I'm a full-time student, a freshmen, and I'm amazed (and annoyed) at the number of my peers who sit dumbly when the discussion requires a response. Isn't it preferable that the educational experience encourage the growth of balls/ovaries, rather than allowing timidity to flourish?
Time was when EA actualy produced innovative games. In fact, they were one of the most innovative game companies of all time, back when Bill Budge and Trip Hawkins were still household names. Now they are just re-packagers of other people's shit.
I agree 100%. Interestingly, I also feel that way about Star Wars and the death of Science Fiction that occurred shortly thereafter. Very few of the hardcore long-time Science Fiction fans liked Star Wars when it was new, but 90% of the casual fans and non-fans did, so it redefined the market, and a huge chunk of what has been produced has been pablum ever since.
I am going to be honest -- and, not to be a troll -- but I never could figure out the excitement engendered by the Myst games. They seemed like a slide-show with puzzles, to me, and I hold them partly responsible for the deterioration of the genre.
I started out playing the Zork games, and later Dungeon Master (MUCH better than Eye of the Beholder), and finally Monkey Island and all of its successors/spin-offs. Myst, IMHO, didn't compare with the least of the games I've just mentioned. It was even sub-par when compared to the Sierra games, which we really adventure games for people who didn't like adventure games.
Dueling Invites and Guild Invites should be something thatI can toggle to auto-refuse. I NEVER want invitations for either activity, and some morons just don't take a single no for an answer. i know that I can Ignore them, but the auto-refusal option would be much simpler.
Suggestions for Improvement should be possible to make in-game, instead of only via the forums. A lot of suggestions are spontaneous and easy to forget, especially since it is necessary to exit the game, or remember to login to the forums later.
The lag in IronForge is unnacceptable. Could this be solved by putting the Auction House on a separate server, or in an instance (or both), or adding Auction Houses to Stormwind and Darnassus?
Why bother have a namimg policy that isn't actually enforced? During any average gaming session, I encounter dozens of obvious violations, and sometimes report them. Why is ObeeWhaan or BigusPinus still playing a week later?
While it sounds like a lot of fun for the researchers involved, and anything that stems the spiral of the US into a culture of anti-intellectualism is a good thing in my book.
Doesn't anyone read these submissions for grammatical correctness?
Erm, if I said "he makes [insert name of known stupid person here] look like a rocket scientist" -- which is the usual manner in which this comparison is constructed -- the implication would be that "he" was very stupid indeed.
Are you implying that Xbox Media Center is stupid, or that it is suitable for someone who is?
Second, because, even though I am busy, I click on virtually every linked article, as one of the pleasures of reading Slashdot/geek news sites is discovering things that are fresh, that I wouldn't necessarily have read about elsewhere.
Further, I was replying to a specific question posed by another individual -- not you -- so to have replied from a viewpoint other than my own would have been silly. I have learned hundreds of ultimately interesting and useful bits of information that I never would have learned had the topic been described more fully in the original article. If that isn't true for you, fine, but it is for me, and I was the one answering the question.
If this reply isn't sufficient, might I suggest auto-felatio?
Truthfully, not at all. First, because it is usually obvious from context -- or from the name of the application -- what that application does. Second, because, even though I am busy, I click on virtually every linked article, as one of the pleasures of reading Slashdot/geek news sites is discovering things that are fresh, that I wouldn't necessarily have read about elsewhere.
From what was described in the article, I don't understood how the "cheating" took any less effort than something novel like... doing the work.
That's like friends I have who shorten "thanks" to "thnkx," because it saves them time. They're right! Wow, in 50 years, they might have saved enough time to watch an episode of South Park!
Beauty doesn't make you a better person, neither does intelligence.
Conversely, ugliness doesn't make you a better person, nor does stupidity. I'd rather be an attractive smart person than an ugly dumb one, wouldn't you?
That may be true, but I was merely responding to this:
...I triggered a bug where my character couldn't take damage. After exploiting this to level up
Further:
What I was doing didn't impact any other player
You know this for a fact? In my experience, dishonesty -- which is what cheating is -- nearly always negatively impacts someone, even if it isn't obvious.
Anyway, the question is moot, and we are never likely to agree, but thanks for responding, even if we are still at loggerheads.
The game didn't intentionally allow this. To me, that is the key: if the action falls outside the parameters of intended behaviors, then it is cheating. By your own admission, you knew that you were exploiting a bug, so you were cheating.
If you went to an ATM and it repeatedly dispensed $200 instead of the requested $20, the cheating would be called theft. If I am playing with you on what I believe is an equal basis, you are stealing something from me: my time. I wouldn't have played with you if I had known that you were utilizing an exploit, so there goes my hours wasted. Stolen.
Besides, what possible pleasure is there in advancing in a game dishonorably? I would understand it if there was a financial advantage, but to "win" outside of your own efforts isn't winning at all.
I agree with you re Jeff Goldblum, but Jeff Goldblum plays a character that I find endearing, so I still end up caring about Jeff Goldblum when I see him on screen.
With Harrison Ford, not only do I find him interchangeable in every role, I find that character uninteresting.
Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor. Watch My Beautiful Laundrette, My Left Foot, and In the Name of the Father, one right after the other. It is barely possible to comprehend that it is the same person starring in each of these three films. Ditto Robert De Niro. Compare Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, and Meet the Fockers, for example. Is that really the same man?
I'm going to be honest, but I don't consider Harrison Ford an actor at all. A critic somewhere referred to him as a "reassuring presence," which I think sums him up perfectly. This isn't a criticism of Harrison Ford, mind you. Likewise, I don't consider Arnold Schwarzenegger or Clint Eastwood "actors," but rather people who are merchandizable because we like their personalities. Yes, I've seen all, or nearly all, of each of their movies. But I haven't seen any of them "act" yet.
Yes, Sweetheart, I do. However, you will note that the link included in the Slashdot summary didn't mention that the tube was ignited, and it is the Slashdot summary which was my reference. The incident -- though exceedingly tragic -- wasn't interesting enough to merit research.
Thank you for pointing out the error of my ways. I really appreciate it.
You do realize that petrol is gasoline and not nitroglycerin, right?
Yes, Dear, I do realise that petrol is gasoline, as I spent approximately half my life living 75 miles north of London (and not London, Ontario).
As far satisfying your curiosity as what other action might have resulted in one of the tubes exploding, do you know much about the construction of fluorescent tubes? Apparently not, but when you learn (assuming that you do), you will know the answer to your question. I don't care enough about your voyage of self-discovery to check back and see whether you have "edjucated" yourself, but perhaps you will remember what you have learned the next time you attempt to stick your tongue up my anus.
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I'm a full-time student, a freshmen, and I'm amazed (and annoyed) at the number of my peers who sit dumbly when the discussion requires a response. Isn't it preferable that the educational experience encourage the growth of balls/ovaries, rather than allowing timidity to flourish?
http://www.grid.com/rangerproducts.html
Time was when EA actualy produced innovative games. In fact, they were one of the most innovative game companies of all time, back when Bill Budge and Trip Hawkins were still household names. Now they are just re-packagers of other people's shit.
I agree 100%. Interestingly, I also feel that way about Star Wars and the death of Science Fiction that occurred shortly thereafter. Very few of the hardcore long-time Science Fiction fans liked Star Wars when it was new, but 90% of the casual fans and non-fans did, so it redefined the market, and a huge chunk of what has been produced has been pablum ever since.
I am going to be honest -- and, not to be a troll -- but I never could figure out the excitement engendered by the Myst games. They seemed like a slide-show with puzzles, to me, and I hold them partly responsible for the deterioration of the genre.
I started out playing the Zork games, and later Dungeon Master (MUCH better than Eye of the Beholder), and finally Monkey Island and all of its successors/spin-offs. Myst, IMHO, didn't compare with the least of the games I've just mentioned. It was even sub-par when compared to the Sierra games, which we really adventure games for people who didn't like adventure games.
Once again, why the excitement?
Dueling Invites and Guild Invites should be something thatI can toggle to auto-refuse. I NEVER want invitations for either activity, and some morons just don't take a single no for an answer. i know that I can Ignore them, but the auto-refusal option would be much simpler.
Suggestions for Improvement should be possible to make in-game, instead of only via the forums. A lot of suggestions are spontaneous and easy to forget, especially since it is necessary to exit the game, or remember to login to the forums later.
The lag in IronForge is unnacceptable. Could this be solved by putting the Auction House on a separate server, or in an instance (or both), or adding Auction Houses to Stormwind and Darnassus?
I've been playing WoW since beta, and there has NEVER been a time that I have waited months inbetween patches.
Why bother have a namimg policy that isn't actually enforced? During any average gaming session, I encounter dozens of obvious violations, and sometimes report them. Why is ObeeWhaan or BigusPinus still playing a week later?
While it sounds like a lot of fun for the researchers involved, and anything that stems the spiral of the US into a culture of anti-intellectualism is a good thing in my book.
Doesn't anyone read these submissions for grammatical correctness?
it almost makes Tivo look like rocket science.
Erm, if I said "he makes [insert name of known stupid person here] look like a rocket scientist" -- which is the usual manner in which this comparison is constructed -- the implication would be that "he" was very stupid indeed.
Are you implying that Xbox Media Center is stupid, or that it is suitable for someone who is?
You skipped the remainder of my post:
Second, because, even though I am busy, I click on virtually every linked article, as one of the pleasures of reading Slashdot/geek news sites is discovering things that are fresh, that I wouldn't necessarily have read about elsewhere.
Further, I was replying to a specific question posed by another individual -- not you -- so to have replied from a viewpoint other than my own would have been silly. I have learned hundreds of ultimately interesting and useful bits of information that I never would have learned had the topic been described more fully in the original article. If that isn't true for you, fine, but it is for me, and I was the one answering the question.
If this reply isn't sufficient, might I suggest auto-felatio?
Truthfully, not at all. First, because it is usually obvious from context -- or from the name of the application -- what that application does. Second, because, even though I am busy, I click on virtually every linked article, as one of the pleasures of reading Slashdot/geek news sites is discovering things that are fresh, that I wouldn't necessarily have read about elsewhere.
From what was described in the article, I don't understood how the "cheating" took any less effort than something novel like... doing the work.
That's like friends I have who shorten "thanks" to "thnkx," because it saves them time. They're right! Wow, in 50 years, they might have saved enough time to watch an episode of South Park!
And, thanks to Google cache, here is the link to the program he used:
http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html
I'm testing the spellchecker now...
Now I have spell-checking in Slashdot! Yay!
Beauty doesn't make you a better person, neither does intelligence.
Conversely, ugliness doesn't make you a better person, nor does stupidity. I'd rather be an attractive smart person than an ugly dumb one, wouldn't you?
That may be true, but I was merely responding to this:
Further:
What I was doing didn't impact any other player
You know this for a fact? In my experience, dishonesty -- which is what cheating is -- nearly always negatively impacts someone, even if it isn't obvious.
Anyway, the question is moot, and we are never likely to agree, but thanks for responding, even if we are still at loggerheads.
The game didn't intentionally allow this. To me, that is the key: if the action falls outside the parameters of intended behaviors, then it is cheating. By your own admission, you knew that you were exploiting a bug, so you were cheating.
If you went to an ATM and it repeatedly dispensed $200 instead of the requested $20, the cheating would be called theft. If I am playing with you on what I believe is an equal basis, you are stealing something from me: my time. I wouldn't have played with you if I had known that you were utilizing an exploit, so there goes my hours wasted. Stolen.
Besides, what possible pleasure is there in advancing in a game dishonorably? I would understand it if there was a financial advantage, but to "win" outside of your own efforts isn't winning at all.
Why do so many companies in general use the DMCA to bash the heads of unsuspecting coders who mean no harm to company or society?
These coders honestly didn't suspect that reverse engineering Blizzard's technology might encourage their wrath?
I agree with you re Jeff Goldblum, but Jeff Goldblum plays a character that I find endearing, so I still end up caring about Jeff Goldblum when I see him on screen.
With Harrison Ford, not only do I find him interchangeable in every role, I find that character uninteresting.
Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor. Watch My Beautiful Laundrette, My Left Foot, and In the Name of the Father, one right after the other. It is barely possible to comprehend that it is the same person starring in each of these three films. Ditto Robert De Niro. Compare Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, and Meet the Fockers, for example. Is that really the same man?
I'm going to be honest, but I don't consider Harrison Ford an actor at all. A critic somewhere referred to him as a "reassuring presence," which I think sums him up perfectly. This isn't a criticism of Harrison Ford, mind you. Likewise, I don't consider Arnold Schwarzenegger or Clint Eastwood "actors," but rather people who are merchandizable because we like their personalities. Yes, I've seen all, or nearly all, of each of their movies. But I haven't seen any of them "act" yet.
Yes, Sweetheart, I do. However, you will note that the link included in the Slashdot summary didn't mention that the tube was ignited, and it is the Slashdot summary which was my reference. The incident -- though exceedingly tragic -- wasn't interesting enough to merit research.
Thank you for pointing out the error of my ways. I really appreciate it.
You do realize that petrol is gasoline and not nitroglycerin, right?
Yes, Dear, I do realise that petrol is gasoline, as I spent approximately half my life living 75 miles north of London (and not London, Ontario).
As far satisfying your curiosity as what other action might have resulted in one of the tubes exploding, do you know much about the construction of fluorescent tubes? Apparently not, but when you learn (assuming that you do), you will know the answer to your question. I don't care enough about your voyage of self-discovery to check back and see whether you have "edjucated" yourself, but perhaps you will remember what you have learned the next time you attempt to stick your tongue up my anus.