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Reply to Hearthstone - a wonderful game, but not so honest business scheme in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Alstein - Heathstone is not "extremely P2W", I disagree. Hearthstone offers the Arena. There is an entrance fee, true, but you can pay 150 gold you can collect on daily quests, and if you are good enough, you can win back much more - cards, dust, gold. Good arena players are able to maintain their gold balance while playing one arena round after another. Moreover, you cannot pay to get advantage in arena even if you wanted to. Constructed is another matter, yes,

Reply to Hearthstone - a wonderful game, but not so honest business scheme in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I win about 5 times in arena on average, which makes my balance so-so. Last arena run I won a pack of GvG cards, 60 gold and 60 dust, which is not bad, since a pack is worth 100 gold, and admission fee is 150 gold, so the profit was 10 gold and 60 dust - and it's the dust that is valuable. Other time I won 5 times, but I won again a pack, and 110 gold in total, which is worse value - I would prefer the dust. And yes, I prefer arena more too, at least it&

Hearthstone - a wonderful game, but not so honest business scheme in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I have been playing Hearthstone for a few months, and as a chessplayer, I find a lot of charm and depth in the game. There are combinations similar to chess tactics, there are not so obvious ways to play a hand to squeeze the maximum potential, there is the meta with a lot of strategic thought and mind play, and there are of course the wonderful players like Kripparrian who selflessly share their deep insights and observations about the game with the community. However, each tim

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="2487" id="3579146"] Quoting Kamamura_CZ, reply 2484 Nice cartoon, except that the existence of global warming is proven beyond doubt. So... fail? Actually, it's a great cartoon because it hits the nail on the head. As for proof, the only thing that h

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

Nice cartoon, except that the existence of global warming is proven beyond doubt. So... fail?

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

This summer is a definitive proof that global warming is really just a great hoax. The conspiring scientists even go so far as to pool their money for heating fuel and heat lamps to increase the temperature artificially. Sneaky scientist bastards.

Reply to My PC going zombie? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

You need to boot from a different media, preferrably a read-only flash or CD with a system and some kind of virus/malware scanner, and check your computer. If you try to scan from the potentially compromised PC, a rootkit can hide the malware from you. Moreover, you can pit the PC that is behind a router caplable of dumping and analyzing network traffic, or at least dumping the traffic via a filter like pcap into a file, and then use traffic analysis software like Wireshark to see whe

Reply to Differences between the 3 Elemental games? in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Although the graphics of SK are significantly improved, it still shares the problems of its predecessors, namely dead AI (independent factions do not do a thing), mediocre tactical combat, and many old bugs that were never corrected.

Reply to The writing does a great disservice to the game in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

Well I have played Baldur's gate, though not to till the end, and while there are Easter eggs and jokes, the main theme is serious, and most of the conversation and quests are consistent with the main theme and style. In SK it's annoying, because there is too much of it and the impression is similar to a teenage kid who runs around a medieval castle and draws Hitler-style mustaches to all the historical portraits. Do you find it funny? Some may, I do not. Certainly not w

The writing does a great disservice to the game in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

I know Stardock hired some allegedly known author named Bucholz to improve the writing, and I know that taste in humor may differ greatly (especially the American and European concepts of humor), but the main problem is that the short texts accompanying quests, etc. are absolutely out of context with the rest of the game, and they go against the whole theme and atmosphere of the game. The theme of the game is serious and grim (if a bit cliched) - the world is about to be destroyed whi

Reply to Legends of Eisenwald in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I played a bit of that one with a friend, and it's clunky as hell. Reminiscent of the old hit Dark Lands, a solid gothic setting without Tolkienish flotsam like dragons, fireballs and elves is a welcome change. However, the plot contains some rather stupid, stupid moments.

Reply to Google is listening to you…and not in a good sense. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Google is a known NSA front. However, if you have nothing to hide, there is no reason for fear ;-)

Reply to EF-1 tornado rips across Great Lakes - is Stardock ok? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

I thought those tornadoes are just an urban legend.

Reply to [Mod/mini-patches for 1.03] Fix for missing medium missile boats and the BattleshipD variant & Fix for missing Prototype ship variants in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Unfortunately none of your files cannot be downloaded, the links are all broken.

Reply to Asteroid gun in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Six asteroids? So it's six bullets, and you are done? Man, it's like a giant space revolver.

Reply to FBI Wants Mandatory Backdoors in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Your lack of faith in the Empire disturbs Darth Vader.

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

starkers - Bible? Are you serious? Isn't that the book that claims world has been created in 7 days, and if you fly high enough, you will see "all the kingdoms on the Earth"? And that sea will part so that a few people can cross without getting wet, and that a man can live in a belly of a whale for days, and that people can die and then come back to life as if nothing happens? Way to pick credible sources, man.

Reply to A new browser: WhiteHat Aviator. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Last commit on github 5 months old, probably vulnerable to the recently discovered Logjam attack = useless browser.

Spamhaus.org - bunch of self-righteous vigilantes playing internet police in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Their practices are nothing short of horrendous. Recently, they have blocked whole /18 block of addresses because there was a botnet in one of the /24 subnets. I asked them to remove the /18 subnet blocking so that unrelated and innocent customers sending legitimate mail are not affected by this, but no, self-righteous crusaders have to be "firm". Similar was SPEWS/APEWS that stopped maintaining their lists altogether, resulting in huge amount of

Reply to Windows 10 Icons - You cannot be serious, Microsoft! in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Why are you surprised? Ballmer was an idiot, just check his onstage monkey dance on youtube. He had zero technical knowledge and vision, and his pet project was a computer screen on a kitchen table (the original Surface). But he was probably good in one thing - he knew how to climb the corporate laddar, and how to surround himself with loyal idiots to exchange favors with. The company took a nosedive under his direction, basically everything from his era was wrong, Windo

Reply to White House and State Dep’t. hacked by Russians in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I remember how Merkel asked USA to stop spying on her, and to disclose the gathered material on her person, and the response was: "Sorry, but no". Haha, NATO allies, good show.

Reply to The ‘FREAK’ security flaw: How to protect yourself now. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Maintaining a browser code is a huge effort that needs funding, manpower and determination. It's far better if the existing teams patch up their product than to start a community-driven "hooray" initiative that dies after a few months.

Reply to The ‘FREAK’ security flaw: How to protect yourself now. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Reminds me an old Slashdot joke: Man speaking to his phone: "Hello! Can anybody hear me?" NSA analyst: "No."

Reply to HTTP/2 Protocol is (almost) done – Faster and safer web browsing promised. Probably will take time. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I would much prefer a better version of the SMTP protocol, as the current standard is a disaster.

Reply to I had lunch with Brad Wardell in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Does he charge less than Warren Buffet?