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Real Name Ted Smith   
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Signed On Feb 5, 2004, 02:08
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News Comments > WoW Death Knights Expand
33. Re: WoW Death Knights Expand Jan 9, 2009, 16:08 Teddy
 
If you cant handle peoples opinions, you shouldnt visit internet forums

The only one I see that can't handle someone's opinion is you.

More important than that little point is that when you claim to be "stating facts" then you are no longer giving your opinion. While you may like to think that they fuck things up all the time and do everything wrong, the world as a whole proves you wrong every single day, with every single new account created. How many years old and still growing? Yeah, they fuck everything right up don't they?

Of course you'll point to a dozen other trolls like yourself who claim to know better than anyone else about how the game "should" be, and you'll somehow try to insult anyone who's perfectly happy with the game, simply because you aren't. At some point along the way you have to stop and think... maybe it's you. How can millions upon millions of people be playing the game and be happy enough with it to keep paying and keep playing while you mire away in anger, frustration and self-pity because you think you know better about how the game "should" be?

Retard.
 
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News Comments > US Army Game Plans
10. Re: US Army Game Plans Nov 23, 2008, 22:11 Teddy
 
*NOTE: only free if you are not a US citizen

Eh. People seriously make way too big a deal about it being tax funded, trying to play like they're owed something for their 'contribution' to the game's funding. The reality is that the average person in the US pays $0.02 per year toward the game.

The fact that people feel the need to obsess over that tiny an amount of cash and must consistently point out that it's not "free" because they paid a whole 2 cents last year for it is about as anal and petty as you can get if you ask me.
 
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News Comments > Three-Day WoW Downtime Credit
5. Re: Three-Day WoW Downtime Credit Nov 1, 2008, 20:59 Teddy
 
Don't know what realm people are on that they're claiming 3 weeks of instability. My server is a high pop server and while the server was messed up the day of the patch until 9 or 10pm, it's been flawless since.  
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News Comments > Fallout 3 Interview
31. Re: Fallout 3 Interview Oct 27, 2008, 21:54 Teddy
 
I don't hold any regard for the human race at all. I believe we are a scourge, a vermin on this planet. After all we are most likely talking about a self inflicted apocalypse.

Then please do the earth (and the rest of us) a favor and kill yourself. One less vermin on the planet.
 
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News Comments > WoW Plague Plagues WoW
43. Re: WoW Plague Plagues WoW Oct 27, 2008, 19:04 Teddy
 
Its the children who sit down and whine instead of using the brain to understand that the game has temporarily changed. As this plague spreads across the land.

Which is of course your attempt at trying to seem older. I know many people 30+ who are irritated as hell about this event.

It's not the zombies, it's not the fact that you can get infected. It's the fact that douchebags are making it a point to kill off as many flight masters in obscure locations as they can, leaving you to either spend the extra half hour walking somewhere, or waiting on the mob to respawn only to be infected yourself, die and respawn just in time to watch them kill the flight master again.

The story is interesting. The implementation is pathetic and poorly thought out. They should at the very least have the healers standing beside all the flight masters alongside some heavy duty 75+ guards that will destroy anyone trying to kill flight masters. I could care less about any other npcs.
 
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News Comments > Fallout 3 Midnight Launch Events; Steam Pre-Purchase
16. Re: Fallout 3 Midnight Launch Events; St Oct 25, 2008, 15:43 Teddy
 
I remember when some stores sold hl2 a couple days early, valve refused to let them unlock their RETAIL COPIES THEY BOUGHT to play. They had to wait until the actual day of release, and it wasn't midnight that day either.

It's funny to me that you blame Valve for that and not the stores that sold the copies early, even though THEY knew full well that Valve had no intention of unlocking the games before the official release day.
 
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News Comments > Stardock's DRM Plans
20. Re: Stardock's DRM Plans Oct 25, 2008, 01:08 Teddy
 
Anyone with an ounce of knowledge would know that putting stuff in quotes (as in you make quotes with your fingers) means you're not 100 percent sure on the actual details.

Actually, they mean the exact opposite. When you put things in quotes, it means you are DIRECTLY quoting something (as in, you are repeating word for word of what someone else has said), or as stated by someone else, are referencing a title of something. Quotes NEVER mean you are not 100 percent sure on what's inside them, not even if you're tacky enough to use the whole "quotes with your fingers" thing.
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News Comments > Mythic on WoW's WAR "Imitation"
48. Re: Mythic on WoW's WAR "Imitation" Oct 21, 2008, 14:40 Teddy
 
Open world PvP existed a hell of a long time before WAR came out too. So did the idea of levelling through PvP. I don't know why this douche thinks they did something so original that they can call other people out on it.
 
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News Comments > WoW Paid Customization Coming
45. Re: Really? Oct 13, 2008, 17:04 Teddy
 
Well now. This sealed the deal for me. I was waffling about cancelling my pre-order for WotLK, but this money milking scheme has made the decision for me. Act/Bliz the next EA. There seems to be execs there that need to be donkey-punched in the face until they're in a coma.

Rofl. Whine a little more, you belligerent, angst filled moron. They're offering a new service, possibly charging for it and rather than realizing that if you just ignore it, then NOTHING CHANGES FOR YOU. The game is exactly the same. Yes, how dare they offer something that you don't have to pay for that has nothing more than a superficial effect on the game. As a matter of fact, how dare they add bear mounts to an instance that requires that you spend a lot of time in game raiding and learning how to play to acquire. Damn money grubbing bastards... all they want is for you to play more and keep spending your money. They should have just given those mounts away for free!

All I can say now is I'm glad I won't be seeing you in game (if you're not flat out lying as I suspect you are about canceling). One less whiny tool to deal with, only a few million more to go.

 
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News Comments > PC EndWar Planned?
13. Re: No subject Oct 7, 2008, 22:36 Teddy
 
Weren't Tom Clancy books *always* about subterfuge and never brute military might? What's the game going to consist of, you guiding one commando unit around a druglord's hacienda looking for hostages?

The book itself is pretty mediocre. Had a delayed flight and picked it up at a bookstore in the airport to read through while I waited and while I normally enjoy Tom Clancy books, this one was... well, pretty dull.

It does, however involve larger scale conflicts than Rainbow Six and much of the Jack Ryan series so in this case, an RTS isn't really out of the question. Though I get the impression this book was written based on the game rather than the other way around, which may explain why it's lacking in depth.

 
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News Comments > etc., etc.
3. Re: No subject Sep 19, 2008, 23:56 Teddy
 
Is Stubbs worth $4.99? I've always been interested in it, and at that price it's less than a good drink around here...

I thought it was amusing for a short while. More than enough to be worth $5.

 
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News Comments > Fallout 3 Censored for AU, and Everywhere Else Too
14. Re: Shame Sep 9, 2008, 20:33 Teddy
 
Really now.... this is some serious over-reacting by people. The altered version, according to what he actually says is that the drugs in the game now use fictional names instead of real world names.

Did Fallout 1 or 2 use real world names for drugs? No.

OMG THEY'RE DUMBING DOWN THE GAME! THEY'RE NOT MAKING IT LIKE THE ORIGINAL!! ... Oh wait....

Idiots. The original 2 games didn't suffer for having this exact same level of "censorship". Why are people assuming this one will?

 
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News Comments > Gold - Mac Call of Duty 4
4. Re: No subject Sep 5, 2008, 20:03 Teddy
 
If I want to manufacture biological weapons with my copy of iTunes, I will, fascists. Ditch this bullshit.

Classic.

 
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News Comments > EA: Second-Hand Games a "Critical Situation"
87. Re: Aug 29, 2008, 19:18 Teddy
 
Way to rant on and show your ignorance Creston. I said what I did because I know it to be a fact. Of the many jobs I've had, one of them happened to be managing a video rental store (Yes, it was part of a big chain) and I'd take a solid bet that I know more about that particular industry than you do. We certainly paid less per copy than a small rental store did, but it was still more than you would pay for a personal copy for the exact reason that I specified.

You cannot buy a movie and rent it out legally without the express permission of the studios that hold the copyright. That permission comes with an additional cost because you are technically making public showings of their product and making money off of it.

Next time you think to open your mouth on a subject that you know jack shit about, maybe you should just save yourself the time and stick your foot in first.

 
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News Comments > EA: Second-Hand Games a "Critical Situation"
33. Re: Aug 28, 2008, 19:32 Teddy
 
The only way I'd even buy a non-resalable game is if the purchase price was 10-20% of a normal game.

Jebus... you people are so eager to bash that you don't even bother to read. First, he's absolutely right that game stores reselling games is a direct rip off from the game's developers as the stores bank every penny and don't have to give a cent to any suppliers that would trickle down to the publisher and developer.

Second, he never once... NOT ONCE... I'll repeat, just so MAYBE you'll read it, NOT FREAKING ONCE EVER... did he say he was going to make games that are unable to be sold second hand. What he said was that they were trying to build games that are more online supported with additional services and additional content that you get online so people will see the value in buying the game. They're trying to give more advantages to people who bought the game responsibly rather than those who tried to save five or ten bucks by buying it in a way that gives the developer nothing.

People can bitch and moan all they like, but frankly people who buy used games and claim to be gamers or people who care about the video game industry disgust me. Spend the extra $5 and support the development companies, not just the vendors.

By the way, comparing rentals to resales is beyond ignorant. Rental companies are required to pay extra for copies of media that they intend to rent out for commercial gains, thus the game companies get a cut. Games stores that bought a copy of a used game back off you and resell it to another person are not presently in the same situation, though they sure as hell should be.

 
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News Comments > Space Siege DVD Patch
12. Re: No subject Aug 28, 2008, 07:44 Teddy
 
Actually, the game is pretty bad and it's reflected well in some very poor review scores as well.

The big thing that Action RPGs did was item gathering. Collecting bigger, better equipment all the time, trying to complete sets, etc. This game entirely removed all of that. There's a set amount of weapons that you find in specific points in the game, no randomness or chance involved, and the same can be said about the 'cybernetic enhancements'. They show up as plot points.

While the personal and weapon upgrades were a good idea, they hardly make up for the COMPLETE lack of variety in the game.

Essentially, they took everything that was good about the genre, removed it and said... look you can click on and kill aliens!

The strange thing is, the masses of gear options is the one thing that Dungeon Siege did very well along with it's seamless environments. I can't fathom why they would have removed it for this game, which was billed as Dungeon Siege IN SPACE.

 
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News Comments > Google Ad Sense for Games
21. Re: Adblock plus & flashblock Jul 30, 2008, 17:07 Teddy
 
I think Adblock Plus has that built in because I run just Adblock plus and I get no flash animations, no sliding banners, no nothing.

I think running anything with Adblock Plus is redundant. I believe adblock plus blocks everything. And I friggin love it!

You think wrong.

Adblock stops advertisements from being displayed, and yes it generally stops flash animation ads as well. What it doesn't stop are scripts that run in the background which are a large source of tracking cookies and other menial things that build up, as well as far more offensive adware/spyware/viral threats.

That's what noscript is meant to stop. You'd be shocked if you ran it to see how many sites have scripts running from known adware/spyware companies. I wouldn't consider surfing the web without it anymore.

Adblock Plus is a wonderful addon, but to suggest that Noscript is redundant when used in conjunction is just plain naive misinformation.

 
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News Comments > Hell's Kitchen: The Video Game Announced
22. Re: No subject Jul 10, 2008, 19:09 Teddy
 
I agree with you ... it's one thing to watch the show I peeked at a few episodes but in real life..not fake reality TV life that guy would be toast. I've seen people get their arms sliced in a kitchen for less than what he does.

Having worked under several corporate and executive chefs, I seriously question your experience in high end restaurants if you think anyone would dare touch Ramsay in his own kitchen.

Even a "whoops" accidental cut would be the end of your career, sentencing you to dwell in chain restaurants for the rest of your life, and if there's ANY suspicion that it was intentional, you're going to jail. Period.

More to the point, he's not even the worst chef I've seen. Like it or not, there are some REAL drama queens out there in the business.

 
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News Comments > Far Cry 2 Q&A
5. Re: No subject Jul 10, 2008, 07:22 Teddy
 
Remember, without piracy, you'd sell 15-20 times as many copies.

I know it's the cool thing to bash the guys at Crytek now, but really, they never once said that. What he said was very simply, he believes the game (Crysis) was pirated 15-20 times as often as it was sold. I don't find that particularly far fetched.

Of course I do take issue with his sentiment that they'd have sold significantly more copies if not for piracy. As far as I'm concerned, Crytek shot themselves in the foot striving to make a game that had such high system requirements, not to mention the demo was fairly underwhelming for me. The funny thing is, I had a copy available to me at one point (roommate bought, so not a penny of my own to spend on it) and never even got around to installing it, I was so apathetic toward the game.

Here's hoping Far Cry 2 draws more interest.

 
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News Comments > Age of Conan Still Popular
35. Re: AOC... Jul 1, 2008, 09:26 Teddy
 
I've been doing "x to y" quests for about 40 levels are so, so far haven't done anything out of the MMO ordinary. This might change when I start participating in PvP sieges of course.

Oh yeah, didn't they tell you? Those aren't in yet. Or as they like to put it, Sieges are in, there just aren't any guilds with Tier 3 cities because you can't build Tier 3 cities yet. So yeah, have fun with the amazing siege code we've implemented. That was about the point when I cancelled my subscription. That was a week or two ago, mind you.

Of course they may have fixed the problem with creating T3 cities by now, but considering it took them 3 weeks after launch to get stats to function... I have my doubts. Yes, that's right, at release the only stat that worked properly was Constitution. Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom... all useless at launch. It was cool. You could grind and kill and slave in a group dungeon for some kickass gear to realize after the fact that all that fancy equipment did exactly nothing to help you.

Edit: I've just checked and apparently they -have- corrected the issue and in the most recent patch they've put in the vendors necessary to buy siege weapons. You may now "apply" to siege someone elses battle keep.
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