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Sounds right to me. Especially in light of this story. nVidia doesn't really need Apple as a customer, especially with the XBox sitting in their lap. But who's nVidia's #1 competitor? 3dfx. And they've been making lots of big claims about Mac support the past few months. It's mostly vapor, but enough to ire the folks at nVidia enough to make them want to do somehting to trump their archrivals.

I smell a dead rat here.

But is it lucky?

I think examples abound in the platform adventure world... Out Of This World, Abe's Odyssee, SkullMonkeys, all of those I would say were fun, mostly because of level and character design. Monkey Island and other Lucasart games (Full Throttle!!!) are other examples.

I think that every RTS blizzard makes (Starcraft, Warcraft (have you heard much about Warcraft 3? should be good)) relies VERY heavily on non-code based design (call it art or not). Starcraft, for instance, is really quite simple to code. But it's not so easy to make a game where there's good gameplay balance and such.

Similar - all of the Street Fighter / Mortal Kombat games - I literally DID write a fighting game engine in about 10 days. It wasn't fun to play, but that wsa the fault of the character design (which I would have done better at had I had more time before the deadline!). Really, you could swap in new character design files, and it could be as fun as SF2.

Is the quake engine fun to play? No. Is Quake? Hell, yeah!

In typical topical fashion, Penny Arcade has a comic about this today...

So, is this for real? Penny Arcade says it just in the rumour stage right now...

In typical topical fashion, Penny Arcade has a comic about this today...

So, is this for real? Penny Arcade says it just in the rumour stage right now...

:)

http://www.penny-arcade.com/dance.shtml .

The rest of the site is funny as well, if you're into that sort of thing.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/dance.shtml .

The rest of the site is funny as well, if you're into that sort of thing.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/dance.shtml .

The rest of the site is funny as well, if you're into that sort of thing.

Video Violence
Bloody Birthday
Violence Schmiolence
Let's Play Pretend!

And, probably the most ironic, hilarious, and appropriate one:

The Longest Line

Video Violence
Bloody Birthday
Violence Schmiolence
Let's Play Pretend!

And, probably the most ironic, hilarious, and appropriate one:

The Longest Line

Video Violence
Bloody Birthday
Violence Schmiolence
Let's Play Pretend!

And, probably the most ironic, hilarious, and appropriate one:

The Longest Line

Video Violence
Bloody Birthday
Violence Schmiolence
Let's Play Pretend!

And, probably the most ironic, hilarious, and appropriate one:

The Longest Line

Video Violence
Bloody Birthday
Violence Schmiolence
Let's Play Pretend!

And, probably the most ironic, hilarious, and appropriate one:

The Longest Line

Penny Arcade has a strip about napster, that I think is just downright hilarious and sums up the situation quite nicely. :)

Penny Arcade has a strip about napster, that I think is just downright hilarious and sums up the situation quite nicely. :)

http://www.penny-arcade .com/view.php3?date=2000-05-26&res=h

=)

Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".

My wang has serious growth potential!

What exactly did you intend to mod him down for? Expressing a valid opinion? I don't remember that one being on the moderation options. What you are admitting is that you were planning on abusing your moderator points to damage someone whose opinion you disagreed with.

What's this about him having to sellout to keep his people paid? I mean, cry me a river. Just look at Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance fame, and he does employ a staff of people to help him run the site and his business. I don't think he's having a problem getting by on banner ads, t-shirts, and book sales. The 30 or so other web cartoonist I read as part of my day don't seem to be having any trouble supporting theirselves economically. When you get as big as Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance, David Simpson of Ozy and Millie, Bill Holbrook of Kevin and Kell, or Scott Kurtz of PVP, book sales and ad banners seem to be more than enough to keep yourself solvent. That doesn't even count the many popular artists who don't have anything beyond banner ads to sponsor themselves, such as Zach Stroum of Etherlife, Gabriel and Tycho Brahe of Penny Arcade, and Maritza Campos of College Roomies from Hell! -- all of whom are either college students or fully employed and do their strips as hobbies.

While I still find User Friendly mostly funny and still read it regularly, I lost a lot of respect for Illiad when I came across UF Media. The image he puts for on the site is one of someone whoring themselves out to corporate sponsorship. Illiad doesn't seem content with just selling t-shirts and books directly. He is actively calling to have his characters used as logos to curry favor with his fans for companies like SuSE. He wants the airline commercial spots, the suction cup animals, and co-branded food that syndicated sell-outs like Garfield have engendered.

I think this strip from Penny Arcade illustrates the opinions that many of us have for his ethics and credibility, in spite of or along with our opinions of his work on its own. It hurts his credibility because corporate sponsorship and co-branding are often the vicious monetary cycle that keeps comics going in newspapers long after they stopped being funny or original and sometimes even long after the creator of the strip has died. It's that we object to.

P.S. Slashdot readers should hopefully get a kick out of this strip. Just a friendly reminder for when talking to people who don't read Slashdot.

What exactly did you intend to mod him down for? Expressing a valid opinion? I don't remember that one being on the moderation options. What you are admitting is that you were planning on abusing your moderator points to damage someone whose opinion you disagreed with.

What's this about him having to sellout to keep his people paid? I mean, cry me a river. Just look at Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance fame, and he does employ a staff of people to help him run the site and his business. I don't think he's having a problem getting by on banner ads, t-shirts, and book sales. The 30 or so other web cartoonist I read as part of my day don't seem to be having any trouble supporting theirselves economically. When you get as big as Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance, David Simpson of Ozy and Millie, Bill Holbrook of Kevin and Kell, or Scott Kurtz of PVP, book sales and ad banners seem to be more than enough to keep yourself solvent. That doesn't even count the many popular artists who don't have anything beyond banner ads to sponsor themselves, such as Zach Stroum of Etherlife, Gabriel and Tycho Brahe of Penny Arcade, and Maritza Campos of College Roomies from Hell! -- all of whom are either college students or fully employed and do their strips as hobbies.

While I still find User Friendly mostly funny and still read it regularly, I lost a lot of respect for Illiad when I came across UF Media. The image he puts for on the site is one of someone whoring themselves out to corporate sponsorship. Illiad doesn't seem content with just selling t-shirts and books directly. He is actively calling to have his characters used as logos to curry favor with his fans for companies like SuSE. He wants the airline commercial spots, the suction cup animals, and co-branded food that syndicated sell-outs like Garfield have engendered.

I think this strip from Penny Arcade illustrates the opinions that many of us have for his ethics and credibility, in spite of or along with our opinions of his work on its own. It hurts his credibility because corporate sponsorship and co-branding are often the vicious monetary cycle that keeps comics going in newspapers long after they stopped being funny or original and sometimes even long after the creator of the strip has died. It's that we object to.

P.S. Slashdot readers should hopefully get a kick out of this strip. Just a friendly reminder for when talking to people who don't read Slashdot.

What exactly did you intend to mod him down for? Expressing a valid opinion? I don't remember that one being on the moderation options. What you are admitting is that you were planning on abusing your moderator points to damage someone whose opinion you disagreed with.

What's this about him having to sellout to keep his people paid? I mean, cry me a river. Just look at Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance fame, and he does employ a staff of people to help him run the site and his business. I don't think he's having a problem getting by on banner ads, t-shirts, and book sales. The 30 or so other web cartoonist I read as part of my day don't seem to be having any trouble supporting theirselves economically. When you get as big as Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance, David Simpson of Ozy and Millie, Bill Holbrook of Kevin and Kell, or Scott Kurtz of PVP, book sales and ad banners seem to be more than enough to keep yourself solvent. That doesn't even count the many popular artists who don't have anything beyond banner ads to sponsor themselves, such as Zach Stroum of Etherlife, Gabriel and Tycho Brahe of Penny Arcade, and Maritza Campos of College Roomies from Hell! -- all of whom are either college students or fully employed and do their strips as hobbies.

While I still find User Friendly mostly funny and still read it regularly, I lost a lot of respect for Illiad when I came across UF Media. The image he puts for on the site is one of someone whoring themselves out to corporate sponsorship. Illiad doesn't seem content with just selling t-shirts and books directly. He is actively calling to have his characters used as logos to curry favor with his fans for companies like SuSE. He wants the airline commercial spots, the suction cup animals, and co-branded food that syndicated sell-outs like Garfield have engendered.

I think this strip from Penny Arcade illustrates the opinions that many of us have for his ethics and credibility, in spite of or along with our opinions of his work on its own. It hurts his credibility because corporate sponsorship and co-branding are often the vicious monetary cycle that keeps comics going in newspapers long after they stopped being funny or original and sometimes even long after the creator of the strip has died. It's that we object to.

P.S. Slashdot readers should hopefully get a kick out of this strip. Just a friendly reminder for when talking to people who don't read Slashdot.

i'd like to see someone develop a comic strip whose sole purpose was to mock other "artists" with absolutely no artistic talent and a very weak grasp of humour.

"i just had illiad on the phone - he's doing a really bad drawing, and he was asking me for ideas for really poor linux gags."
'WHAT DISTRO!?!?!?!!!!!'

oh, wait...
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UF used to be somewhat amusing for a little while, then I realized "Hey, they did this strip already.. 2000 times."

Not to mention the UFMedia crap.. has anyone taken a look at that? The way he just pimps out his work.. I mean, it's one thing if someone comes to you with an interest in mind, but when you start creating your media to target companies and get the almighty $, you lose a little something.

At least there's always Penny Arcade.

Oh yeah, don't forget to mod me down since disliking UF isn't allowed on Slashdot. :| Loved how the review didn't have a "You won't like.." section to it like some normally do.

Who's to say that a cat couldn't be an NT admin? Although I hear that cats sometimes have problems understanding TCP/IP..
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I remember playing games like Zaxxon and Wizardry and Skyfox on my Apple II. THose were classic games. Lots of fun. You could do all sorts of things with them. And considering the relative limitations (compared to what we have now), some of them looked damned good. Do you remember SkyFox? First-person combat flight game. Amazingly cool. I still have my Apple ][+, and I sometimes hook it up to play Skyfox.

And Costikyan knows it, and so do other people. How many great games of the past are lost? Who remembers Choplifter? Who remembers the original Lode Runner? When the point was simplicity and not 'hey, what graphics board can we overexploit today?'.

If Dr. Jenkins is right, if gaming is ever to be understood as an art form that is worthy of study and has valuable things to offer, critics and academics and gamers must come to appreciate the history and development of the form. That appreciation can be created and sustained only if they have access to the games of the past.

Places like the Obsolete Computer Museum are keeping it alive. But looking at some things... I'm not sure people care. Look at the news: Diablo II! Quake 3! Warcraft 3! (with the fifth race!) Yeah, everyone wants the next big thing.

But no one wants the last big thing. Come back, Roadblasters... come back.
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Washington Post:

The site is, in no small part, an online clubhouse for Microsoft haters; news items about the firm are accompanied by a small picture of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as a Borg, one of the human-machine chimeras from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" who say, "Resistance is futile -- you will be assimilated."

The Washington Post makes me sick with their pro-MS slant to everything, and their tech writers in their business section are -horrible-. Fast forward is *occasionally* worth reading, but that's it. Thank god they really only run tech stuff once a week..

That got me to thinking this morning as I bought my paper.. wouldn't it be cool to have a print version of what's going on/what had happened in the web the previous day? I would certainly plunk down a quarter to get some slashdot headlines, the register headlines, some article blurbs, security stuff, recent security holes, penny-arcade, sluggy, and friend bear on the comics page, some 20 page editorials by Jon Katz :)..

I find print format a lot more friendly to read for longer periods, and it's nice to have something to read on the metro (not all of us have laptops, and even if I did, the paper is a more efficent way of reading all this I think.)

Good thing I read Penny-Arcade today before this guy posted it to slashdot, and I beat the rush. Good music, especially enjoy Castlevania. ah, memories.

here (4/21/00)

Lesson? Stop arguing over which one is better, one size does not fit all, each person will different results from the next person, go do something better with your life.

Like post on slashdot...
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Peace,
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AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu

A while ago, Penny Arcade had up 3 movies, featuring gameplay from FF9 and 10, and concept art for FF11 (apparently a MMRPG.) They took it down about a day after it went up, perhaps becuase it was bootlegged out of a theatre. The stuff from FF9 looks great, but FF10...It took me a few times watching it to realize it wasn't a prerendered animation sequence I was watching, but actual gameplay of the main guy running around. Friggin' Amazing. I don't know if it was posted anywhere else, but it's probably worth finding them to see it. The movies are about 3 min each.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn

You forget that the Internet allows people to publish their works without having to go through a corporation to do it. MP3.com is the classic example, though the various online comics (User Friendly, Penny Arcade, etc.) should be considered as well. Not to mention the existence of MSTs of works of fan fiction that happen to be bad, IRCRPGs and their logs, and so-called "role-playing stories" such as NuRPG, all of which are unique to the Net.

I'm sure others here could name other examples of entertainment found only on the Net, including ones as obscure as the last two genres I mentioned, as well. That's the great thing about it; it allows the world to see ideas and products that corporations would never consider publishing. It has the potential to free the artist, provided the corporations don't manipulate things such that it's illegal to publish something without the possibility of a corporation making a profit from it... (Of course, if they do, it would serve them right if a "creativity drain" into countries with more favorable Net laws took place as a result...)

Your point about the purpose of copyright and patents and the corporations' desire to distort these in order to have complete control of and maximum profit from the content they sell is well-made, however. Would someone please moderate that post up to 2?

i agree, it would be good to have large-scale moderation. but there is some form of it in the bench section on PA's main site. Updated weekly with the best of the benches, no crap. Well, some crap, but relatively, it's good.

If The Bench is going to become a daily spot for me like Real Life, PvP, or its father, I NEED some way to sort through the.. 30-80 odd submissions a day is it?

Open Source only really works when everyone is striving at a common good, yes? The most successful open source projects (/. included) always have a central cabal or something leading the way. Right now all The Bench has is Gabe, Tycho, and their weekly pick for Sunday.

So Gabe, Tycho, if you guys are reading this (damn well better be)... you need a voting/moderation system on The Bench.

My all-time favorite has to be this one, it just never goes out of date.

Actually the one about DIVX I really like is this one. I've been reading Penny Arcade ever since one of the guys who makes Bleem (I think it was Rand) linked to a comic about it. But I think the comic before it is my favorite ever. "You can't uninstall evil."

Actually the one about DIVX I really like is this one. I've been reading Penny Arcade ever since one of the guys who makes Bleem (I think it was Rand) linked to a comic about it. But I think the comic before it is my favorite ever. "You can't uninstall evil."

Actually the one about DIVX I really like is this one. I've been reading Penny Arcade ever since one of the guys who makes Bleem (I think it was Rand) linked to a comic about it. But I think the comic before it is my favorite ever. "You can't uninstall evil."

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

Making fun of tomb raider
Tasteless zombie humor
Holy Quake3 Batman
Diakatana
id software is watching you
Fun for the kiddies
Best Geek Girlfriend
I feel the need for speed
And finally....
Making fun of slashdot

The main page for Penny Arcade Claims to be funnier then Userfrendly... do you think that's true?

Divx

Penny Arcade is where this originally came from. One of my favorites would have to be this one about Linux or maybe this one.

Penny Arcade is where this originally came from. One of my favorites would have to be this one about Linux or maybe this one.