IIRC, that module was a re-working of a Metamorphosis Alpha module that was run at an early GenCon.
It was always one of my favorites, and one that I hope has been "transcribed" to the NeverWinterNights engine. I love the conversions that I've seen of all the old modules.
I usually wound up DMing when I did play as a kid, so it's nice to have a method of playing the old classics.
What I desperately hope about this is that it will stop the trend of companies combining sick time and vacation time. Even before my company's most recent merger with a corporation that did the above misdeed, I had co-workers who would come to work sick (and get me sick) with diseases they had contracted from their hellspawn, who caught it in public school. Finally management conveyed to them to STAY THE FUCK HOME WHEN YOU ARE SICK. THE REST OF US DON'T WANT YOUR FLU. That won't work now though, sick time eats into vacation time now, so those same morons will intentionally infect the rest of us, just to make sure they have time to take the kids to visit Aunt Millie.
People suck. Alot.
The fact that I could die because some moron is too stupid to stay away from other people when he's feeling sick pisses me off more than a little.
I do email them about dupes before stories hit the front page. I've helped stop 3 dupes that I know of. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes I'm WRONG. I've seen one dupe pulled AFTER it hit the front page (I had emailed when I saw it in the Mysterious Future).
I doubt the "is there a problem with this story" link would even BE there if the intent was to ignore everyone.
The current shipping PS2 has an ethernet port out of the box. The adapter is no longer a seperate purchase.
I have all three consoles, (and bought a broadband adapter for my older PS2) but never found a compelling reason to buy the broadband adapter for the GC. Heck I've seen better reasons to try to find one for my Dreamcast. Having multiple consoles, the GC would not be the first choice for me if a game was available for all three consoles. It's far better suited for the games Nintendo puts out, that are unavailable elsewhere anyhow.
The available market (that would be the subset of GC gamers who have the Broadband adapter for it) is almost certainly too small to justify the expense.
I think the spokesweasel mis-spoke anyhow. They were probably equating integrated Ethernet with having "a service". Marketing folks aren't usually the brightest bulb on the tree anyhow. They don't have to be.
BTW: Given how late it is, I hardly thing SC:Ghost could be characterized as "rushed out the door".
Actually, I'll probably buy both. My gaming capable PC isn't anywhere near the big TV though, and my HTPC doesn't have the horsepower. I really enjoy playing on a 43" screen from my easy chair.
Also, I would buy the console eventually, because there are more games coming out that I'm interested in. A bunch of sports sims (yawn) and Quake 4 (that one I wouldn't play on a console) don't make a compelling case for me to pick the console up at launch, however.
Exactly. The only way I'd be upset about this is if I had been foolish enough to pre-order a console bundle based on this game being available. Thankfully, I did not, and I can now wait until either this game, or another I care about is released for the XBox 369 before I shell out money for one.
I would much rather the game work right out of the box then go through some of the game-save breaking patches that Elder Scrolls 3 had.
Any desire I had to pick up an X-Box 360 anywhere near launch just evaporated completely.
As cool as the tech is, and as nice as the system will look hooked to my HD set, there just isn't another launch game that I really want all that badly.
I'm in that region too. The Slantinel is just one of many Tribune-owned fish-wrappers. I used to get it at least on Sundays for the coupons, but it wasn't even worth it for that.
The future for newspaper publishers is the addfolios like Car Shopper and personal ads. Stuff that isn't out of date before it's even published.
Newspapers can ever hope to be "timely" when the on-line medium's publish date is "right the fuck now" and the printed medias is "sometime tomorrow morning.
They're just lucky that TV and Radio didn't kill them first.
Do YOU know an average windows user that doesn't regularly run with account with Admin priveledge? I sure don't, because most applications publishers in the windows world make it more than slightly inconvenient to run with other than Admin level privledges.
So yea it's likely to be granted Admin access, and it's likely to be a threat, on the scal of the whole "nasty shit that causes unnecessary network traffic" thing.
Completely agree. Why the hell do I want to install a technology that allows advertisements to scream at me, and lets lazy web designers create unnecessary interfaces, completely ignoreing html?
Please, Macromedia, put off porting to 64-bit as long as possible.
Yea, y'know seeing that same off-topic nonsense in every thread gets old fast. I get it. You don't like GWB. I don't like him much either, but he was elected, and he's not going away until the next election.
Spewing crap like that doesn't help anything. It only makes people write you off as either a European (who wouldn't understand that we dont' hold elections every time someone thinks a Prime Minister shat on their cat. No offense guys, but we have a slightly different system, so it's not helpful. Besides, its our government, not yours. Kindly butt out. I don't bitch about the German elections, or the ones in the UK.), or a sore loser (Kerry lost. Get over it and rally for the next election)
It's not even clever or funny anymore. It's been done to death. Get new material.
If you really don't like the current administration, come up with an alternative if you're a US Citizen. Make suggestions, find a candidate. Make a difference instead of just making noise.
I'm looking for alternatives myself, but I'm not likely to take a cue from people who act like children who weren't given the lollypop they wanted and threaten to hold their breath until they turn blue.
True, however solo play does also need to be tested. Players need to have an option when their friends are on. Pick-up groups are the single biggest cause of account cancellations right after grief players (and sometimes it's because of grouping WITH grief players). The games that I'm betaing now (can't say due to NDA) I'm concentrating on testing solo play, to make sure that customers that prefer that playstyle "most" of the time have an option. Obviously, some things in these games will require groups. Basic advancement should not be one of them.
It's also a potential way to get oneself shot in the back of the head...
Just saying. I don't use those services myself, but people with nothing to lose (who might need that kind of service) are a group I personally try not to piss off.
Revenge is a dish I don't want any fucking part of. Particularly when someone's safety might be at stake.
It's going to happen very soon now, as Jack is getting loonier and loonier. He keeps dancing around direct legal threats, because he knows what will happen. Soon he will slip, and soon after that he won't be a lawyer anymore, and won't THAT be a shame?
Although, and I'll burn Karma to say this, my parents bought me a Cooks Illustrated subscription for my birthday last year at my request. I only ever recieved one issue. I wrote them to complain and never got a response. So anyone thinking "that's a good idea" I tell you now that it probably isn't.
Just my experience, but I do voice my opinion when a company disappoints me.
(in the following post, "you" and "your" refers to the advertisers, not the parent post)
If it's animated, I block it.
If it plays sound, I block the shit out of it. (I might be at work. Jeapordize my job by playing a noisy ad at a site that I actually need to go to for work purposes, and I might retaliate beyond blocking your ad) If it tries to install spyware or worse on my system, I'll definitely retaliate.
If it makes any use of Macromedia technology, particularly Shoskeles, I'll not only block it, I'll shitlist your company, and neither I nor the corporation I work for will ever pay you a fucking cent again.
If it's nice, static, and pertains to what I'm looking for at the moment, I might actually click on it. If I do, count yourself lucky. You're not entitled to my attention. Consider this like print media. You're paying for page space, and if that page space gets you business, yay for you. If it doesn't... your only recourse is to get over it and find a new page space to advertise in.
The point being that unlike "expansions" a new player can purchase City of Villians and play JUST that side of the game without ever buying City of Heroes. Back when Ruins of Kunark was released, new players still had to buy the original EQ to play...
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How many of these can dance on the head of a shark?
Yea me too. Well I did have a whole lot of XP from vassals during that period of time...
IIRC, that module was a re-working of a Metamorphosis Alpha module that was run at an early GenCon.
It was always one of my favorites, and one that I hope has been "transcribed" to the NeverWinterNights engine. I love the conversions that I've seen of all the old modules.
I usually wound up DMing when I did play as a kid, so it's nice to have a method of playing the old classics.
What I desperately hope about this is that it will stop the trend of companies combining sick time and vacation time. Even before my company's most recent merger with a corporation that did the above misdeed, I had co-workers who would come to work sick (and get me sick) with diseases they had contracted from their hellspawn, who caught it in public school. Finally management conveyed to them to STAY THE FUCK HOME WHEN YOU ARE SICK. THE REST OF US DON'T WANT YOUR FLU. That won't work now though, sick time eats into vacation time now, so those same morons will intentionally infect the rest of us, just to make sure they have time to take the kids to visit Aunt Millie.
People suck. Alot.
The fact that I could die because some moron is too stupid to stay away from other people when he's feeling sick pisses me off more than a little.
I do email them about dupes before stories hit the front page. I've helped stop 3 dupes that I know of. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes I'm WRONG. I've seen one dupe pulled AFTER it hit the front page (I had emailed when I saw it in the Mysterious Future).
I doubt the "is there a problem with this story" link would even BE there if the intent was to ignore everyone.
But whatever, dude. Shill away.
The current shipping PS2 has an ethernet port out of the box. The adapter is no longer a seperate purchase.
I have all three consoles, (and bought a broadband adapter for my older PS2) but never found a compelling reason to buy the broadband adapter for the GC. Heck I've seen better reasons to try to find one for my Dreamcast. Having multiple consoles, the GC would not be the first choice for me if a game was available for all three consoles. It's far better suited for the games Nintendo puts out, that are unavailable elsewhere anyhow.
The available market (that would be the subset of GC gamers who have the Broadband adapter for it) is almost certainly too small to justify the expense.
I think the spokesweasel mis-spoke anyhow. They were probably equating integrated Ethernet with having "a service". Marketing folks aren't usually the brightest bulb on the tree anyhow. They don't have to be.
BTW: Given how late it is, I hardly thing SC:Ghost could be characterized as "rushed out the door".
Actually, I'll probably buy both. My gaming capable PC isn't anywhere near the big TV though, and my HTPC doesn't have the horsepower. I really enjoy playing on a 43" screen from my easy chair.
Also, I would buy the console eventually, because there are more games coming out that I'm interested in. A bunch of sports sims (yawn) and Quake 4 (that one I wouldn't play on a console) don't make a compelling case for me to pick the console up at launch, however.
Exactly. The only way I'd be upset about this is if I had been foolish enough to pre-order a console bundle based on this game being available. Thankfully, I did not, and I can now wait until either this game, or another I care about is released for the XBox 369 before I shell out money for one.
I would much rather the game work right out of the box then go through some of the game-save breaking patches that Elder Scrolls 3 had.
Any desire I had to pick up an X-Box 360 anywhere near launch just evaporated completely.
As cool as the tech is, and as nice as the system will look hooked to my HD set, there just isn't another launch game that I really want all that badly.
A nice idea yes, but when even the Grey Lady herself is fraught with Charlatains an Liars, what claim does print media have on Journalistic integrity?
It's a nice idea, and one that isn't particular to print. And certainly not guaranteed by virtue of print.
I'm in that region too. The Slantinel is just one of many Tribune-owned fish-wrappers. I used to get it at least on Sundays for the coupons, but it wasn't even worth it for that.
The future for newspaper publishers is the addfolios like Car Shopper and personal ads. Stuff that isn't out of date before it's even published.
Newspapers can ever hope to be "timely" when the on-line medium's publish date is "right the fuck now" and the printed medias is "sometime tomorrow morning.
They're just lucky that TV and Radio didn't kill them first.
Do YOU know an average windows user that doesn't regularly run with account with Admin priveledge? I sure don't, because most applications publishers in the windows world make it more than slightly inconvenient to run with other than Admin level privledges.
So yea it's likely to be granted Admin access, and it's likely to be a threat, on the scal of the whole "nasty shit that causes unnecessary network traffic" thing.
That was my initial response. Why would anyone want a dust storm at this close observation period? we want to see the surface, not some Zephyr.
What, you think the sharks do the clerical work themselves? They have ambulances to chase.
I would think that would be because the article is not ABOUT the DS. Just a guess though.
Completely agree. Why the hell do I want to install a technology that allows advertisements to scream at me, and lets lazy web designers create unnecessary interfaces, completely ignoreing html?
Please, Macromedia, put off porting to 64-bit as long as possible.
Yea, y'know seeing that same off-topic nonsense in every thread gets old fast. I get it. You don't like GWB. I don't like him much either, but he was elected, and he's not going away until the next election.
Spewing crap like that doesn't help anything. It only makes people write you off as either a European (who wouldn't understand that we dont' hold elections every time someone thinks a Prime Minister shat on their cat. No offense guys, but we have a slightly different system, so it's not helpful. Besides, its our government, not yours. Kindly butt out. I don't bitch about the German elections, or the ones in the UK.), or a sore loser (Kerry lost. Get over it and rally for the next election)
It's not even clever or funny anymore. It's been done to death. Get new material.
If you really don't like the current administration, come up with an alternative if you're a US Citizen. Make suggestions, find a candidate. Make a difference instead of just making noise.
I'm looking for alternatives myself, but I'm not likely to take a cue from people who act like children who weren't given the lollypop they wanted and threaten to hold their breath until they turn blue.
should have been "are not on" thanks slashdot for the delay after posting. Even after first review I didn't catch that until I hit the post button...
True, however solo play does also need to be tested. Players need to have an option when their friends are on. Pick-up groups are the single biggest cause of account cancellations right after grief players (and sometimes it's because of grouping WITH grief players). The games that I'm betaing now (can't say due to NDA) I'm concentrating on testing solo play, to make sure that customers that prefer that playstyle "most" of the time have an option. Obviously, some things in these games will require groups. Basic advancement should not be one of them.
It's also a potential way to get oneself shot in the back of the head...
Just saying. I don't use those services myself, but people with nothing to lose (who might need that kind of service) are a group I personally try not to piss off.
Revenge is a dish I don't want any fucking part of. Particularly when someone's safety might be at stake.
It's going to happen very soon now, as Jack is getting loonier and loonier. He keeps dancing around direct legal threats, because he knows what will happen. Soon he will slip, and soon after that he won't be a lawyer anymore, and won't THAT be a shame?
Although, and I'll burn Karma to say this, my parents bought me a Cooks Illustrated subscription for my birthday last year at my request. I only ever recieved one issue. I wrote them to complain and never got a response. So anyone thinking "that's a good idea" I tell you now that it probably isn't.
Just my experience, but I do voice my opinion when a company disappoints me.
Well yea, bulemia and starving your brain of oxygen will do that. Marketers call those people "the perfect customer"
(in the following post, "you" and "your" refers to the advertisers, not the parent post)
If it's animated, I block it.
If it plays sound, I block the shit out of it. (I might be at work. Jeapordize my job by playing a noisy ad at a site that I actually need to go to for work purposes, and I might retaliate beyond blocking your ad) If it tries to install spyware or worse on my system, I'll definitely retaliate.
If it makes any use of Macromedia technology, particularly Shoskeles, I'll not only block it, I'll shitlist your company, and neither I nor the corporation I work for will ever pay you a fucking cent again.
If it's nice, static, and pertains to what I'm looking for at the moment, I might actually click on it. If I do, count yourself lucky. You're not entitled to my attention. Consider this like print media. You're paying for page space, and if that page space gets you business, yay for you. If it doesn't... your only recourse is to get over it and find a new page space to advertise in.
The point being that unlike "expansions" a new player can purchase City of Villians and play JUST that side of the game without ever buying City of Heroes. Back when Ruins of Kunark was released, new players still had to buy the original EQ to play...