Everything posted by Agiel
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Did he not see the trailer for Human Revolution? Last time I checked, in spite of that everyone loved how relatively bloodless you could play that (to the point you were actually rewarded more for it).
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What you did today
Every time I try and divine how in the hell that system works, I think back to that episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" when they come up with "Paddy Bucks".
- The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread..
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Music - must - go on!
- New Scientific Discoveries, Part Deux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmEjI7Eo3E I would have thought the name lent itself to a good backronym.- Modern wars
Teal Group's eminent Richard Aboulafia's latest piece on India's MMRCA deal with Dassault almost gave me a chuckle, were it not for HAL raining on Dassault's parade and almost holding the deal hostage:- Steam now has Paywall mods
I did not particularly object to the concept of paid mods. The Grey Wolves Mega-mod for Silent Hunter III required a one dollar donation fee to the devs in order to get the download link (though admittedly that was a bargain of the century compared to some of the stuff we saw on the Workshop for the amount of stuff it added) and the Microsoft Flight Sim series has had paid planes developed by third-party developers, which is a practice continued with Digital Combat Simulator. The issue was that Valve adopted a "Sink or Swim" approach when putting this out there. If there was a spiral testing approach and a slow roll out of the system as was done for Team Fortress 2, then hardly anyone would have raised a stink, and the problems (which are still many) associated with this system would have been worked out early and rather painlessly as they came rather than everyone having to deal with them all it once. In the words of Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer:- Random Sales
For those who want to pull "Crazy Ivans" at depth 800 feet, the old Sonalysts sims are on sale for $6: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/199/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_2- Modern wars
Given that the "only" 25mm APFSDS-T round fired from the Bushmaster autocannon compares extremely favourably to contemporary 30mm rounds fired from the 2A42/2A72 used by today's BTR-90s and BMP-2/3s, and the upgrade proposal entails mounting of the 30mm Bushmaster, I'd hardly call that Gypsy Wagon "toothless". http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbwiki/index.php?title=Ammunition_Data#Autocannon- The Funny Things thread
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Hopefully we won't see too many lawsuits arising and stinks being raised over the nudity and "better sex" mods for Skyrim. After all, who wants to let their attorneys know they watch virtual TnA on their off hours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjj8eMNxivM- What you did today
Finally decided to move on from that old chocolatey goodness of Presto-based Opera 12.17 to Opera 28. I absolutely loathe, loathe, LOATHE how it works, but it's getting to the point where Opera 12.17 is becoming too big of a security liability now.- The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread..
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Hell, it even had Tyranid Trygons in it, so CA's been beat in getting a Warhammer game to the engine.- The Cats Make Me Happy thread
I loled at "I have nothing to play with." You can't take a step in our apartment without kicking a toy our cat got bored with.- What you did today
Tried to get my daily dose of commentary from theatlantic.com on my desktop. Grrrr.... curse the mobile format fad.- Modern wars
April marks the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the venerable C-130 Hercules (which unlike other aircraft of that era, still remains in production). A moment of zen to reflect on that history: The Navy pilots who accomplished that feat had apparently painted on the side of the aircraft "LOOK MA, NO HOOK". Though the prospect of the Hercules being used for transport of personnel and UNREP for aircraft carriers was eventually dropped in favour of the purpose-built carrier capable C-2 Greyhound (the same basic airframe was used for the E-2 Hawkeye series of AWACS), the pilots nonetheless received the Distinguished Flying Cross for this achievement. Here's to another 60 years of flying.- The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread..
- Pictures of your games Part 6
Some iced tea nearly came out of my nose from that pic. I have to admit I kind of prefer the pathfinding foibles of this game over the ones of the Infinity Engine game, where I'm in an encounter and that Wizard I really needed and I wasn't paying too much attention to up that point was half of Faerun away after being confronted with a momentarily obstructed doorway.- Music - must - go on!
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Pic showing off the scale of the MV Dockwise and the SXB Radar Just another Easter in Greece.- Pictures of your games Part 6
Is there anything more terrifying than the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future materialising through a wall and choking you out? "THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO..."- The Funny Things thread
http://www.reddit.com/r/****CrusaderKingsSay- What are you playing now?
I find that much like the old Infinity Engine games, the two Chaos spells (one for the Wizard, the other for the Cipher which is trickier to use since she has to have unobstructed LOS on the target) is your friend. The name of the game is "Crowd Control". Unfortunately Fireball is nowhere near as impressive in PoE as it was in DnD or even Dragon Age: Origins for that matter.- Grand Theft Auto V - PC Thread
I was taken aback when people on my Steam friends list who had relayed to me that they had somewhat outdated machines were playing GTAV. Then I remembered "Oh yeah, huh. This one doesn't need a Cray supercomputer to run it well like the last GTA game on PC did." - New Scientific Discoveries, Part Deux