Yup... according to what I have read up on this the poll is not damaged apart from the light on top of it having not worked for some time.
Personally I am going to run the image and the ones before and after through Photoshop and see if I can see any anomalies... of course, there are much better people than me who are probably doing the same.
I have to admit that I like GURPS its a really good system but it REALLY needed a revamp. Better layout and organisation of its rules and where and when ceratin things applied would be so cool.
I can't wait. I bet my local game store is gonna be a happy bunny when it comes out thats for sure.;)
Being a Christian and seeing the scripture (mainly Rev 13:16-18) of my relgion banded about so much I thought I would link to a bunch of different translations which can be found Here. But some have mentioned that they would prefer to see the orginal text, well this one is the closest I can find (the web site has a bunch of other versions clicky here).
My reason is simple, for only by looking at how man sees this text can we hope to discern the meaning behind this very poetic prophecy.
Oh yeah, I think its a dumb idea by the way talk about one great way to track the movements and purchases of a people. Welcome to 1984.
"Conflicting... feelings rising... could be... amazing... could be disaster... confusing... thoughts..."... Anyway, I think Izzard could actually be quite good. He is a good enough actor when needs be.
Although personally I would have preferred Anthony Stewart Head. He has the image and presence of The Doctor and has done audio readings (I believe).
I think genre plays a bigger part, I mean I just completed Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy on its hardest difficulty setting in a week (I say a week, it was 1-3 hours or so after work a day), I mean that just sucks for length (great game though). While RTS games I play take months to complete on a normal difficulty. (or it could just be I suck at RTS and have L33t FPS skillz;-)
FPS games tend to be shorter in my experience while RPG is longer but RTYS seem to be the longest lived games I play (especially tose with random maps and skirmish modes).
Yeah! Someoen noticed that Baird was the TRUE inventor of TV.
Funny enough hes a scottish guy along with Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) and a bunch of other scientists who have helped mould the late 19th and early 20th century.
Just did a wee (translation - little) bit of digging on Google and found the following cached page. (I searched for Nerdahoy)
It also appears that these are the gentlemen who made the sites, Lamespy and Crappynews. Which I have never heard of but do sound very parody orientated.
I agree, if this is not a fake then I am a "small thin blonde swedish wilderness cookie girl who ha syet to meet her quota!"... which I'm not, so it must be a fake, I hope and I pray its not, I REEEEALLLY hope its a fake.
My view is this you need the Quakes, the Doom's and the Serious Sam's for that fun, "I'm bored and want five minutes of pick up and put down gaming" moments.
But also we need the Half Life's, DuesEx's and Thiefs for the long term evening of game play for the more in depth and absorbing game play.
Each (Doom3, Half life 2) each have their place, and each will be mine... HUZZAH!......after I get the 300 together for a new grpahic card;-)
I agree, I think a non-levelling based MMOG would be a lot better one which was much more focused to traditional Pen and Paper styled XP where you constantly gain XP and it is up to you to apply this when and wherever you want. You apply it wrong its your fault. There are many systems which would be useful for this sort of thing, FUDGE, GURPS, Uni-System and the rest.
Having played Pen and Paper before any MMOG's I can say that levelling is a pain in teh butt and free form XP allows much more varied and interesting characters. Even a system which automatically allocates XP to skill sets, similar to an idea in Neocron, is preferable but I think the true freeform XP system is a lot more fun.
I can just see White Wolf now... after at last killing off WoD they decide to create a future-alternate-WoD where Vampiric Robots are running an underground war against genetic-engineered-lycanthropes... on second thoughts I copyright that idea... mmm "cash cow"!!!;-)
Speaking as someone of "larger than most" girth (more commonly known as "so large Greenpeace keeps putting me back in the water everytime I go sun-bathing,") I would REALLY welcome this kinda tech.
Imagine it being able to sit around all day, playing games, watching DVDs and knowing that my snakcing was powering its systems... ah the poetic nature of it all and with my excess fat content I think I would even give that cursed Duracell Bunny a go!;-)
Yeah, why is there no Neocron, it must be have at least a few thousand players on line everytime I log on and that can't be everyone.
That being said Neocron (of which I am a long time player) seems to be not getting very far, ceratinly not on the server that I play on. There are many issues within the game not least of content and HUGE player ability gaps.
Though having sauid that I keep on coming back, I keep on loading it up and running around for hours praying no one will blast my monk to pieces with a pop-gun. I think it has teh possibility to be one of the best sci-fi MMOG's out there if it is given the chance and a few more additions to the setting (like Dome of York) and more in game plot would be fun.
I have to confess that I am both a a pen-an-paper role player and an avid computer game player. I have noticed this problem is mainly to do with, as people have already said, how you let people go about the tasks they are presented with and also what tasks they have to do. I have been involved with Neocron since it ending its open beta stage. There are elements in Neocron which could allow for more traditional GM (Games Master) situations as there supposed to be players out there which can effect the world by creating and removing problems. The problem is that the majority of on-lien gamers want a more in-depth UT2003 or even just a simply blaster like Quake.
Not many people are ardent enough gamers that they would be willing to put up with those who didn't want to role-play when they did. It is a lot easier not to role-play than to stay in character. I think that there should be be games which take more traditional role-playing elements such as GM's, open ended situation and missions and the like. Dues Ex 2 is promising to maybe such a game, although this is of course not an MMORPG by any means but it does show that FPS lovers and RPG lovers can find a game which they can both play.
I suppose in the long run it's a bit of a pipe dream to have a proper RPG based MMORPG or is it? I guess as always it should be the case of if see something you want done, do it. I think it'll be cool if proper role-players took even GURPS system and using the mod-happy Half Life 2 engine made a free, open ended RPG world. It could work... maybe... ok probably not. I can dream though.;-)
Take Neocron for example. A german game which is a heck of a lot cheaper then SW:G, and had (unfortunetly) a similar launch to SW:G except they had 4 full time developers and a small budget and Lucas had millions behind them.
I just hope that Lucas get better content and faster than Neocron it suffers abit from lack of stuff, worse thing is I really like Neocron.
I have to agree though it is cheaper than most MMOPRG's I have seen I think its about £30 I pay for 3 months (actually must check that!).
I take your points, tho I must say that I of course include the pope, at that time, within my "lunatics". The Crusades and other big duff-ups of the church (in its many forms) are a subject I suppose that means a lot to me being a Christian, I guess I tend to get a bit carried away sometimes (just like in the Crusade... oh oh)
I of course meant no offence to you personally, its not my style, I guess I just got kinda heated up after reading a bunch of the other posts, sorry.
Sorry, (no offence attended to writer of above post) I just needed to vent after reading a number of these posts. It gets kind of annoying having certain things constantly thrown in your face just becuiase of your lifestyle choices.
OK, I admit it the Crusades was a bad thing, a very bad thing done by a complete set of lunatics who used religion as an excuse to do what they pleased, stop lumbering us normal people in with them.
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Yup... according to what I have read up on this the poll is not damaged apart from the light on top of it having not worked for some time.
Personally I am going to run the image and the ones before and after through Photoshop and see if I can see any anomalies... of course, there are much better people than me who are probably doing the same.
9pm eastern... Whats that in GMT? ;)
Good luck with the upgrade, I hope Sod and his law stay far... FAR away.
I have to admit that I like GURPS its a really good system but it REALLY needed a revamp. Better layout and organisation of its rules and where and when ceratin things applied would be so cool.
;)
I can't wait. I bet my local game store is gonna be a happy bunny when it comes out thats for sure.
Being a Christian and seeing the scripture (mainly Rev 13:16-18) of my relgion banded about so much I thought I would link to a bunch of different translations which can be found Here. But some have mentioned that they would prefer to see the orginal text, well this one is the closest I can find (the web site has a bunch of other versions clicky here).
My reason is simple, for only by looking at how man sees this text can we hope to discern the meaning behind this very poetic prophecy.
Oh yeah, I think its a dumb idea by the way talk about one great way to track the movements and purchases of a people. Welcome to 1984.
Woot! and much Huzzah! thats made the my 13 hour shift seem actually worth while... I have hope again!
... were "Games Master" (all hail Patrick Moore!!) and "Bits".
Each had their own certain class and style but have yet to be beaten over here.
"Conflicting... feelings rising... could be... amazing... could be disaster... confusing... thoughts..." ... Anyway, I think Izzard could actually be quite good. He is a good enough actor when needs be.
Although personally I would have preferred Anthony Stewart Head. He has the image and presence of The Doctor and has done audio readings (I believe).
... and are they going to do those re-releases in the UK as well?
I think genre plays a bigger part, I mean I just completed Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy on its hardest difficulty setting in a week (I say a week, it was 1-3 hours or so after work a day), I mean that just sucks for length (great game though). While RTS games I play take months to complete on a normal difficulty. (or it could just be I suck at RTS and have L33t FPS skillz ;-)
FPS games tend to be shorter in my experience while RPG is longer but RTYS seem to be the longest lived games I play (especially tose with random maps and skirmish modes).
Anyway that my $0.02.
Yeah! Someoen noticed that Baird was the TRUE inventor of TV.
Funny enough hes a scottish guy along with Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) and a bunch of other scientists who have helped mould the late 19th and early 20th century.
Just did a wee (translation - little) bit of digging on Google and found the following cached page. (I searched for Nerdahoy)
It also appears that these are the gentlemen who made the sites, Lamespy and Crappynews. Which I have never heard of but do sound very parody orientated.
I agree, if this is not a fake then I am a "small thin blonde swedish wilderness cookie girl who ha syet to meet her quota!" ... which I'm not, so it must be a fake, I hope and I pray its not, I REEEEALLLY hope its a fake.
If you combine fusion with this then it could be possible... maybe... kinda...
My view is this you need the Quakes, the Doom's and the Serious Sam's for that fun, "I'm bored and want five minutes of pick up and put down gaming" moments.
...after I get the 300 together for a new grpahic card ;-)
But also we need the Half Life's, DuesEx's and Thiefs for the long term evening of game play for the more in depth and absorbing game play.
Each (Doom3, Half life 2) each have their place, and each will be mine... HUZZAH!...
I agree, I think a non-levelling based MMOG would be a lot better one which was much more focused to traditional Pen and Paper styled XP where you constantly gain XP and it is up to you to apply this when and wherever you want. You apply it wrong its your fault. There are many systems which would be useful for this sort of thing, FUDGE, GURPS, Uni-System and the rest.
Having played Pen and Paper before any MMOG's I can say that levelling is a pain in teh butt and free form XP allows much more varied and interesting characters. Even a system which automatically allocates XP to skill sets, similar to an idea in Neocron, is preferable but I think the true freeform XP system is a lot more fun.
I can just see White Wolf now... after at last killing off WoD they decide to create a future-alternate-WoD where Vampiric Robots are running an underground war against genetic-engineered-lycanthropes... on second thoughts I copyright that idea... mmm "cash cow"!!! ;-)
Speaking as someone of "larger than most" girth (more commonly known as "so large Greenpeace keeps putting me back in the water everytime I go sun-bathing,") I would REALLY welcome this kinda tech.
;-)
Imagine it being able to sit around all day, playing games, watching DVDs and knowing that my snakcing was powering its systems... ah the poetic nature of it all and with my excess fat content I think I would even give that cursed Duracell Bunny a go!
Yeah, why is there no Neocron, it must be have at least a few thousand players on line everytime I log on and that can't be everyone.
That being said Neocron (of which I am a long time player) seems to be not getting very far, ceratinly not on the server that I play on. There are many issues within the game not least of content and HUGE player ability gaps.
Though having sauid that I keep on coming back, I keep on loading it up and running around for hours praying no one will blast my monk to pieces with a pop-gun. I think it has teh possibility to be one of the best sci-fi MMOG's out there if it is given the chance and a few more additions to the setting (like Dome of York) and more in game plot would be fun.
Anyway, slightly off topic I guess.
I have to confess that I am both a a pen-an-paper role player and an avid computer game player. I have noticed this problem is mainly to do with, as people have already said, how you let people go about the tasks they are presented with and also what tasks they have to do. I have been involved with Neocron since it ending its open beta stage. There are elements in Neocron which could allow for more traditional GM (Games Master) situations as there supposed to be players out there which can effect the world by creating and removing problems. The problem is that the majority of on-lien gamers want a more in-depth UT2003 or even just a simply blaster like Quake.
;-)
Not many people are ardent enough gamers that they would be willing to put up with those who didn't want to role-play when they did. It is a lot easier not to role-play than to stay in character. I think that there should be be games which take more traditional role-playing elements such as GM's, open ended situation and missions and the like. Dues Ex 2 is promising to maybe such a game, although this is of course not an MMORPG by any means but it does show that FPS lovers and RPG lovers can find a game which they can both play.
I suppose in the long run it's a bit of a pipe dream to have a proper RPG based MMORPG or is it? I guess as always it should be the case of if see something you want done, do it. I think it'll be cool if proper role-players took even GURPS system and using the mod-happy Half Life 2 engine made a free, open ended RPG world. It could work... maybe... ok probably not. I can dream though.
not to pick nits or anything, but in episode two right at the beginning a rocket launcher is used to destroy a ship...
;-)
Yeah but that was Episode 2, which was a poor Star Wars film (not as bad as Episode 1 but still).
Though having said that, you never know SWG might get rail gun's. Hmmmm Jedi's against a Rail Gun... block THAT shot
Take Neocron for example. A german game which is a heck of a lot cheaper then SW:G, and had (unfortunetly) a similar launch to SW:G except they had 4 full time developers and a small budget and Lucas had millions behind them.
I just hope that Lucas get better content and faster than Neocron it suffers abit from lack of stuff, worse thing is I really like Neocron.
I have to agree though it is cheaper than most MMOPRG's I have seen I think its about £30 I pay for 3 months (actually must check that!).
I take your points, tho I must say that I of course include the pope, at that time, within my "lunatics". The Crusades and other big duff-ups of the church (in its many forms) are a subject I suppose that means a lot to me being a Christian, I guess I tend to get a bit carried away sometimes (just like in the Crusade... oh oh)
I of course meant no offence to you personally, its not my style, I guess I just got kinda heated up after reading a bunch of the other posts, sorry.
touché! :-)
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Sorry, (no offence attended to writer of above post) I just needed to vent after reading a number of these posts. It gets kind of annoying having certain things constantly thrown in your face just becuiase of your lifestyle choices.
OK, I admit it the Crusades was a bad thing, a very bad thing done by a complete set of lunatics who used religion as an excuse to do what they pleased, stop lumbering us normal people in with them.
Please.
Pretty Please.
Oh go on...
Trying to upgrade His servers to Apache ;-)