GF2 Beta
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Skip to My Lou
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written Tuesday, August 26 2003 12:28
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If a beta is ready, then about how long will it be before the final is ready? A month? 6 weeks? -------------------- Need a pet? Need cheap labor? Buy a Moose! Take the Personality Test! INTJ 78% 33% 44% 22% Huzzah for the Masterminds! Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Tuesday, August 26 2003 12:48
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Anyone with Protest Warrior in their signature deserves to be publicly castrated. However, I'm in a good mood. My guess would be, since the Windows beta should not take anywhere near as long as the Mac beta, it'll be out in six weeks, tops. -------------------- KazeArctica: "Imagine...wangs everywhere...and tentacles. Nothing but wangs and tentacles! And no pants!" Posts: 2862 | Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Tuesday, August 26 2003 12:54
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Thanks, and differing political views is no need for nastiness. Although, seeing as how I don't spend 5 mins in a week thinking about politics and this link has brought nothing but hostility, I might as well get rid of it. [ Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:55: Message edited by: Archmage Alex ] -------------------- Need a pet? Need cheap labor? Buy a Moose! Take the Personality Test! INTJ 78% 33% 44% 22% Huzzah for the Masterminds! Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Tuesday, August 26 2003 13:06
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Oh, it's nothing against you personally. The moral self-righteousness and gung-ho attitude of Protest Warrior just really irritates me. -------------------- KazeArctica: "Imagine...wangs everywhere...and tentacles. Nothing but wangs and tentacles! And no pants!" Posts: 2862 | Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Tuesday, August 26 2003 13:20
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Well, as I said, I don't spend 5 mins in week thinking politics. I just saw the link once in Sir David's(?) signature and liked some of the bumper stickers, so I stuck a link in my sig. I probably should have looked through the whole site earlier. While I do consider myself conservative, on looking at the site it is rather extreme in its views. -------------------- Need a pet? Need cheap labor? Buy a Moose! Take the Personality Test! INTJ 78% 33% 44% 22% Huzzah for the Masterminds! Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Tuesday, August 26 2003 13:43
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'Tis a cleansing by the left to destroy those of us in the middle. -------------------- I am not really here. Posts: 956 | Registered: Wednesday, January 16 2002 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, August 27 2003 02:13
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In an attempt to get the topic back on the right tracks... I'd guess it'd take at most three months, though one month is more likely to happen. It, of course, all depends on the severity of the bugs found by the Beta Testers. Posts: 206 | Registered: Tuesday, September 3 2002 07:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Wednesday, August 27 2003 07:57
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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. -------------------- 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 |
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Guardian
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written Wednesday, August 27 2003 15:03
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quote:Um, don't all governments do that? Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Wednesday, August 27 2003 15:21
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From 'Beta Testing' to 'Politics 101' in 9 posts, brought to you by ironycentral.com! But anyway, just 1 month of beta testing? i didn't know spiderwebsoftware was THAT good! (or bad?) or are the beta testers that dedicated? -------------------- Many an ancient lord's last words have been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh." -Terry Pratchet ---- "Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that." -Lord Vetinari Posts: 49 | Registered: Monday, August 25 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Wednesday, August 27 2003 18:38
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Well, it would help if they were selected by now, but so far they aren't. I know they aren't cause I just signed up for it a few days ago, and they haven't informed me that I've been selected to be a beta tester(yes, I am aware of the fact that there's a good chance I won't be a tester, but that'll be their loss-or will it?-) Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, August 27 2003 23:00
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quote:I believe that was Djur's point. Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Thursday, August 28 2003 04:56
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Who read the news ? Major news : 8-26-03: We have enough new Windows testers for Geneforge 2. Thanks to everyone who applied. Mars, if hyou aven't had an answer the following day of this info you are most probably going to have to wait. Thank you for reading [ Thursday, August 28, 2003 05:03: Message edited by: So Incredibly Sad ] -------------------- /Seawinds are calling Posts: 187 | Registered: Thursday, August 14 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, August 28 2003 05:56
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Concerning the "small number of people in government doesn't work" comment... A whole stack of people in government works even less! Democratic governments can never agree on anything, at least Autocratic governments get stuff done. And no, I haven't been watching too much StarWars Episode II. Dammit. Md. Posts: 304 | Registered: Monday, October 1 2001 07:00 |
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This Side Towards Enemy
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written Friday, August 29 2003 13:04
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Tell me, why is 'getting stuff done' a good thing? Anybody with even a cursory knowledge of history knows that some of the greatest achievements of authoritarian governments have been their worst. Besides, your implication that democracy has never achieved anything is ludicrous. I live in a country with gender equality, free education, universal suffrage, unemployment benefit, socialised healthcare, everpresent electricity and protection for the elderly. This is in no small part due to a long tradition of democracy. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, August 30 2003 03:52
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You're assuming oligarchs act in everyone's interest rather than in their own, to preserve their own power. History shows the ltter is more typical. Additionally, you're assuming the oligarch acts rationally and knows what's best. The isolation of power / detachment from, reality caused by being surrounded by a circle of power-seeking sycophants suggests otherwise. Hitler's style of government--where flunkies endlessly cut across each other competing to turn his informal 'table talk' into fuhrer-pleasing spectacle--seems typical to me. I have my suspicions that modern 'political management' techniques increasingly tend democracy to an oligarchical mentality with all its pitfalls though. They're about conning the public with propaganda (which the wannabe oligarch may even believe themselves) for knee-jerk votes rathr than being receptive and accountable to the electorate. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00 |