So if the internet should come crashing down, as in the infocon red situation, what is the use of a little hyperlinked gif to their website, a gDesklet , or a systray icon?
I think this is his presentation at various CONs
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Scrabble is a game. Chutes and Ladders is a game. Poker is a game.
Connect Four is a game.
Pac-Man is a game. Donkey Kong is a game. Mario Brothers is a game.
I think when older people hear the word game, that is what they think of. They have never played video games, they missed the whole progression to realism, 100+ hours of play to finish, interactive environments, etc. They recall days of pinochle and checkes with grandpa when they were a kid. Kids play games. Only kids play games. Parents play games with their kids. They are innocent, they are fun.
So to suddenly hear that there is a sex depiction in a GAME brings horror thoughts that 8 year olds are smoking cigars and drinking beer while playing poker with nudie playing cards.
TV shows can have sex and violence because it is TV. Movies have sex and violence too but it's ok because it's "just a movie." But a "game", something that in my opinion is far superior in terms of entertainmant value than the other two, cannot for some reason have sex without the USA going crazy. But it can have violence. (There's a value issue there that has already drenched in horse blood.) Games also have ratings, just like movies, but for some reason parents and legislators continue to ignore that fact.
So if we said, "The new digital interactive simulation from Rockstar North has sex in it," it sounds different no? Compare with, "The new game from Rockstar North has sex in it." Game?!?! Holy Jesus, my KIDS play GAMES! Somebody has to do something! This is an outrage!
Let's face it, this is a whole new level and form of entertainment. It needs to get a new name. This is not checkers, this is not chess, this is not 2D mario brothers. It's better than all 3 put together times a plot from a movie times the graphics of a tv show. Any suggestions?
1. Purchase $500 laptop 2. Purchase $100 security 3. Purchase $100 spyware remover 4. Goto 8. 5. Wait 60 days 6. Profit $300 for 60 days work 7. GOTO 11 8. Lose Laptop. 9. Report laptop Stolen. 10. Goto 5. 11. REM I never spaced lines by 10, what was up with that 12 Goto 1.
Where is the option to bring peace between the clans through negotiation?
It's called d-pad left, i.e. reply negatively, and walk away. Now this is some deep rooted angst here so you may get attacked, and you may have to run. Alternatively, pick up a gun for self defense. You can just point it at your agressor and they will hold their arms up and back off. Unless they have a gun too, in which case if you don't want to hurt anyone, run away.
Where is the option to join the police, and help deal with the clan warfare through proper authorities?
Get in a police vehicle, hit R3, and you are doing a vigilante mission. Now you are helping the police. And don't cry about having to shoot them, the police in the game shoot me and beat me for just bumping into their car. Besides, if you waited long enough, you would notice people don't die in SA, an ambulance comes and helps them so you really aren't killing anyone.
Going further, where is the option to help out the poor and homeless at the soup kitchen?
The poor and homeless pick up the money on the street after the police chase down other bad guys and catch them. Plus San Andreas has a pretty good social services system, so you don't see too many bums sitting on the corner or beaches.
Where is the option to move out to the suburbs, and get a real job, have some kids?
You can go buy several houses in the suburbs/sticks, get yourself a taxi and knock yourself out! But there are other jobs in the city, namely driving an ambulance or working for 24/7, or having a more profitable taxi franchise. You could work for the fire department, you can become a professional racer, or make your fortune gambling. Mod a car and make your cash in lowrider contests, or go dance dance dance the night away for $$$. And as for kids, well, these things take time. Keep trying with your girlfriend, who you have to be *nice* to by among other things, kissing and giving her flowers, and maybe one day you will get lucky.
Where is the option to travel to other countries, learn new languages, trek across the Andes? You like mountains? Go ride your bike up mount chiliad, or ditch the bike and try to find a way to the top without taking the main roads. Go hike in the woods, maybe you will see bigfoot. If you mean travel to other countries to experience their cultures, just drive around the state of San Andreas, there is quite a bit of geographic diversity in the game. If you do want to travel to other countries, get in a jet or boat and head away from SA. Unfortunately other countries are a long long ways away and you can't bring food with you so you won't be able to make the journey. And although no one really teaches you new languages, there is quite a bit of Spanish you could pick up from the game, but you may have to do some real life looking up of that in books.
While its true that f*cking a hooker, then killing her to get the money back is not part of the main game of GTA3,... there is no option to give her some of the hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars that you end up with up with to sponsor her through college.
I believe {8_8} answered this for you already, but let me additionally say that you don't have to take her someplace private, just take her for a cruise. She stopped and asked me, remember? Maybe she is not a hooker at all, maybe she just likes my clothes and car and wants to hang out. You said she was a hooker. Maybe she is a thief, and she is picking my pockets while we drive or when we do stop cause she is getting frisky. If you beat her with your fist to get your money back, just wait, an ambulance will come by and she is fine, and hopefully she learned a lesson. And have you looked in the window when the car is bouncing? Nothing is really happening after all... your mind is making that part up.
Hopefully by know you will realize that it really is the player doing and thinking all those things in the game. It's ok
If you want a shocker, sniff your internet connection. Go download ethereal from www.ethereal.com, and open your internet connection with your firewall turned off (make sure your patches are up to date please:). Don't browse, don't do anything. Start a capture, select your PPP interface for a modem or ethernet for a broadband connection, turn on "Update list of packets in real time," and "Automatic scrolling in live capture," and turn off all the name resolution options. Click OK.
Look for TCP SYN packets to port 135 or 445. You may have to wait a few minutes. That is something trying to make a connection to your machine, ports 135 are the main ports for Windows Networking. Heh, I turned did it while I was typing this and already got a connection attempt to 135. That is most likely a virus on some poor sods unpatched machine, running through IP addresses looking for more systems to infect. If you want to know what all that stuff is, search for it on google. And for all you hackers out there, try writing (connection to port 139 scrolling in background, hehehe) a simple TCP listener in your favorite programming language to see more than just a TCP reset.
Bad things are living in the internet nowadays.
It's news to me. A friend of mine was also a die hard NWN fan, looked like a good RPG game and engine but I was involved in other games at the time. I might want to check it out now. There are very few titles out there Pirate themed.
As to why it's news... It's about a NEW module for a popular title. Just because it happens to be about a product that you have to purchase doesn't mean it's spam or some subversive advertising. Nerly every freacking article posted to games.slashdot.org is about a gaming product, do you get this bent out of shape every time a story about a new game is announced on Slashdot? I for one would most likely not have found this information on other sites, probably because I don't read other gaming sites very often because Slashdot does a fine job of bringing me the top tier of gaming news.
For those of you that aren't catching the reference that's a line from A Bug's Life when the lenny and squiggy bugs first come to the ant hill. That's damn funny!
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> a cow can be tipped with the combined might of one finger.. or even just a strong wind or loud noise..
The force is indeed powerful with you, young Padawan.
> it takes two men with a rope to throw a full-sized cow.
And 6 men with a really big net to catch one.
What's this printed stuff?
It's all about cloth maps, like the maps that came with Ultima IV and V.
Ahhh... the Apple IIe days...
That's pretty cool. Thanks.
Those big freakin wall sized panels like in Total Recall would work.
I for one welcome our Ultra-High Resolution overlords.
> Floors end up being garbage pits...
Thats what the rats are for.
Don't forget ucd-snmp.
Slickedit is slick, but I still run it in vi mode.
that's so damn funny my eyes are tearing and my gut hurts! brilliant!
I wouldn't even know how to represent that problem mathematically.
x = 42?
Hey, if you haven't downloaded Firefox for Liz I suggest you try it. It's a whole different browsing experience.
You plan will surely fail without a PROFIT!!! step.
Two chicks walk into a bar
So if the internet should come crashing down, as in the infocon red situation, what is the use of a little hyperlinked gif to their website, a gDesklet , or a systray icon?
You can find it here.
Chess is a game. Checkers is a game.
Scrabble is a game. Chutes and Ladders is a game. Poker is a game.
Connect Four is a game.
Pac-Man is a game. Donkey Kong is a game. Mario Brothers is a game.
I think when older people hear the word game, that is what they think of. They have never played video games, they missed the whole progression to realism, 100+ hours of play to finish, interactive environments, etc. They recall days of pinochle and checkes with grandpa when they were a kid. Kids play games. Only kids play games. Parents play games with their kids. They are innocent, they are fun.
So to suddenly hear that there is a sex depiction in a GAME brings horror thoughts that 8 year olds are smoking cigars and drinking beer while playing poker with nudie playing cards.
TV shows can have sex and violence because it is TV. Movies have sex and violence too but it's ok because it's "just a movie." But a "game", something that in my opinion is far superior in terms of entertainmant value than the other two, cannot for some reason have sex without the USA going crazy. But it can have violence. (There's a value issue there that has already drenched in horse blood.) Games also have ratings, just like movies, but for some reason parents and legislators continue to ignore that fact.
So if we said, "The new digital interactive simulation from Rockstar North has sex in it," it sounds different no? Compare with, "The new game from Rockstar North has sex in it." Game?!?! Holy Jesus, my KIDS play GAMES! Somebody has to do something! This is an outrage!
Let's face it, this is a whole new level and form of entertainment. It needs to get a new name. This is not checkers, this is not chess, this is not 2D mario brothers. It's better than all 3 put together times a plot from a movie times the graphics of a tv show. Any suggestions?
Well I can tell you one thing, I am certainly NOT going to ever try this log analyzer!
... use your time meaningfully...
Your homework assignment is to compare/contrast your statement with the following statement made by the author:
off the top of my head, I think I have 10 or 15 Web servers in my house already, including the embedded systems
Bonus points for using the phrase "lost cause."
10 GOTO 10
a.k.a. an infinite "loop"
Speaking of paying attention to one's teachers...
Nah, just sprinkle more GOTOs:
1. Purchase $500 laptop
2. Purchase $100 security
3. Purchase $100 spyware remover
4. Goto 8.
5. Wait 60 days
6. Profit $300 for 60 days work
7. GOTO 11
8. Lose Laptop.
9. Report laptop Stolen.
10. Goto 5.
11. REM I never spaced lines by 10, what was up with that
12 Goto 1.
gosub is for wimps.
ping is actually an abbreviation, it stands for packet inter-network groper.
Where is the option to bring peace between the clans through negotiation?
It's called d-pad left, i.e. reply negatively, and walk away. Now this is some deep rooted angst here so you may get attacked, and you may have to run. Alternatively, pick up a gun for self defense. You can just point it at your agressor and they will hold their arms up and back off. Unless they have a gun too, in which case if you don't want to hurt anyone, run away.
Where is the option to join the police, and help deal with the clan warfare through proper authorities?
Get in a police vehicle, hit R3, and you are doing a vigilante mission. Now you are helping the police. And don't cry about having to shoot them, the police in the game shoot me and beat me for just bumping into their car. Besides, if you waited long enough, you would notice people don't die in SA, an ambulance comes and helps them so you really aren't killing anyone.
Going further, where is the option to help out the poor and homeless at the soup kitchen?
The poor and homeless pick up the money on the street after the police chase down other bad guys and catch them. Plus San Andreas has a pretty good social services system, so you don't see too many bums sitting on the corner or beaches.
Where is the option to move out to the suburbs, and get a real job, have some kids?
You can go buy several houses in the suburbs/sticks, get yourself a taxi and knock yourself out! But there are other jobs in the city, namely driving an ambulance or working for 24/7, or having a more profitable taxi franchise. You could work for the fire department, you can become a professional racer, or make your fortune gambling. Mod a car and make your cash in lowrider contests, or go dance dance dance the night away for $$$. And as for kids, well, these things take time. Keep trying with your girlfriend, who you have to be *nice* to by among other things, kissing and giving her flowers, and maybe one day you will get lucky.
Where is the option to travel to other countries, learn new languages, trek across the Andes?
You like mountains? Go ride your bike up mount chiliad, or ditch the bike and try to find a way to the top without taking the main roads. Go hike in the woods, maybe you will see bigfoot. If you mean travel to other countries to experience their cultures, just drive around the state of San Andreas, there is quite a bit of geographic diversity in the game. If you do want to travel to other countries, get in a jet or boat and head away from SA. Unfortunately other countries are a long long ways away and you can't bring food with you so you won't be able to make the journey. And although no one really teaches you new languages, there is quite a bit of Spanish you could pick up from the game, but you may have to do some real life looking up of that in books.
While its true that f*cking a hooker, then killing her to get the money back is not part of the main game of GTA3,
I believe {8_8} answered this for you already, but let me additionally say that you don't have to take her someplace private, just take her for a cruise. She stopped and asked me, remember? Maybe she is not a hooker at all, maybe she just likes my clothes and car and wants to hang out. You said she was a hooker. Maybe she is a thief, and she is picking my pockets while we drive or when we do stop cause she is getting frisky. If you beat her with your fist to get your money back, just wait, an ambulance will come by and she is fine, and hopefully she learned a lesson. And have you looked in the window when the car is bouncing? Nothing is really happening after all... your mind is making that part up.
Hopefully by know you will realize that it really is the player doing and thinking all those things in the game. It's ok
If you want a shocker, sniff your internet connection. Go download ethereal from www.ethereal.com, and open your internet connection with your firewall turned off (make sure your patches are up to date please :). Don't browse, don't do anything. Start a capture, select your PPP interface for a modem or ethernet for a broadband connection, turn on "Update list of packets in real time," and "Automatic scrolling in live capture," and turn off all the name resolution options. Click OK.
Look for TCP SYN packets to port 135 or 445. You may have to wait a few minutes. That is something trying to make a connection to your machine, ports 135 are the main ports for Windows Networking. Heh, I turned did it while I was typing this and already got a connection attempt to 135. That is most likely a virus on some poor sods unpatched machine, running through IP addresses looking for more systems to infect. If you want to know what all that stuff is, search for it on google. And for all you hackers out there, try writing (connection to port 139 scrolling in background, hehehe) a simple TCP listener in your favorite programming language to see more than just a TCP reset.
Bad things are living in the internet nowadays.
It's news to me. A friend of mine was also a die hard NWN fan, looked like a good RPG game and engine but I was involved in other games at the time. I might want to check it out now. There are very few titles out there Pirate themed.
As to why it's news... It's about a NEW module for a popular title. Just because it happens to be about a product that you have to purchase doesn't mean it's spam or some subversive advertising. Nerly every freacking article posted to games.slashdot.org is about a gaming product, do you get this bent out of shape every time a story about a new game is announced on Slashdot? I for one would most likely not have found this information on other sites, probably because I don't read other gaming sites very often because Slashdot does a fine job of bringing me the top tier of gaming news.
For those of you that aren't catching the reference that's a line from A Bug's Life when the lenny and squiggy bugs first come to the ant hill. That's damn funny!