"The fact you own a common space doesn't mean you can be automatically autocratic," Ludlow said.
I don't think of game makers as just people who own a virtual world. Since they created this "common space", that would kind of make them god. As god, they can conntrol, change and do to that world as they see fit. And if you piss god off, he will smite you.
I remeber hearing about some dude who caught a comet by it's tail and fung it back out into space. Why don't we just get him to save us? I think he married some chick that rides a catfish, so find her and you'll find him.
lets not call it slave labor, it doesn't sound pleasant. instead, lets just call it indentured servitude untill they make enough to pay for thier own creation and maintenance costs with thier salaries limited to 50 cents an hour. or less.
After reading the story, and taking into account that this kid probably had severe emotional problems, it sounds more like he got shot down by the girl and just sorta snapped. if this is the case, then his school mates are probably as much at fault as video games.
My theory is this. The reason it seems that more smart people play RPGs is due to Darwinism, survival of the fittest. A person with below average reasoning skills would most likely become frustrated with the in game puzzles provideed by RPG's and quit playing when they can't figure out how to do something. A smart person would grab a stratigy guide and learn to enjoy the game by reaping the knowldege provided by people who have played the game more times than they ever will.
i only had one automobile mishap in my entire life, and a attribute it all to video games. nothing really happened other than my car spinning over the the highway medium at 90+ Mph and half way into oncomming traffic.
The heart beats only so many times before wearing out (as an aside almost all animals have the same number of lifetime heart beats regardless of size, environment etc except humans have about 3X as many
So, theoreticaly, I could greatly enhance my lifespan simply by sleeping more, avoiding stress, and never exercising?
well, what i think it is is timing. after seeing that sort of game GTA3 was, people who didn't know better assumed that Vice City would be the same thing, only worse, because they presume that the only way to sell something similar is to add more of what's popular to the product. So, by thier logic, since vice city came out after GTA3, it would undoubtibly have more violence, more lewdness, and a whole lot more sinning.
I think such a sucess can partially be attributed to the media's facination with this game. Simply by being controversial, this game has managed to do the brunt of it's advertising in the news.
if they are just going to use blizzard's servers, then what's the point in making a server? additionally, from what i heard, the warforge servers were inferior to blizzard's, so i really doin't see what the point is, if any.
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
Well duh, that'd just be like handing a theif the keys to your house. Think about this for a second, if they were able to see how the CD verification system worked, they could make a CD key generator that never popped out a invalid CD key.
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I would also like to suggest steroids if your child is having trouble letting his adolescent anger out.
"The fact you own a common space doesn't mean you can be automatically autocratic," Ludlow said.
I don't think of game makers as just people who own a virtual world. Since they created this "common space", that would kind of make them god. As god, they can conntrol, change and do to that world as they see fit. And if you piss god off, he will smite you.
Ok, great. So how do we paint it?
I remeber hearing about some dude who caught a comet by it's tail and fung it back out into space. Why don't we just get him to save us? I think he married some chick that rides a catfish, so find her and you'll find him.
"Why would they call it a Warthog... It looks like a Puma"
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Need a countdown clock for the beta?
n .h tm
http://home.earthlink.net/~cahbreis/wowcountdow
it's already been set as my home page, so whenever i open up my browser i'll know how much long i have to wait until beta.
It's like the Lottery, cept you're trying a win a chance for early bliss.
no to the spandex. although they will have stun darts that shoot from thier wrists.
if they demand rights, we'll just format thier memory banks during maintanence. problem solved.
lets not call it slave labor, it doesn't sound pleasant. instead, lets just call it indentured servitude untill they make enough to pay for thier own creation and maintenance costs with thier salaries limited to 50 cents an hour. or less.
*shudders* so many chins...
Pirates of the Caribbean is Disney not Hollywood.
don't forget about the Caped-Chameleon.
unfortunatly, he can't do flannel...
After reading the story, and taking into account that this kid probably had severe emotional problems, it sounds more like he got shot down by the girl and just sorta snapped. if this is the case, then his school mates are probably as much at fault as video games.
no, actually i was changing lanes and my tread seperated from the tire
My theory is this. The reason it seems that more smart people play RPGs is due to Darwinism, survival of the fittest. A person with below average reasoning skills would most likely become frustrated with the in game puzzles provideed by RPG's and quit playing when they can't figure out how to do something. A smart person would grab a stratigy guide and learn to enjoy the game by reaping the knowldege provided by people who have played the game more times than they ever will.
i only had one automobile mishap in my entire life, and a attribute it all to video games. nothing really happened other than my car spinning over the the highway medium at 90+ Mph and half way into oncomming traffic.
You have a life?!? Haha, N00b!
If people keep building machines like this, soon the machines will start building us, and using us as a source of power.
What would Dance Dance Revolution be classified under?
The heart beats only so many times before wearing out (as an aside almost all animals have the same number of lifetime heart beats regardless of size, environment etc except humans have about 3X as many
So, theoreticaly, I could greatly enhance my lifespan simply by sleeping more, avoiding stress, and never exercising?
well, what i think it is is timing. after seeing that sort of game GTA3 was, people who didn't know better assumed that Vice City would be the same thing, only worse, because they presume that the only way to sell something similar is to add more of what's popular to the product. So, by thier logic, since vice city came out after GTA3, it would undoubtibly have more violence, more lewdness, and a whole lot more sinning.
I think such a sucess can partially be attributed to the media's facination with this game. Simply by being controversial, this game has managed to do the brunt of it's advertising in the news.
if they are just going to use blizzard's servers, then what's the point in making a server? additionally, from what i heard, the warforge servers were inferior to blizzard's, so i really doin't see what the point is, if any.
The bnetd developers asked Blizzard if they could hook into the official online CD key verification system. Blizzard denied them that.
Well duh, that'd just be like handing a theif the keys to your house. Think about this for a second, if they were able to see how the CD verification system worked, they could make a CD key generator that never popped out a invalid CD key.