Great story, incredibly cute and artistically fantastic graphics, still pretty simple and all-in-all light on violence, available for just every platform under the sun, it's a great choice.
I really think pen and paper roleplaying games should get their own topic, instead of the generic "FFIV" one. After all, there is little in common with Mass Effect and D&D...
Yes, it's news for nerds, but it comes up sufficiently that it makes sense.
Of course, you'd have to bounce your connexion through InterNIC, hack into the International Academic Database, disable the proxy and clear your logs afterwards...:D
Were I to have Mod points, I'd mod you up in a second.
There really should be a distinct icon for tabletop RPGs, there certainly is a critical mass of pen-and-paper roleplayers on/.. The FFII icon just doesn't represent nights of cola, chips and dice-rolling.
I have to wonder. ReiserFS does really nice with all the hard-work partitions I have over here, and I'm more than willing to convert (yes, using tar if I must), risking crashes and data losses.
But what crashes/corruptions are we talking about? Will I lose my entire filesystem? Will files randomly disappear? Will it install Windows on my Linux box? (Lords no!)
How tested was this 1.0 release? I have to assume it was "thoroughly but not fully" tested, am I right? After all, why release a 1.0 if you're not ready to "promise" at least basic stability to normal users?
I REALLY like the idea. For some time, I've advocated that one of the biggest obstacle to Linux on the Desktop is dual-booting: so you CAN boot Linux, but you WON'T, reverting to Windows at the first glance of an attractive Windows-Only game or a reluctant.doc file.
Now you can get the best of both worlds... suspect this will be of great interest to developpers around the globe: hot-swapping between Half-Life 2 and Gvim to code is something I'm looking forward to!
I would have liked to go, but for that little stupid phrase that goes like "(excluding Quebec)". Is there a law that's not abiding? I recognize my english is not THAT good, but I can certainly manage Java very well...
Quebec is, after all, one of the best source of IT expertise (regarding the population ratio), first in the publication of french content of the web (yes, OVER France, who's 10 times more populated).
If everybody's switching to commercial, polished,,uniformized versions of Linux, you can BET Debian's not going to thread that road.
Indeed, innovation has been going a bit slow over the last half of the decade, but I put that on the extreme need for Linux to prove itself in high-demand production environments.
Once we're all really accustomed to a really stable development model around Linux and the Debian community (esp. around "core" packages), I really expect someone to come up with some really funky idea, a new approach for Debian to progress beyond its boundaries.
Remember: if someone's going to come up with something really innovative, I'm betting he'll be in the largest group, and Debian's bigger (in many ways) than the largest of private corporations...
root@grandpas:/home/amajor# apt-get -u remove emacs20 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: emacs20 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 28.6MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. root@grandpas:/home/amajor#
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Great story, incredibly cute and artistically fantastic graphics, still pretty simple and all-in-all light on violence, available for just every platform under the sun, it's a great choice.
You can't go wrong.
Wouldn't that be the best time ever to create a "Pen & Paper RPGs" Topic? Maybe even name it in his honor?
I never really felt the Final Fantasy one did "that kind of RPGs" justice...
I really think pen and paper roleplaying games should get their own topic, instead of the generic "FFIV" one. After all, there is little in common with Mass Effect and D&D...
Yes, it's news for nerds, but it comes up sufficiently that it makes sense.
Am I the only one reminded of a very good independant british computer game?
:D
Of course, you'd have to bounce your connexion through InterNIC, hack into the International Academic Database, disable the proxy and clear your logs afterwards...
stolen HD? yes, but no good against stolen computer (and only good if the crooks cannot do the above two)
Yes, good against a stolen computer, as mounting the said partition requires the right passphrase.
See those ads:
= BAC-DNDGAMENIGHT
http://craphound.com/images/wowdanddad.jpg
and the ensuing website from Wizards...
http://www.wizards.com/gamenight/default.asp?dcmp
Were I to have Mod points, I'd mod you up in a second.
/.. The FFII icon just doesn't represent nights of cola, chips and dice-rolling.
There really should be a distinct icon for tabletop RPGs, there certainly is a critical mass of pen-and-paper roleplayers on
Somehow an icon with a joystick just isn't right.
/. crowd has a critical mass for this.
Hell, they even got one for RTS, so why not RPGs? I'm pretty sure the
I have to wonder. ReiserFS does really nice with all the hard-work partitions I have over here, and I'm more than willing to convert (yes, using tar if I must), risking crashes and data losses.
But what crashes/corruptions are we talking about? Will I lose my entire filesystem? Will files randomly disappear? Will it install Windows on my Linux box? (Lords no!)
How tested was this 1.0 release? I have to assume it was "thoroughly but not fully" tested, am I right? After all, why release a 1.0 if you're not ready to "promise" at least basic stability to normal users?
I would be glad the offender would have used it for something better than spreading out pr0n...
Sadly, it's not been compromised at all.
As an aside, Scox is the name of a demon, more specifically a duke of Hell, in judeo-christian mythology.
:D
No, not related, why'd you ask?
I REALLY like the idea. For some time, I've advocated that one of the biggest obstacle to Linux on the Desktop is dual-booting: so you CAN boot Linux, but you WON'T, reverting to Windows at the first glance of an attractive Windows-Only game or a reluctant .doc file.
Now you can get the best of both worlds... suspect this will be of great interest to developpers around the globe: hot-swapping between Half-Life 2 and Gvim to code is something I'm looking forward to!
But that wouldn't "political discrimination" be against the law, even in the 'States? It is in Canada and Quebec...
Yeah!!
Why?
Pourquoi, tabarnak?
I would have liked to go, but for that little stupid phrase that goes like "(excluding Quebec)". Is there a law that's not abiding? I recognize my english is not THAT good, but I can certainly manage Java very well...
Quebec is, after all, one of the best source of IT expertise (regarding the population ratio), first in the publication of french content of the web (yes, OVER France, who's 10 times more populated).
OK! OK! I confess!
...hello?...
...anyone?
I'm of the "SCO supporting silent majority" already! Now I _know_ most of the people here are just like me, anxious to step out int the light!
WELL NOW'S THE TIME!
If everybody's switching to commercial, polished, ,uniformized versions of Linux, you can BET Debian's not going to thread that road.
Indeed, innovation has been going a bit slow over the last half of the decade, but I put that on the extreme need for Linux to prove itself in high-demand production environments.
Once we're all really accustomed to a really stable development model around Linux and the Debian community (esp. around "core" packages), I really expect someone to come up with some really funky idea, a new approach for Debian to progress beyond its boundaries.
Remember: if someone's going to come up with something really innovative, I'm betting he'll be in the largest group, and Debian's bigger (in many ways) than the largest of private corporations...