Everything posted by Gorgon
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What's on the idiot box... Part 3
They spend all this time unraveling a Twin Peaks mystery that turns out to be so banal, and finding Jesus,,, I mean Jesus. Nihilists don't do that. Not ever in the real world.
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Tablets are on a decline
You can plug a phone into a keyboard and a TV without too much trouble though. Depends on where you are going I suppose. The Gallaxy note is large enough for my needs. Only thing that bothers me is android. Unless you root your device it's going to be filled up with bloatware from the manufacturer.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
If it's just a boss fight then why not quit at the boss fight and call it a game. I do that every time I get an annoying boss fight where they change the rules you have been playing by the whole time.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
The story is really terrible though. American jock on sabbatical type protagonist (he really does not seem one bit the covert operator he proposes to be) goes somewhere exotic and theres zombies. is it Turkish, they look Turkish ?. Theres a hot kickboxer chick who is in more than two cutscenes, which apparently makes her the love interest. Shes only in the game for less than a minuite though. I don't think there was any romance at all, although a cutscene is usually a cue for me to go make coffe or something so I might have missed it. Yes you are just waiting for her to get kidnapped from the second she's introduced, it's all pretty obvious. Part of it is just how games are designed. You can't really have the romance interest be the active party because the player is the active party, moving the game and the story along. So she becomes static per default and a 'damsel'. You could chose not to have an American jock on sabbatical and a perfect 10 local girl as the principles though, I would be all for that.
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Tablets are on a decline
Turns out people don't actually use their tablets after the novelty has worn off, they use their phone, the large display phones are on the rise. Tablets are pointless. They aren't really mobile because of their size and they aren't really practical because of the lack of a keyboard. I could have told them that, whoever them is.
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Another incident with black men getting shot by police
When I think about it it seems obvious from the context, but I don't buy that you can tell with the naked eye. Well, you can tell if you know it already.
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Another incident with black men getting shot by police
I like how the sign says 'every time'. Like a couple of times a week ?
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The AU appoints Robert Mugabe as its 2015 chairman
He reminds me of Mao, essentially a riding violent populist movement to weed out his competition while pulling the strings, unoficial like.
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The AU appoints Robert Mugabe as its 2015 chairman
Was it just his turn. I mean if it was, it's not like there was a political reason to not appoint him. The fact that he is a dictator is not a political reason to antagonize a neighbour. Just sayin' The rest of the world can isolate him at no cost to themselves. Not entirely true of the AU.
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Ukraine Discussion
It's hard to blame them though. I don't mean the Nazis, screw them, but states bordering on Russia didn't have a lot of choice except between two evils. Now that we have another cold war sattelite conflict on our hands no wonder they are waving flags furiously.
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What are you playing now?
I dunno why motion blur, depth of field and film grain are considered improvements over being able to see what you are doing as well as what is around you. The motion blur is on for sprinting, but you sprint 80% of the time in that game. At least you can turn off all that crap. Resource intensive effects that makes your game look and play worse. Horray.
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Pictures of your games Part 5
How is the nausea. From what I hear you can rarely go more than 30 mins without sudden onset sea sickness. Particularly bad when the camera is hijacked for a cutscene.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
I hate that guy soooo much. It's probably all envy and I'm sure he's really a nice guy, I know, but the urge to punch him in the face gets so overpowering.
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Star Wars Episode 7 Thread
Reboot though. Why ?
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Star Wars Episode 7 Thread
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut) is my favorite movie. I enjoyed the Director's Cut as well, but what ended up in the box office was not nearly as good and bombed badly. Common occurrence that they butcher the movie after the test screenings. Often it's shaky handheld action and a 'story' that advances at break neck speed at the expense of any sense of cohesion. Obviously a terrible idea with a historical drama.
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What are you playing now?
How is dying light. I was kinda hoping for what Dead Island should have been. In the gameplay vids it looks like a lot of running and parkour with turbo zombies.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Make a new game though. All this remastered stuff is kinda sad and targeted at people who want to remember what it was like to be young. A texture pack and some gui changes does not mean you can charge full price again. At some point a stanky old matress can't be restored to the honeymoon suite centerpiece it once was.
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Great Storm hits USA East Coast
Sombody call Matthew McConaughey and have him shot into space.
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Great Storm hits USA East Coast
No going to work because of snow. Lucky bastard.
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What are you playing now?
Old controllers sometimes had an 'auto toggle' that let you spam a button by holding it down. You could win every withcer encounter with that. The only thing that really matters is enemy reach and position, not enough to make it really interesting. Still, it's better than Skyrim.
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Star Wars Episode 7 Thread
I think he's more interested in filming deep sea wrecks, and who can blame him. It's a shame though. The blockbuster is such a boring formula and there are maybe a handfull of old timers who can almost do whatever they want just on the strenght of their name. Ridly Scott springs to mind. I hear the moses thing with Bale was terrible so bad example maybe.
- The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread..
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Star Wars Episode 7 Thread
One suspects they offered to buy them to stroke his ego. He must be aware surely by now that his name is mud.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I'm aware that it's rediculous, it's nto like ya'll have to explain it to me.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
There is the principle at stake here. Coop only games are designed to attract the weak who would have been weeded and bullied out after trying multiplayer a single time and having had the experience of being called a multitude of colourful names they never knew existed. It's multiplayer with training wheels, it does not even deserve to be called so. These people should stick to playing candy crush and angry birds and leave multiplayer to those who can stomach it. The strong survive and become legend. But how can they hope to do so without wadning through rivers of blood and butthurt to achieve their goals. Got a little dramatic towards the end there.