I was thinking of moderating your post up, but I just had to write something on this
and... realized he was an 11-year-old boy. My first reaction to this was "yes, and?" - He's obviously been doing a great job up till then, and there is no reason why the fact that he's 11 (which he was all the time, even before you knew it) should change anything about that.
I've played WoW for some time now, and I have been in raids where we use voice chat to coordinate the raids (and crack jokes at each other, of course), and one lesson learned is : Listen to what people say, not who's saying it. A 12 year old have saved our raid's collective asses a few times when on raiding, and is class leader in our guild (He coordinate that class, distribute loot for that class, and generally keep control over them). The fact that he's 12 is of no consequence to us. He knows what he's doing, he's smart enough, and that's all that matters.
Now, of course, if you actually read the article (which I did just now.. shame on me), the text goes on like this:
I still enjoyed questing with him -- he was a terrific World of Warcraft player. But there's no doubt that hearing each other's voices abruptly changed our social milieu. He seemed equally weirded out by me -- a 38-year-old guy who undoubtedly sounds more like his father than anyone he recognizes as a "gamer." After an hour of this, we all politely logged off and never hooked up again. Which brings a different light to it all, and may have some valid points, best described as "cultural shock". The boy's way of talking was different than what he was used to, and vice versa. Looks like a great opportunity really, to learn something new about the world, too bad they couldn't handle it.
That satellite works now, it will always work. The satellite stopped working, it was not used. We are at war with Eastasia, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Welcome to 1984, try the freedom fags by the door.
I find it interesting that you, a third party, can dump a page from first result on google, to page three. Especially with all these news about companies whining about pagerank lately.
"Nice pagerank you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it."
Two of every kind of animal as in Genesis chapter 6, or 7 pairs of clean animals and one of unclean animals from Genesis chapter 7. And thus evolution was proven;)
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While I personally love the command line, that was perhaps not the best example I've seen:)
He wasn't talking as some kind of all knowing Oracle, he was talking as a powerful businessman with a definite agenda. Why do people keep dragging this up?
Because some people think he is an all knowing oracle.
Oh, lots of ways. Generally, try to make the player push his limits. For example, take wow, and lets take hunter.
Make a mob. Let him be powerful enough to 2shot you. Make him move slightly faster than you, ignore pet, and let him have one slow casting ranged damage spell (2 sec). So, you need to keep distance from him. If you use aspect of cheetah, you need to go out of it at right times. if you use tricks to slow him down (trap, conc shot) you need to keep it up constantly.
That's one simple example. And I think it would be around lvl 30 in challenge.
As for other things, take a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5767167495 196384205 for some good pve mage playing. Some of those would be really nice challenges, and not something everyone can do. And I think you could make it more challenging than that again:)
Yep, its easy. Way too easy. You can make it challenging, and fun, by setting the bar a bit higher yourself. Like for example, doing an instance made for 5 people with only 2 people, or fighting 4 enemies at the same time.
That's no excuse, tho. The game itself should focus more on challenges and less on grinding. "Hard" in wow now is things like "kill 500 of a certain type", and rarely "kill this hard one" - and 99% of those can be done with help. Even those that could be done (albeit a challenge) solo is usually marked as group quests.
Hard means "put more time into doing it" rather then "a challenge to do".
An example on more skill based gameplay could be: instead of "get x xp" to gain a level, you face a mob in a kind of arena alone, and have to win to gain the next level. This will of course get progressively harder compared to your level as you rise in levels. The first fight would require little more than being able to control the basics, but at the end you will need complete understandig of the game mechanics and your character, plus good gear and a bit of luck. This will also add a bonus to veterans that could get to a comfortable level fast, instead of killing x00 mobs with the challenge close to nil. And when people meet their limit, its time to go out and grind, get some better gear, and learn some more.
That is just one example of how to go from time based challenges to skill based challenges. And I really hope some MMO tries something like that some day.
The way I solved this problem was with a Linksys WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT 3rd party firmware.
It works very well, and have been easy to set up. It's a cheap, small, quiet, and easy solution to the problem. As a bonus, you also get wireless (which can be turned off).
Not to mention, you had to install games for ANY of those operating systems--more so since DOS games usually were on floppies that had compressed files spread across multiple disks.
And the next to last disk would always have a read error.
Do you really need to look down on other OS'es all the time? Can't you just be happy with what you have?
Now, as many here have already said, apt-get is just one way, and there's at least two good click'n'drool programs for people with a deathly fear for terminals. Let me take an example for windows on this. How do you get the IP address? If you're telling some other techie, you'd probably just say "start -> run -> cmd -> ipconfig" - now, does that prove that windows isn't ready for the general public? Would you react if someone answered you with "hah, windows is clearly not ready for normal people"? The other alternative is "start -> control panel -> classic -> network connections -> double click on the right one -> Support". But it is twice as long, and more hassle for most techies than just doing it via the command line.
Now, read that again. Think WHERE the poster you replied to posted. Does your grandma read slashdot? Not likely. I expect most people here to be able to copy/paste some text into a terminal, maybe the one you replied to expected that too?
What's worse, your post actually got modded +5 Insightful of all things. I just get the feeling that there are a lot of people needing something to look down on..
Ummm... Yeah, I'm gonna need you to move your office down to the basement. Uh, we have some new people coming in and we need all the space we can get. And if you could could go ahead and get a can of psticide and take care of the roach problem we've been having that would be great.
To sum it all up: it could have used a couple of months more of closed / open beta testing and adjusted both the UI and the structure of the game. It's not as polished as one could wish. The concepts that separates the game from WoW (as this is what most people know) is interesting, but the execution could probably be timed better. Agree 100%
And that was my verdict already a week or two before the beta ended. Had two lvl 10, 1 lvl 8 and 2 lvl 5 chars. Not much, but it let me see the aspects of the game. Two of them was crafters, and one was diplomat. The diplomat looked the most promising / fun part.
But the overall polish and execution need some serious work. And the game should have had at least a month extra before release.
Interesting game, could have been damn good, but lack the sparkle.
I know this is a concept that's hard to grasp, but what if it actually was cheaper? It can be that those were weekends with generally little traffic, and instead of going out half empty they tried to go out full, but with less earning on each? Or it was a special occation maybe, or a ton of other good reasons for them to make a special offer?
I think that if you automatically distrust everything a company says, you're almost as bad as those that automatically trust everything a company says.
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(wow, glad I previewed, I almost called him a LAYER)
That would actually be LESS of an insult.
They had a kind of spacewalk in Titan AE (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120913/) too. Great movie by the way.
:)
I remember one of them said "Exhale!" right before the space "walk", and the trip lasted just a few seconds.
I always wondered if it was actually possible. Now I know, I guess
What he's really trying to say is : "I want free BlueRay films! Crack that shit already!"
Yeer sweengleesh ess veery niece, bork bork bork.
BTW, I am a bit disappointed that the "itsatrap" tag haven't shown up yet
When you sell your wife so you can subscribe to more porn sites, you're addicted.
Heh, I rather liked this one, with that tag :p
;)
Of course, there was other fun stuff (NSFW) there too
BTW, anyone know that that type of 3d picture is called?
I've played WoW for some time now, and I have been in raids where we use voice chat to coordinate the raids (and crack jokes at each other, of course), and one lesson learned is : Listen to what people say, not who's saying it. A 12 year old have saved our raid's collective asses a few times when on raiding, and is class leader in our guild (He coordinate that class, distribute loot for that class, and generally keep control over them). The fact that he's 12 is of no consequence to us. He knows what he's doing, he's smart enough, and that's all that matters.
Now, of course, if you actually read the article (which I did just now.. shame on me), the text goes on like this
That satellite works now, it will always work. The satellite stopped working, it was not used. We are at war with Eastasia, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Welcome to 1984, try the freedom fags by the door.
I find it interesting that you, a third party, can dump a page from first result on google, to page three. Especially with all these news about companies whining about pagerank lately.
"Nice pagerank you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it."
Comparing those products to a firewall?
That's like comparing a normal handgun to an ED-209 on a rampage.
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:)
While I personally love the command line, that was perhaps not the best example I've seen
He wasn't talking as some kind of all knowing Oracle, he was talking as a powerful businessman with a definite agenda. Why do people keep dragging this up?
Because some people think he is an all knowing oracle.
I did zg and mc. They weren't hard. They just took time. The hard part was to get people to actually think a bit.
As for PvP, not hard, not really. Just another grind with slightly smarter opponents.
Oh, lots of ways. Generally, try to make the player push his limits. For example, take wow, and lets take hunter.
5 196384205 for some good pve mage playing. Some of those would be really nice challenges, and not something everyone can do. And I think you could make it more challenging than that again :)
Make a mob. Let him be powerful enough to 2shot you. Make him move slightly faster than you, ignore pet, and let him have one slow casting ranged damage spell (2 sec). So, you need to keep distance from him. If you use aspect of cheetah, you need to go out of it at right times. if you use tricks to slow him down (trap, conc shot) you need to keep it up constantly.
That's one simple example. And I think it would be around lvl 30 in challenge.
As for other things, take a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=576716749
Yep, its easy. Way too easy. You can make it challenging, and fun, by setting the bar a bit higher yourself. Like for example, doing an instance made for 5 people with only 2 people, or fighting 4 enemies at the same time.
That's no excuse, tho. The game itself should focus more on challenges and less on grinding. "Hard" in wow now is things like "kill 500 of a certain type", and rarely "kill this hard one" - and 99% of those can be done with help. Even those that could be done (albeit a challenge) solo is usually marked as group quests.
Hard means "put more time into doing it" rather then "a challenge to do".
An example on more skill based gameplay could be: instead of "get x xp" to gain a level, you face a mob in a kind of arena alone, and have to win to gain the next level. This will of course get progressively harder compared to your level as you rise in levels. The first fight would require little more than being able to control the basics, but at the end you will need complete understandig of the game mechanics and your character, plus good gear and a bit of luck.
This will also add a bonus to veterans that could get to a comfortable level fast, instead of killing x00 mobs with the challenge close to nil. And when people meet their limit, its time to go out and grind, get some better gear, and learn some more.
That is just one example of how to go from time based challenges to skill based challenges. And I really hope some MMO tries something like that some day.
The way I solved this problem was with a Linksys WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT 3rd party firmware.
It works very well, and have been easy to set up. It's a cheap, small, quiet, and easy solution to the problem. As a bonus, you also get wireless (which can be turned off).
Sure, anyone could go download those for free, but how many 'regular joes' know to do so?
From the amount of spyware they manage to download and install, I'd say "most of them".
They're just landing on the wrong webpages.
Not to mention, you had to install games for ANY of those operating systems--more so since DOS games usually were on floppies that had compressed files spread across multiple disks.
And the next to last disk would always have a read error.
What is it with you people?
Do you really need to look down on other OS'es all the time? Can't you just be happy with what you have?
Now, as many here have already said, apt-get is just one way, and there's at least two good click'n'drool programs for people with a deathly fear for terminals.
Let me take an example for windows on this. How do you get the IP address? If you're telling some other techie, you'd probably just say "start -> run -> cmd -> ipconfig" - now, does that prove that windows isn't ready for the general public? Would you react if someone answered you with "hah, windows is clearly not ready for normal people"? The other alternative is
"start -> control panel -> classic -> network connections -> double click on the right one -> Support".
But it is twice as long, and more hassle for most techies than just doing it via the command line.
Now, read that again. Think WHERE the poster you replied to posted. Does your grandma read slashdot? Not likely. I expect most people here to be able to copy/paste some text into a terminal, maybe the one you replied to expected that too?
What's worse, your post actually got modded +5 Insightful of all things. I just get the feeling that there are a lot of people needing something to look down on..
Ummm... Yeah, I'm gonna need you to move your office down to the basement.
Uh, we have some new people coming in and we need all the space we can
get.
And if you could could go ahead and get a can of psticide and take care
of the roach problem we've been having that would be great.
And that was my verdict already a week or two before the beta ended. Had two lvl 10, 1 lvl 8 and 2 lvl 5 chars. Not much, but it let me see the aspects of the game. Two of them was crafters, and one was diplomat. The diplomat looked the most promising / fun part.
But the overall polish and execution need some serious work. And the game should have had at least a month extra before release.
Interesting game, could have been damn good, but lack the sparkle.
Basically a Rube Goldberg redirect? :)
I know this is a concept that's hard to grasp, but what if it actually was cheaper? It can be that those were weekends with generally little traffic, and instead of going out half empty they tried to go out full, but with less earning on each? Or it was a special occation maybe, or a ton of other good reasons for them to make a special offer?
I think that if you automatically distrust everything a company says, you're almost as bad as those that automatically trust everything a company says.