Dramatis Personae Prometheus: Wannabe Linux gamer of Sparta Hephaestus: Realist and hot dog vendor of Olympus Hermes: Messenger of the gods Chorus of Linux Users Scene: A rocky ravine in the mountains of Amazon Prometheus Lo, the Internet's bound and limitary depth, The Amazonian steppe, the waste unshopped of men! Look to it now, Hephaestusthine it is, Thy Consumer obeying, this archthief to clench Against the steep-down precipice of boredom, With stubborn links of online auctions. Hephaestus O deep-devising child of Mario sage, Small will have I to do, or thou to bear, What yet we must. Beyond the haunt of man Unto this Web site, with fetters grimly forged, I must transfix and shackle up thy limbs. What else would thou propose we do for fun? (Hermes flies down with a delivery.) Hermes Yea, I gots a delivery for thee, Prometheus. Hephaestus What in the name of Samus Aran, Greatest space fighter for Zeus, could it be? Prometheus Tears can avail us nothing: strive not thou, Nor waste thine efforts thus unaidingly. We must play the games the great Zeus Provides us with. He that is great and mighty Has bestowed upon us a copy of World of Warcraft! Hephaestus Would that some other were endowed therewith! We shall totally rule with our Paladins! Hermes Enough of useless ruth! Why tarriest thou? Why not sign here for thy delivery? (Prometheus signs and Hermes flies away.) Scene: In the great caverns of the game room of Prometheus Prometheus Zeus, why curse us thus? In sooth that game Of thine standeth assoiled of all that here is Installed on mine machine of mighty Linux. Hephaestus I know it; I gainsay no word hereof. This game is not in the support of Linux. Smite harder, wedge it homeno faltering here! Prometheus I have smote this game with all terminal commands in my power, Yet no load of the program will come of my toil. Hephaestus Alas, Prometheus! I lament thy pain. Try thy game in Windows and be done with it. Prometheus Brutish thy form, thy speech brutality! Whose orbed light surveyeth allattest, What ills I suffer from the gods, a god! Behold me, who must here sustain The marring agonies of pain. I only but want to play cool games in Linux. Hephaestus I gaze on one who suffers his desert. Be gentle, and thou wilt, but blame not me. It is the work of game developers who spend Not a moment's toil to make thee a Linux version Of thine mighty game. Prometheus Lo, it is done'twas but the will of Zeus To shame me so before my Massive multiplayer online game desires. I have but little options to play games in Linux. Chorus of Linux Users Ah, fear us not! As friends, with rivalry Of swiftly vying gaming alternatives, We came together unto this rock and thee! And swift the wafting e-mail bore us hither. The heavy lament's shrill sound Thrilled to our geeky-cavern from afar. Aha! There play the insolent, and use, For creatures of open source, the rights of gods! We tell of forethought and device, whereby Thou may'st elude this handicraft of game makers! Listen to our tale of what games thy may Play in Linux! | 