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cumbom	Israel attacks Lebanon, leaving many dead Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 1:27:29 PM Just a thought... if you wait long enough... everything is bound to fall.... USA, Syria, Russia (for the second time), Canada, China, all of us... eventually the countries will fall. In about 4 billion years it will be whats left of the earth that falls.
cumbom	Good comp for WoW? Plz help! The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 7/16/06 1:22:47 PM didn't Bill Gates once say that no PC will ever need more than 256kb of ram?
cumbom	MMORPG subscription stats The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 7/16/06 1:14:49 PM Wow LOL, how far things have come for SWG.
cumbom	Did WoW Kill SWG? General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 7/16/06 1:08:25 PM LOL I think you take the topic too literally.
cumbom	Would you Buy a PS3 if you Could play EQ2 on it? The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 7/16/06 1:04:13 PM Originally posted by poopypants I'm still having trouble understanding why the OP uses EQ2, of all things, to ask about the PS3. There are gonna be MMOGs for the PS3 that will totally annihilate all PC MMOGs, in terms of quality! The PS3 is vastly more powerful than even the best, custom-built, state-of-the-art PC. Period! cumbom must really, REALLY like EQ2! I was just curious because of how powerfull the PS3 will be, I would certainly think about purchasing it, but it would really interest me to play a game as detailed as EQ2 with all settings completely maxed out.
cumbom	Mandatory Voting: Thoughts? Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 12:42:08 PM Let me rephrase that: Your post shows concern that a law like that could infringe on a percieved freedom, you go on to say politics isn't for you. No problem, but if a law that made voting mandatory caused you to think a little more about the country you live in and encouraged you to make your voice known even if to say "none of above" had the chance to make you a little more aware of other freedoms that may be in danger of being curbed, possibly freedoms more important than not having to spend a few minutes every 4 years or so making an x on a ballot, would it be worth it then?
cumbom	Better Music Game Suggestions « Everquest II 7/16/06 12:30:28 PM I think EQ2 has some great music, however... there is one compilation that kind of sounds like a phone ringing far in the background and it drives me freaking nuts!!!! My bloodpressure must spike when i hear that sound cause it makes me feel like i have to answer the phone at the office!
cumbom	Did WoW Kill SWG? General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 7/16/06 12:21:04 PM I was ok with not having the professions not being perfectly balanced, as long as they had some sort of role. There were ridiculous type things like defence stackers that seriously unbalanced the game. Ranged professions were basically useless except for their resists, and Squad leaders, CHs, and Rangers where also pretty useless. Like I said, its not anything that couldn't have been fixed, it just never was. I mean could you imagine how PVP could have been? Like at launch.... having a Ranger set up a huge Camp where entertainers and Docs could heal you and send you back out to the battle, where CMs could be great healers, and Riflemen and Carbineers could truly offer ranged support, while the melees went at it! The wasted potential is enormous. But thats all over. Back to the topic. I think the release of WoW didn't take players from SWG in great numbers, I think it just made SOE/LA think they could achieve the same results by drastically changing and re-marketing the game.
cumbom	Good comp for WoW? Plz help! The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 7/16/06 12:08:37 PM I'd recommend a 386 with 256kb of RAM, but make sure its VGA!!!! Should cost about a nickel. j/k
cumbom	Assassins Traits and Achievements The Tavern (General) « Everquest II 7/16/06 12:03:03 PM So when we choose traits as we level we should pick STR whenever possible, and ignore the rest? What doe INT directly affect, and should we only sink achievement points into it and not traits?
cumbom	Did WoW Kill SWG? General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 7/16/06 11:30:02 AM Originally posted by IcoGames Imo, WoW siphoned off those SWG players that were tired of a broken game. I knew a number of players that wanted to play WoW with every intention of returning to SWG once it was 'fixed'. That never happened. What SOE/LA thought they saw in WoW were particular game mechanics that attracted the masses. What they failed to realize was that above mechanics, players wanted a polished, relatively stable game. Fundamentally changing the game, not only alienated what was left of the player-base, but again introduced a whole slew of new bugs and broken mechanics. As I've said in a previous post, SOE/LA should've stuck with their original vision of the game and try to improve upon it. Imo, eventually SWG would've had exceeded the subscription numbers it had prior to WoW. I agree. I'll probably get flamed here but I actually prefer CU then the mess the game was in pre-cu, but I would have PREFFERED they fix PRE-CU instead of creating ther CU. Mind you last time I played PRE-CU the game was full of defense stacker-hologrinding-comp wearing-aoe spinners, and all the community was lost.
cumbom	Mandatory Voting: Thoughts? Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 11:25:24 AM In Australia, if you are of voting age you are required by law to vote, and can be fined and/or imprisoned if you don't. I don't know if this applies to only federal elections. Given the falling percentage of the eligible public that actually vote in elections (around 60% in Canada and the USA), should voting be made mandatory our countries? My opinion is that the only way it should be is if there is added to the ballet an abstain option. The reason I say this is that making voting mandatory may encourage those who wouldn't otherwise vote to become informed and at least attempt to make the best choice they can, however there will still be those that wish to remain blisfully unaware and will simply show up and check a random box, which cannot be good for democracy. At least the abstain option will hopefully keep such people from polluting the results.
cumbom	Asking for Opinions About War Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 11:17:30 AM Yes thats true, I have family there... we sometimes debate if that would be a good idea in canada... what a good idea for a new thread..... Off to make it first
cumbom	WHY DO AMERICANS HATE CANADIANS SO MUCH Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 11:16:02 AM Originally posted by admriker444 To me Canada is the United States without the military and evil corporatism that runs the country. I live about 4.5 hrs from the canadian border and when the annoucement for Martial Law comes I'll be crossing that border. We had martial law in the 70s, but only in Quebec, I wasn't born yey, but I'm guessing it wasn't fun?
cumbom	WHY DO AMERICANS HATE CANADIANS SO MUCH Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 11:14:13 AM Originally posted by cumbom Originally posted by Coldmeat I dunno about blaming Canada, though I do have alot of reservations about anyone who uses South Park as the yardstick by which they judge others. Personally, I think it's misdirected animosity towards Celine Dion that causes people to badmouth Canadians. QFE heheheh fixed
cumbom	WHY DO AMERICANS HATE CANADIANS SO MUCH Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 11:13:49 AM Originally posted by Coldmeat I dunno about blaming Canada, though I do have alot of reservations about anyone who uses South Park as the yardstick by which they judge others. Personally, I think it's misdirected animosity towards Celine Dion that causes people to badmouth Canadians. QFT heheheh
cumbom	WHY DO AMERICANS HATE CANADIANS SO MUCH Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 11:13:24 AM Americans are jealous: They want free healthcare (The US goverment pays more per capita, and more as a percentage of their GDP to supply only a small portion of their country limited healthcare) They want cheaper perscription drugs (Did you know that the perscription drug lobby in the US is so strong it almost caused the Free Trade Agreement to fall apart by insisting Canada double patent times for perscription drugs, unfortunately Canada agreed) Longer life span Free military protection Less crime Oil Natural Gas Life Expectancy Things Canada is Jealous of from the states: Television and Movies, happily we get most of it here HBO Mexican girls Southern Winters Las Vegas
cumbom	Did WoW Kill SWG? General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 7/16/06 10:59:06 AM Some say it was the players complaining about a broken and unbalanced game, and the devs going waaaay too far to try and fix it, but personally I think WoW killed SWG. Before WoW came out SWG was doing rather well for a North American game, 250k users was considered a success, but when WoW pulled millions LA and SOE likely decided that a Star Wars Franchise, much better known than the Warcraft franchise should be capable of achieving similar if not greater results, and that is what prompted the worst of the changes.
cumbom	Asking for Opinions About War Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 10:47:28 AM Also in Greece (Athens), serving in government was mandatory, every citizen had to do it once.
cumbom	Asking for Opinions About War Off-Topic Discussion « General Discussion 7/16/06 10:34:51 AM Just for the sake of argument, one might say that in the Case of a democratic country, attacking civillians (who are responsible for their governments actions) would be acceptable in the sense that they are the ones who, at least in principle, hold the strings of their government, and essentially their government is attacking the other country with the permission of its people. Some may also make the argument that attacking the civillian population of either government may induce the people to rise up against their governments for bringing this kind of hardship unto them. Another point of view may be that attacking any civillian population with the goal of having them rise up against their own government is unlikely to work in most cases, and more likely to achieve the opposite of the goal, which would be to solidify support for their government and their government's actions.

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