Actually, I made God mortal when I destroyed Akulakhan's Chamber. I can remember doing it quite clearly. He was pretty pissed off, but that's the price you pay for using exploits to become a deity.
Obligatory claim to be sick of this type of rant. Nitpicking of missing characteristics tied cleverly into a logical ambush that others visit anyway. Faux disgust at perceived "racist" joke". Redundant yet Insightful reminder that you aren't forced to come here. Lone two-word expletive and/or insult and/or personality criticism whose position and abruptness will surely send parent into depression.
Let's see, who's left to feign offense? Ah yes, here goes: Oh no! I'm a postman, and sarcasm offends my kind! I can't believe Slashdot could be so insensitive! I hate you all!
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people today? The barely-disadvantaged-at-all are out in force bitching about every little detail. These are jokes, get over yourselves!
This is a joke about pre-pubescent female myspacers. You think that counts as women in IT? WITTY REPARTEE
So far today: gays, women. Anyone else want to step up to the plate? As a scholarly-successful white middle-class secular heterosexual male European student, I have no concept of sensitivity, and I'm dishing out teh pwnage to other successful white middle-class people who think they're going to let their stupid bitching ruin a perfectly good April 1st.
l0l wot a fagot u r dis is da shit ur jus jelass coz r new site is betta dan ur gay old shasldot n neway wot u got against mysapce? mysapce is da gr8est, proly even betta dan maddox, n maddox rulz, sept wen he h8ed on u2, dey r da gr8est, liek bono is gna save da world wiv his ritechas music n fund raisins. n neway uniorn tshitrs r IT, cos liek, u gotta use machnies and computers 2 produse dem, s2pid!
Next tonight on copy/pasting random crap in an effort to glean some karma from other people's content:
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If you are missing my point, here it is: this article was linked because it was deemed interesting. You don't get to milk it for a second time by quoting parts of it verbatim unless it's done in some sort of context, like "Look at this BS:".
Fuck "offensive". It's pathetic. I'm disappointed. Here's a big Fuck You to anyone who tagged it "gay". Get a better pejorative you immature little pricks.
If you're offended by it, your English sucks. The word gay is more than a descriptor for a minority sexuality. It has a completely seperate meaning in this context, where it can only offend those who innately make the link between "homosexuality" and "bad". I don't make that link, and if I were gay, the use of the word "gay" as a pejorative wouldn't offend me any more than the word "gringo" does now. I don't make any link between "white European" and "bad", so all it tells me is that the person saying it is xenophopic and doesn't like me.
It takes two for offense to occur. One to act, and one to react. Reacting to shit like this is like a server responding to every packet sent to every port. It's a pointless vulnerability. Patch it today - the exploit code is already out there, it's called trolling.
I'm getting the impression from all these reviews that most journalists have either forgotten or never played Morrowind. All this raving on and on about this new freedom is redundant. You were all saying the exact same things about Morrowind a few years back.
Not only that, but the exact same problems are still present. People are still resorting to leveling by just standing there and repeating actions. Crashing is still a huge problem. Balance is still screwed, only now, you don't have the respite of becoming more powerful than your enemies.
It sounds like they've only fixed one or two of the issues with Morrowind: rigid NPCs, annoying travelling, and underpowered magic spring to mind.
I loved Morrowind. Spent months in it. I might do the same with Oblivion in a few years, late to the party just like with Morrowind, after they've patched all the needless crashing, and the hardware requirements become realistic to the current generation. And once the community has stepped in with mods to literally finish the game on Bethesda's behalf.
But I'm not buying a 360, and I don't run Windows, so maybe I'll just continue to run Morrowind on my Xbox. You can have mods on Xbox if you want to badly enough, by the way. Not likely to happen on thge 360.
The fact that you're getting modded down so consistently is pissing me off. Your views are pretty controversial, and I disagree with you completely. You could phrase them better, with less of the unnecessary biblical style, but still, not flamebait. You're clearly engaged in a discussion, so I don't see how this is flamebait.
Aside from the borderline flamewar... you seem to have a strongly founded sense of morality. Does this stem from your religion, or vice versa? (out of interest)
I was hoping somebody would ask this. You see, this problem has gone unnoticed for too long. Most people who get involved in suicide bombing, upon completing their first successful attempt, become so addicted that they literally spend the entire rest of their lives doing nothing but suicide bombing.
These vulnerable people don't have a Jack Thompson to fight for them. They are left to the abuses of the explosives industry, who are quite happy to suck them dry. How long can America go on ignoring this problem? Will it take another 9/11? Won't somebody please think of the suicide bombers?!
It always irks me when I read about poor real life friends being abandoned in favour of suicide bombing, but not for the reasons you might expect. See, I've abandoned plenty of real life "friends" and made friends suicide bombing too, but although I met plenty of my suicide bombing friends via various games (especially MUDs), the suicide bombings were not the reason why my real life friendships began to suffer. If anything, it was because the people who I had previously hung out with just didn't click with me anymore, and suicide bombing was a way to distance myself from them.
All together now!
Strawman was a man! Then he was a strawman! Then he was just a straw! STRAWMAN! STRAWMAN! Burninating the comment tree! Burninating the parents! Burninating all the posters! AND THE THATCHED ROOF COTTAGES! THATCHED ROOF COTTAGES! AND THE STRAWMAN COMES IN THE NIGHT!
what's to stop me from making amazingsexvideos.COM
This is. Apart from that, nothing. More importantly, there's nothing stopping you from making amazingkiddiesexvideos.com. It's an opt-in business standards label, but they're trying to market it as a measure against child porn, for the sake of the save-the-puppies angle in the news.
This has nothing to do with morality or filtering technology or anything. "Some people" means ICM Registry, who aside from pushing the idea itself, plan to be the ones in charge of charging "$10 (U.S.) annually from every.xxx domain registered" (http://www.icmregistry.com/).
The sick thing about this is the audacious misrepresentation. The notion that it is going to have any effect on child porn is insulting, and the fact that "Child and family safety groups" is unbelievable. It's a consumer rights idea, nothing more.
The fact is, nobody can let on that they care about the rights of consumers who are paying for sinful, immoral porn. But, it's such a huge, tantalising pie that it was only a matter of time before someone found a way to get a piece. Touting the "OMG SCARY INTERNET" angle will still get you most anything, if you're a corporation...
Meanwhile, the child pornographers will continue to run their.com sites, and the authorities will continue to bust them the same ways as before.
That's not even the half of it. They're starting to flesh out the content in "patches" now, as well. It's got a good side and a bad side, but I'm sure going to miss the time when the word "release" meant something.
Wait, you don't mean...
Are you honestly trying to say that this guy's idea won't work in 100% of cases?
DISGUSTING. That's it, I'm leaving Slashdot and never coming back! If advice here can't be taken blindly as a guaranteed step by step guide to fixing something, why even bother?!
Actually, I (a student) am wearing £10 cargo pants, a £3 t-shirt, and about £3 worth of underwear.
I had to wear "smart office-wear" for my sixth-form college a couple of years back, and that came out over £100. Fucking elitist school, but the best in the area. Worth the sacrifice, but for the rest of my life I'll always look back on it with an element of shame because of the sheer elitism of it. Not that that's applicable to business and IT jobs, but the prices are, at least over here in Britain.
By the way, you could have done without the second part of this phrase:
Don't take it personally, I just picked the first self-important, self-proclaimed geek who was full of crap.
Probably not, but that doesn't mean RMS just gets to be the spokesman for the entire movement for the rest of his life. If this is a meritocracy, companies like IBM and Red Hat are our overlords, and thankfully, for the most part are probably seen as such thanks to all the *Expos and *Cons.
Everyone has to outgrow their founders and visionaries at some point. In our case, the sooner the better. We don't need another tin foil RFID tag stunt. Not that I don't agree with the sentiment, but that sort of thing is the EFF's fight, not the FSF's.
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There are ways, for example you can ask how many people it makes happy, or how few it makes suffer (these both have philosophical names that I've forgotten).
Problem is even these tend to be quite subjective. An American, for example will probably say his own culture is the best in these regards, yet someone from Japan might claim the exact same thing.
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Yeah, but Linux more than makes up for it.
It's kind of scary how closely this guy is actually acting out that post. Scary for him, that is. Time for some self-evaluation?
Clichéd Informative karma whore reply explaining that Funny mods yield no karma unto the poster.
Actually, I made God mortal when I destroyed Akulakhan's Chamber. I can remember doing it quite clearly. He was pretty pissed off, but that's the price you pay for using exploits to become a deity.
Obligatory claim to be sick of this type of rant. Nitpicking of missing characteristics tied cleverly into a logical ambush that others visit anyway. Faux disgust at perceived "racist" joke". Redundant yet Insightful reminder that you aren't forced to come here. Lone two-word expletive and/or insult and/or personality criticism whose position and abruptness will surely send parent into depression.
LOL!
Oh no! I'm a postman, and sarcasm offends my kind! I can't believe Slashdot could be so insensitive! I hate you all!
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people today? The barely-disadvantaged-at-all are out in force bitching about every little detail. These are jokes, get over yourselves!
So far today: gays, women. Anyone else want to step up to the plate? As a scholarly-successful white middle-class secular heterosexual male European student, I have no concept of sensitivity, and I'm dishing out teh pwnage to other successful white middle-class people who think they're going to let their stupid bitching ruin a perfectly good April 1st.
l0l wot a fagot u r dis is da shit ur jus jelass coz r new site is betta dan ur gay old shasldot n neway wot u got against mysapce? mysapce is da gr8est, proly even betta dan maddox, n maddox rulz, sept wen he h8ed on u2, dey r da gr8est, liek bono is gna save da world wiv his ritechas music n fund raisins. n neway uniorn tshitrs r IT, cos liek, u gotta use machnies and computers 2 produse dem, s2pid!
If you're offended by it, your English sucks. The word gay is more than a descriptor for a minority sexuality. It has a completely seperate meaning in this context, where it can only offend those who innately make the link between "homosexuality" and "bad". I don't make that link, and if I were gay, the use of the word "gay" as a pejorative wouldn't offend me any more than the word "gringo" does now. I don't make any link between "white European" and "bad", so all it tells me is that the person saying it is xenophopic and doesn't like me.
It takes two for offense to occur. One to act, and one to react. Reacting to shit like this is like a server responding to every packet sent to every port. It's a pointless vulnerability. Patch it today - the exploit code is already out there, it's called trolling.
Not only that, but the exact same problems are still present. People are still resorting to leveling by just standing there and repeating actions. Crashing is still a huge problem. Balance is still screwed, only now, you don't have the respite of becoming more powerful than your enemies.
It sounds like they've only fixed one or two of the issues with Morrowind: rigid NPCs, annoying travelling, and underpowered magic spring to mind.
I loved Morrowind. Spent months in it. I might do the same with Oblivion in a few years, late to the party just like with Morrowind, after they've patched all the needless crashing, and the hardware requirements become realistic to the current generation. And once the community has stepped in with mods to literally finish the game on Bethesda's behalf.
But I'm not buying a 360, and I don't run Windows, so maybe I'll just continue to run Morrowind on my Xbox. You can have mods on Xbox if you want to badly enough, by the way. Not likely to happen on thge 360.
Aside from the borderline flamewar... you seem to have a strongly founded sense of morality. Does this stem from your religion, or vice versa? (out of interest)
These vulnerable people don't have a Jack Thompson to fight for them. They are left to the abuses of the explosives industry, who are quite happy to suck them dry. How long can America go on ignoring this problem? Will it take another 9/11? Won't somebody please think of the suicide bombers?!
This is. Apart from that, nothing. More importantly, there's nothing stopping you from making amazingkiddiesexvideos.com. It's an opt-in business standards label, but they're trying to market it as a measure against child porn, for the sake of the save-the-puppies angle in the news.
This has nothing to do with morality or filtering technology or anything. "Some people" means ICM Registry, who aside from pushing the idea itself, plan to be the ones in charge of charging "$10 (U.S.) annually from every .xxx domain registered" (http://www.icmregistry.com/).
The sick thing about this is the audacious misrepresentation. The notion that it is going to have any effect on child porn is insulting, and the fact that "Child and family safety groups" is unbelievable. It's a consumer rights idea, nothing more.
The fact is, nobody can let on that they care about the rights of consumers who are paying for sinful, immoral porn. But, it's such a huge, tantalising pie that it was only a matter of time before someone found a way to get a piece. Touting the "OMG SCARY INTERNET" angle will still get you most anything, if you're a corporation...
Meanwhile, the child pornographers will continue to run their .com sites, and the authorities will continue to bust them the same ways as before.
That's not even the half of it. They're starting to flesh out the content in "patches" now, as well. It's got a good side and a bad side, but I'm sure going to miss the time when the word "release" meant something.
Haha, no karma for you, n00b! KEKEK KEK KEK!!
There's only one surefire way to karma!
Are you honestly trying to say that this guy's idea won't work in 100% of cases?
DISGUSTING. That's it, I'm leaving Slashdot and never coming back! If advice here can't be taken blindly as a guaranteed step by step guide to fixing something, why even bother?!
YMMV ;)
I had to wear "smart office-wear" for my sixth-form college a couple of years back, and that came out over £100. Fucking elitist school, but the best in the area. Worth the sacrifice, but for the rest of my life I'll always look back on it with an element of shame because of the sheer elitism of it. Not that that's applicable to business and IT jobs, but the prices are, at least over here in Britain.
By the way, you could have done without the second part of this phrase:
Everyone has to outgrow their founders and visionaries at some point. In our case, the sooner the better. We don't need another tin foil RFID tag stunt. Not that I don't agree with the sentiment, but that sort of thing is the EFF's fight, not the FSF's.
Problem is even these tend to be quite subjective. An American, for example will probably say his own culture is the best in these regards, yet someone from Japan might claim the exact same thing.