I am very impressed that Jason has so much specific information on the many flavors of xHenge and Citadel.
Being a citadel user for for about 10 years (and I am a relative newcomer) I appreciate his treatment of a bbs system that puts social interaction ahead of files and games.
It sounds like "Legend of the Red Dragon" true, but the game you are thinking of is called "USURPER". It had more classes and weapons than "LotRD", as well as the Dungeon where you could select your level of difficulty (instead of the forest in "LotRD" where you pretty much got whatever the game threw at you). It was also much more difficult.
It was my favorite door game second only to "Tradewars" which could get gruesome, nasty and an extreme amount of fun with the right crowd.
I think we will make more dicoveries like this once we begin to disolve our notion of what is and isn't possible or probable with the physical universe.
It is more important for my wife who only has sight in one eye because of damage to one of her optic nerves.:-) It is good news indeed. It may not be to the level where it can help her now, but this may lead to her having full vision in the next 15-20 years.
This problem has become much worse since network game play became prominent. It is much easier to get sucked in it if you are getting stimulus from other people. It adds the chatting addiction to the gaming addiction.
This explains why I been playing Counter-Strike since beta 5.
It's my excuse at least.
I'm not addicted, I can quit at any time.
>twitch
Fortunately, a mishap between my hard drive and Windows XP has rendered my computer completely Microsoft free.
I have ATT cable access in the Seattle area and did suffer a bit through the outage. I however took this time to get up and go with my wife to the mall to do Christmas shopping.
The meat world is weird, yo?
Anyway. I kinda see how the whole thing happened and I understand why ATT did what they did.
Excite @home was never viable. It seems that management could not tell a big pile of money from a whole in the ground. While ATT's buyout offer was not generous (less than half of the current debt of escite. It was something. Mostly a release from their current state of money hemmorage. May the Excite @home shareholders spin on it.
I appluade ATT for being able to move the amount of people they have moved in such a short time. MY service is working (though not 100% reliably yet). While they are a large festering monopolistic company, they at least had the foresight to set up a backup network to support their customers. I could not go back to DSL and 60k/sec.
If the Multiplayer is as cool as this guy thinks it is I could be digging myself out of my two year deep Counter-Strike rut.:-) It is really not breaking new ground with different player classes and objectives but I think it is the first big name game (read: going to get a boatload of press) that incorporates objectives into the shoot and slash multiplayer scene.
I didn't do the multiplayer test. Does anyone else have any input on how cool/lame it is?
You kinda gotta figure he didn't pack it real well if he had Tupperware in the box with it.
Not that that absolves UPS, as it takes an act of god's mother to break a piece of Tupperware. It probably got skewered with a forklift or munched by conveyor belt.
I worked in the shipping business in college (not for neither UPS nor FedEx) and I think that it is a bad idea to ship anything of value without insurance.
He should have sought service elsewhere or spoken with his personal insurance provider. In the end it is his own fault. Sad.
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...you can probably borrow the Han Solo / Princess Leia cake topper that we used at our Wedding.
Thank you for bringing a sweet sentimental tear to my eye this morning. Geek love r00lz.
Spam Me, I Need the Money (lol)
"Hi my name is Susan, me and my girlfriends are trying to make extra money for college...."
I just discovered that Tradewars is alive and well.
http://www.tradewars.org/
I even found a place to play.
http://www.telery.com/
My goodness. There goes my weekend of converting my box from Red Hat to Debian.
Being a citadel user for for about 10 years (and I am a relative newcomer) I appreciate his treatment of a bbs system that puts social interaction ahead of files and games.
cheers!
It was my favorite door game second only to "Tradewars" which could get gruesome, nasty and an extreme amount of fun with the right crowd.
Think outside the globe people...
"Strike that.....reverse it."
----WW
The complexity of this discovery compared to our current understanding of nerves can be likened to a comparision between a toaster and a computer.
This is very awesome for those of us who are on our way to blind or know people who are.
Wow, I am just impressed that a team can make 40k playing CS.
Go USA. I hope y'all are using the SEAL skins.
This explains why I been playing Counter-Strike since beta 5.
It's my excuse at least.
I'm not addicted, I can quit at any time.
>twitch
Fortunately, a mishap between my hard drive and Windows XP has rendered my computer completely Microsoft free.
I am safe now.
At least until I figure out xwine.
The meat world is weird, yo?
Anyway. I kinda see how the whole thing happened and I understand why ATT did what they did.
Excite @home was never viable. It seems that management could not tell a big pile of money from a whole in the ground. While ATT's buyout offer was not generous (less than half of the current debt of escite. It was something. Mostly a release from their current state of money hemmorage. May the Excite @home shareholders spin on it.
I appluade ATT for being able to move the amount of people they have moved in such a short time. MY service is working (though not 100% reliably yet). While they are a large festering monopolistic company, they at least had the foresight to set up a backup network to support their customers. I could not go back to DSL and 60k/sec.
I found a link to a pretty good review of RtCW while scanning Fark today.
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:-) It is really not breaking new ground with different player classes and objectives but I think it is the first big name game (read: going to get a boatload of press) that incorporates objectives into the shoot and slash multiplayer scene.
http://www.newsgeek.net/article.php?sid=964&mode=
If the Multiplayer is as cool as this guy thinks it is I could be digging myself out of my two year deep Counter-Strike rut.
I didn't do the multiplayer test. Does anyone else have any input on how cool/lame it is?
This would be a wonderful opportunity for a college student. They pay for your travel costs and you can probably work out a way to get credit for it.
How cool is that? Beats the hell out of reading "Walden" again.
You kinda gotta figure he didn't pack it real well if he had Tupperware in the box with it.
Not that that absolves UPS, as it takes an act of god's mother to break a piece of Tupperware. It probably got skewered with a forklift or munched by conveyor belt.
I worked in the shipping business in college (not for neither UPS nor FedEx) and I think that it is a bad idea to ship anything of value without insurance.
He should have sought service elsewhere or spoken with his personal insurance provider. In the end it is his own fault. Sad.