If this does well, you think it might convince a Studio that it's worth pouring some money into Evil Dead 3? Bruce Campbell's line at his speaking engagements is that Evil Dead will happen when Raimi gets convinced to do it instead of the next Spider Man...if the remake' good and pulls in the money, maybe he could be convinced.
Thanks for trying to help (no sarcasm there, it really is appreciated), but, no, that wasn't the problem. Couldn't care less about CS, but I did read their bulletin, tried to install it with CS, and it was still spitting out cab problems; depending on the install attempt, it failed apparently randomly on disc 1-4. I've read of other people having the same problem, including a post or two on Valve's steam board, and they haven't addressed it.
Both were issues with the retail distribution cab files. From what I've been able to read on message boards, this is a common problem; the installer basically fails to unpack them properly. That I do blame Valve for-either they failed to correctly develop or correctly test their installer, or they contracted it out to someone who wasn't trustworthy. My problem with Steam? You have to work around an antipiraccy system in order to run a single-player game offline. The irony of having a game where one theme is the oppression and monitoring of a populace by a big-brother type organization phone home to make sure you're following rules is incredible. Bugs? Audio skipping, draw errors, ridiculous load times, and instability. My system is well above minimum spec. (2.8GP4, 1G RAM, 9800Pro, etc). Problems like this shouldn't occur with a flagship product.
It's modded funny because it's funny in the same way that the guy on the corner saying that the government is controlling his mind with a satellite is funny.
I went through 2 retail copies that didn't work, then bought through Steam. Took hours to download, decrypt, and get vaguely playable, and I'm going to have to bang on it when I get home tonight to iron out bugs. The game phones home to make sure I'm legal, it demands I be on-line and run Steam to play.
I'm a legal user. I jumped through hoops to get this game. And I'm being treated like some JeffK wannabe passing out copies in a shady newsgroup. After HL1, I loved Valve. They took care of their community, supported mods, and only asked for a CD Key. I'm playing HL2 despite Valve. They made a great game, but they're acting like the paranoid shits in the game industry they fought against years ago with their community-building and implicit trust in the users. It's sad, really. Microsoft roots showing, you think?
I never got around to getting this through Steam, and the systems sounds like it's really staggering right now; does anyone know if the boxed version comes with HL1-Source and CS-Source, or are those Steam-only?
No, it's what one of the women I game with figured out about me. They've tried to set me up with friends of theirs a few times and I've turned it down. Massive Peter Pan complex or whatever, but I'm happy. I'll go with it.
Not to feed a troll, but...
Gaming is a hobby with a 'loser' repuation. You might recall that, up until fairly recently, reading SF, tinkering with computers, and electronics had that same reputation-still do, to some extent. It's a pretty safe bet that anyone here does at least one of the three, and likely more than one.
My gaming group consists of seven people. WE play once a month or so, because of our personal and professional lives. The group has a test engineer, a project manager, a software engineer, an avionics tech, a special ed teacher, an accountant, and a stay-at-home mom (two young kids). None of these are exactly name tag and paper hat professions. In the relationship area, the group is 3 couples and one single guy (me) who's single because I like my toys (Cars, computers, bikes, and paintball) and the ability to play with them freely more than I like relationships. I've had the experience to tell, too.
Any hobby has its 'off' people. Tell me what your hobbies are, and I'm sure I can kick an unsavory stereotype at you; it will be at least as true as the ones about gamers...
You might want to be careful with that. I carried spare house and car keys in my wallet until a friend of mine had his stolen. I realized that you've got something in there showing your address (your license if nothing else). If you've got that and your keys, you lose your wallet, followed by your car, and then (if you carried a house key too) anything in your house that wasn't aniled down.
I perpetually lock my keys in my truck, and I separated my car keys and building (home, work, etc) keys onto a separate rings, and put a spare car key on the house ring. Saved me a few times.
I've always wondered a bit about the constant stroies of so few women in gaming. Since high school, the games I've played in have always been at least 30-40% female. I'm currently in 3 groups that all meet occasionally (we're all pretty busy). One rotates DMs, and is 2 guys, 2 girls. The others are the same set of people (i run one, play in one), 3 women, 2 men. I don't know if our games are all that different from the norm, not having playted in the stereotyped groups, but from my experience there are plenty of women playing they just aren't the ones hanging out at the gaming stores and conventions. Maybe the environment at that sort of place is more the problem than the games themselves.
I'm guessing you went to Funworld in Nashua. It's a bit of a drive, but Funspt up in Weirs Beach has a much better variety (or did, the last time I was up)
Anybody else remember this gem?
Old Atari 2600 game, basically a space invaders clone. You moved a tube of toothpaste across the bottom of a screen that looked like a gum with teeth growing out of it, firing little bits of toothpaste at pieces of food falling from above. The more junk-food the bits were, the faster they moved-cupcakes were pretty much impossible. If they got by you, the teeth would 'decay' a little bit at a time.
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If this does well, you think it might convince a Studio that it's worth pouring some money into Evil Dead 3? Bruce Campbell's line at his speaking engagements is that Evil Dead will happen when Raimi gets convinced to do it instead of the next Spider Man...if the remake' good and pulls in the money, maybe he could be convinced.
Thanks for trying to help (no sarcasm there, it really is appreciated), but, no, that wasn't the problem. Couldn't care less about CS, but I did read their bulletin, tried to install it with CS, and it was still spitting out cab problems; depending on the install attempt, it failed apparently randomly on disc 1-4. I've read of other people having the same problem, including a post or two on Valve's steam board, and they haven't addressed it.
Both were issues with the retail distribution cab files. From what I've been able to read on message boards, this is a common problem; the installer basically fails to unpack them properly. That I do blame Valve for-either they failed to correctly develop or correctly test their installer, or they contracted it out to someone who wasn't trustworthy. My problem with Steam? You have to work around an antipiraccy system in order to run a single-player game offline. The irony of having a game where one theme is the oppression and monitoring of a populace by a big-brother type organization phone home to make sure you're following rules is incredible. Bugs? Audio skipping, draw errors, ridiculous load times, and instability. My system is well above minimum spec. (2.8GP4, 1G RAM, 9800Pro, etc). Problems like this shouldn't occur with a flagship product.
It's modded funny because it's funny in the same way that the guy on the corner saying that the government is controlling his mind with a satellite is funny. I went through 2 retail copies that didn't work, then bought through Steam. Took hours to download, decrypt, and get vaguely playable, and I'm going to have to bang on it when I get home tonight to iron out bugs. The game phones home to make sure I'm legal, it demands I be on-line and run Steam to play. I'm a legal user. I jumped through hoops to get this game. And I'm being treated like some JeffK wannabe passing out copies in a shady newsgroup. After HL1, I loved Valve. They took care of their community, supported mods, and only asked for a CD Key. I'm playing HL2 despite Valve. They made a great game, but they're acting like the paranoid shits in the game industry they fought against years ago with their community-building and implicit trust in the users. It's sad, really. Microsoft roots showing, you think?
I never got around to getting this through Steam, and the systems sounds like it's really staggering right now; does anyone know if the boxed version comes with HL1-Source and CS-Source, or are those Steam-only?
No, it's what one of the women I game with figured out about me. They've tried to set me up with friends of theirs a few times and I've turned it down. Massive Peter Pan complex or whatever, but I'm happy. I'll go with it.
Not to feed a troll, but... Gaming is a hobby with a 'loser' repuation. You might recall that, up until fairly recently, reading SF, tinkering with computers, and electronics had that same reputation-still do, to some extent. It's a pretty safe bet that anyone here does at least one of the three, and likely more than one. My gaming group consists of seven people. WE play once a month or so, because of our personal and professional lives. The group has a test engineer, a project manager, a software engineer, an avionics tech, a special ed teacher, an accountant, and a stay-at-home mom (two young kids). None of these are exactly name tag and paper hat professions. In the relationship area, the group is 3 couples and one single guy (me) who's single because I like my toys (Cars, computers, bikes, and paintball) and the ability to play with them freely more than I like relationships. I've had the experience to tell, too. Any hobby has its 'off' people. Tell me what your hobbies are, and I'm sure I can kick an unsavory stereotype at you; it will be at least as true as the ones about gamers...
You might want to be careful with that. I carried spare house and car keys in my wallet until a friend of mine had his stolen. I realized that you've got something in there showing your address (your license if nothing else). If you've got that and your keys, you lose your wallet, followed by your car, and then (if you carried a house key too) anything in your house that wasn't aniled down. I perpetually lock my keys in my truck, and I separated my car keys and building (home, work, etc) keys onto a separate rings, and put a spare car key on the house ring. Saved me a few times.
Only at home. When I'm slacking at work, I use what they have (non-techie company=IE).
Somehow, it just seems fitting that I got a dating service popup when I followed this link...
I've always wondered a bit about the constant stroies of so few women in gaming. Since high school, the games I've played in have always been at least 30-40% female. I'm currently in 3 groups that all meet occasionally (we're all pretty busy). One rotates DMs, and is 2 guys, 2 girls. The others are the same set of people (i run one, play in one), 3 women, 2 men. I don't know if our games are all that different from the norm, not having playted in the stereotyped groups, but from my experience there are plenty of women playing they just aren't the ones hanging out at the gaming stores and conventions. Maybe the environment at that sort of place is more the problem than the games themselves.
I'm guessing you went to Funworld in Nashua. It's a bit of a drive, but Funspt up in Weirs Beach has a much better variety (or did, the last time I was up)
Anybody else remember this gem? Old Atari 2600 game, basically a space invaders clone. You moved a tube of toothpaste across the bottom of a screen that looked like a gum with teeth growing out of it, firing little bits of toothpaste at pieces of food falling from above. The more junk-food the bits were, the faster they moved-cupcakes were pretty much impossible. If they got by you, the teeth would 'decay' a little bit at a time.