In beta, there was a free respec NPC. The one on your city class trainer that costs 1g, and then increases cost every time after that, is part of the game.
At any time you can drop professions. Just highlight it on your skills list, and an icon comes up that lets you drop the profession.
Borrow pages from System Shock. Give lara a Shodan type adversary in the form of some sort of ancient god/goddess. Bring back tension to tomb exploration, and also make inventory manipulation interesting. (Flares, a limited number of climbing spikes, a compass, possibly even a water purifier. Limit ammo.)
What a wonderful idea! (I just got my SS disk back up and running with XP yesterday. Does the DS have the ability to do the voicelogs, more specifically Shodan's voice, though????)
If you read the book in the library for hints, it eventually (3 reads?) bypass the puzzle you're having problems with, so you can move on with the story. Though IIRC the microscope was more like "life".
they didn't take advantage of the possiblity of doing 4-player. Rock and Roll Racing with four players would be wonderous. Instead, we got an attempt at a straight port.
The company is offering them royalties if they put their games under contract, and the authors aren't sure they want their games sold like that, since they're used to giving them away.
A few years ago, the interactive fiction community started doing annual competitions. This, combined with the availability of a language called INFORM, has helped to generate a variety of game s of exceedingly high quality. (There are, of course, some real stinkers.) I've seen a few comments to the effect that "Infocom is all anyone needs". The people who believe that haven't examined the current crop. The only thing Infocom (or Magnetic Scrolls, or Scott Adams:-) has on some of the current games is nostalgia.
These games have been available for free for years from here. This company wants to make these games available through their service, and pay the authors royalties. What should the authors watch out for? What should they keep in mind? Does/. have any real input for them?
No System Shock 3. Even if someone else picks up the franchise, without the same creative people, it wouldn't be the joy that is System Shock. I'm in denial about this.
Would have been amusing if the ILUVYOU virus had renamed all mp3's it found to start with 'Metallica'. Which, btw, is procounced Metal-licka, for all of you that were unaware..
> The deep linking case is disguistingly easy > to solve with technology. Simply create a > web-server that allows access to the > super-secret deep-directory only when the > referer field comes from the same site
I suspect that they would still like customers to be able to bookmark particular items, and come back to spend money. Requiring you to hit intermediary pages first would probably lose them [Ticketmaster] rather a lot of money. It would also irritate consumers. Repeat customers are important too.
Do you mean that it adds the file all over again to the tar, or that it records the link to the tar? (Wasted space vs. recording it at all.)
The tar distributed with Solaris 7 (no handy earlier versions) behaves in the second manner, though it'll give errors if you don't include the file being hardlinked to in the tarball.
(I'm not posting this to say "You should use Solaris instead of [FLAVOR OF OS].", but rather to determine if your particular problem with tar is an across the board behavior. I don't want anyone reading the discussion to think that no tar handles hardlinks well.)
Or perhaps I'm misinterperting your use of hardlinks. I'm thinking "symbolic vs. hard".
A visit to the party website (and there would have to be one) could show current party opinions on a variety of issues (Gun Control: x% for, y% against). But being geek culture, there's no such thing as just 'for' or 'against'. There are degrees between requiring registration of automatic weapons with a contracted third party holding firm for the info, and outlawing handguns.
Why is it that every time I see this story reported in the mainstream, there's an statement early in the report that this software circumvents the blocking software? Later in the report, there's usually something more specific about what it actually does (decrypts the black list.)
But there's always the statement that this software is being used by kids to break the censoring, er, filtering.
Wouldn't a strongly worded, accurate description of the situation be better news:
MATTEL Sues Cryptologists for Revealing Major Flaws in their Net Filtering Software's "Black List"
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I'd like to see System Shock DS.
Perfect summary. I'd try to balance the rating if I had points just now. :)
I've always thought that this kind of hacking would not be a problem once internet technology gets suitably advanced.
At which point, the hacking will be alleviated by something indistinguishable from magic?
Ummmm... How exactly is a clarification "Flamebait"?
In beta, there was a free respec NPC. The one on your city class trainer that costs 1g, and then increases cost every time after that, is part of the game.
At any time you can drop professions. Just highlight it on your skills list, and an icon comes up that lets you drop the profession.
So, really, no way to gimp your character.
Perhaps the Warior Office Assistant?
Borrow pages from System Shock. Give lara a Shodan type adversary in the form of some sort of ancient god/goddess. Bring back tension to tomb exploration, and also make inventory manipulation interesting. (Flares, a limited number of climbing spikes, a compass, possibly even a water purifier. Limit ammo.)
That should help
What a wonderful idea! (I just got my SS disk back up and running with XP yesterday. Does the DS have the ability to do the voicelogs, more specifically Shodan's voice, though????)
If you read the book in the library for hints, it eventually (3 reads?) bypass the puzzle you're having problems with, so you can move on with the story. Though IIRC the microscope was more like "life".
Wanted it, looked forward to it, but...
they didn't take advantage of the possiblity of doing 4-player. Rock and Roll Racing with four players would be wonderous. Instead, we got an attempt at a straight port.
Web-Controlled Nuclear-Powered Deathbots.
I wonder if they have any procedures in place to retrieve loaned clue:cat's. Sounds like a convenient fiction to me.
This is really about a corporately financed return of the mind control plague, which swept the country last in the McCarthy era.
A few years ago, the interactive fiction community started doing annual competitions. This, combined with the availability of a language called INFORM, has helped to generate a variety of game s of exceedingly high quality. (There are, of course, some real stinkers.) I've seen a few comments to the effect that "Infocom is all anyone needs". The people who believe that haven't examined the current crop. The only thing Infocom (or Magnetic Scrolls, or Scott Adams :-) has on some of the current games is nostalgia.
These games have been available for free for years from here. This company wants to make these games available through their service, and pay the authors royalties. What should the authors watch out for? What should they keep in mind? Does /. have any real input for them?
If you're interested in this sort of thing:
That should get you started. There's a LOT of good stuff out there.
Alone in the Dark is being redone with modern tech. I don't have the URL handy. It looked rather nice.
No System Shock 3. Even if someone else picks up the franchise, without the same creative people, it wouldn't be the joy that is System Shock. I'm in denial about this.
Would have been amusing if the ILUVYOU virus had renamed all mp3's it found to start with 'Metallica'. Which, btw, is procounced Metal-licka, for all of you that were unaware..
> to solve with technology. Simply create a
> web-server that allows access to the
> super-secret deep-directory only when the
> referer field comes from the same site
I suspect that they would still like customers to be able to bookmark particular items, and come back to spend money. Requiring you to hit intermediary pages first would probably lose them [Ticketmaster] rather a lot of money. It would also irritate consumers. Repeat customers are important too.
> tar works fine except it duplicates hardlinks
Do you mean that it adds the file all over again to the tar, or that it records the link to the tar? (Wasted space vs. recording it at all.)
The tar distributed with Solaris 7 (no handy earlier versions) behaves in the second manner, though it'll give errors if you don't include the file being hardlinked to in the tarball.
(I'm not posting this to say "You should use Solaris instead of [FLAVOR OF OS].", but rather to determine if your particular problem with tar is an across the board behavior. I don't want anyone reading the discussion to think that no tar handles hardlinks well.)
Or perhaps I'm misinterperting your use of hardlinks. I'm thinking "symbolic vs. hard".
I can see it now: Party Platform by Poll
A visit to the party website (and there would have to be one) could show current party opinions on a variety of issues (Gun Control: x% for, y% against). But being geek culture, there's no such thing as just 'for' or 'against'. There are degrees between requiring registration of automatic weapons with a contracted third party holding firm for the info, and outlawing handguns.
Brings a tear to my eye, it does...
Why is it that every time I see this story reported in the mainstream, there's an statement early in the report that this software circumvents the blocking software? Later in the report, there's usually something more specific about what it actually does (decrypts the black list.)
But there's always the statement that this software is being used by kids to break the censoring, er, filtering.
Wouldn't a strongly worded, accurate description of the situation be better news:
MATTEL Sues Cryptologists for Revealing Major Flaws in their Net Filtering Software's "Black List"