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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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Games for linux? What's next? Games for Macs?
Direct link to bittorrent: http://www.3dgamers.com/torrents/games/postal2/Mis sions/postal2mpdemo-lnx-1407.tar.bz2.torrent
...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...
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.
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"
> 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.
... 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.
is that the simulation of the WindowsXP install process?
... but wait until Linus gets sued when some 13-year-old Linux user shoots up his school.
'cos it sure wasn't on windows...
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.
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.
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!
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 ;)
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.
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.
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Lispy
They think they're being controversial or something, but they're actually just being really stupid and immature. This game reeks of 13-year-old humor. This game has no artistic, comical, or technical value whatsoever. I like to support Linux games on general principle, but I just can't do that for this game.