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Loki Entertainment at LinuxToday
dave writes
"It's Loki day at Linux Today. First, we have
an interview
with the president of Loki. Then, Mike Maher has written
an editorial
where he laments the lack of games for Linux, and discusses Loki as a possible savior. "
I hope not..
This guy works for Red "Next Microsoft" Hat. He's obviously got a fairly disreputable agenda here. Read between the lines, and it's hard to miss what he's really after. Hint: You're not likely to benefit from it.
Furthermore, Moravian College is a well-known cesspool of religio-socialist indoctrination. It's almost a statistical certainty that any Moravian grad is a typical yuppie-socialist, grabbing stock options with one hand while applauding the liberal/statist juggernaut with the other. What is the sound of one hand applauding? It is the sound of the total, final, and deliberate destruction of the American way of life by BMW-driving Stalinist henchmen like Mike Maher.
Awesome! If you read the article they mention they expect more games (8 I think). So this is not just a one game port company then they go out of business! I hope they continue to grow and bring alot of great new games to Linux. We can all wish for Diablo2 :) I hope they sell alot of CTP copies both online and in stores!
i see a lot of cold, solemn truth in your post.
i went to moravian myself, and after graduating, it took me years to shake off all of the extremist left-wing lies i'd been "taught" there. it's hard to accept that four years of allegedly high-quality "education" were nothing but a tissue of manipulative lies, but accept it we must. moravian is like a marxist political cult. it can take a lot of deprogramming to get your life back together after you leave.
i wouldn't be so harsh on maher, though. chances are he's a honest, red-blooded american who was duped by a communist conspiracy. flaming him will do no good. just leave him room to grow, and he'll find the truth eventually on his own.
Did you also read the news at www.gamecellar.com ? /.
Carmack leaving id and a merger of 3dfx, diamond,
nvidia and aureal. Now why don't I see that on
Emailing to a few friends is not "publishing".
frat-brat
Bullshit. I've known Mike for ten years. He's a butthead at times (much like the rest of the human race) and he has a rough sense of humor, but he's not any kind of "frat-brat".
Free enterprise is the only thing that separates us from the apes. The welfare-and-unemployment-mongering political ayatollahs of Moravian College aren't just anti-freedom; they're anti-human. In a just and reasonable society they would be tried and convicted for crimes against humanity, and humanely shot. To the extent that Mr. "Maher" is complicit in their crimes, he should share their fate.
It is no accident that Moravian College is named for a part of the world which has since produced the bloodthirsty terrorists of the KLA and the Hitlerian mass-murderer Slobodan Milosevic. Rusty Martin, Moravian's chief one-worldist conspirator (the man who greeted "moderate" socialist Vaclav Havel with open arms a few years back), is cut from the same cloth. Only when these criminals are exposed in the full horror of their deeds can they be stopped.
Free enterprise is the only thing that separates us from the apes.
You know, when I read your post, my first reaction was that it was a crock. Why, I could think of dozens of things that separate us from the apes (some more definitively than others): Monster truck pulls, broadway musicals (show me one -- just one all-ape production of A Chorus Line, will you!), Delaney and Bonnie records, potato chips, pornographic video games, nuclear submarines, the Internet, web servers, high-energy physics, etc. But you know what? Every one of these things is a product of free enterprise! You are a visionary. I salute you.
I went to EB and they were jerks so I went to Software Ect and asked about CTP. They were taking pre-orders on it and put it on the Upcoming Released games list. So if the EB guys are gunna be jerks about it...go to Software Ect... you can order it there!
Troll: To fish by drawing bait along in the water. I have since been educated as the more the common connotation on Usenet. I certainly enjoyed speaking with Mike Maher at the LinuxWorld Conferece and Expo. He never mentioned being a socialist or anything along those lines :-) BTW: Please don't flame the people at your local software store. In many cases they will have the product. They just don't know it yet. Stores like EB, Software Etc., Best Buy etc. do their purchasing nationally. There's nothing the local manager can do or say -- so please don't upset the poor guy or gal. Distribution for Civ:CTP on Linux will look like this. Pre-orders and online orders ship first. Online stores get it second (think egghead.com). Brick and mortar brings up the rear. Note that this is a brand new product *category* for stores, so don't be surprised if they don't all jump on the bandwagon on day one. Also, the better we do on pre-orders, the faster the game will get into brick and mortar stores. As we get closer to the ship date, we'll post a comprehensive list on our website regarding where the game can be purchase. In the future (i.e. the other few titles we are currently working on), the games will get into stores faster. Scott Draeker President Loki Entertainment Software http://www.lokigames.com
all Im waiting for is that international orders are possible (via creditcard).
Ive been waiting for civ3 forever. anyone knows whether itll be as configurable as civ2 was?
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
I saw Civ: Ctp at the local EB, so I went in and asked if I could get the linux version. I almost got beat up. Needless to say, I wrote on the website and talked to the district manager, but the district manager had never heard of it either. Is this thing really going to be in stores?
yeah, I told him everything I knew and I emailed the main EB people again about it
Cool, I'm glad my EB store isn't the only one staffed by jerks. Just wished I had a Software Etc. now. Maybe I can get it at Best Buy.
Regards, Jochen
Regards, Geewiz
Mike Maher is a frat-brat type who, during LinuxWorld, acted like a complete git and then bragged about it to the world. He published a slanderous story about a friend of mine, in which he claimed that his Red Hat business cards were getting him laid.
This boy is pure sleaze.
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I noticed
It's getting about time to leave everywhere
It's http://www.gamecellar.com . The article has it botched.
M. Vance
Loki Entertainment
"Sebastian you're in a mess. They called you King of all the Hipsters, is it true or are you still the Queen?" -- B
"District Manager?"
Perhaps the next step should have been to
make the guy "aware". *WE* know. So give them
the information we have...
Rules of retail:
#1. The customer is right.
#2. When the customer is wrong, see #1.
I wish Subway (The sandwich shops) would realize this...
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Look up *slander* in a dictionary. Slander is usually spoken, but also includes limited-audience written works such as emails.
Mike Maher most assuredly did slander a friend of Nick's and mine; I expect there will be a lawsuit filed in fairly short order with Red Hat (who has acted abysmally) as a co-defendant.
Funny how the "friends of Mike" are anonymous cowards, isn't it?
_Deirdre
I'm not so sure I totally agree. Will having more games published for Linux not encourage the attitude of `Linux is Windows, cept better'. I like having Win98 as a dedicated gaming OS, personaly. And I could see taking Linux and forming a `gaming' distribution. That might rock, also. But I don't think Linux becoming the jack-of-all-trades OS is a Good Thing(TM).
Bad Mojo
"If you can't win by reason, go for volume." -- Calvin
I think that this could be an important step in gaining home Linux users. I know many people that are Unix people at work, prefer it as an OS, and run Windows at home. Why? They have no illusions that they could get better free operating systems. But Windows has better games. (This is a big reason, IMO, why the Macintosh didn't win a lot of home audience either.)
Personally speaking, I didn't install Linux until very recently (last week! Got a working debian system now!) despite the fact that I've been a professional Unix/Perl person for some time. The impetus was the purchase of a shiny new Windows laptop, which made the desktop 'expendable'. While I plan on playing with WINE soon, I wasn't willing to give up the ability to play games - I could do most of my cool Unix stuff by telnetting into a real machine I had an account on.
For someone to switch to Unix, even a geek or protogeek, there has to be some reason for them to go to the effort. For many, the challenge is enough, or anti-microsoft sentiment, or being part of a growing community, or what have you. But geeks and protogeeks like games, and it'd be helpful for the growth of linux if this was one less obstacle to overcome.
I think Civ will convince a lot more users to try Linux than Applix ever will.
-- Kate
I try to avoid shopping at Electronics Boutique. The name of the store just says "sold on showiness" (the only electronics I see are joysticks, oddly enough)... and they sure do offer a lot of showy do-nothing titles... Not that another software shop would fill their shelves with better, of course, but that name has pretensions of being a little bit classier than what they are.