That is why yum has "yum search" and it will search every repo for the keywords you enter. If they bothered to include a description it should find it.
That depends highly on your definition of Romance. I don't think you'd find very many women who would find it "romantic" for someone to be working their way through every man and woman in the town.
While Casanova might be classified "Romance" by some publisher, that doesn't make it romance. While he may have engaged in romance with each individual woman, his over-all behaviour was not romantic.
and if you're going to correct someone, check your source first: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=whore
"A person considered sexually promiscuous." I'd certainly catagorize them as sexually promiscuous.
This is a great game for them then. This will really equate the notion that Romance = whore. I believe Will Wright may be getting a kick back from myspace. The girls pick up The Sims at 10, so by the time they're 14-15 they're reading to pose in their underwear on the site and drive up membership.
For those who don't know the "Romance" aspiration consists mainly of an adult who wants to "woohoo" as many people as they can get their hands on. As soon as they're done with one, they move on to the next.
I'm in a 2 network engineering program. I just finished the first year which had two technical writing courses. The first centered around things like writing instructions, formating and writing memos, proper resume creation and a relative merits report.
Our second semester was focused solely on creating a proposal and report that was being done in another class. It focused on progress reports, formatting various sections of the report, working together in a team (it was a 20 page report worked on by 3-4 group members), editing, table and figure usage, works cited lists, and of course the general writing itself.
We worked on creating parallel structure, avoiding usages of "I" and "We" unless completely unavoidable, writing objectively, etc.
Considering that you can get a credit card at 16, I don't see the credit card as a valid age verification device, thats just crap spread by the porn companies, solely to hook you in with the CC so they can make it hard for you to cancel that "trial account".
#6, I couldn't find a quick link to the series itself. Rushkoff has been doing a series about this through Vertigo since December, and its quite impressive. One of the best comics I've read in a long time.
FR was the "flagship" or "main" campaign setting for a lot of years. It was very popular and rightly so. It was a very rich land, very detailed, and well supported.
Eberron is now the new "setting". I never said FR was removed, I said it was abandoned and taken from the spotlight that it had rightly earned. mainly in an attempt to create a new flaship setting. They tried to mimic the way FR was created by having non-designers make submissions. My point was that it didn't seem to be working since the Eberron Campaign setting was now showing up in the bargain bin, this seemed like a poor choice to make it the main setting.
1) It was a pretty big rip on Return of the King. used the same engine if I recall, and it was basically the same game with new skins and sounds.
2) Consoles do have fun games, but if you're going to release a high quality PC game, you need to make it for the PC. It was lacking a lot of basic features, like key-mapping, and some of its mechanics were dumbed down to account for the 360. The AI was also trashed because of it. Something I've already linked to and explained several times on/. and the oblivion forums. It has to do with the crappy "in-order" processor the 360 uses. Those are the words of developers, not me. Actually I grab you the link so you don't whine: http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/ burn_the_house_.html read the stuff from Chris Hecker about the processors. Oblivion is exactly what he predicted. The same crap only shiny.
3) Read the whole thread before commenting, I already corrected the Bethesda/obisidian mistake. I meant to compare the subpar performance with kotor II
4) Wow is crap. All MMORPGs are, because they're not roleplaying games. They're hack n slash crap. Not all, Eve is reasonable since its not about the level grind, and Wish would have been amazing but was canned (I was in the Beta). I also really liked Temple of Elemental Evil, as you can see I praised its quality, I didn't like the way Atari handled it and killed the franchise before it had the chance to get off the ground.
I'm also a big fan of D&D in general. I'm not particularly happy about the way WoTC passed off on FR and tried to make a "new FR" by trying to force the process with Eberron. I also quite enjoy Palladium's Heroes Unlimited and After the bomb games.
I like quality, I don't like garbage shovelled out by a company to try and make a buck.
Obviously, you're not a fan of Eberron, but I think the setting has promise. It makes several bold moves and at the same time, it retains compatibility with other D&D settings and the system as a whole.
I didn't say I didn't like Eberron. I said that I don't particularly like the way that WoTC went about creating it and seemed to almost toss FR to the side in the process. I haven't formed many opinions on it as I haven't really explored it, but given that its in the bargain bin, it might indicate that its not doing that well.
Bioware didn't make Kotor II... Obsidian did. I believe much or part of Obsidian is old Bioware employees, but not the same.
Either way, Atari isn't any different than Lucasarts in that regard. They screwed with Troika and the release of ToEE. Taking an older build and at the last minute forcing them to make game breaking changes (like removing children from the game, which broke somethings, and having them remove the brothel which broke other things).
I used to play in Mystra, and I know the feeling. Once TSR got on the FR bandwagon, Mystara dropped off the map, very little was released for it under AD&D rules, and you had to work everything out through conversion charts, etc.
Its not the campaign itself that I care about. I see NWN more as it was originally intended. Originally it was meant as a modable DMing tool, they included the campaign to add some value to the purchase. So you could play it out of the box. I think Obsidian is placing too much emphasis on the campaign from the bit I've read about it, and I'm worried they're going to be dropping the ball on the more important parts, like the modding tools.
I really hope they don't try to significantly alter the gameplay itself either. I think most people are really just looking for: 1)Improved graphics support 2)more modding tools 3)more included resources like more creatures, spell effects, etc
That was me thinking about something else half-way through a long post;) The example I meant to give was about Kotor II and how they didn't really do all that much with what was given to them, it didn't really look better, and it seemed to have a lot of issues Kotor I didn't have.
you'll have to forgive me because I just started stats this week, and I read like 75 pages of it today;)
I think the link is/. but I miss palladium. I used to thoroughly enjoy their "After the Bomb" mutant stuff. I still have them in my closet. Never got into Rifts though.
There are a lot of things WoTC could be doing to revitalize D&D, but they're not doing any of them. Lets have a look at what they did do: A long time ago, probably in someone's basement Ed Greenwood developed Forgotten Realms. He developed it for his group, and someone caught wind of it. It turned into phenomenon. It was home grown, made purely for fun, and spawned countless wonderful hours. He wasn't a professional, he didn't do it for money, he did it to enrich his group's play.
WoTC tried to duplicate that by soliciting submissions from everyone and creating a new line based on their original home grown idea. They had judges, a competition, etc. I'm surprised Fox didn't air it. Forgotten Realms was far from dead, and many continued to enjoy playing in it. They decided to abandon what was working, and try and force the same success the line had had under TSR. I'm not sure how this has worked out for them. I've only just gotten the Eberron Campaign setting, from the bargain bin, over 50% off. That is probably pretty telling.
What else have they done besides trying to capture old glory? They gave the video game license to Atari. I really hope they gave the license itself a tube of KY after doing so. Atari has done nothing but produce crap. Temple of Elemental Evil was the only product that showed promise, and Atari bungled that beyond recognition. Its actually shown so much promise that a group of fans have gone on to work diligently in recreated B2: The Keep on the Borderlands. Atari long ago abanonded it. This engine had the potential to be the next "Gold Box" line of games. Instead they created a mediocre RTS, and a mediocre MMORPG. Because those are all the rage. They also had that bad LoTR rip-off with Demon-stone or whatever it was.
Sometimes the right thing to do is suck it up, give Troika a little more money and realize that you could probably sell 5-10 more games using that engine without a problem.
What else is around the corner for D&D? NWN2. Ah...Bethesda. The providers of such quality games as Oblivion. Anyone with a critical eye can easily realize what a bad console port the PC version of this game is. Its VERY shiny. Its a lot like that hot model with the vacant stare. I don't really want to talk to it the morning after. I'm not particularly optimistic about NWN2.
If they have nipples, they don't look like barbie dolls. The sims nudity is available until you use a mod to see it either, the difference is, there is nothing to it. In Oblivion there is what they consider, mature nudity. Its the same uproar that you'd except if suzy homemaker found nipples and vaginas on little Sally's babrie.
I'm furious at the ESRB for punishing a game company for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
They included unused adult material in a game they released. Every game maker should have learned after GTA, if you have something in the game unused that could have changed the rating, delete it before you ship. Obviously Bethesda was too busy planning the console port of Fallout 3 to check that kind of stuff. Its yet another way their short-sidedness has bitten them.
Except 1)You'd have hollywood giving away multiple movies for free 2)As I've already explained there is no way to control downloading of the other movie 3)Even beyond that there are two many factors to even begin to say that this movie ended up the same as this movie when trying to set something like that up.
or just don't leave it around;) As far as I know we haven't had any trouble at my college at least with laptop thefts this year. The one I have has actually become more and more popular of the year, I've gone from no one to seeing at least 20 different people with that particular one wandering about towards the last month.
thats just people who I cross paths with anyway.
Mine has also stood up very well. I got it about a month into the first semester and not a single problem with it yet. The college gave us these targus euro-bags, but honestly they were garbage in comparison, at least for students. They could hold your laptop..that was it. You couldn't put in a text book, notebook, etc. Some students started carrying a backpack in addition to it, but no way was I going to drag two bags around. This was a far superior choice.
And you'd still have to look at all the other factors that could influence a sale. What about simple flipping of a coin by a person equally decided between the two and can only afford one? The environment is way too varied to try and draw any kind of conclusions from such an experiment.
Stargate did the same thing, except that it was much longer than 3 months. I see episodes annoucend as "new" on space that I saw at least 6 months ago from the UK.
I use this for college and its incredibly roomie and will carry everything. Yes its not hip and european, but it carries a ton of stuff. I easily carry: Laptop antec coolign pad 1/2 dozen CDs or so in the slim CD insert cell phone in the cell phone pouch USB mouse in the side pouch water bottle on the side 2 textbooks a notebook several network cables a binder my lunch a stapler a calculator several pens and pencils etc it should easily hold everything.
Except this has been covered a billion times, The Sims look like barbie dolls. They don't have genitals (unless you use ANOTHER 3rd party mod) or nipples, hairy regions,etc
Using a 3rd party mod to see nudity created by another 3rd party mod doesn't count with the ESRB.
They're punishing them for including items that were beyond the rating, lock or otherwise.
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I'm doing what I can, but I've already worn out 3 DVD burners this year. I'm just about to take a shipment over to my buddy at the flea market.
Not in america. They go right from clothes to blood and guts. Thats all good. Throw a nipple in the equation and it is the apocolypse.
That is why yum has "yum search" and it will search every repo for the keywords you enter. If they bothered to include a description it should find it.
That depends highly on your definition of Romance. I don't think you'd find very many women who would find it "romantic" for someone to be working their way through every man and woman in the town.
While Casanova might be classified "Romance" by some publisher, that doesn't make it romance. While he may have engaged in romance with each individual woman, his over-all behaviour was not romantic.
and if you're going to correct someone, check your source first:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=whore
"A person considered sexually promiscuous." I'd certainly catagorize them as sexually promiscuous.
This is a great game for them then. This will really equate the notion that Romance = whore.
I believe Will Wright may be getting a kick back from myspace. The girls pick up The Sims at 10, so by the time they're 14-15 they're reading to pose in their underwear on the site and drive up membership.
For those who don't know the "Romance" aspiration consists mainly of an adult who wants to "woohoo" as many people as they can get their hands on. As soon as they're done with one, they move on to the next.
I'm in a 2 network engineering program. I just finished the first year which had two technical writing courses. The first centered around things like writing instructions, formating and writing memos, proper resume creation and a relative merits report.
Our second semester was focused solely on creating a proposal and report that was being done in another class. It focused on progress reports, formatting various sections of the report, working together in a team (it was a 20 page report worked on by 3-4 group members), editing, table and figure usage, works cited lists, and of course the general writing itself.
We worked on creating parallel structure, avoiding usages of "I" and "We" unless completely unavoidable, writing objectively, etc.
Considering that you can get a credit card at 16, I don't see the credit card as a valid age verification device, thats just crap spread by the porn companies, solely to hook you in with the CC so they can make it hard for you to cancel that "trial account".
http://www.dccomics.com/comics/?cm=5284
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#6, I couldn't find a quick link to the series itself. Rushkoff has been doing a series about this through Vertigo since December, and its quite impressive. One of the best comics I've read in a long time.
http://www.rushkoff.com/comics.html?PHPSESSID=e37
his more ties in with the bible, but its very much about the government and the things going on here.
FR was the "flagship" or "main" campaign setting for a lot of years. It was very popular and rightly so. It was a very rich land, very detailed, and well supported.
Eberron is now the new "setting". I never said FR was removed, I said it was abandoned and taken from the spotlight that it had rightly earned. mainly in an attempt to create a new flaship setting. They tried to mimic the way FR was created by having non-designers make submissions. My point was that it didn't seem to be working since the Eberron Campaign setting was now showing up in the bargain bin, this seemed like a poor choice to make it the main setting.
1) It was a pretty big rip on Return of the King. used the same engine if I recall, and it was basically the same game with new skins and sounds.
/. and the oblivion forums. It has to do with the crappy "in-order" processor the 360 uses. Those are the words of developers, not me. Actually I grab you the link so you don't whine: http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/ burn_the_house_.html read the stuff from Chris Hecker about the processors. Oblivion is exactly what he predicted. The same crap only shiny.
2) Consoles do have fun games, but if you're going to release a high quality PC game, you need to make it for the PC. It was lacking a lot of basic features, like key-mapping, and some of its mechanics were dumbed down to account for the 360. The AI was also trashed because of it. Something I've already linked to and explained several times on
3) Read the whole thread before commenting, I already corrected the Bethesda/obisidian mistake. I meant to compare the subpar performance with kotor II
4) Wow is crap. All MMORPGs are, because they're not roleplaying games. They're hack n slash crap. Not all, Eve is reasonable since its not about the level grind, and Wish would have been amazing but was canned (I was in the Beta). I also really liked Temple of Elemental Evil, as you can see I praised its quality, I didn't like the way Atari handled it and killed the franchise before it had the chance to get off the ground.
I'm also a big fan of D&D in general. I'm not particularly happy about the way WoTC passed off on FR and tried to make a "new FR" by trying to force the process with Eberron. I also quite enjoy Palladium's Heroes Unlimited and After the bomb games.
I like quality, I don't like garbage shovelled out by a company to try and make a buck.
Obviously, you're not a fan of Eberron, but I think the setting has promise. It makes several bold moves and at the same time, it retains compatibility with other D&D settings and the system as a whole.
I didn't say I didn't like Eberron. I said that I don't particularly like the way that WoTC went about creating it and seemed to almost toss FR to the side in the process. I haven't formed many opinions on it as I haven't really explored it, but given that its in the bargain bin, it might indicate that its not doing that well.
Bioware didn't make Kotor II...
Obsidian did.
I believe much or part of Obsidian is old Bioware employees, but not the same.
Either way, Atari isn't any different than Lucasarts in that regard. They screwed with Troika and the release of ToEE. Taking an older build and at the last minute forcing them to make game breaking changes (like removing children from the game, which broke somethings, and having them remove the brothel which broke other things).
I used to play in Mystra, and I know the feeling. Once TSR got on the FR bandwagon, Mystara dropped off the map, very little was released for it under AD&D rules, and you had to work everything out through conversion charts, etc.
Its not the campaign itself that I care about. I see NWN more as it was originally intended. Originally it was meant as a modable DMing tool, they included the campaign to add some value to the purchase. So you could play it out of the box. I think Obsidian is placing too much emphasis on the campaign from the bit I've read about it, and I'm worried they're going to be dropping the ball on the more important parts, like the modding tools.
I really hope they don't try to significantly alter the gameplay itself either. I think most people are really just looking for:
1)Improved graphics support
2)more modding tools
3)more included resources like more creatures, spell effects, etc
That was me thinking about something else half-way through a long post ;)
;)
The example I meant to give was about Kotor II and how they didn't really do all that much with what was given to them, it didn't really look better, and it seemed to have a lot of issues Kotor I didn't have.
you'll have to forgive me because I just started stats this week, and I read like 75 pages of it today
I think the link is /. but I miss palladium. I used to thoroughly enjoy their "After the Bomb" mutant stuff. I still have them in my closet. Never got into Rifts though.
There are a lot of things WoTC could be doing to revitalize D&D, but they're not doing any of them. Lets have a look at what they did do:
A long time ago, probably in someone's basement Ed Greenwood developed Forgotten Realms. He developed it for his group, and someone caught wind of it. It turned into phenomenon. It was home grown, made purely for fun, and spawned countless wonderful hours. He wasn't a professional, he didn't do it for money, he did it to enrich his group's play.
WoTC tried to duplicate that by soliciting submissions from everyone and creating a new line based on their original home grown idea. They had judges, a competition, etc. I'm surprised Fox didn't air it. Forgotten Realms was far from dead, and many continued to enjoy playing in it. They decided to abandon what was working, and try and force the same success the line had had under TSR.
I'm not sure how this has worked out for them. I've only just gotten the Eberron Campaign setting, from the bargain bin, over 50% off. That is probably pretty telling.
What else have they done besides trying to capture old glory? They gave the video game license to Atari. I really hope they gave the license itself a tube of KY after doing so. Atari has done nothing but produce crap. Temple of Elemental Evil was the only product that showed promise, and Atari bungled that beyond recognition. Its actually shown so much promise that a group of fans have gone on to work diligently in recreated B2: The Keep on the Borderlands. Atari long ago abanonded it. This engine had the potential to be the next "Gold Box" line of games. Instead they created a mediocre RTS, and a mediocre MMORPG. Because those are all the rage. They also had that bad LoTR rip-off with Demon-stone or whatever it was.
Sometimes the right thing to do is suck it up, give Troika a little more money and realize that you could probably sell 5-10 more games using that engine without a problem.
What else is around the corner for D&D? NWN2. Ah...Bethesda. The providers of such quality games as Oblivion. Anyone with a critical eye can easily realize what a bad console port the PC version of this game is. Its VERY shiny. Its a lot like that hot model with the vacant stare. I don't really want to talk to it the morning after. I'm not particularly optimistic about NWN2.
If they have nipples, they don't look like barbie dolls.
The sims nudity is available until you use a mod to see it either, the difference is, there is nothing to it.
In Oblivion there is what they consider, mature nudity. Its the same uproar that you'd except if suzy homemaker found nipples and vaginas on little Sally's babrie.
I'm furious at the ESRB for punishing a game company for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
They included unused adult material in a game they released. Every game maker should have learned after GTA, if you have something in the game unused that could have changed the rating, delete it before you ship. Obviously Bethesda was too busy planning the console port of Fallout 3 to check that kind of stuff. Its yet another way their short-sidedness has bitten them.
Except
1)You'd have hollywood giving away multiple movies for free
2)As I've already explained there is no way to control downloading of the other movie
3)Even beyond that there are two many factors to even begin to say that this movie ended up the same as this movie when trying to set something like that up.
or just don't leave it around ;) As far as I know we haven't had any trouble at my college at least with laptop thefts this year. The one I have has actually become more and more popular of the year, I've gone from no one to seeing at least 20 different people with that particular one wandering about towards the last month.
thats just people who I cross paths with anyway.
Mine has also stood up very well. I got it about a month into the first semester and not a single problem with it yet. The college gave us these targus euro-bags, but honestly they were garbage in comparison, at least for students. They could hold your laptop..that was it. You couldn't put in a text book, notebook, etc. Some students started carrying a backpack in addition to it, but no way was I going to drag two bags around. This was a far superior choice.
And you'd still have to look at all the other factors that could influence a sale. What about simple flipping of a coin by a person equally decided between the two and can only afford one? The environment is way too varied to try and draw any kind of conclusions from such an experiment.
Stargate did the same thing, except that it was much longer than 3 months. I see episodes annoucend as "new" on space that I saw at least 6 months ago from the UK.
Is there some reason you can't use this? http://www.targus.com/ca/product_details.asp?sku=T CG650
I use this for college and its incredibly roomie and will carry everything. Yes its not hip and european, but it carries a ton of stuff. I easily carry:
Laptop
antec coolign pad
1/2 dozen CDs or so in the slim CD insert
cell phone in the cell phone pouch
USB mouse in the side pouch
water bottle on the side
2 textbooks
a notebook
several network cables
a binder
my lunch
a stapler
a calculator
several pens and pencils
etc
it should easily hold everything.
Except this has been covered a billion times, The Sims look like barbie dolls. They don't have genitals (unless you use ANOTHER 3rd party mod) or nipples, hairy regions,etc
Using a 3rd party mod to see nudity created by another 3rd party mod doesn't count with the ESRB.
They're punishing them for including items that were beyond the rating, lock or otherwise.