Mamoulian War

As a person often labeled as "white knight", I'll come and out myself as a Two and a Half Men fan. Love the show. At least when it had Charlie Sheen. While it is disrespectful towards women, it isn't exactly respectful towards men either. Or can anyone imagine themselves suggesting that Charlie and Alan are awesome male role models? I love the show as it is equal opportunity disrespectfull. Yup. That's why my sister likes it, and I like it as well, not my favourite show, but some episodes were really funny... Anyway nr.1: Everytime I read some crazy politicaly correct ****, it makes me happy, that I still live in a country, where I can say to my female colleagues at work, that they look beautiful today, without fear of losing my job and get sued to oblivion for sexual harassment... (This does not imply to any post made here by anyone, it is just plain, general, dry look and my own oppinion on the world, where men are forced in front of TV cameras to apology to women for telling them a compliment...) Anyway nr.2: back to topic ArsTechnica first look at PS4 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/impressions-our-first-day-with-the-playstation-4-is-full-of-surprises/

Its more the principle, the game seems to have a total disregard for social issues that create unhappiness for many people who are victims of discrimination and bigotry. I have no reason to believe that RPS would exaggerate how bad the game is as I know they take these things seriously. Saying that the only way I could truly judge the game would be to play it myself but I really don't know if I can put myself through that Yes on occasion, its okay. The humour isn't really my thing. First thing is, that lot of current jurnalist are bringing up the "sexist" card only to get more hits on their site, which brings them more revenue. Be honest, how many of you, who do not frequently visit the RPS, clicked on the link and read the article, just because you wanted to know how sexist is the game? And I asked about Two and Half men, because many "white kinghts" are depicting the series as an prime example of how sexist is our entertainment... What makes me laugh everytime I see it, is that it is one of the favorite shows of my sister... She does not feel offended, because she is intelligent enough to see the difference between parody of relationships in modern society, and sexism. And she loves How I Met Your Mother, too.... And not despite Barney, but mainly because of him, because he and his "girlfirends" are a nice example of parody of modern relationship in our society as well... So let the strong women, which know how to protect themselves from harm, decide what they find funny and what not by themselves... Only damsels in distress need white knights to protect them... Thank you...

Bruce, have you ever watched One and Half Men show?

Not if it would get the same treating as Killzone 3 --- 5GB patch on release day

I don't see Reunion and one Czech RTS which I can't remember the name, which used genetical modification of units in your list!!! /fail

It would end up looking like Dragon Age: Inqusition

SIgs... Beaten me by few seconds

Haha. no clue. For PnP Pathfinder I prefer roleplaying clown type characters, last time I had Gnome Barbarian with Animal Fury Rage Power, biting every monster in the ass or tail with his secondary attack Have not really studied UC and UM Base Classes and Prestige classes. In computer DnD games, I always played Mages though...

Not enough natural light for filming in the basement. That can be easily simulated. This has been already shown more than 1000 times in movies which go really deep into adult themes...

I wish someone would made non-online game with turn-based combat with Pathfinder Ruleset... All they would need to do is to port some of the awesome Adventure Paths to some Unity based engine, made it DRM free, and I would throw money at them in fat stacks...

The saddest thing about this post is, that some time ago, that server would be called Dedicated/LAN Server, and it would be shipped with the game by the publisher... Now it is compared to crime... *sighs*

Are you really asking people to start to behave on the internet??? Where has the world come to... /disappoint

Yeah, most of the turn-based games had this solution implemented in early 90's already, realy don't see what's the fuss about it...

Is not so rare, as you would think, and it is not only case for China and small tech shops. There are groups which are profiting from the stupid price policy which some companies have for worldwide users, and are offering in less rich countries "cheap official" releases and even offering support for that software. Something which big companies who are asking full price never heard of in this part of the world... Apparently no profit and bitiching all day long about lost sales is for them better than offer their products for lower price and get the small profit... Read the CD Projekt article in the random video game news. Especially the first part of the article, which describes, how it was working in 90's in eastern europe, and in the same way it is still working around the world in countries with low GDP per capita... In Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and in Slovakia as well at the end of 90's, the original software started to have sales, when the local distributors have started to offer games for 15EUR localized in local languages instead of offering games in English only for 60-90EUR. People in my generation learned that way to appreciate the software makers and started to buy stuff from their favourite companies even after the prices has gone up to the normal 50-60EUR range nowadays... You have to first offer in these countries a product, which competes directly with pirates and slowly educate the people. Then you will reap all the positive stuff, but most companies are just interested in short term profits and do not see much into the future... As much as I dislike Steam, they have done the right thing and have done the same in Russia, as CD Projekt in Poland. Offering cheaper games to win pirates for their digital distribution. Once you have them, it is hard for them to leave you, even if you start asking bigger prices, because they already experienced your quality service...

Continuation from pretty old thread we had here some time ago link to last page: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/59648-piracy/page-29 link to first page: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/59648-piracy/ A special edition for some not to be named guys who are boasting, that downloading a DRM-stripped executable for your purchased game is unlawful, but getting cheap STEAM key from internet is all by the book... 30000 keys of the game having free copy promotion, were hijacked and then offered for sale on internet... http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-great-escape-of-30-000-steam-keys/1100-4780/

And another interesting story how to start a company and compete with piracy in a country where was at the time probably 99% of software pirated... By CD Projekt RED http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-06-seeing-red-the-story-of-cd-projekt Then it speaks about development of Witcher and Witcher 2 and how the company became what it is now.

That is pretty interesting...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/microsoft-shouldnt-hire-any-ceo-who-wants-to-kill-bing-and-xbox/ An interesting new article about future of Microsoft and hiring new CEO. Many analyst are recommending to Microsoft to ditch Bing and Xbox, because they do not make enough profit. Looks like there is some chance for lot of people ending up with pretty expensive paperweight :/

To bad, none of the launch titles for both new consoles interest me...

It would require one fireball in TB system as well, all small spiders gone in one puff of smoke. Only thing which could make it a tragedy, would be the small spiders immunity to fire, but that would be another example of ****ty encounter design. But even this could be cornered with clever combat system, when all enemies would make their turn at once (ToEE had this years ago, so inXile does not need to reinvent the wheel with this one). Or it could be cornered with a player, who knows how to use his braincells for more advance things like breathing and playing CoD multiplayer 8 hours a day... Namely to use a Chain Lightning. Voila, all enemies gone in one turn - you earned 150 experience points, move along to the next "epic for braindamaged chimpanzees" encouter... For all other it's just one click and win under 1 minute. I can't help myself, but the more Bester bitchss about such trivial stuff, the more I am excited for the final product...

I liked WoW best before the Honor Kill patch. At that time there was so much socializing around and much more mature communication, after that the server started to fill up with jerks or more like the people started to behave that way. I was playing on PvP server from start, but before the Honor patch, there was the nice feel of danger everywhere. After Honor Patch, there was the feel, "who's gonna corpse camp me now"... Which ruined one part of WoW for me, but right after that, I joined a guild, and a new possibilities opened up. I ended, with my guild on a server, where Nihilum was playing (the wolrd first dudes) so this brought a lot of jerks as well, but communication outside of guild was pretty common, and finding a PuGs was never hard, even without dungeon finder. Then they added cross realm for it and it became boring. It pretty made even guild chat more silent. No one needed anyone else besides big raids and achievement farming... yeah, became bored a lot. I bought Cataclysm, but haven't even activated my serial key after that... sighs, never touched Pandaria

Playing again Star Ocean 4. After completing Reimi fe wmonths ago, I completed Bacchus today. Still 20% of the game to finish before geting platinum. In four days it will be three years when I started the game for the first time, so far 375 hours played on my second playthrough and 66 on first one... Slowly moving towards completing Arumat, 1800 encounters to go... Am I crazy? O.o

Just do what I do, and wait for slim edition of the console, you get no brick less cooling required and a smaller box place in one deal And lower power consumption as an added bonus as well

Not really gaming related, but really interesting article about possibility of new type of malware. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/

Maybe someone find this useful. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/updated-privacy-policy-outlines-xbox-one-kinect-data-protections/ Updated data protections policy for Kinect in 360 and 180.