which was teh entire point of the game, which was not to be told how it was but to make it up as you went along.
i personally wrote my own rpgs, i made hybrid games, i had Middle Earth Smaug style dragons in D&D environments as PCs, i made an airplane based rpg based on teh cartoon Tailspin etc etc etc
Use your imagination or don't *ROLE* play
i was always the gamemaster and the first rule of any good gamemaster in any game (and i've played nearly all of them) is flexibility, if the rule sucks DONT USE IT; did ANYONE use encumberance rules in D&D? hell no it's insane
but everyone and their mother wants a perfect 20, the dice rolls added the chance, our minds added the magic, the story unfolded and everyone had fun
i haven't played for 10 years myself but watching you bitch about a rule that is as easy to break as simply not following it and then saying that the game doesn't have flexibility built in shows to me that you have absolutely no concept of what the opint of the game was to begin with.
all of hte bluebloods want you to be their servants and America to be their own large private plantation over which they exercise absolute control
kerry and bush are on the same team, but go ahead and whine about the symptoms some more, this is/. after all, capital of self-pity in the digital world
if our budget for helping fix our own and everyone elses problems exceeded our budget for killing eachother (ourselves) the world would be a much better place
isn't the gov't supposed to do what we want with our tax money? when was the last time they put it up for vote whether we need a whole new arsenal of bigger better planes/tanks/boats/guns instead of shelter/food/stability for our GROWING numbers of homeless and lower class as the jobs seap out of the country at a record rate...
thanks GWB i knew you had my best interest at heart. dying in a pointless foreign war for your personal vendetta and daddy's oil deals
i don't know which part is more sad, the part that people are so desperate for money because of the economy or that there are people who are so not that they can afford to buy slashdot ids
that's a shame because james clavell
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is an excellent author, King Rat, Taipan and Shogun (maybe you've heard of it) are all good
i don't read that much but shogun was enough to make me take a year of japanese...
just for hl2 and then they delayed the release after i saw pictures of a friend holding the box in his hand and saying that he had just visited his brother at valve (had pictures taken inside the building as well) and that the game would be out any day.. that was just before the "code theft"
i'm wondering if the real reason is that their credit card takign code was so insecure that theyh're terrified of having their huge customer base fucked over since it's obvious they've been using Steam and Counterstrike as a move towards some form of online pay-for-play system, probably in addition to boxes in stores (many many more people would rather buy the boxes i would imagine, something about having the cd and never having your "subscription" expire...)
[T]hose who believe software should be free cannot prevail against the U.S. Congress and voices of seven U.S. Supreme Court justices who believe that the motive of profit is the engine that ensures the progress of science, McBride wrote.
there you go people the man is pure souless evil, but be glad he exists so that you know what you are not
a.) cost, replace every meter in the city and add a reader to every car, and get this entire thing seamlessly automated with bank accounts. oh sure it's so easy;P
b.) it kills gov't ticket revenue which makes them a hell of a lot more money than your shitty quarter an hour.
I thought zealots were reserved to here in the midwest (hey, change one letter and the name of one God *cough*)
It takes one arrogant fuck to think they have the right to tell you to (not) do *anything*.
I guess with the unemployment rates up (nono they dropped a tenth of a percent, while gold continues to skyrocket and the rich get tax cuts and the old get free drugs, but don't don't mind the Bush behind the curtain, we're in a BOOM I SAY A BOOM) there must be lots of Self-Righteous Silicon Valley Assholes bored at the movies these days.
they have deals w/ M$ that allow them to sell "educational" versions of everything they make for $5 a cd (so like, when i got visual studio a copule years ago it was $25 for 5 disks)the only difference between educational and full versions is that the product keys and activations have been pre-installed/disabled... in exchange fo this access the universities basically promise to not use or teach anything other than M$ products. So, would you rather have a $5 copy of xp or a $25 copy of redhat who has officially cut their desktop aspirations.
As a redhat stock holder, I'm extremely disappointed with the recent changes redhat has made, when they IPO'd and I got the stock as soon I could, not because I particularly liked redhat, I don't, I've nver used it as my primary OS and I prefer many other flavors of Linux over it; however I saw in redhat the best chance at a real competitor to microsoft; and now they are not. I'm working on getting rid of my stock. I advise other people to do the same thing. It's sad that the real RedHat vision had to die because I would have liked to see M$ running scared with something other than billy's old buddy's OS gaining market share.
the public has no faith, our democracy isn't one, never has been (you in doubt? i have two words for you: electoral college), never should have been (that's right, ONE REPUBLIC UNDER GOD). what we are is an Oilgarchy (and that's not a typo)
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with your imagination
which was teh entire point of the game, which was not to be told how it was but to make it up as you went along.
i personally wrote my own rpgs, i made hybrid games, i had Middle Earth Smaug style dragons in D&D environments as PCs, i made an airplane based rpg based on teh cartoon Tailspin etc etc etc
Use your imagination or don't *ROLE* play
i was always the gamemaster and the first rule of any good gamemaster in any game (and i've played nearly all of them) is flexibility, if the rule sucks DONT USE IT; did ANYONE use encumberance rules in D&D? hell no it's insane
but everyone and their mother wants a perfect 20, the dice rolls added the chance, our minds added the magic, the story unfolded and everyone had fun
i haven't played for 10 years myself but watching you bitch about a rule that is as easy to break as simply not following it and then saying that the game doesn't have flexibility built in shows to me that you have absolutely no concept of what the opint of the game was to begin with.
there is no +1 scary-because-it's-true
/. after all, capital of self-pity in the digital world
all of hte bluebloods want you to be their servants and America to be their own large private plantation over which they exercise absolute control
kerry and bush are on the same team, but go ahead and whine about the symptoms some more, this is
gets modded down viciously
i agree with you
if our budget for helping fix our own and everyone elses problems exceeded our budget for killing eachother (ourselves) the world would be a much better place
isn't the gov't supposed to do what we want with our tax money? when was the last time they put it up for vote whether we need a whole new arsenal of bigger better planes/tanks/boats/guns instead of shelter/food/stability for our GROWING numbers of homeless and lower class as the jobs seap out of the country at a record rate...
thanks GWB i knew you had my best interest at heart. dying in a pointless foreign war for your personal vendetta and daddy's oil deals
what in the hell could you possibly want off a generic compusa display machine that would make you go through so much trouble?
i mean all the cable modems are rated at 10 mb.. how much do you get? mine is about isdn...
the prize IS NOT IN ESCROW he doesn't even have the money to put it up, he refuses challenges from world-reknowned psychics like Sylvia Browne
i can't imagine them leavint he bios open to flashing unless it just allows for patches or something instead of an overwrite
how else are they going to insure the evil empire comes to fruition
i don't know which part is more sad, the part that people are so desperate for money because of the economy or that there are people who are so not that they can afford to buy slashdot ids
is an excellent author, King Rat, Taipan and Shogun (maybe you've heard of it) are all good
i don't read that much but shogun was enough to make me take a year of japanese...
"what exactly is it that you DO here" -- the bobs
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sounds like job security to me
i hope your boss doesn't read
un or under employed more than not
hooray for bush's facist anti-job america; widening the have/have-not gap since 2000
4 more years? i hope not
i bet there is a hack
just for hl2 and then they delayed the release after i saw pictures of a friend holding the box in his hand and saying that he had just visited his brother at valve (had pictures taken inside the building as well) and that the game would be out any day.. that was just before the "code theft"
i'm wondering if the real reason is that their credit card takign code was so insecure that theyh're terrified of having their huge customer base fucked over since it's obvious they've been using Steam and Counterstrike as a move towards some form of online pay-for-play system, probably in addition to boxes in stores (many many more people would rather buy the boxes i would imagine, something about having the cd and never having your "subscription" expire...)
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if people didn't improve on existing designs nothing would ever get better.
you'd be sitting in a cave scrawling your moronic graffiti on the wall with a stick duller than your parochial vision
[T]hose who believe software should be free cannot prevail against the U.S. Congress and voices of seven U.S. Supreme Court justices who believe that the motive of profit is the engine that ensures the progress of science, McBride wrote.
there you go people
the man is pure souless evil, but be glad he exists so that you know what you are not
a.) cost, replace every meter in the city and add a reader to every car, and get this entire thing seamlessly automated with bank accounts. oh sure it's so easy ;P
b.) it kills gov't ticket revenue which makes them a hell of a lot more money than your shitty quarter an hour.
natural selection is a copy of Gloom for quake2
neither one is the original; so fucking waht.
we went to the moon *cough*
Change what you "need"
should ever be telling someone else to "rent a clue"
we don't need gov't, they are glorified neurotic parents with ego/image problems
your last line is asinine, the rest i didn't even read.
anarchy means the freedom of choice; God chose anarchy for you, you have allowed gov't to get out of hand to the point it has. (editorial you)
democracy is the illusion of choice enforced by a brutal elitist class minority
I thought zealots were reserved to here in the midwest (hey, change one letter and the name of one God *cough*)
It takes one arrogant fuck to think they have the right to tell you to (not) do *anything*.
I guess with the unemployment rates up (nono they dropped a tenth of a percent, while gold continues to skyrocket and the rich get tax cuts and the old get free drugs, but don't don't mind the Bush behind the curtain, we're in a BOOM I SAY A BOOM) there must be lots of Self-Righteous Silicon Valley Assholes bored at the movies these days.
they have deals w/ M$ that allow them to sell "educational" versions of everything they make for $5 a cd (so like, when i got visual studio a copule years ago it was $25 for 5 disks)the only difference between educational and full versions is that the product keys and activations have been pre-installed/disabled... in exchange fo this access the universities basically promise to not use or teach anything other than M$ products. So, would you rather have a $5 copy of xp or a $25 copy of redhat who has officially cut their desktop aspirations.
As a redhat stock holder, I'm extremely disappointed with the recent changes redhat has made, when they IPO'd and I got the stock as soon I could, not because I particularly liked redhat, I don't, I've nver used it as my primary OS and I prefer many other flavors of Linux over it; however I saw in redhat the best chance at a real competitor to microsoft; and now they are not. I'm working on getting rid of my stock. I advise other people to do the same thing. It's sad that the real RedHat vision had to die because I would have liked to see M$ running scared with something other than billy's old buddy's OS gaining market share.
you figured it out, welcome to America
the public has no faith, our democracy isn't one, never has been (you in doubt? i have two words for you: electoral college), never should have been (that's right, ONE REPUBLIC UNDER GOD). what we are is an Oilgarchy (and that's not a typo)