Joe Schmoe: What the fuck? Someone logged on my account and stole EVERYTHING in my bank, including my 10,000 gold pieces and epic blow up doll collection!
Typical scenario, and no, I don't make this shit up. Although, the stolen items & currency are usually refunded, it's just asking for trouble if you sign up for something like this. Don't give your password(s) out to complete strangers, and you'll be better off for it.
To the submitter : Get a laptop. Seriously, they've never been so cheap as they are today. You can get a *FULL FEATURED* laptop for around $500, if that. A Mac mini or a used Powerbook are two other good suggestions, and both require a lot less maintenance / tweaking.
-----SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING-----
Speaking of I-openers, I have a V1 I-opener for sale if anyones interested in it.
$50 and it's yours, seriously take it off my hands. We'll set up something on Paypal or Ebay, I'll UPS it out the minute I get payment. I can't seem to get rid of the thing. If you're in the greater Chicagoland area, I'll even come gladly deliver & power it up for you myself.
The screen is a tad yellowed from being so old, but I really only booted it up once or twice, with the intention of modding it, and never got around to it. It still boots to this very day. It's a V1 without the gooped up bios, so you can pretty much go to town with it.
Not trolling, or bullshitting. E-mail me, we'll talk price. I'm more than willing to go the extra mile to ship this thing out to someone who will actually use it.
And Hi, it's The Register - what's wrong with you? I'm even wearing my little vulture logo shirt as I type this, they aren't evil, they're brits - there is a difference.
It's a little too open ended. I can't stand playing games where I know what's going to happen, or having to go down a static route to achieve my goal. However, Oblivion kind of just throws you in the role, without any training or walkthroughs, or DIRECTION. The weapon & armor system is confusing, the leveling is equally as confusing, and the training system leaves a bit to be desired.
Yes, I'm one of 4 people who don't strongly love this game, but it does have some glaring problems.
One of the worst bugs i've encountered has to do with a horse you acquire during the game. The NPC's in the game do not understand that your horse isn't stolen, so they chase after you (even important quest NPC's, Martin did this) until they kill either you or the horse. This obviously is a game breaking problem, you could wind up dead or in jail because of something you have no control over.
Otherwise, it's a good game - just add some tutorials and make the interface a little more user friendly. I've been playing it for 3 days and I still can't figure out what dictates weapon power, or how I fit in to the 'thief' category while i'm running around with a long sword & shield.
This is like putting a 4 cylinder Kia engine in your brand new Ferrari, just because you can. Putting XP on anything apple is a complete waste of time, and, I can't wait until Apple cracks down on this garbage, if they even decide to put forth the effort.
Come on - you pay a premium price for a reason. Not because of the hardware, but what powers it. Take a gander at their system specs and try to build your own x86 box, you will do it cheaper, EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Please, stop perpetuating this crap on Slashdot. It's completely worthless, and it just reeks of this immature 'because we can' attitude.
Please... saying Tron flopped at the box office is like saying Gigli is a thought provoking masterpiece. Box office sales may have been somewhat pale, but they're comparing it to Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Conan the Barbarian which were also released around the same time.
Very misleading summary. Tron was, and still is, a nice piece of movie history. The arcade game was also great, I could almost guarantee there is a Tron machine within 50 miles of wherever you're reading this from.
I'd love to see a movie sequel, but knowing Hollywood & the way they bastardize everything, it would star Lindsay Lohan, The Rock, and a monkey that solves crime.
Episode 1, 2, 3, etc. Of course, the actual game has nothing to do with Star Wars, but, it was the only geeky reference to episodic entertainment I could think of at the time.
A word of advice from your friendly internet gamer : Pre-order a few PS3's.
Sell them for an inflated price when there's a mad rush to purchase them, and it will cover the cost for whatever time you've put in to it. If demand seems like it's going to be really good, i'd buy more than two if I had enough cash. It wont matter what the production costs are if there's some kind of a shortage, which there usually always is.
I've sold consoles like that on ebay & by word of mouth to several people in the greater Chicagoland area. $500 Xbox 360 may make the baby jesus cry, but for some rich fscker in Naperville, it was just the right price. Kind of OT, but, a true story.
1) Release each episode at $9.95 a pop, making it reasonable for people to purchase them now, as well as future episodes.
2) Stifle the Star Wars-esque episode crap, and just dedicate resources to a full expansion & engine update.
$20 seems a bit excessive for a glorified map pack, and I certainly wouldn't purchase multiple episodes at that price. If I wanted the proverbial carrot on the stick, I would've stuck with WoW.
I see a lot of "who the hell is Bruce Campbell?" posts and I'd like to make a few points -
Bruce Campbell is a guy who actively does Q&A with audience memebers. When's the last time you've heard of any multi-million dollar actor do that?
He seems like he's generally a decent guy - he understands his fans make him money, so he treats them with respect & admiration.
He's been in several cult horror films, some of which were actually really good but lacked any A-list actors to be taken seriously.
For those that can't picture who Bruce Campbell is - he was the door guy in Spiderman 2 that didn't let Peter in the theater because he was late.
Lately, he's been in Bubba Ho-Tep, which is another really good movie that didn't garner big box office dollars, but was still incredibly fun to watch. He plays Elvis in a retirement home which is invaded by a mummy, and his best friend (John F. Kennedy) who happens to be african american and has a bag of sand implanted in his head, helps him fend off the evil mummy.
Why is this such a big deal with (insert FOTM political retard here) and not with everyone else who has played the game?
Virtually murder scores of people, have gang wars, steal a car, blow up a military base, do drugs, but the second sex comes in to the picture - it's horrible and it kills little baby angels!
This drama has gone a little bit too far, and I really hope the only thing it manages to do is bolster sales of GTA:SA.
5 comments... just about the same amount of people who give a shit about whatever Mythic is going to develop in the future.
DAoC was a total nightmare - a monthly fee on top of paying for expansions every 3 months, and terribly unbalanced realms left users with empty wallets and a sour taste in their mouth.
Signed,
Alb/Igraine/happily seperated from that miserable game for a few years now.
The classicgaming site is kind of old, the only really interesting link one would find on it would be the emulation one.
I love the little disclaimer they have regarding the "24 hour rule" about downloading roms. It's about as good as the whole Bill Clinton Privacy Act of 1995 I see on every other irc channel.
I wish stuff like that actually worked - I'd warn all the cops that walking up to my window automatically disqualifies me from any speeding tickets.
I like the way the case looks - but what OS is he running on these servers? The only reference I saw to any operating system was a screenshot of a windows XP welcome screen.
Okay, thats great & wonderful, but in the mean time - he's still making money off of clicks from this site in a illicit manner as you obviously know.
You know what he's doing, and why everyone is complaining about it, yet you seem perfectly happy with it. People flood the slash with anti-roland comments to get a message out - a good majority of people here don't want some asshole money off of doing things in bad taste.
I'd also like to see how successful someone would be trying to go after him for copyright infringement in europe, particularly france where he lives and is hosted at. It really wouldn't matter anyways - the money has already been had by the time he posts the story on slashdot.
I mean, copyright enforcement works - right? Look at all the mp3s/movies not being traded on the internet anymore! (cue laughter).
There's some guy named "Roland de Pipuequaville" or something. I can't spell his name. Apparently the slashdot editors have been linking his website a lot for some months. There's this bizarrely large clique of users who are so absolutely blinded with hate and envy as a result that they apparently just absolutely can't stand to talk about anything else.
Thats a great explanation, except for no. People do not like Roland for the following reasons :
A) his website
B) his website
C) his website
Check the article he submitted.. particularly, the "This longer overview" link. Guess where it goes? Why, his own website/blog chock full of hit ads, ads, and even more ads to generate "hit" revenue from slashdot. You even going to his site just made that douchebag some money, and the guy is capitalizing off of submitting stories to slashdot.
What if you ran a small news site that came up with a steady stream of stories, and some guy plagerises 100% of it, mirrors it on his own site and collects all of the advertisement revenue that supposed to keep YOUR site alive? Wouldn't you be a little pissed off? Yeah, I would too. Welcome to what he's been doing on slashdot for quite some time.
Get your facts straight before you come to these conclusions about all the "roland haters", k? Thanks.
that nobody has mentioned Fry's electronics. You might have to stop by their retail locations for most of the good deals, but they still have some great prices on most everything and you can check various forums for sales flyer scans. You can check out their online store here.
Shoplocal is another decent site for various electronic goods, you can check sales via zip code search, very handy site indeed.
Of course, I think every geek knows the standard site for street prices has to be the good ol' pricewatch.
SIGN ME UP! When you make your first million, remember where you got it from.
It really is a good idea. I know Final Fantasy (the CG movie) didn't really sell all that well, but I'd put my money on a well done original dramatic anime series. If it took stories that americans were comfortable with, dropped some of the abstract story lines and put in some believable voice acting, we just may have a winner.
Let's postulate a script written by the Anime people over across the Pacific that is specifically made to cater to an American audience? Something like...oh I don't know..."24" done in a realistic, gritty style....but anime. Something thought provoking, not utterly fantastic. Hell, I bet you could do a passable "X-Files" anime series, if you kept it believable. There's a market, it just takes someone willing to do it.
That's actually a really good idea.. I fail to see why someone hasn't done this yet. Maybe the stories are interesting & quriky enough for japanese culture but I believe over in the US Anime would take if it was just a little bit more.. tame.
That all geeks must love anime. I'm glad 99% of the stuff doesn't make it here - why? Probably because it's crap. The story / dub quality on the anime on adult swim really sounds like it was done by a bunch of middle school students - the "plot" lacks form and any amount of depth for an adult to take seriously.
I'm 25 and in the prime of my geek life - Where is the appeal in Anime? I can't even take the art form seriously after it's been bastadized and role played to death by 'hardcore' geeks. Sorry, I just dont see the connection between anime & my technology based lifestyle. If anything I can relate to american cartoons (family guy, futurama, etc.) than anything else.
I can't connect with some guy named Onimaro that discovers he can shoot laser beams out of his nipples, because the ghost of his great aunt told him he could while he defeated the skateboarding ghost pirates from another planet. That's about how far out and abstract some of this stuff is.
Slashdot Mirror
Gold farmer: Okay!!! We powerlevel your character to level 60! Buku gold & epix! Only $100 American dorra!
(Powerleveling ensues)
Gold farmer: Okay joe! Powerlevel done! Enjoy gold and ninja'd epix!
(3 months later...)
Joe Schmoe: What the fuck? Someone logged on my account and stole EVERYTHING in my bank, including my 10,000 gold pieces and epic blow up doll collection!
Typical scenario, and no, I don't make this shit up. Although, the stolen items & currency are usually refunded, it's just asking for trouble if you sign up for something like this. Don't give your password(s) out to complete strangers, and you'll be better off for it.
To the submitter : Get a laptop. Seriously, they've never been so cheap as they are today. You can get a *FULL FEATURED* laptop for around $500, if that. A Mac mini or a used Powerbook are two other good suggestions, and both require a lot less maintenance / tweaking.
-----SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING-----
Speaking of I-openers, I have a V1 I-opener for sale if anyones interested in it.
$50 and it's yours, seriously take it off my hands. We'll set up something on Paypal or Ebay, I'll UPS it out the minute I get payment. I can't seem to get rid of the thing. If you're in the greater Chicagoland area, I'll even come gladly deliver & power it up for you myself.
The screen is a tad yellowed from being so old, but I really only booted it up once or twice, with the intention of modding it, and never got around to it. It still boots to this very day. It's a V1 without the gooped up bios, so you can pretty much go to town with it.
Not trolling, or bullshitting. E-mail me, we'll talk price. I'm more than willing to go the extra mile to ship this thing out to someone who will actually use it.
Thanks for your time.
This isn't illegal, it's business.
And Hi, it's The Register - what's wrong with you? I'm even wearing my little vulture logo shirt as I type this, they aren't evil, they're brits - there is a difference.
It's a little too open ended. I can't stand playing games where I know what's going to happen, or having to go down a static route to achieve my goal. However, Oblivion kind of just throws you in the role, without any training or walkthroughs, or DIRECTION. The weapon & armor system is confusing, the leveling is equally as confusing, and the training system leaves a bit to be desired.
Yes, I'm one of 4 people who don't strongly love this game, but it does have some glaring problems.
One of the worst bugs i've encountered has to do with a horse you acquire during the game. The NPC's in the game do not understand that your horse isn't stolen, so they chase after you (even important quest NPC's, Martin did this) until they kill either you or the horse. This obviously is a game breaking problem, you could wind up dead or in jail because of something you have no control over.
Otherwise, it's a good game - just add some tutorials and make the interface a little more user friendly. I've been playing it for 3 days and I still can't figure out what dictates weapon power, or how I fit in to the 'thief' category while i'm running around with a long sword & shield.
welp, i've got karma to burn..
This is like putting a 4 cylinder Kia engine in your brand new Ferrari, just because you can. Putting XP on anything apple is a complete waste of time, and, I can't wait until Apple cracks down on this garbage, if they even decide to put forth the effort.
Come on - you pay a premium price for a reason. Not because of the hardware, but what powers it. Take a gander at their system specs and try to build your own x86 box, you will do it cheaper, EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Please, stop perpetuating this crap on Slashdot. It's completely worthless, and it just reeks of this immature 'because we can' attitude.
Please... saying Tron flopped at the box office is like saying Gigli is a thought provoking masterpiece. Box office sales may have been somewhat pale, but they're comparing it to Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Conan the Barbarian which were also released around the same time.
Very misleading summary. Tron was, and still is, a nice piece of movie history. The arcade game was also great, I could almost guarantee there is a Tron machine within 50 miles of wherever you're reading this from.
I'd love to see a movie sequel, but knowing Hollywood & the way they bastardize everything, it would star Lindsay Lohan, The Rock, and a monkey that solves crime.
Episode 1, 2, 3, etc. Of course, the actual game has nothing to do with Star Wars, but, it was the only geeky reference to episodic entertainment I could think of at the time.
A word of advice from your friendly internet gamer : Pre-order a few PS3's.
Sell them for an inflated price when there's a mad rush to purchase them, and it will cover the cost for whatever time you've put in to it. If demand seems like it's going to be really good, i'd buy more than two if I had enough cash. It wont matter what the production costs are if there's some kind of a shortage, which there usually always is.
I've sold consoles like that on ebay & by word of mouth to several people in the greater Chicagoland area. $500 Xbox 360 may make the baby jesus cry, but for some rich fscker in Naperville, it was just the right price. Kind of OT, but, a true story.
The way I see it, ValVe has two options :
1) Release each episode at $9.95 a pop, making it reasonable for people to purchase them now, as well as future episodes.
2) Stifle the Star Wars-esque episode crap, and just dedicate resources to a full expansion & engine update.
$20 seems a bit excessive for a glorified map pack, and I certainly wouldn't purchase multiple episodes at that price. If I wanted the proverbial carrot on the stick, I would've stuck with WoW.
i'd mod you up if i had points.
I see a lot of "who the hell is Bruce Campbell?" posts and I'd like to make a few points -
Bruce Campbell is a guy who actively does Q&A with audience memebers. When's the last time you've heard of any multi-million dollar actor do that?
He seems like he's generally a decent guy - he understands his fans make him money, so he treats them with respect & admiration.
He's been in several cult horror films, some of which were actually really good but lacked any A-list actors to be taken seriously.
For those that can't picture who Bruce Campbell is - he was the door guy in Spiderman 2 that didn't let Peter in the theater because he was late.
Lately, he's been in Bubba Ho-Tep, which is another really good movie that didn't garner big box office dollars, but was still incredibly fun to watch. He plays Elvis in a retirement home which is invaded by a mummy, and his best friend (John F. Kennedy) who happens to be african american and has a bag of sand implanted in his head, helps him fend off the evil mummy.
You can't get any better than that.
Why is this such a big deal with (insert FOTM political retard here) and not with everyone else who has played the game?
Virtually murder scores of people, have gang wars, steal a car, blow up a military base, do drugs, but the second sex comes in to the picture - it's horrible and it kills little baby angels!
This drama has gone a little bit too far, and I really hope the only thing it manages to do is bolster sales of GTA:SA.
http://www.fujitsu.com/img/PR/2005/20050713-01.jpg
At 2:19am, I just want to look at pictures.
5 comments... just about the same amount of people who give a shit about whatever Mythic is going to develop in the future.
DAoC was a total nightmare - a monthly fee on top of paying for expansions every 3 months, and terribly unbalanced realms left users with empty wallets and a sour taste in their mouth.
Signed,
Alb/Igraine/happily seperated from that miserable game for a few years now.
thanks.. i would've looked around a little harder but it seems we've brought this homebrew server to it's knees.
The classicgaming site is kind of old, the only really interesting link one would find on it would be the emulation one.
I love the little disclaimer they have regarding the "24 hour rule" about downloading roms. It's about as good as the whole Bill Clinton Privacy Act of 1995 I see on every other irc channel.
I wish stuff like that actually worked - I'd warn all the cops that walking up to my window automatically disqualifies me from any speeding tickets.
I like the way the case looks - but what OS is he running on these servers? The only reference I saw to any operating system was a screenshot of a windows XP welcome screen.
Okay, thats great & wonderful, but in the mean time - he's still making money off of clicks from this site in a illicit manner as you obviously know.
You know what he's doing, and why everyone is complaining about it, yet you seem perfectly happy with it. People flood the slash with anti-roland comments to get a message out - a good majority of people here don't want some asshole money off of doing things in bad taste.
I'd also like to see how successful someone would be trying to go after him for copyright infringement in europe, particularly france where he lives and is hosted at. It really wouldn't matter anyways - the money has already been had by the time he posts the story on slashdot.
I mean, copyright enforcement works - right? Look at all the mp3s/movies not being traded on the internet anymore! (cue laughter).
There's some guy named "Roland de Pipuequaville" or something. I can't spell his name. Apparently the slashdot editors have been linking his website a lot for some months. There's this bizarrely large clique of users who are so absolutely blinded with hate and envy as a result that they apparently just absolutely can't stand to talk about anything else.
Thats a great explanation, except for no. People do not like Roland for the following reasons :
A) his website
B) his website
C) his website
Check the article he submitted.. particularly, the "This longer overview" link. Guess where it goes? Why, his own website/blog chock full of hit ads, ads, and even more ads to generate "hit" revenue from slashdot. You even going to his site just made that douchebag some money, and the guy is capitalizing off of submitting stories to slashdot.
What if you ran a small news site that came up with a steady stream of stories, and some guy plagerises 100% of it, mirrors it on his own site and collects all of the advertisement revenue that supposed to keep YOUR site alive? Wouldn't you be a little pissed off? Yeah, I would too. Welcome to what he's been doing on slashdot for quite some time.
Get your facts straight before you come to these conclusions about all the "roland haters", k? Thanks.
that nobody has mentioned Fry's electronics. You might have to stop by their retail locations for most of the good deals, but they still have some great prices on most everything and you can check various forums for sales flyer scans. You can check out their online store here.
Shoplocal is another decent site for various electronic goods, you can check sales via zip code search, very handy site indeed.
Of course, I think every geek knows the standard site for street prices has to be the good ol' pricewatch.
What Games Do Women Play?
Mind.
SIGN ME UP! When you make your first million, remember where you got it from.
It really is a good idea. I know Final Fantasy (the CG movie) didn't really sell all that well, but I'd put my money on a well done original dramatic anime series. If it took stories that americans were comfortable with, dropped some of the abstract story lines and put in some believable voice acting, we just may have a winner.
Let's postulate a script written by the Anime people over across the Pacific that is specifically made to cater to an American audience? Something like...oh I don't know..."24" done in a realistic, gritty style....but anime. Something thought provoking, not utterly fantastic. Hell, I bet you could do a passable "X-Files" anime series, if you kept it believable. There's a market, it just takes someone willing to do it.
That's actually a really good idea.. I fail to see why someone hasn't done this yet. Maybe the stories are interesting & quriky enough for japanese culture but I believe over in the US Anime would take if it was just a little bit more.. tame.
That all geeks must love anime. I'm glad 99% of the stuff doesn't make it here - why? Probably because it's crap. The story / dub quality on the anime on adult swim really sounds like it was done by a bunch of middle school students - the "plot" lacks form and any amount of depth for an adult to take seriously.
I'm 25 and in the prime of my geek life - Where is the appeal in Anime? I can't even take the art form seriously after it's been bastadized and role played to death by 'hardcore' geeks. Sorry, I just dont see the connection between anime & my technology based lifestyle. If anything I can relate to american cartoons (family guy, futurama, etc.) than anything else.
I can't connect with some guy named Onimaro that discovers he can shoot laser beams out of his nipples, because the ghost of his great aunt told him he could while he defeated the skateboarding ghost pirates from another planet. That's about how far out and abstract some of this stuff is.
...these go to eleven.