The games are designed with death as the punishment for making a bad decision. If a fight goes bad, it's not like you have to go to your room and hang out for months while your wounds heal.
Permadeath would require a lot more thought and depth be put into the game, which may just take the fun out of it. You have to remember that the reason games are fun is because when you do fuck up, you just hit revive or restart and go on your merry way.
Another option may be that almost all major MMORPG have multiple servers. Just make one a hardcore server.
Their web-site mentions nothing to the affect of being a car. I think you all need to stop mentally masturbating to the notion of back to the future style flying cars.
Shit like this has already been around for years, try paragliding Clicky
Maybe to the person who bought it, but I don't consider it worth anything.
For it to be a viable currency, the medium has to be generally accepted as having value. It's generally accepted as having value to those playing the game, outside of that context, it's worth nothing.
If someone comes into my store offering plat from a game, I'll tell them where to stick it.
This is what you own, big whoop, nothing. You get a number. Your time was for nothing, nobody promised you anything, in fact you're paying someone to play the game.
What is the law going to uphold? The game company owns the item, because 100s of other people have it too. It simply a reference in the database saying that it's in your inventory. That's it. Nothing more. No property. No intellectual property. No copywritable property. Just some numbers.
I'm pretty sure this has more to do with overly obsessive parents rather than everquest. Anyone with an unhealthy obession will tend to do stupid things, whether it be drugs, games, in the 60s, or the 2030s.
Don't be so freaked out about the shit that's happening now, most of it happened 10-20 years ago when you didn't care enough to notice.
Yea, except that increasing the pressure on the inside is the same as decreasing the pressure on the outside. The imperfections are still there and in either case you're simply creating positive pressure inside the balloon.
I'm just not sure how purchasing an rfid reader and deciding to put some data on it is newsworthy. It's not useful, or even novel, really.
It might be okay if it was like "10 Cool Things to do with your rfid reader", or "how to build rfid from scratch". But no, it's "I put 1k of data on an rfid card and read it back onto my system, aren't I great"....
Okay, someone used an RFID reader/writer to put 1k of music on, it, big whoop. Next week I'm planning on putting some MP3s on my usb flash drive, isn't that great...:P
Pretty much, it comes down to needing 3d peripherals. Unless you can interact in a 3d environment, anything you might have gained by having a 3d environment is lost by not being able to effectively navigate it.
Or maybe they had the intentions of fighting it and went, "Hmm, holy ekki lokiman, we've got like 10g $_$ on our hands. Do we fight for some piracy ring, lose all of our money and go to prison, or do we bail with the money."
You act as if it's such a cut an dry scenario. It seems to me when I go to the voting booth, even after extensive research, that it comes down to whether I want it in the ass or elsewhere.
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Growing EL Body Hair? Sounds like you need to skip BM this year ^_^
We are the RESISTY!
PWS == Portable Wank Station
Permadeath would require a lot more thought and depth be put into the game, which may just take the fun out of it. You have to remember that the reason games are fun is because when you do fuck up, you just hit revive or restart and go on your merry way.
Another option may be that almost all major MMORPG have multiple servers. Just make one a hardcore server.
Their web-site mentions nothing to the affect of being a car. I think you all need to stop mentally masturbating to the notion of back to the future style flying cars.
Shit like this has already been around for years, try paragliding Clicky
It was a great idea until they found out that only men used bluetooth in this manner. It soon became a huge, wireless sausage-fest.
People claim that the game ... GTA ... is responsible for people's violent behaviour and may be linked to crimes.
Moving on, nothing to see here.
The value was 7200 Yuan.
Maybe to the person who bought it, but I don't consider it worth anything.
For it to be a viable currency, the medium has to be generally accepted as having value. It's generally accepted as having value to those playing the game, outside of that context, it's worth nothing.
If someone comes into my store offering plat from a game, I'll tell them where to stick it.
Sword: id=1007, name="Sword of Asskicking", Dmg=100,000, img="1007.gif"
Essentially what you own is a primary key relationship:
table: equipment
id: 1000029292 item_id: 1007 player_id: 202032
This is what you own, big whoop, nothing. You get a number. Your time was for nothing, nobody promised you anything, in fact you're paying someone to play the game.
What is the law going to uphold? The game company owns the item, because 100s of other people have it too. It simply a reference in the database saying that it's in your inventory. That's it. Nothing more. No property. No intellectual property. No copywritable property. Just some numbers.
I'm pretty sure this has more to do with overly obsessive parents rather than everquest. Anyone with an unhealthy obession will tend to do stupid things, whether it be drugs, games, in the 60s, or the 2030s. Don't be so freaked out about the shit that's happening now, most of it happened 10-20 years ago when you didn't care enough to notice.
Yea, except that increasing the pressure on the inside is the same as decreasing the pressure on the outside. The imperfections are still there and in either case you're simply creating positive pressure inside the balloon.
I'm just not sure how purchasing an rfid reader and deciding to put some data on it is newsworthy. It's not useful, or even novel, really.
It might be okay if it was like "10 Cool Things to do with your rfid reader", or "how to build rfid from scratch". But no, it's "I put 1k of data on an rfid card and read it back onto my system, aren't I great"....
Apple comes out with 40 gb iPod.........
:P
Okay, someone used an RFID reader/writer to put 1k of music on, it, big whoop. Next week I'm planning on putting some MP3s on my usb flash drive, isn't that great...
That's great, except opera sucks major ass.
It's like saying that you'd rather have 10 gallons of donkey piss instead of 20 ounces of fine imported German beer.
Clearly you're the authority when it comes to determining pornographic names for movies. Good Job, keep it up.
Pretty much, it comes down to needing 3d peripherals. Unless you can interact in a 3d environment, anything you might have gained by having a 3d environment is lost by not being able to effectively navigate it.
It's because there's not enough cops around to beat with my billy stick.
I know you've already been modded to troll -1, but wtf? I can't even fathom why you would even post that?
password == passport
Remeber to think with your brain and type with your fingers, not the other way around.
I want to put on my tin foil hat and make sure that my passpord it free of micro-organisms by PUTTING it into the MICROWAVE, YEAH!
While this woulnd't incur any damage to my current passpord, my Enhanced Password with RFID action may not fair as well.
And I woulnd't want to pay $_$ to have a perfectly good, micro-organism free passport replaced, would I?
I can use gaim to connect via the http method to MSN messenger BTW.
Or maybe they had the intentions of fighting it and went, "Hmm, holy ekki lokiman, we've got like 10g $_$ on our hands. Do we fight for some piracy ring, lose all of our money and go to prison, or do we bail with the money."
I think it's a no brainer.
You act as if it's such a cut an dry scenario. It seems to me when I go to the voting booth, even after extensive research, that it comes down to whether I want it in the ass or elsewhere.
Turn of those superbright overhead lights and get some smaller lights and lots of LEDs.
Make sure to cover any windows you have in the room.
It's a sign of the times, like being a nerd. I'm criminal and a thief in so many ways that it hurts.
Hah, just turned down the volume on the radio during a commercial, that makes me even more of a thief.