They did this with Halo as well - I had it on the XBox and for the Mac, and it broke my heart that the PC version had no co-op, which was really the most enjoyable way to play the game. For gods sake, stop doing this, game companies!
It is, in fact, more important for a warrior to be able take damage than deal damage.
It doesn't matter how many times you, or I, or Blizzard ( it's in the manual ) say this, it seems nobody is listening. From playing other games, they expect their warriors to be the last word in damage dealing. World of Warcraft doesn't work like this - deal with it. If you want to sit at the apex of the food chain, play a Rogue or a Mage.
Instead of constantly neurotically comparing themselves to every other class / player, these people need to sit down and assess, 1) Am I enjoying my playing experience? 2) Am I enjoying it enough to warrant what it costs?
If the answer to either of these questions is "No", they should either try playing the game differently, or leaving it altogether.
Sorry, what on earth does the GPL have to do with corporate organisation or non-profit/for-profit system organisation? I think you're using your buzzwords incorrectly.
I agree, to a point, but Scrabble is the only one of these 'classics' that I feel the urge to play regularly.
Tried to buy a Scrabble set lately? There's "classic", "wood board"/"deluxe", "travel", some kids thing that uses dice to determine the word score multiplier, etc etc. The strange thing was, the classic edition was the hardest to find! I really had to tromp around to get one.
I believe it may still be in print - a friend of mine was telling me about how good it was, so we went down to the local boardgame places and let her have a shufti on the shelves to see if she could find it. We did find it, but it was a bit more than we were willing to shell that evening, so maybe we'll go back.
The store Games Paradise in Sydney, Australia, still seems to be carrying stock, and they ship internationally ( and for free in that price bracket ). It's about A$109 ( ~US$85 ).
Confession: I haven't actually played this, but it's been hanging around several stores I frequent like an unsalable boatanchor for some time now. I thought it looked exceedingly poor, and the impression I got from reading the back of box copy was that someone had just picked up a half finished fps-board game ( probably inspired (?) by Frag ) and 'skinned' it to make it Doom. I wouldn't waste your money. ( But remember - I haven't played it! It might be a sleeper hit. )
There's also a Warcraft III boardgame which looked quite dull - these crossovers always seem a kind of puzzling decision to me. Stick to what you're good at, guys.
In summary, I'd save your pennies for Acquire, which I hear is really good, or Blockus. Board games are expensive these days - sit back and wait for the dust to clear from the annual awards shows and then move in and pick off the victors.
I have lost about 40GB of data, game saves, patches, mods, applications, BACKUPS!!!, PERSONAL DOCUMENTS!!!, DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS!!!, and lots of other data due to the uninstall of the software!
While I appreciate your frustration, what were the "BACKUPS!!!" doing where they could be reached by userspace processes? I think you should be burning those DVD's more often.
There were a few feeble attempts at bringing a platform game into the 3rd dimension
It would have been a near thing, I think. Argonaut had "Croc: Legend of the Gobbos" out in... no later than 1997, on the Sega Saturn, and I think Mario 64 was 1996. Croc was not a fan favourite, but I thought it handled the complexities of 3D platforming quite well.
So while I agree that Mario64 represented a signifigant step forward for 3dp ( although I found it hard to get into ), I wouldn't straight away dismiss previous and other contemporary attempts.
Disclaimer: I am a Nintendo fanboy.
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As a general rule, any country containing more than one of the words "Peoples", "Republic" or "Democratic" in it's title is usually none of the above.
A: "Hmm. The amusement park is closed."
B: "Let's go and break broken bottles in this deserted, garbage strewn alleyway! It's filthy and no fun, but it's always open!"
Seriously, what realms are you folks seeing all these problems on? My one ( a high pop RP server ) occasionally lags, particularly around Ironforge, but I'm not seeing any of the queue bullcrap ( except once, before the recalibration of the caps... I was fifth in the queue and was in in under a minute ) or other teeth-gnashing difficulties everyone else is complaining about.
It's a good idea, but since third edition there's a 20% experience penalty for each additional class.</joke>
Seriously though, I'd love a lifestyle like that. I already flit between interests and career directions, it would be nice to have enough lifespan to follow through on some of them.
Indeed - they've hit a price point now where not only is it not even economically viable on a pure fiscal basis to buy second hand, but that new shelf units are cheaper than they're selling for in many pawn shops.
However - the "mass" market here in.au seems to be drying up as well, I wandered into a Harvey Norman the other day while I was killing time at a mall, and found they'd silently dropped 'Cube from the lineup.
I sold my XBox and used the proceeds to buy a cube and a handful of accessories and games for it a few months ago after the good experiences of playing my ex-flatmates girlfriends one - I consider it a very worthwhile switch.
Paramount pictures recently dinged a bunch of my friends for IP violations - not only were the infringement notices sent to their ISP's electronically ( and PGP signed at that ) - they came with an attached XML document specifying their infringements.
That pretty much sums it up - blogging for a feeling of self importance.
I have no problem with this whatsoever. I work with a lot of non-technical people - salt of the urban earth, officeworker types. I think the average person could actually do with a slightly larger sense of self importance. If nobody is forced to read their journals, and they can derive a little boost of self confidence and esteem from the activity of writing in them, and reading and commenting in their friends', I'm all for it.
So you think it's science fiction? Not at all. You'll see that some people are so convinced that this kind of human enhancements will happen...
I can go down to the local crystal shop as well and find people that are convinced the unicorns and fey folk are coming back - this doesn't make it any less fictitious.
It's a Latin word, meaning "so" or "thus". When somebody intermingles it with a quotation, they're making the point that the quote just before it may have just used a weird or incorrect spelling or formation, but that it was there in the first place, and that the error wasn't introduced in their transcription.
E.g., Wjat [sic] would be showing that you really typed "Wjat", and making it clear that I didn't typo your quotation away from the original.
You folks are living in fantasy land. I know at least two people in my circle of aquaintances who are highly competent Linux or Mac administrators who hold either MCP or MCSE qualification.
Metacrawler has a page ( Metaspy ) that shows what people are using metacrawler for at the time. Awhile ago , I wrote a screensaver for OSX that scraped this page and used its contents.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone search for "porn" - they tend to be quite a good deal more specific. The oddball, useless, generic search that keeps popping up over and over and over again is, strangely "food". Guess there's a lot of hungry folks out there in Corporate America. The other weird one is people searching for fully qualified URL's. Guess they're trying to see who's linking to who.
I love posts like this. I'm an evangelical atheist - I actively engage people and try to drag them around to my point of view [1]. However, let me tell you, trying to ban religion is short sighted at best, and an affront to the kindred beliefs of atheism ( personal liberty, freedom from prejudice, etc etc ) at worst.
If you want to become a religious bigot of an unsual stripe, be my guest, but make no mistake - orthodox religion holds the whip in the west right now, and if you get the legislature involved knee deep in matters of the spirit, I guarantee it will blow up in the face of those of us who just want to be left alone by the government to practice as we choose.
YLFI
[1] Strike them hard, drag them to... the library?
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Broadly speaking, this is different from the status quo how?
FACT: Your BSD is dead.
I hear Iraq is opening up.
They did this with Halo as well - I had it on the XBox and for the Mac, and it broke my heart that the PC version had no co-op, which was really the most enjoyable way to play the game. For gods sake, stop doing this, game companies!
Browser? I've seen Tibor in action, he stands outside the window at the net cafe and reads the flashing lights off the cable modem!
It doesn't matter how many times you, or I, or Blizzard ( it's in the manual ) say this, it seems nobody is listening. From playing other games, they expect their warriors to be the last word in damage dealing. World of Warcraft doesn't work like this - deal with it. If you want to sit at the apex of the food chain, play a Rogue or a Mage.
Instead of constantly neurotically comparing themselves to every other class / player, these people need to sit down and assess, 1) Am I enjoying my playing experience? 2) Am I enjoying it enough to warrant what it costs?
If the answer to either of these questions is "No", they should either try playing the game differently, or leaving it altogether.
Sorry, what on earth does the GPL have to do with corporate organisation or non-profit/for-profit system organisation? I think you're using your buzzwords incorrectly.
I agree, to a point, but Scrabble is the only one of these 'classics' that I feel the urge to play regularly.
Tried to buy a Scrabble set lately? There's "classic", "wood board"/"deluxe", "travel", some kids thing that uses dice to determine the word score multiplier, etc etc. The strange thing was, the classic edition was the hardest to find! I really had to tromp around to get one.
YLFI,QUARTZ on a TWS.
I believe it may still be in print - a friend of mine was telling me about how good it was, so we went down to the local boardgame places and let her have a shufti on the shelves to see if she could find it. We did find it, but it was a bit more than we were willing to shell that evening, so maybe we'll go back.
The store Games Paradise in Sydney, Australia, still seems to be carrying stock, and they ship internationally ( and for free in that price bracket ). It's about A$109 ( ~US$85 ).
Confession: I haven't actually played this, but it's been hanging around several stores I frequent like an unsalable boatanchor for some time now. I thought it looked exceedingly poor, and the impression I got from reading the back of box copy was that someone had just picked up a half finished fps-board game ( probably inspired (?) by Frag ) and 'skinned' it to make it Doom. I wouldn't waste your money. ( But remember - I haven't played it! It might be a sleeper hit. )
There's also a Warcraft III boardgame which looked quite dull - these crossovers always seem a kind of puzzling decision to me. Stick to what you're good at, guys.
In summary, I'd save your pennies for Acquire, which I hear is really good, or Blockus. Board games are expensive these days - sit back and wait for the dust to clear from the annual awards shows and then move in and pick off the victors.
YLFIWhile I appreciate your frustration, what were the "BACKUPS!!!" doing where they could be reached by userspace processes? I think you should be burning those DVD's more often.
YLFIIt would have been a near thing, I think. Argonaut had "Croc: Legend of the Gobbos" out in... no later than 1997, on the Sega Saturn, and I think Mario 64 was 1996. Croc was not a fan favourite, but I thought it handled the complexities of 3D platforming quite well.
So while I agree that Mario64 represented a signifigant step forward for 3dp ( although I found it hard to get into ), I wouldn't straight away dismiss previous and other contemporary attempts.
Disclaimer: I am a Nintendo fanboy.
As a general rule, any country containing more than one of the words "Peoples", "Republic" or "Democratic" in it's title is usually none of the above.
The famous Bungie FPS series Marathon also features some similar ideas, with the rampant AI Durandal seeking a way to escape the end of the universe.
If I might make an analogy,
A: "Hmm. The amusement park is closed."
B: "Let's go and break broken bottles in this deserted, garbage strewn alleyway! It's filthy and no fun, but it's always open!"
Seriously, what realms are you folks seeing all these problems on? My one ( a high pop RP server ) occasionally lags, particularly around Ironforge, but I'm not seeing any of the queue bullcrap ( except once, before the recalibration of the caps... I was fifth in the queue and was in in under a minute ) or other teeth-gnashing difficulties everyone else is complaining about.
It's a good idea, but since third edition there's a 20% experience penalty for each additional class.</joke>
Seriously though, I'd love a lifestyle like that. I already flit between interests and career directions, it would be nice to have enough lifespan to follow through on some of them.
Indeed - they've hit a price point now where not only is it not even economically viable on a pure fiscal basis to buy second hand, but that new shelf units are cheaper than they're selling for in many pawn shops.
However - the "mass" market here in .au seems to be drying up as well, I wandered into a Harvey Norman the other day while I was killing time at a mall, and found they'd silently dropped 'Cube from the lineup.
I sold my XBox and used the proceeds to buy a cube and a handful of accessories and games for it a few months ago after the good experiences of playing my ex-flatmates girlfriends one - I consider it a very worthwhile switch.
Paramount pictures recently dinged a bunch of my friends for IP violations - not only were the infringement notices sent to their ISP's electronically ( and PGP signed at that ) - they came with an attached XML document specifying their infringements.
This is the schema for anyone interested.
YLFII have no problem with this whatsoever. I work with a lot of non-technical people - salt of the urban earth, officeworker types. I think the average person could actually do with a slightly larger sense of self importance. If nobody is forced to read their journals, and they can derive a little boost of self confidence and esteem from the activity of writing in them, and reading and commenting in their friends', I'm all for it.
-- YLFII can go down to the local crystal shop as well and find people that are convinced the unicorns and fey folk are coming back - this doesn't make it any less fictitious.
Sadly, in this world, wishing don't make it so.
YLFIIt's a Latin word, meaning "so" or "thus". When somebody intermingles it with a quotation, they're making the point that the quote just before it may have just used a weird or incorrect spelling or formation, but that it was there in the first place, and that the error wasn't introduced in their transcription.
E.g., Wjat [sic] would be showing that you really typed "Wjat", and making it clear that I didn't typo your quotation away from the original.
You folks are living in fantasy land. I know at least two people in my circle of aquaintances who are highly competent Linux or Mac administrators who hold either MCP or MCSE qualification.
Metacrawler has a page ( Metaspy ) that shows what people are using metacrawler for at the time. Awhile ago , I wrote a screensaver for OSX that scraped this page and used its contents.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone search for "porn" - they tend to be quite a good deal more specific. The oddball, useless, generic search that keeps popping up over and over and over again is, strangely "food". Guess there's a lot of hungry folks out there in Corporate America. The other weird one is people searching for fully qualified URL's. Guess they're trying to see who's linking to who.
I love posts like this. I'm an evangelical atheist - I actively engage people and try to drag them around to my point of view [1]. However, let me tell you, trying to ban religion is short sighted at best, and an affront to the kindred beliefs of atheism ( personal liberty, freedom from prejudice, etc etc ) at worst.
If you want to become a religious bigot of an unsual stripe, be my guest, but make no mistake - orthodox religion holds the whip in the west right now, and if you get the legislature involved knee deep in matters of the spirit, I guarantee it will blow up in the face of those of us who just want to be left alone by the government to practice as we choose.
YLFI[1] Strike them hard, drag them to... the library?