Merusk
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Maybe that kid wasn't as dumb as we all thought he was. He had a dream, took a stab at it, got slapped down, didn't give up, and now he has run a successful business for a number of years. Do I personally value his product? No. Lots of other people do, and there is something to be said for that.
Yeah, and that something to be said was said by PT Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute."  It just lends to my ever-growing suspicion that all you have to do in life is give up entirely on ethics and you too can be a billionaire. Damn my parents for raising me 'right' instead. |
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Azaroth
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To be fair, swap WoW for EQ et. al., and that's pretty much the Shadowbane story up through #8.
Well, that's my point. The guy follows the tracks of basic logic up to a point, and then veers ridiculously when logic fails to meet his desires for the end result of the prediction. I'm not shocked or surprised, because I have plenty of experience with human beings. But I thought it was particularly amusing and topical. |
F is inviting you to start Quarto. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation?
You have accepted the invitation to start Quarto.
F says:
don't know what this is
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I think it's like
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where we pour milk on the stomach alien from total recall
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WindupAtheist
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I'm sure there must be some sort of ointment your guy can get that will take care of those problematic pointy things. At first I thought they were just bolted onto his skull somehow. Then I decided I'd rather believe that his whole skull and skeleton are metal, that he's some sort of Terminator (except with spikes, because he's hardcore) sent back by some future-ruling AI to terminate all the level 1 foxes and snakes and shit before they band together and form a resistance. |
"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild
"Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Delmania
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1. Darkfall releases at some unspecified date in the future.
2. Zillions of people buy boxes, make characters
3. Much ganking ensues. Cries of "This is a griefers game! I QUIT!" ensue
4. Bored WoW'ers go back to WoW
5. Some time later, bored gankers quit and start hyping up the next open pvp game
6. Servers merge
7. Darkfall slowly evolves into a fiercely competitive pvp game
8. Remaining subscribers form the core of a new playerbase that revolves less around ganking (though it will still happen to people who don't protect themselves, of course), and more around territory and resource control.
9. Darkfall slowly grows
10. Five years later, it has about 400-500K subs and is considered a classic
11. Everyone who signed up in the first week and quit at stage 3 wonders what happened.
There's your debacle for you. Courtesy of MMORPG.com. Watching someone derail their own train of logic based on how hard they're hoping for something to happen was hilarious, I found. There was a penny on the tracks here somewhere around 7, and the crash was epic. To be fair, swap WoW for EQ et. al., and that's pretty much the Shadowbane story up through #8. So, you predict that Darkfall is going to go free2play and get filled up with Asian players? |
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K9
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I'm sure there must be some sort of ointment your guy can get that will take care of those problematic pointy things. At first I thought they were just bolted onto his skull somehow. Then I decided I'd rather believe that his whole skull and skeleton are metal, that he's some sort of Terminator (except with spikes, because he's hardcore) sent back by some future-ruling AI to terminate all the level 1 foxes and snakes and shit before they band together and form a resistance. oh hai  |
I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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To be fair, swap WoW for EQ et. al., and that's pretty much the Shadowbane story up through #8.
And it is only about four orders of magnitude out on #10. |
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Triforcer
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All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu. This is the truth! This is my belief! At least for now...
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Arthur_Parker
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So it's still in beta?
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« Last Edit: January 22, 2009, 03:53:35 AM by Arthur_Parker »
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UnSub
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Darkfall will certainly have a home amongst the well made games of our time. Someone needs to frame that. Preferably with a white border. |
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WindupAtheist
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Making a Nodiatis thread on the Browser Game forum...
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild
"Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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LC
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I'm guessing that slightly-open beta isn't going to happen today. Their forums are down. The volunteer mods are telling everyone that the site is down due to a DDOS attack, and there is no ETA for a fix. That's a pretty convenient ddos attack.
UPDATE: I was just kicked from their IRC channel for suggesting that the DDOS attack is a lie. Working on a ban.
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slog
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I'm guessing that slightly-open beta isn't going to happen today. Their forums are down.
Well, historically speaking, MMO companies that are unable to keep their forums functioning properly have been able to leverage their experiences to increase game server stability. |
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FatuousTwat
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I'm guessing that slightly-open beta isn't going to happen today. Their forums are down. The volunteer mods are telling everyone that the site is down due to a DDOS attack, and there is no ETA for a fix. That's a pretty convenient ddos attack.
UPDATE: I was just kicked from their IRC channel for suggesting that the DDOS attack is a lie. Working on a ban.
Lol, nice. |
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Murgos
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I'm guessing that slightly-open beta isn't going to happen today. Their forums are down.
Well, historically speaking, MMO companies that are unable to keep their forums functioning properly have been able to leverage their experiences to increase game server stability. The words 'Negative Ping Code' raced through my mind... |
"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Signe
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UPDATE: I was just kicked from their IRC channel for suggesting that the DDOS attack is a lie. Working on a ban.
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Azaroth
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I don't really understand why the forums being down would prevent them from anything.
It's a fine excuse to do nothing and not speak to the community for weeks though, if they'd like to take it.
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F is inviting you to start Quarto. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation?
You have accepted the invitation to start Quarto.
F says:
don't know what this is
Az says:
I think it's like
Az says:
where we pour milk on the stomach alien from total recall
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waffel
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Is this where one of the wheels starts to kick up stones? edit: Just got banned from the irc channel, its being overrun with clones.  |
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LC
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I don't really understand why the forums being down would prevent them from anything.
It's a fine excuse to do nothing and not speak to the community for weeks though, if they'd like to take it.
All of their beta signups have just been vbulletin mods so far. I wouldn't really be surprised if beta accounts are just a special usergroup on their forum. They don't seem to have anyone actively developing their website. Preorder will probably be a paypal link on their forum. |
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LC
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Is this where one of the wheels starts to kick up stones? edit: Just got banned from the irc channel, its being overrun with clones. were you 'dfguestdfsd' ? They are banning for anything negative now: 11:01 < Charq> Darkfall is not real. 11:01 -!- Charq was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned] 11:02 < DFGuest280> if the game is not finished, OK but at least inform us instead of lie to us 11:03 -!- DFGuest280 was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned] 11:05 < Skjoldr> It is not a DDos attack. This is actually normal for a developer to be down for an extended period of time when making large changes. What is not the norm is when they just do it and dont tell anyone they are doing. OMG I AM SO FREAKING OUT!! 11:05 -!- Skjoldr was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned] 11:07 < Nazkar> vaporfall 11:07 -!- Nazkar was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned] |
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waffel
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No, I was waffel. I said something along the lines of "DDOS YEAH RIGHT HOW CONVENIENT" and got banned for caps :[
It got lost in the spam of people laughing people's excitement!
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Nebu
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I guess I don't see the point of joining an IRC channel where people are blindly praising something we all know to be a pipedream. Do you guys just get a kick out of pushing people's buttons or something?
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
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Vehementi
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Fucking with the moderators in a channel that is getting spammed makes you cool. And as a bonus, when they moderate you, you get to desperately hope that you can infer something negative about the game!
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... or not.
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LC
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I guess I don't see the point of joining an IRC channel where people are blindly praising something we all know to be a pipedream. Do you guys just get a kick out of pushing people's buttons or something?
Of course we do. It's like hanging out with the retarded kid. It's funny to watch him dance around while his pants are on fire. |
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Nonentity
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Hi guys!
This is gonna be a FUN thread today!
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
[20:42:41] You are halted on the way to the netherworld by a dark spirit, demanding knowledge.
[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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Mrbloodworth
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Apparently, the creator of the noob is going crazy, because everyone has flooded her shot box with Darkfall spam. "Gianna: For what is worth, I'm going to send them a list of the IPs of all the wankers spamming here with a request that they never get added to beta, now piss off." Its a good comic, that i enjoy very much. |
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ashrik
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Just another level of an NDA-on closed beta that is supposed to take the place of the "free trial" before purchase?
This DDoS is worse than that danged dog always eating my homework just before homeroom...
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tmp
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POW! Right in the Kisser!
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Hmm their forums seems to be online, it's just slow but that's probably to be expected:
Currently Active Users: 3396 (1803 members and 1593 guests)
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ashrik
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Oh dear, that is a number that is far too high!
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tmp
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POW! Right in the Kisser!
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Well, for comparison the European LotRO forums atm: Currently Active Users 346 (100 members & 246 guests) so yeah, lot of rubbernecking there  |
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rask
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They are banning for anything negative now:
11:01 < Charq> Darkfall is not real.
11:01 -!- Charq was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned]
11:02 < DFGuest280> if the game is not finished, OK but at least inform us instead of lie to us
11:03 -!- DFGuest280 was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned]
11:05 < Skjoldr> It is not a DDos attack. This is actually normal for a developer to be down for an extended period of time when making large changes.
What is not the norm is when they just do it and dont tell anyone they are doing. OMG I AM SO FREAKING OUT!!
11:05 -!- Skjoldr was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned]
11:07 < Nazkar> vaporfall
11:07 -!- Nazkar was kicked from #darkfall by ChanServ [You have been banned] That is absolutely hilarious |
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Azaroth
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That IRC room was great.
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F is inviting you to start Quarto. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation?
You have accepted the invitation to start Quarto.
F says:
don't know what this is
Az says:
I think it's like
Az says:
where we pour milk on the stomach alien from total recall
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ashrik
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*ahem*
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kildorn
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Does it count as a DDoS if you tell everyone to log in and you hit a deadlock condition you never noticed due to typically low load?
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waffel
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Do you guys just get a kick out of pushing people's buttons or something?
Uh. That is THE POINT of the internet. |
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