I know, thanks, I'm not quite as new here as my user id would indicate, I was just commenting on how a bunch of monkey sounds were modded Interesting.:)
Just a small correction, in WoW the global cooldown is 1.5 seconds for all classes, except for rogues and druids in cat form and it's been that way since closed beta. So much for your "top-notch understanding of the game", eh?:)
If I'm sitting on my ass listening to music, I'm not doing something useful. You're honestly the first person I've ever heard say anything like that. And couldn't that be said about pretty much anything?
"If I'm watching a movie, I'm not doing anything useful." "If I'm working, I'm not doing anything useful." "If I'm hanging out with my friends, I'm not doing anything useful." "If I'm playing tennis, I'm not doing anything useful." "If I'm posting on Slashdot, I'm not doing anything useful."
Eventually the world will end. I think this means that nothing we do is really useful. Does that mean we should stop doing the things we like? I don't think so, I think it means we need to start doing the things we like right now. So if you thing listening to music is a waste of time, that's fine, but I don't see how it's less "useful" than anything else we do here in life.
I realize this is going to sound pathetic already, but to hell with that, I'll just say it anyway:
This is the reason why a lot of people loath MMORPGs. The funny thing is that it's also what some of us love about them. I'm decent at chess and decent at FPSs, like yourself, but the difference here is that winning in MMOs is so easy. You don't need skill or... anything, really. You just need time, lots of it. It sounds silly, but that's why I picked WoW. Here's something I could be best at, without even trying. This appealed to me and many others, I suspect, although few will admit it. It's very hard to become good at chess and many other things here in life. It's easy to become good at MMOs, you just need time. If I lose a game of chess, it could take a lifetime to become good enough to beat my opponent. It would require a ton of dedication and in the end it might turn out that no matter how much time and effort I put into it, my mind just can't cut it. MMOs are the opposite. A monkey can win there if he has a high level char.
If in an MMORPG your stats/numbers/equipment didn't constantly slide upwards, people would simply quit the game. True, but this is also the only type of game that has ever kept me entertained for years. I've played so many different games, but none have stuck with me for as long as WoW. WoW also gives me a sense of achievement. If I watch a movie or play a game of chess, I don't feel like I've accomplished anything afterwards. If I spend that time playing WoW instead, afterwards I feel like I've gotten somewhere. If I should forget, all I have to do is look at my monitor to see that my level is higher now, so I must have achieved SOMETHING.
This is why MMOs appeal to people like me and the same reason that it doesn't appeal to people like you. You care about skill and that the winner should be the person who's best. I just want an easy way to win something and WoW gives me that. And if all else fails, I can always just buy a high level char, in chess world that would be like buying Kasparov's brain. Yes, it's kind of cheap that someone's winning even though he sucks, just because he bought someone else's char, but if you can just get past that, you can really kick butt and win every single day.
There is not a song on the planet I would pay $8 for. Wow, I'm surprised and kind of wondering if you're serious. I mean, I know I love music, but who doesn't? I could think of lots and lots of songs I would pay $8 for. I can think of many songs I would pay $100 for and even some I would pay $1000 for, if that was the only way I would ever hear them again.
Are you sure there's really not a single song on the planet worth $8 to you? If you had to choose between never hearing a song again or paying $8 to be able to hear it anytime you want, can't you think of a single song you'd buy?
As much as I hate to admit it, the parent is right. This is really nothing new, it's still just an on/off thing and they haven't done anything that hasn't been done many years ago.:(
Well said, comparing the price of the Xbox 360 and the price of the PS3 is a moot point now, as everyone already has the Xbox 360.
I just have one thing to add: I'm not buying a PS3. I have a PS2, Xbox, GameCube, Xbox 360 and a Wii, but I'm not buying a PS3, I simply don't see the point right now. There are practically no exclusive games and the non-exclusive games even have better graphics on Xbox 360 and often much, much better network features. I live in Europe and it costs US $900 here (no, really, it's DKK 5499, convert it anywhere online) and that's simply too much when it offers nothing new. On top of this, I'm not exactly a Sony fanboi either, I've just about had enough of their combined stupidity and arrogance.
Having said that, once a couple of good, exclusive games come out, I will be first in line for a PS3, even though it costs $900. Yes, it's a lot of money, but on the other hand, what else am I going to spend my money on? I have a decent job, I don't have any children, I don't go on expensive vacations etc. In other words, my only expenses are rent and food and that still leaves a lot of money for just buying random stuff. I wonder what other people spend their money on, because no matter how I look at it, it's something like Pay check - Rent - Other expenses = 2 PS3s every single month
So in other words, I think for me and many other people, it's not really the money, we just need a friggin' reason to buy the damn thing. PLEASE GIVE US A REASON, SONY!
Idiocracy is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, from start to finish, and the scary part is that at least part of it is true. I don't think it's really a very main-stream movie though, often the movies I like aren't, and my friends all think it's lame, so that might explain why it hasn't done so well in the box office.:)
Brilliant question. First of all, let's agree that we can never know for sure whether another person is sentient or not. I know I'm sentient, but you might all be faking it for all I know.
Having said that, assuming that other people AREN'T faking it, what would indicate that other people are sentient? I think the GP is right on this. A person has so many behaviors that we can attribute to evolution. Like other people saying they're in love, that doesn't prove they're sentient at all, it just proves that it increases your chances of reproducing if you find a mate. (Well, duh.) However, what convinced me that I'm not the only sentient person in the universe was when I heard other people discussing how weird it is that our brains are not only machines who can think, but these machines are actually sentient; we're conscious. Why would evolution make people question their own sentience? What purpose would it serve? None that I can see.
For me, there is only one possible explanation: (Cue The Matrix theme.) We must be living in a simulated reality.
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No! It doesn't beg the question! It RAISES the question!
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep you under control in order to change a mouse into this. [holds up a Duracell battery] Mickey Mouse:: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible! Morpheus:: I didn't say it would be easy, Mickey. I just said it would be the truth.
If you are going to have the hassle of nothing working anyway, you may as well take a look at switching to OSX or Linux. I wish MY karma allowed me to take those kinds of hits.:)
He got it all right, so many bad analogies in this discussion.
If you see something that costs $100 and you buy it for $100 and the shop then later charges you an extra $50 telling you: "Sorry, our bad, we sold it too cheap.", then you have a right to be pissed off, after all you didn't know it was a mistake, you genuinely thought it cost $100. However, the people who abused the Amazon offer DEFINITELY knew that it was a bug and that's the big difference here. They didn't buy something for $40 that usually costs $50. Most of them read about the bug online and hurried in there to "buy" some free stuff before Amazon fixed it.
This reminds me of something I read in a magazine where some guy wrote in to ask a lawyer for legal advice: He had rented an apartment, agreeing on the rent with his landlord. He paid what they agreed on every month, but one day he realized that the contract actually said the rent was $0.00 per month. This is when he wrote to the magazine I read, asking if he could get his money back and the lawyer said that it was extremely unlikely that he could, for two reasons: 1) The number "$0.00" was obviously a mistake on the contract. If it had been any other number, he might have a case, but anyone can see that it had to be an error. 2) He had paid his rent until that point without objecting about it. If he went to a judge and said: "We agreed that the rent was $0.00 per month, see what the contract says!", the judge would ask: "So why have you been paying him until now?"
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Lots of useful information there for the people who HAVE "up"graded to Vista. :)
What the hell, modded Funny? I'm pretty sure he's serious! We need a "+1 Unintentionally Funny" option then. :)
I know, thanks, I'm not quite as new here as my user id would indicate, I was just commenting on how a bunch of monkey sounds were modded Interesting. :)
Just a small correction, in WoW the global cooldown is 1.5 seconds for all classes, except for rogues and druids in cat form and it's been that way since closed beta. So much for your "top-notch understanding of the game", eh? :)
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I kid, I kid.
The 70% funny mod was to be expected, but 30% interesting? Only on Slashdot. :)
Nope, he didn't miss it, he was just commenting on how there are many other words than "weird" that don't follow the rule. :)
"If I'm watching a movie, I'm not doing anything useful."
"If I'm working, I'm not doing anything useful."
"If I'm hanging out with my friends, I'm not doing anything useful."
"If I'm playing tennis, I'm not doing anything useful."
"If I'm posting on Slashdot, I'm not doing anything useful."
Eventually the world will end. I think this means that nothing we do is really useful. Does that mean we should stop doing the things we like? I don't think so, I think it means we need to start doing the things we like right now. So if you thing listening to music is a waste of time, that's fine, but I don't see how it's less "useful" than anything else we do here in life.
This is why MMOs appeal to people like me and the same reason that it doesn't appeal to people like you. You care about skill and that the winner should be the person who's best. I just want an easy way to win something and WoW gives me that. And if all else fails, I can always just buy a high level char, in chess world that would be like buying Kasparov's brain. Yes, it's kind of cheap that someone's winning even though he sucks, just because he bought someone else's char, but if you can just get past that, you can really kick butt and win every single day.
No, actually without an OS it will be $1,000,138. :)
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Are you sure there's really not a single song on the planet worth $8 to you? If you had to choose between never hearing a song again or paying $8 to be able to hear it anytime you want, can't you think of a single song you'd buy?
Thanks a lot, now my eyes are going to hurt the rest of the day. :(
As much as I hate to admit it, the parent is right. This is really nothing new, it's still just an on/off thing and they haven't done anything that hasn't been done many years ago. :(
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Well said, comparing the price of the Xbox 360 and the price of the PS3 is a moot point now, as everyone already has the Xbox 360.
I just have one thing to add: I'm not buying a PS3. I have a PS2, Xbox, GameCube, Xbox 360 and a Wii, but I'm not buying a PS3, I simply don't see the point right now. There are practically no exclusive games and the non-exclusive games even have better graphics on Xbox 360 and often much, much better network features. I live in Europe and it costs US $900 here (no, really, it's DKK 5499, convert it anywhere online) and that's simply too much when it offers nothing new. On top of this, I'm not exactly a Sony fanboi either, I've just about had enough of their combined stupidity and arrogance.
Having said that, once a couple of good, exclusive games come out, I will be first in line for a PS3, even though it costs $900. Yes, it's a lot of money, but on the other hand, what else am I going to spend my money on? I have a decent job, I don't have any children, I don't go on expensive vacations etc. In other words, my only expenses are rent and food and that still leaves a lot of money for just buying random stuff. I wonder what other people spend their money on, because no matter how I look at it, it's something like
Pay check - Rent - Other expenses = 2 PS3s every single month
So in other words, I think for me and many other people, it's not really the money, we just need a friggin' reason to buy the damn thing. PLEASE GIVE US A REASON, SONY!
Free speech? I'm disappointed. Why not play the "think of the children" card instead? That seems very popular around here these days. :)
Maybe it is? Either way, you probably shouldn't tell other people how to live their lives. :)
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I'm pretty fit, I bike a lot, but I don't expect other people to, because that's their decision, not mine.
Idiocracy is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, from start to finish, and the scary part is that at least part of it is true. I don't think it's really a very main-stream movie though, often the movies I like aren't, and my friends all think it's lame, so that might explain why it hasn't done so well in the box office. :)
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No, on second thought I think I'll let someone else make that cute ASCII drawing this time.
Brilliant question. First of all, let's agree that we can never know for sure whether another person is sentient or not. I know I'm sentient, but you might all be faking it for all I know.
Having said that, assuming that other people AREN'T faking it, what would indicate that other people are sentient? I think the GP is right on this. A person has so many behaviors that we can attribute to evolution. Like other people saying they're in love, that doesn't prove they're sentient at all, it just proves that it increases your chances of reproducing if you find a mate. (Well, duh.) However, what convinced me that I'm not the only sentient person in the universe was when I heard other people discussing how weird it is that our brains are not only machines who can think, but these machines are actually sentient; we're conscious. Why would evolution make people question their own sentience? What purpose would it serve? None that I can see.
For me, there is only one possible explanation: (Cue The Matrix theme.) We must be living in a simulated reality.
No! It doesn't beg the question! It RAISES the question!
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep you under control in order to change a mouse into this.
[holds up a Duracell battery]
Mickey Mouse:: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible!
Morpheus:: I didn't say it would be easy, Mickey. I just said it would be the truth.
Just Funny? At couple of those points are actually pretty insightful, someone hand the parent some karma, please.
He got it all right, so many bad analogies in this discussion.
If you see something that costs $100 and you buy it for $100 and the shop then later charges you an extra $50 telling you: "Sorry, our bad, we sold it too cheap.", then you have a right to be pissed off, after all you didn't know it was a mistake, you genuinely thought it cost $100.
However, the people who abused the Amazon offer DEFINITELY knew that it was a bug and that's the big difference here. They didn't buy something for $40 that usually costs $50. Most of them read about the bug online and hurried in there to "buy" some free stuff before Amazon fixed it.
This reminds me of something I read in a magazine where some guy wrote in to ask a lawyer for legal advice: He had rented an apartment, agreeing on the rent with his landlord. He paid what they agreed on every month, but one day he realized that the contract actually said the rent was $0.00 per month. This is when he wrote to the magazine I read, asking if he could get his money back and the lawyer said that it was extremely unlikely that he could, for two reasons:
1) The number "$0.00" was obviously a mistake on the contract. If it had been any other number, he might have a case, but anyone can see that it had to be an error.
2) He had paid his rent until that point without objecting about it. If he went to a judge and said: "We agreed that the rent was $0.00 per month, see what the contract says!", the judge would ask: "So why have you been paying him until now?"