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  1. Re:God Dammit on LucasArts, Bioware Announce Star Wars MMO · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think part of the reason it's so hard to make people feel special is that not only are there many players that are just as "unique" as everyone else, but there are multiple servers. In EVE Online there is only one server so everything that happens in the game is directly applicable to everyone. There are many famous names that people recognize. Their fame has nothing to do with scripted events or quests given by an NPC, nor is it limited to just their imagination as in your tree example.

    I think the best way to make players feel special is to give them a real chance to differentiate themselves from others. Give the players real objectives to fight each other for and let them form their own alliances and groups. Don't shoehorn them into a silly race vs race battle, one of the most powerful choices you could give a player is who they pledge their support to. If they can change sides or even form a new faction the conflicts become much more meaningful and less repetitive. People will naturally lead and others will naturally follow. Those leaders will be the ones remembered, but if we want special people we need people to remember them.

  2. Re:no on Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security · · Score: 1

    But not apparently, capital letters.

    It appears that some people also have trouble with sentence structure.

  3. Re:Stupid Question on Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand · · Score: 1

    The fuser temperature is really around 400F.

  4. Re:I'm thinking bar fridge or small freezer on Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why bother with a moisture proof wrapper when you could just dehumidify the freezer itself and keep it sealed tight? Honestly though there are plenty of refrigerant type phase change cooling products on the market.

  5. Re:Look! Another Wheel on Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents · · Score: 1

    I think they'd just be afraid of all these new overlords we're welcoming all the time. Not to mention our business plans with a step missing.

  6. Re:Hulk not ugly! Hulk rugged! on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that only gets you an honorary doctorate in nutrition. You're now qualified to work in a school cafeteria.

  7. Re:Too much Enemy Of The State on Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live · · Score: 1

    My experience is that they do it during the day. Most of them don't have night vision capabilities and flashlights are kind of a dead giveaway. I've spent many a day and night staring at a road waiting for someone to plant a bomb and an extreme majority of attempts happened in broad daylight.

    Cover of darkness is not needed when you can use cover of innocence. They're very good at making it look like they're changing a tire or taking a little rest stop to stretch their legs or piss. They just open the trunk of their car, take some things out and set them down, then repack it. Unless you're watching them closely and see that they didn't put everything back in you'd never notice anything happened.

  8. Re:Not $2B Over on Next-Gen Mars Rover In Danger of Cancellation · · Score: 1

    People use the same "sunk cost" argument when talking about the war in Iraq. They fail to realize that most of that money goes to contractors in the US that give jobs to people who pay taxes.

    Sure we didn't need to go there, a whole lot of money is wasted, and way too many people die, but the money isn't just getting eaten by a grue.

  9. Re:Good News Everyone... on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    It's only a few cubic meters, use a shuttle.

  10. Re:Because we all know... on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    Maybe by advanced they mean enabled before sale.

  11. Re:a/v for linux on Credit Card Security Standard Issued · · Score: 2, Funny

    How would you deal with the false positives?

  12. Re:summary way to long. on Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    No, crossing the streams is bad.

  13. Re:I have never been more proud to be a republican on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 1

    I wish you'd posted logged in because i wish to subscribe to your newsletter. No sarcasm involved. I have nothing on the line and no debt. I want to see heads roll.

  14. Re:let me assure you... on Another Way the LHC Could Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    What is this captcha nonsense i hear everyone going on about all the time? I don't have a subscription and I've never had to enter one.

  15. Re:Or more reasonable policies on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    I almost failed a class with a grade of 100 because of a policy like this.

    I chose to take welding as an elective class and i was exceptionally good at it. Because of this i tended to skip a lot of the days reserved for practicing technique since i didn't need the practice and tended to get bored. The school board had a policy where if you missed 14 days you failed the class, but my mother appealed and i got the credit.

    I can see where good attendance applies to many things including having a real job, but in some situations it just doesn't matter.

  16. Re:5.1 ? on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 1

    The only thing i can think of is that the inertia of the speaker cone somehow muddies the sound with its resistance to change vibration speeds and the eardrum is very thin and lightweight so it doesn't have the same problem. Someone correct me.

  17. Re:5.1 ? on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've always wondered about this. Why do people say a single speaker will have distortion when it plays too many sounds at once, but my ear, a single microphone, doesn't have that sort of trouble when the sounds are all crammed together into a single input.

  18. Re:What format is it distributed in? on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Record companies are distribution and advertising companies. They know people think the current price is too high for a CD. They're just looking for a new way to justify the price by finding a newer shinier format. They're hoping that Joe Consumer will see this electronic item and attribute a higher value to it than a plastic disc.

  19. Re:Please no! on Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    We should just stop wasting land with our antiquated in the ground burial traditions and move to cremation.

  20. Re:same as any other business on How Telcos and ISPs Are Preparing For a Pandemic · · Score: 1

    You might also want to throw an exercise bike powered generator in there in case the power goes out.

  21. Re:Where exactly are these "voting machines"? on Voting Machines Routinely Failing Nationwide · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if you do vote for the republicans you end up punching yourself in the face anyway, just much later.

  22. Re:Thank you, come again. on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 2, Funny

    My sources, netcraft mostly, have confirmed that one of the experiment modules is a Squishee machine.

  23. Re:Misconversion? on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a space program, it's supposed to be missing decimals or digits.

  24. Re:I got two possible solutions! on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    I say we go with ChiTown2016.com, or perhaps even ChiTonw2016.com.

  25. Re:Is the speed of light slower near Lyons on LHC Shut Down By Transformer Malfunction · · Score: 1

    Sadly you're accelerating photons, not protons. Pretty big difference written in that single letter.