I think that the best counter for Microsoft would be to have the dozens of personifications of PCs playing a bunch of games, several of them playing together, and then the single personification of the Mac alone in a corner with nothing to do.
There's nothing stopping you from going fair game on the CoS' leaders. Nothing in the rules says that you have to use legal tactics in this little game of theirs. In fact, I'd suggest taking some pages from the books of some friends of ours that pioneered 'fair game' during the prohibition era and circumvent the CoS' lawyers altogether.
Because if you've ever built something out of large sums of Legos, you'd realize that there is a 100% chance that a vital piece will go missing, even though you just saw it a minute ago.
Except that Rainier won't do that. St. Helens was a fluke. Should Rainier do the same thing as St. Helens, the worst case scenario would be the loss of Orting and Puyallup and all of the other tiny towns in the valley to the mudflow. Tacoma and Seattle would be unscathed save for the ash covering everything. Even then, we had weeks and weeks of warning before St. Helens blew. Don't even try to compare a once every few hundred years eruption to something that happens several times every summer.
It's called personal responsibility, shitbag. I expect the GP to be able to manage his own life as he sees fit, and will expect him to deal with the resulting outcome himself. Fuck you if you're going to force him to not do things to himself, and fuck you again if you're going to force me to help someone that can't manage to take care of themselves.
We have this thing called natural selection. It tends to ensure that society doesn't get destroyed by fuckoffs like you that can't manage to survive without someone holding your hand.
The fate of the faction hinges upon every player contributing. If your faction failed to rally and hold its assets, the only person that can be blamed for not being able to complete the quest or visit the trainer is yourself, as you chose the faction that was unable to work for something, in this case the ability for you to use services in the town.
Likewise, I would be unable to go to Kara because I did not work to get to the point that such a trip would be possible. Things must be earned, be it by putting in the effort to level to the point where I can run Kara or by getting your faction to the point that it is capable of maintaining assets such as a town or capital. If you fail to earn the town by keeping it, why should you be entitled to use it for quests and trainers? If you're not willing to interact with other players and their actions, why are you playing a MMO in the first place?
They find something else to do. Just because you want to do something doesn't mean that you can. If I want to go run Kara at level ten, I'm shit out of luck. If you want to go visit a weapon trainer or do a quest but can't because your faction got owned, that's your own problem for not working with your faction to protect your assets.
Alternatively, you could make floor sweeping and grain threshing the low level quests for people new to the shopkeeper and farmer professions. It's not like MMOs don't already have countless run around and interact with $number of $objects in $area and return for a reward quests. I don't see how "Go sweep 00 dirty spots on the floor" is any different than "Go wake up 10 sleeping peons."
Then, as the players become more skilled farmers or shopkeepers they begin issuing the quests for this mundane work or for a higher premium hire NPCs to do it.
People that are sick of fighting. Not everyone wants to be a hero. Some people like to play the auction house, craft things, and provide services for other players. Why shouldn't someone be able to play the economic and construction sides of Warcraft instead of the mindless soldier killing things side?
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Sounds to me like you're just a shitty typist.
Sure there is.
I wish you could be modded +6 funny for this.
Or we could just kill the ones that are dragging down the education system.
I got a stern talking to in Basic Training when I was in the hospital and made a tinfoil hat to protect from government mind control waves.
I think that the best counter for Microsoft would be to have the dozens of personifications of PCs playing a bunch of games, several of them playing together, and then the single personification of the Mac alone in a corner with nothing to do.
About ten minutes before lawmakers start getting shot en masse.
That's not funny! My system administrator died that way!
This must be Tuesday, I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.
That's not funny! My brother died that way!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
There's nothing stopping you from going fair game on the CoS' leaders. Nothing in the rules says that you have to use legal tactics in this little game of theirs. In fact, I'd suggest taking some pages from the books of some friends of ours that pioneered 'fair game' during the prohibition era and circumvent the CoS' lawyers altogether.
Because if you've ever built something out of large sums of Legos, you'd realize that there is a 100% chance that a vital piece will go missing, even though you just saw it a minute ago.
Give it two days.
Except that Rainier won't do that. St. Helens was a fluke. Should Rainier do the same thing as St. Helens, the worst case scenario would be the loss of Orting and Puyallup and all of the other tiny towns in the valley to the mudflow. Tacoma and Seattle would be unscathed save for the ash covering everything. Even then, we had weeks and weeks of warning before St. Helens blew. Don't even try to compare a once every few hundred years eruption to something that happens several times every summer.
This isn't Wikipedia. I don't have to cite every reference. lern2google nub
Just as well, as he's going to be vacating the White House to the new ticket in a few months anyway.
Funny, it seems to me that is exactly what he did.
...to abuse that power.
It's called personal responsibility, shitbag. I expect the GP to be able to manage his own life as he sees fit, and will expect him to deal with the resulting outcome himself. Fuck you if you're going to force him to not do things to himself, and fuck you again if you're going to force me to help someone that can't manage to take care of themselves.
We have this thing called natural selection. It tends to ensure that society doesn't get destroyed by fuckoffs like you that can't manage to survive without someone holding your hand.
The fate of the faction hinges upon every player contributing. If your faction failed to rally and hold its assets, the only person that can be blamed for not being able to complete the quest or visit the trainer is yourself, as you chose the faction that was unable to work for something, in this case the ability for you to use services in the town.
Likewise, I would be unable to go to Kara because I did not work to get to the point that such a trip would be possible. Things must be earned, be it by putting in the effort to level to the point where I can run Kara or by getting your faction to the point that it is capable of maintaining assets such as a town or capital. If you fail to earn the town by keeping it, why should you be entitled to use it for quests and trainers? If you're not willing to interact with other players and their actions, why are you playing a MMO in the first place?
They find something else to do. Just because you want to do something doesn't mean that you can. If I want to go run Kara at level ten, I'm shit out of luck. If you want to go visit a weapon trainer or do a quest but can't because your faction got owned, that's your own problem for not working with your faction to protect your assets.
Alternatively, you could make floor sweeping and grain threshing the low level quests for people new to the shopkeeper and farmer professions. It's not like MMOs don't already have countless run around and interact with $number of $objects in $area and return for a reward quests. I don't see how "Go sweep 00 dirty spots on the floor" is any different than "Go wake up 10 sleeping peons."
Then, as the players become more skilled farmers or shopkeepers they begin issuing the quests for this mundane work or for a higher premium hire NPCs to do it.
People that are sick of fighting. Not everyone wants to be a hero. Some people like to play the auction house, craft things, and provide services for other players. Why shouldn't someone be able to play the economic and construction sides of Warcraft instead of the mindless soldier killing things side?
That's not funny. My brother died that way.