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  1. Re:People use DOS? on DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL · · Score: 1

    Those ATMs might be running OS/2 as well. Not all black screens are DOS.

  2. Re:This is bad? on DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL · · Score: 1

    If I want to hear new artists or non 20 year old mainstream artists, my local NPR affiliated station is the place to listen to. WCBE in Columbus has some of the best locally produced shows I have heard on commercial or public radio.

  3. Re:But they're different companies now! on DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL · · Score: 1

    wouldn't that be BSD?

  4. 2 Words on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    Robo Rally

  5. Re:GURPS cyberpunk case led to the creation of EFF on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    Sadly the real story is they were not after and didn't even know about the Cyberpunk book to start with. They just were after a guy they talked to who had an account on the BBS at the time, but when they were poking around they noticed the Cyberpunk game and it looked bad like "OMG Teh Terrorists!" bad, so they scooped it all up and were total unconstitutional asshats.

  6. Re:crap. on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    The best way to deal with that environment is to ignore the LARPers and always have your arms crossed on your chest (x-shape) so they can not see you (some say a towel wrapped around your head also works).

  7. Re:Follow the rules? You kidding? on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    Crud, accidentally lost the second half of my post.
    I meant to say that the main reason D&D (AD&D) and other systems computer games have sucked recently in 99.9% of all cases is because of show stopping bugs.
    I note this is a trend in recent times only. The old gold box games while having a few bugs (stinking cloud) were rather popular and much better developed IMO.

    Just a couple examples:
    Temple of Elemental Evil: bugs, most rules improperly implemented, etc. It took fans hacking the game to fix it to playable.
    Pools of Radiance remake: bugged with show stopping crashes, bugs preventing quests from completing, problems with the basics of the combat engine. I dunno if it was ever fixed.

  8. Re:Follow the rules? You kidding? on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    The trick to tabletop RPG gaming is that (to quote a certain pirate) "The Rules are more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.".

  9. Re:Umm, poor people skills? on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    How do you define obsessive and casual? This is important IMO to understand exactly what you mean.

  10. Re:mod parent up... on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    I would think GURPS: Rifts would be the one to cause that to happen.

  11. Re:Why? on Who's Afraid of Shinra Tower? · · Score: 1

    I know of a place that has a good portionn of the alpha source code.

  12. Re:F.E.A.R. on Who's Afraid of Shinra Tower? · · Score: 1

    F.E.A.R. has those as well, in the form of cloaking ninjas who only become visible when you hit them or they strike at you.

  13. Re:Try F.E.A.R. as well on Who's Afraid of Shinra Tower? · · Score: 1

    Currently playing F.E.A.R. Most of the time it's a fairly normal shooter. The times it scares the crap out of you, and it does it well are when it takes you by surprise, the sudden appearance of an apparition at the top of a platform you glimpse for a few seconds or that suddenly appears and walks towards you. It takes some effort to avoid instinctively wasting ammo on them.

    I'm as far as just having run into the cloaking ninja dudes in the corporate tower (met the fat guy eating cheetos checkpoint).

    One thing I find that does give away when you are going to most likely hit enemies is the checkpoint layouts.

    I'm also having a small problem of red speckles on some textures or affecting special effects. Got a Radeon 9800 and cant seem to figure out whats going on. I used slightly conservative settings (lower then they auto detect says).

  14. Re:RE on Doom Takes A Shot At Gamers · · Score: 1

    I know you were not the one who came up with it, I responded to the post you made saying "Looks like I found a new Sig".

    Hentai does not translate to porn. And if someone said "Thats a low budget pornographic" to me I'd be wondering what pornographic item the person was speaking about.

    I am neither. I just know the meaning of the word.

    My goal wasn't to be painfully pedantic, it was to point out that phrase felt like it needed a little something and be humorous. I'm sorry if my humor was not all that funny.

  15. Re:That is quality journalism today on Doom Takes A Shot At Gamers · · Score: 1

    There were two pilots?
    I only have one. Where might I find the other. I use the one I have to scare people straight from thinking americanizing british shows = good idea. I also have the US version of coupling and that knock off show where people vandalize each others houses for backup.

  16. Re:RE on Doom Takes A Shot At Gamers · · Score: 1

    It's missing a, um, word at the end. ... cheap CGI fan hentai cartoon ... cheap CGI fan hentai comic book ... cheap CGI fan hentai rock video ... cheap CGI fan hentai magazine advertisement

    The value "hentai" is describing a quality (perverted) of an object that is not defined. Error parsing SIG.

  17. Re:What comes around goes around... on Jack Thompson Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    "gamers are intelligent, methodical thinkers. gamers are very experienced at getting from point A to point B and avoiding all the obstacles in between."

    Playing GTAIII:SA I cant seem to get from point A to point B without:
    Inadvertently hitting a pole by accident (I seem to seek them out).
    Getting run off the road/pushed into oncoming traffic by some asshat NPC driver who decides he wants to be in my lane.

  18. Re:Captain Jack? on BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off · · Score: 1

    "But captain Jack will get you high tonight" is what keeps popping into my mind, and thats AFAIK not been used in DDR yet.

  19. Re:Hardly realistic portrayals of homosexuals. on BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off · · Score: 1

    I always thought Will was Bi but favored men.

  20. Re:First "Bad Wolf" post on BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off · · Score: 1

    "All the new viewers know the characters now and there's no need for any more "Wow, the Tardis is big" type digressions."

    Any time they ave a person enter it for the first time they will have to do that, unless the haracter is from a technology level that makes it unimpressive.

  21. Re:The Anagram is.... on BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off · · Score: 1

    Why do you say Adric and K9 were annoying?

  22. Re:The Anagram is.... on BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off · · Score: 1

    "They" will never learn. Look at the sorry attempt they made at "Americanizing" Red Dwarf. "They" edited Dead Ringers for US broadcast (I hear a lot of stuff on BBC America is chainsawed).

  23. Re:Now that's liebel on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    While 2nd hand smoke is not going to kill everyone, it can still bother people who have allergies or are not regularly around it. Personally I think smoking (and 2nd hand) makes food and drink taste like ass.

  24. Re:next console battleground? on Nintendo DS Trojan Creator Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, my version 2 PS2 still reads all media but has some kind of lock up when I try to play The Zone of Enders. My version 4 and 9 PS2 units are either incapable of reading any media or can not read DVD media. I am working on re-calibrating them if I can (I do electronics work and have an Oscope.).

  25. Re:An explaination for Mr. Thompson's behaviour on Jack Thompson Rescinds Offer · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can arrange for Jack and Harlan to get stuck in an elevator some time.