Diablo pioneered procedural generation and made it mainstream. I know it wasn't new at the time, but the game centered around Crafting a game around the random hadn't been done as a "feature" before that. It was also very free form with gamplay possibilities. You could do pretty much anything you wanted. Learn all the spells, wield any armor/weapon. D2 featured the same thing and turned it up a notch with item generation and customization via the Horodric cube. It got turned down a notch on the characterization side since spells were regulated to a tree instead learned from books. Which brings us to the most copied feature of Diablo, the skill tree. Blessing or curse, it continues to DOMINATE MMO gameplay to this day after it's use as the primary character advancement mechanism in WoW. Have you played a recent MMO? Everything is carbon-copied from WoW right down to the color-coding of item qualities. Even free to play Asian MMOS have implemented skill tree systems because it's the standard now. It's all about the illusion of choice and as of right now there's nothing better in existence, so that's what everyone uses.
Mock WoW all you want. I will agree on most points, as I am a former hardcore EQ1 player who is aware that even more hardcore games existed even prior to that, but you have to agree that WoW just took over MMOs for the past 8 years.
I used to think that way, but nope! Wrong! Blizz innovates and keeps on innovating. Proof is how all RPGs copied Diablo right down to the T and then D2 came out and it also got copied. And then the 2 RTS games. I'll agree that there was some prior art for RTS before Warcraft came out in the form of Dune and a host of other strategy games, but still, it did competitive RTS'ing right. Not even going to get into SC to any depth. Let's just say, that that's how any competitive game should be done regardless of whether it's video game, board game or any other medium; razor's edge balance and tons of fun regardless of play style. Then there's WoW. It innovated on so many different levels. Arguably, it hurt the genre. I could list a host of enjoyable things that died a painful death to WoW. But that's not the point. WoW innovated on other fronts, most discernibly in gathering and maintain a HUGE and loyal player base.
Blizzard is not dumb. They have a ton of metrics tools at their disposal and they use them. LOOK at how Diablo 3 is turning out and you'll see even more innovation. There's a lot that I hate to see go away, but at the same time I understand that it's almost impossible to make something old new again without getting rid of some of the old stuff! Blizzard isn't scared to throw away old systems in favor of something entirely new, or at least something that seems new. That takes guts. Keeping three triple-A titles under it's belt and not letting one of them slip is an accomplishment enough on it's own. But keeping those monsters in check while making each iteration feel completely different from anything you've ever played previously from any developer... that there's an astounding accomplishment!
D-Link routers are top tier, but you have to buy high end. Get their gaming routers. I've stopped buying all so-called "gaming" products, but the D-link Extreme series is great. Not a problem out of this thing ever in nearly 8 years.
Check out the search history for "Carly Fiorina" on slashdot and you'll find a slew of articles leading up to this one:
2002: Fiorina says HP may get out of the PC business. 2004: The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing 2005: HP CEO Carly Fiorina to step down.
. . . An Engineer's view of Carly Fiorina's Leadership (Story later retracted by TechnologyReview on the grounds that they can no longer vouch for it. Interesting.. )
. . . HP and Apple Separate; Apple gets custody. (OOPS!) 2006: Forbes now thinks Carly saved HP
. . . HP regains throne as top PC maker 2007: Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina hired by Fox News 2011: This article, which suggests, again, that Fiorina was perhaps making the right moves all along.
As much as the geek crowd hated to see what was happening to HP, it definitely that perhaps Cloud Computing and handhelds were the go too thing after all and that the execs that fired her just couldn't see The Big Picture. One for sure though, is as sad as it was to see the engineering innovation go, it's even sadder to see the company struggling to recover from the series of "oops" that sent it into it's current downward spiral.
Then someone calls this lady (since she's the one who originally sold you the device), you end up corresponding with ten different people all bearing different names, but instead, you're only talking to the same lady who's giving you the run around (using her ten different identities)...
What do you need to see around the car in front of you for? If the reason you give for many people driving big SUVs true then it's probably what's causing all the SUV crashes in the first place. UNSAFE driving. You need to see the lanes on either side of you, what is directly in front of you and be aware of automobiles that are directly behind and to the side of you and that's it. Don't worry about what's in front of the other guy. Your argument makes no sense.
You also don't need to be seen more easily. If that's true, then what effect does the presence of SUVs and other large vehicles have on motorcycles and other smaller vehicles? This again makes no sense. With a proper following distance and constant rate of speed, a motorcycle rider is just as safe as an SUV driver is while trailing a semi.
The solution is good basic driving habits, like following distances and looking before going, which includes while changing lanes. All vehicles are unsafe if driven incorrectly and in an unsafe manner. As it is right now, people just get their driver's license renewed every few years without any barrier other than how well they can see and whether or not they had a DWI/DUI. The problem compounds with the number of drivers doing the same thing. We should be re-educating drivers at every license renewal to remind them of basic driving habits that can save lives. It's an inconvenience, yes, but then again, so are injuries and death.
Yes! Once they get trains going over 50 MPH on the wild frontier of the Information Superhighway tubes then you have all sorts of stuff going on, like women's uteri being ripped right out of em. We can't have that. It's the internet and we need porn on it. For that we need women with intact uteri.
Republicans were the same way back in the 1800's? It's a good thing today we have our Electronic Health Records and Death Panels to weed out all the old and vulnerable women and children that may be injured at speeds in excess of 50 MPH before they become a financial burden to care for. And they said the health care reform bill was only bad.
Yes yes yes. Yes. and again: YES. People just don't see that debt means absolutely nothing at all if everyone just defaulted. The money is illusory and so is your obligation to pay it back. You only have to be willing to give up a certain lifestyle that is, in my opinion, self-detrimental in the first place.
Microsoft has been ownin in the news lately. Still hate using Windows XP and will not ever upgrade to anything else, but still, this and what Gates said about nuclear being the only feasibly sustainable core energy source is pretty win.
Now, do I think that Microsoft is a bit responsible for some of these botnets? Yes. And no. But I tend to take their "nothing is impossible" approach to pretty much anything I do.
While you're right, it would help to cut down on the drive-by installs and the occasional power users that run into a bit of bad luck. And I also think that system owners should be responsible for their systems. Perhaps not so many home users, but definitely web server operators with unpatched systems. If you maintain a system that is capable of causing loss of life or doing significant financial harm then you should share responsibility for the damage done if not properly maintained. I do believe in this.
Gotta get that stoner vote! I really wish legislation could stop during an election year. This way dog & pony show politics would just end. Although, in this case, it may serve an actual purpose, that of getting legalization legitimately on the table, even if it doesn't get votes.
If I voted, however, I would not support a bill like this unless they had rules limiting the power of well-established pharmaceutical and tobacco industry companies being able to strong-arm the market. Their entry should be controlled and gradual, due to the immense power they wield and because the smaller industries in places such as California incurred much greater risk to (legally) enter the market first and shouldn't be subject to a quick and fast monopoly.
No you are not. In fact, I really think this LulzSec is a false flag operation. I'm predicting it now. Within a year, LulzSec will be brought to "justice."
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Diablo pioneered procedural generation and made it mainstream. I know it wasn't new at the time, but the game centered around Crafting a game around the random hadn't been done as a "feature" before that. It was also very free form with gamplay possibilities. You could do pretty much anything you wanted. Learn all the spells, wield any armor/weapon. D2 featured the same thing and turned it up a notch with item generation and customization via the Horodric cube. It got turned down a notch on the characterization side since spells were regulated to a tree instead learned from books. Which brings us to the most copied feature of Diablo, the skill tree. Blessing or curse, it continues to DOMINATE MMO gameplay to this day after it's use as the primary character advancement mechanism in WoW. Have you played a recent MMO? Everything is carbon-copied from WoW right down to the color-coding of item qualities. Even free to play Asian MMOS have implemented skill tree systems because it's the standard now. It's all about the illusion of choice and as of right now there's nothing better in existence, so that's what everyone uses.
Mock WoW all you want. I will agree on most points, as I am a former hardcore EQ1 player who is aware that even more hardcore games existed even prior to that, but you have to agree that WoW just took over MMOs for the past 8 years.
I used to think that way, but nope! Wrong! Blizz innovates and keeps on innovating. Proof is how all RPGs copied Diablo right down to the T and then D2 came out and it also got copied. And then the 2 RTS games. I'll agree that there was some prior art for RTS before Warcraft came out in the form of Dune and a host of other strategy games, but still, it did competitive RTS'ing right. Not even going to get into SC to any depth. Let's just say, that that's how any competitive game should be done regardless of whether it's video game, board game or any other medium; razor's edge balance and tons of fun regardless of play style. Then there's WoW. It innovated on so many different levels. Arguably, it hurt the genre. I could list a host of enjoyable things that died a painful death to WoW. But that's not the point. WoW innovated on other fronts, most discernibly in gathering and maintain a HUGE and loyal player base.
Blizzard is not dumb. They have a ton of metrics tools at their disposal and they use them. LOOK at how Diablo 3 is turning out and you'll see even more innovation. There's a lot that I hate to see go away, but at the same time I understand that it's almost impossible to make something old new again without getting rid of some of the old stuff! Blizzard isn't scared to throw away old systems in favor of something entirely new, or at least something that seems new. That takes guts. Keeping three triple-A titles under it's belt and not letting one of them slip is an accomplishment enough on it's own. But keeping those monsters in check while making each iteration feel completely different from anything you've ever played previously from any developer... that there's an astounding accomplishment!
It's a wired router. I don't do wireless. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.
D-Link routers are top tier, but you have to buy high end. Get their gaming routers. I've stopped buying all so-called "gaming" products, but the D-link Extreme series is great. Not a problem out of this thing ever in nearly 8 years.
Check out the search history for "Carly Fiorina" on slashdot and you'll find a slew of articles leading up to this one:
2002: Fiorina says HP may get out of the PC business.
2004: The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing
2005: HP CEO Carly Fiorina to step down.
. . . An Engineer's view of Carly Fiorina's Leadership (Story later retracted by TechnologyReview on the grounds that they can no longer vouch for it. Interesting.. )
. . . HP and Apple Separate; Apple gets custody. (OOPS!)
2006: Forbes now thinks Carly saved HP
. . . HP regains throne as top PC maker
2007: Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina hired by Fox News
2011: This article, which suggests, again, that Fiorina was perhaps making the right moves all along.
As much as the geek crowd hated to see what was happening to HP, it definitely that perhaps Cloud Computing and handhelds were the go too thing after all and that the execs that fired her just couldn't see The Big Picture. One for sure though, is as sad as it was to see the engineering innovation go, it's even sadder to see the company struggling to recover from the series of "oops" that sent it into it's current downward spiral.
So.... what's the name of your porn site?
Hi, My name Peggy...
Posts like these are essentially a facepalm switch.
There are DOT-compliant HID kits available for most cars.
I'd so much rather be caned then spend even 1 night inside a incarceration institution of any sort in the US.
Someone should go after Tecate. Not for the can, but the the piss that's been put inside it.
Ah fuck. God turns out to be a Unix dev. Well, I guess that explains the beard.
What do you need to see around the car in front of you for? If the reason you give for many people driving big SUVs true then it's probably what's causing all the SUV crashes in the first place. UNSAFE driving. You need to see the lanes on either side of you, what is directly in front of you and be aware of automobiles that are directly behind and to the side of you and that's it. Don't worry about what's in front of the other guy. Your argument makes no sense.
You also don't need to be seen more easily. If that's true, then what effect does the presence of SUVs and other large vehicles have on motorcycles and other smaller vehicles? This again makes no sense. With a proper following distance and constant rate of speed, a motorcycle rider is just as safe as an SUV driver is while trailing a semi.
The solution is good basic driving habits, like following distances and looking before going, which includes while changing lanes. All vehicles are unsafe if driven incorrectly and in an unsafe manner. As it is right now, people just get their driver's license renewed every few years without any barrier other than how well they can see and whether or not they had a DWI/DUI. The problem compounds with the number of drivers doing the same thing. We should be re-educating drivers at every license renewal to remind them of basic driving habits that can save lives. It's an inconvenience, yes, but then again, so are injuries and death.
Have they questioned this guy yet?
Yes! Once they get trains going over 50 MPH on the wild frontier of the Information Superhighway tubes then you have all sorts of stuff going on, like women's uteri being ripped right out of em. We can't have that. It's the internet and we need porn on it. For that we need women with intact uteri.
The undertitle should have been "from the a-little-to-the-left dept."
Republicans were the same way back in the 1800's? It's a good thing today we have our Electronic Health Records and Death Panels to weed out all the old and vulnerable women and children that may be injured at speeds in excess of 50 MPH before they become a financial burden to care for. And they said the health care reform bill was only bad.
Yes yes yes. Yes. and again: YES. People just don't see that debt means absolutely nothing at all if everyone just defaulted. The money is illusory and so is your obligation to pay it back. You only have to be willing to give up a certain lifestyle that is, in my opinion, self-detrimental in the first place.
Microsoft has been ownin in the news lately. Still hate using Windows XP and will not ever upgrade to anything else, but still, this and what Gates said about nuclear being the only feasibly sustainable core energy source is pretty win.
Now, do I think that Microsoft is a bit responsible for some of these botnets? Yes. And no. But I tend to take their "nothing is impossible" approach to pretty much anything I do.
What happens when you get rooted while on a 5-day vacation? Does it maintain weekly backups, or just overwrite the last one?
While you're right, it would help to cut down on the drive-by installs and the occasional power users that run into a bit of bad luck. And I also think that system owners should be responsible for their systems. Perhaps not so many home users, but definitely web server operators with unpatched systems. If you maintain a system that is capable of causing loss of life or doing significant financial harm then you should share responsibility for the damage done if not properly maintained. I do believe in this.
And you don't seem to know that punctuation goes inside quotations. Sentence capitalization not withstanding.
Gotta get that stoner vote! I really wish legislation could stop during an election year. This way dog & pony show politics would just end. Although, in this case, it may serve an actual purpose, that of getting legalization legitimately on the table, even if it doesn't get votes.
If I voted, however, I would not support a bill like this unless they had rules limiting the power of well-established pharmaceutical and tobacco industry companies being able to strong-arm the market. Their entry should be controlled and gradual, due to the immense power they wield and because the smaller industries in places such as California incurred much greater risk to (legally) enter the market first and shouldn't be subject to a quick and fast monopoly.
No you are not. In fact, I really think this LulzSec is a false flag operation. I'm predicting it now. Within a year, LulzSec will be brought to "justice."