"The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software..."
I like to imagine myself standing by the main road, away from any important game stuff, but somewhere the player must pass through to get to the game stuff. And I'm just screaming at the top of my lungs. No reason, and it's never even addressed; it's just something the game implemented to annoy the player character.
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX."
No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.
"Did you know that according to our definition of rocks, ice counts? I've just been thinki- oh, you did? Well, next time you meet me, I'll have come up with a new, incredible fact! Like: "
Hello! (Deep in my eyes you could read that I had something very exciting to tell you at some point, but it was part of something that got cut due to cost reduction.)
"Get out of here, Stalker! Release the Epstein Files!"
I am an NPC in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chornobyl (2026 Remaster -- (All we did in the remaster was fix the bugs, it is the same game you know and love except for this one NPC now reminds you of the Epstein class criminals!))
Interacting with you unlocks Epstein island at the wish granter, which teleports you into a prison cell with a broken camera and a security guard with a gun
Remember the crazy hermit in Ravenholm in HL2 who won't help you until you complete some tasks? He speaks at you over a loudspeaker and then through a slit in a door IIRC. It's a beautifully designed level.
Anyway, I'd like to tip my hat to that crochety character by being an NPC who recites the Gettysburg Address during an epic onslaught.
I wanna be like that very annoying NPC in the Pokemon Bizzare fangame that just rambles on forever about such a meaningless story. But with my own nonsensical story that has negative a million plot relevance.
Otherwise, if we're talking like a single sentence of dialogue:
Hokus pocus, joker's ride, come take a spin on a carnie ride
Bonus points if it's in a medieval set game and deeply confuses the player character.
Potato has it right for the Xbox deets, but it also got released as a pc version back in the day. Might be able to find the disks or ISOs.
If you're looking for the console experience, i highly recommend hacking a 360. You can expand the compatibility to play any original Xbox game, and run everything off the hard drive. Don't even need to solder anymore, just plug in a usb and boot up.
Good to know the 360 is as hackable (or more so) than an original Xbox now!
...dont currently own a 360 though.
I do have the PC remaster and original TLC, but the experience is... Bad, on both, for different reasons.
Havent looked at emulating the 360 in years, good to know games are playable now, and I definitely could give try original Xbox emulation a try again, even though it always felt slightly jank.
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"Do you make it to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don't."
You keep treating this like some kind of game... do you know something the rest of us don’t?
Mornin'. Nice day for fishing, ain't it? Hua ha.
There it is.
This would be the only option.
The full text of the AGPL with no line breaks.
"The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"
I like to imagine myself standing by the main road, away from any important game stuff, but somewhere the player must pass through to get to the game stuff. And I'm just screaming at the top of my lungs. No reason, and it's never even addressed; it's just something the game implemented to annoy the player character.
https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/AAAAAAAAA!
It's not often I get to relevantly reference Uncyclopedia. Joyous day!
LOL
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX."
No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.
Thanks for listening.
New copypasta just dropped
"I've got plenty of things to say!"
The only war is class war.
Did you know? You can change your gender at any time by going to the OPTIONS MENU. Normally it's a lot of work!
Oh now you have me worrying whether game devs are going to start disabling gender switching after character creation.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but I took an arrow to my knee...
I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!
Hey, you're not wearing shorts!
"I just want to go hug my cat right now"
"My potions are TOO strong for you, traveller!"
"I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
"On your left."
rides by on a bicycle
"I'm too tired for this."
Welcome to , I love you
It's what plants crave!
Interloper.
“The treasure was insane. I saw it myself. You just have to brave the mumble and it’s all yours.”
I AM ERROR.
"Wake up. None of this is real."
Or
(Covered in claw marks and cat fur, clutching a warning poster about a wild catlike beast) "if... If not friend... Why friend shaped??"
"You know where your towel is?"
"Leave me alone!"
"Did you know that according to our definition of rocks, ice counts? I've just been thinki- oh, you did? Well, next time you meet me, I'll have come up with a new, incredible fact! Like: "
This one made me think of the song that never ends, which would be equally as great an answer.
They digitised my mind and stuck me in here. Get help, please.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
In a game not real life mate.
"Get out of here, Stalker! Release the Epstein Files!"
I am an NPC in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chornobyl (2026 Remaster -- (All we did in the remaster was fix the bugs, it is the same game you know and love except for this one NPC now reminds you of the Epstein class criminals!))
Interacting with you unlocks Epstein island at the wish granter, which teleports you into a prison cell with a broken camera and a security guard with a gun
Remember the crazy hermit in Ravenholm in HL2 who won't help you until you complete some tasks? He speaks at you over a loudspeaker and then through a slit in a door IIRC. It's a beautifully designed level.
Anyway, I'd like to tip my hat to that crochety character by being an NPC who recites the Gettysburg Address during an epic onslaught.
We don't go to Ravenholm
"I open up my wallet, and it's full of blood."
To make sure my creator got sued for copyright infringement ... "Shake it, baby" or "Damn, I look good" or "I'm too old for this shit"
"Wash day tomorrow. Nothing clean, right?"
I wanna be like that very annoying NPC in the Pokemon Bizzare fangame that just rambles on forever about such a meaningless story. But with my own nonsensical story that has negative a million plot relevance.
Otherwise, if we're talking like a single sentence of dialogue:
Bonus points if it's in a medieval set game and deeply confuses the player character.
“Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie!”
"Come on Frank"
Frank is my dog and we're going somewhere
"This is my one line of dialogue."
"Want some rye? 'Course ya do."
"mmhmm."
"I know I put it here somewhere."
"I mean sure, why not?"
"Did you get all that?"
Yes
No <
...
Ah, interesting, that's... What? Wait, I'm doing five things at once. I just, ah, kind of zoned out for a minute... Hang on.
And I just restart whatever animation loop I'm in.
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."
But I give a random, weird, (seemingly?) useless item each game.
How many donuts can you stack on it?
Hornswoop me bungo pony.
I used to be a virgin like you, but then I took a vagina to the penis.
Sometimes i doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
There was some NPC Golem in WoW which would say "I do not enjoy conversation." when you talked to it.
That one!
I don't quite know exactly, but I'd love to be the NPCs that eludes to an Easter egg that isn't actually in the game.
Alternatively, dressed slutty in a random bar:
"You need to get your combat multiplier HIGHER before I swing ajar."
Alludes.
Yeah, that word, not the evasive word
❤️
That reminds me, I should look into the best way to replay fable, and actually play the sequels that doesn't involve purchasing an Xbox...
I mean, Xenia and Xemu are basically the gold standard for that...
Potato has it right for the Xbox deets, but it also got released as a pc version back in the day. Might be able to find the disks or ISOs.
If you're looking for the console experience, i highly recommend hacking a 360. You can expand the compatibility to play any original Xbox game, and run everything off the hard drive. Don't even need to solder anymore, just plug in a usb and boot up.
Good to know the 360 is as hackable (or more so) than an original Xbox now!
...dont currently own a 360 though.
I do have the PC remaster and original TLC, but the experience is... Bad, on both, for different reasons.
Havent looked at emulating the 360 in years, good to know games are playable now, and I definitely could give try original Xbox emulation a try again, even though it always felt slightly jank.
They did it, and got away with it too. Don't ask me how I know. I've said too much already.
I know it but I don't think I should say it...
(south park, wheen of fortune skit)
"Patrolling [NAME OF WHERE THE GAME TAKES PLACE] almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter."
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
“Hey everybody, this guy’s the PC… get ‘im!”
FUCK!
Poop
“Happy to help!”
Really I’m paid to help and paid to pretend to be happy about it
"..."
Why walk when you can ride?
"I'm here to save my family!"
Gary!
Oh excuse me, I need to say hi to an old friend
"I want to go home."
Haldo!
"I'll suck your dick if you can free me from this prison."
“Oh shit, this again?”
Is it Tuesday already? Where does the time go...
Make your politicians stay up at night thinking about you.
"Hey! Fuck-face!"
"I should call my Mom, in Florida."
"Go #@*! yourself!"
Nothing matters, mate
"What the fuck are we even doing?!"
"First the vision, then the conjuration. This is unsettling."
Meow
Did you know that horses can't smell square things?
The drug is here and it must be destroyed.
Hmph
"It's just a flesh wound."
I'm just walking by, talking on my phone about catching a bus and cooking dinner that night. Except the game is Skyrim.
Fuck the police!
TRUMP SHOULD BE ARRESTED
"Please just end it and make it quick"