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Yes, definitely. The wife and I actually skipped Season 2's Christmas Episode for a while because we were busy and we thought it was just like any old American shows Christmas special--IE almost completely separate from the plot, and just an episode for the holiday spirit. But the reality is...

Well, the concept of it was from a raiding point of view (I know I was overly ambiguous, my fault..I explained later but it was still muddled), and I couldn't disagree with you more about it making the game more difficult. I think, for the average player, the "normal" difficulty raid encounter...

Spoiled for Christmas espisode All in all, I felt season 2 was the best. But yeah, it's still a great show, even if Season 3 was weaker. And I was the one who mentioned Boardwalk--it's wild seeing how the high-end social structure in New York, is essentially considered scandalous/trashy...

Or Glorfindel (SP?)...I mean, he was an elf that literally killed Balrogs like Aragorn killed orcs. I know by the Third Age he's "diminished" with the other Elves, but the guy is still strong enough to scare all 9 of the Nazgul, at once. Tolkien was like the DM/Game Designer that had his...

Yeah, Dany chapters have always been boring--people just didn't realize it because every once in a while, one of her chapters will have an "holy shit that was fucking awesome" moment and will make you think it was worthwhile reading it. Like when her dragons were born and ended GoT with an epic...

I'm not razzing on EQ. Actually I think that a lot of the magic in EQ has been lost with the advent of new tools that focus difficulty too much in one area. I don't think we should go back to EQ style simple bosses BUT I think there is a balance there where WoW's bosses can be made more...

My post was ambiguous but I clarified it later. I did not, however, claim that WoW was more difficulty overall--my post was pretty specific in terms of where the difficulty was higher. What I actually said was this. Now, the thing is, you can't boil difficulty down to +/- statements. The above...

Every time I think of Koyaanisqatsi now, all I can think of is scrubs.

I have no idea, I haven't seen the movie yet. I don't remember a sonic boom in the book. But in general, Tolkien rarely remained consistent. Gandalf was a walking Dues Ex device that could grow our shrink in power depending on what was needed. The explanations all come later when Tolkien tries...

See, the thing with Tolkien is he was a devout Catholic and whenever I read him, it seems like he's trying to explain the logical holes in faith. In his world constantly tries to answer the question of why beings with extreme power, would do nothing. It often leads him into a quagmire of...

The government should not be legislating to protect insurance companies from their clients when such resources can be handled civilly. Just because you cost an agency more money, doesn't mean you've created a victim. Criminal codes are supposed to protect you from violating the rights of other...

Again, I don't mind the law--just answering to explain. It's because, out of your list, it's the only one that doesn't involve you affecting someone else. When I get onto the road, I interact with tons of other citizens, my rights mix with theirs--this is why the state has every right to...

I disagree with Ary (I'm fine with seat belt fines that can be issued in addition to a pull over, not with seat belt stops on their own.)--but I'll say this. Legislating with stupidity in mind, is a sure fire way to bring the fail. You don't like how dumb your citizens are? Educate them. Don't...

Really? Answer this. Who killed the Emperor? Anakin "brought balance" by killing the Sith Lord, not Luke. This was one of the FEW good things in the whole set of movies--that Anakin was, indeed, the "chosen one" but the problem with vague "prophecies" is that they are VAGUE. It was a pretty...

Where is this from?

Why is this a thing for you? This is the second time you've emphasized this. I've*never*heard a guy go hit on a chick and say "Hey baby, I work like 5 times a week. I bench all the time." I mean, the jugs on this board literally talk like this because it's such anabsurd caricatureof how real...

See, this is why I thought one of WoW's best design decisions was going with fewer classes at launch than EQ had. I'm all for less classes, to give each class broader strengths and more "required" tricks. Personally, in a 5 man group game, I'd only have 6 classes, with each class having 2 roles...

To give an analogy to what I'm saying...Imagine if "winning" in an MMO was like lifting a huge rock (Bear with me.)... In WoW you're only asked to life a 2 ton rock, it's a massive boulder, but it only looks to be about 2 tons. However, you're given no tools to lift the rock--it's just there...

How many people learn to play the piano well? Repetition does become easier overtime, sure. But depending on the speed required, it can be extremely difficult for most average players to handle. That's why Lich King was beaten on the hardest difficulty by like 1% of the player base, before the...

And yet this was the system that saw the highest number of WoW players, and strongest growth. Read Durkheim about rituals in society--the lure of building networks in order to complete tasks is actually more c arthritic for most people than the completion of those tasks. Measuring actual content...

Scripting in EQ didn't show up until PoP, and "Stampede"/friends or whatever it was, was to scripting what the wright brothers were to a 747. And you're confusing social difficulty with platforming difficulty. Learning to watch your back while leveling, or not sit on the docks where sand...

Why to both of these? Not looking as a "gotcha", just curious. The fetish one I'm guessing I know already, but Gaige said the same thing and I'm curious. The dad one? You said he is trying, why the hate then? This has got to be huge for him, his son is literally cutting his own dick off, that's...

Low poverty, pro-labor, highly educated society that also has a heavily slanted "treatment" set of drug laws (Even if it's still no tolerance)? Yep, would probably eliminate a bulk of the homicides in the U.S. Just like with abortion, the best way to reduce homicides is reduce the impetus to...

Yep, they were all exploits...and that's why I think one of the most ironic downfalls of Blizzard is that they are too good at design. There are no flaws in the way people do things, so everyone does things the same. It makes the game feel very artificial. Everything is pull lever, get pellet...

lol, Gavi did go full retard. But I love Canandians that try to compare yourselves with our diversity, because you have one or two cities with some differing populations in them. If you roll up every non-white person in Canada (Asian, Black--all of them) you end up with about the same % of...

As far as I'm aware, there is no proof violence in fictional mediums produce more violence in people. In fact, both Harvard Medical School studies showed that there is no link at all.

I think what most people are saying is that we shouldn't less passion rule our rational response. Like I said, I'm more in danger from being struck by lightning, than dying in a mass shooting. So taking steps to prevent mass shootings seems...silly. We'd save more lives by taking steps to reduce...

Not just about getting them, it's about the need to process information over social cues. See the difference? If most children's shows have a limited amount of social interaction they can teach (And they do.), but a large amount of information--then more exposure to such shows will increase the...

When people have a statistically higher chance to be killed in a mass shooting, than struck by lightning, I'll start to become uncomfortable.

Well, he mentioned two things. The first of which is that children's social life HAS changed. A great deal, actually. Children are more likely to gain information through a much larger variety of mediums. He gave the example that there are now dozens of channels, all built for children, with...

There was a pretty interesting study I read about from a Ted talk, I wish I could find it again. But it essentially talked about how Autism might be influenced by the information age. Since autistic children are generally less sociable but usually have stronger pattern recognition and...

I used to do this as a kid, not anymore though. As a kid, whenever it was really hot, we'd go up and see a movie. Now we'd buy our first ticket, but then we'd just stay in the theater all day and watch all the movies. I've done that once or twice when I was older--just slip into another movie...

Problem is, between LFD, LFR ect, there isn't much incentive to join a guild unless you're tackling difficult content. However, the difficult content is so heavily scripted now and so "broken down" in terms of sharing difficulty amongst the raid, that everyone in the raid has to be a decent...

You should probably read the whole post. I was mocking him for doing exactly what you said, my post was mostly satire. The irony that you chopped out a single line of the post, is pretty thick, lol. And WoW brought some good things to MMO's, deconstructing it because of a few facets is being...

Damn, this this thread did a complete 180. Joy and excitement to "fuck" in the blink of an eye.

Wow is more difficult from an individual player perspective than anything in MMO's before it. The introduction of scripting increased APM requirements by a massive amount. Unless you're confusing time spent with difficulty? And "repetitive"...yes, because nothing was repetitive in older MMO's...

Our drug laws are also far, far stricter, creating a higher profitability. Combined with a far worse safety net, which allows for rampant poverty and creates a situation where the only way out of poverty is to access the highly illegal, but highly profitable realm of drug trafficking. Because...

Nope, I went back and read your post. I saw that your views on MMO gaming were myopic and as bad as an old man screaming that everything is worse today--just because. I realized that the only posts you can make are short bursts of nostalgia addled shit that are incoherent, and angry due to your...

haha, complaining about negs. What a bitch.