I found PvE space combat to be ridiculously boring. Fly forward, hold D to start circling my target, and let phaser turrets and photo torpedoes auto-fire until it's dead. Select next target. Hold A this time so the enemy wears down a different shield facing. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something. PvP combat at least had enough "oh crap I'm being primaried aaaaaaand I'm dead" excitement to keep me somewhat interested.
Ground combat wasn't any better: walk forward, fire a few times, if something comes into melee range, punch it. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something.
I'm sorry, but weekly installments of more of the same just isn't going to get me to resubscribe.
You're not alone; I used to have a server to drown out the tinnitus whine and now that it's in the other room I use a fan on low. Both are way better than "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" as I'm trying to get to sleep.
Considered openSUSE? When I was using it (around 11.0), their 4.x KDE was always significantly less buggy than 4.x mainline, and the distro is quite user-friendly. Otherwise Chakra's KDEmod for Arch Linux is excellent (http://chakra-project.org/about-kdemod.html)
Mandrake was also my first distribution, and it's the whole reason I started looking for Linux distributions that had good documentation and stuck to standard naming conventions. I spent upwards of 2-3 weekends trying to figure out why I couldn't configure my sound card on the command line... only to find out that Mandrake devs had removed "alsaconfig" in favor of GUI-only "draksound", so all the tutorials I had read were for naught. I switched to Fedora, openSUSE, then eventually Gentoo, and now I'm happily using Arch Linux.
You open Control Panel and you are asked to choose between "Heffalumps, Woozels, or Orange Juice", and not knowing what is what but wanting to find something to do with Network Settings you click 'Orange Juice' only to be presented with more meaningless text like "I see you would like some Orange Juice, would you prefer Toothpaste, Cheques, or Mints with your Orange Juice" and the right answer for Network Settings is that you want Mints with your Orange Juice.
You, sir, owe me a new keyboard. I spewed my morning Network Settings all over it.
But please, let me play it in 120 30 minute increments and feel good about it
This is the reason I'm enjoying Final Fantasy XIII. Most of my friends are complaining about the lack of open-world exploration, lack of battle micromanaging and the enormous amount of cutscenes, but the fact that I can feel a sense of accomplishment while waiting for the girlfriend to get ready to go out is great. I can unlock a new ability or two on my characters during a quick 20 minute session and on top of that I get to advance the plot with another 45 second cutscene.
Seemingly this game is what happens when trolls actually participate in the community.
No, you've just stumbled onto a community of trolls. I've been playing the closed beta since early last year, and while I give mad props to the developers for supporting Linux (even 64-bit!), I don't feel motivated to buy the game. HoN isn't fun unless I'm playing an in-house game with people I know, because the rest of the HoN community is too worried about their precious e-peens.
Except that "updates coming automatically these days" can itself be a serious timesink for your sysadmin, as he has to check every patch that's automatically downloaded to make sure it's not going to BSoD someone's box. It's easy to say "Oh, updates are automatic" when it just applies to your computer at home, but when any computer going down in any office across a large business is your problem, a crash caused by a single automatically applied patch can have a massive effect on your workload.
...any number of screen monitoring products (i.e e-Surveiller, The Best Keylogger, Shadow Keylogger, Local Keylogger Pro, etc.) for recording and monitoring PC activity.
I'm sorry, but coupling this statement with your username makes me laugh out loud.
I know the countries you speak of, and if you look at policies passed / proposed in the past year, you'll find that Obama has emulated them wonderfully.
So what you're saying is, "THIS LOOKS LEFTIST. I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE LAWS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEW LEFTISTS IN MY TIME." Got it.
I can't watch local news anymore. I'm tired of hearing about the next plaything that might kill my baby or the poison I've been drinking out of my tap for the past 20 years. Every story is designed to get me worried about something new, and I've already got plenty to worry about as it is.
I realize this is Slashdot, but both of the articles linked talk about the affected operating system. Hint: It shares an ending with a colloquial name for urine.
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Even if the source code is 'out in the wild' you still have a legal leg on anyone trying to future versions without your license.
Fixed that for you.
Glad you're enjoying it.
I found PvE space combat to be ridiculously boring. Fly forward, hold D to start circling my target, and let phaser turrets and photo torpedoes auto-fire until it's dead. Select next target. Hold A this time so the enemy wears down a different shield facing. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something. PvP combat at least had enough "oh crap I'm being primaried aaaaaaand I'm dead" excitement to keep me somewhat interested.
Ground combat wasn't any better: walk forward, fire a few times, if something comes into melee range, punch it. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something.
I'm sorry, but weekly installments of more of the same just isn't going to get me to resubscribe.
Because most people didn't buy it for PC, but for a console, where the experience was significantly better than the PC experience.
I believe you left out ::grumble grumble:: bugzilla is no help, everyone still ignores me
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What's worse is those poor, crispy aliens living on the planet; they're orbiting only 1 inch away from their star!
I think it's clear from your posted conversation that the vehicle failed because you're Freebirth scum.
You're not alone; I used to have a server to drown out the tinnitus whine and now that it's in the other room I use a fan on low. Both are way better than "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" as I'm trying to get to sleep.
Considered openSUSE? When I was using it (around 11.0), their 4.x KDE was always significantly less buggy than 4.x mainline, and the distro is quite user-friendly. Otherwise Chakra's KDEmod for Arch Linux is excellent (http://chakra-project.org/about-kdemod.html)
Mandrake was also my first distribution, and it's the whole reason I started looking for Linux distributions that had good documentation and stuck to standard naming conventions. I spent upwards of 2-3 weekends trying to figure out why I couldn't configure my sound card on the command line... only to find out that Mandrake devs had removed "alsaconfig" in favor of GUI-only "draksound", so all the tutorials I had read were for naught. I switched to Fedora, openSUSE, then eventually Gentoo, and now I'm happily using Arch Linux.
Or post on Slashdot.
You open Control Panel and you are asked to choose between "Heffalumps, Woozels, or Orange Juice", and not knowing what is what but wanting to find something to do with Network Settings you click 'Orange Juice' only to be presented with more meaningless text like "I see you would like some Orange Juice, would you prefer Toothpaste, Cheques, or Mints with your Orange Juice" and the right answer for Network Settings is that you want Mints with your Orange Juice.
You, sir, owe me a new keyboard. I spewed my morning Network Settings all over it.
But please, let me play it in 120 30 minute increments and feel good about it
This is the reason I'm enjoying Final Fantasy XIII. Most of my friends are complaining about the lack of open-world exploration, lack of battle micromanaging and the enormous amount of cutscenes, but the fact that I can feel a sense of accomplishment while waiting for the girlfriend to get ready to go out is great. I can unlock a new ability or two on my characters during a quick 20 minute session and on top of that I get to advance the plot with another 45 second cutscene.
Closing blockquotes!
I wish I had mod points, for you, sir, are my hero.
Watch Iron Man again. Then watch Dark Knight again. Tell me Iron Man is in the same class.
I can't hear you over the sound of Bale's Batman Voice.
Is it?
Seemingly this game is what happens when trolls actually participate in the community.
No, you've just stumbled onto a community of trolls. I've been playing the closed beta since early last year, and while I give mad props to the developers for supporting Linux (even 64-bit!), I don't feel motivated to buy the game. HoN isn't fun unless I'm playing an in-house game with people I know, because the rest of the HoN community is too worried about their precious e-peens.
Except that "updates coming automatically these days" can itself be a serious timesink for your sysadmin, as he has to check every patch that's automatically downloaded to make sure it's not going to BSoD someone's box. It's easy to say "Oh, updates are automatic" when it just applies to your computer at home, but when any computer going down in any office across a large business is your problem, a crash caused by a single automatically applied patch can have a massive effect on your workload.
+1 wish-I-had-mod-points for you.
...any number of screen monitoring products (i.e e-Surveiller, The Best Keylogger, Shadow Keylogger, Local Keylogger Pro, etc.) for recording and monitoring PC activity.
I'm sorry, but coupling this statement with your username makes me laugh out loud.
If you use open source, then you're a pirate? Ok, slap him in prison. go on, I'd love to see them try :)
I would certainly hope that if a law was passed outlawing OSS, that the President would not be above that law.
Achievement Unlocked: Fail.
I know the countries you speak of, and if you look at policies passed / proposed in the past year, you'll find that Obama has emulated them wonderfully.
So what you're saying is, "THIS LOOKS LEFTIST. I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE LAWS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEW LEFTISTS IN MY TIME." Got it.
I can't watch local news anymore. I'm tired of hearing about the next plaything that might kill my baby or the poison I've been drinking out of my tap for the past 20 years. Every story is designed to get me worried about something new, and I've already got plenty to worry about as it is.
I realize this is Slashdot, but both of the articles linked talk about the affected operating system. Hint: It shares an ending with a colloquial name for urine.
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