There are paintball mods for games such as ghost recon. One game I used to really enjoy is Nerf Arena. I believe it used the Unreal Tournament engine and was released shortly before Unreal Tournament. So, the graphics might be slightly dated but it is still a very fun game to play. A wide assortment of nerf guns combined with bright and very original levels adds up to a great first person shooter. Its great for kids and adults. Believe me on this one, I enjoyed Soldier of Fortune 1 and 2, and I still loved this game.
Since they are out of cash, I'm guessing they will liscence Fallout to another company to make the MMORPG. I don't have to tell anyone here that the MMORPG market is over saturated right now. Even if the game is a success we all know they are looking at 4+ years of development which would translate into just another money drain for them -- not what they need right now. An up-front liscence fee from a big company like EA could be the cash injection the company needs. I'm just suprised their whole company hasn't been gobbled up yet.
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If making things that could infringe on copyright becomes a crime, how long will it be until we have a law that makes anyone who created something that ended up being used in a crime a criminal? Gun makers? Easily. BB Gun makers? That too. How about cars which managed to out run the cops in a chase? Sure this sounds ridiculous and far fetched, but so does this law thats being proposed now.
This is the same problem porn site operators are having, except with credit card "charge backs" rather than Paypal. It is my understanding this is part of the reason American Express doesn't accept porn sites.
Speaking of porn and paypal, you need to be very careful who you accept and/or send payments. A large number of accounts have been frozen (along with all the money in them) because someone was discovered to have some link to the porn industry. I'm not talking about someone running a porn site and using paypal to accept payments, but, for example, a adult webmaster/web designer accepting payment from someone who runs an adult site.
I know people who use paypal for their mainstream businesses and speak very highly of paypal. On the other hand, I know tons of people who have had problems.
Bottom line, someone who can implement a digital payment system better than Paypal and credit cards which is safer for the buyer and seller is going to make the fucking bank, big time.
Nothing beats the tactical level of gameplay you'll experience in Medieval: Total War.
I've noticed most people have been posting 4x games such as MOO, Galactic Civ, etc. No one has mentioned Stars! ; a good 4x game despite being under-rated.
If you want to get down to earth, perhaps you'd be interested in Capitalism Plus, a business-sim.
I like the idea, but only if I'm getting a digital *and* print copy. The truth is, I find very little in print magazines that is better content-wise then the internet.
website pros -updated hourly/daily -download demos -pictures from the games + movies -multiple websites offer reviews making it easier to spot out reviewer biases And of course, its free! Why the hell would I want to read a magazine? One reason only, portability. I can lay down on the sofa or sit in a vehicle and read it. I can apply the same to newspapers or other print periodicles. Books have the whole eye-strain issue due to their length. Digital paper is going to change everything;)
Same here. Its not so much DRM that bothers me, but Real. I used to love them when I first was able to listen to streaming radio stations on the internet with a 28k modem. Last time I had it installed there was so much shit it did I didn't like, I've avoided it like the plauge since. Besides, does Real even look good at 600k? Give me HDTV movies for $12 and I'll sign up.
They may also be setting a dangerous legal precedent for themselves and other ISPs. Perhaps someone accesses a site like, say rotton, and then murders someone. Victim's family sues ISP. You blocked this, but you didn't block that?
I've been working on a gaming website over the last few days and have noticed some of IGN's reviews to be quite out of line, as in giving great reviews to horrible games.
After looking at the other reviews for Full Spectrum Warrior, IGN is about the same as the others. GamePro gave it 5 of 5, Gamespy 4 of 5 (only the best of the best get 5 of 5 at Gamespy.) The game looks interesting.. I'm a huge fan of Ghost Recon, hope this comes to the PC.
Damn, I wish I could have gotten to this sooner. Warner Brother announced this week that they would be implementing increased royalties for games that do not achieve a certain average-rating by multiple gaming websites and magazines. This has huge implications to developers and gamers. If this works I'm sure it will catch on to all the movie studios with any marketing sense.
I actually wrote an article about this on my gaming website Counterfrag. Here is a direct link.
If these guys in California are really concerned about privacy, why not mandate that *all* e-mail leaving and entering California much be encrypted with PGP?
Google has got a pretty good idea with Gmail. Whether or not California "allows" them to execute this plan doesn't matter. Even without a roadblock like this for Google, some other company will create a Gmail clone in no time. (maybe they'll be in India or China -- let them have all the tax revenue if California doesn't want it)
I don't understand who these legistlators are trying to appease. Privacy advocates? There are far more *real* privacy issues that are more important than this. We used to joke about how slow the government has been to react to new technology, whether its p2p, VoIP, or whatever. Well now the tables are flipped. I find this "pre-emptive" legislation very disturbing. Are we going to live in a future where not only is any idea someone thought of off the top of their head patentable but will people make ideas illegal before the idea is even put into reality? Hmm.. this sounds like it might be dangerous, lets ban it before someone trys it. Maybe they should pass a law making a warp drive and tractor beam tax.
I have a little secret for politicians. You want a better economy and a happier population? You don't need to cut taxes, you don't need to pass new laws. What you need is to go back and get rid of old ones. When you run out of ideas think creating laws about things that don't exist yet is a good idea how about you go back and wipe some of the b.s. laws off the books instead.
Just my two cents. I haven't posted much to/. lately, I hope this makes up for it.
I know many online games prevent selling ingame items in their TOS. It would be interesting to see the ramifications if There actively tried to prevent this currency exchange.
Call me a nerd, but I find this extremely interesting. In some respects, the economics of the virtual world are the same as the real world, but in others they are dramatically different. For example, the game creators can pump an infinate supply of currency into the system (kind of like the fed to pay their deficits), and inflation can actually occur. On the other hand, they can create an infinate number of X items.
Here is the interesting twist -- to make players happy do you give them everything they want? The last virtual world I inhabited was managed (for a while) by people who thought appeasing the in-world citizins by making rare items infinately available again was a good idea.
Any slashdot reader knows this isn't a good idea. We play games so that we can get X sword in Diablo II, and when we are at level 99 whats next? Do we really play to win, or do we play to play? "Unwinnable" MMORPGs tell us we play to play. That being said -- do you think twice when you buy a lottery ticket?
I know in the real world we actually *need* to work to eat, but its just a thought.
One of the guys who is running against Russ Feingold is running ads right now specifically attacking Feingold on his voting record for the PATRIOT Act. The funny thing is, this guys name is Russ Darrow, and he made his millions selling cars! A politician who used to be car salesman? I can't stop laughing. I don't think I agree on Feingold on any issue other than his opposition to the PATRIOT Act, but I might just vote for him anyways.
Even with some images on the side, Google still won't be anywhere near as intrusive as all the fancy stuff on yahoo msn or any of the other leading search engine's pages.
The stats will speak for themselves. Plus, I'm guessing that image ads will have higher bids than text, which should mean more money in the pockets of webmasters using adsense. This could also be great for graphic designers, as many of the people who are using adwords today are small businesses who would need to outsource that kind of work.
If your using Firefox, just right click on an image at google.com and click Block images from google.com. I've already done this on a few message boards I post to, because for some reason people like to use big closeups of their ugly faces as their avatar. Very distracting.
I have friends who call me up on the phone asking for help. I finally got tired of it, so I put up a website tutorial on removing spyware. I've even made step by step instructions for using Ad-aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. These pages still need alot of work (I actually made them last week), but I think they are a good start. I'm hoping to get some tutorials on other things such as firewalls sooner or later too.
In the time your dad spends saving soap chips he could create your own coupon site, get it listed to slashdot, earn enough money to buy enough soap for the rest of his life and buy a new HDTV! How's that for frugal? Oh sorry I forgot frugal and actually making money have nothing to do with each other;)
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There are paintball mods for games such as ghost recon. One game I used to really enjoy is Nerf Arena. I believe it used the Unreal Tournament engine and was released shortly before Unreal Tournament. So, the graphics might be slightly dated but it is still a very fun game to play. A wide assortment of nerf guns combined with bright and very original levels adds up to a great first person shooter. Its great for kids and adults. Believe me on this one, I enjoyed Soldier of Fortune 1 and 2, and I still loved this game.
Since they are out of cash, I'm guessing they will liscence Fallout to another company to make the MMORPG. I don't have to tell anyone here that the MMORPG market is over saturated right now. Even if the game is a success we all know they are looking at 4+ years of development which would translate into just another money drain for them -- not what they need right now. An up-front liscence fee from a big company like EA could be the cash injection the company needs. I'm just suprised their whole company hasn't been gobbled up yet.
If making things that could infringe on copyright becomes a crime, how long will it be until we have a law that makes anyone who created something that ended up being used in a crime a criminal? Gun makers? Easily. BB Gun makers? That too. How about cars which managed to out run the cops in a chase? Sure this sounds ridiculous and far fetched, but so does this law thats being proposed now.
This is the same problem porn site operators are having, except with credit card "charge backs" rather than Paypal. It is my understanding this is part of the reason American Express doesn't accept porn sites.
Speaking of porn and paypal, you need to be very careful who you accept and/or send payments. A large number of accounts have been frozen (along with all the money in them) because someone was discovered to have some link to the porn industry. I'm not talking about someone running a porn site and using paypal to accept payments, but, for example, a adult webmaster/web designer accepting payment from someone who runs an adult site.
I know people who use paypal for their mainstream businesses and speak very highly of paypal. On the other hand, I know tons of people who have had problems.
Bottom line, someone who can implement a digital payment system better than Paypal and credit cards which is safer for the buyer and seller is going to make the fucking bank, big time.
"Reality" shows? You mean shows that have absolutely no connection with reality but have low production budgets?
Thank God for Google. ;)
Nothing beats the tactical level of gameplay you'll experience in Medieval: Total War. I've noticed most people have been posting 4x games such as MOO, Galactic Civ, etc. No one has mentioned Stars! ; a good 4x game despite being under-rated. If you want to get down to earth, perhaps you'd be interested in Capitalism Plus, a business-sim.
I thought porn was what people who were lacking in business or creative skills turned to.. until I found out how much money some of these guys make.
I like the idea, but only if I'm getting a digital *and* print copy. The truth is, I find very little in print magazines that is better content-wise then the internet.
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website pros
-updated hourly/daily
-download demos
-pictures from the games + movies
-multiple websites offer reviews making it easier to spot out reviewer biases
And of course, its free! Why the hell would I want to read a magazine? One reason only, portability. I can lay down on the sofa or sit in a vehicle and read it. I can apply the same to newspapers or other print periodicles. Books have the whole eye-strain issue due to their length. Digital paper is going to change everything
Same here. Its not so much DRM that bothers me, but Real. I used to love them when I first was able to listen to streaming radio stations on the internet with a 28k modem. Last time I had it installed there was so much shit it did I didn't like, I've avoided it like the plauge since. Besides, does Real even look good at 600k? Give me HDTV movies for $12 and I'll sign up.
There are a few streaming stations I listen to that have already done just that. In certain niche genres theres still plaenty to listen to.
Very interesting, but I think I'll have to wait for it to come to PC!
They may also be setting a dangerous legal precedent for themselves and other ISPs. Perhaps someone accesses a site like, say rotton, and then murders someone. Victim's family sues ISP. You blocked this, but you didn't block that?
I've been working on a gaming website over the last few days and have noticed some of IGN's reviews to be quite out of line, as in giving great reviews to horrible games.
After looking at the other reviews for Full Spectrum Warrior, IGN is about the same as the others. GamePro gave it 5 of 5, Gamespy 4 of 5 (only the best of the best get 5 of 5 at Gamespy.) The game looks interesting.. I'm a huge fan of Ghost Recon, hope this comes to the PC.
If the DOJ wants to take a closer look at online porn, all they need is all the laptops over at the CIA.
Not paying rent is one step from the street. No welfare for gaming companies, maybe they should hire Amtrack's lobbyist.
No, his lawyer's talent is in law. I can think of a few newspapers he might want to be right at home in. An English major in management? hmm..
Damn, I wish I could have gotten to this sooner. Warner Brother announced this week that they would be implementing increased royalties for games that do not achieve a certain average-rating by multiple gaming websites and magazines. This has huge implications to developers and gamers. If this works I'm sure it will catch on to all the movie studios with any marketing sense.
I actually wrote an article about this on my gaming website Counterfrag. Here is a direct link.
If these guys in California are really concerned about privacy, why not mandate that *all* e-mail leaving and entering California much be encrypted with PGP?
/. lately, I hope this makes up for it.
Google has got a pretty good idea with Gmail. Whether or not California "allows" them to execute this plan doesn't matter. Even without a roadblock like this for Google, some other company will create a Gmail clone in no time. (maybe they'll be in India or China -- let them have all the tax revenue if California doesn't want it)
I don't understand who these legistlators are trying to appease. Privacy advocates? There are far more *real* privacy issues that are more important than this. We used to joke about how slow the government has been to react to new technology, whether its p2p, VoIP, or whatever. Well now the tables are flipped. I find this "pre-emptive" legislation very disturbing. Are we going to live in a future where not only is any idea someone thought of off the top of their head patentable but will people make ideas illegal before the idea is even put into reality? Hmm.. this sounds like it might be dangerous, lets ban it before someone trys it. Maybe they should pass a law making a warp drive and tractor beam tax.
I have a little secret for politicians. You want a better economy and a happier population? You don't need to cut taxes, you don't need to pass new laws. What you need is to go back and get rid of old ones. When you run out of ideas think creating laws about things that don't exist yet is a good idea how about you go back and wipe some of the b.s. laws off the books instead.
Just my two cents. I haven't posted much to
I know many online games prevent selling ingame items in their TOS. It would be interesting to see the ramifications if There actively tried to prevent this currency exchange.
Call me a nerd, but I find this extremely interesting. In some respects, the economics of the virtual world are the same as the real world, but in others they are dramatically different. For example, the game creators can pump an infinate supply of currency into the system (kind of like the fed to pay their deficits), and inflation can actually occur. On the other hand, they can create an infinate number of X items.
Here is the interesting twist -- to make players happy do you give them everything they want? The last virtual world I inhabited was managed (for a while) by people who thought appeasing the in-world citizins by making rare items infinately available again was a good idea.
Any slashdot reader knows this isn't a good idea. We play games so that we can get X sword in Diablo II, and when we are at level 99 whats next? Do we really play to win, or do we play to play? "Unwinnable" MMORPGs tell us we play to play. That being said -- do you think twice when you buy a lottery ticket?
I know in the real world we actually *need* to work to eat, but its just a thought.
One of the guys who is running against Russ Feingold is running ads right now specifically attacking Feingold on his voting record for the PATRIOT Act. The funny thing is, this guys name is Russ Darrow, and he made his millions selling cars! A politician who used to be car salesman? I can't stop laughing. I don't think I agree on Feingold on any issue other than his opposition to the PATRIOT Act, but I might just vote for him anyways.
Even with some images on the side, Google still won't be anywhere near as intrusive as all the fancy stuff on yahoo msn or any of the other leading search engine's pages.
The stats will speak for themselves. Plus, I'm guessing that image ads will have higher bids than text, which should mean more money in the pockets of webmasters using adsense. This could also be great for graphic designers, as many of the people who are using adwords today are small businesses who would need to outsource that kind of work.
If your using Firefox, just right click on an image at google.com and click Block images from google.com. I've already done this on a few message boards I post to, because for some reason people like to use big closeups of their ugly faces as their avatar. Very distracting.
I have friends who call me up on the phone asking for help. I finally got tired of it, so I put up a website tutorial on removing spyware. I've even made step by step instructions for using Ad-aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. These pages still need alot of work (I actually made them last week), but I think they are a good start. I'm hoping to get some tutorials on other things such as firewalls sooner or later too.
In the time your dad spends saving soap chips he could create your own coupon site, get it listed to slashdot, earn enough money to buy enough soap for the rest of his life and buy a new HDTV! How's that for frugal? Oh sorry I forgot frugal and actually making money have nothing to do with each other ;)