I've faithfully bought all Humble bundles and registered as a linux user and was quite generous in the amount I've paid. However for this one I paid $.01 over the minimum and registered as a Winders user. I allocated all the money to go as a Humble Tip.
I vowed to never buy another EA game after Battlefield 2. Thier draconian, broken copy protection, lack of support, and general lack of insight into the industry have poisoned the well for me. They expect the game industry to bow to them rather then listen to thier customers. They've become too big, no longer innovate, and care solely about the bottom line and not the art of making video games. In short they've become the Microsoft.
Where's Microprose?
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Article seems to focus on companies that were players in late 90s on. Microprose made many classics: Xcom series, Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Railroad tycoon, and many others.
I recently purchased Battlefield 2 from EA. After a Lengthy install, the game refused to run stating I had CDRom emulators on my system (I didn't). I verified in my device manager that there was a single CDRom and it was the physical one in the machine. I opened a support ticket with EA and got many canned answers that had nothing to do with my problems. When I finally got the attention of a tech there that had some insight, I was basically told I'm screwed. They didn't know why and weren't willing to refund my money. Compusa was also inwilling to provide a refund as the box had been opened. So I'm stuck with a $50 game I cannot run legitmately. I did however finally get it to run using pirate mechanisms.
Once again, this shows their copy protection only hurts those that buy the game.
This all boils down to personal responsibilty. Parents are using video games to babysit their children and paying no mind to the ESRB ratings. Of course the kid is going to be screwed up. Same thing would happen if we let them sit and watch violent / adult R or NC17 movies at inappropriate ages. I agree that the nightly News should be rated TVMA. I wouldn't let my 7 year old daughter watch the news any more than I'd let her watch Southpark, Jackass, or anything else of that nature.
I also don't let her play M rated games. When it's time for me to play some of those, she's either in bed or not allowed in the room.
I have had times when trying to force WinAmp to play MP3s and Wav files rather than Media Player where when I used the "Open with" method, it was sumarily ignored and used Media Player anyways. I had to use the cumbersome Folder options method and entries in the Win.ini to force the issue.
In the media, there are things called "Slow News Days". Lots of articles about puppies and orphans, not much of the gritty stuff most of us look for. I've noticed that all the Linux centric news sites have been pretty slow this week. Not much is going on other than some program being released by some company in Redmond.
The sites have to find something to fill the space. Otherwise we quit looking and their ad revenues go down. It's just an ugly side effect of the coporitzation of the net and/.
For More information: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(1 15),10);'
Valve doesn't have to do anything. There's already and extremely talented company that will take care of it. Maybe you've heard of them: Loki? Every game they've released has been a high quality polished product. I own CivCTP and RT2. Can't wait for Alpha Centauri.
AMEN! I've been limping along with those crippled OSS drivers for way to long. They sound like AM in an airport tunnel. I had to throw my old Awe64 back in so I'd have sound under Q3.
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I've faithfully bought all Humble bundles and registered as a linux user and was quite generous in the amount I've paid. However for this one I paid $.01 over the minimum and registered as a Winders user. I allocated all the money to go as a Humble Tip.
Unix is a 3D operating system!
rm -- -helloworld
the -- tells rm you're done giving flags and any - after that is just treated as part of the filename.
I vowed to never buy another EA game after Battlefield 2. Thier draconian, broken copy protection, lack of support, and general lack of insight into the industry have poisoned the well for me. They expect the game industry to bow to them rather then listen to thier customers. They've become too big, no longer innovate, and care solely about the bottom line and not the art of making video games. In short they've become the Microsoft.
Article seems to focus on companies that were players in late 90s on. Microprose made many classics: Xcom series, Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Railroad tycoon, and many others.
Adventure turned me into the depraved shell of a man that I am today. But the colors...
I recently purchased Battlefield 2 from EA. After a Lengthy install, the game refused to run stating I had CDRom emulators on my system (I didn't). I verified in my device manager that there was a single CDRom and it was the physical one in the machine. I opened a support ticket with EA and got many canned answers that had nothing to do with my problems. When I finally got the attention of a tech there that had some insight, I was basically told I'm screwed. They didn't know why and weren't willing to refund my money. Compusa was also inwilling to provide a refund as the box had been opened. So I'm stuck with a $50 game I cannot run legitmately. I did however finally get it to run using pirate mechanisms.
Once again, this shows their copy protection only hurts those that buy the game.
This all boils down to personal responsibilty. Parents are using video games to babysit their children and paying no mind to the ESRB ratings. Of course the kid is going to be screwed up. Same thing would happen if we let them sit and watch violent / adult R or NC17 movies at inappropriate ages. I agree that the nightly News should be rated TVMA. I wouldn't let my 7 year old daughter watch the news any more than I'd let her watch Southpark, Jackass, or anything else of that nature.
I also don't let her play M rated games. When it's time for me to play some of those, she's either in bed or not allowed in the room.
This article reminded me of a "Greatest rock and roll songs in history" and they never list anything before 2001.
The guy that wrote this is obviously very young and has no history, or just doesn't know the genre.
Omitting the Shining force series is a sin. No PC titles either.
How bout the Shining in the Darkness / Shining Force games? Those are some classic sega games I lost many many hours to.
Simple way to block it:
www.mozilla.org
I have had times when trying to force WinAmp to play MP3s and Wav files rather than Media Player where when I used the "Open with" method, it was sumarily ignored and used Media Player anyways. I had to use the cumbersome Folder options method and entries in the Win.ini to force the issue.
.mimecap?
Can't we just have a
Run autoconf before ./configure after applying the transgaming patch. That should fix it.
In the media, there are things called "Slow News Days". Lots of articles about puppies and orphans, not much of the gritty stuff most of us look for. I've noticed that all the Linux centric news sites have been pretty slow this week. Not much is going on other than some program being released by some company in Redmond.
/.
1 15),10);'
The sites have to find something to fill the space. Otherwise we quit looking and their ad revenues go down. It's just an ugly side effect of the coporitzation of the net and
For More information: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(
Valve doesn't have to do anything. There's already and extremely talented company that will take care of it. Maybe you've heard of them: Loki? Every game they've released has been a high quality polished product. I own CivCTP and RT2. Can't wait for Alpha Centauri.
Isn't this what Loki does? I'd kill to be able to play TFC and CS under Linux. Rouge Spear is a close 2nd.
AMEN! I've been limping along with those crippled OSS drivers for way to long. They sound like AM in an airport tunnel. I had to throw my old Awe64 back in so I'd have sound under Q3.