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| Topic | there's a new brexit bus in town |
| luigi13579 11/24/17 5:55:25 AM #3 | Heh, spot on. |
| Topic | Net neutrality might end. |
| luigi13579 11/23/17 2:12:54 PM #75 | https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/23/149208/cloudflare-might-be-exploring-a-way-to-slow-down-fcc-chairman-ajit-pais-home-internet-speeds Would be hilarious if this happened. |
| Topic | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is 9 bucks on steam. Should I get or nah |
| luigi13579 11/23/17 6:25:17 AM #5 | It does seem a bit like half a game, but there's plenty of great gameplay in there, and a detailed world to explore. I'd say it's easily worth it if you like the other games. Also, it's deceptively difficult to run. Even a GTX 1070 won't max it out at an acceptable framerate. Although that probably includes some "future-proof" settings similar to The Witcher 2's ubersampling. You could always get a refund I suppose. |
| Topic | Companions are useless in Skyrim |
| luigi13579 11/22/17 3:38:41 PM #4 | What you saying about Boone? *wackyteen's head gets blown off from 5 miles away* |
| Topic | Net neutrality is typical fear mongering based on fiction |
| luigi13579 11/22/17 2:45:52 PM #41 | KazumaKiryu posted... Yes, they will. It's a free market. It's not a free market when the established ISPs can block new entrants into the market (even more so with the removal of net neutrality). Even fucking Google had trouble with Google Fiber (as ISPs stopped them from gaining access to utility poles). If they had trouble, what kind of trouble must small startup ISPs have? |
| Topic | Net neutrality is typical fear mongering based on fiction |
| luigi13579 11/22/17 2:33:03 PM #30 | RebelElite791 posted... *Lives in rural CA, Comcast is literally the only high-speed internet available* "You can use dial-up!" |
| Topic | Net neutrality is typical fear mongering based on fiction |
| luigi13579 11/22/17 2:22:09 PM #24 | The Title II regulations were brought in as a result of ISPs throttling users in the first place. The FCC tried to impose net neutrality without Title II, ISPs fought it, and the FCC responded with Title II regs. That also proves that ISPs are talking shit when they say they want a net neutrality solution without Title II, as they were the ones that fought it. |
| Topic | Think of net neutrality except replace net with gun |
| luigi13579 11/22/17 12:13:22 PM #7 | Or replace net with abortion or anything else that isn't analogous to "trigger" certain people. |
| Topic | wow BOTW is like the first open world game where I'm actually just exploring |
| luigi13579 11/21/17 3:07:05 PM #15 | Morrowind is a bit like this (currently doing yet another playthrough). Well, aside from the "no quests" part, although Morrowind's quests are relatively permissive in terms of how you tackle them. There are fast travel links that make sense between the populated areas (silt striders, boats, Mages Guild teleportation, etc.), but once you go out into the wilderness, you are encouraged to explore. There are no map markers (aside from ones you place yourself). Instead, you follow directions that are given to you, meaning you have to pay attention to your surroundings and use landmarks to determine where you are. Also, the game comes with a physical map (which is amazing) that the devs wanted you to use (http://www.imaginaryatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MORROWIND-MAP.jpg). I wish more games did that. |
| Topic | Globalism is about to be history, and here's how: |
| luigi13579 11/21/17 2:46:42 PM #47 | southcoast09 posted... trade union southcoast09 posted... leftist sjw crap |
| Topic | The FCC unveils its plan to repeal its net neutrality rules |
| luigi13579 11/21/17 2:42:05 PM #38 | To be honest, I think the focus on charts like the above is to ignore many of the wider issues around net neutrality. For example, ISPs won't just be able to charge you more, but they'll be able to modify speeds and even modify the data in transit. On speeds, this will allow them to favor their own services over their competitors and to essentially freeze out new entrants to the market who can't afford to pay for preferential speeds. Even a small difference in speeds affects the sites people go to. On the data itself, this allows them to add trackers, spyware, etc. and potentially remove certain layers of encryption, making the internet less safe to use. There's also the issue of the infrastructure that ISPs control (e.g. pole attachment), where they can prevent new ISPs from entering the market. For all the talk of competition being all that's required (rather than regulation), well, there ain't gonna be much. I'm probably sounding like a broken record here lol. |
| Topic | RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077... not sure which one I'm hyped for more... |
| luigi13579 11/21/17 2:23:27 PM #32 | LIsJustice posted... Elder Scrolls VI tbh. I'm not too hopeful about that one given the direction of their open world RPGs since Morrowind. For me personally, they've abandoned a lot of what made the games great. Admittedly, they've made improvements to the graphics and combat (although the franchise has never excelled at that) and added some nice features like NPC schedules, but as far as I'm concerned, those things don't outweigh the backward steps they've made. The amount of features they've stripped out, the bland settings, the lack of freedom (e.g. in how you tackle quests and advance through factions) and focus on shoving their "awesome" content down your throat, the underwhelming faction questlines, etc. It'll be an alright game I'm sure, but I just can't see it blowing my socks off. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does. They can start by going for a more interesting setting, like the Summerset Isles. |
| Topic | So is the end of net neutrality going to kill the internet? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 6:31:54 PM #14 | Prestoff posted... It's not the end of days, but the idea that getting rid of net neutrality is going to innovate the internet is just lol worthy. Oh, ISPs will innovate... by coming up with new ways to screw people over. |
| Topic | So is the end of net neutrality going to kill the internet? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 6:28:40 PM #7 | It won't kill the internet or anything, but it'll potentially make it more expensive, harder for new players to compete with the established ones (as the latter will be able to pay for preferential speeds) or with the ISPs' own services and harder for new ISPs to enter the market (e.g. see pole attachment rights), allow ISPs to modify traffic (to add trackers, spyware, ads and other data or even to remove encryption in some cases), etc. |
| Topic | Do you think we're going to wake up one day and the internet will be 100x slower |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 6:15:05 PM #13 | Ignoring the obviously false premise... Essentially, this would give ISPs the power not just to discriminate against certain types of data (in terms of speed, price, etc.), but also to bundle all sorts of other shit in with your data (tracking cookies, malware, etc.) without any recourse, among other things. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-ways-cybersecurity-will-suffer-if-congress-repeals-fcc-privacy-rules Even focusing just on speeds, ISPs wouldn't just decrease speeds across the board (although that would be in their power). They'd be able to favor their own services at the expense of others, slowing some down (even small differences in speed have been shown to push users away from certain sites and to others). They'd be able to offer different tiers of service, like the famous example above. There are other things they'll be able to do beyond that, as mentioned above. |
| Topic | So I'm playing through pokemon yellow. Why did we like this game as kids? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 5:29:21 PM #31 | Highwind07 posted... I only know about Missingno and the Professor Oak one. I think the Oak one is a variation of the Mew glitch. With the Mew glitch, you walk towards a trainer who is off screen and in line with you until they notice you, press start, use Teleport/Dig/Escape Rope/etc., then encounter another trainer. Then you go back to the area with the first trainer and an encounter will trigger depending on the last Pokemon you saw. Certain Pokemon will trigger an encounter with Oak. |
| Topic | So I'm playing through pokemon yellow. Why did we like this game as kids? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 5:24:04 PM #29 | Calwings posted... There's also how unbelievably glitchy Gen 1 was, which actually works in its favor now because people like to experiment and see what crazy stuff they can do with the glitches. Yeah, that's the good thing about (some of) the glitches. Missingno, Mew glitch, glitch city, arbitrary code execution, etc. They're fun to mess around with. |
| Topic | Computer Experts only. Can I retrieve pics from my smashed laptop? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 4:51:53 PM #15 | DoctorVader posted... This should be very easy. Just get a SATA to USB adapter or a USB enclosure for $10 from Microcenter and there's several programs that will help you read the files and just copy them. Yeah, there are programs on Windows that can read other file systems. I'm presuming that OSX uses ext3/ext4 (edit: it uses something else). Alternatively, you could use Linux (even just a Live CD) to do it, but the Windows programs should be fine. |
| Topic | So I'm playing through pokemon yellow. Why did we like this game as kids? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 4:05:39 PM #14 | Calwings posted... So that part is actually even worse than TC says. Hah, pretty much. I especially like Slowbro with Amnesia. Broken as fuck. And that's not even talking about Mewtwo... |
| Topic | So I'm playing through pokemon yellow. Why did we like this game as kids? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 3:22:08 PM #7 | It did have a lot of issues, but this is well known now. I don't really agree with pinky on this one though. The game's age isn't an excuse for many of the issues it had. I can appreciate it missing features that the modern games have, but that's not all we're talking about here. There are so many things that are broken or stupid in the game that you're probably better off listing the things that do work properly. Even back then, this level of glitchiness was pretty much unprecedented. Obligatory:  Also: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_glitches_in_Generation_I |
| Topic | Users in the UK, what do you think of this? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 3:11:20 PM #17 | This sums up how awful May and Rudd are: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/theresa-may-amber-rudd-suppress-westminster-child-abuse-documents-national-security-reasons/20/11/ It's the height of hypocrisy to shelve reports into child abuse and terrorism (the Saudi Arabia ones) but expect everyone's internet browsing data to be recorded, including millions of law abiding citizens. |
| Topic | Users in the UK, what do you think of this? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 2:52:11 PM #14 | seiki posted... whats this thread about, TC post shows nothing. I'm a UK user It's an article about the agencies that can request your internet data under the Snoopers' Charter. |
| Topic | Users in the UK, what do you think of this? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 2:50:04 PM #12 | pinky0926 posted... Honestly I'm really fucking miserable about this. I can't believe this had virtually no opposition. What the hell is going on? Mainly the Lib Dems opposed it really. Shame they had to get into bed with the Tories and renege on the tuition fees promise. In saying that, they did moderate some of the Tory policies at least. Then the Tories got a majority and the rest is history... |
| Topic | Let's see what CE self-proclaims to be politically! |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 2:45:31 PM #5 | Pretty left I guess. |
| Topic | FF7 had pretty much the perfect intro. |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 2:23:55 PM #8 | *bombing mission music plays in head*  |
| Topic | how racist will CE get before CBSi gets involved? |
| luigi13579 11/20/17 8:53:01 AM #12 | SGT_Conti posted... Didn't we have a user say something really shitty about the Holocaust and Jews earlier? You mean the poster that said the Holocaust is more well known than the Rape of Nanking because of Jews being overrepresented in the media? Yep, that was shitty. |
| Topic | RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077... not sure which one I'm hyped for more... |
| luigi13579 11/19/17 12:02:39 PM #17 | Definitely 2077, as I'm a big fan of cyberpunk settings. I can't really say the same about wild west settings. RPGs are my favorite games too, especially when they contain branching storylines, well-written dialogue, unique character classes (as 2077 will, going by the source material and info out there), etc. I think 2077 will likely tick most or all of these boxes. CDPR + Mike Pondsmith are the dream team also. Admittedly, as great as The Witcher 3 is, there are a few things about it that I'm not a huge fan of. However, they're not down to a lack of talent from the devs (they have that in abundance), but rather the type of game that TW3 is. I think that 2077 will rectify many of these things. For example, it'll have character classes / a customizable character rather than a fixed one, which I prefer for this type of game. It'll also have a different setting, not just a cyberpunk one, but a city one, so hopefully the world will be denser. |
| Topic | Why was the Nintendo GameCube overlooked? |
| luigi13579 11/19/17 11:41:32 AM #56 | ReD_ToMaTo posted... Garbage library like every Nintendo console after SNES. I think that's quite an exaggeration. It didn't have the depth of the PS2 or SNES, but it still had a decent number of great games. |
| Topic | Why is it that WW2 is more known for the Holocaust than what Japan did to China? |
| luigi13579 11/19/17 9:39:48 AM #7 | The former was closer to home, as it were, and part of something more infamous / impactful (WWII). In India, Churchill is probably more hated than Hitler, for example. Pol Pot in Cambodia. Fishy posted... Could it be because of the disproportionate amount of Jews in the media? ... |
| Topic | *googles a problem I have with a computer and gets linked to a forum* |
| luigi13579 11/19/17 8:22:36 AM #4 | |
| Topic | Why was the Nintendo GameCube overlooked? |
| luigi13579 11/19/17 7:44:32 AM #29 | 008Zulu posted... Nintendo's cute little mini disks only held 1.5gb. PS2 discs could go as high as 4.7. Am I right in saying that they could go as high as 9.4 double-sided? Tadamoto35 posted... And probably a few more I'm forgetting. You also had all the classic Resident Evil games (1-3, Code Veronica / X and of course the brilliant REmake) plus 4. In terms of RPGs, there was Tales of Symphonia. I hear the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games were pretty fun too. The multiplat selection was way ahead of the N64's. To add to what was already listed, there was Hitman 2, Splinter Cell, Burnout, TimeSplitters 2 and 3, Viewtiful Joe 1 & 2, Second Sight, Killer7, Beyond Good & Evil, etc. |
| Topic | Most powerful canonical boss in a game? |
| luigi13579 11/19/17 6:27:08 AM #23 | There's stronger, but I always have to post this (of Super Robot Taisen OG Gaiden's Dark Brain):  |
| Topic | Wow this site really is filled with Nintendrones. |
| luigi13579 11/18/17 5:16:47 PM #6 | It was the first console I bought that gen (I got a PS2 a few years in). Sue me. :P Great console BTW, albeit not as good as the NES and SNES as far as Nintendo consoles go. Plus, it was actually cheaper than than the PS2 early on (and more powerful), although that wasn't my main consideration at the time. |
| Topic | Is the Witcher 3 the greatest open world game of all time? |
| luigi13579 11/18/17 4:00:14 PM #5 | Morrowind and New Vegas are my personal favorites anyway. And GTA: San Andreas. *raises flame shield* |
| Topic | new firefox is garbo |
| luigi13579 11/18/17 2:14:09 PM #9 | No complaints here. It broke one add-on, which I've found a (better) alternative for. uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, etc. all work. The UI isn't hugely different from how I had it before. I just needed to add the Bookmarks button back on. Other than that, it's much snappier. The memory footprint is probably better for me too. |
| Topic | Full price games that you've double dipped on? |
| luigi13579 11/18/17 2:09:00 PM #15 | Butterfiles posted... I've never done this Same. The only time I've double-dipped is when I've been getting the game cheap a second time, particularly on PC/Steam for mods / DLC I missed out on. For example, I bought Oblivion at full price on the 360 (before the DLCs were out), then I bought the GotY Deluxe Edition with all the DLC when it was on sale. I did the same with GTA IV (I got the full pack of GTA games including Episodes From Liberty City). |
| Topic | What kind of game is the original pokemon? |
| luigi13579 11/18/17 1:25:28 PM #12 | Yep, it's a top-down 2D RPG. Presumably you're meaning ones that don't have a world map, but one large world (with some transitions). So that would discount games like the 2D Final Fantasies. The Mother games (Mother, EarthBound and Mother 3) are like that. Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, etc. are also (if you count games with real-time combat). And I think the Quintet trilogy too. And Star Ocean. To be honest, most games I can think of like that have real-time combat similar to Zelda's. |
| Topic | Whats your most played game on steam? |
| luigi13579 11/18/17 11:22:22 AM #16 | Civilization V with 249 hours. |
| Topic | Your reaction: Your mother is going through your internet history. |
| luigi13579 11/18/17 8:26:51 AM #10 | My full history: Noooooooooo! The saved history: I can live with that. |
| Topic | What killed me about older survival horror games (Silent Hill for example) |
| luigi13579 11/17/17 6:03:25 PM #4 | I remember Mr. X in Resident Evil 2 scared the shit out of me. Nowadays, the impact of these games on me has definitely decreased. Plus, as you say, we're more aware of better gameplay strategies now that make the enemies less threatening. The bonus weapons were always fun for a while just to mess around. Although, I remember RE3 throwing weapons and ammo at me, especially on the lower difficulties. Mercenaries Mode was great, and again in RE4. I never managed to try RE2's Extreme Battle mode. It looked amazing. |
| Topic | Are anyone elses videos on the new Firefox looking screwed up? |
| luigi13579 11/17/17 4:51:19 PM #7 | They look fine for me. FF_Redux posted... They look fine for me Heh. |
| Topic | "At Least My Generation Will Have Our Revenge On The Millennials" |
| luigi13579 11/17/17 4:07:36 PM #1 | https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/11/16/at-least-my-generation-will-have-our-revenge-on-the-millennials-n2409840 Not sure if real or satire. It gave me a good chuckle anyway. :P |
| Topic | Alright, where's the extension for Firefox to make it look the way it used to |
| luigi13579 11/17/17 12:28:35 PM #9 | pegusus123456 posted... Okay, I keep seeing people suggest this kind of thing, but the issue is that no one ever explains how the hell you use it. There are instructions on this page: https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html pkmnlord posted... I've followed all the instructions and it's not changing anything. I pasted the code in my userChrome.css folder and it's supposed to work immediately, but nothing happened. Even after I restart Firefox. God this is stupid. It works fine for me. Is the userChrome.css (exactly that) file within the chrome folder which is itself in the current user profile folder (see above link for accessing that). The css file on that page requires renaming. If that's the case, then I'm not sure. |
| Topic | Alright, where's the extension for Firefox to make it look the way it used to |
| luigi13579 11/17/17 6:23:43 AM #5 | For the colors at least, there's Menu -> Customize -> Themes ->Light. Tabs below address bar (scroll down): https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html |
| Topic | Rec me a top down 2D handheld Zelda. |
| luigi13579 11/16/17 6:04:02 PM #2 | A Link Between Worlds is probably your best bet, if you count that as "top down 2D". The Oracles are pretty good too, but ALBW is more straightforward I think. |
| Topic | C/D: Skyrim VR and Switch are going to be the last Skyrim rereleases |
| luigi13579 11/16/17 5:14:51 PM #9 | Also, gieb Summerset Isles nao! Somewhere more exotic than Cyrodiil and Skyrim anyway. AlabamaLove posted... Kinda want an Oblivion remaster, tho. One where leveling isn't dumb and dual wielding is a thing. Surely there are mods for that. At least, I'm sure there are for the former. I suppose it'd still be nice to have something official though, maybe even with added content. |
| Topic | C/D: Skyrim VR and Switch are going to be the last Skyrim rereleases |
| luigi13579 11/16/17 5:12:39 PM #4 | D. Maybe the last before TES VI (hopefully), but I suspect they're port it to even more devices going forward given its popularity. |
| Topic | Killer is Dead free on the Humble Bundle Store |
| luigi13579 11/16/17 5:01:43 PM #36 | Nice one, thanks. I'm a huge fan of Killer7, so it'll be interesting to see what this one is like. I hear it's not as good, but it's still worth a try. |
| Topic | In 2016, there was a RISE in hate crimes...against white people |
| luigi13579 11/16/17 5:00:12 PM #54 | Mal_Fet posted... Indeed, and more jurisdictions have been reporting every year. So even knowing that we're dealing with a larger sample size this year compared to years prior, hate crimes against black people are still falling numerically. It checks out. More Category I jurisdictions included in 2016. |
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