Do computer game forum posters actually read and re-edit their posts?

For example, to correct spelling and insert punctuation.

I have always been good at computers but strangly i was pretty good at english at school.

English was the subject where you wrote essays and did reading.

From observeration, people who are good at computers, are generally not that good at writing.

Reading is definitely not my forte, but i have always been able to write.

I can't read books, it is as simple as that. I have no interest in reading fiction for enjoyment.

How many of you guys sit and read books purely for enjoyment?

Reading a computer manual is not what i am talking about.

Just a thought.

I like reading.

I have read hundreds of books both fiction and non fiction.

My favorite author is jack Vance the worst book i ever didn't finish reading was a A Fish Dinner in Memison.
At the moment i am reading chemistry and maths books.

johnny5 reading is fcn awesome when you read books you learn about curious things that translate into how you see things in real life and you see and hear things in computer games that have been lifted from books and that makes a game fun when you are in on the joke.

I guess this all a waste really since you can't read.

I can physically read words, but i cant read books. I passed Uni, so i must of read the parts of the text books, that i needed to do.

I can't read a book, no joke, it is as simple as that. I don't think i have ever finished a novel in my whole life time.

Hmm i see, you have a concentration problem go to the DR and get some drux.

You used a comma in that sentence.

drux. lol.

Why can't it be a computer manual? What does trashy fiction novels for people who lack imagination have over a book which you actually learn things from?

I enjoy reading when i am learning. I've never read a full novel, not because I can't read, but because they are ****. I also don't watch much fiction on tv either. This is for the masses that need to be spoon/straw fed their entertainment.

Interactive entertainment is where it's at. While you might be playing a game (fiction), the time you invest into the game along with everyone else is very real. So, if you gave me Skyrim/Elder Scrolls/Single Player MMO, it would be sickeningly boring for me and I wouldn't play them, if even install them. But give me an online MMO such as WoW, Rift, Aion, whatever, and I will enjoy it.

Who the **** reads 'computer manuals'? What the **** *is* a 'computer manual'?

End topic. I am the profiler.

I like the same things as you.

I dont read novels but there are many great lessons of human spirit to be learnt through story telling.

Online games inspire us in the same way team sports do, except without the physical excertion.

I find it funny that many gamers are anti sport, (try starting a sport thread around here), yet there are many similarities, in that, we come together to test our skills against one another.
Ones personality is exposed on the field as it is in a server. Some players are cautious whilst others are courageous. Some players can read the game and exert little effort to succeed while others achieve results through sheer determination. Some players purchase AIDS to cheat the system and others DONT.

Whilst many gamers will shun jocks and their pig-skin chasing shenanigans, what they fail to recognise is that most sports require thought as well as physical perserverence as well as being able to perform whilst experiencing a great deal of pain. The most amazing human achievements are those that require massive amounts of physical, mental and psycological virtue. The astronauts on the Apollo 13 were practically frozen when trying to perform highly complex tasks when re-entering the earth's atmosphere and the price of failure was their lives.

I feel it's the other way around. Sport people have has this underlying issue against introverted computer nerds for years. It's only now that computers are so prolific in everyday life that us 'nerds' are watching these people often struggle with technology, and have no interest in helping the jocks. This is coming from someone who grew up on the cusp is mainstream domestic computing where some got into it, and others were basically scared of it.

Perhaps they should have opened their eyes to the fact that gaming is the same as sport in the sense of competition.

These are the same people who will argue that Aussie cars are the best.

Within the ADM market they'll fight with Ford owners about domestic quality.

Then within the Holden bracket they argue about Turbo vs V8

Then within the V8 bracket they fight over Iron vs Alloy, over Pushrod vs Overhead cam, etc.

There will always be something to **** and moan about, and is no different from PC vs Console, ATi vs nVidia, AMD vs Intel, COD vs BF. Even within BF it's this vehicle vs another, or weapons, play styles, etc.


And Apollo 13 is an excellent story, I haven't watched the movie, but the facts behind the actual mission are pretty awesome.

take a look at that henry miller novel up there. Yes its not a tech manual work of non fiction. But to say reading that book will not "teach u anything" is truly ignorant.

Good Literature will teach you more about "life" then all the tech books on the planet stacked up

Am I late for the 5 o'clock mental break down 4 xbox giveaway?

I like reading circuit diagrams and looking at maps and occasionally i will go out side and watch clouds shifting as well.
I enjoy feeding my brain information and learning new stuff and i once had a hobby making balsa wood planes.
I was excited playing games in the beginning because it was a new frontier and i felt like Sir Edmond hillbilly who climbed Everest just because, now games are boring the **** out of me i have moved on from the corridor and the boss but games have stayed the same.

Books never let me down because i make up the story in my head as i go.

I think the games have gone backwards.

A lot of older things were better made than they are today.

eg. Shoes, clothing, engines, games.

No. Shoes, clothing, engines, games are of the same quality as they used to be.

ITs just that it costs the same as it used to cost to make / manufacture them at the same quality.

What has changed is that certain **** have found ways to make really terrible cheap **** quality alternatives but they market these bad goods the same - lets use "shoes" as an example - as how they used to market only quality goods.

Someone says "i got some new shoes today". Do they mean they got some well made comfortable last u years shoes or some cheap **** rubbish that lasts 6months "shoes".

Rubbish products should have a new word made for them. So then where it was said: "i got new shoes today" you know the meaning would be different to saying "i got new feet-crap-flaps today".

It is a statement of how **** the human race is that people accept **** goods and fool themselves that they are "living the good life" when all they own is just cheap crap.

So things are still the "Same as they used to be" or better but just not the **** u own or know about.

You are absolutely correct, as always Bookz. You are a fountain of knowledge.

People buy cheap crap, because it is cheap.

Fair coment.

I have always admired people who could succeed both at sports and academically. I was amased at a chap at high school who was a genious at any sport, really gifted, and then got straight A's as well. He ended up becoming the captain of the footy/cricket/athletics teams and school captain, funny enough. He was an all round good guy, always helpful to anyone that asked. This, for me, is ideal. Personally, I was acedemic and sporty as well and never really had to fashion a self image or pigeon hole myself into any particular group which I think has lead me to have respect for all groups.



also.
13B's are pretty deadly.

Used to have a Series II 7, but it had the 12A. RB/2J fan here.

I know a dude that is apparently building the fastest VK in aus.
I think he has spent around 40 thousand on it.

It funny to think you can spend under 30 and get a car that would rape a Ferrari.

That's why I'm in the game. Beating cars known to be fast is all the fun. Beat a C63 AMG off a set of lights and gained distance each gear, I could hear the engine next to me, he was going for it. Not to mention I have the torque split AWD so if we were hitting limits through cornering I'd have the upper hand with traction. All in a car which I got cheap $13k) with about $11,000 of goodies added to it.

Fastest down the track is one thing though, circuit is different. You need the full balance for circuit, where with drag you just fight to stay in a straight line. I've never seen a VK go around a corner fast without rolling over and becoming on fire lol

I made a VP HSV Commodore into a drag car once. Then i put it back to almost normal, cause it was undriveable. This was ages ago.

4.11 diff gears, was crazy. It actually had a better top speed with the 4.11's than the stock 3.08 gears. It would go sideways 1st, 2nd and 3rd. It used 100 litres per 15 klms.

Home made cars are "not" cheap. People who make modified cars, spend all their life in the shed. After work, all weekend.


Commodores are definitly "not" sports cars.

The people that buy expensive cars, don't go into sheds or garages ever. They have more money than time.

I put a supercharger on my BMW, it goes ok. I drive it to the "Yoga and Meditation" centre. lol.

If i had the money, i would buy a Ferrari or top of the line Merc. BMW M3 that is the stuff.



My car. Not an M3, but i like to dream.



I enjoyed that baz.

I wouldn't mind putting a 700-800hp 2JZ-GTE into a M3, in fact, that might be my next project! The older 1998 models looked sweet.



Minus the homo stretched tyres and 'hella flush' crap.

To bad you have to be over 16 to legally drive on council land in Australia.

Last poster = 3/10 - Open thread - See me quoted. Predictability.

Well looks like you'll just have to wait till you're rich and old enough Panda. Bad luck champ.

Well its true.

Look at you and pheex right here.

If I didnt make my own mind up about people I would have to think you were **** crazy and hate pheex for ....... something something bring down GA or whatever.

Who knows.

Facebook is less than 10 years old. It has 172 milliion visitors a day, amazing hey.

Bring down GA, dont think so. I am keeping the forum going.

Why not post what you think? That is what forums are for.

I don't have to agree with cyber poster's, who i have never met or spoken to. People don't have to agree with me.

At least i try, to make my forum postings readable.

I post my thoughts and experiences.

Obviously people who make websites want people to use the website. There are billions of websites that nobody uses. What is the point of having a dead website.

Here is the alexa rank of my website, 23 million. Not very important. 23,528,070

This is a very respectable trait that I find rare in people. Believe it or not I'm the same. Well, I'd have to be to apparently hate everyone on here.

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Damn Johnny hope everything is going ok. No offense or anything but **** man, what's up? Something about you ain't right anymore and I thought it was a joke.

You can tell, even on computer game forums. People can tell when people are **** off.

I used to like the games.

I am fine, thanks for asking.

GameArena doesn't have a server to play. The forums are not friendly. Why single me out.

You can't expect people to continue loyalty, if nobody plays here.

At least i make my posts legible.

Who cares if nobody likes me, millions of people play the games.

What changed?

I think BF4 may fix things. BF3 has not been the same as BF2. I jusr spam this forum, i havn't played the games at all for at least 6 months.

Baz, you were always around when i played wake. I liked it. It was a pretty regular bunch of characters playing BF2 at GameArena. I think a lot of people liked it.

medic/medic is still playing the TEA BF2 server, he will never stop loving BF2. I will have a game of that. I reckon medic/medic hasn't missed a day of BF2 since it was released.
Check out his stats, he has played more than you BAZ.
http://bf2s.com/player/45482927/


BF3 just isn't that good.

medic.medic, he has many hours and he is a solid player.

The only reason I can match him is because I know how capable he is.
As a BF2 vet I gleen the most amount of intel within the first few seconds as I read the player list. Thats why I dont really like alias'. I like to know who I am playing with. On the flip side I also assume everyone on the other team are hacking and know exactly where I am.

hang on a minute

what about: our idea of what can harm us is often just ourselves creating it - no one else might know what it is we fear or dislike in ourselves but being defensive just reinforces a negative. Creates the situation.

Work towards better detours.

self depreciating humor.

U know get in yourself b4 someone else can exploit a character weakness that you might have. We all have em.

Therefor if someone has issue with you then u make it more fun by/ for yourself just pointing it out then the other ever could.

turns a potential negative into a positive.

Own it. Don't avoid it. dont resist it. dont fight it,,, directly. Or what seems direct.

seeing things from the outsiders perspective might make certain types feel general is not what it is - there are reasons dante traveled thru layers - but what he might expect to find at the center might not be what actually lies at the heart of things

spec ops the line. heart of darkness. apocalypses now

preconceptions, based on an outsiders perspective, is not ideal

not owning it - owning yourself, taking responsibility, for and of your flaws even when faced with opposition or aggression is a weakness. When they are revealed or hinted at: avoidance is noticed

Ga does not tolerate that which is not ideal - why should it?

BF3 with no VOIP/ having to join a clan, is just a bull shizz scam. These clan/team idiots take it all far too seriously.

I used to like it, when bikerbobby would steal a chopper and go commander inside and call everyone sweeties over the commander channel. Stuff like that made the game really fun.

I have spent christmas's, new years and easters playing bf2 and always someone to talk to.

Like shadowvonchadwick would sit in the aircraft carrier gun all day. Was always someone to play with.

Who was that [CRez] pot head? He was good to play with, he always wanted to get a crew together in a boat. I liked playing with his mate [CRez]Medadisme. Bad players but good guys.

BF3 sucks because of the clan/team garbage. Who gives a damn about elite gaming.

a far more elegant way to put it

Agree on alias's and name changing. Have a name and stick to it.