It's not that P&P RPG-rules are not suited to CRPGs, its D20 specifically.
A system which consists of more exceptions than rules is just not suited for that (and IMHO also not suited for Pen & Paper).
Take RuneQuest for example: Clear, elegant rules. Everything adheres to the standard, a dragon is described by the same physics as a human. This is the kind of rules you want. No levels even, you get better in what you do by doing it, so some artificial caps aren't needed, since the best fighter can still fall.
FallOut is very near RuneQuest, in terms of game-mechanics, btw. --
What happened to the notion of freedom, so rarely espoused or valued on Slashdot, of freedom from government intervention?
Yes, nice idea. However, if you recall, the government already intervened a long time ago by enacting copyright- and patent-laws. The latter being a specific law for producing a monopoly, the first being extended and morphed (DMCA) to be also a law for enacting monopolies.
And now you want to tell me the governement may only intervene if the freedom of a company is at stake but not when the freedom of people is in danger by just that monopoly the governement helped to create?
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Hey, news flash for you Billy boy! In Europe, you comply with European law, and it's a lot harder to buy a few politicians to exert political pressure on the justice system.
You really think so? Shall we talk about software-patents, copyright, DMCA and drug-prohibition?
Yes, and Apollo is associated with the Sun. Leaves us with Prosperpina, Juno, Cupid, Minerva, Vulcan, Bacchus, Maia and Flora. If all fails we'll just take one of them Caesars who declared themselves gods.;)) --
Well it might be nice to use a inuit-goddess, but this totally breaks the namespace. You have to use roman gods and godesses exclusively, for Jupiters sake!
We still got plenty left, by the way: Juno, Apollo, Diana, Cupid, Minerva, Ceres, Proserpine, Vulcan, Bacchus, Vesta, Janus, Maia and Flora. Some of them might not be such a good idea, Ceres, Vulcan and Apollo are already taken in some sense. And Proserpine is the goddess of the Underworld. --
Normally I don't care when my site-layout is copied. If I had a problem with that, I wouldn't had put it on the internet. And I'm even a fan of "mirroring", because sometimes websites dissapear, but the content has to stay. You can mirror my page too, its under the OPL.
It's a bit different if the other only wants to get page-hits, though. --
Learning to code in assembly is like learning to fight with a sword. Wow, swords are cool.
Actually, swordfighting is more like C. Easy to start with when you have some advice (otherwise you will end up with fencing or pascal, but not swordfighting), but hard to master.
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Translation error. The "except" refers to the operating systems, not SCO. The Meaning thus is most probably this:
"Last but not least, the SCO-Group is not allowed to state, that buyers of Linux Operating Systems OTHER THAN SCO Linux or Caldera Linux, might have to fear criminal persecution". --
About time they do something against this... Oh, they don't. This is just friggin not funny. Piracy is a real bad thing, every year about 200 Ships get missing because of piracy. Just read the
Weekly Piracy Report. And that's just one week.
How the hell can you call "copyright infringement" piracy, when there's a real, big, and evil piracy-problem on the world? Hundreds of people get killed every year by pirates, and the FBI is whining about "copyright infringement" and calling it their number 3 problem? How fucking wrong can you set your priorities???
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Terrorism would be number 1, so would murder, or serial rapists be number 4?
Are you crazy? Number 4 is of course "consumption of illicit drugs".
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Seems to be an US-specific thing. Here in Europe SCO couldn't have sent their "license"-mails without the attorney-general starting a criminal investigation because of possible extortion. --
No it hasn't. Compare the crime-rates for the USA with those of countries which do not have such a draconian law. And when you're at it, compare the number of inmates to those of other countries.
Ending your stupid war on drugs would reduce crime far more than any martial laws.
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Well honey, not everyone is US-american and has a problem with swearwords. In the rest of the world, swearing is considered a normal thing and is not subject to some hipocritical "political correctness". We also don't put stars into "fuck" when we write about it. --
Its all metric. At least its _supposed_ to be all metric. NASA employees using imperial measurements are to be deported to Leeds/England where they may assume a position at a pub in order to exercise their right of using imperial measurements in describing quantities of beer. "Well, I used to work as rocket scientist at NASA, but since they don't calculate fuel in pints they sent me here". --
Yes, the warez-scene, which consists mostly of microsoft-zealots (why else would they distribute MS software and thus advertise for MS?) simply is afraid someone else might "administrator" their Windows-boxen. --
50 years of bollocks, frivolous lawsuits, waste of taxpayers money, strengthening of monopolies. When will they finally ditch that piece of trash of a law? Oh, wait? Its patents, not war on drugs? --
For my one and only relevant search-word, I'm number one. However, I don't do business with my nickname (which happens not to be Kirth -- I just can't change it anymore on slashdot without loosing my ID;)). --
Well, if 99% of alleys were filled with drug pushers, and 99% of the people who used the alleys were drug pushers, then yes, i'd be supporting shutting down alleys.
Well, I wouldn't approve, simply because it was a bad idea to outlaw drugs in the first place. Oulawing drugs created a whole new slew of secondary crimes and enough incentives for organized crime to move in. --
It's not irrelevant whether to call copyright infringement theft or not.
First off, illegal copying more akin to patent violation or riding a bus without a ticket. In all cases you violate someones exclusivity-right (or monopoly, whatever).
But since we've got incredibly strong lobbying-groups for "intellectual property" (which itself is a misnomer; its actually not property but monopoly), they have coined very strong phrases to connect this monopoly to property and in turn, to connect a violation of these rights to property-related crime, sometimes even in an extremely tasteless manner.
Equaling illegal copying with violent robbery at high sea ("piracy") is just about how low you can get with propaganda. --
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It's not that P&P RPG-rules are not suited to CRPGs, its D20 specifically.
A system which consists of more exceptions than rules is just not suited for that (and IMHO also not suited for Pen & Paper).
Take RuneQuest for example: Clear, elegant rules. Everything adheres to the standard, a dragon is described by the same physics as a human. This is the kind of rules you want. No levels even, you get better in what you do by doing it, so some artificial caps aren't needed, since the best fighter can still fall.
FallOut is very near RuneQuest, in terms of game-mechanics, btw.
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Yes, nice idea. However, if you recall, the government already intervened a long time ago by enacting copyright- and patent-laws. The latter being a specific law for producing a monopoly, the first being extended and morphed (DMCA) to be also a law for enacting monopolies.
And now you want to tell me the governement may only intervene if the freedom of a company is at stake but not when the freedom of people is in danger by just that monopoly the governement helped to create?
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You really think so? Shall we talk about software-patents, copyright, DMCA and drug-prohibition?
Europes independence is about ... two years.
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Yes, and Apollo is associated with the Sun. Leaves us with Prosperpina, Juno, Cupid, Minerva, Vulcan, Bacchus, Maia and Flora. If all fails we'll just take one of them Caesars who declared themselves gods. ;))
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Well it might be nice to use a inuit-goddess, but this totally breaks the namespace. You have to use roman gods and godesses exclusively, for Jupiters sake!
We still got plenty left, by the way:
Juno, Apollo, Diana, Cupid, Minerva, Ceres, Proserpine, Vulcan, Bacchus, Vesta, Janus, Maia and Flora. Some of them might not be such a good idea, Ceres, Vulcan and Apollo are already taken in some sense. And Proserpine is the goddess of the Underworld.
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Normally I don't care when my site-layout is copied. If I had a problem with that, I wouldn't had put it on the internet. And I'm even a fan of "mirroring", because sometimes websites dissapear, but the content has to stay. You can mirror my page too, its under the OPL.
It's a bit different if the other only wants to get page-hits, though.
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Actually, swordfighting is more like C. Easy to start with when you have some advice (otherwise you will end up with fencing or pascal, but not swordfighting), but hard to master.
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Translation error. The "except" refers to the operating systems, not SCO. The Meaning thus is most probably this:
"Last but not least, the SCO-Group is not allowed to state, that buyers of Linux Operating Systems OTHER THAN SCO Linux or Caldera Linux, might have to fear criminal persecution".
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How the hell can you call "copyright infringement" piracy, when there's a real, big, and evil piracy-problem on the world? Hundreds of people get killed every year by pirates, and the FBI is whining about "copyright infringement" and calling it their number 3 problem? How fucking wrong can you set your priorities???
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Are you crazy? Number 4 is of course "consumption of illicit drugs".
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Of course, downloading IS protected by fair use. Sharing to the whole internet on the other hand is NOT.
And the comparison to software is moot, because there is no such thing as fair use for software (they lobbbyed it away about 1980).
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Seems to be an US-specific thing. Here in Europe SCO couldn't have sent their "license"-mails without the attorney-general starting a criminal investigation because of possible extortion.
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No it hasn't. Compare the crime-rates for the USA with those of countries which do not have such a draconian law. And when you're at it, compare the number of inmates to those of other countries.
Ending your stupid war on drugs would reduce crime far more than any martial laws.
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Just go reading how the NSA managed to backdoor products from Crypto AG: http://jya.com/nsa-sun.htm
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Well honey, not everyone is US-american and has a problem with swearwords. In the rest of the world, swearing is considered a normal thing and is not subject to some hipocritical "political correctness". We also don't put stars into "fuck" when we write about it.
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Its all metric. At least its _supposed_ to be all metric. NASA employees using imperial measurements are to be deported to Leeds/England where they may assume a position at a pub in order to exercise their right of using imperial measurements in describing quantities of beer. "Well, I used to work as rocket scientist at NASA, but since they don't calculate fuel in pints they sent me here".
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Yes, the warez-scene, which consists mostly of microsoft-zealots (why else would they distribute MS software and thus advertise for MS?) simply is afraid someone else might "administrator" their Windows-boxen.
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Yes, terribly funny.
50 years of bollocks, frivolous lawsuits, waste of taxpayers money, strengthening of monopolies. When will they finally ditch that piece of trash of a law? Oh, wait? Its patents, not war on drugs?
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Well, I'd rather be able to read the source at all, than to blindly trust.
You know, we had that, the NSA getting companies to put backdoors into products. Here in Switzerland:
http://jya.com/nsa-sun.htm
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For my one and only relevant search-word, I'm number one. However, I don't do business with my nickname (which happens not to be Kirth -- I just can't change it anymore on slashdot without loosing my ID ;)).
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Well, if 99% of alleys were filled with drug pushers, and 99% of the people who used the alleys were drug pushers, then yes, i'd be supporting shutting down alleys.
Well, I wouldn't approve, simply because it was a bad idea to outlaw drugs in the first place. Oulawing drugs created a whole new slew of secondary crimes and enough incentives for organized crime to move in.
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If they're president of the USA, yes. If they're vice-president , then too.
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It's not irrelevant whether to call copyright infringement theft or not.
First off, illegal copying more akin to patent violation or riding a bus without a ticket. In all cases you violate someones exclusivity-right (or monopoly, whatever).
But since we've got incredibly strong lobbying-groups for "intellectual property" (which itself is a misnomer; its actually not property but monopoly), they have coined very strong phrases to connect this monopoly to property and in turn, to connect a violation of these rights to property-related crime, sometimes even in an extremely tasteless manner.
Equaling illegal copying with violent robbery at high sea ("piracy") is just about how low you can get with propaganda.
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Very funny. A Quick lookup turned up Canada, France and Germany. I expect to find some 250 countries more in that list.
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You've got a serious speech impediement. Can't you write what you mean anymore? I suppose you are talking about SHIT?
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