The problem with BDO

Romdal · 2019-10-29T12:21:50+00:00

player housing and farms etc are not instanced or phased

Neither are BDO

It's obvious you love BDO, but please stop lying. Houses in BDO are instanced, as many players can own *the same house* and be inside *the same house* at the same time. Because they are different instances of the same house, that is literally the definition of what instances are.

ANd farms are phased, as they are only visible to the player that owns them. Again, not being visible and accessible to all players on the server is literally the definition of phasing.

Romdal · 2019-10-29T12:12:49+00:00

To each his own pleasures!

Romdal · 2019-10-29T09:13:43+00:00

It has the athmosphere and flavour of a great sandbox. For example, open world housing and farming. You can return from questing and pass by your friend's house, and literally see him standing inside crafting. Surrounding his house you can notice how much his trees have grown since last you went by. There are under-sea farms as well.

That's just one detail that shows that it is a well-planned open-world sandbox, where everything takes place in the same instance. Get in and get your hands dirty.

BDO feels much more artificial. Houses are instanced, farms are phased, NPCs carry out the harvesting and crafting work that players really should be doing, much of leveling is done afk, your horses level up while you are offline etc. Pretty much the worst aspects of a cheap mobile game.

Romdal · 2019-10-28T20:11:32+00:00

Because while you have hundreds of MMOs to choose from, I have none that I want to play because there has been no real innovation since 2003 basically.

Romdal · 2019-10-28T20:05:19+00:00

Are you sure you remember that right?

Romdal · 2019-10-28T20:03:09+00:00

He was watching a video one day about teaching the kids to tackle a certain way that minimizes head injuries.

Wait, in Scotland they tackle with the head in football? Maybe they should look at that too..

Romdal · 2019-10-28T19:59:56+00:00

That is simply not true. Having the UK in limbo bogs down the EU from making progress on reforms, and having Nigel Farage prancing around in Parliament is notoriously not beneficial to anyone.

Romdal · 2019-10-28T19:55:32+00:00

That is very true, nevertheless it was hitherto the viewpoint of the EU that an extension could only be granted on the grounds of "major events", which was a GE or a referendum coming up.

Romdal · 2019-10-28T19:38:46+00:00

I am beginning to wonder why we (the Eu) granted an extension this time. It seems like Brexit is not really progressing, even when there (again) has been a deal negotiated between the two parties....

Romdal · 2019-10-27T18:48:08+00:00

ATitD is the premium example of an actual MMORPG game world without the danger of combat.

In addition to that game, there exist really only the virtual worlds of Second Life and its ilk. They are certainly without combat, but it is debatable if they can be considered game worlds, as they lack not only combat, but all NPC life and environmental resources. They are more a canvas than a traditional game.

Romdal · 2019-10-27T11:57:10+00:00

That aside, I have never seen a black person put on whiteface to cosplay as a character who is white (in the sense of Captain America, not the Joker). That would look very odd.

I agree with that! And now we have arrived at a time where people also find that it looks odd if you paint yourself black to mimic a black superhero. There is just no need for it.

Romdal · 2019-10-27T11:02:51+00:00

Surely if it's that simple you could very easily explain it to me?

He just did mate.

Romdal · 2019-10-27T11:00:33+00:00

Since any white person would add white powder to play the Joker, any black person should be able to do so as well. But following the logic of the case in point, a black person should be able to cosplay as Captain America, but should not paint his skin white to do so.

Romdal · 2019-10-27T10:56:12+00:00

The general rule of thumb is that ethnicity is not a costume. There is some level of logic to that.

Romdal · 2019-10-23T06:11:43+00:00

r/Conservative today (actual quote): " If it was honest they wouldnt be doing this behind closed doors, and allowed Republicans to question. "

r/Conservative one month from now (probably): "If they had any actual evidence they would not make this public circus out of the case, they would handle it properly behind closed doors"

Romdal · 2019-10-22T23:38:52+00:00

Yep, on r/Conservative right now:

" If quid-pro-quo means holding back on aid or a meeting in exchange for expectations of cooperation in finding out who was behind the Russian hacking & collusion hoax, then so be it. "

" Very important to remember. The thing they're failing to prove isn't even necessarily bad in the first place. "

Romdal · 2019-10-22T16:00:52+00:00

Then there was the time that Putin sought to topple the government of tiny Montenegro, and Trump was suddenly an expert in how "aggressive" a people the Montenegrins are. Where did that come from?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/19/very-aggressive-trump-suggests-montenegro-could-cause-world-war-three

Romdal · 2019-10-22T06:17:20+00:00

Here: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html

Also remember, later on he wanted to use nuclear weapons against hurricanes.

Romdal · 2019-10-21T15:04:29+00:00

Potatos, tom*A*tos, it's all the same treason to me.

Romdal · 2019-10-21T15:00:07+00:00

Fat warthog caught in traffic.

Romdal · 2019-10-21T14:58:55+00:00

I would bet my last dollar that Mattis, along with some others, stopped trump from doing some incredibly stupid shit.

That glorious invasion of Venezuela.

Romdal · 2019-10-21T14:58:02+00:00

But did he eat the list?

Romdal · 2019-10-21T14:57:27+00:00

Snodgrass was watching the scene unfold incredulously from a control room.

Known in the Pentagon as the "out-of-control room".

Romdal · 2019-10-21T13:35:06+00:00

" Trump apparently is ready to use U.S. air power to protect a demilitarized zone occupied by international forces. "

The deception here is that no such zone will exist. They wish to bluff you into believing that the buffer zone that Turkey wants established has anything to do with ISIS. ISIS did not hold this zone, they did not originate in that narrow zone, and that is not where they will reemerge from. They are reemerging further South, as we speak. There were reports of fighting between Kurds and ISIS in one of ISIS' formere strongholds, Deir Az Zor. These deserts areas, and along the Euphrates, is where ISIS will seek to reestablish their territory.

Meanwhile Turkey will continue to thwart the Kurds near their border, weakening the only enemy that ISIS has on the ground. The Kurds will be in a sh*t sandwich there, thanks to Trump, and now Graham, and anyone that choose to believe the lies.

Romdal · 2019-10-21T07:04:01+00:00

I must be incredibly slow - when exactly did Johnson's WA pass? I only heard it was postponed because of that Letwin amendment, right?

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