New Testingstan

I blame tv

People don't go to doctor to be told things anymore

They go to doctor to make a series of demands cause they already know the 'answers'

axe ur doctor if VIAGRA is right 4 u

I don't just mean ads because plenty of that shit doesn't happen here

I mean tv that creates the illusion of competence of knowledge in viewers such that they believe they understand some complex issue or system by osmosis

You mean like a variant of the 'CSI effect' but with House instead?

Yeah.

I don't even think its specific to what's in question

People get the idea that a smattering of knowledge is 'just like' an in depth understanding of something because LIKE ON TV

It's like when guys talk about IT problems using words they've heard tech guys or help desk use, and they don't even know what they mean

'reboot the desktop to restore the disk image'

Yeah right guys

Admitting you simply don't know what you're talking about is too hard for people these days

Alot of the problem is that medicine is run like a business, with "get them in, get them out" attitudes and shit like that. It's baffling to me why medicine is a for-profit enterprise anymore.

Money talks, that's why.

Flagg wrote:Alot of the problem is that medicine is run like a business, with "get them in, get them out" attitudes and shit like that. It's baffling to me why medicine is a for-profit enterprise anymore.

big pharma

People using money to protect the sources of their money

It's almost like wealth creates an oppressive class or something

So I hear there's already a lot of nerd-rage about Diablo 3, about the graphics ("they would have looked good in 2004") and about the "dumbed-down" game mechanisms ?

can't really be bothered to give a fuck about diablo 3

more interested in torchlight 2

Zod wrote:can't really be bothered to give a fuck about diablo 3

more interested in torchlight 2

NEERRRRRD RAEG

Zod wrote:can't really be bothered to give a fuck about diablo 3

Neither do I, not having played the first two ones in the first place. I'm just curious to see how Blizzard is going to deal with the NERD RAEG, given that they, like Valve, seems to have made videogames nerds their own little bitches in the past decade or so.


From the few blurbs I have read left and right, the negative reactions seems to boil down to "They changed it ; now it sucks" - basically nerds just wanting to be fed the same re-hashed shit again and again (See : Mechwarrior Online). Mind you, my dataset is very narrow (3 or 4 individuals), so it may be biased...

Oxymoron wrote:So I hear there's already a lot of nerd-rage about Diablo 3, about the graphics ("they would have looked good in 2004") and about the "dumbed-down" game mechanisms ?

How can the game mechanisms get any more dumbed down than D2? However, the graphics are pretty and I'm playing on low.

Why does every game have to have cutting edge new age graphics?

Gands wrote:

Oxymoron wrote:So I hear there's already a lot of nerd-rage about Diablo 3, about the graphics ("they would have looked good in 2004") and about the "dumbed-down" game mechanisms ?

How can the game mechanisms get any more dumbed down than D2? However, the graphics are pretty and I'm playing on low.

Why does every game have to have cutting edge new age graphics?

how else are they going to justify spending $5000 on a wateredcooled tower with ten SSDs that was made obsolete 6 months later?

how can you dumb down point and click combat

Zod wrote:can't really be bothered to give a fuck about diablo 3

more interested in torchlight 2

torchlight one sucked so....

and man the changes are the only reason i have any interest in d3 at all

the formula is crap and probably replaced by dd lol

boy i like it when somebody basically says the same thing as me but in the sort of tone you'd use to correct someone

Losonti Tokash wrote:boy i like it when somebody basically says the same thing as me but in the sort of tone you'd use to correct someone

broomsticked

Veef wrote:how can you dumb down point and click combat

"Not enough micromanagement"

look we have all these keys on the keyboard and we get paid by the button mapping

Gamers...

Tetris inventory?