That reminds me of my grandfather, he said "why the fuck should I buy a car, this horse is just as good. If I can't park my horse at a certain store then fuck 'em, I can live without their product and they won't get my money"
People like you are called ludites and you refuse to accept new technology because "there's nothing wrong with the old way of doing things". I suggest you try to embrace inovation rather than hide from it, your life will be better.
Finally, spearazons can exist, seeing as their are some elite polearms and spears.
Alright, you're going to have to help me out here because I have no idea what you're talking about. Spearazons are the best class in the game. They are the only class that can kill cows in any reasonable time, they can level up the fastest and get all the drops. In case you havn't noticed the game is dominated by spearazon's using lightning fury, which dosn't rely on the damage of the spear but does an effect similar to chain lightning in diablo 1, where huge groups of enemies (cows) get hit with multiple steams of lightning. I got my spearazon too level 99 in 5 days with no support team, try that with any other class.
Wait, what the hell are you talking about. I though both Morrowind and NWN sucked ass, and I finished both games, so I spent a lot of time on them. Diablo 2 is one of the best games I've ever played. The story in all 3 games was crap, the gameplay in Diablo 2 is really fun.
In the case of NWN, can you please explain to me how it was supposed to be fun? I picked the mage or whatever, and 99% of the spells sucked, I ended up just using fireball and iceball or something. At least in Diablo 2 you can use a variety of skills. I'm tired of people who are down on Diablo 2, it sold way more copies than NWN and Morrowind combined and many people think its a better game.
Nice ad hominem argument. How about commenting on the content of his essay.
Ah yes, but now you are guilty of the ad hominem, why are you ignoring his argument and talking about the content of essay?
I agree, I would like to not see such links
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there is ALMOST ALWAYS another source for a news item. I suggest that they find it and sub that in. Fuck the new york times.
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porn is not. We all look at porn, no matter how much you guys deny it. I found my first porn on yahoo when I was 11 years old and I havn't stopped. I don't think I'm too screwed up, or any more so than if I'd never found the porn. How many kids get through there childhood without one of their friends showing them a dirty magazine or something? not too many, its a just a part of life. Porn isn't evil, just like masturbation isn't evil, I think these are outdated views that need to be revised.
Ya, there were part 1 and part 2 of this story, in part 1 we all organized the mail bombing, in part 2 he calls his lawyer on us, this is a dupe of part 2.
or anything, but could this have anything to do with the growing popularity of peer to peer programs and broadband? Its becoming a lot easier for people to pirate games than it used to be. Also, its more worthwhile to pirate a game in this way, for example if I was pirating a movie, it might take a couple days to download, and its over in a couple hours, but if you pirate a game in this way it lasts a lot longer. Just my 2 cents.
So I guess every has figured out how it works by now, you buy items and then you kill monsters/other people in hopes of finding more valuable items and making a profit. So there will be 2 types of players in this game, the guys who are really good and make a profit, and the suckers, who lose money while supporting who whole thing. Now how long do you think the suckers are going to keep losing money for? Maybe a month if they're stupid, probably less. This thing is basically like a large pyramid scheme, the only way it works is if you keep getting people who are stupider than you to join in at the bottom, and that's not going to happen forever, so eventually it collapses.
because there's money involved. If the guys in your clan could have gotten maybe $10 or more per day for killing and robbing weaker players, how many of them would still want to be the law? I think that greed is a lot more important than community to people.
ok, so the way the game works is that if you kill and steal from someone, you become an outlaw, and then people can kill/steal from you without becoming an outlaw, so you're going to be a target. What is going to happen is a gang will form of the top 10-20 players who will just go around killing, stealing from and dividing up the goods of every other player in the game. As far as I know, there is no reason this wouldn't happen. Its like living in a world with no police, it would just be large gangs.
There's no way I would put money into an MMORPG like that. They all get hacked or exploited some how eventually, and then what happens to the guys who put hundreds of dollars into the game? On the other hand, if i could be the first one to get a copy of the hack...
They get fired, they get their welfare or unemployment insuracne or whatever you have there, use that money to buy food, and continue to play (now closer to 24 hours per day). Ya, so their a bit of a drain on the economy, but other than that they arn't really hurting anyone.
Ya, I've been thinking a lot about this too. I like Blizzard, and World of Warcraft is looking pretty good. It's a familiar universe, Blizzard quality, and it should have the Diablo 2 elements that were really good.
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That reminds me of my grandfather, he said "why the fuck should I buy a car, this horse is just as good. If I can't park my horse at a certain store then fuck 'em, I can live without their product and they won't get my money" People like you are called ludites and you refuse to accept new technology because "there's nothing wrong with the old way of doing things". I suggest you try to embrace inovation rather than hide from it, your life will be better.
Finally, spearazons can exist, seeing as their are some elite polearms and spears.
Alright, you're going to have to help me out here because I have no idea what you're talking about. Spearazons are the best class in the game. They are the only class that can kill cows in any reasonable time, they can level up the fastest and get all the drops. In case you havn't noticed the game is dominated by spearazon's using lightning fury, which dosn't rely on the damage of the spear but does an effect similar to chain lightning in diablo 1, where huge groups of enemies (cows) get hit with multiple steams of lightning. I got my spearazon too level 99 in 5 days with no support team, try that with any other class.
Your mom and other responseable adults would be paying for it, while you sat around complaining all day.
I just thought this was pretty funny, I taught my mom how to download music from kazaa and she thinks its great. She hasn't bought a CD since.
Oh well, theres always DVD.
There's always Kazaa.
Does it work with web based hotmail or outlook express?
Wait, what the hell are you talking about. I though both Morrowind and NWN sucked ass, and I finished both games, so I spent a lot of time on them. Diablo 2 is one of the best games I've ever played. The story in all 3 games was crap, the gameplay in Diablo 2 is really fun.
In the case of NWN, can you please explain to me how it was supposed to be fun? I picked the mage or whatever, and 99% of the spells sucked, I ended up just using fireball and iceball or something. At least in Diablo 2 you can use a variety of skills. I'm tired of people who are down on Diablo 2, it sold way more copies than NWN and Morrowind combined and many people think its a better game.
there are 4 petabytes of files being shared, a search through 150 terabytes dosn't seem so big.
Don't foget old Ralsky, there's got to be a place for him at that company!
Nice ad hominem argument. How about commenting on the content of his essay.
Ah yes, but now you are guilty of the ad hominem, why are you ignoring his argument and talking about the content of essay?
there is ALMOST ALWAYS another source for a news item. I suggest that they find it and sub that in. Fuck the new york times.
porn is not. We all look at porn, no matter how much you guys deny it. I found my first porn on yahoo when I was 11 years old and I havn't stopped. I don't think I'm too screwed up, or any more so than if I'd never found the porn. How many kids get through there childhood without one of their friends showing them a dirty magazine or something? not too many, its a just a part of life. Porn isn't evil, just like masturbation isn't evil, I think these are outdated views that need to be revised.
Ya, there were part 1 and part 2 of this story, in part 1 we all organized the mail bombing, in part 2 he calls his lawyer on us, this is a dupe of part 2.
or anything, but could this have anything to do with the growing popularity of peer to peer programs and broadband? Its becoming a lot easier for people to pirate games than it used to be. Also, its more worthwhile to pirate a game in this way, for example if I was pirating a movie, it might take a couple days to download, and its over in a couple hours, but if you pirate a game in this way it lasts a lot longer. Just my 2 cents.
The relevant like found HERE.
30 GB, so going to take a litle longer than 6 hours for it to be leaked (unless a T3 is involved)
You're house is on fire?
So I guess every has figured out how it works by now, you buy items and then you kill monsters/other people in hopes of finding more valuable items and making a profit. So there will be 2 types of players in this game, the guys who are really good and make a profit, and the suckers, who lose money while supporting who whole thing. Now how long do you think the suckers are going to keep losing money for? Maybe a month if they're stupid, probably less. This thing is basically like a large pyramid scheme, the only way it works is if you keep getting people who are stupider than you to join in at the bottom, and that's not going to happen forever, so eventually it collapses.
because there's money involved. If the guys in your clan could have gotten maybe $10 or more per day for killing and robbing weaker players, how many of them would still want to be the law? I think that greed is a lot more important than community to people.
ok, so the way the game works is that if you kill and steal from someone, you become an outlaw, and then people can kill/steal from you without becoming an outlaw, so you're going to be a target. What is going to happen is a gang will form of the top 10-20 players who will just go around killing, stealing from and dividing up the goods of every other player in the game. As far as I know, there is no reason this wouldn't happen. Its like living in a world with no police, it would just be large gangs.
There's no way I would put money into an MMORPG like that. They all get hacked or exploited some how eventually, and then what happens to the guys who put hundreds of dollars into the game? On the other hand, if i could be the first one to get a copy of the hack...
that's so nice to hear Michael, hopefully you'll find happiness together!
I don't know where you've been, its around on IRC.
Try #divx-movies
he seemed pretty serious and confident. The funny thing is, if that was that guy's only reason for using linux, is he going to switch to windows now?
They get fired, they get their welfare or unemployment insuracne or whatever you have there, use that money to buy food, and continue to play (now closer to 24 hours per day). Ya, so their a bit of a drain on the economy, but other than that they arn't really hurting anyone.
Ya, I've been thinking a lot about this too. I like Blizzard, and World of Warcraft is looking pretty good. It's a familiar universe, Blizzard quality, and it should have the Diablo 2 elements that were really good.