I had to ask ROFLMFAO! In hindsight, I should have put up Cartman as the pinnace of virtue at /. Next time I'll know better.

Them's fightin words boy! ;)
Yeah, I can see how you would say/think something like that, but at the end of the day, the plain truth is, you don't want ANYONE other than the US controlling the Internet. Me, I'd rather see no one have control & let the ensuing chaos sort itself out.

Also, one ball blank shootin mofo!

Anyone got anything on Ghandi or Mother Teresa? ;)

I'm both European (originally) and Aussie (now). Either of those not doing anything *as well* as the US, doesn't make it all better, now does it...? We don't have the man-power or resources down under (unlike your multi-trillion $ military spend), to effectively get into large scale internal issues like those, but we did follow you blindly into 2 world wars, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq AND Afghan, and probably committed more troops per capita in some of those conflicts than you did. But hey, I guess a nation of 25 million should be seen to be doing as much for world peace & humanity as the only superpower left in the world that has 300m people, right?

Thailand, Haiti - did I blink and it was all over before it began? Those must have set you back at least a couple hundred bucks.

I don't recall saying the US wasn't doing enough, in fact quite the opposite, just not for any of the right reasons. Your motivations for foreign aid are well documented, as are the results.

And I think most non-US people have a much clearer, accurate picture of what exactly you do for them & how many bags of rice make it into their starving hands, than you ever will. But you keep believing your own ignorant, uninformed, propagandized bullshit that your government and repressed collective consciences feed you and the rest of the world will stick to the facts.

CoH was a fantasy mmo, let's be clear about that ;-p

ArenaNet are worth supporting, NCSoft aside. They are also physically based in the US, so it will be a bit harder for NC to wreck them if they operate on their own currency & balance sheet, even if they wanted to. They could well walk away tomorrow & go work for another publisher, or self-publish, who knows, so long as they don't end up with EA or Activision *cringe* (that's funny - Chrome spell-checker suggests this replacement for the later: Vivisectionist :))). So long as the 3 amigo founders are still at the helm, I'm not too worried. And it's only $60 with no monthlies - not really a huge loss even if you only got 3 months our of it say. Remember, those guys broke away from Blizztard for all the right reasons & wouldn't have sold off ANet to NC unless they had some pretty good safety valves - and keep in mind, they're still working there...unlike the founders of Bioware & what EA did to them in recent times (though I would still recommend SWTOR now that it's F2P, if you haven't tried it already, as that's even more single-player friendly than GW2 in many ways).

And 'grind'...you want GRIND ffs??? CoH was far more of a grinder than GW2 will ever be. Clearly, you read between my lines, where there was nothing, to come to your own previous conclusions & pre-conceptions, rather than focus on the actual things I said & the similarities I suspect with our play styles. Your loss mate, but if you do sign up Chas, PM me & I'll even play with you, but only if you promise to be a carebear grumpy old bastard like myself & never break character! ;).

Would you rather starve to death than eat french fries...? ;-p

Bundy is not rum. It is an abomination in the sight and taste of both god & man.

Who said anything about watching child porn FFS!? Oh, yeah, you just did.

If we're going to be honest, let's be brutal: the US goes where the Big Oil & Big War big bucks are, whenever there is a 'humanitarian' crisis anywhere in the world, and almost always to protect its own political and resource interests, first and foremost, with real humanitarian aid, or anything altruistic being a distant second. Just look at what they didn't do for Rwanda or Yugoslavia, for example, in recent years, while 100s of thousands were slaughtered in massive ethnic cleansings, not to mention so man other countries where their policies are sucking the marrow & life out of those nations, through various means.
Not sure why you think you're actually wanted in most place in the world as the 'world police', or how with your national debt you think you are the world's piggy bank but I guess patriotism, like love, really is blind lol.

I think he's saying we should give inet/DNS control over to the Red Cross.
Me, I'd be happy with the RSPCA here down under. <BFG>

Hey, DARPA would never have existed if it wasn't for the Russians and your space race. Just sayin...;)

To add to this, no, you didn't 'invent' the entire inet, any more than you invented rounded corners and that ball you designed, the archetype/prototype, has now been re-designed & re-produced in a thousand other models, ways & configurations & put to a million other uses worldwide. Hey, Australia invented Wifi - so give it back to us! -p

So, you would be happy with, say, Canada, or the UK, or France, having control of DNS...? :)

Which is why we need a decentralised, secure DNS model. 5 years ago.

I would like to see ICANN lose control as they've proven utterly untrustworthy, incompetent & are now just money-grubbing in general.
Though I wouldn't want the Urinated Nations from seizing control, at least until that term means something. Far better to deal with poisoned DNS entries & hash tables than continue this way. The Internet may have started with the US military as the 'wild west', but it's now gone backwards to being a politician's bitch, and more gubments having control over it is actually a huge leap backwards for mankind.
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They had over 8 years, which is not a bad run for mmos, probably top 10 for A-grade commercial ones, eh.

And you call yourself an OB (Old Bastard) gamer, with that console cretinitis you admit to!? For shame!!! ;-p

Getting a game to work on a PC is half the fun man! And seriously, I mean SERIOUSLY, try out Guild Wars 2 - it might just restore your faith in online communities. Just stick to the PvE carebear part of the game, where there is no PvP/ganking or node ninjaing, and co-op is not only encouraged, but rewarded!
It has actually, (shock-horror!), made me want to try out WvWvW (massive 3-server realm battles) which is one of the PvP options available.

It's probably the most sensational solo-able mmorpg in, well, forever, as the guys at ArenaNet have re-written some fundamental design idioms/paradigms with mmos, mainly by getting rid of everything WoW-like, or grindy, or too competitive/non-productive from the ground up. Even the fast travel system makes getting around in a flash trivial. Ok, end of shameless plug - I have no affiliation with ANet or any of their wives. Ahem.