I'm certainly attending, though my efforts to rally my friends have been hampered by their SHE-DEVILS of girlfriends who all have plans for that day. Damn their icy hearts!
Seeing as these filters are so ridiculously easy to bypass, a major concern for me lately is how they'll be handling people who use these methods, especially since they have perfectly legitimate applications *besides* bypassing the filter.
As much as I hate telstra (WITH THE PASSION OF A THOUSAND THOUSAND DYING STARS) I have to admit their outright refusal to participate in the filter testing was pretty cool...
But yeah, they suckered my friend's technophobic mum into a broadband contract that cost her four times more than mine for about 1/100th of the usage.
Got a point there, I soloed all of those, but I'm a tanking and DPS specced death knight, and I wore my tanking gear and spammed my self-healing strike...
The "starving trolls" are undead scourge, the prisoner is part of a group that wants to kill every magic-user ever...
I'm not saying the expansion isn't darker than previously, just that most of the actions aren't all that evil on the grand scheme of things, y'know? The most outright evil were the death knight starter quests. Granted, I haven't done icecrown yet...
Regardless, most of these things shouldn't be an issue. It's a game, they're pixels. To quote a highly annoying show that my twelve-year-old sister won't. Stop. Watching.
Joey: "You didn't cry when Bambi's mom died?" Chandler: "Yes, it was so sad when the guy stopped drawing the deer."
[ddubb] if there is no local area ID found, drop the load data.
[ddubb] or, in code form:
[ddubb] if (!getLAid()) dropLoad();
[ddubb] line 525 of software that ships tomorrow.
[ddubb] my work here is done.
Stop posting this, seriously. Nobody has once said that there was never an artist with a totally good album, just the truth: the majority of them are complete shite. The only albums I have ever completely enjoyed were Santana's.
Doesn't work like that here in Australia. We have a cap set, and once we pass that cap, we get slowed, unless we're with one of the worse ISPs, in which case we pay a few hundred dollars a gigabyte extra. "Unlimited" doesn't exist, what it really means (according to advertisements) is you get 12GB and then you're slowed.
On the subject of such things, one reason I love my ISP, Internode, is that they mirror everything from linux distributions to game patches and clients that their customers can download unmetered.
I can't claim anything for America, but here in Australia, it seems pretty clear-cut to me. The media forces "American culture", which has absolute zero to do with us, onto the stupid teenagers, who are by far the majority.
So we've got Aboriginal kids acting like they're ghetto, not knowing any of the reasons behind that particular culture, and the average white female has become overly obsessed with their looks, gets tanned, shuns anything that requires or inspires thinking, and is... *shudder*... blonde. I hate blondes. Oh, and some of them say "like" a lot.
So basically we've got the kids who can't think for themselves, the media that forces this shit onto us, and the parents who help propagate this behaviour. And I find that most of the intelligent women I know couldn't care less about technology, they remain optimistic and want to get into a job where they can help people or animals, like a doctor or a veterinarian, instead of healthily cynicism and desiring a position that would give them adequate resources to DESTROY THE WORLD, AHAHAHA!
Math in high school is extremely tedious, at least here in NSW, Australia. The textbooks are all "solve so-and-so", "find x", etc. Give me something to stimulate my imagination! Instead of x, make me find space hampsters!
I couldn't stand PvP in WoW. It was a boring, repetitive grind full of idiots, moreso than the PvE content which I did not tire of so quickly, and arena was even worse (and I did well!). WAR's PvP may share some of the same mechanics but the experience as a whole is incredibly better. You couldn't pay me to go back to playing WoW's battlegrounds. I find the claim that they have "raised the bar" to be wholly inaccurate, if anything they've set the progress of MMO PvP back to the stoneage.
WAR is supposed to be about the open RvR but of course since players are too impatient that doesn't happen in the lower tiers like it did in beta when levelling didn't matter as much as fun...:(
Braid doesn't sell as well because people are shallow or haven't heard of it, and the Penny Arcade adventures, while of course fun, do not have very much replay value. The main problem, though, is people who aren't familiar with Penny Arcade are unlikely to buy it. I still felt happy with my purchase of the Penny Arcade games.
As for most puzzle games, what may be replay value to you is tedious to another. The majority of puzzle games I see are pretty bad, and the gems in the rough suffer less sales due to the reaction of a consumer used to lesser fare: "A puzzle game? Urgh."
As for price: I am Australian. New games cost me, within my country, AUD$100 or more! It's cheaper to import, though with the exchange rate as it is, not as cheap anymore, when our dollar was nearing parity with the US Dollar it was almost half price to buy outside the country! The cost of nearly anything technologically-related in this country disgusts me.
I would be happy to pay around AUD$75-ish for a new game, unless it was total crap, which many are turning out to be nowadays. Crysis was fun but wasn't worth the $99 I paid for it, Assassin's Creed was again fun but tedious after the first few hours of play and worth nowhere near the $99 I paid for it. Spore was fun, but again not worth the money. Gears of War, which I bought used (seeing as I can't find a new copy anywhere for a price that won't break the bank) was worth twice the $35 I paid for it, and I have enjoyed what I have played of it immensely. Fable II has been an excellent purchase, and I would have been happy to have paid more than the $75 I got it for, buying from India, although that would mean I wouldn't be playing it at all because alas, I am a student, and have no money for such frivolities.
For the price of the average new game, I can go and see 50 movies (ok, ok, because my friend works for the cinema), and yet they expect me to pay so much for something that will almost certainly turn out to be over-hyped garbage. It's amazing people buy games in this country at all since we're paying much more than the US for petrol, and practically everything else too!
(sorry, I have to joke to try to cheer up; 52% of California voters just annulled my marriage yesterday)
Allow me to offer you my sympathies and my assurance that once I do, in fact, rule the world with an iron fist, idiotic occurances like this will not happen.
Heh, the only sites located in Australia I visit are the occasional TV network / job site / council site. Everything else, including a large amount of sites operated by Australians, are located outside the US, because:
a) You need a registered business to have a.com.au address
b) Hosting within Australia costs a ridiculous amount of money, like anything to do with the internet in Australia
Now of course this is only speaking for myself, but the average internet user I know doesn't use many Australian sites at all, rather they use their facebook / myspace / other crappy social networking site, youtube, stuff like that.
While I'm all for writing my country off as a bunch of crooks, one of the real problems is, like in many places, religious fanatics of the non-explosive kind. And rabid intolerance.
The people aren't all that wonderful. I lived in Japan for a while, now there are some nice people. When I came back I was literally terrified of some of the people over here in Australia. XD
The majority of the people are essentially redneck hicks and so don't care about the internet. You can't even use the "They're taking away your porn!" line because they're stupid enough to pay big wads of money for porn, on their mobile phones no less!
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I'm certainly attending, though my efforts to rally my friends have been hampered by their SHE-DEVILS of girlfriends who all have plans for that day. Damn their icy hearts!
Seeing as these filters are so ridiculously easy to bypass, a major concern for me lately is how they'll be handling people who use these methods, especially since they have perfectly legitimate applications *besides* bypassing the filter.
As much as I hate telstra (WITH THE PASSION OF A THOUSAND THOUSAND DYING STARS) I have to admit their outright refusal to participate in the filter testing was pretty cool...
But yeah, they suckered my friend's technophobic mum into a broadband contract that cost her four times more than mine for about 1/100th of the usage.
Got a point there, I soloed all of those, but I'm a tanking and DPS specced death knight, and I wore my tanking gear and spammed my self-healing strike...
The "starving trolls" are undead scourge, the prisoner is part of a group that wants to kill every magic-user ever...
I'm not saying the expansion isn't darker than previously, just that most of the actions aren't all that evil on the grand scheme of things, y'know? The most outright evil were the death knight starter quests. Granted, I haven't done icecrown yet...
Regardless, most of these things shouldn't be an issue. It's a game, they're pixels. To quote a highly annoying show that my twelve-year-old sister won't. Stop. Watching.
Joey: "You didn't cry when Bambi's mom died?"
Chandler: "Yes, it was so sad when the guy stopped drawing the deer."
Yeah, we should all switch to Cuil!
Ah man, I crack myself up.
[ddubb] if there is no local area ID found, drop the load data.
[ddubb] or, in code form:
[ddubb] if (!getLAid()) dropLoad();
[ddubb] line 525 of software that ships tomorrow.
[ddubb] my work here is done.
I spend too much time on bash.org.
Stop posting this, seriously. Nobody has once said that there was never an artist with a totally good album, just the truth: the majority of them are complete shite. The only albums I have ever completely enjoyed were Santana's.
I'm fine with that as long as I get something out of it too, namely hardcore neanderthal girl-on-girl action.
Doesn't work like that here in Australia. We have a cap set, and once we pass that cap, we get slowed, unless we're with one of the worse ISPs, in which case we pay a few hundred dollars a gigabyte extra. "Unlimited" doesn't exist, what it really means (according to advertisements) is you get 12GB and then you're slowed.
On the subject of such things, one reason I love my ISP, Internode, is that they mirror everything from linux distributions to game patches and clients that their customers can download unmetered.
I just heard an ad for a "massive" 3GB. Suffice it to say that if you go over the limit on that one, you're going to be paying through the nose.
Comparing copyright infringement to murder - are you an **AA employee?
I can't claim anything for America, but here in Australia, it seems pretty clear-cut to me. The media forces "American culture", which has absolute zero to do with us, onto the stupid teenagers, who are by far the majority.
So we've got Aboriginal kids acting like they're ghetto, not knowing any of the reasons behind that particular culture, and the average white female has become overly obsessed with their looks, gets tanned, shuns anything that requires or inspires thinking, and is... *shudder*... blonde. I hate blondes. Oh, and some of them say "like" a lot.
So basically we've got the kids who can't think for themselves, the media that forces this shit onto us, and the parents who help propagate this behaviour. And I find that most of the intelligent women I know couldn't care less about technology, they remain optimistic and want to get into a job where they can help people or animals, like a doctor or a veterinarian, instead of healthily cynicism and desiring a position that would give them adequate resources to DESTROY THE WORLD, AHAHAHA!
Ahem.
Math in high school is extremely tedious, at least here in NSW, Australia. The textbooks are all "solve so-and-so", "find x", etc. Give me something to stimulate my imagination! Instead of x, make me find space hampsters!
When I read the title, I was sure it was related to some new delay to DNF. -_-
I couldn't stand PvP in WoW. It was a boring, repetitive grind full of idiots, moreso than the PvE content which I did not tire of so quickly, and arena was even worse (and I did well!). WAR's PvP may share some of the same mechanics but the experience as a whole is incredibly better. You couldn't pay me to go back to playing WoW's battlegrounds. I find the claim that they have "raised the bar" to be wholly inaccurate, if anything they've set the progress of MMO PvP back to the stoneage.
:(
WAR is supposed to be about the open RvR but of course since players are too impatient that doesn't happen in the lower tiers like it did in beta when levelling didn't matter as much as fun...
Braid doesn't sell as well because people are shallow or haven't heard of it, and the Penny Arcade adventures, while of course fun, do not have very much replay value. The main problem, though, is people who aren't familiar with Penny Arcade are unlikely to buy it. I still felt happy with my purchase of the Penny Arcade games.
As for most puzzle games, what may be replay value to you is tedious to another. The majority of puzzle games I see are pretty bad, and the gems in the rough suffer less sales due to the reaction of a consumer used to lesser fare: "A puzzle game? Urgh."
As for price: I am Australian. New games cost me, within my country, AUD$100 or more! It's cheaper to import, though with the exchange rate as it is, not as cheap anymore, when our dollar was nearing parity with the US Dollar it was almost half price to buy outside the country! The cost of nearly anything technologically-related in this country disgusts me.
I would be happy to pay around AUD$75-ish for a new game, unless it was total crap, which many are turning out to be nowadays. Crysis was fun but wasn't worth the $99 I paid for it, Assassin's Creed was again fun but tedious after the first few hours of play and worth nowhere near the $99 I paid for it. Spore was fun, but again not worth the money. Gears of War, which I bought used (seeing as I can't find a new copy anywhere for a price that won't break the bank) was worth twice the $35 I paid for it, and I have enjoyed what I have played of it immensely. Fable II has been an excellent purchase, and I would have been happy to have paid more than the $75 I got it for, buying from India, although that would mean I wouldn't be playing it at all because alas, I am a student, and have no money for such frivolities.
For the price of the average new game, I can go and see 50 movies (ok, ok, because my friend works for the cinema), and yet they expect me to pay so much for something that will almost certainly turn out to be over-hyped garbage. It's amazing people buy games in this country at all since we're paying much more than the US for petrol, and practically everything else too!
That's because those games suck. No price will guarantee great sales for a shitty game.
(sorry, I have to joke to try to cheer up; 52% of California voters just annulled my marriage yesterday)
Allow me to offer you my sympathies and my assurance that once I do, in fact, rule the world with an iron fist, idiotic occurances like this will not happen.
My many times great uncle was a horse thief. Horses have never liked me very much. XD
Heh, the only sites located in Australia I visit are the occasional TV network / job site / council site. Everything else, including a large amount of sites operated by Australians, are located outside the US, because:
.com.au address
a) You need a registered business to have a
b) Hosting within Australia costs a ridiculous amount of money, like anything to do with the internet in Australia
Now of course this is only speaking for myself, but the average internet user I know doesn't use many Australian sites at all, rather they use their facebook / myspace / other crappy social networking site, youtube, stuff like that.
I asked a NAB employee about that, and he said, I quote:
"The National Australia Bank has no comment on this issue."
The plot thickens.
Hee hee, penal.
While I'm all for writing my country off as a bunch of crooks, one of the real problems is, like in many places, religious fanatics of the non-explosive kind. And rabid intolerance.
Both the major parties support this, and Labor is so far the lesser of two evils.
The people aren't all that wonderful. I lived in Japan for a while, now there are some nice people. When I came back I was literally terrified of some of the people over here in Australia. XD
The majority of the people are essentially redneck hicks and so don't care about the internet. You can't even use the "They're taking away your porn!" line because they're stupid enough to pay big wads of money for porn, on their mobile phones no less!
Well, I'm half portuguese, and I'm resisting it. My friend is half italian, and he's resisting it. Another is dutch by blood, she's resisting it...
All the anglo-saxons I know either don't know about the filter or don't care.