Seems like you're just joking around on most of these, but what the heck, I have nothing better to do at 1 AM.
The controllers are too small for my fat hands
There are several third-party companies making controllers for all three systems, that usually end up being a bit bigger than the original. Or you could try an original X-Box controller...You need mammoth hands just to hold the thing.
The controllers have too many buttons in too many places for my fat hands to operate
Get more exercise, fatass:):P
There's no keyboard, how am I supposed to use this thing?
Just mash your fingers on the controller. You'd be suprised how well this works for fighting games sometimes.
Where's the ethernet port? How am I supposed to have a network deathmatch?
See my previous answer. Get off yer lazy ass and go buy the modem thingie that fits in your system.:P
Every second game involves a cute animal with encephalitis (yuck)
Don't know about the encephalitis thing, but yes, playing Smash Bros. Melee lately, I have developed an irrational hatred of small cute animals as well. Death to Pokemon!
All the blood is green
Rose-colored glasses come in handy here. Slap 'em on, and revel in the ignorant bliss as everything looks rosy red!
I can be soundly thrashed by a 5 year old on any game
Maybe you should stick to playing tiddlywinks or picking your nose or something instead.
Please show me a computer built for $149.99 + tax that can pump out the same level of graphics detail, texturing, and framerate that my GameCube does. Oh, and you'd have to give people a $50 game and a joypad free to match it at the moment, too.
computers offer a far superior gaming experience
Speak for yourself...I'm guessing you don't actually own a console. I won't go into a huge listing, but there are many, many quality console games out there that beat the hell out of any PC games.
and the current leader in the field got its legs dominating the PC market
They may be leading in sales right now, but I don't think that'll last forever. Seems like a bit of an ominous sign that the XBox has barely been out a year, and yet they've had to cut the selling price almost in half to stay competitive already.
What with Media PCs picking up acceptance, I wouldn't be surprised to see a game/network/PVR combo soon.
Whatever happened to using a game console/device/whatever you call it for games? I don't want an everything-box, thank you.
I guess explaining that Mozilla is at least partially maintained by Netscape employees wouldn't go over well with you, eh?
Do you want to install our advertisement displaying system that ignores your user input, home page selection, and other settings?
AOL: I hate you. I will never use your software, unless it happens to be the only broadband in the whole entire world.
Netscape Staff: You suck - if you even exist anymore - seems like 90% of your work is adding on crapware installers for AOL rather than doing good work - you should go work for doubleclick or other add F**ks.
Find something worthwhile to bitch and moan about, please....The rest of us fixed or ignored the insignificant effects of those problems years ago.
"Tyler Durden: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
I believe the parent poster was making at least an oblique reference to that. They were not being serious. After that fact sinks in, please go hunt down a minimal sense of humor before you post again:P
As you noticed, any normal group would have just released the code and trick. No one wanting to play ball with M$ would pull a stunt like this. No, calling people who mod xboxes, "pirates" was not enough for M$. It seems they have decided to make them look like mad bombers, "Do what I say or the xbox gets it!" What bullshit.
And you have proof of this....where, exactly? You look worse than the so-called "mad bombers", making claims like that without real proof.
It's the 10th Aniversary Edition. Runs fine, though admittedly I had to hunt it down on Kaaza, and not all the screensavers are present for some reason:)
My apologies. That statement and much of the other readily available info on FreeCraft gives the impression that the media pack is a direct copy of Blizzard's material....Lead me to make a false conclusion.
I still do think Blizzard could have a legitimate grievance regarding dilution of their trademark, however. I could see someone trying FreeCraft, thinking it was a true representation of the real version, and developing bad blood towards Blizzard.
Well, let me recall. IIRC, you have a serial number on your CD, and that is the one way you get onto the server. By using that number on the CD. To be honest I don't remember if email was a "requirement" to get a password, the handle you could choose as whatever you wanted.
No, email is not a requirement to get a Battle.net account, it never has been, and probably never will be. Please actually try the service and refresh your memory before you make comments.
Additionally, you have to enter a CD Key to install the game, and that key must be unique to log onto their system. This does not personally identify you in any way. The closest they come is asking if you would like to choose to submit non-personal system specs.
The CD Key system has been used by hundreds of games, and it's nothing new...Certainly nothing Blizzard came up with first.
Although, I sniped out what you were refering to, I think you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, why does Blizzard need to "hurt" FreeCraft. And why did they wait so long!? FreeCraft didn't harm anyone. Blizzard did.
Simple. FreeCraft offers/offered a version of WarCraft II that plays, sounds, looks, and feels exactly like Blizzard's version. Like it or not, they should have asked for and gotten explicit permission before porting it in the manner they did.
Sorry, but just because you hate the fact that something isn't free or under a less restrictive license....That doesn't give you free reign to do whatever you want with it and escape consequences.
But ask yourself, how much longer until they reach the point of diminishing return, by pissing off the very folks that buy their products. WC3 was a piece of bloated buggy crap. (wouldn't even install correctly on two different boxes)
Mmhmm...And was this under a real installation of Windows, or using VMware/WINE/another Windows replacement? Was it possibly a hardware/software problem on your part, and no fault of Blizzard's? Did you actually try and contact Blizzard for support?
And that was $50.00 a pop at COSTCO! The support was crap, and then battle.net won't let you logon (even with the right password.)
Again, were you trying to log on to Battle.net using WINE or something similar? Myself and hundreds of thousands of other people have been able to use Battle.net perfectly fine, more times than I can count, so I question whether you're just pulling an isolated incident out of your ass and trying to make it into a bigger issue.
They have too god damn much personal information about those using Bnet.
The only personal information they have is what you give them. You don't want them supposedly spying on you, put fake info in the profile, or don't put anything there at all.
They Killed the Open Source Version of BNet Servers. That pissed more people off.
I tried some free servers for both Starcraft and Warcraft, and frankly, I thought they were crap compared to the real, free Battle.net. Not as many players, just as much rudeness, and a severe lack of gmes being hosted.
That emerge command grabbed the source from http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles. You're after freecraft itself and fcmp, the additional media packs that let you play it without having to actually buy Warcraft.
Methinks that would be the problem right there....You want to play Warcraft, spend $12 and buy the damn game instead of stealing it:P
Perhaps if you spent some of this money buying or donating to Freecraft not only would we have better games, we'd have free games. Free games would hurt Vivendi Universal and Blizzard more than anything else. Free Games that are good would kill them.
Why, exactly, does the purpose of supporting a game/company need to be to hurt and kill another?
Even if you hate them personally, or they (or their parent company, more likely) do nasty things sometimes, admit it- Blizzard makes kickass games that LOTS of people love. Starcraft is 5 years old, and yet there's still around 10,000 people playing it on Battle.net at any given time.
Imagine what could be done? But we first need a way to fund enough games to get millions of people interested. The best way to make these greedy companies pay is to setup a whole open source PC game movement, on a large scale, and let the gamers fund it.
Imagine what could be done? But we first need a way to fund enough games to get millions of people interested. The best way to make these greedy companies pay is to setup a whole open source PC game movement, on a large scale, and let the gamers fund it.
Starcraft Battle Chest: $20
Diablo II: $20 each for the main game and expansion.
Warcraft II: $11.99
Battle.net: Completely free.
Yep, they're sure being greedy alright.
It makes no sense for us to use the outdated old business model for open source products. Its proven that it doesnt work, the transgaming model is proven to work.
So you're saying that games without monthly fees are outdated? Thanks, but no thanks. I have enough monthly fees to pay already.
Seems that something like that would be quite useful, as well as incredibly cool...Imagine outdoor night lighting, but without the need for electricty to power the lights.
I suppose there'd be that risk, but (and I don't think i'd be alone in the fact) some stuff I have just can't be found anywhere else these days....Mostly games and such that i've kept around from my dearly departed 386 about 10 years ago:)
Yeah, Ghost is very nice. I've used it several times a day at work lately, preparing setups for an upcoming symposium.
When I have the extra cash to blow on a new drive or two, I imagine i'll set up something using that, or a couple other suggestions posters have made below.
"You are using WinXP, therefore your system would not be destroyed unless the destructive program also invalidated every software activation key you have - requiring a purchase of ALL NEW software from MSFT at the very least. Plus, you are now a "registered software pirate" with MSFT and their enforcement division (BSA)."
I'm not really sure what you're getting at...
I can tell you that I haven't bought any Microsoft software in 3 years, and don't see needing to anymore in the future, unless you count any costs incurred by my college's MSDNAA agreement as a purchase.
In any case, it would be interesting to see what exactly Sen. Hatch has in mind when he's thinking "destroyed"...Invalidation of all software keys, as you say, or something harsher like physical damage.
Oh, i'm not debating the worthiness of backups/restoring from backups....Just thinking how time-consuming that process really is:)
I guess the point I was really trying to make is that many people aren't really in a position to say "ah, who cares, i'll just restore it all" if their system gets trashed.
I don't necessarily do a good job of it(yet), but I try to watch my system as close as possible, and it's behind a router, software firewall, and AV software at the moment....Even so, you're right, it is worth backing up- just the thought of losing my music collection gives me a cold sweat, and I backed up all 40 gigs or so as soon as I bought a burner.
I'll probably get atomized for this, but oh well...
I'm curious...How large a drive do you have in your system?
Personally, I would have to restore over 60 gigs of data if my system got wiped...And yes, I could get it all back, but think of the time investment- not everybody runs semi-bare-bones Linux boxes that can made new in an hour or two, ya know.
Unless you consider an "average/. surfing session" to be a good 6 or 7 hours at least, you're pretty far off the mark.
Again by my personal example....I would have to copy over the contents of at least 60 full 700 MB backup CDs, reinstall XP Pro, run Windows Update, reinstall all my other programs from source CDs, hunt Kaaza and websites for stuff that I don't have discs for anymore, hunt down registration codes for installations I could re-download, and restore+update an 8 gig Linux partition with at least a year's worth of tweaks.
In any case, "destroying" someone's machine like Sen. Hatch suggests is always wrong...I don't care if there's 60 gigs or 6 megs there.
The installed base of Macs is so small compared to Windows PCs, there's no reason to write worms that affect Apple machines.
You can bet your ass that if Macs were as ubiqutous as x86 machines, they'd be getting slammed with worms too....That cocky attitude gets really grating.
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Seems like you're just joking around on most of these, but what the heck, I have nothing better to do at 1 AM.
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The controllers are too small for my fat hands
There are several third-party companies making controllers for all three systems, that usually end up being a bit bigger than the original. Or you could try an original X-Box controller...You need mammoth hands just to hold the thing.
The controllers have too many buttons in too many places for my fat hands to operate
Get more exercise, fatass
There's no keyboard, how am I supposed to use this thing?
Just mash your fingers on the controller. You'd be suprised how well this works for fighting games sometimes.
Where's the ethernet port? How am I supposed to have a network deathmatch?
See my previous answer. Get off yer lazy ass and go buy the modem thingie that fits in your system.
Every second game involves a cute animal with encephalitis (yuck)
Don't know about the encephalitis thing, but yes, playing Smash Bros. Melee lately, I have developed an irrational hatred of small cute animals as well. Death to Pokemon!
All the blood is green
Rose-colored glasses come in handy here. Slap 'em on, and revel in the ignorant bliss as everything looks rosy red!
I can be soundly thrashed by a 5 year old on any game
Maybe you should stick to playing tiddlywinks or picking your nose or something instead.
The 5 year old laughs at me
And so will I, loser
Commodity hardware is cheaper
Please show me a computer built for $149.99 + tax that can pump out the same level of graphics detail, texturing, and framerate that my GameCube does. Oh, and you'd have to give people a $50 game and a joypad free to match it at the moment, too.
computers offer a far superior gaming experience
Speak for yourself...I'm guessing you don't actually own a console. I won't go into a huge listing, but there are many, many quality console games out there that beat the hell out of any PC games.
and the current leader in the field got its legs dominating the PC market
They may be leading in sales right now, but I don't think that'll last forever. Seems like a bit of an ominous sign that the XBox has barely been out a year, and yet they've had to cut the selling price almost in half to stay competitive already.
What with Media PCs picking up acceptance, I wouldn't be surprised to see a game/network/PVR combo soon.
Whatever happened to using a game console/device/whatever you call it for games? I don't want an everything-box, thank you.
Funny, when things are US-only, it's a crime against nature, but when Europeans whine and set up their own XXX-centric sites, it's not.
I guess explaining that Mozilla is at least partially maintained by Netscape employees wouldn't go over well with you, eh?
Do you want to install our advertisement displaying system that ignores your user input, home page selection, and other settings?
AOL: I hate you.
I will never use your software, unless it happens to be the only broadband in the whole entire world.
Netscape Staff: You suck - if you even exist anymore - seems like 90% of your work is adding on crapware installers for AOL rather than doing good work - you should go work for doubleclick or other add F**ks.
Find something worthwhile to bitch and moan about, please....The rest of us fixed or ignored the insignificant effects of those problems years ago.
Well, I was close, anyway :):P
I've never seen the movie myself, I just knew a segment like that was in there somewhere.
Fight Club quotes
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"Tyler Durden: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
I believe the parent poster was making at least an oblique reference to that. They were not being serious. After that fact sinks in, please go hunt down a minimal sense of humor before you post again
As you noticed, any normal group would have just released the code and trick. No one wanting to play ball with M$ would pull a stunt like this. No, calling people who mod xboxes, "pirates" was not enough for M$. It seems they have decided to make them look like mad bombers, "Do what I say or the xbox gets it!" What bullshit.
And you have proof of this....where, exactly? You look worse than the so-called "mad bombers", making claims like that without real proof.
It's the 10th Aniversary Edition. Runs fine, though admittedly I had to hunt it down on Kaaza, and not all the screensavers are present for some reason :)
Eh? I'm running WinXP Pro, and the toasters are alive and well, thank you :)
For that matter (the original) After Dark worked in Windows 3.1, too.
Umm...Where did I say it had anything to do with "Craft"?
At the moment, all the engine seems to be able to do is Warcraft 2-esque play, hence my point.
My apologies. That statement and much of the other readily available info on FreeCraft gives the impression that the media pack is a direct copy of Blizzard's material....Lead me to make a false conclusion.
I still do think Blizzard could have a legitimate grievance regarding dilution of their trademark, however. I could see someone trying FreeCraft, thinking it was a true representation of the real version, and developing bad blood towards Blizzard.
Well, let me recall. IIRC, you have a serial number on your CD, and that is the one way you get onto the server. By using that number on the CD. To be honest I don't remember if email was a "requirement" to get a password, the handle you could choose as whatever you wanted.
No, email is not a requirement to get a Battle.net account, it never has been, and probably never will be. Please actually try the service and refresh your memory before you make comments.
Additionally, you have to enter a CD Key to install the game, and that key must be unique to log onto their system. This does not personally identify you in any way. The closest they come is asking if you would like to choose to submit non-personal system specs.
The CD Key system has been used by hundreds of games, and it's nothing new...Certainly nothing Blizzard came up with first.
Although, I sniped out what you were refering to, I think you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, why does Blizzard need to "hurt" FreeCraft. And why did they wait so long!? FreeCraft didn't harm anyone. Blizzard did.
Simple. FreeCraft offers/offered a version of WarCraft II that plays, sounds, looks, and feels exactly like Blizzard's version. Like it or not, they should have asked for and gotten explicit permission before porting it in the manner they did.
Sorry, but just because you hate the fact that something isn't free or under a less restrictive license....That doesn't give you free reign to do whatever you want with it and escape consequences.
But ask yourself, how much longer until they reach the point of diminishing return, by pissing off the very folks that buy their products. WC3 was a piece of bloated buggy crap. (wouldn't even install correctly on two different boxes)
Mmhmm...And was this under a real installation of Windows, or using VMware/WINE/another Windows replacement? Was it possibly a hardware/software problem on your part, and no fault of Blizzard's? Did you actually try and contact Blizzard for support?
And that was $50.00 a pop at COSTCO! The support was crap, and then battle.net won't let you logon (even with the right password.)
Again, were you trying to log on to Battle.net using WINE or something similar? Myself and hundreds of thousands of other people have been able to use Battle.net perfectly fine, more times than I can count, so I question whether you're just pulling an isolated incident out of your ass and trying to make it into a bigger issue.
They have too god damn much personal information about those using Bnet.
The only personal information they have is what you give them. You don't want them supposedly spying on you, put fake info in the profile, or don't put anything there at all.
They Killed the Open Source Version of BNet Servers. That pissed more people off.
I tried some free servers for both Starcraft and Warcraft, and frankly, I thought they were crap compared to the real, free Battle.net. Not as many players, just as much rudeness, and a severe lack of gmes being hosted.
That emerge command grabbed the source from http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles. You're after freecraft itself and fcmp, the additional media packs that let you play it without having to actually buy Warcraft.
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Methinks that would be the problem right there....You want to play Warcraft, spend $12 and buy the damn game instead of stealing it
Perhaps if you spent some of this money buying or donating to Freecraft not only would we have better games, we'd have free games. Free games would hurt Vivendi Universal and Blizzard more than anything else. Free Games that are good would kill them.
Why, exactly, does the purpose of supporting a game/company need to be to hurt and kill another?
Even if you hate them personally, or they (or their parent company, more likely) do nasty things sometimes, admit it- Blizzard makes kickass games that LOTS of people love. Starcraft is 5 years old, and yet there's still around 10,000 people playing it on Battle.net at any given time.
Imagine what could be done? But we first need a way to fund enough games to get millions of people interested. The best way to make these greedy companies pay is to setup a whole open source PC game movement, on a large scale, and let the gamers fund it.
Imagine what could be done? But we first need a way to fund enough games to get millions of people interested. The best way to make these greedy companies pay is to setup a whole open source PC game movement, on a large scale, and let the gamers fund it.
Starcraft Battle Chest: $20
Diablo II: $20 each for the main game and expansion.
Warcraft II: $11.99
Battle.net: Completely free.
Yep, they're sure being greedy alright.
It makes no sense for us to use the outdated old business model for open source products. Its proven that it doesnt work, the transgaming model is proven to work.
So you're saying that games without monthly fees are outdated? Thanks, but no thanks. I have enough monthly fees to pay already.
Nice...Thanks for the link.
:)
Now, if they could just do it with a plant that will grow happily in the frozen wasteland that is Western NY 6 months out of the year, i'd be set
bioluminous tabacco plants (with firefly genes) anyone?
Seems that something like that would be quite useful, as well as incredibly cool...Imagine outdoor night lighting, but without the need for electricty to power the lights.
I suppose there'd be that risk, but (and I don't think i'd be alone in the fact) some stuff I have just can't be found anywhere else these days....Mostly games and such that i've kept around from my dearly departed 386 about 10 years ago :)
Yeah, Ghost is very nice. I've used it several times a day at work lately, preparing setups for an upcoming symposium.
When I have the extra cash to blow on a new drive or two, I imagine i'll set up something using that, or a couple other suggestions posters have made below.
"You are using WinXP, therefore your system would not be destroyed unless the destructive program also invalidated every software activation key you have - requiring a purchase of ALL NEW software from MSFT at the very least. Plus, you are now a "registered software pirate" with MSFT and their enforcement division (BSA)."
I'm not really sure what you're getting at...
I can tell you that I haven't bought any Microsoft software in 3 years, and don't see needing to anymore in the future, unless you count any costs incurred by my college's MSDNAA agreement as a purchase.
In any case, it would be interesting to see what exactly Sen. Hatch has in mind when he's thinking "destroyed"...Invalidation of all software keys, as you say, or something harsher like physical damage.
Point taken as well....I suppose I should be glad my SO is as much of a geek as I am :)
Oh, i'm not debating the worthiness of backups/restoring from backups....Just thinking how time-consuming that process really is :)
I guess the point I was really trying to make is that many people aren't really in a position to say "ah, who cares, i'll just restore it all" if their system gets trashed.
I don't necessarily do a good job of it(yet), but I try to watch my system as close as possible, and it's behind a router, software firewall, and AV software at the moment....Even so, you're right, it is worth backing up- just the thought of losing my music collection gives me a cold sweat, and I backed up all 40 gigs or so as soon as I bought a burner.
I'll probably get atomized for this, but oh well...
/. surfing session" to be a good 6 or 7 hours at least, you're pretty far off the mark.
I'm curious...How large a drive do you have in your system?
Personally, I would have to restore over 60 gigs of data if my system got wiped...And yes, I could get it all back, but think of the time investment- not everybody runs semi-bare-bones Linux boxes that can made new in an hour or two, ya know.
Unless you consider an "average
Again by my personal example....I would have to copy over the contents of at least 60 full 700 MB backup CDs, reinstall XP Pro, run Windows Update, reinstall all my other programs from source CDs, hunt Kaaza and websites for stuff that I don't have discs for anymore, hunt down registration codes for installations I could re-download, and restore+update an 8 gig Linux partition with at least a year's worth of tweaks.
In any case, "destroying" someone's machine like Sen. Hatch suggests is always wrong...I don't care if there's 60 gigs or 6 megs there.
True, market share isn't the only reason, but I didn't say it was, now did I? :)
Personally, I think the feeling of invincibility that many Mac users have is just as dangerous as any Microsoft security vulnerability.
Oh please...
The installed base of Macs is so small compared to Windows PCs, there's no reason to write worms that affect Apple machines.
You can bet your ass that if Macs were as ubiqutous as x86 machines, they'd be getting slammed with worms too....That cocky attitude gets really grating.