict: "You new I'd eventually hit level 60 and get bored. Maybe I'll stop playing rogues. I don't know what I'll do but I do know that I need a bath and some exercise REAL bad."
One thing PC games have going for them that consoles don't is player mods. Games like Battlefield 1942 and Neverwinter Nights have huge amounts of player built mods that keep the game going.
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I love the comments here that imply that we should just let things take their course. Call me crazy but I think having the oceans turn into a simple sludge of bacteria and jellyfish isn't the ideal we want. Seeing as the oceans are turning into this because of us it strikes me as a lazy excuse to turn around and claim that fixing it is a natural event that is beyond us. We got things to this point so we should take responsability for fixing it. No one forced us to dump fertilizers by the megaton on the land and create dead zones at river mouths, to use the oceans as dumps, or to fish them like they were bottomless buffets. It was a choice we made. Don't hide behind evolution or any of that crap for something we did.
This isn't evolution. Evolution implies a development of existing life forms. This is a die-off where more sensitive organisms die and less sensitive ones remain. They aren't evolving, just filling a void left behind by others.
Speaking of getting together with friends to drool over games. I remember the weekly trade-a-thons my friends and I had who had Apple IIs at home. We would go to someone's house with our 5.25" disks and a mess of blanks and start copying. We always used the trick of cutting a notch out of the other edge of the disk to use both sides. I got some pretty obscure games that way. I especially got a kick out of how the "crackerz" would alter the title screen with their boasts and I'd even see the same aliases come up again sometimes. I still bought games too so I wasn't a complete pirate.;)
"...maybe its just me, but I do miss Origin, Bullfrog, Micropose and the LucasArts of the old days, a lot."
I'd also add in the eye candy from Sirius Software (Nasir Gebelli), Sierra On-Line and Scott Adams adventures, Sir-Tech (Wizardy), Muse (the ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein), Broderbund (Choplifter, Lode Runner, Sky Blazer), Warren Schwader (Threshold), and Bill Budge (Raster Blaster). I fondly remember cruising across the plains of Sosaria in my land speeder in Ultima I.
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Thanks for finally explaining this. I wish there was a guide to terminology for nonplayers out there somewhere.
Does the government even bother with excuses to bomb anymore?
I suspect that Amtrack is behind all of this. By making flying as miserable and as shitty an experience as possible they'll convince everyone to start taking the train.
It seems that everytime someone tries something bad they ban it from flights. So all I have to do is design exploding underwear (nitrocellulose?) and convince someone to try to carry it on. I'd drop a dime on them before they got on of course. Then just hang out at the airport watching security guards confiscate everyone's undies.
Lemmy Kilmister agrees
Sort of like how every Woman's magazine in supermarket checkout aisles (Redbook, etc) has an article titled "Make this delicious chocolate cake for your family!" followed by and article titled "Lose 10 lbs in two weeks!".
You left out the cost of air conditioning your room after you put 4 of these space heaters in it.
"how can I compete with the college kids that are skipping class and playing in shifts"
Maybe they should start servers that have monthly time limits on how long you can play each character. It would be for the benefit of casual players. Set it to a reasonable amount and everyone would be close to being on the same page.
"the friends he'd stolen from said he's kinda nomadic now, traveling around, mooching shelter and bandwidth; relegated to Everquest since his ancient computer cannot play newer games"
It sounds almost romantic, like a Western except it would be shot in suburbia.
Love Interest: "But Ricardo, what about us?"
Addict: "Sorry, I can't love you the way you want. I have to move on. I have to find a new wireless connection."
Love Interest: "But after all of the raids we've been on? How can you leave me!?"
Addict: "You new I'd eventually hit level 60 and get bored. Maybe I'll stop playing rogues. I don't know what I'll do but I do know that I need a bath and some exercise REAL bad."
*Old Ultima V music surges in the background*
Sorry, too short. NEXT!
"I play WoW (yes, a real girl with boobs and everything"
Sorry, I never got past that sentence.
"100 hrs of entertainment"
I have yet to see anyone say that they consider grinding to be entertainment.
Mine is called "allergies/pushing too hard during exercise/staying up too late".
I'm glad I don't play WoW. That leaves more time for my playing Battlefield 1942 past 1am addiction.
And I can stop compulsively checking for new stories on slashdot anytime I want. I think...
You left out "Leisure Suit Larry"
One thing PC games have going for them that consoles don't is player mods. Games like Battlefield 1942 and Neverwinter Nights have huge amounts of player built mods that keep the game going.
That's what they WANT you to think
Steak and cheese!? This man is clearly going to commit murder then suicide via hardening of the arteries.
So I haven't gained 10 lbs? It was just a gravitational shift!? That means I can have another doughnut.
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The National Security Administration
c/o: The Guys With the Funny Badges We Only See In The Cafeteria
The Windowless Building
Ft Meade, MD
Note, please put a red sticky tab on all unpatriotic items. Thank you.
I love the comments here that imply that we should just let things take their course. Call me crazy but I think having the oceans turn into a simple sludge of bacteria and jellyfish isn't the ideal we want. Seeing as the oceans are turning into this because of us it strikes me as a lazy excuse to turn around and claim that fixing it is a natural event that is beyond us. We got things to this point so we should take responsability for fixing it. No one forced us to dump fertilizers by the megaton on the land and create dead zones at river mouths, to use the oceans as dumps, or to fish them like they were bottomless buffets. It was a choice we made. Don't hide behind evolution or any of that crap for something we did.
This isn't evolution. Evolution implies a development of existing life forms. This is a die-off where more sensitive organisms die and less sensitive ones remain. They aren't evolving, just filling a void left behind by others.
I bought the game, I was just in the habit of getting lost and couldn't find myself on the map!
Speaking of getting together with friends to drool over games. I remember the weekly trade-a-thons my friends and I had who had Apple IIs at home. We would go to someone's house with our 5.25" disks and a mess of blanks and start copying. We always used the trick of cutting a notch out of the other edge of the disk to use both sides. I got some pretty obscure games that way. I especially got a kick out of how the "crackerz" would alter the title screen with their boasts and I'd even see the same aliases come up again sometimes. I still bought games too so I wasn't a complete pirate. ;)
"...maybe its just me, but I do miss Origin, Bullfrog, Micropose and the LucasArts of the old days, a lot."
I'd also add in the eye candy from Sirius Software (Nasir Gebelli), Sierra On-Line and Scott Adams adventures, Sir-Tech (Wizardy), Muse (the ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein), Broderbund (Choplifter, Lode Runner, Sky Blazer), Warren Schwader (Threshold), and Bill Budge (Raster Blaster). I fondly remember cruising across the plains of Sosaria in my land speeder in Ultima I.