and what about the 2+yr vets....we get the same as a jedi that unlocked 3 days before NGE? the blue glowy should be for vets that are TRUE elders...not just pre NGE unlockers
Screw that.
One of the most annoying things about SWG is the sense of entitlement the jedi have. I'm a two year vet AND a jedi and I couldn't care less what others get. Seriously, get over yourself.
Similar stupid icons, a nonsensical levelling system bolted on haphazardly over the unique skill system SWG had, state effects tailolred to the ritalin-addled.
EQ2 you can solo all you want for decent exp and items.
SWG you can't anymore. And the majority of items have always been made by the crafters, which is the way it should be.
EQ2 armor is worthwhile and can be found on mobs or purchased.
SWG's armor is still made by the armorsmiths of the game, but their role has been reduced to an afterthought for the most part.
EQ2 is filled with content and things to do both solo and in group.
SWG you now get one-shotted off your speederbike by "Level 250" stormtroopers and random stupid rats.
EQ2 is fun
SWG was fun. Then they made it EQ2. If I wanted to play that, I would. I want to play SWG.
The Silent Majority is in the game having a blast?
Put down the pipe pal. The servers are more empty by the day.
Some random, full-template jedi gave my girlfriend a hard time the other day because she was talking to someone else about how much the CU sucked. (And there are plenty of conversations like that springing up all over among the people that HAVE stayed)
The system is stupid and the only advocates of it are the underachievers who could never have scored thos uber weapons and gear that you complained about. Them and the social tards that need a game to make other people hang out with them.
The problem with this assessment is that if IGE wasn't doing it, or the Plat farmers weren't doing it, someone else would. You'd have the uberguilds ingame cornering the market on the rarer items and then selling them for exhorbitant prices or taking them out of circulation entirely. Is it good that the farmers are making a buck off of this behavior? No, but the alternative isn't significantly better either. Either way, it still amounts to extortion.
Totally flawed analogy. What IGE does is akin to paying off teachers so they give you good grades, not having the money to go university. Having the money to pay for university is like having the money to pay your subscription fee, you expect a level playing field from that point on.
Sadly, there's no such thing as a level playing field in Universities either. If you're rich and stupid, you can get by in any University. I've seen in in the Ivy League, I've seen it in the Pac10. Does is suck? Of course it does, but the parent poster is right on in his assessment.
Hong Kong was also a small municipality with nowhere near the population or potential problems applying such a scheme to a country the size of the US would.
The HK solution, while good in theory, isn't scalable to US-sized proportions.
He has a point though. You should know the history of Marathon, not to be snobbish about your gamer cred, but because you'll garner so much more enjoyment from Halo if you do. Even the RvB example from the first post is funnier if you know you're looking at Marathon in that last frame.
'sides, everybody should know about the Big Floaty Thing What Kicks Our Asses. =)
You probably believe the line about them hating us for our freedom too. But here, just to humor you and the rest of your statement, how has invading Iraq, a country that didn't become a haven for terrorists until after we invaded, made the Middle East more stable?
Before I took up residence at my current gig, the place was a madhouse. A small startup with no clue about internet security and all their machines set up by a well-meaning, but not too savvy employee with a slight IT bent. (And sometimes machines shared with other family members of employees in the cases of laptops.)
I had to have every machine re-imaged, the entire network torn down and reworked. And yeah, all the wacky-ass pr0n and random bizarre spyware cleaned off the big boss's machine was a hoot. Memo to all of you out there, never let your 17-year-old son use your slick new two-pound laptop. I don't care if he does have a paper he needs to finish. That's what cheap home Dells are for.
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"The colony has been wiped out. Phhht! Just like that."
I for one think choice is good, and a I know a lot of mac Zealots who put blinders on about the pros and cons of other systems.
...As do windows zealots, linux zealots, solaris zealots. You name the OS, there's an idiot with a soapbox for it and a penchant for discounting the validity of any other system.
I beta tested this puppy and while there's some really promising aspects of it, it's still got a bit of a ways to go.
Some of that blame can be laid soley at the feet of the "flavor of the month" PvP template making l33t dudes who stood around on the ground dueling anyone that walked by and shouting j00 sux0r reble!!!11lol. (or the opposite if they were rebels who'd just beaten down an imp.) But some of the blame can be laid at SoE's "Don't actually add all that much interactive content, just throw some really hard mobs at the players and let them beat their heads against that proverbial wall" approach as well.
That being said, the added twitch element makes the game a lot more interesting and it doesn't feel as bolted on as I thought it would.
Read one of my replies about giving of your own volition above.
No one said anything about lethal force. If you don't want to pay taxes, by all means go somewhere where they don't tax you. Just watch your ass when the peasants revolt.
One of the most fundamental civil liberties is the right to choose where, when, and how your earnings are spent. The right to engage in voluntary trade for mutual benefit. You speak as though there is some special difference between "financial liberty" and "personal liberty", and somehow, it is generally moral to infringe on "financial liberty", but not "personal liberty".
There is a difference. You don't like the tax burden here, you're free to leave for someplace else that has a tax system more to your liking. Good luck on the police protections and other luxuries such as fire service and the like. Taxes aren't impinging on your freedom, they're the price you pay for your safety from the anarchy that would ensue if we left the "have-nots" to their own devices while the "haves" ignore them. Is it a perfect system? Hell no, but right now it's the best we've got.
Liberty means being free from the initiation of force, so long as you respect the same rights of everyone else. The motive of the aggressor, whether financial or personal, is irrelevant. There is no difference between financial and personal liberty, unless you can prove that it's somehow immoral to engage in voluntary trade for mutual benefit, but not immoral to engage in other forms of voluntary interaction for mutual benefit.
That's all well and good in theory. Unfortunately, once one stops reading Atlas Shrugged, little things like a pissed-off impoverished class come into play. Taxes aren't there to penalize you for making money. They're the price you pay for a working society. Like I said, it's not the best option there is, but it's the one that works the best within the confines of our current social and technological circumstances.
Don't think for a second that the motives of a politician are any different than the motives of a corporate executive. They are both out to serve their own interests.
I don't trust either, as both are self-serving until they prove to me through actions, otherwise..
The difference is that the corporate executive engages in voluntary association to serve his own interests (unless he is a criminal), while the politician invokes force as a means to an end.
Shenanigans. A corporate executive that cuts jobs and then accepts a pay raise from the board for in the same fiscal year is just as bad as any politician. In some cases worse.
Presumably you're pretty young, probably unmarried, have no children, own no property, have your paycheck subsidized by someone (e.g., you're not a small business owner).
Relatively young, certainly unmarried and no children. I own part of a co-op, I'm shopping for a house. (Not an easy proposition in NYC.)
You're probably not relied upon to provide for your elderly parents, you've probably never known someone who has hit retirement penniless, and you probably haven't had to pay for a child's education.
I take care of my retired mother, and my aunt who never worked a day in her life and was caught unawares and fairly close to poor when her husband died. I put my ex-girlfriend through college and am currently assisting one of my sister's kids with some of his college expenses.
You've probably never been assessed for street repairs (aside from on Monopoly), you've likely never had to deal with avoiding taxes to passing asset to a loved one such as your son or daughter, and you've likely never experienced the death and settling the estate (as executor) of a loved one.
True on all of the above, but this isn't about the estate tax, it's about income taxes. And even if it was about the estate tax, I'd hope I'd have gotten my kids off to a good enough start by the time I'd died that I wouldn't have to worry about passing money off to them. They should be able to handle the world on their own.
Once you've done even half of these, come back and talk to us about being so ambivalent about taxes.
So now sir, I think I've hit about half your required list. How many of those criteria have you met?
Also, I'm not ambivalent at all about taxes. I'm rather pro-tax if I have to rely on everyone else to donate to charities to further the common good.
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Possibly, but not as good as "Big Floaty Thing What Kicks Our Asses".
Call me Qui-Gon or something...
and what about the 2+yr vets....we get the same as a jedi that unlocked 3 days before NGE? the blue glowy should be for vets that are TRUE elders...not just pre NGE unlockers
Screw that.
One of the most annoying things about SWG is the sense of entitlement the jedi have. I'm a two year vet AND a jedi and I couldn't care less what others get. Seriously, get over yourself.
I will make no bones about that assessment.
No, I think it was supposed to be humerus.
How is it like EQ2?
Similar stupid icons, a nonsensical levelling system bolted on haphazardly over the unique skill system SWG had, state effects tailolred to the ritalin-addled.
EQ2 you can solo all you want for decent exp and items.
SWG you can't anymore. And the majority of items have always been made by the crafters, which is the way it should be.
EQ2 armor is worthwhile and can be found on mobs or purchased.
SWG's armor is still made by the armorsmiths of the game, but their role has been reduced to an afterthought for the most part.
EQ2 is filled with content and things to do both solo and in group.
SWG you now get one-shotted off your speederbike by "Level 250" stormtroopers and random stupid rats.
EQ2 is fun
SWG was fun. Then they made it EQ2. If I wanted to play that, I would. I want to play SWG.
The Silent Majority is in the game having a blast?
Put down the pipe pal. The servers are more empty by the day.
Some random, full-template jedi gave my girlfriend a hard time the other day because she was talking to someone else about how much the CU sucked. (And there are plenty of conversations like that springing up all over among the people that HAVE stayed)
The system is stupid and the only advocates of it are the underachievers who could never have scored thos uber weapons and gear that you complained about. Them and the social tards that need a game to make other people hang out with them.
So, which one of these are you?
The problem with this assessment is that if IGE wasn't doing it, or the Plat farmers weren't doing it, someone else would. You'd have the uberguilds ingame cornering the market on the rarer items and then selling them for exhorbitant prices or taking them out of circulation entirely. Is it good that the farmers are making a buck off of this behavior? No, but the alternative isn't significantly better either. Either way, it still amounts to extortion.
Totally flawed analogy. What IGE does is akin to paying off teachers so they give you good grades, not having the money to go university. Having the money to pay for university is like having the money to pay your subscription fee, you expect a level playing field from that point on.
Sadly, there's no such thing as a level playing field in Universities either. If you're rich and stupid, you can get by in any University. I've seen in in the Ivy League, I've seen it in the Pac10. Does is suck? Of course it does, but the parent poster is right on in his assessment.
Hong Kong was also a small municipality with nowhere near the population or potential problems applying such a scheme to a country the size of the US would.
The HK solution, while good in theory, isn't scalable to US-sized proportions.
WFMU? Nah. It's all about the KEXP.
A couple of the marines will yell, "thank god, it's you" as well.
Thankfully, they don't explode after saying it. =)
Agreed. =)
He has a point though. You should know the history of Marathon, not to be snobbish about your gamer cred, but because you'll garner so much more enjoyment from Halo if you do. Even the RvB example from the first post is funnier if you know you're looking at Marathon in that last frame.
'sides, everybody should know about the Big Floaty Thing What Kicks Our Asses. =)
Yeah, the French banks made all the money in the deal.
There are a few US companies that are just as dirty in this affair.
And it's not anti-US hate as much as it is pointing out the fact that the emperor has no goddamn clothes.
"train terrorists to destroy the free world"?
Are you serious?
You probably believe the line about them hating us for our freedom too. But here, just to humor you and the rest of your statement, how has invading Iraq, a country that didn't become a haven for terrorists until after we invaded, made the Middle East more stable?
Before I took up residence at my current gig, the place was a madhouse. A small startup with no clue about internet security and all their machines set up by a well-meaning, but not too savvy employee with a slight IT bent. (And sometimes machines shared with other family members of employees in the cases of laptops.)
I had to have every machine re-imaged, the entire network torn down and reworked. And yeah, all the wacky-ass pr0n and random bizarre spyware cleaned off the big boss's machine was a hoot. Memo to all of you out there, never let your 17-year-old son use your slick new two-pound laptop. I don't care if he does have a paper he needs to finish. That's what cheap home Dells are for.
"The colony has been wiped out. Phhht! Just like that."
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I for one think choice is good, and a I know a lot of mac Zealots who put blinders on about the pros and cons of other systems.
...As do windows zealots, linux zealots, solaris zealots. You name the OS, there's an idiot with a soapbox for it and a penchant for discounting the validity of any other system.
The ex bought me these and I swear by 'em now.
Well, let's say it sucks less.
I beta tested this puppy and while there's some really promising aspects of it, it's still got a bit of a ways to go.
Some of that blame can be laid soley at the feet of the "flavor of the month" PvP template making l33t dudes who stood around on the ground dueling anyone that walked by and shouting j00 sux0r reble!!!11lol. (or the opposite if they were rebels who'd just beaten down an imp.) But some of the blame can be laid at SoE's "Don't actually add all that much interactive content, just throw some really hard mobs at the players and let them beat their heads against that proverbial wall" approach as well.
That being said, the added twitch element makes the game a lot more interesting and it doesn't feel as bolted on as I thought it would.
I wholeheartedly agree with you there. the sooner we can get technologies like nanotech up to speed and to the masses, the better off we'll all be.
Of course, there are problems that will have to be overcome on that day too, but we'll burn that bridge when we come to it. =)
Read one of my replies about giving of your own volition above.
No one said anything about lethal force. If you don't want to pay taxes, by all means go somewhere where they don't tax you. Just watch your ass when the peasants revolt.
One of the most fundamental civil liberties is the right to choose where, when, and how your earnings are spent. The right to engage in voluntary trade for mutual benefit. You speak as though there is some special difference between "financial liberty" and "personal liberty", and somehow, it is generally moral to infringe on "financial liberty", but not "personal liberty".
There is a difference. You don't like the tax burden here, you're free to leave for someplace else that has a tax system more to your liking. Good luck on the police protections and other luxuries such as fire service and the like. Taxes aren't impinging on your freedom, they're the price you pay for your safety from the anarchy that would ensue if we left the "have-nots" to their own devices while the "haves" ignore them. Is it a perfect system? Hell no, but right now it's the best we've got.
Liberty means being free from the initiation of force, so long as you respect the same rights of everyone else. The motive of the aggressor, whether financial or personal, is irrelevant. There is no difference between financial and personal liberty, unless you can prove that it's somehow immoral to engage in voluntary trade for mutual benefit, but not immoral to engage in other forms of voluntary interaction for mutual benefit.
That's all well and good in theory. Unfortunately, once one stops reading Atlas Shrugged, little things like a pissed-off impoverished class come into play. Taxes aren't there to penalize you for making money. They're the price you pay for a working society. Like I said, it's not the best option there is, but it's the one that works the best within the confines of our current social and technological circumstances.
Don't think for a second that the motives of a politician are any different than the motives of a corporate executive. They are both out to serve their own interests.
I don't trust either, as both are self-serving until they prove to me through actions, otherwise..
The difference is that the corporate executive engages in voluntary association to serve his own interests (unless he is a criminal), while the politician invokes force as a means to an end.
Shenanigans. A corporate executive that cuts jobs and then accepts a pay raise from the board for in the same fiscal year is just as bad as any politician. In some cases worse.
That's very easy to say because:
Presumably you're pretty young, probably unmarried, have no children, own no property, have your paycheck subsidized by someone (e.g., you're not a small business owner).
Relatively young, certainly unmarried and no children. I own part of a co-op, I'm shopping for a house. (Not an easy proposition in NYC.)
You're probably not relied upon to provide for your elderly parents, you've probably never known someone who has hit retirement penniless, and you probably haven't had to pay for a child's education.
I take care of my retired mother, and my aunt who never worked a day in her life and was caught unawares and fairly close to poor when her husband died. I put my ex-girlfriend through college and am currently assisting one of my sister's kids with some of his college expenses.
You've probably never been assessed for street repairs (aside from on Monopoly), you've likely never had to deal with avoiding taxes to passing asset to a loved one such as your son or daughter, and you've likely never experienced the death and settling the estate (as executor) of a loved one.
True on all of the above, but this isn't about the estate tax, it's about income taxes. And even if it was about the estate tax, I'd hope I'd have gotten my kids off to a good enough start by the time I'd died that I wouldn't have to worry about passing money off to them. They should be able to handle the world on their own.
Once you've done even half of these, come back and talk to us about being so ambivalent about taxes.
So now sir, I think I've hit about half your required list. How many of those criteria have you met?
Also, I'm not ambivalent at all about taxes. I'm rather pro-tax if I have to rely on everyone else to donate to charities to further the common good.