If this is true, is there a list out there of who *does* have CEs? I preordered mine from GameStop and I was really looking forward to Blizzard's standard CE pack-ins.
Are those that ordered CEs going to get a Standard Edition and a partial refund? Or what?
I hope these two screwups somehow drive Vivendi down the road to ruin.
"During a financial report Motoyuki Yoshioka, head of Konami JPN, confirmed that there will be a Metal Gear Solid 4. Rumored since last week, this news casts the 'Final Episode of the Metal Gear Solid Trilogy', Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, in a new light."
Taking a queue from the Douglas Adams definition of 'trilogy', I see...
Finally a GUI that's small and somewhat works. Thanks for being the only person to actually help me rather than tell me about features that don't exist in the default install.:)
I still had to search on Google for 5-10 minutes hopping over busted links and broken websites to find it.
Every copy of foo_looks I found was incompatible with v0.8.3 except for the 2.1 beta, and the only working link I found for it was on a German forum.
I guess that must be why so many l33t d00ds love foobar so much. I mean, why go with something that works out of the box when you can go traipsing through half the Internet to find plugins?
Eh. What I meant was the *default UI* isn't minimalist, regardless of the minimalist *usage of resources*. I guess I didn't say that right before.
I would call Winamp with the default skin (2.x, or 5's classic skin) minimalist, because it doesn't take up much real estate at all, even with the playlist editor, and I can collapse it and still keep it on the screen. If foobar does that (apart from the systray icon) they hide the option spectacularly well.
That's why I asked if anyone knew of a UI plugin to foobar.:p
By 'minimalist' you mean 'huge and clunky and not like a good unobtrusive audio player at all', right? There must be a better word for describing a low usage of resources...:p
I mean, it looks like CDex, only CDex isn't meant to be my media player.
Is there a plugin/interface that will make it look like Winamp/XMMS? Or even better, a XMMS port for Windows?
Yeah, I've wondered the same thing a few times, even though I've only played a little bit (roommate had an X-box my senior year of college).
I'd say a lot of it isn't that it's just a shooter; it's a well-made shooter designed for a console with great multiplayer, a good story (for a shooter, anyway), and great controls, that isn't a port of a game for PC.
Take away the 'console' part or the 'not a port' part and you don't have much. But when was the last time you saw four guys (or girls, to avoid being an insensitive clod) crowded around a TV and a game console killing each other senselessly and enjoying it? Since Goldeneye, I mean?
I already took prophetic truth's advice and I'm at 45.5%... So... I'd make another go at it, but judging from the complaints about the BT settings on the official program I'm probably better off with this.
Thanks a ton, though. Nice to know it was Blizzard's fault and not mine.;)
Travis county is where Austin and The University of Texas are (as I mentioned in another comment thread on this article, FYI). Most of the other colleges in Texas are in more conservative areas, if not conservative colleges themselves. Austin is pretty liberal.
As for the blue spots around El Paso and the border, I can't say. I'd imagine Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage might tell you it's illegal immigrants, but I'm sure there's a better explanation.
Actually, if you look in the middle of the Texas map, there's a little blue speck. And, as I believe someone else pointed out, that speck is Travis county, home to Austin and The University of Texas. My alma mater.:)
Anyway... Austin is, in my feeble and misguided opinion, the closest thing to California in Texas. And the UT campus is pretty much at the heart of it. Beautiful campus, too, unless it's 105 outside or there's a protest going on.
As far as I know though, the other universities in Texas (A&M, Baylor, various other UTs, and I'm sure I'm missing others) are pretty conservative.
"So why bring up anything at all about your "revulsion to the Leftist rhetoric in the campaign"?"
Because I believe said rhetoric is *part* of the reason why Kerry lost. There are many different reasons for voting for someone.
I never said the Right didn't do the same thing (in fact, if you'd actually read my post, you'd see that I DID say the Right did the same thing), but when all I hear after the election is 'OMFG yuor all a buncha inbred hicks', I take offense. The same as when my Dad calls Democrats 'commie pinko bastards'. Hell, this morning I turned off the radio because a local conservative talk show host was railing on gay marriage.
I voted for my candidate because I agreed with his stance on the issues. I'm conservative without the religious right overtones, and so I was aligned with neither Bush nor Kerry. Both sides' mudslinging had very little to do with my decision.
That isn't to say that someone else's opinion might not have been influenced by the mudslinging. My point was that there may have been a lot of right-of-center people in this election that were against the war, against religion, and considering going with someone besides Bush, that may have been turned off by four years' worth of bashing. Like the article that other person replied to me with said, painting devil horns and a tail doesn't endear you to anyone.
"Personally, I'd focus more on issues than whether someone said something I didn't like and therefore I had to vote against what he would vote for."
That's why I said 'partly'.
If I only had a choice between the big two, I lean more to the right of center. Bush would have gotten my vote. *Part* of that decision would be based on my revulsion to the Leftist rhetoric in the campaign. The majority would have been on issues.
And you'll probably continue to see that happen, too, with a Democratic party platform of 'you're a fucktard if you don't agree with us'. Great way to try to bring the opposition to your side, too. 'You're a fucking idiot. Vote for us!' If I hadn't voted for Badnarik I would have voted for Bush partly out of spite.
Believe it or not, there *are* some people in the country that *are* intelligent, that::GASP!:: don't agree with you! OMFG!
There were a lot of people who voted for all the wrong reasons. But there are also a large number of people who thought about the decision at hand before making it. Insulting them only distances them further from you.
Yes, IHBT, and IHL, but it bothers me when people do this shit (which isn't to say the Right doesn't do it also... another reason I voted for Badnarik). HAND.
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Actually, Spinsanity's RSS feed is pretty good. They tend to bash both sides.:)
To go along with your argument, I have a (hopefully not stupid) question...
How much is Unix/Linux/*nix tied with OSX? Would it be possible that porting a game to Linux would be automatically porting it to Mac? Or does OSX run slow under X, or am I just completely and utterly ignorant and about to be flamed for being so?
Yeah, I find it a little sad that it has to be that way (hey, just look at South Park last night).
Personally, I hate the thought of voting against someone, or going for the lesser of two evils. And 'not voting' wasn't an option (even if I wanted to; my mom would've killed me).
So I voted Lib. They align with my ideals more, they don't bicker over who did what 30 years ago, they don't try to rig elections.
Even if I am 'throwing my vote away' as so many people have chided me, I'm using my voice to say 'I don't like what's going on'. Maybe nobody will hear it, but I feel that if enough people vote how they feel, maybe something will change by the time 2008 rolls around. And maybe then Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich will both lose.;)
Closest thing I've heard of is a ROM hacker program called Hyrule Magic (can't find the exact URL, and just about to leave work to go home).
Not sure what all it can do though; I've only used it to import a sprite-edit to make Link have blond hair and Wind Waker colored jerkins (it looks really good in-game, if I do say so myself)
True, it is capitalising on Zelda (and there are changes to the engine to support items from later games in the series like the hookshot, etc, so you can actually expand on the original), but I don't think that's the sole reason they released it.
If I recall correctly, ZClassic was formed out of a ROM hacking project (not out of a 'hey! let's make a toolset and gain notoriety by ripping off a game we love!' mindset - this thing has been out for several years now, with very little attention drawn to it), and adding to the 'nostalgia effect' is being able to create your own Zelda game. Yes, it's unoriginal, but the problem with going with an 'original' battle system, etc. is it may not fit what you'd like to do. For some people a whole new engine might be great, but there are others (like me) that would feel that a whole new engine would be similar, but not quite the same. Like playing Dragon Warrior in a Final Fantasy interface.
Not to mention the fact that creating a 'Zelda *inspired*' engine would bring out cries of 'knockoff'.
Eh. I'm rambling too much. Basically, I guess what I'm saying is, an original engine would work for some people, and a Zelda-like or Zelda clone engine works for some others. It all depends on the type of game you're making. Some of us feel more comfortable making Zelda-style games in a Zelda engine, rather than retooling someone else's engine to fit what we want to do (and believe me, Zelda doesn't transfer very easily to Neverwinter Nights - back when I tried to, I took weeks trying to get bombs to work).
Personally, I've not seen any toolsets for Zelda-style games out there, and would gladly check them out. But all I've seen is Aurora and Verge and similar console and D&D RPG toolsets (and no, I won't code my own, because I wouldn't have any idea where to start, and I'd rather make the game than the engine anyway).
On an OT note, has anyone seen a similar program, but with the old SNES Final Fantasy games? I recall seeing one way back, but then it mysteriously vanished... I'd kill to be able to quickly and easily create a FF-style game.
I'd imagine if you knock ZClassic, you probably don't play any Doom or Quake mods, do you?
It's not just a 'remake' of Zelda, it's a remake with an editor.
Yeah, it's not quite the same as making a whole new game, but think of it less as a game and more of a toolset with a demo game, like Neverwinter Nights or some of the id game engines (I've heard people before say games like Quake 3 were less of a full game and more of a starting point for mods). What better way to show off a Zelda toolset than with a tile-by-tile remake of the game the engine is based on?
People have made tons of quests for ZClassic, from plain old Zelda quests to MegaMan X quests, and everything in-between.
And the point behind using an editor to make a game rather than building from scratch? You can just jump in and *create* rather than coding every last bit of it first.
Not Link to the Past sprites (unless major changes have been made, it's still a 'one tile at a time' setup), but there have been tons of remakes featuring the BSZelda (SNES Japanese Satellite Add-On) tileset, a modified SNES-ified Link's Awakening tileset, and a few others. The Link's Awakening tileset allowed for a few remakes involving cutable grass and staircases (among other things), so it's not just an exact clone.
Ah. Yeah, kinda makes sense now. 'Me am smarte, so me hates dumb peoples.'
On a side note (to no-one in particular), maybe it's just that I'm new here, but why am I getting modded down to zero for a comment I clearly marked as Offtopic? It's not like I show up in the default view, since I'm nested. I actually marked it OT so I *wouldn't* get modded down.
I suppose it only makes sense that my first post to get modded gets modded down for something stupid. Oh, well.
What does it mean? I've managed to figure out a couple words individually, and obviously it's a play on 'cogito, ergo sum', but when I try to put it together I can't make any sense of it (possibly because I don't know Latin).
'Man is and thinks therefore smells profanely vulgar and desire'?
To me, Trillian and Miranda are a lot alike, interface-wise. Miranda is a lot more compact and a lot lighter than Trillian though.
I've used all three, and I prefer gaim, just because it looks and acts more like AIM and Yahoo. Trillian and Miranda 'feel' a lot more like ICQ, which I never liked and never got the hang of (mostly because I started with AIM and AOL back in the day).
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If this is true, is there a list out there of who *does* have CEs? I preordered mine from GameStop and I was really looking forward to Blizzard's standard CE pack-ins.
Are those that ordered CEs going to get a Standard Edition and a partial refund? Or what?
I hope these two screwups somehow drive Vivendi down the road to ruin.
"During a financial report Motoyuki Yoshioka, head of Konami JPN, confirmed that there will be a Metal Gear Solid 4. Rumored since last week, this news casts the 'Final Episode of the Metal Gear Solid Trilogy', Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, in a new light."
Taking a queue from the Douglas Adams definition of 'trilogy', I see...
Finally a GUI that's small and somewhat works. Thanks for being the only person to actually help me rather than tell me about features that don't exist in the default install. :)
I still had to search on Google for 5-10 minutes hopping over busted links and broken websites to find it.
Every copy of foo_looks I found was incompatible with v0.8.3 except for the 2.1 beta, and the only working link I found for it was on a German forum.
I guess that must be why so many l33t d00ds love foobar so much. I mean, why go with something that works out of the box when you can go traipsing through half the Internet to find plugins?
This guy's article says it all.
Eh. What I meant was the *default UI* isn't minimalist, regardless of the minimalist *usage of resources*. I guess I didn't say that right before.
:p
I would call Winamp with the default skin (2.x, or 5's classic skin) minimalist, because it doesn't take up much real estate at all, even with the playlist editor, and I can collapse it and still keep it on the screen. If foobar does that (apart from the systray icon) they hide the option spectacularly well.
That's why I asked if anyone knew of a UI plugin to foobar.
By 'minimalist' you mean 'huge and clunky and not like a good unobtrusive audio player at all', right? There must be a better word for describing a low usage of resources... :p
I mean, it looks like CDex, only CDex isn't meant to be my media player.
Is there a plugin/interface that will make it look like Winamp/XMMS? Or even better, a XMMS port for Windows?
Yeah, I've wondered the same thing a few times, even though I've only played a little bit (roommate had an X-box my senior year of college).
I'd say a lot of it isn't that it's just a shooter; it's a well-made shooter designed for a console with great multiplayer, a good story (for a shooter, anyway), and great controls, that isn't a port of a game for PC.
Take away the 'console' part or the 'not a port' part and you don't have much. But when was the last time you saw four guys (or girls, to avoid being an insensitive clod) crowded around a TV and a game console killing each other senselessly and enjoying it? Since Goldeneye, I mean?
That would explain it.
;)
I already took prophetic truth's advice and I'm at 45.5%... So... I'd make another go at it, but judging from the complaints about the BT settings on the official program I'm probably better off with this.
Thanks a ton, though. Nice to know it was Blizzard's fault and not mine.
I hope this thread hasn't already died... but... I'm getting an odd error message (see comment subject), and nothing's downloading...
::sigh::
Did I miss out on the damned beta *again*?
No, no, see, it was all in the way you *said* the question. For example:
;)
Non-troll (honest question):
"Why should I switch from Mozilla to Firefox?"
Troll (indignant):
"Why should I switch from Mozilla to Firefox?"
See? It's all in the tone of voice.
Travis county is where Austin and The University of Texas are (as I mentioned in another comment thread on this article, FYI). Most of the other colleges in Texas are in more conservative areas, if not conservative colleges themselves. Austin is pretty liberal.
As for the blue spots around El Paso and the border, I can't say. I'd imagine Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage might tell you it's illegal immigrants, but I'm sure there's a better explanation.
Actually, if you look in the middle of the Texas map, there's a little blue speck. And, as I believe someone else pointed out, that speck is Travis county, home to Austin and The University of Texas. My alma mater. :)
Anyway... Austin is, in my feeble and misguided opinion, the closest thing to California in Texas. And the UT campus is pretty much at the heart of it. Beautiful campus, too, unless it's 105 outside or there's a protest going on.
As far as I know though, the other universities in Texas (A&M, Baylor, various other UTs, and I'm sure I'm missing others) are pretty conservative.
"So why bring up anything at all about your "revulsion to the Leftist rhetoric in the campaign"?"
Because I believe said rhetoric is *part* of the reason why Kerry lost. There are many different reasons for voting for someone.
I never said the Right didn't do the same thing (in fact, if you'd actually read my post, you'd see that I DID say the Right did the same thing), but when all I hear after the election is 'OMFG yuor all a buncha inbred hicks', I take offense. The same as when my Dad calls Democrats 'commie pinko bastards'. Hell, this morning I turned off the radio because a local conservative talk show host was railing on gay marriage.
I voted for my candidate because I agreed with his stance on the issues. I'm conservative without the religious right overtones, and so I was aligned with neither Bush nor Kerry. Both sides' mudslinging had very little to do with my decision.
That isn't to say that someone else's opinion might not have been influenced by the mudslinging. My point was that there may have been a lot of right-of-center people in this election that were against the war, against religion, and considering going with someone besides Bush, that may have been turned off by four years' worth of bashing. Like the article that other person replied to me with said, painting devil horns and a tail doesn't endear you to anyone.
"Personally, I'd focus more on issues than whether someone said something I didn't like and therefore I had to vote against what he would vote for."
That's why I said 'partly'.
If I only had a choice between the big two, I lean more to the right of center. Bush would have gotten my vote. *Part* of that decision would be based on my revulsion to the Leftist rhetoric in the campaign. The majority would have been on issues.
And you'll probably continue to see that happen, too, with a Democratic party platform of 'you're a fucktard if you don't agree with us'. Great way to try to bring the opposition to your side, too. 'You're a fucking idiot. Vote for us!' If I hadn't voted for Badnarik I would have voted for Bush partly out of spite.
::GASP!:: don't agree with you! OMFG!
Believe it or not, there *are* some people in the country that *are* intelligent, that
There were a lot of people who voted for all the wrong reasons. But there are also a large number of people who thought about the decision at hand before making it. Insulting them only distances them further from you.
Yes, IHBT, and IHL, but it bothers me when people do this shit (which isn't to say the Right doesn't do it also... another reason I voted for Badnarik). HAND.
Actually, Spinsanity's RSS feed is pretty good. They tend to bash both sides. :)
If only factcheck.org would make a feed...
To go along with your argument, I have a (hopefully not stupid) question...
How much is Unix/Linux/*nix tied with OSX? Would it be possible that porting a game to Linux would be automatically porting it to Mac? Or does OSX run slow under X, or am I just completely and utterly ignorant and about to be flamed for being so?
But can it play Laser Floyd? Woooooooo!
Yeah, I find it a little sad that it has to be that way (hey, just look at South Park last night).
;)
Personally, I hate the thought of voting against someone, or going for the lesser of two evils. And 'not voting' wasn't an option (even if I wanted to; my mom would've killed me).
So I voted Lib. They align with my ideals more, they don't bicker over who did what 30 years ago, they don't try to rig elections.
Even if I am 'throwing my vote away' as so many people have chided me, I'm using my voice to say 'I don't like what's going on'. Maybe nobody will hear it, but I feel that if enough people vote how they feel, maybe something will change by the time 2008 rolls around. And maybe then Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich will both lose.
Closest thing I've heard of is a ROM hacker program called Hyrule Magic (can't find the exact URL, and just about to leave work to go home).
Not sure what all it can do though; I've only used it to import a sprite-edit to make Link have blond hair and Wind Waker colored jerkins (it looks really good in-game, if I do say so myself)
True, it is capitalising on Zelda (and there are changes to the engine to support items from later games in the series like the hookshot, etc, so you can actually expand on the original), but I don't think that's the sole reason they released it.
If I recall correctly, ZClassic was formed out of a ROM hacking project (not out of a 'hey! let's make a toolset and gain notoriety by ripping off a game we love!' mindset - this thing has been out for several years now, with very little attention drawn to it), and adding to the 'nostalgia effect' is being able to create your own Zelda game. Yes, it's unoriginal, but the problem with going with an 'original' battle system, etc. is it may not fit what you'd like to do. For some people a whole new engine might be great, but there are others (like me) that would feel that a whole new engine would be similar, but not quite the same. Like playing Dragon Warrior in a Final Fantasy interface.
Not to mention the fact that creating a 'Zelda *inspired*' engine would bring out cries of 'knockoff'.
Eh. I'm rambling too much. Basically, I guess what I'm saying is, an original engine would work for some people, and a Zelda-like or Zelda clone engine works for some others. It all depends on the type of game you're making. Some of us feel more comfortable making Zelda-style games in a Zelda engine, rather than retooling someone else's engine to fit what we want to do (and believe me, Zelda doesn't transfer very easily to Neverwinter Nights - back when I tried to, I took weeks trying to get bombs to work).
Personally, I've not seen any toolsets for Zelda-style games out there, and would gladly check them out. But all I've seen is Aurora and Verge and similar console and D&D RPG toolsets (and no, I won't code my own, because I wouldn't have any idea where to start, and I'd rather make the game than the engine anyway).
On an OT note, has anyone seen a similar program, but with the old SNES Final Fantasy games? I recall seeing one way back, but then it mysteriously vanished... I'd kill to be able to quickly and easily create a FF-style game.
I'd imagine if you knock ZClassic, you probably don't play any Doom or Quake mods, do you?
It's not just a 'remake' of Zelda, it's a remake with an editor.
Yeah, it's not quite the same as making a whole new game, but think of it less as a game and more of a toolset with a demo game, like Neverwinter Nights or some of the id game engines (I've heard people before say games like Quake 3 were less of a full game and more of a starting point for mods). What better way to show off a Zelda toolset than with a tile-by-tile remake of the game the engine is based on?
People have made tons of quests for ZClassic, from plain old Zelda quests to MegaMan X quests, and everything in-between.
And the point behind using an editor to make a game rather than building from scratch? You can just jump in and *create* rather than coding every last bit of it first.
Not Link to the Past sprites (unless major changes have been made, it's still a 'one tile at a time' setup), but there have been tons of remakes featuring the BSZelda (SNES Japanese Satellite Add-On) tileset, a modified SNES-ified Link's Awakening tileset, and a few others. The Link's Awakening tileset allowed for a few remakes involving cutable grass and staircases (among other things), so it's not just an exact clone.
Ah. Yeah, kinda makes sense now. 'Me am smarte, so me hates dumb peoples.'
On a side note (to no-one in particular), maybe it's just that I'm new here, but why am I getting modded down to zero for a comment I clearly marked as Offtopic? It's not like I show up in the default view, since I'm nested. I actually marked it OT so I *wouldn't* get modded down.
I suppose it only makes sense that my first post to get modded gets modded down for something stupid. Oh, well.
What does it mean? I've managed to figure out a couple words individually, and obviously it's a play on 'cogito, ergo sum', but when I try to put it together I can't make any sense of it (possibly because I don't know Latin).
'Man is and thinks therefore smells profanely vulgar and desire'?
To me, Trillian and Miranda are a lot alike, interface-wise. Miranda is a lot more compact and a lot lighter than Trillian though.
I've used all three, and I prefer gaim, just because it looks and acts more like AIM and Yahoo. Trillian and Miranda 'feel' a lot more like ICQ, which I never liked and never got the hang of (mostly because I started with AIM and AOL back in the day).
It's all a matter of preference, really.