Malcador

GTA V PC specs coming out next week or sooner. Should be interesting to see

All it was missing was small digitally distributed chapters for purchase to help flesh out the main plot.

Reminded me of something like Dreamfall, but not as good. Will win GOTY for inducing "feelings" and "experiences".

I thought that quote was from Voltaire himself. Well, learned something new today. I agree with TrueNeutral in that I really don't see what the fuss is about, Hatred looks rather boring - can only massacre civilians or kill them as they scream for mercy for so long until it becomes old hat. So do other games though. It's as if people wringing their hands over this never played shooters or something to be "disgusted" by violence against NPCs in games. Heh, like reading articles on hookers in GTA V being victimized and how one man feels remorse and guilt over killing NPCs in FP view in GTA.

Must be some impressive vote brigades marching on the Greenlight page

Uh huh "hurt" is exaggerated and you have people crowing on or calling for the ruination of Russia's economy (I suppose a nuclear armed state having severe troubles is cool, heh). if Russia wanted the eastern half of Ukraine, I'm surprised they just didn't go take it and not be subtle about it, well assuming they are in the Ukraine to the degree the West says. If they do pull out, I wonder how that will go forward, the civil war might not end neat and tidy so NATO involvement right on Russia's border ? Not too sure Russia went too far with Ukraine, Georgia doesn't matter, Ukraine does matter to the West for some reason and serves their purpose.

Ah, well armchair soldiering aside, this is all part of stopping another domino effect.

Go with some trailer music, Two Steps From Hell is ok but some of their stuff is pretty generic epic-y. Really does depend on what you are playing. For anything with heavy action, and a bit unexciting to play game OSTs while playing : and the like. Unreal really has amazing music.

Well, and hope they don't do something insane like invade the Ukraine and see what NATO does. Hm, also, Ukraine's going to be pretty messed up even if Russia does leave Crimea and ceases whatever support the rebels will have, no ?

Wish I had space for a full tower, hm. I'll look around for one with a PCI that is still decent (MSI's Gaming 3 has 3, interestingly), but am not really averse to retiring the old XtremeMusic X-Fi.

Ah the PSU is a EVGA 220-G2-0750-XR. Friend suggested EVGA, so I nabbed one I saw listed for the price range. Might go with a Corsair offering. I may OC this machine after it is done, but am not sure and heard the H100i was decent enough for that - noise isn't that much of a concern for me, well as long as it's not turbine engine loud or something. One problem cooling PCs here is my room is a sauna in summer due to it being upstairs and poorly placed w.r.t. HVAC fan. I was not really convinced on the MSI main board, was looking at ones from ASRock or Gigabyte as an alternate. I guess I will spend more time looking up on features Hah, yes, good spot on the PCI slot - dumb mistake by me. Was a lazy grab off what the vendor had available. As Humanoid points out, the onboard may be good enough (past two Realtek experiences have turned me off, but things may have changed.) especially as I'm not using amazing headphones (some Sennheiser headset)

Oh, already have an SSD, got a 730 480Gb on Black Friday - just sitting around my room now

Good point. Am rather amused at people refusing to believe or belittling a reaction that will be anti-West from all of this, especially after they're done crowing about the Western victory here. Will be an interesting new year.

Think I've settled on Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower EVGA 750W ATX12V / EPS12V Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit) Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Rx Might change that RAM - is a low profile one so that's a plus. Might not need the sound card but I am pretty sure my X-Fi from '07 won't work with 8.1

Yes and you are assuming a company in it for money is making things in some sort of vacuum. Apparently Valve having quality control on Greenlight is a point of amusement for some - is there a lot of shovelware on there, usually?

I hope you're not seriously comparing a Bioware romance scene to youporn. People other than you are capable of having their own opinions. This includes Valve. You don't say? Likewise given the hand wringing over the game the first time it appeared what's your problem with the idea that they want to duck bad press from it ? Your kind is always funny.

Yeah, press had no bearing on it at all.

Oh great, now Volo is using 'mansplain'.

I guess Bruce likes underage hookers.

You are defending the US using South Africa as a place to torture people ?

Apparently some people were posting how they wanted Sarkeesian in the game to kill, perhaps that was why Valve decided to not bother with it. What they needed to do was dress up the mass murdering a bit more.

Well, have they really worked ? Crimea is still in Russian hands and the Good Ukranians still haven't won. I guess hurting Russia was an end in itself, but is it oil prices falling hurting more than sanctions ? Wait, what genocide was going in Libya, by the way ?

Why is this the right thing to do ? Manhunt is on Steam, too.

Fiddling with mods for GTA 4, rather shiny now, even if the night sky box is broken. Also finding it interesting how many shots civilians can take and not die.