for the last 10 years, you have been rehashing and selling old game concepts, hell, even old games themselves. Final Supremacy XVII. Blowing Tittage MCLMXXIV.....
you've made a mass production industry out of gaming. some generated graphics, some makeshift storyline, whoops, $60 bucks a pop.
take a lesson from wii's success. they went back to basics ; FUN. instead of shoving rehashed, mass produced CRAP like the other game/console providers do, they went to primal basics, and met the need for fun in people.
look back into 1992-1995 period. those were the days each and every new game was a fresh breath, and you people were creative individuals rather than bosses of a shitty industry's companies then.
because, even if we like it or not, we are being pushed stuff that are a pain to work with or problematic for the future, just because of the hype the '2.0' and similar crowds generate. and they are being herded by sources that want to sell certificates, books and make money.
it affects our lives. sooner or later some supervisor or client of yours is gonna shove some hyped tech up your butt, demanding you do stuff with it.
and no, its not about 'bettering yourself' or catching up with technology.
some stuff, are bad.
you'll want example at this point, here, have twitter.
im impressed with this expansion to such an extent that, i have decided to level a low level warrior i had to level 68 (optimal level to enter northrend) and do the northrend first with him. because a warrior is much more fit within the saga context of lich king.
this is despite i have a 73 rogue, 72 shaman that are well geared and had done the first 2 zones of northrend.
that is because good content games are SO rare nowadays that, if you find one, you have to make the most out of them like there's no tomorrow.
now, believe me when i say this - i HATE the guts of leveling and grinding. it was total pain to get those 2 70 chars to 70 over the course of 2 years for me.
but, as im leveling the warrior now through shitty vanilla and burning crusade wow content, i find that im even able to put up the shitty grind (despite it is 30% faster now due to an adjustment blizzard made), when i think that sometime soon i will be properly running this toon through the expansion in a total movieish context.
now, thats the kind of game i like to play. it was a long time coming since kotor series -> in the sense of being 'a labor of love', dont get me wrong.
Engineering is not an armor related profession. its a gimmick profession that produces usable tools. it has no business in creating armor SETS.
and im also appalled at your ignorance about those professions.
'level 80 required item' doesnt mean that it will require you to be level 80. the helmets engineering makes for example, all require level 72, however, in order to be able to go into heroic dungeons and acquire the specific materials they require, you HAVE to be level 80.
why is it that such greedy corporate shill organizations always come out of north america and try to scuttle even the biggest inventions mankind made, just for their own shitty gain ?
if you are still SOMEHOW grinding instead of questing (for whatever godforsaken reason) in Northrend with a level 70 character,
you shouldnt be playing any games. really. you dont have the cognitive power to correctly interface with a game...
but what you said, which is contrary to EVERY single wow player i have been about and talked with, tells me that you are probably a shill or a fanboi, and dont know zit regarding what you are talking about.
what are the 'glaring holes' in professions ? holes for what ?
the fact that there are now scrolls that enchanters can scribe their enchants into and just put them on ah, instead of peddling their service from trade channel like monkeys and going around trying to enchant people ?
or the fact that gems now actually make considerable difference ?
they really removed the grind shit from the game. they made quests easy, but MANY. quests are so well devised and written in many story backgrounds that merge in a big backdrop. they just make you continue, follow the questline and see more and more. its like an interactive movie in which you can modify your own character and do things your way. but the difference is, there is nothing stopping you from watching this movie undisrupted -> no 'extreme tough' quests that you will need to set up a full fledged group, no annoying long grind quest that will take your attention from the story going on etc.
design ? visuals ? breathtaking.
they have apparently noticed that you dont need to lower yourself down to 'scratch, crappy, punk-cartoonish drawings' level because you dont want to put forth a humongous graphics card requirement -> they went the art route, and designed and made the environments so artful, so pictoresque that you foten stop by to look around. i even loitered around the river that is in between howling fjord and winterspring zones -> considering im half powergamer, it is a feat that a game environment made me do that. another pointer is, the fact that this time i care about the zone names, their geography and remember them -> previously i didnt give a crap, just another zone to go by, i would say.
it is clearly a labor of love. these people sat down and apparently wrote a complete novel for this expansion. wintergrasp is just one of the many zones, and wyrmrest dragon temple and its quests/story is just 1/4th of that zone, but even wyrmrest temple has as many story, action, quests as 2 burning crusade zones combined. vanilla wow ? dipshit, compared to WotLK. tbc now looks like a long torture in distant past.
i've been playing wow for its pvp system for a long time. it has unmatched 40 vs 40 battlegrounds that take only 3 seconds to get in and hop into action. i didnt care about rest of the game, because story was lacking for my taste. but now, im actually going to embark on the instancing/raiding thing, because apparently it HAS become fun this time. hell, azjul-nerub instance, which is an instance you merely pass while leveling from 70 to 80 at level 73, stupefied me. i cant even tell about how it is, it is that out of the ordinary. huge vertical caverns woven by spider webs, giant spiders of various types, stuff going on around you without your intervention or participation -> it feels not only alive but stupefying.
yes. this shit IS good this time. so that even trolls have shut their mouths up in wow forums, and the ones that are there are complaining about its and bits only, like 'vanilla wow content is abandoned now' -> which noone gives a damn about.
get it. play it. its good. even if wow had annoyed you with its shitty story (compared to my kotor taste) and in the huge grind torture in the past 3 years, this expansion will totally redeem all of that, and give lots of smooth flowing gaming fun.
This conclusion seems bizarre to me. The ISPs "oversold their resources" (oversubscribed their data connections) based on sound, rational thinking at the time. They failed to anticipate the explosive growth of bandwidth-hungry services.
at the time as in 1995. 'failing to anticipate the explosive growth of bandwidth hungry services' cant be a defense for anything. for, they had ample time to react, when the things started to take shape in the last 3-4 years.
yet, from that point on not only they remained stale in regard to investing, but they are even STILL trying to hamper solutions that will easily fix any and all bandwidth issues for all time, like wireless, wifi, you name it.
the thing is, they want things their way, and they want to be in control of everything, without spending a dime from their pockets for investment.
if a company actually HAS the resources to meet up the demands of the product/service they sold, let users use up their bandwidth all they want. when they are over their quota, you can sell them bigger packages.
after all, isnt this the whole point of commerce ? selling more products so you can make more profit ?
it ends up in the isp. they have committed more resources than they could afford, SOLD them from high prices up until today, knowing that noone would use them, and hence setting the bar of quota higher and higher, and now they are in the red. why ? well, they OVERSOLD their resources. didnt act responsibly. just like the bastards who had brought the credit crisis upon the world.
a 'hit' doesnt require the bandwidth you are complaining about. its just a request. and first request is robots.txt. if you deny all in robots.txt, nothing happens.
its WAY STUPID to be complaining about a 4 k text file request creating any kind of load on a server.
the keyword. whenever conservative corporate shill tries to fool people into believing them, they use this keyword 'taxpayer'.
whoooooooooooo. taxpayer. they are gonna raise my taxes so i should oppose ! for i dont want to pay bucks from my pocket !!!
yet, it is a total display of STUPIDITY, since there are NO relation in between taxes and the fees isps charge their customers. its THEIR own greed, but they want to fool people to otherwise.
speaking of which, i would like to ask this expert, WHY was isp industry OVERSELLING the bandwidth they did NOT have for the last 15 years ?
i dont know about america, but in many places of the world, selling something you dont have is considered a FRAUD.
network neutrality assures the equality of opportunity in business in internet world. the FAIR and FREE market that conservatives so blabber about.
if there isnt network neutrality, entrepreneurship will become impossible without amassing huge capital before attempting anything. for, noone will be able to set up a web service with 3-4 figure bucks and then proceed to become millionaires.
the big money who enjoyed ruling the world is annoyed with this prospect.
if the number of entrepreneurs rising to billionaires remain low, they can be controlled, and assimilated into the present 'club'. if it takes huge capital to establish big business, it further assures that noone that is contrary to your world view or interests will easily accrue capital and become a contender.
internet breaks this down. since 90s, innumerable people became powerful and influential through the newfound wealth through internet. and thats not only google, yahoo and similar, there are lots of small fish that do hundreds of millions $ of business, and annoy these big capital, because they dont share their views or accept the control they try to exert.
so basically this is an attempt by those people to assure that it stays the same -> someone is making big buck and amassing capital, but doesnt seem to 'fit in' with your club ? why, just call your chum and have them charge exorbitant rates for bandwidth, and sink their business. you dont even need a call actually, club does it itself, if we know anything about business history of the last 50 years.
therefore conservatives HAVE to be FOR network neutrality, if they ever want a FREE and FAIR MARKET in which people can actually have a chance of making money.
the dipshit who propagated and placed this article in news outlets represent corporate asswipes who want to control the internet through charging whomever they want, whatever they want, so they can make internet to another cable tv network.
for, if they had PAID their share of the bargain and INVESTED the HUGE profits they made from OVERSELLING bandwith for all those years, there would be NO issue about bandwidth anywhere. actually, there arent any issues about bandwidth at all. there is a SUPPOSED problem about 'internet breaking down due to bandwidth' in united states only for around 3 years now, and nothing happened.
considering all the pointers at hand, i have decided that the supposed 'an analyst with ties to the telecom industry' is either a non person that is invented to propagate a shitty corporate agenda, or a corporate shill to attempt justifying controlling internet, YET AGAIN.
you americans are WAY too much tolerant of this 'lobbying' thing. way too much.
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for the last 10 years, you have been rehashing and selling old game concepts, hell, even old games themselves. Final Supremacy XVII. Blowing Tittage MCLMXXIV .....
you've made a mass production industry out of gaming. some generated graphics, some makeshift storyline, whoops, $60 bucks a pop.
take a lesson from wii's success. they went back to basics ; FUN. instead of shoving rehashed, mass produced CRAP like the other game/console providers do, they went to primal basics, and met the need for fun in people.
look back into 1992-1995 period. those were the days each and every new game was a fresh breath, and you people were creative individuals rather than bosses of a shitty industry's companies then.
they are printing a vinyl and sending it ?
http://www.killerphp.com/articles/will-ruby-kill-php/ http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/?q=node/view/222 well. in my eyes, ruby is just another fad pushed forward to make new money. its not only about the language itself, its the widespread usage.
there has been many languages which were touted to be 'better', rightly or wrongly, that faded away.
faster to build.
its about which technology is better.
because, even if we like it or not, we are being pushed stuff that are a pain to work with or problematic for the future, just because of the hype the '2.0' and similar crowds generate. and they are being herded by sources that want to sell certificates, books and make money.
it affects our lives. sooner or later some supervisor or client of yours is gonna shove some hyped tech up your butt, demanding you do stuff with it.
and no, its not about 'bettering yourself' or catching up with technology.
some stuff, are bad.
you'll want example at this point, here, have twitter.
for large web apps, using higher tools is BAD.
you will get innumerable scaling/modification/adaptation issues in future.
sorry, but ruby to php is not what c to assembler was. and never will.
php isnt that hard to work with or time consuming. its not that low level either. its high level enough to work acceptably fast.
i see ruby as another 'hey, that's 2.0 !' fad.
you can try to persuade me to the opposite. noone has been able to yet.
im impressed with this expansion to such an extent that, i have decided to level a low level warrior i had to level 68 (optimal level to enter northrend) and do the northrend first with him. because a warrior is much more fit within the saga context of lich king.
this is despite i have a 73 rogue, 72 shaman that are well geared and had done the first 2 zones of northrend.
that is because good content games are SO rare nowadays that, if you find one, you have to make the most out of them like there's no tomorrow.
now, believe me when i say this - i HATE the guts of leveling and grinding. it was total pain to get those 2 70 chars to 70 over the course of 2 years for me.
but, as im leveling the warrior now through shitty vanilla and burning crusade wow content, i find that im even able to put up the shitty grind (despite it is 30% faster now due to an adjustment blizzard made), when i think that sometime soon i will be properly running this toon through the expansion in a total movieish context.
now, thats the kind of game i like to play. it was a long time coming since kotor series -> in the sense of being 'a labor of love', dont get me wrong.
if internet was around, there wouldnt even be a nazi party.
guy.
for a year and a half, horde started at a point so that, by the time alliance group's 4th member entered Galv, balinda was always dead.
we coped up with it and their 20% hp buff for 1.5 years. apparently you didnt play the game in that duration.
Engineering is not an armor related profession. its a gimmick profession that produces usable tools. it has no business in creating armor SETS.
and im also appalled at your ignorance about those professions.
'level 80 required item' doesnt mean that it will require you to be level 80. the helmets engineering makes for example, all require level 72, however, in order to be able to go into heroic dungeons and acquire the specific materials they require, you HAVE to be level 80.
why is it that such greedy corporate shill organizations always come out of north america and try to scuttle even the biggest inventions mankind made, just for their own shitty gain ?
for i second the experience. please mod stuff that give out solid information than ambiguous opinion, up.
its a former powergamer, who has played so many games that now looks to other aspects of a game.
but a question does spring to mind - why post anonymous ?
LIVING in a book. which, you cant do with books without spending considerable amounts of imagination.
if you are still SOMEHOW grinding instead of questing (for whatever godforsaken reason) in Northrend with a level 70 character,
...
you shouldnt be playing any games. really. you dont have the cognitive power to correctly interface with a game
but what you said, which is contrary to EVERY single wow player i have been about and talked with, tells me that you are probably a shill or a fanboi, and dont know zit regarding what you are talking about.
what are the 'glaring holes' in professions ? holes for what ?
the fact that there are now scrolls that enchanters can scribe their enchants into and just put them on ah, instead of peddling their service from trade channel like monkeys and going around trying to enchant people ?
or the fact that gems now actually make considerable difference ?
what ?
it IS fun.
they really removed the grind shit from the game. they made quests easy, but MANY. quests are so well devised and written in many story backgrounds that merge in a big backdrop. they just make you continue, follow the questline and see more and more. its like an interactive movie in which you can modify your own character and do things your way. but the difference is, there is nothing stopping you from watching this movie undisrupted -> no 'extreme tough' quests that you will need to set up a full fledged group, no annoying long grind quest that will take your attention from the story going on etc.
design ? visuals ? breathtaking.
they have apparently noticed that you dont need to lower yourself down to 'scratch, crappy, punk-cartoonish drawings' level because you dont want to put forth a humongous graphics card requirement -> they went the art route, and designed and made the environments so artful, so pictoresque that you foten stop by to look around. i even loitered around the river that is in between howling fjord and winterspring zones -> considering im half powergamer, it is a feat that a game environment made me do that. another pointer is, the fact that this time i care about the zone names, their geography and remember them -> previously i didnt give a crap, just another zone to go by, i would say.
it is clearly a labor of love. these people sat down and apparently wrote a complete novel for this expansion. wintergrasp is just one of the many zones, and wyrmrest dragon temple and its quests/story is just 1/4th of that zone, but even wyrmrest temple has as many story, action, quests as 2 burning crusade zones combined. vanilla wow ? dipshit, compared to WotLK. tbc now looks like a long torture in distant past.
i've been playing wow for its pvp system for a long time. it has unmatched 40 vs 40 battlegrounds that take only 3 seconds to get in and hop into action. i didnt care about rest of the game, because story was lacking for my taste. but now, im actually going to embark on the instancing/raiding thing, because apparently it HAS become fun this time. hell, azjul-nerub instance, which is an instance you merely pass while leveling from 70 to 80 at level 73, stupefied me. i cant even tell about how it is, it is that out of the ordinary. huge vertical caverns woven by spider webs, giant spiders of various types, stuff going on around you without your intervention or participation -> it feels not only alive but stupefying.
yes. this shit IS good this time. so that even trolls have shut their mouths up in wow forums, and the ones that are there are complaining about its and bits only, like 'vanilla wow content is abandoned now' -> which noone gives a damn about.
get it. play it. its good. even if wow had annoyed you with its shitty story (compared to my kotor taste) and in the huge grind torture in the past 3 years, this expansion will totally redeem all of that, and give lots of smooth flowing gaming fun.
This conclusion seems bizarre to me. The ISPs "oversold their resources" (oversubscribed their data connections) based on sound, rational thinking at the time. They failed to anticipate the explosive growth of bandwidth-hungry services.
at the time as in 1995. 'failing to anticipate the explosive growth of bandwidth hungry services' cant be a defense for anything. for, they had ample time to react, when the things started to take shape in the last 3-4 years.
yet, from that point on not only they remained stale in regard to investing, but they are even STILL trying to hamper solutions that will easily fix any and all bandwidth issues for all time, like wireless, wifi, you name it.
the thing is, they want things their way, and they want to be in control of everything, without spending a dime from their pockets for investment.
thats a no go.
if a company actually HAS the resources to meet up the demands of the product/service they sold, let users use up their bandwidth all they want. when they are over their quota, you can sell them bigger packages.
after all, isnt this the whole point of commerce ? selling more products so you can make more profit ?
it ends up in the isp. they have committed more resources than they could afford, SOLD them from high prices up until today, knowing that noone would use them, and hence setting the bar of quota higher and higher, and now they are in the red. why ? well, they OVERSOLD their resources. didnt act responsibly. just like the bastards who had brought the credit crisis upon the world.
a 'hit' doesnt require the bandwidth you are complaining about. its just a request. and first request is robots.txt. if you deny all in robots.txt, nothing happens.
its WAY STUPID to be complaining about a 4 k text file request creating any kind of load on a server.
the keyword. whenever conservative corporate shill tries to fool people into believing them, they use this keyword 'taxpayer'.
whoooooooooooo. taxpayer. they are gonna raise my taxes so i should oppose ! for i dont want to pay bucks from my pocket !!!
yet, it is a total display of STUPIDITY, since there are NO relation in between taxes and the fees isps charge their customers. its THEIR own greed, but they want to fool people to otherwise.
speaking of which, i would like to ask this expert, WHY was isp industry OVERSELLING the bandwidth they did NOT have for the last 15 years ?
i dont know about america, but in many places of the world, selling something you dont have is considered a FRAUD.
network neutrality assures the equality of opportunity in business in internet world. the FAIR and FREE market that conservatives so blabber about.
if there isnt network neutrality, entrepreneurship will become impossible without amassing huge capital before attempting anything. for, noone will be able to set up a web service with 3-4 figure bucks and then proceed to become millionaires.
the big money who enjoyed ruling the world is annoyed with this prospect.
if the number of entrepreneurs rising to billionaires remain low, they can be controlled, and assimilated into the present 'club'. if it takes huge capital to establish big business, it further assures that noone that is contrary to your world view or interests will easily accrue capital and become a contender.
internet breaks this down. since 90s, innumerable people became powerful and influential through the newfound wealth through internet. and thats not only google, yahoo and similar, there are lots of small fish that do hundreds of millions $ of business, and annoy these big capital, because they dont share their views or accept the control they try to exert.
so basically this is an attempt by those people to assure that it stays the same -> someone is making big buck and amassing capital, but doesnt seem to 'fit in' with your club ? why, just call your chum and have them charge exorbitant rates for bandwidth, and sink their business. you dont even need a call actually, club does it itself, if we know anything about business history of the last 50 years.
therefore conservatives HAVE to be FOR network neutrality, if they ever want a FREE and FAIR MARKET in which people can actually have a chance of making money.
the dipshit who propagated and placed this article in news outlets represent corporate asswipes who want to control the internet through charging whomever they want, whatever they want, so they can make internet to another cable tv network.
for, if they had PAID their share of the bargain and INVESTED the HUGE profits they made from OVERSELLING bandwith for all those years, there would be NO issue about bandwidth anywhere. actually, there arent any issues about bandwidth at all. there is a SUPPOSED problem about 'internet breaking down due to bandwidth' in united states only for around 3 years now, and nothing happened.
considering all the pointers at hand, i have decided that the supposed 'an analyst with ties to the telecom industry' is either a non person that is invented to propagate a shitty corporate agenda, or a corporate shill to attempt justifying controlling internet, YET AGAIN.
you americans are WAY too much tolerant of this 'lobbying' thing. way too much.