And you are posting on Slashdot. What do you have to show for it...only memories and the ability to see your messages of the past. If we go with this stupid model airplane thing, you should have been making a model airplane instead of posting on Slashdot.
We do a lot of stupid things to pass the time and enjoy ourselves. Judging someone on how they spend their free time is pretty sad. And I am tired of coming on Slashdot and reading people telling people how to live their lives and then spouting off some libertarian philosophy on how no one should interfere with their lives. Isn't that just a tad hypocritical?
Except for all the people who take advantage of being in a capitalistic society and are now rich. If you don't like your job, go to another job. That isn't slavery. Yeah, we need to work to get by, but we have to work less than any other time in history. Leisure time and vacation are relatively new concepts. When people who are classified poor can be obese, then things are pretty freaking good. I wish you could go hang out with a bunch of slaves and tell them how hard your life is. What you said is just ridiculous and sad.
You sound more reasonable than the guy you are responding to. But why do you wish more people disliked what you dislike? I just don't understand this sentiment. If we were all the same, we would be boring. I sure as heck won't see the Sex in the City movie. But I have no problem with it being made and enjoyed by people (as long as those people don't drag me to it).
Yeah, but the problem is not that you don't like it. The problem is that your reasons for not liking it has to do with the genre and not with this specific game. I am not a big fan of Apple products because I think they are over priced. I can still understand why other thing they are a good product though. Your bitterness about this is what is so confusing. Fine, don't like the game...but you still have to post about it and say that it was a bad move on Blizzard's part. That's just stupid.
You just sound desperate now. WoW is the most polished, most enjoyable to the masses, MMORPG to date. It didn't do it through advertising like you try to imply. They did it because they took the idea and improved upon it. Your complaints in previous posts show that you don't like MMORPGs in general. WoW is arguably the best MMORPG out there and that is why so many people play it. Your bitterness about it is confusing. You don't like MMORPGs, we get it. That doesn't mean Blizzard sold their soul to the devils or made a bad game. They just made a genre of game you don't like. Can you understand the difference?
"Real PvP" only appeals to a small set of people. These are generally the griefer types who do anything to win and enjoy ruining the experience for others. In your PvP, people don't want to do anything risky and most people play it safe. When consequences are less severe, instead of running, you turn around and fight and try to beat the odds of the other person catching you at a disadvantage. In other words, more people are actually willing to participate in PvP and it is more enjoyable for people. Yeah, it is a rush to get away in your PvP. But losing all your hard earned gear is a sure way to make people quit the game and not want to play. I'm not saying that this is bad...you end up with a game like Eve that a niche of people will enjoy. If you really want to make a game for the most number of people, though, having severe penalties for death iwill only appeal to the people who have plenty of time to devote to a game and enjoy destroying someone else's evening.
And by skill, you mean their ability to go on the forums and read how to equip a ship. The worst part about Eve PvP is the finality of it. It makes people not take risks. So 95% PvP ends up being herds of people waiting at gates to kill you when you fly in. Big battles happen rarely and often the result is determined by who has the least players lag out. Theoretically, Eve's pvp is appealing. In practice it isn't very fun. And once you lose your ship you get to do Eve's version of the grind. Missions, mining, or day trading. Whee.
Congratulations on making yourself look like an ass and giving your fellow Americans a bad name.
If you think some moron's comments on a web forum makes Americans look bad, then you aren't much better than the moron. Besides, our president makes us look bad enough all by himself...thank you very much.
You can't have civil discourse with someone who bases their views on belief instead of fact. he believes that video games cause people to murder each other. This is (obviously) false. I am not sure why you are so afraid of emotion. Yeah, it can influence us to make rash decisions but you can still be emotional about something and be correct and logical about it. You are abstracting away too much in your argument. I can agree with the point that you are trying to make when applied to something that has no context. But this is JT. If you (logically, mind you) go back and look at the things he has said and done you have to realize this is far from overdue.
Let me state this again, your point is fine but you can't remove all context from the situation. After one of the shooting sprees, he came on fox news and said that the kid was sure to have been playing "murder simulators" like counter strike. This turned out to be completely false...the kid didn't even play video games. You are trying to tell me to have civil discourse with this man? Civil discourse is a two way street. JT is incapable of being civil, honest, or reasonable. Your fact is false:/.ers do not want JT stopped because we disagree with him. This isn't a debatable issue like abortion where there are two reasonable sides. People want him stopped because the things he says are factually incorrect and he blatantly lies to promote his agenda. And the worst part is that some stupid people actually listen to him. To sum up...disagreeing with someone, having a civil discourse, that's great. But doing that with someone who lies and bases his concepts on beliefs rather than facts is pointless.
This is the change that Obama is talking about. Change from people like you who make a big deal about something as irrelevant as race or a name. This is just an old tactic to detract from the real issues. It doesn't seem like you get it. People ARE learning from history and are tired of the kind of garbage political games that you are parroting. Maybe Obama will be a horrible president. I can't see how he could be worse than Bush. But I sure as heck won't be sorry for my vote. The guy is the only chance we have compared to the other candidates.
Cornflake already posted part of the flaw in your argument. Another flaw is that atheism isn't really a belief. Let me make something up. Let me say that puppy-man exists and I have some old book that talks about puppy-man. I think puppy-man is really a great guy and that he exists. You think this is stupid because there isn't any concrete evidence so you refuse to believe in puppy-man. That doesn't mean you have some sort of belief system that demands you don't acknowledge puppy-man. Even if I put some label on you like anti-puppymanitarian, it doesn't mean anything.
That's all atheism is...a label. If it were a belief, there would be some sort of book of atheism or religious leader that dictates a portion of my action.
So how can an atheist want special treatment? They just want what Christians/Hindus/Jews would want, to be treated equally and without a negative bias. Unfortunately, there is a negative bias against atheists in this country because other people's puppy-mans have instructed them that they are the ones that are right and everyone else is wrong and lack the correct moral values.
This may come as a shock to you, but if you actually care (which I doubt you do), you could just go to his web site and read about it. http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
And by research you mean listening to Rush? There isn't a person in the world you couldn't do this to. Just take some stuff about them, take it out of context, and they become horrible people. Why would anyone do this..surely Obama is uniquely evil, right? Because this is the same card that the Republican party has been playing for years and it works on all the small minded people out there.
I don't know why I should even reply to you because I already know the type of person you are. You are going to buy in to whatever crap you are fed no matter how insane just because the guy has a D next to his name. The mere fact that Obama has become the presumptive nominee sends a huge message. It shows we have grown as a nation, it shows that we are tired of what we currently have, and that we are truly sorry for the disaster we put in office for the past 8 years. But you aren't going to be able to figure this out because your TV is stuck on Fox News. (Disclaimer: I do listen to Rush and O'Reily so that I can see what the other side thinks...and also so I can figure out where people come up with such stupid talking points instead of talking about the issues)
Umm, it is fine that you can interpret the bible that way. But if someone walked up to me, or gave a speech that I attended, and told me I was going to hell, I would have a problem with that. Also, if you think that Christianity doesn't effect how a person runs their office, you are extremely naive. Read up on Falwell.
I wouldn't think of outlawing Christianity...obviously a dumb question, but you aren't even being reasonable. As far as the comments about him being religious while people at E3 are not seems bizarre and I am not sure why that would be stated.
A second or two is real time for a human. Unless you have a computer that executes buy/sell scripts based on a quote, it isn't going to make any difference.
Well, hope the rant made you feel better. But really, the people who do the forum server administration are most likely not the same who are administering the world servers. Besides, it sounds more of a limitation that was there because of the programmers. In other words, you are yelling at the chef because the waiter dumped dinner on your lap.
I guess you fail to see that, but since I'm talking truths and your playing to anti US sentiment, you'll get modded +5 insightful, and I'll get modded troll/flamebait.
So since you were modded +5 insightful as well, does that mean that you are playing to the anti-anti-US sentiment?
I guess I don't understand why this is a problem. They aren't creating a game to teach kids how to kill. They are creating a simulator to train soldiers to (potentially) kill. They are going to be trained to kill anyway...why does it matter who makes it? For some reason, people on this site get confused about companies. Nintendo isn't a bunch of wonderful people that shoot out puppies and rainbows. They are a corporation trying to take as much of your money as possible. They have a history of doing just as stupid and nasty things as any other company out there in order to get a profit. Just this time around they did it right where last round they failed (spare me the profit speech, we all know Nintendo was extremely profitable, but they lost in overall sales). So there is really no reason to be concerned. There market strategy will always be to be as inclusive of all age groups as possible. Because they make a war simulator doesn't mean they suddenly will make Mario have knife scars and go on assassination missions.
How would that be fun? I am perfectly happy to hit the max level and share that accomplishment with other people. You want a server full of griefers and jerks (sounds like you would like Eve). Most people playing new characters are going to be killed immediately by the people who are unemployed or kids and people will just hide and power level. There will be no balance as the highest level will be able to decimate the lower levels. You might say...but how cool would it be to be that high level. Guess what, if you go to school, work, have a social life, that person won't be you.
It sounds like a horrible idea that most people would hate. But I am sure there are a few people who would enjoy it so I am not saying it shouldn't be done on a small percentage of the servers. Just if they care about subscribers and making money, they are going to end up following the WoW model. The fact that they think they are going to perfectly blend a large number of classes in PvP is pretty much a joke. I have yet to see any company do better at balancing things than Blizzard.
There is plenty of content for the lower levels. Once you have gone through it with a few characters on both the horde and alliance, you have seen pretty much all it has to offer. What the heck do you expect? That they change the quests for lower levels constantly? That is unrealistic and a waste of their time.
I have left and come back to WoW many times and each time I am surprised at how much things have changed. If you are continually playing, all these things are gradual so you notice them less. But WoW is a completely different (and better) game than when it first started out. You really would have to be blind to miss that.
WoW is going to lose players to every new MMORPG that comes along. It is an older game now and a lot of people are looking for something new. But just watch them flock back when the next expansion comes out.
So to sum up, plenty changes in WoW. It seems you have just become jaded and should probably stop playing (like the other post suggests) if things are as terrible as you claim.
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And you are posting on Slashdot. What do you have to show for it...only memories and the ability to see your messages of the past. If we go with this stupid model airplane thing, you should have been making a model airplane instead of posting on Slashdot.
We do a lot of stupid things to pass the time and enjoy ourselves. Judging someone on how they spend their free time is pretty sad. And I am tired of coming on Slashdot and reading people telling people how to live their lives and then spouting off some libertarian philosophy on how no one should interfere with their lives. Isn't that just a tad hypocritical?
I played for a couple of years... but man... what's the point?
Going out on a limb here...but fun?
For the non-hardcore it just replace time sitting in front of the TV.
It doesn't seem to be a matter of if it would break, but when.
:) But I haven't had a problem with mine.
This is true of all products. Nothing lasts forever. In this case, not forever is a few months
Except for all the people who take advantage of being in a capitalistic society and are now rich. If you don't like your job, go to another job. That isn't slavery. Yeah, we need to work to get by, but we have to work less than any other time in history. Leisure time and vacation are relatively new concepts. When people who are classified poor can be obese, then things are pretty freaking good. I wish you could go hang out with a bunch of slaves and tell them how hard your life is. What you said is just ridiculous and sad.
You sound more reasonable than the guy you are responding to. But why do you wish more people disliked what you dislike? I just don't understand this sentiment. If we were all the same, we would be boring. I sure as heck won't see the Sex in the City movie. But I have no problem with it being made and enjoyed by people (as long as those people don't drag me to it).
Yeah, but the problem is not that you don't like it. The problem is that your reasons for not liking it has to do with the genre and not with this specific game. I am not a big fan of Apple products because I think they are over priced. I can still understand why other thing they are a good product though. Your bitterness about this is what is so confusing. Fine, don't like the game...but you still have to post about it and say that it was a bad move on Blizzard's part. That's just stupid.
You just sound desperate now. WoW is the most polished, most enjoyable to the masses, MMORPG to date. It didn't do it through advertising like you try to imply. They did it because they took the idea and improved upon it. Your complaints in previous posts show that you don't like MMORPGs in general. WoW is arguably the best MMORPG out there and that is why so many people play it. Your bitterness about it is confusing. You don't like MMORPGs, we get it. That doesn't mean Blizzard sold their soul to the devils or made a bad game. They just made a genre of game you don't like. Can you understand the difference?
Depends how you define fairly well. Eve is doing fairly well compared to WoW in the sense that John Edwards did fairly well to Obama.
"Real PvP" only appeals to a small set of people. These are generally the griefer types who do anything to win and enjoy ruining the experience for others. In your PvP, people don't want to do anything risky and most people play it safe. When consequences are less severe, instead of running, you turn around and fight and try to beat the odds of the other person catching you at a disadvantage. In other words, more people are actually willing to participate in PvP and it is more enjoyable for people. Yeah, it is a rush to get away in your PvP. But losing all your hard earned gear is a sure way to make people quit the game and not want to play. I'm not saying that this is bad...you end up with a game like Eve that a niche of people will enjoy. If you really want to make a game for the most number of people, though, having severe penalties for death iwill only appeal to the people who have plenty of time to devote to a game and enjoy destroying someone else's evening.
And by skill, you mean their ability to go on the forums and read how to equip a ship. The worst part about Eve PvP is the finality of it. It makes people not take risks. So 95% PvP ends up being herds of people waiting at gates to kill you when you fly in. Big battles happen rarely and often the result is determined by who has the least players lag out. Theoretically, Eve's pvp is appealing. In practice it isn't very fun. And once you lose your ship you get to do Eve's version of the grind. Missions, mining, or day trading. Whee.
Congratulations on making yourself look like an ass and giving your fellow Americans a bad name.
If you think some moron's comments on a web forum makes Americans look bad, then you aren't much better than the moron. Besides, our president makes us look bad enough all by himself...thank you very much.
You can't have civil discourse with someone who bases their views on belief instead of fact. he believes that video games cause people to murder each other. This is (obviously) false. I am not sure why you are so afraid of emotion. Yeah, it can influence us to make rash decisions but you can still be emotional about something and be correct and logical about it. You are abstracting away too much in your argument. I can agree with the point that you are trying to make when applied to something that has no context. But this is JT. If you (logically, mind you) go back and look at the things he has said and done you have to realize this is far from overdue.
/.ers do not want JT stopped because we disagree with him. This isn't a debatable issue like abortion where there are two reasonable sides. People want him stopped because the things he says are factually incorrect and he blatantly lies to promote his agenda. And the worst part is that some stupid people actually listen to him. To sum up...disagreeing with someone, having a civil discourse, that's great. But doing that with someone who lies and bases his concepts on beliefs rather than facts is pointless.
Let me state this again, your point is fine but you can't remove all context from the situation. After one of the shooting sprees, he came on fox news and said that the kid was sure to have been playing "murder simulators" like counter strike. This turned out to be completely false...the kid didn't even play video games. You are trying to tell me to have civil discourse with this man? Civil discourse is a two way street. JT is incapable of being civil, honest, or reasonable. Your fact is false:
This is the change that Obama is talking about. Change from people like you who make a big deal about something as irrelevant as race or a name. This is just an old tactic to detract from the real issues. It doesn't seem like you get it. People ARE learning from history and are tired of the kind of garbage political games that you are parroting. Maybe Obama will be a horrible president. I can't see how he could be worse than Bush. But I sure as heck won't be sorry for my vote. The guy is the only chance we have compared to the other candidates.
Cornflake already posted part of the flaw in your argument. Another flaw is that atheism isn't really a belief. Let me make something up. Let me say that puppy-man exists and I have some old book that talks about puppy-man. I think puppy-man is really a great guy and that he exists. You think this is stupid because there isn't any concrete evidence so you refuse to believe in puppy-man. That doesn't mean you have some sort of belief system that demands you don't acknowledge puppy-man. Even if I put some label on you like anti-puppymanitarian, it doesn't mean anything.
That's all atheism is...a label. If it were a belief, there would be some sort of book of atheism or religious leader that dictates a portion of my action.
So how can an atheist want special treatment? They just want what Christians/Hindus/Jews would want, to be treated equally and without a negative bias. Unfortunately, there is a negative bias against atheists in this country because other people's puppy-mans have instructed them that they are the ones that are right and everyone else is wrong and lack the correct moral values.
This may come as a shock to you, but if you actually care (which I doubt you do), you could just go to his web site and read about it. http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
So you use your freedom of speech to get people to vote for a candidate and then you don't vote for them?
And by research you mean listening to Rush? There isn't a person in the world you couldn't do this to. Just take some stuff about them, take it out of context, and they become horrible people. Why would anyone do this..surely Obama is uniquely evil, right? Because this is the same card that the Republican party has been playing for years and it works on all the small minded people out there.
I don't know why I should even reply to you because I already know the type of person you are. You are going to buy in to whatever crap you are fed no matter how insane just because the guy has a D next to his name. The mere fact that Obama has become the presumptive nominee sends a huge message. It shows we have grown as a nation, it shows that we are tired of what we currently have, and that we are truly sorry for the disaster we put in office for the past 8 years. But you aren't going to be able to figure this out because your TV is stuck on Fox News. (Disclaimer: I do listen to Rush and O'Reily so that I can see what the other side thinks...and also so I can figure out where people come up with such stupid talking points instead of talking about the issues)
All I can say to that is...amen.
Umm, it is fine that you can interpret the bible that way. But if someone walked up to me, or gave a speech that I attended, and told me I was going to hell, I would have a problem with that. Also, if you think that Christianity doesn't effect how a person runs their office, you are extremely naive. Read up on Falwell.
I wouldn't think of outlawing Christianity...obviously a dumb question, but you aren't even being reasonable. As far as the comments about him being religious while people at E3 are not seems bizarre and I am not sure why that would be stated.
A second or two is real time for a human. Unless you have a computer that executes buy/sell scripts based on a quote, it isn't going to make any difference.
Well, hope the rant made you feel better. But really, the people who do the forum server administration are most likely not the same who are administering the world servers. Besides, it sounds more of a limitation that was there because of the programmers. In other words, you are yelling at the chef because the waiter dumped dinner on your lap.
I guess you fail to see that, but since I'm talking truths and your playing to anti US sentiment, you'll get modded +5 insightful, and I'll get modded troll/flamebait.
So since you were modded +5 insightful as well, does that mean that you are playing to the anti-anti-US sentiment?
I guess I don't understand why this is a problem. They aren't creating a game to teach kids how to kill. They are creating a simulator to train soldiers to (potentially) kill. They are going to be trained to kill anyway...why does it matter who makes it? For some reason, people on this site get confused about companies. Nintendo isn't a bunch of wonderful people that shoot out puppies and rainbows. They are a corporation trying to take as much of your money as possible. They have a history of doing just as stupid and nasty things as any other company out there in order to get a profit. Just this time around they did it right where last round they failed (spare me the profit speech, we all know Nintendo was extremely profitable, but they lost in overall sales). So there is really no reason to be concerned. There market strategy will always be to be as inclusive of all age groups as possible. Because they make a war simulator doesn't mean they suddenly will make Mario have knife scars and go on assassination missions.
How would that be fun? I am perfectly happy to hit the max level and share that accomplishment with other people. You want a server full of griefers and jerks (sounds like you would like Eve). Most people playing new characters are going to be killed immediately by the people who are unemployed or kids and people will just hide and power level. There will be no balance as the highest level will be able to decimate the lower levels. You might say...but how cool would it be to be that high level. Guess what, if you go to school, work, have a social life, that person won't be you.
It sounds like a horrible idea that most people would hate. But I am sure there are a few people who would enjoy it so I am not saying it shouldn't be done on a small percentage of the servers. Just if they care about subscribers and making money, they are going to end up following the WoW model. The fact that they think they are going to perfectly blend a large number of classes in PvP is pretty much a joke. I have yet to see any company do better at balancing things than Blizzard.
There is plenty of content for the lower levels. Once you have gone through it with a few characters on both the horde and alliance, you have seen pretty much all it has to offer. What the heck do you expect? That they change the quests for lower levels constantly? That is unrealistic and a waste of their time.
I have left and come back to WoW many times and each time I am surprised at how much things have changed. If you are continually playing, all these things are gradual so you notice them less. But WoW is a completely different (and better) game than when it first started out. You really would have to be blind to miss that.
WoW is going to lose players to every new MMORPG that comes along. It is an older game now and a lot of people are looking for something new. But just watch them flock back when the next expansion comes out.
So to sum up, plenty changes in WoW. It seems you have just become jaded and should probably stop playing (like the other post suggests) if things are as terrible as you claim.