Shareaza does it, kinda, but it's basically eDonkey and a couple other things mixed into one. It has a BT client built-in, and you can use eDonkey/Mule/Dingo/Fox to search for the torrent files (usually they were torrents from SuprNova), then run the torrents (don't think there's a way to automatically do it though).
Granted, this was 2.0. 2.1 may be different. I stopped using Shareaza because it felt pretty slow. I suppose a similar way to do this would be to use eMule to download the torrents and then run them in whatever torrent client you use.
I stand corrected. I forgot for a minute that carding for movies and the like was voluntary and not a law.
Jail time is way too harsh for something this trivial. A fine however, I'm more okay with. But I suppose the best would be no law at all.
The positive side I was looking at was it would be an incentive to not sell the games to minors, which would be an incentive for parents to actually look at Little Johnny's activities when he got home whining about not being able to buy Mortal Kombat, and possibly fewer lawsuits on the game companies when bad things happen that everyone blames on the media.
You're right, though. The possibility of criminal charges wouldn't really balance with the positives.
I agree. I used to be one of the types where any kind of restriction like that was a bad thing, but I don't really see this as any different than carding at movie theaters and stores that sell beer and tobacco.
As long as it just keeps a minor from buying a game by himself without a parent, that's fine. Keeps the stores out of trouble (well... part of the time; some parents get mad either way), lets me buy my games, and it encourages parents to see what their kids are playing.
The moment they try to pass legislation banning M games from stores period though, that's when I'll get mad about it.
I was just poking fun at the guy who made the false assumption that the law was a Republican's doing.;)
I would contend that there *is* justice in the modding, considering as you were clearly being an asshat in your tone. There are nice ways of asking what an article is about, and there are not-so-nice ways.
And considering Slashdot is an American site, it would make sense that the paragraph was written with Americans in mind. Obviously Earthsea was a miniseries on the Sci-Fi channel, and Ursula Le Guin was involved in it somehow. It follows that maybe Earthsea was a book by LeGuin and Sci-Fi made a bad TV movie out of it.
Now excuse me while I go write a scathing post at The Register for talking about 'biscuits'. They're COOKIES, dammit!
Has a tool called CDI2Nero. And I'm sure there's a tool out there to convert Nero to ISO somewhere (Alcohol burns images just fine for me, and I don't use Linux).::shrug::
Yeah, I found that was the case later on, but this particular time the loot was set wrong or the guy wasn't in the party... or something. Like I said, it was during the beta.:p I'm way past that point now.
I bumped into the multiple item thing in Ameth'Aran during one of the quests recently, and it was great. You still can't trade soulbound items though.
Tell me about it... I was questing this one time during the beta in a group, and died during a boss fight. I rezzed just as he died and went to loot... and got the quest item (I shift-right-clicked rather than just right-clicked). It wouldn't trade, either.
I felt so bad after that that I helped the other guys in the group get the item, too. Loooong spawn, but it worked out okay in the end.
They might do it, but they'll offer it as a new 'premium service'. Cebridge is doing it in my suburb of Houston, and RoadRunner is advertising it on the radio in Houston proper.
I guess it's only fair, since they have to upgrade the lines for gamers and downloaders, but it feels like extortion. 'What? You're lagging out in Warcraft? Well, if you paid 15 bucks [I'm guestimating the price] more a month you wouldn't get killed so often. You want to enjoy your game don't you?'
Actually, according to Masters of Doom, Alien was one of the ideas bouncing around before they decided upon Doom:
There was another idea on the table too:
Aliens. [...] After some research, Jay found the rights were available. He thought they could get a deal. But then they decided against it. They didn't want some big movie company telling them what they could and couldn't put in the game. The technology Carmack had come up with was way too impressive to compromise, they thought. So it was back to the brainstorming.
In related news, hippies everywhere are rushing to blame the entire problem on American decadence and Hummers, despite the proliferation of 18-wheelers and coal energy plants in the world. Film at 11, after the latest ELF attack.
After looking at Zelda 3's art, it's hard to appreciate 2's art that well. But looking at the 2 art, it looks just like an old anime movie, with the vibrant colors and dramatic scenes and all that. I remember the days when you could read a Nintendo manual and see all the little character designs and story scenes and wish you could have larger copies.
I've always wanted to see an animated series or movie based on the character designs in Zelda 2 and/or 3 (not the 80s cartoon, the anime-style art in the instruction manuals). I would love to see some form of Zelda movie, blending the best story bits from 3 and OoT, on the big screen.
Well, for one thing it installs a hell of a lot easier.
I gave up on MythTV after having to fight with it and Fedora (and dependencies, and X, and Y...) at the same time. Why do I need MySQL when I just want a media player with a NES and SNES emulator built-in (no need or space on my media box for PVR)?
Yeah, PEBKAC, and I'll never profess to be anything but sub-adequate at Linux, but MediaPortal installed and ran fine in about 5 minutes from download to setup.
I ran into this too, but only when I played as the humans. I'd recommend, if you ever pick it up again, to try a different race (assuming, of course, I was right about my... assumption...), like the Night Elves.
I started as a Night Elf, and played a Human, a Tauren, and an Undead on the last night of the beta and when my Night Elf server was down, and though I didn't get into the other races as much as I would have liked (the beta ended about 15 minutes into my Undead), the Night Elves seemed the most satisfying, story-wise.
The Humans just seemed... lacking. Like it was a beginner's area tacked on.
I played the trial for SW:G and Guild Wars (and had a brief stint on the auroRO.net Open Ragnarok Server), and when WoW's Open Beta came out, I tried it. It was the first one out of the few I'd played that really grabbed me. It's the only one I bought and subscribed to immediately when I heard the Beta was closing.
This review is 100% right (I have a few sound issues with dialogue being very quiet, but apart from that it gets a 10). I would say if you liked Diablo 2, with the quests and the semi-speedy leveling process, you'll like this game. And if you like soloing, you'll really like this, because you're not forced to group everywhere, just on harder quests.
If you have a friend that's going to get it, try to convince him to get the Collector's Edition so you can take his Guest Pass.;)
Yes, you're still burning a new CD from a fresh install and installing Windows twice, but you don't have to run a patch file after install (and with nlite you can also set options like allowing non-MS visual styles, classic logon screen, and unattended installation - very nice!).
I vaguely remember a deal between them and an online content provider (possibly UGO) that went sour when the provider decided they weren't going to pay Tycho and Gabe for their services. Since PA's been around since the latter part of the 90s, that would make more sense than the collected strip book that others have mentioned.
I think the guy was trying to be funny by posting a series of 'stock' questions; the kind that really have nothing to do with PA or Tycho and Gabe specifically, possibly as a commentary on the quality of the questions in the article.
What does Blizzard's developing of a MMO (the best I've played so far, BTW) have to do with Vivendi's screwing of their own customers? Blizzard didn't make the decision to limit the number of CEs, Vivendi did.
It would be nice to find some way of creating a backlash against Vivendi without hurting Blizzard. Or without depriving myself of WoW.;)
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Shareaza does it, kinda, but it's basically eDonkey and a couple other things mixed into one. It has a BT client built-in, and you can use eDonkey/Mule/Dingo/Fox to search for the torrent files (usually they were torrents from SuprNova), then run the torrents (don't think there's a way to automatically do it though).
Granted, this was 2.0. 2.1 may be different. I stopped using Shareaza because it felt pretty slow. I suppose a similar way to do this would be to use eMule to download the torrents and then run them in whatever torrent client you use.
I stand corrected. I forgot for a minute that carding for movies and the like was voluntary and not a law.
Jail time is way too harsh for something this trivial. A fine however, I'm more okay with. But I suppose the best would be no law at all.
The positive side I was looking at was it would be an incentive to not sell the games to minors, which would be an incentive for parents to actually look at Little Johnny's activities when he got home whining about not being able to buy Mortal Kombat, and possibly fewer lawsuits on the game companies when bad things happen that everyone blames on the media.
You're right, though. The possibility of criminal charges wouldn't really balance with the positives.
I agree. I used to be one of the types where any kind of restriction like that was a bad thing, but I don't really see this as any different than carding at movie theaters and stores that sell beer and tobacco.
;)
As long as it just keeps a minor from buying a game by himself without a parent, that's fine. Keeps the stores out of trouble (well... part of the time; some parents get mad either way), lets me buy my games, and it encourages parents to see what their kids are playing.
The moment they try to pass legislation banning M games from stores period though, that's when I'll get mad about it.
I was just poking fun at the guy who made the false assumption that the law was a Republican's doing.
And the funny thing is, he's a Democrat. Just like the other paragon of family values, Senator Lieberman.
Which raises the question: are they still considered 'Religious Right' when they're Democrats and/or Jewish?
I would contend that there *is* justice in the modding, considering as you were clearly being an asshat in your tone. There are nice ways of asking what an article is about, and there are not-so-nice ways.
And considering Slashdot is an American site, it would make sense that the paragraph was written with Americans in mind. Obviously Earthsea was a miniseries on the Sci-Fi channel, and Ursula Le Guin was involved in it somehow. It follows that maybe Earthsea was a book by LeGuin and Sci-Fi made a bad TV movie out of it.
Now excuse me while I go write a scathing post at The Register for talking about 'biscuits'. They're COOKIES, dammit!
Actually, the color schemes don't bother me much. I just felt the urge to make the joke. Heh.
Yeah, and the pointless IT prefix in it.slashdot.org costs me a billion dollars a year in eye doctor fees.
:p
Not quite as funny as it sounded in my head, but it had to be said.
http://www.dcemulation.com/neededtools.htm
::shrug::
Has a tool called CDI2Nero. And I'm sure there's a tool out there to convert Nero to ISO somewhere (Alcohol burns images just fine for me, and I don't use Linux).
Yeah, I found that was the case later on, but this particular time the loot was set wrong or the guy wasn't in the party... or something. Like I said, it was during the beta. :p I'm way past that point now.
I bumped into the multiple item thing in Ameth'Aran during one of the quests recently, and it was great. You still can't trade soulbound items though.
Tell me about it... I was questing this one time during the beta in a group, and died during a boss fight. I rezzed just as he died and went to loot... and got the quest item (I shift-right-clicked rather than just right-clicked). It wouldn't trade, either.
I felt so bad after that that I helped the other guys in the group get the item, too. Loooong spawn, but it worked out okay in the end.
They might do it, but they'll offer it as a new 'premium service'. Cebridge is doing it in my suburb of Houston, and RoadRunner is advertising it on the radio in Houston proper.
I guess it's only fair, since they have to upgrade the lines for gamers and downloaders, but it feels like extortion. 'What? You're lagging out in Warcraft? Well, if you paid 15 bucks [I'm guestimating the price] more a month you wouldn't get killed so often. You want to enjoy your game don't you?'
True. I was mostly just pointing out that there was a bit of truth behind the misinformation.
In related news, hippies everywhere are rushing to blame the entire problem on American decadence and Hummers, despite the proliferation of 18-wheelers and coal energy plants in the world. Film at 11, after the latest ELF attack.
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After looking at Zelda 3's art, it's hard to appreciate 2's art that well. But looking at the 2 art, it looks just like an old anime movie, with the vibrant colors and dramatic scenes and all that. I remember the days when you could read a Nintendo manual and see all the little character designs and story scenes and wish you could have larger copies.
As long as they're animated and stay animated, and the developers of the games stick to the development of the movies.
::crosses fingers:: pleasebeZelda pleasebeZelda pleasebeZelda...
also...
I've always wanted to see an animated series or movie based on the character designs in Zelda 2 and/or 3 (not the 80s cartoon, the anime-style art in the instruction manuals). I would love to see some form of Zelda movie, blending the best story bits from 3 and OoT, on the big screen.
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Raiden: Script?!
Well, for one thing it installs a hell of a lot easier.
I gave up on MythTV after having to fight with it and Fedora (and dependencies, and X, and Y...) at the same time. Why do I need MySQL when I just want a media player with a NES and SNES emulator built-in (no need or space on my media box for PVR)?
Yeah, PEBKAC, and I'll never profess to be anything but sub-adequate at Linux, but MediaPortal installed and ran fine in about 5 minutes from download to setup.
I ran into this too, but only when I played as the humans. I'd recommend, if you ever pick it up again, to try a different race (assuming, of course, I was right about my... assumption...), like the Night Elves.
I started as a Night Elf, and played a Human, a Tauren, and an Undead on the last night of the beta and when my Night Elf server was down, and though I didn't get into the other races as much as I would have liked (the beta ended about 15 minutes into my Undead), the Night Elves seemed the most satisfying, story-wise.
The Humans just seemed... lacking. Like it was a beginner's area tacked on.
I played the trial for SW:G and Guild Wars (and had a brief stint on the auroRO.net Open Ragnarok Server), and when WoW's Open Beta came out, I tried it. It was the first one out of the few I'd played that really grabbed me. It's the only one I bought and subscribed to immediately when I heard the Beta was closing.
;)
This review is 100% right (I have a few sound issues with dialogue being very quiet, but apart from that it gets a 10). I would say if you liked Diablo 2, with the quests and the semi-speedy leveling process, you'll like this game. And if you like soloing, you'll really like this, because you're not forced to group everywhere, just on harder quests.
If you have a friend that's going to get it, try to convince him to get the Collector's Edition so you can take his Guest Pass.
Look around here
or, even better:
Use nlite.
Yes, you're still burning a new CD from a fresh install and installing Windows twice, but you don't have to run a patch file after install (and with nlite you can also set options like allowing non-MS visual styles, classic logon screen, and unattended installation - very nice!).
I vaguely remember a deal between them and an online content provider (possibly UGO) that went sour when the provider decided they weren't going to pay Tycho and Gabe for their services. Since PA's been around since the latter part of the 90s, that would make more sense than the collected strip book that others have mentioned.
Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I think the guy was trying to be funny by posting a series of 'stock' questions; the kind that really have nothing to do with PA or Tycho and Gabe specifically, possibly as a commentary on the quality of the questions in the article.
Or I'm just reading too much into it. Whatever.
Mister Romero, is that you?
What does Blizzard's developing of a MMO (the best I've played so far, BTW) have to do with Vivendi's screwing of their own customers? Blizzard didn't make the decision to limit the number of CEs, Vivendi did.
;)
It would be nice to find some way of creating a backlash against Vivendi without hurting Blizzard. Or without depriving myself of WoW.