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Reply to Time to start thinking about Mac and Linux in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="14" id="2683202"]Doesn't matter if Steam has a Linux version. How many games/programs that you use on the PC have the same? And, will you have to purchase them anew by switching to a Linux system? That could be a very expensive switch. Steam is only the delivery system, after all. If the games don't follow suit, what does it matter?[/quote] Well it seems perfectly okay for me to install a windows game on more than one machine inside

Reply to Time to start thinking about Mac and Linux in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

From a personal perspective, I would love if at least the Impulse client had a Linux version. Honestly the only reason I bought a new PC last year and a Windows 7 license was for 1 reason only: games. And my digital distribution platform of choice is Impulse by far. I use Steam, but really only if a title isn't available in Impulse. I think it's important to note that the reason i prefer Impulse is that it gives me much greater freedom over the games that I purchase. Easier a

Reply to Why is it so hard for people to accept it? in Everything Else Demigod Forums

No one would think anything of it if a guy said "I prefer blonds over brunettes" or "I really got a thing for redheads" or "I'm really a breast man". These are all physical attributes that different people either find attractive or don't. How is race any different? It's normal for a person to pick out physical attributes as desirable. What that attribute is could be anything depending on the person -- including race. To me, anyone who thinks otherwise is seeing

Reply to The Government are attacking me! in Everything Else Sins Forums

You are a terrorized member of the master race, world-wide, four billion eyesight television camera guinea-pig Communist gangster computer god master race---your living, thinking, mad, deadly, world-wide Communist gangster computer god secret overall plan: World-wide living death frankenstein slavery, to explore and control the entire universe with the endless stairway to the stars (namely, the man-made inside-out planets, with nucleonic powered speeds

Reply to About Apple. This was to good not to share. in Everything Else Sins Forums

"Apple can further determine whether a user pays attention to the advertisement. The determination can include performing, while the advertisement is presented, an operation that urges the user to respond; and detecting whether the user responds to the performed operation. If the response is inappropriate or nonexistent, the system will go into lock down mode in some form or other until the user complies. In the case of an iPod, the sound could be disconnected rendering it useless until compl

Reply to [Fixed Next Build]Super over powered pirate fleets and ships? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

"Please don't remove the Super Strong Pirates! If you make any change make if like the fleet size toggle. Pirates Off, Pirates Normal, Pirates Hard, Pirates Cruel, Pirates Vicious..." I agree with this. I personally like the super pirates as it were. Or to clarify I don't mind defending against them when I lose the bidding war. (I usually play as Vasari and always research Raider Xenophobia. Pirate raiders become much more manageable after that)

Reply to Movies for gamers in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Only one I haven't seen on your list is Westworld, although I should really watch Fire and Ice again. I saw it once like half my life ago... Here's a few ideas: 13th Floor (1999) Dark City (1998) eXistenZ (1999) The title of this one is actually the title of a game in the movie. Strange Days (1995)

Reply to Demigod - what's next? in Demigod Demigod Forums

This is really great to hear. I am among those who would be willing to pay for DLC. I do wonder how much 1 map or 1 DG would cost the end-user to buy though...

Reply to Stardock, that's a bit harsh in Demigod Demigod Forums

Frogboy: "From here, we'll see how the game evolves. There's a lot of "stuff" that will get added to Demigod via Impulse in the coming months but we won't be paying for additional maps and demigods to be made." So that's not to say that they won't be made--just that Stardock won't be paying for it? I certainly hope so. I play this game often--mostly offline. I would certainly be willing to pay a couple of bucks for each new

Reply to Games you gave a try and liked in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Machinarium. Really a fun game

Reply to The Importance of Embassies in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

I really like these ideas, and I would like them to be explored, and perhaps even expanded upon. For instance another option to lessen the influence of the people on the economy funding an unpopular war could be through the use of media hubs/propaganda. What if you could spread propaganda upon your own populace about a specific opposing faction, either positive or negative? This could be included in the specific research you were suggesting. Of course this could back

Reply to Sins: Diplomacy Beta 1 Set for Monday in Sins News Sins Forums

I just made the pre-order now.... I wonder how long I'll have to wait [e digicons]:-"[/e]

Reply to Kids are so jumpy these days in Everything Else Sins Forums

WOW. What age group are we looking at here? That was amazing! [e digicons]:O[/e]

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="83" id="2370956"]who then request a scanned copy of the sales receipt and digital photos of the days news paper coupled with my CDs - and I'm not joking either - I draw the line.[/quote] Really? Come on....

Reply to The BEST of Open-Source Games in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Glest is a great open source RTS game with many, many contributors and a pretty strong modding community. I'd recommend checking it out.

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="76" id="2370807"] I'm certainly aware of that too... but, lemme give you a trick or two; find out what registry dispatching slots can call for in a series of self-executing fake files pulled off plenty of differently managed folders while ini & other zero zum "transitional" assets loop directly to rootkit codes. Also... get a degree in low-level languages such as assembly, patchworking your ways into runtime memory addressing. Don't

Reply to EA Comes to Impulse! in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="59" id="2369979"] I'd be locked in a regional "controversy" -- i still wouldn't try getting a FREE game through Piracy for a very simple reason; Whovever coded & compiled that **now FREE game to me** didn't receive any of MY money for it. Now - variable EURO currency, manufactured in the US, made available in India through bandwidths, heck even boxed up and shipped to Antarctica weather station X.... i really don't care; you play, y

Reply to Offline player wishing to play online in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

Hello all.. sorry I haven't been on. I'm actually getting married at the beginning of October and I'm putting in extra hours at work for the expenses and the days off I do have are being increasingly occupied with planning. To answer some projections, yes the awful experiences I spoke about were a while ago; not too long after the game's initial release. Since then I have been playing with my brother offline, but mostly myself vs 2 hard cpu opponents. It did take me

Reply to Offline player wishing to play online in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

Thanks for the resposes! Nucleus Accumbens I'd love to join in on your sessions! I wouldn't be able to play every thurs and sat night as my work schedule is pretty erratic, but I could probably play at least 1 of the 2 nights each week. please do PM me the details. <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl01

Offline player wishing to play online in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

I apologize ahead of time for this long-winded post. I've been playing Demigod since its release, and have played online a couple of times, but as usual I was turned off and have been playing offline since then. Maybe I should back up a bit and give some history of my online gaming and gaming in general: I've loved all video games for as long as I remember (I'm 35 and really do not remember a time that I didn't understand the concept of a video game). I've never

access to older betas? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I've been thinking recently about an interview with Blair Fraser I read some time time ago. In it Blair (if i may refer to him with his first name) mentioned an older beta where the planets of a system were actually orbiting their respective stars. At this point I believe the interviewer called the idea "endearingly naive " (this could be a misquote). Anyway, I haven't had the chance to play any of the early betas as I came in just as

Reply to No LAN for Starcraft 2 in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

I don't know... I think there's a lot of things that will arise from this that haven't been voiced yet: What about the patch that comes out that makes balance changes which myself and my friends do not like? If I was playing on a LAN we would have the choice to avoid that patch and play the game WE wanted to play. Forcing us to connect to BNet to play will also force us to install said patch, would it not? What about when the BNet servers are down due to scheduled

Reply to Sins / Entrenchment DRM in Technical Sins Forums

To Dr. Gonzo, ricotero, and others on that side of the fence: I'm sorry but I really fail to see what the problem is with Stardock's DRM scheme. And I have to point out that saying this is worse than Securom is just ludacris. Games that use Securom and other schemes like it are the reason I stopped playing those g

Reply to What's your speedtest rating? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="twifightDG" reply="23" id="2264634"] Quoting Riao, reply 22 I thought my connection was good. I can't believe the speeds some of you are showing. I drool with envy! It's all relative. Not long ago I was downloading with cable at a whopping 120 kb/s, and before that ISDN blew my mind, and I'm sure we'll get lots of posts after this one by someone that had even slower internet. My internet is almost 100x faster now, yet my li

Reply to What's your speedtest rating? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/498031675.png[/IMG] I thought my connection was good. I can't believe the speeds some of you are showing. I drool with envy! [e digicons]o_O[/e]