I'm going to go over this one more time. There is no griefing, just a different set of rules. Everyone on a PVP server has agreed to play by these rules. One of the rules is that once you go into contested territory, you are willing to pvp. By doing this, you understand that a high level player on the opposing faction may come along and waste you. If that's not how you want to play, the normal servers are available. It's not that hard to understand.
Again, you are just making excuses. Nobody is forcing you to grief. Nobody is forcing you to be an asshole.
It's too bad you're not good enough to escape a higher level player. Abilities work against players many levels above you. You'll have a higher chance of failure due to the level difference, but it's not impossible. Well, with an extreme level difference, you dead, but then you go get your corpse and get on with your life.
It's not a matter of skill.
I threw out that "pussy server" remark to get a reaction. But really, a lot of games have a hard mode and an easy mode. I don't want to play on easy anymore.
I wouldn't want to play a singleplayer game where, at any moment, an incredibly powerful and invincible enemy may appear and kill you instantly.
I recently played Doom 3 on the Xbox. I eventually got pretty good at controlling it, but it was still a far cry from playing with a mouse. Pad users will be totally slaughtered in a high speed game like TF2 unless mouse users are gimped or pad users are given heavy autoaim. Gimping mouse users will obviously make them extremely unhappy.
This can only end in tears. What is Valve thinking?
And the last time you were listening to Limbaugh, were you struck by what a great job he did of taking callers expressing contrary viewpoints? Or could it be that when you claim that conservatives are the soul of reason, you're just selecting the data points that fit your thesis?
I've never heard anything from Limbaugh. I only know that many conservatives (or whatever you want to call them) are very rational, whereas almost all leftists etc. I've encountered have been raving lunatics or just incredibly stupid or childish. The tendency to silence opposing viewpoints whenever possible is their modus operandi.
Bullshit. You're grossly over-stating the problem.
I'm not. It's not restricted to Slashdot, it happens everywhere. Slashdot's system just plays right into their hands. On Digg, leftists have been aggressively "burying" any Diggs from the site Little Green Footballs (conservative site, I suppose), which is similiar to what they're doing here.
If the shoe were on the other foot, you would be the first person to start talking about "trade-offs", and "being realistic about living in an imperfect world" and so on. Oh and I forgot: "Stop whining!"
No, I wouldn't be doing that. I don't believe in censorship.
I think your criteria for innovation may be a little too narrow. Like Doom before it, Half-Life had a major influence on the genre. It took the genre into a new direction. I'm sure there's lots of stuff in HL that can be found in past games, but that's almost always the case if you look hard enough.
Stalker was an interesting attempt at a different kind of FPS but I don't think they pulled it off as well as they could have.
As opposed to right-wing people who are the soul of reason and are always welcoming of dissenting opinions.
That's generally been my experience, yes.
You know what I see time and again? I see the right taking great moral stances on matters of Very Important Principles, and then I see those principles tossed out the window when the shoe's on the other foot. (E.g. Republicans get very interested in "fiscal responsibility" when Democrats are in control of the purse strings.)
I'm not really referring to politicians, and it's really no suprise that a politician would be a hypocrite. It's kind of in the job description, whether you're a republican or a democrat.
So yeah: any moderation system is going to seem biased against you, from your point of view, because the moderators are reflecting something like a consensus view, and you are way off in right field.
It's biased, unfair and anti-intellectual regardless of what your point of view is.
The two major downmods are troll and flamebait. If a post is neither a troll nor a flamebait, there's absolutely no reason to use those downmods. People don't use them to mod down trolls or flamers, they use them to further their own agendas and ideological needs.
How exactly are you playing devil's advocate? Comparing blindless or deafness to being unwilling or unable to invest time in a video game is complete madness. A much better analogy would be robbing a bank because you don't have the time or ability to become wealthy through honest work.
Modded flamebait because that's exactly what it is you moron.
I see what you did there! No, my post wasn't a flamebait, I was explaining why the moderating system sucks. Unjustified negative moddings, if anything, are real flamebaits. They amount to nothing more than saying "go fuck yourself" without any explanation, but also without any accountability.
If you want to believe their is some kind of leftist, whatever the hell that means, conspiracy against you and your opinions then you're probably just stupid enough to pull it off.
I never said a word about any conspiracy. There is no "conspiracy."
On the other hand you might try to think of something positive to say about the US, Israel or better still something related to the topic of discussion that doesn't sound like the dribblings of a lobotomised zombie and maybe you'll have more luck with your moderations.
Well, you've clearly gone over my comment history or otherwise you wouldn't be making such serious accusations, so I'd like you to actually quote some of my comments and explain how they constitute "the dribblings of a lobotomised zombie." Thanks in advance.
This argument is horrible, it can be used to justify any immoral act you can think of. You're thinking that because you want to do something, you should be allowed to. Sorry, but no.
Is it also fair that someone can have multiple acounts, or simply more time to play the game then you?
Multiple accounts and spare time are perfectly legitimate and allowed, they're not cheating. Life isn't fair, some people have more time or more skill, doesn't mean you're allowed to break the rules and cheat. You're not allowed to break the law in real life because some people have high paying jobs than you. Maybe you should rethink your "waah waah it's not fair" attitude.
If you don't like cheaters then don't assohiate with them in game, don't buy, barter, or traide with them; Simple as that.
As everyone knows, avoiding cheaters in online games is just that simple.
So, the reason why Slashdot's system is biased towards leftists is simple: leftists like to silence people who hold non-leftist ideas (you could replace leftist with liberal if you wanted to, I'm not sure if it makes any difference). I've personally seen it happen time and time again in various places on the Web, and read countless reports of similiar behavior in the media, government and academia. Here at Slashdot, you can't exactly silence people, but you can make their posts unreadable to some (-1 or 0), reduce the karma of the poster and tell them to go fuck themselves (troll, flamebait). You can do all this with full anonymity and zero accountability.
Have something positive to say about the US? Troll. Do you support Israel? Troll. Do you, in general, have opinions that do not conform to leftist dogmas? Troll. On most other forums the leftists usually have to explain things, even if amounts to nothing more than saying "you racist white man," but here they can just press a few buttons and let the system take it from there.
This is why the system is shit. Of course, even when the leftists either aren't on Slashdot or are out of mod points, their nonsensical arguments, incredible strawmen and endless flames still don't amount to anything reasonable or intelligent.
Key: if you want to have argument, you've got to bring argument. There was no "why" or supporting information there, so one must fill in the blanks themselves.
If you are interested in debate, then ask for more details. If you're not interested, don't reply at all. Simple.
Therefore, I can only assume that your "moderation supports leftists" stance is based on the widely-held (but clearly incorrect) theory that the Slashdot comment moderation tags (Insightful, Flamebait, etc.) contain letter patterns that subliminally incline the Slashdot reader toward a left-leaning riotous frenzy.
Since I've never put forth or endorsed such a theory, I have no comment.
Since this theory has long been proven false time and time again, bringing that hackneyed idea up again is an obvious Troll, if not Flamebait, which was demonstrated in your moderation.
I didn't come up with or mention that particular theory, so modding me troll or flamebait seems slightly irrational.
Predictably enough, some fool decided to prove my point by modding me flamebait instead of rationally arguing why Slashdot's moderating system is not broken and why the system does not serve the interests of leftists. But of course, the person who modded me flamebait is almost certainly a leftist himself, so it's obvious why he wouldn't try to argue anything. The system works for him: his first impulse is always to flame people (or strawman representations of those people) who disagree with him, and Slashdot's system allows him to do that with total anonymity and zero accountability. He doesn't even have to write anything! If it's not broken, don't fix it, but make sure to always mod down anyone who think otherwise.
God, no. Slashdot's system is a pile of dogshit that should have been scrapped or fixed a long time ago. But then again, the system works perfectly for hysterical leftists, so I guess it'll stay.
I'm not sure if I'm following your train of thought, here. Because Mohammed's wife was nine years old, it means that I'm not capable of independent thinking? Really, you're not making much sense.
You seem a little stupid, so I'll explain this again. People that purposely roll on a PVP server understand that they may be killed by players that are a lot higher level than them. It is part of the game. It is not griefing. It is also nothing like an aimbot or walllhack. It is not cheating. It is the way everyone on the server has agreed to play the game.
Nobody is forcing you to grief others, you're simply making excuses. I never attack players who can't harm me or are not aggressive towards me.
Mobs take longer to kill than low level players, They are not more challenging. A low level player may be resourceful and lucky enough to get away. Mobs won't. They'll run away for a bit then come back to you.
Low level players die from a couple of hits, and obviously can't outrun a mounted player. I can only run away when I have the Rogue's blind ability, otherwise I'm guaranteed to die. Griefers tend to be obsessive psychopaths, so they'll follow me as long as it takes, and regardless of how inconvinient it is for them. Outrunning them is almost never possible.
So you just keep thinking that you're skilled, and those mobs are really hard. You're not. They're not.
I was referring to players, not mobs. Even so, mobs are much harder than low level players.
That does not support your argument "those... deny God" believe in a lack of god by definition. Agnostics on the other hand neither believe or disbelieve the existence of "God" and therefore disprove your statement.
I wasn't talking about agnostics, but even agnostics can believe in something. It just doesn't have to be a formal religion.
Something caused the universe to come into existence. It may have been God. Seems logical enough for me. There's also the fact that humans seem to have a natural need to believe in something. Even those who aggressively deny God may believe in something completely irrational. The only difference is that many of those irrational things can be disproven (and they still believe in them), whereas God cannot.
Almost all equipment in WoW becomes soulbound when equipped. Some items become soulbound when you pick them up. I would imagine that account hackers just sell these items to NPC vendors.
So, I use the a word in its correct dictionary form. You hop in all high and mighty correcting me, and when shown up for the ignoranus you are, you think "I've learned to think independently" is an excuse? (oh wait, I can hear it now, you don't make excuses, you are the universal dictator of truth!!!!)
It's not an excuse, but I don't really expect someone like you to understand anything about independent or critical thinking.
I don't agree with the way people casually use the word racist in every possible situation these days, and I don't care what the dictionary says about it or doesn't say about it. I've learned to think independently.
But, lets say the dictionary definition is what you want it to be - would you prefer to be called a bigot instead of a racist?
Would you prefer to actually think about things, properly argue your points or have brainless, politically correct knee-jerk reactions every time someone challenges PC Dogma #1627? People like you can't do anything except scream "BIGOT! RACIST! FUCK!" every goddamn time someone says something that's even remotely politically incorrect, or something that attributes negative qualities to a group of people who have been designated as perpetual Victims in the leftist cosmology. You're like trained monkeys.
There is no griefing on pvp servers, dickhead. You roll on one, you know you're going to get ganked, camped or whatever.
There is griefing on PvP servers. People who gank players who cannot even theoretically defend themselves are griefers. They are akin to people who aimbot and wallhack in FPS games, only a lot worse. At least cheaters can still be killed.
If you don't want any part of it, roll on a pussy server. Those AI mobs are quite challenging too.
Actually mobs are much more challenging than low level players. Maybe you should L2P, as they say on the Internet. Some of us are so profoundly skilled that we actually take on enemies who can put up a fight, unlike pussies such as yourself.
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Again, you are just making excuses. Nobody is forcing you to grief. Nobody is forcing you to be an asshole.
It's not a matter of skill.
I wouldn't want to play a singleplayer game where, at any moment, an incredibly powerful and invincible enemy may appear and kill you instantly.
I recently played Doom 3 on the Xbox. I eventually got pretty good at controlling it, but it was still a far cry from playing with a mouse. Pad users will be totally slaughtered in a high speed game like TF2 unless mouse users are gimped or pad users are given heavy autoaim. Gimping mouse users will obviously make them extremely unhappy.
This can only end in tears. What is Valve thinking?
I've never heard anything from Limbaugh. I only know that many conservatives (or whatever you want to call them) are very rational, whereas almost all leftists etc. I've encountered have been raving lunatics or just incredibly stupid or childish. The tendency to silence opposing viewpoints whenever possible is their modus operandi.
I'm not. It's not restricted to Slashdot, it happens everywhere. Slashdot's system just plays right into their hands. On Digg, leftists have been aggressively "burying" any Diggs from the site Little Green Footballs (conservative site, I suppose), which is similiar to what they're doing here.
No, I wouldn't be doing that. I don't believe in censorship.
I think your criteria for innovation may be a little too narrow. Like Doom before it, Half-Life had a major influence on the genre. It took the genre into a new direction. I'm sure there's lots of stuff in HL that can be found in past games, but that's almost always the case if you look hard enough.
Stalker was an interesting attempt at a different kind of FPS but I don't think they pulled it off as well as they could have.
Since Quake 2? Wasn't Half-Life innovative at all? or Far Cry?
That's generally been my experience, yes.
I'm not really referring to politicians, and it's really no suprise that a politician would be a hypocrite. It's kind of in the job description, whether you're a republican or a democrat.
It's biased, unfair and anti-intellectual regardless of what your point of view is.
The two major downmods are troll and flamebait. If a post is neither a troll nor a flamebait, there's absolutely no reason to use those downmods. People don't use them to mod down trolls or flamers, they use them to further their own agendas and ideological needs.
How exactly are you playing devil's advocate? Comparing blindless or deafness to being unwilling or unable to invest time in a video game is complete madness. A much better analogy would be robbing a bank because you don't have the time or ability to become wealthy through honest work.
I see what you did there! No, my post wasn't a flamebait, I was explaining why the moderating system sucks. Unjustified negative moddings, if anything, are real flamebaits. They amount to nothing more than saying "go fuck yourself" without any explanation, but also without any accountability.
I never said a word about any conspiracy. There is no "conspiracy."
Well, you've clearly gone over my comment history or otherwise you wouldn't be making such serious accusations, so I'd like you to actually quote some of my comments and explain how they constitute "the dribblings of a lobotomised zombie." Thanks in advance.
Modded flamebait, predictably enough. Once again my point is proven, and the stupidity and bullshit of leftists is exposed for what it is.
Multiple accounts and spare time are perfectly legitimate and allowed, they're not cheating. Life isn't fair, some people have more time or more skill, doesn't mean you're allowed to break the rules and cheat. You're not allowed to break the law in real life because some people have high paying jobs than you. Maybe you should rethink your "waah waah it's not fair" attitude.
As everyone knows, avoiding cheaters in online games is just that simple.
So, the reason why Slashdot's system is biased towards leftists is simple: leftists like to silence people who hold non-leftist ideas (you could replace leftist with liberal if you wanted to, I'm not sure if it makes any difference). I've personally seen it happen time and time again in various places on the Web, and read countless reports of similiar behavior in the media, government and academia. Here at Slashdot, you can't exactly silence people, but you can make their posts unreadable to some (-1 or 0), reduce the karma of the poster and tell them to go fuck themselves (troll, flamebait). You can do all this with full anonymity and zero accountability.
Have something positive to say about the US? Troll. Do you support Israel? Troll. Do you, in general, have opinions that do not conform to leftist dogmas? Troll. On most other forums the leftists usually have to explain things, even if amounts to nothing more than saying "you racist white man," but here they can just press a few buttons and let the system take it from there.
This is why the system is shit. Of course, even when the leftists either aren't on Slashdot or are out of mod points, their nonsensical arguments, incredible strawmen and endless flames still don't amount to anything reasonable or intelligent.
If you are interested in debate, then ask for more details. If you're not interested, don't reply at all. Simple.
Since I've never put forth or endorsed such a theory, I have no comment.
I didn't come up with or mention that particular theory, so modding me troll or flamebait seems slightly irrational.
Predictably enough, some fool decided to prove my point by modding me flamebait instead of rationally arguing why Slashdot's moderating system is not broken and why the system does not serve the interests of leftists. But of course, the person who modded me flamebait is almost certainly a leftist himself, so it's obvious why he wouldn't try to argue anything. The system works for him: his first impulse is always to flame people (or strawman representations of those people) who disagree with him, and Slashdot's system allows him to do that with total anonymity and zero accountability. He doesn't even have to write anything! If it's not broken, don't fix it, but make sure to always mod down anyone who think otherwise.
God, no. Slashdot's system is a pile of dogshit that should have been scrapped or fixed a long time ago. But then again, the system works perfectly for hysterical leftists, so I guess it'll stay.
I'm not sure if I'm following your train of thought, here. Because Mohammed's wife was nine years old, it means that I'm not capable of independent thinking? Really, you're not making much sense.
Nobody is forcing you to grief others, you're simply making excuses. I never attack players who can't harm me or are not aggressive towards me.
Low level players die from a couple of hits, and obviously can't outrun a mounted player. I can only run away when I have the Rogue's blind ability, otherwise I'm guaranteed to die. Griefers tend to be obsessive psychopaths, so they'll follow me as long as it takes, and regardless of how inconvinient it is for them. Outrunning them is almost never possible.
I was referring to players, not mobs. Even so, mobs are much harder than low level players.
It can, but I don't see why it would.
No. What's backwards about it?
You mean it shouldn't lead to religion? Why not?
I wasn't talking about agnostics, but even agnostics can believe in something. It just doesn't have to be a formal religion.
She wasn't 19 years old, but why are you bringing this up?
Something caused the universe to come into existence. It may have been God. Seems logical enough for me. There's also the fact that humans seem to have a natural need to believe in something. Even those who aggressively deny God may believe in something completely irrational. The only difference is that many of those irrational things can be disproven (and they still believe in them), whereas God cannot.
Almost all equipment in WoW becomes soulbound when equipped. Some items become soulbound when you pick them up. I would imagine that account hackers just sell these items to NPC vendors.
It's not an excuse, but I don't really expect someone like you to understand anything about independent or critical thinking.
Would you prefer to actually think about things, properly argue your points or have brainless, politically correct knee-jerk reactions every time someone challenges PC Dogma #1627? People like you can't do anything except scream "BIGOT! RACIST! FUCK!" every goddamn time someone says something that's even remotely politically incorrect, or something that attributes negative qualities to a group of people who have been designated as perpetual Victims in the leftist cosmology. You're like trained monkeys.
There is griefing on PvP servers. People who gank players who cannot even theoretically defend themselves are griefers. They are akin to people who aimbot and wallhack in FPS games, only a lot worse. At least cheaters can still be killed.
Actually mobs are much more challenging than low level players. Maybe you should L2P, as they say on the Internet. Some of us are so profoundly skilled that we actually take on enemies who can put up a fight, unlike pussies such as yourself.