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LOTRO was good for couple of months until quest burnout, Vanguard was decent albeit if, and only if, you could put up with bugs, which I could. And I thoroughly enjoyed my first month of DCUO. And while I didn't care for Rift, many people did. <- all before FTP became the rage, and all...

Chicken meet Egg.

F2P killed the genre.

I'm sure it'll be golden. And before I get the "You wouldn't have done any better than Smed comment" from some jackass; with respect to EQNext (if nothing else), let me preemptively reply that, yes, I would have done better than Smed, as would a couple of others on this forum or on fohguild...

Ut blames everything on not-Smed, however the reality is SOE and EQ's demise rests solely with Smed for some of the reasons above. I really don't get why Ut likes to make excuses for him. As to the industry as a whole, an indie studio with kickstarter funding is not going to make the next great...

I've been busy. Those six-packs of Lone Star couldn't drink themselves. #caring

If that is the case, then that is because Smed didn't want to hear bad news.

By all accounts Smed has had a small coterie of folks he liked and that's who got promoted so you get idiots like Thom Terrazas as EQ Producer. #NotWinning

You're defending the guy who ran his company from #1 in market into an also ran? That's not how running a company well works.

So yes, you still have a soft spot for him since he would email you directly. The dude is incompetent.

Racist, ageist bullshit belongs in General. Protip: The Stupid, she knows no age or race.

It's basically what Smed did with EQ2: which he called his biggest regret (IIRC). 1. Develop new 3d engine 2. Slap on EQ name but change most things. 3. ???? 4. Profit (not so much).

We can only hope.

Last I checked, Smed was still running the organization. You still have a soft spot for him Ut?

I used to agree with the drug analogy (and probably used exactly your formulation). However, having spent more time on my peak in the Himalayas gazing at my navel, I now recognize it is flawed. The proper analogy is that of moving from one girlfriend to the next and then to the next. You...

Far, far, far too ambitious. All they needed to do was WoW+ or EQ++. EQ (or WoW) with better graphics and with the dynamic Mob AI to get rid of purely static spawns. Idiots.

I notice that nowhere in that list is "Fun".

AFAIK, the majority of the people playing EQL don't care about EQN. No hardcore (current of former) EQ player I know lasted very long playing EQL. Completely different playerbase: people who want Minecraft+ vs. people who want a new MMO. Anyway, don't forget the 2 Billion bucks Microsoft...

2 1/2.

EQL has far more cross-platform potential than EQN ever could.

Zehn Vhex, Grey, myself and a few others discussed almost (but not quite) everything (weapons giving abilities the only thing we missed) that went into the design document for EQNext in an FoHguild.org circlejerk thread circa 2007 or so and then had almost the same conversation again after...

Time is a flat circle.

Good example of Smed's incompetence. He bought Vanguard as a favor to his buddy Brad (Nepotism = idiot star). Found out it was buggier than chicken farm in August (No due diligence prior to a major purchase = idiot star). Then proceeded to ignore it for a few years until he got the Freemium...

Good. He was an twit who let personal feelings fuck up his design decisions (to whit: killing off the trinity for EQN because of God knows what relationship tragedy).

Smed was never competent. He got lucky with EQ in 1999 and milked that for years and years. In any other industry someone who took the number one selling product/IP and turned it into an also ran would have been fired long, long ago.

If you cancel every game in development, SOE would still be worth purchasing for the EverQuest IP. That said, while I loathe Landmark with the white hot passion of a Kurdish separatist, Landmark, unlike EQN, HZzzz, EQ or EQ2, has multi-platform breakout potential if the new owners make it more...

She has admitted to masturbating in bed with her sister when she was 17 - and the grooming the little sister sexual predator bullshit happened long after Dunham was 7. With respect to the 7 year old checking out her sister with the pebbles in the vagina thing. Her sister was 1 year old...

I gather you are trying to rickshaw the thread. Eh okay.

The Decline of Western Civilization.

Either your professor didn't make you solve word problems or you completely misunderstand me when I differentiated (pun intended)above between problems that required numerical solutions (which includes word problems) and problems that didn't (what's the second derivative of y= e^(x tan theta) *...

Then you guys are fucking geniuses and God bless you for that. Me I don't have log tables memorized like you guys clearly do so when I get a word problem on (for example) Newton's Law of Cooling if we're say covering Exp Growth and Decay and it turns out that the k in dy/dt = ky = (ln...

Because I already proved my point about Stevens and Graphing calculators. If you can't figure out why I linked the AP Calc requirements that you have to have a graphing calculator I don't know what to say except stop smoking weed. @Mario and when was that?

Nope. Better switch it out for an astrolabe.

Dude, there are hundreds and hundreds of graphing questions early on and hundreds and hundreds of CAS questions later. Stewart even has a little graphic for it. Some perspective: AP Calculus AB Calculator Policy @Joeboo - Unfortunately, it may be a while. Abaci don't really count as...

You don't know what you're talking about:

Drafting tools are very cool - no clue how to use them beyond a compass for circles/arcs. I've been meaning to buy a set from ebay for a while, just keep getting distracted by other things. Two big things missing from the list of paleotechnology are records (and record players) & vacuum tube...

Lol. Have you not been following the original thread? Every calculus class everywhere, AFAIK - maybe Caltech and MIT do it differently, and in most cases graphing calculators - have you never seen James Stewart's Calculus textbook?

It's good to be appreciated.

Since you asked (spoilered for length): Title reflects the fact that slide rules are just part of a the whole range of paleotechnologies which are dead or dying because of progress and rational laziness. Film is an example of a current technology that is rapidly becoming a paleotechnology...

But it has to be running ontop of some kind of mini-CAS. In any event rational laziness is winning the day. @Sabbat I want to wax philosophical about slide rules for a second - and I'm paraphrasing someone who I can't find on the web right now - not my idea originally, but I agree with...