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^^ No, you didn't read what actually happened.

I second this request. Very well, thirded.

Not once in nine months have I heard mention that Project: Eternity could become a "long-running" franchise. Until now. Which is why I'm posting. Now.

It does seem like just another victory for pirate crackers against Durability Rights Management. I would have enjoyed the mechanic, but I won't complain about its absence, and I remain confident Obsidian would never cave on principle to appease a few.

Woot! At least the heat wave is gone, mostly. I didn't know this until he told me, but my history professor once said the U.S. was actually born when the first version of the Constitution was ratified, not on the day the colonies told the king to get stuffed.

I see few are reading the articles I quote. It won't be simple simultaneous read/write. It says the GPU will also be used as a resource for compute calculations, including ray tracing for audio, texture decompression, physics and particle simulation, collision detection, AI, and world simulation. Dismissing GDDR5 as EOL already is just silly.

Hokum. There is no chance that those events are true to the letter of the complaint.

No, I don't. I can only find generalized statements. Mark Cerny from Sony has said that "time to triangle," or the time it takes a developer to achieve a working engine, is down from 6-12 months on PS3, to only 1-2 months for PS4. Surely that implies minimal, if any, developer work differentiating CPU/GPU processes in hardware.

I know nothing about game software development, but I suspect they don't aim for the lowest minimum requirement across multiple platforms. Surely there must be a customization process. Skyrim was unplayable on PS3 for many, yet most Xbox 360 owners encountered a much smaller litany of quest-breaking bugs, corrupted/missing saves, etc.

I'm curious what you guys mean by spamming from Star Citizen. I'm not a backer for that project.

Least expensive and most powerful when adjusted for inflation and processing power compared with other platforms (or consoles, rather, in that Ars article). I'm starting to sound like a shill, perhaps, and using absolutes like "platform" and "ever" may be reaching, but the hardware specification list is turning my nerd crank and making my PC sit up and act like a jealous sibling ... and the PS4 baby hasn't even been delivered yet. I just think the potential for developers to really do something special is finally here, for the masses, at a price cheaper than a new mattress.

Thankfully, it is not average. The GPU of the PS4 will have access to the 8GB of system memory--the super-fast GDDR5 RAM--at the same time as the PS4's CPU, unlike the same components in a PC. The RAM in your PC is slower DDR3, unavailable to your GPU, which itself has only 2GB of VRAM. The potential for future-proofing the console's performance is very exciting. And it will be upgradeable, at least the hard drive, possibly with a sizzlingly-quick solid-state drive. From the article: I can't stress enough, the value for money the PS4 has suddenly come to offer. It is, simultaneously, the most powerful and least expensive gaming platform ever. Dammit I burned my burritos writing this post.

mmm ... nooks and crannies. Great update, thanks very much.

Spend less time asking what game we're getting, start hoping and trusting that we get a game at all. The Pebblewatch Kickstarter just shipped to Best Buy instead of backers first; the Ouya game console sold out on Amazon without first shipping to Kickstarter backers, and the Double Fine Kickstarter game just ran out of money ($3mil) and will now dump half a game onto Steam's early release program for full price until that pays for the second half to be released as a "free" update. I'll be delighted to get a Project Eternity game of any kind.

How, exactly. Show me some evidence for willful corporate malfeasance.

Most all of the OO devs left the project to start Libre Office. I have it on my machine, but I cannot say whether there are now colons where you expect them. Edit: woops, I see your thread, now.

Evidently, "Deal With It" knows exactly how to deal with it. Just another reason I'm happy to jump ship to Sony this year.

Sorry, man. They were already showing the highlights here about two hours ago. Thought it wasn't sensitive. No, it's my fault anyway, sorry.

^^ Dude!! Spoiler Alert! Aww, damn ... oh well, at least it wasn't Red Bull.

The bonkers sale on Amazon finally got me to buy Borderlands 2, as well as (most of) its DLC, and even the first Borderlands, for barely $20.

Stromatolites exhausted their way into converting the entire atmosphere into a free oxygen environment.

Not so much what I did today, as who I saw. Saw again, at random. She might be an angel in real life, though I've never seen her face. An ultra-rare being with a black Arai helmet, a green ZX-10, and hips better-defined than a 458 Italia's. The first time I saw her, was at Chevron on Birmingham, topping off at dusk in full gear: jacket, gloves, boots, and that Arai, visor down. She left the station and I swooned. Dude, only military and thrill-junkies ride sportbikes (mine is a CBR), and here was this trim, 105lb female taking off with all the grace that only total control brings. Today I drove the cage home, and there she was again, turning off of Marron onto Monroe, still lithe and lovely. Just the third time I've seen her in three years. I know, pics, or she's not real, but that bike has 160 horsepower ... she is impossible to capture on film.

Ha, I was there, too. Maybe not a nosedive, just no direction at all. Not better, not worse, only the same traversal/discovery pattern. I still enjoy Lara's adventures from then and now, however. You might be right that it was Fallout, anyway. I didn't mean to imply that Inquisition looks like a traversal-type exploration, nor that it's patently obvious. But when marketing tells me that, unlike DA:O and DA2, the Inquisitor player character will get to "explore much more," I believe it. Maybe I just want to, too much.

It should be obvious already. Multiple quotes have said it will be about characters and great exploration therewith. Inquisition is gonna be a humdinger.

Nice, nice! Bryce Canyon would be the most amazing geology in the West if it weren't for that other big hole sorta nearby. Well, and Yosemite. And those deep underground caverns in New Mexico, with the gigantic crystals. Actually, Yellowstone, too. And Death Valley. Man, it's beautiful out here.