My biggest gripes with the new rules are the classes and spell casting. Before, you could make spell casting warriors, but now the classes and spells they get are all pre-defined (ie: you won't get the spells to pick from)
Oh come on... Magic is built around obtaining rare cards from booster packs. We all know this. Maybe if you don't ever play with anyone using cards out of your base starter pack.. sure.
Pre D&D 3 (I'll admit, in 3-3.5 stories had some tough spots) you had to mostly rely on the DM letting things slide. Good or bad, the new D&D are easier to get into and play for longer because they've been simplified to the point where anyone that's picked up a computer RPG or an MMO can at least play it and understand it without dying too hard.
It was initially designed and created to kill people.
It sure is nice that some of us have found other uses for them then. I mean, nuclear devices were designed to kill people. So were knifes... and we let all kinds of people use those on a regular basis. Pesticides are designed to kill... not people, but they are designed to kill and people can be killed by them. Sharp sticks can be designed to kill too. Because of this, should we strip the rights of people to carry sticks or shoot sticks from bow like devices (that were designed to kill, but are used to keep most vehicles ride soft)?
Why do you learn to fly an RC Plane or sew a sweater?
You like shooting holes in paper, or cans or bottles? Why don't you use a rock, slingshot or bow?
I mean, you could just make paper airplanes or just buy a bolt of cloth and sew it into a shirt. There's no need to involve complicated mechanics into it.
My gun was made to kill paper, not people... because that's what I bought it for. I don't care what you THINK it was made for. It wasn't.
By owning a gun you are declaring that at somepoint you intend to kill *something* (or someone).
I bought mine for target shooting, because it's fun. I have no intent on using it to hurt or kill someone, ever. It's not even assembled right now. I guess that rules out most of your arguments.
Great... then I'm going to change the pedal arrangement on your car and switch all the hot and cold pipes in your house! It's only a minor change and you'll get used to it.
Ok, so forgive my ignorance here, but for "ice rings" to form, at some point the base of the ice would have to be exposed to the surface in order for the ice to form on it and have a volcano deposit soot. So what these layers tell me is that the Earth has witnessed heat like it is witnessing today... so is it really unprecedented for Greenland to have melting ice every now and then? It tells me that the Earth has been cooling for hundreds(?) of years and depositing new layers of ice on top of these old layers... maybe it's just cyclically correcting that hundred year cooling trend.
Or if you prefer... yes, a tree grows, but eventually that tree is going to die and a new tree will grow in it's place. You can't just have million year old trees. It feels like people are making a huge deal out of a tree dying and claiming it's the end of days.
I've had one blue screen with Windows 7. I was in a meeting with my laptop connected to a large display. We got off on a tangent talking about something and my laptop display went to sleep. I reached down and woke it up by swiping across the touchpad and it displayed a bluescreen then promptly rebooted.
Every other time I've been pissed off by Windows was while playing a game (different machine) and alt-tabbing out or otherwise forcing the video sub-system to switch Aero off/on. In those cases I get no bluescreen. The computer just outright freezes up. This has happened much more often than the bluescreen I got in the meeting, but that's mainly because I spend most of my Windows 7 time as a Steam Kernel.
But the point is that people make money writing Windows Software... even with pirating. They just write compelling and worthwhile software instead of cheesy one off clone games. Those get squashed into places like Kongregate/Newgrounds.
Even with rampant pirating of apps like Photoshop, Adobe still made money.
(Correct me if I'm wrong) but isn't the token generated for each different website so if they did have access to my "token" they'd also need access to the OpenID database containing my "acceptable sites" authentication table?
You are still mostly putting together a kit... unless you cut your own balsa wood tree, make boards out of the raw wood, and fabricate every piece of the craft yourself (including winding the copper around the motors)...
It's a matter of abstraction. His abstraction is to the point of flying.
But the EFF would never know if he got a threatening letter from Microsoft unless he made a big stink about it and/or contacted them himself. Of course, making a big stink would make him and/or Gartner look bad to most of their clients who rely on Microsoft products recommended by Gartner.
Do you need ditches if nobody is driving to work/shop (since all materials would be delivered to your receiving box automatically)? Janitors could be replaced by self cleaning materials and you don't need a burger flipper if the meat is squeezed onto a double sided griddle and the patty slid out onto a pre-toasted bun with the condiments rationed onto it... in your own kitchen. Of course, most people in the near future will still want to make their own meals on the porch grill so it's not going to happen overnight. Much like all the other speculation going on around here. We have a long way to go before robots replace everything, but it doesn't take much to imagine a world where robots do a majority of what we don't like doing already.
Not saying you are wrong, but... someone has to buy the building all those programmer cubes are in, all the recording equipment and licensing, the franchising fees and/or the inspection/building maintenance... and the immense amount of land and regulatory footwork that mining entails. Not to mention hiring a team of lawyers to dredge through patents and legal paperwork to run a business.
I couldn't imagine what kind of mines you'd have if you were only allowed to mine in your own.75 acres where your house is sitting.
Reviewers have experience and thoughtful analyses but suffer from small sample size and conflicts of interest. Users have the strength of numbers but suffer from groupthink and emotional coloring.
In an entertainment medium I find emotional coloring an important metric, especially for companies that have such a huge following as Blizzard with such a rabid fan base. There are a few fans, but a majority are not happy with the game. Professional reviewers have ad revenues to look into. If they continually rate EA games poorly, EA will pull it's advertising dollars from their income. Of course they are bias and there have been multiple... multiple stories and articles that state the same.
You can use it whatever way you like. I like to look at the user scores, compare that to the reviewer scores, compare that to my internal score based on what I read about the game (which of course is weighted highly), and then further decide if I want to purchase it. If the users hate it, there's a reason. I rarely trust "professional" reviewer scores.
Now, if there were only 10-15 reviews I can understand that this number may not be accurate... but generally the fans don't like the game and that tells me it's probably not worth playing, especially Blizzard fans who are usually not critical to the mothership. Currently, the majority of user reviews are all negative, by almost 2:1.
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My biggest gripes with the new rules are the classes and spell casting. Before, you could make spell casting warriors, but now the classes and spells they get are all pre-defined (ie: you won't get the spells to pick from)
Maybe I'm naive, but I just figured it was more of a request than a demand.
Oh come on... Magic is built around obtaining rare cards from booster packs. We all know this. Maybe if you don't ever play with anyone using cards out of your base starter pack.. sure.
Pre D&D 3 (I'll admit, in 3-3.5 stories had some tough spots) you had to mostly rely on the DM letting things slide. Good or bad, the new D&D are easier to get into and play for longer because they've been simplified to the point where anyone that's picked up a computer RPG or an MMO can at least play it and understand it without dying too hard.
It makes me wonder how they get around the "no app store in the app store" issue Amazon had.
I voided my humor warranty when I tried to use it in a way that was not intended.
It was initially designed and created to kill people.
It sure is nice that some of us have found other uses for them then. I mean, nuclear devices were designed to kill people. So were knifes... and we let all kinds of people use those on a regular basis. Pesticides are designed to kill... not people, but they are designed to kill and people can be killed by them. Sharp sticks can be designed to kill too. Because of this, should we strip the rights of people to carry sticks or shoot sticks from bow like devices (that were designed to kill, but are used to keep most vehicles ride soft)?
Why do you even learn to fire a gun at all?
Why do you learn to fly an RC Plane or sew a sweater?
You like shooting holes in paper, or cans or bottles? Why don't you use a rock, slingshot or bow?
I mean, you could just make paper airplanes or just buy a bolt of cloth and sew it into a shirt. There's no need to involve complicated mechanics into it.
My gun was made to kill paper, not people... because that's what I bought it for. I don't care what you THINK it was made for. It wasn't.
By owning a gun you are declaring that at somepoint you intend to kill *something* (or someone).
I bought mine for target shooting, because it's fun. I have no intent on using it to hurt or kill someone, ever. It's not even assembled right now. I guess that rules out most of your arguments.
But you just know someone's going to link to this the next time someone mentions buying a gun vault as being part of responsible ownership.
Great... then I'm going to change the pedal arrangement on your car and switch all the hot and cold pipes in your house! It's only a minor change and you'll get used to it.
you cook geeks!
As long as the instructions are on the side of the box...
If we do that, we'll never have a Tony Stark though...
Two different cards from different manufacturers. (AMD and nVidia)
Ok, so forgive my ignorance here, but for "ice rings" to form, at some point the base of the ice would have to be exposed to the surface in order for the ice to form on it and have a volcano deposit soot. So what these layers tell me is that the Earth has witnessed heat like it is witnessing today... so is it really unprecedented for Greenland to have melting ice every now and then? It tells me that the Earth has been cooling for hundreds(?) of years and depositing new layers of ice on top of these old layers... maybe it's just cyclically correcting that hundred year cooling trend.
Or if you prefer... yes, a tree grows, but eventually that tree is going to die and a new tree will grow in it's place. You can't just have million year old trees. It feels like people are making a huge deal out of a tree dying and claiming it's the end of days.
I've had one blue screen with Windows 7. I was in a meeting with my laptop connected to a large display. We got off on a tangent talking about something and my laptop display went to sleep. I reached down and woke it up by swiping across the touchpad and it displayed a bluescreen then promptly rebooted.
Every other time I've been pissed off by Windows was while playing a game (different machine) and alt-tabbing out or otherwise forcing the video sub-system to switch Aero off/on. In those cases I get no bluescreen. The computer just outright freezes up. This has happened much more often than the bluescreen I got in the meeting, but that's mainly because I spend most of my Windows 7 time as a Steam Kernel.
But the point is that people make money writing Windows Software... even with pirating. They just write compelling and worthwhile software instead of cheesy one off clone games. Those get squashed into places like Kongregate/Newgrounds.
Even with rampant pirating of apps like Photoshop, Adobe still made money.
(Correct me if I'm wrong) but isn't the token generated for each different website so if they did have access to my "token" they'd also need access to the OpenID database containing my "acceptable sites" authentication table?
You are still mostly putting together a kit... unless you cut your own balsa wood tree, make boards out of the raw wood, and fabricate every piece of the craft yourself (including winding the copper around the motors) ...
It's a matter of abstraction. His abstraction is to the point of flying.
But the EFF would never know if he got a threatening letter from Microsoft unless he made a big stink about it and/or contacted them himself. Of course, making a big stink would make him and/or Gartner look bad to most of their clients who rely on Microsoft products recommended by Gartner.
Do you need ditches if nobody is driving to work/shop (since all materials would be delivered to your receiving box automatically)? Janitors could be replaced by self cleaning materials and you don't need a burger flipper if the meat is squeezed onto a double sided griddle and the patty slid out onto a pre-toasted bun with the condiments rationed onto it... in your own kitchen. Of course, most people in the near future will still want to make their own meals on the porch grill so it's not going to happen overnight. Much like all the other speculation going on around here. We have a long way to go before robots replace everything, but it doesn't take much to imagine a world where robots do a majority of what we don't like doing already.
Not saying you are wrong, but... someone has to buy the building all those programmer cubes are in, all the recording equipment and licensing, the franchising fees and/or the inspection/building maintenance... and the immense amount of land and regulatory footwork that mining entails. Not to mention hiring a team of lawyers to dredge through patents and legal paperwork to run a business.
I couldn't imagine what kind of mines you'd have if you were only allowed to mine in your own .75 acres where your house is sitting.
User scores are not reviewer reviews.
Not sure where I said they were...
Reviewers have experience and thoughtful analyses but suffer from small sample size and conflicts of interest.
Users have the strength of numbers but suffer from groupthink and emotional coloring.
In an entertainment medium I find emotional coloring an important metric, especially for companies that have such a huge following as Blizzard with such a rabid fan base. There are a few fans, but a majority are not happy with the game.
Professional reviewers have ad revenues to look into. If they continually rate EA games poorly, EA will pull it's advertising dollars from their income. Of course they are bias and there have been multiple... multiple stories and articles that state the same.
You can use it whatever way you like. I like to look at the user scores, compare that to the reviewer scores, compare that to my internal score based on what I read about the game (which of course is weighted highly), and then further decide if I want to purchase it. If the users hate it, there's a reason. I rarely trust "professional" reviewer scores.
Sure, but if you look at the user scores, it's also in the lowest 5-7.
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/year/pc?sort=desc&year_selected=2012
Now, if there were only 10-15 reviews I can understand that this number may not be accurate... but generally the fans don't like the game and that tells me it's probably not worth playing, especially Blizzard fans who are usually not critical to the mothership. Currently, the majority of user reviews are all negative, by almost 2:1.
When a tremendous amount of the scores are all 98, a 5% variation would be a good thing.
But it keeps my teeth cool...