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Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold
An anonymous reader writes with enthusiasm "Duke Nukem Forever has finally gone gold!"
Looks like it'll be on shelves around June 10th with a demo available for Duke Nukem First Access Club members available June 3rd. Can it really be true?
There has to be some correlation between the guy preaching the end of the world this week and Duke Nukem actually coming out. One of the two was just off by a few days. Is hell going to freeze over? The doomsday guy didn't scare me before (I'm a christian, he's a nut) But NOW I''m starting to worry.
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Then it will really be the end of the world.
Harold Camping was right in his adjustment.
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BMO
Will it have mapping tools? Or do we get to play the same few maps over and over until nobody buys the DLC and we still play the same stock maps?
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Have they claimed Vaporware Award 2011 before?
They did, but it turns out it was just a premature announcement. ;-)
Assuming it's not the most elaborate joke ever, I'm waiting for an explosion in the duplication factory, wiping out all of the original copies of the golden image. "Game delayed to early November, promised to be on shelves in time for Christmas."
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
I hope this runs on a Beowulf cluster of Natalie "Hot Grits" Portman.
Don't believe anything I say. I crash test crack pipes for a living.
Then it is true. the end is near.... as was fortold in the old documents....
"And lo, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse will be announce by a messenger, the actual release of Duke Nukem Forever will seal the fate of mankind as they will bask in the light unaware that the horsemen will approach and deliver their doom unto them." -- Speculese 14:10
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Sorry Duke, Life was a blast back in the day. But, well, you see Duke, while you were in rehab, I got married and settled down. I've got three teenage daughters now and, well.... don't get me wrong - you'll always be a friend Duke - but my wife,see, she won't take kindly if you show up. I afraid I won't be able to play with you anymore. Good luck Duke.
Ditto sentiment here. I violated my 'no Steam ever' policy for Civ V. Never again. Patches are involuntary, and I once was told by the Steam software that I couldn't run my own damn bought and paid for game. Luckily it was just a fluke error and it worked when I tried again a few minutes later, but it puts things into perspective. Any time Valve wants to yank your ability to run something, they can, for virtually any reason, and you're left holding your dick.
There so many of games from indie developers and from non-DRM sources like gog.com that I will, never, ever again buy anything that requires Steam or any similar service that makes you some distributor's bitch serf.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
For those who can't wait to immerse themselves into the apocalyptic mixture of shooting and nudity, here's a manner to do a bit of that until the official release: http://www.boob-tube.eu/duke-nudem/
It's the beginning of summer....why is it so cold in here!
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
It's time to delay release and chew bubble gum.
And I'm all out of delays.
I can see it now... June 3 comes and goes... No word for three days, then on Monday Randy Pitchford of Gearbox makes a short public statement that they've had "a really bad weekend" and will have to regroup... By Wednesday they'll say they miscalculated the release date and it'll be sometime in November. Wired gets one last chance to vote DNF "vaporware of the year"...
Then it's all rendered moot on October 21 when the world ends. DNF fanatics on rooftops are still trying to torrent the leaked beta while the lava moves in.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
This is so true.. although i'm still a 'slave' to the monster out of need.. valve has royally screwed me just like that one time.
I lost my entire account (The entire thing, banned) with well over $300 worth of games. Almost everyone valve-made game. CoD: MW, BF:BC2
How does this happen, you say? You receive a gift from a random friend who you never talked to (The gift was Left4Dead 2, because he wanted someone to play with) and it turns out whoever's credit card he used, issues a chargeback... your account is locked/banned permanently!
No matter what I did or said, I could not get my account back. They wouldn't just remove the offending game. They wouldn't let me pay the ***MEASLY FIVE DOLLARS (on sale) THE GAME COST WHEN THIS HAPPENED*** to get my account back.
They pretty much thought I was part of some kind of credit card fraud ring and banned me outright, when I offered to fax them multiple forms of identification AND the credit card used to purchase *Every single game* on my account...
But no, in the end, it came down to one single $5 gift given to me randomly from some douchebag to take away all my games.
Fuck you Valve.
(I still love you, though.. Portal 2 was awesome.. but this just isn't fair)
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If this was a record that would be correct. As this is not a record that is not what it means. In this case it means a gold master was made for the DVD production run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master
Had you tried typing into google you would have gotten this information.
Short answer: No, the term doesn't refer to that. It means the development company has produced the "golden master" copy of the software. That is, the copy that they will send to their manufacturers to be mass-duplicated, producing units for sale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master
If fate makes you a motorcycle, you become a motorcycle.
The End Times have come!
Repent Sinners for your doom has come! It is time to Kick Ass and Chew Bubble Gum. And we're all out of bubble gum...
DN3D is still a fun game that has more edge than most games. Assuming they haven't screwed up the game play and the content hasn't been tamed by the years I think it will find a large following in the younger crowd who were barely out of diapers last go round. I'll play it but I have a family, job, and life outside of video games now. Duke will be like those buddies your G.F./wife hates but you still go do stupid things with every now and then.
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
No, no, the filename to include comes in the DLC.
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Man, don't tell 4ch or Anon about this -- they'll start a campaign to use stolen credit card numbers to start mass-closing accounts... and not even cost the card anything! It's like a VISA ping of death...
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Even though it's technically your fault (as in you shouldn't trust strangers bearing gifts), Valve were pretty shitty for not restoring your account for reasons basically of out your control. They have really bad support service.
It's crap like this which makes me extremely wary of Steam. As the saying goes, never put all your eggs in one basket. I've seen someone's Steam profile which had 900+ games - what if that guy has his account disabled for whatever reason and can't get Steam to restore it? He's fucked. Having access to a large collection of software accessible solely by an account which is in the end controlled by someone else and not you is dangerous.
In this case, pretty much every single term you've described is an approximation for something our intuition doesn't extend to. And yes, subatomic particles can be different colors, or "strange" or "charmed", all of which are just weird terms that Murray Gell-Mann came up with -- he was a bit weird that way, but no stranger than whoever comes up with software names.
Big bang is the obvious one -- nothing went "bang", not in the sense people tend to think.
But hey, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and we have extraordinary evidence for subatomic particles, relativity, and the Big Bang. Where's the extraordinary evidence for the fact that zombies can even exist, let alone that one is our savior?
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!