This is nothing to do with piracy. Pirates will have a SP-only version for free on torrent already no doubt. Good luck to 'em. Diablo just IS an online game though for most people. Sheesh.
I can't believe anyone who played D2 would complain about this. I always played on Battle.net so had to be online anyway and that was 10 years ago. Add to that the terrible problems with item duping and suddenly always-on protection for this game seems a good idea.
Obviously it would be annoying if devs adopt the same model for purely single-player games but that's another issue. This is D3 not another game.
Got mine from amazon pre-order for £22. Unfortunately I haven't had a working gaming PC for months. Bah :(
Back to Baal runs with my Hammerdin on the netbook for nostalgia then...
When I got the wife a mobile on 3 a year or so ago and tried out the browser I was rather bemused to find that several innocuous non-porn sites were blocked and would be replaced on the screen with a series of links to various categories of porn. So that's a porn filter is it?
My mind could not have boggled more.
I just changed the APN to the one 3 use for My-Fi though and it all worked fine; enabling me to browse non-porn without being pushed to porn.
Did I mention the boggling of the mind this caused? Yes? good.
I got quite good at the game and remember spending a whole day trying to beat the final world and ressurecting every so often. Come evening time my parents wanted the telly back and I never managed to beat it. I just couldn't summon up the willpower to play for hours again :(
Wholeheartedly agree. I pre-ordered Black Ops on Steam (promised to unlock at midnight but didn't until 8am, after the Tesco and Sainsbos lot had been playing for hours.)
The game barely worked on my Core2 Duo with quite new nVidia gfx (can't remember what now) even though MW2 ran at 100fps+ on the same rig. Asking on the boards just resulted in a load of pricks telling me I should have a proper quad-core 8gig machine or stop whinging. The graphics engine was coded by idiots who wouldn't admit they had done anything wrong.
Also, I disagree for the most part about the need for dedicated servers (yes, I am an old Q1 and UT player, bear with me.) In MW2 nobody kicked you for jumping or hiding or using smoke or using a 'lame' weapon or a 'lame' perk, or just for killing the admin.
Didn't we just have a one hundred year anniversary of when hundreds of people died due to both the solid and liquid forms of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Deadly stuff.
Also, thousands of people die every year due to gravity. Yet it still hasn't been banned and we are subjected to it constantly. The Daily Mail should run a front-page about it.
My employer was waiting for a correction to the figures my previous employer had given them that were wrong. My previous employer sent the details to HMRC but HMRC told them they wouldn't send the correction onto my current employer and would handle any correction themselves :/
As it is I'm waiting to see whether HMRC will give me the rebate I'm owed for 2011-2012 or somehow add the earnings reported from my current employer, which includes figures HMRC gave them, back onto those same figures again, and demand money back instead. You just never know :/
Weekly tax codes combined with an employer who often forgets to do one week and then does two at once are also a big fail :(
It's like comparing being made to sit through your grandparents slides of their holiday in Bangor to being made to sit through a DVD of your grandparents shagging.
Surprised Battlefield Earth is leading. That was enjoyably laughable in parts. H2 had no such redeeming feature. I guess it's the anti L Ron vote. Quite partial to Scientology bashing myself but I have to be honest about the relative horrors of BE and H2.
That there were no 'Pharaohs' until the New Kingdom. They were Kings of Upper and Lower Egypt in the times when pyramids were built (Old and Middle Kingdom.)
In the New Kingdom they buried themselves (not literally) in the Valley of the Kings, not pyramids.
The fragmented DOS and Windows PC platform trounced the more controlled Mac platform back in the day. Fragmentation or lack of plays only a small part in the success of a platform.
On a more serious note, why are they always talking about offshore wind-farms? They only appear to be better value but in reality it's the taxman getting stiffed. Plus, they change the blades every 12 months so that they don't have to pay the normal tax and NI. This means you never get experienced blades. And you have to tell them exactly when they should be turning because they don't do anything on their own initiative. Of course, when you're looking at using them you see all the best turbines but once you've handed over the cash you get turbines that have only just come out of the factory.
They're going to buy an island with a volcano and set up a secret base with submarines and satellite weaponry. Scantily clad ladies and laser-tables will feature heavily.
"But beware of his generous pensions, plus three weeks paid vacation each year, and on Fridays the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer."
Tesco and Sainsburys moving the price of bog standard Aussie wines up from a fiver a bottle a few years ago to £13.99 so that they can then give us amazing half price offers at 7 quid.
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Re: Monster Immunity
Immunities were a bugger in LoD for certain classes. Why do you think everyone needed a hammerdin :/
Re: DRM
Hey downvoters !
This is nothing to do with piracy. Pirates will have a SP-only version for free on torrent already no doubt. Good luck to 'em. Diablo just IS an online game though for most people. Sheesh.
*take cover*
Re: DRM
Icon is vanished obviously :/
DRM
I can't believe anyone who played D2 would complain about this. I always played on Battle.net so had to be online anyway and that was 10 years ago. Add to that the terrible problems with item duping and suddenly always-on protection for this game seems a good idea.
Obviously it would be annoying if devs adopt the same model for purely single-player games but that's another issue. This is D3 not another game.
Got mine from amazon pre-order for £22. Unfortunately I haven't had a working gaming PC for months. Bah :(
Back to Baal runs with my Hammerdin on the netbook for nostalgia then...
Icon is Diablo obviously.
"are been served content via cybercrime"
Being. Not been.
I would of expected better grammar.
(deliberate joke)
Also puzzled by 3's filter.
When I got the wife a mobile on 3 a year or so ago and tried out the browser I was rather bemused to find that several innocuous non-porn sites were blocked and would be replaced on the screen with a series of links to various categories of porn. So that's a porn filter is it?
My mind could not have boggled more.
I just changed the APN to the one 3 use for My-Fi though and it all worked fine; enabling me to browse non-porn without being pushed to porn.
Did I mention the boggling of the mind this caused? Yes? good.
Never finished it
I got quite good at the game and remember spending a whole day trying to beat the final world and ressurecting every so often. Come evening time my parents wanted the telly back and I never managed to beat it. I just couldn't summon up the willpower to play for hours again :(
Re: Shove it right up your proverbial!!!!
Wholeheartedly agree. I pre-ordered Black Ops on Steam (promised to unlock at midnight but didn't until 8am, after the Tesco and Sainsbos lot had been playing for hours.)
The game barely worked on my Core2 Duo with quite new nVidia gfx (can't remember what now) even though MW2 ran at 100fps+ on the same rig. Asking on the boards just resulted in a load of pricks telling me I should have a proper quad-core 8gig machine or stop whinging. The graphics engine was coded by idiots who wouldn't admit they had done anything wrong.
Also, I disagree for the most part about the need for dedicated servers (yes, I am an old Q1 and UT player, bear with me.) In MW2 nobody kicked you for jumping or hiding or using smoke or using a 'lame' weapon or a 'lame' perk, or just for killing the admin.
Bag 'o' shite.
Re: 12.3GHz
It's from the future?
Didn't we just have a one hundred year anniversary of when hundreds of people died due to both the solid and liquid forms of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Deadly stuff.
Also, thousands of people die every year due to gravity. Yet it still hasn't been banned and we are subjected to it constantly. The Daily Mail should run a front-page about it.
Re: "...Hendricks Elementary School in Shelbyville..."
There's doings a-transpiring!
Re: Quite partial to...
Lucida Grande certainly makes desktop Facebook a more pleasant experience.
Quite partial to...
...the Ubuntu font family myself. Even in Windows :)
It's just a nice font. I'm not trying to be ironic.
Re: Does this install on AMD Fusion machines yet?
Nope. Doesn't boot.
Re: Boot from USB?
Smileys usually indicate a light-hearted remark.
Does this install on AMD Fusion machines yet?
Fedora 15 didn't when I first got my netbook but I'm partial to a bit of Fedora when I want to use Eclipse.
Boot from USB?
Welcome to five years ago Microsoft :)
Beware
Mondas may return !!!!!!!!!!
(icon obviously an early prototype)
Re: Please get this right
Thanks for that :)
My employer was waiting for a correction to the figures my previous employer had given them that were wrong. My previous employer sent the details to HMRC but HMRC told them they wouldn't send the correction onto my current employer and would handle any correction themselves :/
Checking the doormat every day...
Rosetta Stone?
So they'll be posthumously suing the estate of Champollion too ?
Please get this right
Would be great if the system worked :)
As it is I'm waiting to see whether HMRC will give me the rebate I'm owed for 2011-2012 or somehow add the earnings reported from my current employer, which includes figures HMRC gave them, back onto those same figures again, and demand money back instead. You just never know :/
Weekly tax codes combined with an employer who often forgets to do one week and then does two at once are also a big fail :(
Fix it. Fix it all. Now!
8 Wii games?
Is that all that's coming out?
Wow.
A whole new medium to deliver pr0n !
Re: San Fran
Flash works fine on ARM7 if you are willing to fiddle.
Control group
Is the control group also subjected to several Gs to simulate the launch? I could imagine this would affect the maturation process in itself.
If it isn't then it's not a proper control and the results can't be meaningfully interpreted.
It's almost as if they were doing it for a laugh instead of as a serious piece of science...
"what's the justification to increase the surveillance?"
"Paedo 9/11"
Repeat...
:)
"Paedo 9/11"
Was the lame mantra The Daily Mash predicted Ms May would be spouting today.
Satire is not as funny when it turns out to be completely true.
Showgirls
Leave it alone. I found it entertaining.
Sort of.
@Sean Timarco Baggaley
Since Vogler's work was published long after Star Wars I think you've made a mistake. Perhaps you meant Campbell's Hero with a thousand faces?
First Knight
Wasn't even memorably bad. Just infinitely dull.
Re: Highlander 2
Nice simile.
How's about this simile?
It's like comparing being made to sit through your grandparents slides of their holiday in Bangor to being made to sit through a DVD of your grandparents shagging.
Re: A lot of these...
Reloaded was average to me. It broke the Matrix story yes. But it had a couple of good action scenes and looked nice.
Revolutions however was a total crime against humanity.
Highlander 2
Had to clinch it for me out of that list.
Surprised Battlefield Earth is leading. That was enjoyably laughable in parts. H2 had no such redeeming feature. I guess it's the anti L Ron vote. Quite partial to Scientology bashing myself but I have to be honest about the relative horrors of BE and H2.
Lots of planets, yes.
Just fire up Elite 2 and you can see exactly how many planets the galaxy has.
Hooray
Hooray for the saving of money if you don't want Windows.
Boo for the screen res, lack of 8gig memory option (seriously, memory is so cheap now), and big Novatech logo.
Was just about to post the same.
Made me laugh :)
Ian Shepherd?
Is that what happens at the end of Mass Effect 3 that everyone's complaining about?
"Mission over. Now you must try to rescue a failing retail chain. Good luck Commander!"
tldr
But the title was great
Re: You do realize...
Lenovo bought IBM's laptop business in 2005. Even a budget laptop will take a long, relaxing slash on a 2005 machine.
Except
That there were no 'Pharaohs' until the New Kingdom. They were Kings of Upper and Lower Egypt in the times when pyramids were built (Old and Middle Kingdom.)
In the New Kingdom they buried themselves (not literally) in the Valley of the Kings, not pyramids.
Re: You do realize...
IBM Thinkpad?
They haven't made them for years :/
And yet...
The fragmented DOS and Windows PC platform trounced the more controlled Mac platform back in the day. Fragmentation or lack of plays only a small part in the success of a platform.
It's all about the ROCs.
Without the ROCs noone would bother.
On a more serious note, why are they always talking about offshore wind-farms? They only appear to be better value but in reality it's the taxman getting stiffed. Plus, they change the blades every 12 months so that they don't have to pay the normal tax and NI. This means you never get experienced blades. And you have to tell them exactly when they should be turning because they don't do anything on their own initiative. Of course, when you're looking at using them you see all the best turbines but once you've handed over the cash you get turbines that have only just come out of the factory.
Yes.
I know.
They're going to buy an island with a volcano and set up a secret base with submarines and satellite weaponry. Scantily clad ladies and laser-tables will feature heavily.
"But beware of his generous pensions, plus three weeks paid vacation each year, and on Fridays the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer."
Re: "Humans’ equivalent, neuropeptide Y, would be harder to manipulate safely, "
...and teleport machines.
Yep, go have drunken sex with THAT !
...
"Kill me."
Giffgaff is fine normally
OK - it's down today but the only problems I've had in the past have been O2-related (mast-maintenance etc) not GiffGaff's fault.
And my data connection is fine normally. Maybe slow connections are a London thing (Yorkshire here.)
Re: Three letters
The earliest recorded usage of TLA was as Three Letter Acronym. The other usage is just a ret-con :)
A bit like
Tesco and Sainsburys moving the price of bog standard Aussie wines up from a fiver a bottle a few years ago to £13.99 so that they can then give us amazing half price offers at 7 quid.
Not there yet.
Come back to me when Apple is powering a data-centre from 10 hectares of snails.
Hmmf. This just smells of a large quantity of aged testicles to me.
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