Of course pirates prefer the older versions, they're a lot easier to keep running while cracked.
I just don't think it's worth it anymore to pirate newer MS software, you're constantly playing catch-up with their latest Windows Genuine Advantage stuff.
I'm a gamer, and even I think this is ridiculous as a frontpage/. story. I think there are a couple of games that *might* squeeze into acceptability for the majority of readers, such as the KoTOR games, but Burnout?! It's an awesome game that just about anyone can get into - but it's just not/. material.
Also, it's published by EA./. is the sort of place where people boycott companies like EA.
One day, a rather ordinary guy sees a really beautiful woman on the street. Before he can move to follow her, he finds himself holding a bag of goldfish. Apparently, the goldfish are ingested by a passerby who bumps into our ordinary guy. After helping him regurgitate the fish, the ordinary guy is recruited into a "superperformance group" called the Rub Rabbits. Their pitch to him is that the best way for him to see the woman of his dreams again is to stage an amazing performance for her. And thus begins your adventure.
I found RetroGamer in a bookstore at the mall. In the middle of nowhere, Iowa, USA. So chances are pretty good that you can find it if you're anywhere near civilization.
Yes, popular characters such as Bloodrayne. Who? Oh, you mean the ridiculous-looking female vampire from that mediocre game who is now getting more press coverage than international war crimes because there's a new Bloodrayne game coming out?
If it wasn't for the fact that they're publishing Guilty Gear and Psychonauts (and published Bomberman Generation), I'd send out a Jiffy bag of fuckings to Majesco.
Who the heck modded this up? The whole point of the contest wasn't to say "look at the best homebrew games we can make on the GBA/GP32/whatever" but to create a game with the same feel as an old Game & Watch game.
If you want to find more technically impressive homegrown GBA games, check out http://www.gbadev.org/ periodically. They'll usually link to the biggest new games, and you can almost guarantee that the author will have posted some tests or early releases to the Demos section too. You'll see a lot of clones/ports of old games, but some of them are well executed, particularly the Barbarian and Nebulus ports.
3rd-party tools such as XMP do indeed damage revenue, then, just as Linux and BSD damage Windows sales.
I'm not saying we as customers shouldn't have a choice, I'm just saying that from Company X's point of view a free competing product is definitely going to do some damage.
I don't see anywhere where it explicitly says Mindstorms is gone, just a vaguely-worded mention of "electronics". They say their new mission is focusing on their own products, not the tie-ins, so that they have control over what they do - Mindstorms is owned by them, no? I took it to mean they were dropping the Star Wars line (which was cool, admittedly), the Harry Potter line, etc. and would stop making the video games (where presumably they are not responsible for making them, but license out the Lego name or contract other companies, either way they're not in control).
So until someone explicitly tells me the Mindstorms line is done, I'm not going to hold out any hope for seeing it in the clearance aisle.
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Of course pirates prefer the older versions, they're a lot easier to keep running while cracked.
I just don't think it's worth it anymore to pirate newer MS software, you're constantly playing catch-up with their latest Windows Genuine Advantage stuff.
I paid 5 bucks for mine. Shipping of course cost as they're not exactly light, but I don't think I paid more than 10 bucks, tops.
Fucking sleazy.
Jesus.
I'm a gamer, and even I think this is ridiculous as a frontpage /. story. I think there are a couple of games that *might* squeeze into acceptability for the majority of readers, such as the KoTOR games, but Burnout?! It's an awesome game that just about anyone can get into - but it's just not /. material.
/. is the sort of place where people boycott companies like EA.
Also, it's published by EA.
Streaming hentai
There's a reason why the population is declining in rural areas -- people move out as a) its boring as hell and b) there's no jobs there.
Yeah, but the crank is great!
One day, a rather ordinary guy sees a really beautiful woman on the street. Before he can move to follow her, he finds himself holding a bag of goldfish. Apparently, the goldfish are ingested by a passerby who bumps into our ordinary guy. After helping him regurgitate the fish, the ordinary guy is recruited into a "superperformance group" called the Rub Rabbits. Their pitch to him is that the best way for him to see the woman of his dreams again is to stage an amazing performance for her. And thus begins your adventure.
I'm not making this up.
I must know whether to make an amusing "Terrorists win" or "Counter-Terrorists win" post.
chmod -R a+rwx *
in the wrong directory. You wouldn't think it'd be such a problem, would you? It was.
I found RetroGamer in a bookstore at the mall. In the middle of nowhere, Iowa, USA. So chances are pretty good that you can find it if you're anywhere near civilization.
..because 10 bucks says this rips off PearPC wholesale.
Wow, you got that wrong. Bush is the cocky little guy who truly believes in what he's doing. Cheney is the scary one wielding (and abusing) the power.
Yes, popular characters such as Bloodrayne. Who? Oh, you mean the ridiculous-looking female vampire from that mediocre game who is now getting more press coverage than international war crimes because there's a new Bloodrayne game coming out?
If it wasn't for the fact that they're publishing Guilty Gear and Psychonauts (and published Bomberman Generation), I'd send out a Jiffy bag of fuckings to Majesco.
This is sweet. Now I can make sure that cute teen girl I'm talking to isn't really some dirty old man like me.
If you want to talk about a game that puts you into an altered state while playing, I have 3 letters for you:
Rez
Yeah. This Wired article talks about it.
I remember that. He used a webcam to capture the image of the lava lamp, IIRC.
Who the heck modded this up? The whole point of the contest wasn't to say "look at the best homebrew games we can make on the GBA/GP32/whatever" but to create a game with the same feel as an old Game & Watch game.
If you want to find more technically impressive homegrown GBA games, check out http://www.gbadev.org/ periodically. They'll usually link to the biggest new games, and you can almost guarantee that the author will have posted some tests or early releases to the Demos section too. You'll see a lot of clones/ports of old games, but some of them are well executed, particularly the Barbarian and Nebulus ports.
I used to use Trillian, before switching to GAIM, before finally using the official clients for Yahoo and MSN. And why?
Hot cam action.
On the one hand, you have unobtrusive, no ad, open source, memory efficient, multi-protocol programs. On the other, hot women.
I know which hand I prefer.
Yes, I think you did miss the release where they announced a product that allows you to stream your movies from a shared network resource.
3rd-party tools such as XMP do indeed damage revenue, then, just as Linux and BSD damage Windows sales.
I'm not saying we as customers shouldn't have a choice, I'm just saying that from Company X's point of view a free competing product is definitely going to do some damage.
..SEARCHED BY CHINESE!
I don't see anywhere where it explicitly says Mindstorms is gone, just a vaguely-worded mention of "electronics". They say their new mission is focusing on their own products, not the tie-ins, so that they have control over what they do - Mindstorms is owned by them, no? I took it to mean they were dropping the Star Wars line (which was cool, admittedly), the Harry Potter line, etc. and would stop making the video games (where presumably they are not responsible for making them, but license out the Lego name or contract other companies, either way they're not in control).
So until someone explicitly tells me the Mindstorms line is done, I'm not going to hold out any hope for seeing it in the clearance aisle.
Don't forget about the Win32 Compiler Shootout
..otherwise they'd have seen why the term UN*X was used.