I much prefer the way the game is going now he's gone - plus, the interviews he's done since leaving have been, how shall we say, scathing about CoH. I assume it's a PR trick to get people to play Champions when it comes out, because most of what he's said has been very sparse with the truth.
I had some respect for him when he was in charge of CoH, but that has evaporated with his conduct now he's not.
I would agree with you, but as a long-time CoH player I can tell you than NCSoft NorCal (who used to be part of Cryptic Studios) have a habit of actually listening to the community, more so than any other MMO that I've played. Where WoW admins shout "Working as Intended" and EVE admins scam the game for money, you can approach CoH admins and ask them for something and they'll tell you if they can do it and when.
NCSoft have earned my trust on this one, and I'll be turning the ads on.
So your a licensed psychiatrist then? No, I'm an analyst.
Your pathetic attemps to discredit twitter are 1000 times sadder than any post by twitter I've seen. You haven't been paying attention. Twitter was already discredited before I started doing this.
You however, are just a troll. Clearly, as I'm the one who picked someone out to call 'sad' and 'pathetic'. At least I have a purpose, what do you have?
Do you have any idea how goddamn sad that makes you look. You seem to be confused about how much I care about other people's opinions of what I do, especially yours.
So what if twitter has multiple accounts. Why is it any of your business? Because he's using those accounts to manipulate discussion. Maybe you don't have a problem with deceiving people who don't know any better, but I do and a lot of people here do also.
If you just want to declare you hatred of someone, do it using the friends / foes system, that is what it is there for. And that way those of us who could not care less who your foes are dont have to look. Yeah, that'll solve the issue - setting up a little flag on my account that nobody gives a toss about. Good call.
Now, I have another suggestion: You are an MS sock puppet who also posts under multiple accounts and gets paid to trash what could be an interesting debate about the future of open source software.
I have no proof of that, but who cares, you obviously do not when it applies to other people I have plenty of proof that Twitter has multiple accounts, from analysis of his posting methods and language to admissions from twitter that he has multiple sockpuppets. You have none whatsoever, but apparently that doesn't stop you from bringing yourself down to what you seem to perceive to be level.
so why should it matter to me either. I don't know - you're free to foe me and ignore me, and if you don't like what I say according to you that's the best option, so why don't you go ahead? No skin off my nose.
I read/. to offend people in ignorance. Offending, no. Ignorant, very.
Search is the big winner not domain names, thats such a money laundering scheme by ICANN and just for suckers. If that is the case, isn't search therefore "just a money-laundering scheme" by Google et al?
The thing with Val and Peter was, though, that Locke was Peter's voice and Demosthenes was Val's. Sure, Peter came up with the plans but it was Valentine's work. And they took great care to never have Locke and Demosthenes reply to each other - they didn't want to appear that they were in any way related. They only did it because if they were themselves, they would be laughed out for being children. Also, the motive was pure - world peace, and they managed it.
This is one man, a grown man, using 5 identities to make himself look more authoritative. He has no 'pure motive', just the pushing of his point of view on everyone else. If he was just himself and told the truth, he would have respect and he did, once.
I admire the characters of Val and Peter for having the courage to make a stand and make a difference, but let's not pretend that what they did in a fictional capacity is in any way comparable to Twitter trolling Slashdot.
That's bloody hilarious. I'd recommend anybody who believes this to go read a few posts from those accounts, compare them, and then get back to me. I have nothing to hide, so I won't try and deflect your attention from doing so with "ohnoes this is a hatefest you must have no life" comments from one of my so-called 'sockpuppets'.
Here's a hint to go with it - I don't need more than one account to get my point across, because I don't lie and my karma isn't in the toilet.
Who reads and mods this crap up? This might be new to you, twitter, but generally people who tell the truth get modded up. Similarly, if you lie, you get modded down.
You're so busy trying to work out how MIKKRO$HAFTLOL are gaming the system, it never occured to that it's Working As Intended(tm).
I was about to say (slightly sarcastically) that I figured it out from the NL in your name, but I realised how annoying it must be to have to explain it to non-Europeans, so... no sarcasm here!
Twitter says:
You can continue to ignore my stories and comments if you don't like them. Actually, we can't, and you're the reason why.
I can choose to ignore your threads. I did so for quite a while. Then I start seeing these posts turn up in a name suspiciously like mine... with exactly the same style of writing and anti-Microsoft paranoia, and it was such an incredibly obvious piece of idiocy that I'm surprised you thought you would get away with it. Then I realise you have 3 more accounts, at least, and now ignoring you isn't good enough because you're such an inherently dishonest person that you started coming up with ways of bypassing the tools honest Slashdotters can use to filter you out.
So, saying 'you can ignore me' is now completely irrelevant, and you're the one that made it that way. The only way to carry on decent discussion at this site is to keep forcing you to be honest by being proactive and flagging up the comments where you shill yourself so that people can actually come in to a discussion with you with all the information.
Seriously though, did you bypass common sense lessons somewhere along the way? Maybe you haven't noticed, but you're absolutely free to point out the good things free software does, and to share your opinion on why non-free software is evil, and when you did that you had mod points, excellent karma and some respect from people. However, you are absolutely not free to misrepresent yourself - and since you started shilling yourself with your Erris account right through to this debacle right now, all you have managed to do is discredit yourself. You've run two accounts into negative karma, you have 3 more that will most likely go the same way, and it's all your fault.
So why don't you grow a pair, get some respect for people on this website and fucking stop. Treat everyone else like human beings instead of sheep that you think you're supposed to lead by hook or by crook to the promised land of GNU/Linux and let them make their own minds up. Have you learnt yet? How are you going to advocate free software when nobody believes a word you say?
Can't really see the angry part of what I said... still, I'd rather be angry than unable to grasp two completely seperate concepts at once, wouldn't you?
How is this insightful? You clearly didn't read the article at all.
Creative broke parts of their Vista drivers even though those parts would have worked fine. The modder re-enabled them and Creative threw a wobbly. This has nothing to do with DRM or media companies, and the only link to Microsoft is the OS the drivers were written for. It has everything to do with Creative forcing an upgrade path on their customers.
Good work on writing a comment with all the buzzwords necessary to look insightful, though.
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So we should stop caring because the photos they're taking of the inside and outside of people's houses and using for profit are low quality?
Thank goodness for that, I thought it might be a problem.
You say that in jest, but our good friend Daniel Eran of Roughly Drafted posted 14 times to defend Apple from these scurrilous claims.
There's fighting the good fight, Daniel! I hope you didn't have anything more important to do.
I much prefer the way the game is going now he's gone - plus, the interviews he's done since leaving have been, how shall we say, scathing about CoH. I assume it's a PR trick to get people to play Champions when it comes out, because most of what he's said has been very sparse with the truth.
I had some respect for him when he was in charge of CoH, but that has evaporated with his conduct now he's not.
Unless you want to watch something other than the BBC, and who would want to do that? :P
I actually liked ED... which puts me in a very silent minority, apparently.
Still, as I said below, NCSoft have earned my trust (more so now Emmert has gone) so I'll be turning them on.
I would agree with you, but as a long-time CoH player I can tell you than NCSoft NorCal (who used to be part of Cryptic Studios) have a habit of actually listening to the community, more so than any other MMO that I've played. Where WoW admins shout "Working as Intended" and EVE admins scam the game for money, you can approach CoH admins and ask them for something and they'll tell you if they can do it and when.
NCSoft have earned my trust on this one, and I'll be turning the ads on.
I have no proof of that, but who cares, you obviously do not when it applies to other people I have plenty of proof that Twitter has multiple accounts, from analysis of his posting methods and language to admissions from twitter that he has multiple sockpuppets. You have none whatsoever, but apparently that doesn't stop you from bringing yourself down to what you seem to perceive to be level. so why should it matter to me either. I don't know - you're free to foe me and ignore me, and if you don't like what I say according to you that's the best option, so why don't you go ahead? No skin off my nose. I read
You picked a good book to compare - I think Ender's Game is an oft-overlooked classic of modern science fiction, but that's just me.
The thing with Val and Peter was, though, that Locke was Peter's voice and Demosthenes was Val's. Sure, Peter came up with the plans but it was Valentine's work. And they took great care to never have Locke and Demosthenes reply to each other - they didn't want to appear that they were in any way related. They only did it because if they were themselves, they would be laughed out for being children. Also, the motive was pure - world peace, and they managed it.
This is one man, a grown man, using 5 identities to make himself look more authoritative. He has no 'pure motive', just the pushing of his point of view on everyone else. If he was just himself and told the truth, he would have respect and he did, once.
I admire the characters of Val and Peter for having the courage to make a stand and make a difference, but let's not pretend that what they did in a fictional capacity is in any way comparable to Twitter trolling Slashdot.
Please note, that it's not Macthorpe that he uses, it's Mactrope.
He copied my account name for reasons best known to himself, so I'd much rather it didn't work and people didn't confuse me for him.
That's bloody hilarious. I'd recommend anybody who believes this to go read a few posts from those accounts, compare them, and then get back to me. I have nothing to hide, so I won't try and deflect your attention from doing so with "ohnoes this is a hatefest you must have no life" comments from one of my so-called 'sockpuppets'.
Here's a hint to go with it - I don't need more than one account to get my point across, because I don't lie and my karma isn't in the toilet.
Enjoy yourselves.
Do I even have to say anything at this point?
You're so busy trying to work out how MIKKRO$HAFTLOL are gaming the system, it never occured to that it's Working As Intended(tm).
I was about to say (slightly sarcastically) that I figured it out from the NL in your name, but I realised how annoying it must be to have to explain it to non-Europeans, so... no sarcasm here!
Thanks for proving my point, Twitter.
I can choose to ignore your threads. I did so for quite a while. Then I start seeing these posts turn up in a name suspiciously like mine... with exactly the same style of writing and anti-Microsoft paranoia, and it was such an incredibly obvious piece of idiocy that I'm surprised you thought you would get away with it. Then I realise you have 3 more accounts, at least, and now ignoring you isn't good enough because you're such an inherently dishonest person that you started coming up with ways of bypassing the tools honest Slashdotters can use to filter you out.
So, saying 'you can ignore me' is now completely irrelevant, and you're the one that made it that way. The only way to carry on decent discussion at this site is to keep forcing you to be honest by being proactive and flagging up the comments where you shill yourself so that people can actually come in to a discussion with you with all the information.
Seriously though, did you bypass common sense lessons somewhere along the way? Maybe you haven't noticed, but you're absolutely free to point out the good things free software does, and to share your opinion on why non-free software is evil, and when you did that you had mod points, excellent karma and some respect from people. However, you are absolutely not free to misrepresent yourself - and since you started shilling yourself with your Erris account right through to this debacle right now, all you have managed to do is discredit yourself. You've run two accounts into negative karma, you have 3 more that will most likely go the same way, and it's all your fault.
So why don't you grow a pair, get some respect for people on this website and fucking stop. Treat everyone else like human beings instead of sheep that you think you're supposed to lead by hook or by crook to the promised land of GNU/Linux and let them make their own minds up. Have you learnt yet? How are you going to advocate free software when nobody believes a word you say?
I started reading the comments with a serious brain on, but I can't stop laughing now.
Thanks, everyone, for ruining Slashdot for me!
Can't really see the angry part of what I said... still, I'd rather be angry than unable to grasp two completely seperate concepts at once, wouldn't you?
How is this insightful? You clearly didn't read the article at all.
Creative broke parts of their Vista drivers even though those parts would have worked fine. The modder re-enabled them and Creative threw a wobbly. This has nothing to do with DRM or media companies, and the only link to Microsoft is the OS the drivers were written for. It has everything to do with Creative forcing an upgrade path on their customers.
Good work on writing a comment with all the buzzwords necessary to look insightful, though.
Care to point out how Microsoft have any part in this, other than releasing an operating system that Creative makes drivers for?