It is up to the developers to make the game to what they believe is the experience they want to portray. I actually said that, as a gamer, you are not forced to play their game. If a game isn't fun, why on earth would you play it especially if you had to keep paying to do so? What I am saying is that the developers have the final say on what the game is capable of and the users must accept that. They can accept it by sucking it up and playing the game or they can accept it by showing them that they would rather spend their money and time on something else than their subscriptions.
I mean, nobody has a constitutional right to harm someone else, be that in the real world or the virtual world.
Really? Where does it say that it is illegal to harm someone in a fantasy world that does not exist in reality. No harm is being done to the person, nor is there any harm being done to their property. If I shoot and kill somebody in Counter Strike, does that meen that I just committed homicide? Of course not!
As far as I am conserned, if the developers code a feature into a game it is meant to be there and be used. It is pretty stupid to think that developers would code something into a game, make it available to the player and then ask everyone not to use it. The developers have the power to disable PvP if they so desired.
Maybe, but they can't have it both ways - they can't have a game that requires an UNGODLY commitment, AND situations where someone can easily lose what they've worked so hard to accomplish.
They can have it both ways, it is 100% their choice. Minus the bot situation, everyone is on a level playing ground. You could have scammed that nice bow yourself, in fact, why didn't you? It is okay to have certain morals in a game, but as such, being a game and a fantasy world where things you believe to be immoral can happen, you must accept that they can and will happen. If you don't agree with how the game is structured, guess what, you don't have to play it. It is up to the developers to determin what is a fun gaming experience. If they believe stealing from other players can be a fun experience than they can put it in there. If it is indeed not a good feature and it is included, then the developer can either change it or accept the consequences of people not playing their game and loosing subscriptions.
If the devs want to do this, that is completely fine if it were used properly in the sense of the game. If the devs really dont want PvP, they should take it out of the game. If they use 'virtual police' and such, I believe it should be done in such a way that the police are characters themselves and they would have to actually track you down and take you to jail through the game. This method could make you a 'virtual fugative' which might actually be sortof fun.
I believe in that using a bot, this could maybe be considered a crime. But I also believe that if it was just him using and controlling his character to mug and steal, it should be a completely non issue, even if he did sell the items for real money. Killing players and taking their stuff that drops is okay by me because it is part of the game. Bots are not part of the game so that throws a wrench into the situation, and understandably so.
The whole point of games and their virtual worlds is to be able to do something or experience something you would normally not be able to do in reality. If the devs didn't want PvP then they would not have implemented it. In a fantasy world , rules are differen't from reality and the laws of the real world (in most cases) should not apply either. Your character is not doing physical harm, they are doing simulated fictional harm. No real world people or property is harmed.
This whole story seems to me that people are really starting to not be able to seperate reality from fantasy and it is a sad sad thing.
In the real world, it is your fault and you should go to jail.
In a fantasy world, the law should not be held up on virtual 'muggings'. If it isn't meant to happen, the developers should never have included. In the virtual world, you are not doing anyone any harm. Non of their assets are real, none of their gold is real and if the devs want players to be able to steal from other players that's up to them.
The one issue with this situation in particular is the bot. In this case, the bot/user should simply be banned. I don't agree they should go to jail though because all they have done is interact with non-real items and non-real god. These items are part of a game, not reality.
The bot aspect is the only thing I see as being potentially being illegal at all. As far as breaking 'in-game rules' by robbing people, I don't agree at all that this is illegal because it is part of the game. Why would a developer make this possible and then go on and say it is against the rules?
Personally, I think the people inforcing these rules are having trouble seperating reality from fantasy. An MMO world is not a real place, there is no direct harm being done to people; this is what I believe the law inforcers are missing.
I would really have liked to see the result of such a situation had the mugger been an actual player.
The ESRB said nothing about alcohol consumption in it's packaging warnings. Now I am offended that I have let my child play such filth. I will see HAL in court!
Netscape can use the IE renderer... This is why they say they can support it. New Netscape is just IE in sheeps clothing. Therefor, as a result, the content in question would still be IE only.
Pizza Hut pizzas for health in Tomb Raider 37 ("The Search for the Zimmer Frame")?
Ever played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II for the NES? Nothing other than Pizza Hut pizza for health as well as Pizza Hut billboards throughout the game.
80% of game developers may be white but what is a rough breakdown of ethnicity percentages of US citizens? I really have no idea but as a rough guess, the ratio seems fine by me.
How long would it take to make a hack that gets saves from the old memory cards onto the new memory cards. Not long by my guess seeing as there are already ways to get PS1 and PS2 saves to a computer. All it would really take is a PSP hack to get the saves on the new sticks.
Yes, I would also recommend this book. I had the opportunity to attend a keynote by the author regarding sports betting and mathmatical biases. Also, I often use and enjoy those programming problems from that problemset. Again, highly recommended.
I have actually tried both of them and still think they leave a little to be desired in their current state. They will most definetely improve as development continues. For example GnomeBaker only shows files/folders from the root of the disk. it doesn't let you expand or browse any sub folders. Also, one of the two, I don't remember which, doesn't let you put any more files in your layout once the total size exceeds their predifined disk size. This was a pain because 1) it wouldn't let me overburn 2) I usually add excess stuff to a disk layout and then go back and weed out the junk I don't want.
I have been using the nautilus CD burner actually recently, at least for simple burns. Otherwise I just use the console.
I think KDE looks promising but I still prefer Gnome (still has it's fair share of bloat). I find KDE has a lot of bloat (KDE 4 should have less to my understanding). K3B is still the most useful burning app but really, who needs an icky looking Mr. Potatoe Head game as an included part of a desktop environment.
So glad to hear they aren't CGing the monsters. Makes me think of the licker in the Resident Evil movie. That one monster ruined the entire look, feel and mood of the entire film.
This is a tad anti-Microsoft but really it's more along the lines that I prefer Sony's offerings and have always respected Nintendo. I am looking forward to the PS3 because the system just appeals to me more with the Blu Ray discs and the NVidia GPU and such. Nintendo seems to be holding their cards close to theri chest but the idea of (legally) playing all the old school games sounds really cool. I am just not as enthused towards the new XBox but I do agree with the prospect that there needs to be competition.
My ISP has/had (I don't know, or care, any more) a service like this for a while. Whil not as robust as this, it had ~8 channels. News, Comedy, TechTV/G4, TSN, Much Music and some other stuff. In this situation though, the buffer was always underunning. The picture quality was sub par for even regular streaming video. On top of all this, it was incompatible with anything but Internet Explorer. You could look at he source if you were clever though to get the stream addresses but as a regular consumer service, you shouldn't have to. My experience with Internet TV has been poor so I may be biased, this new service may be great but I'll believe it when I see it.
Just to expand on this a tad from what I have observed. Most kids now know that "No child is left behind" and that students are just pushed through to the next grade. Because of this, many of them just dont try; why would they? They know they can pass without doing the work and without actually learning so why bother when they can watch TV instead?
If ATi and Nvidia were getting free money, why would they even bother making any more cards? They don't need to sell any if they are getting free money. Then we would be stuck with Intel integrated graphics *shudders*.
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It is up to the developers to make the game to what they believe is the experience they want to portray. I actually said that, as a gamer, you are not forced to play their game. If a game isn't fun, why on earth would you play it especially if you had to keep paying to do so? What I am saying is that the developers have the final say on what the game is capable of and the users must accept that. They can accept it by sucking it up and playing the game or they can accept it by showing them that they would rather spend their money and time on something else than their subscriptions.
As far as I am conserned, if the developers code a feature into a game it is meant to be there and be used. It is pretty stupid to think that developers would code something into a game, make it available to the player and then ask everyone not to use it. The developers have the power to disable PvP if they so desired.
If the devs want to do this, that is completely fine if it were used properly in the sense of the game. If the devs really dont want PvP, they should take it out of the game. If they use 'virtual police' and such, I believe it should be done in such a way that the police are characters themselves and they would have to actually track you down and take you to jail through the game. This method could make you a 'virtual fugative' which might actually be sortof fun.
I believe in that using a bot, this could maybe be considered a crime. But I also believe that if it was just him using and controlling his character to mug and steal, it should be a completely non issue, even if he did sell the items for real money. Killing players and taking their stuff that drops is okay by me because it is part of the game. Bots are not part of the game so that throws a wrench into the situation, and understandably so.
The whole point is that games aren't reality!
The whole point of games and their virtual worlds is to be able to do something or experience something you would normally not be able to do in reality. If the devs didn't want PvP then they would not have implemented it. In a fantasy world , rules are differen't from reality and the laws of the real world (in most cases) should not apply either. Your character is not doing physical harm, they are doing simulated fictional harm. No real world people or property is harmed.
This whole story seems to me that people are really starting to not be able to seperate reality from fantasy and it is a sad sad thing.
In the real world, it is your fault and you should go to jail.
In a fantasy world, the law should not be held up on virtual 'muggings'. If it isn't meant to happen, the developers should never have included. In the virtual world, you are not doing anyone any harm. Non of their assets are real, none of their gold is real and if the devs want players to be able to steal from other players that's up to them.
The one issue with this situation in particular is the bot. In this case, the bot/user should simply be banned. I don't agree they should go to jail though because all they have done is interact with non-real items and non-real god. These items are part of a game, not reality.
The bot aspect is the only thing I see as being potentially being illegal at all. As far as breaking 'in-game rules' by robbing people, I don't agree at all that this is illegal because it is part of the game. Why would a developer make this possible and then go on and say it is against the rules?
Personally, I think the people inforcing these rules are having trouble seperating reality from fantasy. An MMO world is not a real place, there is no direct harm being done to people; this is what I believe the law inforcers are missing.
I would really have liked to see the result of such a situation had the mugger been an actual player.
The ESRB said nothing about alcohol consumption in it's packaging warnings. Now I am offended that I have let my child play such filth. I will see HAL in court!
Netscape can use the IE renderer... This is why they say they can support it. New Netscape is just IE in sheeps clothing. Therefor, as a result, the content in question would still be IE only.
Precision on a trackball leaves a lot to be desired... Thumbs just aren't as agile as an entire hand.
80% of game developers may be white but what is a rough breakdown of ethnicity percentages of US citizens? I really have no idea but as a rough guess, the ratio seems fine by me.
Everyone gets spammed and somehow Microsoft gets $7M. How does that work?
How long would it take to make a hack that gets saves from the old memory cards onto the new memory cards. Not long by my guess seeing as there are already ways to get PS1 and PS2 saves to a computer. All it would really take is a PSP hack to get the saves on the new sticks.
Yes, I would also recommend this book. I had the opportunity to attend a keynote by the author regarding sports betting and mathmatical biases. Also, I often use and enjoy those programming problems from that problemset. Again, highly recommended.
I have actually tried both of them and still think they leave a little to be desired in their current state. They will most definetely improve as development continues. For example GnomeBaker only shows files/folders from the root of the disk. it doesn't let you expand or browse any sub folders. Also, one of the two, I don't remember which, doesn't let you put any more files in your layout once the total size exceeds their predifined disk size. This was a pain because 1) it wouldn't let me overburn 2) I usually add excess stuff to a disk layout and then go back and weed out the junk I don't want.
I have been using the nautilus CD burner actually recently, at least for simple burns. Otherwise I just use the console.
I think KDE looks promising but I still prefer Gnome (still has it's fair share of bloat). I find KDE has a lot of bloat (KDE 4 should have less to my understanding). K3B is still the most useful burning app but really, who needs an icky looking Mr. Potatoe Head game as an included part of a desktop environment.
So glad to hear they aren't CGing the monsters. Makes me think of the licker in the Resident Evil movie. That one monster ruined the entire look, feel and mood of the entire film.
Obviously you didn't read this. Read the actual article for the MS Intel deal.
This is a tad anti-Microsoft but really it's more along the lines that I prefer Sony's offerings and have always respected Nintendo. I am looking forward to the PS3 because the system just appeals to me more with the Blu Ray discs and the NVidia GPU and such. Nintendo seems to be holding their cards close to theri chest but the idea of (legally) playing all the old school games sounds really cool. I am just not as enthused towards the new XBox but I do agree with the prospect that there needs to be competition.
I was just about to suggest the same thing and only hope history repeats itself, only this time with the XBox360.
My ISP has/had (I don't know, or care, any more) a service like this for a while. Whil not as robust as this, it had ~8 channels. News, Comedy, TechTV/G4, TSN, Much Music and some other stuff. In this situation though, the buffer was always underunning. The picture quality was sub par for even regular streaming video. On top of all this, it was incompatible with anything but Internet Explorer. You could look at he source if you were clever though to get the stream addresses but as a regular consumer service, you shouldn't have to. My experience with Internet TV has been poor so I may be biased, this new service may be great but I'll believe it when I see it.
Just to expand on this a tad from what I have observed. Most kids now know that "No child is left behind" and that students are just pushed through to the next grade. Because of this, many of them just dont try; why would they? They know they can pass without doing the work and without actually learning so why bother when they can watch TV instead?
If ATi and Nvidia were getting free money, why would they even bother making any more cards? They don't need to sell any if they are getting free money. Then we would be stuck with Intel integrated graphics *shudders*.