Diablo II would not be as popular as it still is today without Battle.net play. Persistent centrally-stored characters were the sore point in DS1, and (AFAIK) it's still lacking in DS2.
Until there's a central official player vault, with some POINT in building your character, DS2 is (like DS1) nothing but a poor single-player game.
You are 100% correct. Our livejournals and naked tit blogs should be 100% w3c compliant and based on standards, not browsers. Let the people with jobs waste their time trying to support all browsers!
Same here. Unless things have changed since I last tried a few months ago, K3B does not burn NRG files. And since many, uh, "items" are "distributed" as NRG files, NeroLinux wins for burning ITS OWN FILES.
That's why I said "render a consistent world." The world doesn't necessarily have to be just like ours, but it should adhere to a set of physical laws such that your actions entail logical reactions.
Physics isn't just a "buzzword." Physics is what makes a game real, far more than graphics. Hell, simply by porting any recent physics engine to Quake would make it an entirely different game. I spent my first hour in HL2 just throwing bottles at a lady in the train station!
Proper physics engines make it possible to model reality, and that's the goal of every game from fantasy to sports: to render a consistent world.
Jesus, I wish I could just mod this overrated, but I'll have to respond.
IIRC, Duke came out at approximately the same time as Quake. Its interactivity and humor (juvenile though it was) are unparalleled in any game since.
I remember walking over dead guys and leaving bloody footprints, flushing a toilet which overflowed and left watery footprints, seeing myself in a mirror, tossing remote-detonated bombs and blasting them from a block away, shrinking my opponents and stepping on them.
There's a lot of hype about the wonderful immerson of Half Life's story, but what happened in HL2? Awesome atmosphere, but where's the story? It had a plot like a movie tie-in theme park ride.
Duke innovated, and if there is even some tiny vestige of its original spirit left in the company, with today's technology, it will be a favorite of the next generation of gamers, as it was with my generation.
Amen. That was my first thought when I read the headline. Reference the humor article a few months ago with kids stating that a swastika "wouldn't be allowed" in a retro video game being reviewed.
It's (over-)sensitivity that's being bred into children, not fascism, but they both lead to restricting our freedom of expression.
At least pudge has one of the topic links correctly set to "humor," whereas Michael has both set to politics and presents his "BushRelativesforKerry" bullshit as a serious story.
Interestingly enough, pudge's story actually has more relevance, as the number of Red Sox fans who might vote based on such a (seemingly) trivial matter are probably greater than those who'd care about distant Bush relatives playing pompous cogniscienti.
I'm using the sata_promise and libata modules with my Promise SATA150 TX2Plus on 2.6.8.1. Works great with the two SATA drives I have installed (one hot-swapped in a Kingwin enclosure, one fixed in the case.) The PATA (IDE) connection doesn't work AFAIK, but that's not a big deal for me. (And the hardware isn't supposed to work with optical drives, which is a bigger deal, but not the fault of Linux.)
Because BUSH is why we have these bad laws and BUSH should be expelled and BUSH is bad and BUSH is the DEVIL and if we did not have BUSH we would live in a tinkly winkly faerie land of beautiful make believe but we have BUSH and ANYBODY BUT BUSH!!!
Hitler wasn't so bad for Soros. Some here have portrayed him as a concentration camp survivor, and thus he has the right to bring up Hitler. Well, no. He was shipped off to London and avoided the fate of the majority of Hungarian jews. He is a vocal antagonist with regards to Israel.
So, for Soros, yeah, Bush is probably a lot worse than Hitler. Without Hitler, he'd probably be an anonymous professor in Budapest right now.
Instead of scraping the bottom of the barrel for muck now, you should have offered a decent presidential candidate last year. We all have the Democrats to blame for four more years of Bush.
This reply is as relevant as the story to which it is attached.
The politics section has been mindless neohippy bullshit from the start. I am shocked and dismayed to find supporters of Bush more reasonable and consistent than the idiots in the ABB camp.
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Someone please mod this UP UP UP!
Diablo II would not be as popular as it still is today without Battle.net play. Persistent centrally-stored characters were the sore point in DS1, and (AFAIK) it's still lacking in DS2.
Until there's a central official player vault, with some POINT in building your character, DS2 is (like DS1) nothing but a poor single-player game.
It only tops $700 when you include shipping and handling, and the article blurb itself shows a price of $618. Misleading title.
I wouldn't have bothered quibbling, but I'm still nirged with the earlier "Planescapes Torment" gaffe.
You are 100% correct. Our livejournals and naked tit blogs should be 100% w3c compliant and based on standards, not browsers. Let the people with jobs waste their time trying to support all browsers!
The "insult" itself was innocuous, but the comedic impotence of the stale "nerds are virgins" commentary was aesthetically offensive.
Hell, I thought someone had ported Fallout to Java. :(
Same here. Unless things have changed since I last tried a few months ago, K3B does not burn NRG files. And since many, uh, "items" are "distributed" as NRG files, NeroLinux wins for burning ITS OWN FILES.
I use the `normalize' Debian package. -m takes the average from all files specified. There's also normalize-mp3 and normalize-ogg.
That's why I said "render a consistent world." The world doesn't necessarily have to be just like ours, but it should adhere to a set of physical laws such that your actions entail logical reactions.
Physics isn't just a "buzzword." Physics is what makes a game real, far more than graphics. Hell, simply by porting any recent physics engine to Quake would make it an entirely different game. I spent my first hour in HL2 just throwing bottles at a lady in the train station!
Proper physics engines make it possible to model reality, and that's the goal of every game from fantasy to sports: to render a consistent world.
Jesus, I wish I could just mod this overrated, but I'll have to respond.
IIRC, Duke came out at approximately the same time as Quake. Its interactivity and humor (juvenile though it was) are unparalleled in any game since.
I remember walking over dead guys and leaving bloody footprints, flushing a toilet which overflowed and left watery footprints, seeing myself in a mirror, tossing remote-detonated bombs and blasting them from a block away, shrinking my opponents and stepping on them.
There's a lot of hype about the wonderful immerson of Half Life's story, but what happened in HL2? Awesome atmosphere, but where's the story? It had a plot like a movie tie-in theme park ride.
Duke innovated, and if there is even some tiny vestige of its original spirit left in the company, with today's technology, it will be a favorite of the next generation of gamers, as it was with my generation.
Except that he wants to use the PATA connectors on his Promise card, which indeed are not supported by the kernel's Promise SATA card driver.
I'd also like to do that, because hey-- why waste the extra connectors if I've got the drives? (Except that my PSU is probably maxed out...)
My Promise card doesn't support optical drives for some reason (a hardware restriction noted in the manual), which is a bit of a disappointment.
Anyway, I bought it for SATA and it works swell for that.
Amen. That was my first thought when I read the headline. Reference the humor article a few months ago with kids stating that a swastika "wouldn't be allowed" in a retro video game being reviewed.
It's (over-)sensitivity that's being bred into children, not fascism, but they both lead to restricting our freedom of expression.
I'll buy Jonny an iPod if he cams his man-teats.
Do you realize that the "whoever" who got hold of the Bard's Tale license is...its original creator?
Yeah, wtf?? Only 96% of the year is over. Who do they think they are??
More specifically, what you describe is a "nocebo," a negative effect caused by the belief that something innocuous is harmful.
the guy who can raise the dead.
At least pudge has one of the topic links correctly set to "humor," whereas Michael has both set to politics and presents his "BushRelativesforKerry" bullshit as a serious story.
Interestingly enough, pudge's story actually has more relevance, as the number of Red Sox fans who might vote based on such a (seemingly) trivial matter are probably greater than those who'd care about distant Bush relatives playing pompous cogniscienti.
I'm using the sata_promise and libata modules with my Promise SATA150 TX2Plus on 2.6.8.1. Works great with the two SATA drives I have installed (one hot-swapped in a Kingwin enclosure, one fixed in the case.) The PATA (IDE) connection doesn't work AFAIK, but that's not a big deal for me. (And the hardware isn't supposed to work with optical drives, which is a bigger deal, but not the fault of Linux.)
Because BUSH is why we have these bad laws and BUSH should be expelled and BUSH is bad and BUSH is the DEVIL and if we did not have BUSH we would live in a tinkly winkly faerie land of beautiful make believe but we have BUSH and ANYBODY BUT BUSH!!!
Hitler wasn't so bad for Soros. Some here have portrayed him as a concentration camp survivor, and thus he has the right to bring up Hitler. Well, no. He was shipped off to London and avoided the fate of the majority of Hungarian jews. He is a vocal antagonist with regards to Israel.
So, for Soros, yeah, Bush is probably a lot worse than Hitler. Without Hitler, he'd probably be an anonymous professor in Budapest right now.
Kerry's still going to lose.
Instead of scraping the bottom of the barrel for muck now, you should have offered a decent presidential candidate last year. We all have the Democrats to blame for four more years of Bush.
This reply is as relevant as the story to which it is attached.
The politics section has been mindless neohippy bullshit from the start. I am shocked and dismayed to find supporters of Bush more reasonable and consistent than the idiots in the ABB camp.
Why is "savvy" linked to Pirates of the Caribbean?
That's a reversal from the commentary usually being in the submission itself, and it all being partisan tripe from a neo-hippy fucktard.