abarbarian Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 You may wonder every now and again wonder why the world is in the state it is in today. This may be the reason. Robot Finds Kitten Quote An Introduction You all know the score. You detail the advantages of Linux to your boss. You're pushing hard to get free software's foot in the door. You bring in charts, reports, even copies of Jesse Berst's Anchordesk. But in the end, it all comes down to one thing: where are the Zen simulations for Linux? Quote History of robotfindskitten P. A. Peterson II originally stumbled across the contest concept 'robotfindskitten' when perusing Jake Berendes' web pages in 1996, which he found via the Crupper Scupper Supper Upper and the Flupperdupper Maleatora's early vision into search-engine (and Web- Counter(tm)) tom-foolery. Not led by the promise of porn, but instead by the 10k-per-day hits their site got in 1996. Jake had a contest for his friends called "robotfindskitten", wherein they would submit pictures depicting, well, robotfindskitten. Apparently not too many people submitted. Well, ok, two people submitted, but both of those were drawings of a robot obliterating a kitten in some way. kitten remained unfound. Want to install RFK to a toaster maybe there is a version here Waste time playing here Mystery solved - a must read. Spoiler. A marijuana brownie. A herd of wild coffee mugs slumbers here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 @abarbarian So now you forgot to take your meds? Quote "Dear robot, you may have already won our 10 MILLION DOLLAR prize..." 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Nvidia announces a community-made RTX remaster of Half-Life 2 Quote The people, in this case, are a group of modders from multiple community projects who have banded together under the name Orbifold Studios. The team includes modders who worked on VR Half-Life 2 project Project 17, asset remastering project Half-Life 2 Remade Assets, total conversation mod Raising the Bar: Redux, and another VR mod simply called Half-Life 2 VR, among others. The pictures of the upgrade do look neat. Mind you I kind of like the original look of some of the older games if they are not too pixelated or just plain painful to look at. I have been playing some of the fan made extra chapters for the HL series and some of them are darn good. Short but neat. I keep maening to post but am pretty busy at the moment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster Quote There have been a lot of Wipeout games released since the 1995 original, including Wipeout HD and the Omega Collection, but only the original has the distinction of having its Windows port source code leaked by (since defunct) archive Forest of Illusion. Quote Szablewski’s Wipeout rewrite can be compiled for Windows, Linux, Mac, and WASM (Web Assembly). You can even play it in your browser on his server (please be gentle) Quote What about Sony and their legions of lawyers? Szablewski writes that Sony has “demonstrated a lack of interest in the original” Wipeout, so he doesn’t expect to hear much. “If anyone at Sony is reading this, please consider that you have (in my opinion) two equally good options: either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going. I’d love to help!” Played the on-line and it was a blast. Came in eighth in the race which I think means last place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted October 28 Share Posted October 28 The modern challenge of gaming without a strong Internet connection Found the above to be a very interesting article. At the moment I am playing, or should I say totally immersed in The Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt. Started to play after I successfully got Steam up and running again and never stopped. Steam are having a Halloween sale. Best game I see in there with the biggest saving is Strange Brigade at £2 or £3-50 for the deluxe game. I bought it last year in a sale but have not had the time to play it yet, looks pretty neat though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 28 Share Posted October 28 Well the article is a few years old but the same pretty much applies. It's not a matter of how good the connection is, its a matter or being online or not. The majority of games do require you to be online to play them. I get it...due to the all the scammers and hackers out there, they need to validate your install each time you start the game but it becomes a pain for those that actually bought the game. Both the companies and players caused this. So the companies were releasing games and people would rip them from CD/DVD and host them online for people to pirate. So then the companies introduced DRM and required the CD/DVD to be in the computer to play the game. So then people came up with No-CD cracks to get around this which just replaced the original executable with a hacked version that emulated a CD. The majority of people who used these actually bought the game but having to have the CD in each time was a pain the ass. It has always been a game of cat and mouse with software companies and hackers/players. Game crackers will always find away around every security policy the designers come up with. People now create steam versions of games that basically has the phone home part disabled. This is done as Steam allows you to use non-steam games via their engine. To secure these games even more, the industry has been pushing game streaming for a few years now. I do not mean running it through Steam, Origin, Epic, etc. but actually streaming where the game is ran on servers with high grade GPUs and clients connect to them to play. Then a person could run a high end game on a tablet or laptop with the actual processing done on another machine. Nvidia and Google tried this and while Nvidia had some success, Google cancelled their Stadia game streaming service. The entire computing and gaming industry are going full circle back to the 90s with dumb terminals. With everything being in the cloud, people can use things like chromebooks and visit their favorite website or play a game. There will always be computer geeks who will have actual hardware but that is where everything is going. I have seen this change in the enterprise environment over the last 8 years. Literally everything is cloud based or backed up immediately to the cloud and its all SAS (software as a service). They are even doing this with printers and their subscription based model for ink. Everything comes with a version that runs in the browser nowadays from AutoCAD to SAP to Office365, etc. and half of the engineers simply do their computing via the blade servers (virtual machines ran from a datacenter) instead of on their actual machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 28 Share Posted October 28 Man, this brings back memories of having to disable antivirus or disable the internet connection whenever you applied one of the cracks to get a game working even if you actually paid for. Nowadays I am lazy and just wait on a steam sell to buy the game. It also helped that Steam released Proton API in 2017 which allowed me to play 99% of Windows only games on Linux. I didn't game for a solid 10 years because I refused to have a window's partition on any of my machines but now I play games a couple of days a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted October 29 Share Posted October 29 On 10/28/2023 at 12:12 PM, securitybreach said: Well the article is a few years old Ooooops I never even looked at the article date. Like you say it is still relevant. I have never ever paid full price for a game. Always buy in the sales usually for less than £5. Yup gaming back in the good old wild west days certainly kept you on your toes. Or so folks told me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 FOR A LIMITED TIME, HALF-LIFE IS FREE TO KEEP! Add Half-life to your account during this event and keep it forever! Happy 25th Anniversary Half-Life! Celebrate 25 years of Half-life and the new Anniversary Update with special deals on your favorite Half-life franchise games! Be sure to head over to the Half-life 25th Anniversary Update page to see what's been added, what's been fixed, and what's still awesome in Half-life! Most of the other HL games are around £0.50 each aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 3 hours ago, abarbarian said: FOR A LIMITED TIME, HALF-LIFE IS FREE TO KEEP! Add Half-life to your account during this event and keep it forever! Happy 25th Anniversary Half-Life! Celebrate 25 years of Half-life and the new Anniversary Update with special deals on your favorite Half-life franchise games! Be sure to head over to the Half-life 25th Anniversary Update page to see what's been added, what's been fixed, and what's still awesome in Half-life! Most of the other HL games are around £0.50 each aswell. Got a link?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 (edited) https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/valve-ships-huge-half-life-25th-anniversary-update-with-restored-and-new-content/?PageSpeed=noscript Quote Half-Life just received a huge update. You can claim the game for free right now on Steam and those who already own the game will probably want to give it a re-install. For starters, Valve has added Half-Life Uplink to the game, a mini-campaign that initially shipped as a CD exclusive included in magazines back in the day. Steam Link HL2 and HL2EO are both less than a quid same as a couple of the other single player games. All in all a super deal for folk who have never played the games. The HL Complete Bundle is £5.48 and well worth it, around the cost of a posh coffee in a cafe. Get some of the excellent free extension games from the mod folk and you have a whole winters gaming for almost nowt. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/231/HalfLife_Complete/ Edited November 19 by abarbarian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 Thanks, I owned most of them but I did get a couple for 99 cents a piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 8 hours ago, securitybreach said: Thanks, I owned most of them but I did get a couple for 99 cents a piece. Yup I have collected all the single player games over the years when they were in sales. I will do a reinstall of HL to play the newly added " Half-Life Uplink " to the game and to have as quick looksee at the upgraded graphics etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 Epic give away games all the time and most of them are indie types that I am not interested in. The latest two games they offer do look rather good though and are available till the 23-11-2023. Surviving the Aftermath EARTHLOCK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 11 hours ago, abarbarian said: Yup I have collected all the single player games over the years when they were in sales. I will do a reinstall of HL to play the newly added " Half-Life Uplink " to the game and to have as quick looksee at the upgraded graphics etc. Very nice, I might do the same later today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 22 Share Posted November 22 GOG Black Friday Sale live with UNCHARTED released, Styx: Shard of Darkness for free Quote Need some cheap games? GOG just launched their Black Friday Sale and it comes with the new release (to GOG) of UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection. Plus a free game giveaway. Styx: Shards of Darkness G.O.G. game page Quote Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Hired for a critical mission, explore and master huge open environments as Styx. Assassinate or sneak past enemies – Humans, Elves and Dwarves – but also much more fearsome, colossal creatures. Styx: Shards of Darkness - Proton -Platinum This freebee from G.O.G. looks like a fun game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 A Decades-Old Glitch In Half-Life Has Finally Been Fixed Quote For a long time, the tentacle animation glitch in the game’s sixth level has been broken Quote Could it be? Had Valve finally fixed this tiny error that had lingered for decades at this point? I quickly hopped into Half-Life, loaded up Blast Pit, and watched that helpless scientist get grabbed and pulled away. But this time, he was actually connected to the tentacle and not floating multiple feet in front of it. I might have whispered, “Wow.” Don't you just love attention to detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 Deliver Us Mars Quote A BOLD NEW MISSION Ten years after the Fortuna mission, humanity is closer than ever to extinction. After a mysterious distress call from Mars, Earth’s youngest astronaut Kathy Johanson joins the Zephyr and its crew on one last mission: to recover the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward, and with them, ensure the survival of the human race. Free and gets a Platinum on Proton. Graphics look very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted Friday at 05:13 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:13 PM S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Quote At Gamescom 2023 we got to play a brief section of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl's opening segment. After his trudge through GSC Game World's new and even more brutal wasteland, Dave and Chris talk about how the game is keeping the heart and soul of S.T.A.L.K.E.R alive, while bringing the cult classic series to modern systems and modern players, rusty bolts and all. Neat update for all those Stalkers out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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