If someone is in the way, TKing, etc they will eventually get kicked as well. That is FAR more tolerable than someone screaming over a mic at his team on a public server though.
Except, of course, that I don't use voice comm.
Your standards are far too high and/or you are far too worried about your score. Play nice and have fun.
High standards? At the very least I expect other players to not ruin the game for everyone else. That's entirely reasonable. And no, this has nothing to do with score.
...and from the sound of it I bet you are a very angry driver, you talk about your co-workers behind their backs, and typically set yourself above the rest of humanity.
You've already said that you TK people for fun and don't give a shit about other players.
When you swear, at least in a heated sense, you're going LCD. You're basically admitting that you don't have much to contribute anymore, and are just blasting out noise now.
A pile of shit is a pile of shit even if you sprinkle it with roses and gift wrap it. A long-winded and proftanity-free explanation of why you think someone is an asshole still just means that you're calling someone an asshole. There's certainly no "contribution" (what?) involved in that. It's no better than simply saying "fuck you." In fact, simply saying "fuck you" is far more respectable and civilized, because you aren't pretending like you aren't really insulting someone.
In other words: Its weakness. And the pack always senses weakness. And the pack always exploits weakness. That's right boys and girls, when you're reduced to swearing, believe me, the wolves are already circling.
What wolves? What are they going to do to me? If they don't get physical, there's fuckall they can do about it, and the kind of people who are upset by swearing are unlikely to be very good at fighting. Swearing doesn't even have anything to do with fighting ability, ergo swearing doesn't mean that you're weak.
I'm not expecting clan play, I'm expecting at least a minimal amount of standards. People don't have to make a team effort (it's a public server), but the least they could do is stay out of the way and not fuck things up for everyone else. You aren't just playing for your own fun on public servers, you're playing with other people. It sounds like you're the kind of player who ruins multiplayer games for shits and giggles.
What pisses the shit out of me is that telling someone to fuck off is considered rude and unacceptable, but offending someone without the use of swear words is totally a-ok. Someone once gravely insulted me without uttering one swear word, and in response I said "fuck you." Then she acted like I was completely out of line whereas she had done nothing wrong. WHAT THE FUCK?!
I say that quite often when I'm playing multiplayer. Then I get kicked and/or banned because the vast majority of people who run game servers or forums are puritanical prudes who start crying if they hear someone swear. Fucking cunts, all of them.
If the mods are using the powers in "irrational, kneejerk" ways, what makes you think that any other response they would make to the same post would be any more rational?
If they actually had to post something, there's a chance they'd make some sort of argumentative effort, and you could explain to them how wrong they are. At the very least you'd have something to reply to.
Lots of forums (including Slashdot) allow comments to be posted without being tied to a user account.
I've visited very few forums where anonymous or guest posting is allowed. Disabling anonymous posting on Slashdot would be a pretty good idea.
The Slashdot moderating system is broken because it substitutes irrational knee-jerk downmodding for rational arguments. On conventional forums people at least have to make the effort of telling you to go fuck yourself, and they can't do it 100% anonymously and without any consequences, since everything they say is tied to their account, which can be banned if necessary.
UAC prompts you constantly and for almost everything you do. Even if you try to rename a file you created (such as a shortcut), it will prompt you. Twice. UAC makes it impossible to get anything done because you spend half your time clicking away prompts. Reminds me of the good old days of the Internet when you had to manually close popups.
The "bitching" (also known as "criticism") comes from people who don't want Vista to be their neurotic, hypervigilant babysitter. I'm an experienced Windows user and I don't need Vista to protect me from myself.
I had admin priviledges, and I got UAC prompts when I renamed files that I had created myself. In one case it prompted me before I had even finished typing the new file name. I got prompted pretty much once every minute before I finally figured out how to disable UAC.
At the time of this writing it's modded down. In fact, many anti-Vista posts in this thread are modded down, which is pretty odd on Slashdot. I thought this place was a stronghold of anti-Microsoft and anti-Windows people. In any case, modding down completely reasonable posts that are anti-Vista is just fucking retarded.
The people who see more than 2 or 3 UAC prompts per day, top (I'm using an exaggeratedly large number to catch the "yeah, but my program X always needs admin privileges and I run in 3 times a day" responses; most normal users see maybe this many a month) are either incessant tinkerers or admins who need full control.
UAC prompts you for virtually everything. Renaming, deleting and moving files will prompt you no less than two times.
When it spontaneously uninstalled its own hard drive controller driver last week, rendering itself unbootable, I removed Vista entirely and stuck Ubuntu 7.10 on this thing. I've been happy every since:)
Ah, so I'm not the only one whose Vista has self-destructed for no apparent reason.
Vista is extremely slow, bloated and difficult to use, and generally a fucking pain in the ass. User Access Control is the best invention ever: Vista will prompt you twice for confirmation if you rename a file you created, and turning off UAC is suprisingly difficult (having a billion different icons in the Control Panel really doesn't help anyone). Vista also has poor software and hardware support.
My mother, who knows nothing about computers and only uses her Vista laptop for surfing, has on two occasions somehow managed to make Vista suggest a complete reset of the system where all personal files are deleted and the computer is reset to its original post-install state (as if you're starting it for the first time). The second time it occured Vista went ahead with the reset even though my mom chose not to do it (I advised her over the phone). It blatantly ignored the user's selection. Why does such a feature exist in Vista, and how in the nine hells can normal everyday usage (turn on, log in, surf web, shut down) cause Vista to effectively self-destruct? What a fucking joke. I'll install XP on that laptop or die trying.
It is a spiritual successor. BioShock is essentially a steampunk version of SS2. Sure, many aspects of the game are dumbed down, but all the same elements are still there. Psionics, cameras, turrets, hacking, ammo types, weapon and character upgrades, audio logs, ghosts, somebody guiding you, the isolation and loneliness, med and psi hypos, food... it's all there.
Even if some things were dumbed down, in terms of combat BioShock is far more advanced than SS2. There are so many ways you can dispose of your enemies. I torched a few splicers with a flamethrower, and when they ran into a nearby pool of water I hit the water with the lightning plasmid and electrocuted them. The most hilarious thing I witnessed was a Houdini Splicer who commited suicide by burning himself to death. His fireball missed me and hit a nearby pool of oil, and when I started wrenching him he teleported away and right into the middle of the burning oil. Making two Big Daddies fight each other was also nice.
The version you can download from Underdogs works perfectly for me (XP SP2). The game's copy protection is one of the things that causes problems with modern systems. The Underdogs release has the protection removed, though you can also unwrap the executable yourself.
I'm really fucking sick of people using the word "hating" or "hater." It's so juvenile and ridiculous. I'm suprised you didn't post "LEAVE BIOSHOCK ALONE!" Is it really so difficult to comprehend that some people just don't like certain games?
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Except, of course, that I don't use voice comm.
High standards? At the very least I expect other players to not ruin the game for everyone else. That's entirely reasonable. And no, this has nothing to do with score.
You've already said that you TK people for fun and don't give a shit about other players.
A pile of shit is a pile of shit even if you sprinkle it with roses and gift wrap it. A long-winded and proftanity-free explanation of why you think someone is an asshole still just means that you're calling someone an asshole. There's certainly no "contribution" (what?) involved in that. It's no better than simply saying "fuck you." In fact, simply saying "fuck you" is far more respectable and civilized, because you aren't pretending like you aren't really insulting someone.
What wolves? What are they going to do to me? If they don't get physical, there's fuckall they can do about it, and the kind of people who are upset by swearing are unlikely to be very good at fighting. Swearing doesn't even have anything to do with fighting ability, ergo swearing doesn't mean that you're weak.
I'm not expecting clan play, I'm expecting at least a minimal amount of standards. People don't have to make a team effort (it's a public server), but the least they could do is stay out of the way and not fuck things up for everyone else. You aren't just playing for your own fun on public servers, you're playing with other people. It sounds like you're the kind of player who ruins multiplayer games for shits and giggles.
What pisses the shit out of me is that telling someone to fuck off is considered rude and unacceptable, but offending someone without the use of swear words is totally a-ok. Someone once gravely insulted me without uttering one swear word, and in response I said "fuck you." Then she acted like I was completely out of line whereas she had done nothing wrong. WHAT THE FUCK?!
I say that quite often when I'm playing multiplayer. Then I get kicked and/or banned because the vast majority of people who run game servers or forums are puritanical prudes who start crying if they hear someone swear. Fucking cunts, all of them.
If they actually had to post something, there's a chance they'd make some sort of argumentative effort, and you could explain to them how wrong they are. At the very least you'd have something to reply to.
I've visited very few forums where anonymous or guest posting is allowed. Disabling anonymous posting on Slashdot would be a pretty good idea.
The Slashdot moderating system is broken because it substitutes irrational knee-jerk downmodding for rational arguments. On conventional forums people at least have to make the effort of telling you to go fuck yourself, and they can't do it 100% anonymously and without any consequences, since everything they say is tied to their account, which can be banned if necessary.
It wasn't impossible. I beat it as a kid at least twice if I remember right. A speedrunner has completed the game in 18 minutes and 20 seconds.
Yes, but he wasn't called Hitler, he was called Master-D.
Not a beta. Came with a Fujitsu Siemens laptop (which now has XP on it).
There's nothing to detail. UAC kept prompting all the time and for almost everything I did. Simple as that.
There's no more info to give, and I didn't attack him, I attacked Vista. He, however, accused me of lying.
Right. Yeah. I must be either lying or I "b0rked" my install. It's not possible that Vista is simply a worthless piece of shit.
I tried it, and I didn't like it. Vista is a complete failure.
UAC prompts you constantly and for almost everything you do. Even if you try to rename a file you created (such as a shortcut), it will prompt you. Twice. UAC makes it impossible to get anything done because you spend half your time clicking away prompts. Reminds me of the good old days of the Internet when you had to manually close popups.
The "bitching" (also known as "criticism") comes from people who don't want Vista to be their neurotic, hypervigilant babysitter. I'm an experienced Windows user and I don't need Vista to protect me from myself.
I had admin priviledges, and I got UAC prompts when I renamed files that I had created myself. In one case it prompted me before I had even finished typing the new file name. I got prompted pretty much once every minute before I finally figured out how to disable UAC.
It's just a mod for a commercial game.
At the time of this writing it's modded down. In fact, many anti-Vista posts in this thread are modded down, which is pretty odd on Slashdot. I thought this place was a stronghold of anti-Microsoft and anti-Windows people. In any case, modding down completely reasonable posts that are anti-Vista is just fucking retarded.
UAC prompts you for virtually everything. Renaming, deleting and moving files will prompt you no less than two times.
Ah, so I'm not the only one whose Vista has self-destructed for no apparent reason.
Vista is extremely slow, bloated and difficult to use, and generally a fucking pain in the ass. User Access Control is the best invention ever: Vista will prompt you twice for confirmation if you rename a file you created, and turning off UAC is suprisingly difficult (having a billion different icons in the Control Panel really doesn't help anyone). Vista also has poor software and hardware support.
My mother, who knows nothing about computers and only uses her Vista laptop for surfing, has on two occasions somehow managed to make Vista suggest a complete reset of the system where all personal files are deleted and the computer is reset to its original post-install state (as if you're starting it for the first time). The second time it occured Vista went ahead with the reset even though my mom chose not to do it (I advised her over the phone). It blatantly ignored the user's selection. Why does such a feature exist in Vista, and how in the nine hells can normal everyday usage (turn on, log in, surf web, shut down) cause Vista to effectively self-destruct? What a fucking joke. I'll install XP on that laptop or die trying.
It is a spiritual successor. BioShock is essentially a steampunk version of SS2. Sure, many aspects of the game are dumbed down, but all the same elements are still there. Psionics, cameras, turrets, hacking, ammo types, weapon and character upgrades, audio logs, ghosts, somebody guiding you, the isolation and loneliness, med and psi hypos, food... it's all there.
Even if some things were dumbed down, in terms of combat BioShock is far more advanced than SS2. There are so many ways you can dispose of your enemies. I torched a few splicers with a flamethrower, and when they ran into a nearby pool of water I hit the water with the lightning plasmid and electrocuted them. The most hilarious thing I witnessed was a Houdini Splicer who commited suicide by burning himself to death. His fireball missed me and hit a nearby pool of oil, and when I started wrenching him he teleported away and right into the middle of the burning oil. Making two Big Daddies fight each other was also nice.
The version you can download from Underdogs works perfectly for me (XP SP2). The game's copy protection is one of the things that causes problems with modern systems. The Underdogs release has the protection removed, though you can also unwrap the executable yourself.
I'm really fucking sick of people using the word "hating" or "hater." It's so juvenile and ridiculous. I'm suprised you didn't post "LEAVE BIOSHOCK ALONE!" Is it really so difficult to comprehend that some people just don't like certain games?
Their decision basically boils down to "we don't like it, so it's banned."