It depends on how you quantify "catastrophic failure". Is humanity going to be wiped out by global floods, and perpetual hurricanes by AGW?? Of course not. But AGW likely will cause extensive droughts. When you have extensive droughts you tend to also have famine. Now, recent history has shown us what normal people will do to ensure their Oil supply. How do you think people will respond when their food and water supply runs out?
Famine causes war. It has since the beginning of recorded history. Only now, the nations affected by famine could very well be armed with nuclear weapons.
AGW itself certainly won't wipe out humanity. But how we respond to its affects damn well might!
Because without "climate change". Scientists would not be able to turn America into a Socialist, Atheist, One-world-government, Communist, Fascist state, like Europe.
And no, none of my computers use over 150W. The only people who have 200+W computers are those with gigantic graphics cards, and they are also part of the problem if they leave those on 24/7. Get off AIM already.
Sure.... If the "gigantic graphic card" was state of the art in 2004.
I still hold that his actions fit the generally accepted definition of treason.
That might mean something if your opinion carried any legal weight. He was neither charged with, nor convicted for, treason. The charge was "espionage", which is quite different.
We're not talking about cost here.. We're talking about "first strike" capabilities. The strategic deployment of nuclear weapons during the Cold War suffered a fatal flaw: It would be impossible for either side to launch their weapons without a nuclear counter-strike (that whole "Mutually Assured Destruction" thing). A platform for delivering your weapons from orbit could tip this balance, giving one side a clear advantage.
The concept of an orbital "sweet spot" around a star I find to be rather dubious. The sample set for this hypothesis is... umm... One! We have seen numerous examples of volcanic activity throughout our solar system. If you have volcanoes, you have heat. And if you have heat, you can have liquid water.
"Competitive" doesn't imply PvP play. You want a game with an economy. You have to "compete" with other players for market share, trying to sell your goods high and buy your materials and gear low. If you want questing, you're competing with the PvE environment the developers built. And with most raiding guilds, you often wind up competing with other guild members for positions. If it's a 10 man raid, and there are fifteen guild members who want to go, five of them are going to be on the sidelines.
So if you're playing the market, questing, or raiding, you're in some type of competition. My point to the original parent was that if you want to be "good" at it, and are "playing to win", you have to spend time learning the mechanics of the game, studying how to equip your character, and learning proper gameplay.
PS - Though, to be honest, what happens once we "kill" the Lich King? He was/is the boggie man of all of Northriend and personaly shows up in many of the quests your on. Cataclysm will solve the content issue below level 60, but where will the story go after that:P
Cataclysm will alter many of the under 60 zones on the classic map, but will also alter many of the lower level zones for the new 80-85 level range. It will also include Heroic versions of many (I'm guessing eventually "all") of the classic dungeons for end-game players, which will be a very welcome change. I just started playing about 8 months ago myself, and had to skip over most of the 55-60 and 68-70 dungeons, and pretty much all of the raids because I couldn't get groups for them.
As far as the Lore goes, I started playing Warcraft 3 on release day. Arthas has always been the primary antagonist for me. I'm also thinking that when I finally down him, it'll represent finality to a lot of the lore that's been in place for nearly a decade. IIRC, cataclysm will focus on the return of Blackwing and Ragnaros. But from some of the foreshadowing in Uther's dialog in the Halls of Reflection, I'm assuming that the death of Arthas won't be the end of the Scourge, and possibly not even the end of the Lich King.
"more content later" is another way of saying "It's not done and may never be unless we maintain a certain level of subscriptions.
If you were putting your financial backing behind a new MMORPG, you'd be crazy not to do it this way. You put out enough content to get the players to sign up and keep them busy and entertained for six months. When they desire "more", and if the subscription revenue allows it, then you release more content to keep them interested.
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. -Adolf Hitler, 4/12/1922
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." -Mein Kampf
No, my ordering is correct. He killed the Tuskens in Attack of the Clones - a full movie before he killed Dooku. Sure, you can argue that he killed Dooku on Palpatine's orders - or you can say that Palpatine simply gave Anakin "permission" do to what he had already decided he wanted to do: take revenge. Palpatine even used revenge as a way of "justifying" why Anakin wanted to kill Dooku, just has he justified killing Tuskens in revenge for his mother's death. And remember - Anakin admitted to killing Tusken children in his rage. Even as he wept through his guilt, he tried to justify it by saying "They're animals. And I slaughtered them like animals!" No, he didn't rush to Palpatine's office with the intent to kill Windu, but that was what happened. It wasn't planned, but again, he was able to justify it ("The Jedi are relentless. If they are not stopped, it will be civil war without end!").
There is no coincidence that when Windu said "He's too dangerous to be left alive!", he is saying, word for word, what Palpatine told him before he murdered Dooku. And what does this tell Anakin? It tells him that Palpatine was right! The Jedi and Sith are nearly identical. The "stand trial" bit was just Anakin trying to rationalize why Windu should spare him. Anakin didn't care about a trial! He cared because the only person in the galaxy whom he thought could save his wife was about to be eviscerated.
Now, up until this point, Anakin had the choice to turn back! But once he swore his fealty to Sidious, he signed his Deal with the Devil. He knows what he's told to do is wrong, but he does it anyway. What difference does it make? He murdered children before. How hard could it be to do it again?
Pedantic rant: Leia's nipple didn't slip, it was Oola, Jabba's first slave girl. It does still appear in the DVD, but it's been airbrushed. However, there is the scene at the end of RotJ at the bunker where Han reaches for Leia right after she is shot and grabs a full handful of boobie!
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Famine causes war. It has since the beginning of recorded history. Only now, the nations affected by famine could very well be armed with nuclear weapons.
AGW itself certainly won't wipe out humanity. But how we respond to its affects damn well might!
Just because you're wrong doesn't make you a martyr...
Dirty, inefficient energy has a huge profit margin.
We're addicted to the convenience, and we've been conditioned to distrust those who caution otherwise.
Because without "climate change". Scientists would not be able to turn America into a Socialist, Atheist, One-world-government, Communist, Fascist state, like Europe.
Sure.... If the "gigantic graphic card" was state of the art in 2004.
That might mean something if your opinion carried any legal weight. He was neither charged with, nor convicted for, treason. The charge was "espionage", which is quite different.
We're not talking about cost here.. We're talking about "first strike" capabilities. The strategic deployment of nuclear weapons during the Cold War suffered a fatal flaw: It would be impossible for either side to launch their weapons without a nuclear counter-strike (that whole "Mutually Assured Destruction" thing). A platform for delivering your weapons from orbit could tip this balance, giving one side a clear advantage.
The concept of an orbital "sweet spot" around a star I find to be rather dubious. The sample set for this hypothesis is... umm... One! We have seen numerous examples of volcanic activity throughout our solar system. If you have volcanoes, you have heat. And if you have heat, you can have liquid water.
So if you're playing the market, questing, or raiding, you're in some type of competition. My point to the original parent was that if you want to be "good" at it, and are "playing to win", you have to spend time learning the mechanics of the game, studying how to equip your character, and learning proper gameplay.
Sooooo... What you're saying is that MMORPGs are bad because they don't play like a First Person Shooter??
It's no less competitive than golf. Which, like it or not, is considered a legitimate "sport".
Brilliant, yes. But it will probably eventually be just as dreaded as WoW's /train emote.
Obvious, yes. But it still took them five years to implement the thing. :) Definitely one of the more welcome changes in 3.3.
Is this really a problem? How is this different from any other competitive activity?
Cataclysm will alter many of the under 60 zones on the classic map, but will also alter many of the lower level zones for the new 80-85 level range. It will also include Heroic versions of many (I'm guessing eventually "all") of the classic dungeons for end-game players, which will be a very welcome change. I just started playing about 8 months ago myself, and had to skip over most of the 55-60 and 68-70 dungeons, and pretty much all of the raids because I couldn't get groups for them.
As far as the Lore goes, I started playing Warcraft 3 on release day. Arthas has always been the primary antagonist for me. I'm also thinking that when I finally down him, it'll represent finality to a lot of the lore that's been in place for nearly a decade. IIRC, cataclysm will focus on the return of Blackwing and Ragnaros. But from some of the foreshadowing in Uther's dialog in the Halls of Reflection, I'm assuming that the death of Arthas won't be the end of the Scourge, and possibly not even the end of the Lich King.
If you were putting your financial backing behind a new MMORPG, you'd be crazy not to do it this way. You put out enough content to get the players to sign up and keep them busy and entertained for six months. When they desire "more", and if the subscription revenue allows it, then you release more content to keep them interested.
It's looking like the Cataclysm expansion will change that.
Try reading a translation other than NIV.
That rape, genocide, infanticide, and misogyny are alright if God orders you do to it?
A Diecide reference and a Morbid Angel sig. Welcome to my friends list. :)
Ummmm.... WoW has had a Rogue class since, ummmm... version 1.0.
Already been done. Yogg-Saron was the second of the "Old Gods" in the Warcraft universe you had to fight. The first one was named C'thun. :)
There is no coincidence that when Windu said "He's too dangerous to be left alive!", he is saying, word for word, what Palpatine told him before he murdered Dooku. And what does this tell Anakin? It tells him that Palpatine was right! The Jedi and Sith are nearly identical. The "stand trial" bit was just Anakin trying to rationalize why Windu should spare him. Anakin didn't care about a trial! He cared because the only person in the galaxy whom he thought could save his wife was about to be eviscerated.
Now, up until this point, Anakin had the choice to turn back! But once he swore his fealty to Sidious, he signed his Deal with the Devil. He knows what he's told to do is wrong, but he does it anyway. What difference does it make? He murdered children before. How hard could it be to do it again?
Pedantic rant: Leia's nipple didn't slip, it was Oola, Jabba's first slave girl. It does still appear in the DVD, but it's been airbrushed. However, there is the scene at the end of RotJ at the bunker where Han reaches for Leia right after she is shot and grabs a full handful of boobie!