"Take the 2004 presidential election as your evidence."
This right here is a fallacy of the highest caliber.
George W. Bush was NOT elected because every single person in the country agreed with every single one of his beliefs.
The only reason he won is because there was a war. No President has been voted out after one term in wartime. This election was the closest we ever came. More people voted for John Kerry, the "other guy," than voted for any president since at least Reagan.
You simply CANNOT say that the voter turnout in 2004 proves that people are anti-gay.
Also, it should be noted that the anti-gay-marriage bill was not to oppose gay marriage in any way, but to close a legal, financial loophole that would allow for a LOT of chaos. It's simply been sensationalized as such because it's a lot easier to explain to stupid people that way.
To take those statistics and claim that people are anti-gay is a complete misinterpretation of the truth.
Creating D&D characters is somewhat addicting. When I had the ability to create an entire party of characters and run them through a game, I had an absolute blast.
One of my favorite things to do was when I had like a whole day of free time, I'd create a new party, and run them as far as possible. The first time they died, I restarted with a new party. I still have the urge to play that game to this very day, but I keep putting it off in favor of other games.
MMO's will probably top the list of these games, if they are being rated fairly. Even though they are boring, repetitive, and bland, for some strange reason they keep sucking people back in.
GW is indeed similar to diablo-type games, though the "twitch" is gone, and where it was, there is strategy.
even the best players in the world can be defeated by a player who was prepared. Even the most powerful builds can be rendered useless by a few strategic skills chosen at the start of a match.
the only thing GW *doesn't* have is the addictiveness of World of Warcraft. But, it doesn't need it. The company doesn't have to get you to renew on a monthly basis, so they don't have to restrict access to stuff. The gameplay model works best for those people with less time to play, who want fast, fun, less imbalanced games.
I'm more interested in the upcoming expansion because of what it adds to the table for new players. Namely, you can get friends into the game and play with them and they don't have to purchase the original game.
It's one to look out for, but keep in mind that on the 20th, you'll be able to participate in a weekend-long event to test out the game and have fun using all of the clas combinations, whether or not you own a copy of Guild Wars.
If you haven't tried it yet, there's no better way to find out if you'll like the game or not than to simply play it.
I have to step in here and tell my side of that, because it warrants being said. The path of the Closed Fist is the absolute best "Evil" path ever put in a game. instead of always being out for yourself, it's in fact the exact opposite.
You believe that in order to make everyone else better people, which you do want to do, you must present them with obstacles with which they must overcome. The more "evil" path in the game actually DOESN'T award you with more closed fist points. Just like the most "good" path doesn't award you with the most open palm points. instead of being a clear-cut good/evil matchup, it's a very vague and open-minded approach to two very distinctly opposite but complimentary points of view.
And I, myself, have very large hesitations to play the "bad guys" in a game.
In Wow, I play alliance for several reasons: 1. The alliance is "prettier." 2. There are a lot of people on the horde side I just can't stand, and they're always hanging out in barrens chat which is a good 15 levels worth of questing. NOT an easy thing to just ignore. 3. People treat you nicer on the alliance side. This is from personal experience, not wide-sweeping generalizations. I'm dead serious, I have never gotten a tell from someone saying "go die" on the alliance side, but as a horde character I am constantly being barraged by stupid people trying to insult me. and, if anything, I am MORE agressive on the alliance side when I argue or discuss stuff in general chat. 4. My friends are on the alliance side.
Truthfully, it's really only the attitutes of the other players who will get you to play a certain faction over another.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, so I'll point out that in many many schools across the United States, the Bible is banned, not because it's religious, but because of violent and sexual content.
You know, with all that "begatting" going on, kids are bound to start doing some "begatting" of their own. Best to just ban the Bible before it starts to influence them.
It's not bait and switch because the old game is gone, and he doesn't have to pay for the new game or play it.
He should just take is money and go play world of warcraft.
I have a friend who plays with just the arrow keys and keyboard most of the time, even though I try and tell him that using keyboard + mouse is the absolute best way to play.
So I know that it's possible.
And with mods like autobuff, Buffahoy, decursive, etc. along with classes like the hunter, warlock, or paladin, this guy not only would be able to play, he'd be able to have fun, PvP, get into raid groups, and participate in all of the end-game content that other players are doing as well.
My friend who was on dialup and played the game like that: He's a Knight-Commander and has awesome gear... And he's not bad at doing what he does.
World of Warcraft is flat out better than SW:G, and would be a perfect replacement.
Some of those lines are really funny. I especially liked the way they snuck "abuse-themed" into the description of "Don't Wake Daddy." But that's because I can still remember how the song in the commercial went.
Some people perceive that PVP is the game, and getting the items is just an obstacle to their fun.
I distinctly remember that a long while back, populations were insanely high on PVP servers. in fact, 14 out of the top 15 most-highly-populated servers were PVP servers.
So evidently the "bump & grind" isn't for everyone.
Speaking as an economics student, I can only say that it looks more like there's an unsatisfied demand, and these "gold farmers" are providing it. The only "solution" is to make it easier for them to have fun playing the game, without the need - or the want - to purchase gold.
I don't think it's the epics on the auction house either, that drives this. it's the cost of respeccing talents, and the cost of leveling up tradeskills.
you could get Engineering up to 300 really frickin fast if you played a mage and spent around 90g. I should know, I've gotten up to 260 in it, and I'm level 35 after around 5 days/played.
But if I had a (relatively) unlimited supply of gold, I could have done so in 3 days, maybe 4.
truth is the quest items and the bind-on-pickup boss drops are FAR superior, but the auction-house purchased items are very useful for getting there. Not to mention Engineering (the same tradeskill I mentioned above) is incredible for a player, any player, as it gives extra power to your characters at the cost of inventory space.
In this way, greatly simplified, Money -> Power. Power -> Fun. Think of it as purchasing a stepping-stone to get to the same point everyone else is at, it's just a crutch that allows other players to enjoy the game the same way we do.
it's more than that. you see, there are a few people in the world who are hoarding all of the intelligence, and the "average intelligence" is actually much higher than most.
What people seem to forget is that these rebates take time. I know I haven't received all of the rebates ASAP, and that's kinda important.
Let's suppose that the seller of a certain laptop wants to earn a bit of money to take an immediate business risk that could pay off immensely.
so, he has a huge rebate on his laptop: in the form of a mail-in rebate. sales go up.
he invests the money, and gets an immediate MASSIVE return.
then, he mails all of the rebates to his happy consumers.
Quite an ingenious system, with the chance for a real catastrophe if his investment doesn't pay off.
But then he could always just consider the money spent as if it were on advertising.
So I ask you: does this make those rebates sound nifty, or evil?
oh, and JUST analyzing it as a time + money thing, you could say that the corporation could recoup its losses by deliberately delaying the rebates to all be sent out after a few months, and investing the money in a short-term savings account of some kind. Not sure if that's legal though.
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"Take the 2004 presidential election as your evidence."
This right here is a fallacy of the highest caliber.
George W. Bush was NOT elected because every single person in the country agreed with every single one of his beliefs.
The only reason he won is because there was a war. No President has been voted out after one term in wartime. This election was the closest we ever came. More people voted for John Kerry, the "other guy," than voted for any president since at least Reagan.
You simply CANNOT say that the voter turnout in 2004 proves that people are anti-gay.
Also, it should be noted that the anti-gay-marriage bill was not to oppose gay marriage in any way, but to close a legal, financial loophole that would allow for a LOT of chaos. It's simply been sensationalized as such because it's a lot easier to explain to stupid people that way.
To take those statistics and claim that people are anti-gay is a complete misinterpretation of the truth.
How could it not?
Note that the doctors saying it was a wound to the knee were Italian. Ba-da-bing!
:D
I mean, who else would be experts in the field of knee trauma?
(I'm Italian, btw, and proud of it)
Creating D&D characters is somewhat addicting. When I had the ability to create an entire party of characters and run them through a game, I had an absolute blast.
One of my favorite things to do was when I had like a whole day of free time, I'd create a new party, and run them as far as possible. The first time they died, I restarted with a new party. I still have the urge to play that game to this very day, but I keep putting it off in favor of other games.
MMO's will probably top the list of these games, if they are being rated fairly. Even though they are boring, repetitive, and bland, for some strange reason they keep sucking people back in.
"...when an octopus attacked their ... sensitive equipment..."
...and remember:
was there video?
Don't tease the octopus, kids!
GW is indeed similar to diablo-type games, though the "twitch" is gone, and where it was, there is strategy.
even the best players in the world can be defeated by a player who was prepared. Even the most powerful builds can be rendered useless by a few strategic skills chosen at the start of a match.
the only thing GW *doesn't* have is the addictiveness of World of Warcraft. But, it doesn't need it. The company doesn't have to get you to renew on a monthly basis, so they don't have to restrict access to stuff. The gameplay model works best for those people with less time to play, who want fast, fun, less imbalanced games.
I'm more interested in the upcoming expansion because of what it adds to the table for new players. Namely, you can get friends into the game and play with them and they don't have to purchase the original game.
It's one to look out for, but keep in mind that on the 20th, you'll be able to participate in a weekend-long event to test out the game and have fun using all of the clas combinations, whether or not you own a copy of Guild Wars.
If you haven't tried it yet, there's no better way to find out if you'll like the game or not than to simply play it.
I have to step in here and tell my side of that, because it warrants being said. The path of the Closed Fist is the absolute best "Evil" path ever put in a game. instead of always being out for yourself, it's in fact the exact opposite.
You believe that in order to make everyone else better people, which you do want to do, you must present them with obstacles with which they must overcome. The more "evil" path in the game actually DOESN'T award you with more closed fist points. Just like the most "good" path doesn't award you with the most open palm points. instead of being a clear-cut good/evil matchup, it's a very vague and open-minded approach to two very distinctly opposite but complimentary points of view.
And I, myself, have very large hesitations to play the "bad guys" in a game.
In Wow, I play alliance for several reasons:
1. The alliance is "prettier."
2. There are a lot of people on the horde side I just can't stand, and they're always hanging out in barrens chat which is a good 15 levels worth of questing. NOT an easy thing to just ignore.
3. People treat you nicer on the alliance side. This is from personal experience, not wide-sweeping generalizations. I'm dead serious, I have never gotten a tell from someone saying "go die" on the alliance side, but as a horde character I am constantly being barraged by stupid people trying to insult me. and, if anything, I am MORE agressive on the alliance side when I argue or discuss stuff in general chat.
4. My friends are on the alliance side.
Truthfully, it's really only the attitutes of the other players who will get you to play a certain faction over another.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, so I'll point out that in many many schools across the United States, the Bible is banned, not because it's religious, but because of violent and sexual content.
You know, with all that "begatting" going on, kids are bound to start doing some "begatting" of their own. Best to just ban the Bible before it starts to influence them.
this was modded interesting?
What language do the mods speak?
It's not bait and switch because the old game is gone, and he doesn't have to pay for the new game or play it.
He should just take is money and go play world of warcraft.
I have a friend who plays with just the arrow keys and keyboard most of the time, even though I try and tell him that using keyboard + mouse is the absolute best way to play.
So I know that it's possible.
And with mods like autobuff, Buffahoy, decursive, etc. along with classes like the hunter, warlock, or paladin, this guy not only would be able to play, he'd be able to have fun, PvP, get into raid groups, and participate in all of the end-game content that other players are doing as well.
My friend who was on dialup and played the game like that:
He's a Knight-Commander and has awesome gear...
And he's not bad at doing what he does.
World of Warcraft is flat out better than SW:G, and would be a perfect replacement.
Did you hear about Lois Lane's death?
It was ruled a suicide, because she blew her brains out.
ba-dum-ching!
Speaking as a WoW customer, I think this is actually a good thing.
You should never consider something untouchable just because "that's the way it's always been."
Being conservative just to be conservative is stupid.
Real conservatives are conservative because it is smart.
There's no reason not to encourage humor.
Some of those lines are really funny. I especially liked the way they snuck "abuse-themed" into the description of "Don't Wake Daddy." But that's because I can still remember how the song in the commercial went.
Someone finally thought of the children.
Some people perceive that PVP is the game, and getting the items is just an obstacle to their fun.
/played.
I distinctly remember that a long while back, populations were insanely high on PVP servers. in fact, 14 out of the top 15 most-highly-populated servers were PVP servers.
So evidently the "bump & grind" isn't for everyone.
Speaking as an economics student, I can only say that it looks more like there's an unsatisfied demand, and these "gold farmers" are providing it. The only "solution" is to make it easier for them to have fun playing the game, without the need - or the want - to purchase gold.
I don't think it's the epics on the auction house either, that drives this. it's the cost of respeccing talents, and the cost of leveling up tradeskills.
you could get Engineering up to 300 really frickin fast if you played a mage and spent around 90g. I should know, I've gotten up to 260 in it, and I'm level 35 after around 5 days
But if I had a (relatively) unlimited supply of gold, I could have done so in 3 days, maybe 4.
truth is the quest items and the bind-on-pickup boss drops are FAR superior, but the auction-house purchased items are very useful for getting there. Not to mention Engineering (the same tradeskill I mentioned above) is incredible for a player, any player, as it gives extra power to your characters at the cost of inventory space.
In this way, greatly simplified, Money -> Power. Power -> Fun.
Think of it as purchasing a stepping-stone to get to the same point everyone else is at, it's just a crutch that allows other players to enjoy the game the same way we do.
"more than they could get working at a real job"
you work, you get paid, it's a job.
Don't say that this isn't a real job just because you don't like it, or wish you were one. It's very immature.
And, I think that's what just happened.
anyone got a mirror link to that image?
You misspelled goatse.
it's more than that. you see, there are a few people in the world who are hoarding all of the intelligence, and the "average intelligence" is actually much higher than most.
Much like communism.
Although, granted, none of them post on slashdot.
competing vandals ARE PEOPLE!
they're PEOPLE!
Better than a lifetime of immorality.
Are you happy about "Eliza passed the Turing test."?
What people seem to forget is that these rebates take time. I know I haven't received all of the rebates ASAP, and that's kinda important.
Let's suppose that the seller of a certain laptop wants to earn a bit of money to take an immediate business risk that could pay off immensely.
so, he has a huge rebate on his laptop: in the form of a mail-in rebate.
sales go up.
he invests the money, and gets an immediate MASSIVE return.
then, he mails all of the rebates to his happy consumers.
Quite an ingenious system, with the chance for a real catastrophe if his investment doesn't pay off.
But then he could always just consider the money spent as if it were on advertising.
So I ask you: does this make those rebates sound nifty, or evil?
oh, and JUST analyzing it as a time + money thing, you could say that the corporation could recoup its losses by deliberately delaying the rebates to all be sent out after a few months, and investing the money in a short-term savings account of some kind. Not sure if that's legal though.
I remember back when zip disks were pretty expensive...
I sure as hell wouldn't mind paying $100 for a floppy that could store my computer's data... what? 10-100 times over?
With the amount of pollution we're churning out, the earth has the equivalent of a tinfoil hat.