Comment: Wait for it... (Score 2) 66
Irany
Comment: Re:Worthy successor? (Score 1) 246
I agree with a lot of what you said, but the fact is that synergies did make more skills useful that weren't before. Your idea to redo "useless" skills is a shitload more work, and I'd definitely take synergies over no change at all. BTW - Grim Ward is useful, for example, I use it to kill enemy groups faster because it lets my barbarian focus fire better.
The real issue is that a lot of the difficulty of the game was destroyed online by bots. It was too easy to get good equipment and fast experience, which I say because you think the high end sets are jokes.
The immortal king set is really good. You can pretty much not be stopped when wearing it, and it's possible to do /players8 hell solo with it, as long as you are careful.
I mainly played d2 on LAN with people I know, enforcing a no-cheating atmosphere via peer-pressure, and I wish they would just make more expansions for d2 instead of an entirely new game.
The real issue is that a lot of the difficulty of the game was destroyed online by bots. It was too easy to get good equipment and fast experience, which I say because you think the high end sets are jokes.
The immortal king set is really good. You can pretty much not be stopped when wearing it, and it's possible to do
I mainly played d2 on LAN with people I know, enforcing a no-cheating atmosphere via peer-pressure, and I wish they would just make more expansions for d2 instead of an entirely new game.
Comment: Re:Nothing like a beating to make a believer. (Score 1) 907
Thank you for putting it so well, artor. I'm sick of atheists who are just as dogmatic under the covers as the rest.
Comment: Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence (Score 4, Interesting) 672
You can also weed out many good employers this way. The HR process is just the door to get in at a lot of places, the working environment is usually a totally different beast.
If you did what you describe when applying to the company I work for, you would not be considered for employment. And even though I may disagree with some of our candidate selection processes, we tend to hire great people and the work environment / compensation / benefits are awesome.
If you did what you describe when applying to the company I work for, you would not be considered for employment. And even though I may disagree with some of our candidate selection processes, we tend to hire great people and the work environment / compensation / benefits are awesome.
Comment: Re:the days of lan play supporting games are over (Score 1) 175
diablo 2 is very lan-friendly
also - play icewind dale 2 instead of NWN. (unless you are talking about NWN mods)
also - play icewind dale 2 instead of NWN. (unless you are talking about NWN mods)
Comment: Re:Kids want to differentiate themselves... (Score 1) 532
and share their individuality with people just like them.
DARPA to Sponsor R&D for Interstellar Travel->
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Apocryphos writes "The government agency that helped invent the Internet now wants to do the same for travel to the stars.
In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and star-struck organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take — organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically — to send humans to another star, a challenge of such magnitude that the study alone could take a hundred years."
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In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and star-struck organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take — organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically — to send humans to another star, a challenge of such magnitude that the study alone could take a hundred years."
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Comment: Re:Solution: Better Protests (Score 1) 196
yes because those protests were so much more effective /sarcasm
Comment: Re:Where's my Lucy Liu-bot? (Score 1) 137
that wouldn't be settling - it would be upgrading
Comment: Re:Outsourcing? (Score 1) 242
"Must be able to enter hours"
That is a shit requirement, and you really can't blame the off-shore software group for the end result. I'm not saying they didn't deliver a crap product, but I am saying your example is essentially negative. i.e. that YOUR company was the weak link.
That is a shit requirement, and you really can't blame the off-shore software group for the end result. I'm not saying they didn't deliver a crap product, but I am saying your example is essentially negative. i.e. that YOUR company was the weak link.