No, actually, it's a lot of fun. For some reason, people are expecting a game out of this, forgetting compeltely that the game was originally named "Sim Universe". Mull over that for a minute. This is a new sim game, and none of them have ever really been "games" in the hardcore gamer sense, but people have loved them all the same.
Also considering the game was cracked and out for download several days before it hit stores, for no pain and no price, it's no wonder people are fed up. Once again, you get better support from the pirates than EA.
Maybe I'm a little cynical, but it's an easy excuse for them. It basically strips them of all liability. Did it delete your %PROGRAM_FILES% and post your bank account numbers on a website (theoretical)? No problem for Google! You were using a beta product, you should have known better using a beta for anything important. Does GMail lose all your mail (real)? We feel for you man, but it's a beta, nothing we are required to, er, can do.
addiction is a chemical dependence defined in medical terms
Wrong, sorry. Marijuana is not physically dependent, but you can become psychologically dependent upon it, and thus addicted. People who have to smoke pot every day are not "obsessed" with it.
A game addict (or a TV addict) will generally be unemployed simply because leaving the house to work will be less important to them than playing/watching. Or eating. Or anything for that matter. Addiction takes over your life.0\
You're not thinking it through. How, exactly, are they paying for electricity/TV/internet/games if they're unemployed. How are they playing or even conscious if they're not eating? No, there's a difference between "addicted" (think smokers) and "hopelessly addicted and life ruining".
Trying to describe people who watch excessive amounts of TV as addicts just because that's what they do in the evenings doesn't work.
But if they are extremely distressed if that resource is deprived of them (try it and see, it's fun), then don't they qualify anyways? Just because it's "in the evening" doesn't mean they aren't addicted. Addiction has many shades, and it's more than just "inject herion until you die 3 days later".
"Gore invented the Internet" jokes are in the same category as "Doom 3 is dark lol" jokes. Stupid at the time, and stupid now, and haven't aged well either. So no, I will not "quit my pissing", I will keep on RAGEing.
I wouldn't call it common sense just yet. You're describing telling them about not having a backup first, then being told you're an idiot. Hindsight's 20/20, and people love to let you know the obvious once they've been shown it.
Well, the truth usually is funny. But that's no reason to mod someone down as a "troll", now is there? Or were you just responding to my comment without the context?
Frankly, under the empire, we'd already have the most up-to-date power grid we needed, and if they felt that we'd be wiped out by Global Warming, they'd already have done something about it. The empire gets shit done.
Actually, I think he does. I'll quote it here for those who are too lazy:
For more than a hundred years, critics have remarked on the incoherency of using literally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of "in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words." In 1926, for example, H.W. Fowler cited the example "The 300,000 Unionists... will be literally thrown to the wolves." The practice does not stem from a change in the meaning of literally itself--if it did, the word would long since have come to mean "virtually" or "figuratively"--but from a natural tendency to use the word as a general intensive, as in They had literally no help from the government on the project, where no contrast with the figurative sense of the words is intended.
Emphasis mine. When does a particular usage of language become part of that language? A hundred years is more than enough for me. I think "when all the original critics are dead" is a good enough time frame for language change.
Yes, this is offtopic, but we were talking about it anyways.
I happen to thing that the particular voice inflections used by the emperor are in a similar vein to those of the GMan from Half-Life (and especially Half-Life 2). While this was probably unintentional, I can't help but think about a very strange crossover of the two universes.
I find the whole thing rather funny, how almost every campaign cycle, a bunch of super-rich people who are being dumped millions of dollars on to run for office attempt to make themselves look like the "regular folk". The people in power in Washington haven't been "regular folk", ever, not even the founding fathers. And no, Carter was not a "regular peanut farmer". This cycle's no different, and this "houses" issue shows it rather clearly.
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Oh! Oh! I know this one! "+5 Insightful because the mods didn't read it either"!
I guess that depends on who exactly is getting elected.
No, actually, it's a lot of fun. For some reason, people are expecting a game out of this, forgetting compeltely that the game was originally named "Sim Universe". Mull over that for a minute. This is a new sim game, and none of them have ever really been "games" in the hardcore gamer sense, but people have loved them all the same.
Also considering the game was cracked and out for download several days before it hit stores, for no pain and no price, it's no wonder people are fed up. Once again, you get better support from the pirates than EA.
Maybe I'm a little cynical, but it's an easy excuse for them. It basically strips them of all liability. Did it delete your %PROGRAM_FILES% and post your bank account numbers on a website (theoretical)? No problem for Google! You were using a beta product, you should have known better using a beta for anything important. Does GMail lose all your mail (real)? We feel for you man, but it's a beta, nothing we are required to, er, can do.
I hear they contracted candlejack to do their
Wrong, sorry. Marijuana is not physically dependent, but you can become psychologically dependent upon it, and thus addicted. People who have to smoke pot every day are not "obsessed" with it.
You're not thinking it through. How, exactly, are they paying for electricity/TV/internet/games if they're unemployed. How are they playing or even conscious if they're not eating? No, there's a difference between "addicted" (think smokers) and "hopelessly addicted and life ruining".
But if they are extremely distressed if that resource is deprived of them (try it and see, it's fun), then don't they qualify anyways? Just because it's "in the evening" doesn't mean they aren't addicted. Addiction has many shades, and it's more than just "inject herion until you die 3 days later".
"Gore invented the Internet" jokes are in the same category as "Doom 3 is dark lol" jokes. Stupid at the time, and stupid now, and haven't aged well either. So no, I will not "quit my pissing", I will keep on RAGEing.
Man, 1999 came and went and it's still way funny!
(In other words, no, it's not funny anymore, and provably false.)
I wouldn't call it common sense just yet. You're describing telling them about not having a backup first, then being told you're an idiot. Hindsight's 20/20, and people love to let you know the obvious once they've been shown it.
Well, the truth usually is funny. But that's no reason to mod someone down as a "troll", now is there? Or were you just responding to my comment without the context?
PS Mods, next time, do I need to put a marker around my post? Seriously. I know his UID is lower than mine. It was part of the joke. Dumbasses.
You must be new here. A good title and summary from Slashdot? I don't expect it.
"Black on black, that's how I want it... I don't care if anyone can read it. I'm the DRIZZLE!"
I do, and it's called Stealther.
Crime is a rather bad analogy to language change, which is a natural, continuing process.
Not according to them, and that's all that counts.
Frankly, under the empire, we'd already have the most up-to-date power grid we needed, and if they felt that we'd be wiped out by Global Warming, they'd already have done something about it. The empire gets shit done.
Emphasis mine. When does a particular usage of language become part of that language? A hundred years is more than enough for me. I think "when all the original critics are dead" is a good enough time frame for language change.
No. Most people actually just enjoyed it. The obsessives are just loud.
Show me where anything like Portal's physics appear in any of those you listed. A moped is not a Porsche.
With that comment, I highly doubt you've really played either. The gameplay between the two is actually rather different. Troll harder next time.
Yes, this is offtopic, but we were talking about it anyways. I happen to thing that the particular voice inflections used by the emperor are in a similar vein to those of the GMan from Half-Life (and especially Half-Life 2). While this was probably unintentional, I can't help but think about a very strange crossover of the two universes.
I'm afraid the LHC will be quite operational when your friends arrive.
Slashdot's been slipping since ~UID 40k (and yes, I was around then, I've since lost and forgotten the name of my original account).
I find the whole thing rather funny, how almost every campaign cycle, a bunch of super-rich people who are being dumped millions of dollars on to run for office attempt to make themselves look like the "regular folk". The people in power in Washington haven't been "regular folk", ever, not even the founding fathers. And no, Carter was not a "regular peanut farmer". This cycle's no different, and this "houses" issue shows it rather clearly.