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Stopping Illegal Cracks for Spiderweb Games in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #3
On behalf of all of the people here who aren't frothing Vogelophiles, I'd like to ask you to take a chill pill.

You won't be able to stop the crackers. It's like drugs. As long as there's a demand, there'll be a supply. When it comes down to the bottom line, the small amount of revenue siphoned off by cracks or warez is just part of the software business. There's only one sure way to prevent crackers.

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
GF2 Beta in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #7
Since most of the game logic bugs have been fixed, the Windows beta cycle should be rather shorter.

And Protest Warriors wave the flag of fascismo. It's the standard process. Establish your enemy as being some sort of united front of wrongness (they happily lump every liberal into the same camp as Pol Pot and Stalin) and mobilize the forces of "righteousness" to destroy them. It's always in the name of freedom. That's the only way you can promote fascism nowadays.

The only way a person could act the way that those young gentlemen do is if he was convinced that he held a monopoly on correctness. "I'm right, you're wrong, now it's time to destroy you."

The good news is that fascism always loses. Any system that concentrates power into the hands of a small number of people loses.

The word "conservative" describes people today that would be considered by the conservatives of past years to be nothing short of insane.

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Evil Companies in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #76
It's a pity the [Aggregation of Lumber] Mark has been banned by infernal fiat.

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Help get ST:DS9 back on! in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #8
I never thought I'd hear anyone say that Star Trek Voyager is better than a steaming pile of fresh hog testicles, much less DS9.

EVERY GODDAMN VOYAGER COMBINED INTO ONE, IN THE FORM OF AN IRC LOG

* Chakotay has entered #voyager
* Janeway has entered #voyager
* AlienSpecies has entered #voyager
* TheBorg has entered #voyager
* 7of9 has entered #voyager
* ThePrimeDirective has entered #voyager
<Chakotay> We have encountered a new species! When my Maori ancestors met a new people, we'd kill them!
<AlienSpecies> LOL WTH????
<Janeway> OH NO THEY ARE CHALLENGING MY FEMININITY! AND MY LEADERSHIP
<ThePrimeDirective> Remember me! You can't interfere with their
<Janeway> SHUT UP *****
* ThePrimeDirective has been kicked by Janeway (SCREW YOU)
<AlienSpecies> u scuk
* AlienSpecies has been kicked by Janeway (FUTURE TECHNOLOGY HA)
<7of9> What is... love?
<TheBorg> ops plz
<TheBorg> ops plz
<TheBorg> ops plz
<TheBorg> ops plz
* TheBorg has been kicked by Janeway (I AM WOMAN, LAMER)
<Chakotay> I'm from New Zealand.
* Chakotay has been kicked by Janeway (NOBODY MAY CHALLENGE MY AUTHORITY)
* 7of9 has been kicked by Janeway (YOU TOO ALIEN *****)
<Janeway> I WIN
* Janeway has left #voyager
* Paris has entered #voyager
* Torres has entered #voyager
<Torres> I love you!
* Paris slaps Torres around a bit with a large trout
<Torres> Ha ha! You bad boy, you!
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Names in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #62
H is giant, in the Hack line (Hack, Nethack, Slash('em), ADoM). [kerosene] Which, might I add, is the best Roguelike. [/kerosene]
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Fanfics/Fanart in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #13
Rentar + Adrianna + Black Halberd = hooray
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
The next spidweb game. in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Logalot Beyond:

....but the fact is, collaboration between two independent developers can be disasterous. Best to let Jeff do his own thing.
That's not a fact at all. Unless one of them is a pig-headed primadonna with an extremely inflated self concept, two skilled developers can create much better work than either alone.

Oh, wait. Never mind.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
GUESS WHAT?!?! in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #5
Uber? You're worse than Timon. Suppressing urge to throttle.

I, for one, haven't the faintest who you are or why I should supposedly remember you.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Rock the Casbah! in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #45
Amsterdam is in the Nederlands.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Evil Companies in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #64
The real issue is that under US law and I believe WIPO regulations, genetic modifications can be patented. This is extremely troubling, because it leads to two evils: either the crop is sterile automatically and farmers (often impoverished, think Africa here) have to buy seed for every planting season, or the crop isn't sterile and the farmers have to religiously avoid crossbreeding between the local variant and the GM variant. Why? Because if the right genes end up in the local stock, Monsanto may legally own all of the corn or wheat or whatever in an entire area. It'd be ruinous.

I'm not concerned about GMO for health reasons at all. I'm concerned about it for economic reasons. Genetically modified crops have a great potential to be a yoke.

Irradiation, similarly, is not troublesome because of some potential danger, but because it's not really all that effective. (Irradiated meat also sometimes tastes a bit off. Consumers Union did a blind taste test.)
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
This could be useful, maybe in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #6
Which is something I don't understand, since hex editing is perfectly legal.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Mac Addict??? in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #3
quote:
Originally written by Rache:

Ummm, you can download all the demos for all the Spiderweb games at their website... maybe they felt it would be redundant to have them in so many places?
*cries* *sniffs* Alas, poor Shareware, I knew ye well...
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Names in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #8
Poor Thuryl. IMAGE(Spiderweb Software Boards Names_files/frown.gif)

I tend to name characters in some permutation of "Djur." Ever since I got on my Portuguese kick, another name I've liked has been "Nascimento." I tend to name females "Valentine" if possible; yes, I'm a huge OSC fanboy.

Although once when I was playing MS Hearts at school, I named my opponents Eddie Vedder, Kurt Cobain, and Layne Staley. Heh.

I had an entire Avernum party of Djurs once.

Fallout characters of mine are always None, the character with no name. Single-character god parties are "Kreuzfahrer."

Of course, I also tend to sometimes throw in Arena characters of mine; Akbok and Altin from the old days; the Quin dynasty, Arakt, Akbaa, Maaya...
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Blaster worm! in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #22
Word.

If anything, the Macintosh operating system has historically been more vulnerable to viruses than Windows (at least the NT series). That's because prior to OS X, MacOS has been resolutely a single-user desktop operating system without a real security model. No, Multiple Users and Macintosh Manager don't count; both have more holes than Swiss cheese. Let's not forget unprotected memory.

On the other hand, the consumer series of Windows didn't bother to even consider security until XP. That's a pity.

On the other hand (what am I, a Jewish patriarch?), Richard Stallman once said that the very need for passwords and security on personal computers is indicative of "social collapse."

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Huh? in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #10
There actually were KwsN, sadly. Inexplicably, really.

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Please read and think about this... I implore you in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #22
Eh, Macintosh computers (Mac, not MAC; it's an abbreviation, not an acronym) haven't crashed obsessively since OS 8.

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Studipity in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #19
"The universe is getting hotter" is an invalid assertion. First of all, are we talking average temperature or total heat? If we're talking the former, TM's very probably right -- the rate of expansion of the universe probably outpaces the increase in entropy. But, assuming the universe is a closed system (assumed but unproven), the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics would mean the total heat of the universe is ever-increasing (entropic reactions are also generally exothermic).
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Huh? in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #4
You're kidding.

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
If anyone noticed I was gone in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #20
You should kill him. Small bodies are easier to hide.

[ Thursday, August 14, 2003 14:36: Message edited by: Pete, King Of The Detectives ]
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
If anyone noticed I was gone in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #13
I could see a CDRW being damaged by a magnet, but a CDRW could be damaged by a slight breeze. Horrible medium.

If you're close enough to the kind of magnet that it would take to warp a CDR, on the other hand, you'd better watch your fillings.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Intelligence in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #32
But it's the lowest form of humor.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) - Influences? Players? Opinions? in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #18
Since when does anyone sane actually bother using the manuals in D&D, fornicator with Irish women?

Hey, Drakey, if you edit my posts again, it's all coming out. This is a warning.

[ Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:00: Message edited by: Pete, King Of The Detectives ]
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Karma? in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #10
Of course they do. Humiliation is an excellent tool to modify behavior.

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You are my precious thing
Thing of speed and beauty,
You are my precious thing
As long as you remain beneath me
-- Big Black
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
If anyone noticed I was gone in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #11
It's been a while.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
Message to Somebody/Order Mage/Iceman in General
Babelicious
Member # 3149
Profile Homepage #53
The past repeats itself, only it's more idiotic every time.

You Lyceum veterans should know what I'm referring to here.
Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00

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