I just bought a bunch of poker books and after a trip to the bahamas to play poker with a bunch of the pros, my interest in poker has gone back up. I just reopend my neteller account and was ready for action. Oops!
So really, is there any reason for this law? I mean, not a reason for the government, but for the people, you know... who the goverment should be making laws for.
Why does the US Government feel that they are entitled to get a cut of every single thing that we do? We payed taxes on the money we play poker with, AND if you make enough playing poker, you have to pay taxes on that! So what the hell do they want? Do they want to take a tax on every single hand played?
This is really just a disgusting show by our goverment where they are not even trying to be subtle in showing us that they can fuck with us whenever they want to.
While I accept anyones opinion, the one voice about Animal Crossing, is just wrong.
You seriously are left in a state of perpetual rent paying, and collecting things through VERY linear means. There is fishing, digging, and catching bugs. You can also plant things. That's it!
I'm sorry, but the amount of intellect it takes to draw pleasure from such narrow activities, which are all incredibly boring to actually do, is low.
Want to fish? Click in the water near a fish that will almost always come and bite. Then when the bobber goes down. CLICK AGAIN! You got a boot! A sunfish! A crab!
It really should say, "you have just wasted your time doing one of the 4 activities of Animal Crossing, please prepare to do the same thing over and over again". And don't give me that "LOL, but every game is the same thing!". No, there are generally the same types of thigns, but different strategies associated with them.
Your assumption that I don't like the "live in" style of game is so false it is rediculous! I LOVE those kinds of games, that is the number one reason that I hate Animal Crossing! I thought it was going to be a really cool sandbox game, which is exactly the kind of game that I want for the DS. However, to make these simulation "live in" games good, you need depth, and a LOT of it, to make it fun. Depth isn't an endless assortment of fossils or fish, that is something that should be added to the already existing depth of a game, not as the basis for one.
You took my post as a troll to piss off Animal Crossing fans... My post is not a troll, it is pure objective dislike of a game and all the mindless lemmings who piss away hours of their life enjoying it. Not because I absolutely oppose pissing away hours of life, but because I oppose it when there are so many better options. The DS has good games, Animal Crossing is not one of them.
Now if you disagree, please, explain to me WHY it is fun, and then maybe I can enjoy it. Wait... You haven't even played it?! I have it sitting right here, and IT SUCKS.
I mean, if the PSP has a library to match Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros, Animal Crossing DS, the two Castlevania titles, Wario Ware, Nintendogs, and Metroid Prime Hunters, then I have made a big mistake not getting a PSP ^_^
I have a DS and not a PSP... Animal crossing and nintendogs? You can continue to weed your village and raise money doing one of the not quite superfluous... uh... three ways of making money in the over-rated Animal Crossing... I haven't played nintendogs, but I am pretty sure that Tomagotchi was mainly played by my female friends when I was in middle school. Sorry, but not EVERY game that gets good reviews is actually good. I just don't think of those games as quality games, as much as I consider them nitch Japanese gayness.
Please don't quote sales either. I know, they are popular. So were New Kids on the Block.
Tell your whiny little tramp to get a real job then. Or better yet, tell her to not be a tool to be used by people in their agendas of "safety". Or act like a man, and don't defend your girl-friend. Pussy whipped loser.
And stop over-reacting, you sound like a whiny little faggot.
I doubt you have a girlfriend, and if you do, I'd love to come to her store and whine about getting asked for my ID. Then I would whine about them being out of extra large condoms. Then i'd stick my dick in her vagina. Then you wouldn't have a girl-friend. Then you wouldn't bother the seniors on slashdot anymore with your ultimate bitchiness.
Guess that explains your anger and resentment. Girls are a lot better when you are NOT their boyfriend. Trust me. You don't hate WoW... you just can't afford it cause you just blew 500 on X-Mas, the fake person holiday.
"Indignant probably isn't the word that you're looking for. Perhaps you meant uncaring? I never implied that every WoW player is online every day, so I fail to see how your straw man argument has proved anything."
I never implied you did. You implied that I implied it, but I never did.
"capitalism dictates that it is up to you to decide if the downtime is worth your money."
What does that even mean?!
"Is your potential disappointment worth the monthly fee?"
I didn't realize I pay Blizzard FOR their potential dissapointment game. I'd say that is more what a girlfriend is.
"It is actually this mentality that most likely causes the most complaining"
Which mentality? Mine? It may cause the most disapointment, but it definately doesn't account for most of the "complaining", whatever that means. Are you saying that you are just constantly baraged by people complaining about Tuesday morning downtime on WoW? I think this is the first time I have EVER talked about it at all. Giving my opinion on a related story that comes around ONCE IN A LIFETIME... Yes, Blizzard had better change for me, CHANGE RIGHT NOW BLIZZARD!
"People who play daily will almost welcome the forced breaks."
Yeah, they almost welcome it, from their bedroom in their starwars pajamas (not that there is anything wrong with them!) and penny-arcade t-shirts while anxiously awaiting the time they call "The Return of WoW". What makes it exciting is they never know WHEN it is comming!
"But people, like you, who do not play daily, believe the game should conform to your standards every minute of time you "grant" to playing the game."
Yes... It is my very strong belief. Right up there with Jesus and EA sucking. Please don't say "grant", it isn't powerfull enought. You realize WoW exists, because ->I- allow it.
"Despite what you may believe, this does not put priority on your playing time, it makes it even less important than those people who do play daily"
Umm... Ok, so then what is your point? They changed the whole system of maintenance to conform to my low priority playing? Nice.
Merry Christmas
"Huh? Of course people are constantly accessing all of Amazon's information."
Which takes up much less space than WoW's.
"Do you want to tell me which part of their service they can take offline for a few hours while no one is using it? Obviously they have redundancies, so they don't need downtime."
Have you ever made a website? You probabaly have. If you haven't, I am sure you are capable of it. It's just not that difficult. Most of it is really easy to do when you get the hang of it. Have you ever built an MMO that can service six million people? One million? Five people? In a day in age where people have very high expectations out of their games this is not easy. It is a HUGE software undertaking. It is high risk too, since they pretty much have to service it if it doesn't work for at least SOME extended period of time.
Weekly maintenance is not that big of a deal. They probably have TONS of different things that they can easily modulate in the software to make big gains in performance for the players on a week to week basis. They aren't just rebooting a computer because there is memory leaking everywhere.
If you want to say that routine maintenance is evidence of "not perfect" design, i'll give you that. But bad design? Come on man, you are being silly and argumentative. It's like saying the pyramids are a poorly designed because they don't still look new. And don't say "but the pyramids don't require weekly reboots", because it wouldn't make any sense.
Blizzard has been very good about this stuff so far, there is no reason to think that they will be pulling the rug on players unannounced now. This is to make playing better for players, not worse.
Blizzard isn't evil yet. They haven't released Warcraft '07, incomplete for xBox360 two years running at 60 dollars a pop. Nor have the released the an expansion pack every month... Warcraft: Weapons and things to fight with!... Warcraft: Races other than gnomes!... Warcraft: Colors!... Warcraft: Now in Stereo!
Yes, fuck EA Games, and the horse they rode in on. And Bethseda, and the horse THEY rode in on... That looks better than your horse... Since they purchased it online...
I'm sorry, but Blizzard having had to reboot the servers for 2 whole years now was very bad coding on Blizzard's part. Imagine if you had to reboot the servers at your job everyday? I doubt they would be around long.
I'm sorry, but whatever you just tried to write was just very bad writing on your part. Imagine if you had to make sense at your job everyday? I doubt THEY would be around long.
Who is they? Your job? You? The servers?
Blizzards job... well, they are not a person. The person doing the rebooting will probably be there until they quit. And I assure you, Blizzards servers have been around... longly.
Are you amazed that a company that is supporting a user base of six million can't do all the things that a company that supports a hundred thousand can't?
I am not amazed. Nor baffled.
Oh yeah... Eve is fucking stupid, and so are the life wastoids that play it. I have multiple girlfriends, and I played WoW. Eve is for nerds that don't have any interest in the real world. And faggy space cowboys. Waaaaahooooiiiiiiii! I have reached level 3 years, that is kickin ass lickin yo!
You are basing your assumption on the fact that EVERYONE who plays WoW, plays every single day. Which I will prove false, right now.
I play WoW, occasionally, school and work, and now just work makes me have other things to do. There were several times in my life where I woke up on a tuesday morning, nothing to do, and looked forward to playing for a few hours, or maybe a marathon catchup session. Then you try to sign on and see that the servers are down. I always seemed to forget about it. And every time it was a dissapointment.
You can be dissapointed about something that you don't absolutely NEED to have.
Think about all the times girls don't want to have sex with you. You don't need it, do you? But it doesn't mean that it isn't dissapointing... Every time.
And it says they require regular maintenance, I am sure Amazon require's regular maintenance too, it just doesn't require downtime because not everyone is constantly accessing all information. User computer's do not need to be upgraded either.
Not sure when self hating nerds started hating WoW, it is pretty much all of their wet dream. Orcs, elves, gnomes and in beautiful animated splendor. It is a social place for people too pale to talk to real humans, and on top of that it is one of the moder marvels of software engineering. If you compare it to any other MMO, it has been the most perfectly executed. Blizzard did one hell of a job with this one.
I guess that nerds hating on WoW is kind of like teenage girls hating on Christina Aguilerra.
Look at that seemless world, uh-hay-mc-glaaaaaaaven, it probably has no personality-tity, glaven.
I am hoping that you are like me and check for replies well after the post...
First off, in car accidents where you can easily exit your car the G forces are too low to spill coffee? That is just blatantly wrong, I have spilled coffee in my car while coming to a quick stop, no accident. It doesn't take much speed or damage to knock a cup over, expecially if you are holding it between you legs. So please, correct yourself and please retract that absolutely absurd statement.
On to the more interesting point.
"Actually, the difference between 190 F burn time (About 1 second) and 140 F burn time (6 seconds) is not 1 second vs. never. It's only a difference of 5 seconds."
So I am not taking it as gospel, but I certainly do believe you. But that difference of five seconds doesn't require anyone to get out of their car and remove clothing. Liquid that is spread in a thin layer in atmosphere that is over a hudred degrees cooler will cool VERY quickly. One second later the tempeture is much lower, another second, much lower. Take a wash cloth, run it under as hot of water as you can stand. Take it out of the sink and put in on your face. It burns, now remove it for just one second and put it back, it is very comfortable, now put it back under the water as quickly as you can and put it back on your face, it burns again. Your face didn't get used to the temperature, at least not to discern the burning sensation from total comfort.
The bigger the difference between air and temperature the more dramatic this effect will be. If you have the ability to pull your clothes away from your body for just a moment this will ensure that you will not be burned. You will not be burned by a small film of water on the body, you have to be partially saturated for at least as long as the time it takes to do the damage.
So the difference between burning in 1 second and 5 seconds is EXACTLY what the problem is. If you STILL don't believe me then I guess you have to just try it to see for yourself. There is a huge difference. If the water is boiling you skin will seperate instantly. My roomate has a giant scar on his chest from when he dropped boiling water on his chest 15 years ago, his skin just fell right off. He was standing too, and wearing a T-Shirt, it happend instantly.
Ok, Can someone please tell me about these incredible games? I really would love that explanation, because I hear it all the time, but I see no proof of it, and I would love my 500 dollar purchase vindicated.
I bought and xBox360 at launch, and it is technically a very good machine. I have had no problems or complaints with it's operation. It is loud, but not as loud as the volume I play at. It is sleek and looks cool where I have it. I like the controller more than any other controller to date (haven't played a Wii, played a PS3). The graphics are great and looks cool as hell on my high def TV. I can't wait to actually enjoy a game for more than 5 hours.
Fight Night was cool for awhile, about 5 hours. But single player mode is very repetative. I'll throw smackdown and the racing games under that category too. The racers are not as good as Gran Turismo for PS2 5 years ago, disapointing. I don't play online that much because everyone online is better than me, I am into consoles for the single player experiences for the most part. Not that I don't dabble in online play, I just think that consoles should offer games substantial enough to stand on their own.
So we have Gears, which is short and not in the same league as most FPS on the PC, not suprisingly. If I want to play online shooters, I will boot my computer and play one of the many awsome online games.
So what else is there? Why did I spend 500 dollars on a system that has given me probably less than 50 hours of enjoyment in a full year. WoW did many times that for about $180, game and subscription, which I no longer play.
And please don't try to sell me on rainbow six or any other FPSs, consoles are still behind PCs in those games, and since I have both, I excersise my better option %100 of the time. Oh yeah... and what the hell happend to Madden? How does EA skip over their big franchise title on the big new console two years running. They still haven't caught up to their PS2 offerings.
So when I think incredible games I think, Mario World, Half-Life, WoW, Warcraft, Oblivion (oh yeah, I forgot, that game is sweet! So sweet that I stopped playing it on xBox after about 10 hours and bought it for the PC, awsome decision), FF1-7 (haven't played 12 much yet, but I hear it is pretty good). I am a gamer, I love games, and I love being sucked into a great experience. So please, "incredible games", can you enlighten me?
Do you ever look at what you are writing, and while you are writing it, you realize that you are a fucking wuss bag faggot? Play super hello kitty suprise you overly emotional cunt and stop analyzing the motives behind a level60 warlock who has killed you eight times. You are playing a game where you are in a war against eachother, he is a mother fucking orc, he is fucking killing you, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPRISED?!
Leave your pussy elitist "high level brain" bullshit to the real world. Games are fucking games and if you are emotionally hurt for days over the loss of your character or some frustration, get a new fucking hobby; I hear knitting is pretty calming. Leave the aspiring real men to our hobbies without your smug mental judgements.
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I just bought a bunch of poker books and after a trip to the bahamas to play poker with a bunch of the pros, my interest in poker has gone back up. I just reopend my neteller account and was ready for action. Oops!
So really, is there any reason for this law? I mean, not a reason for the government, but for the people, you know... who the goverment should be making laws for.
Why does the US Government feel that they are entitled to get a cut of every single thing that we do? We payed taxes on the money we play poker with, AND if you make enough playing poker, you have to pay taxes on that! So what the hell do they want? Do they want to take a tax on every single hand played?
This is really just a disgusting show by our goverment where they are not even trying to be subtle in showing us that they can fuck with us whenever they want to.
While I accept anyones opinion, the one voice about Animal Crossing, is just wrong.
You seriously are left in a state of perpetual rent paying, and collecting things through VERY linear means. There is fishing, digging, and catching bugs. You can also plant things. That's it!
I'm sorry, but the amount of intellect it takes to draw pleasure from such narrow activities, which are all incredibly boring to actually do, is low.
Want to fish? Click in the water near a fish that will almost always come and bite. Then when the bobber goes down. CLICK AGAIN! You got a boot! A sunfish! A crab!
It really should say, "you have just wasted your time doing one of the 4 activities of Animal Crossing, please prepare to do the same thing over and over again". And don't give me that "LOL, but every game is the same thing!". No, there are generally the same types of thigns, but different strategies associated with them.
Your assumption that I don't like the "live in" style of game is so false it is rediculous! I LOVE those kinds of games, that is the number one reason that I hate Animal Crossing! I thought it was going to be a really cool sandbox game, which is exactly the kind of game that I want for the DS. However, to make these simulation "live in" games good, you need depth, and a LOT of it, to make it fun. Depth isn't an endless assortment of fossils or fish, that is something that should be added to the already existing depth of a game, not as the basis for one.
You took my post as a troll to piss off Animal Crossing fans... My post is not a troll, it is pure objective dislike of a game and all the mindless lemmings who piss away hours of their life enjoying it. Not because I absolutely oppose pissing away hours of life, but because I oppose it when there are so many better options. The DS has good games, Animal Crossing is not one of them.
Now if you disagree, please, explain to me WHY it is fun, and then maybe I can enjoy it. Wait... You haven't even played it?! I have it sitting right here, and IT SUCKS.
I mean, if the PSP has a library to match Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros, Animal Crossing DS, the two Castlevania titles, Wario Ware, Nintendogs, and Metroid Prime Hunters, then I have made a big mistake not getting a PSP ^_^
I have a DS and not a PSP... Animal crossing and nintendogs? You can continue to weed your village and raise money doing one of the not quite superfluous... uh... three ways of making money in the over-rated Animal Crossing... I haven't played nintendogs, but I am pretty sure that Tomagotchi was mainly played by my female friends when I was in middle school. Sorry, but not EVERY game that gets good reviews is actually good. I just don't think of those games as quality games, as much as I consider them nitch Japanese gayness.
Please don't quote sales either. I know, they are popular. So were New Kids on the Block.
The anti-FN activists, who had armed themselves with slogans, placards and weapons, leveled the digital buildings occupied by Front National.
So what was this then? I want to destroy virtual property, expecially if it can cause inconvenience to someone else.
You can destroy property in second life?
And I always thought that games sucked!
Maybe I was mistaken.
Tell your whiny little tramp to get a real job then. Or better yet, tell her to not be a tool to be used by people in their agendas of "safety". Or act like a man, and don't defend your girl-friend. Pussy whipped loser.
And stop over-reacting, you sound like a whiny little faggot.
I doubt you have a girlfriend, and if you do, I'd love to come to her store and whine about getting asked for my ID. Then I would whine about them being out of extra large condoms. Then i'd stick my dick in her vagina. Then you wouldn't have a girl-friend. Then you wouldn't bother the seniors on slashdot anymore with your ultimate bitchiness.
Oh... I'm sorry man... A girlfriend?
I didn't realize...
Guess that explains your anger and resentment. Girls are a lot better when you are NOT their boyfriend. Trust me. You don't hate WoW... you just can't afford it cause you just blew 500 on X-Mas, the fake person holiday.
"Indignant probably isn't the word that you're looking for. Perhaps you meant uncaring? I never implied that every WoW player is online every day, so I fail to see how your straw man argument has proved anything."
I never implied you did. You implied that I implied it, but I never did.
"capitalism dictates that it is up to you to decide if the downtime is worth your money."
What does that even mean?!
"Is your potential disappointment worth the monthly fee?"
I didn't realize I pay Blizzard FOR their potential dissapointment game. I'd say that is more what a girlfriend is.
"that's between me and her."
Nope. That's my cock.
I feel like at the end of a race I just fell down and crapped my pants...
Ding fries are done.
"It is actually this mentality that most likely causes the most complaining" Which mentality? Mine? It may cause the most disapointment, but it definately doesn't account for most of the "complaining", whatever that means. Are you saying that you are just constantly baraged by people complaining about Tuesday morning downtime on WoW? I think this is the first time I have EVER talked about it at all. Giving my opinion on a related story that comes around ONCE IN A LIFETIME... Yes, Blizzard had better change for me, CHANGE RIGHT NOW BLIZZARD! "People who play daily will almost welcome the forced breaks." Yeah, they almost welcome it, from their bedroom in their starwars pajamas (not that there is anything wrong with them!) and penny-arcade t-shirts while anxiously awaiting the time they call "The Return of WoW". What makes it exciting is they never know WHEN it is comming! "But people, like you, who do not play daily, believe the game should conform to your standards every minute of time you "grant" to playing the game." Yes... It is my very strong belief. Right up there with Jesus and EA sucking. Please don't say "grant", it isn't powerfull enought. You realize WoW exists, because ->I- allow it. "Despite what you may believe, this does not put priority on your playing time, it makes it even less important than those people who do play daily" Umm... Ok, so then what is your point? They changed the whole system of maintenance to conform to my low priority playing? Nice. Merry Christmas
"Huh? Of course people are constantly accessing all of Amazon's information." Which takes up much less space than WoW's. "Do you want to tell me which part of their service they can take offline for a few hours while no one is using it? Obviously they have redundancies, so they don't need downtime." Have you ever made a website? You probabaly have. If you haven't, I am sure you are capable of it. It's just not that difficult. Most of it is really easy to do when you get the hang of it. Have you ever built an MMO that can service six million people? One million? Five people? In a day in age where people have very high expectations out of their games this is not easy. It is a HUGE software undertaking. It is high risk too, since they pretty much have to service it if it doesn't work for at least SOME extended period of time. Weekly maintenance is not that big of a deal. They probably have TONS of different things that they can easily modulate in the software to make big gains in performance for the players on a week to week basis. They aren't just rebooting a computer because there is memory leaking everywhere. If you want to say that routine maintenance is evidence of "not perfect" design, i'll give you that. But bad design? Come on man, you are being silly and argumentative. It's like saying the pyramids are a poorly designed because they don't still look new. And don't say "but the pyramids don't require weekly reboots", because it wouldn't make any sense.
Blizzard has been very good about this stuff so far, there is no reason to think that they will be pulling the rug on players unannounced now. This is to make playing better for players, not worse.
... Warcraft: Races other than gnomes! ... Warcraft: Colors! ... Warcraft: Now in Stereo!
Blizzard isn't evil yet. They haven't released Warcraft '07, incomplete for xBox360 two years running at 60 dollars a pop. Nor have the released the an expansion pack every month... Warcraft: Weapons and things to fight with!
Yes, fuck EA Games, and the horse they rode in on. And Bethseda, and the horse THEY rode in on... That looks better than your horse... Since they purchased it online...
I'm sorry, but Blizzard having had to reboot the servers for 2 whole years now was very bad coding on Blizzard's part. Imagine if you had to reboot the servers at your job everyday? I doubt they would be around long.
I'm sorry, but whatever you just tried to write was just very bad writing on your part. Imagine if you had to make sense at your job everyday? I doubt THEY would be around long.
Who is they? Your job? You? The servers?
Blizzards job... well, they are not a person. The person doing the rebooting will probably be there until they quit. And I assure you, Blizzards servers have been around... longly.
Are you amazed that a company that is supporting a user base of six million can't do all the things that a company that supports a hundred thousand can't?
I am not amazed. Nor baffled.
Oh yeah... Eve is fucking stupid, and so are the life wastoids that play it. I have multiple girlfriends, and I played WoW. Eve is for nerds that don't have any interest in the real world. And faggy space cowboys. Waaaaahooooiiiiiiii! I have reached level 3 years, that is kickin ass lickin yo!
You seem very indignant about this whole thing...
You are basing your assumption on the fact that EVERYONE who plays WoW, plays every single day. Which I will prove false, right now.
I play WoW, occasionally, school and work, and now just work makes me have other things to do. There were several times in my life where I woke up on a tuesday morning, nothing to do, and looked forward to playing for a few hours, or maybe a marathon catchup session. Then you try to sign on and see that the servers are down. I always seemed to forget about it. And every time it was a dissapointment.
You can be dissapointed about something that you don't absolutely NEED to have.
Think about all the times girls don't want to have sex with you. You don't need it, do you? But it doesn't mean that it isn't dissapointing... Every time.
Amazon.com is very different than WoW...
And it says they require regular maintenance, I am sure Amazon require's regular maintenance too, it just doesn't require downtime because not everyone is constantly accessing all information. User computer's do not need to be upgraded either.
Not sure when self hating nerds started hating WoW, it is pretty much all of their wet dream. Orcs, elves, gnomes and in beautiful animated splendor. It is a social place for people too pale to talk to real humans, and on top of that it is one of the moder marvels of software engineering. If you compare it to any other MMO, it has been the most perfectly executed. Blizzard did one hell of a job with this one.
I guess that nerds hating on WoW is kind of like teenage girls hating on Christina Aguilerra.
Look at that seemless world, uh-hay-mc-glaaaaaaaven, it probably has no personality-tity, glaven.
Cameron: "I asked God, 'Why me?' 'Why this?'"
God: "Because YOU fell asleep on TRAIN TRACKS"
I am hoping that you are like me and check for replies well after the post...
First off, in car accidents where you can easily exit your car the G forces are too low to spill coffee? That is just blatantly wrong, I have spilled coffee in my car while coming to a quick stop, no accident. It doesn't take much speed or damage to knock a cup over, expecially if you are holding it between you legs. So please, correct yourself and please retract that absolutely absurd statement.
On to the more interesting point.
"Actually, the difference between 190 F burn time (About 1 second) and 140 F burn time (6 seconds) is not 1 second vs. never. It's only a difference of 5 seconds."
So I am not taking it as gospel, but I certainly do believe you. But that difference of five seconds doesn't require anyone to get out of their car and remove clothing. Liquid that is spread in a thin layer in atmosphere that is over a hudred degrees cooler will cool VERY quickly. One second later the tempeture is much lower, another second, much lower. Take a wash cloth, run it under as hot of water as you can stand. Take it out of the sink and put in on your face. It burns, now remove it for just one second and put it back, it is very comfortable, now put it back under the water as quickly as you can and put it back on your face, it burns again. Your face didn't get used to the temperature, at least not to discern the burning sensation from total comfort.
The bigger the difference between air and temperature the more dramatic this effect will be. If you have the ability to pull your clothes away from your body for just a moment this will ensure that you will not be burned. You will not be burned by a small film of water on the body, you have to be partially saturated for at least as long as the time it takes to do the damage.
So the difference between burning in 1 second and 5 seconds is EXACTLY what the problem is. If you STILL don't believe me then I guess you have to just try it to see for yourself. There is a huge difference. If the water is boiling you skin will seperate instantly. My roomate has a giant scar on his chest from when he dropped boiling water on his chest 15 years ago, his skin just fell right off. He was standing too, and wearing a T-Shirt, it happend instantly.
Can you hear me now? ...
Ok... How bout now?
Ok, Can someone please tell me about these incredible games? I really would love that explanation, because I hear it all the time, but I see no proof of it, and I would love my 500 dollar purchase vindicated.
I bought and xBox360 at launch, and it is technically a very good machine. I have had no problems or complaints with it's operation. It is loud, but not as loud as the volume I play at. It is sleek and looks cool where I have it. I like the controller more than any other controller to date (haven't played a Wii, played a PS3). The graphics are great and looks cool as hell on my high def TV. I can't wait to actually enjoy a game for more than 5 hours.
Fight Night was cool for awhile, about 5 hours. But single player mode is very repetative. I'll throw smackdown and the racing games under that category too. The racers are not as good as Gran Turismo for PS2 5 years ago, disapointing. I don't play online that much because everyone online is better than me, I am into consoles for the single player experiences for the most part. Not that I don't dabble in online play, I just think that consoles should offer games substantial enough to stand on their own.
So we have Gears, which is short and not in the same league as most FPS on the PC, not suprisingly. If I want to play online shooters, I will boot my computer and play one of the many awsome online games.
So what else is there? Why did I spend 500 dollars on a system that has given me probably less than 50 hours of enjoyment in a full year. WoW did many times that for about $180, game and subscription, which I no longer play.
And please don't try to sell me on rainbow six or any other FPSs, consoles are still behind PCs in those games, and since I have both, I excersise my better option %100 of the time. Oh yeah... and what the hell happend to Madden? How does EA skip over their big franchise title on the big new console two years running. They still haven't caught up to their PS2 offerings.
So when I think incredible games I think, Mario World, Half-Life, WoW, Warcraft, Oblivion (oh yeah, I forgot, that game is sweet! So sweet that I stopped playing it on xBox after about 10 hours and bought it for the PC, awsome decision), FF1-7 (haven't played 12 much yet, but I hear it is pretty good). I am a gamer, I love games, and I love being sucked into a great experience. So please, "incredible games", can you enlighten me?
Sucked in by Gears of War? Hope you enjoy all 8 hours of gameplay. That sucks.
Boiling water? If you touch boiling water to your mouth, you will have serious problems.
Speaking of...
What's the deal with Spore? Wasn't that game supposed to come out this year, now some places have its release date as late next year!
That is not cool.
Do you ever look at what you are writing, and while you are writing it, you realize that you are a fucking wuss bag faggot? Play super hello kitty suprise you overly emotional cunt and stop analyzing the motives behind a level60 warlock who has killed you eight times. You are playing a game where you are in a war against eachother, he is a mother fucking orc, he is fucking killing you, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPRISED?!
Leave your pussy elitist "high level brain" bullshit to the real world. Games are fucking games and if you are emotionally hurt for days over the loss of your character or some frustration, get a new fucking hobby; I hear knitting is pretty calming. Leave the aspiring real men to our hobbies without your smug mental judgements.
Analyze that.
it's ok, disc 3 was where it all went to shit...
disc one and two were the greatest of all time though! Woo Ha, got you all in check.
But it is riskier to bust on a guys face and then punch him in the head...