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20 Years of Commander Keen 152

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @04:51AM from the aliens-ate-my-babysitter dept.

angry tapir writes "This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Commander Keen game. For those too young to remember, Commander Keen was a series of shareware 2D platform games for the PC released by Apogee Software (aka 3D Realms) developed by no less than id Software — the developers of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake."

Comment uhh.... (Score 1) 410

by tommut on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @09:19AM (#33648568) Attached to: Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution

I don't believe any of us our shopping online in order to help save the planet in some small way. I'm pretty sure we do it because it allows us to shop without getting off our ass.

Comment Hemingway? (Score 1) 186

by tommut on Monday July 05, 2010 @07:10PM (#32804178) Attached to: Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books

Christ, they were reading Hemingway? I'd like to see the results of actually having "read" the story, electronic device or no. Did you ever try reading The Old Man and the Sea in high school? Ten fucking pages describing the crest of a wave. I guarantee you 50% of the pages in the survey were skimmed at best.

Comment Re:i used to complain (Score 2, Funny) 142

by tommut on Saturday March 27, 2010 @09:47PM (#31644290) Attached to: Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data

And the rest of us are patiently waiting for The Onion to write up an Area Man Constantly Mentioning He's Not on Facebook article that we can link to....

New Call of Duty Titles Announced, Fired Devs Sue For Name 134

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 05, 2010 @08:44AM from the modern-legal-warfare dept.

eldavojohn writes "Activision has announced new Call of Duty titles while fired Infinity Ward Developer leads Jason West and Vince Zampella sue them for the rights to the name. According to Activision, 'The company intends to expand the Call of Duty brand with the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit. This will include a focus on high-margin digital online content and further[ing] the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.' Ars opines that Activision is set to over-saturate the market with tons of CoD titles similar to how it expertly brought down Guitar Hero."

Comment Re:no one told me I shouldn't be winning (Score 1) 552

by tommut on Thursday February 25, 2010 @10:37PM (#31280850) Attached to: Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario

...be easily accessible 7/24 ...

You only have to be accessible for 7 hours out of every 24 days?? I don't know, sounds pretty sweet to me....

Comment Working late, yes. "Staying" late? No. (Score 1) 426

by tommut on Sunday December 20, 2009 @04:20PM (#30506288) Attached to: When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay?

My coworkers and myself often work late, but we do not "stay" late. We have laptops and a VPN connection. So if we're working into the night, it's' generally in the comfort of our own home. That said, when the team is working late, we sure as hell do expect to see our manager online (at least giving the appearance that he is "in the shit" with us).

Comment Jeez, you don't have to brag about it. (Score 5, Funny) 416

by tommut on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @10:44PM (#29676863) Attached to: What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro?

In similar news I just won a million dollars, however I am not much of a consumer. Anyone know of any good ways to spend this cash?

Comment The cost of legalization (Score 2, Interesting) 640

by tommut on Sunday August 23, 2009 @10:23AM (#29163379) Attached to: Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession

I don't use drugs because they are illegal. My employer could terminate my employment, I could be jailed, etc. If drugs were legalized, then there would be no barrier (however artificial) for me to start using drugs. Maybe I enjoy it and starts affecting my productivity, my way of life, I become addicted, etc. So while this might be in the minority, there are a number of citizens who are not using drugs for the sole reason that they are NOT legal. Legalizing them would remove this barrier and actually cause more drug use. I am not saying that is horrible, but it is a side-effect that is seldom brought up.

Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted 278

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 20, 2009 @01:02PM from the costs-a-little-more-than-district-9 dept.

graviplana was one of several people to submit that Avatar, James Cameron's 3D Sci-Fi epic has released a trailer to whet your appetite. There's a lot of very cool visual elements in there but no indication of any actual story. Here's hoping there is one.

Comment Re:A word from a NoScript Forum Moderator (Score 1) 408

by tommut on Saturday May 02, 2009 @10:02AM (#27798181) Attached to: NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus

What might be a good idea (for all extensions in general), when it opens up the NoScript page after an update, it there was a direct checkbox/link to "Don't show this page after updates" which would set the appropriate extension preference. Then the conspiracists would see a more visible mechanism to not show the NoScript page.
I personally, like an extension that is updated frequently. It means there is active development.
Thanks
Tom

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