That's interesting, but I'd sooner be caught naked in the streets than getting my OS updates off of some random site on the internet I know nothing about.
Don't go to Best Buy for cables - or if you do, don't ask for help from one of their sales reps. My parents paid $70 (!) dollars for a set of component cables to go with their new HDTV because they didn't think to check for something cheaper. If I had been there I'd have told the sales rep to blow it out his ass.
In about 2-5 years, WoW will start to fizzle out as people grow up and away from the game. As well, improvements in computer hardware, GPUs in particular, will start to make the cheesy character graphics that WoW uses seem old.
That's nothing a graphics engine upgrade can't fix. Mythic did this not once but several times with DAOC. Even though the game has been out for 5 years it's still one of the most visually impressive games out there.
Went to South Korea this summer and bought a used cellphone to use while he was there. The previous owner deleted all the phone numbers, but didn't delete her cosplay pictures.
The problem occurs after you get through the IVR - when someone picks up the line on the other end and it's somebody in fucking Bangalore. I don't know what business my credit card company had shipping my financial info halfway across the world but I more or less stopped doing business with them partly because of it.
Where do people come up with this?
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Imagine if you will, a world where your ideas and perhaps, even your own creative works became part of the OS of tomorrow.
The grade-on-a-curve honor system cheesed everybody off because the only way you can make high warlord/grand marshal is to essentially quit your job and pvp for 14 hours a day. It wasn't just the casual players, fortunately. I guess they thought it would work, and after awhile saw that it didn't - a new honor system is going in with the expansion.
How is it not innovative? Tell me you've never twisted your controller around while you were trying to make a sharp turn on a race track. Tell me you've never instinctively raised your controller up while trying to get your character to block an attack in a fighting game. Everybody does this, it's instictive. Nintendo looked at all this and said... ok, we're going to drag you further into the game and make your instincts actually count for something.
That's a hell of a lot more innovative than Sony could ever hope to be with Gran Tourismo in 1080p.
I think it'll do well, and given that they're basing their entire console strategy around it, the Wiimote is going to get a hell of a lot of support that other failed gimmicks (like the Virtual Boy or R.O.B.) didn't get. It's certainly something that Sony and Microsoft aren't giving us this time, and that's why I'm sold on it.
Exactly. I could see them going this route if they wanted to set up some kind of a legitimate subscription-based P2P network, but even if they got the patent it's not as if you'd suddenly load up Limewire one day and have it start tracking everything you do.
Every time I was in a guild in any game all I heard was guild issue, guild fights and random crap. There was no real socialization there was discussions on crap like "when are we taking on Moltan core" "are we going to power level me today?" "who can help me with this?" It's true there's some social events on the game, but for the most part, I don't count dancing in a line, talking about the dancing in a line, and then taking pictures of dancing in a line as "social events".
If you're in a guild full of PL and loot whores.. then yeah, there's going to be no social atmosphere. I still play with people I met in DAOC 4 years ago (we all bounced around for a bit before settling in World Of Warcraft), because we found common ground outside of the desire to get phatter lewts.
I've been in the video game retail arena, preorders are just a shitty excuse to take your money and lock you into making your purchase with them. There is no guarantee they'll have a box with your name on it on launch day.
I've found if you don't bullshit the cop, don't challenge his radar gun when you know you were speeding, don't insult his authority or intelligence, and don't whine like a bitch about your privacy being violated, the cop is going to be cool to you. Whether that gets you out of the ticket or not is another story, but at least he's less likely to be an ass and decide he wants to search your vehicle or take you down to the station for further questioning.
I'd suggest that these laws are rarely result of stupidity (although there certainly is no shortage of that particular commodity in DC), but part of a larger concerted effort to monitor, restrict, and control Americans' access and content on the Internet.
Final Fantasy 7 had characters with guns in it, and that one went just fine. The reasons Final Fantasy 8 (schmaltzy love stories, Squall being an emo fuckhead) and X-2 (Charlie's Angels anyone?) aren't the most popular in the series have nothing - or at least very little - to do with guns.
All the sci-fi based MMOs have been utter shit so far. Star Wars Galaxies? Utter shit. Anarchy Online? Utter shit. The Matrix Online? Utter shit. Everquest was the first real big MMO out there, and World Of Warcraft cashes in on a decade of building up a rabid fanbase. Those two just happen to be fantasy games. If Blizzard had decided to make an MMO out of Starcraft instead, it would have done just as well.
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That's interesting, but I'd sooner be caught naked in the streets than getting my OS updates off of some random site on the internet I know nothing about.
Google doesn't work for people anymore
Don't go to Best Buy for cables - or if you do, don't ask for help from one of their sales reps. My parents paid $70 (!) dollars for a set of component cables to go with their new HDTV because they didn't think to check for something cheaper. If I had been there I'd have told the sales rep to blow it out his ass.
In about 2-5 years, WoW will start to fizzle out as people grow up and away from the game. As well, improvements in computer hardware, GPUs in particular, will start to make the cheesy character graphics that WoW uses seem old.
That's nothing a graphics engine upgrade can't fix. Mythic did this not once but several times with DAOC. Even though the game has been out for 5 years it's still one of the most visually impressive games out there.
Went to South Korea this summer and bought a used cellphone to use while he was there. The previous owner deleted all the phone numbers, but didn't delete her cosplay pictures.
Setting up a row of straw men and knocking them down with half-baked logic doesn't count as debunking myths.
The problem occurs after you get through the IVR - when someone picks up the line on the other end and it's somebody in fucking Bangalore. I don't know what business my credit card company had shipping my financial info halfway across the world but I more or less stopped doing business with them partly because of it.
Imagine if you will, a world where your ideas and perhaps, even your own creative works became part of the OS of tomorrow.
Sounds like new age marketing bullshit to me.
I could get a 24mbps connection through the internet company I work for - but only if I moved into an apartment across the street from the CO.
The grade-on-a-curve honor system cheesed everybody off because the only way you can make high warlord/grand marshal is to essentially quit your job and pvp for 14 hours a day. It wasn't just the casual players, fortunately. I guess they thought it would work, and after awhile saw that it didn't - a new honor system is going in with the expansion.
How is it not innovative? Tell me you've never twisted your controller around while you were trying to make a sharp turn on a race track. Tell me you've never instinctively raised your controller up while trying to get your character to block an attack in a fighting game. Everybody does this, it's instictive. Nintendo looked at all this and said... ok, we're going to drag you further into the game and make your instincts actually count for something.
That's a hell of a lot more innovative than Sony could ever hope to be with Gran Tourismo in 1080p.
I think it'll do well, and given that they're basing their entire console strategy around it, the Wiimote is going to get a hell of a lot of support that other failed gimmicks (like the Virtual Boy or R.O.B.) didn't get. It's certainly something that Sony and Microsoft aren't giving us this time, and that's why I'm sold on it.
$8.50 for a fucking ticket had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Let me guess, you're one of those idiots that still think AIDS is a disease brought down on homosexuals by the almighty too, eh.
Exactly. I could see them going this route if they wanted to set up some kind of a legitimate subscription-based P2P network, but even if they got the patent it's not as if you'd suddenly load up Limewire one day and have it start tracking everything you do.
Every time I was in a guild in any game all I heard was guild issue, guild fights and random crap. There was no real socialization there was discussions on crap like "when are we taking on Moltan core" "are we going to power level me today?" "who can help me with this?" It's true there's some social events on the game, but for the most part, I don't count dancing in a line, talking about the dancing in a line, and then taking pictures of dancing in a line as "social events".
If you're in a guild full of PL and loot whores.. then yeah, there's going to be no social atmosphere. I still play with people I met in DAOC 4 years ago (we all bounced around for a bit before settling in World Of Warcraft), because we found common ground outside of the desire to get phatter lewts.
I've been in the video game retail arena, preorders are just a shitty excuse to take your money and lock you into making your purchase with them. There is no guarantee they'll have a box with your name on it on launch day.
Dude, I was so coming in here to say that. I noticed that this morning when I realized my hash browns container looked almost round.
so it is not a stretch to believe this service will be launched sometime in the very near future
Obviously you are not aware of this company's track record if you readily believe they are going to be launching any products anytime soon.
Exactly what the hell does that have to do with anything?
Tsk tsk tsk. Someone didn't play the game through. Ken Hayabusa IS alive until the end of the game.
Can you blame them? That game was stupid hard, I never got past 6-2.
I'm not rich and it didn't help me.
I've found if you don't bullshit the cop, don't challenge his radar gun when you know you were speeding, don't insult his authority or intelligence, and don't whine like a bitch about your privacy being violated, the cop is going to be cool to you. Whether that gets you out of the ticket or not is another story, but at least he's less likely to be an ass and decide he wants to search your vehicle or take you down to the station for further questioning.
And does it really make sense to offer a Top 100 of ANYTHING where we're only five years into the 21st centry?
Sure it does... there won't be any new games made after Jack Thompson shuts the video game industry down for good later this year!
I'd suggest that these laws are rarely result of stupidity (although there certainly is no shortage of that particular commodity in DC), but part of a larger concerted effort to monitor, restrict, and control Americans' access and content on the Internet.
That qualifies as stupidity to me.
Final Fantasy 7 had characters with guns in it, and that one went just fine. The reasons Final Fantasy 8 (schmaltzy love stories, Squall being an emo fuckhead) and X-2 (Charlie's Angels anyone?) aren't the most popular in the series have nothing - or at least very little - to do with guns.
All the sci-fi based MMOs have been utter shit so far. Star Wars Galaxies? Utter shit. Anarchy Online? Utter shit. The Matrix Online? Utter shit. Everquest was the first real big MMO out there, and World Of Warcraft cashes in on a decade of building up a rabid fanbase. Those two just happen to be fantasy games. If Blizzard had decided to make an MMO out of Starcraft instead, it would have done just as well.