You think your comment is an intelligent retort. But it is not.
In fact it is so stupid as to boggle the mind.
Currently AUS and Indonesia are in a semi-turf war over PPNG. Indonesia are spreading their special brand of cruelty (which includes genocide Ref: 3 East Timor) there also and have shown that war crimes and other atrocities are not below them.
And also WOW removed auto follow in battlegrounds a while ago so this has not happened for some time. I never played in them because I came back to WOW after the change. So he is FOS on two counts.
Also, and it pains me to say it again and again, a half decent and well-organised 5-man team will murderous a 5man boxer every time. Its just one of the features.
PVP is dynamic and reactive. PVPing 5 boxes yourself effectively is approaching mad scientist levels of gameplay. I would love to see a 2000+ rated boxing team.
It would be something to watch I bet. (and I don't mean on the screen...)
I topped DPS in my guild from the time I had my first purple until I went on a very long hiatus during cata because I was so bored with having "won" the game.
Boxing is a real challenge. And there are no cookie cutter teams or guaranteed wins. Just getting set up takes days to do it properly and requires constant adjustment and refactoring. Not only to you have to master 5 different classes (with several specs each esp. if you pvp also) and their rotations you also have to custom design how they interact together as a team and make up for the fact that you are the only one at the keyboard.
And there are very few videos just telling you how to play your team - unlike single player.
On the other side you will NEVER beat a good team/raid in either PVE or PVP because you are only one person.
I say again: You have no idea what you are talking about.
But then your comment is more to do with your jealous nature and the fact that it burns you to think that someone is getting an advantage over you. (despite the reality.)
Botting is almost exclusively used for currency/rep/etc farming. It has nothing to do with "gameplay". And whether you personally think WOW end game content is complex enough is irrelevant because botters cannot run end game raids or many other forms of content undermining your whole argument.
And why do bots exist? Because "grinding" is the only way to gain large amounts of currency in a short amount of time. Gold farmers do it for cash. Players do it to shortcut themselves to the top and to avoid grinding. This small part of the game content IS simplistic and CAN be botted. It is a hurdle/challenge/time sink/test of your endurance to overcome to advance your character. I, like most, HATE grinding with a vengeance. But I NEVER played WOW for the grind, I played in spite of it.
As a side note:
I multibox WOW (5 chars) for the additional challenge. (and believe me it is a LOT more of a challenge) I would now never play another MMO without being able to multibox because they are all too easy.
So I even agree with the idea of MMOs being way too easy to play - but still disagree with your post.
I understand the mistake here though - humans are terrible at dealing with effects that have multiple and varied causes.
It is easy to dismiss it as "luck". Certainly "luck" (i.e statistical probability - I hate the term luck) is a factor in anything humans do as a fundamental of the universe.
But the traits"steve jobs" (or whatever super famous person you choose) became famous is not just luck. It is also a case of choosing the correct trait for the correct context.
Each one has a DIFFERENT and VARIED set of reasons.
So if you do the irrelevent exercise of lining up reason and peice of paper you will find examples that will cancel each other out.
1) Watch a select group of super famous people who were successful for a wide variety of reasons - including many that had nothing to do with them in particular. 2) Latch on to something they do. 3) Proclaim that as the source of all their success. 4) Ignore any counter examples and in fact never look for them. 5) Pretend you are not completely full of shit.
Why of why oh fucking why do people keep doing this?!?!
Yes he is. The US believes violence or money are the only two ways to solve any problem.
They cannot use money in this instance since all the money has been funnelled to the people operating the puppet government's strings while the people were sleeping.
Another more sensible way is to create a democratic movement. I don't know, maybe occupy some public spaces to get some attention called to the problems via passive resistance.
Probably the actual news here: Another 3rd party graphics engine to be released soon. Tech demo will be charged for. Next generation of team fortress is here.
Let's hope they do something different this time around...
The sad truth is that the systemic undermining of the education, tax and welfare system is also in full control of the government.
And ever since the plebs allowed themselves to be convinced by the neo-cons to become completely anti-union (should have been harder since unions are supposed to be democratic orgs by the workers themselves!?) the job situation poverty wont be fixed anytime soon.
And it is not just the people being ignorant and apathetic. The majority will virulently shout down anyone with any sense who points this out.
And yet the public will continue to vote one or the other of these violent, power hungry, self serving and destructive parties in at the next and subsequent elections as if that was the only choice.
They will continue to remain ignorant of the real politics going on and most will vote based on either who seems the "nicer guy" or who they have always voted for. Tey will do this from greed and "self interest" - the fact that their actions are actually detrimental to themselves just makes them moronic as well as greedy. They will also continue to be swayed by some of the most transparently false slogans and side shows the 1st world has ever seen.
Like I said...the government they deserve.
And I am not saying EVERYBODY is like that. There are some truly great individuals out there.
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You think your comment is an intelligent retort. But it is not.
In fact it is so stupid as to boggle the mind.
Currently AUS and Indonesia are in a semi-turf war over PPNG. Indonesia are spreading their special brand of cruelty (which includes genocide Ref: 3 East Timor) there also and have shown that war crimes and other atrocities are not below them.
Jokes aside that scenario is almost exactly what this is.
The only difference is that behind the drone there will be a psychopathic, killer human being instead of a rogue AI.
I for one find that scenario far more scary than the terminator one.
They say it is better the devil you know, but I think they are wrong. I have 10,000 years of recorded human history to back me up on that....
How amusing. That really is a good one. Not sure how you got so many people in on the joke.
You are all implying that the NSA (i.e. the government) and corporate america are separate entities....
My my, what a chuckle.
You were joking......right?
That sounds like a lot of work.
Just engage in very dodgy terrorist-like activity and I hear the NSA will back your data up for free!
Its also the reason teenagers sleep so much. And we thought it was because they were growing fast.
I know I slept a lot and I was a filthy minded SOB.
No not at all. This is just a review of the state of scientific endeavour in general.
A meta-peer review if you will.
What we should be asking is Why, why, why, why, why. (see what I did there?)
If I was to guess I would say it was a case of "Science meets capitalism".
Behind a lot of that shoddy science is probably an army of bean counters, bad KPIs and the usual greedy old white haired men wanting to get rich....
And also WOW removed auto follow in battlegrounds a while ago so this has not happened for some time. I never played in them because I came back to WOW after the change.
So he is FOS on two counts.
Also, and it pains me to say it again and again, a half decent and well-organised 5-man team will murderous a 5man boxer every time. Its just one of the features.
PVP is dynamic and reactive. PVPing 5 boxes yourself effectively is approaching mad scientist levels of gameplay. I would love to see a 2000+ rated boxing team.
It would be something to watch I bet. (and I don't mean on the screen...)
Play Rift. It is a good game and boxes well (and they like boxers) and is essentially free.
Eventually put $5 on each account to avoid any "mistaken bot bans".
That is where I started. :)
I got good stats the normal way and it got boring. (see my other post above)
The only reason I am back is because of MBing.
I played RIFT for free to start and get into it and then I was hooked.
Not end game content (like I said)
They will not be beating significant bosses.
I call BS on this and would ask for evidence...
You have no idea what you are talking about.
I topped DPS in my guild from the time I had my first purple until I went on a very long hiatus during cata because I was so bored with having "won" the game.
Boxing is a real challenge. And there are no cookie cutter teams or guaranteed wins. Just getting set up takes days to do it properly and requires constant adjustment and refactoring. Not only to you have to master 5 different classes (with several specs each esp. if you pvp also) and their rotations you also have to custom design how they interact together as a team and make up for the fact that you are the only one at the keyboard.
And there are very few videos just telling you how to play your team - unlike single player.
On the other side you will NEVER beat a good team/raid in either PVE or PVP because you are only one person.
I say again: You have no idea what you are talking about.
But then your comment is more to do with your jealous nature and the fact that it burns you to think that someone is getting an advantage over you. (despite the reality.)
It is really pathetic...
Why is this insightful?
Botting is almost exclusively used for currency/rep/etc farming. It has nothing to do with "gameplay". And whether you personally think WOW end game content is complex enough is irrelevant because botters cannot run end game raids or many other forms of content undermining your whole argument.
And why do bots exist? Because "grinding" is the only way to gain large amounts of currency in a short amount of time. Gold farmers do it for cash. Players do it to shortcut themselves to the top and to avoid grinding.
This small part of the game content IS simplistic and CAN be botted. It is a hurdle/challenge/time sink/test of your endurance to overcome to advance your character. I, like most, HATE grinding with a vengeance. But I NEVER played WOW for the grind, I played in spite of it.
As a side note:
I multibox WOW (5 chars) for the additional challenge. (and believe me it is a LOT more of a challenge) I would now never play another MMO without being able to multibox because they are all too easy.
So I even agree with the idea of MMOs being way too easy to play - but still disagree with your post.
Says the girlfriend beating, psychopathic, drug dealing boyfriend with massive debts. (AKA: USA)
This is one of the few things that the China state press has said that I agree with.
Why is the rest of the world tied to the US currency when they have repeatedly shown they cannot manage their own finances??
Dammit...no mod points...
I wish I had been drinking milk so it could have come out my nose when I read this.
Hey, you stick to your kink, I'll stick to mine.
This is all just an overreaction to being caught out indulging in greed at the expense of brand and being caught out. Nothing more.
You are correct and I do know why the author does it and why slashdot reposts it like it is meaningful.
I should have put the emphasis on the people who consume this drivel as fact which is what I am really commenting on.
Yeah...I don't buy that at all.
I understand the mistake here though - humans are terrible at dealing with effects that have multiple and varied causes.
It is easy to dismiss it as "luck". Certainly "luck" (i.e statistical probability - I hate the term luck) is a factor in anything humans do as a fundamental of the universe.
But the traits"steve jobs" (or whatever super famous person you choose) became famous is not just luck. It is also a case of choosing the correct trait for the correct context.
Each one has a DIFFERENT and VARIED set of reasons.
So if you do the irrelevent exercise of lining up reason and peice of paper you will find examples that will cancel each other out.
This means nothing.
1) Watch a select group of super famous people who were successful for a wide variety of reasons - including many that had nothing to do with them in particular.
2) Latch on to something they do.
3) Proclaim that as the source of all their success.
4) Ignore any counter examples and in fact never look for them.
5) Pretend you are not completely full of shit.
Why of why oh fucking why do people keep doing this?!?!
You are "free" to choose whatever reasoning resolves your cognitive dissonance and helps you sleep at night.
Does not make you right...
lol. Public property. Good one.
Yes he is. The US believes violence or money are the only two ways to solve any problem.
They cannot use money in this instance since all the money has been funnelled to the people operating the puppet government's strings while the people were sleeping.
Another more sensible way is to create a democratic movement. I don't know, maybe occupy some public spaces to get some attention called to the problems via passive resistance.
Surely america would get behind that?
Oh wait...
Probably the actual news here: Another 3rd party graphics engine to be released soon. Tech demo will be charged for. Next generation of team fortress is here.
Let's hope they do something different this time around...
lol. :)
I was just running with the stereotype.
My bad.
I apologise to all children of the corn.
The sad truth is that the systemic undermining of the education, tax and welfare system is also in full control of the government.
And ever since the plebs allowed themselves to be convinced by the neo-cons to become completely anti-union (should have been harder since unions are supposed to be democratic orgs by the workers themselves!?) the job situation poverty wont be fixed anytime soon.
And it is not just the people being ignorant and apathetic. The majority will virulently shout down anyone with any sense who points this out.
Look at the occupy movement?
But they are not a majority.
Just because most people are naive, ignorant and under educated does not mean they are not to blame.
And yet the public will continue to vote one or the other of these violent, power hungry, self serving and destructive parties in at the next and subsequent elections as if that was the only choice.
They will continue to remain ignorant of the real politics going on and most will vote based on either who seems the "nicer guy" or who they have always voted for. Tey will do this from greed and "self interest" - the fact that their actions are actually detrimental to themselves just makes them moronic as well as greedy. They will also continue to be swayed by some of the most transparently false slogans and side shows the 1st world has ever seen.
Like I said...the government they deserve.
And I am not saying EVERYBODY is like that. There are some truly great individuals out there.
Sadly they don't count.
Never a truer word was spoken...
A country does not always get the government it needs, but it always gets the one it deserves....
The "people" need to stop pretending they are not to blame for this.