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Quote:I like DM myself; high ST damage, self heal in the attack chain (less important now that EA has a "proper" heal but still useful) and has a -ToHit component to the attacks that will help boost your effective defence.Originally Posted by DeathHarvester
Been a while since I've played a scrapper and thinking of making a new one to try out /ea. Just wondering what are others thoughts on a good primary to round the build out. Bad thing is I have no goal in mind yet which is why I'm having trouble deciding on what to pair it with. So if anyone would be so kind shoot me some ideas and why (such as good concept, good combo, would be hard too not kill, does really good dmg or whatever the reason may be).
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Quote:Having your parents enter into a contract on your behalf (which is essentially what is happening here if you're under 18) is not against the law. All of the other things you just listed are either illegal for under 18s to engage in or would fall under exactly the same restrictions as the EULA (in the case of most credit agreements).Originally Posted by Melancton
Yes. Yes, I did. My parents are totally down with it. They also gave me permission to buy a car on credit and purchase liquor and tobacco for them as well. Trust me, I absolutely asked them and they said Yes. Cross my heart.
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Quote:This is why HTTPS should be mandatory for all sites these days, though given the appalling state of the CA infrastructure it wouldn't necessarily help most people that much anyway...Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
Any belief that you have any privacy once you start sending information via the internet is... quaint. At least NCSoft spells it out.
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Quote:Again, the EULA is irrelevant here; you either live in a country where virtual items purchased for cash are treated the same as physical property (as is the case in some Asian territories) and therefore you "own* everything you purchase to some extent or you don't and therefore have no ownership of it.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
For instance - If you buy five enhancement unslotters, do you know for certain whether you "own" those enhancement unslotters? Can they be taken from you? Can they even be said to be "things" that you are capable of losing?
As IANAL I can't tell you the effect that such laws have on games and services that cease to operate, however, I do know how they impact theft of virtual items.
A EULA is just a contract that says "There either aren't laws that cover this or the laws that exist require us to get your permission, so that's what we're doing".
I'll say this again because people don't seem to be getting it, but a EULA cannot permit either party to break local laws, nor can it criminalise legal behaviour. All that it *can* do it to set out terms that, if breached, could lead to account termination or - in the extremes - civil penalties.
*AND* all of the above is dependent on the EULA actually being ruled as legal and enforceable by a court in your local jurisdiction, which is fuzzy at best in most cases. -
Quote:Oh I know, my point was simply that the TARDIS clearly *is* capable of sustaining a far more substantial paradox and thus in principle could be quite capable of sustaining the one they were shooting for in this episode.Originally Posted by Zikar
The Master had spent considerable time and resources converting the TARDIS to be able to do that though and it was all undone once his additions were destroyed.
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Quote:Also, given that not long ago the TARDIS was able to sustain a large chunk of the human race travelling millions of years back along their own time line to massively alter their own past on the whim of The Master, I feel that the argument that it couldn't sustain two Amys at the same time a little weakOriginally Posted by Lazarillo
Ending disappointed me. I expected that when the Doctor said he had a plan to save them both, it would be a little more inspiring than "Lie and lock Older!Amy outside the TARDIS", rule #1 notwithstanding.
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Quote:From the Steam Subscriber Agreement:Originally Posted by MAD UMLAUTS
Cute. I use steam yes but i can decide what it has access to. Ncsoft will have access to all my storage devices.
Someone said it better than me on another forum
Which is even vaguer than the NCSoft EULA in that regard.Quote:Steam and the Software may include functionality designed to identify software or hardware processes or functionality that may give a player an unfair competitive advantage when playing multiplayer versions of any Software, other Valve products, or modifications thereof ("Cheats") -
Quote:A free punch in the balls is still a punch in the ballsOriginally Posted by Chaos Creator
Disagree, anything goes wrong talk to him get money. Also I have a norton sub for the next 30 years.
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Quote:That's still not a good reason...Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
Because my father works for Symantec
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Quote:You'd be surprised. How often you do read website T&C or Privacy Policy pages? Despite the fact that they're almost 100% unenforceable due to being unilaterally dictated "contracts" without explicit agreement, they nonetheless "permit" these sites to do pretty much the same things as most EULAs do.Originally Posted by UberGuy
But notably, these sites (well, other than this one, soon) do not have terms of use that state that they can do anything they want with data on my computer because I visited them.
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Quote:Presumably you don't use Steam then? Or play anything that needs Punkbuster? Or play any other MMOs? Or install and use anything like Mids' or Herostats or Titan Sentinel (or their equivalents for any other games)? Or, in fact, install any software, including operating systems, on your PC, or connect it to the internet?Originally Posted by MAD UMLAUTS
And whatever monitoring they will use will be exploitable.
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IIRC they're untouchable and therefore not affected by any external buffs or debuffs.
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Quote:Blah blah blah, we might check to make sure you're not trying to cheat. To everyone who thinks NCSoft is doing something outrageous and new, I invite you to read *any* game or application EULA - they all make absurdly broad claims about what companies can and may do if they feel like it, however, *nothing* they say can trump your local laws, assuming they're even enforceable in the first place.Originally Posted by Westley
...and this is why.
This is a gross violation of my privacy and civil rights, and I will not subject myself to this. I will be unsubscribing permanently as soon as I send this message. I'm posting this so that whoever in NCSoft may see it that may change this. If you take this out, I may continue to subscribe in the future. But as it stands, I'm done. I've been paying for the past seven years almost, and for the last two or three without even playing most of the time. No more.
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Quote:AKA, we might check to make sure you're not trying to cheat.Originally Posted by MAD UMLAUTS
I mean the privacy section.
NCSOFT HAS THE RIGHT, BUT NO OBLIGATION, TO MONITOR OPERATION OF ANY SERVICE, CONTENT OR SOFTWARE AT ANY TIME AND IN ANY MATTER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MONITORING COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACES, STORAGE DEVICES, RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY OR CPU PROCESSES RELATED TO HARDWARE YOU USE WITH THE GAME. SUCH MONITORING MAY ALSO INCLUDE, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, MONITORING FOR THE PURPOSES OF DETECTING SOFTWARE UNDER SECTION 8(c) or 8(e). YOU CONSENT TO THE FOREGOING MONITORING AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NCSOFT MAY, AT ANY TIME, AND IN ANY MANNER, COMMUNICATE ANY INFORMATION BETWEEN HARDWARE YOU USE WITH THE GAME AND ANY MECHANISM NCSOFT MAY CHOOSE FOR SUCH COMMUNICATIONS. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS A RESULT OF SUCH MONITORING NCSOFT MAY IN ITS SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION TAKE ANY ACTION, OR NO ACTION WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (i) CHANGING ANY PORTION OF THE SERVICE, CONTENT OR SOFTWARE; (ii) SEEKING RECOURSE AGAINST YOU BY WAY OF ANY PROCEEDING NCSOFT DEEMS APPROPRIATE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES; AND/OR (iii) DETERMINING THAT YOU ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND TERMINATING YOUR ACCOUNT UNDER SECTION 3(b) OR SECTION 3(c). NCSOFT HAS THE RIGHT, BUT NO OBLIGATION, TO PROVIDE YOU WITH NOTICE BEFORE SUCH TERMINATION.
Im considering unsubbing.
You have to understand that EULAs are written very broadly to provide the maximum legal protection to the company in question in the event that a user tries to sue them for doing something such as implementing anti-cheating measures. Irrespective of how legally enforceable EULAs as a concept may or may not be, they can *never* trump your local laws.
Do not think for one minute that what NCSoft are putting in their EULA is in any way "worse" than any other company providing any kind of software or IT service. -
Quote:I don't think so, she wasn't bitter and angry at the end, she seemed calm and accepting, not the kind of person who would wage a war across time and space to destroy the Doctor. Plus, she was either killed by the bots attempting to "care" for her and/or erased from time when the TARDIS left...and why would she use her own daughter as a weapon against him?Originally Posted by Wooden_Replica
-I'll also add, I think older Amy will become the eyepatch lady, since we know the Doctor lies, we can't be certian the reason he didn't let her in, was paradox, or some other reason.
If there was never an expectation that alien lifeforms would be present on the planet when the facility was built then it's entirely possible that such an event was never accounted for. Having advanced technology doesn't make you any smarter when it comes to planning for contingencies.Quote:My only real issue is that we have this advanced planet under medical isolation, that can't tell when a non-native accidently gets into the system -
Quote:Well of course, because in the context of what was happening that's exactly what he meant, but when has anything the Doctor said only had one meaning?Originally Posted by Samothrake
I caught that, but Rory said "if you're Amy."
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Quote:Go read some game and application EULAs some other time, they're fantastically entertaining in a sort of "If I actually believed that any of this was literally enforceable I would never use a piece of software again in my life" sort of way.Originally Posted by MAD UMLAUTS
After reading it, the whole part where you allow them to install spyware is worse than anything i heard.
My personal favourite clause is always the "We're not liable for anything, even if we do it intentionally and people have told us that it's going to screw things up".
What you'll usually find is that there is also a clause that essentially says "Except where local laws render this unenforceable", which usually accounts for about 80% of the EULA content. -
If anything has changed, it hasn't be documented in any of the patch notes.
Changing the reward tables to skew them towards Keyes would be an *astonishingly* stupid move by the devs, if for no other reason than the fact that the new iTrial is launching with i21 in less than a week's time.
Rule one of CoH, don't listen to what random people tell you because 9 times out of 10 they're wrong. Rule two of CoH, don't click the glowies on the respec trial. -
Quote:You forgot Vigilance...Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
I'll add;
Union
Defiant
Zunkunft (sp)
Are the former EU servers, so the primetime for them would be off hours for the US. -
Remember that Freedom and Virtue, despite being the most populous servers, are not necessarily the "best" servers to play on for you. If you play at odd times or like doing different things (i.e. Not AE farming or RPing respectively) then you may find other servers are better suited to you.
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Excellent episode, but did anyone else spot the Doctor's comment "Sometimes knowing your own future is what enables you to change it, especially if you're bloody-minded, contradictory and completely unpredictable"?
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Shiny.
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Quote:There's nothing worse than an illiterate homophobe...Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Spelling is important, and both of them are censored because a lot of people are poor spellers.
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Quote:It's like with the old P2P argument; is the primary use infringing (offensive) or is it a minor secondary effect.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Is "queen" still viable in-game? "Fairy"? "Nancy"? Seems a bit of a double standard if so.
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Quote:Probably. Most countries have their own colourful array of offensive slurs available in racist, homophobic and generic flavours.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I've never heard of the first two on the offensive list, Forbs
Is that a difference across the pond?