Isn't that just silly? I mean, reducing the name of Netscape to a cheap-ass striped down service is just plain mean. Not to mention all the confusion this will create, "Netscape provieder or Netscape browser?"
1. Register your own domain ($ 12, approx. for a year) 2. Sign up to a cheap and friendly ISP that has a webmail interface (I use Sevaa.com, $4 a month, but there are other, possibly cheaper ones out there). 3. ??? 4. Prophet.
I used to use my ISP's webmail interface until they went $crazy$ with $ads$ $ever$ywher$e, I switched - and I'm happy now.
20% user support (it isn't my job, but I don't mind - I go BOFH all over them) 20% Adding new anti-pr0n rules to our filtering proxy. 20% Working on new projects 40% Slashdot and Fark
I'd say 100% Slashdot and Fark but my boss read Slashdot occasionaly...:)
Galactic Civilizations is probably gonna be my single 4X (eXplore,eXpand,eXploit,eXterminate - or something like that) for the next few years.
It's worth every penny - the graphics are nice but the gameplay is just plain awsome as the mechanics are well thought out and the enemies are challenging depending on the level of dificulty.
Rouge-like games are the king of enjoyable gameplay - Nethack has been on my PC at home and work for the past.... hmmm... 17 years and I never get tired of playing it - for the past 14 years I've tried looking for a game quite as fun and random as Nethack.
I dunno, Falcon's Eye and other 3D versions of Nethack are, IMHO, the building blocks of a truly awsome game - give me a randomly generated 3D dungeon with combat control (like Quest for Glory 2) with a touch of management (like the Town Level in Moria) and I'll give you a game I'll play 'till I'm old and gray!:)
As far as I can remember, (it's been a while) the original title was "The Fall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King".
Sound familiar? It should be, it's the title of the Red Book that Frodo leaves with Sam at the Grey Havens.
The sublty of this moment, slighty smudged by the fact that the book is divided in 3, is, to me, the greatest of the whole story... I was not reading a book written by J.R.R. Tolkien, I was reading a book started by Bilbo Baggins then by Frodo with Peregrin Took, Samwise Gamee and Meriadoc Brandybuck and later translated by Mr. Tolkien.
I always shudder at that point in the story when, yet again, I realize that the story is a tale of a quest performed by the bold little people of the Shire.
I started using girls after a Geeks in Space program with CmdrTaco, Hemos and CowboyNeal where Taco was bragging about how his character.
He used to play a sorceress in Diablo II and some guys would walk up to him and give him stuff. I got to thinking, why not do the same.
I've played as girls in all the online RPG's I've been in and the guys have been taking it easy on me but they really do like to hit on me - and I play along for the most part.
On networked games in lanhouses I see guys walking around looking for the dumb b*tch that fragged their asses - all the while I'm sitting next to them.
Dunno about you guys, but I'd like to off Lucas for two so massively crappy Star Wars.
Mr. FBI Lurker-man: I am joking, I will not and would not even try to kill Mr. George Lucas.
I only buy games from community-friendly companies.
Since buying software is my way of showing my pathetic and near-worthless support for companies I only dish out money to software houses that, IMHO, deserve a cent - Bioware and Maxis are my favorite game companies (Epic and Id are cool too, but mostly because of UT and Quake). I'll dish out money happily to buy the originals.
Saying that, I'm gonna go buy a copy of UT 2k3 just because they're cool, they deserve my hard-earned cash.
BTW, I know it's just "business" for them and that they're not trying to be cool for free, but confess, that's a pretty nice gesture from Epic, supporting the Mod community by increasing their proficiency.
... that anything remotely related to Japan is automatically considered a success? Am I the only one that doesn't care much about nip-stuff (anime or nip-console games like finaru fantashi)?
Anyway, I won't be seeing the movie, Final Fantasy sucked and I won't spend more money on far-fetched "saved by an unborn baby" stupidity.
Missing feature is support for alpha-channels in MSIE.
Single bit transparency (GIFs) suck compared to pages with alpha channel transparencies but since MSIE can't render them correctly they fail to make the market.
Oh, there's another problem - lack of a good program to save PNGs. AFAIK, Gimp is the best PNG generator around all the Windows photo editing software I used to use (Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro) generated terribly large PNGs, I used to save them as GIFs.
I like PNGs, I really do, I try to use them whenever I can but the problem is that MSIE doesn't render the alpha channel correctly without a CSS hack to the IMG tag.
I agree with you, I'll be looking forward to seeing PNGs used in mainstream sites (such as Slashdot) in 2006, if not later.
Good ideas without corporative support will always remain just that, good ideas.
Warning: I didn't read the article. Warning 2: I normally read the articles before belching a comment.
No. There is no more creativity for one reason. The Almighty Buck.
No one makes anything now a days that won't make money at least to pay off production. This isn't wrong, but it does stagnate the market.
I can't remember the last truly innovative game I played except Black and White - not because of the genre but because of the user interface. Other than that I'd have to go back to Age of Empires (the first one) for real-time strategy and Quake for the last game true revolution I can think of - Full 3D FPS (Doom and Wolfenstein were not full 3D mind you, but they were also innovative) - I was own3d in Quake until I figured out how to play with a mouse and keyboard.
God knows what the future may bring, I just hope someone creates a new idea soon, I'm runnin' out of games!!!!!
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Isn't that just silly? I mean, reducing the name of Netscape to a cheap-ass striped down service is just plain mean. Not to mention all the confusion this will create, "Netscape provieder or Netscape browser?"
Will make you John Romero bitch.
Seriously, Romero, shut the fook up and make a game that's worth it.
1. Register your own domain ($ 12, approx. for a year)
2. Sign up to a cheap and friendly ISP that has a webmail interface (I use Sevaa.com, $4 a month, but there are other, possibly cheaper ones out there).
3. ???
4. Prophet.
I used to use my ISP's webmail interface until they went $crazy$ with $ads$ $ever$ywher$e, I switched - and I'm happy now.
I use it for all my small linux machines.
Very streamlined, very well supported (I'm gonna start donating so they will have a little more $incentive$) and just plain small.
A great project!
I played through Black and White once and loved it, I never played a game so smart but...
It wasn't fun, it seemed like a chore after a few days of playing (teach the monkey, pet the monkey, spank the monkey... hehehehe).
20% user support (it isn't my job, but I don't mind - I go BOFH all over them)
:)
20% Adding new anti-pr0n rules to our filtering proxy.
20% Working on new projects
40% Slashdot and Fark
I'd say 100% Slashdot and Fark but my boss read Slashdot occasionaly...
But what my boss cares about is effectiveness - if, even if I arrive late from lunch.
The HR department deducts this tardiness from my salary but he always authorizes it to be added back. Those folks really hate my boss because of this.
and it's worth it.
Galactic Civilizations is probably gonna be my single 4X (eXplore,eXpand,eXploit,eXterminate - or something like that) for the next few years.
It's worth every penny - the graphics are nice but the gameplay is just plain awsome as the mechanics are well thought out and the enemies are challenging depending on the level of dificulty.
Have you played nethack?
:)
Rouge-like games are the king of enjoyable gameplay - Nethack has been on my PC at home and work for the past.... hmmm... 17 years and I never get tired of playing it - for the past 14 years I've tried looking for a game quite as fun and random as Nethack.
I dunno, Falcon's Eye and other 3D versions of Nethack are, IMHO, the building blocks of a truly awsome game - give me a randomly generated 3D dungeon with combat control (like Quest for Glory 2) with a touch of management (like the Town Level in Moria) and I'll give you a game I'll play 'till I'm old and gray!
The real shame is that innovations such as these will not make it to mainstream press around here.
As far as I can remember, (it's been a while) the original title was "The Fall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King".
Sound familiar? It should be, it's the title of the Red Book that Frodo leaves with Sam at the Grey Havens.
The sublty of this moment, slighty smudged by the fact that the book is divided in 3, is, to me, the greatest of the whole story... I was not reading a book written by J.R.R. Tolkien, I was reading a book started by Bilbo Baggins then by Frodo with Peregrin Took, Samwise Gamee and Meriadoc Brandybuck and later translated by Mr. Tolkien.
I always shudder at that point in the story when, yet again, I realize that the story is a tale of a quest performed by the bold little people of the Shire.
A note, right up front: I'm a guy.
Well, I for one play as a female avatar.
I started using girls after a Geeks in Space program with CmdrTaco, Hemos and CowboyNeal where Taco was bragging about how his character.
He used to play a sorceress in Diablo II and some guys would walk up to him and give him stuff. I got to thinking, why not do the same.
I've played as girls in all the online RPG's I've been in and the guys have been taking it easy on me but they really do like to hit on me - and I play along for the most part.
On networked games in lanhouses I see guys walking around looking for the dumb b*tch that fragged their asses - all the while I'm sitting next to them.
Or don't shoot and get shot just to piss Lucas off.
Damn, I HATED the "new" version of that scene.
Rainz, for all us non-Ultima Online folks, is the guy that killed Lord British at the closing of the Ultima Online Beta.
Story here.
Dunno about you guys, but I'd like to off Lucas for two so massively crappy Star Wars. Mr. FBI Lurker-man: I am joking, I will not and would not even try to kill Mr. George Lucas.
I only buy games from community-friendly companies.
Since buying software is my way of showing my pathetic and near-worthless support for companies I only dish out money to software houses that, IMHO, deserve a cent - Bioware and Maxis are my favorite game companies (Epic and Id are cool too, but mostly because of UT and Quake). I'll dish out money happily to buy the originals.
Saying that, I'm gonna go buy a copy of UT 2k3 just because they're cool, they deserve my hard-earned cash.
BTW, I know it's just "business" for them and that they're not trying to be cool for free, but confess, that's a pretty nice gesture from Epic, supporting the Mod community by increasing their proficiency.
Let the superpopulation of the moon begin!
Huh huh...
As there are no Quickies anymore here on Slashdot, let me just point out that Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles is already at episode 9.
For those that don't know, Red vs. Blue is a comedy series made in-game in Halo.
... that anything remotely related to Japan is automatically considered a success? Am I the only one that doesn't care much about nip-stuff (anime or nip-console games like finaru fantashi)?
Anyway, I won't be seeing the movie, Final Fantasy sucked and I won't spend more money on far-fetched "saved by an unborn baby" stupidity.
Not to mention that, usually, JPGs are smaller than PNGs.
Missing feature is support for alpha-channels in MSIE.
Single bit transparency (GIFs) suck compared to pages with alpha channel transparencies but since MSIE can't render them correctly they fail to make the market.
Oh, there's another problem - lack of a good program to save PNGs. AFAIK, Gimp is the best PNG generator around all the Windows photo editing software I used to use (Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro) generated terribly large PNGs, I used to save them as GIFs.
I like PNGs, I really do, I try to use them whenever I can but the problem is that MSIE doesn't render the alpha channel correctly without a CSS hack to the IMG tag.
I agree with you, I'll be looking forward to seeing PNGs used in mainstream sites (such as Slashdot) in 2006, if not later.
Good ideas without corporative support will always remain just that, good ideas.
Warning: I didn't read the article.
Warning 2: I normally read the articles before belching a comment.
No. There is no more creativity for one reason. The Almighty Buck.
No one makes anything now a days that won't make money at least to pay off production. This isn't wrong, but it does stagnate the market.
I can't remember the last truly innovative game I played except Black and White - not because of the genre but because of the user interface. Other than that I'd have to go back to Age of Empires (the first one) for real-time strategy and Quake for the last game true revolution I can think of - Full 3D FPS (Doom and Wolfenstein were not full 3D mind you, but they were also innovative) - I was own3d in Quake until I figured out how to play with a mouse and keyboard.
God knows what the future may bring, I just hope someone creates a new idea soon, I'm runnin' out of games!!!!!
ooops, sorry about that, I didn't mean any offense.
Great, if I had the game I'd use it but what about the 1337 k1dd135 ? All they can due os point-and-click.
I can see it now:
1337 kiddie: "What the F**K is an a-semicolon-backslash?!?!!?!?!?!!!!!1"