I was gonna suggest this one if noone else did. MoM was an awesome game. I bought this game on 3.5" floppies for DOS. Its the only game I ever wanted to play past the life of its medium...those darned floppies went bad before the game got stale for me. Fortunately I found a copy of it on an abandonware site. I have to play it in DOSShell though. It requires Expanded memory...ugh! I really wish someone would make a modern version designed for modern OSes.
I know this will mark me as a pariah in the Slashdot community, but I for one loved each and every one of the Star Wars movies. Yes, Anakin was a whiney dork. But he was supposed to be a flawed character. Thats why he became Darth Vader. Yes, Jar-Jar and the Ewoks were hokey...but the kids loved them. I remember...I was in 3rd grade when VI came out, and I loved the Ewoks. These movies aren't the sole property of Sci-Fi geeks. They're meant to entertain everyone -- including 10 year-old boys, grandmothers and parents.
While I'm on the subject of sci-fi fans trashing everything but the original, I liked Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise. I liked ST:ToS when I was a kid, but its pretty darned dumb now, and Shatner is an even worse actor than Hayden Christensen.
I like the new Battlestar Galactica WAY better than the old one.
I didn't even think Waterworld was *that* bad. I mean...it wasn't great, but it was good enough to watch on cable.
So when we're sitting around talking about people ruining their careers, and movies not being that great...remember that Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ewan Macregor, et al -- are all enjoying great success right now because a LOT of people really liked those movies.
I'm pretty sure neurovish is joking. I highly recommend that you not waste time with Gentoo if you are a linux rookie. While Gentoo has many many benefits, being newbie-friendly is definitely NOT one of them.
As previous posters have said, Ubuntu is the easiest to set up (IMHO).
Maybe a lot of the game depends on "luck"...does that mean it isn't fun? People have been playing Poker, Craps, Backgammon, 21, etc. etc. for a very long time. Since when is something automatically not a "game" just cause it has some element of chance? I think thats why a large class of games are called "Games of Chance". Randomness can be fun.
I post this in response to the "Risk" comment, simply 'cause I want to agree with the parent.:) Risk is the best. Even if it is mostly chance, its a heckuva lot of fun, especially when drinking. Risk Godstorm and Risk 2210AD are even better!
The problem with the bible, or any religious scripture, is that people can read it and find passages that back up their preconceptions. People who hate gays can find passages that make them think thats okay. People who want to show Christianity to be hypocritical can find passages that conflict with one another. Well-intentioned people can completely disagree over which passages are important. This is why we have so many different variants of the Christian faith -- Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc. etc.
In my reading of the bible, there is one passage where Jesus sums up the entire religion. Everything else is basically background information.
25On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
26"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"
27He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'[c]; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[d]"
28"You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."
The passage continues to define "your neighbor" as anyone you might happen to meet. So, no...you aren't supposed to hate gays.
Master of Magic. God I loved that game. Why won't they remake it for a modern system? I still play it occasionally, but I have to do so using DosBox.
I don't feel bad about the fact that I downloaded the game from some disreputable place online because the original 3.5" floppies that I paid for went bad years ago.
Those idiot actors speak out on social injustice when it gives them photo ops with starving children. Yeah, I'm talking to you, Angelina Jolie.
I don't think Angelina Jolie is doing it for the photo ops. She's donated millions of US$ out of her own pocket and is continuously working first-hand in dangerous and poverty-stricken areas. I see your point about idiot actors speaking out because they think their views are somehow more informed. But, I think Ms. Jolie is a very bad example for you to use. How about Pamela Anderson, George Clooney or Sean Penn?
1. The US has started (and "encouraged") more wars and murdered more humans in a 50 year period than anyone else before in recorded
history.
I'm sorry, I completely stopped reading your post after the first point. That is patently ridiculous. You ever hear of the Nazis? Crusaders? Inquisitors? Mongols? Khmer Rouge? Roman Empire? Aztecs? Egyptians?
Mankind's violent history has gone on for millenia. While the U.S. has done a lot of bad things in the past 50 years, lets keep things in perspective here.
Translation:
"I liked Dark Age of Camelot better than World of Warcraft because it let me be a dick to other people. Will World of Warcraft give me the chance to be a dick? Or will it be a game for pansies -- which is what I think World of Warcraft is."
This translation does not reflect the views of Homr Zodyssey or Zodyssey Publications, Inc.
I've heard this urban legend many times -- but noone ever has any specifics to back it up. Can you provide such specifics?
According to this, the one about the burglar trapped in a garage is fake.
A post that is obviously insulting to something that most Slashdotters love. Followed by a response that insults all of the aforementioned Slashdotters -- without providing any evidence to support the claims.
1 + 1 = Troll.
It should be pointed out that they added the Imperial Guard with the expansion to Dawn of War. I'm just annoyed that they still haven't made Tyranids >:(.
Perhaps they left the Orcs out because they intend to put them in an expansion pack. If they put all the good races in the main game, then there's nothing left to sell their expansion packs with.
In the U.S., you are not guaranteed a freedom *from hearing*.
If you don't want to hear my free speech, don't read emails from me.
My right to speak is not based upon your desire to hear my opinion.
I don't see what this has to do with dictatorship in the slightest. Now it just seems that you've resorted to name-calling.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
I'm seeing a lot of comments here about how "those dirty politicians put a loophole in the law to exempt themselves." I, for one, am glad! This is called freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is extremely annoying...especially to those people who don't want to hear it. Guess what...Its one of the U.S.'s founding principles, so get over it. If there wasn't a loophole in the law for political speech, the ACLU would be up in arms about it, and rightly so!
On a different note, it is stupid that they are trying to redefine the word "Spam". In my mind, Spam isn't limited to email. If you're playing WoW and someone shouts "Lvl 30 Warrior LFG!" 30 times in a row, then they are spamming. "Spam" covers a wide range of annoying actions in the electronic media.
I don't trust politicians to define what "spam" is, and I don't trust them to make laws restricting any kind of online use. They simply don't understand the medium.
The first I ever used was an Apple IIc in the third grade. This was at a 1-week summer program thingy in about 1983 where we learned BASIC. I could draw a line on the screen. It was AWESOME!
The first I ever owned was TRS-80 color computer in about the 5th grade. I learned the FOR...NEXT...LOOP and then I could draw a bunch of lines on the screen! It was EVEN AWESOMER!
Dungeons of Daggorath!!!
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
Character dies of a heart attack!
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I, for one, welcome our new cromulent overlords.
Getting rid of $1 and $5 bills is madness! Think of how it would affect the adult entertainment industry! You can't stuff a $1 coin in a G-string.
Silly! They aren't aliens. They are man-made robots.
I was gonna suggest this one if noone else did. MoM was an awesome game. I bought this game on 3.5" floppies for DOS. Its the only game I ever wanted to play past the life of its medium...those darned floppies went bad before the game got stale for me. Fortunately I found a copy of it on an abandonware site. I have to play it in DOSShell though. It requires Expanded memory...ugh! I really wish someone would make a modern version designed for modern OSes.
I know this will mark me as a pariah in the Slashdot community, but I for one loved each and every one of the Star Wars movies. Yes, Anakin was a whiney dork. But he was supposed to be a flawed character. Thats why he became Darth Vader. Yes, Jar-Jar and the Ewoks were hokey...but the kids loved them. I remember...I was in 3rd grade when VI came out, and I loved the Ewoks. These movies aren't the sole property of Sci-Fi geeks. They're meant to entertain everyone -- including 10 year-old boys, grandmothers and parents.
While I'm on the subject of sci-fi fans trashing everything but the original, I liked Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise. I liked ST:ToS when I was a kid, but its pretty darned dumb now, and Shatner is an even worse actor than Hayden Christensen.
I like the new Battlestar Galactica WAY better than the old one.
I didn't even think Waterworld was *that* bad. I mean...it wasn't great, but it was good enough to watch on cable.
So when we're sitting around talking about people ruining their careers, and movies not being that great...remember that Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ewan Macregor, et al -- are all enjoying great success right now because a LOT of people really liked those movies.
When people attempt to use mathematics in a political discourse, it gets dismissed out of hand. Ask Al Gore.
I'm pretty sure neurovish is joking. I highly recommend that you not waste time with Gentoo if you are a linux rookie. While Gentoo has many many benefits, being newbie-friendly is definitely NOT one of them.
As previous posters have said, Ubuntu is the easiest to set up (IMHO).
Maybe a lot of the game depends on "luck"...does that mean it isn't fun? People have been playing Poker, Craps, Backgammon, 21, etc. etc. for a very long time. Since when is something automatically not a "game" just cause it has some element of chance? I think thats why a large class of games are called "Games of Chance". Randomness can be fun.
:) Risk is the best. Even if it is mostly chance, its a heckuva lot of fun, especially when drinking. Risk Godstorm and Risk 2210AD are even better!
I post this in response to the "Risk" comment, simply 'cause I want to agree with the parent.
The problem with the bible, or any religious scripture, is that people can read it and find passages that back up their preconceptions. People who hate gays can find passages that make them think thats okay. People who want to show Christianity to be hypocritical can find passages that conflict with one another. Well-intentioned people can completely disagree over which passages are important. This is why we have so many different variants of the Christian faith -- Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc. etc.
In my reading of the bible, there is one passage where Jesus sums up the entire religion. Everything else is basically background information.
25On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 26"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?" 27He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'[c]; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[d]" 28"You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."
The passage continues to define "your neighbor" as anyone you might happen to meet. So, no...you aren't supposed to hate gays.
You apparantly haven't tried to use Google much. You can personalize a google homepage with newsfeeds, bookmarks, weather, movies, etc, etc.
And, its faster, more flexible and easier to use than a Yahoo homepage. I've used both.
Master of Magic. God I loved that game. Why won't they remake it for a modern system? I still play it occasionally, but I have to do so using DosBox.
I don't feel bad about the fact that I downloaded the game from some disreputable place online because the original 3.5" floppies that I paid for went bad years ago.
I had no idea what the word "epistemologically" meant. Here's the definition in case you were dumbfounded by this word as well.
but...however will they turn on run-mode in Oblivion?!?!?
We must think of the children!!
(I think it was run...haven't played it in a few months.)
He let the magic smoke out.
Somebody set up us the bomb.
I'm sorry, I completely stopped reading your post after the first point. That is patently ridiculous. You ever hear of the Nazis? Crusaders? Inquisitors? Mongols? Khmer Rouge? Roman Empire? Aztecs? Egyptians?
Mankind's violent history has gone on for millenia. While the U.S. has done a lot of bad things in the past 50 years, lets keep things in perspective here.
Translation: "I liked Dark Age of Camelot better than World of Warcraft because it let me be a dick to other people. Will World of Warcraft give me the chance to be a dick? Or will it be a game for pansies -- which is what I think World of Warcraft is." This translation does not reflect the views of Homr Zodyssey or Zodyssey Publications, Inc.
I've heard this urban legend many times -- but noone ever has any specifics to back it up. Can you provide such specifics? According to this, the one about the burglar trapped in a garage is fake.
A post that is obviously insulting to something that most Slashdotters love. Followed by a response that insults all of the aforementioned Slashdotters -- without providing any evidence to support the claims. 1 + 1 = Troll.
It should be pointed out that they added the Imperial Guard with the expansion to Dawn of War. I'm just annoyed that they still haven't made Tyranids >:(. Perhaps they left the Orcs out because they intend to put them in an expansion pack. If they put all the good races in the main game, then there's nothing left to sell their expansion packs with.
In the U.S., you are not guaranteed a freedom *from hearing*.
If you don't want to hear my free speech, don't read emails from me.
My right to speak is not based upon your desire to hear my opinion.
I don't see what this has to do with dictatorship in the slightest. Now it just seems that you've resorted to name-calling.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
I'm seeing a lot of comments here about how "those dirty politicians put a loophole in the law to exempt themselves." I, for one, am glad! This is called freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is extremely annoying...especially to those people who don't want to hear it. Guess what...Its one of the U.S.'s founding principles, so get over it. If there wasn't a loophole in the law for political speech, the ACLU would be up in arms about it, and rightly so!
On a different note, it is stupid that they are trying to redefine the word "Spam". In my mind, Spam isn't limited to email. If you're playing WoW and someone shouts "Lvl 30 Warrior LFG!" 30 times in a row, then they are spamming. "Spam" covers a wide range of annoying actions in the electronic media.
I don't trust politicians to define what "spam" is, and I don't trust them to make laws restricting any kind of online use. They simply don't understand the medium.
The first I ever used was an Apple IIc in the third grade. This was at a 1-week summer program thingy in about 1983 where we learned BASIC. I could draw a line on the screen. It was AWESOME!
The first I ever owned was TRS-80 color computer in about the 5th grade. I learned the FOR...NEXT...LOOP and then I could draw a bunch of lines on the screen! It was EVEN AWESOMER!
Dungeons of Daggorath!!!
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
A-[Space]-R-[Enter]
Character dies of a heart attack!
I'm talking quality gaming!!
i agree with all but the last sentence. You do realize that the average gamer is in their 30s, right?