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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 4, 2013, 15:12 |
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Redmask wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 15:07:
On a few other forums I read they've had to separate the discussion threads into people who have read the books and people who haven't.
Or, more aptly, the Intelligentsia vs the Filthy Heathens? 
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Jun 4, 2013, 14:59 |
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I can't believe I watched the whole video. Pretty cool. 
No idea how stable it is, of course, since he only used each iteration for like 20 seconds, but still cool that it worked.
I loved that he blacked out the key for Windows ME. As if anyone's going to steal it, buddy.
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 4, 2013, 14:40 |
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Blue wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 14:25:
Creston wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 12:41:
Speaking of Tywin... (SPOILER)
For the future, can I ask that book spoilers be made further distinct from show spoilers? That sort of ruined my day, even if it was my fault for reading it.
I said SPOILER and I put it in secret text. I'm not really sure what else to do?
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Jun 4, 2013, 14:39 |
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That email in itself isn't the damning part, though. The damning part came when an interviewer asked Steve Jobs "How are you planning on selling books at $12.99 or $14.99 when Amazon sells the same books at $9.99?"
Jobs replied "Amazon will change their price to the new price point."
The interviewer, skeptical, asked "Are you sure about that?
To which Jobs replied "They will have no choice."
I'm paraphrasing a little here, but that was the gist of it. He knew amazon would have no choice, because he was working on his illegal price fixing deal with the e-book publishers, and if Amazon didn't go along with the new price, they would simply no longer get any books.
Sadly, Apple, this is illegal even for you. Enjoy getting your ass roasted in court. I look forward to seeing a nice big check arrive from you with restitution for every one of the ~200 odd e-books I've bought since 2010. (Edit: Actually, I bought none of those from Apple, so I will likely get a check from the publishers. Or maybe from Amazon. Whatever. SHOW ME THE MONEY!)
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| News Comments > Halo: Spartan Assault Announced for Windows 8 |
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Re: Halo: Spartan Assault Announced for Windows 8 |
Jun 4, 2013, 14:16 |
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InBlack wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 10:23:
Please dont lynch me, but Im thinking about getting a windows8 smartphone. They are dirt cheap, and look pretty & functional. (The OS makes sense on a mobile phone, who would have thought...) Should I rather go Android? This is my first smartphone and I dont really look forward to it but my old phone is dying as we speak.
It depends on what you're going to do. If all you'll do is make a few calls, send a few texts and occasionally use data, Windows phone works fine.
If you're going to be a heavy smartphone user, Android or iOS is a far better bet than Windows Phone.
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| News Comments > Halo: Spartan Assault Announced for Windows 8 |
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Re: Halo: Spartan Assault Announced for Windows 8 |
Jun 4, 2013, 14:14 |
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Jerykk wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 12:29:
durandal wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 10:42:
It's Vista & Halo 2 all over again.
Not even. MS thought that Halo 2 would be the killer app that made people buy Vista. I'm pretty sure no one at MS thinks Spartan Assault will make people buy Windows 8.
Of course not. 1/7th of the world's population will buy a TVRemoteBox after all. There won't be anyone still bothering with Windows for something as dirty as games.
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| News Comments > Deus: Ex: The Fall Reveal Tomorrow? |
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Jun 4, 2013, 12:40 |
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Parias wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 12:27:
What's super-annoying is that the Wii-U version of DX:HR actually WILL have seamless integration of the Missing Link DLC.... as well as re-worked boss battles from the core game to be less silly.
And allegedly they're not planning to backport these changes to the PC platform =\ Although after a bunch of rage about this on the official forums, I heard they were going to bring the demand for this up with the developers.... so maybe there's some hope.
Huh, I didn't know that. Let's hope they'll backport it, but I can see that the cost would probably be too prohibitive. Thanks for the update, anyway.
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| News Comments > Deus: Ex: The Fall Reveal Tomorrow? |
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Jun 4, 2013, 11:55 |
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nin wrote on Jun 4, 2013, 11:03:
by the way this is being handled...the same team who did the DLC, April Tweat and made the Boss Fights took over any future development.
You mean the same team that did the core game? To my knowledge, it's not changed hands at all...the original boss fights were outsourced, and they've said they regretted that decision and have learned from it.
Not only that, but the Missing Link DLC was AWESOME. The only downside was that it didn't seamlessly integrate (like they do in LA Noire, for example). So yeah, more of that, please.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Jun 4, 2013, 11:45 |
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The tornado shelter article is okay, but the comments are really interesting. Apparently some dipshit weather announcer in Oklahoma City told people to get in their car and drive south to escape the tornado.
Which caused a massive traffic snarl, which was then hit by a tornado.
I've probably watched a thousand hours of extreme weather reporting on local TV, and I've NEVER heard a single weatherman EVER say to get in your car and run. That has to be the most irresponsible thing you could possibly do, and I hope the idiot who did so loses his job over it.
Your car is literally the worst place you can be when a tornado hits...
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| News Comments > Morning Interviews |
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Re: Morning Interviews |
Jun 4, 2013, 11:27 |
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I really like the idea for Bunkers and Badasses. Good interview too (amazingly, from games.on.net!)
Pretty excited for the DLC to come out. Should be in a fairly quiet time as well (only thing scheduled for June afaik is the Shadowrun game.)
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Jun 4, 2013, 11:10 |
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Bizarre. I love it. Steve Jobs conspires to illegally fix e-book prices (mostly to fuck with Amazon), enters into a massive cartel with the 6 largest publishers, literally admits to doing so in an interview, and now Apple pretends "What? It's so unfair!"
with Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services Eddy Cue as the “chief ringleader of conspiracy”
I guess they can't lay the blame on Jobs anymore, so some VP schlub has to take the fall.
Fucking assholes. I hope you get hit with a 500 billion dollar settlement.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 4, 2013, 01:54 |
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I haven't read the books in 10+ years, so I'm fuzzy on the details. All I remember is that he goes off to the Freys basically by himself and brings his mother, and that's about it, for no singular purpose whatsoever.
It was fucking stupid. Robb was far, far smarter than that, and killing him because he gets plot-stupid is just retarded. If you want to kill him as a writer, there are literally a thousand better ways to do it than "I GO EAT THERE DUHHHHHH OH NOW THEY KILL ME DUHHHHH"
Anyways, by that point I was long since rooting for Daenerys to wipe the whole kingdom out, but sadly she seems to suffer from Aes-Sedai syndrome.
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 3, 2013, 23:53 |
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I don't care that he kills characters. Like people have said, that does keep it interesting, and does keep you on your toes.
But I do care when he kills them in literally the dumbest way possible, and that the main characters get "plot-stupid" in order to fall for the biggest fucking advertised trap in the history of storytelling. Nobody in the entire universe would (spoiler) fall for the trap that Rob walks into like a total retard completely brainless amoeba.
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| News Comments > Deus Ex: The Fall Teasing? |
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Re: Deus Ex: The Fall Teasing? |
Jun 3, 2013, 23:48 |
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Don't fucking tease us again only to come up with another shitty joke, Eidos... I would recommend that you be glad you actually have fans for the franchise, and stop trying to piss them off.
Ergo—Latin—make another game.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 3, 2013, 11:09 |
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Glad you enjoyed it.
Yeah, it does get a little sloppy at the end, but up until that point it's been an absolute blast, so I'll forgive him the last 100 pages. (Plus, as people here have said before, he's not the greatest writer of endings in the world.) He also left some plotlines open to lead into the Void Trilogy.
There's a little more elaboration of Cat's crimes in the Void trilogy, but I don't think you ever get it specifically spelled out what she initially did, though. IIRC Hamilton once said that he deliberately left it vague, so people could imagine it themselves.
In the Void trilogy, you'll be kind of able to figure out what she did just by stint of someone else getting a thousand year suspension. Let's just say you need to permanently body-loss a LOT of people.
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| News Comments > U.K. Sales Charts |
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Jun 3, 2013, 11:04 |
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I gotta say, I'm a little disappointed that Grid2 simply stops after 5 seasons. Sure, by that time you'll have done 250-odd races, but why can't I keep going with the awesome collection of cars that I have? 
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