Tyranicus

The general consensus of the chat last night seemed to be that we should wait until after the PC release of A:EftP to ask Jeff about this.

There is one for The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic as well.

Going Postal was better.

The thing with Linux ports is, if the game works in Wine, there is little reason to make a port. The number of people who use Linux as their primary OS but aren't capable of using Wine is very small indeed. Whereas, plenty of Mac users don't even know what Wine is.

I will be there.

 

What's stopping you from creating a new account?

It depends on the game. Aspyr, and most other porting companies, don't do full ports like Jeff does. Rather, they use Cider, a commercial implementation of Wine that supports DRM. As always, some things work better in Wine than others.

When referring to someone who identifies as male or female, then you can absolutely use he or she. I don't believe anyone disputes this. The problem is when you do not know someone's gender, or when they do not identify themselves as part of the traditional gender binary.

Good call. I had forgotten that one.

I guess the important question is whether you personally find "they" to be offensive.

We need a new native Mac version as well. The currently available build is PowerPC, and Lion runs Intel code only. However, as Aran says, the Windows version does work in Wine.

Police officer is the generally accepted term. As to a gender-neutral form of fireman, I don't think I have ever heard one.

"It" truly is an insult and is used as such. "They" is not, and using a person's name whenever one would normally use a pronoun can get ridiculously awkward.

All I know is that I had teachers who would dock points for using it that way in high school

I remember those too. I was in 9th grade sitting in health class when I first heard the news. A teacher came in and briefly spoke to the health teacher who then made the announcement that the towers and the Pentagon had been hit. For the next few periods, there was rampant speculation about what happened. The last couple periods were spent watching the news reports. When I got off school, I walked over to my father's law office where I had an after school job. The secretary had the conference room TV moved out into the reception area, and we sat and watched the reports. That was when I first heard about the plan that went down in western PA. I was concerned because my sister was attending college at IUP, and the first reports just said "western PA." I remember that the nonstop news coverage continued for days, and that Dan Rather and Peter Jennings were looking extremely tired after a while.

While technically grammatically incorrect, you usually can't go wrong with "they."

You're never going to let that parking ticket go, are you?

I'm free tonight or tomorrow pretty much any time. I'm available on weekday afternoons and any time Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I have nothing against BoE. I was merely commenting on the foolishness of purchasing a freely available game.

If you order even game from Spiderweb's site, buying bundles where possible, the total comes to $290. Of course, you can subtract $15 from that right away because there is no point whatsoever in buying Blades of Exile.

Of course! If Hitler had taken care of assassins himself rather than letting the SS do it, history would look upon him as a wonderful person.

The north was still more industrialized than the south and they still had many more men. The war may have lasted longer, but the end would still have been a foregone conclusion. Despite their early successes, and as much as I enjoy speculative fiction about what would have happened if they had gained their independence, the south never really had a chance of winning the war.

The president who actually did prevent the very real possibility of the union dissolving was Andrew Jackson. If he had allowed South Carolina to nullify the tariffs, it would have established a precedent of a federal government with no real power over the states.

(Also, Jackson gets badass points for beating a would-be assassin nearly to death with his cane. )

Quite a few Time Lords adhere to this peculiar naming convention. One wonders if perhaps "The" was a very common first name on Gallifrey.

Whether you like him or not, Nixon was a very capable president. He knew how to do the job much better than a lot of other people I can mention. In my opinion, the only person in recent history that was as good at the job as Nixon was Clinton. I listed Clinton as a favorite and Nixon as merely liked because much of Nixon's ideology is at odds with mine, whereas Clinton's was mostly dead on.

FAVORITES

Clinton, Roosevelt I, Roosevelt II

 

LIKE

Kennedy, Wilson, Nixon, Eisenhower, Obama, Truman

 

NEUTRAL

Johnson, Carter, Coolidge, Taft, Ford

 

DISLIKE

Harding, Hoover, Reagan,

 

LEAST FAVORITES

Bush I, Bush II

 

NO OPINION

Anyone before the 20th century

The fifth one is Doctor Zhivago, and the sixth is Tora Tora Tora.