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Elder
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11-20-2013, 01:33 PM

(11-20-2013, 09:19 AM)Nitrous Oxide link Wrote: [quote author=Eschatos link=topic=1507.msg272870#msg272870 date=1383154585]
[quote author=at0m link=topic=1507.msg272817#msg272817 date=1383062869]
[quote author=Elder link=topic=1507.msg272812#msg272812 date=1383058077]
Clearing landmines
there was a kickstarter for that thing, they were giving out keychains in exchange for funding to build them
[/quote]

Reminds me of:

Half Life 2 - Rollermine sounds
[/quote]Speaking of Half-Life 2...
http://cinematicmod.com/

Might be time to replay it. Wink
[/quote]

A) what the hell is alex wearing?
B) their eyes look creepy as hell



(06-15-2014, 03:27 PM)negate link Wrote:Hah elder you would be ramming it into Dtrains ass.
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K2
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11-20-2013, 08:11 PM

(11-20-2013, 01:33 PM)Elder link Wrote: [quote author=Nitrous Oxide link=topic=1507.msg273720#msg273720 date=1384957144]
[quote author=Eschatos link=topic=1507.msg272870#msg272870 date=1383154585]
[quote author=at0m link=topic=1507.msg272817#msg272817 date=1383062869]
[quote author=Elder link=topic=1507.msg272812#msg272812 date=1383058077]
Clearing landmines
there was a kickstarter for that thing, they were giving out keychains in exchange for funding to build them
[/quote]

Reminds me of:

Half Life 2 - Rollermine sounds
[/quote]Speaking of Half-Life 2...
http://cinematicmod.com/

Might be time to replay it. Wink
[/quote]

A) what the hell is alex wearing?
B) their eyes look creepy as hell
[/quote]

I've played through with an older version of that mod. There are a few different models to choose from for each character, or you can use the originals and just have the new map textures. Almost all the new Alyx models are super pervy.
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Squishy3
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11-20-2013, 11:37 PM

So... this is neat. http://www.hiwiller.com/2013/11/20/the-last-zzt-disk/


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Greatbacon
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11-21-2013, 07:10 PM

This was posted in a cyberpunk subreddit

http://youarelisteningtolosangeles.com/

It's a collection of atmospheric music overlayed with fire, police, & ems feeds.  You can even pick wich city feed you're listening in on.
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rumbot
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12-07-2013, 04:31 PM

this is the shit I find entertaining: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11572...sign-anger
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12-07-2013, 05:19 PM

(12-07-2013, 04:31 PM)rumbot link Wrote: this is the shit I find entertaining: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11572...sign-anger

Glad I'm not the only one. I have a small hard-on for linguistics sometime. It's a shame that there's not a job in the world that actually pays to study it.
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A. Crow
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12-07-2013, 08:25 PM

(12-07-2013, 04:31 PM)rumbot link Wrote: this is the shit I find entertaining: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11572...sign-anger

Well, its actually been an issue, becuase I'm a real believer in punctuation.  Coupled with a habit of terse emails from the military, and I've actually had to get groups of people on the phone to explain that I'm not pissed at them.


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12-11-2013, 04:35 PM

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/...ssengers/# <-- Canadian company... you wouldn't see US Airlines doing this in a million years... Still pretty cool.


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12-13-2013, 01:35 PM

Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #043)


(04-18-2011, 10:39 PM)zaneyard link Wrote:yeah dude getting a finger in the ass is like taking a really good poop
(06-12-2012, 07:48 AM)HeK link Wrote:And people wonder why the US has the highest crime and murder rates out of any developed or first-world nation.

Total lack of metric system.
(01-27-2013, 11:14 PM)LT Crow link Wrote:This is why you keep a stocked bar.  You don't ever run out of booze.  You just might have to switch to a different drink.
(11-05-2013, 08:35 PM)rumbot link Wrote:I don't think I've ever said this, but, wow that's an amazing dress and whoever designed it should get an award.
(01-03-2014, 12:08 AM)CPT Crow link Wrote:I have bourbon on my keyboard.  It got there through my nose.
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Elder
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12-13-2013, 01:50 PM

(12-13-2013, 01:35 PM)Höböspärtän link Wrote: Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #043)

i would be willing to do that.

Modern art: insecticide



(06-15-2014, 03:27 PM)negate link Wrote:Hah elder you would be ramming it into Dtrains ass.
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12-18-2013, 06:14 PM

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/2013011...tion.shtml

Well, about time they admit it, but if they're going to claim "usage" is the reasoning, then they need to change pricing schemes to make use of this claim, provide metering (which their systems already support), and then charge based on what we actually use (like power companies do), this way, it's actually fairly priced between each person.

"oh your cable bill was 120 this month? How much porn were you torrenting?"

"Oh your cable bill was 30 this month? you must not have used it much"


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rumbot
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12-18-2013, 06:42 PM

cat people, amirite?

http://youtu.be/AEepVLQjDt8
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12-18-2013, 07:04 PM

(12-18-2013, 06:14 PM)FlyingMongoose link Wrote: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/2013011...tion.shtml

Well, about time they admit it, but if they're going to claim "usage" is the reasoning, then they need to change pricing schemes to make use of this claim, provide metering (which their systems already support), and then charge based on what we actually use (like power companies do), this way, it's actually fairly priced between each person.

"oh your cable bill was 120 this month? How much porn were you torrenting?"

"Oh your cable bill was 30 this month? you must not have used it much"
Do they really see 90% profit margins as the article claims?  Maybe this is relevant here:

Quote:<StolenToast> my free google email gives me 15GB of email storage
<StolenToast> and I have two accounts
<StolenToast> my verizon email, which we pay for, gives me 250mb
<StolenToast> hell even my LIVE.COM account gives me virtually unlimited storage
<StolenToast> Microsoft is, measurably, infinitely more generous than Verizon
<StolenToast> how can a company possibly be that evil


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12-19-2013, 09:55 PM

Google Zeitgeist 2013 video posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv-sY_z8MNs

I think 2012 was better...


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Elder
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12-20-2013, 11:19 AM

Love watching the Shacktac guys play arma II

the year in review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRJexCXCJPM



(06-15-2014, 03:27 PM)negate link Wrote:Hah elder you would be ramming it into Dtrains ass.
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12-23-2013, 01:45 PM

RIP Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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11:35 Socks Greatbacon_work: Just accept the idea of enemas.
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KarthXLR
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12-26-2013, 05:01 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNN1rZCC7So#ws

Really good video about the industry of games, I highly recommend checking out this guys other videos.
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12-26-2013, 10:43 PM

(12-26-2013, 05:01 PM)Karth link Wrote: Really good video about the industry of games, I highly recommend checking out this guys other videos.

Why do I ever listen to your recommendations? The first two minutes are an overly dramatic drone without making any substantive point, other than he didn't like 3 games, but refused to say why. You can say a hell of a lot of things negative about Bioshock Infinite and GTAV, but you can't say "they didn't take a whole lot of risks and they weren't very creative designs."

RISKS:
-Infinite some of the most racially and religiously incendiary content of any video game this side of Custer's Revenge.
-GTAV some of the most biting commentary of our surveillance state, the war on terror, and government corruption

DESIGN
-Infinite: Columbia is one of the most gorgeous backdrops ever designed. Add some of the most creative uses of music.
-GTAV creates an entire world of mock brands, from facebook to dasani to scientology, all instantly recognizable but yet subversively different. The cars alone are fun jokes for any car fan, the music channels and famous celebrity DJs delight music fans. The fake facebook page was a riot how it evolved when the game progressed. Show me who else integrated 3 interdependent story arcs in a sandbox game framework.

Only interesting piece of the video was about Papers Please, which I'd not heard much of.
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12-26-2013, 11:43 PM

(12-26-2013, 10:43 PM)rumbot link Wrote: [quote author=Karth link=topic=1507.msg274809#msg274809 date=1388095281]
Really good video about the industry of games, I highly recommend checking out this guys other videos.

Why do I ever listen to your recommendations? The first two minutes are an overly dramatic drone without making any substantive point, other than he didn't like 3 games, but refused to say why. You can say a hell of a lot of things negative about Bioshock Infinite and GTAV, but you can't say "they didn't take a whole lot of risks and they weren't very creative designs."

RISKS:
-Infinite some of the most racially and religiously incendiary content of any video game this side of Custer's Revenge.
-GTAV some of the most biting commentary of our surveillance state, the war on terror, and government corruption

DESIGN
-Infinite: Columbia is one of the most gorgeous backdrops ever designed. Add some of the most creative uses of music.
-GTAV creates an entire world of mock brands, from facebook to dasani to scientology, all instantly recognizable but yet subversively different. The cars alone are fun jokes for any car fan, the music channels and famous celebrity DJs delight music fans. The fake facebook page was a riot how it evolved when the game progressed. Show me who else integrated 3 interdependent story arcs in a sandbox game framework.

Only interesting piece of the video was about Papers Please, which I'd not heard much of.
[/quote]

Maybe his specific game critiques were shit, but I felt he was pretty spot on with his comments on the overall state of the industry.



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rumbot
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12-27-2013, 12:38 AM

(12-26-2013, 11:43 PM)Eschatos link Wrote: Maybe his specific game critiques were shit, but I felt he was pretty spot on with his comments on the overall state of the industry.

Please cite what you thought he articulated.

He sighs a lot. He eyerolls a lot. He inflects a lot. He likes to overly emphasize DIFFERENT words to add interpretive value.

But he doesn't really articulate what he's thinking. And if he can't do that, then he's just sending dogwhistles the the people who already believe what he believes and is not offering anything insightful or transcendent commentary.

He worries deeply about the VGX awards. Jesus, that's like the first TV shows fretting about not getting good radio reviews.

Here's a very specific example of what I mean, and I've watched this 3 times now trying to find some redeeming value. @ 9 minute mark he slags on the Verge, saying

"Polygon's own self-congratulatory documentary was revealed to be sponsored by microsoft" [SO WHAT?] "While the content of the site itself has slope downwards to a level of unreasonable hyperbole" [CITATION NEEDED] "and a very visible streak of arrogance." [the video highlights a quote about the bf lauch on ps4 that doesn't demonstrate how the verge is arrogant.]

mo4r bullshit, @10:49, this guy says "Spike is a cable TV network that's an undeserving bigger brand than anything else gaming has to work with."

REALLY?

Spike's programming reaches approximately 98.7 million pay television
subscribers in the United States.


Battlefield 3, a mediocre game from two years ago, cleared that many eyeballs in the first month.

He engages in the same type of hyperbolic shit that he's flinging at games. He offers no quotes, no citations, no context for his very abstract swipes.

another gem: "TVs are directly competing with video games for people's recreational time." yeah, I spend a lot of time debating whether to farm Onyxia or watch another ep of the Bachelorette.

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