I'll bet there will be situations like in City of Heroes, where people will be copying their favorite gang lords or punk rappers. Although, maybe not to such an extent as in CoH, because (hopefully) most people don't have favorite gang lords they'd like to imitate.
Thanks for posting the repaired link!
I did some checking, and apparently the second "http" was being interpreted as a search term. The address http://testsearch:/www.yahoo.com causes my browser (firefox) to perform a google "I'm feeling lucky" search for the string testsearch. The www.yahoo.com is totally ignored.
Wierd, eh?
Perhaps there won't be a traditional MMORPG level system? Beyond aquiring a few advanced weapons, the hero in GTA3 doesn't seem to improve much inherent combat ability. Once the player first aquires an armor upgrade, he is just as resistant to damage as he will ever be. I believe APB could follow a similar system, which would make teamwork much more important than in a traditional MMORPG. The measure of a player would be the number of reliable friends he or she could bring to a fight.
If you could be a tad less biased, you'd see he was making a point: only someone smoking a pipe would think that those things he listed had nothing to do with invading Iraq. Or maybe you did realize he was being sarcastic, and you were just suggesting that his sarcasm was inappropriate?
As for rhetoric, how would you feel if you were in a freshman ELPS class with a teacher who proudly stated that he was liberal, spent over half the class time reading articles by radical liberal authors, denounced the concept of a free market, and smiled and nodded whenever you tried to debate an anti-conservative claim he had made? Bear in mind that this teacher is teaching his viewpoint, as fact, to a group of 16-year-old students. That is what I consider rhetoric. In my case the teacher was conservative instead of liberal, and I've never had a liberal teacher announce their political orientation.
So, try to recognize instances of sarcasm, OK? Oh, and though it goes against human nature, try to fairly evaluate others' opinions. Though I am mostly liberal, I have conservative views and would almost certainly vote a mixed ticket.
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Your link is broken (due to a space), here it is repaired:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078
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Very funny story, considering he probably died happy (:
I'll bet there will be situations like in City of Heroes, where people will be copying their favorite gang lords or punk rappers. Although, maybe not to such an extent as in CoH, because (hopefully) most people don't have favorite gang lords they'd like to imitate.
I wonder if they'll have copters. If so, expect cries of "OMG L@m0r" and "Leve coptr or I crsh srv!" (sic) from the whiny subset of the Halo-crowd.
Thanks for posting the repaired link! I did some checking, and apparently the second "http" was being interpreted as a search term. The address http://testsearch:/www.yahoo.com causes my browser (firefox) to perform a google "I'm feeling lucky" search for the string testsearch. The www.yahoo.com is totally ignored. Wierd, eh?
Perhaps there won't be a traditional MMORPG level system? Beyond aquiring a few advanced weapons, the hero in GTA3 doesn't seem to improve much inherent combat ability. Once the player first aquires an armor upgrade, he is just as resistant to damage as he will ever be. I believe APB could follow a similar system, which would make teamwork much more important than in a traditional MMORPG. The measure of a player would be the number of reliable friends he or she could bring to a fight.
If you could be a tad less biased, you'd see he was making a point: only someone smoking a pipe would think that those things he listed had nothing to do with invading Iraq. Or maybe you did realize he was being sarcastic, and you were just suggesting that his sarcasm was inappropriate?
As for rhetoric, how would you feel if you were in a freshman ELPS class with a teacher who proudly stated that he was liberal, spent over half the class time reading articles by radical liberal authors, denounced the concept of a free market, and smiled and nodded whenever you tried to debate an anti-conservative claim he had made? Bear in mind that this teacher is teaching his viewpoint, as fact, to a group of 16-year-old students. That is what I consider rhetoric. In my case the teacher was conservative instead of liberal, and I've never had a liberal teacher announce their political orientation.
So, try to recognize instances of sarcasm, OK? Oh, and though it goes against human nature, try to fairly evaluate others' opinions. Though I am mostly liberal, I have conservative views and would almost certainly vote a mixed ticket.