Then you'd have been impressed by the latest expansion, which made all the questing very story driven, interesting, and added memorable moments to just about every quest.
One of the WORST quests in the northrend expansion has you free a storm giant, and ride his back while he runs around squishing legions of the undead and exacting revenge on his captors. Then you set him free, and unlike the old world quests, he's not back in the cage when you run around there later. He's actually free.
Then there's the dungeons, where you fight bosses with all sorts of fun abilities, like the one that renders the entire party insane - forcing you to kill your teammates twice, or the one that you ride a dragon to fight the boss, or the one that gores party members at random forcing you to play without a party member for a short while.
They've come a long way from the boring version of wow. Even though I did get burned out after the expansion hit, it wasn't because of the game, but the people in it. I think that makes it as much a success as any game can be expected to be.
Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?
A) The Overseer.
B) The Overseer.
C) The Overseer.
D) The Overseer.
This is the very technical (and long-winded) explanation for something along the lines of "We are telling you, Miss Daisy, that your cat was not put into that tree by giant ninja robots from outer space."
You just gave me a great idea. Suppose there was a plugin for firefox that randomized your search engine whenever you were looking for something other than a specialized search (like say, wowhead).
Adding a "generico" style option in that little search-box dropdown that randomly chose from a predetermined list of search engines would be a great way of promoting competition between them without removing your ability to search from the provider of your choice when you needed that.
Someday somebody's going to write a TOS that lays claim to your eternal soul, and promises that the product will cause the apocalypse, and that anything short of that you should be thankful for, and if you sue them, they keep everything you win, etc.
Hey, if idiots win frivolous suits because of shit you didn't warn them about, why not warn them?
If the ads come from their own website, I'm perfectly okay with that too. It means it's 99.99% less likely that the ad is running javascript that will exploit a vulnerability in the browser, install code, and turn my pc into a zombie.
When the advertisers realize that we have legit reasons to be worried about code running on our boxes, and they do their ads securely, and they play by our rules, then I'll be happier about seeing ads on the net. But right now, any ad appearing in your browser window only means that you're probably already compromised.
They're not doing it to generate a new userbase or to get new customers. They already pretty much have the whole world as users.
They're doing it so that we can all go up to our bosses and legitimately say, "You need to remove internet explorer from the workplace, here are some alternatives that are actually secure and work better." And we won't get outright dismissed as biased or wrong, because they saw it on TV.
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Then you'd have been impressed by the latest expansion, which made all the questing very story driven, interesting, and added memorable moments to just about every quest.
One of the WORST quests in the northrend expansion has you free a storm giant, and ride his back while he runs around squishing legions of the undead and exacting revenge on his captors. Then you set him free, and unlike the old world quests, he's not back in the cage when you run around there later. He's actually free.
Then there's the dungeons, where you fight bosses with all sorts of fun abilities, like the one that renders the entire party insane - forcing you to kill your teammates twice, or the one that you ride a dragon to fight the boss, or the one that gores party members at random forcing you to play without a party member for a short while.
They've come a long way from the boring version of wow. Even though I did get burned out after the expansion hit, it wasn't because of the game, but the people in it. I think that makes it as much a success as any game can be expected to be.
If someone keeps poisoning the bread, should we stop telling everyone that the bread is poisoned, because it's boring news?
In wow, just about the only communication you get from the other team is the obvious "lol", and the teabag.
"It's within the rules,"
For now.
"Perhaps as followup research he can start referring to people of other ethnicity using racial slurs."
Yeah, and then he could make a movie of it called Borat, and if it's a success, he can make another!
Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?
A) The Overseer.
B) The Overseer.
C) The Overseer.
D) The Overseer.
No, man, Dwave's not here.
This is the very technical (and long-winded) explanation for something along the lines of "We are telling you, Miss Daisy, that your cat was not put into that tree by giant ninja robots from outer space."
Who's to say their reasoning is sound?
Back seat physicists, all of 'em.
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Yeah, if you anger the Mooninites, Boston will be the first to surrender.
Well, it does, if your friends call you Buffalo Bill.
You just gave me a great idea. Suppose there was a plugin for firefox that randomized your search engine whenever you were looking for something other than a specialized search (like say, wowhead).
Adding a "generico" style option in that little search-box dropdown that randomly chose from a predetermined list of search engines would be a great way of promoting competition between them without removing your ability to search from the provider of your choice when you needed that.
No, he went to a convenience store with acid reflux, and someone shot him when he asked for some SMUT.
And perhaps you're too cynical.
Judging overclocked chips?
Are we talking about a 32 second test, or a test over several months?
Does the overclocked $250 system catch your house on fire after 6 hours of gaming?
Someday somebody's going to write a TOS that lays claim to your eternal soul, and promises that the product will cause the apocalypse, and that anything short of that you should be thankful for, and if you sue them, they keep everything you win, etc.
Hey, if idiots win frivolous suits because of shit you didn't warn them about, why not warn them?
No, it's cool. I saw this movie. We win in the end.
If the ads come from their own website, I'm perfectly okay with that too. It means it's 99.99% less likely that the ad is running javascript that will exploit a vulnerability in the browser, install code, and turn my pc into a zombie.
When the advertisers realize that we have legit reasons to be worried about code running on our boxes, and they do their ads securely, and they play by our rules, then I'll be happier about seeing ads on the net. But right now, any ad appearing in your browser window only means that you're probably already compromised.
Oh hey, look! there's a new adblocking extension available for firefox that doesn't do the exact OPPOSITE of ad blocking!
Goombah is an Italian term for a very trusted friend. If you interpret it otherwise, that's a result of the bastardization of its true meaning.
I approve of his design only because he used a prime number for the number of sides on the wheel.
They're not doing it to generate a new userbase or to get new customers. They already pretty much have the whole world as users.
They're doing it so that we can all go up to our bosses and legitimately say, "You need to remove internet explorer from the workplace, here are some alternatives that are actually secure and work better." And we won't get outright dismissed as biased or wrong, because they saw it on TV.