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Fear and Loathing in the Mess Hall Complex

Posted by chrisd on from the 1-more-grenade dept.

Flynnhustler writes: "Our upstart videogame culture site, Robot Street Gang, has just posted a new story by seasoned videogame writer Peter Olafson. The story, Stuck, is a first person account of Olafson's tortuous attempts to beat the PSOne game Alien Resurrection. If you've ever read his Game Theory columns in the New York Times or his oft linked San Jose Mercury-News piece about gaming after Sept. 11, you know that Olafson takes a very personal approach to the exeperience of gaming."

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  1. Re:Slashdotted already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    it looks like it's a mysql limit they are hitting. I get this:

    Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in /home/helpfulsam/www/mainfile.php on line 33

    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in /home/helpfulsam/www/mainfile.php on line 33
    Unable to select database

  2. Re:Slashdotted already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    i should have said (and did below to the reply) that I don't mean mysql is at fault here but that it is set up on that particular server incorrectly or with a specific limit in place.

    mysql can more than handle a /. methinks.

  3. Re:Slashdotted already! by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 3, Informative

    It just goes to show that STATIC content does NOT need to be served from a DATABASE. Generate the pages from a database, sure. Only makes sense. STORAGE. But NOT for EVERY BLOODY PAGE VIEW. At least, not unless you're going to spend for the hardware to do it. I'm calm now, I swear.

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  4. Re:Sure gaming is personal by Ykant · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, they're both right. In Japan, the name was Aerith... don't know why they changed it.

    (another of the many useless pieces of knowledge I have obtained in my travels)

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  5. Re:NY Times. by Ted+Cabeen · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're looking for the "Game Theory" columns and you're at a major university, you can probably access them through Lexis-Nexis. The most common package for universities is the Academic Universe, which has full text for most major newspapers going way back. If you're in your universities IP space, you can access it here: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe

    Enjoy!