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Bioware Releases Neverwinter Nights Linux Client Beta
valedaemon writes "Well, I thought that the world would end before this day dawned, but Bioware has finally made good on its promise of a Linux client for Neverwinter Nights. You still need a Windows installation in order to copy the game data, but the good news is that the downloadable is only 4.4 MB. I could write more, but why? Go play!"
Cool, now I can finally swing my +1 sword of funny.
Wow, never would have thought this would happen at all.
Isn't this one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
Spending Friday night, Saturday morning and afternoon trying to get OpenGL hardware acceleration working. And all Sunday calling around to my Windows using friends begging for a copy of NWN :)
Wonderful. Now the flame wars can really start. At least I'll be happily playing through the campaign again :-)
ROFLMAO!
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I entered the cave.
*use lantern*
The lantern lights a path and you see linuxNWN.tar.gz
*download linuxNWN.tar.gz*
You hath established connection and are downloading linuxNWN.tar.gz at 88KBps
*wistle dixie*
10%
*wistles*
35%
*wistles faster*
52%
*curse thy slashdot*
You have cursed at the slashdot administrators.
*grin*
A firey elementa of CowboyNeal appears before you.
*grovel*
CowboyNeal demands, "Why hath though cursed me through these halls, lest though die from thy vile dead?"
*kiss feet, explain the echoing of words on slashdot as being construed by the kobolds, trolls, and gnomes in the walls of this dungeon, and the stress from the occasional double post*
CowboyNeal forgives, leaving warning: "You hath finish thy download at a mere 10KBps, and henceforth I will shut up further seeds from download of thy file by SLASHDOT AFFECT!"
*praise cowboyneal for sparring thy download*
99.999999%
*shake off tarantulas, swap file with *NULL, run through hall, jump over chasm, run away from ball*
Phew, you are panting. You arrive at a lake; a strange man is sitting on a hydrofoil plane and is fishing...
*play game*
You die of a poison dart
From the Bioware page:
You will have to purchase a copy of the game to get a valid Neverwinter Nights CD-Key. Of course, with this purchase you also get a lovely Neverwinter Nights mapkin, a spiral-bound game manual, and three plastic-coated aluminum-reinforced W1nd0z3 brand coasters.
Heh. Think they know who thier audience is, or what?
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
You see your friend laying on the ground, laptop in hand.
:wq!*
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*greet*
Your greeting is not received.
*observe friend*
Your friend is not concious.
*dive into water, swim to shore, meander towards friend*
Your friend has a file that is only 99.9999999999% complete.
*append EOF*
The file does not allow append.
*append EOF
A false god jumps out of the jungle, as a poison dart strikes your shoulder.
*run from Microsoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPalladium tribe*
You black-out and die from over-exertion of the likes your attrophied body is not accustomed...a bird swoops down, plucks out your eyeball; the poison kills the bird.
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-SlashdotTroll (because slashdot doesn't like me logging in and posting more than 2 times every 24 hours)
Looks like there's no difference between Linux and Windows users after all.
But seriously, wow, I've been waiting almost a year for this (okay, maybe more like 9 months or so). I'm pretty happy that it's here now, since this expands the number of games I can play in Linux without having to reboot back into Windows. w00t! Although, honestly, is there even a reason I should play it in Linux rather than Windows (other than me being too lazy to reboot)? Since it's a beta it's rather crippled, and at this rate, I'm not sure it'll EVER run "as well" as the Windows version. I'm not too convinced with my Linux Q3A and RtCW (Punkbuster and performance are not up to par in Linux compared to Windows). We shall see.
Yes I can figure oout how the signature feature of slashdot works, but (and this might come as a big surprise to you) I don't really care.
You might have nothing better to do with your time but I have many many things I are more valuable to me to spend my time on. Things like: working, reading, spending time with my girlfriend, etc.
My suggestion for you is to get off the indentation you have in your couch, grab a shower, brush the cheetos off your shirt and get out of the house and get a life.
But hey, what do I know? I can't even figure out how to use the signature function properly.
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'tis true. I haven't looked up how to create a proper
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