$1.29 Ringtones! It still boggles my mind that people accept this.
$1.29 for a 30 second sound clip compared to $.99 for the full 2-3 minute song. Insane. You know what would've been nice to have in the 3.1 OS update? The ability to choose a song on your phone and then making it your ringtone.
He's really just studying the behaviors of a community and what happens when you go against the established rules.
To take it out of the video game - think of a company buying a plot of land and build a baseball field on it. Instead of playing baseball, people have decided to use the field as a place to sunbathe. Along comes this person that wants to play baseball on the baseball field. Unfortunately, it's been taken over by people who are doing something else in it. The majority doesn't want to leave. The individual just wants to use the field for what it was built for.
My HP dv9000 is horrible when it comes to overheating. I specifically bought a laptop cooler to keep it cool and operational. Google "hp dv9000 overheating" for a number of people with similar issues.
I wonder how much of the overheating is from the battery simply be improperly designed, or if the laptop's own design heats up the battery more than normal.
Seriously? You're gonna try and attach a $150 therapy bill to obsessively playing MMOs? You really think that's a likely outcome?
I would say you are far more likely to get injured doing a physical hobby and then you'd have to spend a lot more going to the doctor and then having to do physical therapy.
MMOs can be done in small breaks if you want to as well. I used to be a hardcore WoW person, but I experienced the whole "Why am I doing this still, I'm not having fun" and decided to stop. So I stopped playing, but then I started playing again because my wife still wanted to play. So I play with her now, maybe like once a week for an evening. We take it slow and I enjoy playing.
I believe this is a great chance for the creator of the game to emphasize the story aspect of MMORPG world - which games tend to ignore.
Even I am guilty of hitting 'Accept Quest' and glazing over the text. That's cause reading text is boring sometimes (I don't care why you need 15 tiger skins...). But that's really because the game can't really express much emotion (all you see is text on a mostly expressionless character) But if your quest givers were real actors on a television show with a plot, imagine how much that would increase the immersion factor.
Even basic 'collect x items' quests could be made more exciting.
There could be an episode of the show where you follow the main characters. They discover that the big enemy is up to his nefarious scheme. They report back to the president, scientists come up with this crazy plan that requires some sort of rare material. The episode ends and the next day, a quest giver is in the game world. The players have to collect so many items or their world will be attacked by the big villain. The outcome of course would be reflected in the next episode.
Perhaps the good guys are assaulting the base of the villain. Episode ends, new dungeon opens, players have to beat it so many times for it to be considered a victory.
All this of course hinges on the show itself being reasonably well made.
I think we have both made the mistake of overgeneralizing. I have worked in three labs. Two as an undergraduate and now one as a graduate student. Some professors are very busy and some of them are not.
Two out of my three professors were very busy. This was not an illusion. One of them always had his office door open. My office was across the hall. I knew what he was doing.
My current professor is super busy. He is not a professor because he wants to be lazy. Our field is very competitive, and he works hard to get our lab funding and keep it at the top of the field. Just because a professor isn't fiddling on the machines or being a lab rat doesn't mean they aren't busy doing work for the benefit of the project.
I am aware not all professors are like my current one, but generalizing that all professors are lazy is a very incorrect statement.
I have worked in a couple of experimental physics labs, and on my first days I was given a big pile of reading material. The professor also picked out a small project for me to work on. Then I asked the grad students lots of questions because the professors were not available much. They are very busy.
How research works very much depends on both your field and your particular group. Ask the grad students whenever you are unsure of what to do.
The environment is informal. My hours were never set for me.
Undergrads are low on the totem pole, and their projects typically are not very important ones for the first couple of months.
The problem isn't that the designers stink. It's the fact that WoW is an MMORPG. Assuming WoW was a perfect game in which every single player enjoyed every single aspects of the game , there would still be bots because some players just can't play as often as others. Winning games is based on skill, be it true "real world" skills like reflexes or a great strategic mind or "virtual" skills like RPG character stats. Skills are supposed to take time to accumulate and not everyone has the same amount of time to play, therefore bots are created to make up for that time.
You might think that having to carry out the motions using the Wii remote instead having swiveling a joystick and pressing a button is a bit too realistic, but the same argument that firing a gun in a video game isn't like real life can be applied here. Swinging the Wii remote around isn't like strangling or shanking a real person in the real world (not that I'd know personally) but a little bit of thinking should make it obvious.
Posting for the first time ever solely because of how offended I am. How this comment managed to get interesting PLUS a score above 1 is ludacrious. This comment is nothing but a racist flamebaiting troll.
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$1.29 Ringtones! It still boggles my mind that people accept this.
$1.29 for a 30 second sound clip compared to $.99 for the full 2-3 minute song. Insane. You know what would've been nice to have in the 3.1 OS update? The ability to choose a song on your phone and then making it your ringtone.
He's really just studying the behaviors of a community and what happens when you go against the established rules.
To take it out of the video game - think of a company buying a plot of land and build a baseball field on it. Instead of playing baseball, people have decided to use the field as a place to sunbathe. Along comes this person that wants to play baseball on the baseball field. Unfortunately, it's been taken over by people who are doing something else in it. The majority doesn't want to leave. The individual just wants to use the field for what it was built for.
So who's in the wrong there?
My HP dv9000 is horrible when it comes to overheating. I specifically bought a laptop cooler to keep it cool and operational. Google "hp dv9000 overheating" for a number of people with similar issues.
I wonder how much of the overheating is from the battery simply be improperly designed, or if the laptop's own design heats up the battery more than normal.
Seriously? You're gonna try and attach a $150 therapy bill to obsessively playing MMOs? You really think that's a likely outcome?
I would say you are far more likely to get injured doing a physical hobby and then you'd have to spend a lot more going to the doctor and then having to do physical therapy.
MMOs can be done in small breaks if you want to as well. I used to be a hardcore WoW person, but I experienced the whole "Why am I doing this still, I'm not having fun" and decided to stop. So I stopped playing, but then I started playing again because my wife still wanted to play. So I play with her now, maybe like once a week for an evening. We take it slow and I enjoy playing.
I believe this is a great chance for the creator of the game to emphasize the story aspect of MMORPG world - which games tend to ignore.
Even I am guilty of hitting 'Accept Quest' and glazing over the text. That's cause reading text is boring sometimes (I don't care why you need 15 tiger skins...). But that's really because the game can't really express much emotion (all you see is text on a mostly expressionless character) But if your quest givers were real actors on a television show with a plot, imagine how much that would increase the immersion factor.
Even basic 'collect x items' quests could be made more exciting.
There could be an episode of the show where you follow the main characters. They discover that the big enemy is up to his nefarious scheme. They report back to the president, scientists come up with this crazy plan that requires some sort of rare material. The episode ends and the next day, a quest giver is in the game world. The players have to collect so many items or their world will be attacked by the big villain. The outcome of course would be reflected in the next episode.
Perhaps the good guys are assaulting the base of the villain. Episode ends, new dungeon opens, players have to beat it so many times for it to be considered a victory.
All this of course hinges on the show itself being reasonably well made.
I think we have both made the mistake of overgeneralizing. I have worked in three labs. Two as an undergraduate and now one as a graduate student. Some professors are very busy and some of them are not.
Two out of my three professors were very busy. This was not an illusion. One of them always had his office door open. My office was across the hall. I knew what he was doing.
My current professor is super busy. He is not a professor because he wants to be lazy. Our field is very competitive, and he works hard to get our lab funding and keep it at the top of the field. Just because a professor isn't fiddling on the machines or being a lab rat doesn't mean they aren't busy doing work for the benefit of the project.
I am aware not all professors are like my current one, but generalizing that all professors are lazy is a very incorrect statement.
I have worked in a couple of experimental physics labs, and on my first days I was given a big pile of reading material. The professor also picked out a small project for me to work on. Then I asked the grad students lots of questions because the professors were not available much. They are very busy.
How research works very much depends on both your field and your particular group. Ask the grad students whenever you are unsure of what to do.
The environment is informal. My hours were never set for me.
Undergrads are low on the totem pole, and their projects typically are not very important ones for the first couple of months.
The problem isn't that the designers stink. It's the fact that WoW is an MMORPG. Assuming WoW was a perfect game in which every single player enjoyed every single aspects of the game , there would still be bots because some players just can't play as often as others. Winning games is based on skill, be it true "real world" skills like reflexes or a great strategic mind or "virtual" skills like RPG character stats. Skills are supposed to take time to accumulate and not everyone has the same amount of time to play, therefore bots are created to make up for that time.
jamestkirk.com is my favorite stop for everything Star Trek, like a big picture of a TIE fighter.
You might think that having to carry out the motions using the Wii remote instead having swiveling a joystick and pressing a button is a bit too realistic, but the same argument that firing a gun in a video game isn't like real life can be applied here. Swinging the Wii remote around isn't like strangling or shanking a real person in the real world (not that I'd know personally) but a little bit of thinking should make it obvious.
Posting for the first time ever solely because of how offended I am. How this comment managed to get interesting PLUS a score above 1 is ludacrious. This comment is nothing but a racist flamebaiting troll.