.5e is free, and has only had two trolls I can honestly remember - Hitler and Freeznfire. (side note - look at freeznfire's picture - he's the kind of kid who pirates W2k Advanced Server so he can play CS and brag about his sound system in his car) I would consider both of these characters trolls - Hitler posts all sorts of just predictable stuff about how he wants to take over the world and kill people, while freeznfire is quite content to use lame predictable verbal attacks against other posters.
Now, SA trolls are a different story. Take for example, this post in a thread in which somebody asked for a brief review of Red Alert 2, a popular RTS game by Westwood.
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westwood suck.
Probably one of our least elaborate trolls - he'll hopefully be banned soon. Usually, the people who are "thinking on the edge of the mainstream" usually get big red custom titles under their name. For example, as a result of a thread saying that rape is sometimes justified, the author got a big fat red RAPIST custom title. In other cases, blatant trolls will get nice blinking Moron pictures, a big HR so that their posts are off the side of the screen, and occasionally even scrolling text.
Me? I've got a fat red I CHEAT AT COUNTER-STRIKE custom title.
I actually spend most of my time at The Awful Forums, which are now $9.95/account. The admission fee is very useful for keeping the signal/noise ratio high, although not as high as.5e. It seems that trolls and retards don't like having to pay $10 to get their login back after they get banned for being an idiot.
There is no replacement for StarCraft. There doesn't appear to be one on the horizon.
You sir, are terribly uninformed. One of the many reasons bnetd is popular *right now* is the fact that it can be used to play the Warcraft 3 beta (which is almost as stable as Starcraft with almost all the beauty of Homeworld) which was leaked by a participant in the public beta. Sure, there is no legal commercial repacement for Starcraft yet (no other game has the same style of play that only Blizzard does right), but Warcraft 3 is not just on the horizon, but already available to the warezing members of the gaming public.
SHIVER ME TIMBERS! That makes their planned Linux port of Serious Sam 2 more feasible. (It is planned - beat the windows version and you'll see somebody credited for it in the... uh... credits)
gounthar said this: OpenGL 2.0 seems pretty much like the definitive solution...
Somebody better tell all those Windows developers who keep using DirectX to do their graphics. It seems that very few developers (id, Epic) still use GL in Windows, and they probably use it just because they plan to port their games. IIRC, Croteam (makers of Serious Sam) uses D3D with simply amazing results and speed.
That is exactly how b.net works, except that Blizzard QA is worlds beyond anybody else's QA in the game industry. Now, look at the people who buy Blizzard games. It isn't just smart people who like IP addresses. To quote Hakan on somethingawful, "99% of all Starcraft gamers are either Korean or mentally retarded (or both)," This means that without b.net, these people would never play online Starcraft. If it becomes too complex for them to do it, they'll probably give up and play 2D fighters or whatever retards do these days. Making it simple is their main goal.
Well, digital stuff doesn't degrade - watch a movie opening night, and compare the quality with a movie in the dollar theater. You'll notice it degrades over time, just like an LP would. Digital stuff might not fit your bizarre audiophile definition of quality when it first comes out, but until you lose 50% of the signal strength, it will always be at that quality.
It's all that and more! Reading the 2001 series on my Jornada was great - I could carry it to class in my pocket, read with one hand (scroll rocker on the side), and the ClearType feature is like eyeball sex.
I played THPS3 at a friend's house, and quite frankly, we'd rather have the ambience sounds than the soundtrack, which just didn't seem as good as the one for 2.
The only X-Box game I've ever played was the crappy in-store demo of the on-foot racing game. I would guess that the Taco Bell ads are just another part of the Microsoft-Pepsi unholy alliance. The only versions of THPS2 I've played are PSX, GBA, and DC.
That was one of the reasons I didn't like that as much as Sonic Adventure 1 - they just jumped on the grinding bandwagon and got product placement to go with it. It's nowhere near the level of gameplay you find in, say, Jet Set Radio.
THPS2 (not sure about 3) has product placement in just about every category possible - branded skateboards, ramps, ads on walls (some real, some spoof), and the PSX version even had a demo for a different game on-disc. Most of it's fine, unlike the Pizza Hut ad in the second Ninja Turtles game on NES, which just seemed out of place.
I'm even starting to see DVDs at Target for $6.99 now, and I expect that trend will continue for non-new releases.
Yeah, and what quality movies they are. Why the hell can't I find good non-new release movies for that little money. I'd kill 3 astronauts for a $7 copy of 2001.
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Now, SA trolls are a different story. Take for example, this post in a thread in which somebody asked for a brief review of Red Alert 2, a popular RTS game by Westwood.
Probably one of our least elaborate trolls - he'll hopefully be banned soon. Usually, the people who are "thinking on the edge of the mainstream" usually get big red custom titles under their name. For example, as a result of a thread saying that rape is sometimes justified, the author got a big fat red RAPIST custom title. In other cases, blatant trolls will get nice blinking Moron pictures, a big HR so that their posts are off the side of the screen, and occasionally even scrolling text.Me? I've got a fat red I CHEAT AT COUNTER-STRIKE custom title.
Actually, from what I understand, real whores make enough money to pass $20/year off to CmdrTaco.
I actually spend most of my time at The Awful Forums, which are now $9.95/account. The admission fee is very useful for keeping the signal/noise ratio high, although not as high as .5e. It seems that trolls and retards don't like having to pay $10 to get their login back after they get banned for being an idiot.
All of a sudden, I want all of /. to be like this. It's sexy like Windows XP.
Only in the US and maybe some other english-speaking countries. The people of the nation in question refer to their home as Nederlands.
SHIVER ME TIMBERS!
That makes their planned Linux port of Serious Sam 2 more feasible. (It is planned - beat the windows version and you'll see somebody credited for it in the... uh... credits)
That is exactly how b.net works, except that Blizzard QA is worlds beyond anybody else's QA in the game industry. Now, look at the people who buy Blizzard games. It isn't just smart people who like IP addresses. To quote Hakan on somethingawful, "99% of all Starcraft gamers are either Korean or mentally retarded (or both)," This means that without b.net, these people would never play online Starcraft. If it becomes too complex for them to do it, they'll probably give up and play 2D fighters or whatever retards do these days. Making it simple is their main goal.
Well, digital stuff doesn't degrade - watch a movie opening night, and compare the quality with a movie in the dollar theater. You'll notice it degrades over time, just like an LP would. Digital stuff might not fit your bizarre audiophile definition of quality when it first comes out, but until you lose 50% of the signal strength, it will always be at that quality.
Do I want Lucas to delay the release, or get it over with quickly so he can hurry up and put the series out of its' misery?
It's all that and more! Reading the 2001 series on my Jornada was great - I could carry it to class in my pocket, read with one hand (scroll rocker on the side), and the ClearType feature is like eyeball sex.
Sounds valuable, but with the volume of spam I get, it's easier to get "on a roll" deleting spam than reading messages.
Or you can take the Thinking Man's solution and turn off the automatic preview pane.
PDAs suck at multitasking. If it was an Athlon, he could overclock it and overcook it at the same time!
That's because it's right in the BIOS.
I played THPS3 at a friend's house, and quite frankly, we'd rather have the ambience sounds than the soundtrack, which just didn't seem as good as the one for 2.
The only X-Box game I've ever played was the crappy in-store demo of the on-foot racing game. I would guess that the Taco Bell ads are just another part of the Microsoft-Pepsi unholy alliance. The only versions of THPS2 I've played are PSX, GBA, and DC.
That was one of the reasons I didn't like that as much as Sonic Adventure 1 - they just jumped on the grinding bandwagon and got product placement to go with it. It's nowhere near the level of gameplay you find in, say, Jet Set Radio.
THPS2 (not sure about 3) has product placement in just about every category possible - branded skateboards, ramps, ads on walls (some real, some spoof), and the PSX version even had a demo for a different game on-disc. Most of it's fine, unlike the Pizza Hut ad in the second Ninja Turtles game on NES, which just seemed out of place.
Sort of like a movielens for restaurants? Sounds like a winner.