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Since I've been running Ubuntu on a really crappy computer for the past 3 months, I can't use WINE (comp too slow), and there's no CD drive to install an XP partition. As such I've built up an array of fun Flash games: Gem Tower Defence: http://www.gemtowerdefense.com/ Bloons 3 (Tower Defence): http://www.towerdefence.net/games-192-Bloons_3.php The Space Game (RTS + Tower Defence): http://www.towerdefence.net/games-228-The_Space_Game.php More TD: http://towerdefencegames.com/ http://www.towerdefence.net/?page=allgames&ls=asd

any OS that is more user friendly is necessarily less powerful. i don't use linux to play games or have fun. i use linux to develop signal processing systems. at one point red hat was the only NSA approved linux distribution for carrying out the types of missions i'm interested in (and fedora/red hat are essentially the same minus support). taks Ah, fair enough. I've been looking at Solaris for that purpose. Hopefully now that Oracle bought Sun so they'd own Solaris, it'll get even better. One day I'll try compiling Gentoo or Linux From Scratch just for the experience.

I've heard that Tyreal theory before, but I don't think it's correct (though certainly the plot will be less Diablo-centric). Considering we already know one of the combat areas (acts?) is Heaven, I imagine that part of our job will be fighting Heaven's minions, perhaps corrupted, but perhaps not. Heaven = order, Hell = chaos. Good and evil factor into it less than you think. Sort of like Vorlons and Shadows. Apparently half the angels wanted to destroy humans (and Sanctuary) and half wanted to let them live and see what they became. The vote was 2 - 3 in favour of letting humans live, with Tyreal casting one of the 'live' votes, but the head of the angels casting a 'die' vote. So with that in mind it's not hard to imagine a civil war in heaven resulting in the good angels losing power.

I told you so!

i would never use ubuntu. taks Well there's your problem. You can also go further up, say /. If you have patience and no one else answers, I can offer you a screenshot tomorrow. I press the '/' button, or type it into a command line..There are up and down arrows but they don't lead anywhere that shows the drives like the system dropdown menu. Maybe it's just that one application. Um. Ubuntu automatically mounts all drives, partitions and external storage. However, for internal drives/partitions, I often have to explore them (open as a folder) once at the start of each session for it to mount, but it will appear under 'Places' for you to do that easily. Assuming you've done that, go to /media and look for 'disk' or whatever the name of your drive is. If you're at command line, type: cd / cd /media ls And that will display all disks available.

Did I mention how much Giants rocks? You don't see games like that anymore. (Do you?)

I think the argument that everybody is too "mature" these days for Fallout 1 style saving and loading is pretty ridiculous tbh.

BEST. GAME. EVAR.

Yeah, I know the name "Scott Evertts" from BIS, and I know he's awesome. I just confused why he's awesome (Fallout with Torment).

Damien "Puuk" Foletto Scott Warner is currently the lead designer at Pandemic Studios. Obsidian's Scott Everts is an artist. Wow, epic fail on my part. Cheers.

Is that Puuk? Or is Scott the guy who did a bunch of PS:T stuff?

Because I disagree with most of your leftist views? Promoting human rights makes you a lefty now?

I thought you were making a joke, but wiki says I was wrong; there is a Pirate Party. However, it's not the third largest, but the third largest outside of parliment. Personally, I'm far more worried about Google Books than the Pirate Bay. You're right, but it's the third largest now. It all depends on whether it transforms into electoral victory, but the numbers seem to indicate it will. 50% of Swedish males under 30 plan to vote for it, if I recall the number correctly (it might have been under the age of 40). Gorgon: Proportional representation. People tend to vote special interest parties as their 2nd or third preference, which doesn't show up on vote share. There's a guy in the Senate here who got 2% of the primary vote but Senate quota is 14% (meaning he got at least 12% in preference flow). He's a ****, but that's beside the point. Anyway, I wish the Pirate Bay weren't so flagrantly obnoxious. I much prefer Mininova's attitude of copyright compliance.

How did I guess Wrath of Dagon and taks would come and defend torture.

Cheney is pure revulsion. I feel sympathy/empathy for Bush at times, but Cheney is constructed from elementary particles of vileness.

For an Aussie, trousers are what go over your undies.

Interestingly, Bethesda also owns Van Buren, the story, and its art assets now.

The Pirate Party is Sweden's third largest political party and, after the number of members they've gained because of this, will hold an even larger balance of power in Sweden next election. I wouldn't be crowing too soon if I were the MPAA. The government can keep the **** off my internet.

OK, 64-bit problems conceded, but last I heard that was a similar situation for 64-bit Windows (or has that all been patched up now?). Ubuntu fixes a steady stream of problems each update. For example, with 9.04, tablets are auto-detected and configured out of the box now like every other peripheral, which is a blessing. 9.04 also comes with a big upgraded burning package called Brasero which rivals Alcohol and Nero (though I think K3B is KDE, right, so you might not get it?) As for fonts - well, the free replacement seems fairly decent. I just download the proprietary ones from the package manager though. But this is similar to codecs and stuff - sure, they aren't installed by default, but nor are they on Windows. So many people think what the OEM puts on their computer is part of Windows, but doing a Windows install yourself is an eye-opener. Last 2 times I've installed XP on computers, it hasn't detected the soundcard, network card, or wireless card, which caused no end of headaches, especially since I obviously couldn't fetch drivers off the net. Which is why I'm glad Ubuntu is killing all the other Linux distros while standardising certain practices. Variety and competition are good, but I think that between BSD, Solaris, Apple, and Windows, enough of that exists already that we don't need Linux competing with itself.

Blow this, yet again Obsidian outsources a forum for it's games. Why? What's so bad about building up the community around here? And what happens if/when the partner company goes under or decides to close the forum? Cheap.

And when they do I'll believe it, I'll also be around to say "BAD MOVE GUYS!" Beth's tech is terrible. Wouldn't it make the most sense financially to use the same engine that already has all the assets created for it? IS it hard to move pre-existing assets between engines? Does it make any sense to do so? I am assuming of course that Obsidian's Fallout will reuse much of the assets from Bethie's fallout. Assets like sounds, cinematics, textures, skins, etc, are all fairly easy* to move between engines. Especially engines that are similar (e.g. both new 3D engines). Remember most of the things that go into a game are made outside of that game in something like Maya or Blender or some fancy sound studio thingo mabob.

Fair enough. Got any examples? Please exclude things that also don't work right on Windows out of the box. For obvious reasons. I think Apple takes the cake on things "just working right" out of the box, but that's an extremely closed environment.

It's what MCA said to Josh when he found out they were doing FNV. As in "Arrrgh, me trees! Where are me trees? Desert everywhere!".

I know, I know. They just look like such crap imo. Like one level above all text. Im not even a graphics whore and looking at screen caps of the FO's make me want to spork my eyes out. I get what you mean, but I think you're mistaken. Specifically screen shots don't do the game justice. Sure, it's pixelated now, but it's to modern RPG's what Quake 2 or Half-Life 1 are to modern FPS's - outdated but still infinitely playable.