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that is conceivably the one thing that could get me to leave here. i suspect and hope that it is as likely as me being given a wedgie by a space alien. if anything i suspect he pr implosion this is causing is going to make this inane approach radioactive among the gaming community, and nobody would come withing 50 feet of it..

the obvious answer is that it works on a few body types and looks like hell on others or at different slider settings, and they want to make them look good, not have egregious clipping issues. some pieces already do, and people overlook them for their piece's inherent coolness (the bolero has this) but i dont blame them to not want to make the game have too many pieces that just get slapped on that clip badly, now see my above post for why i think some pieces could be allowable, but some, maybe we could be a little calmer and more rational about. and make less ultimatums. david did predicate these threads with a warning that if it gets nasty, he is out, so lets not burn the bridge with silly threats, even if made in jest.

think she was, then she got moved to dungeon runners, and now is working on second earth. a heavy anthro- mmo.

not too much on me, thankfully, but far more than i'd like..and im going to rip my auto insurance agent a new one tomorrow. i pay well ahead, and never am late nor have i gotten in any accidents, i don't need my personal info up on the web. upside is i found a friend from grade school who i lost track of, and we parted on very good terms, so might send an email on a public social networking site he belongs to...so i'm a hypocrite

oh, and that spokeo site is just freaking dangerous,how that much info being aggregated and posted is even legal is troubling to me. though fortunately it is also comically inaccurate. I cant wait to tell my step-father that he is african american...wont He be surprised?

it Is a dangerous way to make a point, it does make it, but this was not that guy's decision, and he is now singled out for possible reactions from unhinged individuals. It does make the point somewhat more concrete though. Now had they done it to an activision-blizzard executive...

EDIT: nice of blizz to toss one of their workers under the bus there. gimmie the name of the executive that thought this was a solution and then we can talk. Theya re making atari look like pr wizzes here. just read the thread, the dangers have been described many times in this thread. and they aint pretty.

I dunno, sounds like a boast, personally I'm a cox'er, bend over.

totally, your family came from a line of German home builders

not really, maybe some action needed taken, i mentioned the whole "get a sufficient number of mods and enforce the existing tos" idea earlier, but this idea is simply one made in ignorance of the considerations needed for doing business online, and really is baffling given blizzard's usual name for good customer interactions. they drew their pistol to shoot the problem, and instead team killed half their allies, if i may make a game related metaphor. doesnt matter, enforcement of the existing rules by a large and trained number of moderators could have thinned the moron herd fast, that is blizz's job really, they bring in more money than some countries, get a sufficient sized moderation staff, or get them pursuing disruptive elements more aggressively, they have the tools already to deal with the tools. Baker's law is, bad customers chase out good customers,http://thenonbillablehour.typepad.co..._law_bad_.html investing in and empowering the staff to deal with bad customers would only help them in the long run.

(i'm so droll)

shouldn't or not, they do, its reality, and the reality in which blizz makes this decision, and that is why it is very very bad. HR does a lot worse in their ideas, but this is a serious risk that someone could be written off because management fad of the week says that "gamers dont make good executives" and your career gets torpedoed. there was one story about a executive honing leadership skills through wow, but there really is nothing on the broad scale that would indicate that running a guild is any more of a preparation for working with people than volunteering in a leadership capacity with a charity, mentoring a sports team, or any other real world leadership exercise. It was a fluff piece with a buzzword, nothing more. same reason that executives were reading the "book of five rings" for a while, it had a little buzz that it may affect executive performance strategy, those fads come and go.

EDIT: woo, kali backs me up on the gamer discrimination point.

kindly point me to a single mmo company that has been able to shut down gold farmers, despite them universally acknowledging them being in violation of eula, legally. the eula is a policy with the customers, they cant supersede the law of their countries, or else the nonsense we had with the gold spammers would never have happened. a customer could sue a company over an eula violation on their part because it would be a violation of contract, but companies that operate outside of the eula cannot have any legal action taken against them, outside of in game consequences. The post i was responding to was about enforcing this new privacy policy in countries with stronger guarentees of privacy, and wether it would affect their ability to operate in those countries, post me a relevant link if you have one, otherwise you are not addressing the point i made.

as for the rest, bottom line is that putting up personal information online can be harmful, and by doing this they are willfully exposing their customers to additional risk. Their heart may be in the right place, but they are showing a complete lack of knowledge of technology. i have yet to see someone using the inherent capacities of fire to eb able to find my address , place of work and phone number and use them to harass me, i suspect the wheel similarly lacks those features, reasonable people understand the difference between the risks of different applications of technology and plan accordingly to mitigate those risks.

eula's are tricky, they generally are unenforceable in court, I'm just thinking that in counties with more strict privacy laws, this could affect their ability to operate legally in those countries, you may remember that in china the government tried to flex their control over wow a few times now, threatening their license to operate there.
and yeah, i said i doubted it would "kill" them, but i don't doubt that a number of people might find this action by a business so onerous that they will leave out of principle.

in the long run i suspect this will be rescinded by the weekend, the pr is toxic at this point, and the flaws are just too glaringly apparent.

honestly, this is what i was going to post as well, the main way to clean up the forums is to use that pornographic amount of cash they are getting and hire a legion of reliable mods, then giving them the authority and training to weed out and MAINTAIN the exclusion of undesirables. (I highlight maintain because a lot of companies do a quick push and then let things slide once things get better) if someone violates the tos after a succinct warning BAN HIM, lower tolerance and have the number of people to make sure that the rule of law stays enforced consistently is what is needed. It will lose people, but wow can handle it, and this will certainly lose more.

eh anecdotes aren't data, the wow community is very large, the capacity is there, even if it only happens to 1% of the people, if that one percent is you, its an issue when you are getting harassed at work by a unhinged individual. and one percent of 10 million is a hundred thousand.

if you'd like i can link you to the story of the russian guy who was knifed over a counter strike duel. and wow is a game with pvp, right? lets let male ego and jock humiliation sit atop the ability to find people.

also, for your example, maybe you just find yourself at odds with rational people a lot, so you are safe.

to be fair, he only said that would be in place if you were also "gambling" on higher rewards, so it does make sense from a gaming perspective. FFXI relied more on old and thankfully outdated game mechanics for its punishing mechanics, including the deleveling that made me leave the game, but so long as you still were guaranteed the base reward if you didnt gamble, that is not as comparably bad as ff's punishments. It woudl make me a great deal more cautious about what kind of tf i was joining though. that and he is the lead animator and didnt have to worry about being responsible for making this call .

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1925705 en garde

not sure if you planned it this way, but this note can be taken to mean two very different things, both of which have already come to pass.

still not buying it. I agree that the third of fourth time somebody should have learned, that was the police and gotham justice system, not bats. bats acts as a deputized police officer, he is authorized to apprehend the criminal, not try him, and not to execute a sentence on him. He is not responsible for a role that he does not take.and you should check the limitations of deadly force, they are a great deal more nuanced than how you present it here. clearly the joker presented numerous times when bats could have used that justification reactively to an attack, but once he neutralizes the threat,justifiable deadly force goes bye bye.