Seeing as to how we went way off topic in the Hydration thread, right about here, it warranted enough to start another conversation. 

So, let's have it. What's in your cup of tea?

Obviously there are tons of blends in each category, but if I listed them all we would be here for days. Vote for your favorite, then share your preferred blend if applicable.

so... technomancy, literally Technological Diviniation if the name is to be translated correctly.
but basically, a mastery and knowledge of technology, usually information technology, to the point that the user seems to be performing magic.

would a technomantic wizard be someone who's just really good with tech or some sort of magic, or something else.

Thoughts?

personally I think it's someone who's transcended being a mere hacker to do really crazy stuff with technology.

people like ben heckendorn, Steve Wozniak, or some of the people out there who are really good at re-purposing things to do more than they were designed for if their technological knowledge is high enough anyway.

so yeah, what do you guys think? what separates a technomancer from a hacker/really skilled programmer?

so I just got through upgrading my car radio, because of the way my car setup I had to take out the combo AC/Radio unit and drop $260 on a new AC and radio unit which were separate, it was tedious but personally I feel like it was worth it.

mostly because the end result was awesome!



CB radio to be mounted below the radio later.

so what do you guys think? do you prefer to have someone install it or would you be willing to actually install it yourself, wire soldering and all?

just posting some pics on this world I'm working on now, it's pretty cool.

Hello Everyone and welcome to ZORK: The Underground Empire, the rules are simple.
once per day I will update the game log and map depending on the decisions everyone makes, Majority wins.
there will be an inventory list kept in the opening post.

note: not all posts are direct actions, so feel free to discuss what you think might be the best move to make next before the next action is picked.

the map will update as you explore.

Red dot = your position on the map

EDIT: if however no updates are made a random choice will be made, not all of them will progress the game.

Quote:LORE
a list of known information about objects, monsters, and places.

Mailbox: on the east side of the mysterious house.

Leaflet: found in the mailbox, says the following:

Quote:"WELCOME TO ZORK!


ZORK is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore
some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No computer should be
without one!"

Kitchen:

Quote:The kitchen of the white house. A table seems to have been used

recently for the preparation of food. A passage leads to the west and a dark
staircase can be seen leading upward. A dark chimney leads down and to the east
is a small window which is open.

Living Room:

Quote:The living room of the white house. There is a doorway to the east, a wooden door with

strange gothic lettering to the west, which appears to be nailed shut, a trophy
case, and a large oriental rug in the center of the room.

Quote:INVENTORY

• Leaflet
  
  
• Brown Sack with a lunch inside
  
  
• an elvish sword of great antiquity
  
  
• A battery-powered brass lantern
  

• A bottle of water
  
  

Quote:MAP

Quote:TURN 0:
ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire

Copyright © 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc.
Revision 88 / Serial number 840726

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front
door.
There is a small mailbox here.

TURN 1:
>open mailbox

Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet.

Turn 2:
>Read leaflet

(Taken)
"WELCOME TO ZORK!

ZORK is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore
some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No computer should be
without one!"

Turn 3:
>examine surroundings
West of House

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front
door.
There is a small mailbox here.
-
There's nothing special about the surrounding wall.

TURN 4:
>walk toward front door

It's here!

(door)
The door cannot be opened.

TURN 5:

>Walk to south side (to look for another door?)

South of House

You are facing the south side of a white house. There is no door here, and all
the windows are boarded.

TURN 6:
>east

Behind House
You are behind the white house. A path leads into the forest to the east. In one
corner of the house there is a small window which is slightly ajar.

TURN 7:
>Open window

With great effort, you open the window far enough to allow entry.

TURN 8:
>go through window

Kitchen

You are in the kitchen of the white house. A table seems to have been used
recently for the preparation of food. A passage leads to the west and a dark
staircase can be seen leading upward. A dark chimney leads down and to the east
is a small window which is open.
On the table is an elongated brown sack, smelling of hot peppers.
A bottle is sitting on the table.
The glass bottle contains:
  A quantity of water

TURN 9:
>open sack

Opening the brown sack reveals a lunch, and a clove of garlic.

TURN 10:
>take sack

Taken.

TURN 11:
>west
Living Room

You are in the living room. There is a doorway to the east, a wooden door with
strange gothic lettering to the west, which appears to be nailed shut, a trophy
case, and a large oriental rug in the center of the room.
Above the trophy case hangs an elvish sword of great antiquity.
A battery-powered brass lantern is on the trophy case.

TURN 12:

>take all

trophy case: The trophy case is securely fastened to the wall.
sword: Taken.
brass lantern: Taken.
carpet: The rug is extremely heavy and cannot be carried.

>investigate area

nothing has changed, 

Living Room

You are in the living room. There is a doorway to the east, a wooden door with
strange gothic lettering to the west, which appears to be nailed shut, a trophy
case, and a large oriental rug in the center of the room.

TURN 13:

>east

Kitchen
A bottle is sitting on the table.
The glass bottle contains:
  A quantity of water

TURN 14:

>take bottle

Taken.

TURN 15:

>west
Living Room

you already have the sword in your inventory

TURN 16:

>Go Outside
Living Room

The Door cannot be opened, it appears to be locked or barred from the other side.

so I may be coming late to the party but I was looking over the steam sales and was pleasantly surprised to find that just 15-16 years after the previous attempt we finally have a deus Ex title on linux!

yeah that's right, Deus Ex mankind divided has a linux native port which you can download and play on steam!

now the last time this was tried was with the original Deus Ex which was released sometime around late 2000 early 2001, then Loki Games picked it up and unfortunately the timing was bad, they released a linux demo but closed down before we got to see JC denton on a Nix platform leaving it on consoles and windows.

however in November we got a really awesome surprise, Adam Jensons's new title Deus Ex Mankind Divided was ported to linux over Mac! what a shocker that is.

he's no JC denton but we finally got that Deus Ex on linux title we were promised, I'll let you guys know how it is once I finish playing it 

Can you please add this one? 

Anyone tried it? 

I tried it recently because I didn't have Word on my Mac, libreoffice wasn't available, and i couldn't find any alternative that wasn't complete garbage. I get word through Citrix from university, but it runs on a virtual machine from a server and has terrible lag. Not really worth it. 

I gotta say Google Docs is d*** good. Far better than Libreoffice and it's web based! 

Anyone else tried it? What are your thoughts? If you haven't tried it, go try it now.

https://docs.google.com/

Hello. All


.. I was wondering how others would feel or like the idea of having a recent postings side bar created  for the site's homepage..

Just felt it might be a nice way to qucikly check the site's most recent posting activity on a daily basis ..

so give us your input !

Brian

hey everyone, we have a new shout Box up and running on the bottom of the home page..
I am hoping we will use this in a very active manner !!