Ross Ridge wrote: No, TheSmokingGnu is correct. The Valve System Survey is in fact the best publically available source of information about the sort of computers gamers actually have. Compared the sort of speculation you and Nostromo are engaging in, deviod of any sort of objective observations, TheSmokingGnu's argument is both well-reasoned and excellent. Zaghadka <president@...

Nostromo <nospam@forme.org> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: Thus spake Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>, Fri, 02 May 2008 08:35:49 -0400, Anno Domini: Yeah I finally moved. Just to get DSL? That's the spirit! I know I would ;) Not really. Moved and where I moved to could get it so I got it. ...

TheSmokingGnu wrote: Blizzard has more *monty* that Jesus and the Beatles combined, and the name-dropping power to match. Corporate giants like that have no trouble using regular run-of-the-mill saturation marketing. ^H^H^H money, too. :P TheSmokingGnu

Nostromo wrote: No, common sense IS a fact of life. That's all you've got, a bad aphorism? That's not logic, it's fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_majority Valve know their sub's system specs; so do Blizzard. If you think they would share that commercial gem of a competitive advantage with anyone else, you're more naive than I gave you credit for ;-p I ...

Nostromo wrote: Just take a look at the mmogchart links I posted & tell me again that's not objective evidence/reasoning. In the real world, money talks, bullshit walks. Have a nice day ;-p. What do the charts prove, beyond that fact that WoW is popular? They say nothing, prove nothing about system specs, therefore your arguments are invalid and unsound. TheSmokingGnu

Zaghadka wrote: Fuck you, Zag. I thought about responding diplomatically, honestly, but the fallacious vitriol of your post, especially after I have been nothing but cordial to Nos deserves nothing less. Don't play retard, if it bothers you so, put the thread on ignore. Or better yet, use your killfile like a fucking adult and save me the trouble in future. TheSmokingGnu

Ross Ridge <rridge@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: No, TheSmokingGnu is correct. The Valve System Survey is in fact the best publically available source of information about the sort of computers gamers actually have. Compared the sort of speculation you and Nostromo are engaging in, deviod of any sort of objective observations, TheSmokingGnu's argument is both well-reasoned and...

Thus spake Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>, Fri, 02 May 2008 08:35:49 -0400, Anno Domini: Yeah I finally moved. Just to get DSL? That's the spirit! I know I would ;) Not really. Moved and where I moved to could get it so I got it. Still in that nice sleepy hollow seaside town? (well it's no secret given your domain I guess ;). I tried plant/thorns briefly, but the same ...

Thus spake Ross Ridge <rridge@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, Fri, 02 May 2008 18:23:16 -0400, Anno Domini: Nostromo wrote: Common sense. TheSmokingGnu writes: That's an opinion, not fact. Zaghadka <president@whitehouse.gov> wrote: Gnu, if all we had to rely on were *facts*, life would be very simple. Your idiotic, fact*less* challenge of Nostromo's opinion does not ...

Thus spake TheSmokingGnu <anonymityisavirtue@1111011010011.com>, Fri, 02 May 2008 18:11:24 GMT, Anno Domini: Nostromo wrote: Common sense. That's an opinion, not fact. No, common sense IS a fact of life. Usually those with little of it like to deny its existence ;-p (that's not to say I have much myself, but at least I'm not in denial ;) Only Half-life fans or fairly ...