We are gamers. Heck we even play the some of the same games as PC gamers. There were NES gamers who roamed Skara Brae and met the Purple tentacle. There were SNES gamers who roamed the Isles of Terra or fired their pistol in E1M1. There's PS1 gamers who played X-Com or told Deckard Cain to shut up about staying a while and listening. There's PS2 gamers who looked through the eyes of Gordon Freeman in Black Mesa or JC Denton in NYC. There's PS3 gamers who have looked through the eyes of Gordon Freeman at Alyx Vance or killed their first mudcrab outside the sewer exit near the Imperial City in Cyrodil.
Not FACT, false. I've never had any device scratch a disc. Not the PS1, not the PS2, not the PS3. I have a copy of FFVII purchased in 1997 without a single scratch on it, that I could put in this PS3 right now, boot back to GameOS and play.
If your discs have scratches, perhaps it's not the systems that are scratching them, but your handling of them. Do you stack them outside of their cases? Do you hold them not on the edges but the disc surface? Do you roughly put them in the drives, just slapping them in there any old way?
How convenient that we find out he had it, not long after he left office. As I said myself to my family while he was still in office: "the way he acts sometimes at press conferences it's like he's got a bit of that Alzheimers".
SL has built in voice chat....and people actually use it. Also people are relatively more open about their RL in SL than gamers are in traditional MMORPG's, in part because you do more communication than "incoming mob add, somebody root/slow/stop it." There's a bit of an SL truism: SL is a "women's world". One of the things guys in SL always complain about is the lack of avatar customization options for men. There's a bajillion sellers of great female "skin", but far far fewer of male skin.
Oh I have an idea! visit the SL oriented blogs and listen to the voices on those "leave a voice message widgets" like mychingo. Here's one: http://roslinpetion.blogspot.com/ That's the blog of my favorite skin maker. Or listen to SL podcasts. You'll see.
No, SL really does have a lot of women, it is not like WoW. See you've got your stay at home mom's, you've got your internet savvy women (who perhaps build websites as their main job) doing SL and using their photoshop skills in there, you've got the art school/graphic design gals who design clothes/jewelry, you've got the women in the music scene who either perform or use their massive CD collection to DJ at clubs/events, you've got RL makeup artists using their makeup knowledge to do the same in SL. you've got what seems to be hordes of librarians doing whatever it is they do at their cool librarian places.
You mean "transgendered" and not "sexually challenged". Sexual identity and gender identity are not the same thing. And while SL does have a following among some MTF (male to female) transgendered folks (it's a lot like IRC in that way), the majority of female avatars are played by women. You can figure that out just by using the built in voice chat.
If you check out Jim's avatar in SL, his rez date actually predates Dwight's avatar's rezdate. And unlike Dwight's avatar, who looks like Dwight, Jim's is your stereotypical SL music scene attending "cool guy". So Jim's more of an "SL loser" than Dwight, he just doesn't want to admit it. Jim's avatar was also partnered with Pam's. The Office character's avatar profiles are a fun read.
I think taking out the PS2 compatibility was a bad idea, that said there's plenty of 80GB MGS4 models out there and plenty of compatible models in the used market. But one of the biggest selling points, besides the PS3 games, the PS2 games, the multimedia stuff, the PSP integration, was this:
[CronoCloud@mideel ~]$ cat/etc/redhat-release Yellow Dog Linux release 6.0 (Pyxis)
You know, I never thought of it that way. I'm reasonably new to Linux, first started using it in 2002. I'm not a developer of any kind, just a person who uses it as a desktop. It just seems "natural" to me that if I want to figure out how to do something in Linux, I should google or read forums, and that I will probably have to edit a text file or something. Just recently my e-mail application, claws mail, began segfaulting when trying to use it's "calendaring" type plugin functionality. I reported the problem on the claws mail users mailing list and it was fixed in CVS in a very short period of time. So I downloaded the CVS version of the plugin (I usually stick to release builds) and did a compile/install which got me back the functionality. I guess most people wouldn't want to do that, I guess I'm more of a Linux geek than I thought.
Blizzard got their start doing console development. Why they abandoned it I don't know.
While a game like StarCraft wouldn't work on a traditional console,
Tell that to the N64 version of Starcraft.
the argument can be made that Diablo
Ported to the PSone back in 1998. Same screen multiplayer.
(There exist crappy little "chat" keyboard controller addons which answers the "keyboard question." Plus all three next-gen consoles support USB keyboards.)
Who needs a keyboard in a Diablo clone when you have voice chat? In case you didn't know those PS2 diablo clones that had internet play all had voice chat. As for MMORPG's you forgot that a last generation console supported USB keyboards too and had two MMORPG's
Any thoughts on porting existing games to consoles? Or developing a console-only game?
Hmmph, Blizzard would have to play catchup, at least in the Diablo clone market. Compare all those PS2 Diablo clones to D2 and D3. In fact D3 looks pretty much like an enhanced Snowblind Engine game, without the rotatable camera.
I would never send a Linux newbie to your average $PROJECT IRC channel on Freenode. Some of them are VERY end-user hostile. And even if they aren't, is the newbie going to idle for 12 hours waiting for an answer? Forums and message boards are better for newbies.
Linux format is a great magazine, however being UK based and including a DVD means it's 15 bucks an issue here in the US. Their publisher REALLY needs to set up shop in US and print a US version here.
The eeePC doesn't even come with Gimp, for instance. Another convenient use for the eeePC is to get photos from my camera's SD card, I feel it's more convenient than plugging the USB cable. But then I want to crop the pictures, enhance this or that, and the eeePC lacks a decent image editor.
Say what? No GIMP by default? Even Sony's wacky Kondara-ized Red Hat on the PS2 had it.
from googleing You should be able to install it with a quick:
sudo nano/etc/apt/sources.list
add these in:
deb http://updates.xepc.org/ p701 main deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/eeepcrepos/ p701 etch main deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main deb http://www.geekconnection.org/ xandros4 main deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 main etch
Me neither, mostly because when examples are given in magazines like LJ and on sites/how-tos written in the last couple of years, the author unfailingly chooses Ubuntu for the examples.
Which is annoying. They should do tutorials in a more cross-distro way. Instead of saying "apt-get install foo" they could say. "on debian based distros use apt-get install foo, on red hat based ones use yum install foo"
I'm a moderator on the Yellow Dog Linux boards and we're getting a LOT of people who are new to Linux (either installing it on their PS3's or to bring an old Mac back into usefulness), probably not as many as the generalized Ubuntu boards, but still quite many.
2) The fonts in Windows have been optimized at the per-pixel level to match up with LCD monitors. In KDE 3.x the fonts are about where they were in the Windows 3.1 world, circa 1995. Big pudgy letters that my eyes have to fight to glom. Especially in FireFox on Linux.
This is what your post looks like to me on Firefox 3 under Yellow Dog Linux 6:
3) For fucks sake - where's the calculator? It's bad enough that I can't hover over the different parts of the start menu (or what ever it's called) and just see what's under there, drill down without it hiding all the other stuff because it 'page flipped' - but the calculator isn't called 'calculator'. It's called kcalc. And the movie player isn't called 'movie player'. It's called ICEwigga or something. And the music player isn't called 'music player' - it's called kude or some shit like that.
Depends on the distro. Some distros do have kcalc listed in the menus as calculator, or Rhythmbox as "music player".
You should start a sourceforge project for your tutorial thingy. Seriously. It's folks like you who really are making Linux easier and more enjoyable to use for the next less geeky set of Linux users. Kudos to you.
They probably gave special effects to the stomp because it is probably a "spell like feat type" ability, even if it's not truly magical. Charge attacks in the PS2 Diablo clones have similar effects.
As for the red streaks, I didn't notice those. Ahhh, if you pay close attention the red streaks don't happen for every axe strike. Bet those are specials too, notice how the mana doesn't go down? Bet he's using feats all the time with an umlimited mana cheat to show off the eye candy.
Because a good gaming capable computer will cost more, sure some of the newegg obsessed builder types could do a $600 rig, but most people buy off the rack. Also the experience is plug n' play, less of a hassle.
Besides, doing any of my suggestions isn't that hard.
There shouldn't be colors involved with every sword and axe swing.
I disagree. If I'm wielding a sword with fire attributes I want to see the sword flaming when I'm carrying it. When you play a tabletop game, and your character has a badass magic weapon, don't you imagine the weapon glowing/sparking/flaming?
Realism and atmosphere is what immersed the gamer into D1,
It was? I thought it was the fun of nonstop hacking and the ability to fire tons of arrows without having to carry any and the ability to cast walls of fire on all who oppose you. That doesn't sound realistic to me.
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If the software is done right it should. I personally compiled GIMP 2.4.5 and Claws-Mail 3.4.0 on a PS2 with a Linux kit a 2001/2002 era distro.
We are gamers. Heck we even play the some of the same games as PC gamers. There were NES gamers who roamed Skara Brae and met the Purple tentacle. There were SNES gamers who roamed the Isles of Terra or fired their pistol in E1M1. There's PS1 gamers who played X-Com or told Deckard Cain to shut up about staying a while and listening. There's PS2 gamers who looked through the eyes of Gordon Freeman in Black Mesa or JC Denton in NYC. There's PS3 gamers who have looked through the eyes of Gordon Freeman at Alyx Vance or killed their first mudcrab outside the sewer exit near the Imperial City in Cyrodil.
Not FACT, false. I've never had any device scratch a disc. Not the PS1, not the PS2, not the PS3. I have a copy of FFVII purchased in 1997 without a single scratch on it, that I could put in this PS3 right now, boot back to GameOS and play.
If your discs have scratches, perhaps it's not the systems that are scratching them, but your handling of them. Do you stack them outside of their cases? Do you hold them not on the edges but the disc surface? Do you roughly put them in the drives, just slapping them in there any old way?
s/senile/early stage Alzheimers
How convenient that we find out he had it, not long after he left office. As I said myself to my family while he was still in office: "the way he acts sometimes at press conferences it's like he's got a bit of that Alzheimers".
It was called Mana Shield in D1. If memory serves me correctly the Cleric class in Champions of Norrath has a similar (but less effective) ability.
SL has built in voice chat....and people actually use it. Also people are relatively more open about their RL in SL than gamers are in traditional MMORPG's, in part because you do more communication than "incoming mob add, somebody root/slow/stop it." There's a bit of an SL truism: SL is a "women's world". One of the things guys in SL always complain about is the lack of avatar customization options for men. There's a bajillion sellers of great female "skin", but far far fewer of male skin.
Oh I have an idea! visit the SL oriented blogs and listen to the voices on those "leave a voice message widgets" like mychingo. Here's one:
http://roslinpetion.blogspot.com/ That's the blog of my favorite skin maker. Or listen to SL podcasts. You'll see.
No, SL really does have a lot of women, it is not like WoW. See you've got your stay at home mom's, you've got your internet savvy women (who perhaps build websites as their main job) doing SL and using their photoshop skills in there, you've got the art school/graphic design gals who design clothes/jewelry, you've got the women in the music scene who either perform or use their massive CD collection to DJ at clubs/events, you've got RL makeup artists using their makeup knowledge to do the same in SL. you've got what seems to be hordes of librarians doing whatever it is they do at their cool librarian places.
You mean "transgendered" and not "sexually challenged". Sexual identity and gender identity are not the same thing. And while SL does have a following among some MTF (male to female) transgendered folks (it's a lot like IRC in that way), the majority of female avatars are played by women. You can figure that out just by using the built in voice chat.
If you check out Jim's avatar in SL, his rez date actually predates Dwight's avatar's rezdate. And unlike Dwight's avatar, who looks like Dwight, Jim's is your stereotypical SL music scene attending "cool guy". So Jim's more of an "SL loser" than Dwight, he just doesn't want to admit it. Jim's avatar was also partnered with Pam's. The Office character's avatar profiles are a fun read.
I think taking out the PS2 compatibility was a bad idea, that said there's plenty of 80GB MGS4 models out there and plenty of compatible models in the used market. But one of the biggest selling points, besides the PS3 games, the PS2 games, the multimedia stuff, the PSP integration, was this:
I can dual boot between Linux and GameOS functions as I desire.
You know, I never thought of it that way. I'm reasonably new to Linux, first started using it in 2002. I'm not a developer of any kind, just a person who uses it as a desktop. It just seems "natural" to me that if I want to figure out how to do something in Linux, I should google or read forums, and that I will probably have to edit a text file or something. Just recently my e-mail application, claws mail, began segfaulting when trying to use it's "calendaring" type plugin functionality. I reported the problem on the claws mail users mailing list and it was fixed in CVS in a very short period of time. So I downloaded the CVS version of the plugin (I usually stick to release builds) and did a compile/install which got me back the functionality. I guess most people wouldn't want to do that, I guess I'm more of a Linux geek than I thought.
Those DS cartridges are limited to 256MB in size, that limits the kinds of games a DS can do.
It'll probably work similarly to how the health orb system in Marvel Ultimate Alliance works.
Blizzard got their start doing console development. Why they abandoned it I don't know.
Tell that to the N64 version of Starcraft.
Ported to the PSone back in 1998. Same screen multiplayer.
Who needs a keyboard in a Diablo clone when you have voice chat? In case you didn't know those PS2 diablo clones that had internet play all had voice chat. As for MMORPG's you forgot that a last generation console supported USB keyboards too and had two MMORPG's
Hmmph, Blizzard would have to play catchup, at least in the Diablo clone market. Compare all those PS2 Diablo clones to D2 and D3. In fact D3 looks pretty much like an enhanced Snowblind Engine game, without the rotatable camera.
I would never send a Linux newbie to your average $PROJECT IRC channel on Freenode. Some of them are VERY end-user hostile. And even if they aren't, is the newbie going to idle for 12 hours waiting for an answer? Forums and message boards are better for newbies.
Linux format is a great magazine, however being UK based and including a DVD means it's 15 bucks an issue here in the US. Their publisher REALLY needs to set up shop in US and print a US version here.
Say what? No GIMP by default? Even Sony's wacky Kondara-ized Red Hat on the PS2 had it.
from googleing You should be able to install it with a quick:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
add these in:
save and exit.
then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
Which is annoying. They should do tutorials in a more cross-distro way. Instead of saying "apt-get install foo" they could say. "on debian based distros use apt-get install foo, on red hat based ones use yum install foo"
I'm a moderator on the Yellow Dog Linux boards and we're getting a LOT of people who are new to Linux (either installing it on their PS3's or to bring an old Mac back into usefulness), probably not as many as the generalized Ubuntu boards, but still quite many.
This is what your post looks like to me on Firefox 3 under Yellow Dog Linux 6:
http://home.mchsi.com/~CronoCloud/pics/firefox_slashdot.png
Does it look like that to you?
You should start a sourceforge project for your tutorial thingy. Seriously. It's folks like you who really are making Linux easier and more enjoyable to use for the next less geeky set of Linux users. Kudos to you.
You forgot Nethack.
Abiword has .docx support if odf-converter isn't available to you for some reason. (yeah me too, distro shipped an older OO, plus it's PPC)
They probably gave special effects to the stomp because it is probably a "spell like feat type" ability, even if it's not truly magical. Charge attacks in the PS2 Diablo clones have similar effects.
As for the red streaks, I didn't notice those. Ahhh, if you pay close attention the red streaks don't happen for every axe strike. Bet those are specials too, notice how the mana doesn't go down? Bet he's using feats all the time with an umlimited mana cheat to show off the eye candy.
Because a good gaming capable computer will cost more, sure some of the newegg obsessed builder types could do a $600 rig, but most people buy off the rack. Also the experience is plug n' play, less of a hassle.
Besides, doing any of my suggestions isn't that hard.
I disagree. If I'm wielding a sword with fire attributes I want to see the sword flaming when I'm carrying it. When you play a tabletop game, and your character has a badass magic weapon, don't you imagine the weapon glowing/sparking/flaming?
It was? I thought it was the fun of nonstop hacking and the ability to fire tons of arrows without having to carry any and the ability to cast walls of fire on all who oppose you. That doesn't sound realistic to me.