The reason Myth II gets exposure on Slashdot is because the game servers are entirely run by the (admitidly relativly small) community of players. After being bought by Microsoft Bungie closed their own servers, and rather than leaving the players in the cold, released their server source code. The folks at PlayMyth steppped in and have been hosting ever since. Also worth noting is that the people at ProjectMagma, another group of Myth fans, continue to release patches to Myth II, as they received the source code for work included in Myth III.
PS - I'm soulwound on m2. Hi to anyone who plays, and remembers me.
Could you help me get out then? I'm stuck in Picayune for the summer whilst waiting for fall to move back to Hattiesburg and start my second year at USM (yes computer science, shut up). This is really cool though, haven't seen many things like this. Plus I've been somewhere mentioned on Slashdot *starry eyed glaze*.
the architect (whom reminded me of Colonel Sanders and I expected him to produce a bucket of fried chicken parts at any moment)
LMAO! This is exactly what my friend and I were saying after seeing Reloaded. I'm convinced that Revolutions will reveal that there is a matrix within a matrix, and giant chickens are our supreme overlords.
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I never thought I'd actually see a ressonance cascade!
Even so, when I was a kid asking my parents to buy video games for me I made certain to give them the exact title of the game. I knew the difference between "Street Fighter," "Final Fight," "Streets of Rage," and "Street Fighter 2 Turbo," would be lost on my mother, so I made certain to point out which one was the right one. I think this would be the case with most kids who are far more interested in gaming than their parents. Even if the kid wasn't as thoughtful as I was (=D) the parent would more than likely ask if confused over the naming of a title.
Seriously though, this has been standard pratice in the sports gaming industry for over a decade. Everyone who plays these games is well aware of which season's rosters are included, and even if they aren't common sense should hold that if the league's draft hasn't even happened when the title is released, the rosters aren't going to be correct for the NEXT year's season.
It's almost June, soon I'll be able to purchase a 2004 model car. Stupid? You bet. Confusing? Only to an idiot.
You completely left out the Myth series in your history of bungie! IMO Myth is easily the best RTS game I've ever played, focusing more on actual strategy using landforms and unit formations than resource gathering. Numerous mods and complete conversions have been released for Myth II and while Bungie no longer supports the game, popular fan run servers Play Myth and Marius Net still host mulitiplayer games, and Project Magma is still updating the game with bug fixes and enhancments in patches. Bungie actually forfeited the Myth franchise to Take2 during the Microsoft buy-out, much to the shagrin of us Myth fans, alas Myth III just doesn't have the same bite as the two previous titles. Don't forget this once great Bungie series in a history of the company!
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Oh man...I shouldn't read slashdot first thing in the morning...the first thing I thought when I saw the headline was, "I bet there's tasty sandwhiches at this thing, but how'd that get on the frontpage?"
The story submitter which is usually a link to a user profile isn't a link at all in each of the fake stories posted today. I know a lot of the readership around here is too...shall we say...special...to realize that a usb George Foreman grill is too good to be true, so this should help to clear up the confusion.
PS - Can you spot the whitespace code in this post??
Requiem for a Dream is easily mine. The directing style of Darren Aronofsky is brilliant, imho. It's not very often a movie truly disturbes me, but this movie managed to leave me feeling sick by the end.
Also good are Momento and The Virgin Suicides. I'd recommend them whole heartidly to anyone who hasn't seen them.
Actually what you're talking about was in FF8 with Squall's "gunblade" (what's better than a sword?? a sword that goes boom!) The "actionifying" happened in the Final Fantasy series previous to this though in FF6 (FF3 in the states). The character Sabin had an attack called Blitz which required you to input various Street Figher-esque button sequences to pull off the moves.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have x-rays passing through my body while using the cell phone....plus I'd have to replace my tin-foil helmet with a lead one.
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"Traditions don't have to make sense... that's why they're traditions."
Yes, but traditions can, and often tend to be, just plain stupid. Read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, it's rather thought provoking for a high school level short story.
If you're into this sort of thing you should pick up Hyperspace by Michio Kaku, it's a very interesting book that does a pretty good job of explaining multiple dimensions in a way that most can understand.
Actually you can decline to install the additional program, which calls itself "Worldusa JumpGate." I have no idea what it really is, but Ad-aware didn't pick anything up after I installed and declined.
I know it's not Mac, but Zelda Classic is a great, in fact identical from what I can tell, remake of the original Legend of Zelda for NES. It comes with a level editor so you can also find homebrew quests. The same team is also working on an engine based on the Zelda 3 (SNES) engine, but with a "powerful scripting engine" built in. Also in the works are a remake of Galaga and a new "drug dealing simulation." Just some things if you don't want to use an emulator.
Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't American money be designed with Americans in mind? Sure, maybe a few foreigners are confused by our whacky scheme of telling bills apart by the large numbers in the corners, but I bet more than a few are still confused by the exchange rate.
Actually what you're talking about doesn't start until seventy in french, which when spoken aloud literaly translates as "sixty ten." However, in french the number seventy is still written as 70, not 60-10.
I remember these days, the days when it was a challenge to find a particular song. Oh how I cheered after searching three months for a song and stumbling upon it at some ftp server in Finland, only to find someone had mis-labeled the file =(.
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The reason Myth II gets exposure on Slashdot is because the game servers are entirely run by the (admitidly relativly small) community of players. After being bought by Microsoft Bungie closed their own servers, and rather than leaving the players in the cold, released their server source code. The folks at PlayMyth steppped in and have been hosting ever since. Also worth noting is that the people at ProjectMagma, another group of Myth fans, continue to release patches to Myth II, as they received the source code for work included in Myth III.
PS - I'm soulwound on m2. Hi to anyone who plays, and remembers me.
Could you help me get out then? I'm stuck in Picayune for the summer whilst waiting for fall to move back to Hattiesburg and start my second year at USM (yes computer science, shut up). This is really cool though, haven't seen many things like this. Plus I've been somewhere mentioned on Slashdot *starry eyed glaze*.
LMAO! This is exactly what my friend and I were saying after seeing Reloaded. I'm convinced that Revolutions will reveal that there is a matrix within a matrix, and giant chickens are our supreme overlords.
I never thought I'd actually see a ressonance cascade!
Even so, when I was a kid asking my parents to buy video games for me I made certain to give them the exact title of the game. I knew the difference between "Street Fighter," "Final Fight," "Streets of Rage," and "Street Fighter 2 Turbo," would be lost on my mother, so I made certain to point out which one was the right one. I think this would be the case with most kids who are far more interested in gaming than their parents. Even if the kid wasn't as thoughtful as I was (=D) the parent would more than likely ask if confused over the naming of a title.
Seriously though, this has been standard pratice in the sports gaming industry for over a decade. Everyone who plays these games is well aware of which season's rosters are included, and even if they aren't common sense should hold that if the league's draft hasn't even happened when the title is released, the rosters aren't going to be correct for the NEXT year's season.
It's almost June, soon I'll be able to purchase a 2004 model car. Stupid? You bet. Confusing? Only to an idiot.
You completely left out the Myth series in your history of bungie! IMO Myth is easily the best RTS game I've ever played, focusing more on actual strategy using landforms and unit formations than resource gathering. Numerous mods and complete conversions have been released for Myth II and while Bungie no longer supports the game, popular fan run servers Play Myth and Marius Net still host mulitiplayer games, and Project Magma is still updating the game with bug fixes and enhancments in patches. Bungie actually forfeited the Myth franchise to Take2 during the Microsoft buy-out, much to the shagrin of us Myth fans, alas Myth III just doesn't have the same bite as the two previous titles. Don't forget this once great Bungie series in a history of the company!
Oh man...I shouldn't read slashdot first thing in the morning...the first thing I thought when I saw the headline was, "I bet there's tasty sandwhiches at this thing, but how'd that get on the frontpage?"
Need coffee....
The story submitter which is usually a link to a user profile isn't a link at all in each of the fake stories posted today. I know a lot of the readership around here is too...shall we say...special...to realize that a usb George Foreman grill is too good to be true, so this should help to clear up the confusion. PS - Can you spot the whitespace code in this post??
Requiem for a Dream is easily mine. The directing style of Darren Aronofsky is brilliant, imho. It's not very often a movie truly disturbes me, but this movie managed to leave me feeling sick by the end.
Also good are Momento and The Virgin Suicides. I'd recommend them whole heartidly to anyone who hasn't seen them.
This is precisely why my Nokia phone is set to ring "Jingle Bells" eleven months of the year.
Actually what you're talking about was in FF8 with Squall's "gunblade" (what's better than a sword?? a sword that goes boom!) The "actionifying" happened in the Final Fantasy series previous to this though in FF6 (FF3 in the states). The character Sabin had an attack called Blitz which required you to input various Street Figher-esque button sequences to pull off the moves.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have x-rays passing through my body while using the cell phone....plus I'd have to replace my tin-foil helmet with a lead one.
Why, SimProtest of course.
Linux devices are powered by dreams and pixie dust!
"Traditions don't have to make sense... that's why they're traditions."
Yes, but traditions can, and often tend to be, just plain stupid. Read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, it's rather thought provoking for a high school level short story.
Does anyone else think this review would have been more fair if he had used a retail win2k pro disc instead of using the Sony system restore cd's?
If you're into this sort of thing you should pick up Hyperspace by Michio Kaku, it's a very interesting book that does a pretty good job of explaining multiple dimensions in a way that most can understand.
Actually you can decline to install the additional program, which calls itself "Worldusa JumpGate." I have no idea what it really is, but Ad-aware didn't pick anything up after I installed and declined.
I know it's not Mac, but Zelda Classic is a great, in fact identical from what I can tell, remake of the original Legend of Zelda for NES. It comes with a level editor so you can also find homebrew quests. The same team is also working on an engine based on the Zelda 3 (SNES) engine, but with a "powerful scripting engine" built in. Also in the works are a remake of Galaga and a new "drug dealing simulation." Just some things if you don't want to use an emulator.
"What do fresh air, medicine, culture, copyright, and government have in common?"
I don't know, but I bet it leads to Kevin Bacon.
Before you know it it'll be illegal for me to rip the tags of my mattresses!
Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't American money be designed with Americans in mind? Sure, maybe a few foreigners are confused by our whacky scheme of telling bills apart by the large numbers in the corners, but I bet more than a few are still confused by the exchange rate.
Actually what you're talking about doesn't start until seventy in french, which when spoken aloud literaly translates as "sixty ten." However, in french the number seventy is still written as 70, not 60-10.
I remember these days, the days when it was a challenge to find a particular song. Oh how I cheered after searching three months for a song and stumbling upon it at some ftp server in Finland, only to find someone had mis-labeled the file =(.