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| News Comments > Morning Mobilization |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
May 7, 2013, 15:58 |
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I think Microsoft is solely capable of having a 4 screen offense. But they're launching it late.
How late?
Well, I wanted a Surface Pro. It came. I did not buy - it really needs a Haswell update. So now, in need of a device while my desktop is in storage for a month while I move, I'm probably going to do something I always said I'd never do and buy a MacBook Pro and/or Air. Why? I want a solidly built device with a sub 14" screen that has a decent resolution and a well functional touchpad, and no PC manufacturer seems capable of doing that. A MacBook Pro 13.3" with Retina Display is lightyears ahead of what anyone else is doing, and I can throw Windows on it and never touch iOS.
Man, hell is freezing over. |
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| News Comments > Morning Mobilization |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
May 7, 2013, 15:04 |
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Tablets are terrible to type on.
So are cellphones.
Part of what I love about the idea of the Surface Pro is the stylus letting me use it as a true notepad in meetings.
But that solves one issue. That one is enough to make a tablet legitimately useful for me, but I don't see them ever being true laptop/desktop replacements. Phones that hook up to monitors, mice and keyboards? Sure. But the tablet form is too big to be useful as that kind of device.
And the current form even gets annoying for consumption, as I like to mostly consume boards like this. |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
May 7, 2013, 14:19 |
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Prez wrote on May 7, 2013, 14:05:
Despite the aforementioned rampant piracy I see this as a bad move myself. I personally would never subscribe to a setup like this in a million years. And for the record I have only ever used legally obtained Adobe products.
Which products are you using? Have you actually paid the multiple hundreds for a new version, or are you using the cheaper home versions (which are still available in a box at the same price as before?) |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
May 7, 2013, 13:49 |
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jdreyer wrote on May 7, 2013, 13:34:
Beamer wrote on May 7, 2013, 11:55:
Verno wrote on May 7, 2013, 11:05:
I don't know, its probably better for small businesses and students in the long run so I can sorta get behind this. The number of pirated copies of CS in a college setting would shock most people, the high cost was always a barrier of entry even with student/academic licensing models sometimes.
Yeah. There are typically 2 users of Adobe products:
1) Corporate/business users, who make a lot of money off of Adobe and pay for Adobe
2) Home/hobby users, who do not pay for Adobe
Adobe doesn't care about #2, for good reason. If you're a hobbyist you're likely using a pirated version. If you pay, it's actually cheaper this way, assuming you like the newest versions. PhotoShop is $20 per month.
And, for the hobbyist, PhotoShop Elements is still a stand alone.
I'd guess the vast majority of people bitching, not everyone in this thread but overall, has pirated most of the Adobe CS products they've used.
I think the people who will be hurt the most will be freelancers/artists/small businesses. These are people who buy and pay for Photoshop to do stuff like publish online comics, touch up wedding photos, do web design, etc. and can afford to buy the software only every other or every third generation.
Yeah, the guy that upgrades PhotoShop rarely for something like that, but $19.99 per month isn't terrible if you use it for business, and since we admit most of those people rarely upgrade, what is stopping them from continuing to use their old version?
Also, I agree with the "GIMP sucks" thought stream. I wanted PhotoShop just for simple cutting and pasting at work. Not enough to buy PhotoShop, but enough that I needed something better than posting screenshots into PowerPoint and cropping them. I tried GIMP.
Man, GIMP is so painful to use.
Thankfully we eventually moved to Windows 7 and I could just use the genius Snip tool. Why did that take so long to come!? |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
May 7, 2013, 11:55 |
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Verno wrote on May 7, 2013, 11:05:
I don't know, its probably better for small businesses and students in the long run so I can sorta get behind this. The number of pirated copies of CS in a college setting would shock most people, the high cost was always a barrier of entry even with student/academic licensing models sometimes.
Yeah. There are typically 2 users of Adobe products:
1) Corporate/business users, who make a lot of money off of Adobe and pay for Adobe
2) Home/hobby users, who do not pay for Adobe
Adobe doesn't care about #2, for good reason. If you're a hobbyist you're likely using a pirated version. If you pay, it's actually cheaper this way, assuming you like the newest versions. PhotoShop is $20 per month.
And, for the hobbyist, PhotoShop Elements is still a stand alone.
I'd guess the vast majority of people bitching, not everyone in this thread but overall, has pirated most of the Adobe CS products they've used. |
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
May 7, 2013, 07:56 |
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Cutter wrote on May 7, 2013, 00:51:
They're still being coy - both them and Sony. Until everyone sees exactly what's what spelled out and black and white I wouldn't count on either of them coming down in favour of the consumer.
Yup.
I've said from the start neither company is stupid enough to do this now. I don't think any of them were looking at it seriously, because they understand the infrastructure isn't there, even just in people's homes, let alone outside (in that plenty of systems aren't always hooked up to the internet in the house, for whatever reason.)
But, paraphrasing Will Wright's paraphrasing, no consumer was ever truly happy underestimating the stupidity of companies. So, while I think it was never likely, I still won't celebrate until a device is in my hands without always-on, and, frankly, I expect that Microsoft will roll it out for some games before the end of the lifespan of the next console. Or, at least, have the ability to do so. Sony? Sony would like to but I don't think they have their shit together enough.
But yeah, I won't believe it until the next generation has come and gone. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
May 6, 2013, 14:46 |
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The constant pressure to pay more, and questioning whether the experience would be better if I did, kills any fun for me. It's almost like a level of anxiety with some games.
It can be done without that, but I've played a bit of that Zynga Boggle ripoff lately. You can use coins to have "helpers" that let you do better, such as freezing time. My friend uses these like mad. I do not, because coins are a finite resource. If I use them faster than I earn them, I have to buy more. So she ALWAYS beats me (she likely would, anyway, Boggle is not my game.) Even though I have plenty of coins I just don't want to use them and cost money for myself.
Such a stupid model that just makes things less fun. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
May 6, 2013, 14:18 |
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LittleMe wrote on May 6, 2013, 14:08:
Creston wrote on May 6, 2013, 10:31:
Simply put a law in place that states it's illegal for a software manufacturer to end support for old software in Japan. Problem solved.
LMAO
Yup.
And no one releases software in Japan ever again. |
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| News Comments > Chasm Kickstarted; Demo Available |
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Re: Chasm Kickstarted; Demo Available |
May 6, 2013, 14:07 |
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Soulburner wrote on May 6, 2013, 13:50:
I also thought about the old shooter. I remember how I thought "wow, it looks better than Quake!" back in the day.
Haha.
It was a terrible Quake clone, just a pure ripoff, but it featured the ability to shoot sawblades that ripped off limbs. That was enough for me to overlook how terrible every other design aspect was.
Yeah, I was here to reference the old Chasm, too, knowing damn well no one would ever bother Kickstarting a game no one even remembers other than possibly "Quake Clone" or "Rip off Limbs!" |
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| News Comments > Call of Duty: Ghosts Announced |
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Re: Call of Duty: Ghosts Announced |
May 6, 2013, 11:25 |
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InBlack wrote on May 2, 2013, 04:22:
Erm...I didnt get anything from that trailer...So can we play CoD as a gay spartan warrior now? Or a samurai? How does that work? Until they show some gameplay all Im getting is a kind of Village People vibe from this one which is fucking weird...
My guess? It's honoring warriors that died, as the game will honor Ghost, a warrior that died.
Again, the only thing this series has going for it, character-wise, was a guy in a skull balaklava. And they stupidly killed him. So this game will be people honoring him. Makes sense, I guess. From what little I could discern of the convoluted, poorly presented storyline, the guys in the MW series were operating outside the law and damn near mercenaries in MW4, because they'd been disavowed by the government, like a less interesting A-Team. So, in this one, they'll just fully go from "like a less interesting A-Team" to "entirely a less interesting A-Team," only with cooler masks. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
May 6, 2013, 10:25 |
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I saw The Place Beyond The Pines.
Great flick. Probably much better than Iron Man or Oblivion, but you have to be willing to sit through something very weighty. Totally different experience. |
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| News Comments > Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
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Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
May 6, 2013, 07:42 |
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Has anyone posted definitively that the TV spots featured E3 footage?
That Polygon piece linked shows the difference between the 2012 E3 footage and the release. Well, the 2012 E3 footage was a long, long, long time ago.
I'm sure I could spend some time on YouTube and get to the bottom of this, but too much time has already been devoted to this garbage game.
Bottom line, though, everyone here seems to be willfully forgetting how regularly we've seen previews from E3 and said "the final game will look nothing like that." You also forget doing it for this particular game.
We've all said that because we know it's always true. Except for deger, who seems to have no clue how programming works. |
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| News Comments > Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
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Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
May 4, 2013, 09:39 |
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deqer wrote on May 3, 2013, 19:17:
"work in progress" doesn't mean you show in-game footage that looks better than what the released product ends up being.
"work in progress" isn't a backwards thing. It's a forwards thing. The finished title is supposed to look better than what your "work in progress" video showed, not look worse.
This is regularly untrue in most industries so stop saying it. Again, cars never look like prototypes, oculus rift is uglir than what was shown on kickstaryrr, Kinect can't see fingers like the prototype, and many games get uglier when they can't get the final version to run as well as what they showed.
And, again, typically what you see at e3 is faked. Its optimization and polish done that hasn't been applied anywhere else and often can't be. It becomes aspirational.
Stop talking about the way things work if you don't understand them. Yes, ACM is a collaxsal fuck up. Collassal. Yes, Randy deserves his next game taking a sales hit. But a game not looking like what is shown at e3? God, on this board we used to know that. What happened? When did we get dumb? E3 threads used to be all us criticizing how the release game wouldn't look like the footage. Now suddenly many here are pretending only gearbox does this. |
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| News Comments > Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
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Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
May 3, 2013, 16:07 |
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DangerDog wrote on May 3, 2013, 16:04:
Having Aliens Colonial Marines on a resume is perhaps punishment enough, I count on every future game that Gearbox puts out there will be "fan edits" of their trailers inter-splicing "From the makers of Aliens Colonial Marines" and pulled voice over quotes from Randy.
Yeah, if Randy is smart he'll stay far away from promoting whatever is next.
Which means we'll probably hear tons from him.
I think, at this point, even he has to realize he has negative credibility. And, hopefully, that Gearbox needs to focus on one project at a time.
Borderlands 2 was a ton of fun. Ridiculously fun. Only other GB full-release I've played was Borderlands 1, which was ok. I'll almost definitely get BL3, but wouldn't count on even paying attention to anything else they do. |
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| News Comments > Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
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Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
May 3, 2013, 15:48 |
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Krovven wrote on May 3, 2013, 15:42:
I want a refund on the movie Cliffhanger because it didn't have that crazy cliff jump from the trailers in the theatrical release of the movie. I paid $10 to see it and was forced rent the movie on DVD to see the cliff jump after it was added back in. /sarcasm
People are stupid.
I mean, that's a bit of a stretch.
This would probably be more similar to the woman that sued Drive for not being The Fast and the Furious.
But even that case had some additional merit. Those commercials were showing a final product, and definitely trying to be misleading.
The E3 videos were showing a product far from being completed and I don't think many of us doubt that Randy hoped, and probably believed, the final version would be very close.
Randy was being a dolt, which we all expect from him by now. The big punishment will be how guarded anyone is around anything GB does from now on. |
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| News Comments > Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
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Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Lawsuit Responses |
May 3, 2013, 15:38 |
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McSterls wrote on May 3, 2013, 15:34:
"But we are confident that the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend it vigorously."
Without merit? You showed us one game and released another. That's called fraud, and it has some merit to it.
Because that never happens. Half Life and Halo both had E3 videos that were nothing like the final game.
Again, we're talking something extreme, and you'll say "Halo was shown as a 3rd person game, but it was shown to actually be an FPS before release." Great. ACM was shown to be a good looking game, but, as Krowwen is saying, it was shown to be crap long before release.
Honestly, go to ANY prerelease thread on this board - everyone knew the game was pure garbage. If they did a bait-and-switch we wouldn't have known that, right? How did we know? Because Gearbox was showing us garbage. |
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