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Ubuntu. It works, plain and simple. Not to mention that you'll never have to buy Microsoft Office again.

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True Descent players get odd looks from their neighbors after being seen shooting out their light fixtures.

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That gets points just for being Ubuntu.

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I wasn't allowed to play most of these titles at that age ... too violent.

Somehow that never applied to Descent so much, as long as it was my dad I asked and not my mom.

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John Carmack is a genius, and I am currently drooling on my keyboard.

The detail there is just incredible; that engine in real-time looks considerably better than early pre-rendered CG movies.

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I haven't played many of these games .... I was 7 or 8 when most of them were released.

Raptor: Call of the Shadows

One of my favorites. You can't beat \"Harold's Death Emporium: The Only Shop for the Discerning Mercenary\".

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I'm trying to get D2X-XL's smoke effects working for me, but I don't see so much as a puff. Is the effect dependent on video-card capabilities? My card (ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9000 Pro - 64 MB) isn't spectacular, but I'm pretty sure it's capable of handling the smoke. I've enabled smoke (it would ...

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Nice Descent icons.

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The Maximum levels are a heck of a lot easier. Maybe the designers figured playing it with a PlayStation controller would be more difficult? I don't know, has anyone here actually played Descent Maximum on the PS? Pop out, fire, duck and wait until you see the \"1000\" The sad thing is tha...

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The best part of D2: Maximum for me was new boss rooms. The levels are pretty simplistic, though maybe I should go back and redo it on Insane like you just for the challenge.

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The biggest problem for me going out into the fray is homers (of course), but those moronic, pervasive pigs (aka Class 1 Driller) don't make life easy either. By the time my homer hits them, I've already lost 33-50 shield.

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Wow.

I finished the game in under 8 hours on Ace; let's see how I do on my current run for Insane ...

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Neat work. I'd love to build those, but I don't have the pieces or the money to spare right now.

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They think they're practicing attacks using Second Life? Oh yes, all RL suicide bombings are carried out using a keyboard and mouse - that's great practice!

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Wow for old Descent sites. I have to do those origamis...

- When you still remember what DEVIL stands for

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The U.S. are developing a culture of hardness and brutality, so it seems (that's something you can even hear U.S. Americans say). "So it seems" is the key -- bad information sources, heavily favoring negative news. I see the same thing in DE (and worldwide). The local situation is differe...

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Mobius wrote:I still maintain that all 1v1 games should be played P2P, on high speed connects, with accurates enabled, a packet ratio of 10 or more, and a coin toss deciding who will host.

If you want the best gameplay, the person with the slower connection should allow the faster to host, methinks.

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- You attempt to slide around corners in your car

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I would think the passengers have cause to sue the pilots for willful neglegence. ... Both the passengers and the pilots are dead. I doubt anyone's suing anybody, unless via séance. :P But that aside :wink:, I agree with you. All they needed to do was cover the rotten traffic like I'm sure they wer...

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When car chase scenes in movies make you think, \"Crap, they must be out of smart mines!\"

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@Nergen:
Yeah, unfortunately that's just not enough processor or graphics card power to run it through WINE. If we ever do get the Linux version files, that would be a different story, though. You still won't get great performance, I'm guessing, but probably something tolerable.

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Bichording's not as bad as what my old computer does ... 4 or 5 keypresses will make one of the keys stick down - usually a slide key that pins me against the wall while the bot I was trichording around kills me. :x Ages ago the Police Department I do computer work for sometimes was throwing out som...

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Coincidentally I was just trying to run D3 on WINE today - with pathetic results, but that's just because that computer's got a 4 MB graphics card and a 700 MHz processor on top of WINE's lag. What are your system specs, and have you tried using the OpenGL driver instead of DirectX? It improved the ...

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Ridiculous. It was the news copter pilots' own decision to follow the chase so intently that they didn't watch where they were going. If anyone should be charged, charge the news companies for not enforcing stricter precautions against this type of accident. If a policeman had died, I would say yes,...

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D1X-R Good idea there, all this time I've been playing on a 700 MHz P3 with the original game. :roll: Homers are impossible to dodge unless you've got a corner nearby. Insane is the only way All the way through on 1 guy was my best. I think I ended up with 50 something guys by the end.... Dang. Tha...

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Just out of curiosity, and a little wondering if I'm the only one who's still unable to beat it on Insane.

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I would get bored really quickly watching people play Guitar Hero II. Something like SW: Battlefront II or Descent, I could hang on .... maybe for about a half hour. Once.

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Alright, I've waited long enough. I want to get out into the mines. The only problem is that I don't have Kali or any of the other game browsers and since I'm using a shared computer, I'm not free to go and install one. :( So is anyone interested in getting together for a game using D2X-XL's tracker...

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It's awesome that there's anyone outside this community who would actually remember Descent enough to make a remix... that's a great one, though.

@Pumo:
I'd love to hear what you've got.

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If BP is genuinely dumping harmful materials in Lake Michigan, I'll be upset (especially since I live in Michigan), but I'm kind of suspicious. One thing that stands out is the word \"silt\". If they are truly dumping silt in the lake, who cares? Silt, as defined by Dictionary.com, is \&q...

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At the least, this sort of training would get people who would never think of sliding, rolling, etc., used to the idea of using all controls available. It think it's a good idea, though as Strife said, trichording would be a good addition.

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29,000 is the actual figure of known sex offenders on MySpace, but they're not all molesters. You can get on the sex offender registry simply by allowing your rear end to be seen in public, or taking a whiz in a public place. I'm not sure what percentage of that 29,000 is real, but I'm guessing ther...

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Unless you're willing to pay, the best way to share files between OSX and Windows XP is to create a FAT32 formatted partition on one of your drives. Both OSX and Windows XP can read and write with FAT32, so you can keep any files that need to be accessible from both systems there. Alternatively, for...

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It's particularly bad in Britain, where you can't even help yourself. I've read that a person who points a toy gun at an assailant to scare them off is committing a criminal offense there.

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Nice. I do like the \"MIDI piano\" sound to it.

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Hard. Lost Levels was great.

Ironblade's another good one, though it's a touch easier and affected by the D1 balancing.

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That's one very nice piece of work. I can't promise anything, since I'm a little busy with work, etc. at the minute, but I'll at least look at the Blender export scripts and see how easily I could adapt one to .oof for you. The other reason I can't promise is that I don't know Python very well - I'v...

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Filmed in the 1500's, maybe?

That's unbelievable.

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- You make fuel center noises as you pump gas into your car

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Wow, nice work. I'm particularly partial to the P.E.S.T.

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