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Postal 2 - Share the Pain Demo for GNU/Linux

Posted by michael on from the you'll-put-your-eye-out-kid dept.

fredan writes "Icculus has posted this news on his site: 'Just in time to relieve all that Holiday stress, a demo version of Postal 2: Share the Pain is now available for GNU/Linux systems.'"

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  1. what?? by Suppafly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Games for linux? What's next? Games for Macs?

    1. Re:what?? by dswensen · · Score: 2, Funny
      Ah yes, Ambrosia Software... finally, in the year 2003, you can play an updated version of Xevious! On your Mac! The future is now!

      Seriously, this game came bundled with my iBook, touted as a game with "cutting-edge sound and graphics." Um. It's Xevious. Neat game and all, but I kinda played it before... in 1982!

  2. lets all rejoice! by Transcendent · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for linux users finally have a game where you can beat a puking person down with a shovel after you pee on them, and then light them on fire!

    The world will finally be a better place...

    1. Re:lets all rejoice! by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sorry, I play games to have fun and maybe let off a little steam. I just don't see the point of playing a game that makes me do the sort of mindless and repetitive chores I have to do in real life all day.

      KFG

  3. Re:Poor Taste in Title of Game by oldwolf13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure all game makers will now take light of your wise statement and rename their games so as not to offend anyone.

    All games now will be named "Super Fantastic Happy" and a version number at the end.

    --
    If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked.
  4. This has possibilities by MAPA3M · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great....

    A bunch of geeks with antisocial tendencies duking it out through the eyes of a buch of characters with SEVERE antisocial tendencies....

    Something tells me that one of these days we'll see a headline stating: "Geek goes postal, chokes 10 lamers with cat-5 cable"

  5. Re:Poor Taste in Title of Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    > They're a senseless tragedy and I refuse to play any game that makes light of them.

    Since the first requirement of tragedy is hubris in the face of the gods, and there's little chance that your favorite uncle is both a mail carrier *and* a follower of the old Roman ways, I posit to you that the whole problem here is that you're a humorless, hypersensitive cunt.

    Sit on *that* and spin, you asshat.

  6. share the pain demo? by Savatte · · Score: 4, Funny

    is that the simulation of the WindowsXP install process?

    1. Re:share the pain demo? by Pluvius · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think it's the fact that installing XP is actually simple and painless, which is actually painful to a masochist (read: Linux user).

      Rob

  7. Yeah, you think this is good NOW... by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... but wait until Linus gets sued when some 13-year-old Linux user shoots up his school.

    1. Re:Yeah, you think this is good NOW... by ag3n7 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, he probably was driven over the edge because he had to recompile the kernel to use his video card. :-).

  8. How'd this get on the front page, anyway? by Pluvius · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it the fact that it's for Linux? I suppose it would normally be good news for a game to get ported to Linux, but Postal 2 is a bad game. If I were a Linux user, I'd be downplaying this news as much as possible.

    Rob (would've rather seen the editorial on Nintendo on the front page)

  9. Re:Poor Taste in Title of Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are absolutely right. I think if a game has the word "Postal" in the title, at the very least it should involve making snap decisions on whether to deliver unwanted bulk mail to the wrong people or lose important packages -- kind of like the mail carrier version of "Paperboy." You could gain extra points avoiding frisky pets, raising rates, and delivering final notices before the original bills.

    The nice thing about it is that even old guys like me could play because there would be frequent, regular breaks, plus weekends and all major holidays off, and you could move at a snail's pace without losing the game. I'm sure this would be far less offensive than the current version.

  10. Ack! Refund! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Seriously, I'm about to start a class action lawsuit to get refunds for subscribers who signed up on the belief that paying meant not having to look at advertisements.

  11. The Sims with a shotgun? by Colymbosathon+ecplec · · Score: 3, Funny
    " is as funny and entertaining as The Sims with a shotgun

    I can't count the number of times I wanted to dispose of a particularly stupid Sim, and a shotgun would have done nicely, instead of drowning them. I only played the game because my GF at the time made me. Man, the things we do for, er um love, yeah. She got really angry when I finally got the naked women sims to kiss and stuff. Now, I got a new GF who likes games like GTA and naked girls in UT2003. WooHoo!

    President Bush to Liberate Alaska!