How Half Life could save your life

It would be nicer if it had anything to do with Linux.

How about this:

The system is a tool. The programs that run on it are tools. They are not good or evil.

And if Half Life can be used to help train firefighters over Jack Thompson's idiotic protestations, then DeCSS and DSA and Nmap and-and-and all this other Freedom Software that runs so fine on Freedom Software just might have good applications after all.

Yeah, it's a stretch, but not to the point of snapping in two.

Well, HL1 via steam does run fairly well in crossover games and wine (sometimes - if your particular wine setup is being nice). Don't know about HL2 as I don't have it. So there's your Linux link. :P

I agree with tuxchick, a model of a San Francisco made with the Quake engine would be a much better story...

this is me refraining from a pun that includes California and quakes.

> The system is a tool. The programs that run on it are tools. They are not good or evil.

Right, but what does this article have to do with linux?

A valiant try, gus3!

Well, since real Linux users like to learn how their environment works rather than sitting slack-jawed and passive until it's too late to do something, the designers obviously realize Linux users are likely to already know where the fire exits are and how to use them...

Obviously, by teaching video-game players how to survive when there is a fire, the makers of this video game are *TRAINING ARSONISTS*!!!

(Though like the other thread suggests....call me when they port the Half-Life engine to Linux.)

Not to mention Terrorists since they've built a map of their location! Wasn't something like that used by JT or someone as evidence that "Games are evil" in one of the school shootings or some such? One of the kids had made a game map of their school? Not that in that case it wasn't planning...but...who that plays a good number of FPSs and such HASN'T at some point been walking around a school/college/mall/whatever and thought "hey, this place would make a pretty cool map to play on!"

Quoting:"hey, this place would make a pretty cool map to play on!"

When I was at ASU several friends and I would talk about that. There are many a nook and cranny to hide in on that campus. :-)

I did make a map of my school back when Doom 2 was all hot 'n new. I also made a map of my home using Quake 2 but that was because the house had to be built yet and I wanted to know what it would look like.

I made a whole episode from maps of my friend's and my house (and backyards!) in original Doom :) Good times ;)

Great idea!