The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

Today's Public Service Announcement:

If you are wagering on preseason football....

...then you probably have a gambling problem.

I remember this story about 10 years ago about Steelers fans. Fellas wife is 9 months pregnant and water breaks during the game. He wouldnt go so she had the neighbors drive her to the hospital. Yeap...It was a preseason game.

 

[Ryujin]

Enough with (+) threads. It's high time someone was honest enough to try and post a (-) thread.

Wouldn't that sort of be like having a "Caucasian Day Parade" in Iceland?

 

[Velderan]

Being so disinterested in the direction of a games design that you're going to buy it anyhow is certainly one way to send a message to the publisher, but it's probably not the one you want them to receive.

 

[payn]

All this MMO talk reminds me of a time I was in a PUG in DDO back in 2008. One teens says the game is great and informs everyone over voice chat its based on an "old" pen and paper game. They question whether folks still play that way. Another member of the chat says in poor countries without internet and electricity they do....

 

[deganawida]

Every so often, I see an argument made by a poster, and I think how grateful I am that said poster is neither my child or my employee, because in either case they would likely be too entitled for my patience.

 

[MarkB]

After you have stated your position clearly, not once, not twice, but three or more times... and the other side still disagree, why do you (both of you) keep going and going and going?

Because if they stop first, that means I'm right.

Sexual tension.

It's the unfriendly version of "you hang up", "no, you hang up."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

All this MMO talk reminds me of a time I was in a PUG in DDO back in 2008. One teens says the game is great and informs everyone over voice chat its based on an "old" pen and paper game. They question whether folks still play that way. Another member of the chat says in poor countries without internet and electricity they do....

Ironically, that's how fans of every other MMO talk about DDO.

 

[payn]

Ironically, that's how fans of every other MMO talk about DDO.

I wouldn't know, I have been out of MMOs since 2009. Obviously, some still going, but are there many?

 

[Staffan]

Something something malice and stupidity.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wouldn't know, I have been out of MMOs since 2009. Obviously, some still going, but are there many?

A few big ones, a few survivors hanging on by their fingernails (EverQuest 1, amazingly, is still going, with graphics that are now decades out of date) and a few dead ones that have been resurrected by fans on their own servers.

Probably the most successful one to launch in the last few years is Sea of Thieves, which blurs the line between a traditional MMO and a standard multiplayer console game. The fiddly stuff found in most MMOs is simply not present in that game.