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Pendulum is pretty cool. As is intrigue.

There's just so much he got wrong about other games though. I mean, even [bleep]ing D&D has avoidance based combat and health that doesn't scale to your gear, and it's probably the game that invented min-maxing. It makes it worse when you think that there are so many other things about the game that he could have said to prove the same point - the fact that there really are no limits to what you can do with a character's stats and feats, how you have more than one option for endgame gear, how classes all have strengths and weaknesses... :wall: I mean, he specifically mentions tabletop games near the end, many of which are played with a die, and a dice roll does the same thing as an RNG. Let alone the fact that hundreds of other games use one to determine more than hits and misses. I read it thinking that he had no idea what he was talking about. Sure, he has a point about how RS doesn't require skill, but he goes about it in the worst possible way. And he [bleep]ing compares an MMO to a RTS game to prove it #-o

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Re: Why Most Gamers... - I haven't seen many other RPGs that scale hit points to gear. They instead have gear take some of the damage or they have hear make you harder to hit. -I'm pretty sure D&D and games derived from it use avoidance, and tank characters just have high constitution. Other games combine avoidance and defense - Rogues get to avoid every hit, but can't take the few that do land, while armored characters are going to get hit by everything, but can take it. - Plenty of PC RPGs are built around auto-attacking - Look at any fantasy game that BioWare has ever made, chances are they still show up on a list of must-play games. Others are built around very simple combat - The Witcher's (First one) combat is just timing your hits correctly, and Fable's is spam clicking and maybe switching combat styles. Complexity doesn't necessarily mean quality. - Min-Maxing again goes back to D&D, and it's basically the only way to play a Bethesda RPG. It's nothing new, and it's usually discouraged by rewarding players that don't do it - Think about everything that pures can't get access to. In tabletop games, the GM does the same thing. - Most of the examples are from RTS games. Runescape is an (MMO)RPG, and the two genres are apples and oranges.

Then pirate it. The company doesn't exist anymore, so nobody is getting hurt. But the vast, vast majority of pirating is done with games/music/movies/whatever from companies that still exist. One of the few times I'm pro-piracy is for products that are out of print, whether or not the company is still in business. Especially when the alternative is buying it secondhand, since you're going to pay through the nose for it to a third party and have no guarantee that it'll even work.

Indeed, what's the point? Trying to cash in on a tragedy like this just wouldn't work unless you take as many liberties as possible. And it's soon enough that there are bound to be more than a few people opposed to it (Rightly so). Unless he's trying to cash in on that negative publicity...

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Installing Zoo Tycoon again. With the expansion, because what the [bleep] are you doing if you aren't building Jurassic Park.

This.

Then what's the point? He used his work account password on a site, when it's impossible for anyone to use that account outside of his office? It's less a mistake and more confidence in the security system (Which worked). All the evidence we have that this even happened is your word and a low quality gif. If it took 8 hours to lock the account, we'd have heard about it hours ago. Somebody would have leaked it, especially since access to a jmod account is the average 'Scaper's wet dream. It's the kind of thing that Tip.Iters would instantly believe, since everyone here seems convinced that Jagex requires all employees to have a double digit IQ. Remember the "Dungeoneering can't be botted" thing?

This. That is assuming that this is real to begin with. There's a lot to suggest that it isn't.

There are probably more people who would find that funny than this: Or Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crud."

Because they reach a niche audience, and only the internet can deliver? :razz: Gamer comics, for example. A lot of humor that very few people are going to get. I mean, what newspaper is going to print a black comedy Pokemon comic? There's a very small audience for that kind of thing.

In which case he's too busy enjoying the product to get wrapped up in the DRM arguments :razz:

I'm not sure if it's legal to browse Tip.It in that state of undress.

It's entitlement because the pirate still gets the product in the end, and the arguments often come across as "I can't/won't pay for this, but should still be able to get a copy, and any attempts to prevent me from doing so are a result of corporate greed/the evils of capitalism/etc".

His marketing might be the reason that Apple isn't a brand for just hipsters, though. Their products are overpriced and probably garbage (As far as I can tell), but he got people to want them. The prices probably helped to make it a status thing.

Hitler was a gentleman, and so allowed his former ally to choose the time and place of their match. The two men walked proudly to the arena, and the audience was immediately aware that Hitler was outmatched; On the outside, he was a small, sickly man whose hand wouldn't stop shaking. As the fight began, however, it was revealed that Hitler was unusually fast and stronger than his build would suggest, traits which he attributed to being Aryan. He deftly dodged each of Mussolini's slow, yet powerful punches, but was caught off guard when Il Duce landed a vicious kick to Hitler's testicle. Hitler immediately started to cry, shielding his face from the rain of fists. After what seemed like not nearly long enough for the mostly Jewish audience, Mussolini backed away, just in time for a train to arrive on top of Hitler. The remaining 90 minutes of World War 2 were a romantic comedy.

How about you write your own software and use that instead? Things cost money for a reason. Or use open source equivalents, like GIMP with addons for photoshop-like features and interface. :razz:

I'm pretty sure that as long as products costs money, people will pirate them.

This 2.0.

This is what I assumed, but I think some of their songs have vocals, and I don't think they remake popular music.

I'm pretty sure that even today most Apple laptops are used by hipsters. The phones and MP3 players, on the other hand, appeal to normal people and spawned an army of clones. So long as they can keep up with them, they'll be fine.

You aren't criticizing the Meyer one though. Good to know :grin: I stopped criticizing Bieber when I learned he was driving a Ferrari and dating an actress at 17. I mean, what were we doing at 17? Probably posting here about politics or religion and not out there being a millionaire celebrity.