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1. I am not a teenager, nor dumb. 2. that giant whooshing sound you heard was the joke going over your head.
OMG, Did you hear that? It went over your head too! (Did you not realize I was actually commenting in support of your "joke"?). Let's face it, if people don't recognize your comment as funny, then it's probably not the public that is missing the joke.
There used to be a Mac game called Spectre, (It ran on MacOS 6 and 7 to date myself some). It was a simple tank game where you shot from a fixed forward facing gun, and used the arrow keys for controls. Hmm, that makes a total of 5 keys. But the simplicity of that game made it accessible to anyone, and therefore we could build up big team games. We'd blow off an hour or two between classes. In some ways, this is still the most fun I've had gaming, able to bring everyone in, no matter their skill level.
Obviously you're talking about "fun" that is derived from the players, not the game.
Doesn't matter if Blizzard has NEVER shut down a server, the point is, if they do, the game is no longer playable. Not even the single player portion.
Think about it.
... Now, with the knowledge that they havn't pulled support for D2 over the last 12 years, you're not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and you immediately suspect that they'll pull support asap? Because that hasn't been my experience with blizzard so far, and until they break faith with me, I'll keep supporting them.
I believe he is referring to bnetd. I can see how a younger person might not have known about that.
And here I was, thinking that young people actually DO know everything (through their wikipedia accessible exo-brain phones). Turns out that no, you teenagers are just as dumb as I think you are - just better equipped at finding data, not actually using it.
Vanilla being upwards of 5 years ago (BC was released in January 2007)...
WoW is continually being reworked. Heck, I can only think of one non-Raid zone in the WoW old world that is identical to its vanilla version, and that would be Silithus.
You say this as if cataclysm wasn't created INTENTIONALLY to do this. It'd be one thing if blizzard systematically changed all the assets slowly, to prevent knockoff servers. But no, they didn't. They shoehorned their anti-piracy efforts into a $60 upgrade. Congratulations, you just paid them to do something they should have done on their own to combat piracy.
And it will still be illegal to create the crack, since Diablo III will presumably still be under copyright by the time Blizzard pulls the plug.
Er... the interoperability clause is part of copyright law, so no, it wouldn't be illegal at that point.
.. You know what else? It's a world wide game, and we're debating US copyright laws.
Perhaps you missed the linked videos... but they actually show how flexible the display is as well as how tolerable it is to cutting it in half! Bill
Yeah, but flexibility is different than resistance to cracks, impact and shearing. Two different types of force.
I never thought I'd say this, but I think we need more engineers on slashdot.
Err... had to hold the measuring tape....
And this, folks, is why over-reliance on automatic spell checking is harmful. *sigh*
Hey, stop picking on the OP for a spelling mistake - he made a perfectly cromulent point. Besides, if you keep going all grammar/spelling nazi on him, you'll him some sort disassociative disorder and he'll never be a productive member of society.
$800 for a 640 x 480 12 bit display the same size as an A4 sheet of paper ?
How much did you pay for your smartphone? Here. I'll trade you this brick for it. Not only is the brick heavier (and more like you), but it's more dense (much like you).
Otherwise, why bother giving them sick days when they're sick?
Because you hope that it will keep them from coming in and making everybody else sick also. We get 5 "sick days" where I work and I've asked folks who were absolutely obviously miserably sick why they didn't stay home and heard the reply "used up my sick days" so often that I stopped counting.
I'm glad that we agree that letting employees do things that directly and/or indirectly increase (or prevent a decrease) in productivity. I'm still not sure why you're reinforcing my argument with additional points, though - we're already on the same page.
We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak of ourselves at all.