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| News Comments > BF1942 for Mac |
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Re: Don't listen to these naysayers. |
Mar 25, 2004, 15:01 |
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Umm.. you're not trying to start a PCs vs Consoles flamewar are you? That's as endless and useless as fighting a Mac vs PC flamewar, you know. It's troll food.
Regarding the person who said "SimCity was slow even on my G5".. speaking as someone with both a $3600 G5/9800Pro Mac Edition and a cheap $650 Dell P4 3Ghz/9800Pro, I can tell you: the G5 is just slower than my Dell at most things, especially games. Don't believe Apple's lies about speed, they lie out their a-holes, they have lied wildly with every CPU launch since Jobs came back.
But hopefully they will get better over the next 12 months and then I can use a Mac in peace knowing that it's at least keeping up with a PC worth roughly one fifth of its price. Right now though, It makes me ballistic.
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| News Comments > Xpand Rally Movie |
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Re: No subject |
Feb 27, 2004, 23:35 |
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Didn't see any actual damage being done to the car itself though. It'll suck if they don't have this.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: must...wiegh.....in |
Feb 27, 2004, 18:11 |
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woooohh that was a nice one, very entertaining.
The only thing I would maybe disagree with is that you make it sound like society wants to turn the world into a hellish spectacle of depravation (by whatever standards) and all that's holding us back is these artificial moral rules.
I don't think that's true. I think people who want to fuck ther sister do it anyways, they just lie about it, and same goes for pretty much anything else you think can think of. The problem is that we all collectively try to hide this shit from ourselves by creating a smokescreen of religion and morals that breeds ignorance and a chronic failure to deal with the actual problems.
Ignoring it does not mean it's not happening RIGHT NOW, EVERYWHERE, but it doesn't mean we all want to fuck our sisters either. Let's deal with everything like a MODERN ADULT CIVILIZED SOCIETY.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Stern |
Feb 26, 2004, 20:45 |
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JM Wrote: >The problem with the whole "change the channel" arguement is that it doesn't address the possibilty of a day when every channel contains the same inappropriate types of material. I feel decency laws are needed if only to prevent those individuals who feel it is their duty to see how far they can push the boundaries of good taste from taking things too far.
Nope. I've got an answer for you: E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N.
The answer is not censorship or regulation of asbtract ideas, it's EDUCATION. I happen to laugh my ass off at Stern's show most mornings, sometimes not, but there's a lot of things that literally nauseate me, such as Mtv and pretty much everything that happens in it. Youth culture today seems to me more bankrupt than ever before, and it's getting worse and worse. What's the solution? Telling Christina Aguilera that she looks too much like a cheap whore and her "music" should be changed to resemble some concept of high art? Asking Jay Z/Master P/ Nelly / rap-clone-do-jour to stop talking about guns money and ass so much and start talking about world history?
No, the solution is to educate people you care about who consume this stuff - your average 14 to 18 year old kid - about what it really means when I guy has to flash a wad of money to feel like a man, or why a 22 year old girl says she's nice all the time but every time she's captured by a camera she's dancing like she's fucking an invisible man - according to your own values. You can't MAKE the world fit your view by prohibiting everything, because there's a lot of us in here and some of us think very differently from each other. Educate without fear, and it doesn't matter how many breasts get "accidentally" flashed at a superbowl, people will be more mature and know better.
Now, think of what groups have actually HALTED educational efforts. THEY are the enemy. Groups that don't want this or that thought. Groups that don't want to see games they don't like, or TV shows they don't like, movies they don't like, books they don't like. THEY should be investigated.
And yes, Bush is definitely to blame for this horrible climate, together with all his "moral nation" cronies.
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| News Comments > Colin McRae Rally 4 Demo |
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Re: No subject |
Feb 25, 2004, 12:19 |
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>How would one have all the cars on the state at one time anyways ?
I understand that but wouldn't it be fun to race 2 cars on the road against friends?
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| News Comments > Colin McRae Rally 4 Demo |
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Re: No subject |
Feb 25, 2004, 01:06 |
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Re: "americanised" difficulty
I thought this game was not going to be released in the states at all?
Also, it's not clear whether the final game will actually allow you to compete against other cars on the road, like Rallisport does - does anybody know? I know it's not realistic that way but this IS a game for god's sake, I want to race my friends in real time, not compare an Excel sheet of lap times.
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| News Comments > Steam Update Pulled |
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Re: No subject |
Oct 22, 2003, 01:47 |
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Voodoo,
I don't mean this as an offensive comment, but I think you are missing the point. Steam is not made for your convenience or the convenience of less intelligent gamers, which are by far the majority of Valve's customers. It is made to establish a hard-to-circumvent system for subscription-based games and an easy way to sell mods that would otherwise be free.
In other words, all they are doing with Steam is setting up the system that will allow them to force users to buy DoD II and other mods for $40, CounterStrike II for $10 a month and the MP portion of halflife 2 for $30 or whatever, directly from Valve, bypassing the likes of EB and CompUSA (and their respective equivalents in Europe and Asia), so they can pocket roughly 5 to 10 times more money than they did before, by selling what would otherwise be free and by not having to pay distribution costs...
People defending Steam against all logic, in my humble opinion, are giving a pat in the back to a guy that is trying to put a rope around their necks, so to speak.
So, I agree with you, but not for the same reasons.
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| News Comments > Steam Update Pulled |
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Re: Why do people defend companies? |
Oct 22, 2003, 01:37 |
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> why?
AMEN! I will never understand this phenomenom, be it Valve, id, Apple, NVidia, ATI, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, whatever... what goes through the minds of people that defend companies as if they were their moms?
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| News Comments > New Condition Zero Developer |
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Re: Seems to move in circles... |
Oct 11, 2003, 14:51 |
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CZ is quietly becoming one of the longest running jokes in vaporware since DNF.
On a side note, has gearbox done anywthing that doesn't suck? I wish someone else ported Halo so it would actually have good framerates.
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| News Comments > Lost Toys Gone |
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Re: SCR |
Oct 2, 2003, 15:47 |
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Red Hot Russ: Exactly the same as you, my first LAN experience, with two Amiga 500s... it was much more fun than anything else we had ever played. I am so bummed by this...
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| News Comments > Lost Toys Gone |
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No subject |
Oct 2, 2003, 12:25 |
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OMG NO... was "Stunt Car Racer Pro" the sequel to the old Commodore game "Stunt Car Racer"?? And now it's CANCELED? I have been waiting for literally a decade for that game to be redone... DAMMIT. Someone pick that title up and finish it please...
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| News Comments > Halo PC & Patch Released |
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Re: timedemo |
Oct 2, 2003, 01:53 |
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Dunno, here's mine...
Date / Time: 10/1/2003 10:50:16 PM (163233343ms)
3000MHz, 1536MB, 128M ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (DeviceID=0x4e48) Driver=6.14.10.6368 Shader=2.0
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe -timedemo (Version=1.0.0.564)
Frames=4700
Total Time=134.79s
Average frame rate=34.87fps
Below 5fps= 13% (time) 0% (frames) (18.199s spent in 10 frames)
Below 10fps= 13% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 15fps= 14% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 20fps= 14% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 25fps= 16% (time) 1% (frames)
Below 30fps= 25% (time) 9% (frames)
Below 40fps= 55% (time) 39% (frames)
Below 50fps= 86% (time) 78% (frames)
Below 60fps= 98% (time) 95% (frames)
Memory used Max=159MB, Min=128MB, Ave=147MB
Edit: Just wanted to say that this game is really great, very satisfying to play, but it sure feels choppy compared to every other game I play on my system... especially for a game that is 2 years old and runs perfectly on a 700Mhz celeron with a GF3 (Xbox)... i know i know, dedicated console and all that, but still.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Blue, |
Sep 18, 2003, 13:44 |
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Been reading your site for about 6 years, never post much.
Best wishes to you and your mother and here's hoping everything goes ok.
- NSi
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Geek for governor... |
Sep 8, 2003, 16:04 |
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Besides how incredibly ridiculous the actual subject matter of that article is... was the article some sort of bad pun competition with someone else? I think what passes as news reporting these days is figuring out as many bad puns as possible to say a simple thing.
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| News Comments > More DOOM 3 |
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No hitboxes huh? |
Aug 15, 2003, 00:43 |
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I wonder what this means for custom player models. According to this, using the Bones model from Q3 would make you pretty much impossible to hit while using Tank Jr would make you into a blimp sized target... think about the implications.. baggy clothes would make you an easier to kill target than tight clothes.. horns, long hair, tails and such would mean larger targets while a small, skinny wimp would be really hard ot hit.
Hitboxes exist for more reasons than just CPU usage.
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| News Comments > TOCA Race Car Multiplayer Demo |
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Re: any good? |
Jun 19, 2003, 16:19 |
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This is such a great game. Very tough in SP mode though, even though it is not a SIM (although there is an unlockable SIM mode). Collisions are very good (not perfect - head-on crashes are not nearly as destructive as they should be in real life, for example), cars are built out of multiple layers so you can see them coming apart, and the motion lur effect is just incredible. Has to be seen to be appreciated. It's hard to go back to racing games with no motion blur (Colin McRae 3 for example)...
Oh and the sound is also pretty amazing.
Highly recommended.
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