I think it's up to the private company that privately owns a game that we paid for the privilege of using to decide on the rules for behavior in public spaces. If they want to talk like that, they can join a private chat channel just like anyone. Any service business reserves the right to refuse service to people, regardless of how much they've paid previously. When you paid for the game you also agreed to play by their rules. If you break your agreement with them, then you don't get to keep playing the game.

It's not that hard not to cuss - people make it through the day all the time not cursing at everyone they speak to.

Also, AreaNet is a company - not a government. Lets not get out of hand here and pretend that this is some kind of massive government assault on liberty.

Honestly, I think maturity has to do with how you treat other people and less with what you like to do with your time. Mature people seem to have the ability to put their own ego aside when they need to. In addition, there is often an ability to compromise on things. There's greater sensitivity for the concerns and needs of others. When I think of immature behavior, I don't think of silliness. I usually think of people who act like jerks.

Hi all this is Grimhilda Wolfclaw, aka Grim or Lost, from Guildwars 2's Stonewall Vangaurds. The subject says it all. I was talking to Cata in guild chat the other day about why I still feel like a kid at almost 30. So fellow members, what would you say constitutes maturity? Also do you yourself feel you are mature. Just a random question to get to know everyone better. ^.^

Set reasonable expectations and no one will ever get upset afterward. Kudos for being up front!

This thread sounds like the Nanny State cheerleading squad! Perhaps instead of regulating speech one could simply remove themselves from the offending offense. Remember, the person whose speech you squelch is then having their game impacted, the same game that they paid the same money for that you did!

Why are so many people expressly interested on controlling everyone besides themselves to a point that it negatively impacts every other person exponentially beyond what the first perceived wrong was? I understand that a person lacing every statement with the f bomb (or worse, the c word) is more than just a minor irritation, and vulgarity for vulgarity's sake is unacceptable and shouldn't be tolerated... but seriously, if someone lets slip a four letter word, the nanny police get to come and ban that person from the game for three days? Why is the nay-sayer's money better than the rest of the identical money people pay for this game? (nay-sayers say nay)

Massively Multiplayer games invite the Masses to play, it's what makes them fun. The tee-totaling Pollyanna nanny-state nay-sayers aren't the only people that get invitations. Everyone with the money to buy gets and invitation to play and participate. Massively Multiplayer games are going to have people that don't agree with everything you believe to be fair and contrite. Get over yourself and realize that you are one singular part of a massive society, and that individuals that make up that society have different morals and values than you, thereby placing different meaning on some words than others.

It's high time that people start taking a stiff upper lip, grow a thicker skin and just move on past the idiot that's cussing randomly. Stop letting people affect their speech upon you in so much a way that it actually effects you personally. Seriously, It Gets Better!

I really hate those names that are so blatantly obvious what was intended but because they spell it differently or use symbols instead of letters, the powers-that-be in the games can't pick up on it and nothing is done about it until enough people "report" them which doesn't happen most of the time. :(

Saw a guild called For Fudge's Sake today and didn't know whether they were being smart-asses, or they just don't swear. Then there was another one that was vulgar about genitalia but it was all spelled strangely so it wasn't technically the words but it was easy to see what it meant. :\

Got my first back item as a personal story reward...

It's an invisible back brace. :pinch:

*hugs my typewriter.

I love learning new things Kasper, so thanks for the info you provided. I have no knowledge of how websites actually work so even basic stuff like this is VERY interesting. Not that I could do anything with it but it helps me to understand a bit of what Nick and other website developers have to deal with on a continual basis. I usually end up learning enough to do whatever work I need to do but not enough to do anything other than probably create a lot of damage if I ever tried to actually make changes to the functionality of something. But I learn quickly, so if someone has the patience to explain what I need to do, I can accomplish it! ;)

jeebus crust, 1 gold, well, guess that means I'm going to have to save then if I want a back slot item.

I agree with this, seeing as I too have a RL job that doesn't allow me to have a lot of time to play during the daylight hours.

Seeing as I go to work at 3:30 PM and I don't get home till some time around 11 PM, maybe even later than that if I have to work late. I may even have to work weekends some times. For example, I'm going to have to work the 15th this month(a Saturday) because we will be striping and waxing a large area of floor in a Mentally Challenged Workshop, a place where Mentally Challenged people go to, to learn how to work in a day to day 9-3 job.

So, yosh, I agree, RL jobs comes first before gaming.

I agree whole heartedly.

This is probably more information that anyone really wants to know. But I couldn't resist given the topic.

As far as the Internet goes, people talk to each other about Internet locations in regards to URLs (ie. google.com) Computers on the other hand talk to each other about Internet locations in regards to their IP addresses (ie. 8.8.8.8) DNS is what translates the URL into an IP address.

A properly formated basic URL is {domain}.{TLD} with domain being the site name such as "google" and TLD being a Top Level Domain such as .com, .edu, .org etc. In most cases, a domain is pointed to an IP address by what's called an A record typically an @ symbol or other format to denote the base A record for the domain.

Another type of record is called a CNAME record. A properly managed domain should have the base A record pointing to the site's IP address. Then, there should be a CNAME for the subdomain of WWW to point to the same IP address. Sometimes, the WWW CNAME record points to the domain itself so that if the site IP address needs to change, then only one record change is needed. Of course you can have a CNAME point to another site hosted by another provider altogether. For example, newbies.stonewallgaming.net can be pointed to an IP address of a server hosting a baking website in another country. You wouldn't typically do something like this, but it is possible.


Of course there are other type of DNS records. But, these are some basic type of DNS entries that allow a site to work. Also, I think things are going to get interesting in a few years when ICANN allows corporations to oversee newly approved TLDs such as .home, .app, .work and so forth. I can forsee having a .com in the future being so passe.

Originally I went with locales important to me, cities, suburbs, so on. Now (as a Mass Effect obsessive) I am using a lot of Asari names; Aria, Liara, Thessia, T'loak.

Next up is the Benezia.

I haven't typed "WWW" in ages. Typically, in either IE, Chrome or Firefox, if you type in something like "stonewallfleet.com" and it is necessary, the browser will take me there anyway.

The only time I did need it is if I was typing a web address into the run command (windows key+R in XP/Vista/7). Typing non-WWW addresses into it gets you an error. Typing in a WWW address has it pop open your default browser with the web page you wanted. (if you want a non-WWW address to run that way, you'll have to type in "http://" at the beginning.)

Not a huge reason to use that run command normally, just something to do if you're having some issues with the home page in your browser (home page gets changed by some malware that sends you into a spiral of uncontrolled redirects or pop ups). Gives you a chance to get into your settings/options to make corrections, if necessary.

I'll admit, I am "old school" as they say and wasn't aware this was no longer required. But I have already switched my bookmarks to those without the www so I don't have to figure out why I keep getting logged out.... :laugh: Us old folks can learn new tricks! ;)

I was messing around with the guild Emblem and came up with this hope you guys like it

Nope, GW2 players, I'm not talking about World vs World vs World. I'm talking about our URLs!

Way back in the day when networking computers first started, there arose many large networks that contributed many important technologies what would one day become the Internet. One of those networks was the World Wide Web and we can still see its presence in the Internet today in those three letters, www, in-front of website domains.

Though, today that WWW is largely legacy and isn't necessary for websites to load or be accessed properly. In essence, it's treated as a subdomain that automatically directed to the same location as the domain. For us, having the WWW just complicates matters and since we're now using a subdomain for Stonewall Fleet's website, only complicates its further.

For that reason, I've removed the WWW from our domains. From now on, when someone travels to one of our domains with WWW preceding it, they'll be silently redirected to the same page without the WWW.

Those of you who regularly use WWW, you'll find yourself unceremoniously logged out from the site and you'll have to log back in again, but after that, the functionality should be identical.

For me, the electric attunement-scepter, specifically (arc lightning)1 and (lightning strike)2 do the most damage against single target boss encounters. On the scepter, fire is good for adding a burn or for aoe damage. Though I switched to other attunements when recast timers were down or to get boons- fury (+20% crit), might(+dmg), toughness. I also get a temp boon (+ might for fire; +toughness for earth) by casting the heal-elemental harmony in the corresponding attunement. I am learning more and more that you really have to work hard as an ele to output damage(if that’s how you want to play) by stacking boons like might through attunement switching and combo finishers.