I've got a 60 priest with full tier 1 gear, half of tier 2, plus some nice pvp gear from the battlegrounds, and I can tell you that I can give most any other player a run for their money. Hell, I can beat a rogue even if he gets first strike and they're DESIGNED to beat down casters. Mostly specced for disc too, with only 11 points in shadow, so I don't think they were nerfed too hard at all. If you recall the beta, pretty much every class got nerfed down across the board.
I used to be full holy spec while I was still running instances, and believe me when I say that the holy tree helps a LOT more than you think as opposed to speccing shadow or disc then being a main healer.
The issue is that priests aren't FUN where they're most needed. Everyone wants you to group with them, but they expect you to just healbot all day and you end up watching health meters the whole time. If something goes wrong, the first thing a lot of people say is "where were my heals" when the fact is that the group was simply outmatched or unprepared. I don't even run instances or raids anymore, it's all about the battlegrounds. In the chaos of AV no one gets upset at one person if they die. I'll heal if I notice you're low, I'll nuke if I see a half dead horde trying to run away and I'll dot, fear, and dispel liberally. It's so much more enjoyable than keeping noobs alive, and I can't see how a talent review will change that.
...and our theatre was about half full. Everyone there was a hardcore Firefly fan though, they were all pumped about the movie and as we filed out after seeing it everyone seemed impressed.
I just remember reading a post the other day from a reader berating another for his Soviet line, saying that it's only funny when it has some deeper irony. This was the best conceived Russia joke I've seen in a long while.
That bit you quoted doesn't say anything about characters being de-leveled. Second, if you could level from 20 to 40 that fast before they found whatever bug you were using, you're probably playing those games too much anyways. Finally, if you're level 40 but still wearing level 30 junk, you need an upgrade badly.
This case shares a lot of design features from the lian li model (except Antec did a good job on them), plus it's nice and quiet and pretty damned stylish if you ask me.
Also, it's not 250 fricken dollars.
Downside: it's 36 pounds before you even put anything inside it.
So what kind of penalty should we expect to give those who violate a criminal's right to life? It's a right, after all, not a privilege, and seems to me that it should be inalienable.
The hallucinogenic effects of marijuana are extremely small. In order to actually get a reasonable level of hallucination, you'd have to smoke so much weed that you'd probably pass out from smoke inhalation long before enough of the chemical made it's way into your system.
I dunno what you were smoking in college, but it wasn't pure marijuana.
when was the last time you played a non-RPG that portrayed romance, that centered around relationships, that placed cooperation above competition, and didn't marginalize women as sex-objects or helpless damsels in distress?
That would be Max Payne 2 hitting 3 of those 5 points, and touching on a 4th. Definitely worthy of mentioning, since he's basically asking us for a game that meets those qualifications. And just because the Metroid series doesn't include everything mentioned doesn't mean it's unworthy of attention.
So when was the last time I played a non-rpg with some of those qualities? Pretty damned recently.
I wouldn't call any of it romance, but Payne and Mona Sax had a relationship of sorts, they cooperate and rescue each other, she's anything but helpless and you never see one little hint of a jiggle or cleavage from a model that's very realistic (assuming a fit woman).
If you know a little about the game mechanics there's no way you could think this would actually happen. The instance they're doing is one of, if not the hardest before you start doing molten core. The idea that a full group of 15 players could all get to level 56+ without knowing simple things like:
1) You never agro anything unless the group leader has appointed you to be the puller.
2) If someone (usually a rogue) agros a mob group way up front and out of range of the rest, you let him die so the mobs don't agro your whole group.
3) Divine intervention sacrifices the life of the paladin and creates a sheild through which NO action can be taken.
4) Fear is never a good idea unless you're 100% certain the mob won't/can't train into another group.
The idea that anybody can get close to 60 without figuring out these basic principles is laughable. 15 people is just downright impossible.
I know a few different stories about businesses opening a new shop or starting a new department that used this exact philosophy. In some they will actually tell you up front when you're hired that they don't know how busy they will be, but they expect that not everyone will be needed after the startup phase. Sure it's sad to see people lose jobs, but in my experience the leftover staff was more than able to keep up the same level of productivity without resorting to overtime or weekend work.
Darwinism in action, combined with a "better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" approach. Props to the business world for recognizing what wheels are really turning.
Sounds like a great story, sadly my readership mostly spanned the 500s. Superman/Batman stories were always among my favorites, the two just complement each other so well. Batman was Malcom X to Superman's Martin Luther King.
One of my favorite bat-quotes:
Robin: You know where every sewer pipe goes? Batman: I don't say it's my city just because I live here.
He actually had a number of different suits that he would wear depending on the type of combat he was expecting to encounter. Batman had his heavy armor suits for fighting baddies with guns, he had lighter armor suits with more flexibility for melee villains, ultra-light suits for reconnaissance work, even suits built for various climates and elevations. Some writers gave him a closet full of suits, others gave the idea that the suit was modular and Batman could mix-n-match the peices he wanted.
You're actually right about the kryptonite
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In modern DC Comics lore, Superman gave Batman a chunk of kryptonite after a nasty fight with a villain (I think it was Brainiac) who managed to control Superman's mind. The logic behind it was that in case a situation like that ever happened again and he needed to be taken down, Superman wanted his most trusted ally to have a trump card to stop him from doing evil. Batman's the man he trusted most to both keep it safe from the hands of other villains, and not to be tempted to use it unless it was an absolute emergency.
The experiment isn't done to show us what supernovea look like, it's more like they've discovered that the gpu from their graphics cards are better suited to the types of operations required to define a supernova than a traditional cpu. The video is just a shiny bonus.
This doesn't make much sense to me, I mean isn't HD basically just a higher resolution and the elimination of interlaced frames? How does that increase cost to the developer, in terms of either development time, money, or complexity?
iThink it would be the perfect name for their new computers. iDon't know why iDidn't think of this before. iApologize if someone thought of it first, but if not iWill have to patent it quick so iCan get my royalties.
I didn't even know there was a book at all until this thread. It kinda makes me want to get a copy and read it though, if for no other reason than to see how different it is from the movie. If I do read it, I'm going in with the full knowledge that it won't be what I expect so I'll be less likely to be dissapointed, but before I say it's bad I need to make sure I think it's bad in it's own right, not because it's not like the movie I watched.
I don't think you give that movie enough credit. I think you should really try and see the finer points of Starship Troopers and not dismiss it because it didn't turn out to be what you wanted it to be. It's subtle and overblown at the same time. It's a great action movie and a satire of humanity at the same time.
The movie studios have done good work making movies from books and comics (I will admit video games seem to be more miss than hit, but if I was 10 years younger I probably would have enjoyed Tomb Raider) and it's unfair to proclaim anything else they make will be crap just because they dropped the ball on a few films.
From the post at the bottom of the article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley really made me think about the kind of characters that can make it work for me. Probably one of the best scenes I can remember from the games I've played is from Max Payne 2, there's a sex scene with Max and Mona that's told using the panel-and-narrator style and that did more for me than anything in GTA or Mafia or Bloodlines.
The same can be said for films, for example when I watched the Incredibles I WANTED them to succeed, but I couldn't care less about the Final Fantasy characters even after 2 hours. Final Flight of the Osiris could be another good example, if I think about how much I enjoyed seeing naked cg swordfighting compared to seeing cg sentinels taking down a hovercraft. It was a cool fight at the start, don't get me wrong, but when I watch that short all I really wanna see is the chase.
I guess the key to making it real enough for our minds to believe in it, is to keep it from being TOO real. Strange thought.
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I've got a 60 priest with full tier 1 gear, half of tier 2, plus some nice pvp gear from the battlegrounds, and I can tell you that I can give most any other player a run for their money. Hell, I can beat a rogue even if he gets first strike and they're DESIGNED to beat down casters. Mostly specced for disc too, with only 11 points in shadow, so I don't think they were nerfed too hard at all. If you recall the beta, pretty much every class got nerfed down across the board.
I used to be full holy spec while I was still running instances, and believe me when I say that the holy tree helps a LOT more than you think as opposed to speccing shadow or disc then being a main healer.
The issue is that priests aren't FUN where they're most needed. Everyone wants you to group with them, but they expect you to just healbot all day and you end up watching health meters the whole time. If something goes wrong, the first thing a lot of people say is "where were my heals" when the fact is that the group was simply outmatched or unprepared. I don't even run instances or raids anymore, it's all about the battlegrounds. In the chaos of AV no one gets upset at one person if they die. I'll heal if I notice you're low, I'll nuke if I see a half dead horde trying to run away and I'll dot, fear, and dispel liberally. It's so much more enjoyable than keeping noobs alive, and I can't see how a talent review will change that.
...and our theatre was about half full. Everyone there was a hardcore Firefly fan though, they were all pumped about the movie and as we filed out after seeing it everyone seemed impressed.
helping assure customers that the discs they buy will remain viewable in the future
So does that mean they plan on releasing a player that won't play current generation dvds?
That was brilliant.
I just remember reading a post the other day from a reader berating another for his Soviet line, saying that it's only funny when it has some deeper irony. This was the best conceived Russia joke I've seen in a long while.
That bit you quoted doesn't say anything about characters being de-leveled. Second, if you could level from 20 to 40 that fast before they found whatever bug you were using, you're probably playing those games too much anyways. Finally, if you're level 40 but still wearing level 30 junk, you need an upgrade badly.
*ahem* http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID= 81800
This case shares a lot of design features from the lian li model (except Antec did a good job on them), plus it's nice and quiet and pretty damned stylish if you ask me.
Also, it's not 250 fricken dollars.
Downside: it's 36 pounds before you even put anything inside it.
So what kind of penalty should we expect to give those who violate a criminal's right to life? It's a right, after all, not a privilege, and seems to me that it should be inalienable.
The hallucinogenic effects of marijuana are extremely small. In order to actually get a reasonable level of hallucination, you'd have to smoke so much weed that you'd probably pass out from smoke inhalation long before enough of the chemical made it's way into your system.
I dunno what you were smoking in college, but it wasn't pure marijuana.
when was the last time you played a non-RPG that portrayed romance, that centered around relationships, that placed cooperation above competition, and didn't marginalize women as sex-objects or helpless damsels in distress?
That would be Max Payne 2 hitting 3 of those 5 points, and touching on a 4th. Definitely worthy of mentioning, since he's basically asking us for a game that meets those qualifications. And just because the Metroid series doesn't include everything mentioned doesn't mean it's unworthy of attention.
So when was the last time I played a non-rpg with some of those qualities? Pretty damned recently.
I wouldn't call any of it romance, but Payne and Mona Sax had a relationship of sorts, they cooperate and rescue each other, she's anything but helpless and you never see one little hint of a jiggle or cleavage from a model that's very realistic (assuming a fit woman).
Oh, and every Metroid game ever made.
How many libraries of congress is that?
If you know a little about the game mechanics there's no way you could think this would actually happen. The instance they're doing is one of, if not the hardest before you start doing molten core. The idea that a full group of 15 players could all get to level 56+ without knowing simple things like:
1) You never agro anything unless the group leader has appointed you to be the puller.
2) If someone (usually a rogue) agros a mob group way up front and out of range of the rest, you let him die so the mobs don't agro your whole group.
3) Divine intervention sacrifices the life of the paladin and creates a sheild through which NO action can be taken.
4) Fear is never a good idea unless you're 100% certain the mob won't/can't train into another group.
The idea that anybody can get close to 60 without figuring out these basic principles is laughable. 15 people is just downright impossible.
It's still funny though.
You are not the car you drive. You are not how much money you have in the bank. You are not your fucking khakis.
I know a few different stories about businesses opening a new shop or starting a new department that used this exact philosophy. In some they will actually tell you up front when you're hired that they don't know how busy they will be, but they expect that not everyone will be needed after the startup phase. Sure it's sad to see people lose jobs, but in my experience the leftover staff was more than able to keep up the same level of productivity without resorting to overtime or weekend work.
Darwinism in action, combined with a "better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" approach. Props to the business world for recognizing what wheels are really turning.
The canadian sci-fi channel Space has been showing Firefly reruns all last year.
Sounds like a great story, sadly my readership mostly spanned the 500s. Superman/Batman stories were always among my favorites, the two just complement each other so well. Batman was Malcom X to Superman's Martin Luther King.
One of my favorite bat-quotes:
Robin: You know where every sewer pipe goes?
Batman: I don't say it's my city just because I live here.
He actually had a number of different suits that he would wear depending on the type of combat he was expecting to encounter. Batman had his heavy armor suits for fighting baddies with guns, he had lighter armor suits with more flexibility for melee villains, ultra-light suits for reconnaissance work, even suits built for various climates and elevations. Some writers gave him a closet full of suits, others gave the idea that the suit was modular and Batman could mix-n-match the peices he wanted.
In modern DC Comics lore, Superman gave Batman a chunk of kryptonite after a nasty fight with a villain (I think it was Brainiac) who managed to control Superman's mind. The logic behind it was that in case a situation like that ever happened again and he needed to be taken down, Superman wanted his most trusted ally to have a trump card to stop him from doing evil. Batman's the man he trusted most to both keep it safe from the hands of other villains, and not to be tempted to use it unless it was an absolute emergency.
The experiment isn't done to show us what supernovea look like, it's more like they've discovered that the gpu from their graphics cards are better suited to the types of operations required to define a supernova than a traditional cpu. The video is just a shiny bonus.
This doesn't make much sense to me, I mean isn't HD basically just a higher resolution and the elimination of interlaced frames? How does that increase cost to the developer, in terms of either development time, money, or complexity?
iThink it would be the perfect name for their new computers. iDon't know why iDidn't think of this before. iApologize if someone thought of it first, but if not iWill have to patent it quick so iCan get my royalties.
Anybody who plays mmo's who hasn't seen this video, google for leeroy.wmv. It's one of the funniest things you will ever see.
I didn't even know there was a book at all until this thread. It kinda makes me want to get a copy and read it though, if for no other reason than to see how different it is from the movie. If I do read it, I'm going in with the full knowledge that it won't be what I expect so I'll be less likely to be dissapointed, but before I say it's bad I need to make sure I think it's bad in it's own right, not because it's not like the movie I watched.
What did you think of I, Robot?
I don't think you give that movie enough credit. I think you should really try and see the finer points of Starship Troopers and not dismiss it because it didn't turn out to be what you wanted it to be. It's subtle and overblown at the same time. It's a great action movie and a satire of humanity at the same time.
The movie studios have done good work making movies from books and comics (I will admit video games seem to be more miss than hit, but if I was 10 years younger I probably would have enjoyed Tomb Raider) and it's unfair to proclaim anything else they make will be crap just because they dropped the ball on a few films.
From the post at the bottom of the article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley really made me think about the kind of characters that can make it work for me. Probably one of the best scenes I can remember from the games I've played is from Max Payne 2, there's a sex scene with Max and Mona that's told using the panel-and-narrator style and that did more for me than anything in GTA or Mafia or Bloodlines.
The same can be said for films, for example when I watched the Incredibles I WANTED them to succeed, but I couldn't care less about the Final Fantasy characters even after 2 hours. Final Flight of the Osiris could be another good example, if I think about how much I enjoyed seeing naked cg swordfighting compared to seeing cg sentinels taking down a hovercraft. It was a cool fight at the start, don't get me wrong, but when I watch that short all I really wanna see is the chase.
I guess the key to making it real enough for our minds to believe in it, is to keep it from being TOO real. Strange thought.