Thank you, indiv.

About the corpses... there are mods out that should make people happy. One adds a flashlight onto the pistol (probably other weapons too). One stops corpses from instantly fizzling away. The other... I forget. Just check out Planetdooom; they list all three.
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That's what people were saying before the original Half-Life came out. Just because you can't think of anything new doesn't mean there isn't something new.

Am I the only one who thinks Half-life wasn't really that great, or that innovative?

On a side note... I'm playing through Doom 3, and having trouble with a boss. Text below:

I'm at the end of Hell, at the Guardian boss (also where you obtain the Soul Cube). I can hear the Soul Cube telling me how to kill the boss, but I can't discern what it's telling me. So, could someone please enlighten me regarding how to kill this thing?
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Naming a boss isn't a spoiler. I didn't say where it is or any other spoileriffic details like that. I'm just looking for help killing the thing.

I figure this is the best place to post, since a few people are saying they've beaten Doom 3. I'm at the Guardian boss--and have no clue how to beat him. I've been slugging it out with him for hours, unable to kill the thing. I hear the voice giving me advice on how to kill him, but I can't hear it over the Guardian's noise.

So... help?

Regardless of how faithful a following a game may have they are not the sole targets of any new release. Although the Thief franchise enjoys a loyal following, it doesn't have HL or Quake like numbers. I'm sure they don't want to limit themselves to their past fans or the gaming elite. But, as someone else stated, it may have something to do with a multilingual release. Whatever the reason, I'm sure they've crunched the numbers and done their homework. I hope.

I'm sure they would love to expand their audience, but I don't think it'll happen. I think the people who will want to buy Thief III will know about its development now, and either own a DVD-ROM or will buy a DVD-ROM in preparation for its release--heck, maybe a DVD-RW.

It just strikes me as odd that there would seem to be no soft transition from CD to DVD as their was from vinyl-( 8-track )- casette-CD or VHS-DVD.

The transition's happened for years, IMO. The gaming industry is just now getting around to pitching DVDs for the sake of containing their installs on one or two discs. Example: UT2K4 will be offered as either 1 DVD or 6 CD-ROMs. There comes a point when concerns of manufacturing, packaging, and just plain practicality come into question, and the medium needs to change. CD-ROM was good for about 4 years, but we need to move on.

Honestly, I'm more worried about hard drive capacity with regards to holding vast amounts of large media (games, mp3s) than I am about the viability of DVD-ROM games.

It's not only the hundreds of thousands of CD player only pcs that Dell\HP sell annually. Add to that Cicero and all the other budget brands that Best Buy, Future Shop, Circuit City et al sell. Also add on the specials that your local computer store offers. I'm ready for a DVD game but it will have to be available for the mass market in both formats for a while to come. If you don't think it wouldn't impact sales than imagine the gnashing of teeth that would be caused over a DVD only release of The Sims 2!

Do you seriously believe that these people and the Thief fanbase are one in the same?

Note also that you're citing American retailers and American computer companies on a subject about a DVD-only release in Europe.

You're thinking logically, just not critically.

never bought one, never will.

That's nice. Shut up. Go away.

I also don't see the point in using Trillian if I'm just going to use it for ICQ.

Consider it ICQ Lite Lite.

Once AOL installs unremoveable software in its ICQ I think I am finally done with that program.

Note the very first headline: "Trillian v0.74G is now available." Problem solved.

You have no proof to backup any of your claims.

You've just summarized your own post.

It's hilarious how people actually think O'Reilly is conservative, let alone Fox News. Here's the deal with Fox; they air both conservatives and liberals and clearly label them as such, as opposed to groups like CNN, which simply air liberals as "mainstream" and conservatives as "right-wing." Just because Fox News does not spout the liberal line does not mean it is conservative. Would you care to explain why Bill O'Reilly bashes Bush for being wrong on WMDs? Or how about why liberals like Alan Colmes, Geraldo, Greta Van Susteren, and Wendell Goler have jobs at the "conservative" Fox News Network?

Your "rhetoric" doesn't fit the real world. Meanwhile you have yet to demonstrate your alleged non-relation between political concerns and media regulation.

The media totally ripped him a new one with the whole anger issue and the constant play of that scream which was taken out of context.

Do you mean his scream was taken out of context the same way Maureen Dowd took Bush's initial support of the Federal Marriage Amendment out of context? Or do you mean the same way Trent Lott's comments at Strom Thurmond's birthday were treated in the media (including Fox News)?

The New York Times, that bastion of unbiased journalism, just today endorsed John Kerry for President. Dean imploded, and it was his own fault. Go vote for Nader.

Rush Limbaugh is my least favorite person in the entire world. I'd see him hanging from the gallows if his oppressive stupidity didn't snap the rope during the fall.

This, my doubters, is the attitude of Congressional Democrats as far as their ability to win elections is concerned.

As for you, Professional... really, I think you should sleep in on Election Day. You aren't going to like how it plays out.

Terp, your making some mighty big claims with some might large gaps of any kind of hard proof. Its one thing to mention systems that everyone is or should be aware of. Its another to claim a superior opinion for the reason of "just because", try agian, buddy.

If you're saying I have gaps in knowledge, you aren't keeping up with Congressional hearings in regards to media interaction and regulation. Head back to the midterm elections of 2002 and go from there.

Clever of you to try to discredit an argument by citing lack of sources. What are your sources for saying I'm wrong, and that politicians don't try to control their representation in the media? Are you denying that politicians pander to crowds?

Hello? Mike Powell was appointed by Bush. The big push is being done by him with the blessing of the administration. It would only take a call from the prez to slow it down, plus its an election year.

Powell began his investigation due to a flood of phone calls, emails, and letters sent to the FCC in the wake of the Super Bowl halftime show. Bush didn't scheme up a conspiracy to regulate media--Republicans are anti-regulation, remember? The FCC's initial actions were a response to public outcry. The issue has been hijacked.

You are acting like a conspiracy theorist, “Democrats are losing ideological parity with the media and are losing the debate." Huh?

The ideological parity bit comes from the liberal bias of the media. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, The New York Times, the AP, Reuters, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times (the list continues) have been shown continually for almost 40 years to have a liberal bias. An overwhelming majority of reporters are registered Democrats (depending on the group of reporters polled, and the timing of the polls, the rate changes between 80 to 95 percent), and you can verify some surface bias just with some Lexis-Nexis searches: without even going into story content, just reading headlines, Republicans and conservatives are usually presented in a a derogatory light (one example could be "Bush Faces Opposition to Domestic Agenda," or "Kerry Hits Back at White House Attacks"; Note that I'm paraphrasing headlines I've seen over the past few weeks, so I don't know if you'll get those exact returns or not) and Democrats and liberals are presented in a positive light (usually put in stories about growing support for Democrat candidates for office, or the misrepresentation of crowds at events supporting Democrats; I can remember one story about Wesley Clark in Coral Gables, Florida, where a crowd of 25 people who turned out to see him was described as a "throng").

You should look up what Tom Daschle said in the wake of the 2002 midterm elections. First he said that talk radio was responsible for threats to his family. Then he said that Democrat election research showed that the election went to the Republicans (against sixty years of historical trends where the party opposed to the sitting President usually gains Congressional seats; "divided government" is the political science term for it) because of new or non-standard-media news sources: Limbaugh (who reads stories from the "mainstream" press and simply comments on them), Drudge (who links to "mainstream" press articles), and Fox News (which is about as balanced as a news channel can get). Ever since then, the fix has been in to try and "regain" media representation.

There's nothing conspiratorial about this: whoever gets the most favorable view in the media has a good chance of winning elections. Candidates who spend the most money will win an election something like 98% of the time. The role of the media in politics is indispensable, and there's nothing conspiratorial to say that the Democrats are trying everything they can to get elected. That's the nature of politics.

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So represive censorship is only an issue if you agree with or value what's being censored?

Are you familiar with the phrase "slippery slope?"

I'm surprised people are missing the meaning of what's going on here. First, Stern isn't a ClearChannel employee. Stern airs on about 80 or 90 radio stations, and his show is broadcast by CBS (remember Janet?) and Infinity Broadcasting. Of the 80 or 90 radio stations, ClearChannel downloads Infinity's signal and airs Stern on 6 stations. Stern lost six stations. Big deal. CBS and Infinity still pay him.

Second, the Congressional hearings that are occurring will lead to NOTHING. They are show. They are an attempted intimidation of radio, a medium which certain people in Congress do not like and would LOVE to regulate. There will be no regulation resulting from these hearings except for an increase in the maximum allowable fine for indecent content. That's all. Nothing's going to change.

Finally, it's hilarious to hear people talk about how "Bush and his Conservative[s]" are responsible for this. Pst... guys... the FCC is not a Bush-invented agency, the American public has been continually fed up with the content of broadcast and cable TV (two mediums being ignored here, by the way; Sex in the City is far worse than Howard Stern's wet dreams), and this issue has been co-opted by certain members of Congress in order to bash radio and attempt to get rid of one company. ClearChannel. Note how it's being reported that ClearChannel has suspended Stern: Stern isn't a ClearChannel employee. The blame is being shifted to ClearChannel.

Why? Well, this is where the Bush-haters will label me a conspiracy theory-pushing kook fascist right-wing ideological Christian:

This is all happening because Democrats in Congress want Rush Limbaugh, who is syndicated on 1200 ClearChannel stations (as opposed to Howard Stern's 6), to go away. They want him gone because the things he says represents an electoral threat. This is also why Congresswoman Maxine Waters told Rupert Murdoch that he "scares me." The Democrats are losing ideological parity with the media and are losing the debate.

What began with a social issue has, through deliberate Congressional and media action, been turned into a "get rid of talk radio and its syndicators" hunt. One of many over the last two years.

No it doesn't, it's says "one of the most popular game demo downloads of all time". As in, not the most downloaded evar.

Excuse me. You missed the point of my exaggeration; it was to demonstrate the wrongness of Lokust's opinion. I can read the press release as clearly as most, and yes, it does say "one of," not "the." I was disproving the idea that it says "best game evar." Context, please.

Terpfan, not only did you miss the point, but you managed to be a dick while you were at it. My point was that being downloaded a lot doesn't mean shit. I've downloaded tons of demos, but my downloading them was no indication of whether I liked the game. Rather, my downloading them was a chance to try that game out for free. I was stating that they were putting a spin on it by saying that 1.5 mil. downloaders = 1.5 million people who dig the game, when in fact we have no idea how many liked or disliked it.

I didn't miss your point. I said your point is wrong. You're still persisting that Epic is saying that all 1.5 million demo downloads equates to a fanbase of 1.5 million people, when that isn't the case. Epic never said that, and it's not true anyway, as there are certain some people like you who don't like UT2K4.

I never dissed the product itself. I rather enjoy it, in fact. I just was highly amused by the spin they put on the number of downloads. We all expect press releases to have a poor signal to noise ratio, and this was an egregious example of it.

Interesting how you accuse the press release of doing something it never does.

In your desire to prove yourself a fanboy and bash me, you put words in my mouth, which I don't appreciate. All I did was call attention to a humorous point in the press release, not "bash the game and the company." Fucktard.

There was no humorous point in the press release, because you made it up in an attempt to bash the company. The press release doesn't say "Oh, we have 1.5 million downloads--best game evar!" It says "We have 1.5 million downloads--most downloaded demo evar!" Which is true, irregardless of what numbers a Doom 3 or HL2 demo would pull: those demos aren't out yet, so they aren't relevant because no one has downloaded enough of those demos to beat UT2K4's numbers.

And by the way, it's Terpfen, not Terpfan. Even with names you engage in selective reading. Fucktard.

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I like UT2k3's feel, and considering how much free shit they handed out for 2k3, I know there'll be plenty of official onslaught maps for 2k4.

I think there are 9 official Onslaught maps that come with the retail version... and of course we'll have a bunch more. I wish they'd up it to 12 or so, though.

I like Onslaught. But I dont like how everyone everynoob sprints off to that flying thing the second the match starts and promptly dies in it - it can do some damage if somthing more advanced than a baboon is at the controls. That being said, on the servers I've found a refreshing lack of morons.

Agreed. I think I'm fairly good with the Raptor (I took on two enemy Raptors and a guy on the ground with an AVRiL and destroyed both Raptors while dodging the ground geek), so I try to pilot one when available. It's frustrating how people will try to do what they clearly suck at; it's like a more subtle form of teamkilling, as it screws your team over in two new ways. One, you take yourself out of the match, reducing the number of guns shooting at the enemy. Two, you rob your team of a vehicle that could provide additional firepower in the hands of someone competent.

Let's hope the people who decide to pay the $40 understand that they should stick to what they're good at.

This whole spin that they are trying to put onto it that a high number of downloads = the game kick ass is just silly.

No, what's silly is your spin. Epic is saying that high amount of downloads = indication of popularity, which it is. If just half of the people who downloaded the demo buy the game, it will indeed "redefine what it means to compete online" because a whole hell of a lot of people will be playing UT2K4, changing the demographics of servers dedicated to games (perhaps UT2K4 will dent Counter-strike's dominance?) However, in your desire to bash the game and the company, you have spun the situation exactly in the same way you've accused Epic of doing.

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