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Comment Re:thinking about it (Score 3, Interesting) 251

by entropiccanuck on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @03:08AM (#25112719) Attached to: Mythic GM Talks <em>Warhammer</em> Launch, Banning Gold Sellers

I played the beta for a while, and will be picking up the retail when it's not so detrimental to work/school schedule.
Things I liked:

Hugely detailed world (Warhammer has lots of back story)

Diverse classes (each of the 6 races has 3 or 4 classes, each class is somewhat unique)

Public Quests (fun quests you can join casually with others on, very well done.)

Quirky humor (some races more than others, Greenskins especially amusing)

The biggest reason for me quitting WoW was the time commitment in the end game raids. Warhammer doesn't seem to require the same solid block of time that WoW did, which for me, as someone with a family, is huge.

Submission + - Poverty meets Social Networking in India

Submitted by entropiccanuck on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @07:31PM

entropiccanuck writes: The NY Times has an article titled "In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism", which is about new sites that bring the "social-networking revolution popularized by Facebook and MySpace to people who do not even have computers — the world's poor." Sean Blagsvedt, the founder of one such site, babajob.com, says "In India, you can't escape the feeling that you're really lucky. So you ask, What are you going to do about all the stuff around you? How are you going to use all these skills?"
Blagsvedt's site works as a "village LinkedIn" by replicating "online the process by which Indians hire in real life: through chains of personal connections." One of the more significant hurdles in building such a site is in making it accessible to those who have limited computer access.

Submission + - Pirate Bay earns 20,000 Euros a day (rixstep.com) 2

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: controverisal pro-piracy website the piratebay likes to portray itself as an innocent hobby site that provides a free index without censorship, but recent facts show that the site is earning up to 20,000 Euros per day from its advertising. Taking in money on this scale puts a different slant on the motives behind the Swedish filesharing site, and could open up the runners of the site to prosecution for profiting from copyright infringement.

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