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If that's the case with @Razor1911 Pc's issue, then I'm very sure that this may be of help to him in getting it fixed one way or another.

That is something that has boggled my mind ever since I first heard about it. You're playing a graphic war game, where the point of the game is to kill your enemy who is being played by someone else most likely. It is violent and blood is flying as your comrades die. That is fine with everyone, yet calling someone a wimp is over the line? You can kill with impunity, but you better make damn sure you don't call anyone a wimp. Yeah, makes perfect sense.

These days every major game has some sort of data collection built into them that analyses and sends information on your playing habits and in game choices back to the developer. How do you feel about this? I have to say I don't mind it if it is used to bettering games. I look at it as if a poll or questionnaire that you constantly fill. But there are also very bad examples. Like recently when a developer used this data to publicly shame gamers for their in-game choices. This is unacceptable. This is like the chef coming out of the kitchen in a restaurant and slapping the client in the face for ordering two courses that don't match in the opinion of the chef.

Offended?! Not at all, I've been in some Modern Warfare online servers on the Xbox 360 and they basically said any and everything and nobody took it personally. Nowadays, you can't even call someone a wimp without getting a ban in-game.

Thank you so much @Shagger ! When I have time, I'll try out your instructions. Like @Heatman said, I'm sure others would find it useful as well. Did you learn this on your own or stumbled on it?

So you are a car freak, even your username suppose so. That's great. 😊 So, you have caprice and imapala both? That's nice. I really like cruze, but that is too costly in my place and out of my budget. I now own Hyundai i20. 😊

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When you're race tactics is linked with speed and quick velocity movements, then lightweight cars are definitely going to be your thing.

The idea of staggering damage is delaying the full amount over time. Say you take 1000 points of damage; staggering would spread it over the course of five seconds, ergo you'd take 200 damage per second. It's quite controverisal within the WoW community, but it gives your healers measurable time to keep you alive.

Yeah, I think it's why some gamers still collected them till date. Imagine showing your great grandkids some years later.

Mercedes is a good option that I don't usually overlook that easily. I really do love that car.

Yeah, when I initially played NFS, I too was Chevy guy too. But later shifted to lotus and lexus. Specially I was impressed with their designs. 😊

Fifth Element is a banger! Haven't watched it in a while though but it's a great watch for sure.

I totally agree especially with the last segment - as they are now, outside of the social element, movie theaters won't be able to compete with more modern ways of consuming content. That's why I suggested things like the VR helmet.

Valid points and that's what I also live by. I have taken the approach over the years that if I'm going to make a major purchase, I must have at least three times the money of the item just in case there might be extras that wasn't accounted for in the original price.

I quite like that metaphor at the end...and I totally agree, we have to learn from out past mistakes. To be fair, that's what you have to do with most pets anyways.

I learned English almost entirely from watching TV, so probably yes. Then again English is my words 😛 I mean long deep words that I might not even know.

Klingon is so damn big and popular among Trekkies, that there is actually a Klingon dictionary and other books that you can buy to learn it and become fluent in it. I've never been into Star Trek myself, but I do find it odd that a fake language has garnered such a fan base. I could be wrong on this next one, but I think the same thing has been done with the language from Avatar. I don't remember exactly what the language was called.

There used to be a kids show called Zoom and they spoke a language called Ubbi Dubbi. I sent away at one time for the instructions on how to speak it and it was totally confusing to me. My friends all knew how to do it easily though!

Astronomy has always been a passion of mine. I absolutely love it. I have several seasons of The Universe on DVD and watch, and rewatch it constantly. I got a telescope last year that I'm still reading the instructions on, because I want to make sure I know everything REALLY well before I get it out, so that I don't screw it up. It was an $1800 telescope. And the powerpak to run it was another $200. The powerpak was an optional nonrequired thing. But when it's charged, I can run the telescope a lot longer. This is even powerful enough for me to see Andromeda and exoplanets as well. I'm dying to get it out, but need to feel comfortable knowing how to use it first. And with as dumb as I am, I may be wrinkled and gray before that happens.

Yes , I even created a small space shooter game, and I stopped as I went another direction for my money making path XD

When I was young I dreamt of creating a game called life, in which you could choose a career and do anything. This was long before the sims or second life. Later I thought I wanted to be a game developer so I started experimenting with game development, tried a few freely available engines, and even wrote my own driving game. Of course it was never completed, but it did work, you could actually drive in it.

It's very difficult for game game developers to see the difference as their programming it. A match loss for disconnecting, but without being branded a cheat, I think is as fair as can be expected.

I limit them on what they can play. Anything violent or has sexually content, etc. for their age, that is a hard "no" to playing or buying.

Telemetry, my dear Watson. Sorry, couldn't resist. I think actual user data can be significantly more useful than feedback forums for bettering games. Seeing kill stats, achievements, and other milestones can provide much more to developers than subjective experience relayed during a heated forum discussion. However, data isn't entirely reliable as achievements can be doctored by cheat engines and exploits, and anti-cheat can be bypassed or outright destroyed. I concur. One such example is with Mr. John Ebenger, formerly of Mass Effect, said that only ~8% of users went into the Renegade content which they "put a lot of work into the [...] content too :(". If the intent was to shame it backfired, because statistically most people don't like being nasty even in video games and this isn't going to help. However I still found the statistic interesting all the same, and wouldn't have known that if not for them stating such on Twitter. But then don't try to guilt trip people into using the Renegade system; instead make a better system. One thing I enjoy is in episodic games you're often shown the choices players made, which sort of gives away that most choices don't matter. In Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishment you can see the player stats at the end of each chapter, and they're suspiciously skewed to look exactly like my results which came from a guide for easy achievements. Hmm.... Developers and publishers must be prepared to accept that they can't know how good their game is until they release it into the wild. That goes for Atlus flagging Persona streams and Let's Plays incorrectly for copyright claims due to spoilers. That goes for Ubisoft having review scores updated after microtransactions are added. And that goes for BioWare for not seperating morality from social attitude in Mass Effect. By all means they can collect data, but they can't complain when the data goes against their expectations. Ours is a fickle demographic, and is all the better for it. I don't think we can escape data collection without turning off our internet, changing our phone numbers and directly addressing our mailing lists, but we can do more to be wary of it, and I believe there can be fights for legislation over what data is harvested, how and with what consent from customers. ^^