Bullshit. I grabbed the final 3 expansions for sims 2 off torrents, tried them out, and promptly deleted them. I learned my lesson after the final sims 1 expansion... The final expansion in particular. They took the demo concept of sims 3 (apartments, playing your sims while other families are active), tacked on the half assed magic stuff from sims 1, and called it an expansion.
The sims series is interesting and has a lot of potential, but it's really damn obvious the EA execs treat it as nothing more than a cash bag. Need more money? Have a modeler modify 6 of the existing models to have some different angles, have a texture artist create a basic texture like duckies on blue background and use it for everything, and sell it for $19.99 as a stuff pack. Bonus if they can get some big name furniture maker to pay them to tag a name into the descriptions of the new models.
Reviews are bullshit. Demos are haven't been worth trying, if you can find one, since the fucking 90s. And game companies will tack a $20 price sticker on every 5 minutes of work they can get away with. My money is precious to me, it provides a roof, clothes, and food to my little girl. I sure as hell am not going to toss it at EA every time one of their artists takes a day to make new textures. I download when needed to make informed decisions about where my limited budget is going to be spent.
And no, I'm not one of those 180k downloaders. Making the decision based off half a game is pretty damn worthless and a waste of bandwidth. I won't need to anyway, a friend of mine is planning on buying it when it comes out, so I can try it at his place this time around, just like he tried 1 and 2 at my place when they came out.
15. Farm the same damn instance over and over. Praying that not only will the 1% droprate item from the sub boss drop, but you will be lucky enough to roll higher than the other 5 people who need it. All for that extra 2dps and 3 res rating you need be be considered usable in the next higher dungeon to farm.
Oh, and your 10? Spend hours and hours farming mats, grinding useless items that have a 20% chance of skill up, spend heaps of gold on training and AH mats you can't possibly realistically farm yourself, all so you can create armor and items that are near worthless in the endgame anyway. Yes, I'm an engineer, I've made enough of those damn gnomish army knives to start my own battalion, all so I can now create two damn guns no one wants. Add in spending 4 hours last night trying to get the arcanite dragonling recipe to drop (which never did), and you have all the reasons why I'm heading back to cox the second I can make a zombie MM goodguy.
Name it "Cable And Support Heisterkerflufflemingyousen", and when you boss asks how to spell it tell him to just write the check out to the acronym, "CASH"
1000kbps? HAH! I live in wyoming, and I can tell you, unless you live right in town there's a 75% chance your phone system's switchbox is mechanical.
We were lucky dialup worked when we were living out of town, at speeds of a blazing 13.2kbps on good days 5 years ago.
Wireless is the way to go out here, cellphones reach almost everywhere, and my town's broadband is serviced not my cable or fiber, but microwave links that bounce it over the mountains.
Actually the bug was in the ground collision mechanics. There was a small delay between collision with a surface and the engine changing the player object's state from falling/flying to standing/walking. If you did tiny jumps or used your jetpack while in that transition period (after collision but before being rooted to the ground), the engine would reset the delay and you would keep using falling physics on the ground, allowing you to ski.
The same bug caused some weird vehicle physics. Like if you tried landing a flyer on a deployable item (like a deployable wall or vehicle spawn pad some mods had), it would never transition to the resting state, and would collide 32 times per second for tiny amounts of damage to both.
IsShellsho Waitwaitwait, this isn't a trick is it, like that bloody mary thing is it? Trying to make me repeat the name of some unspeakable horror a couple times and summon misfortune upon myself? Like those guys who want me to say Hastur Hastur Hastur keep attemp&^557647%$uy... NO CARRIER
Hope that the disease will go into remission or someone will find a cure, or atleast a treatment to prolong his life. Legal requirements that ALL children must be registered and attending school if they are physically able to. The desire to give the kid atleast a semblance of a normal life, with interaction with others his own age.
Very poor odds. Working for a similar state government agency I can tell you the process probably involved atleast 10 weekly or monthly meetings to outline the basic content, a 2 month review process on the outline documentation for the page layout, a 6 month bidding process from prospective contractors to create the webpage, another couple months for a cost/benefit analysis, with the final decision that a frontpage license and either a new permanent position or an expansion of duties amendment (with associated raise) to one of their high up IT people would be the answer. Total time to create that webpage, probably a year and a half to two years.
Low power, lightweight, non-rigid writable computing devices, capable of being rolled into a tube around it's hard circuitry?
K-12 schools- a cheap computing device for students to use that's near identical to paper, could allow a teacher to monitor an entire class's writing from his/her desk, and wouldn't snap like a twig or make a backpack extremely bulky if placed in a student's backpack? oh yeah, no use whatsoever there
Think of it this way, what's more familiar for people to use for note taking, a spiral notebook like most people grew up with in school, or a thick, rigid tablet?
Great, now you've summoned one of the Elder Gods, Cop'Yr'Ight and his insatiable horde of lawyers. You've doomed the entire world! Hastur's got nothing on this tentacle-faced prick.
Oh no, it's 100% true. Each bite of meat you take actually destroys over 2 dozen atoms. Poof, gone. Eating meat breaks the laws of thermodynamics and hastens the heat death of the universe.
Reword it. Once we have banned all children, there will be no children in unsafe situations. We will finally achieve a perfect 0 incident rate on all dangers to children.
I've been jumping into every MMO beta I could ever since asheron's call, and frankly TR had the worst quality beta and launch I've ever seen.
Dungeons were unfinished. There were some very clear best and worst class tree picks. The control point assaults were terrible, to the point most people just ignored them. Holes in the terrain geometry were scattered everywhere. It just had a whole game feel of not all there, much like the feeling you got playing starwars galaxies.
Personally I found auto-assault to be a much better game, and I still wasn't surprised when that one tanked.
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Bullshit. I grabbed the final 3 expansions for sims 2 off torrents, tried them out, and promptly deleted them. I learned my lesson after the final sims 1 expansion...
The final expansion in particular. They took the demo concept of sims 3 (apartments, playing your sims while other families are active), tacked on the half assed magic stuff from sims 1, and called it an expansion.
The sims series is interesting and has a lot of potential, but it's really damn obvious the EA execs treat it as nothing more than a cash bag.
Need more money? Have a modeler modify 6 of the existing models to have some different angles, have a texture artist create a basic texture like duckies on blue background and use it for everything, and sell it for $19.99 as a stuff pack. Bonus if they can get some big name furniture maker to pay them to tag a name into the descriptions of the new models.
Reviews are bullshit. Demos are haven't been worth trying, if you can find one, since the fucking 90s. And game companies will tack a $20 price sticker on every 5 minutes of work they can get away with.
My money is precious to me, it provides a roof, clothes, and food to my little girl. I sure as hell am not going to toss it at EA every time one of their artists takes a day to make new textures. I download when needed to make informed decisions about where my limited budget is going to be spent.
And no, I'm not one of those 180k downloaders. Making the decision based off half a game is pretty damn worthless and a waste of bandwidth. I won't need to anyway, a friend of mine is planning on buying it when it comes out, so I can try it at his place this time around, just like he tried 1 and 2 at my place when they came out.
Wouldn't the workgroups version just make it easier to transmit the vaccine to others?
Only way to easily do it would be via bite...
Holyshit, gates is working on the zombie virus!
15. Farm the same damn instance over and over. Praying that not only will the 1% droprate item from the sub boss drop, but you will be lucky enough to roll higher than the other 5 people who need it. All for that extra 2dps and 3 res rating you need be be considered usable in the next higher dungeon to farm.
Oh, and your 10? Spend hours and hours farming mats, grinding useless items that have a 20% chance of skill up, spend heaps of gold on training and AH mats you can't possibly realistically farm yourself, all so you can create armor and items that are near worthless in the endgame anyway.
Yes, I'm an engineer, I've made enough of those damn gnomish army knives to start my own battalion, all so I can now create two damn guns no one wants. Add in spending 4 hours last night trying to get the arcanite dragonling recipe to drop (which never did), and you have all the reasons why I'm heading back to cox the second I can make a zombie MM goodguy.
Or Wyoming.
How ugly is it?
Name it "Cable And Support Heisterkerflufflemingyousen", and when you boss asks how to spell it tell him to just write the check out to the acronym, "CASH"
Yes, I'm a bastard.
You mean a horse?
Yeah, cake is great, I love it too. I prefer chocolate myself, much better than reading posts.
1000kbps? HAH! I live in wyoming, and I can tell you, unless you live right in town there's a 75% chance your phone system's switchbox is mechanical.
We were lucky dialup worked when we were living out of town, at speeds of a blazing 13.2kbps on good days 5 years ago.
Wireless is the way to go out here, cellphones reach almost everywhere, and my town's broadband is serviced not my cable or fiber, but microwave links that bounce it over the mountains.
Imagine a bewolf cluster of these.
Been there, done that. http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
Gets cars off the road. A wrecked car uses no gas.
Actually the bug was in the ground collision mechanics. There was a small delay between collision with a surface and the engine changing the player object's state from falling/flying to standing/walking. If you did tiny jumps or used your jetpack while in that transition period (after collision but before being rooted to the ground), the engine would reset the delay and you would keep using falling physics on the ground, allowing you to ski.
The same bug caused some weird vehicle physics. Like if you tried landing a flyer on a deployable item (like a deployable wall or vehicle spawn pad some mods had), it would never transition to the resting state, and would collide 32 times per second for tiny amounts of damage to both.
IsShellsho
Waitwaitwait, this isn't a trick is it, like that bloody mary thing is it? Trying to make me repeat the name of some unspeakable horror a couple times and summon misfortune upon myself?
Like those guys who want me to say Hastur Hastur Hastur keep attemp&^557647%$uy... NO CARRIER
Hope that the disease will go into remission or someone will find a cure, or atleast a treatment to prolong his life.
Legal requirements that ALL children must be registered and attending school if they are physically able to.
The desire to give the kid atleast a semblance of a normal life, with interaction with others his own age.
/silly on a female undead character, cycle through till you get your answer.
Complete? But you still haven't caught those Duke boys...
Very poor odds. Working for a similar state government agency I can tell you the process probably involved atleast 10 weekly or monthly meetings to outline the basic content, a 2 month review process on the outline documentation for the page layout, a 6 month bidding process from prospective contractors to create the webpage, another couple months for a cost/benefit analysis, with the final decision that a frontpage license and either a new permanent position or an expansion of duties amendment (with associated raise) to one of their high up IT people would be the answer. Total time to create that webpage, probably a year and a half to two years.
cabin fever causes bad puns, riddickorating your home can help
Low power, lightweight, non-rigid writable computing devices, capable of being rolled into a tube around it's hard circuitry?
K-12 schools- a cheap computing device for students to use that's near identical to paper, could allow a teacher to monitor an entire class's writing from his/her desk, and wouldn't snap like a twig or make a backpack extremely bulky if placed in a student's backpack? oh yeah, no use whatsoever there
Think of it this way, what's more familiar for people to use for note taking, a spiral notebook like most people grew up with in school, or a thick, rigid tablet?
Great, now you've summoned one of the Elder Gods, Cop'Yr'Ight and his insatiable horde of lawyers. You've doomed the entire world!
Hastur's got nothing on this tentacle-faced prick.
Oh no, it's 100% true. Each bite of meat you take actually destroys over 2 dozen atoms. Poof, gone.
Eating meat breaks the laws of thermodynamics and hastens the heat death of the universe.
Damn universe killing meat eaters...
M-M-M-MONSTER WOOOOSH...
Reword it.
Once we have banned all children, there will be no children in unsafe situations. We will finally achieve a perfect 0 incident rate on all dangers to children.
It is good to see another keeper of the faith. Duke's next coming will be grand.
Go in carnage, and may you forever be out of bubblegum. Amen.
I've been jumping into every MMO beta I could ever since asheron's call, and frankly TR had the worst quality beta and launch I've ever seen.
Dungeons were unfinished. There were some very clear best and worst class tree picks. The control point assaults were terrible, to the point most people just ignored them. Holes in the terrain geometry were scattered everywhere.
It just had a whole game feel of not all there, much like the feeling you got playing starwars galaxies.
Personally I found auto-assault to be a much better game, and I still wasn't surprised when that one tanked.