Zoraptor

If that really amuses you you should check out his back catalogue, there's plenty more there. I just wish he'd change up his shtick.

Yes, there's independent confirmation for two at least. OTOH, two of the initial 'suspects' appear not to have been involved at all, so it's a 50-50 strike rate either way. Okay I checked it and this is not true. Orogun's is a garbled version of an infographic of what happened at Night Games, which was run by one of ZQ's alleged romantic liasons. Not one of the more inherently convincing accusations, certainly.

People doing the comparisons to ISIS and saying that threatening to kill ten year olds are OK are doing so as satire and deliberate irony. Yes, it is known. I refuse to accept any alternative interpretations, for sake of my own sanity. Can't say I'm surprised Vavra is commenting, they clearly got metric asterisktons of SJW crap over the male protagonist/ predominant whiteys issues, in their medieval central European history based game of all things- and I wasn't even really following the game to see that much of it.

And if you listen to Ukraine and their buddies that is what they've done. As always you have- or state that you have- a basic misconception. Primarily, you mistake a statement or implication of capability with a statement of direct and imminent intent. When for example Putin says he can take Kiev in two weeks it doesn't mean that he intends to, or wants to, it means he is able to if he's pushed to. What he wants is a neutral Ukraine, if they try and change that- as to most practical purposes they did during the February putsch- then there will be consequences. If the agreement with Yanukovich had been honoured none of this would have happened.

Putin always said that flipping Ukraine was a red line, and unlike Obama he actually meant it. West thought he was bluffing, Turchenov, Yatsenyuk, Poroshenko et al thought so to, but he wasn't. There isn't anything that can change his mind, because to his mind it's an existential issue. And, once you accept that that is how he views it he's being perfectly rational- from his point of view.

At least theoretically most of the people writing those articles play or make games as a job. I'm not at all sympathetic with their position or philosophy on this matter, but I can certainly see games reviewers or producers not finding games to be 'fun' since they're involved with them all the time. I'm actually reminded of a quote from Friends, of all things, in reference to dating gynecologists: It's another problem that they don't have the self reflection to be able to see that their view may not be universal or even generally applicable, but, well, that isn't exactly a surprising revelation. A bit of introspection and this controversy would have been over long ago, or never happened.

The reason (supposedly) for deleted photos still being on the cloud is due to it being a back up. The theory being that if you accidentally deleted all your pics on your phone you could still retrieve them from the cloud back up. Which would make a kind of sense, since there's no objective 100% accurate way to determine whether a deletion is deliberate or accidental, even if it is counter intuitive in some ways. I have a lot of sympathy for those who have been hacked. If you're reasonably tech savvy you probably know that storing things on the cloud- or anywhere else connected to the internet, really- carries certain inherent dangers, but if you aren't tech savvy you probably just trust Apple or Sony or Steam or whoever's turn it is to be hacked this week to store your stuff securely, whether it be pictures or CC details. Easy to think that you should be at least encrypting your nudie pics (I was young, and needed the money?) if you want to store them online or even on a HD, but if you don't know that you don't know that.

I can perfectly believe that those paratroops accidentally entered Ukraine. They're still the only regular Russian troops captured that have been documented believably, and even the Ukrainians say that they didn't fire a shot before surrendering and had no back up. By the rebel accounts the Ukrainians have been surrendering for some time, it's mainly that they haven't been confirmed by the Ukrainian government hence haven't been reported. And that really is the problem, the rebels said that they were actually doing pretty well in the south but it was never reported, so the abrupt Ukrainian collapse there looks suspicious; if you go by the information provided by the rebels it looks a lot less so. Frankly, the whole southern front was extremely vulnerable, since it was a long, narrow, salient exposed to being cut in multiple places by counter attack, and with no safe supply line. It was a month ago that 400 odd crossed into Russia and surrendered due to being surrounded and out of ammo, well before the alleged large scale intervention, and even Ukraine admitted twice as many had been surrounded (while their situation map used by most media to show what is happening had them gaining ground in the area where that surrender happened, go figure). The big problem is that information coming from the Ukrainian government is not viewed as being from an interested party by the media in general, so it's impossible to get a balanced picture conventionally. So when their front does collapse people look for a reason that doesn't involve them being naive for believing an interested party, and the obvious reason is 'Russia did it'. Sheesh, the current iteration of the Ukrainian version of the sitmap still has Ukraine holding Ilovaesk, and there's genuinely independent confirmation (indeed, confirmation from the commander of the Ukrainian unit there) that it is far behind the current front and that the troops there have surrendered. But the BBC (and Al Jazeera, albeit with a proper disclaimer as to its source) still use the map supplied by Ukraine.

The widescreen mod works perfectly on retail IWD, that's the version I have and used earlier this year. Or maybe last year. Either way, it was an easier install than modding BG2 retail was. Which was still far better than wasting $20 on Overhaul's version. I did install Tales of the Luremaster as well as HoW, since that wasn't specified. Heuristics update, most likely. That's the 'predictive' part of the AV package that is designed not to catch known viruses but to catch unknown ones by behaviour or code snippets. If the heuristics have been updated too broadly all sorts of new 'threats' may be found in existing files, and they entirely deserve the ' ' around them. I've had gog installers, gamersgate installers and very well known mods flagged, Bioshock multiple times, all sorts of things, some after they've been on my computer for years and have been checked dozens of times previous. They were all false positives. If you've only had one of those you're lucky.

T72BMs were exported*. And manufactured prior to the break up of the USSR as well, so it is feasible for Ukraine to have inherited them, same as they inherited the rest of their T-72s. *As, uh, T-90 variants, which may be where the confusion comes from, to be charitable. If you'd like an independent cite here's one, if you'd like more info than you could ever use (and from nearly two decades per current crisis, for added independence) here's another.

Paradox tutorials are universally poor. My favourite was them thinking that having Adolf Hitler (!) 'narrate' the 'tutorial' for Hearts of Iron III was a good idea.

Story Mode? In Icewind Dale? ... Yes Corporal Hicks, it's the only way to be sure.

Pretty good satire list, that.

Sometimes Bruce has some subtlety in his... posting, that isn't one of those times. Couldn't be more obvious. You've dropped your 'accent', oby. Though I tend to agree, for much the same reasons as last time. Nowhere near as much conclusive information as there should be, same fuzzy commercial satellite pictures as evidence, no to little independent corroboration for such information as they do have. Basically no critical evaluation from the media, as a consequence of them only ever listening to one side on the ground and not actually examining the information provided.

Obviously not or he'd be WikusVC, JannieVC, FannieVC, JoostVC, ReubenVC, FrancoisVC, FafVC, AndreVC, PikVC, RuanVC, GerhardusVC, HendrickVC etc, not BruceVC. And that has exhausted my 20s trawl through every afrikaans movie character, rugby player, cricketer or politician I can remember.

The Nordic games will probably be back at some stage. Stated reason was that they couldn't agree on pricing but supposedly it is not directly due to GOG's pricing policy itself but due to incompatibilities with a contract they [Nordic, to clarify] have signed with a 3rd party meaning they literally could not reach agreement on prices even if both wanted to. But both parties seemingly at least do want those games back.

To be fair, Walker's tirade has been ignored on RPS for a while. One mod tried to reinstate the ban a couple of days ago because he was bored of the discussion or something... and another mod then started a topic ignoring that nearly immediately. It's rather ironic that all the defenders there seem to actively want it to be all about Quinn so they can legitimately shut it down/ high horse about privacy, and they tend to be the ones going on about that particular aspect. Many of the others including long time members are trawling through RPS articles looking for when RPS 'invaded privacy' (as with Max wossname) or complained about tactics they themselves have used on this issue ('The Silence'). RPS is also one of the few sites I have some sympathy for being defensive as they're in a bad position. Serves them right for being illogical and unapologetic SJW (and holy asterisks did Grayson, primarily, annoy me by shoehorning SJW into every interview he did) but, you should not slag off former employees except with very good reason, and at present the reason falls short of good.

Oh dear, and Bruce was doing so well. Now he's back to "I'm leaving the thread forever. Or ten minutes, whichever is longer" Yeah, but nobody would think there was significant impropriety there if they hadn't become an item. That isn't really asking for 'appearance of propriety', at the time, it's asking for retroactive appearance of propriety due to something that happened in the future. Journalists and devs meet and socialise at conventions, it's part of the reason for having them. Given the nature of the game footage and screenshots are essentially the same thing. But in any case the screenshots are still copyrighted.

The really ironic thing and best illustration given the subject matter is that if you'd talked about the things that Manning or Snowden revealed, prior to them being revealed, chances are you'd have been labelled a conspiracy theorist- despite them being correct.

The DMCA was probably legitimate, as the original video did use game footage from Depression Quest. Bit of an own goal in any case, due to the Streisand Effect.

Meh, that spoilered stuff is suggestive only. If I'm going to hang someone for such things I want a bit more conclusiveness than a quarter of a head in a picture and some people obviously knowing each other. Frankly, I'd be surprised if games journalists didn't know and interact with a lot of game devs, that is legitimately a part of what covering games entails. I'd accept that it certainly looks like several of the other 5 were genuinely compromised, I just don't find the case against Grayson compelling- though I'll admit that 'zero evidence' is a bit strong, zero compelling evidence would be more accurate. Easy for me to not care anyway, I actively avoid reading Kotaku and was not exactly enamoured with Grayson from his RPS output.

Ah, but surely the interview they formally want him for is also just a formality as well? They have, after all, interviewed him previously (then let him leave the country while, yes ironically, leaking the interview) and can/ have held interviews in other countries, in other cases. Given the somewhat... unusual treatment of his case I don't see why he should trust the system at all. While it is a rather roundabout way of doing so getting him to Sweden then not charging him but having a sweetheart extradition to the US would certainly be a legitimate fear, from his perspective.

If you're close to the sea you always have relatively high humidity though- take Mumbai for example, it's on pretty much exactly the same latitude as Nagpur but is on the coast rather than inland, has the same monsoonal climate just more extreme (drier when dry, wetter when wet) yet its lowest average humidity is 67%. It's that humidity where the water comes from. Even in drought conditions Florida or Mumbai will get humidity from the sea so there's plenty of 'easy' water to extract, you cannot say the same for inland places with humidity in the 20s. I'm not saying that this device is useless or anything, just that it is likely not to work as well in areas where it would really be useful.

Bruce actually disowned the whole mess, and he has stayed out of it too. Appropriate kudos must be given and there's no need to drag him in. And to be fair to Nathan Grayson- who I dislike from his time on RPS- there has been zero evidence that he broke ethics either. It's gone well beyond that. If it was just some indie dev bonking journalists that would be one thing, and it probably would have blown out by now. Probably not enough public interest, might inflame some rabid MRA types but then they're basically reverse SJWs and get inflamed randomly at trivial stuff. Certainly I didn't care at the beginning, besides it reinforcing my already low view of the gaming journalist fraternity sorority consanguinity- I have even agreed with SJW types on some things like the Dead Island Torso and Twitcher booby cards. As it stands though the attempts to censor the whole thing and to couch it only in the terms of sexism has backfired massively and it's now far more about censorship and hypocrisy (not just 'liberals' trying to silence critics, but also that SJWs have used similar, personal, stuff to smear people themselves) than the original incident. At this point the SJWs are doing an excellent job of making enemies who don't care much at all about the typical SJW issues. Said it in the RVGN thread in GG but the whole [ech, overstatement, and given Bruce's contribution unfair. The SJW crowd participating in this incident at least] SJW crowd is coming across as cult or Scientology like.

He hasn't been charged with any crime.