Everything posted by Gorgon
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Can't we just forget about that game already.
- The general firearms thread!
- The general firearms thread!
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Deux
Laser fuel for powerful beams is actually really expensive. It's a whole other ballpark than consumer level lasers and only really viable for something like the anti missile role. A railgun uses an array of electro magnets and onboard a destroyer or something with a huger powerplant it looks feasible.
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Ukraine Discussion
Reminds me a bit of newyear's. People smoking and joking around and then going off to shoot a bunch of ordinance they had brough along
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Ukraine Discussion
The pros probably wouldn't be uploading to youtube.
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Ukraine Discussion
Yes, ha ha. I'm pretty sure soldiers don't go to war with passports, that's what dogtags are for. There are loads of Russian weekend warriors though, amateurs who go there for the glory, that's were the passports are from, and considering the size of the rebel controlled areas it's entirely unlikely that they would have been able to keep up a steady supply of war material without Russian aid.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
What is that document exactly, is it some sort of description for internal purposes or a script for teachers to follow in case they forget what they are doing. It seems a bit Soviet Russia to have every engagement with the students pencilled out like that and all the points you want to make already power pointed.
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EA Origin security breach again. Careful if you are thinking of getting Dragon Age: Inquisition
I don't understand how there can be room for a middleman when you are basically just handing over money. Why didn't the banks get together and do that themselves, or the credit/debit card companies ?
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Modern wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMsSY8SZ4jk
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Modern wars
Pop quiz, see if you can guess without google : how many broken arrow incidents during the cold war (western allied and public knowledge, Soviet numbers aren't known)
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Pictures of your games Part 5
I wonder if I will be able to make it to the final product. My mouse has hovered over the SDK more than once.
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Modern wars
Mock bombing runs and mock incursions into the airspace of non allied nations is part and parcel of a game that has been played since the cold war. You present to have that intent and veer off at the last minuite. It keeps airforces on their toes and ready to challenge so it's not all bad. We should be grateful really, it's not like NATO could afford to do that on regular excercise basis anyway.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
There are probably still crackpots who would bother her on the street and on public appearances. I don't think that should be counted as the cost of doing business, whatever else one thinks of her.
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Modern wars
Because exhibition pilots die relatively often ?
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
That's a fair enough comment I suppose. As much as I dislike the NK regime and find their entire Juche ideology a crude bastardisation of anything "Socialist" that at best only pays lip service to it; I do find it annoying when leftists try to pass it off as some "right-wing" and/or "fascist" regime. That said, I still disagree with the idea that any of their modern policies are based off any kind of Socialist ideology and instead are just the desperate scramblings of a tiny, isolated country under siege (see the creation of "Special Economic Zones since the 1990's). Nope, they eventually promoted non-leftist (and explicitly anti-communist) governments into their sphere as well (e.g. Nasser and Nehru). That's not really relevant at all. Relations with other countries are guided by practicality, not ideology. I was talking about political discourse and a common misunderstanding about what the word 'Socialist' actually means, besides being a republican expletive. Anyway we're getting off topic.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
I think that's a little harsh. Some forms of socialism are like this, but not all. Socialism is a broad term that encompasses many different ideologies. None of which I support, but in fairness I feel it's best I object. Switch socialist with authoritarian and it'd be more accurate. A lot of people have Socialism confused with Comunism, most notably the Comunists who were as happy to include all the left leaning governments of the world into their 'struggle' as American right wingers were to perpetrate this fallacy. It suited both their interests. After the end of the cold war there is no excuse for not knowing the difference though.
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Morality in Games
It's easier to do a darkside-lightside slider and have dialouge options colourcoded. ****, neutral, altruist. That way you can add or remove modules with relative ease and have a simple measure for when you want people to react to your reputation. It's simplistic bordering on the banal. It would be better to go without and have NPCs react to how you completed certain quest, which would in turn have the dialouge trees be more complex and more work.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
it's not 'bad' per se. It's just curious that these divisions are almost unchanged from the 1950s where gender inequity was a real thing.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
That statistic just shows that it's bad across the board in related industries ? Fun fact. Male nuses here insist on using the feminine suffix. Think 'steward' vs 'stewardess'. When you apply for training, that's even the official term. Talk about perpetrating gender stereotypes.
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What's on the idiot box... Part 3
For a moment I was worried that was the new Ironman.
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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.