It's ebony-modeled armor with the heavy weight of ebony and the weaker armor stats of Orcish. Thank you, Bethesda, for tempting us with a reward to a difficult challenge, then punching us in the balls for it.
I think that line sums up the entire game. You just can't get ahead.
We have people like that. For half a decade Internet sites and journals have been raided by vigilantes. Years ago Something Awful would promote an offensively stupid website and encourages users to 'visit' its guestbook, invariably flooding the guestbook with spam and Goatse, or crashing the site with their own Slashdot Effect. Unprotected LiveJournals were obliterated under the mass flood of Tubgirl. It was both terrifying and awesome, in its Internet-limited no-one-gives-a-rip scale.
/b/ is the next level up. All forced anonymous. They've brought moronic commercial services like Habbo Hotel, Furcadia and Second Life to a halt, overloading servers and disrupting legitimate users. The/b/tards have stalked accidental celebrities with nigh-disturbing fervor. Cracky Chan and the like. They've moved up to destroying deviantArt accounts, recently having suggested one user change her password to something a/b/tard suggested... social engineering for dummies.
Now, when tens of thousands of these people are concentrated in one small country, they seem to reach mass and their actions spill into the real world. They also become shielded from internal conscience. When the legions of American vigilantes want blood they tend to restrain themselves from crossing into real world criminal behavior, and a sane few have shown they can temper the mania of the masses. In America, cliques of vigilantes are seperated and mingle little. Single system administrators like SA's Lowtax, YTMND's Max, or 4chan's Moot can kill their isolated mobs. South Korea seems to present a more united front - hell, even their search portals name the most popular target/victim of the day. Their culture isn't strikingly different from American online culture. Their fanatic individuals are far more common, however, and their offensive actions are coordinated across servers, while voices of reason are fractured and lost.
It proves a collection of browser zealots have plenty of free time and not much else to do with it. I mean, cool advertising, but some extraterrestrial's gotta be laughing at us.
Anyway, certain countries what burn people for stealing penises via black magic have a long way to rise before even catching America. (There are more recent cases of superstitious mania leading to mob violence, but this is just hilarious.)
2chan is a Japanese offshoot, while 4chan is the English language board (started by SA goons). 4chan alone has more comment traffic than/. with some 50,000 posts daily. 4chan saw hundreds of fans at the recent Otakon conference. Not world changing, but easily more popular than the lower ranks on this list. From 4chan has come Onechan, WTFux, fChan, not4chan, iichan, 420chan...
Didn't even make it a page before a comparison with the Nazis.
Regardless! Nothing more than immature arm waving here. If their modifications weren't in direct opposition to the GPL (and thus newsworthy), this would be no more notable than a blurb on the project's home site. 'You can't hug children with nuclear arms!' Some points awarded for original distribution.
What, no breakfast at 11:30? I demand to speak to your manager!
I don't think you want-- I'm the customer, I'm always right, and I get speak to your manager now!
Okay, but I warned you... BEEP BEEP FREE BEATINGS FOR MEAT BEINGS
Suddenly 'Hoboken, NJ versus Giant Robot' gets a lot funnier.
It is possible to charge players to access a sim. Considering the maximum player count in a single sim (40? 60?) I expect the band will charge to take advantage of scarcity. Even if they don't, there aren't many slots to see them in. At best you might hear them over SL Public Radio, unless there's some mad concert system in production.
And you found all this without visiting a.cm domain!
Tourism agencies are US-based or affiliated with American companies (or with whichever country you're likely to visit from). I wouldn't worry about needing to access a Web host located in Cameroon. Unless another one of my distant millionaire relatives dies there and the minister of finance needs my help...
Those are a lot of patents. Including some that I swear would be covered by the Immersion patents Sony and Microsoft have been successfully sued over, patents for 'tactile feedback' and 'vibrating' having been apparently upheld in court. Hey, as long as we have this many charges, can we throw RICO in there for flavor?
They're selling more units this year than they did previously, numbers seem to be up across the board, but... oh, say market analyists. They didn't grow as much as we expected. And somehow they blame HD-DVD and Blu-Ray for the 'slump'.
Conroe and a huge price cut for AMD products were both announced months ago. Perhaps consumer sales were down as we've all been waiting for the C2D launch? And can anyone explain how the PC industry is in decline?
There hasn't been a lot of anything coming out about the Wii. No news is good news, sure, but we lack a lot of technical data. Rumors of a launch date, rumors of hardware in production, educated guesses on price and stock quantity. We know nothing of the Virtual Console, which could be a whole circus of DRM and licensing (fortunately today's Nintendo isn't the same old 10NES Nintendo). We don't know how the DS will interact with the Wii.
It's good for Nintendo, of course. Certain other consoles have been buried in negative press and overhyped claims, which will hurt them if they ever launch...
Oh, Sega of America killed in those days. 2 to 50% market share is almost unheard of.
Sad because Sega of Japan actively sabotaged SoA in revenge, and nearly killed Sega as a whole by ignoring SoA and the strategies that built the company.
Through the early and mid 90's Sega had two things: the Genesis and Sonic. Yeah, the Genesis died an early death, but hardware won't last forever. The marketing was great though those days, and some lessons should have been learned, but somehow everything Kalinske mentioned worked was forgotten on the Saturn and DC. Because, as he said, Japan hated the American division's success.
And what have they done with the Japanese/American Sonic property since the days it more or less saved the company? They made it Japanese. And killed it. Since Knuckles' Chaotix, when they started loading in additional characters, piling on fluff at the expense of gameplay, the franchise has been struggling. Sonic Adventure 1 and later continued that theme while adding DESU SUGOI KAWAII SUPER RADICAL AMERICAN ATTITUDE ^___________^ without realizing that in America, the fad had thankfully disappeared in the mid 90's. It's grown more popular in Japan, at the cost of losing North America and European audiences. Now, even as Sega's only household franchise, Sega's made no efforts to save it. A run of OMG ATTITUDE games with poor controls and poor quality, Battle, Heroes, Shadow, has pretty much eclipsed what fond memories American gamers had for the series. The game for the Wii might change public opinion and bring the franchise back, but it's too early to tell.
So Sega's bludgeoned the American influences from their company and development... and looking at the last five years, can anyone say that was a good move? Can anyone rationally guess why?
I have no idea how a developer would future-proof a game. Yes, System Shock's graphics are outdated... the game is also unplayble in stock state on any modern machine. There's a half-decade swath of Windows/DOS games that we've 'lost', and no amount of graphical updates will bring them back. So too the stories, even Half-Life was flat and simple in comparison to new titles. The gameplay as well, if a studio updates the graphics without updating the style of play, well... Doom III was slammed for that. I personally would drag my feet if someone offered a 'merely' graphically updated version of my old games - I've already played it, after all.
So to support your point, yes, updating graphics would be nice, but all the other disposable natures of the game would have to be removed. The developers would need to renovate/port code, the gameplay/weapons/balance would need to evolve with the pace of modern gaming, the stories would somehow have to grow deeper and fuller. MMOs don't change anything, they last longer, but each title never adapts and grows with the times - EQ couldn't last forever even with its expansions, and has spawned a sequel. All games are disposable in some sense, but I don't know developers could possibly change that without completely re-creating their games every few years. Too much seperates generations.
Urgent Message Sent: Today, 11:36AM From: gwbush@****.gov STFU I SAID NO RUSH
Uh, that aside... what could they possibly send that would be of use? 'We expect a terror attack in your vicinity, please move in an orderly fashion to the marked panic zones' - the police should present for this. 'America is under attack from terrorist forces, stay calm' - probably not much use to us right now. 'Your downtown district has been closed off due to a severe attack' - if a message could get through after a major event, I'd be impressed. Emergency warnings are good in the event of severe weather, as people living in areas at risk know what tornadoes and hurricanes do, and have prepared. Americans have historically prepared for nuclear attack and air raids, as we know what those do and how to shelter ourselves. Brief emergency warnings simply won't work in the face of a real terrorist attack. We don't know how they'll attack, where, or how we should seek shelter, and brief cellular messages do not seem to be the way to spread that information.
humankind will be able to look at that advertisement and see 'new white PSP coming soon'. Everyone who complained the image was racist, oops - you're accidentally racist. Pointing and screaming at these things extends the institution's life. Ad agencies and visual artists will be doubly careful to use the right races in the right way as long as this incident is in the public mind, which is discrimantory itself. At this rate combining ethnicities will be risky for decades to come - as long as someone is willing to shout that, maybe, someone else could be offended or someone else might harm another race if they see this. In short: Sony's ads could potentially be considered racist, depending on the viewer's background and mindset. Crying about what that white person is doing to that black person is definitely racist. We aren't working very hard to truly 'erase racism' (as if whining about consumer ads was the place to start).
Of course Sony, famously out of toes left to shoot, could have exercised more discretion.
Humor is: white Americans in America complaining about Dutch advertisements featuring black people in the Netherlands. Police the world, much?
'Breakthrough in Microscope Manufacturing Technology' - accurate, but suitable for our consumption? How dare you, sir, imply/. be used for Serious Business!
Er, with an article tited 'The Sharpest Object Ever Made', what can you expect? It's begging for it.
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It's ebony-modeled armor with the heavy weight of ebony and the weaker armor stats of Orcish. Thank you, Bethesda, for tempting us with a reward to a difficult challenge, then punching us in the balls for it.
I think that line sums up the entire game. You just can't get ahead.
We have people like that. For half a decade Internet sites and journals have been raided by vigilantes. Years ago Something Awful would promote an offensively stupid website and encourages users to 'visit' its guestbook, invariably flooding the guestbook with spam and Goatse, or crashing the site with their own Slashdot Effect. Unprotected LiveJournals were obliterated under the mass flood of Tubgirl. It was both terrifying and awesome, in its Internet-limited no-one-gives-a-rip scale.
/b/tards have stalked accidental celebrities with nigh-disturbing fervor. Cracky Chan and the like. They've moved up to destroying deviantArt accounts, recently having suggested one user change her password to something a /b/tard suggested... social engineering for dummies.
/b/ is the next level up. All forced anonymous. They've brought moronic commercial services like Habbo Hotel, Furcadia and Second Life to a halt, overloading servers and disrupting legitimate users. The
Now, when tens of thousands of these people are concentrated in one small country, they seem to reach mass and their actions spill into the real world. They also become shielded from internal conscience. When the legions of American vigilantes want blood they tend to restrain themselves from crossing into real world criminal behavior, and a sane few have shown they can temper the mania of the masses. In America, cliques of vigilantes are seperated and mingle little. Single system administrators like SA's Lowtax, YTMND's Max, or 4chan's Moot can kill their isolated mobs. South Korea seems to present a more united front - hell, even their search portals name the most popular target/victim of the day. Their culture isn't strikingly different from American online culture. Their fanatic individuals are far more common, however, and their offensive actions are coordinated across servers, while voices of reason are fractured and lost.
It proves a collection of browser zealots have plenty of free time and not much else to do with it. I mean, cool advertising, but some extraterrestrial's gotta be laughing at us.
Informative?
Anyway, certain countries what burn people for stealing penises via black magic have a long way to rise before even catching America. (There are more recent cases of superstitious mania leading to mob violence, but this is just hilarious.)
Why, I remember when Discordia was the pre-eminent 'cool' religion. You damn kids! Get out of my unicorns!
Anonymous Web BBS, both born from the original 2ch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel
/. with some 50,000 posts daily. 4chan saw hundreds of fans at the recent Otakon conference. Not world changing, but easily more popular than the lower ranks on this list. From 4chan has come Onechan, WTFux, fChan, not4chan, iichan, 420chan...
2chan is a Japanese offshoot, while 4chan is the English language board (started by SA goons). 4chan alone has more comment traffic than
Preparing to bring down The Guardian under a flood of desu? Anonymous does not forgive.
Didn't even make it a page before a comparison with the Nazis.
Regardless! Nothing more than immature arm waving here. If their modifications weren't in direct opposition to the GPL (and thus newsworthy), this would be no more notable than a blurb on the project's home site. 'You can't hug children with nuclear arms!' Some points awarded for original distribution.
customers_suck threatens to get way funnier.
What, no breakfast at 11:30? I demand to speak to your manager!
I don't think you want--
I'm the customer, I'm always right, and I get speak to your manager now!
Okay, but I warned you...
BEEP BEEP FREE BEATINGS FOR MEAT BEINGS
Suddenly 'Hoboken, NJ versus Giant Robot' gets a lot funnier.
It is possible to charge players to access a sim. Considering the maximum player count in a single sim (40? 60?) I expect the band will charge to take advantage of scarcity. Even if they don't, there aren't many slots to see them in. At best you might hear them over SL Public Radio, unless there's some mad concert system in production.
Bait and switch! Bait and switch! It could have at least thrown a few cars around and eaten somebody, but no!
Tokyo was never attacked by a software license, I'll bet.
And you found all this without visiting a .cm domain!
Tourism agencies are US-based or affiliated with American companies (or with whichever country you're likely to visit from). I wouldn't worry about needing to access a Web host located in Cameroon. Unless another one of my distant millionaire relatives dies there and the minister of finance needs my help...
Those are a lot of patents. Including some that I swear would be covered by the Immersion patents Sony and Microsoft have been successfully sued over, patents for 'tactile feedback' and 'vibrating' having been apparently upheld in court. Hey, as long as we have this many charges, can we throw RICO in there for flavor?
And once my comment goes through half a dozen others have said my point more eloquently! Hurrah, redundant!
They're selling more units this year than they did previously, numbers seem to be up across the board, but... oh, say market analyists. They didn't grow as much as we expected. And somehow they blame HD-DVD and Blu-Ray for the 'slump'.
Conroe and a huge price cut for AMD products were both announced months ago. Perhaps consumer sales were down as we've all been waiting for the C2D launch? And can anyone explain how the PC industry is in decline?
There hasn't been a lot of anything coming out about the Wii. No news is good news, sure, but we lack a lot of technical data. Rumors of a launch date, rumors of hardware in production, educated guesses on price and stock quantity. We know nothing of the Virtual Console, which could be a whole circus of DRM and licensing (fortunately today's Nintendo isn't the same old 10NES Nintendo). We don't know how the DS will interact with the Wii.
It's good for Nintendo, of course. Certain other consoles have been buried in negative press and overhyped claims, which will hurt them if they ever launch...
Oh, Sega of America killed in those days. 2 to 50% market share is almost unheard of.
Sad because Sega of Japan actively sabotaged SoA in revenge, and nearly killed Sega as a whole by ignoring SoA and the strategies that built the company.
Through the early and mid 90's Sega had two things: the Genesis and Sonic. Yeah, the Genesis died an early death, but hardware won't last forever. The marketing was great though those days, and some lessons should have been learned, but somehow everything Kalinske mentioned worked was forgotten on the Saturn and DC. Because, as he said, Japan hated the American division's success.
And what have they done with the Japanese/American Sonic property since the days it more or less saved the company? They made it Japanese. And killed it. Since Knuckles' Chaotix, when they started loading in additional characters, piling on fluff at the expense of gameplay, the franchise has been struggling. Sonic Adventure 1 and later continued that theme while adding DESU SUGOI KAWAII SUPER RADICAL AMERICAN ATTITUDE ^___________^ without realizing that in America, the fad had thankfully disappeared in the mid 90's. It's grown more popular in Japan, at the cost of losing North America and European audiences. Now, even as Sega's only household franchise, Sega's made no efforts to save it. A run of OMG ATTITUDE games with poor controls and poor quality, Battle, Heroes, Shadow, has pretty much eclipsed what fond memories American gamers had for the series. The game for the Wii might change public opinion and bring the franchise back, but it's too early to tell.
So Sega's bludgeoned the American influences from their company and development... and looking at the last five years, can anyone say that was a good move? Can anyone rationally guess why?
I have no idea how a developer would future-proof a game. Yes, System Shock's graphics are outdated... the game is also unplayble in stock state on any modern machine. There's a half-decade swath of Windows/DOS games that we've 'lost', and no amount of graphical updates will bring them back. So too the stories, even Half-Life was flat and simple in comparison to new titles. The gameplay as well, if a studio updates the graphics without updating the style of play, well... Doom III was slammed for that. I personally would drag my feet if someone offered a 'merely' graphically updated version of my old games - I've already played it, after all.
So to support your point, yes, updating graphics would be nice, but all the other disposable natures of the game would have to be removed. The developers would need to renovate/port code, the gameplay/weapons/balance would need to evolve with the pace of modern gaming, the stories would somehow have to grow deeper and fuller. MMOs don't change anything, they last longer, but each title never adapts and grows with the times - EQ couldn't last forever even with its expansions, and has spawned a sequel. All games are disposable in some sense, but I don't know developers could possibly change that without completely re-creating their games every few years. Too much seperates generations.
humankind will be able to look at that advertisement and see 'new white PSP coming soon'. Everyone who complained the image was racist, oops - you're accidentally racist. Pointing and screaming at these things extends the institution's life. Ad agencies and visual artists will be doubly careful to use the right races in the right way as long as this incident is in the public mind, which is discrimantory itself. At this rate combining ethnicities will be risky for decades to come - as long as someone is willing to shout that, maybe, someone else could be offended or someone else might harm another race if they see this. In short: Sony's ads could potentially be considered racist, depending on the viewer's background and mindset. Crying about what that white person is doing to that black person is definitely racist. We aren't working very hard to truly 'erase racism' (as if whining about consumer ads was the place to start).
Of course Sony, famously out of toes left to shoot, could have exercised more discretion.
Humor is: white Americans in America complaining about Dutch advertisements featuring black people in the Netherlands. Police the world, much?
'Breakthrough in Microscope Manufacturing Technology' - accurate, but suitable for our consumption? How dare you, sir, imply /. be used for Serious Business!
Er, with an article tited 'The Sharpest Object Ever Made', what can you expect? It's begging for it.
Today is backwards day. I fear I may lose all this bad karma I've worked so hard for.
when they've created something better than a monofilament whip. 10S is good, but we need something that keeps up with troll melee.
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