Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-24 Thread Dennis Mattingly
My gaming has been slowing down, since my job is terrible right now. I usually play Quake Wars or ZSNES on my machine. But I would gladly try other games if it promotes Linux. The biggest headache for joining is that I don't read these messages / lists very much. Perhaps a better idea would be

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:16:21 -0400, Dennis Mattingly dennismattinglyzz...@gmail.com wrote: My gaming has been slowing down, since my job is terrible right now. I usually play Quake Wars or ZSNES on my machine. But I would gladly try other games if it promotes Linux. The biggest

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 05:46:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/23/2010 05:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Are we playing the wrong games? (So far we have played bzflag, wesnoth and armacycles and will be playing hedgewars next Saturday. Suggestions are welcome, but

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: After three Fedora Community Gaming sessions have consistently had enough people to play, but just barely, I want to see if there is a way I can boost attendance a bit. We can't handle everyone who has Fedora installed

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 18:48 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: For the rest of you why aren't you dropping by? Since you ask... I'm not really into games, very much, and nobody has a version of battleships that can play the variation of the game that we used to play when we were young: To make

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:25:33 +0930, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Beyond that, I think you're going to suffer from one major problem; the timing of events. Chances are that I wouldn't be able to join in at the time you advertise a session (likewise for other people), either

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:50:48 -0500, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to play, it's just a crap shoot for me if I have time. I stay pretty busy on the weekends with the wife and 3 kids. I already installed hedgewars and tried it out. Looks promising, but I still need to

Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
After three Fedora Community Gaming sessions have consistently had enough people to play, but just barely, I want to see if there is a way I can boost attendance a bit. We can't handle everyone who has Fedora installed showing up to play. (At least not without a lot of work.) But I'd like to see

Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?

2010-05-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/23/2010 05:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Are we playing the wrong games? (So far we have played bzflag, wesnoth and armacycles and will be playing hedgewars next Saturday. Suggestions are welcome, but for now we are avoiding games that are essentially unplayable with the Fedora graphics