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  1. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    No, the world you live in is a bubble where you believe the bullshit spewed by people who agree with you. You circle jerk each other into a frenzy of idiotic bigotry.
  2. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    I'm sure you can do better than that. Look at any of Araysar's posts, and any other number of responses by the people in this thread. Your diatribe was a pathetically one sided affair that showed your bias more than anything else. Lol, and you can't even take your own advice.
  3. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    I'm only on the right compared to you. And out here in the real world there are just as many racists on both sides of the isle. And usually it is people like you who are the worst offenders. As you just proved. There use to be a majority of politicians on boths sides of the isle that were in...
  4. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    So are you willing to say the same thing to the people who I was responding to? ..... That's what I thought. Your special need to "reel it in" only goes one way.
  5. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    Pulling the race card is pathetic.. even for you. Romney is a good manager, but I doubt he would have been a good leader, especially since most of the country wasn't willing to follow him. Hillary has strength, her character may be suspect but good character isn't a necessary quality to being...
  6. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    Yes, her plan was very different back then when she was young, idealistic and stupid. Which is typical of most young idealogues. But she has navigated life very well since then and has become much more practical, centered, and aware of the realities of governing. She grew up and became a capable...
  7. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    Really? All I see is blind faith in a process that has been proven to fail every time it has been tried, thoughout the history of mankind. But you, like most people who follow charlatans without questioning their motives or lack of actual progress, can not admit to those obvious truths. For it...
  8. Grim1

    How would you re-socialize MMOs?

    Good point, and it can even be taken further. What do most players consider to be social interaction? Specifically the kind that they see to be missing in today's mmos. EQ is I suppose considered a baseline of sorts, but it really shouldn't be. VOIP wasn't around in the early years for most...
  9. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Heheh... you're too easy. And it wasn't even a troll. You're just so oversensitive that even a slight breeze puts you into full defense mode. My premise still stands though. Griefing = Good, Casuals suck.
  10. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Lol, hit a nerve again I see. It's ok, we all know you love being the casual P. And I know what you were referring to. I was just telling you that the fear of griefing that you share with all of the other casuals is one of the big reasons why most modern mmos suck.
  11. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Which would be a lot of fun and make for a better game. Friendly fire (and griefing in general) force communities to develop in ways that we haven't seen in a long time in mmo's. Suddenly, your friend list and guild become much more important, while spies have real value. Drama is...
  12. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    You must be young. Life use to be better, for all of us.
  13. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    Hillary is a known quantity, her past is too vast and recorded to hide. She isn't my ideal candidate, otherwise I wouldn't have been fooled by Obama during their nomination run. But we know what to expect from her. And Bill also, who obviously would also be a part of the administration like she...
  14. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    really.. that is the best you can do? Refute my premise or don't bother to post. You can't though. The economy still stinks, the ACA sucks and Obama is laughed at. But we only have a couple more years of his incompetence to deal with. Hillary is very likely to be the next Pres. Another...
  15. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    Hahah. It is truly funny to watch the rationalizations of people denying the tidal wave of disaster that killing everything in sight. You are a text book example of that and it is pretty obvious you will be that way for the rest of your life. You have an excuse for every pain inflicted by...
  16. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    You love to pull stats out of your ass from websites you use to blind yourself from reality. My healthcare and my family's stayed very close to the same rate for over 20 years, the cost increases were minimal and we never complained or felt it. It wasn't until ObamaCare was PASSED that the...
  17. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    "Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you," Obama said at one rally in July 2009. "First of all, if you've got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from...
  18. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    "I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year." .... Barack Obama. The cost of insurance has risen over $2000 ($2014 by some estimates). The true...
  19. Grim1

    Health Care Thread

    None of the promises of the ACA have come true. The cost curve is still bending upwards and the same amount of people or more are uninsured. The hope that the young will sign up to cover the costs of the old is a pipe dream. It is cheaper and easier for them to pay the fine and just sign up when...
  20. Grim1

    How would you re-socialize MMOs?

    Just make the game so brutally hard that eveyone dies all the time, and everywhere, if they solo. Make grouping required for surviving, while joining an army is required for success. Presto chango, instant socialization. Or you can turn the game into a preening fashion show where every girl...
  21. Grim1

    38 studios Auction Nov 14th and 15th.

    Well RI definitely helped in the fall of 38Studios, and a big reason for that was the change in administrations. The new governor was against the loan from the beginning and was out to make a point. But that is the cost of doing business with the government. If you get in bed with them, you...
  22. Grim1

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    All I want is that sense of danger again, but in a mmo. Very few games have ever put me on the edge of my seat, with my full attention focused on what might be around the next corner, tree, or rock. Only one mmo ever did that for me and it was EQ1. But EQ1 (classic, not current) done again...
  23. Grim1

    Which MMO *DO* you actually play now?

    I log into a mmo about once or twice a month. There are a bunch I play occasionally but the usual suspects are GW2, EQ1 or Lotro. Don't have a lot of time atm. Will probably pick up FFXIV during the holidays. GW1 is a MMO, it just doesn't fit some people's anal retentive definition. I...
  24. Grim1

    EQ Never

    LoL, you funny. People move on all the time. MySpace thought they were the king of the world also, and so did all their members. Then Facebook showed up. WoW is old and tired. It still rules the roost but it's days are numbered. Even Blizzard knows that.
  25. Grim1

    EQ Never

    "The next great MMO" will not be a carbon copy of what has gone before with minor improvements, ala WoW. It worked for WoW because they were the first to make a user friendly (and crappy computer friendly) MMO. They didn't innovate, they just made what worked, better. But what worked back...
  26. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    No, he's not wrong. But he's pissing into the wind. The entertainment industry has always been that way and always will. It's a consequence of the realities of human nature.
  27. Grim1

    EQ Never

    They should shut up and focus on making the game. They have nothing to show but hype. I hate to go UT on them but they are starting to get on my nerves with their BS. Put out Landmark and make some actual progress on the game, THEN start the hype train. This constant stream of crap from no...
  28. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Heheh. One of the gaming companies I worked for back in the 90's use to have the Charger girls come by and cheer us on. And we didn't even have motion capture back then. We also had excellent goal line seats on Qualcomm field for the NFL games. And since we were doing naval warfare games, we had...
  29. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Well, as I said in the last part of my post, the problem isn't the lack of Dev's caring, even at the highest levels. It is the fact that most of the people in the position of making the decisions that matter are talentless hacks, I count Butler and co. among that group.
  30. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Uhhh... wrong. Devs do care, a ton. And many of them (especially the ones that care the most about their games) read as many forums as they have time for. They care because the vast majority of them came from the same pool of people that we do... gamers who spend too much of their lives...
  31. Grim1

    EQ Never

    Lol, everyone has a "game in development". I don't care about them (Brad's included), until they are actually playable they mean nothing. You totally missed my point, but that doesn't surprise me. The difference with Brad is that he actually has produced games that have meaningful consequence...
  32. Grim1

    EQ Never

    Name one that is actually viable and playable. Edit to your edit: You are clueless. Just looking at the picture of the SoE wimps above should have given you an inkling to how totally fucked EQNext is. Those pathetic morons haven't had an original thought in their lifetimes, let alone the...
  33. Grim1

    Warhammer Online RIP

    I had a lot of fun in WarHammer up untill the 1.2 patch (about 6 months after release). One of the few mmo's that I actually have fond memories of. A lot of lessons to be learned from it, good and bad.
  34. Grim1

    EQ Never

    It is becoming painfully obvious that Brad McQuaid, with all of his faults, is the only mmo dev that has balls. The rest were castrated years ago, if they ever had them.
  35. Grim1

    Your best raid or mass pvp experience across the genre?

    The Plane of Fear... with all the wipes, lost xp, begging for help and then the ultimate victory over Cazic Thule months later. Death touches, zone wide trains bys noobs, the sound effects, graphic design, learning the pulls, etc etc etc.... there has never been a zone so totally fucked up as...
  36. Grim1

    EQ Never

    etchazz is correct. It doesn't matter what you call it, as long as a character's power can be increased over time then it is leveling. Old school FPS games don't have leveling, almost every other game does. But mixing up how character progression (leveling) is done can be an improvement...
  37. Grim1

    EQ Never

    And most of Vanguard's issues were technical. When your customer base has problems actually loading the game or ctd every few minutes then it doesn't matter how good the design is, casual or hardcore. So using Vanguard as an example doesn't work. Good games sell. If they are fun and run...
  38. Grim1

    EQ Never

    Pretty much this and the fact that there wasn't anywhere else to go. I took a lot of breaks from EQ back in the day but always came back. Back then taking a break meant not playing mmos and instead going outside for a few months. FFXI was the first break where I went to another mmo. And up...
  39. Grim1

    EQ Never

    I don't have an issue with the alternate universe concept, it's a good idea imo. In fact I think most of their initial concepts are good ideas. It is feckless execution by the people in charge that I have a problem with, they are cowards and morons.
  40. Grim1

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Want to try this game but the sub requirement means I'll wait for the inevitable switch to F2P. The money isn't an issue, it's the time. I refuse to pay for subs because work and rl keep me so busy that logging into any game is a rare luxury. When I do have the time I don't want to be...