People kill people. When is this going to get through to society at large. There are messed up people out there that can under no circumstances function normally or reason properly. Some people have skewed psychological problems. This doesn't make it right, but perhaps if the mother had paid some more attention to her son, she would have picked up on these problems. This is a classic case of bad parenting and the parent searching for someone else to place the blame on. I have no doubt in my mind that this poor girl's life could have been saved if this child was on the proper medication or under the right psychiatric care. Some people just can not function in society, this is why there are places for people like this. I'd like to see someone tell me that I'm X times more likely to commit a crime because I played Doom when I was young.
While it remains to be seen if gameplay will be significantly different, it will be significantly better. The new engine is nothing less than stellar, the in-game physics are just amazing, as are it's rendering abilities. Everything looks incredibly smooth and as more and more graphical technology comes out it will be increasingly hard to tell if you're looking at a FMV cut scene or something the engine is rendering. Counter Strike thrives because it's playable and because it's relatively realistic. It doesn't take place in space, nor do your enemies look like demonic creatures, the added realism will make the game that much better. Not to mention the materials aspect of the engine could make it possible to kill your opposition by actually taking out physical structures. I can only imagine the full possibilities until I see some mods in action, but so far I'm immensly impressed. What would be great to see in the next one would be much more realism in completing goals. Perhaps instead of pretending to plant a bomb and waiting a few seconds you could actually plant the bomb, run away and watch something actually get destroyed...now that would be cool. I for one can't wait to see how it comes out and the full capabilities of the hl2 engine.
tubgirl huh...that's retarded...
Just type it in that little thing I like to call an address bar. Unless you're totally inept, in which case tubgirl is probably the greatest thing you've ever seen. In all reality though, torrentse.cx is great for finding stuff.
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I can't believe this mentions that torrents are hard to find. Here's how you find torrents.
Pull up google, type in something like this: "what you're looking for" +bittorrent +download
You should have a list of sites that have links to that torrent. Or, you can read a site that keeps track of torrents and uses trackers. My personal favorite is torrentse.cx, but suprnova.org isn't too bad either. Sure these sites have illegitimate stuff on them, but there's also useful and legal files on there from time to time if that's a concern of yours. Problem is there's far too many people that just close the window after it's finished to "conserve bandwidth." Bittorrent doesn't work if you don't leave that damn window open, you can however set maximum upload rate from the command line, which I highly recommend using if you're on a connection that must be monitored.
Bittorrent is great, the more people using it at any given time makes it even better. Just make sure you read the documentation so you fully understand how it works and that it may take a while to start to download.
Could this be the next big thing for computer gaming? It may sound stupid, and yeah there's plenty of horribly made porn games already, but playboy is at least fairly "mainstream" or popular. If this brings light to a "new genre" of games, how many more will we see? Is this a viable way to market porn? Probably not, strange melde of "having a plot in video games is like having a plot in porno" -Carmack in his early years. The sims didn't really have a plot or anything, but it kind of had a point to it. I can't quite see this catching on and being marketed in your local {insert chain store here}, but it would certainly be different.
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Now what would really be interesting is if this were involved.....imagine the possibilities!
I think that games.slashdot.org is doing an excellent job so far. It's providing a service for a group that's actually interested in gaming news. Perhaps it's not the best, but you've gotta admit that browsing gaming headlines off of games.slashdot.org is a lot easier than sifting through all the ads on gamespot, gamespy, and ign. Like it or not, it's a lot easier to read under 30 comments by people who, for the most part, have something useful to say, and the experience to back it up. I hope more readers do submit articles, but you can't say those who aren't registered have given false information, who care's who's submitting it so long as it gets here. Quit whining.
Mod me as you will, but give them a break, no one is forcing you to read the site.
How about Quake 3? Unreal Tournament? Unreal tournament 2003? Neverwinter Nights? Devastation? America's Army (soon)? And that's not even covering mods...More and more games are coming out for Linux, it's not an overnight thing, but it is happening. Give it time, there are benefits to Linux gaming (I get 20 more fps under Linux playing Quake3 than under Windows). Just wait, it will happen.
Civilization III:...It's a good strategy game, and it panders to your megalomaniacal instinct. Plus, it requires careful strategizing, so your brain won't turn to complete mush.
I'd agree with you, but for potentially older hardware, and not that civ3 is resource intensive, but I always had more fun with civ2. It's even got a convenient drop-down cheat menu. Civ3 is fun, but civ2 had quicker game play and an easier interface. I wasn't impressed with the changes (or lack thereof) between civ2 and 3, so if you can find it laying around for 10 bucks, pick it up...it's a great cheap game.
Also check out Unreal Tournament, Half Life, maybe Quake 3, Warcraft (2 or 3), and if you're a D&D fan and if your PC can handle it, Neverwinter Nights (always seems to tax my system for no reason) is fairly entertaining.
Of course if you like the classics, (and assuming it's legal for you wink wink) download some roms and emulators and have fun with those. There's plenty of NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. roms and emulators out there. It's amazing how much easier it is to get my computer to run some old NES games that the console refuses to play anymore. Oh how I long for the days of "The Legend of Zelda," (the original you fools!) shiny gold cartridge and all...
But as others have pointed out, it harms free services, mailing lists, etc. Not to mention that it's hard as hell to track spammers already, they do a decent job of covering their tracks, I have a feeling if they didn't some crazy would send them a bomb in the mail. Aside from that, what do you consider as a person when determining the tax. Is it per email account? If so, spammers could get around that really easily, and many people I know have more than two email addresses. Is it through an individual ISP? I hope not, that elminates free services, or sends them all the spam, stressing the free services' servers. It would also mean college students (myself included) would probably see a hike, even if it's small, in tuition to cover the email tax. Even then, what's to prevent someone on a fast college network from sending bulk mailings from their dorm? Does this mean we'll need to give our social security number when signing up for an email account? Is this yet another bad idea? I certainly think so.
The first game that ever "changed" me was Sid Meier's Civilization. That was the game that blew all others away, games used to be side scrolling shooters like the early Duke Nukem games (don't get me wrong, those kicked ass), but Civilization had depth, it had endless possibility, it had horrible graphics...it was great! That was of course, until I started playing Doom hardcore. Doom changed that world of endless possibility because it actually put me in a "realistic" world that I could explore and pitted me in a fight for your life kind of situation that had an inexplicable draw. Doom was of course all well and good until Quake came out. Quake added yet another dimension to gameplay, I could jump in the game, not only that, but the maps were so much more complex and each episode had a distinctly different feel to it that Doom just didn't have. It was all downhill from there for me. Multiplayer had me playing for hours on end, in a local museum that had a computer lab with a lan no less, and then at that moment in time, I decided that's what I wanted to do with my life. Quake made me decide to major in Computer Science, got me started on Linux, got me interested in networking and security, and made me really look at how things were designed and structured. I even took an internship at an architecture firm to learn about designing structures, and indeed, learned a lot. Quake quite literally changed my life, it's made me what I am today.
"the only way you can take my cruise missle with weapons grade plutonium is from my cold dead hand"
Shouldn't that read: "the only way you can take my cruise missle with weapons grade plutonium is from my cold trembling dead hand!!" ? He does have parkinsons disease after all...
Has anyone considered a positive use of P2P to split such large files over several clients?
I think that you're basically referring to what BitTorrent basically does. If the demo's were, at least in part, distributed this way perhaps the demos would actually get more play and more people would be able to get them. **Sigh** I remember complaining when the demo for Quake was a whopping 8MB...
As a side note, BitTorrent is good, but it's still got it's problems. I've had horrible download speeds (8-9 k/s on a T3), but others rave about it. Maybe it's just my university regulating traffic...
But I'm going to leave it at looking good. I'm not going to trust someone to take my credit card number to make sure I'm a unique person. They have an email address, they have a home address, they have a phone number, why oh why do they need a credit card number? As legit as I'm sure this is, it sure seems a little shady. I guess they probably won't be swimming in beta applications though, maybe that's the real goal.
Your grammar sucks. It's legal in my state to work when you turn 14, though harder than hell to get a job. You're also able to work at whatever you want after you turn 18. If you're so distraught over having to turn down Java development offers, then keep learning new topics. I did similar things and college has since been painfully easy. I still don't think everyone needs college to get a job, but it sure as hell helps. Some of the time you don't spend working should be spent on learning how to write comprehensibly. When will people learn that communicating your ideas clearly is just as important as having the ideas in the first place?
A neverending halfpipe...something tells me this just would not work but it would be damn cool anyway. There are such things actually as skiing treadmills, terrain can be put on them, and stuff like that (obviously you can't do nearly as much as really being on snow), but this idea just doesn't really sound all that new or plausible. Maybe I'm just being pesimisitic.
First.....Is there really that little actually going on that there is a story about making macaroni and chesse last for three years for the military? Has nothing else happened in the last 24-48 hours?
Secondly....Eggs??? I don't want to eat a three year old egg. Hell, I don't want to eat a one year old egg. Come to think of if, I'm not sure I would trust it after a couple months. I don't care if it's not a real egg, it's supposed to taste like one or something (otherwise what's the point) and that thought just makes me cringe.
Thrid. Who the hell cares how good the food tastes, if good food is your primary concern, then don't join the military. There must be more important things to spend money on.
Building things never really interested me as far as cannabalizing the few toys I did have. However, I do remember my old 286 that I toyed around with. No, I wasn't the average kid who just wanted to play games on it, I kind of just messed around with it until it worked right. Maybe that's why I'm an EE/CS major...who knows.
My friend actually just wrote a short "novel" about this very subject...except the bill was a complete ban on any game deemed violent. Also, it was a nationwide thing. Not my kind of book by any means, but from what he said a couple other people were interested. Kind of funny how this comes out like two days after I read it. In the end, the bill was repealed in his book, with any luck, a similar end will unfold. Ah well, censorship in some form or another will always be around.
While I don't feel that making video games is an artform someone would use to express themselves, I do think that if someone wants to run around a made up world blasting the crap out of everything then they should be entitled to do that. Faced with an alternative that could mean doing it in real life, (hint: key word about to appear!) animated blood is harmless.
Also, I'd like to ask what the replacement would be?. Is everyone under 18 going to be forced to play Reader Rabbit Teaches Typing? Or will we be seeing "super hero" Pat Robertson as he throws bibles down the throats of Americans in the next issue of PC Gamer? The thought runs chills through my body...
By your thinking, we should all stop using Unix because most people don't use it. The best tool for the job should be used, not just what ever is mainstream. Should the mainstream option be the best, then use it, if not, then don't, after you know the basic structure for programming, a new language isn't that hard to learn.
Wow I didn't know a group of people with a medical problem who offer a freedom to accept or reject any god could be considered a cult. Interesting that you think this way. BTW your email addr doesn't make any fucking sense...you bash MS and then you use email from them.......
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People kill people. When is this going to get through to society at large. There are messed up people out there that can under no circumstances function normally or reason properly. Some people have skewed psychological problems. This doesn't make it right, but perhaps if the mother had paid some more attention to her son, she would have picked up on these problems. This is a classic case of bad parenting and the parent searching for someone else to place the blame on. I have no doubt in my mind that this poor girl's life could have been saved if this child was on the proper medication or under the right psychiatric care. Some people just can not function in society, this is why there are places for people like this. I'd like to see someone tell me that I'm X times more likely to commit a crime because I played Doom when I was young.
While it remains to be seen if gameplay will be significantly different, it will be significantly better. The new engine is nothing less than stellar, the in-game physics are just amazing, as are it's rendering abilities. Everything looks incredibly smooth and as more and more graphical technology comes out it will be increasingly hard to tell if you're looking at a FMV cut scene or something the engine is rendering. Counter Strike thrives because it's playable and because it's relatively realistic. It doesn't take place in space, nor do your enemies look like demonic creatures, the added realism will make the game that much better. Not to mention the materials aspect of the engine could make it possible to kill your opposition by actually taking out physical structures. I can only imagine the full possibilities until I see some mods in action, but so far I'm immensly impressed. What would be great to see in the next one would be much more realism in completing goals. Perhaps instead of pretending to plant a bomb and waiting a few seconds you could actually plant the bomb, run away and watch something actually get destroyed...now that would be cool. I for one can't wait to see how it comes out and the full capabilities of the hl2 engine.
tubgirl huh...that's retarded... Just type it in that little thing I like to call an address bar. Unless you're totally inept, in which case tubgirl is probably the greatest thing you've ever seen. In all reality though, torrentse.cx is great for finding stuff.
I can't believe this mentions that torrents are hard to find. Here's how you find torrents.
Pull up google, type in something like this:
"what you're looking for" +bittorrent +download
You should have a list of sites that have links to that torrent. Or, you can read a site that keeps track of torrents and uses trackers. My personal favorite is torrentse.cx, but suprnova.org isn't too bad either. Sure these sites have illegitimate stuff on them, but there's also useful and legal files on there from time to time if that's a concern of yours. Problem is there's far too many people that just close the window after it's finished to "conserve bandwidth." Bittorrent doesn't work if you don't leave that damn window open, you can however set maximum upload rate from the command line, which I highly recommend using if you're on a connection that must be monitored.
Bittorrent is great, the more people using it at any given time makes it even better. Just make sure you read the documentation so you fully understand how it works and that it may take a while to start to download.
Caution, humor ahead:
Now what would really be interesting is if this were involved.....imagine the possibilities!
I think that games.slashdot.org is doing an excellent job so far. It's providing a service for a group that's actually interested in gaming news. Perhaps it's not the best, but you've gotta admit that browsing gaming headlines off of games.slashdot.org is a lot easier than sifting through all the ads on gamespot, gamespy, and ign. Like it or not, it's a lot easier to read under 30 comments by people who, for the most part, have something useful to say, and the experience to back it up. I hope more readers do submit articles, but you can't say those who aren't registered have given false information, who care's who's submitting it so long as it gets here. Quit whining.
Mod me as you will, but give them a break, no one is forcing you to read the site.
How about Quake 3? Unreal Tournament? Unreal tournament 2003? Neverwinter Nights? Devastation? America's Army (soon)? And that's not even covering mods...More and more games are coming out for Linux, it's not an overnight thing, but it is happening. Give it time, there are benefits to Linux gaming (I get 20 more fps under Linux playing Quake3 than under Windows). Just wait, it will happen.
Civilization III: ...It's a good strategy game, and it panders to your megalomaniacal instinct. Plus, it requires careful strategizing, so your brain won't turn to complete mush.
I'd agree with you, but for potentially older hardware, and not that civ3 is resource intensive, but I always had more fun with civ2. It's even got a convenient drop-down cheat menu. Civ3 is fun, but civ2 had quicker game play and an easier interface. I wasn't impressed with the changes (or lack thereof) between civ2 and 3, so if you can find it laying around for 10 bucks, pick it up...it's a great cheap game.
Also check out Unreal Tournament, Half Life, maybe Quake 3, Warcraft (2 or 3), and if you're a D&D fan and if your PC can handle it, Neverwinter Nights (always seems to tax my system for no reason) is fairly entertaining.
Of course if you like the classics, (and assuming it's legal for you wink wink) download some roms and emulators and have fun with those. There's plenty of NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. roms and emulators out there. It's amazing how much easier it is to get my computer to run some old NES games that the console refuses to play anymore. Oh how I long for the days of "The Legend of Zelda," (the original you fools!) shiny gold cartridge and all...
But as others have pointed out, it harms free services, mailing lists, etc. Not to mention that it's hard as hell to track spammers already, they do a decent job of covering their tracks, I have a feeling if they didn't some crazy would send them a bomb in the mail. Aside from that, what do you consider as a person when determining the tax. Is it per email account? If so, spammers could get around that really easily, and many people I know have more than two email addresses. Is it through an individual ISP? I hope not, that elminates free services, or sends them all the spam, stressing the free services' servers. It would also mean college students (myself included) would probably see a hike, even if it's small, in tuition to cover the email tax. Even then, what's to prevent someone on a fast college network from sending bulk mailings from their dorm? Does this mean we'll need to give our social security number when signing up for an email account? Is this yet another bad idea? I certainly think so.
The first game that ever "changed" me was Sid Meier's Civilization. That was the game that blew all others away, games used to be side scrolling shooters like the early Duke Nukem games (don't get me wrong, those kicked ass), but Civilization had depth, it had endless possibility, it had horrible graphics...it was great! That was of course, until I started playing Doom hardcore. Doom changed that world of endless possibility because it actually put me in a "realistic" world that I could explore and pitted me in a fight for your life kind of situation that had an inexplicable draw. Doom was of course all well and good until Quake came out. Quake added yet another dimension to gameplay, I could jump in the game, not only that, but the maps were so much more complex and each episode had a distinctly different feel to it that Doom just didn't have. It was all downhill from there for me. Multiplayer had me playing for hours on end, in a local museum that had a computer lab with a lan no less, and then at that moment in time, I decided that's what I wanted to do with my life. Quake made me decide to major in Computer Science, got me started on Linux, got me interested in networking and security, and made me really look at how things were designed and structured. I even took an internship at an architecture firm to learn about designing structures, and indeed, learned a lot. Quake quite literally changed my life, it's made me what I am today.
Shouldn't that read: "the only way you can take my cruise missle with weapons grade plutonium is from my cold trembling dead hand!!" ? He does have parkinsons disease after all...
I think that you're basically referring to what BitTorrent basically does. If the demo's were, at least in part, distributed this way perhaps the demos would actually get more play and more people would be able to get them. **Sigh** I remember complaining when the demo for Quake was a whopping 8MB...
As a side note, BitTorrent is good, but it's still got it's problems. I've had horrible download speeds (8-9 k/s on a T3), but others rave about it. Maybe it's just my university regulating traffic...
But I'm going to leave it at looking good. I'm not going to trust someone to take my credit card number to make sure I'm a unique person. They have an email address, they have a home address, they have a phone number, why oh why do they need a credit card number? As legit as I'm sure this is, it sure seems a little shady. I guess they probably won't be swimming in beta applications though, maybe that's the real goal.
Your grammar sucks. It's legal in my state to work when you turn 14, though harder than hell to get a job. You're also able to work at whatever you want after you turn 18. If you're so distraught over having to turn down Java development offers, then keep learning new topics. I did similar things and college has since been painfully easy. I still don't think everyone needs college to get a job, but it sure as hell helps. Some of the time you don't spend working should be spent on learning how to write comprehensibly. When will people learn that communicating your ideas clearly is just as important as having the ideas in the first place?
leave it to someone on slashdot to take a relativly simple device and make an analogy to a particle accelerator...
A neverending halfpipe...something tells me this just would not work but it would be damn cool anyway. There are such things actually as skiing treadmills, terrain can be put on them, and stuff like that (obviously you can't do nearly as much as really being on snow), but this idea just doesn't really sound all that new or plausible. Maybe I'm just being pesimisitic.
Secondly....Eggs??? I don't want to eat a three year old egg. Hell, I don't want to eat a one year old egg. Come to think of if, I'm not sure I would trust it after a couple months. I don't care if it's not a real egg, it's supposed to taste like one or something (otherwise what's the point) and that thought just makes me cringe.
Thrid. Who the hell cares how good the food tastes, if good food is your primary concern, then don't join the military. There must be more important things to spend money on.
Building things never really interested me as far as cannabalizing the few toys I did have. However, I do remember my old 286 that I toyed around with. No, I wasn't the average kid who just wanted to play games on it, I kind of just messed around with it until it worked right. Maybe that's why I'm an EE/CS major...who knows.
Maybe CowboyNeal's job would be acceptable though.
While I don't feel that making video games is an artform someone would use to express themselves, I do think that if someone wants to run around a made up world blasting the crap out of everything then they should be entitled to do that. Faced with an alternative that could mean doing it in real life, (hint: key word about to appear!) animated blood is harmless.
Also, I'd like to ask what the replacement would be?. Is everyone under 18 going to be forced to play Reader Rabbit Teaches Typing? Or will we be seeing "super hero" Pat Robertson as he throws bibles down the throats of Americans in the next issue of PC Gamer? The thought runs chills through my body...
(D), like the tank being used in an invasion, .NET is just another tool being used to strengthen Microslave's monopoly.
By your thinking, we should all stop using Unix because most people don't use it. The best tool for the job should be used, not just what ever is mainstream. Should the mainstream option be the best, then use it, if not, then don't, after you know the basic structure for programming, a new language isn't that hard to learn.
Irony is all well and good, but that's just stupid.
Oh? How do you know?
Wow I didn't know a group of people with a medical problem who offer a freedom to accept or reject any god could be considered a cult. Interesting that you think this way. BTW your email addr doesn't make any fucking sense...you bash MS and then you use email from them.......