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GasBandit
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Pretend I pretended.
Aye, and there's the rub: I don't know if those laughs I received were real or pretend - I can never know if I was funny or not.
. . . it's moments like this when I envy Dave's delusion. At least he thinks he knows he's funny.
No, he knows he thinks he's funny.
This is only tangently related to gaming but a guy just bought $10k(fake Canadian monopoly money but still) worth of PSN time cards from me. Between his 12 month and 3 month cards he had about 200 years total.
There is currently a scam going around where people phone you up and claim you owe back taxes and the only way to pay them is through itunes cards, psn cards or xbox live. I thought this may have been that but it turns out it was just for prizes for a raffle for his company. Or at least that's what he said.
The price of PSN is increasing soon and I imagine he's just a reseller trying to make a few dollars on the lower priced cards.
There is currently a scam going around where people phone you up and claim you owe back taxes and the only way to pay them is through itunes cards, psn cards or xbox live. I thought this may have been that but it turns out it was just for prizes for a raffle for his company. Or at least that's what he said.
The price of PSN is increasing soon and I imagine he's just a reseller trying to make a few dollars on the lower priced cards.
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That is a distinct possibility, probability given it's downtown Vancouver, though everything ID wise checked out. We'll find out in a bit if they get charged back but ultimately if that's the case they will just deactivate the cards.
Pakistani lawyer's gonna beat you at your own game.
Watch this:
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GasBandit
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Welp, he's gonna need new boots.
Jim refers to VR as "privilege goggles" and, I mean, he's not wrong. It's overpriced gimmicky nonsense that, like the Kinect, requires a generally large area of space to use. And there has yet to be a single game that really warrants getting it in the first place.
GasBandit
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Next he'll be calling my holodeck the "Privilege room!"
... ok, that would be pretty privileged.
Nonsense. The holodeck is a product of a communist society that has moved beyond crude material considerations like money and privilege.
GasBandit
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Scott Adams postulates that, since money and sex are the root motivation for all human endeavor, once holodeck technology becomes cheaper than dating, the human race will be doomed.
meh, we'll just have to outsource reproduction. Chinese breeding farms? Maybe, you know, grow a human uterus in a pig and fill it up with IVF? We're already growing lungs and ears and stuff in 'm, a uterus can't be that much harder.
They are, however, really cool.
If you had a holodeck, it wouldn't be covered in "privilege."
This, incidentally, is also mentioned in passing during A. I.
--Patrick
Alright, I've had a chance to watch the video now.
All I can really get from this is that Jim (fucking) Sterling (son) doesn't like VR. And that's perfectly understandable, not everyone will. But I have to strongly disagree that it offers nothing to make gaming better.
Though, in truth, 'better' is the wrong word here. Different is. VR offers a different and unique experience from playing other games. You can play Guitar Hero on a controller, but that doesn't accomplish the same "feeling" of playing it with the guitar controller. Guitar Hero offers an experience, and that is what VR offers. Pressing a button to dodge is a lot easier than physically twisting your body to dodge that laser in Space Pirate Trainer, but it doesn't feel nearly as awesome, it's not the same experience.
Is VR the future of ALL gaming? Absolutely not. But it does have quite a lot to offer for those who want to seek it out, and have enough "privilege" to do it. People spend thousands of dollars on high end gaming PCs because that is their hobby of choice, they enjoy it. This is really no different.
It is still in its infancy, however. But unlike waggle motion controls, which always felt clunky and you could tell would go nowhere, VR offers a wealth of new possibilities. It is yet another color on the palette of gaming that developers can choose from, and I look forward to seeing what they create.
That's a Bethesda-tier glitch, that is.
I got a 5 finger discount version of Mafia 3 and played it for 2 hours and pretended I paid for it on Steam before I refunded it.
- Mapping the keyboard is a mess, whatever you map won't translate on-screen instructions which is REALLY annoying and confusing.
- You can map some keys but won't be able to use the in-game. AWESOME. So I needed to use GlovePie to get it going. Mapping my keyboard took a little over 30 minutes.
- FPS is capped at 30 which makes it really jarring to play, especially when driving.
- I downloaded the patch and installed it, with a GTX 980, I was struggling to get 50 FPS and the game lagged hard at times.
- In the 1 hour I played the game crashed to desktop trice at various points. Once in the middle of combat, once when a cinematic started and once when it ended.
No thanks.
I'll wait when this game will be less than $10 and hopefully by then they have ironed this one out.
- Mapping the keyboard is a mess, whatever you map won't translate on-screen instructions which is REALLY annoying and confusing.
- You can map some keys but won't be able to use the in-game. AWESOME. So I needed to use GlovePie to get it going. Mapping my keyboard took a little over 30 minutes.
- FPS is capped at 30 which makes it really jarring to play, especially when driving.
- I downloaded the patch and installed it, with a GTX 980, I was struggling to get 50 FPS and the game lagged hard at times.
- In the 1 hour I played the game crashed to desktop trice at various points. Once in the middle of combat, once when a cinematic started and once when it ended.
No thanks.
I'll wait when this game will be less than $10 and hopefully by then they have ironed this one out.
That problem was fixed in the same patch that unlocked the FPS. At least according to patch notes, I haven't played it.
I read that as well, didn't see a change nor did the unlock the FPS help me much. Sadly, it's a bad port.
Really wanted to like this game but sadly they didn't give a shit about PC gamers.
Mafia 1 and 2 were so good.
Did You Know Gaming put together a pretty nice video about Iwata.
There was an old tactical RPG by Broderbund I used to love playing on the C64 called Centauri Alliance. There were 6 playable races: Human, Donsai (optimal humanoid warriors), Arcturian (insect people, good at combat and tech), Valkyryn (bird people, too frail for combat but great with tech and psionics), Praktor (shapeshifters), Manstrak (reptiles, strong and tough and good with tech). Combat was set on simple hex maps, you could travel between worlds, there were a variety of dungeons to explore. It was great.
Basically, it was The Bard's Tale set in space (since it was made by Michael Cranford as well). I'd love to see what a modern version of it would be like.
Honestly I could see Harebrained Games doing it using their isometric RPG system like they did with Shadowrun Returns and it working really, really well.
Basically, it was The Bard's Tale set in space (since it was made by Michael Cranford as well). I'd love to see what a modern version of it would be like.
Honestly I could see Harebrained Games doing it using their isometric RPG system like they did with Shadowrun Returns and it working really, really well.
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