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Postal 2 - Share the Pain Demo for GNU/Linux
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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... you take yourself too seriously. Games are not meant to be about life. That's the thing... they are meant to be fun, and poke fun at the hard stuff.
Video Games are like comedy; they are there to relieve stress.
I definitely think Inculus is going for the "lowest common denominator" audience with this one:
Icculus was not going for the lowest common anything. Running with Scissors might be, but Icculus is a programmer that ports games to linux. He's done more for the linux gaming community than just about anyone else out there. Alot of the stuff he's done, ports, maintaining icculus.org etc. he's done because he's just a good guy. Many of the ports he's done are because he gets paid to do them. Who gives a shit what some people think about the morality of certain games that are labeled with an appropriate rating anyways?
Some of us do have to earn a living you know.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
Check out Ambrosia Software. They've made a lot of great Mac games (Escape Velocity Series), and they are starting to port them to Linux (Maelstrom).
They're also porting to Windows now. You can play the entire EV series using EV Nova for Windows, for example.
Rob
The whole point is to be totally off the wall, not politically correct, push boundries, go far outside acceptable.
Look at GTA, people don't like that game for its violence, but its the best selling game series out. My state even passed a law against it, lucky it was declared unconstitutional by our WA state supreme court.
Won't spin off into politics, but I wish we had more anarchy like this. People should be able to do whatever they want, even its totally untasteful, politically incorrect or against your religion. This goes for everything. Legal consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their homes. Play videos games, listen to music, read books, or watch porn.
Police should be peace officers, not moral guardians for the majority.
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Happy Holidays, I would say Merry Christmas, but thats not politcally correct.
The install of windows is relatively painless, it's the 8 hour reboot, install updates, reboot, install more updates, reboot, install yet more updates, reboot, install a new program (ie: WMP), reboot, install updates to that, etc.
Installing windows is fine, making it usable is painful.
This is one of the worst PC games of the year... it's too bad more people will now buy it due to lack of choice on Linux.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
yes I agree, the world is a really shitty place. Perhaps we should go postal on these guys, light them on fire and piss on them.
It sure does count. Otherwise you have to start with linux kernel 2.2.19, and upgrade form there.
-- Having a Creationist Museum is like having an Atheist place of worship
From what Ive heard of Postal 2, you would be much happier with dental surgery.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.