...because I know what animals give the best XP

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.....because I've been playing TuxRacer too long and my belly is sore.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: HonorEDnlKWhat's with people and taking names for something that's more general and just shove it to something specific, that's what the people who say PC when they intend to say Windows are doing. And I rightfully hate that practice.

Blame the Apple marketing juggernaut with their "I'm a Mac; and I'm a PC" commercials which drilled it into people's heads that PC = Windows. Still, you'd expect a software developer to know better.

Although it didn't help.. but doesn't it really derive from the 80s/early 90s.

You had games and on the boxes stickers which told 'you' what kind of machine it was for:

For Amiga
For Commodore 64
For Amstrad CPC

For IBM PC and compatibles...

...where it would then list requirements such as DOS 4.0, 640kb, supports Adlib, Roland, Soundblaster, etc.

As time went by most of the competitors died off and the IBM PC remained but the lingo on game boxes had become "For PC with Windows 95, etc"

Which version of DOS or Windows was always 2nd to It's for (IBM)-PC. I think the drill had already been implanted in most people's heads that PC=DOS/WINDOWS.

However I do agree and would prefer people to Say "Windows" rather than "PC.

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Quoting: throghIt is a purchase from my side when there is a DRM-free release on GOG or comparable. The posting is just a "We are working on it!". When there is no interest on the side of distributors there is no further chance getting this DRM-free. So I'll stay with my WINE-installation until there is a reaction. :) I'm not going to support a proprietary DRM-platform.

But not every game on Steam has "DRM". I have a bunch of games on Steam that have no DRM at all... I can copy the game data and then just run it anywhere I want (if I desired). I can't say whether the Linux port of KNOTOR II has DRM or not, however the idea that every game on Steam is locked into some form of DRM is wrong.

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Borderlands 1

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Well from what I can tell... it's basically a game of it/tag/(other names). You go after this "light" if you get it then your IT and everyone is trying to get you but you can use the light to kill the things chasing you. If you get caught then you die and the process repeats until the round ends.

I imagine the total number on this death counter will be quite high, might take 2 years for it to reach 0.

I also foresee open source clones called "OpenFlock" or "The Swarm/some other synonym"

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I have mixed opinions on this.. I've always been very pro-software/hardware preservation and admire the work teams like MESS/MAME do to aid preservation. It always saddens some deep OCD side of me when old servers of old games go offline.. servers such as Dreamcast games... these experiences/games become no longer playable.

It is however an interesting concept.. does remind me of that urban legend about some old game that deleted itself once it had been beaten.

From a business perspective it's the "buy it now! before it's too late!" trick... as you wont be able to wait for the price to go lower... not sure what happens tho if someone buys the game and there's only 1,000 lives left.. by the time they download and get to the title screen there will probably be only 700 left.. I suppose that's another reason for buying early, so that you get to experience it all.

I do wonder if any hacked servers will be made to make lives unlimited..

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I find it's an excellent game to listen to audiobooks to!

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I think there should be an "other" option on the two unique questions.

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Best bundle in a while!

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