I'd still call it an oranges to oranges comparison; they're both MMOs. Guild Wars is like a mandarin orange in that it's easy to get into and done (too) quickly, EVE is like one of those monstrous naval oranges that takes so much effort to get to the meat of it that many people don't feel it's worth the trouble in the first place.
There's absolutely a market for both options though.
I see most MMOs as a race where they keep moving the finish line further away.
The only MMO I've really enjoyed was Guild Wars because anybody could make it to the endgame without sacrificing other areas of their lives. They have decent expansions and some groups raise a stink if you don't have certain ones on your account but you never feel like weeks worth of work was undone in an instant if you fail a mission. Once you "beat" the game you could spend time on upgrades or test out strategies in PvP and since it was free to play I never felt like I had to keep playing to get my money's worth (Everquest, I'm looking at you here).
For that to matter you'd need a court system in which facing a copyright infringement suit without spending tens of thousands in legal representation is doable.
Your comment makes the conspiracy theorist in me wonder if this was some elaborately staged plan to get the domain name (and near-free advertising for it) as cheaply as possible.
There is a disturbing amount of specialty fetish porn out there. While I'm not going to search for examples myself, I am quite certain rule 34 still applies in this instance.
I distinctly remember my Second Grade class and how much I preferred to be alone. We had group reading assignments but I didn't enjoy them, nor did I enjoy many other group activities. In Fifth grade I had a psychological assessment (for Gifted/Advanced students, but I was nothing special). The report, which I read many years later, said that I was quiet, quite shy, but had exceptional command of language, and so on. This was before autism was readily diagnosed, and I suspect that had I been tested 15 years later, I would be labeled mildy autistic.
In college, though I was involved in many groups, I still preferred to run off by myself. Fast forward 20 years and it's still the same. I'm involved in a sports team, clubs, etc., but it's almost as if I'm pretending. I do the team activities, give talks, am involved in film making (one of the most extroverted activities I can imagine). People tell me that I am a great speaker and they feel that I relate well, but even to this day I approach conversations in a methodical way: listen, confirm understanding, ask questions, repeat. This pretense is precisely because I enjoy being alone and I found it much easier to pretend to be well-adjusted and sociable than to just tell everyone how I really felt.
It's sad that introverts have to pretend to be extroverts to get by in so many situations. You're not maladjusted or broken just because you don't want to be surrounded by people at all times, despite what people might say. I'm a strong introvert (I don't hate being around people, it just drains me) but I love giving speeches or acting because it lets me bring my thoughts and emotions out in a way that doesn't directly involve interaction with others. At the end of the day, nothing makes me happier than getting the hell out of the office where everyone and everything is clamoring for my attention and reading a book or playing a game of chess with a stranger online.
If you're looking for a good read, I'd like to recommend Introvert Power by Laurie Helgoe. It is a self-help book but it provides some very interesting insights into how you operate, it will make you feel a bit better about it as well as offer ideas on how to deal with the rest of the world. The short version is this: introverts make up approximately half the world's population, setting up a quiet space in your home will go a long way (earplugs work wonders at home and the office, seriously), and it's okay to stay home instead of go out.
You do realize that some of them have FOUR hooks, right? Sure it is easy on the one or two hook models for the smaller chested women. But on the 4 hook models for the larger chested - I defy you to do it with one hand in one "move"...
Bring me a large-breasted woman and I'll show you how it's done!
I always hear about people switching stickers, so I have to ask this... has anybody else physically disassembled the cube and put it back together? It's a surprisingly fun process.
My condolences for your loss, but do you really believe that Google would have found the cure for cancer by now if only they hadn't spent time on this? Big achievements are incremental; someday we might turn this into something bigger or we'll find out it was a waste of time, but it shouldn't be hated simply for being done. How many people here would love to find a way to solve a Rubik's cube in 19 moves? Would you give them the same reaction?
I'm sure this will be difficult coming from someone on the Internet but you should focus on how the person lived, not how they died. And if cancer research is really important to you, donate time, money, emotional support, whatever you can in hopes that it helps the next person because like big achievements, big changes are incremental.
Yes, you're right, we should devote all our time to getting ourselves to live longer, and none of our time to making our lives more interesting and enjoyable. That'll make a lovely world, won't it.
I agree completely. After watching so many people "live" well past their prime I'd much rather have a good life and a fast death.
Except that no wifi drivers support the mesh topography standards.
That's probably why he said "It'd probably require special software on each device to work that way though". As long as you can create an ad-hoc wireless network you can create a mesh network.
We run an OLSR mesh network in the warehouse and have generally been pleased with the results. As long as each node can see one node down the line anything can communicate with anything else. Our system isn't bandwidth-intensive so we haven't encountered any bottlenecks and there's a plugin for OLSRd that lets you secure the connection.
I'd be very interested in seeing such a setup on a more massive scale, particularly when several geeks fire up bittorrent from the street corner.;)
I can't think of a less blunt way to say this, sorry.
Have you ever pointed a gun at someone? If you (as in anyone) are capable of shutting off what makes you recognize someone as human so easily and so immediately (in the scope of defending your home) you are either a sociopath or a soldier.
Why was this marked insightful? It should be funny. I don't have any points to do that.:(
Funny doesn't give karma so mods will sometimes mod a post insightful/interesting/informative as a courtesy. There's also the possibility a mod thought it was an insightful joke.
It goes beyond knowing how to use it, you also require willingness to use it. Unfortunately, that's the main difference between criminals with guns and homeowners with guns.
I'm sure several people will respond that they're willing to shoot someone but having been taught not to aim at something I don't want dead, I can tell you that it's extremely difficult to point a gun at another human, let alone shoot at them.
That reminds me of a funny story I heard once. A guy had a dog that always jumped on the couch so he rigged up a motion detector and a speaker that shouted "get off the couch!!!" in his voice every time the dog jumped on it. In the middle of the night a few weeks later, he heard his voice coming from downstairs followed by a loud crash, turns out someone had broken into his house and been so startled by the yelling they tripped and fell.
Thank you for the advice. Raising kids is one hell of a challenge, moreso than any video game I've played, so any advice is appreciated. I plan on taking an active role in their education and imagination so I'll definitely look into Waldorf Schooling.
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It's like comic book guy from the simpsons making fun of millhouse.
Worst. Analogy. Ever.
I'd still call it an oranges to oranges comparison; they're both MMOs. Guild Wars is like a mandarin orange in that it's easy to get into and done (too) quickly, EVE is like one of those monstrous naval oranges that takes so much effort to get to the meat of it that many people don't feel it's worth the trouble in the first place.
There's absolutely a market for both options though.
I see most MMOs as a race where they keep moving the finish line further away.
The only MMO I've really enjoyed was Guild Wars because anybody could make it to the endgame without sacrificing other areas of their lives. They have decent expansions and some groups raise a stink if you don't have certain ones on your account but you never feel like weeks worth of work was undone in an instant if you fail a mission. Once you "beat" the game you could spend time on upgrades or test out strategies in PvP and since it was free to play I never felt like I had to keep playing to get my money's worth (Everquest, I'm looking at you here).
For that to matter you'd need a court system in which facing a copyright infringement suit without spending tens of thousands in legal representation is doable.
Your comment makes the conspiracy theorist in me wonder if this was some elaborately staged plan to get the domain name (and near-free advertising for it) as cheaply as possible.
There is a disturbing amount of specialty fetish porn out there. While I'm not going to search for examples myself, I am quite certain rule 34 still applies in this instance.
This must be what developers mean when they say pirates ruin gaming.
On the backs of sharks? Whalesharks?
There may not be enough room for the lasers then, though your whaleshark idea intrigues me.
I distinctly remember my Second Grade class and how much I preferred to be alone. We had group reading assignments but I didn't enjoy them, nor did I enjoy many other group activities. In Fifth grade I had a psychological assessment (for Gifted/Advanced students, but I was nothing special). The report, which I read many years later, said that I was quiet, quite shy, but had exceptional command of language, and so on. This was before autism was readily diagnosed, and I suspect that had I been tested 15 years later, I would be labeled mildy autistic.
In college, though I was involved in many groups, I still preferred to run off by myself. Fast forward 20 years and it's still the same. I'm involved in a sports team, clubs, etc., but it's almost as if I'm pretending. I do the team activities, give talks, am involved in film making (one of the most extroverted activities I can imagine). People tell me that I am a great speaker and they feel that I relate well, but even to this day I approach conversations in a methodical way: listen, confirm understanding, ask questions, repeat. This pretense is precisely because I enjoy being alone and I found it much easier to pretend to be well-adjusted and sociable than to just tell everyone how I really felt.
It's sad that introverts have to pretend to be extroverts to get by in so many situations. You're not maladjusted or broken just because you don't want to be surrounded by people at all times, despite what people might say. I'm a strong introvert (I don't hate being around people, it just drains me) but I love giving speeches or acting because it lets me bring my thoughts and emotions out in a way that doesn't directly involve interaction with others. At the end of the day, nothing makes me happier than getting the hell out of the office where everyone and everything is clamoring for my attention and reading a book or playing a game of chess with a stranger online.
If you're looking for a good read, I'd like to recommend Introvert Power by Laurie Helgoe. It is a self-help book but it provides some very interesting insights into how you operate, it will make you feel a bit better about it as well as offer ideas on how to deal with the rest of the world. The short version is this: introverts make up approximately half the world's population, setting up a quiet space in your home will go a long way (earplugs work wonders at home and the office, seriously), and it's okay to stay home instead of go out.
I've been waiting for somebody to answer the age-old question:
Were you born an a-hole or did you work on it your whole life?
It came naturally at birth but was honed to perfection after years of practice!
You do realize that some of them have FOUR hooks, right? Sure it is easy on the one or two hook models for the smaller chested women. But on the 4 hook models for the larger chested - I defy you to do it with one hand in one "move"...
Bring me a large-breasted woman and I'll show you how it's done!
I always hear about people switching stickers, so I have to ask this... has anybody else physically disassembled the cube and put it back together? It's a surprisingly fun process.
My condolences for your loss, but do you really believe that Google would have found the cure for cancer by now if only they hadn't spent time on this? Big achievements are incremental; someday we might turn this into something bigger or we'll find out it was a waste of time, but it shouldn't be hated simply for being done. How many people here would love to find a way to solve a Rubik's cube in 19 moves? Would you give them the same reaction?
I'm sure this will be difficult coming from someone on the Internet but you should focus on how the person lived, not how they died. And if cancer research is really important to you, donate time, money, emotional support, whatever you can in hopes that it helps the next person because like big achievements, big changes are incremental.
Yes, you're right, we should devote all our time to getting ourselves to live longer, and none of our time to making our lives more interesting and enjoyable. That'll make a lovely world, won't it.
I agree completely. After watching so many people "live" well past their prime I'd much rather have a good life and a fast death.
Slashdot is not an old news aggregator. It's a news recycling system.
Except that no wifi drivers support the mesh topography standards.
That's probably why he said "It'd probably require special software on each device to work that way though". As long as you can create an ad-hoc wireless network you can create a mesh network.
We run an OLSR mesh network in the warehouse and have generally been pleased with the results. As long as each node can see one node down the line anything can communicate with anything else. Our system isn't bandwidth-intensive so we haven't encountered any bottlenecks and there's a plugin for OLSRd that lets you secure the connection.
I'd be very interested in seeing such a setup on a more massive scale, particularly when several geeks fire up bittorrent from the street corner. ;)
Yes, children are pretty much the world's biggest market.
Only because there's such a supply.
I can't think of a less blunt way to say this, sorry.
Have you ever pointed a gun at someone? If you (as in anyone) are capable of shutting off what makes you recognize someone as human so easily and so immediately (in the scope of defending your home) you are either a sociopath or a soldier.
Why was this marked insightful? It should be funny. I don't have any points to do that. :(
Funny doesn't give karma so mods will sometimes mod a post insightful/interesting/informative as a courtesy. There's also the possibility a mod thought it was an insightful joke.
It goes beyond knowing how to use it, you also require willingness to use it. Unfortunately, that's the main difference between criminals with guns and homeowners with guns.
I'm sure several people will respond that they're willing to shoot someone but having been taught not to aim at something I don't want dead, I can tell you that it's extremely difficult to point a gun at another human, let alone shoot at them.
That reminds me of a funny story I heard once. A guy had a dog that always jumped on the couch so he rigged up a motion detector and a speaker that shouted "get off the couch!!!" in his voice every time the dog jumped on it. In the middle of the night a few weeks later, he heard his voice coming from downstairs followed by a loud crash, turns out someone had broken into his house and been so startled by the yelling they tripped and fell.
Oh, nice! Can I have the Linux version?
Who knows, it might run on Wine.
Why can't you just get an account so we can fucking block your whining, retarded drivel?
You may have answered your own question.
Insightful is the fact that the comment gets moderated according to it's first word. Let's see if this works...
Interesting, your theory appears correct.
Sometimes I suspect low UID users have a crawler that looks for people referencing low UIDs...
I had no idea COBOL was so powerful.
Thank you for the advice. Raising kids is one hell of a challenge, moreso than any video game I've played, so any advice is appreciated. I plan on taking an active role in their education and imagination so I'll definitely look into Waldorf Schooling.