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Oil: We've found mineral oil works very well for cooling processors. Give it a try.

Pens: Not only do they write poorly, but you don't have access to the blueprints to improve them. You're forever stuck in Bic's pen goes scratchy - buy a new pen upgrade cycle. Try OpenOffice on Ubuntu.

Dog: Aibo.

Piece: I've played a lot of Quake2. In my time in lmctf, I've experimented a lot, and the HyperBlaster is *the* all-around offense weapon to have. However, I haven't found any in the local gun shops, so I'd recommend looking into an AK-74, which has served me well in BF2.

Alternatively: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

Chair: When your ass has to sit in front of a computer for 16 hours a day: The Aeron. Accept no substitute.

Lifeline: Hook up with Forum2000. I've found the Forum to be insightful on any subject.

Sony was claiming Toy Story quality graphics with psx2 before it launched. Hence the phrase.

Using to compliment ranged attacks was prevelant in Quake MODS such as Ninja Quake.

I never played Ninja Quake (I did play a lot of TF and various CTF implementations, though), so I'm not familiar with it, but Ninja Quake 2 doesn't looke like it fits the bill. Halo's melee attacks are always available. You can go from shooting your gun, to hitting with the stock of the gun, back to shooting the gun without having to ever switch to a different weapon. The only other game besides Halo where I've seen that gameplay mechanic is Republic Commando, and that game is newer than even Halo 2. That's not to say it's never been done before, just that it's pretty rare.

Grenades were very well implimented into Halflife. Hell, i (PC gamer) was the one who introduced my console buddies (butt heads) to the wonders of grenades.

Grenades in Half-Life were just another weapon. To use them, you had to switch to them. I'll agree that Halo wasn't the first game to allow you to toss grenades without having to switch weapons, but Half-Life isn't a good example. What you really want is TeamFortress (the original for Q1, not the TFC crap for HL), where each class had two grenade types available to them, which were bound to two different buttons (g and h, IIRC). Other games have done that since (Far Cry, for example), but I've not seen any other game with such an abundance of grenades like Halo.

Again, please refer to my statment about ur head being lodged between the warm mucus secreting, epithelium lining of your colon and say a big "Hello Tribes" which was released ~1998, but was a healthy gaming community almost a year before that. Or for a more resent example "Battlefield 1942"

The parent acknowledged Tribes, and BF1942 was released later than Halo 1. Prior to H1, only the Tribes series had such robust vehicle support, and Tribes always was a bit of a red-headed stepchild in many online gaming circles.

While your up there, say hello to Team Fortress.

Why? Team Fortress introduced class-based team play, and doesn't have much to do with Halo's limited weapon-carry system. Sure, you have two weapons and can't carry more, but you can't switch them out strategically as in Halo, either.

My god, what a sad pathetic little world you console gamers live in. You wonder why PC gamers give a big scarcastic "whoopy-doo" to Halo and Halo2. Its because we've been playing these damn games for 11 years now, while you console jockies have been veging on your parents couch, stuffing your face with cheetos.

You might want to try playing Halo or Halo 2 before you go off on it. You've already shown that you don't have more than a vague idea about the gameplay mechanics of the games. Oh yeah, there are more game genres out there than FPS, too. While the PC may currently be the best platform for FPS (arguable IMHO, but oh well), it generally sucks for sports games, platformers, racing games (well, unless you shell out $200 for a good wheel and pedal setup), etc.

Then you have not seen the gib scenes?

I like the doom looking screen. Looks cool. Of course, I've been bragging to all of my windows friends that I DO have my voodoo2 working in linux, and of course the linux port will hit before thiers :)

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