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Comment Re:What's the appeal? (Score 1) 582

by cgori on Monday May 19, 2008 @06:16PM (#23468056) Attached to: Age of Conan's "Kinda" Launch and Massive Pre-Orders

You appear to have selected and orc hunter, about as bland an experience as possible.

Level 1-6 should take about an hour and take place all in a tiny portion of one zone (of which there are 40-60 in the game, with everything from lush jungle to winter wonderland, to medieval castles, to strange biodomes)

You gave up on a game after an hour? I assume you are not a big devotee of the original Warcraft series (the RTS), or the lore/storyline that goes with them? As you advance along, there really is a plot describing what is happening in the world and the different conflicts that are playing out before you. In the end-game you are actually part of the conflict.

ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting 155

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @03:24PM from the what-we-don't-need-when-we-don't-need-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, domain squatters have exploited an ICANN loophole: whenever a domain name is registered, ICANN collects a 20-cent fee from the registrar. To allow for non-paying customers, the registrar can return it five days later for a full refund. The loophole has let unscrupulous registrars constantly create and refund domain-squatting websites, selling 'what you need when you need it' advertising. The problem has grown so bad that every month the world's top three domain squatters, all located in Miami with the same address and represented by the same lawyer, recycle 11 million domain names. After years of complaints, ICANN has finally begun moving on the problem. On April 17 ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization voted to make the ICANN 20-cent fee non-refundable. If the ICANN board ratifies this position in June, those top three squatters will be getting a monthly bill for $2.2M. News of the ICANN changes has been applauded by legitimate Internet businesses, tired of having to choose nonsense names because all the good ones have been squatted. ICANN has published an analysis of the economics of ending domain squatting."

Comment Re:Who cares about Final Fantasy anymore? (Score 1) 136

by shimpei on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @04:42PM (#19416267) Attached to: Fallout 3, RE 5 in 2008, Final Fantasy 360 Never

For example, how can I get a character to continue to steal until they get certain item and then stop and switch to attacking? Or to steal only once from a certain monster for the whole battle, even if that monster has less then 100% health.

I can't dig up the source right now, but I remember the developers saying in a Japanese interview that this omission is deliberate. It'd have been trivial for them to add "Monster holding treasure" as a gambit target, but they chose not to make the game not too easy. Yes, you can program your characters to beat monsters in your sleep; no, you can't sleep your way through the game if you also want to optimize treasure collection. It's mean-spirited, yes, but don't assume they haven't thought through it.

By the way, if other characters are attacking monsters before your thief can target them, your gambit isn't precise enough. I'll leave the solution as an exercise for the reader.

Submission + - Inventor of Instant Noodles Dies

Submitted by Jack Action on Saturday January 06, 2007 @02:29PM

Jack Action writes: Momofuku Ando, the inventor of "Chicken Ramen" — the original instant noodle — has died at age 96. Mr. Ando introduced his "Ramen" series of noodles in 1958 to help ease post-WWII food shortages in Japan, and they became an "instant" success. Mr Ando's noodles went into outer space in 2005 on the Space Shuttle ("Space Ram"), and a museum dedicated to his invention was opened in Japan in 1999. They also changed the lives of countless college students and geeks everywhere, and for many are the symbol of non-Western fast food. On this day of the inventor's passing, what are your thoughts on his legacy to the world?

Journal Journal: friends

Journal by cgori on Monday February 10, 2003 @02:51AM

So today I tried to use the "Friends" system.
We'll see if it does anything at all.

Comment Hail to the king (Score 2, Interesting) 362

by zeade on Monday November 12, 2001 @09:37PM (#2556663) Attached to: Ask Bruce Campbell Anything...

Hail to the king, baby.

The video game: are there any Easter Eggs or inside/interesting bits you'd like share?

The line: If I'm not mistaken the line "Hail to the king" isn't in the Army of Darkness Official Bootleg Edition, right? Travesty. And the "director's cut" ending in the Bootleg is for poot on top of that. You guys just wanted it there because you probably spent some dough on the props. Oooo, pretty. The other ending had more class. What do you think? Why not just put out one DVD with both endings, you leeches?

enraged or something,
Micah

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