The game industry is crying because the majority of them have not yet embraced download installations. Suckers. "In the future", every game will have an online component and an unlocking system ala steam.
Yeah, that's the solution to the problem: not to make games worth buying, but to make them impossible to sell when you get stuck with crap. That'll really give the industry a boost.
But the same can be said about my semen and Sarah Michelle Gellar's eggs
No, it couldn't. Eggs and sperm (which I presume you meant instead of 'semen') do not eventually become people. A zygote -- the fusion of a sperm and egg -- does, but sperm and eggs on their own do not.
Not necessarily. For instance, around one fifth of all pregnacies abort naturally, usually due to some developmental problem.
So, if you might soon die naturally, is it okay to use you for experiments?
Your position is as silly as saying "it is murder if you masturbate tommorow night, because one of those millions of sperm is going to become a person if you have sex with your wife instead.
Actually, not it isn't. I specifically stated that in my post.
You're right. It's not really that Have yourself a kit kat. Have yourself a break. jarring to have advertisements interrupting a document you I'm loving it! are reading. I'm not sick and Just do it tired of having ads interrupt every single aspect of my life. We should just bend Got milk? over and accept it, right?
Seriously, though, I agree it could be worse. However, I found it pretty offensive that they snuck an ad in there. Maybe I'm just too sensitive from being over-advertised to already. I'm just not going to brush it off and go with the "X is not bad because it's not as bad as Y" mentality. Sure ads generate revenue, but I'd rather not be tricked into reading them, thank you very much. I make it a point to stay away from obnoxiously ad-supported content when I can.
I've never tried anything like what is described in Once in a while a game comes along that changes everything - Eve Online the article but it sounds interesting. Does anyone else have similar experiences to share?
One big problem I see with MMORPGs created from existing franchises, such as Star Wars, is that everyone wants to be Luke Skywalker, as it were. Nobody wants to be the Ugnaught who sifts thru garbage all day by a furnace in Bespin. Everyone wants to be the hero. Unfortunately, a good story only has room for a handful of them.
I've never seen any information to suggest that there is a lower rate of fertility among autistic / aspergers individuals, or even common nerds.
My sister-in-law is an Occupational Therapist who often deals with kids with Asperger's Syndrome. I know it's pretty immature of me, but it's sometimes difficult to not blurt out with laughter when she suddenly brings up the topic. It would have been nice if the syndrome had been given a name that does not sound like "Ass burgers" to someone who is not familiar with it. I know it's a valid surname an all, but come on.
She: "That's something Michael, one of the Asperger's kids I know, would do."
Well, it was a comic on Penny Arcade a week or so ago. I didn't check into the backstory at all, but that would be a good place to start looking
Here's the Penny Arcade news item linked to the comic you're talking about. The article references this page from 1up.com which is simply a discussion of religious people playing video games. It doesn't mention any public religious demonstrations (i.e. recruiting, preaching, etc.) in Warcraft at all. One group mentioned in the site, Christian Gamers Online doesn't appear, at first glance, to even have official WoW guilds, though a post on their forums makes mention of some Christian guilds on WoW servers (with non-in-your-face Christian names like "Redeemed", "The Forgiven", "The Narrow Path" ). But I haven't seen anything to suggest that these guilds do anything but discuss their beliefs outside the game (or privately in the game).
So, in short, we have proof that there *are* Christian guilds in WoW, but no proof yet that they go about making a public statement about it in the game as Blizzard believes the GLBT was doing.
You don't read slashdot very much do you? There has been more than one post about people forming Christian guilds or trying to be a sort of in game missionary.
Ok, I tried to find an example but couldn't, so I might've read the stories elsewhere... But yes, there are guilds who try to convert people in game, and the like.
So I, who has played WoW almost daily for six months and read Slashdot almost daily since the game came out, am supposed supposed to take your word for it that there are Christian guilds publicly professing their Christian faith in WoW even though I've never seen it and even though you claimed it's been posted on Slashdot many times before even though you can't find a single post and I've never come across any (and I read every WoW-related Slashdot story I find)?
Sorry, but that's not gonna cut it. These facts, combined with the fact that you singled out Christian guilds -- a faith which is typically against homosexuality and for which there is a strong intolerant sentiment on this board -- makes it sound like you're talking out of your ass.
Until you can find at least one bit of there being "Christian missionary" efforts in WoW and that Blizzard condones that behavior by not punishing the people who do this, I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on your claim.
And what about when people use the words "Christ" and "Jesus" as expletives in the game? The people that complain about the use of "gay" in a derogatory sense never seem to complain when the words I mentioned are abused.
Can you give some examples? The only "Christianity" I've EVER seen in World of Warcraft is the name "Jesus" and word "Christ" being used as expletives.
You are talking about guilds who openly go about discussing Christianity on the public chat channels, right (be it recruiting, proselytizing, or whatever)? You're not just talking about Christians who've gathered together in a guild who talk about Christianity outside the game on messageboards and the like and maybe only privately discuss it in the game, right?
Reading further down into that long essay I found this:
"There is no original. The quote is bogus, and Burke never said it. It is a pseudo-quote, and corresponds to real quotes in the same way that urban legends about the ghost hitch-hiker vanishing in the back of the car and alligators in the sewers correspond to true news stories."
This means that regardless of the legality of a file somebody has on their computer, just putting it in a shared files folder that can be accessed by other people is illegal.
Canadian electronic voting machines? That's odd. AFAIK, our elections are still done with a pencil and paper (at least, yesterday's general election was)
...and we can still manage to figure out who won that same night. *snicker*
I played a game like that once. I think it was called "real life". Great graphics and play control. It takes a huge time investment to get anywhere, though. And it's tough to even find monsters to kill (so difficult that many don't believe they even exist). I prefer World of Warcraft, thanks.
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Yeah, that's the solution to the problem: not to make games worth buying, but to make them impossible to sell when you get stuck with crap. That'll really give the industry a boost.
No, it couldn't. Eggs and sperm (which I presume you meant instead of 'semen') do not eventually become people. A zygote -- the fusion of a sperm and egg -- does, but sperm and eggs on their own do not.
That's true.
So, if you might soon die naturally, is it okay to use you for experiments?
Your position is as silly as saying "it is murder if you masturbate tommorow night, because one of those millions of sperm is going to become a person if you have sex with your wife instead.
Actually, not it isn't. I specifically stated that in my post.
Because that fetus is going to become a person. It's not like a bacteria, or sperm, or lung tissue; it's a developing human being.
Seriously, though, I agree it could be worse. However, I found it pretty offensive that they snuck an ad in there. Maybe I'm just too sensitive from being over-advertised to already. I'm just not going to brush it off and go with the "X is not bad because it's not as bad as Y" mentality. Sure ads generate revenue, but I'd rather not be tricked into reading them, thank you very much. I make it a point to stay away from obnoxiously ad-supported content when I can.
I've never tried anything like what is described in Once in a while a game comes along that changes everything - Eve Online the article but it sounds interesting. Does anyone else have similar experiences to share?
One big problem I see with MMORPGs created from existing franchises, such as Star Wars, is that everyone wants to be Luke Skywalker, as it were. Nobody wants to be the Ugnaught who sifts thru garbage all day by a furnace in Bespin. Everyone wants to be the hero. Unfortunately, a good story only has room for a handful of them.
My sister-in-law is an Occupational Therapist who often deals with kids with Asperger's Syndrome. I know it's pretty immature of me, but it's sometimes difficult to not blurt out with laughter when she suddenly brings up the topic. It would have been nice if the syndrome had been given a name that does not sound like "Ass burgers" to someone who is not familiar with it. I know it's a valid surname an all, but come on.
She: "That's something Michael, one of the Asperger's kids I know, would do."
Me: "WTF? Ass-burgers kids?"
LOL. Okay, I'll formally state now that I won't accept "make-believe" evidence from a parody site. :-P
Here's the Penny Arcade news item linked to the comic you're talking about. The article references this page from 1up.com which is simply a discussion of religious people playing video games. It doesn't mention any public religious demonstrations (i.e. recruiting, preaching, etc.) in Warcraft at all. One group mentioned in the site, Christian Gamers Online doesn't appear, at first glance, to even have official WoW guilds, though a post on their forums makes mention of some Christian guilds on WoW servers (with non-in-your-face Christian names like "Redeemed", "The Forgiven", "The Narrow Path" ). But I haven't seen anything to suggest that these guilds do anything but discuss their beliefs outside the game (or privately in the game).
So, in short, we have proof that there *are* Christian guilds in WoW, but no proof yet that they go about making a public statement about it in the game as Blizzard believes the GLBT was doing.
Ok, I tried to find an example but couldn't, so I might've read the stories elsewhere... But yes, there are guilds who try to convert people in game, and the like.
So I, who has played WoW almost daily for six months and read Slashdot almost daily since the game came out, am supposed supposed to take your word for it that there are Christian guilds publicly professing their Christian faith in WoW even though I've never seen it and even though you claimed it's been posted on Slashdot many times before even though you can't find a single post and I've never come across any (and I read every WoW-related Slashdot story I find)?
Sorry, but that's not gonna cut it. These facts, combined with the fact that you singled out Christian guilds -- a faith which is typically against homosexuality and for which there is a strong intolerant sentiment on this board -- makes it sound like you're talking out of your ass.
Until you can find at least one bit of there being "Christian missionary" efforts in WoW and that Blizzard condones that behavior by not punishing the people who do this, I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on your claim.
And what about when people use the words "Christ" and "Jesus" as expletives in the game? The people that complain about the use of "gay" in a derogatory sense never seem to complain when the words I mentioned are abused.
You are talking about guilds who openly go about discussing Christianity on the public chat channels, right (be it recruiting, proselytizing, or whatever)? You're not just talking about Christians who've gathered together in a guild who talk about Christianity outside the game on messageboards and the like and maybe only privately discuss it in the game, right?
"There is no original. The quote is bogus, and Burke never said it. It is a pseudo-quote, and corresponds to real quotes in the same way that urban legends about the ghost hitch-hiker vanishing in the back of the car and alligators in the sewers correspond to true news stories."
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing' (or words to that effect) A study of a Web quotation
Depends. How big are these man-boobs?
Suckers! I put my shared files into a directory!
In which provinces have electronic voting machines been used to date? I've never seen nor heard anything about this.
...and we can still manage to figure out who won that same night. *snicker*
I played a game like that once. I think it was called "real life". Great graphics and play control. It takes a huge time investment to get anywhere, though. And it's tough to even find monsters to kill (so difficult that many don't believe they even exist). I prefer World of Warcraft, thanks.
Yeah, that's exactly the same...
"Full house. Sorry, Hitler."
"Sheisse!"
OMG! Those aren't implants!!!
You know full well that's not the reason people get upset about stuff like this. It is frightening that you were modded "Insightful".
Remind them of the babe.