Please explain how this game where you might beat some other kids up is worse than a game where you are encouraged to kill people - including women, children, ambulance drivers, firemen, police officers, etcetera.
There are rednecks in Spain, there are rednecks in the southern US, there are rednecks in canada and alaska and pennsylvania and hawaii. They have no common history, they have no common nationality. What they have in common is, as one comedian put it, a "glorious lack of sophistication".
We put people in prison (in theory) when their actions hurt others. Nice try attempting to lump sex between consenting adults with genuine crimes. Asshat.
You, sir, are an idiot... the term "nigger" started being used by white people, and was later used by black people to describe themselves to try to take away the impact of the term. Redneck is MOSTLY used by random white people describing other random white people. It's a statement of lifestyle and social standing, not race.
The rednecks *I* know (I live in Georgia) ARE ignorant, and they DID vote for Dubya, because he "hates them damn queers" and panders to their bigotry. Yes, Bush is pure evil, and yes, he understands exactly what he's doing. Ignorance is still the REASON he's in office in the first place.
Bush doesn't represent the folks who voted for him - he represents the folks who financed his corrupt ass. That doesn't take away from the fact that his pretending to be a redneck is why he's in power. He's a faux-redneck figurehead for a redneck nation.
And, since you're so keen on calling ME a dumbass, I guess I should call you a dumbass for being too fucking stupid to realize I was making a simple generalization to express my disgust with the way our president got elected, and not trying to go into a deep political discussion.
Oh the irony, to have you whining that I'm PC, and another jackass whining that I'm a big bad racist for using the word redneck.
Oh and one more thing... NO FUCKING TRIALS? Holy shit, idiocy like that is EXACTLY why this government has the power it does to take away our rights. Hey, you criticized El Presidente, they can line you up and shoot you, and say "this guy was carrying explosives". Of course, since they don't actually have to PROVE that you were doing so, no one would be the wiser.
Ignorance like yours is exactly why this country is in the shithole mess it's in right now.
I already argued that there's a difference between government sanctioned abuse of a person based on a stereotype, and using that stereotype, but now I'm going to come after you for your moronic statement that "redneck" is racist.
Who uses the term redneck to describe rednecks? WHITE PEOPLE. How the fuck can a white person be racist against a white person?
Quoth wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck):
"In colonial times, they were often called Rednecks and "crackers" by English neighbors."
White people calling white people rednecks. Damn, that sounds racist to me. And, maybe it's just my life, but I associate with a lot of people from other countries, and I've heard a friend from Spain refer to other Spaniards as rednecks, a girl from Taiwan refer to Chinese rednecks back home, and so on.
In summary, you're a jackass, and the people who modded you up are jackasses. Now that there was an ad hominem attack, spend ten posts whining about that - it's what slashdotters do best.
Yes, it's ok. See, this country has this great thing called free speech... it's OK for carlos mencia to go on tv and talk about every race under the sun, it's OK for chris rock to talk about how he loves black people but hates niggers, and it's OK for archie bunker to talk trash on the jeffersons. It's also OK for you to think they are assholes for doing so.
It's NOT OK for the government to use bigotry to determine policy. It's not ok to take someone's rights away because you dislike their way of life or the color of their skin. What part of your brain is malfunctioning to take away your ability to differentiate the two concepts?
Nope, it's not - because I don't legislate that rednecks can't get married. I don't think hillbillies should be prevented from flying on a plane because they are chewin' tobacco. I don't give a fuck if people have opinions... I have a problem with a government run by people who are so ignorant that they believe that stereotypes give them the right to treat some people differently.
Hell, bigotry in general is A-OK with this administration. You don't even have to have dark skin... if you're a homosexual it's perfectly alright to limit your rights and treat you like a second class citizen. Redneck government at it's finest.
Funny, I didn't see the grandparent arguing that it was OK. I saw him arguing the idiotic use of the word "piracy", and even more, arguing the idiotic statement that copyright infringement is "theft". Whether it's OK or not to a given person depends on that specific person's set of values - it sure as fuck isn't the same thing as theft, though, which just about anyone can agree is a bad thing.
Wow, so some bloggers are interested? It MUST be important then!
I hate DRM and closed formats as much as the next guy, but o'reilly readers aren't exactly the target Apple audience. Except for the old school zealot types, nobody has even heard of these guys, and nobody gives a shit if they dump apple. There might eventually be some DRM backlash towards Apple, but it won't be because of these couple of guys - it will be when some national news celebrity thinks a story about it can generate ratings.
So, these guys used macs back when they were good, then stuck it out when macs turned into complete pieces of shit (os 8 anyone?) and now they have moved on to ubuntu.
Who cares?
Give me this example of a whopping two users who switched away from mac, and I can list off the top of my head ten colleagues who have switched from linux to macs because they have all the command line utilities we need from a *nix machine, plus a well designed GUI and easy configuration.
It's not exactly like the switch of a few longtime windows fans to linux brought on the doom of microsoft.
Uh... did you even bother to RTFSummary, let alone the article? This is about making the manufacturing process more environmentally friendly, not saving you a few cents on your electricity bill by making a chip that doesn't use much power.
I won't even bother to address your "I'm not paying for it so I don't care" jackass attitude toward the environment.
I went back and asked on the game forums - there were several posts by the sysops and the game's creator. It appears it was written in 1988/89, first on a PDP-11 and then ported to UNIX. The GUI for it was developed in '92. The game that inspired its switch to a top-down style was Islands of Kesmai.
Actually, the kingdom of drakkar, which was sort of a clone of another game, preceeded NWN. It started as a text-based game in, I think, 1987, and was given a graphical interface in the 90s.
The really scary part? Drakkar is STILL BEING PLAYED TODAY. In fact, the original writer of the game bought it back a couple of years ago and there have been huge additions to the game since then.
Personally, I liked the game back before the EQ-like additions that really cheapened the accomplishments of older players who put a lot of work into their crits, only to have a newbie hit the same skill levels in a few months of play. I knew people in drakkar who spent YEARS building their crits.
Unfortunately, since it isn't a very well known name, and it shares a name with a perfume, type of ship, and a couple other things, it's hard to find a good detailed history of the game. The only reference I could find as to the game's age was this interview with the creator, done in 2002
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MMMMM varsity chili dog.... *drool*
Yeah, between the downtown crowd and the georgia tech alumni, there is no shortage of very bright people at the old varsity.
What are you, on crack?
Please explain how this game where you might beat some other kids up is worse than a game where you are encouraged to kill people - including women, children, ambulance drivers, firemen, police officers, etcetera.
Every time you masturbate, God makes google's stock go down?
And again, you're an idiot.
There are rednecks in Spain, there are rednecks in the southern US, there are rednecks in canada and alaska and pennsylvania and hawaii. They have no common history, they have no common nationality. What they have in common is, as one comedian put it, a "glorious lack of sophistication".
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We put people in prison (in theory) when their actions hurt others. Nice try attempting to lump sex between consenting adults with genuine crimes. Asshat.
You, sir, are an idiot... the term "nigger" started being used by white people, and was later used by black people to describe themselves to try to take away the impact of the term. Redneck is MOSTLY used by random white people describing other random white people. It's a statement of lifestyle and social standing, not race.
The rednecks *I* know (I live in Georgia) ARE ignorant, and they DID vote for Dubya, because he "hates them damn queers" and panders to their bigotry. Yes, Bush is pure evil, and yes, he understands exactly what he's doing. Ignorance is still the REASON he's in office in the first place.
Bush doesn't represent the folks who voted for him - he represents the folks who financed his corrupt ass. That doesn't take away from the fact that his pretending to be a redneck is why he's in power. He's a faux-redneck figurehead for a redneck nation.
And, since you're so keen on calling ME a dumbass, I guess I should call you a dumbass for being too fucking stupid to realize I was making a simple generalization to express my disgust with the way our president got elected, and not trying to go into a deep political discussion.
Oh the irony, to have you whining that I'm PC, and another jackass whining that I'm a big bad racist for using the word redneck.
Oh and one more thing... NO FUCKING TRIALS? Holy shit, idiocy like that is EXACTLY why this government has the power it does to take away our rights. Hey, you criticized El Presidente, they can line you up and shoot you, and say "this guy was carrying explosives". Of course, since they don't actually have to PROVE that you were doing so, no one would be the wiser.
Ignorance like yours is exactly why this country is in the shithole mess it's in right now.
I already argued that there's a difference between government sanctioned abuse of a person based on a stereotype, and using that stereotype, but now I'm going to come after you for your moronic statement that "redneck" is racist.
Who uses the term redneck to describe rednecks? WHITE PEOPLE. How the fuck can a white person be racist against a white person?
Quoth wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck):
"In colonial times, they were often called Rednecks and "crackers" by English neighbors."
White people calling white people rednecks. Damn, that sounds racist to me. And, maybe it's just my life, but I associate with a lot of people from other countries, and I've heard a friend from Spain refer to other Spaniards as rednecks, a girl from Taiwan refer to Chinese rednecks back home, and so on.
In summary, you're a jackass, and the people who modded you up are jackasses. Now that there was an ad hominem attack, spend ten posts whining about that - it's what slashdotters do best.
Yes, it's ok. See, this country has this great thing called free speech... it's OK for carlos mencia to go on tv and talk about every race under the sun, it's OK for chris rock to talk about how he loves black people but hates niggers, and it's OK for archie bunker to talk trash on the jeffersons. It's also OK for you to think they are assholes for doing so.
It's NOT OK for the government to use bigotry to determine policy. It's not ok to take someone's rights away because you dislike their way of life or the color of their skin. What part of your brain is malfunctioning to take away your ability to differentiate the two concepts?
Nope, it's not - because I don't legislate that rednecks can't get married. I don't think hillbillies should be prevented from flying on a plane because they are chewin' tobacco. I don't give a fuck if people have opinions... I have a problem with a government run by people who are so ignorant that they believe that stereotypes give them the right to treat some people differently.
Wow.
No, seriously, that's all I can possibly think of to reply to such a fucking crackhead statement....
Wow.
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Hell, bigotry in general is A-OK with this administration. You don't even have to have dark skin... if you're a homosexual it's perfectly alright to limit your rights and treat you like a second class citizen. Redneck government at it's finest.
Funny, I didn't see the grandparent arguing that it was OK. I saw him arguing the idiotic use of the word "piracy", and even more, arguing the idiotic statement that copyright infringement is "theft". Whether it's OK or not to a given person depends on that specific person's set of values - it sure as fuck isn't the same thing as theft, though, which just about anyone can agree is a bad thing.
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Get these motherfucking mosquitos off this motherfucking plane!
It must be a shitty wall! Fucking mongolians always knock down my shitty wall.
Wow, so some bloggers are interested? It MUST be important then!
I hate DRM and closed formats as much as the next guy, but o'reilly readers aren't exactly the target Apple audience. Except for the old school zealot types, nobody has even heard of these guys, and nobody gives a shit if they dump apple. There might eventually be some DRM backlash towards Apple, but it won't be because of these couple of guys - it will be when some national news celebrity thinks a story about it can generate ratings.
So, these guys used macs back when they were good, then stuck it out when macs turned into complete pieces of shit (os 8 anyone?) and now they have moved on to ubuntu.
Who cares?
Give me this example of a whopping two users who switched away from mac, and I can list off the top of my head ten colleagues who have switched from linux to macs because they have all the command line utilities we need from a *nix machine, plus a well designed GUI and easy configuration.
It's not exactly like the switch of a few longtime windows fans to linux brought on the doom of microsoft.
Slashdot headline creation in a nutshell...
MustardMan decides to take his dog to the vet to check for diseases.
Slashdot headline: MustardMan's dog being investigated for deadly pathogens!
Uh... did you even bother to RTFSummary, let alone the article? This is about making the manufacturing process more environmentally friendly, not saving you a few cents on your electricity bill by making a chip that doesn't use much power.
I won't even bother to address your "I'm not paying for it so I don't care" jackass attitude toward the environment.
I went back and asked on the game forums - there were several posts by the sysops and the game's creator. It appears it was written in 1988/89, first on a PDP-11 and then ported to UNIX. The GUI for it was developed in '92. The game that inspired its switch to a top-down style was Islands of Kesmai.
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More info posted in the thread at http://www.kingdomofdrakkar.com/forums/read.php?T
Actually, the kingdom of drakkar, which was sort of a clone of another game, preceeded NWN. It started as a text-based game in, I think, 1987, and was given a graphical interface in the 90s.
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The really scary part? Drakkar is STILL BEING PLAYED TODAY. In fact, the original writer of the game bought it back a couple of years ago and there have been huge additions to the game since then.
Personally, I liked the game back before the EQ-like additions that really cheapened the accomplishments of older players who put a lot of work into their crits, only to have a newbie hit the same skill levels in a few months of play. I knew people in drakkar who spent YEARS building their crits.
Unfortunately, since it isn't a very well known name, and it shares a name with a perfume, type of ship, and a couple other things, it's hard to find a good detailed history of the game. The only reference I could find as to the game's age was this interview with the creator, done in 2002
http://www.kingdomofdrakkar.com/forums/read.php?T
look at the pictures again - the engines are in a pod haging below the wings. How, exactly, are the engines reorienting?