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2014 has been a bad year so far for me. Most notable games I bought and tried ended up being dropped 10 minutes or less into the game. I guess that means they all had a lastability of 15 or less (for me!) and similar scores in entertainment values Tomb Raider: Mostly bought and played to satisfy my curiosity, being a fan of the very first TR games. After 10 minutes I just couldn't be bothered. Dark Souls: Got as far as the requirement for GFWL and said this. Not going to waste any time on this and much less buy the successor until it gets patched out. Europa Universalis IV: Ok, tried it several times for almost 10 minutes each time, but something is just missing from the ease of use of the predecessor. Naval combat still sucks. Book of Lost Tales: A bug in the game means I Need(ed) to create a Special hardware profile disabling the second GPU to run it. Couldn't be bothered. Never got patched, didn't get started up again. Not interesed in the sequel for the same reason. Which means, most of the PC games I played and enjoyed in 2014 were purchased (or played the for the first time) between 1998 and 2013. Edit to add: Haven't tried Wasteland 2 or the POE Beta yet

Homo Misogynus? I probably should take the subject serious, but to the best of my knowledge, I don't bash the opposite sex on a regular basis and consider it more of an "adjustment needed to a first world problem". Now if people were talking about how women get treated in tribal societies suffering from stone age mentality, where women are treated like slaves, raped, humiliated and either killed or forced to marry the offender as a convenience to solve rape crimes, then that is something that gets my blood boiling. Yeah, off topic, carry on...

I don't mind the questions. I think I'll need to sit down and think it through before giving a real answer. At the moment, I've had my hands full just surviving and ensuring that I also had a place to sleep the day after tomorrow and if nothing else, I've become an expert in public transport systems using everything from bus to s-bahn, u-Bahn, tram and train to a large number of suburbs (in all compass directions) where I've crashed for the night in hotels. In short, most of my contact with Berlin and its people has been colleagues, commuters and hotel staff. Not a sufficient demographical representation

While I do believe fusion reactors have a future, I sometimes wonder if the safety of their operation isn't idealised a bit? Last time I checked, plasma is usually something hot and unpleasant that you don't want to lose control of, say one of the supermagnetic containment fields breaks? It may not leave a legacy with a generation spanning halflife, but I'm sure it's still unpleasant to experience up close

Say what you will about the ingame support, but the phone support is top notch. Thumbs up for that. Got a refund arranged for my duplicate preorder purchase in no time and with no fuzz

I guess the question should be, is there one I haven't tried (Cobol, Algol and Fortran)? Past exploits covers LISP, Smalltalk, Pascal, C, C++, C#, VB, ASP, T-SQL, Forth. Various 8, 6, 16 and 32 bit assembly languages, Proprietary APL for various applications (E.g. Ingress and similar), a smattering of Java and probably a handful obscure things that I've forgotten about. These days, I mostly do ERP Systems for corporations (finance, order handling, point of sale systems, process/project control, manufacturing, supply chain, e-commerce, warehouse management etc.). As for reasons, it was work related (too many years in one place)

Not a cent. I live in the wondrous world of software development

That includes removal services, insurance, flights, short stays in Singapore and Denmark along the way, almost 2.5 months of living in hotels from from pulling up the tent plugs to unlocking my own door with my own key again on a different continent. It probably ended up costing me 20-22k Euros

Looks like I finally got a place of my own at the end of the month. Still need the signatures on the contract, but it looks promising. Then I just need to do the fight with German customs, trying to convince them I'm not a closet German sneaking off to Australia every once in a while and spending tens of thousands of Euros on shipping furniture to Berlin.

Completely irrelevant, I know... but I keep reading the thread title as Dragon Age: Acquisition for some reason Maybe there is going to be a lot of DLC for it.

Time to give it a break guys... A bit of exercise, spot your own forum (flame) warrior type Flame Warrior Guide Yes, I know it's OLD. It's still oddly relevant though and archetypes doesn't really seem to Change much over time.

Indeed. There are Trolls, there are "Trolls" and there are *Trolls* and various cross breeds between them. Not in any way scientific, just observations from being on the Internet since it's early days when it was mostly available to universities and a few major tech companies, my own experiences and observation of a few troll types (and guessing their motivation): Some People seems to like attention. If not attainable through a charismatic presence, interesting ideas or just by being always present, the last resort seems to be trying to be outrageous. Either by mocking, taunting, flaunting or just being contrary to popular opinion. Being right or wrong doesn't matter, as Long as the position is opposite of whatever is perceived to be popular. Some people seems to genuinely socially dysfunctional and their internet persona are reflections of the real person. Reminds me of the kind of people who visits nightclubs or football games to pick fights. Lots of anger and aggression and they can't control it. Noticeable on forums as uncontrollable ranting at other people long after a subject being discussed has died of boredom. Often in denial too about being unnecessarily aggresive and spoiling for a fight (the fault is everyone elses). Then there are the psychopaths who seems to get a kick out of causing other people pain, either by stalking, constantly belittling or a persistent barrage of snide remarks and thinly veiled insults. The more they can make their victim squirm in discomfort, the better the day has been. I think most people are just part time trolls though and occasionally we all have a bad day, happened to bored in the moment or the wrong subject comes up at the wrong time and we let remarks fly that may not have been posted on another day. Edit: Grrr... German spellchecker capitalising a lot of words.

That's the thing, I do have a small group of friends there, 3 guys I hang out with regularly. Two fellow exiles from the Apac servers (Aussies) and an American living in Ireland. Makes perfect sense for all us non-americans to hang out on a US West Coast Server But, as you sort of implied, without that group of friends that makes your time worthwhile, I would have dropped the game months ago when they did the last gear devaluation. It wasn't Long ago.

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The Turkish strategy seems to come straight out of the WWII history books, where the Soviets pulled the same stunt with the Polish Partisans in Warsaw. Waiting on the other side of the river for the Germans and the Polish to wipe each other out and then scoop up the "price" after most of the killing is done.

Got the canned robot response to my help request. Yay. I guess i have to use the phone. Anyway, since I did the preorder (twice), I decided to try it out. It was surreal. My healer sage went from Level 35 to 38 in less than 25 minutes. I think I'm going to say "/&%$§ this" to the end game content and ground my 6 level 55 tanks (one of each advanced tank class) for a long time. Partly to allow me to level up alts and partly because I expect Bioware to screw over players again with gear Inflation, making all the hard earned top gear the new second rate gear again. Just not worth the effort trying to keep up. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

No. I probably liked him better before the Qunari turned into D&D Minotaurs, but overall, I think the most memorable (read: those whose company i preferred) would be Varric and Zevran (from the first game) with Isabella as the runner up.

It starts with a non skippable dream sequence where [CHARNAME] meets Shepard for a guided tour through ME1-3 and you can adjust your memory to previous choices... Game starts in a blur of red, green and blue colour as you make your final choice just before a Reaper foot stomps you flat (insert blaring Sound of War of the Worlds tri-pod horn here).

1) Not sure. I had happily repressed the Memory of Kai Leng until some /&%$§ brought up the name in the rant thread. Thank you very much >_ 2) No point in speculating at the moment. 3) Following the usual formula of easy game play, T&A and ego-stroking epicness, it will probably do enough to keep share holders happy.

I went ahead and pre-ordered... twice. Yeah, stupid, i know. Put through the first order and instead of a thank you for the order message, i got a Website error telling me the site was experiencing too much traffic, I should try again later. I did that literally, put the order through again 20 minutes later and this time it showed my receipt on the webpage. Just to get home in the evening and see two mailed order confirmations (I dont have access to my home mail from work), thanking me for the $19.99 paid through my credit card. Off to contact customer support and ask for a refund for one of the two orders

My views are the same, the attitude the same, my position on issues the same. I probably talk a lot more on forums, using a lot more words than I would verbally. Never was good at smalltalk or casual conversations.

I think I got a handful alts on other servers I'm going to play. 12x xp bonus (for class mission only) and free skill training... would be a crime not to play at least some toons through the class mission only to try some variety instead of just the boring L55 grind with the old ones.

I consider the Mass Effects series "Lite" Entertainment, the kind get from a Steven Seagal movie (with all the "depth" of a such). Hence, not sure if there is a point of an indepth analysis. It basically boils down to, what did i like and what did i not like in each installment. Summary of memories for each game: ME1: Had the best combat and felt the least restrictive. Minigames sucked big time and companions were forgettable. Bioware still had this idea that their space opera games needed jailbait in the form of blue skinned alien children for people to have a crush on. ME2: Minigames still sucked big time and now the combat sucked too. Redeeming factor was more interesting companions and a larger variety in the mission types, even if the linearity of each mission would give a mathematician wet dreams. ME3: Combat still sucked, but at least most of the minigames were gone and only that hovercraft Thing remained. Yay!!! Companions were a mixed bag and the beginning of the game was such a turn off, that I needed three runups to finally stick with the game. Middle part was quite (i would even say "very") good and the ending is in hard competition with Kotor2 for the title of most messy video game ending. I did like the DLC's by the way, generally adding interesting things to the game (not the item dlc's, but those with companion/story elements). I would heck out ME4 if a such were to be released some day. PS: Dear Bioware, when can we have a patch for ME3 that lets us skip those horrible, useless "dream sequences" with the stupid child? I really wanted to let that Reaper just squish him right away and be rid of that completely unneccesary element.

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Start of old thread End of old thread "Im Westen nichts Neues." - Trench warfare continued. ... My inner sexist is going to very upset if they start campaigning for video games without chainmail bikinis But i guess that was not the line of the current discussion.