Santa stole my boobies (comic from/gu it is SFW so long as your boss doesn't mind you reading comics, click back a few days if you honestly want to get the joke)
1) They can only spread it so far, admitedly with the going price of gold on IGE (well known gold sellers) it looks like they need to sell 100 GP a month to support between 2 and 5 accounts ($30-$80 for 100gp looks like a going rate), pluss the set up fee for the CD Keys for each acocunt. Also remember that I said account, not player. People do not transfer GP via mail to random other accoutns that often, and they would have to have a larger then normal amount of these transfers.
2) They DO keep chat logs, how else do you think they check reports of harrasment?
3) I havn't seen this spam filter, but I have been outta the game for a month:P
4) Most of those people were probably cheating (Fishbot, glider, etc), not gold sellers. If they banned that many gold sellers/farmers I would expect to see Gp selling for alot more then $30 on a medium pop server (frostmane, where I used to play).
And there is the other note: miscreant behavior. Farmer accounts are doing nothing wrong (unless they are botting)
including the first one, wich leads me to think the mod agrees and is simply saying those posts are "no, duh" type posts.
cmon, its a joke, laugh!
(admitedly I was going to make a fake moon landing joke as well, but as it has already been beaten into the ground, I am gona have to pass, wich obviously opens me up to a "you must be new here" comment, and shortly there after we should see a "In soviet russi, moon dust fakes you!", and a "I for one welcome our new fake-moondust-overlords". Oh, and don't for get the "I make fake moon dust you insensitive clod!")
For a large number of us the concept of putting a man on the moon (let alone in space) is practicaly pedestrian, as opposed to in the 60s when it was a truely amazing (and NEW) thing.
I grew up with the knowledge that space flight, and going to the moon were things we have done, and we did them a LONG (to a 7yr old) time ago.
I for one still am interested in what we are doing in space (I am 23, just for ref), however it isn't the type of thing that it was when we first started.
Now most of us are more interested in what is happening at home (Earth), and understandign that better.
I kinda doubt that they would need to do anything like that (and I hope they do not as it would create a large number of false posatives).
If they wanted to rid themselfs of gold sellers I bet they could. The way(s) I would go about it are: 1) Watch accounts that tend to transfer gold around alot (specificly where they tend to transfer to large numbers of people, and rarely, if ever, recieve items back). 2) Pull chat logs on these watched accounts. 3) Create a search that will find common strings related to the sellign of gold. 4) Start dropping the banhammer.
Now, why don't they do this? To many of their customers like the ability to just buy gold, and they really would tick of a very large user base (as well as lose the profit from the large numbers of accounts that the farmers have). It just isn't proffitable for them to ban em.
People will ofcourse bring up the peopel that quit over thigns they don't like in a game, the only problem there is that there is no OBVIOUS direct effect of farmers, the only thing you are likely to see are inflated prices of items in the AH, as opposed to cheats that let you do blatently wrong things.
I honestly dont' have much against the gold farmers themselfs, and I do feel bad about the people injured and those stuck with out communication, however I have to laugh at the tools that make this all possible, the people BUYING the gold.
Hey, "every one" complains about goldfarmers destroying the ingame economy, etc etc. however they wouldn't be able to DO that if it wasn't for the people buyign off of them.
and for those tools stuck with out their gold, I simply laugh at them:)
(note everything in here is my oppinion and is obviously subject to exeptions)
The keys to a licensed RPG being worth anythign are these:
1) Starting with a large, well developed, world (universe in this case, I know nothing about BSG as I havn't watched TV in years, so I can't comment).
2) Fleshing out stats and mechanics that will make the gameplay (be it combat, interaction, space flight, technology, etc) FIT with the feel of the original.
3) The ability to remove your players from the main story line.
4) The ability to create adventures in the world, that feel like they came form the show, with out destroyign canon.
5) A clearly defined time/space that your game takes place in (Is this pre/post *** important event? Will the PCs know about said event?)
3&4 are a mix between the DM's skill and how the sourcebooks are put together.
3 is obvoiusly where most poeple will have issues also, everyone wants to be PART of the story, but that is next to impossible in most cases, especialy as the people who are likely to be playing these games are fans of the show, and thus all have differing oppinions on just WHAT is correct, what should/should not happen, etc etc. It is alot easier to ignore canon in a game like Shadowrun or DnD as most people are not THAT fammiliar with the specifics of the world.
An exelent example of this is looking through the StarWars books/RPGs/video games (I am ignoring the games that are just clones of the movies in this case). They stick to how the world works. They tend to stay away from the main plots, or focus on the effects of the main plot with out trying to mess with them. Even when they come up with new creatures/races, they fit in with the SW universe.
As I have been outa the loop on PnP for a little while (ending around the start of DnD3.5 for a time frame). Was the Serenity RPG D20? if not what was it? if so how were the mechanics changed?
(I am actualy a junky for game mechanics, and love playign around with as many different types as possible).
just have some way for the creatures to develope based on what problems they encountered. No it would not be "real" evoloution, but it would be awsome to watch.
Actualy TF2 is currently slated for release with HL2:EP2 (I think that has a 2nd quarter '07 date, but I don't remember atm).
The original TF2 was scrapped around the same time as HL2 started dev, but that was because they just compleatly restarted the project based on Source.
heh, all the GS stores I check had the Wiis OFF, and atleast one specificly did not have anything running in the machine (to discurage peopel from playign with it).
If I want to play with a Wii, I can head over to the Nintendo World Store at rockafeller and play there, or just head uptown to a friend's appartment:P
It really is that I have not actualy gotten to see a PS3 in action yet, and I still would like to. I am contimplaing droping by at a large best buy and see if they have em up (As well as playign some GH2...)
# Over 75 games based in the MegaMan universe, and 12 games featuring MegaMan universe character cameos. # Over 50 games based in the Star Wars universe. # Mario has appeared in 58 different video games.
Gears seems to be getting good or great reviews all around (that including word of mouth from friends, as well as websites).
As for the laptops? meh. Rather standard fare, you give your product to those people that are likely to review it. Giving it to bloggers is no different in my mind.
It is up to the blogger to be moral about it or not.
heh, to me the demos freezing up is not news, mainly because everysingle demo unit in NYC seems to be OFF! (PS3 and Wii, some 360 ones are on) Sure, some of the larger BB will have them on, but if you poke around in EB/GS you will almost never find a workign demo unit (and if it is "working" the controllers are either not there or unattached).
grumblegrumble
I actualy wanted to test out the PS3, it should LOOK awsome, and I would love to see that, note, big difference between wanting to experiance and being willing to shell out the $1K+ I would need to (new television, PS3, game, cables, etc), but hey, if you got the cash, no reason not to.
There is a difference between rebooting and freezing and needing to be manualy reset.
Auto rebooting after 5 mins is an ok idea. Ok, not great.
Locking up so that a clerk has to come over, unlock the disply, reset it, and fire it up for the next customer, is bloody stupid.
An actual idea? DEMOS!
You want to showcase your nifty new games on your nifty new console? Have one of your pogramers make you a friken demo, containing one level (or what ever, we KNOW how to make demos now, don't we?) of the actual retail game.
Thank you for pointing this out as no one is gona RTFA;)
Seriously, it was a random rep, in a random EB games. Reps lie, that is all they do. Anythign a rep says is a lie. Remember this and you will be much better off. (I will admit, this is all simply personal experiance in working in retail, and I am including sales staff ofr retail stores as reps. They all lie also.)
You must be one with the flow of trafic, do not seperate your self from it, instead you must immerse yourself into the flow.
heh.
You are ofcourse 100% correct. And as for breakign speed limits? If you are movign at the speed of trafic, then tere is no way for you to be caught speeding anyway. A speedtrap will start tagging people who are further foward in the pack then you are (thus they are the ones settign the speed of the pack), and people will notice them getting pulled over and/or the cop cars sitting there and start to slow down (and so will you, as you arem ovign with the speed of traffic).
Actualy it was only the stations that were going to be wired, and alot of those are already close enough to the surface (excluding stops like rosevelt island) that you can still get service.
As for the subway being a safe haven from blathering idiots, I would say that there are pleanty of them with out celphones, including cell reception would not change much. Then again, I do live near the arse end of the 7 and probably am just used to people being on their cells anyway...
I think they just used the grant money to buy a mess of old SF Books and sit around reading them.
From what I know of the field of AI the concept of a selfaware program is still rather far off. This is assuming we ever actualy decide to MAKE a program capable of this. After all, the SF geeks out there have had the concept of an intelegent (and generaly malicious) AI ground into our brains so often that we would probably all support the 3(4) laws.
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Santa stole my boobies (comic from /gu it is SFW so long as your boss doesn't mind you reading comics, click back a few days if you honestly want to get the joke)
1) They can only spread it so far, admitedly with the going price of gold on IGE (well known gold sellers) it looks like they need to sell 100 GP a month to support between 2 and 5 accounts ($30-$80 for 100gp looks like a going rate), pluss the set up fee for the CD Keys for each acocunt. Also remember that I said account, not player. People do not transfer GP via mail to random other accoutns that often, and they would have to have a larger then normal amount of these transfers.
:P
2) They DO keep chat logs, how else do you think they check reports of harrasment?
3) I havn't seen this spam filter, but I have been outta the game for a month
4) Most of those people were probably cheating (Fishbot, glider, etc), not gold sellers. If they banned that many gold sellers/farmers I would expect to see Gp selling for alot more then $30 on a medium pop server (frostmane, where I used to play).
And there is the other note:
miscreant behavior. Farmer accounts are doing nothing wrong (unless they are botting)
and some one moded them all "Redundent"...
including the first one, wich leads me to think the mod agrees and is simply saying those posts are "no, duh" type posts.
cmon, its a joke, laugh!
(admitedly I was going to make a fake moon landing joke as well, but as it has already been beaten into the ground, I am gona have to pass, wich obviously opens me up to a "you must be new here" comment, and shortly there after we should see a "In soviet russi, moon dust fakes you!", and a "I for one welcome our new fake-moondust-overlords". Oh, and don't for get the "I make fake moon dust you insensitive clod!")
sigh....
That is the nail!
For a large number of us the concept of putting a man on the moon (let alone in space) is practicaly pedestrian, as opposed to in the 60s when it was a truely amazing (and NEW) thing.
I grew up with the knowledge that space flight, and going to the moon were things we have done, and we did them a LONG (to a 7yr old) time ago.
I for one still am interested in what we are doing in space (I am 23, just for ref), however it isn't the type of thing that it was when we first started.
Now most of us are more interested in what is happening at home (Earth), and understandign that better.
I kinda doubt that they would need to do anything like that (and I hope they do not as it would create a large number of false posatives).
If they wanted to rid themselfs of gold sellers I bet they could. The way(s) I would go about it are:
1) Watch accounts that tend to transfer gold around alot (specificly where they tend to transfer to large numbers of people, and rarely, if ever, recieve items back).
2) Pull chat logs on these watched accounts.
3) Create a search that will find common strings related to the sellign of gold.
4) Start dropping the banhammer.
Now, why don't they do this? To many of their customers like the ability to just buy gold, and they really would tick of a very large user base (as well as lose the profit from the large numbers of accounts that the farmers have). It just isn't proffitable for them to ban em.
People will ofcourse bring up the peopel that quit over thigns they don't like in a game, the only problem there is that there is no OBVIOUS direct effect of farmers, the only thing you are likely to see are inflated prices of items in the AH, as opposed to cheats that let you do blatently wrong things.
*insert a Nelson "HAHA" here*
:)
I honestly dont' have much against the gold farmers themselfs, and I do feel bad about the people injured and those stuck with out communication, however I have to laugh at the tools that make this all possible, the people BUYING the gold.
Hey, "every one" complains about goldfarmers destroying the ingame economy, etc etc. however they wouldn't be able to DO that if it wasn't for the people buyign off of them.
and for those tools stuck with out their gold, I simply laugh at them
(note everything in here is my oppinion and is obviously subject to exeptions)
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The keys to a licensed RPG being worth anythign are these:
1) Starting with a large, well developed, world (universe in this case, I know nothing about BSG as I havn't watched TV in years, so I can't comment).
2) Fleshing out stats and mechanics that will make the gameplay (be it combat, interaction, space flight, technology, etc) FIT with the feel of the original.
3) The ability to remove your players from the main story line.
4) The ability to create adventures in the world, that feel like they came form the show, with out destroyign canon.
5) A clearly defined time/space that your game takes place in (Is this pre/post *** important event? Will the PCs know about said event?)
3&4 are a mix between the DM's skill and how the sourcebooks are put together.
3 is obvoiusly where most poeple will have issues also, everyone wants to be PART of the story, but that is next to impossible in most cases, especialy as the people who are likely to be playing these games are fans of the show, and thus all have differing oppinions on just WHAT is correct, what should/should not happen, etc etc. It is alot easier to ignore canon in a game like Shadowrun or DnD as most people are not THAT fammiliar with the specifics of the world.
An exelent example of this is looking through the StarWars books/RPGs/video games (I am ignoring the games that are just clones of the movies in this case).
They stick to how the world works. They tend to stay away from the main plots, or focus on the effects of the main plot with out trying to mess with them. Even when they come up with new creatures/races, they fit in with the SW universe.
ummm, yah, my
As I have been outa the loop on PnP for a little while (ending around the start of DnD3.5 for a time frame). Was the Serenity RPG D20? if not what was it? if so how were the mechanics changed?
(I am actualy a junky for game mechanics, and love playign around with as many different types as possible).
Watching Child's Play grow over the past few years has really been an awsome thing. Something about geeks and charity makes me happy.
I honestly can't tell if that was a joke or real advice.
I am kinda frightened, and never want to have anything to do with a telephony set up....
Now that owuld be an awsome mod for Spore.
just have some way for the creatures to develope based on what problems they encountered. No it would not be "real" evoloution, but it would be awsome to watch.
Actualy TF2 is currently slated for release with HL2:EP2 (I think that has a 2nd quarter '07 date, but I don't remember atm).
The original TF2 was scrapped around the same time as HL2 started dev, but that was because they just compleatly restarted the project based on Source.
heh, all the GS stores I check had the Wiis OFF, and atleast one specificly did not have anything running in the machine (to discurage peopel from playign with it).
:P
If I want to play with a Wii, I can head over to the Nintendo World Store at rockafeller and play there, or just head uptown to a friend's appartment
It really is that I have not actualy gotten to see a PS3 in action yet, and I still would like to. I am contimplaing droping by at a large best buy and see if they have em up (As well as playign some GH2...)
that is an awsome list.
Those are just fun statistics
GP was an AC Troll that got modded up.
Gears seems to be getting good or great reviews all around (that including word of mouth from friends, as well as websites).
As for the laptops?
meh. Rather standard fare, you give your product to those people that are likely to review it. Giving it to bloggers is no different in my mind.
It is up to the blogger to be moral about it or not.
heh, to me the demos freezing up is not news, mainly because everysingle demo unit in NYC seems to be OFF! (PS3 and Wii, some 360 ones are on) Sure, some of the larger BB will have them on, but if you poke around in EB/GS you will almost never find a workign demo unit (and if it is "working" the controllers are either not there or unattached).
grumblegrumble
I actualy wanted to test out the PS3, it should LOOK awsome, and I would love to see that, note, big difference between wanting to experiance and being willing to shell out the $1K+ I would need to (new television, PS3, game, cables, etc), but hey, if you got the cash, no reason not to.
There is a difference between rebooting and freezing and needing to be manualy reset.
Auto rebooting after 5 mins is an ok idea. Ok, not great.
Locking up so that a clerk has to come over, unlock the disply, reset it, and fire it up for the next customer, is bloody stupid.
An actual idea?
DEMOS!
You want to showcase your nifty new games on your nifty new console? Have one of your pogramers make you a friken demo, containing one level (or what ever, we KNOW how to make demos now, don't we?) of the actual retail game.
Thank you for pointing this out as no one is gona RTFA ;)
Seriously, it was a random rep, in a random EB games. Reps lie, that is all they do. Anythign a rep says is a lie. Remember this and you will be much better off. (I will admit, this is all simply personal experiance in working in retail, and I am including sales staff ofr retail stores as reps. They all lie also.)
Ah yes, The Zen of Driving.
You must be one with the flow of trafic, do not seperate your self from it, instead you must immerse yourself into the flow.
heh.
You are ofcourse 100% correct. And as for breakign speed limits? If you are movign at the speed of trafic, then tere is no way for you to be caught speeding anyway. A speedtrap will start tagging people who are further foward in the pack then you are (thus they are the ones settign the speed of the pack), and people will notice them getting pulled over and/or the cop cars sitting there and start to slow down (and so will you, as you arem ovign with the speed of traffic).
nononono
just think of it as suprise sex!
After all, everyone likes sex, and every one like getting suprises, so suprise sex is a double-plus-good thing!
And "popups"? See, it is all related together!
or: How I Learned To Stop Caring and Love The Adds.
Youo pay the first months bill in advance (or some BS like that), this is true with all providers.
But please, go ahead and call em up and make SURE this is correct (I no longer sell cellphones, thankgod, and thus am slightly outta the loop)
Actualy it was only the stations that were going to be wired, and alot of those are already close enough to the surface (excluding stops like rosevelt island) that you can still get service.
As for the subway being a safe haven from blathering idiots, I would say that there are pleanty of them with out celphones, including cell reception would not change much. Then again, I do live near the arse end of the 7 and probably am just used to people being on their cells anyway...
quick google tells us that clipboard.autocopy is a *nix only option that automaticly copies seleced text to the clipboard.
I think they just used the grant money to buy a mess of old SF Books and sit around reading them.
From what I know of the field of AI the concept of a selfaware program is still rather far off. This is assuming we ever actualy decide to MAKE a program capable of this. After all, the SF geeks out there have had the concept of an intelegent (and generaly malicious) AI ground into our brains so often that we would probably all support the 3(4) laws.
HA!
Just did a bit more searching.
To do buy it now you do not have any requirements, to use a fixed price listign there are some reqs, but they seem lower then express. (Link)