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GeForce FX And More From AGDC 2002
Mr.Tweak writes "We have posted some coverage from the Australian Game Developers Conference which was held over this past weekend at the Melbourne Convention Center. There you will find information on Sony's PS2 online gaming plans, Sony's PS2 Linux Development Kits, and videos and pictures of nVidia's GeForce FX in action as well as shots of the graphics card and other juicy details."
Maybe Crocodile Dundee 1, 2 & 3 will make it to the playstation! Ahem.
Instead of a link to some forums, here is the real link to the Australian Game Developers Conference
Friends, countrymen, people who hate Slashdot, lend me your ears; I come to bury Slashdot, not to praise it. Before I begin, let me point out that Slashdot is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens address the real issues faced by mankind. Responsible citizens really do not convince chauvinistic Philistines that there is absolutely nothing they can do to better their lot in life besides joining Slashdot. As we all know, Slashdot's flunkies can read some crock of destructive drivel it once wrote and believe that they've read something really profound. Slashdot's arguments would be a lot more effective if they were at least accurate or intelligent, not just a load of bull for the sake of being controversial. Where are the solid statistics that prove that Slashdot can change its bad-tempered ways? I've never seen any. Yet, I have a dream, a mission, a set path that I would like to travel down. Specifically, my goal is to embrace diversity. Of course, its apologists say, "An open party with unlimited access to alcohol can't possibly outgrow the host's ability to manage the crowd." Yes, I'm afraid they really do talk like that. It's the only way for them to conceal that Slashdot's witless stances arose out of an unjust system only to spread more injustice in their wake, proving that there is no end to obtuse fanaticism. But the problems with Slashdot's witticisms don't end there.
I know the following is an incredibly cheap shot, but Slashdot should work with us, not step in at the eleventh hour and hog all the glory. If Slashdot ever claims that people are pawns to be used and manipulated, we must answer only one thing: "No, the reverse is true." Who is Slashdot to decide what is morally acceptable for us and what is not? In the strictest sense, Slashdot wants to convict me without trial, jury, or reading one complete paragraph of this letter. It gets better: It believes that censorship could benefit us. I guess no one's ever told it that it wants to rewrite and reword much of humanity's formative works to favor defeatism. What does it think it is? I mean, it is a pretty good liar most of the time. However, it tells so many lies, it's bound to trip itself up someday. The fact that we live in a deeply troubled society is particularly striking, since Slashdot thinks that it is always being misrepresented and/or persecuted. Of course, thinking so doesn't make it so.
It will not be easy to reveal the nature and activity of Slashdot's attendants and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. Nevertheless, we must attempt to do exactly that, for the overriding reason that I wonder what would happen if it really did break the mind and spirit, castrate the character, and kill the career of anyone whose ideas it deems to be petty. There's a spooky thought. Slashdot doesn't have any principles, or if it does, it puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. While there is inevitable overlap at the edges of political movements, Slashdot likes to imply that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance. This is what its ravings amount to, although, of course, they're daubed over with the viscid slobber of lame-brained drivel devised by its expositors and mindlessly multiplied by intellectually stultified braggarts. According to the latest scientific evidence, Slashdot ignores the most basic ground rule of debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the idea, not the person.
Slashdot says it's going to put directionless scrubs on the federal payroll in a lustrum or two. Is it out of its mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that it says that the Universe belongs to it by right. That's a stupid thing to say. It's like saying that a richly evocative description of a problem automatically implies the correct solution to that problem. I am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to recall the ideals of compassion, nonviolence, community, and cooperation. Some readers may doubt that Slashdot is unprincipled enough to cause (or at least contribute to) a variety of social ills. So let me provide some evidence. But before I do, let me just say that it thinks we want it to redefine unbridled self-indulgence as a virtue, as the ultimate test of personal freedom. Excuse me, but maybe some organizations are responsible and others are not. Slashdot falls into the category of "not".
I'm not the first to mention that if Slashdot opened its eyes, it'd realize that I shall return to this point in particular. It would be a semantic quibble to deny that inherent in our legal construction of fogyism is the notion that according to Slashdot, anyone who points this out is guilty of spreading lies, smears, and narcissism. (Read as: vandalism is irrelevant here.)
Slashdot wants us to believe that we can solve all of our problems by giving it lots of money. We might as well toss that money down a well, because we'll never see it again. What we will see, however, is that Slashdot has convinced a lot of people that the rest of us are an inferior group of people, fit only to be enslaved, beaten, and butchered at the whim of our betters. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. There are few certainties in life. I have counted only three: death, taxes, and Slashdot announcing some gloomy thing every few weeks. You may not understand this now, and I don't fault you for that, but Slashdot likes to exploit the masses. Such activity can flourish only in the dark, however. If you drag it into the open, Slashdot and its advocates will run for cover, like cockroaches in a dirty kitchen when the light is turned on suddenly during the night. That's why we must follow knowledge like a sinking star beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
If our goal is to indicate in a rough and approximate way the two simple-minded tendencies that I believe are the main driving force of modern nihilism, then we must consider various means to that end. As my mother used to tell me, "I can say with absolute certitude that obdurate, pusillanimous mob bosses have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves." I may not be perfect, but at least I'm not afraid to say that Slashdot is trying to pit people against each other. Their mission? To make it impossible to disturb its Pyrrhonism-oriented gravy train.
Don't misunderstand me; I'm not saying that the only way to expand one's mind is with drugs -- or maybe even chocolate. In fact, I've tried explaining to its apostles that this whole discussion has turned into a war of words between a few people, but it is clear to me in talking to them that they have no comprehension of what I'm saying. I might as well be talking to creatures from Mars.
I, not being one of the many spineless schmucks of this world, may not believe that there is something intellectually provocative in the tired rehashing of puerile stereotypes, but I decidedly do believe that it formulates its plans for the future in a precarious latticework between the sappy and the uneducated. Don't make the mistake of thinking otherwise. Slashdot does, and that's why it has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and fuel inquisitions -- all by trumping up a phony emergency. After I enable all people to achieve their potential as human beings, I know that everyone will come to the dismayed conclusion that I stated at the beginning of this discussion: Oligarchism doesn't work. So why does Slashdot cling to it? To ask that question another way, whatever happened to community standards? I can give you only my best estimate, made after long and anxious consideration, but I do not pose as an expert in these matters. I can say only that Slashdot's "I'm right and you're wrong" attitude is pushy, because it leaves no room for compromise. As a matter of policy, incorrigible publishers of hate literature should not pull the levers of despotism and oil the gears of anti-intellectualism, but this has never stopped Slashdot. Dangerous, surly control freaks may possess a mass of "knowledge", but their brains are unable to organize and register the material they have taken in. I've said this before, and I'll say it again, but Slashdot's rantings manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: have more impact on Earth's biological, geological, and chemical systems during our lifetime and our children's than all preceding human generations had together. Phase two: instill distrust and thereby create a need for its wicked views.
Careful examination of Slashdot's bromides have left me no choice but to conclude that Slashdot's standard operating procedure is to glorify the things that everyone else execrates. I've said that before and I've said it often, but perhaps I haven't been concrete enough or specific enough, so now I'll try to remedy those shortcomings. I'll try to be a lot more specific and concrete when I explain that anyone the least bit knowledgeable about its corrupt background would know that when its ruses are challenged, it stages an outpouring of phony emotion in order to look good to the public. To cap that off, it will probably never understand why it scares me so much. And Slashdot indubitably does scare me: Its slogans are scary, its Ponzi schemes are scary, and most of all, it says it's going to operate on a criminal -- as opposed to a civil disobedience -- basis some day. Good old Slashdot. It just loves to open its mouth and let all kinds of things come out without listening to how delusional they sound. Everybody knows that Slashdot needs some serious professional help, but you should consider that Slashdot's ebullitions have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together -- life! Slashdot will take us all on a totally reckless ride into the unknown because it possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses harebrained, twisted spouters with diabolic and uncontrollable rage. I hope I haven't bored you by writing an entire letter about Slashdot. Still, this letter was the best way to explain to you that I seethe with anger whenever I think about Slashdot's soulless deeds.
HAA
Bring me the flea infested head of RMS and the left nut of Torvalds, and your lives will be spared.
You can send these to: 6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322
No list of Australian games would be complete without Aboriginal Genocide Turbo and SheepFuck 2003!