If they don't stop driving their cars and Airconditioning their houses, soon the storms that they created with their wrecklessness will consume the entire population of Jupiterians.
- Don't blame me I voted for Kodos
The original Runescape was Free to play and was written by ONE person, with his brother desigining content.
Today it is a pretty big MMORPG. There is still a Free to play version, but also a $5 per month version.
At peak times there are more than 120,000 people online on 106 servers.
I guess that is not a hit??
I am not sure how many subscribers there are, but I believe it to be in the 50,000 range.
I know this isn't the hub of technology...[blah blah blah]... and still have an impossible time finding employment something is wrong.
If you were an ice fisherman would you live in Arizona or Alaska? If you were an oil field worker would you live in Texas or New York City?
Translation: Porn is discretly available now
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Pr0n's Effect On Society
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Guess what with the advocation of Home video porn, viewership skyrocketed from when it was just Theaters. Society (mostly religion) has put shame into the past time of masterbation and other related activities, as more private ways begin to exist, more people are able to follow their nature and use pornography for its "god" given purpose, to keep society from killing each other in frustration.
Most of the "problems" generated by pornography are actually problems with society/religion. If it is a problem in your marriage, you aren't using it right, or you married the wrong woman/man.
In my opinion, in most cases when someone is saying someone is "addicted" to masterbation it is more like saying they are addicted to urinating. Masterbation is a way to equalize your DESIRE for sex with your OPPORTUNITY for it, often times in my life I have had a girlfriend and participated in regular intercourse, while still masterbating more than most people (it is called adolescence).
My parents even sent me to councling for a pornography addiction?!?! meanwhile I was leading a full life and consuming far less time with pronography than say video games, television, or eating. Society has created this problem of perception and now they are finding out that this "condition" effects most people... duh.
Most people yawn on a regular basis, I bet this is a widespread epidemic of degeneration.
i dont think anyone outside of the geek communit cares about DRM
Although this is kind of true, 90% of my non-geek friends/family are freaking annoyed that they can't use their DVD player without an RF Modulator.
"Why can't I just plug it in through the VCR??"
Macrovision causes most of my family to have a worse picture for DVDs than for VHS tapes, because RF Modulators suck. Once I explained to them that the cause of this was copy protection they were pissed off. I am just waiting for the "RF Modulator" equivalent that will cost $100 instead of $20 and step the quality of $30 Super fantastic 2nd generenation DVDs to some point below VHS quality.
Ever watched a Pr0n DVD on a projector or decent resolution large screen? We did and it was not pretty... Nobody is beautiful naked at 7foot x 480i (extreme close up)
I think I will stick to VHS on a 25 inch TV as far as porn is concerned.
Early adoptors usually get screwed, how is this a suprise? This is the price you pay for being on the bleeding edge.
The pissing contest continues as electronic/movie companies work together to attempt to get consumers to compare television sets through pixel counting with magnifying glasses and rambling technical specs. Meanwhile mythical consumers are chomping at the bit to be allowed to purchase DVDs for more than $20 a piece and most don't know if they have an HD TV or not, and if they do have an HDTV the chance that they actually utilize it at all is even slimmer.
Videophiles are the only ones that will care, and they are going to buy a new TV the next time a better one is available anyway, so why worry about them.
which is possibly one of the reasons astronauts who have been to the Moon tend to get cataracts about 7 years earlier than other astronauts
So basically this proves what my mom said Lying makes you go blind. It also proves that the moon missions were fake.
I did not say SDTV, I said DVD... DVDs come in 480i or Progressive scan or EDTV or whatever B.S. you want to call it... I watch HD movies on HBO and Progressive Scan DVDs and they are both loads better than standard resolution, but they are not very different from each other to me... and Progressive Scan vs HDTV, has no effect on the quality of my movie watching experience at all.
I am just saying that to me, there is no value other than "the next cool toy" for increasing quality above DVD, and that is not motivation for me to buy into it.
Don't buy in to the new standard until it gets as common as the old one. (therefore I bought zero laserdiscs)
I am not a whore for quality, but I do own like 400 movies in VHS and DVD. Honestly I could care less about HD-DVD (even though my projector is capable of better than DVD quality).
It suprises me that marketing would have me think that the average consumer cares about practically inperceptable differences in picture and sound quality. I noticed the jump from VHS to DVD, but honestly I cannot even tell the difference between the picture quality (not size) at the movie theater and at my home theater with DVDs on an 8 foot projection, and lets face it, an 8 foot projection is pretty much the limit for a home theater.
I just don't think there will be much difference to the average consumer besides branding and price.
I see gold farming as pure capitalism and I think it is hilarious that the chinese players are beating us with it.
In our real life economy, there are those with TIME and those with STUFF. Money is a nice intermediate because it is universally valued. So we basically trade stuff for stuff, time for stuff, or time for time but we generally do it through money because it is convenient.
Gold farming is purely based on Laissez-faire Capitalism, the only "blame" should lie with the entire community. People with time have the best stuff, people without time want that stuff.
To me the only difference between somebody skinning 2,000,000 boars to earn 500 gold and paying $60 for 500 gold is perception. How is spending the time in-game any different than spending the time at your 9-5 job? The only difference is that loud, whiney kids living in their parent's basement don't have a 9-5 job, but they do have 12 hours a day to skin boars. I mean honestly, how are they contributing to the game world any more or less in either situation? (even if he sells the boar hides)
vonage sucked with comcast, my bandwidth was very consistant and MMOs and other more-intensive (even 2 way intensive) apps worked fine.
my new connection is about 1/6 the speed and Vonage works great, I cannot play MMOs because my bandwidth sucks so bad.
Look, if you are the type of adult that refuses to do something because it is called a "GAME" then we don't want you in our club. I can't stand adults that think the "real world" is defined as one devoid of fun.
Unfortunatly Mercury is not gone from vaccines, it is just no longer regulated. It was agreed that Thimerosal would be "reduced or eliminated" but it still exists, especially in flu vaccines. Trace amounts of debilitating neurotoxins is not good enough for my children, how about NONE...
Seriously Real player is worse than any Wintel virus I have ever had the pleasure to meet. I hate how people who offer annoying, invasive, sub-par software blame Microsoft for their failures.
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I think PhantomOS is more secure. No virus in the world can infect an OS that does not exist.
And before you can log in the first time you are required to paint ten thousand little figurines that cost 15 dollars a piece.
If they don't stop driving their cars and Airconditioning their houses, soon the storms that they created with their wrecklessness will consume the entire population of Jupiterians. - Don't blame me I voted for Kodos
The original Runescape was Free to play and was written by ONE person, with his brother desigining content. Today it is a pretty big MMORPG. There is still a Free to play version, but also a $5 per month version. At peak times there are more than 120,000 people online on 106 servers. I guess that is not a hit?? I am not sure how many subscribers there are, but I believe it to be in the 50,000 range.
I know this isn't the hub of technology...[blah blah blah]... and still have an impossible time finding employment something is wrong.
If you were an ice fisherman would you live in Arizona or Alaska? If you were an oil field worker would you live in Texas or New York City?
Guess what with the advocation of Home video porn, viewership skyrocketed from when it was just Theaters. Society (mostly religion) has put shame into the past time of masterbation and other related activities, as more private ways begin to exist, more people are able to follow their nature and use pornography for its "god" given purpose, to keep society from killing each other in frustration.
Most of the "problems" generated by pornography are actually problems with society/religion. If it is a problem in your marriage, you aren't using it right, or you married the wrong woman/man.
In my opinion, in most cases when someone is saying someone is "addicted" to masterbation it is more like saying they are addicted to urinating. Masterbation is a way to equalize your DESIRE for sex with your OPPORTUNITY for it, often times in my life I have had a girlfriend and participated in regular intercourse, while still masterbating more than most people (it is called adolescence).
My parents even sent me to councling for a pornography addiction?!?! meanwhile I was leading a full life and consuming far less time with pronography than say video games, television, or eating. Society has created this problem of perception and now they are finding out that this "condition" effects most people... duh.
Most people yawn on a regular basis, I bet this is a widespread epidemic of degeneration.
simple as that. People who owned their computers in the 1990s fell under one of a few catagories:
Teachers
Artists/publishers
Movie Stars/Characers People who think Apples make them cool because they are "different".
Lately we have added 2 more categories:
People who worship the piece of jewlery called "iPod"
People who want a usable *nix-ish Desktop (ubergeek)
This isn't that unusual, I mean I am sure the Ford Exec's kids don't drive Civics.
i dont think anyone outside of the geek communit cares about DRM
Although this is kind of true, 90% of my non-geek friends/family are freaking annoyed that they can't use their DVD player without an RF Modulator.
"Why can't I just plug it in through the VCR??"
Macrovision causes most of my family to have a worse picture for DVDs than for VHS tapes, because RF Modulators suck. Once I explained to them that the cause of this was copy protection they were pissed off. I am just waiting for the "RF Modulator" equivalent that will cost $100 instead of $20 and step the quality of $30 Super fantastic 2nd generenation DVDs to some point below VHS quality.
Ever watched a Pr0n DVD on a projector or decent resolution large screen? We did and it was not pretty... Nobody is beautiful naked at 7foot x 480i (extreme close up)
I think I will stick to VHS on a 25 inch TV as far as porn is concerned.
Early adoptors usually get screwed, how is this a suprise? This is the price you pay for being on the bleeding edge.
The pissing contest continues as electronic/movie companies work together to attempt to get consumers to compare television sets through pixel counting with magnifying glasses and rambling technical specs. Meanwhile mythical consumers are chomping at the bit to be allowed to purchase DVDs for more than $20 a piece and most don't know if they have an HD TV or not, and if they do have an HDTV the chance that they actually utilize it at all is even slimmer.
Videophiles are the only ones that will care, and they are going to buy a new TV the next time a better one is available anyway, so why worry about them.
which is possibly one of the reasons astronauts who have been to the Moon tend to get cataracts about 7 years earlier than other astronauts So basically this proves what my mom said Lying makes you go blind. It also proves that the moon missions were fake.
I did not say SDTV, I said DVD... DVDs come in 480i or Progressive scan or EDTV or whatever B.S. you want to call it... I watch HD movies on HBO and Progressive Scan DVDs and they are both loads better than standard resolution, but they are not very different from each other to me... and Progressive Scan vs HDTV, has no effect on the quality of my movie watching experience at all.
I am just saying that to me, there is no value other than "the next cool toy" for increasing quality above DVD, and that is not motivation for me to buy into it.
I did it with DVD and LaserDisc
Don't buy in to the new standard until it gets as common as the old one. (therefore I bought zero laserdiscs)
I am not a whore for quality, but I do own like 400 movies in VHS and DVD. Honestly I could care less about HD-DVD (even though my projector is capable of better than DVD quality).
It suprises me that marketing would have me think that the average consumer cares about practically inperceptable differences in picture and sound quality. I noticed the jump from VHS to DVD, but honestly I cannot even tell the difference between the picture quality (not size) at the movie theater and at my home theater with DVDs on an 8 foot projection, and lets face it, an 8 foot projection is pretty much the limit for a home theater.
I just don't think there will be much difference to the average consumer besides branding and price.
winn4r!
EXACTLY, they still have the lion's market share... proving once again that geek perception != Public perception
I see gold farming as pure capitalism and I think it is hilarious that the chinese players are beating us with it.
In our real life economy, there are those with TIME and those with STUFF. Money is a nice intermediate because it is universally valued. So we basically trade stuff for stuff, time for stuff, or time for time but we generally do it through money because it is convenient.
Gold farming is purely based on Laissez-faire Capitalism, the only "blame" should lie with the entire community. People with time have the best stuff, people without time want that stuff.
To me the only difference between somebody skinning 2,000,000 boars to earn 500 gold and paying $60 for 500 gold is perception. How is spending the time in-game any different than spending the time at your 9-5 job? The only difference is that loud, whiney kids living in their parent's basement don't have a 9-5 job, but they do have 12 hours a day to skin boars. I mean honestly, how are they contributing to the game world any more or less in either situation? (even if he sells the boar hides)
vonage sucked with comcast, my bandwidth was very consistant and MMOs and other more-intensive (even 2 way intensive) apps worked fine. my new connection is about 1/6 the speed and Vonage works great, I cannot play MMOs because my bandwidth sucks so bad.
I have 3 gold carts with working save games, I actually bought the second 2 because I wanted more save games... god bless funcoland "back in the day".
potion and a faery pool, either one could restore your sword... the blue cloud wasn't the only way =)
Look, if you are the type of adult that refuses to do something because it is called a "GAME" then we don't want you in our club. I can't stand adults that think the "real world" is defined as one devoid of fun.
Unfortunatly Mercury is not gone from vaccines, it is just no longer regulated. It was agreed that Thimerosal would be "reduced or eliminated" but it still exists, especially in flu vaccines. Trace amounts of debilitating neurotoxins is not good enough for my children, how about NONE...
Everyone knows the fundamental difference between us and the animals is that the animals are so delicious.
what kind of workd do we live in where we can't trust the accuracy or integrity of wikipedia?
Seriously Real player is worse than any Wintel virus I have ever had the pleasure to meet. I hate how people who offer annoying, invasive, sub-par software blame Microsoft for their failures.