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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. Bittorrent by imadcow1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Direct link to bittorrent: http://www.3dgamers.com/torrents/games/postal2/Mis sions/postal2mpdemo-lnx-1407.tar.bz2.torrent

  2. Does linux somehow make this game fun? by Trikenstein · · Score: 3, Informative

    'cos it sure wasn't on windows...

  3. It works on FreeBSD as well =) by epod · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just downloaded the demo, and it ran flawlessly on my FreeBSD box (4.9-RELEASE, latest nvidia drivers, linux-7.1_5 compat from ports). The only "tweaking" I had to do was set the __GL_SINGLE_THREADED environment variable to 1 (as described in nvidia's docs). After that, it was smooth sailing. This means that all us BSD people can be senselessly violent as well ;)

  4. Re:Bad taste by Lispy · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are possibly a troll but I will reply anway:
    1. They will notice it's real when they are being shot in the head.
    2. The far more disturbing aspect of videogames, violent or not, is that people are safe at home playing away their time while their leaders are fighting stupid wars. People are paralyzed with the media and therefore don't oppose to whatever terrible mistake their leaders might make.
    3. You might not be familiar with some of the later sociobiological concepts but it is common to kill individuals of your own species and it is ok for evolution and selection. When it comes down to morals it might be wrong, but there are many examples in nature where killing in the same species is quite common and is being rewarded by evolution.

    cu,
    Lispy