what's sad is I bet I pay more income taxe than this ass with two homes.
"It keeps third world factories busy churning out electrical outlets and network cabling."
pfft...lamest excuse ever for being a lame greedy bastard.
So lets just take this as far as it will go already. Lets tag everyone living, born in, or immigrating to this country with microchips that identify them. Then they would know where you are at all times and exactly who you are. I mean thats the next logical step right? Or even better...when you are born or immigrate here they could just remove part of our brain so you are good sheep. Wouldnt both these ideas I suggested curb crime and terrorism even more than these silly cameras? Costs less in the long run as well...
Not to troll here but this what the hell did all the linux fanbois expect B.G. to say? Talk to any business owner about HIS product and they will say its better than the rest. It is called capitalism and commercialism and this is what people do to sell their product. Blind devotion to linux makes my stomach turn just as much as the garbage B.G. spews. No OS is perfect. Both linux and M$ have a long way to go. The only real way I see linux winning the war is making its interface extremely simple ( you know point and click ). Since alot of distros are starting to included installation wizards I run into more and more people who have tryed linux but ultimately they all come back to M$. Why? Point and click, point and click. Oh and games, games, games. I bet half the linux users who bitch about B.G. havent even tryed winXP. I use linux and windows on my machines simply because I can. Not a huge fan of either. All fanbois can die...on both sides. You are worse than a bunch of patriotic nazis.
his point isnt the time it took to delete the icons. Mabey you like it when shit does the opposite of what you asked? Ask me not to punch you in the face please:)
and who really cares what browser an AOL user is using? I bet if you asked them they wouldnt even be able to tell you what a browser was let alone the name of the one they are using.
When they told us the release date I was shocked and I was a beta tester for AO, EQ, and SB. If you buy this game you are paying $15 a month to beta test, plain and simple. It is too bad I really wanted this game to be good.
Give it 4-6 months of good patching, economy balancing (player based), a complete revamping of pvp combat, and ughh...content other than endless wastelands once you run out of town.
remind me to call you at 3 am for the next 3 months then. i got some penis enlarger you might be interested in.... seriously. remember bandwidth? thats the big difference here. i dont pay for a billboard on the highway. if a spammer is routing mail through some poor smo's server then he is paying for the spammers advertisement. so dont give me that free speech bullshit...
At first, the game was really geared towards a casual gamer . Monday they patched and did a char wipe that fucked everything. No other patches are scheduled before release. Mondays patch introduced more bugs than they had pre-patch and killed all the fun in gameplay. Now there is no place for someone who wants to play 2 hours a day. It is all about the grind. The testers are seriously upset about this latest patch. EQ in space is all i can say. Look to play 6 months for 6 hours a day to become a master in any skill and thats just one skill tree (compared to a week before). Most people are posting and questioning the reasons behind the patch and concluding there isnt a high end game hence they are turning it to a grind to keep subscribers longer. There is also a reason the NDA has not been lifted (typically game companies lift it a month before release).....they dont want us beta testers spreading the bad word. You shouldve seen the beta boards post patch...14 pages(about 2000 actual posts) in 1 hour. All the beta people are cancelling thier pre-orders (me too). Everyone is flaming the boards. No one is playing the game and the servers are empty. This game is no where near ready to be released and EVERYONE (in beta) knows this. Vehicles, Jedi, and some planets are a few things that wont even be in the release. they plan to patch them in the weeks to months to follow. what sickens me most is the fact they are actually gonna charge people come the 26th to beta this game. Look for some serious hacks right away:P i know quite a few that involve blocking ports that are still quite usable in game. You can even steal from the bazaar terminals if you induce enough client side lag and know the right tricks. mabey we will see another incident like the Shadowbane hack. i beta tested that as well and refused to buy the unfinished product they released. i think this one is gonna bite lucas and SOE in the ass and i am very seriously disappointed this game could have ruled.
lol my thoughts exactly. I was a beta tester for SB and I didnt even give.0000001 seconds of thought about buying this game post release. Funniest part is banning players for life...how they plan on enforcing it? (1) ask freind for credit card (2) pay friend money you took off his card (3) open new account. (4) grief every single player you can find for getting "banned" and stink up the game as much as possible. At least that is what I would do if I actually gave a shit. I wonder how many that were "banned" are actually playing right now....my guess is all of them.
"Is it right to defame these people's virtual characters when it might cause depression and even suicide (which has happened to EQ players) in real life? I would say it's quite wrong."
Yeah and i found this post so incredibly moronic and pitiful that i lost all faith in mankind then went out and killed myself. Now my girlfriend is gonna sue you for making such a stupid post and upsetting me. See how this logic works? If you commit suicide over EQ you have a MUCH MUCH deeper problem than this and a law about property in virtual worlds will not help you in any way other than make your fantasy more valid. IT IS A VIRTUAL WORLD !
sonofa...I mean come on. What the hell is wrong with people and what makes em so stupid. I will have to shoot the first person who brings a lawsuit to court over a freaking flaming sword that got ganked in some mmorpg. Actually i will go one step beyond and stick a massive flaming sword up their ass then shoot em. Do us all a favor if you get ripped off in game and are going to sue someone jump off a freakin building cause you are a complete waste of life and no amount of virtual property is going to change that.
Mabey i am a dreamer but i think life is all over the universe. Mars is definetly the best place to look for it atm. Statistics alone tells us there is at least one other inhabited planet, moon, or asteroid. People should be a little more concerned about such things i believe at least for the future generations. Guess our government would rather see stealth bombers murdering people than a manned space flight to mars.
Make space shuttles not war....
Anyone here ever use the program Everhack back in the day? Perhaps someone was able to put together such a program for SB. Just one possiblity i thought of but most likely someone edited the files in their SB directory to get ahold of GM status. I really dont think it was an actual server hack. If it was and they get caught they are looking at some serious trouble if not jail time. On the other hand what if it was just a straight up exploit? Can we expect people go to jail because some dumbass didnt realize putting in code to enable GM status by holding down ctrl + alt + F5 was a seriously bad idea? If it was a client side exploit and UBI does sue i would love to see some law suits against them as well for such an obvious coding mistake. It makes me wanna go out and write some half-assed code then sue people for using it wrong.
This news actually makes me smile after wasting 8 months beta testing this garbage. Waiting and waiting and waiting for the game to get a even hint of some content. Waiting and waiting and waiting for the lag to stop, for no mem leaks, and server stability. Until finally it was released I am so utterly disappointed with its total lack of any original ideas, gameplay that blows, classes and races that are completely unbalanced for pvp, I could go on forever. Looks like some others got as bored and fed up as me. I love it. I just wish i could have seen the look on all the losers faces that still play this crap when they got smacked around.
Is it just me or is one of the biggest reasons people do not switch is that they can play some kick ass games on windows? Linux has got shit for games and drivers. Not to mention some serious lacking in the software dept. Sure what is out there is free but what the hell do i need some office xp clone for or a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in unstructured emails. I mean give me a f'ing break! YAWN! Linux geeks get off your high horse and join the rest of the world. Linux has a long way to go before it is quite as easy and user friendly as windows. Start porting some good shit over and make a decent GUI and mabey some people will actually use linux.
Some people are truely evil, lack all morals, and have no conscience. Spammers are one of the lowest forms of life there is. Why we tolerate such bullshit is beyond me. Not one of these losers deserves life or liberty. I have more respect and compassion for a serial killer than a spammer.
I would guess 80-90% of windoze users dont even know what version they are running. They simply dont care and just want to check their email or browse the web. Linux users can preach all they want about security but if it involves the average joe smoe having to learning something forget it. Hell most of them think the internet IS internet explorer. I think some of you are underestimating the stupidity of the average american. It really is a bottomless pit. All you need is a few slick ads that flash the words EASY,EASY,EASY in bold bubble font to lure the masses to Lindows. Oh, mabey throw in the phrase, "even a moron can do it!" or "limited time offer!"
if a site is making money off publishing the lyrics then I think they should pay up or get permission. If they are doing it free of charge I do not see any harm in it whatsoever, unless the artist is looking to put out a book of his or her lyrics(which is a very stupid idea and I dont think anyone is interested in such a thing) I have lost all respect for the music industry now...what a buncha sad greedy assholes.
I personally would love to see the RIAA try some of these bullshit tactics. I mean how stupid could they be not to realize they are just compounding the problem,alienating potential customers, and hopefully getting sued out the ass in the meantime? I personally will never ever buy another NON independent label again. I am fed up with the mindset of these corporate jackholes. I personally hope every artist and label associated with the RIAA go bankrupt and die horrid, lonely deaths for their greed (you cant take it with you assholes). I do not need to d/l any of their shitty music off of kazaa nor do i feel a need to. Regardless, musicians make money off concerts not record sales. If you really wanted to help/support an artist go to their show. Dont buy some overpriced,overproduced CD that the artist only sees 3 cents of profit from. My guess is that the RIAA continuing to frustrate customers with their terrorist/gestapo style behavior will only bring about their own demise. Lets just see how they like their sales when they fuck up 3 million peoples computers or so:P
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what's sad is I bet I pay more income taxe than this ass with two homes. "It keeps third world factories busy churning out electrical outlets and network cabling." pfft...lamest excuse ever for being a lame greedy bastard.
my point exactly...
So lets just take this as far as it will go already. Lets tag everyone living, born in, or immigrating to this country with microchips that identify them. Then they would know where you are at all times and exactly who you are. I mean thats the next logical step right? Or even better...when you are born or immigrate here they could just remove part of our brain so you are good sheep. Wouldnt both these ideas I suggested curb crime and terrorism even more than these silly cameras? Costs less in the long run as well...
Not to troll here but this what the hell did all the linux fanbois expect B.G. to say? Talk to any business owner about HIS product and they will say its better than the rest. It is called capitalism and commercialism and this is what people do to sell their product. Blind devotion to linux makes my stomach turn just as much as the garbage B.G. spews. No OS is perfect. Both linux and M$ have a long way to go. The only real way I see linux winning the war is making its interface extremely simple ( you know point and click ). Since alot of distros are starting to included installation wizards I run into more and more people who have tryed linux but ultimately they all come back to M$. Why? Point and click, point and click. Oh and games, games, games. I bet half the linux users who bitch about B.G. havent even tryed winXP. I use linux and windows on my machines simply because I can. Not a huge fan of either. All fanbois can die...on both sides. You are worse than a bunch of patriotic nazis.
his point isnt the time it took to delete the icons. Mabey you like it when shit does the opposite of what you asked? Ask me not to punch you in the face please :)
and who really cares what browser an AOL user is using? I bet if you asked them they wouldnt even be able to tell you what a browser was let alone the name of the one they are using.
Put together a decent album and i might buy it. Are they gonna put some code on the cd to force me to listen to the entire album as well?
If I had to choose an emote to sum up my SWG beta
/disappointedWhen they told us the release date I was shocked and I was a beta tester for AO, EQ, and SB. If you buy this game you are paying $15 a month to beta test, plain and simple. It is too bad I really wanted this game to be good.
Give it 4-6 months of good patching, economy balancing (player based), a complete revamping of pvp combat, and ughh...content other than endless wastelands once you run out of town.
I hope they turn it around.remind me to call you at 3 am for the next 3 months then. i got some penis enlarger you might be interested in.... seriously. remember bandwidth? thats the big difference here. i dont pay for a billboard on the highway. if a spammer is routing mail through some poor smo's server then he is paying for the spammers advertisement. so dont give me that free speech bullshit...
At first, the game was really geared towards a casual gamer . Monday they patched and did a char wipe that fucked everything. No other patches are scheduled before release. Mondays patch introduced more bugs than they had pre-patch and killed all the fun in gameplay. Now there is no place for someone who wants to play 2 hours a day. It is all about the grind. The testers are seriously upset about this latest patch. EQ in space is all i can say. Look to play 6 months for 6 hours a day to become a master in any skill and thats just one skill tree (compared to a week before). Most people are posting and questioning the reasons behind the patch and concluding there isnt a high end game hence they are turning it to a grind to keep subscribers longer. There is also a reason the NDA has not been lifted (typically game companies lift it a month before release) .....they dont want us beta testers spreading the bad word. You shouldve seen the beta boards post patch...14 pages(about 2000 actual posts) in 1 hour. All the beta people are cancelling thier pre-orders (me too). Everyone is flaming the boards. No one is playing the game and the servers are empty. This game is no where near ready to be released and EVERYONE (in beta) knows this. Vehicles, Jedi, and some planets are a few things that wont even be in the release. they plan to patch them in the weeks to months to follow. what sickens me most is the fact they are actually gonna charge people come the 26th to beta this game. Look for some serious hacks right away :P i know quite a few that involve blocking ports that are still quite usable in game. You can even steal from the bazaar terminals if you induce enough client side lag and know the right tricks. mabey we will see another incident like the Shadowbane hack. i beta tested that as well and refused to buy the unfinished product they released. i think this one is gonna bite lucas and SOE in the ass and i am very seriously disappointed this game could have ruled.
lol my thoughts exactly. I was a beta tester for SB and I didnt even give .0000001 seconds of thought about buying this game post release. Funniest part is banning players for life...how they plan on enforcing it? (1) ask freind for credit card (2) pay friend money you took off his card (3) open new account. (4) grief every single player you can find for getting "banned" and stink up the game as much as possible. At least that is what I would do if I actually gave a shit. I wonder how many that were "banned" are actually playing right now....my guess is all of them.
agreed but given the uncomprehensible size of the universe it is kinda silly to think this is the only place life has had an opportunity to spring up.
"Is it right to defame these people's virtual characters when it might cause depression and even suicide (which has happened to EQ players) in real life? I would say it's quite wrong." Yeah and i found this post so incredibly moronic and pitiful that i lost all faith in mankind then went out and killed myself. Now my girlfriend is gonna sue you for making such a stupid post and upsetting me. See how this logic works? If you commit suicide over EQ you have a MUCH MUCH deeper problem than this and a law about property in virtual worlds will not help you in any way other than make your fantasy more valid. IT IS A VIRTUAL WORLD !
sonofa...I mean come on. What the hell is wrong with people and what makes em so stupid. I will have to shoot the first person who brings a lawsuit to court over a freaking flaming sword that got ganked in some mmorpg. Actually i will go one step beyond and stick a massive flaming sword up their ass then shoot em. Do us all a favor if you get ripped off in game and are going to sue someone jump off a freakin building cause you are a complete waste of life and no amount of virtual property is going to change that.
Mabey i am a dreamer but i think life is all over the universe. Mars is definetly the best place to look for it atm. Statistics alone tells us there is at least one other inhabited planet, moon, or asteroid. People should be a little more concerned about such things i believe at least for the future generations. Guess our government would rather see stealth bombers murdering people than a manned space flight to mars. Make space shuttles not war....
Anyone here ever use the program Everhack back in the day? Perhaps someone was able to put together such a program for SB. Just one possiblity i thought of but most likely someone edited the files in their SB directory to get ahold of GM status. I really dont think it was an actual server hack. If it was and they get caught they are looking at some serious trouble if not jail time. On the other hand what if it was just a straight up exploit? Can we expect people go to jail because some dumbass didnt realize putting in code to enable GM status by holding down ctrl + alt + F5 was a seriously bad idea? If it was a client side exploit and UBI does sue i would love to see some law suits against them as well for such an obvious coding mistake. It makes me wanna go out and write some half-assed code then sue people for using it wrong.
Haha...let me guess you play SB at the bottom of the ocean too?
This news actually makes me smile after wasting 8 months beta testing this garbage. Waiting and waiting and waiting for the game to get a even hint of some content. Waiting and waiting and waiting for the lag to stop, for no mem leaks, and server stability. Until finally it was released I am so utterly disappointed with its total lack of any original ideas, gameplay that blows, classes and races that are completely unbalanced for pvp, I could go on forever. Looks like some others got as bored and fed up as me. I love it. I just wish i could have seen the look on all the losers faces that still play this crap when they got smacked around.
Won't anyone think of the children?
Is it just me or is one of the biggest reasons people do not switch is that they can play some kick ass games on windows? Linux has got shit for games and drivers. Not to mention some serious lacking in the software dept. Sure what is out there is free but what the hell do i need some office xp clone for or a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in unstructured emails. I mean give me a f'ing break! YAWN! Linux geeks get off your high horse and join the rest of the world. Linux has a long way to go before it is quite as easy and user friendly as windows. Start porting some good shit over and make a decent GUI and mabey some people will actually use linux.
Some people are truely evil, lack all morals, and have no conscience. Spammers are one of the lowest forms of life there is. Why we tolerate such bullshit is beyond me. Not one of these losers deserves life or liberty. I have more respect and compassion for a serial killer than a spammer.
I would guess 80-90% of windoze users dont even know what version they are running. They simply dont care and just want to check their email or browse the web. Linux users can preach all they want about security but if it involves the average joe smoe having to learning something forget it. Hell most of them think the internet IS internet explorer. I think some of you are underestimating the stupidity of the average american. It really is a bottomless pit. All you need is a few slick ads that flash the words EASY,EASY,EASY in bold bubble font to lure the masses to Lindows. Oh, mabey throw in the phrase, "even a moron can do it!" or "limited time offer!"
if a site is making money off publishing the lyrics then I think they should pay up or get permission. If they are doing it free of charge I do not see any harm in it whatsoever, unless the artist is looking to put out a book of his or her lyrics(which is a very stupid idea and I dont think anyone is interested in such a thing) I have lost all respect for the music industry now...what a buncha sad greedy assholes.
I personally would love to see the RIAA try some of these bullshit tactics. I mean how stupid could they be not to realize they are just compounding the problem,alienating potential customers, and hopefully getting sued out the ass in the meantime? I personally will never ever buy another NON independent label again. I am fed up with the mindset of these corporate jackholes. I personally hope every artist and label associated with the RIAA go bankrupt and die horrid, lonely deaths for their greed (you cant take it with you assholes). I do not need to d/l any of their shitty music off of kazaa nor do i feel a need to. Regardless, musicians make money off concerts not record sales. If you really wanted to help/support an artist go to their show. Dont buy some overpriced,overproduced CD that the artist only sees 3 cents of profit from. My guess is that the RIAA continuing to frustrate customers with their terrorist/gestapo style behavior will only bring about their own demise. Lets just see how they like their sales when they fuck up 3 million peoples computers or so :P