As a Hobbit-eating Elf, I long to return to a place in Lord of the Rings: Online, where a hobbit was congregated with a gaggle of squirrels, north of Ost Guruth. They've since made it impossible to return to this land of Milk and Hobbits...
In LineageII, my favorite thing to do was to explore in the mountains, (something I quite enjoy IRL). I discovered a way to mysteriously pass through the mountains south of the Sea of Spores. Very weird!
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Did you need to have the scores go up immediately? Could you have written them down on paper with a stylus, and posted them later?
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This service is popular because it has removed the technology-related aspects of a function that has basically been around for decades. Now that folks can make use of the internet without needing to know *anything* at all, it's acceptible to the masses. Even BBCode was too much to ask; RSS is not really simple to simpletons; e-mail has spam, scary header data, etc. Twits want something with a dickhead name that lets them move on with pure use-ability, and no background tech-noise.
It provides a "turn-key" CMS.
I'd write a novel in Twits, just to piss-off the service, but I just can't stand it enough to want to use it to foil it.
Actually, I know many people in LOTR:O who are well-respected professionals who play in their free time.
I have lead a large, very active Kinship for almost two years, don't live at home, and find that the experience has been *enormously* edifying to my professional experience, and has definitely enhanced my ability to plan, and organize large groups of people in complex tasks.
Rather than a lardball, I am a fit, 32 y.o, Harvard-graduate and technology professional, who still finds time to spend tons of time outdoors (backpacking, alpine touring), and maintain a very happy married life. Looking through my forums at the RL (real-life) pictures of my Kinsmates shows that the proportion of members who fits your description is in synch with the general population, if not less; i.e., most are not "30 year old lardballs..."
Your comment on companionship is semi-correct; I love my friends in LOTR:O, and love to spend time with them, but most of them know who I am, and what I am like in RL. To the point of the article, yes, the entire interface is addictive, and I get frustrated with non-ethical mindless-grind content. However, most everything fun could be described as "addictive", such as skiing, playing piano, etc.
Of course, this is LOTR:O. If you actually play "that other game", your assessment could well be correct. I wouldn't know...
Living in a state for which the vote outcome was definite from the beginning, I felt it would be better to wait until I saw that this kind of thing Wouldn't happen, before I started in with the quasi-religious chanting of anyone's name.
Does anyone have good examples of content which relied on other sources that turned out to be flat wrong? I mean, just a few good examples - I'm sure there are many...
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I took an axe to my last Cassandra cluster and feel quite better now.
As a Hobbit-eating Elf, I long to return to a place in Lord of the Rings: Online, where a hobbit was congregated with a gaggle of squirrels, north of Ost Guruth. They've since made it impossible to return to this land of Milk and Hobbits...
In LineageII, my favorite thing to do was to explore in the mountains, (something I quite enjoy IRL). I discovered a way to mysteriously pass through the mountains south of the Sea of Spores. Very weird!
Did you need to have the scores go up immediately? Could you have written them down on paper with a stylus, and posted them later?
This service is popular because it has removed the technology-related aspects of a function that has basically been around for decades. Now that folks can make use of the internet without needing to know *anything* at all, it's acceptible to the masses. Even BBCode was too much to ask; RSS is not really simple to simpletons; e-mail has spam, scary header data, etc. Twits want something with a dickhead name that lets them move on with pure use-ability, and no background tech-noise.
It provides a "turn-key" CMS.
I'd write a novel in Twits, just to piss-off the service, but I just can't stand it enough to want to use it to foil it.
For your health!
Actually, I know many people in LOTR:O who are well-respected professionals who play in their free time. I have lead a large, very active Kinship for almost two years, don't live at home, and find that the experience has been *enormously* edifying to my professional experience, and has definitely enhanced my ability to plan, and organize large groups of people in complex tasks.
Rather than a lardball, I am a fit, 32 y.o, Harvard-graduate and technology professional, who still finds time to spend tons of time outdoors (backpacking, alpine touring), and maintain a very happy married life. Looking through my forums at the RL (real-life) pictures of my Kinsmates shows that the proportion of members who fits your description is in synch with the general population, if not less; i.e., most are not "30 year old lardballs..."
Your comment on companionship is semi-correct; I love my friends in LOTR:O, and love to spend time with them, but most of them know who I am, and what I am like in RL. To the point of the article, yes, the entire interface is addictive, and I get frustrated with non-ethical mindless-grind content. However, most everything fun could be described as "addictive", such as skiing, playing piano, etc.
Of course, this is LOTR:O. If you actually play "that other game", your assessment could well be correct. I wouldn't know...
Living in a state for which the vote outcome was definite from the beginning, I felt it would be better to wait until I saw that this kind of thing Wouldn't happen, before I started in with the quasi-religious chanting of anyone's name.
Does anyone have good examples of content which relied on other sources that turned out to be flat wrong? I mean, just a few good examples - I'm sure there are many...
There is no Vermont. Go home.
He will be sorely missed. R.I.P. Gary.
I've always said that the key to creativity is peripatesis... Io Aristotle!
Yes! It most certainly is! Great article here: http://cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10863.shtml
I was just checking out parts of my own nosehairs a moment ago...