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  1. Re:Diblo 3 + bash = ....? on Blizzard Seeking Console Devs For 'Diablo-Related Concept' · · Score: 1

    http://diablo.chaosforge.org/ - you mean like this? ;)

  2. Re:You mean... on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Pronounced Zorg. A fully deserved pronounciation, as updates to the real one shows that both are ultimately cartoonishly evil in their own way.

  3. Re:Awesome News for Microsoft on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Trying too hard, you're doing it.

  4. Re:Say that ten times fast on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    It would be more like Lee Bro-ffice.

  5. *logs on to fix* on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    /libr/ - if this stupid thing didn't use html tags that swallow up my IPA notation

  6. Re:And when it fails this test too on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 1

    Also nobody who uses "herstory" argues that it's because it has a tie to "his", it's obvious this word is a latin borrowing thanks to french, it's just a facetious way of saying "so this is history related to women/a woman".

  7. Re:And when it fails this test too on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 1

    man in english comes from Mann in german, man is just "we"

  8. Re:And when it fails this test too on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 1

    Wow.

    You a) failed linguistics, b) are an idiot and c) just built a huge strawman so you could burn it down. You must be proud of doing it in the kind of forum where, to boot, you will likely find like-minded idiots to applaud the strawman.

    You do realize that the german word for woman is not derived from the german word for man, thus making your point even more ridiculous, right? Similarly, german "humankind" is Menschlichkeit, not "Mannlichkeit".

  9. Re:And when it fails this test too on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 1

    The gender neutral pronoun is singular they anyway (it's only a late 19th century phenomenon that people get pissy about not pretending "he" is gender neutral), no need to be apologetic.

  10. Re:About Canada on CTRC Orders Big ISPs To Provide Matching Speeds For Resellers · · Score: 1

    If by epic fight you mean it took a third conglomerate to force Bell and Videotron to pretend to compete, kicking and screaming.

  11. Re:Freedom on Can an Open Source Map Project Make Money? · · Score: 1

    It's called going to the shows.

  12. Re:Freedom on Can an Open Source Map Project Make Money? · · Score: 1

    Only temporarily in most of these cases, staff turnovers are huge.

  13. Re:Really? on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 0

    Most creationists are quite experts in the putting labels and treating others as subhuman department.

    I also don't believe in the moral high ground.

  14. Re:Restoring Horror on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 1

    The 60s as in "well after the southern strategy started" - besides, it's not what party they're from, it's what ideology they espouse.

  15. Wrong, try again. on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Competition on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 1

    The reset you did was against the power of the mother of all megacorporations, too, just in case you're in the delusion that a corporation is not a form of government.

  17. Re:SF: only one impossibility per story on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Hard Science Fiction is a pretentious myth; it always rests on one thing: the assumption of its day.
    Not only do all the authors you mention have stories where part of the future leaves the realm of known science to an extent that is sometimes as bad as Trek's, but where they stuck to what was known in that day, they end up looking incredibly outdated, with Asimov's multiple tons micros and Clarke's typewriting space-goers.

  18. Re:steam does the updates for you and makes keys e on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    But, true, some updates might be a bit buggy, CSS was still running on a version of source going back to 2005.

  19. Re:steam does the updates for you and makes keys e on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    The "new cross platform engine" actually only changes a few libraries on the mac; the engine was always abstracted enough to allow the porting to happen in the first place.

  20. Re:Console vs PC Gaming Experience on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    Good luck finding the console still working in 25 years with current gen shit.

  21. Re:Won't happen again, possibly on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    ......

  22. Re:Won't happen again, possibly on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    Wait, they want more indies but have a rule against home offices because it's not professional? Are they kidding me? Where do they think indies can afford to work from to begin with, some of them are even proud of it (like Introversion "bedroom programmers").

  23. Re:Gaming beyond the MS/Sony on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    That must be why Activision ended up in a lawsuit with the studio who actually created the cash cow they're touting is the main success of xbox live...

  24. Re:Mod parent -1 uninformed on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    Given that's what map packs cost (including the MW1 maps), they are already borderline doing it. Modern Warfare 2, as a complete game, already costs a lot when you add up these costs, probably more than a lot of games by slightly smaller studios who can do FPS just as good with a similarly fleshed out world *cough* Bethesda, Valve *cough*... And for that you get no dedicated server, no mods, no cheat control and the privilege to pay for a subscription service! Quite a steal ;)

  25. Re:iPhone on Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs · · Score: 1

    The Activision smartphone, it would be open.
    With a monthly subscription
    And the Activisionstore.