Really, I think it's just the total lack of real content in the post. DX3 is a big deal, even after the disappointment that was IW, but... All this trailer has is some images that people have taken the time to freeze frame. The only relevant detail is 2027, and even that gives us little.
If they have the ability to visit us, then the far more likely scenario is that they will exploit/conquer us. You just have to look at our own history of contact between various cultures to figure that out. And aliens would have the same psychology as we do?
Give me a break indeed.
Only idiots that can't accept change - change for the obvious overall good - still play AD&D. Come on. I've never played 1e, true, but I have seen the books for it. Elf as a class? What the hell is that?
2e, though, was utter crap compared to 3e. 3.5e isn't perfect, not by a long shot, and I'll admit that I dragged my feet in switching... But the switch made things so much better once I accepted it.
Starcraft just built on what Warcraft started. And Warcraft was really popular, back in its day.
Good game? Yes.
Incredibly new or innovative? Not really.
It's only claim to fame might be that the sides weren't just slight deviations of each other, but I'm not sure about that.
I finally thought of a way to get in contact with you.
Email, TSL, everything has been blocked from school and, of course, I lack net still./. is a good site, though, apparently.
However, I have a reaaaaaally sneaky idea as to how to try something...
I think, if I can get an FTP client that can either be run off a USB disk or an installation can just be copied from computer to computer, I can at least throw stuff onto my space on TVH. I know kriatyrr had a bunch of that sort of thing... So ask spoon to ask her for me, please?
After that, I might want to try some magic with a certain variety of Live CD... Ubuntu (Yay for grabbing about 3 live/install sets when I met spoon awhile back). Spoon and Kria have used it, and you're the resident linux guru. So... yeah. I'll need some support through this. My ingenuity and googling can only go so far. (especially with the swaths of things blocked on Google from here.)
I found that even the "ugly" theme was too different. Maybe I'm crazy, but years of the same screen name and it being in red, that's a much easier indicator than an icon.
Adium drove me batty with how bubbly and stupid it looked. I'd rather see the conversation inside the window, not fancy graphics that take up more space than the conversation. yeah, it looks good.... But, hell if I could get it configured to my liking. I never used Colloquy, I'll ahve to try it when I can... But it looks like it has the same issue.
Ah, yes, but how many people have machines that can run Doom3? My computer would choke and die no matter what setting it was on. Design is part of functionality, yes... However, when design starts to hinder functionality (taking too much to do its job due to being pretty), it's worse than a bad but simple design.
Wait... So... You're saying the stuff in the first paragraph would be... a good thing? That sounds horrid to me.
Funny, though, isn't the integreation into the shell the reason for a lot of security flaws? Yeah... Let's integrate AIM into the shell... Not like people get viruses through AIM ever... Oh wait, it's really common.
Hey, I love Taloon. But... You never sell battle axes, Hero, Ragnar, Alena, Cristo is the best party, and the money you make in chapter 3 can only be taken to the fifth chapter through abusing item carrying. He is a nice source of Sword of Malices at that point in chaper 5 though.
Phantasy Star IV for the Genesis likewise starred a tough female named Alys.
... Strike 1. See, she was never the main character... And then she dies about 1/3 of the way thorugh the game... A sign of weakness, maybe?
Few adventures star middle-aged balding men with love handles and average jobs (although it's not unheard of: Dragon Warrior IV starred a rotund merchant, Taloon, whose wife handed him lunch every day on his way to work
Stiiiiiike two. Talloon is a pretty minor character in Dragon Warrior 4. He DOES have a few games of his own, however.
IT wasn't a bad article, on the whole, but... Wow, man, play the damn games you reference.
Dead? What the heck are you talking about? Console RPGs like you've described are alive and well... Unless you mean dead to you, but... That's a bit different. I love both console RPGs and pencil and paper RPGs where things are actually changed by what the players do. They're VERY different things. However, both have their place.
Icewind Dale gets slagged for JUST being combat(The plot is horribly throw away), but I liked it. It was combat with a team you created and customized, and some of the situations are pretty hard to figure out how to do so your pary doesn't lose a member or two. It came out between BG1 and BG2, so the engine's been updated, but it still runs on 2e rules.
Final Fantasy 4 has a great fantranslation of the Japanese vesion which has all the stuff that was taken out for the English version (abilities and items) and has a better translation and no censoring! Though, hey, without the original, we'd never have "You Spoony Bard!" which has to be one of the best lines ever.
Amen to DQ5 being a good game, though. I didn't like some elements of it (3 people in your party? Bah!), but the plot of the game was incredible. I loved how it spanned a generation and worked off that.... Though I really shouldn't say some of things I was going to, as I'm not sure how far you are... DQ6 is a very fun game too, and I found it overall better than 5.
This is a great site for fan translations of games. I prefer having the original game and patching it myself instead of relying on ROM sites doing it for me, as who knows about the quality or freshness of their patch job. IPS patching is pretty easy stuff. Zophar used to be where I got most of my stuff from, but they've REALLY been slow on updates as of late.
Oh, and, teachers in my school actually HAD TO have alternate work to be done if a student chose not to get a laptop. This from the school administration.
No. It isn't. It's Apple Remote Desktop. It's a very useful thing, in this situation. (Had the same program at my school, I was a tech, yadda yadda.)
It's no more heroic than a pain in the ass for the peopel that have to fix it. There are things the students shouldn't be doing in school. Typically, no one was even WATCHING the students. The only time thigns were done was if a program that shouldn't be on during school was noticed on ARD. It can sort computers by the active program.
At my school, we had the same program... A good friend of mine didn't get a laptop. She had no issue with not having one, as almost every other student did... Students would share if need be. Teachers also allowed students to do work that didn't require laptops.
The network admin at my school was cool and let students she trusted use their own computer on the network. They still had to fit certain security guidelines (programs installed, using the standard proxies, etc.)
Actually, I should clarify. The students got into admin accounts onto THEIR laptop, which were local accounts. They couldn't do anything on any administrative servers or anything of that nature. We didn't want the admin password out, but no real changes could be made, except to the laptop. Students would change settings they had no clue about and we had to fix them was one of the largest annoyances, and that's about it. Most of the times we would just reimage the computers if they had done a lot (Oh, you had work on the laptop? Oh, sorry.... Our teacher/overseer for the class was a tad on the evil side, and we picked up on that... As if we weren't already.). Reimaging took about an hour per laptop, and were done off external HDD, that we had 3 of. We later got Powermac G5s running on the school's network that we could do (wired) network reimaging.
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Really, I think it's just the total lack of real content in the post. DX3 is a big deal, even after the disappointment that was IW, but ... All this trailer has is some images that people have taken the time to freeze frame. The only relevant detail is 2027, and even that gives us little.
First?
I just have to say - Your first line, about human nature, is a great one. I'm saving it.
No - You're sending the state of those photons. There's a very large difference.
Give me a break indeed. Only idiots that can't accept change - change for the obvious overall good - still play AD&D. Come on. I've never played 1e, true, but I have seen the books for it. Elf as a class? What the hell is that? 2e, though, was utter crap compared to 3e. 3.5e isn't perfect, not by a long shot, and I'll admit that I dragged my feet in switching... But the switch made things so much better once I accepted it.
Starcraft just built on what Warcraft started. And Warcraft was really popular, back in its day. Good game? Yes. Incredibly new or innovative? Not really. It's only claim to fame might be that the sides weren't just slight deviations of each other, but I'm not sure about that.
I finally thought of a way to get in contact with you.
/. is a good site, though, apparently.
... So ask spoon to ask her for me, please?
... Ubuntu (Yay for grabbing about 3 live/install sets when I met spoon awhile back). Spoon and Kria have used it, and you're the resident linux guru. So... yeah. I'll need some support through this. My ingenuity and googling can only go so far. (especially with the swaths of things blocked on Google from here.)
Email, TSL, everything has been blocked from school and, of course, I lack net still.
However, I have a reaaaaaally sneaky idea as to how to try something... I think, if I can get an FTP client that can either be run off a USB disk or an installation can just be copied from computer to computer, I can at least throw stuff onto my space on TVH. I know kriatyrr had a bunch of that sort of thing
After that, I might want to try some magic with a certain variety of Live CD
And now, you hopefully see this.
... Damn, I wish I had mod points... +1 funny.
I found that even the "ugly" theme was too different. Maybe I'm crazy, but years of the same screen name and it being in red, that's a much easier indicator than an icon.
Adium drove me batty with how bubbly and stupid it looked. I'd rather see the conversation inside the window, not fancy graphics that take up more space than the conversation. yeah, it looks good.... But, hell if I could get it configured to my liking. I never used Colloquy, I'll ahve to try it when I can... But it looks like it has the same issue.
I'll admit this is just a nitpick, but why Google FOR a calculator, when Google IS a calculator?
Ah, yes, but how many people have machines that can run Doom3? My computer would choke and die no matter what setting it was on. Design is part of functionality, yes... However, when design starts to hinder functionality (taking too much to do its job due to being pretty), it's worse than a bad but simple design.
Wait... So... You're saying the stuff in the first paragraph would be... a good thing? That sounds horrid to me.
Funny, though, isn't the integreation into the shell the reason for a lot of security flaws? Yeah... Let's integrate AIM into the shell... Not like people get viruses through AIM ever... Oh wait, it's really common.
Hey, I love Taloon. But... You never sell battle axes, Hero, Ragnar, Alena, Cristo is the best party, and the money you make in chapter 3 can only be taken to the fifth chapter through abusing item carrying. He is a nice source of Sword of Malices at that point in chaper 5 though.
FMA is neither a kids show, nor does it contain adult material.
There is something called a middle ground, you know. This is what most of AS's shows fit into.... Most.
Phantasy Star IV for the Genesis likewise starred a tough female named Alys.
... Strike 1. See, she was never the main character... And then she dies about 1/3 of the way thorugh the game... A sign of weakness, maybe?
Few adventures star middle-aged balding men with love handles and average jobs (although it's not unheard of: Dragon Warrior IV starred a rotund merchant, Taloon, whose wife handed him lunch every day on his way to work
Stiiiiiike two. Talloon is a pretty minor character in Dragon Warrior 4. He DOES have a few games of his own, however.
IT wasn't a bad article, on the whole, but... Wow, man, play the damn games you reference.
Dead? What the heck are you talking about? Console RPGs like you've described are alive and well... Unless you mean dead to you, but... That's a bit different. I love both console RPGs and pencil and paper RPGs where things are actually changed by what the players do. They're VERY different things. However, both have their place.
Icewind Dale gets slagged for JUST being combat(The plot is horribly throw away), but I liked it. It was combat with a team you created and customized, and some of the situations are pretty hard to figure out how to do so your pary doesn't lose a member or two. It came out between BG1 and BG2, so the engine's been updated, but it still runs on 2e rules.
Final Fantasy 4 has a great fantranslation of the Japanese vesion which has all the stuff that was taken out for the English version (abilities and items) and has a better translation and no censoring! Though, hey, without the original, we'd never have "You Spoony Bard!" which has to be one of the best lines ever.
Amen to DQ5 being a good game, though. I didn't like some elements of it (3 people in your party? Bah!), but the plot of the game was incredible. I loved how it spanned a generation and worked off that.... Though I really shouldn't say some of things I was going to, as I'm not sure how far you are... DQ6 is a very fun game too, and I found it overall better than 5.
This is a great site for fan translations of games. I prefer having the original game and patching it myself instead of relying on ROM sites doing it for me, as who knows about the quality or freshness of their patch job. IPS patching is pretty easy stuff. Zophar used to be where I got most of my stuff from, but they've REALLY been slow on updates as of late.
... First one to ascend gets a free lunch!
Oh, and, teachers in my school actually HAD TO have alternate work to be done if a student chose not to get a laptop. This from the school administration.
No. It isn't. It's Apple Remote Desktop. It's a very useful thing, in this situation. (Had the same program at my school, I was a tech, yadda yadda.)
It's no more heroic than a pain in the ass for the peopel that have to fix it. There are things the students shouldn't be doing in school. Typically, no one was even WATCHING the students. The only time thigns were done was if a program that shouldn't be on during school was noticed on ARD. It can sort computers by the active program.
At my school, we had the same program... A good friend of mine didn't get a laptop. She had no issue with not having one, as almost every other student did... Students would share if need be. Teachers also allowed students to do work that didn't require laptops.
The network admin at my school was cool and let students she trusted use their own computer on the network. They still had to fit certain security guidelines (programs installed, using the standard proxies, etc.)
Actually, I should clarify. The students got into admin accounts onto THEIR laptop, which were local accounts. They couldn't do anything on any administrative servers or anything of that nature. We didn't want the admin password out, but no real changes could be made, except to the laptop. Students would change settings they had no clue about and we had to fix them was one of the largest annoyances, and that's about it. Most of the times we would just reimage the computers if they had done a lot (Oh, you had work on the laptop? Oh, sorry.... Our teacher/overseer for the class was a tad on the evil side, and we picked up on that... As if we weren't already.). Reimaging took about an hour per laptop, and were done off external HDD, that we had 3 of. We later got Powermac G5s running on the school's network that we could do (wired) network reimaging.