Isn't this from the guy that ran Hellgate: London into the ground in the most ridiculous way possible?
I can't find the link, but I remember reading a postmortem of Hellgate from the community and a few developers that discussed how ever since he's gone solo, the man has managed to bring all sorts of fail to the party.
I second this. I bought my girlfriend a pair of HD555 headphones (and a short 1/4" to 1/8" adapter) almost a year ago from the HeadRoom website. They've got a dearth of useful information and have a pretty good understanding of price / performance thresholds...
They have actual customer service (as in you can call and speak to a real person). This comes in handy if you run into any troubles. For instance, the adapter cable I ordered was out of stock, so they shipped it free, priority as soon as it arrived at the warehouse. (Bonus, I got to save a few bucks on import tariffs.):)
I use Tomato and I love it. I made sure before I bought my router (the ever popular Linksys WRT54GL - L for Linux) that I was picking the right router for what I wanted.
The default firmware sucked, so I flashed it with Tomato, which was dirt easy. Easily deployable, a hell of a lot more reliable than the default firmware, and pretty simple to administrate even for a newbie like me. It works.
I played Blood and its expansions through for the first time a year ago, as I was a fairly young kid when it came out. I remember seeing the box at the store and being wowed by how gory (and therefore awesome) it must be.
I enjoyed it a great deal especially because they don't make games like that any more. Sure, the controls are archaic in retrospect, but the level design was excellent, the weapons inventive, and the quips and homages, most meant in jest, were brilliant. Most games seem to jump for flashy crap and cut the heart right out of things. The humour made it more immersive, oddly.
It's too bad what little I played of the sequel seemed mediocre at best and killed the franchise off.
Almost certainly. And the game was extremely short to begin with, even if you sucked like I did.
I only wonder if the PC version will support mods and map packs or if they'll make you pay another $20-30 at retail or online after eight months or so of so-called updates...
Well, you can't exactly blame the employees for wondering... I mean, they are lead by their benevolent overlord Steve Jobs, who might well be an alien or something, what with that reality distortion field and all...
I figured they were talking about the murder of the, erm, oldest people in Germany living in this current age... So I clicked through out of curiousity, wondering what it might have to do with technology.
Oh well. My curiousity got the better of me and they still got the pageview. Maybe that makes it a good headline...:3
They took the whole notion of picking up PDA's and examining them from System Shock 2. I highly recommend it, as it was well written and a seminal FPS masterpiece. You can get a higher poly texture update from various fansites on the internet.
Good luck getting it running though... It's kind of flaky as it came out just before the major transition over to Windows 2000 IIRC. Sometimes it works flawlessly on XP / Win2k, whereas other times it might not even load past the title screen.
I can't say that any other game has been as genuinely disturbing as that, though Clive Barker's Undying is a close second at points. I'm guessing this Rage game will be a rental grade formula shooter... I hope id will prove me wrong, but I don't see the point in getting my hopes up.
I never said I agreed with it or that it was the appropriate response... But it's the only way to quell people's fears sometimes, mostly because the average person doesn't think rationally when it comes to technology OR sexual crimes.
Even in a university setting, it's astounding how many people truly lacking in critical analysis have managed to get in. I guess they have to make money somehow...
I can tell you firsthand that the administration did not take kindly to this.
With regards to the magnetic stripe thing, it's not surprising that those in charge reacted strongly and sharply. We had recurrent incidents on campus last year with sexual assault and they had to lock down all the residences and the labs, and as such, they took great pains to inform the students who had access cards for the suite residences that they would not, in fact, be in danger, be it financial or otherwise.
I understand that the Wolfenstein series et al. has never been about realism in the strict sense. C'mon, you can take ten bullets to the face and still shoot perfectly until you drop dead...
All the same, this does sound a little ridiculous. I realize that the Wolfenstein series has never been all that grounded in reality save the connection to the Nazis (see -- mecha Hitler, zombie things?), but really? Then again, it might give a nice shot in the arm to the vanilla WWII realism shooters... but I don't hold much hope out in that regard since Call of Duty II / IV have apparently wrapped up those two eras of warfare...
In any event, I don't care much so long as they make it fun -- I'm not expecting a seminal work of art here. It doesn't sound much like a breath of fresh air -- Prey did something similar three to five years ago? With id's idTech4 Engine (i.e Doom 3 engine), no less...
You can use sites like OldVersion to save yourself the hassle of attempting to find any old version of FF, etc. off any company website... I use it whenever reinstalling to only use an app with the functionality and lower memory footprint (usually) that I need.
www.oldversion.com
That said, I'm still using FF v. 1.5.whatever, and I've been on FF v. 1 for about four or five years now? However long it's been, not long after it initially came out I think. I need my extensions to function as they actually define my ideal browsing experience... hence why I've never touched Opera or anything else, and try to get FF installed with a few extensions at minimum on most every computer I use regularly that I have permission to do so.
I haven't played Crysis, but the description in the summary (no, I didn't RTFA due to being in a rush) sounds *exactly* like an expansion pack. Sequel, my ass.
The Half-Life series did this several times with Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and arguably Portal as it has ties to that universe indirectly... This doesn't seem to be advancing the main plotline in the same way that a true sequel would, but then again, I think I'm hair splitting here.
Hell, I seem to remember Quake mission packs billing themselves in the same manner... but at least they didn't kid themselves that it was an expansion and not a full blown sequel.../facepalm
I still haven't bought Bioshock solely because of the DRM in it. Have they removed it? The retail copies sure are getting cheaper, but if it's more reliably run on Steam (and obviously has none of that crap) then I might as well buy it there and pay the premium.
Yeah, I must admit that A Scanner Darkly was extremely well done. Linklater (the guy who directed it) seems to have a thing for rotoscoping. I think he did that movie Waking Life... I thought his other movie, Dazed and Confused sucked hard though.
He stuck to the source material with A Scanner Darkly and told the story pretty much exactly how it should've been translated. I really liked it. My girlfriend and parents didn't quite follow it as they hadn't read the book, but it was true to form, and I think that says a lot.
Not necessarily that the creators think it's so bad... More like the suits think it's so bad. If anything, I'd assume that the creators (who probably love to play games) have had the same issues that we, the end user, have had with stupid copy protection schemes.
I agree that we should best avoid buying DRM stuff. It's the only reason I haven't picked up Bioshock (and if it has the same install problems on Steam, I won't get it there either).
FWIW, I think Steam is a pretty good compromise between the two camps. From what little I know, they encourage modding, don't mind console tweaks, etc. It's nice that I don't have to patch my own damn games with a fixed EXE or something more arcane any more. Of course, the multiplayer candy is more or less locked into their network, and you rely on them for updates. I haven't had any significant problems with them as of yet. Oh, and they actually support the development and distribution of indie content that would otherwise probably never see widespread release, which is a pretty big bonus.
Yeah, they changed the look and feel and functionality it seems. It's kind of off putting... I just noticed that this comment reply box is actually nested in the thread now as opposed to loading an entire new window. I guess the dynamic loading might be better for slashdot? But I have no idea.
Strangely enough, the only thing I've found that I like about this new system is this embedded comment. Everything else looks glitzed up for the sake of a new coat of paint, and not functional to me. But to each their own, I suppose. And/. is free, so I guess I can't exactly pick and choose what I want out of a list of features. YMMV.
Now where is the submit button... I see preview... Ah, preview then submit. Touche. Pretty slick, guys.
Slashdot Mirror
When was the last time you saw a cloud derail something? :P
Isn't this from the guy that ran Hellgate: London into the ground in the most ridiculous way possible?
I can't find the link, but I remember reading a postmortem of Hellgate from the community and a few developers that discussed how ever since he's gone solo, the man has managed to bring all sorts of fail to the party.
hm, looks like I'll have to make a stop by there on a lunch hour some time. It's not far from where I work, and I've lived in the area all my life.
Politicians. Sigh.
I second this. I bought my girlfriend a pair of HD555 headphones (and a short 1/4" to 1/8" adapter) almost a year ago from the HeadRoom website. They've got a dearth of useful information and have a pretty good understanding of price / performance thresholds...
They have actual customer service (as in you can call and speak to a real person). This comes in handy if you run into any troubles. For instance, the adapter cable I ordered was out of stock, so they shipped it free, priority as soon as it arrived at the warehouse. (Bonus, I got to save a few bucks on import tariffs.) :)
I use Tomato and I love it. I made sure before I bought my router (the ever popular Linksys WRT54GL - L for Linux) that I was picking the right router for what I wanted.
The default firmware sucked, so I flashed it with Tomato, which was dirt easy. Easily deployable, a hell of a lot more reliable than the default firmware, and pretty simple to administrate even for a newbie like me. It works.
I played Blood and its expansions through for the first time a year ago, as I was a fairly young kid when it came out. I remember seeing the box at the store and being wowed by how gory (and therefore awesome) it must be.
I enjoyed it a great deal especially because they don't make games like that any more. Sure, the controls are archaic in retrospect, but the level design was excellent, the weapons inventive, and the quips and homages, most meant in jest, were brilliant. Most games seem to jump for flashy crap and cut the heart right out of things. The humour made it more immersive, oddly.
It's too bad what little I played of the sequel seemed mediocre at best and killed the franchise off.
But holding your breath might make some drugs more effective!
Just remember, you can smoke it, but if you want a shot at the big leagues, don't inhale. :)
Almost certainly. And the game was extremely short to begin with, even if you sucked like I did.
I only wonder if the PC version will support mods and map packs or if they'll make you pay another $20-30 at retail or online after eight months or so of so-called updates...
Could someone write a GreaseMonkey script to remove it? I have no idea how GreaseMonkey works as I don't actually use it, so bear with me here... :3
Corporations are now people too? Capable of not only alleging or believing, but alleging belief?
Soylent Apple is people! People, I say!
Well, you can't exactly blame the employees for wondering... I mean, they are lead by their benevolent overlord Steve Jobs, who might well be an alien or something, what with that reality distortion field and all...
*cues the X-Files theme*
I figured they were talking about the murder of the, erm, oldest people in Germany living in this current age... So I clicked through out of curiousity, wondering what it might have to do with technology.
Oh well. My curiousity got the better of me and they still got the pageview. Maybe that makes it a good headline... :3
You sound like the TimeCube guy, only slightly less insane. ;)
www.timecube.com 3
They took the whole notion of picking up PDA's and examining them from System Shock 2. I highly recommend it, as it was well written and a seminal FPS masterpiece. You can get a higher poly texture update from various fansites on the internet.
Good luck getting it running though... It's kind of flaky as it came out just before the major transition over to Windows 2000 IIRC. Sometimes it works flawlessly on XP / Win2k, whereas other times it might not even load past the title screen.
I can't say that any other game has been as genuinely disturbing as that, though Clive Barker's Undying is a close second at points. I'm guessing this Rage game will be a rental grade formula shooter... I hope id will prove me wrong, but I don't see the point in getting my hopes up.
I never said I agreed with it or that it was the appropriate response... But it's the only way to quell people's fears sometimes, mostly because the average person doesn't think rationally when it comes to technology OR sexual crimes.
Even in a university setting, it's astounding how many people truly lacking in critical analysis have managed to get in. I guess they have to make money somehow...
I can tell you firsthand that the administration did not take kindly to this.
With regards to the magnetic stripe thing, it's not surprising that those in charge reacted strongly and sharply. We had recurrent incidents on campus last year with sexual assault and they had to lock down all the residences and the labs, and as such, they took great pains to inform the students who had access cards for the suite residences that they would not, in fact, be in danger, be it financial or otherwise.
I understand that the Wolfenstein series et al. has never been about realism in the strict sense. C'mon, you can take ten bullets to the face and still shoot perfectly until you drop dead...
All the same, this does sound a little ridiculous. I realize that the Wolfenstein series has never been all that grounded in reality save the connection to the Nazis (see -- mecha Hitler, zombie things?), but really? Then again, it might give a nice shot in the arm to the vanilla WWII realism shooters... but I don't hold much hope out in that regard since Call of Duty II / IV have apparently wrapped up those two eras of warfare...
In any event, I don't care much so long as they make it fun -- I'm not expecting a seminal work of art here. It doesn't sound much like a breath of fresh air -- Prey did something similar three to five years ago? With id's idTech4 Engine (i.e Doom 3 engine), no less...
Obvious joke is obvious. =)
You can use sites like OldVersion to save yourself the hassle of attempting to find any old version of FF, etc. off any company website... I use it whenever reinstalling to only use an app with the functionality and lower memory footprint (usually) that I need.
www.oldversion.com
That said, I'm still using FF v. 1.5.whatever, and I've been on FF v. 1 for about four or five years now? However long it's been, not long after it initially came out I think. I need my extensions to function as they actually define my ideal browsing experience... hence why I've never touched Opera or anything else, and try to get FF installed with a few extensions at minimum on most every computer I use regularly that I have permission to do so.
I haven't played Crysis, but the description in the summary (no, I didn't RTFA due to being in a rush) sounds *exactly* like an expansion pack. Sequel, my ass.
/facepalm
The Half-Life series did this several times with Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and arguably Portal as it has ties to that universe indirectly... This doesn't seem to be advancing the main plotline in the same way that a true sequel would, but then again, I think I'm hair splitting here.
Hell, I seem to remember Quake mission packs billing themselves in the same manner... but at least they didn't kid themselves that it was an expansion and not a full blown sequel...
I still haven't bought Bioshock solely because of the DRM in it. Have they removed it? The retail copies sure are getting cheaper, but if it's more reliably run on Steam (and obviously has none of that crap) then I might as well buy it there and pay the premium.
Yeah, I must admit that A Scanner Darkly was extremely well done. Linklater (the guy who directed it) seems to have a thing for rotoscoping. I think he did that movie Waking Life... I thought his other movie, Dazed and Confused sucked hard though.
He stuck to the source material with A Scanner Darkly and told the story pretty much exactly how it should've been translated. I really liked it. My girlfriend and parents didn't quite follow it as they hadn't read the book, but it was true to form, and I think that says a lot.
Not necessarily that the creators think it's so bad... More like the suits think it's so bad. If anything, I'd assume that the creators (who probably love to play games) have had the same issues that we, the end user, have had with stupid copy protection schemes.
I agree that we should best avoid buying DRM stuff. It's the only reason I haven't picked up Bioshock (and if it has the same install problems on Steam, I won't get it there either).
FWIW, I think Steam is a pretty good compromise between the two camps. From what little I know, they encourage modding, don't mind console tweaks, etc. It's nice that I don't have to patch my own damn games with a fixed EXE or something more arcane any more. Of course, the multiplayer candy is more or less locked into their network, and you rely on them for updates. I haven't had any significant problems with them as of yet. Oh, and they actually support the development and distribution of indie content that would otherwise probably never see widespread release, which is a pretty big bonus.
As always, YMMV.
Seeing as I have studied Latin (first year uni only) I'm curious to know what you have written.
Sadly, I too am waiting for ad.doubleclick.net to load on the free Latin translation site since I am too lazy to check myself. =)
(Just kidding... Firefox 1.5.1.3 or whatever it is now running noscript, adblock plus, filtersetg, customizegoogle, etc.)
Addendum: I write that then I get a "Loading" dela^H^H^H^H "feature!" from the new discussion system. Irony ftw?
Keep up the good work. =)
Yeah, they changed the look and feel and functionality it seems. It's kind of off putting... I just noticed that this comment reply box is actually nested in the thread now as opposed to loading an entire new window. I guess the dynamic loading might be better for slashdot? But I have no idea. Strangely enough, the only thing I've found that I like about this new system is this embedded comment. Everything else looks glitzed up for the sake of a new coat of paint, and not functional to me. But to each their own, I suppose. And /. is free, so I guess I can't exactly pick and choose what I want out of a list of features. YMMV.
Now where is the submit button... I see preview... Ah, preview then submit. Touche. Pretty slick, guys.