Knowing about a game doesn't make you an addict. Caring enough to correct someone when making a joke about it probably does. I think one main factor of an addiction is that you keep doing it when you don't even like it. Many smokers hate smoking, and I'd bet many WoW players find it as much of a mindless tedium as anyone else.
Sell the PS3 and buy a TV and then buy a PS3 again when you can afford it. It's well worth it for watching all the sports in beautiful HD.
So, 500 for the TV, then more than the same for Sky HD so you actually have anything to watch on it, then 300 for the PS3. You're looking at well over a grand.
Anyone else notice the irony of a right-wing anti-socialist rant that praises one of the most expensive, pointless socialist projects in history?
Of course, giving money to poor people so they don't starve to death or so their children don't die of treatable conditions is terrible, let's funnel the money to military contractors instead so they can build man toys that good on TV.
The keyboard hasn't really been refined, it's largely the same as it's always been. It's designed for typing, not gaming. This maybe helps explain the decline of PC gaming in favour of consoles: to most people, controllers are easy to use whilst WASD is awkward as fuck to anyone who doesn't have spidery fingers.
Guess you didn't notice that the entire economy DID collapse
That's hyperbole. At most you're looking at a 5-10% contraction, not 100%. Most of the economy is working fine, and over 90% of people still have jobs. Most of those jobs are not 'artist' or 'space explorer'.
You do realise that if people didn't do any jobs unless they really loved doing them, then the entire economy collapse and most people would starve to death?
We can't all be astronauts and rock stars, someone has to clean the toilets and empty the bins.
1. The price of tigers goes through the roof. 2. Poachers come in groups of several dozen with machine guns and grenade launchers in case anyone catches them.
The problem is, sprites can move around on a pixel basis, and even overlap. Characters can't do that, they can only move around in blocks, and when one's in front of another, how do you see the one behind?
What people tend to forget is that using ASCII as game graphics, you can do a lot more in-depth gaming without having your game look like crap.
I dunno, a pixel is much smaller than a character, and with even normal 2D graphics you can show much more than 256 different things within the space of a block.
Head on out to public park where people play pickup games of basketball, or, heck, chess. Once you're welcomed in, start engaging in the most foul insults you can to distract your opponent. Might I suggest racial epithets? Since you're playing by the rules trying to win, no one will mind or get angry. Anyone who does get angry is blowing it out of proportion, since it's just a game. Now keep coming back day-after-day to do this; since it's a public park and you are obeying the law.
You've never played cricket, have you?
I don't see the problem with griefing, what exactly is wrong with making grown men cry like babies over something as completely irrelevant as a computer game?
People with the wealth and connections to get a car like this don't live in Wisconsin, they live in Caribbean islands, European principalities or the middle east, where they definitely don't pay tax, and most definitely didn't earn their money.
A small cult of enthusiasts doesn't support a full-scale manufacturing run. And please quit the conspiracy theories about how 'big oil' or whoever killed the electric car. If they were viable, Japan and Europe would be firing them out no matter what the US government did.
Developers want to make games for whichever platforms sell. With hardcore PC gamers only wanting to play MMOs or FPS sequels, and casual PC gamers only playing browser games, then developers will concentrate on consoles and handhelds.
Nuclear power is not renewable, and it's not cheap. Or particular low carbon when you include the construction, mining and processing the fuel, and eventual decomissioning.
And there is plenty of disagreement that there are much negative externalities about carbon dioxide.
Please tell me where the disagreement is outside of the US right wing. You need more than a lunatic fringe of a single, high-polluting nation to count as 'plenty of disagreement'.
90% of computer users don't do anything that couldn't be done on a ten year old computer. It's the hardware and software designers who keep the treadmill going so everyone has to keep paying them over and over again.
On the contrary, the best games are those that don't use a button just because it's there. I still don't see why a controller needs four shoulder buttons.
the whole game is based around making things easy for new players at the moment
The game has always been about making things easy for new players, that's why it's so popular. And I really doubt Blizzard give a shit about what reviewers think of them.
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Wow you're really convincing everyone by linking to conspiracy theory websites. I suppose that's easier than actually providing an argument.
Knowing about a game doesn't make you an addict. Caring enough to correct someone when making a joke about it probably does. I think one main factor of an addiction is that you keep doing it when you don't even like it. Many smokers hate smoking, and I'd bet many WoW players find it as much of a mindless tedium as anyone else.
So, 500 for the TV, then more than the same for Sky HD so you actually have anything to watch on it, then 300 for the PS3. You're looking at well over a grand.
Considering how often he was shot down, probably not.
Except you're still going to need the nuclear plant when the wind stops, so the price of the wind farm includes the cost of the nuke plant.
Anyone else notice the irony of a right-wing anti-socialist rant that praises one of the most expensive, pointless socialist projects in history?
Of course, giving money to poor people so they don't starve to death or so their children don't die of treatable conditions is terrible, let's funnel the money to military contractors instead so they can build man toys that good on TV.
Napster is healthily profitable, and so are thousands of legit massage parlours. What exactly is your point?
The keyboard hasn't really been refined, it's largely the same as it's always been. It's designed for typing, not gaming. This maybe helps explain the decline of PC gaming in favour of consoles: to most people, controllers are easy to use whilst WASD is awkward as fuck to anyone who doesn't have spidery fingers.
That's hyperbole. At most you're looking at a 5-10% contraction, not 100%. Most of the economy is working fine, and over 90% of people still have jobs. Most of those jobs are not 'artist' or 'space explorer'.
You do realise that if people didn't do any jobs unless they really loved doing them, then the entire economy collapse and most people would starve to death?
We can't all be astronauts and rock stars, someone has to clean the toilets and empty the bins.
So, there will then be two effects:
1. The price of tigers goes through the roof.
2. Poachers come in groups of several dozen with machine guns and grenade launchers in case anyone catches them.
Which makes them extremely relevant.
The problem is, sprites can move around on a pixel basis, and even overlap. Characters can't do that, they can only move around in blocks, and when one's in front of another, how do you see the one behind?
I dunno, a pixel is much smaller than a character, and with even normal 2D graphics you can show much more than 256 different things within the space of a block.
The EU and Europe are not the same entities. And the ESA is something else entirely.
You've never played cricket, have you?
I don't see the problem with griefing, what exactly is wrong with making grown men cry like babies over something as completely irrelevant as a computer game?
Christ, Slashdot has really gone downhill when people don't recognise Simpsons quotes anymore.
People with the wealth and connections to get a car like this don't live in Wisconsin, they live in Caribbean islands, European principalities or the middle east, where they definitely don't pay tax, and most definitely didn't earn their money.
A small cult of enthusiasts doesn't support a full-scale manufacturing run. And please quit the conspiracy theories about how 'big oil' or whoever killed the electric car. If they were viable, Japan and Europe would be firing them out no matter what the US government did.
Developers want to make games for whichever platforms sell. With hardcore PC gamers only wanting to play MMOs or FPS sequels, and casual PC gamers only playing browser games, then developers will concentrate on consoles and handhelds.
Nuclear power is not renewable, and it's not cheap. Or particular low carbon when you include the construction, mining and processing the fuel, and eventual decomissioning.
Please tell me where the disagreement is outside of the US right wing. You need more than a lunatic fringe of a single, high-polluting nation to count as 'plenty of disagreement'.
90% of computer users don't do anything that couldn't be done on a ten year old computer. It's the hardware and software designers who keep the treadmill going so everyone has to keep paying them over and over again.
On the contrary, the best games are those that don't use a button just because it's there. I still don't see why a controller needs four shoulder buttons.
The game has always been about making things easy for new players, that's why it's so popular. And I really doubt Blizzard give a shit about what reviewers think of them.