Drowsy Emperor

Its pointless, just put him on ignore.

Get well soon

I thought we were collectively over the whole 3D TV thing and 4K was the next gimmick

I knew it when he said JNA instead of the English equivalent, I'm just waiting for him to own up as to which brand of troll he is.

Who the **** are you and how are you an authority on Serbian media or the Balkan wars?

Hm, always thought the Stingers were the problem and the real nuisance. RPGs as an anti-gunship weapon are pretty pants though, the amount the Somalis had to throw up to hit the US choppers was impresive, from what I recall. Clever theory by the Somali commander too, saw the helicopters as a weak point. Still not sure what the hell you're on with the second point, it's pretty obvious that selling girls into slavery and abducting them is bad. I guess we need to just say "______ is bad!" before any other point or comment. The real nuisance of fighting a war in Afghanistan is Afghanistan. The terrain is impossible, the resistance is dispersed and they're used to out waiting foreign powers. That said, the Soviets left Afghanistan with their man in power and it remained like that for quite a while. They "took" it, so far as it can be taken.

But they still struggle to do facial animation like the Source engine games for some reason.

That was very annoying, I had to replay that scene at least 15 times. I ultimately gave up on the game when it became a full on shooter somewhere in the second half. The new Tomb Raider is very much a case of an amusement park ride - you will stick to the pre-defined experience or some piece of machinery will cut your head off. Its got many good things going for it in the technical department but the gameplay is too shooter oriented and linear. I wonder why QTE's are necessary in the minds of developers. I'd much rather watch a well choreographed cinematic than be stressed out because I might miss a key and then have to watch the damn thing again. Even when I hit the key I feel the game is treating me like an idiot. Its so lose-lose on the user experience end, there's no explaining why they bother with them in the first place.

Ah, the counter-intuitive symbols that mean absolutely nothing. I think you have to mash F, supposedly the animation doesn't correspond with the input but there is no penalty for mashing the button, but I'd google the shape if I were you.

Funny I thought that Bethesda did release hotfixes and patches for all there games in an attempt to fix issues? More importantly than the bugs, I was reffering to some of the "systemic" weak points of ES games that are never addressed. Bugs just go on top o ****ing fantastic. So you're basically saying Crysis has better graphics than Pong because they're definitely comparable. Your observational skills are off the charts. Well since you brought up Crysis, I might as well mention that Far Cry 3 looks much better than Skyrim. And its a very large sandbox game. It doesn't have as much unique content, I'd guesstimate but its still substantial in size.

Endless Space seems nice but I just can't seem to get around to playing it for long enough to actualy learn anything

I play with everything on max and my PC is brand new. The game isn't running sluggishly, its the combat that's the same shallow mess of slow, tanky controls and poorly matching animations Oblivion was (and Morrowind before that). There's 0 player agency in it, it just boils down to getting in the face of the opponent and spamming right and left click until they die. I don't care if its open world or not, the graphics are about as good as Oblivion and nowhere near Witcher 2 levels. Textures and faces are better than in Oblivion but that's about it. The game was obviously made with XB360 hardware limitations in mind rest of the world be damned. I won't even go into the story and characters because I suspect there are none as per the Behtesda usual (I ignored the main quest and wandered off). The point of my rant is this. The graphics don't grate me. Nothing about the game really does. The point is that this game received practically universal acclaim from critics with 90+ scores thrown left and right. Yet its still the same bug ridden half broken gameplay of all Elder Scroll games. Bethesda never, ever, fixes anything - in some respects Morrowind is flat out better than Skyrim. Its bloody annoying at this point for every ES game to be regarded as the second coming when they're in fact riddled with bad design. Unmodded and without fan patches they're 8/10 games max. The animations, the bugs, the weak stories, the questionable combat, the lazy UI design persists in every game and no one ever calls Bethesda out on it, they just flat out ignore it all. Hell people slam Bioware on these boards constantly, even I do, but they at least polish their games up and generally try to improve their flaws. CD Projekt Red supports their games longer than anyone else. Bethesda just can't be bothered, like Creative Assembly and their Total War series. They just keep making the same game over and over with the same ****ty flaws and never bother to improve because as long as the suckers are buying it all is good.

Playing Skyrim, I can conclude that Bethesda's quality testing is still ****. One dungeon was half glowing purple and the game crashes regularly about an hour in. The combat is still as sluggish as Oblivion, the graphics are nothing to write home about, the animations are exactly like in Oblivion and the inventory/journal/skill tree is absolute console horror. Its so painfully obvious they made it for the TV screens with no effort to adapt it for the PC players. Also, everyone is trying to kill me for some reason. I killed two trolls and a hagraven at level 4. I have a sneaking suspicion that it wasn't supposed to happen.

The idea that tens of thousands of people could spontaneously organize the logistics of food,shelter and anti-riot gear in under a week (but lasting for months) can only be believed by a complete idiot.

Can't find the same article again, but the gist of it is this: most of you remember that Sony bought Gaikai, the streaming service. Supposedly the Playstation catalog will soon be available on a new Sony streaming service. Sony plans to make most games of the PSX-PS3 generation playable cross platform on just about anything that can stream video. Good news. There are a few PS3 games I'd like to play.

Serbian press says RT claims Russia is going to intervene in the next 48 hours. I can't find the original source on RT although I doubt they'd invent it.

Wow, why is the PS4 version so ugly? With optimization it should look close to the PC version. But honestly, even the E3 trailers don't show "next gen". What I see is an incremental improvement over GTAIV or GTAV (comparing them as sandbox games). Which is okay, but nothing really representative of a generational move from the PS3/XB360 generation.

You really haven't got the first idea about what happens in Russia do you?

Pictured here, average Russian as the Volourn sees it: Slavery on the left, Death on the right, Ukrainian masses slightly out of frame.

Death and slavery... Russia took Ukraine over? Do tell, I must have slept through that one.

Its actually been a while since graphical advances were really impressive. That train seems to be slowing down. All I see nowadays are incremental improvements. And some things haven't moved much in the last 10 years. Like terrain in large RPG's, or anything that has to look organic and irregular in shape.

@Gorgon: The country is disintegrating because the original balance of interests was tipped by the US/EU. Its all a tug of war now and there's no point in denying Russians are pulling on one side. @Tagaziel Yes Putin incited the masses on the Maidan to burn buildings and bring down the government, deposed the president and is now trying to depose the people who deposed the president. He's the counter revolutionary of his own revolution. Let the destabilization continue! He'll probably be a counter counter revolutionary next.

The best military analyst in Serbia claims that in the case Kiev's operations either defeat or come close to defeating the regional protesters, Russia will outright intervene and take everything up to the Dnieper river or go further to outright take Kiev. Regardless we'll know soon enough, because to offer a pretense of control Kiev will have to resolve the issue before the elections, which means more assaults and more unnecessary deaths. Russian circles would prefer for the regions to resist and organize a referendum on their own.

Back when that was said one could argue that it was somewhat tenuous. Now, not so much. If the bodies keep piling one could hardly blame the Russians if they full on invade. As to the people who are arguing that the separatists are armed... well they are.. because the army in their regions gave them or let them take weapons. They don't need a single bullet from Russia when Ukrainian army stocks are there for the taking. And they're there for the taking because most of the Ukrainian army flat out refuses to fight for Kiev and just abandoned their posts or joined the regional forces. All of those crying about Russian support need to face the facts that these people don't really need Russian support to do what they're doing now. As for the "regular army" fighting for Kiev, Serbian press has just announced that intercepted radio transmission of Ukrainian forces included conversations in English and Croatian, so, in other words, Kiev is using mercenaries against Ukrainian citizens.

No government in Kiev can be legitimate unless Russia says so because Russia is both a neighbor and a major power able to dispute that legitimacy. In theory it should only be the opinion of the people living in the country but the reality of international relations doesn't always correspond to the theory. No state exists in a vacuum. That's the way the cookie crumbles in world politics, sorry. The supposed government in Kiev can't possibly set up elections peacefully with its brownshirts roaming the streets and the armed men under their control shooting up civilians for disputing their legitimacy. Democratic elections can't be held in a charged atmosphere where the threat of violence hangs in the air. That's idiocy. Those elections only serve to push people into accepting the new regime, into giving it a fake legitimacy. Besides if they're going to set up "fair" elections now why the hell did they overthrow Yanukovich in the first place (whose elections were judged as fair btw)? Please.