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"Safari has been updated. Do you want to allow the new version to access the same keychain items (such as passwords) as the previous version?" The options I can choose between are: "Don't change" and "Change all". And what the fuck do they mean?! Change what to what? The dialog asks "do you want to allow..." not "do you want to change" so the answer is complete gibberish. It's like way back in Corel Draw 4, Finnish version, which asked something along the lines of... well too bad I can't remember it anymore. What kind of operating system asks for permission on keychain items anyway? Does Mac OS X think I want to make my life miserable by not letting the applications do what they have been doing previously? Frankly, I don't even know what those keychain items I might have are, because they are hardly ever brought up anyway. This happens almost every time I update something in Mac and it's so irritating. The help page isn't of much use. Grumble grumble. Otherwise everything's been great. EDIT: OK, so there was a helpful tooltip there. I'd seen it once before, then forgotten about it. But still, it's stupid.

I found Quicksilver totally uninspiring.

I enjoyed both Planet Terror and Death Proof. I thought Planet Terror was the less boring one, but also the less aesthetic one (the camera work, or something, in Tarantino's films is very beautiful). I'd want to see the two films back-to-back and I had hoped that the DVD release would have made this possible. If there is no Grindhouse-DVD, Ill probably just end up buying them separately.

I didn't die in Velvetopia either, it was fun - althouh the end bosses are all exasperating, the final fight with the bull was actually interesting. I'm now climbing up in the insane asylum and it's slightly annoying. I was finally able to buy the magnet.

Black Velvetopia! Some level! What irks me occasionally is how difficult Psychonauts is. For example, now those psi-rats are bothering Raz constantly, making him fall down to the pit of sludge or just exploding and shooting him all the time so that he dies every three minutes. Slightly exaggerated there. But some of the levels would have been challenging/interesting enough without the constant threat of death by censors/other creatures. Like Milkman Conspiracy - why, why insert a nightmare creature there all of the sudden? And why do all the enemies respawn always? Sigh...

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Yaah. Hot mod action! But I'd want to know about Double Fine!

So, just how massive is Peter Molyneux's massive hypocricy?

Uncanny valley? I'm off to play Psychonauts.

By the time I had got myself around to the castle, I'd already forgotten where the weapon it was exactly. I remembered only a vague direction, and that the musket was there somewhere in the castle itself, actually.

Thank you, I think I'll manage now. I'd never have realised that there would be situations where I'd think "nah, that'd be too diffiult, surely nobody would think of something like that!" and then discover that yes, what I've thought to be too difficult is indeed something I have to do. I think that's one of the things that shows the game is designed by former adventure game developers. Sometimes the difficulty stems from strange directions.

No, not really, I'm asking just to make conversation. In other words, yes, I'm stuck.

Get through the left building? Meaning the castle? What does "get through" mean? Jump from the other roof to the other?

The hotkeys were the least of my worries and I learned them surprisingly quickly.

Psychonauts really is a lot of fun. "TV..."

Metro started in Sweden, in fact.And although I am linking to Wikipedia, I actually have read it elsewhere before.

I thought I already posted here but: I was wrong! The legitimate version of Psychonauts does work afterall. Perhaps the one I dowloaded as a torrent (couldn't wait) was an older version or something. Or maybe the hackers just f'ucked it up. Besides, it was probably the American release, this is the European. Anyway, yay! And thanks, Doublefine and whoever did the conversion!

Apparently only the Psychonauts Demo supports my Intel Graphics card. Darn. Well, I still have my old gaming PC, guess I'll use that to play P-nauts.

Still, Canonical, for example, calls their Linux just "Ubuntu Linux", and I don't think that's a big crime. If you do, well, go ahead if you get some kind of satisfaction out of it. And I can always link to Wikipedia! And what can be Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandriva, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Xandros, etc, users called collectively? Linux users. (Or GNU/Linux users if you really want to, though KDE, for example, isn't GNU...) God damn, I never knew that! I always thought that what is user friendly to me doesn't depend on my opinions at all!

And to think that I have had the Double Fine Baby as my avatar for ages and only now bought P-nauts. Well, it was significantly cheaper at least, than back then when it was released.

That said, the title of this thread could use some updating.

Linux is an operating system. Gnome isn't an operating system, so to me saying "I use Mac now but I used to be a Gnome user" would sound strange as well. And me liking Linux isn't at all because of the user interface, it's mainly because of many other things, such as free software, package management, the amout of software available, not costing much and being relatively stable. True, many of those things are actually distribution-dependent and have nothing to do with the Linux core (although one could argue that the Linux core isn't just the kernel...).From your comment it sounds like you are one of those people who were introduced to computers a millio years ago when people programmed their own operating systems, so I understand if you are pissed because of the fact that us youngsters and old people alike use the general word "Linux" when they refer to a certain Linux-based distribution or the kernel and the window manager of their choice, and can talk about "Linux becoming more user-friendly" and refer to the development of the whole community, the software, the window managers, the distributions and all that jazz, and not at all to the fact that somebody added a few more comments to the kernel source code. To our defence, I just say that it's easier to call the Linux kernel and all the window managers and stuff around it with a general name "Linux". When I was referring to the development of Linux (and here again I don't mean just the kernel), I just didn't want to say "I'll wait if Ubuntu is better in three years", because I don't want to rule out other distributions. And it also depends on the software available for the system. Besides, command line isn't an operating system either. Or do you talk about the good sides of bash when discussing different operating systems with people? Or do you think that people who use a window manager with Linux can't call themselves Linux-users? Yeah, I claim that in everyday language, and why not in more formal cases as well, it's OK to use the term Linux refer to more than just the kernel.

Pause? I'm just thinking that it can't be past Wednesday yet. It's not Wednesday until August is updated!

We weren't fighting, mom!But it's true, I've learned the hard way not to use shitty software. It's not always Windows' fault it's crashing. I miss the Captain August forums, by the way. The end of the third story arch is getting nearer and I'm actually excited. Also, Psychonauts runs great on a MacBook! I bought it, finally, as the demo was just so much fun

I was a Windows user for years, I know. It's just that usually Mac does everything nice and quiet, doesn't pop up any windows - even sometimes when it would be nice to know something like "your printer was connected succesfully", but on the other hand it doesn't bug me periodically with a "restart your system, windows has downloaded the updates and wants to install!!!"-popup every three seconds like Windows does when I'm playing Fable, or a window for "installing drivers for hardware X", which I absolutely adore. It just installs it.Linux doesn't bug the user in any unnecessary ways, either. Maybe in another three years I will try Linux again as my main operating system. It was kinda nice, and I sometimes miss it... Yeah, iTunes run rather badly occasionally back when I still used Windows. Good thing all Mac software runs nicely on Macs!