Mastaba wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 15:27:
What nonsense descender,

jdreyer wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 15:12:
@ Beamer, I read an article recently that tribalism is still THE issue over at MS, and was the primary failure for the Kin failing. The article described infighting among different divisions instead of working together to make a uniform product. The Kin was a couple of years ago, but I can't imagine things have changed that much.

nin wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 14:29:
American McGee's American McGee's Interview (with American McGee!)

nin wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 14:22:

ldonyo wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 09:34:
Every time I see an article on games being 'lost' on XBLA it's always based on comments from a developer whose game isn't selling very well. Maybe it's the game and not XBLA.

It is a pain in the ass to navigate and find stuff, if you're not sure what you're after...

Verno wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 13:34:
Just my 2 cents, I don't think Crysis necessarily looks better, I just thought his response was bizarre. Far Cry 3 with MSAA is pretty impressive but I don't see why he thought another game competing with it visually was so dubious. Bioshock for its time was a pretty good looking game and I'd wait to see this at least before passing judgment.

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 12:00:

Beamer wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 10:11:
One issue often overlooked here is also the media. Each killing gets covered more and more in-depth. Each shooter becomes more and more a household name. This just leads to more shootings.

But how do you stop that?

We don't know. It's not an easy thing to change. Of course the networks won't stop covering - it's huge ratings. The government doesn't have a leg to stand on to stopping them. And people just tune in.

So there's really nothing we can control there, and that's probably the single biggest factor in why this happens - people wanting to be famous.


Ultimately we can't stop these. All we can do is lessen their frequency and their damage. Hence: smaller clips. Hence: more restrictions on getting guns.

Haven't really seen a case where smaller clips would have mattered. Even the Newtown guy was dropping them half-used. Shotguns can be reloaded on the fly, while always being ready to shoot. Speedloaders and speedstrips make reloading even revolvers very quick. Most shooters carried more than one gun too, so they always have at least a backup. This is all pretty common sense for anyone that plans to get into a firefight.

The only times I can think of where magazine size has figured into the equation was a couple of times when the guy tried to use one of those 100 round drum mags and it caused the weapon to jam, as would be expected by anyone that's familiar with the track record of those things. I think that happened with the Aurora shooter.

So, no, reducing mag size would just be an inconvenience to law-abiding owners. Anyone else doesn't care that they're against the law. They are plentiful around the world and could be had fairly cheaply if someone so desired. We'll just end up creating yet another black market trade across our borders, which, predictably, we'll be completely unsuccessful at stopping. It will, however, give the government all sorts of reasons to infringe on the liberties of citizens in the name of the War on Guns. Yeah, we need another one of those...

Bhruic wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 12:46:

Beamer wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 11:53:
Claptrap's "minion" thing didn't bug me because Claptrap is a deluded idiot. Him thinking we're his minion was funny because it was so clearly wrong.

Brick calling us "Slab" bugged me more. Claptrap being dumb and thinking we work for him was funny. Brick not being as dumb and thinking we work for him (and being right, but working for him isn't the same as joining his stupid bandit tribe) was less so.

Completely agree. Playing through with a friend, and it's a tossup whether I want to kill Jack more or Brick. "I'm not a ^%$@^&$ Slab you asshat!" But I never liked Brick even in BL1, so that might have had an impact.

Sepharo wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 11:03:

Beamer wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 10:15:
Interesting vent. Personally, I enjoy when the primary source is cited rather than the secondary. I guess my vent on the vent is specifically about when Blue links to a Vimeo that's just an embedded YouTube link. I have no interest in Vimeo and always just click the YouTube icon to watch it on that site, where I can read the notes of whoever put it up and, if needed (and not horrific) the comments from the viewers. Inevitably the Vimeo comments are just "*cats" or "upvoted," with no discussion, and it never carries through the comments of the uploader, which is often needed for context.

You mean videosift.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 09:29:

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 08:38:
You'd have to pay me to even consider going to Australia on a vacation. 40°C and above? Yeah.. no.

It depends on the humidity. When I went to Egypt it was over 45C in the shade, yet the very low humidity meant it wasn't a problem; in fact I've been more uncomfortable on a humid 30C day in the UK.

That said, I wouldn't be interested in a holiday to Australia either. It's hot, it's mostly desert, the culture is very similar to the UK, it's expensive to get there, it takes a very long time to fly there and it doesn't have much in the way of history. I tend to stick to Europe and have enjoyed all the countries I've visited - I've been to Italy, San Marino, France and Belgium. In terms of hot countries, I'd like to visit Dubai, Brazil and Turkey but I'm not in any hurry.

Creston wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 10:52:

Beamer wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 10:49:
In part due to a very memorable main villain (though some of his early dialogue is the bad kind of absurd.)

Butt Stallion DEMANDS you take that back, Sir!

Creston

avianflu wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 10:30:
Love the game but, truthfully, it is BL 1.5.

Not sure I need to see any of the DLC at this point when there are other games waiting

Dades wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 10:25:

Beamer wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 09:52:
You're missing the point. If you want to find a game on XBL it will have a larger community.

No you're missing the point, it will depend on the game and popularity doesn't equal quality. I said Steam was a better service, I didn't say it was the most popular. Some games have a larger audience on the PS3 and PC anyway. Not that it even matters, I want to find people to play the game with, I don't need to play it with everyone on the planet.

As for the world we live in, there are billions of PCs in it, of course sales are slowing, we long ago reached critical mass. That has no bearing on my point nor is it indicative of platform viability.

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Dades wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 09:06:

Beamer wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 08:27:
I didn't realize we were comparing them. Again, XBL has a larger community than Steam. Easier to find games. More friends on it.

No it doesn't. Microsoft has sold 70 million Xbox 360s, the number of which that are online is unknown. They claimed 25 million paying Live subscribers. Steam has 50 million unique, active accounts. They are very comparable in size and on the same playing field. Steam also has more overall functionality than Xbox Live. No one eats alone either, its very easy to find games and friends thanks to the community and groups.

the world we live in

That's the world you live in, you don't speak for anyone else.

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Dades wrote on Jan 14, 2013, 22:31:
Both are terrible and pale in comparison to Steam. No need to offer a defense microsoft buttboy, I can imagine what you will say easily enough.

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Quinn wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 07:33:
People are also relatively rich in AU/NZ.

It's no rocket science.