Are you on crack? You can't really pirate World of Warcraft, unless you're playing on a pirate server. And those aren't too popular, and difficult to set up, so most people just pay.
If we didn't have the ballistic defense system, then a ballistic attack would work. If we have the ballistic defense system, opponents are less likely to attempt a ballistic attack. It's effectively a deterrent, so that now we can focus on the problems you've brought up. If all we did was address the problems you brought up then our solution would be "obsolete" because they would just fire a missile at us. Don't confuse something that's a deterrent with something that's useless: we have to defend against every angle of attack, or none of it is worth anything.
Even if every couple just had 1-2 kids, you'd still see a positive birth rate. You can make a kid with a partner and feel like you're reducing our numbers... but that kid could easily have 1-3 kids in your lifetime, so now it's like you've made 2-4. And many people live long enough to see their grandchildren, and sometimes even their great-grandchildren.
While it's true that wealthier, better educated people tend to breed less, there's still way too much breeding going on around here.
They don't have anything in trade. Why should we give food away? That would just be ENCOURAGING the problem as I've already outlined it: mindless breeding for selfish reasons. We need to curb that. But wouldn't it be nice if everyone could just AGREE to do it, instead of suffering through massive worldwide famine and war? Why does everybody think famine and war is necessary? That's what we're trying to avoid... the simple solution is to stop breeding. And I can't abide by anyone who doesn't by volunteering to support their nonproductive family with free food.
Rats DO drive each other to starvation when their numbers exceed what the ecosystem can support
Yeah, but they're not on top of the food chain. That's why. We are actually in control of our outcomes... continuing to breed mindlessly and saying "ah, it'll take care of itself" degrades the quality of life for everyone, and it's tantamount to driving down the highway at 90mph with no hands on the wheel, in a car with no brakes, saying "ah, don't worry, we can't keep going at this rate forever, we'll slow down eventually. There's no problem!"
We should instead use our time for other things... but I can't think of what just now.
Like what, fucking without condoms? Oh wait, that's what got us into this discussion in the first place.
Seriously, the overpopulation problem is a simple one to solve. People are just stupid.
I think you're both way off base. Riddle me this, are alcoholics ("drug users") typically car thieves, muggers and burglars? Or do they hold down normal, productive jobs in society in order to pay for their habit?
Yeah, but rats aren't faced with the issue of driving each other to starvation, and they don't have the intellect to stop and think "hey, what if we decided to reduce our numbers?"
Look, I'm with you in that I'm an agnostic, amoral nihilist; you're right, the human race isn't a "big deal." But you must also come to grips with the fact that you are a human, and therefore, as the biological system ("animal") that you are, you must be concerned with your own outcomes.
The ideas over at VHEMT.org make a lot of sense. Acknowledging that there could be a massive world starvation/war/whatever in the future, and blindly hurtling toward it while saying that it's inevitable... what if we could do something to stop it? Something simple?
Wouldn't that be preferable? You're right, humans need to get over the idea that they're special ("God's creation," etc.), but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to improve things for ourselves.
The realization that you aren't special shouldn't lead to you hanging yourself by a noose in your bedroom. You just get over it and better yourself.
And I don't know about you, but a massive "population control mechanism" like starvation and war is essentially a life-or-death roulette wheel; I don't know about you, but I don't want to spin that wheel. I'd rather keep everybody happy instead of risk martial combat and strife over limited resources. I'm not a gambler, y'know? Because I'm an animal.
In short, yes we're animals, and that's exactly why we should be concerned about this.
I think that most people suggesting that there will be an overpopulation problem are starting with the inherent assumption that starvation/overcrowding/war would be the problem. So basically you've just said that the problem won't be a problem. Brilliant.
There's something you're overlooking -- neither Youtube.com nor Google Video allow the posting of porn. Yahoo! does, making it one of the few mainstream providers who do. After that you have specialty niche sites like redtube.com and pornhub.com.
Maybe Microsoft wants to get into cataloging porn? lulz.
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It wasn't done because they thought it made a good ranking system or business model. It was a psychology study about social influence and whether or not songs have "objective" quality. Get a clue.
Becausing Cooking Mama is targeted towards children. They figure that adults are already so jaded that they're either going to love PETA or hate it, and they've already made up their minds; children, on the other hand, are more impressionable. PETA also once published some short comic books featuring "mommy" and "daddy" gleefully and sadistically slaughtering animals in order to make fur coats and cook up some live trout, respectively.
P.S. Your weapon skill doesn't affect aiming outside of VATS, just damage values. So you can basically blow as many rounds as you like outside of VATS, if your aim is good they'll all land on the target, and then when your opponent gets close to you you can trigger VATS mode to fire some more shots (even if you have just 1 agility), which also includes the damage reduction benefit to you. Basically, your character is inherently a superhero because other people don't have damage reduction during VATS, and the character's statistics are only LOOSELY correlated with his abilities. You just have so much more inherent power than the other characters; not to mention that you get perks out the ass, NPCs get none, and all of the perks are way, way more powerful than they were in the old games. It's more of an action game than an RPG. This is coming from someone who originally had a positive opinion of Fallout 3, sunk many, many hours into it, and then decided that Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 were both far, far superior.
The point is that you're a smug, snarky bastard. Obviously some people have had more time to play the game in the past month than others, so the "short attention span" stab is just that: a stab. And you know it. Yeah, I probably blew off a little too much of my Calculus class to play Fallout 3 when it was released... so what? We've been waiting in vain for 10 years for the sequel to hit the shelves.
VATS ruins what could have been an RPG. Also, here's a citation for the fact that VATS does have some bullshit damage reduction attached to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCPVCYspxtQ . If you start experimenting inside of your own game, you'll suddenly realize that there is significant DR in VATS. I routinely survived nuclear car explosions simply by being in VATS mode when the explosion happened (and yet they still blew my opponents to bits). I saw a mod once that fixed the issue; I'd provide the link but I can't seem to find it again in any reasonable amount of time.
In fact, you HAD to use your action points, for both kinds of actions, ALWAYS. Making a truly interesting and balanced strategy game. Fallout 3 is some bullshit fast-paced, action-packed arcade shoot 'em up game with a skeleton RPG attached to it.
Because Fallout 2 had a very in-depth unarmed combat system, with the option of switching between punches and kicks, new moves as your unarmed skill increases, and a smorgasbord of unarmed combat perks. Also in Fallout 2, you could do targeted shots with unarmed attacks; blinding a guy with a karate chop to the eyes never got old.
Especially because, in Fallout 2, perception was used to determine ranged combat distance modifiers, and blindness reduced your perception to 1. This meant that blinded characters had exceptionally low % chances to hit anyone with a firearm. Additionally, blinded characters often stopped fighting altogether and ran away. Now, if you used sneak to ambush someone, you could potentially blind this adversary with your eye-gouging karate chop before they even had a chance to get a single shot off.
However, I did have fun as a melee character in Fallout 3. It's all about the deathclaw gauntlet and the shiskebab.
The game by Bethesda has been out for slightly less than a month [wikipedia.org], so either you fell through a time warp, you are aging superfast, or you have a very low attention span.
So far (with something like 30 hours of gameplay on a single character and only halfway through the main quest)
No, he just put more time into it than you did. I had nearly 120 hours dumped into the game by the end of the 2nd or 3rd week. So yeah, it was "awhile ago." We've basically seen everything Fallout 3 has to offer by now. You're just slow.
They fucked the combat. Did you ever play the first two games? Basically, they should have used action points, VATS is not an RPG. VATS is a fucking band-aid for their failure to make a game with balance and real character design trade-offs. Without action points (as they were originally implemented), agility is meaningless. Without action points, tabbing into the Pipboy for a full-health dose of stimpacks is way too easy, and I can make an agility 1 character and still shoot as rapidly as I like during real-time. And you shouldn't be able to squeeze off a ton of rounds in real-time, and then go into VATS and shoot MORE. VATS is a fucking overpowered slow-mo bullshit mode only given to the player, making a terrible, non-RPG-like action game. Did you know you only take 10% damage in VATS? I bet you didn't.
You're obviously a fucking idiot, and a child. You assume that Fallout 3 is the pinnacle of RPG gameplay, and that someone criticizing it was thinking of W.O.W. instead? What, were you still in the fucking womb when Fallout 1 and 2 came out? They were way better than Fallout 3, and way better than fucking W.O.W., you god damned toddler. If Fallout 3 and W.O.W. are the only two RPGs you know, you don't know what a fucking RPG is.
No, just no. They fucked the combat system. It should have used action points; instead, I can make a character with 1 agility and shoot as wildly and rapidly in real-time mode as I want. Then no matter how much I've been shooting, I can ALWAYS tab into the Pipboy at a moment's notice (no action point expenditure) and take 1-25 stimpacks to get to full health. Did you even PLAY the first two fucking games? Fallout 3: better than Oblivion, fun game, shitty Fallout sequel.
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So you're worried about not being able to use online authentication to validate games you downloaded online. Brilliant.
The fact that they can axe your account is lame, but if they were in the habit of doing so participation in their service would quickly decline.
Are you on crack? You can't really pirate World of Warcraft, unless you're playing on a pirate server. And those aren't too popular, and difficult to set up, so most people just pay.
If we didn't have the ballistic defense system, then a ballistic attack would work. If we have the ballistic defense system, opponents are less likely to attempt a ballistic attack. It's effectively a deterrent, so that now we can focus on the problems you've brought up. If all we did was address the problems you brought up then our solution would be "obsolete" because they would just fire a missile at us. Don't confuse something that's a deterrent with something that's useless: we have to defend against every angle of attack, or none of it is worth anything.
Yeah, that "back" button on your browser takes just a little too much effort to click on, huh?
a viable way to stop 'unwanted content' from reaching users
I have a viable way for users to stop unwanted content. Don't open it!
Sheesh, that was easy.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's not you wanted? Did you mean that you wanted censorship?
Then we're talking about stopping wanted content from reaching users.
Man, fuck the man.
Don't worry - the skills of a politician are only two: getting elected, and knowing who to delegate work to.
This will promptly be handed off to their brightest scientists. Or maybe they'll just throw grant money at the guys who proposed the problem.
"We're all out of cake, sir."
Even if every couple just had 1-2 kids, you'd still see a positive birth rate. You can make a kid with a partner and feel like you're reducing our numbers ... but that kid could easily have 1-3 kids in your lifetime, so now it's like you've made 2-4. And many people live long enough to see their grandchildren, and sometimes even their great-grandchildren.
While it's true that wealthier, better educated people tend to breed less, there's still way too much breeding going on around here.
They don't have anything in trade. Why should we give food away? That would just be ENCOURAGING the problem as I've already outlined it: mindless breeding for selfish reasons. We need to curb that. But wouldn't it be nice if everyone could just AGREE to do it, instead of suffering through massive worldwide famine and war? Why does everybody think famine and war is necessary? That's what we're trying to avoid ... the simple solution is to stop breeding. And I can't abide by anyone who doesn't by volunteering to support their nonproductive family with free food.
Seriously. Most alcoholics are functional and hold down jobs, they aren't looters.
Rats DO drive each other to starvation when their numbers exceed what the ecosystem can support
Yeah, but they're not on top of the food chain. That's why. We are actually in control of our outcomes ... continuing to breed mindlessly and saying "ah, it'll take care of itself" degrades the quality of life for everyone, and it's tantamount to driving down the highway at 90mph with no hands on the wheel, in a car with no brakes, saying "ah, don't worry, we can't keep going at this rate forever, we'll slow down eventually. There's no problem!"
We should instead use our time for other things ... but I can't think of what just now.
Like what, fucking without condoms? Oh wait, that's what got us into this discussion in the first place.
Seriously, the overpopulation problem is a simple one to solve. People are just stupid.
I think you're both way off base. Riddle me this, are alcoholics ("drug users") typically car thieves, muggers and burglars? Or do they hold down normal, productive jobs in society in order to pay for their habit?
Yeah, but rats aren't faced with the issue of driving each other to starvation, and they don't have the intellect to stop and think "hey, what if we decided to reduce our numbers?"
Look, I'm with you in that I'm an agnostic, amoral nihilist; you're right, the human race isn't a "big deal." But you must also come to grips with the fact that you are a human, and therefore, as the biological system ("animal") that you are, you must be concerned with your own outcomes.
The ideas over at VHEMT.org make a lot of sense. Acknowledging that there could be a massive world starvation/war/whatever in the future, and blindly hurtling toward it while saying that it's inevitable ... what if we could do something to stop it? Something simple?
Wouldn't that be preferable? You're right, humans need to get over the idea that they're special ("God's creation," etc.), but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to improve things for ourselves.
The realization that you aren't special shouldn't lead to you hanging yourself by a noose in your bedroom. You just get over it and better yourself.
And I don't know about you, but a massive "population control mechanism" like starvation and war is essentially a life-or-death roulette wheel; I don't know about you, but I don't want to spin that wheel. I'd rather keep everybody happy instead of risk martial combat and strife over limited resources. I'm not a gambler, y'know? Because I'm an animal.
In short, yes we're animals, and that's exactly why we should be concerned about this.
I think that most people suggesting that there will be an overpopulation problem are starting with the inherent assumption that starvation/overcrowding/war would be the problem. So basically you've just said that the problem won't be a problem. Brilliant.
There's something you're overlooking -- neither Youtube.com nor Google Video allow the posting of porn. Yahoo! does, making it one of the few mainstream providers who do. After that you have specialty niche sites like redtube.com and pornhub.com.
Maybe Microsoft wants to get into cataloging porn? lulz.
It wasn't done because they thought it made a good ranking system or business model. It was a psychology study about social influence and whether or not songs have "objective" quality. Get a clue.
Becausing Cooking Mama is targeted towards children. They figure that adults are already so jaded that they're either going to love PETA or hate it, and they've already made up their minds; children, on the other hand, are more impressionable. PETA also once published some short comic books featuring "mommy" and "daddy" gleefully and sadistically slaughtering animals in order to make fur coats and cook up some live trout, respectively.
P.S. Your weapon skill doesn't affect aiming outside of VATS, just damage values. So you can basically blow as many rounds as you like outside of VATS, if your aim is good they'll all land on the target, and then when your opponent gets close to you you can trigger VATS mode to fire some more shots (even if you have just 1 agility), which also includes the damage reduction benefit to you. Basically, your character is inherently a superhero because other people don't have damage reduction during VATS, and the character's statistics are only LOOSELY correlated with his abilities. You just have so much more inherent power than the other characters; not to mention that you get perks out the ass, NPCs get none, and all of the perks are way, way more powerful than they were in the old games. It's more of an action game than an RPG. This is coming from someone who originally had a positive opinion of Fallout 3, sunk many, many hours into it, and then decided that Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 were both far, far superior.
The point is that you're a smug, snarky bastard. Obviously some people have had more time to play the game in the past month than others, so the "short attention span" stab is just that: a stab. And you know it. Yeah, I probably blew off a little too much of my Calculus class to play Fallout 3 when it was released ... so what? We've been waiting in vain for 10 years for the sequel to hit the shelves.
VATS ruins what could have been an RPG. Also, here's a citation for the fact that VATS does have some bullshit damage reduction attached to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCPVCYspxtQ . If you start experimenting inside of your own game, you'll suddenly realize that there is significant DR in VATS. I routinely survived nuclear car explosions simply by being in VATS mode when the explosion happened (and yet they still blew my opponents to bits). I saw a mod once that fixed the issue; I'd provide the link but I can't seem to find it again in any reasonable amount of time.
In fact, you HAD to use your action points, for both kinds of actions, ALWAYS. Making a truly interesting and balanced strategy game. Fallout 3 is some bullshit fast-paced, action-packed arcade shoot 'em up game with a skeleton RPG attached to it.
And why would anyone expect it to be?
Because Fallout 2 had a very in-depth unarmed combat system, with the option of switching between punches and kicks, new moves as your unarmed skill increases, and a smorgasbord of unarmed combat perks. Also in Fallout 2, you could do targeted shots with unarmed attacks; blinding a guy with a karate chop to the eyes never got old.
Especially because, in Fallout 2, perception was used to determine ranged combat distance modifiers, and blindness reduced your perception to 1. This meant that blinded characters had exceptionally low % chances to hit anyone with a firearm. Additionally, blinded characters often stopped fighting altogether and ran away. Now, if you used sneak to ambush someone, you could potentially blind this adversary with your eye-gouging karate chop before they even had a chance to get a single shot off.
However, I did have fun as a melee character in Fallout 3. It's all about the deathclaw gauntlet and the shiskebab.
The game by Bethesda has been out for slightly less than a month [wikipedia.org], so either you fell through a time warp, you are aging superfast, or you have a very low attention span.
So far (with something like 30 hours of gameplay on a single character and only halfway through the main quest)
No, he just put more time into it than you did. I had nearly 120 hours dumped into the game by the end of the 2nd or 3rd week. So yeah, it was "awhile ago." We've basically seen everything Fallout 3 has to offer by now. You're just slow.
They fucked the combat. Did you ever play the first two games? Basically, they should have used action points, VATS is not an RPG. VATS is a fucking band-aid for their failure to make a game with balance and real character design trade-offs. Without action points (as they were originally implemented), agility is meaningless. Without action points, tabbing into the Pipboy for a full-health dose of stimpacks is way too easy, and I can make an agility 1 character and still shoot as rapidly as I like during real-time. And you shouldn't be able to squeeze off a ton of rounds in real-time, and then go into VATS and shoot MORE. VATS is a fucking overpowered slow-mo bullshit mode only given to the player, making a terrible, non-RPG-like action game. Did you know you only take 10% damage in VATS? I bet you didn't.
You're obviously a fucking idiot, and a child. You assume that Fallout 3 is the pinnacle of RPG gameplay, and that someone criticizing it was thinking of W.O.W. instead? What, were you still in the fucking womb when Fallout 1 and 2 came out? They were way better than Fallout 3, and way better than fucking W.O.W., you god damned toddler. If Fallout 3 and W.O.W. are the only two RPGs you know, you don't know what a fucking RPG is.
Eat shit.
No, just no. They fucked the combat system. It should have used action points; instead, I can make a character with 1 agility and shoot as wildly and rapidly in real-time mode as I want. Then no matter how much I've been shooting, I can ALWAYS tab into the Pipboy at a moment's notice (no action point expenditure) and take 1-25 stimpacks to get to full health. Did you even PLAY the first two fucking games? Fallout 3: better than Oblivion, fun game, shitty Fallout sequel.