Postal 2 - Share the Pain Demo for GNU/Linux 260
fredan writes "Icculus has posted this news on his site: 'Just in time to relieve all that Holiday stress, a demo version of Postal 2: Share the Pain is now available for GNU/Linux systems.'"
Bittorrent (Score:5, Informative)
Nice :) (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Poor Taste in Title of Game (Score:3, Informative)
Also reported on Happypenguin.org. (Score:1, Informative)
Does linux somehow make this game fun? (Score:3, Informative)
News (mirrored) (Score:3, Informative)
Postal 2: Share the Pain demo for GNU/Linux (posted 2003-12-25 05:16:36 by icculus):
Just in time to relieve all that Holiday stress, a demo version of Postal 2: Share the Pain is now available for GNU/Linux systems.
"Share the Pain" adds multiplayer gametypes to the previously single-player only Postal 2, with its mature-rated attitude (Capture the Flag is called "Snatch", and involves stealing the other team's, uh, mascot...you get the point). The multiplayer gametypes are fully network compatible with the Windows players.
The package contains a complete DEMO version of the game, featuring one abbreviated single player level, and a few multiplayer maps for your enjoyment. The full, commercial version of Postal 2 for Linux will be available soon (and rumor has it there will be a Linux boxed version, so please don't run out and buy the Windows version in preparation just yet). The package also contains the Linux dedicated server.
Postal 2 has some rather explicit content. Don't download it if you're a small child or easily offended.
File: postal2mpdemo-lnx-1407.tar.bz2
Size: 168 megabytes compressed
md5sum: 99b28380fcef88e8a4c418ca5894b8f3
Known mirrors:
Re:Bittorrent (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.torrentnet.com/torrents/games/linux/po
It works on FreeBSD as well =) (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Bittorrent (Score:2, Informative)
Make sure you're using a good/recent client (e.g. the original BT Python Client [bitconjurer.org] or the excellent mldonkey [nongnu.org])
Also make sure your Firewall is not blocking the BT ports: 6881-6889,6969 TCP. If you're running your BT downloader behind NAT you might have to forward these ports. Remember how BT works: If other downloaders can't connect to you they will slow YOUR download down to a very low rate (or just refuse to send you anything). That's the magic mechanism that keeps BT from being clogged down by freeloaders.
Re:Bad taste (Score:4, Informative)
1. They will notice it's real when they are being shot in the head.
2. The far more disturbing aspect of videogames, violent or not, is that people are safe at home playing away their time while their leaders are fighting stupid wars. People are paralyzed with the media and therefore don't oppose to whatever terrible mistake their leaders might make.
3. You might not be familiar with some of the later sociobiological concepts but it is common to kill individuals of your own species and it is ok for evolution and selection. When it comes down to morals it might be wrong, but there are many examples in nature where killing in the same species is quite common and is being rewarded by evolution.
cu,
Lispy
Re:This has possibilities (Score:2, Informative)
Geeks are mostly asocial - i.e. avoidant or schizoid personality. There's nothing dangerous or suspicious about asocial behavior per se, although it may lead to alienation. Some people, most of them not people anyone would consider "geeks", are antisocial - i.e. destructive, psychopathic, sociopathic.
People who "go postal" may be asocial, antisocial, both or neither, but are most likely either psychotic (anyone can become momentarily psychotic) or antisocial.
Brief, informal definitions of a few terms, just to avoid common misconceptions:
Schizoid/asocial - a personality type, someone who avoids people and social contact.
Psychopath/sociopath - an untreatable personality disorder, lack of empathy and consideration for other people. Often abusers and deceivers of others, also often risk-takers.
Psychotic - suffering from psychosis.
Psychosis - a strongly delusional state of mind, e.g. severe paranoia.
Schizophrenia - a common, treatable (but often severe if untreated) mental illness with symptoms including various types of psychosis.
Note that psychotic and psychopathic refer to different types of behavior, the former is more likely uncontrolled, momentary insanity, the latter is more likely controlled, deliberate and (to the extent that the word has any valid, objective meaning) evil.