I wish you were looking for emergency managers. I graduated in the wrong field. I'm actually considering going back and getting a masters in some kind of engineering just so I can get a job at SpaceX.
I used to play DAOC, and ran the number one pvp guild on my server for a while. Then they released the expansion and introduced unkillable bone dancers, castable endurance buff, and some left-axe buffs that completely ruined realm balance beyond hope of repair. I gave up on Mythic as developers after that total fail.
To some extent. I'd say about 1/3 of the people I played WOW with also played various FPS games. I have always been about equally into both, with focus drifting between the 2 depending on what has my attention.
I think once they're done milking the current crowd of WOW players and they've lost enough people, they'll probably patch something where levels no longer have meaning. Everyone is just "max level" and monsters are all like, -1, equal, +1, +2, +3, and "skull" level. Then all of a sudden all the old content is viable as "something to do."
Hell, I don't know why they don't do this now, except that because LOLESPORT they feel that player "silouette" is very, very important. More important than the game being fun.
Team fortress 2 does a good job of making each class have something unique to contribute, without making one so overpowered that it is the only one you see in play. Blizzard could learn a lot from Valve.
This. The only community building once LFG went in was the spam on trade chat. Sure, it made it easier to find groups, but they were always with people you'd never meet again. It would have been much better if you could somehow have friend listed people and had the LFG tool look for those people again next time you queued up.
Yeah, when they released a big new content patch that had 1) A raid I couldn't participate in due to low pop + shitty work schedule and 2) the same exact thing over and over again with no challenge every day for no real reward, I knew it was time to quit.
I had the same experience with RIFT. It was like playing WOW, except I didn't have a horse to ride from place to place (or a winged whatever) and I didn't have the 10k gold to buy myself one.
Not to mention the storyline makes no sense:
"Oh hey returned hero who saved the world, you've returned to save us! What, you want a horse and you can't afford one? FUCK YOU!"
I think it's more that there is nothing to really do anymore, unless you like repeating the same quests everyday in a tiny new area that disallows exploration beyond the little bit of real estate you unlock every few weeks, or you want to do top end raiding (which you can only do once or twice a week for most people, if at all).
You can always play the LOLESPORT pvp, but it has the drawback of not actually being fun.
You also have to take into account the fact that they have come right out and said they don't have the tools to make new battlegrounds in any kind of economical time. So you end up on the same few maps over and over again, some with well recognized and established problems (many of which should have been cleared up before the map even left the initial design phase *cough*Alterac Valley*cough*). On top of this they decided that e-sport was more important to them than making the pvp game fun for a majority of the players, so in order to really compete you have to play in the arenas to get the best gear (because ultimately pvp in wow is a match of gear vs gear unless everyone is wearing the same item level).
The lack of variety and being forced into small group team deathmatch, combined with the flavor of the month syndrome, killed the PVP game (some would say it was stillborn, I'd say the death knell was arenas).
The PVE game is also fucked, but more due to lack of content beyond a single new raid in 8 months.
It's the complexity of things like this that lead me to believe that the fundamental laws of nature just kind of naturally lead to life, given time and sufficient raw materials. If you leave a big enough puddle of water sitting around long enough eventually something is going to crawl out of it.
Technically, buying a video game is "spending money on virtual property." It's just that normally you get a whole lot of it for 20-60 bucks, but companies like Blizzard have realized that once they make that initial sale, they can sell you vastly less content for hyperinflated prices. Valve is also doing this with Team Fortress 2, where you can purchase hats and guns for real world money. Luckily you can also just make them or trade for them if you really want them.
I looked up the Bullet Cluster you're always on about. From wikipedia:
"Critics of dark matter have cautioned that astronomers expect sizable quantities of non-luminous baryonic matter to reside in large galactic clusters, positing that the Bullet Cluster phenomenon can be explained without requiring non-baryonic dark matter.[13] However, this explanation requires that baryonic dark matter is of the same amount as the luminous baryonic matter in the Bullet Cluster. This means that ~6 times the visible galactic mass exists at the gravitational centroids, possibly in the galaxies as MACHOs, brown dwarves, or cold gas clouds."
Yep, you'd definitely need something to sort it to just the highlight reel. Alternatively, I'm sure there'd be some great star watching while you were waiting for something to happen in the slime pools.:)
The mods always seem to miss the really good stuff. You have to post early and post often I guess.
I did a little more reading based on what you posted, and if I understand correctly, the system seems like a group of hackers trying to brute force attack everything that comes into the body. And once you've owned a system you post the login/password on the forums (as memory B cells) so that anyone can get access from then on.
Do you ever wish you could remove yourself from space-time and just sit back and watch life evolve from the very first moments until now, bit by bit adding clever little mechanisms that do useful things not through any kind of intention, but just because shit happened and it happened to work?:)
Asking for traditional haiku would have been needlessly cruel. I actually did check wikipedia, but I must admit your sig caught my attention and I wanted to take you up on it. I had a feeling you wouldn't be able to resist my challenge. Thank you very much for the knowledge (and taking the time to share it).:)
Well, considering the green revolution and GMO foods have already given us the soy and corn based diet that is slowly fattening us up and then killing us (due to all the diseases related to either obesity or increased inflammation), I kind of feel like maybe we're already in deep enough shit. Fucking around with our food at a fundamental chemical level seems like a whole new level of wtf. Then again, people gotta eat. I don't know what the solution is, other than buy less useless shit from Wal Mart and spend more money buying higher quality food.
A friend of mine showed me Mosaic with a web page open. I took a look at it and said "That'll never catch on" and went back to typing into my FTP session. It was at the computer lab of Tomball community college in Tomball, TX. I was busy searching for Warez at the time if I recall correctly and couldn't be bothered.
Reroute the phase coils through the plasma regenerator, then boost the particle stream with a subspace flux inducer. If that doesn't work, try routing your signal through an anti-neutrino pulse, you should be able to generate one by modifying the main deflector.
It's amazing what you can learn about this stuff from a combination of Star Trek reruns and a complete lack of practical experience!
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Ah yes, Dark Age of Camelot. Good times!
I wish you were looking for emergency managers. I graduated in the wrong field. I'm actually considering going back and getting a masters in some kind of engineering just so I can get a job at SpaceX.
I used to play DAOC, and ran the number one pvp guild on my server for a while. Then they released the expansion and introduced unkillable bone dancers, castable endurance buff, and some left-axe buffs that completely ruined realm balance beyond hope of repair. I gave up on Mythic as developers after that total fail.
To some extent. I'd say about 1/3 of the people I played WOW with also played various FPS games. I have always been about equally into both, with focus drifting between the 2 depending on what has my attention.
I think once they're done milking the current crowd of WOW players and they've lost enough people, they'll probably patch something where levels no longer have meaning. Everyone is just "max level" and monsters are all like, -1, equal, +1, +2, +3, and "skull" level. Then all of a sudden all the old content is viable as "something to do."
Hell, I don't know why they don't do this now, except that because LOLESPORT they feel that player "silouette" is very, very important. More important than the game being fun.
Team fortress 2 does a good job of making each class have something unique to contribute, without making one so overpowered that it is the only one you see in play. Blizzard could learn a lot from Valve.
This. The only community building once LFG went in was the spam on trade chat. Sure, it made it easier to find groups, but they were always with people you'd never meet again. It would have been much better if you could somehow have friend listed people and had the LFG tool look for those people again next time you queued up.
Yeah, when they released a big new content patch that had 1) A raid I couldn't participate in due to low pop + shitty work schedule and 2) the same exact thing over and over again with no challenge every day for no real reward, I knew it was time to quit.
Don't forget you're going to have to pay real money for it too.
I had the same experience with RIFT. It was like playing WOW, except I didn't have a horse to ride from place to place (or a winged whatever) and I didn't have the 10k gold to buy myself one.
Not to mention the storyline makes no sense:
"Oh hey returned hero who saved the world, you've returned to save us! What, you want a horse and you can't afford one? FUCK YOU!"
I think it's more that there is nothing to really do anymore, unless you like repeating the same quests everyday in a tiny new area that disallows exploration beyond the little bit of real estate you unlock every few weeks, or you want to do top end raiding (which you can only do once or twice a week for most people, if at all).
You can always play the LOLESPORT pvp, but it has the drawback of not actually being fun.
You also have to take into account the fact that they have come right out and said they don't have the tools to make new battlegrounds in any kind of economical time. So you end up on the same few maps over and over again, some with well recognized and established problems (many of which should have been cleared up before the map even left the initial design phase *cough*Alterac Valley*cough*). On top of this they decided that e-sport was more important to them than making the pvp game fun for a majority of the players, so in order to really compete you have to play in the arenas to get the best gear (because ultimately pvp in wow is a match of gear vs gear unless everyone is wearing the same item level).
The lack of variety and being forced into small group team deathmatch, combined with the flavor of the month syndrome, killed the PVP game (some would say it was stillborn, I'd say the death knell was arenas).
The PVE game is also fucked, but more due to lack of content beyond a single new raid in 8 months.
It's the complexity of things like this that lead me to believe that the fundamental laws of nature just kind of naturally lead to life, given time and sufficient raw materials. If you leave a big enough puddle of water sitting around long enough eventually something is going to crawl out of it.
Honestly, when you do this in RL most of the time it isn't your shoulders and elbows you're ultimately looking to have rubbed.
That said, I could go for a back rub right now. Too bad I didn't spend enough money on her and I lost my last gf.
Technically, buying a video game is "spending money on virtual property." It's just that normally you get a whole lot of it for 20-60 bucks, but companies like Blizzard have realized that once they make that initial sale, they can sell you vastly less content for hyperinflated prices. Valve is also doing this with Team Fortress 2, where you can purchase hats and guns for real world money. Luckily you can also just make them or trade for them if you really want them.
Oh yeah Mr. Smartypants, then how do you explain Dark Chocolate without Dark Matter? QED bitches!
I looked up the Bullet Cluster you're always on about. From wikipedia:
"Critics of dark matter have cautioned that astronomers expect sizable quantities of non-luminous baryonic matter to reside in large galactic clusters, positing that the Bullet Cluster phenomenon can be explained without requiring non-baryonic dark matter.[13] However, this explanation requires that baryonic dark matter is of the same amount as the luminous baryonic matter in the Bullet Cluster. This means that ~6 times the visible galactic mass exists at the gravitational centroids, possibly in the galaxies as MACHOs, brown dwarves, or cold gas clouds."
Yep, you'd definitely need something to sort it to just the highlight reel. Alternatively, I'm sure there'd be some great star watching while you were waiting for something to happen in the slime pools. :)
The mods always seem to miss the really good stuff. You have to post early and post often I guess.
I did a little more reading based on what you posted, and if I understand correctly, the system seems like a group of hackers trying to brute force attack everything that comes into the body. And once you've owned a system you post the login/password on the forums (as memory B cells) so that anyone can get access from then on.
Do you ever wish you could remove yourself from space-time and just sit back and watch life evolve from the very first moments until now, bit by bit adding clever little mechanisms that do useful things not through any kind of intention, but just because shit happened and it happened to work? :)
So, just to be sure I understand, your argument is "nuh uh!"
Well shit, I'm convinced. Thanks for setting me straight.
Asking for traditional haiku would have been needlessly cruel. I actually did check wikipedia, but I must admit your sig caught my attention and I wanted to take you up on it. I had a feeling you wouldn't be able to resist my challenge. Thank you very much for the knowledge (and taking the time to share it). :)
Well, considering the green revolution and GMO foods have already given us the soy and corn based diet that is slowly fattening us up and then killing us (due to all the diseases related to either obesity or increased inflammation), I kind of feel like maybe we're already in deep enough shit. Fucking around with our food at a fundamental chemical level seems like a whole new level of wtf. Then again, people gotta eat. I don't know what the solution is, other than buy less useless shit from Wal Mart and spend more money buying higher quality food.
Wait, what's a B cell?
Response in Americanized Haiku form for extra points.
A friend of mine showed me Mosaic with a web page open. I took a look at it and said "That'll never catch on" and went back to typing into my FTP session. It was at the computer lab of Tomball community college in Tomball, TX. I was busy searching for Warez at the time if I recall correctly and couldn't be bothered.
Reroute the phase coils through the plasma regenerator, then boost the particle stream with a subspace flux inducer. If that doesn't work, try routing your signal through an anti-neutrino pulse, you should be able to generate one by modifying the main deflector.
It's amazing what you can learn about this stuff from a combination of Star Trek reruns and a complete lack of practical experience!