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Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament
jvm writes "If you're a gamer with a pulse, you've probably heard about the impending release of Valve's Half-Life 2. As a gamer and a Linux user, I always get a little stirred up about the whole Half-Life situation, where we have a dedicated server but no client. So here's my reflection on the sad situation, past and present. How will the rest of the Linux gaming community react to the release of Half-Life 2? Boot into Windows? Wait for WINE or WineX support? Get the Xbox version? With so many Half-Life servers running on Linux, will the same be true for Half-Life 2?"
GET BACK TO WORK YOU LAZY ENGINEERS!
*caps is like yelling so you have to offset it with lowercase text*
Given that I'm stuck on an old overclocked Celeron 300A/450 mHZ which has difficulty running even Half-Life one at full speed, I have a hard time feeling sorry for this fellow.
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no no no, you phrased that wrong, the proper way is: I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but DX is better than OGL.
I'm running netware, that means I can't even play tuxracer! Why oh why won't Valve give me a netware port?
One other thing, I have this Amiga....
it was like watching your dog get hit by a car as he returned from the pound.
Wow. That brought back some bad memories.
...nethack?
How do you think I should react? I mean, I could switch to Slash'Em, but don't you think that's a bit extreme?
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It won't kill you. Just think of it as a Wintendo.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
and I'll look into valve studios and find out for you.
Blah Blah something about DRM blah Steam is some form of DRM, or something, Steam is part of Half-Life 2, shallow summary of linux community, sudden appearance of the baseless assumption using Half-Life 2 would be some kind of acceptance by the linux community of DRM. Innuendo? Strange assertion that hacking Steam would somehow be easier in linux than windows becuase linux has an open-source kernel, totally hypothetical question as to whether or not whoever it is that makes Half-Life 2 would allow Steam on linux or whoever it is that makes linux would allow Steam on linux, inexplicable reference of DMCA, betrayal of the fact that I know very little about economics, witty but meaningless remark.
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Since 1/2 * 2 = 1, shouldn't this version of the game be simply called One-Life?
According to Joe Lieberman (and obviously others), if you play an FPS for the killing virtual people you have much bigger problems.
Why do they Lament for half-Life 2?
I have not the heart to tell you.
Money talks, bullshit walks. With Microsoft you get both.
So that would be... expensive talking bullshit?
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I take it you have no fucking clue what kind of revelation and gamers dreams coming true HL2 represents.. I mean the physics.
The only way around halflife2 is another game using the havoc 2 engine.
Valve doesn't care about you? Think of it as a *really* hot chick wanting you to be something you're not. Usually you'd say screw that (no pun intended), but if the hotness is too big you'll end up in that janitors uniform going "quack, quack!".
It might be worth the humiliation.
Nobody's willing to pay the $699 they would have to charge in order to sell it.
Wait a long time for it's release.
so THAT's why they call it W(h)INE...
They haven't written it for OS/2, either!
Or BeOS!
Or PalmOS!
There's not even a whiff of a C64 or Amiga version!
THE BASTARDS!
It's sadly amusing that we get lessons in morality from somone that doesn't even have the wherewhital to use their name.
Oh, wait... this is Slashdot.
That's "expensive talking WALKING bullshit" to you bub.
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