If anyone ever took the time to read the books as well as watch the cutscenes in both games, they are very well done and the backstory of Halo lends it to being very easily turned into a motion picture that won't suck.
Re:Did you ever play "Suicide" in the school yard?
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Aye, we usually used a racquetball, forgot what that little ball of death was called!
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This has been a sympton of online gaming, specifically MMORPG's, since their creation. World of Warcrack is just a newer, prettier version of Evercrack and all it's clones throughout the years, and all the games that came before which caused the same problems in some people. Anyone prone to addiction can get addicted to ANYTHING they enjoy, or think they enjoy.
Re:Did you ever play "Suicide" in the school yard?
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We called it wall ball. We played it with a large (size of a baseball) rubber ball, and some of us took the initiative to be men and go back to the wall, tuck our junk between our legs, and cover our face. I started it mainly due to getting a near concussion from being hit in the base of the skull one day. Ah the number of times the teachers would take the ball from us, leave thinking we were done, and we'd just bring out another one. We went through 15 balls in one week once.
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What is this country coming to? Being a kid is ABOUT getting hurt. I can't even count all the times I fell off my bike during games as a kid where we'd just ride around the neighborhood trying to knock/ram each other off our bikes. Or the times I've fallen out of a tree flat on my back unable to get up for 5-10minutes cause the wind was knocked out of me. Kids are SUPPOSED to get hurt, and to either learn from their mistakes or just go right back at it cause it's fun and they learned that the consequences do not outweigh the gain, which is fun and a good time.
You need an illegal drug trafficking license in certain states like Tennesee(sp? who cares, rednecks anyways!) to traffick in narcotics or methamphetamines/crystal meth, they require you to purchase stamps for use in the sale of them. Just another law they can use to fuck you with afaik though.
Some of you obviously have only played WOW and know nothing of what a major source of income account selling was in the old days. AC accounts regularly went for 500-5,000 (5,000 was the most any 1 account ever went for in AC)
I know one of the Blood monarchy's cores in AC made $30,000 in a year from selling AC accounts/items, as well as about $40,000 in UO items/accounts when he quit to move to AC.
They can only tax actual income made from the sale of said items ingame. They cannot put a value on virtual goods until the actual event of purchase/sale occurs using real money.
I'm surprised this wasn't done years ago when people were making real money off of Ultima Online and Asheron's Call. Good AC accounts, like Animal the first level 126 Battlemage which went for $5,000, were going for thousands during it's prime and even a year or two afterwards.
I love this argument on getting jobs.
I learned a good one when I was working construction for 7 months to pay for college, on the subject of jobless people:
"Anyone who can hold a jackhammer or push a broom can be a laborer and make *insert your areas union pay*"
In Connecticut where I live, that's $23 an hour. I'll be making $27.50 soon working with my dad as a fulltime carpenter before I join the army in December. Making money is not a problem, being WILLING to do the work required is.
If someone criticizes me, I can now sue them for hurting my feelings? I didn't know our country was THIS fucked up. I mean, I knew that we are litigious and all, but this is simply disgusting, no other words can describe it.
Someone obviously doesn't understand how most conventional wars in the last century wre fought. Bombing the living hell out of population and manufacturing centers to demoralize and cripple to enemy. Dresden and Tokyo ring any bells? Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I think we were still considered civilized after those, and NOTHING we have done yet today or will do in the future will ever be equal to that amount of death and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died in *each* of those bombings, not a few dozen/hundred in some bombings as in this war.
With the MMORPG genre. Raids, Battlegrounds, No Open PVP, No looting in PVP, Level/Class based, Timer based, the list goes on.
Darkfall is the game to wait for if you are a real MMORPG player.
I think there's a distinction to be made between traits that are in fact genetically/racially derived (as in your example above) and ones that aren't. A better example might be if someone bought you a case of whiskey for your birthday, based solely on their knowledge that you are of Irish descent, plus their idea that "Irish people like to get drunk". In that case, you might well be offended, and justifiably so IMHO.
Personally I'd be happy about that. People who can't take jokes need to gtfo.
Rodney King was drunk, geeked up, and fucked up on PCP and driving 90+ miles an hour down a major street where he could of killed numerous people had it been daytime. I never heard of the Taser part, but if that one's true then I support even more what the cops did to him.
The leveling, the questing, the instancing, the consensual pvp, the carebearization of players entering the genre. When people get banned for scamming other players via sending a mystery box in the mail for 10gold on delivery, and it turns out to have 1 copper in it, you know something is wrong with the game.
If you want a truly revolutionary and amazing game, wait for Darkfall.
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The movie was pretty damn cool, and, if you aren't a mental invalid atleast, has a pretty good storyline. The ending was pretty bad but it just leaves us waiting for Silent Hill 2.
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Even better irony would be beating him to death with a box set of Bully + all the GTA games.
Never before have I advocated a severe beating for another person until I discovered who Jack Thompson was.
If anyone ever took the time to read the books as well as watch the cutscenes in both games, they are very well done and the backstory of Halo lends it to being very easily turned into a motion picture that won't suck.
Aye, we usually used a racquetball, forgot what that little ball of death was called!
Can I get 2 LOL's and a side of ROFL with that?
This has been a sympton of online gaming, specifically MMORPG's, since their creation. World of Warcrack is just a newer, prettier version of Evercrack and all it's clones throughout the years, and all the games that came before which caused the same problems in some people. Anyone prone to addiction can get addicted to ANYTHING they enjoy, or think they enjoy.
We called it wall ball. We played it with a large (size of a baseball) rubber ball, and some of us took the initiative to be men and go back to the wall, tuck our junk between our legs, and cover our face. I started it mainly due to getting a near concussion from being hit in the base of the skull one day. Ah the number of times the teachers would take the ball from us, leave thinking we were done, and we'd just bring out another one. We went through 15 balls in one week once.
What is this country coming to? Being a kid is ABOUT getting hurt. I can't even count all the times I fell off my bike during games as a kid where we'd just ride around the neighborhood trying to knock/ram each other off our bikes. Or the times I've fallen out of a tree flat on my back unable to get up for 5-10minutes cause the wind was knocked out of me. Kids are SUPPOSED to get hurt, and to either learn from their mistakes or just go right back at it cause it's fun and they learned that the consequences do not outweigh the gain, which is fun and a good time.
You need an illegal drug trafficking license in certain states like Tennesee(sp? who cares, rednecks anyways!) to traffick in narcotics or methamphetamines/crystal meth, they require you to purchase stamps for use in the sale of them. Just another law they can use to fuck you with afaik though.
Some of you obviously have only played WOW and know nothing of what a major source of income account selling was in the old days. AC accounts regularly went for 500-5,000 (5,000 was the most any 1 account ever went for in AC)
I know one of the Blood monarchy's cores in AC made $30,000 in a year from selling AC accounts/items, as well as about $40,000 in UO items/accounts when he quit to move to AC.
They can only tax actual income made from the sale of said items ingame. They cannot put a value on virtual goods until the actual event of purchase/sale occurs using real money.
I'm surprised this wasn't done years ago when people were making real money off of Ultima Online and Asheron's Call. Good AC accounts, like Animal the first level 126 Battlemage which went for $5,000, were going for thousands during it's prime and even a year or two afterwards.
Being a laborer is as simple as doing what you're told. You join the union and you get a job with any number of construction companies.
I love this argument on getting jobs.
I learned a good one when I was working construction for 7 months to pay for college, on the subject of jobless people:
"Anyone who can hold a jackhammer or push a broom can be a laborer and make *insert your areas union pay*"
In Connecticut where I live, that's $23 an hour. I'll be making $27.50 soon working with my dad as a fulltime carpenter before I join the army in December. Making money is not a problem, being WILLING to do the work required is.
If someone criticizes me, I can now sue them for hurting my feelings? I didn't know our country was THIS fucked up. I mean, I knew that we are litigious and all, but this is simply disgusting, no other words can describe it.
Someone obviously doesn't understand how most conventional wars in the last century wre fought. Bombing the living hell out of population and manufacturing centers to demoralize and cripple to enemy. Dresden and Tokyo ring any bells? Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I think we were still considered civilized after those, and NOTHING we have done yet today or will do in the future will ever be equal to that amount of death and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died in *each* of those bombings, not a few dozen/hundred in some bombings as in this war.
Is going to be THE most revolutionary RPG/MMORPG to date when it comes out.
Darkfall
With the MMORPG genre. Raids, Battlegrounds, No Open PVP, No looting in PVP, Level/Class based, Timer based, the list goes on.
Darkfall is the game to wait for if you are a real MMORPG player.
I think there's a distinction to be made between traits that are in fact genetically/racially derived (as in your example above) and ones that aren't. A better example might be if someone bought you a case of whiskey for your birthday, based solely on their knowledge that you are of Irish descent, plus their idea that "Irish people like to get drunk". In that case, you might well be offended, and justifiably so IMHO.
Personally I'd be happy about that. People who can't take jokes need to gtfo.
Rodney King was drunk, geeked up, and fucked up on PCP and driving 90+ miles an hour down a major street where he could of killed numerous people had it been daytime. I never heard of the Taser part, but if that one's true then I support even more what the cops did to him.
The leveling, the questing, the instancing, the consensual pvp, the carebearization of players entering the genre. When people get banned for scamming other players via sending a mystery box in the mail for 10gold on delivery, and it turns out to have 1 copper in it, you know something is wrong with the game.
If you want a truly revolutionary and amazing game, wait for Darkfall.
Booth babes are gone :(
RIP Booth Babes
is Darkfall, hands down.
The movie was pretty damn cool, and, if you aren't a mental invalid atleast, has a pretty good storyline. The ending was pretty bad but it just leaves us waiting for Silent Hill 2.
WoW has shown that is possible to eliminate most zoning vs games like EQ where you constantly zoned from one area to another
Little tidbit of info for you:
Asheron's Call was doing this in 1998.