Someone mod this up, because I also have no idea what the fuck that sentence is supposed to mean. Maybe I could have RTFA, but isn't the title supposed to tell you what it's about, not throw you into a conniption of confusion like trying to understand the punchline in some goddamned Beetle Bailey cartoon?
They conditionally busted the third rail urination myth. IIRC, in order to effectively electrocute yourself, you'd have to keep a solid stream, barefoot, in a puddle of water.
It's a great show. Last week's had the walrus mustachioed guy wearing nothing but a beret and a pair of flimsy gold hot pants refusing to put a thermometer up his ass.
"Regulated" means orderly and disciplined, or well-trained. A militia is, by definition, a group of civilians with military training but/not/ under the direct authority of the government.
Updated to modern language: "A strong and vigilant citizenry being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
The norm at the time being unlicensed ownership and use of firearms, it would be absurd to consider the amendment to be anything but a statement of the/individual/ right to bear arms. If it had been intended to curtail this right, then it would have been worded as such, as with the other amendments which have restricted our individual rights (eg. Prohibition.)
Every other article of the Bill of Rights guarantees an individual freedom. Why would the second amendment be an exception? Indeed, if it were to be interpreted as you say, then isn't it patently obvious and ridiculously superfluous? Of course the/government/ and its armies have a right to bear arms!
We're dealing with words over two hundred years old. If their meaning is not clear enough after updating to the modern vernacular, one need only consult the context: there would have been no American revolution had there not been a skilled armed citizenry to carry it out.
Where are Brian Fargo of inXile and Tim Cain from Troika? These guys have and will produce the greatest role-playing games of all time. Fallout? Arcanum? WASTELAND? The Bard's Tale remake? Wtf? Get off your couch and play a real game, young man.
Would it be alright if I bought a book, read it, didn't like it, and returned it? The words are in my head-- I've consumed it, so can I return it? Can I vomit up a consumed cheeseburger and demand my money back from McDonald's?
I don't see that the retailers have a choice. You installed the game. You have the CD key. If the publisher didn't implement restrictive copyright protections (also whined about), then you have it and can continue to play it.
There's a rental industry. There are demos. What do you want, exactly?
Wait for the reviews, buy warily, and remember which companies screwed you with a bad title. Don't buy from them again.
Maybe it was the years of heavy anticipation of an unofficial Wasteland sequel, but the original Fallout trailer left me near tears.
It begins with the vinyl crooning of a melancholy oldie from the Ink Spots over a scratchy black and white retro-future newsreel. An ad for an atomic-powered car, then a shot of a soldier in power armor kicking a man on the street, filling him full of lead, then waving to the camera.
The perspective pulls back to reveal a boxy old console television, and as the music starts to skip on "Maybe...Maybe...Maybe", a burnt out apartment's missing walls reveal the post-apocalyptic urban wasteland outside.
Seven Cities of Gold was indeed an awesome game. Just recently I was yearning for something like that to pass the time. I recall blowing many hours sailing to the New World, slaughtering ungrateful savages, and searching for the titular septefecta of treasure troves.
I also role-played a successful expedition earning me a masturbation ritual with a saucy European lass as portrayed by a cheap second-hand OUI magazine centerfold. Yeah, those were some mighty funked up days.
Anyway, my own adolescent perversions aside, I did spy this single PC title on the list, so I know they included the PC, so where the hell is Wasteland? Maybe Fallout was considered an unofficial upgrade, but I still have high hopes of "Faran Brygo's" inXile snagging the rights and doing a proper remake of the greatest RPG of all time.
As noted in the article, the build output is much cleaner (simple status lines for each section/module being built, not the whole gcc cmdline), the make options are now fully documented (with make help), and make is simplified down to `make all' and `make install'/`make modules_install'.
I'm not particularly fond of the new make xconfig, but didn't give it much of a chance. I went with `make menuconfig' and ncurses instead.
Performance is noticably improved. Not just "some people told me it's better and well, maybe it is a little", but actual tangible improvements. Even typing into xterms seems faster. (I did enable the preemptible option, but this seems even better than when I did it with the old patch to 2.4.)
This is the most pleased I've been with a new kernel in ~6 years of using Linux. Highly recommended!
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The ACLU's second amendment statement reeks of "leftist" politics, but has no bite. Thankfully, they usually stick to defending our freedoms, not abridging our rights. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, of the ACLU actively fighting against the second amendment, I'd very much like to see it.
Even so, I agree with others in that the ACLU is an effective counterbalance to fascist restrictions on liberty and facetious Constitutional amendments.
I can't recall a single ACLU action which has caused harm to anything but the clammy sensitivities of self-righteous busybodies.
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Can't you just pray silently to yourself? Are we supposed to accomodate everyone who wants to perform some bizarre bombastic religious ritual ON OUR TIME? I don't want my kids to have to pause while Lucifer sacrifices his goat and Ahmed bows Meccaward.
It's SCHOOL. They're supposed to be learning science and reason, not hokum and superstition-- those lessons should come from the crazy parents.
What about my being forced to pledge allegiance to one nation "under God?" What about Congress establishing that aspect of religion? Hell, it's one nation "ABOVE god." Freedom and liberty are more important to me than giving special privileges to deluded spiritualists.
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He's also one of the originators of the war against smoking, which explains his support by trial lawyers-- the only "people" who really benefit from the crackdown on cigarettes.
Fallout 3 (aka "Van Buren") is in development at Black Isle. If it's not, the unwashed masses are going to storm their HQ and go post-apocalyptic on their asses.
InXile, the new company of Interplay founder and former CEO Brian Fargo, is working on acquiring the rights to the classic 80's post-apocalyptic role-playing game "Wasteland." Fargo was one of the creators of the game. (Fans will remember his name from characters "Faran Brygo" and "Mad Dog Fargo.")
Add to that Lionheart, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Knights of the Old Republic for the PC, and we should be set for awesome non-traditional hack and slash and talk and squawk action for the upcoming season!
I didn't really "get it", either. I played for a while, and it was a very well-crafted game, but it didn't hold my interest. Must be the elite metaphysical fantasy genre.
On the other hand, Fallout, Wasteland, Arcanum-- those are classics.
This is a reference to the controversy surrounding "Aku-Aku", Thor Heyerdahl's followup to "Kon-Tiki", in which he claimed evidence for an ancient culture on Easter Island.
Heyerdahl was accused of faking (or lax authentication of) pottery finds ("prior art") used as evidence for the existence of that "advanced" civilization.
Thus, while the parent post is not quite "funny", it's a great obscure intellectual/cultural reference and I wish I had mod points you stupid fucking idiot Slashdot readers.
Flamebait, maybe, but also TRUTH. IGN has always had the sheen of an oily teenager's sputtering acne-pocked face. I suppose one could regard that as being "real" with regards to the primary gamer demographic, but reality isn't always/good/.
There's a beta of the SecureChar system, but it looks like it'll only ever run on the biblically-genred Elemental mod.
Server-based characters would greatly enhance the playability of Dungeon Siege. Right now, anyone can hack themself up to god status, so why bother playing multiplayer? I was hoping Dungeon Siege would be a hi-res version of Diablo II, but without a Battle.net equivalent, it falls flat.
The single-player story is teh sux, making it little more than a beautiful engine demo. (And it is a beautiful game.)
Amen. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I would have just posted a n/t "Bullshit." The Internet is dying, my ass. Only a completely clueless fucktard would make such a proclamation.
In the beginning, there was Bard's Tale and there was Wasteland. Bard's Tale was fun, but flawed in its perspective and only slightly different from the usual fantasy games.
Wasteland was my life.
Non-linear, turn-based, top-down tiled. "Old school" when that was the only school. This was the dawn of modern computer role-playing games, and Wasteland was, in my mind, the best.
Conversation options were limited, but the freedom of plot made up for any stilted "guess the keyword" communication with the twisted denizens of a post-apocalyptic world.
A post-apocalyptic world. That's the essence of Wasteland, and the essence of the 80's. Before global warming, we lived with the Cold War warming, and a real possibility of nuclear annihilation. This was no ambiguous ivory tower intellectual threat of ozone layer depletion and the loss of rain forests-- this was true world wide destruction leading to anarchy leading to feral children and leather-clad warriors.
To an anti-social geek outcast, that was paradise. Roaming the wastelands, living on your wits, leaving the law in its grave, following your own compass, ignoring what the others thought, and going out with a flamethrower and a sledge hammer and taking care of business.
Wasteland allowed me to live that fantasy in a huge world of post-nuclear deviants. I tend to play the Mad Max type of nice guy, but if I slipped and wiped out a camp full of pre-teens, the game didn't hold it against me. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
Wasteland has influenced every attempt I've ever made at writing games. It was the creative catalyst for many of the stories I've started and discarded. It was the inspiration for my first proto-MUD BBS game, and for every MOO I've administrated since.
Today's gamers didn't grow up wondering if tomorrow would be "The Day After." Excellent titles such as Fallout have helped, but it seems our generation of post-nuclear gamers is doomed, not by apocalypse, but by the lack thereof.
In any case, I'll always have my Scorpitron, my Guardian Citadel, my Proton Axes and Power Armor, and with every dire media inflation of a super-flu and leaked nuclear warheads, I'll always hope I'll have my Wasteland.
I kicked and punched my wife while asleep when I was on Celexa. I'd have violent dreams, swing a punch, and somehow it'd reach into the real world and jab her. Lots of grasping and tossing dreams, too.
Yes, kids, GRASPING AND TOSSING.
It stopped when I switched to Paxil.
So... kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
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In most of America, you can't "just" walk in anywhere and buy a handgun. It took me nine months, ~$150, fingerprinting, a criminal background check, and vouchers of my "moral integrity" from 3 people I've known for 3+ years who live in my city to get my New York State handgun permit (*).
(* Which, although called a "concealed carry" permit, is actually required to possess a handgun, and even then only a handgun registered with the state on your license.)
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That picture doesn't bother me at all, with or without my glasses. COOL MAYBE I AM A DRAWVE FIWHT INFARVISIN!!1
I thought he had turned his Mac cube into a house and was living in it, like some kind of fucking Monchichi.
Someone mod this up, because I also have no idea what the fuck that sentence is supposed to mean. Maybe I could have RTFA, but isn't the title supposed to tell you what it's about, not throw you into a conniption of confusion like trying to understand the punchline in some goddamned Beetle Bailey cartoon?
They conditionally busted the third rail urination myth. IIRC, in order to effectively electrocute yourself, you'd have to keep a solid stream, barefoot, in a puddle of water.
It's a great show. Last week's had the walrus mustachioed guy wearing nothing but a beret and a pair of flimsy gold hot pants refusing to put a thermometer up his ass.
They're in San Francisco.
"Regulated" means orderly and disciplined, or well-trained. A militia is, by definition, a group of civilians with military training but /not/ under the direct authority of the government.
/individual/ right to bear arms. If it had been intended to curtail this right, then it would have been worded as such, as with the other amendments which have restricted our individual rights (eg. Prohibition.)
/government/ and its armies have a right to bear arms!
Updated to modern language: "A strong and vigilant citizenry being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
The norm at the time being unlicensed ownership and use of firearms, it would be absurd to consider the amendment to be anything but a statement of the
Every other article of the Bill of Rights guarantees an individual freedom. Why would the second amendment be an exception? Indeed, if it were to be interpreted as you say, then isn't it patently obvious and ridiculously superfluous? Of course the
We're dealing with words over two hundred years old. If their meaning is not clear enough after updating to the modern vernacular, one need only consult the context: there would have been no American revolution had there not been a skilled armed citizenry to carry it out.
Where are Brian Fargo of inXile and Tim Cain from Troika? These guys have and will produce the greatest role-playing games of all time. Fallout? Arcanum? WASTELAND? The Bard's Tale remake? Wtf? Get off your couch and play a real game, young man.
Would it be alright if I bought a book, read it, didn't like it, and returned it? The words are in my head-- I've consumed it, so can I return it? Can I vomit up a consumed cheeseburger and demand my money back from McDonald's?
I don't see that the retailers have a choice. You installed the game. You have the CD key. If the publisher didn't implement restrictive copyright protections (also whined about), then you have it and can continue to play it.
There's a rental industry. There are demos. What do you want, exactly?
Wait for the reviews, buy warily, and remember which companies screwed you with a bad title. Don't buy from them again.
I enjoyed the clever commercials for FFTA the reviewer saw for the first time while "waiting for Triple H to beat the snot out of Goldberg." ...
Maybe it was the years of heavy anticipation of an unofficial Wasteland sequel, but the original Fallout trailer left me near tears.
It begins with the vinyl crooning of a melancholy oldie from the Ink Spots over a scratchy black and white retro-future newsreel. An ad for an atomic-powered car, then a shot of a soldier in power armor kicking a man on the street, filling him full of lead, then waving to the camera.
The perspective pulls back to reveal a boxy old console television, and as the music starts to skip on "Maybe...Maybe...Maybe", a burnt out apartment's missing walls reveal the post-apocalyptic urban wasteland outside.
Whoa.
Seven Cities of Gold was indeed an awesome game. Just recently I was yearning for something like that to pass the time. I recall blowing many hours sailing to the New World, slaughtering ungrateful savages, and searching for the titular septefecta of treasure troves.
I also role-played a successful expedition earning me a masturbation ritual with a saucy European lass as portrayed by a cheap second-hand OUI magazine centerfold. Yeah, those were some mighty funked up days.
Anyway, my own adolescent perversions aside, I did spy this single PC title on the list, so I know they included the PC, so where the hell is Wasteland? Maybe Fallout was considered an unofficial upgrade, but I still have high hopes of "Faran Brygo's" inXile snagging the rights and doing a proper remake of the greatest RPG of all time.
As noted in the article, the build output is much cleaner (simple status lines for each section/module being built, not the whole gcc cmdline), the make options are now fully documented (with make help), and make is simplified down to `make all' and `make install'/`make modules_install'.
I'm not particularly fond of the new make xconfig, but didn't give it much of a chance. I went with `make menuconfig' and ncurses instead.
Performance is noticably improved. Not just "some people told me it's better and well, maybe it is a little", but actual tangible improvements. Even typing into xterms seems faster. (I did enable the preemptible option, but this seems even better than when I did it with the old patch to 2.4.)
This is the most pleased I've been with a new kernel in ~6 years of using Linux. Highly recommended!
The ACLU's second amendment statement reeks of "leftist" politics, but has no bite. Thankfully, they usually stick to defending our freedoms, not abridging our rights. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, of the ACLU actively fighting against the second amendment, I'd very much like to see it.
Even so, I agree with others in that the ACLU is an effective counterbalance to fascist restrictions on liberty and facetious Constitutional amendments.
I can't recall a single ACLU action which has caused harm to anything but the clammy sensitivities of self-righteous busybodies.
Can't you just pray silently to yourself? Are we supposed to accomodate everyone who wants to perform some bizarre bombastic religious ritual ON OUR TIME? I don't want my kids to have to pause while Lucifer sacrifices his goat and Ahmed bows Meccaward.
It's SCHOOL. They're supposed to be learning science and reason, not hokum and superstition-- those lessons should come from the crazy parents.
What about my being forced to pledge allegiance to one nation "under God?" What about Congress establishing that aspect of religion? Hell, it's one nation "ABOVE god." Freedom and liberty are more important to me than giving special privileges to deluded spiritualists.
He's also one of the originators of the war against smoking, which explains his support by trial lawyers-- the only "people" who really benefit from the crackdown on cigarettes.
"marijuana makes you violent" came in the 40's
Actual scenario: the drug war, billions spent and millions killed
Global warming is a myth
Actual scenario: no effect, probably no effect for 10,000 years, and hey, did the Sumerians pass any laws to curtail global warming?
Fallout 3 (aka "Van Buren") is in development at Black Isle. If it's not, the unwashed masses are going to storm their HQ and go post-apocalyptic on their asses.
InXile, the new company of Interplay founder and former CEO Brian Fargo, is working on acquiring the rights to the classic 80's post-apocalyptic role-playing game "Wasteland." Fargo was one of the creators of the game. (Fans will remember his name from characters "Faran Brygo" and "Mad Dog Fargo.")
Finally, I just read on No Mutants Allowed today that there's a new post-apoc RPG called Shadow Vault in development.
Add to that Lionheart, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Knights of the Old Republic for the PC, and we should be set for awesome non-traditional hack and slash and talk and squawk action for the upcoming season!
I didn't really "get it", either. I played for a while, and it was a very well-crafted game, but it didn't hold my interest. Must be the elite metaphysical fantasy genre.
On the other hand, Fallout, Wasteland, Arcanum-- those are classics.
This is a reference to the controversy surrounding "Aku-Aku", Thor Heyerdahl's followup to "Kon-Tiki", in which he claimed evidence for an ancient culture on Easter Island.
Heyerdahl was accused of faking (or lax authentication of) pottery finds ("prior art") used as evidence for the existence of that "advanced" civilization.
Thus, while the parent post is not quite "funny", it's a great obscure intellectual/cultural reference and I wish I had mod points you stupid fucking idiot Slashdot readers.
Flamebait, maybe, but also TRUTH. IGN has always had the sheen of an oily teenager's sputtering acne-pocked face. I suppose one could regard that as being "real" with regards to the primary gamer demographic, but reality isn't always /good/.
There's a beta of the SecureChar system, but it looks like it'll only ever run on the biblically-genred Elemental mod.
Server-based characters would greatly enhance the playability of Dungeon Siege. Right now, anyone can hack themself up to god status, so why bother playing multiplayer? I was hoping Dungeon Siege would be a hi-res version of Diablo II, but without a Battle.net equivalent, it falls flat.
The single-player story is teh sux, making it little more than a beautiful engine demo. (And it is a beautiful game.)
Amen. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I would have just posted a n/t "Bullshit." The Internet is dying, my ass. Only a completely clueless fucktard would make such a proclamation.
In the beginning, there was Bard's Tale and there was Wasteland. Bard's Tale was fun, but flawed in its perspective and only slightly different from the usual fantasy games.
Wasteland was my life.
Non-linear, turn-based, top-down tiled. "Old school" when that was the only school. This was the dawn of modern computer role-playing games, and Wasteland was, in my mind, the best.
Conversation options were limited, but the freedom of plot made up for any stilted "guess the keyword" communication with the twisted denizens of a post-apocalyptic world.
A post-apocalyptic world. That's the essence of Wasteland, and the essence of the 80's. Before global warming, we lived with the Cold War warming, and a real possibility of nuclear annihilation. This was no ambiguous ivory tower intellectual threat of ozone layer depletion and the loss of rain forests-- this was true world wide destruction leading to anarchy leading to feral children and leather-clad warriors.
To an anti-social geek outcast, that was paradise. Roaming the wastelands, living on your wits, leaving the law in its grave, following your own compass, ignoring what the others thought, and going out with a flamethrower and a sledge hammer and taking care of business.
Wasteland allowed me to live that fantasy in a huge world of post-nuclear deviants. I tend to play the Mad Max type of nice guy, but if I slipped and wiped out a camp full of pre-teens, the game didn't hold it against me. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
Wasteland has influenced every attempt I've ever made at writing games. It was the creative catalyst for many of the stories I've started and discarded. It was the inspiration for my first proto-MUD BBS game, and for every MOO I've administrated since.
Today's gamers didn't grow up wondering if tomorrow would be "The Day After." Excellent titles such as Fallout have helped, but it seems our generation of post-nuclear gamers is doomed, not by apocalypse, but by the lack thereof.
In any case, I'll always have my Scorpitron, my Guardian Citadel, my Proton Axes and Power Armor, and with every dire media inflation of a super-flu and leaked nuclear warheads, I'll always hope I'll have my Wasteland.
I kicked and punched my wife while asleep when I was on Celexa. I'd have violent dreams, swing a punch, and somehow it'd reach into the real world and jab her. Lots of grasping and tossing dreams, too.
Yes, kids, GRASPING AND TOSSING.
It stopped when I switched to Paxil.
So... kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
That made me "LOL." Kudos, Subject Line Troll.
In most of America, you can't "just" walk in anywhere and buy a handgun. It took me nine months, ~$150, fingerprinting, a criminal background check, and vouchers of my "moral integrity" from 3 people I've known for 3+ years who live in my city to get my New York State handgun permit (*).
(* Which, although called a "concealed carry" permit, is actually required to possess a handgun, and even then only a handgun registered with the state on your license.)