Three endings? Bullshit, two of those were the EXACT SAME ENDING with a different tone of voice reading the same lines. I don't count that as a seperate ending, if I did I'd need to say that every FMV ever is an infinite number of endings because i can change the volume on my headphones.
I'm not laughing because it's funny, I'm laughing because if someone is that absolutely fuck-dumb then I can probably look forward to reading their eventual darwin award.
Bullshit, and you know it. There's no excuse for a lot of what's currently broken to have ever gotten released to begin with, and they've told us on their forums that they own GPGnet and can do whatever the hell they want with it.
The problem is that they're making a game with GPG that afaik will work on GPGnet. Just because of GPGnet itself they've absolutely broken 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 10 and arguably broken 5 and 8.
GPG doesn't even consider it a problem that GPGnet is outright non-functional in many ways. The most obvious and representative example I can think of off the top of my head is the SupCom replay manager. Using their own built-in system results in a file that their own game is incapable of running, you need to manually redo every filename. That's how GPG rolls, honestly I'd buy another Battlefield shovelware game before I'd buy another game from GPG.
Wong and Haimoimoi's gamer manifesto. Also, I maintain my position that this is just a pathetic publicity stunt and they're just as much of a bunch of hypocritical bastards as everyone else because of how readily they jumped into bed with GPG, who are barely respected even by their own forum moderators for violating pretty much every single one of these terms.
And how long were those tests and your classes? 30 30 to 40 3-equation systems in an hour? When more than half of those sets are quadratics or other high order polynomials you really start wanting even a 4 function calculator to do the square roots.
...that math teachers despise calculators, and not just the ones that can do symbolic algebra. My current math prof (college algebra) had to resort to lying in his syllabus to get people to not drop the class the instant they found out they don't even get a 4-function on the 3 tests that make up their grade.
You want to get people interested in math again? Stop fucking everyone by forcing them to do FOURTY 3-equation quadratic systems AND forcing them to do it using a given method instead of whatever mathematically functional one gets the correct answer AND without a calculator AND without the formula written down somewhere.
Rote memorization does not produce anything but an arrogant fool that thinks because he can solve some things quickly without a calculator because he's memorized them, and who will make many mistakes in life because he can't admit that he doesn't actually KNOW what he's doing.
Start rewarding the students that can figure out how to solve something they're unfamiliar with by figuring it out on their own, reward the kids that find new and more efficient ways of solving things, reward the people who when confronted with an evil little problem pull the answer out of their ass and verify it's right. Don't reward people for learning the theme to fucking gilligans island and solve 20 quadratics with it before getting stumped on the one problem that isn't just some outright copy of something they've already done.
And get rid of the goddamn gordon rule requirement for math classes for people going into majors like law and english.
Except how many of those are actual individuals and not just people running multis, and have they been verified or are they just blizzard's marketting at work?
Steam's the only DRM I'll ever accept, because in exchange for requiring me to inconvenience myself to use a product I OWN they offer me great services while still leaving it pathetically easy to get to my product without using their system.
I don't think it's an accident that it's so easy to run legitimately bought games with steam-free hacks.
And the purples. I don't mind the neon colors for special stuff, but when the entire dungeon is an inch away from being neon blue all over that just sorta ruins the diablo effect. And the tf2 style textures with less detail than quake2... nah.
What I remember is not having the characters essentially defined by oversized shoulder pads or headdresses and armor designs straight out of WoW with the dungeons all either green or blue.
The current art style is no different from what the black-on-brown grunge addicts want, it's just been shifted from blacks, reds, and browns to blues and greens.
You should've seen when they first added the new units to vanilla supcom. UEF gets a t2 bomber unit that is literally a straight double of their t1 bomber unit. Cybrans get something somewhat like that but it's more of an aerial missile platform and it's quite decent.
Then the Aeon... they get a cheap superfast flying bomb that when it gets within a certain distance of your target will turn into a bunch of homing energy bits that do so much damage that as a unit it's the single most effective thing in the game, making building virtually anything else worthless for them after that.
That's GPG's idea of a patch. They test it to make sure the game boots up, most of the time, and then they say that's good enough and release it.
GPG has already made an absolute mockery of rights #2, 3, 4 and 5.
Supcom and FA both lack even the most basic functionality in critical areas, Patches were obviously not tested at all beyond making sure the game boots up, the recommended requirements are barely capable of running the game, and the only way to really get patches is through the hilariously poorly designed GPGnet.
In short installing Supcom/FA involves creating a GPGnet account, opening it up and not being able to do anything until it finishes loading and checking for updates, and god help you if you dont get your FA and Supcom licenses done properly because they won't let you fix it if you botch it. An update involves using their magnificently bad download and install system and then NOT being able to get back into GPGnet for anywhere from 3 to 30 minutes because their own system doesn't recognize when it logs out during the patching process.
Trying to play a game is also an exercise in futility at times. Ranked is what they decide it is, which I can accept, but it also takes FOREVER to do ANYTHING and the ranking system has a shit-ton of problems and always has.
Non-ranked play is basically ignored, you can't even download a custom map or mod (smaller file than a single CS map usually) off of someone automatically, and the "vault" is disgusting. Even the much better replay vault is barely functional, with no way to differentiate between supcom and FA replays and files automatically saved so that the game is incapable of opening them (you need to repair the filename by hand) in a location completely seperate from the rest of the game files and a damn sight more difficult to navigate to.
And then what? Microsoft just can't be stopped short of using actual force, military, police, or otherwise. They have too much money to give a damn about any fine short of forcing them to pay off the national debt and they're too big for the govt to just say "Nope, you can't see shit anymore".
The only real way to get at them I think would be to offer the equivalent of modern day letters of marque against microsoft and tell everyone "Pirate their shit".
Slashdot Mirror
Except it's pretty much a given that EA won't even consider this in any terms except as a way to force people to buy their games all over again.
Duke Nukem Forever, HAHA, alright moving along.
You can find them on youtube. You'll either have a voiceover that sounds sorta angry or sorta sad, but reading the same lines either way.
Three endings? Bullshit, two of those were the EXACT SAME ENDING with a different tone of voice reading the same lines. I don't count that as a seperate ending, if I did I'd need to say that every FMV ever is an infinite number of endings because i can change the volume on my headphones.
I'm not laughing because it's funny, I'm laughing because if someone is that absolutely fuck-dumb then I can probably look forward to reading their eventual darwin award.
Bullshit, and you know it. There's no excuse for a lot of what's currently broken to have ever gotten released to begin with, and they've told us on their forums that they own GPGnet and can do whatever the hell they want with it.
That's an improvement, but they're still working with GPGNet which is basically like Whacko Jacko deciding to partner with VALVe on something.
The problem is that they're making a game with GPG that afaik will work on GPGnet. Just because of GPGnet itself they've absolutely broken 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 10 and arguably broken 5 and 8.
GPG doesn't even consider it a problem that GPGnet is outright non-functional in many ways. The most obvious and representative example I can think of off the top of my head is the SupCom replay manager. Using their own built-in system results in a file that their own game is incapable of running, you need to manually redo every filename. That's how GPG rolls, honestly I'd buy another Battlefield shovelware game before I'd buy another game from GPG.
Wong and Haimoimoi's gamer manifesto. Also, I maintain my position that this is just a pathetic publicity stunt and they're just as much of a bunch of hypocritical bastards as everyone else because of how readily they jumped into bed with GPG, who are barely respected even by their own forum moderators for violating pretty much every single one of these terms.
And how long were those tests and your classes? 30 30 to 40 3-equation systems in an hour? When more than half of those sets are quadratics or other high order polynomials you really start wanting even a 4 function calculator to do the square roots.
...that math teachers despise calculators, and not just the ones that can do symbolic algebra. My current math prof (college algebra) had to resort to lying in his syllabus to get people to not drop the class the instant they found out they don't even get a 4-function on the 3 tests that make up their grade.
You want to get people interested in math again? Stop fucking everyone by forcing them to do FOURTY 3-equation quadratic systems AND forcing them to do it using a given method instead of whatever mathematically functional one gets the correct answer AND without a calculator AND without the formula written down somewhere.
Rote memorization does not produce anything but an arrogant fool that thinks because he can solve some things quickly without a calculator because he's memorized them, and who will make many mistakes in life because he can't admit that he doesn't actually KNOW what he's doing.
Start rewarding the students that can figure out how to solve something they're unfamiliar with by figuring it out on their own, reward the kids that find new and more efficient ways of solving things, reward the people who when confronted with an evil little problem pull the answer out of their ass and verify it's right. Don't reward people for learning the theme to fucking gilligans island and solve 20 quadratics with it before getting stumped on the one problem that isn't just some outright copy of something they've already done.
And get rid of the goddamn gordon rule requirement for math classes for people going into majors like law and english.
Except how many of those are actual individuals and not just people running multis, and have they been verified or are they just blizzard's marketting at work?
Steam's the only DRM I'll ever accept, because in exchange for requiring me to inconvenience myself to use a product I OWN they offer me great services while still leaving it pathetically easy to get to my product without using their system.
I don't think it's an accident that it's so easy to run legitimately bought games with steam-free hacks.
And the purples. I don't mind the neon colors for special stuff, but when the entire dungeon is an inch away from being neon blue all over that just sorta ruins the diablo effect. And the tf2 style textures with less detail than quake2... nah.
What I remember is not having the characters essentially defined by oversized shoulder pads or headdresses and armor designs straight out of WoW with the dungeons all either green or blue.
The current art style is no different from what the black-on-brown grunge addicts want, it's just been shifted from blacks, reds, and browns to blues and greens.
And if you take a coffin away from a corpse you'll have a dead body... I fail to see your point.
The last time I checked aside from mmo's there were more people playing half-life than there were playing the 3 games below it COMBINED.
Console FPSers will always be around now that the systems are strong enough to handle it, all we can do is try to ignore them.
Yeah, damn those arrogant assholes that feel entitled to things like food, indoor plumbing, and a roof over their heads. Entitled little bastards.
You should've seen when they first added the new units to vanilla supcom. UEF gets a t2 bomber unit that is literally a straight double of their t1 bomber unit. Cybrans get something somewhat like that but it's more of an aerial missile platform and it's quite decent.
Then the Aeon... they get a cheap superfast flying bomb that when it gets within a certain distance of your target will turn into a bunch of homing energy bits that do so much damage that as a unit it's the single most effective thing in the game, making building virtually anything else worthless for them after that.
That's GPG's idea of a patch. They test it to make sure the game boots up, most of the time, and then they say that's good enough and release it.
Or it's just a bullshit excuse.
I don't know what version you're playing but it sounds a damn sight nicer than the one in this universe.
GPG has already made an absolute mockery of rights #2, 3, 4 and 5.
Supcom and FA both lack even the most basic functionality in critical areas, Patches were obviously not tested at all beyond making sure the game boots up, the recommended requirements are barely capable of running the game, and the only way to really get patches is through the hilariously poorly designed GPGnet.
In short installing Supcom/FA involves creating a GPGnet account, opening it up and not being able to do anything until it finishes loading and checking for updates, and god help you if you dont get your FA and Supcom licenses done properly because they won't let you fix it if you botch it. An update involves using their magnificently bad download and install system and then NOT being able to get back into GPGnet for anywhere from 3 to 30 minutes because their own system doesn't recognize when it logs out during the patching process.
Trying to play a game is also an exercise in futility at times. Ranked is what they decide it is, which I can accept, but it also takes FOREVER to do ANYTHING and the ranking system has a shit-ton of problems and always has.
Non-ranked play is basically ignored, you can't even download a custom map or mod (smaller file than a single CS map usually) off of someone automatically, and the "vault" is disgusting. Even the much better replay vault is barely functional, with no way to differentiate between supcom and FA replays and files automatically saved so that the game is incapable of opening them (you need to repair the filename by hand) in a location completely seperate from the rest of the game files and a damn sight more difficult to navigate to.
GPG's already in deep shit for their piss-poor handling of both vanilla supreme commander AND forged alliance.
And then what? Microsoft just can't be stopped short of using actual force, military, police, or otherwise. They have too much money to give a damn about any fine short of forcing them to pay off the national debt and they're too big for the govt to just say "Nope, you can't see shit anymore".
The only real way to get at them I think would be to offer the equivalent of modern day letters of marque against microsoft and tell everyone "Pirate their shit".