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Dyson spheres are ridiculously impractical. For one, it would require more matter than in all of the planets and asteroids in the solar system. And secondly, why build an enormous solar panel when you can just make your own fusion reactors? As for colonizing the entire galaxy, I have to ask...

Rift literally put me to sleep while playing the game. I couldn't wait to stop playing that game after forcing myself to play up to level 20 to give it a chance. I'm still amazed it did as well as it did. (retaining about 40% of its subs after a year) I guess a bug free client and polished UI...

I really want to like this game. I love the shit out of D2 and D3's engine is really nice, so I almost get an urge to play again. The #1 problem (of a long list) I have with this game is the huge fucking chore it is to evaluate and sell drops. I would have probably preferred a more...

The difference with a more traditional trial is not only losing access to the account, but when the trial is over they are faced with a box price + a sub price to continue; that's a pretty steep pay wall. Trials are also rather limited. My model would essentially be an unlimited trial giving...

Yeah but one of the reasons f2p works is because of the zero barrier to entry. Remove the box price and allow free play up to a point and you can gain that advantage while still requiring a subscription to enjoy the full game. This is also important because players who have no clue what might...

I also despise cash shops. I'm terrified Sony will fuck up a good game by implementing one into EQN. Exp potions are pay to win, period. Being one of the first to the level cap often grants players advantages in terms of lack of competition for camps/resources, and PvP wise it certainly...

So how long did those fungusbeast glands last you guys anyway

There was a reason why exp penalties existed to begin with. Warriors were garbage until Kunark proc weapons + disc defensive, and even after those I'd still rather have a knight for a tank for all non-raid content. Hybrids and large races were more powerful and paid for it with exp penalties...

His namecoin pump worked and made me 20% on top of my investment. Of course I am playing around with all of 1 BTC for this so I gain or lose little. I just wanted to see what would happen. If his scheme is to buy in before announcing then sell instead of spiking the price upward then I would...

I bought in a day after his recent namecoin announcement and made money, but today's TRC pump has been a waste of time and money for me. Actually it looked as if Fontas lost money himself, since he put up a 500 BTC buy order at 0.0053 which was partially filled, then dumped the price down to...

I bought in again at 96 two days ago. It already went back up to $115 this morning. Fontas doing a TRC pump and dump in 5-6 hours or so. (22:10 UTC)

Made 20% profit from his namecoin pump today and was asleep when he did it. I just set some sell limit orders at different price points a couple of days ago and sold the remainder for about as much as I paid for them after the dump.

And I'm done. Was getting serious SGU flashbacks with episodes being played out with emo music. Why is good writing so uncommon anyway

I doubt ASICs will have much affect on bitcoin prices, really. The rate at which coins are created will remain the same. Buyers won't care how they are created. I also made the mistake of not buying a GPU to mine with back in 2011 because even back then, it was barely worth the trouble-- IF...

I'm not thinking that they came to invade like independence day (although the Volge don't look like the 'lets get along' type) but otherwise mundane technology can be easily weaponized. I would expect them to bring along small spacecraft and other kinds of flying vehicles. I would expect them...

It really is painfully obvious what little effort they put into it. I mean the idea that a species which mastered interstellar travel would face ANY resistance from modern day humans is LAUGHABLE on its face. If Europeans could wipe out 90% of the Native Americans just by stopping by and...

I think that bitcoin protecting sellers is a huge selling point. If sellers aren't eating the fraud, then they can offer lower prices. Certain sellers in particular would absolutely love no chargebacks, such as virtual goods merchants. It's also easier to integrate bitcoin into storefront...

A crash just means it's a good time to buy in, which I did. I was going to buy litecoins since BTC was so high, but the crash allowed me to buy into BTC. Sellers can't seem to break through the 2+ million dollar $50 wall so far. Even at litecoin's current $1.50, I still mine at a rate of...

Short litecoin mining guide. Even at current prices, litecoin is more profitable mining with GPUs. 1. Buy one or more voltage unlocked ATI video card(s). 7950 for the most khash/watt. nVidia cards don't mine well at all. 2. Install the AMD APP SDK 3. Sign up at a mining pool or use...

Well I'm certainly guilty of bringing up EQ in other game threads, but I only do so because I consider EQ classic to be the best MMORPG ever released, and I see modern games as a step backwards gameplay wise. I'm not the only one who thinks this, which is why people keep bringing EQ up. You...

You're right, those are big problems right now, but they are so easily fixed. Mtgox is the biggest right now because it's simply the best exchange. When people handle this much money, they want to give it to the most reputable sites. As bitcoin gets bigger, you'll start seeing more...

Bitcoin DOES have intrinsic value though-- as a service. It's free to transfer funds to anyone, anywhere. The world shares it, so if your country blows up, bitcoin will remain about as stable as it normally is. (which will get better over time) It's fast. It's convenient. It's private. No...

Other exchanges had a massive sell-off while gox is down. btceBTC was down to $55 and btceLTC was down to $1. Killin' me that I can't buy in right now. Bitcoin needs an easy way to buy in, badly. Whoever figures that out will get rich.

How are you guys buying your coins? It seems the old Dwolla -> MtGox way is now full of delays and sending ridiculous amounts of identification. I expected this to get easier with time, not harder. And here I was all ready to buy in after my ridiculously long 5 day bank transfer to Dwolla...

If I'm reading this right, some dude set up a buy order for 9073 coins at $212.12. That's a 2 million dollar buy order.

I can only repeat what I've read as this stuff is over my head, but supposedly FPGAs and ASICs will at least be far less effective miners. Litecoin was supposed to be the CPU friendly coin when it was developed. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?to...502#msg1256502...

I just started mining it so I'm far from an expert, but I can tell you a few things. The currency's hash algorithm (scrypt) was selected specifically to allow CPU mining to be viable. However apparently the designer of the protocol used bad parameters which allowed people to figure out a way...

I wouldn't bet against bitcoin hitting $500. Few people thought it would hit $200 a couple years ago and yet here we are. Consider that the number of potential bitcoin users is virtually unlimited. The more people that begin using the coin, the more motivation new users have to use it as it...

Really kicking myself for not investing in bitcoin sooner. I've been interested in it for the last couple of years and expected its value to rise, but never got around to putting serious money into it. I did turn $34 into ~$200 though. I mostly used it to pay for my VPN. Thanks for the...

I didn't list anything from Luclin or PoP because the argument was over Hoss's competitiveness when Seekers/Vindication was still around. Hoss had virtually everything first from Luclin on through GoD. It was practically a one uber guild server from VT on up. Shit, I didn't even remember...

Two people came in here and bashed my guild with their nonsense posts. I am merely responding in kind as anybody else would.

And who the fuck are you? Your memory is terrible. The Hoss forum still exists and has every post going back to June 2001, so I can say with absolute confidence that the following is accurate as I just went back and took a trip down memory lane. First of all, Seekers imploded in the middle...

We left Solusek because it was overcrowded as shit-- even in the middle of the night because a lot of Europeans decided to make it their home server. HOSS was originally a small tight-knit guild with highly skilled players who originally played Quake together prior to EQ, and they had to team...

Sure. Blizzard pretty much committed themselves with WoL and missed the opportunity for more radical changes, that much is true. Although they want to try and sell these expacs as separate games almost to get more profit from them. Ok, I'll use the best example: spawn larva. Why is this not...

Blizzard's target audience is apparently 12 year olds. Their games look like cartoons with stories having about as much depth and logic as a cartoon. I actually had some hope for Zerg in multiplayer after doing the campaign. Wow, did they really get rid of that fucking lame as shit spawn...

The problem with NPCs eating items and handing items to the wrong NPC is a UI mechanics problem and not really a gameplay problem. I doubt you would find many advocating for no safeguards to prevent this kind of thing. Some NPCs did in fact return items that weren't part of a quest they had...

This server is in fact as popular as it has ever been. Population hits up to 1k during prime time. I've seen arguments over trash exp mobs being pulled.

Because WoW's existence makes the game once nicknamed 'EverCrack' suddenly terrible, obviously. I'm not the deluded one for thinking an EQ1 classic clone would be viable; the deluded ones are the people who think WoW's success was entirely due to gameplay. As I mentioned earlier, I still...

The problem with modern EQ is that it is so old, it binds the hands of the developers that work on it very tightly. Removing features from a game (or any product really, but games in particular) is difficult to impossible, so EQ is burdened by all the crap they added in the last 12 years. Any...

The hack is hardcoded to use that directory, so the only way around that would be to make a symbolic link to another drive. try mklink /D C:\EQMac X:\path\to\EQ