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I remember it used to be posted on here all the time. Not so now. I haven't been there in years.

Diablo II: LoD
Deus Ex
System Shock 1/2
Thief 1/2
Morrowind (and probably Oblivion, Fallout 3/NV and even Skyrim at low settings)

Oh, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

These damn furries are taking over.

Reminds me of this from George Carlin:



Brilliant lol.

I think there's more than one way. The second is the standard way in most languages, so presumably it's the same here.

The third object would be:

array[2].name

Probably YouTube.

Reddit would be shit since it links to other sites. You'd be left with self-posts, which are OK I guess, but it wouldn't be the same.

If your only defense of the net neutrality repeal is "don't use these websites", then it must be an awful idea.

eston posted...

A lot of people don't realize this because they didn't bother with it, but the HL demo was not a snippet from the final game. It was an exclusive level that only appeared in the demo.

I wish more games did that

I completely forgot about that being the case to be honest. It is pretty cool when it happens.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Not quite as screw-jobbery as the spin suggests:

Seems it's meant to encourage employers to pay at least the minimum wage. I'm not sure if that's the way to go about it though.

Darmik posted...

One of the earliest Xbox exclusive darlings was Ninja Gaiden. Smh at Xbox gamers who act elitist over Japanese games.

Ninja Gaiden Black, what a game. And the graphics!

Hurrah for the job creators!

I read it the other way round, i.e. a law that protects workers that have their tips stolen, thinking, "Oh, OK, that makes sense" then had to do a double-take. I guess I shouldn't be surprised though.

I also had the Half-Life demo on PC, which was cool.

There was this action/adventure type game with a female MC that I played the demo of quite a bit too. I have no idea of the name.

InTheEyesOfFire posted...

I had those same ones. You never got the disc with the first bits of mgs as a demo?

Nah, I didn't manage to play MGS before release. It was nice to play it fresh I suppose.

I had ones with Tomba! and Spyro that I played quite a bit. Oh, and a MediEvil one.

These were Official PlayStation Magazine UK demo discs.

Also, the Spyro one had this Metal Gear Solid trailer that hyped me up so much:



The game didn't disappoint.

MysticMismagius posted...

Or doesnt let you beat the game at all.

Never mind easy mode, but I think you need to beat Mega Man Battle Network 4 3 times to see all the content.

That's the main reason why I went for the PS4. I knew that the X1's (western) games were more likely to end up on PC than the PS4's Japanese games.

*pops Morrowind in*
*spends 2 days modding it*

It's worth it though!

But yeah, it's definitely nice to be able to pop a game in and play it instantly. Most consoles these days are the worst of both worlds in that they lack the customization of the PC but also take ages at times with updates and other crap (with the updates often fixing some big issues and more or less being required).

The other good thing about the N64 is the fast loading times of cartridges compared to optical media like CDs. That was one disadvantage of the PS1 not using carts.

I *don't* miss memory cards though. They were portable at least, but also expensive, lacking in storage space and prone to breaking.

So now you take what Buzzfeed say as gospel? I thought they were "fake news".

Buzzfeed News is actually alright though, I have to admit. Regular Buzzfeed is garbage.

In Diablo II:

*finds amazing item*
"Yes!"
*picks it up*
*item is Ethereal* (which basically means it can't be repaired and is useless once it breaks)

It can be good for some items (that are Indestructible, repair their durability / replenish their quantity or are worth socketing with a Zod Rune, which makes them Indestructible), but other than that, it's bad.

Even worse is when you die in Hardcore mode (in which your character dies permanently), especially when it's due to the server lagging. If you have good items, they're gone. If you're a high level, all the Exp. is gone.

Garioshi posted...

This same outrage would not happen if it was in a book or a movie. Video games are held to a higher standard for a completely arbitrary reason.

Probably the connotations of the word "game" and the fact that people unfamiliar with modern games probably think they're all mindless entertainment like Pong (rather than something more story focused).

In this instance, they likely see this as something the player can take part in rather than something that happens as part of a story. See the first quote in the article.

southcoast09 posted...

THIS is why we are ending net neutrality, for those who don't understand.

This is nothing to do with net neutrality. The US spying laws exist independent of that (e.g. Patriot Act). The FCC doesn't have the power to implement such a thing. The corporations that repealing net neutrality will empower though? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-ways-cybersecurity-will-suffer-if-congress-repeals-fcc-privacy-rules

He deserves what he gets.

They are "just words", but he's actively encouraging rape, so I can make an exception here.

Taken in Brussels airport.

Saw this on r/Cyberpunk.

Anyway, I'm not sure I share the same positivity. Automation has the potential to work that way, but we're not great as a species at planning ahead for massive changes like this. If we do get to a situation like that, I think it'll take many years of great upheaval before it happens. I certainly don't expect there to be anything in place before automation takes over to a significant degree. Profits in the here and now aren't going to be sacrificed. I hope I'm proven wrong.

If we are to advance as a species, this is definitely the way to go though.

This will probably interest @FLUFFYGERM.

Trump can go whistle.

Even if the tweets were coming from a good place (which I doubt), he of all people should be wary of spreading "fake news". It's the height of hypocrisy for him to attack others for doing so and then to do it himself. If he'd admitted it was a genuine mistake, fair enough, but he just doubled down.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/att-and-comcast-win-lawsuit-they-filed-to-stall-google-fiber-in-nashville/

"competition"

Also:

"by Washington Examiner"

Haha. Not telling us who wrote the article? I wonder why... *cough*Ajit Pai*cough*

Reminds me of when Pai pointed to one of his own articles as a reason to repeal NN.

Philoktetes posted...

Net neutralitys dubious value is made obvious by the misleading way Democrats and many news outlets reported the decision. F.C.C. plans net neutrality repeal in a victory for telecoms, wrote the New York Times. Missing from the headline or lede was that the decision was a loss for Netflix, Amazon, Google, and other corporate giants that provider content.

So, a net neutrality repeal hurts these "liberal companies" (that censor conservative viewpoints) therefore it's good? Is that what they're getting at here? It hurting these companies is a secondary concern. Pai and his cronies keep conflating these issues, i.e. those surrounding the internet infrastructure and those surrounding the companies that use it.

Even so, proponents of net neutrality have been clear that it would harm these large companies (remember ISPs throttling Netflix data and shaking them down for money?). The point, however, is that it would also harm smaller companies that don't have their deep pockets and influence, so it would still be a net gain for the larger companies.

Philoktetes posted...

So, lets look at the merits. Net neutrality is, generally, good in principle, for it lays down the law that the networks over which we get information should not discriminate between one type of information and another. For example, it would be wrong if AT&T prevented its Internet customers from searching for prices charged by other cellphone providers. You wouldnt want Comcast blocking access to articles complaining about its customer service.

And yet that's exactly what the net neutrality repeal will allow.

Philoktetes posted...

One reason is that the market will take care of wrongdoers. Comcast would lose Internet customers if, for example, it only allowed those customers to see MSNBC (Comcasts sister company) for news.

Except internet at decent speeds is massively important nowadays. If your only alternative is dial-up / slow internet, you're hardly going to switch. The "market" is more or less non-existent, in part due to anticompetitive business practices from ISPs (blocking access to telecom poles, blocking municipal broadband, etc.). Sort that shit out, then maybe you can start thinking about repealing net neutrality. If it's repealed now, ISPs will have no incentive to fix these issues and nothing will get done.

Philoktetes posted...

Consider the possibility of Internet fast lanes. As telemedicine becomes an increasingly important part of healthcare, wouldnt you want your surgeon to be able to buy access to an express lane in which a network was allowed to grant privilege to certain data over others? That is, AT&T should be allowed to provide a service in which data bytes flowing between an operating room and a surgeon take precedence over bytes of 100 dudes Googling to find out whether Jennifer Lawrence is married.

Or *gasp* they could offer different speeds for different prices without discriminating against certain data, something they already do

Philoktetes posted...

Why is it better for the federal government rather than customers to decide how networks should handle data? It's perplexing that the option of government controlling data flow should be welcomed, especially at a time when so many people are freaking out of the admittedly silly fear that Trump is an anti-free-speech authoritarian.

The point is that it's *not* controlled and data isn't discriminated against based on data type, application, IP address, etc.

The perplexing thing is thinking that controlling data in this way is bad then letting ISPs do just that, except at a higher level (i.e. the infrastructure level).

SusanGreenEyes posted...

Am I the only one here who plays Morrowind?

I have a playthrough going right now (Telvanni with Rise of House Telvanni, Uvirith's Legacy and Building Up Uvirith's Legacy).

I'm about to install the STEP Guide mods (http://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Morrowind) and do another playthrough, probably as a Hlaalu thief type this time. Are there any good Hlaalu mods similar to the above Telvanni ones (i.e. to add quest(line)s and a house/base to upgrade)?

sktgamer_13dude posted...

Wait what jobs are being created? Source?

Jobs at food banks and homeless shelters.

*runs*

People believe politicians' promises now? inb4trumpisn'tacareerpolitician

Parappa09 posted...

there's no way a snooker player is an 'athlete'

You haven't seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Werbeniuk then, haha.

Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of alcohol he consumed before and during matches at least six pints before a match and then one pint for each frame. In total, he drank between 40 and 50 pints of lager per day.[1][3] Doctors advised Werbeniuk to drink alcohol to counteract a familial benign essential tremor.[4] Later in his career he also took propranolol, a beta blocker, to cope with the effects of his alcohol consumption on his heart.[5]

Bill was also famously reported in the UK tabloid press as successfully claiming the cost of 6 pints of lager before every match as a tax deductible expense.[2]

Some of Werbeniuk's most famous feats of drinking include: 76 cans of lager during a game with John Spencer in Australia in the 1970s;[1] 43 pints of lager in a snooker match/drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair in which, after Sinclair had passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say "I'm away to the bar now for a proper drink";[6] 28 pints of lager and 16 whiskies over the course of 11 frames during a match against Nigel Bond, in January 1990 after which Werbeniuk then consumed an entire bottle of Scotch to "drown his sorrows" after losing the match.[1]

Makes me laugh every time.

It's a good game but nothing spectacular, and a step back in some regards IMO.

I can't really think of any game that stands out for me though. Going forward, something like Cyberpunk 2077 might change that (if it makes this decade, assuming 2020 is the cutoff).

The origin definitely looks better tbqh. The blockiness and garish purple color look terrible compared to the sleeker look with the rounded edges. The colors on the controller and logo are also more distinctive.

I think I got a little bit of that on my laptop at first, but haven't noticed it since. I'm not sure it even happened at all on my (more powerful) PC.

inb4usingFFin2017

Freddie_Mercury posted...

depends on how many tabs you have open I think

I might have had more open at the time.

Just the standard copypasta they all use, with the same tired talking points and buzzwords.

Of course.

Ouch. That's like the Bitcoin equivalent of losing a jackpot winning lottery ticket.

He's conflating two separate issues to play to his conservative base and those ignorant about net neutrality (who are often one in the same).

Sage JJ posted...

Just curious but say Net Neutrality goes way and we now have to buy website tiers. Does that mean Twitter is going to stop deciding what can and cant be shown on it?

Nope. It's a separate thing entirely.

Funbazooka posted...

Not gonna click. Never heard of newsthump.

They're a satirical publication.

newsthump has been knocking it out the park lately:

http://newsthump.com/2017/11/30/were-doing-just-fine-says-head-of-nation-where-armed-toddlers-kill-more-people-than-islamic-terrorists/

Lol.

I like the LPer to have in-depth knowledge of game to the point where they know cool things I don't know (about the gameplay, lore, development, etc.).

On the mix-maxing / role-playing axis, I don't really mind. Having an LPer break the shit out of the game can be fun, but equally I like it when they play a particular archetype and stick to it and don't make use of knowledge that the character wouldn't have to a reasonable degree, particularly in RPGs of course.

Humor is welcome as long as it's not forced and is of course genuinely funny. TheAuZZieGamer is quite good at that side of things.

Gunpo posted...

I bought it a couple years ago on sale, still gotta play it one day

Same.

I think I tried to emulate it since I couldn't be bothered getting my PS2 out and had an issue. My new PC is probably powerful enough. Or I could just use the original hardware.

Fishy posted...

What's it saying then? Because I can name you a dozen big cities that haven't seen a terrorist attack in years while big refugee centers like London and Paris have seen more in the past few years than they have in decades.

I think it'll help to look at the exact quote:

"It is a reality I'm afraid that London, New York, other major cities around the world have got to be prepared for these sorts of things," he said.

"That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities, it means the security services being ready, but also it means exchanging ideas and best practice."

That's a far cry from what many claim he said. You should expect to be prepared. Well, of course you should. How could anyone disagree with that? Even if you live in a city that doesn't have attacks like this, it'd be complacent to not be prepared.