I once played Day Of Defeat(an excellent World War two themed Half-Life mod) with the brother of a friend of mine. He had three keys bound to changing his name, one was for when he was about to die(which was ranked on this servers stats at almost the end), one for when he was spawning and moving towards the action(which was in the middle of the stat pool) and one which he used when he was in the thick of the shooting(which was ranked seventh on the server stats). Stats are good for showing you what the best people use to win(if they show that at all) but so easy to abuse that its often times not worth using.
I would like to apologise first off for creating this monster. I did it out of boredom more than anything else a long time back..
Its only the first three verses' however, I wasn't insane enough to do the whole thing.
D00d u no Cl4n Danish? Cpl 98, 99 Th3y b l33t [danish]Shield < [danish]sheaf pwnd in Q3 & C$ Romero was like "D00d??! WTF?" Bcase he w4z working solo. He wez top of teh ladder and teh Chatroom was like "D00d??! WTF?" He pwnz
[danish]shield N3\/\/ a n00b T0ok nOOb to clan danish n00b was fr0n CowboyNeil k3pt the Cl4n as 1 M4de them > l33t [danish]grain w4a his 'nic He was l33t. in the CPL 4ll n00bs shuld l34rn Spread the lewt when u are a noob so wh3n ur 19 teh clan wi1l still restecpt U wh3n j00 at w4r a man is l33t if he is k00l on any of teh servers(xsept teh telstra 1s)
[danish]shield was pwnd after his 19th w3nt to uni stoned but still with l33t teh clan danish gave him pr0n which was sw33t 1n his gargae sat a l33t machin3 old-school but built 4 teh road There [danish]shield slept next 2 teh handbrake surrounded by teh pr0n russ4n, german and teh japanes teh Cl4n watched teh car leave a shitbox it was filled with the lewt and teh goatse mails and gifs 4 teh long wait till uni he was without a gfx card he w4s liek a n00b wh3n he left teh clan A l4mer n00b teh clan put a bumper sticker on his c4r Goatse it procle.. proclaine... said. teh clan l3t him le4ve a|\|D 3 teh uni he went teh most l33t in teh clan don't no what uni is liek
1. Basic Retail Pack. Only Single Player with an option to upgrade to Multiplayer for a price over the internet.
2. Full Retail Pack. Single Player and Multiplayer in one pack.
3. Gold Retail Pack. Single Player, Multiplayer and all types of extra junk all crammed into it.
4. Steam. Which will be Multiplayer, Singleplayer and maybe include a few mods that teams are working on right now(valvE are supporting HL1 mod teams in this).
Valve want people to buy it over Steam for one good reason: Cash. They get 100% of all revenue from Steam based purchases, effectivly cutting retailers, middlemen and their publisher(Vivendi Universal Games) out of the loop. Which means that they get an arseload of money.
Except that the BSA is a private organization with no regulatory muscle or official backing. They don't have any authority to raid the Japanese government. (Or anyone else for that matter.)
When building the original levels for Metal Gear Solid the design team used Legos to see what the area's would look like, they didn't do the same for MGS2 because its maps were heavily 3D(Compared to the first game which had very flat levels) and the complexity was too much for them.
I don't see the fuss, where I work, a supermarket in Australia, they scan your right index finger when you have to sign in or out, it only takes a second to do and no-one can cheat it.
Now if they gave these file to the government then I'd be pissed off. But they haven't done that yet. I'd love to see laws preventing that from happening by the way. Of course all someone will have to do to stop it is scream "Terrorists!" and it'll die in the arse. But I seriously don't see why people are complaining, its not that inconvinient, its not that hard and requires no effort or time to use.
Peple can still cheat the system by saying their fingers wouldn't scan and writing in a different time but thats more effort than comming in on time in my experience. I guess its different in the US, but no-one I know really cares all that much about it.
Game companies treat everyone that buys their games like thieves, but the real thieves just crack it, never patch the game and then laugh loudly at the poor bastards that had to spend extra money on a product to subsidise the thieves.
Its not the companies fault for the main part because for years the idea of free games have been a part of the gaming world and now they have the ability to fight back they are, its just that their means are insane.
The major strength of PC games is that they install straight to the HDD, making them easier to access, in theory, than console games which require a disk, the fact that I have to give up a few precious gigs for each game (gigs that could be used for important things like porn or mp3s or pornographic mp3s) and the image files that take up even more space os that my CD doesn't get damaged(because even though they protect it so you can't copy it thye won't give you a new one if you do somehow damage it).
Valve and iD have the right idea, you don't need the CD in the drive to play it, just the CD-Key to play over the net.
I wouldn't mind if they made it so that for the first two or three patches they kept the check-cd in but after that got rid of it, because having to have a CD in the drive to play a game over the net becomes annoying and after a while it just gets ejected and eventually forgotten.
They own the trademark for the expression Bullet Time. Thats why in Enter the Matrix(May all who worked on it burn in hell) called slow-mo sequences Focus, because they couldn't buy the rights from Remedy to use thw expression Bullet time.
I think in the USA they vote for more than one position at a time, like the Govenor, the DA, the Education Board etc(I'm not sure about this however) It means that you have about 7-8 positions with 5-10 people running for them so you have to use a machine because writing down more than four numbers in a sitting is difficult for some people. It also means that counting all the positions would take longer if you had to do them all in one sitting. Its still stupid.
Quote the Parent: "Oh wait, that's called communism, socialism...that's what we want right?"
No, thats called a totalitarian dictatorship Einstein. Socialism, Fascism and Communism are merely political ideologies, intolerable ideologies yes, but thats all they are. Socialism doesn't tell people to stop thinking and to starve your population, people that supported it did(Monsters) but the original texts encourages the people to think of freedom and how to make society work better for the majority. Fascism didn't tell people to kill millions of Jew, Homosexuals, Gypsies and Disabled People, just to think of how to work together, the people that supported Fascism did commit some of the most horrific crimes humanity has ever encountered but what they preeched originally was togetherness what they did was disgusting.
I hate the Nazis as a rule and the Soviets only slightly less, but I also hate ignorant wankers from any nation that seem to think that sticking a label like "Fascist" or "Socialist" on anything they don't like and claiming a moral high ground by beating to death a strawman sent from the un-edited nightmares of Anne Coulter is pathetic.
The exception to this is Rick from The Young Ones.
Its frightening because it makes you wonder just what else is overpriced to this extent? I personally only bought Textbooks in my first year, I just can't be bothered spending three weeks wages on 4 books that will see me use them at the very most twice.
The Superbowl is aired worldwide to a potential audience of about 2 billion people. Its watched by about 400 million people for more than twenty minutes, after the half-time show the numbers drop to Americans and people to stoned to relise that they aren't playing Madden. Why should the rest of the world learn your stupid complex rules just because you can't be bothered to learn theirs? US Population < Rest of Human Race. Face it, outside of America no-one gives a rats arse about Gridiron. Soccer on the other hand is essentially a religion in some parts of the world. Also Soccers rules are remarkably simple to understand, get ball in net... don't touch ball with hands...unless you are goalie. Thats essentially the basic rules of soccer. I can't even comprehend Gridiron. Rugby(Union) and Aussie Rules on the other hand I love and know most of the rules.
Console Morons, the keyboard mouse combination is in about three ways superiour off the top of my head and several more that are so blindingly obvious that I can't be farked typing them in
A proviso: this is for FPS games, Most other types of Console games the Gamepad is very useful (Splinter Cell allowing you to pick locks and run/walk based on how far along you had the joystick was very good I haven't played enough other Consol games to get other examples).
More Keys(in Quake3 some people have workarounds that allow keys to bound to perform Rocket Jump, in a Consol it takes at least 3 seconds to select new weapon, aim down, jump and fire).
Full use of every finger(My left pinky is crouch(CRTL), on a gamepad it and my ring fingers are used to stop the thing falling to its doom) more control, more adaptations and better overall results..
No conflicting joysticks, I have 106 keys, one mouse, you have(X-Box here I think this is right) Two Joysticks, one D-pad six Buttons, two triggers. How in gods name can any human being live with such an insane, complex, convoluted setup? Press down on the second Joystick to Jump(Unreal Champions) I was running foward, suddenly I'm in the air...WTF You have a Jump key for a reason... to jump not accidently brush it whilst looking around..
Note: The Y key is Here "Y" Note2: I've been away too long.
I have a seperate phone line, perfect for the dial-up user, should have got aDSL but didn't have any available services in my area at the time I had to choose between the two. Four days after you asked the question I answered it, if you ever see this I would be rather surprised.
Back when I was a lad: I used to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of Sulfuric acid from a I love MS cup, work twenty nine hours a day down in the Rendering farms and pay Peter Jackson for permission to come to work and when we came home our dad and our mother would install Windows 95 on our four thousand 386's and then dance about on our keyboards emoting LOL. Try telling that to kids today.. and they won't believe you.
I got billed $800 on a Dial-Up account because I went over their "Unlimited" 500 meg limit.
Then I switched to IPrimus, who, for dial-up anyway, are pretty decent, I mean they let me get away with this which is nice for the most part.
The end result of this is now I don't have anything to do with telstra whatsoever, my phoneline is through someone else, my internet is through someone else, the only thing I do use them for is when their wires fail to work and I need them repaired. In the city at least they fix these problems.
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I once played Day Of Defeat(an excellent World War two themed Half-Life mod) with the brother of a friend of mine.
He had three keys bound to changing his name, one was for when he was about to die(which was ranked on this servers stats at almost the end), one for when he was spawning and moving towards the action(which was in the middle of the stat pool) and one which he used when he was in the thick of the shooting(which was ranked seventh on the server stats).
Stats are good for showing you what the best people use to win(if they show that at all) but so easy to abuse that its often times not worth using.
I would like to apologise first off for creating this monster.
I did it out of boredom more than anything else a long time back..
Its only the first three verses' however, I wasn't insane enough to do the whole thing.
D00d u no Cl4n Danish?
Cpl 98, 99
Th3y b l33t
[danish]Shield < [danish]sheaf
pwnd in Q3 & C$
Romero was like "D00d??! WTF?"
Bcase he w4z working solo.
He wez top of teh ladder
and teh Chatroom was like
"D00d??! WTF?"
He pwnz
[danish]shield N3\/\/ a n00b
T0ok nOOb to clan danish
n00b was fr0n CowboyNeil
k3pt the Cl4n as 1
M4de them > l33t
[danish]grain w4a his 'nic
He was l33t.
in the CPL
4ll n00bs shuld l34rn
Spread the lewt
when u are a noob
so wh3n ur 19
teh clan wi1l still restecpt U
wh3n j00 at w4r
a man is l33t
if he is k00l
on any of teh servers(xsept teh telstra 1s)
[danish]shield was pwnd after his 19th
w3nt to uni stoned but still with l33t
teh clan danish gave him pr0n
which was sw33t
1n his gargae sat
a l33t machin3
old-school but built 4 teh road
There [danish]shield slept
next 2 teh handbrake
surrounded by teh pr0n
russ4n, german and teh japanes
teh Cl4n watched teh car leave
a shitbox it was
filled with the lewt
and teh goatse mails and gifs
4 teh long wait till uni
he was without a gfx card
he w4s liek a n00b
wh3n he left teh clan
A l4mer n00b
teh clan put a bumper sticker on his c4r
Goatse it procle.. proclaine... said.
teh clan l3t him le4ve
a|\|D 3 teh uni he went
teh most l33t in teh clan
don't no what uni is liek
I feel unclean now.
Vote?
As in CowboyNeil?
They plan to release it in four ways:
1. Basic Retail Pack. Only Single Player with an option to upgrade to Multiplayer for a price over the internet.
2. Full Retail Pack. Single Player and Multiplayer in one pack.
3. Gold Retail Pack. Single Player, Multiplayer and all types of extra junk all crammed into it.
4. Steam. Which will be Multiplayer, Singleplayer and maybe include a few mods that teams are working on right now(valvE are supporting HL1 mod teams in this).
Valve want people to buy it over Steam for one good reason: Cash.
They get 100% of all revenue from Steam based purchases, effectivly cutting retailers, middlemen and their publisher(Vivendi Universal Games) out of the loop.
Which means that they get an arseload of money.
Yeah, just like the RIAA.
When building the original levels for Metal Gear Solid the design team used Legos to see what the area's would look like, they didn't do the same for MGS2 because its maps were heavily 3D(Compared to the first game which had very flat levels) and the complexity was too much for them.
--Try to get the original tracks for a linkin park session in 50 or 60 years..good luck.
Wasn't that hard, I just got them from the RIAA site a few months ago.
My dad still uses a VCR, he tapes shows on the TV with them because TIVO hasn't been released in Australia yet.
Not that he would trust TIVO anyway.
Taken from the Dilbert TV show:
Salesman: Would you like to buy a diamond for your girl?
Dilbert: Its worth too much for rocks dug out of the ground..
S: They are Diamonds, they cost so much because they last forever.
D: No they cost so much because your company runs a monopoly on the rocks they dug out of the ground and have artificially inflated the price.
S: Okay, you've figured it out, here have two sacks of diamonds and never tell anyone of this conversation again.
I don't see the fuss, where I work, a supermarket in Australia, they scan your right index finger when you have to sign in or out, it only takes a second to do and no-one can cheat it.
Now if they gave these file to the government then I'd be pissed off. But they haven't done that yet.
I'd love to see laws preventing that from happening by the way. Of course all someone will have to do to stop it is scream "Terrorists!" and it'll die in the arse.
But I seriously don't see why people are complaining, its not that inconvinient, its not that hard and requires no effort or time to use.
Peple can still cheat the system by saying their fingers wouldn't scan and writing in a different time but thats more effort than comming in on time in my experience.
I guess its different in the US, but no-one I know really cares all that much about it.
Game companies treat everyone that buys their games like thieves, but the real thieves just crack it, never patch the game and then laugh loudly at the poor bastards that had to spend extra money on a product to subsidise the thieves.
Its not the companies fault for the main part because for years the idea of free games have been a part of the gaming world and now they have the ability to fight back they are, its just that their means are insane.
The major strength of PC games is that they install straight to the HDD, making them easier to access, in theory, than console games which require a disk, the fact that I have to give up a few precious gigs for each game (gigs that could be used for important things like porn or mp3s or pornographic mp3s) and the image files that take up even more space os that my CD doesn't get damaged(because even though they protect it so you can't copy it thye won't give you a new one if you do somehow damage it).
Valve and iD have the right idea, you don't need the CD in the drive to play it, just the CD-Key to play over the net.
I wouldn't mind if they made it so that for the first two or three patches they kept the check-cd in but after that got rid of it, because having to have a CD in the drive to play a game over the net becomes annoying and after a while it just gets ejected and eventually forgotten.
You may be modded troll, but your post is the most insightful I've read since this demo was released. Its a beautiful piece of ironic prose.
They own the trademark for the expression Bullet Time. Thats why in Enter the Matrix(May all who worked on it burn in hell) called slow-mo sequences Focus, because they couldn't buy the rights from Remedy to use thw expression Bullet time.
Yes, they are called Furries...
I think in the USA they vote for more than one position at a time, like the Govenor, the DA, the Education Board etc(I'm not sure about this however) It means that you have about 7-8 positions with 5-10 people running for them so you have to use a machine because writing down more than four numbers in a sitting is difficult for some people.
It also means that counting all the positions would take longer if you had to do them all in one sitting.
Its still stupid.
Quote the Parent: "Oh wait, that's called communism, socialism...that's what we want right?"
No, thats called a totalitarian dictatorship Einstein.
Socialism, Fascism and Communism are merely political ideologies, intolerable ideologies yes, but thats all they are.
Socialism doesn't tell people to stop thinking and to starve your population, people that supported it did(Monsters) but the original texts encourages the people to think of freedom and how to make society work better for the majority.
Fascism didn't tell people to kill millions of Jew, Homosexuals, Gypsies and Disabled People, just to think of how to work together, the people that supported Fascism did commit some of the most horrific crimes humanity has ever encountered but what they preeched originally was togetherness what they did was disgusting.
I hate the Nazis as a rule and the Soviets only slightly less, but I also hate ignorant wankers from any nation that seem to think that sticking a label like "Fascist" or "Socialist" on anything they don't like and claiming a moral high ground by beating to death a strawman sent from the un-edited nightmares of Anne Coulter is pathetic.
The exception to this is Rick from The Young Ones.
Now more than ever I regret sleeping in this afternoon and missing all my classes.
Its frightening because it makes you wonder just what else is overpriced to this extent? I personally only bought Textbooks in my first year, I just can't be bothered spending three weeks wages on 4 books that will see me use them at the very most twice.
The Superbowl is aired worldwide to a potential audience of about 2 billion people.
Its watched by about 400 million people for more than twenty minutes, after the half-time show the numbers drop to Americans and people to stoned to relise that they aren't playing Madden.
Why should the rest of the world learn your stupid complex rules just because you can't be bothered to learn theirs? US Population < Rest of Human Race.
Face it, outside of America no-one gives a rats arse about Gridiron. Soccer on the other hand is essentially a religion in some parts of the world.
Also Soccers rules are remarkably simple to understand, get ball in net... don't touch ball with hands...unless you are goalie.
Thats essentially the basic rules of soccer. I can't even comprehend Gridiron. Rugby(Union) and Aussie Rules on the other hand I love and know most of the rules.
I would like to second that.
HAHAHA HAHA HAHAHAHA.
Console Morons, the keyboard mouse combination is in about three ways superiour off the top of my head and several more that are so blindingly obvious that I can't be farked typing them in
A proviso: this is for FPS games, Most other types of Console games the Gamepad is very useful (Splinter Cell allowing you to pick locks and run/walk based on how far along you had the joystick was very good I haven't played enough other Consol games to get other examples).
More Keys(in Quake3 some people have workarounds that allow keys to bound to perform Rocket Jump, in a Consol it takes at least 3 seconds to select new weapon, aim down, jump and fire).
Full use of every finger(My left pinky is crouch(CRTL), on a gamepad it and my ring fingers are used to stop the thing falling to its doom) more control, more adaptations and better overall results..
No conflicting joysticks, I have 106 keys, one mouse, you have(X-Box here I think this is right) Two Joysticks, one D-pad six Buttons, two triggers. How in gods name can any human being live with such an insane, complex, convoluted setup? Press down on the second Joystick to Jump(Unreal Champions) I was running foward, suddenly I'm in the air...WTF You have a Jump key for a reason... to jump not accidently brush it whilst looking around..
Note: The Y key is Here "Y"
Note2: I've been away too long.
Half-Quake: Amen(A Half-life mod) is very different.
Its artistic and evil. You have to have patience and skill to beat it.
He played Wesley Crusher in star trek.
His blog is pretty good: http://wilwheaton.net
So don't hold his history against him.
I have a seperate phone line, perfect for the dial-up user, should have got aDSL but didn't have any available services in my area at the time I had to choose between the two.
Four days after you asked the question I answered it, if you ever see this I would be rather surprised.
Back when I was a lad: I used to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of Sulfuric acid from a I love MS cup, work twenty nine hours a day down in the Rendering farms and pay Peter Jackson for permission to come to work and when we came home our dad and our mother would install Windows 95 on our four thousand 386's and then dance about on our keyboards emoting LOL.
Try telling that to kids today.. and they won't believe you.
I got billed $800 on a Dial-Up account because I went over their "Unlimited" 500 meg limit.
Then I switched to IPrimus, who, for dial-up anyway, are pretty decent, I mean they let me get away with this which is nice for the most part.
The end result of this is now I don't have anything to do with telstra whatsoever, my phoneline is through someone else, my internet is through someone else, the only thing I do use them for is when their wires fail to work and I need them repaired. In the city at least they fix these problems.