I'm sorry, but a tax plan is not redistributing the wealth. I'm sorry you bought in to the buzz words. A tax plan says in which income brackets the burden of taxes are placed. Obama's plan is no more redistributing the wealth than McCain's plan or the current plan.
But that isn't the tax plan Obama is proposing now so it is a lie. The whole thing is online to look at. His plan helps the majority of people who need it. McCain's plan helps the minority of people who don't.
And to keep it on-topic. I have tried playing nethack a few times but the learning curve is so steep that I get bored with it too fast. Which is sad, because it sounds like it would be fun if I could get in to it.
Not that I am an introvert (kinda in between an introvert and an extrovert) but you are assuming a lot. Introverts are more happy alone. Just because you are miserable when you aren't talking to people and cry yourself to sleep when you feel lonely doesn't mean that people who watch anime and are capable of spending time alone (because they actually like themselves) are unhappy. Introverts hate being in large groups. Extroverts look down on introverts because of this. You are just being stupid though. Don't tell people how to live their lives. If they are happy, who are you to tell them they aren't? You have some serious issues.
It is amazing that the Wii is still this popular. All the people I know who have one, it is just sitting there collecting dust. The people I know are fairly cheap, so they got theirs used off of sites like craigslist. Obviously, my anecdotal evidence doesn't jive with reality though if they are still selling this fast. At one point I thought they were selling so fast because people who just buy a bunch of them and sell them for a profit. And that may be true to a certain extent, but it can't be the reason that it is still selling too well today. The only real drawback I see for it right now is that while it is winning the war in sales, it has just as bad third party games as the Gamecube had...maybe worse. I keep thinking I will see the sales drop off, but they keep coming. I'll enjoy tracking this since it seems to be defying logic.
Uhh, WoW has an appeal far beyond the 12 year olds. I know so many adults (25+) that play or have played this game. You might not get that impression if you read the forums, but that is true of every mmo. What AoC showed is that it tried and failed to be more appealing to the masses than WoW. After playing WAR (and enjoying it) I still think nothing is better than WoW. The graphics might be lame, but now that I am used to it, I actually like all the colors and animation. It is very smooth and clean. It has a responsive feel to it more than other MMOs. It has been out for so long, the polish on it is blinding. I think the only thing that will kill WoW is WoW 2.
Your clarification doesn't really add anything to the analogy. The point is that there is always a way to get around it and that it isn't very hard. I think the locked door analogy as opposed to open door is perfect for the point it was making.
MMOs are not really a single game though. It is a game that evolves fairly dramatically over time. There is still significant development work going on that would not happen if it wasn't funded. Makes perfect sense to me.
Do you not read Slashdot to know the standard and obvious response to this? 1) You don't have to install the updates. If you want it to stay the way it is, just use your homebrew. 2) It is there company, they can run it how they want. 3) Hacks come out to fix it within weeks of it being patched. 4) For the majority of people, they just want to play Nintendo games on it so it isn't a problem.
It's your fault that you use their software. They can do whatever they want to their software and if it pisses you off, don't use it.
Disapproving of someone's action and having a phobia about it are two different things. Not saying it is right, but I am sure there are plenty of people who think being gay is wrong and aren't homophobic about it.
Ridiculous. Vote for the person who will do most good for the country based on all the important issues. Single issue voters are just being lazy and are a detriment to the system.
And to speak specifically to the DMCA, if that really is your only issue, why in the hell would you change your vote from someone who isn't doing what you want to someone else who isn't doing what you want? This is some weird, pathetic trick to get people to vote for McCain. "Obama doesn't believe what I believe about the DMCA so I am voting McCain! Even though McCain doesn't believe what I believe either!"
And no matter how much you care about the DMCA, you have to be a grown up and realize that the nation has bigger problems right now.
I hear this a lot (as it is a common Republican talking point) but you are wrong. First, I don't really consider what the Democrats have in the Senate a majority. 49 are Dem, 49 are Republican, 1 is independent, and 1 is an independent democrat (whatever that means). In any case, the "independent democrat" spoke at the freaking Republican National Convention. So at best, you have a split.
Going deeper, if you look at what the Democrat congress attempted to pass, many of them were filibustered by the Republicans. Many many more of them were vetoed by the President and you can not override a veto with a simple majority.
So no, the Democrats did not have a free hand to save us from the current administration's disastrous policies. You are wrong.
Uh, not really. You know the reason why they know about all these fake registrations, right? Because ACORN is required by law to turn them in. They mark them and separate them and fire the people responsible for them. So no, there isn't an increase in the registered total because they are caught. Nice try, though, who do you get your talking points from?
Way to over simplify. The people creating the games are just trying to create the game and earn a living. Other people (like distributors) jump in and do things that can mess with your rights. But that is only on some games, not all. Your over-generalization is just a convenient excuse for you to continue to act illegally. Two wrongs don't make a right...and if we all had morals to begin with then we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now. You are part of the problem.
Nice story, but it is a load of crap to make the wealthy feel better about themselves. The poor make who make no money struggle to find food to fee their family. No rich person is buying them a beer. The rich buy vacation homes and yachts. Nothing wrong with this, they just have a much easier life. But if taxes are raised on them, they might not be able to afford another yacht. So they get together with their other rich friends and get their businesses to buy the government through lobbyist. The poor have no recourse like this. So give the rich the tax cut and the poor are still poor and starving and we put our government in debt. Then other countries buy our beer companies because no one can afford to buy beer here anymore.
If history is our guide, then we won't need an upgraded clock until the next Republican gets in office. I hope the Republicans get blown away this year so that the neo-con will die and they go back to being true conservatives. This current version is destroying the country and now the average American person can see how.
1) Joe Biden isn't running for president, Obama is.
2) Pretend this does matter. You would rather trust technology to Palin? If there isn"t a look of horror on your face you are watching too much Fox News.
You always have a screwed up view on almost everything you post on. You nitpick on stuff that doesn't make any sense, and then when someone points out the flaw in you argument you go farther off the deep end to defend the flawed arguments. The game was built around RvR. You absolutely can PvE to the highest level. There is just another aspect you are ignoring which is ridiculous to the point of being juvenile. If I don't do Arena in WoW, I can't get Arena awards. If I don't do BGs in WoW, I can't get BG gear. So you choose not to PvP in a PvP designed game and expect to be catered to? Give me a break.
But you can't PvP and level in WoW...is that a flaw? (well, actually I think it is due to twinks) But WAR was built for RvR from the ground up. It isn't a flaw if you don't choose to participate. This just isn't the game for you.
RP and levels are an integral part of your character development. It's like playing WoW and deciding that you don't want to wear equipment and it pisses you off you keep getting all this random equipment when you do quests. They give you permanent, configurable passive stat boosts and abilities and grant you access to better equipment.
Your complaint that you were rewarded for stuff and not doing anything seems silly since you don't even care. You aren't going to get to 80 by avoiding RvR stuff any time soon. I don't think the devs care that you get some insignificant amount of points if you aren't involved. The rest of the community will be more than happy to get a few extra points every now and then.
Like the guy said, there are plenty of things you can complain about in this game. The ones you complain about aren't problems but just that you see things in a weird way. It is telling that you don't want to do any of the RvR stuff since that is the main thing the game is designed around. No wonder you don't like the game.
I have subscribed to 2-3 MMOs at a time. Though recently just got that down to one (WAR). But I don't think it is too strange to play a few.
WAR in some ways is more casual than WoW. You can log in, queue up for a BG anywhere, and start playing. Flight paths are a short cut scene rather than a 10 minute flight. You can be a low level and still participate in BG or RvR objectives because your level gets buffed to something reasonable when you enter those areas. All improvements over WoW in terms of playability.
I don't think this will be a WoW killer...but I do think it will take some people away. Enough that it will be highly profitable.
The key here is how well they support it and how they can generate content. The game currently has many bugs and lacks a bit of polish (some of the animal running animations are horrible...never thought I would complain about something like that). In any case, I think it is a strong contender for 2nd place. It is hard to imagine anything that can dethrone WoW. At this point it is so polished it is nearly blinding. Going to any other MMO that is new will leave most people with the impression that they have no idea how to code since there are so many bugs when these things start out.
I know that I cancelled both my WoW and Eve subscriptions this weekend. I can't do more than one MMO at a time. WoW is still the most polished game out there and it is by far superior when it comes to PvE. Eve is that game that I go back to time and again because it could be really cool but I always go away feeling bitter because it is fundamentally a very boring game. WAR right now is new and is just fun. Logging in and doing the RVR instances (like wow BG) has just been too much fun. I think the game has a lot of potential to be great. WoW killer? I think it can compete...but that is all up to how hard the developers work to squash bugs and keep the content fresh.
WAR has many flaws and I am interested to see how much it will be polished. But I think your criticism isn't correct. It has a lot more polish and a lot less bugs than most MMOs released. Some people even say it is more bug free than WoW. So unless you have been in a lot of MMO's early releases, you can't really compare and say that it was rushed out (EA or not).
A large part of your complaint deals with the Swordmaster type class. I don't really understand why you would complain. If you could use all your abilities, then it could be considered over-powered. So they make it so that you move from one tier to the next by chaining together moves. It would be just like having abilities in WoW be on the same cooldown timer. If you had access to 100% of your abilities all the time, then the class would be unbalanced.
I am sure I will get bored with it at some point. But right now I find the game to be fun. Bugs, lack of polish, etc doesn't really matter since I am enjoying playing the game. Every time I log in there is a new patch fixing bugs. It is an interesting time to be playing the game and I am interested to see how it will evolve.
The game rewards you the more active you are. So yeah, being in the same zone might get you some RP. At a low level, that may be enough to get you your first level (where the bar is set lower than for Palin in a debate). But later it would be so insignificant as to be pointless. Besides, it isn't like it is hard to get RP. All you do is some of the RvR stuff. Actually, I think they do a pretty good job of rewarding you for being more active. The more damage/healing you do leads to morale abilities which will allow you to use powerful special abilities. You get more RP and XP when you are in the middle of the action rather than AFKing. So yeah, I don't really think your argument is all that valid.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry, but a tax plan is not redistributing the wealth. I'm sorry you bought in to the buzz words. A tax plan says in which income brackets the burden of taxes are placed. Obama's plan is no more redistributing the wealth than McCain's plan or the current plan.
But that isn't the tax plan Obama is proposing now so it is a lie. The whole thing is online to look at. His plan helps the majority of people who need it. McCain's plan helps the minority of people who don't.
And to keep it on-topic. I have tried playing nethack a few times but the learning curve is so steep that I get bored with it too fast. Which is sad, because it sounds like it would be fun if I could get in to it.
Not that I am an introvert (kinda in between an introvert and an extrovert) but you are assuming a lot. Introverts are more happy alone. Just because you are miserable when you aren't talking to people and cry yourself to sleep when you feel lonely doesn't mean that people who watch anime and are capable of spending time alone (because they actually like themselves) are unhappy. Introverts hate being in large groups. Extroverts look down on introverts because of this. You are just being stupid though. Don't tell people how to live their lives. If they are happy, who are you to tell them they aren't? You have some serious issues.
It is amazing that the Wii is still this popular. All the people I know who have one, it is just sitting there collecting dust. The people I know are fairly cheap, so they got theirs used off of sites like craigslist. Obviously, my anecdotal evidence doesn't jive with reality though if they are still selling this fast. At one point I thought they were selling so fast because people who just buy a bunch of them and sell them for a profit. And that may be true to a certain extent, but it can't be the reason that it is still selling too well today. The only real drawback I see for it right now is that while it is winning the war in sales, it has just as bad third party games as the Gamecube had...maybe worse. I keep thinking I will see the sales drop off, but they keep coming. I'll enjoy tracking this since it seems to be defying logic.
Uhh, WoW has an appeal far beyond the 12 year olds. I know so many adults (25+) that play or have played this game. You might not get that impression if you read the forums, but that is true of every mmo. What AoC showed is that it tried and failed to be more appealing to the masses than WoW. After playing WAR (and enjoying it) I still think nothing is better than WoW. The graphics might be lame, but now that I am used to it, I actually like all the colors and animation. It is very smooth and clean. It has a responsive feel to it more than other MMOs. It has been out for so long, the polish on it is blinding. I think the only thing that will kill WoW is WoW 2.
Your clarification doesn't really add anything to the analogy. The point is that there is always a way to get around it and that it isn't very hard. I think the locked door analogy as opposed to open door is perfect for the point it was making.
MMOs are not really a single game though. It is a game that evolves fairly dramatically over time. There is still significant development work going on that would not happen if it wasn't funded. Makes perfect sense to me.
Do you not read Slashdot to know the standard and obvious response to this? 1) You don't have to install the updates. If you want it to stay the way it is, just use your homebrew. 2) It is there company, they can run it how they want. 3) Hacks come out to fix it within weeks of it being patched. 4) For the majority of people, they just want to play Nintendo games on it so it isn't a problem.
It's your fault that you use their software. They can do whatever they want to their software and if it pisses you off, don't use it.
I've figured you out. You are just using the hatred some Muslims feel towards homosexuals to justify your own hatred of Muslims. You are just as bad.
Disapproving of someone's action and having a phobia about it are two different things. Not saying it is right, but I am sure there are plenty of people who think being gay is wrong and aren't homophobic about it.
Ridiculous. Vote for the person who will do most good for the country based on all the important issues. Single issue voters are just being lazy and are a detriment to the system.
And to speak specifically to the DMCA, if that really is your only issue, why in the hell would you change your vote from someone who isn't doing what you want to someone else who isn't doing what you want? This is some weird, pathetic trick to get people to vote for McCain. "Obama doesn't believe what I believe about the DMCA so I am voting McCain! Even though McCain doesn't believe what I believe either!"
And no matter how much you care about the DMCA, you have to be a grown up and realize that the nation has bigger problems right now.
I hear this a lot (as it is a common Republican talking point) but you are wrong. First, I don't really consider what the Democrats have in the Senate a majority. 49 are Dem, 49 are Republican, 1 is independent, and 1 is an independent democrat (whatever that means). In any case, the "independent democrat" spoke at the freaking Republican National Convention. So at best, you have a split.
Going deeper, if you look at what the Democrat congress attempted to pass, many of them were filibustered by the Republicans. Many many more of them were vetoed by the President and you can not override a veto with a simple majority.
So no, the Democrats did not have a free hand to save us from the current administration's disastrous policies. You are wrong.
Uh, not really. You know the reason why they know about all these fake registrations, right? Because ACORN is required by law to turn them in. They mark them and separate them and fire the people responsible for them. So no, there isn't an increase in the registered total because they are caught. Nice try, though, who do you get your talking points from?
You might be a girl and not know this...but it would hurt him more if you aimed for the balls. You got the right general area though.
Way to over simplify. The people creating the games are just trying to create the game and earn a living. Other people (like distributors) jump in and do things that can mess with your rights. But that is only on some games, not all. Your over-generalization is just a convenient excuse for you to continue to act illegally. Two wrongs don't make a right...and if we all had morals to begin with then we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now. You are part of the problem.
Nice story, but it is a load of crap to make the wealthy feel better about themselves. The poor make who make no money struggle to find food to fee their family. No rich person is buying them a beer. The rich buy vacation homes and yachts. Nothing wrong with this, they just have a much easier life. But if taxes are raised on them, they might not be able to afford another yacht. So they get together with their other rich friends and get their businesses to buy the government through lobbyist. The poor have no recourse like this. So give the rich the tax cut and the poor are still poor and starving and we put our government in debt. Then other countries buy our beer companies because no one can afford to buy beer here anymore.
If history is our guide, then we won't need an upgraded clock until the next Republican gets in office. I hope the Republicans get blown away this year so that the neo-con will die and they go back to being true conservatives. This current version is destroying the country and now the average American person can see how.
1) Joe Biden isn't running for president, Obama is.
2) Pretend this does matter. You would rather trust technology to Palin? If there isn"t a look of horror on your face you are watching too much Fox News.
You always have a screwed up view on almost everything you post on. You nitpick on stuff that doesn't make any sense, and then when someone points out the flaw in you argument you go farther off the deep end to defend the flawed arguments. The game was built around RvR. You absolutely can PvE to the highest level. There is just another aspect you are ignoring which is ridiculous to the point of being juvenile. If I don't do Arena in WoW, I can't get Arena awards. If I don't do BGs in WoW, I can't get BG gear. So you choose not to PvP in a PvP designed game and expect to be catered to? Give me a break.
But you can't PvP and level in WoW...is that a flaw? (well, actually I think it is due to twinks) But WAR was built for RvR from the ground up. It isn't a flaw if you don't choose to participate. This just isn't the game for you.
RP and levels are an integral part of your character development. It's like playing WoW and deciding that you don't want to wear equipment and it pisses you off you keep getting all this random equipment when you do quests. They give you permanent, configurable passive stat boosts and abilities and grant you access to better equipment.
Your complaint that you were rewarded for stuff and not doing anything seems silly since you don't even care. You aren't going to get to 80 by avoiding RvR stuff any time soon. I don't think the devs care that you get some insignificant amount of points if you aren't involved. The rest of the community will be more than happy to get a few extra points every now and then.
Like the guy said, there are plenty of things you can complain about in this game. The ones you complain about aren't problems but just that you see things in a weird way. It is telling that you don't want to do any of the RvR stuff since that is the main thing the game is designed around. No wonder you don't like the game.
I have subscribed to 2-3 MMOs at a time. Though recently just got that down to one (WAR). But I don't think it is too strange to play a few.
WAR in some ways is more casual than WoW. You can log in, queue up for a BG anywhere, and start playing. Flight paths are a short cut scene rather than a 10 minute flight. You can be a low level and still participate in BG or RvR objectives because your level gets buffed to something reasonable when you enter those areas. All improvements over WoW in terms of playability.
I don't think this will be a WoW killer...but I do think it will take some people away. Enough that it will be highly profitable.
The key here is how well they support it and how they can generate content. The game currently has many bugs and lacks a bit of polish (some of the animal running animations are horrible...never thought I would complain about something like that). In any case, I think it is a strong contender for 2nd place. It is hard to imagine anything that can dethrone WoW. At this point it is so polished it is nearly blinding. Going to any other MMO that is new will leave most people with the impression that they have no idea how to code since there are so many bugs when these things start out.
I know that I cancelled both my WoW and Eve subscriptions this weekend. I can't do more than one MMO at a time. WoW is still the most polished game out there and it is by far superior when it comes to PvE. Eve is that game that I go back to time and again because it could be really cool but I always go away feeling bitter because it is fundamentally a very boring game. WAR right now is new and is just fun. Logging in and doing the RVR instances (like wow BG) has just been too much fun. I think the game has a lot of potential to be great. WoW killer? I think it can compete...but that is all up to how hard the developers work to squash bugs and keep the content fresh.
WAR has many flaws and I am interested to see how much it will be polished. But I think your criticism isn't correct. It has a lot more polish and a lot less bugs than most MMOs released. Some people even say it is more bug free than WoW. So unless you have been in a lot of MMO's early releases, you can't really compare and say that it was rushed out (EA or not).
A large part of your complaint deals with the Swordmaster type class. I don't really understand why you would complain. If you could use all your abilities, then it could be considered over-powered. So they make it so that you move from one tier to the next by chaining together moves. It would be just like having abilities in WoW be on the same cooldown timer. If you had access to 100% of your abilities all the time, then the class would be unbalanced.
I am sure I will get bored with it at some point. But right now I find the game to be fun. Bugs, lack of polish, etc doesn't really matter since I am enjoying playing the game. Every time I log in there is a new patch fixing bugs. It is an interesting time to be playing the game and I am interested to see how it will evolve.
The game rewards you the more active you are. So yeah, being in the same zone might get you some RP. At a low level, that may be enough to get you your first level (where the bar is set lower than for Palin in a debate). But later it would be so insignificant as to be pointless. Besides, it isn't like it is hard to get RP. All you do is some of the RvR stuff. Actually, I think they do a pretty good job of rewarding you for being more active. The more damage/healing you do leads to morale abilities which will allow you to use powerful special abilities. You get more RP and XP when you are in the middle of the action rather than AFKing. So yeah, I don't really think your argument is all that valid.