To continue my eulogy...I've been posting this on the all the forums I frequent. Oh, and the official DnD site is changed...
Today Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons and one of the main promoters of the RPG industry leading it to its current place as a tabletop, online and video-game staple, has died.
His legacy will live on for eternity...that man touched and helped more lives than any other game developer of the last 40 years (probably yourself included, whether you know it or not).
Kinda weird it'd happen on 3-4, given the current transfer of DnD from 3rd to 4th edition too...
His innovations to gaming are so countless and great that today we see them as such staples that we probably couldn't imagine a current "gaming industry" without his advances. His promotion of Gen-Con and many other conventions to spread the name of DnD helped create modern video games as we knew it by spreading tabletop gaming to colleges that would later develop games like Zorc...which would later go to influence such known franchises as Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc...
Dungeons and Dragons (and Chainmail...long story there) were the first character based roleplaying games of all time (there were some games like...well improvised acting and reinnassiance fair things, but nothing with rules, dice, etc...). Dungeons and Dragons set a fantasy standard that continues to influence RPGs to this day. In fact, if you've ever played a fantasy based RPG, odds are its like that because of Gygax (who adapted Chainmail into Dungeons and Dragons). Gygax can be creditted with inventing the slime monster from things like Ragnorok and Dragon Warrior (he created the first "ooze" monsters in gaming: the gelatenious cube and deadly pudding!). The basic "team" system (The warrior, the caster and the healer) is his design. Although influenced from hundreds of fantasy novels, things like collecting magic items, potions, spells-per-day, a spellcasting system limiting the number of spells a wizard can cast *at all*, hit-points, armor, strength stats, dexterity stats, constituion stats, charisma stats, intelligence stats and wisdom stats on a character can all be attributed to his legacy (even if he didn't directly create them, someone on his epic team did, and he was basically the head of his team and best promoter of the game).
Fireball? His. Magic misisle. You bet your ass. Feats are from Dungeons and Dragons, although not a gygaxian creation. *Classes* are derived from RTS-style tabletop war games and first appeared in Chainmail and Dungeons and Dragons. Although in 1.0 you could only choose between non-human races OR classes (so no elf-thieves until 2.0).
Anyways Gygax, to you I pour out the remaining contents of my Health Pot and tip my +2 cap of intellect. May more great developers forever learn from your innovation and may we meet someday in the afterlife. I'll bring my dice if you have a campaign ready by then.
What did Gary do? Besides promote playing a single character? Hit points? Magic systems to a level never before seen in gaming? Levels? Experience points? The list goes on...
Kinda weird that this happens today. 3/4. Right before 3rd edition was about to transfer to 4.0.
But I still use libraries, and the internet has only improved my ability to use them. Now instead of straining my eyes reading a book hundreds of pages long or straining my computer trying to find a semi-illegitimate book, I just use my local college's LINK+ network to get almost any book ever written. From rare and obscure manga to even dungeons and dragons source books--if you know where to look, you can get almost any physical book you want. To make things better, the library itself has many public computers, printers and copiers for when my own break or for when I just happen to be out-and-about and unable to return home (and unwilling to play games with the school's wireless).
Well, actually they did import a large number of Brazilians in the 70s for temporary labor. But a lot stayed and are now ironically a portion of those senior citizens.
When he leaves, he always waves goodbye Or does he wave "aloha"?
That would double the meaning...but does it double the amount? Will he go 2 times faster? If he paints it red will it go 3 times faster?
These are just the kinds of things real daredevils and, dare I say, geniuses (tm) of our day and age experiment with.
That and lightening bolt stickers. Which frankly, I'm too afraid of experimenting with on my own vehicles, lest I break free from the earth's gravitational pull and hit the sun.
People don't like dying in team-elimination games almost ever. With the exception of "great deaths" (i.e. you both use all your clips and pull out knives to finish each other off...or an awesome grenade death at just the right time), its aggravating to spend the next 30 seconds - 2 minutes watching the "defensive" members of your team (and occasionally the really skilled players, if your team is just dominating) screw around and wait to die/kill as you think about what gun you want to use next round. It usually gives you just enough time to get pissed off, and not enough time to get anything accomplished (especially since playing cstrike now-a-days in full screen usually prevents alt-tabbing to another window, lest you want to risk sound loss and texture screw-ups).
Counter-Strike doesn't kill. Waiting for your team to finish the fuck up does.
C'mon we all hate YouTube comments...but to call them "Blasphemous"?
Actually, in all seriousness, there's enough half-assed political "debates" (I dread calling them that), in your favorite random anime AMV to warrant a fascist or communist country denying access to the site even if it didn't have anti-government videos...but then again you'd have to block the whole internet to block the ability to debate online...
If you buy a nintendo DS (or older PSP), you could just upload your music onto that device. The battery life isn't as good as an iPod, but it'll last most lengthy flights pretty well (assuming you don't want it on while you sleep).
You just need the right hardware/software along with your DS, of course. Which isn't that hard to come by.
Check The mod goDS at http://www.themodgods.com/ for more information and (best of all) links to more information sources beyond themselves. The basic "kits" will run about $100. Personally I just use my DS for playing a few games I own so I never bothered buying all the extras, but after seeing all my friend's things, I kinda regret buying an MP3 player...
Obviously my mobile suit gundam references are wasted on this site.
Fine, I'll make my own tech news site for nerds! With blackjack, and hookers...
You know what, forget the website and the blackjack!
Eih, screw the whole project.
This article's existence on slashdot is depressing. Why? Because giving the even a second of any of our days to cover this over-hyped, attention-mongering fossil is beyond the common sense and rationale we, as human beings capable of accessing the vast wells of knowledge known as the internet, should be capable of having. In the end we are all attention mongers to some extent I guess...
Then again, I just wasted at least 20 seconds on this post.
Well, that works best with 5-6 players. I have yet to see an MMO model that works better than a tabletop model...ever. *shrugs*
Perhaps something like a network of tabletop games in which each GM controls a particular area or even particular party *shrugs*
But even then you gotta know how your GM reacts to things, and over crowding of popular GMs would be bad...
MUDs allow for back stories, detailed descriptions of yourself and an ever increasing population of people who actually crave story>big numbers.
But there will always be the competitive a-holes who just have to have their "big numbers". Don't get me wrong, I love seeing "200 damage in 1 round" in my games too, I just don't see a point in that being your primary objective in a game.
I'm betting that in a thousand years or so, long after the fall of civilization (if it occurs, which I wouldn't bet on personally), a scene like this may occur:
Preacher Man on Stage: I for one believe that god is *not* a machine god like you villagers all profess!
Villagers: Lies! Slander! We ourselves have a semi-innate sort of bond with these mysterious machines. How could these machines be built *for* man yet not *by* man if it wasn't built by God?
I say we call it the "Death Star". Not so much for its abilities as we know it, but simply to scare off alien species who have used films to study our culture and will assume we have perfected the art of super-lasers.
We should be ok. Everyone knows aliens read slashdot at the default settings, and if my other posts are any indication, I shouldn't get over a 2 (funny), tops.
I am going to admit that if either of these candidates win, its going to be because they got a majority of people voting "to be part of the time a black/woman won the race!" Which in itself is the most racist/sexist thing you could do! I'm not saying I wouldn't vote for them because of their gender and/or race. I'm simply saying to vote for them based on this single cause (or primarily because of this single cause) would be equivalent to giving Jackie Robinson a place on the Dodgers not because he was good at Baseball, but because you felt sorry for him. Frankly, its horrible how often I hear "I hope Hillary/Obama wins so I can see a woman/African American in office."
Yes, I want to see the first ______ in office as well. I want to tell my grandkids I was alive during that administration, for the same reason its neat to see someone win a Genus world record. But I refuse to sit back and let someone be voted in for such a critical job just because of something as trivial as that.
Self-Righteous bacteria should know that its true destiny is to grow in the United States. After all, wouldn't it be better to grow where it could be used? Everything wants to be used, correct?
The execution chamber is attached to the prison for a reason--its just not smart to have the prisoner driven down to Mexico to inject him with Cyanide. Especially once one considers how dirty those needles are. The prisoner might get infected!
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To continue my eulogy...I've been posting this on the all the forums I frequent. Oh, and the official DnD site is changed...
Today Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons and one of the main promoters of the RPG industry leading it to its current place as a tabletop, online and video-game staple, has died.
His legacy will live on for eternity...that man touched and helped more lives than any other game developer of the last 40 years (probably yourself included, whether you know it or not).
Kinda weird it'd happen on 3-4, given the current transfer of DnD from 3rd to 4th edition too...
His innovations to gaming are so countless and great that today we see them as such staples that we probably couldn't imagine a current "gaming industry" without his advances. His promotion of Gen-Con and many other conventions to spread the name of DnD helped create modern video games as we knew it by spreading tabletop gaming to colleges that would later develop games like Zorc...which would later go to influence such known franchises as Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc...
Dungeons and Dragons (and Chainmail...long story there) were the first character based roleplaying games of all time (there were some games like...well improvised acting and reinnassiance fair things, but nothing with rules, dice, etc...). Dungeons and Dragons set a fantasy standard that continues to influence RPGs to this day. In fact, if you've ever played a fantasy based RPG, odds are its like that because of Gygax (who adapted Chainmail into Dungeons and Dragons). Gygax can be creditted with inventing the slime monster from things like Ragnorok and Dragon Warrior (he created the first "ooze" monsters in gaming: the gelatenious cube and deadly pudding!). The basic "team" system (The warrior, the caster and the healer) is his design. Although influenced from hundreds of fantasy novels, things like collecting magic items, potions, spells-per-day, a spellcasting system limiting the number of spells a wizard can cast *at all*, hit-points, armor, strength stats, dexterity stats, constituion stats, charisma stats, intelligence stats and wisdom stats on a character can all be attributed to his legacy (even if he didn't directly create them, someone on his epic team did, and he was basically the head of his team and best promoter of the game).
Fireball? His. Magic misisle. You bet your ass. Feats are from Dungeons and Dragons, although not a gygaxian creation. *Classes* are derived from RTS-style tabletop war games and first appeared in Chainmail and Dungeons and Dragons. Although in 1.0 you could only choose between non-human races OR classes (so no elf-thieves until 2.0).
Anyways Gygax, to you I pour out the remaining contents of my Health Pot and tip my +2 cap of intellect. May more great developers forever learn from your innovation and may we meet someday in the afterlife. I'll bring my dice if you have a campaign ready by then.
What did Gary do? Besides promote playing a single character? Hit points? Magic systems to a level never before seen in gaming? Levels? Experience points? The list goes on...
Kinda weird that this happens today. 3/4. Right before 3rd edition was about to transfer to 4.0.
But I still use libraries, and the internet has only improved my ability to use them. Now instead of straining my eyes reading a book hundreds of pages long or straining my computer trying to find a semi-illegitimate book, I just use my local college's LINK+ network to get almost any book ever written. From rare and obscure manga to even dungeons and dragons source books--if you know where to look, you can get almost any physical book you want. To make things better, the library itself has many public computers, printers and copiers for when my own break or for when I just happen to be out-and-about and unable to return home (and unwilling to play games with the school's wireless).
Well, actually they did import a large number of Brazilians in the 70s for temporary labor. But a lot stayed and are now ironically a portion of those senior citizens.
But will pilots have to use revealing clothing? After all, that's what turns a mediocre journey into an amaaaazzzing journey.
That would double the meaning...but does it double the amount? Will he go 2 times faster? If he paints it red will it go 3 times faster?
These are just the kinds of things real daredevils and, dare I say, geniuses (tm) of our day and age experiment with.
That and lightening bolt stickers. Which frankly, I'm too afraid of experimenting with on my own vehicles, lest I break free from the earth's gravitational pull and hit the sun.
Maybe if I go at night...
They sell a creme for that.
People don't like dying in team-elimination games almost ever. With the exception of "great deaths" (i.e. you both use all your clips and pull out knives to finish each other off...or an awesome grenade death at just the right time), its aggravating to spend the next 30 seconds - 2 minutes watching the "defensive" members of your team (and occasionally the really skilled players, if your team is just dominating) screw around and wait to die/kill as you think about what gun you want to use next round. It usually gives you just enough time to get pissed off, and not enough time to get anything accomplished (especially since playing cstrike now-a-days in full screen usually prevents alt-tabbing to another window, lest you want to risk sound loss and texture screw-ups).
Counter-Strike doesn't kill. Waiting for your team to finish the fuck up does.
C'mon we all hate YouTube comments...but to call them "Blasphemous"?
Actually, in all seriousness, there's enough half-assed political "debates" (I dread calling them that), in your favorite random anime AMV to warrant a fascist or communist country denying access to the site even if it didn't have anti-government videos...but then again you'd have to block the whole internet to block the ability to debate online...
If you buy a nintendo DS (or older PSP), you could just upload your music onto that device. The battery life isn't as good as an iPod, but it'll last most lengthy flights pretty well (assuming you don't want it on while you sleep).
You just need the right hardware/software along with your DS, of course. Which isn't that hard to come by.
Check The mod goDS at http://www.themodgods.com/ for more information and (best of all) links to more information sources beyond themselves. The basic "kits" will run about $100. Personally I just use my DS for playing a few games I own so I never bothered buying all the extras, but after seeing all my friend's things, I kinda regret buying an MP3 player...
Obviously my mobile suit gundam references are wasted on this site. Fine, I'll make my own tech news site for nerds! With blackjack, and hookers... You know what, forget the website and the blackjack! Eih, screw the whole project.
Did they paint it red so it'll go 3 times faster than a normal Satellite connection?
I've said it here before and I'll say it again.
This article's existence on slashdot is depressing. Why? Because giving the even a second of any of our days to cover this over-hyped, attention-mongering fossil is beyond the common sense and rationale we, as human beings capable of accessing the vast wells of knowledge known as the internet, should be capable of having. In the end we are all attention mongers to some extent I guess...
Then again, I just wasted at least 20 seconds on this post.
Well, that works best with 5-6 players. I have yet to see an MMO model that works better than a tabletop model...ever. *shrugs* Perhaps something like a network of tabletop games in which each GM controls a particular area or even particular party *shrugs* But even then you gotta know how your GM reacts to things, and over crowding of popular GMs would be bad...
MUDs allow for back stories, detailed descriptions of yourself and an ever increasing population of people who actually crave story>big numbers.
But there will always be the competitive a-holes who just have to have their "big numbers". Don't get me wrong, I love seeing "200 damage in 1 round" in my games too, I just don't see a point in that being your primary objective in a game.
If I was drinking milk, I'd need a new keyboard right about now. Too bad my mod points expired like 30 minutes ago.
How about...getting paid? Power of attorney? A complementary winning lotto ticket? I can go on all night and I'll be here all week, folks.
I'm betting that in a thousand years or so, long after the fall of civilization (if it occurs, which I wouldn't bet on personally), a scene like this may occur:
Preacher Man on Stage: I for one believe that god is *not* a machine god like you villagers all profess!
Villagers: Lies! Slander! We ourselves have a semi-innate sort of bond with these mysterious machines. How could these machines be built *for* man yet not *by* man if it wasn't built by God?
*Suddenly, a satellite lands on the preacher*
Villagers: Praise robot Jesus!
I say we call it the "Death Star". Not so much for its abilities as we know it, but simply to scare off alien species who have used films to study our culture and will assume we have perfected the art of super-lasers.
We should be ok. Everyone knows aliens read slashdot at the default settings, and if my other posts are any indication, I shouldn't get over a 2 (funny), tops.
Hey, I love real med...buffering...buffering...buffering...ia player!
I am going to admit that if either of these candidates win, its going to be because they got a majority of people voting "to be part of the time a black/woman won the race!" Which in itself is the most racist/sexist thing you could do! I'm not saying I wouldn't vote for them because of their gender and/or race. I'm simply saying to vote for them based on this single cause (or primarily because of this single cause) would be equivalent to giving Jackie Robinson a place on the Dodgers not because he was good at Baseball, but because you felt sorry for him. Frankly, its horrible how often I hear "I hope Hillary/Obama wins so I can see a woman/African American in office."
Yes, I want to see the first ______ in office as well. I want to tell my grandkids I was alive during that administration, for the same reason its neat to see someone win a Genus world record. But I refuse to sit back and let someone be voted in for such a critical job just because of something as trivial as that.
Read your own quote. They are growing.
Self-Righteous bacteria should know that its true destiny is to grow in the United States. After all, wouldn't it be better to grow where it could be used? Everything wants to be used, correct?
The execution chamber is attached to the prison for a reason--its just not smart to have the prisoner driven down to Mexico to inject him with Cyanide. Especially once one considers how dirty those needles are. The prisoner might get infected!
Will it help him kill again? D:
And a robotic Samuel L Jackson 'anti-malware' incase the snakes go out of control.
Thank god. I hate my current 1D mouse. And I can hardly wrap my mind around my 5D mouse.