I can only speak about the games I bought from them (something like 15 games, the oldest being either Stonekeep or Flashback, the newest one probably Psychonaut), but they all came with a GOG installer. Obviously there is an EULA to check and you can (but don't need to) change the standard install directory (defaults to "c:\program files\GOG\whateverthegameis").
No need to patch anything as those are old games. So far, they were all already patched to the latest official version.
That's pretty much all there is to it. Start the setup, check EULA, click install. Optionally click "Start Game" instead of "Close" when the installation is done.
maybe they changed that since the last time I tried it, but the last time I tried using a backup of the steam directory Steam didn't seem happy that I already had all the files installed and redownloaded everything. What's a 30 or so GB between friends when you get 90KB/s transfer rate?
Actually, I will know very soon, as I had to reinstall my windows partition yesterday.
Steam is a pain compared to the way GOG works/worked/used to work (?).
I'll write in the present tense, as GOG's future doesn't seem to be set in stone yet.
You get one file (granted, Psychonaut has actually three). You can download the file from a fast server.I never could get a fast, and I'm being deliberately NICE here, so > 100KB/s) download from steam, no matter what ports I opened. You can make as many backups as you want of the setup file. Installation is straight forward, and you get some bonus material with many of the games (like soundtracks, concept arts,...).
If you install some third party mods, GOG won't start telling you your copy is not valid and start re-downloading the original files neither, which, for example,means that you can slap Freespace2 Openontop of your FS2 install without any difficulties.
Compared to Steam, which asks me to validate my games online if I don't play for a while and then force me to download 1GB of updates even if I just wanted to play, I'll take GOG games everyday.
Yes, the games are old'ish, but that is definitely not a problem if you are more into gameplay than eyecandy (although, as an example, a modded Freespace2 is a good looking Spacecombat simulator/game even by today's standards)
I really hope it's just a very stupid publicity stunt and GOG comes back.
hmm.. I still have to see a driver for any wireless card that crashes linux. Worst case scenario, it just doesn't work, which was incidentally the problem I had with my broadcom adapter on an Acer Aspire One D250. but crash the OS? not really, no.
true. I just meant that the skills required were not really programmer's skills. For both, manager and salesman, you need to be a people's person to some degree, which isn't a given in many programmers (and here I seriously don't exclude myself;)
The "alternatives" toward which a programmer is supposed to steer according to TFA are plain stupid and slightly offending by assuming that becoming a manager or a Sales ~person~ is a move "UP". How the fuck is your programmer background going to help with those? Not withstanding the fact that most good programmers I know don't have the skills needed for those jobs.
It's like telling restaurant cooks to jump ship and become kitchen appliance salesman, or graphic artists that to move UP they need to open and run an art gallery full of stuff they didn't do themselves
1) shit...someone must have forgotten to send me the memo. I bought the Humble Bundle because the games ranged from good to absolutely amazing, were DRM free, native to the OS I use, and I was able to buy them without breaking my bank account (I paid what I was able to pay at that time, and would have paid more if I had been able to). I didn't know I was doing it to "show how good $platform" is.
2) So your argument is : "Real Men Pay More"? kind of vain, isn't it? I guess you wouldn't buy any of the ~cheap~ windows games that are available on Steam, in fear someone might see you?!
my own experience:
I knew WoG, I already owned the Penumbra trilogy (and in a side note, I've already pre-ordered the next game by Frictional... just to "prove how Good Linux is" apparently), but I had never heard of Lugaru, Gish or Aquaria before (nor of Samorost for that matter). The Humble Bundle gave me the opportunity to get those games (admitedly for a rather low sum), and I ended up playing through 3 of the 4 games I didn't know... something that rarely happens when I buy more expensive titles ( mostly from Steam by the way).
And One Last Thing : paying 50$ to show off your taste in OS (or how large your bank account is) is incredibly stupid.
But more Linux users will actually pay and pay more for good native games. They just won't pay for something of which they can legally get working free equivalents
Of course, you could just get Fabled Lands, which is as sandbox'y as those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books can get. No idea if java runs on the iStuff though.
actually the gggggp said that the only way the (essentially morally corrupt) enemies of the United States fight is through suicide bombers, which also only happens in media wet dream story. Scrap the "also". Cases of civilians being shot by western troops because they were erroneously thought to be suicide bombers are documented in the Afghanistan War Diary leak.
This will definitely boggle your mind, but you can support soldiers in that you don't want them to die and you want them to return safely home, while still hating what they stand for.
it might come as a shock to you, but people who fought and possibly survived WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, or any other conflicts (listing only recent ones here to allow for the possibility that some who experienced them might still be alive, although the list is not exhaustive) were real actual people too. Just to say that your point is moot.
Actually, some people in the USA are actively working to lessen the Day-Of-Hate gape. Thankfully, most media coverage about that is less than positive:)
Actually, I understand and respect your position (even if I obviously don't agree with the reasons which placed you in Iraq). I was just applying the same sort of stereotype as the GP used to the other side of the coin.
Still, in the context of a game set in a contemporary war, there is no reason NOT to set the player as the "bad guy". Apart from the game play aspect (you are fighting against a technologically much stronger force), it might also be interesting to use the Single Player storyline to explore the motives and situation of your current enemy.
Anyway : good luck to you, stay as safe as possible, given the circumstances
I guess you missed my point. I was replying to the AC stating that a game seen from "the other side" would be about suicide bombers and ended with "oh poor me". Stupid stereotype, s someone else said (but I think the "avoid the missile J&R" might actually be fun:P
Anyway I don't see how game would be less fun if you were playing afghani guerrillas shooting at "invading" UN troops. It might actually make the game stand out of the crowd in terms of gameplay.
Of course, you could also play a guy who just drives a car around town and get shot at by overreacting (or just bored) soldiers. Or what about a run and jump game in which you try to avoid being collateral during more or less random "surgical strikes" falling on your neighbourhood... Plenty of game opportunities without falling into one-sided clichees.
"Officer Noob, what did the defendant tell you when you asked him whether he had seen two men in ski masks run ~this~ way?"
"He said he had"
"and yet, they had taken a completely different route, had they not?"
"indeed! We weren't able to catch them due to that misdirection. We also learned that the defendant bought a ski mask a few weeks prior to the felony but didn't book a ski trip. Our conclusion is that he worked with the other men."
Besides, I'd say asking the TOR guy about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is as far from innocent questioning as you can get
You really should watch the youtube video, it does a good job at explaining WHY you shouldn't talk to cops. Incidentally, this is true for the USA, but I don't know how much of it is true in other countries. Any European law experts around?
first rule of engagement during an interrogation : don't talk to cops (or wannabe cops), let your lawyer do the work. There are no innocent questions to "establish your mindset" when everything you say can and will be used against you.
it's got nothing to do with schadenfreude, and more with counter-fanboyism. TFA clealy states that Job's jab at competitors was overblown, as many of the competitors just don't suffer from the problem the same way the iPhone4 does. Additionally, Apple's initial answer to comments about the reception was just abysmally stupid. But somehow this eludes the Cult Members who just find apologies for everything... I just tell you what the whole antennagate looks like when you just don't think apple products are, contrary to popular folklore, inherently better than their competitor.
You can't change the laws of physics, but you can try to minimize problems... see the DroidX "two-handed-deathgrip". What Job said was "There is no problem.. hmm.. there is problem, just don't be left-handed... hmm... there is problem, but you still need to buy an iPhone4 because our competitors are crap too but not as shiny"
I never intended to buy an iPhone4 btw. as I'm apparently quite immune to reality distortion fields.
Basically, Jobs said "the iPhone is complete shit when used as a phone (duh!), but our competitors are shit too!". From TFA it sounds like the stink differs quite a bit from one piece of feces to another, with the iPhone4 being one of the bigger stinker. Besides, openly going "but... but.... they did it tooo!" to save yourself is considered whiny and bad marketing practice, as it means you admit to the fact and can't spin it into something positive anymore.
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No need to patch anything as those are old games. So far, they were all already patched to the latest official version.
That's pretty much all there is to it. Start the setup, check EULA, click install. Optionally click "Start Game" instead of "Close" when the installation is done.
maybe they changed that since the last time I tried it, but the last time I tried using a backup of the steam directory Steam didn't seem happy that I already had all the files installed and redownloaded everything. What's a 30 or so GB between friends when you get 90KB/s transfer rate?
Actually, I will know very soon, as I had to reinstall my windows partition yesterday.
Steam is a pain compared to the way GOG works/worked/used to work (?).
I'll write in the present tense, as GOG's future doesn't seem to be set in stone yet.
You get one file (granted, Psychonaut has actually three). You can download the file from a fast server .I never could get a fast, and I'm being deliberately NICE here, so > 100KB/s) download from steam, no matter what ports I opened. You can make as many backups as you want of the setup file. Installation is straight forward, and you get some bonus material with many of the games (like soundtracks, concept arts, ...).
If you install some third party mods, GOG won't start telling you your copy is not valid and start re-downloading the original files neither, which, for example,means that you can slap Freespace2 Openontop of your FS2 install without any difficulties.
Compared to Steam, which asks me to validate my games online if I don't play for a while and then force me to download 1GB of updates even if I just wanted to play, I'll take GOG games everyday.
Yes, the games are old'ish, but that is definitely not a problem if you are more into gameplay than eyecandy (although, as an example, a modded Freespace2 is a good looking Spacecombat simulator/game even by today's standards)
I really hope it's just a very stupid publicity stunt and GOG comes back.
hmm .. I still have to see a driver for any wireless card that crashes linux. Worst case scenario, it just doesn't work, which was incidentally the problem I had with my broadcom adapter on an Acer Aspire One D250. but crash the OS? not really, no.
Try this and search for ACTA in the title. The document in question is here (pdf). Note that the status is ONGOING but that tomorow is the lapse date.
or even worse : some giant glowing logo?
true. I just meant that the skills required were not really programmer's skills. For both, manager and salesman, you need to be a people's person to some degree, which isn't a given in many programmers (and here I seriously don't exclude myself;)
The "alternatives" toward which a programmer is supposed to steer according to TFA are plain stupid and slightly offending by assuming that becoming a manager or a Sales ~person~ is a move "UP". How the fuck is your programmer background going to help with those? Not withstanding the fact that most good programmers I know don't have the skills needed for those jobs.
It's like telling restaurant cooks to jump ship and become kitchen appliance salesman, or graphic artists that to move UP they need to open and run an art gallery full of stuff they didn't do themselves
not sure whether to laugh or cry ...
FFS, someone please mod parent "funny" ... or "insightfull". Someone should make a "design box-art for nethack/rogue/moria/..." contest :P
1) shit...someone must have forgotten to send me the memo. I bought the Humble Bundle because the games ranged from good to absolutely amazing, were DRM free, native to the OS I use, and I was able to buy them without breaking my bank account (I paid what I was able to pay at that time, and would have paid more if I had been able to). I didn't know I was doing it to "show how good $platform" is.
2) So your argument is : "Real Men Pay More"? kind of vain, isn't it? I guess you wouldn't buy any of the ~cheap~ windows games that are available on Steam, in fear someone might see you?!
my own experience : ... just to "prove how Good Linux is" apparently), but I had never heard of Lugaru, Gish or Aquaria before (nor of Samorost for that matter). The Humble Bundle gave me the opportunity to get those games (admitedly for a rather low sum), and I ended up playing through 3 of the 4 games I didn't know ... something that rarely happens when I buy more expensive titles ( mostly from Steam by the way).
I knew WoG, I already owned the Penumbra trilogy (and in a side note, I've already pre-ordered the next game by Frictional
And One Last Thing : paying 50$ to show off your taste in OS (or how large your bank account is) is incredibly stupid.
But more Linux users will actually pay and pay more for good native games. They just won't pay for something of which they can legally get working free equivalents
Of course, you could just get Fabled Lands, which is as sandbox'y as those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books can get. No idea if java runs on the iStuff though.
Scrap the "also". Cases of civilians being shot by western troops because they were erroneously thought to be suicide bombers are documented in the Afghanistan War Diary leak.
This will definitely boggle your mind, but you can support soldiers in that you don't want them to die and you want them to return safely home, while still hating what they stand for.
it might come as a shock to you, but people who fought and possibly survived WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, or any other conflicts (listing only recent ones here to allow for the possibility that some who experienced them might still be alive, although the list is not exhaustive) were real actual people too. Just to say that your point is moot.
Actually, some people in the USA are actively working to lessen the Day-Of-Hate gape. Thankfully, most media coverage about that is less than positive :)
Actually, I understand and respect your position (even if I obviously don't agree with the reasons which placed you in Iraq). I was just applying the same sort of stereotype as the GP used to the other side of the coin.
Still, in the context of a game set in a contemporary war, there is no reason NOT to set the player as the "bad guy". Apart from the game play aspect (you are fighting against a technologically much stronger force), it might also be interesting to use the Single Player storyline to explore the motives and situation of your current enemy.
Anyway : good luck to you, stay as safe as possible, given the circumstances
I guess you missed my point. I was replying to the AC stating that a game seen from "the other side" would be about suicide bombers and ended with "oh poor me". Stupid stereotype, s someone else said (but I think the "avoid the missile J&R" might actually be fun :P
Anyway I don't see how game would be less fun if you were playing afghani guerrillas shooting at "invading" UN troops. It might actually make the game stand out of the crowd in terms of gameplay.
Of course, you could also play a guy who just drives a car around town and get shot at by overreacting (or just bored) soldiers. Or what about a run and jump game in which you try to avoid being collateral during more or less random "surgical strikes" falling on your neighbourhood ... Plenty of game opportunities without falling into one-sided clichees.
"He said he had"
"and yet, they had taken a completely different route, had they not?"
"indeed! We weren't able to catch them due to that misdirection. We also learned that the defendant bought a ski mask a few weeks prior to the felony but didn't book a ski trip. Our conclusion is that he worked with the other men."
Besides, I'd say asking the TOR guy about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is as far from innocent questioning as you can get
You really should watch the youtube video, it does a good job at explaining WHY you shouldn't talk to cops. Incidentally, this is true for the USA, but I don't know how much of it is true in other countries. Any European law experts around?
first rule of engagement during an interrogation : don't talk to cops (or wannabe cops), let your lawyer do the work. There are no innocent questions to "establish your mindset" when everything you say can and will be used against you.
it's got nothing to do with schadenfreude, and more with counter-fanboyism. TFA clealy states that Job's jab at competitors was overblown, as many of the competitors just don't suffer from the problem the same way the iPhone4 does. Additionally, Apple's initial answer to comments about the reception was just abysmally stupid. But somehow this eludes the Cult Members who just find apologies for everything ... I just tell you what the whole antennagate looks like when you just don't think apple products are, contrary to popular folklore, inherently better than their competitor.
You can't change the laws of physics, but you can try to minimize problems ... see the DroidX "two-handed-deathgrip". What Job said was "There is no problem .. hmm .. there is problem, just don't be left-handed ... hmm ... there is problem, but you still need to buy an iPhone4 because our competitors are crap too but not as shiny"
I never intended to buy an iPhone4 btw. as I'm apparently quite immune to reality distortion fields.
Basically, Jobs said "the iPhone is complete shit when used as a phone (duh!), but our competitors are shit too!". From TFA it sounds like the stink differs quite a bit from one piece of feces to another, with the iPhone4 being one of the bigger stinker. Besides, openly going "but ... but .... they did it tooo!" to save yourself is considered whiny and bad marketing practice, as it means you admit to the fact and can't spin it into something positive anymore.
depends on whether they have an antenna running across the screen.