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News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions
90. Re: Gatherings & Competitions Aug 12, 2012, 21:47 Bhruic
 
Ok, we can agree it's true.  
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News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions
88. Re: Gatherings & Competitions Aug 12, 2012, 21:07 Bhruic
 
RailWizard wrote on Aug 12, 2012, 20:06:
You can't tell crazy that they are crazy, just to shut up.

Hmm, I'd like to test that theory before we all agree it's true.

You're crazy.
 
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News Comments > Sunday Mobilization
5. Re: Sunday Mobilization Aug 12, 2012, 16:50 Bhruic
 
Cutter wrote on Aug 12, 2012, 16:14:
Why are ebooks so damn expensive? Seriously.

Because Apple wanted to save you from the low prices that Amazon was charging you. High prices are in your best interest!
 
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News Comments > On Sale
20. Re: On Sale Aug 12, 2012, 04:29 Bhruic
 
Jerykk wrote on Aug 12, 2012, 03:57:
That's not an accurate description of Origin. Unless the game explicitly requires Origin (most new EA games), you can run it without launching Origin.

Really? Haven't bought anything newer on it (it applies taxes, where Steam does not), so I guess I was assuming.
 
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News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions
72. Re: Gatherings & Competitions Aug 12, 2012, 03:19 Bhruic
 
RailWizard wrote on Aug 12, 2012, 02:21:
That must be some good kool-aid. Go ahead and keep preaching like you and your precious peers know what you're talking about. They don't know what makes some people murderers, but for this, somehow they magically know. Right.

I suppose people that don't think Kim Jong Il is a living god are all rejecting reality too, right?

I've never understood why people who have no knowledge are so dismissive of people who do have knowledge. It's not like the studies are private. You could go look them up. But without doing so, you're not in a position to make any claims about the validity of them.

And show me the peer reviewed studies claiming that Kim Jong Il is a living god, and I'll see whether that's a reality.
 
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News Comments > On Sale
18. Re: On Sale Aug 12, 2012, 01:55 Bhruic
 
Dev wrote on Aug 11, 2012, 20:47:
Well they went from near digital sales to some amount of digital sales. My guess is its not doing too bad, they had a built in customer database of all previous impulse customers to start with, and now they can get consolers who are looking to try some PC games with no fussing over cds.

Not really. With Origin, if you want to play a game you got from it, you mostly need to run Origin. With Steam, if you want to play a game you got from it, you mostly need to run Steam. With Impulse, if you want to play a game you got from it, well, you just run the game. No need to run the client at all.

The only people who they can really advertise to directly are people who need to re-download a game. That doesn't give them a large percentage of the already small percentage of the market they have.
 
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News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions
70. Re: Gatherings & Competitions Aug 12, 2012, 01:44 Bhruic
 
Eirikrautha wrote on Aug 11, 2012, 19:08:
What do they teach in schools today?

Today? No idea, it's been quite some time since I've been in school. Regardless...

There can be no "Rosa Parks" in nations that do not respect the validity of the arguments she makes.

If the nation had already respected her position, she'd have had nothing to protest, as there wouldn't have been any laws forcing her to sit at the back of the bus.

The Tienanmen Square uprising was put down brutally. The guy who stepped in front of the tanks was run over and crushed (that's the part they never show on the documentaries).

Even if true, what do you think this proves? I don't believe I made the claim that every single time a minority stood up for themselves it worked out wonderfully. Often times it ends up like it did for that guy. I don't think that alters the fact that if no one stood up, there'd be no incentive to change.

If the vast majority of Americans weren't open to the idea of racial equality, Parks would have been beaten down and no change made.

The vast majority of the Americans at the time weren't open to the idea of racial equality. Again, hence the existence of such laws as she was fighting. It wasn't the majority of Americans that tried the case, it was a court of law. It was law that changed, and it changed in order to protect minority rights (as it should).

It's worth pointing out that you've already basically agreed to this with your statement:
Blacks in the US convinced the majority of the population that they were morally and ethically wrong (often at great cost to themselves).

The "great cost to themselves" is what I'm talking about. Without those sacrifices, change - if any - would have been significantly slower in coming. So why are you arguing against homosexuals attempting to convince people in the same fashion?

There's just no comparison between a genetic characteristic like race and a behavioral one.

Well I suppose it's a good thing we're considering a genetic characteristic like homosexuality then, rather than a behavioural one.
 
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News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions
67. Re: Gatherings & Competitions Aug 12, 2012, 01:26 Bhruic
 
RailWizard wrote on Aug 11, 2012, 21:58:
"Being gay is normal. & Being gay is not a choice." Wrong. I don't care what anyone says, you or the egghead community. If you insist that it is, let's see the proof. Show me the 'gay gene'. You can't because it's bullshit.

You don't care what the people who studied it say, you're not going to believe them anyway (paraphrasing your own words). So of course you're not going to believe any of the proof that exists. It's never going to be enough for you.

The majority, if not all, of peer reviewed studies have shown that homosexuality is not a choice. If you choose not to believe that, that's fine, but you are willfully disbelieving reality. How can you expect anyone to take you or anything you say seriously once you've stated that's your arguing position?
 
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News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions
29. Re: Gatherings & Competitions Aug 11, 2012, 17:02 Bhruic
 
Eirikrautha wrote on Aug 11, 2012, 14:50:
A minority cannot force a majority to agree with them.

And that's why countries have laws. So that the rights of minorities aren't trampled on by the majority.

As to the rest, you are wrong. Minority rights have historically been granted because people from the minority had enough, and decided to stand up for themselves. Rosa Parks being the best example if you want to talk about "Blacks in the US".
 
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News Comments > Evening Metaverse
1. Re: Google to drop search rankings of sites with many takedown notices. Aug 10, 2012, 20:13 Bhruic
 
So I'm sure this'll mean that YouTube links drop in the search rankings significantly, right Google?  
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News Comments > Morning Metaverse
49. Re: Morning Metaverse Aug 7, 2012, 20:54 Bhruic
 
Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 7, 2012, 20:42:
Most polls on both sides say it's close. The fact that 45% of the voters on both sides made their choice prior to the primaries, makes it close. The fact that 5-10 states, and only those states will be the deciding factor, make it close. I'd like to believe you are correct. I don't think you are. And even if I did, I'm not sure I would care to say it loud for fear Mr. Murphy would come a callin'.

Ok, so you go back to the polls again. National polls are irrelevant. You don't need a national majority to win, so why bother with them? The only thing that matters are state polls. On that front, Obama is still clearly leading in sufficient "swing states" to get the electoral victory.

So yes, I am correct about how things stand right now. Again, everything is subject to change. But it's really annoying constantly hearing the media try to talk about how "close" the race is, when it's anything but.
 
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News Comments > Morning Metaverse
47. Re: Morning Metaverse Aug 7, 2012, 20:13 Bhruic
 
Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 7, 2012, 16:39:
I have no idea who will win the Presidential election. I think it's still too close to call.

And media is successful.

At some point it may get to the "too close to call" stage, but it certainly isn't there now. The problem is that the people who are reporting on it have a vested interest in trying to make it sound close so they can get more readers/viewers. It's like watching an episode of Survivor where it's obvious who's going to get voted out, but they use all sorts of edits to make it look like it's in doubt.

Right now it's not even remotely close - Obama has it locked up. Could that change? Certainly. But the media is trying to distract with general polls, and are ignoring the electoral math. Electorally, if the election were held today, Obama would win easily.

Again, that's not to say that "stuff" won't happen. The election is still fairly far off. But trying to describe the election as it currently stands as "too close to call" is just wrong.
 
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News Comments > Orcs Must Die! 2 Patch
13. Re: Orcs Must Die! 2 Patch Aug 7, 2012, 16:32 Bhruic
 
El Pit wrote on Aug 7, 2012, 15:50:
EDIT: Wow, Steam won't allow me to use PayPal anymore. Wtf?!

EDIT2: NO KIDDING - No more PayPal with Steam for me. I restarted Steam and PayPal is no longer available as a payment method. I'm asked to use my cc or some other dubious payment methods instead. Wow, Steam, what's going on?

Hmm, just checked, and I still have it listed as an option. Try contacting Steam directly?
 
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News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs
14. Re: Morning Legal Briefs Aug 6, 2012, 17:10 Bhruic
 
RollinThundr wrote on Aug 6, 2012, 15:58:
I think you guys tend to forget Obama had a democrat controlled congress for 2 years and still got nothing acomplished.

And I think you're once again overlooking the fillibuster.

They really should go back to forcing people who want to fillibuster to actually have to fillibuster, but that's not likely to happen.
 
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News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs
5. Re: Morning Legal Briefs Aug 6, 2012, 14:49 Bhruic
 
RollinThundr wrote on Aug 6, 2012, 13:23:
President Obama is demonstrating his ineptness as a leader of the most powerful nation. Unlike Presidents Reagan and Clinton before him, he has no clue how to work with a Congress that doesn't agree with him

Go look up how many times the fillibuster was used during Reagan and Clinton, and how many times it's been used for Obama. You can't "work with Congress" when they've explicitly stated that they are going to actively block every single thing you try and do.

Plenty of bills (this one included) got a majority vote, but not a super-majority (needed to pass a fillibuster).
 
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News Comments > Dishonored Voice Cast
26. Re: Dishonored Voice Cast Aug 4, 2012, 11:59 Bhruic
 
Creston wrote on Aug 3, 2012, 18:10:
As for how much it costs, shrug, I don't care. Like if they hired 20 hobos off the street for a hundred bucks and a Subway party tray, they'd pass the savings onto us. Oh noes, the poor publishers, they spent some of the CEO's bonus on getting better voice actors! Whatever.

Uh, that's definitely missing the point. Games have budgets. If you spend X amount of dollars on voice "talent", that X amount can't go towards other areas of the game.

If they were increasing the game budget specifically to allow for recognizable actors, then you'd be right, it'd be a non-issue.
 
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News Comments > AirMech Closed Beta
3. Re: AirMech Closed Beta Aug 3, 2012, 13:30 Bhruic
 
Yeah, it's currently in open beta, you can download it directly from their website.

The prices are a bit wonky, but you can buy a lot of things using in-game currency, so it's not so bad. They give out a fair amount of that.
 
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News Comments > Op Ed
8. Re: Op Ed Aug 3, 2012, 13:05 Bhruic
 
Don't gamers deserve answers? Don't the fans whose hundreds of millions of dollars a year keep this industry booming deserve to feel like game companies care enough to address their questions?

How about no? What a fucking whiney-sounding, entitled dick. They make a product. You buy a product. That's the extent of what you are "owed". Anything else that they do is out of generosity, and considering (as Graham said) how often they get shitted on over their comments, it's easy to understand why they don't want to talk about it.

Oh, and it's worth noting that this guy isn't talking about the game industry not communicating with gamers, it's about the game industry not communicating with the gaming press (or more specifically, him).
 
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News Comments > Op Ed
7. Re: Op Ed Aug 3, 2012, 12:59 Bhruic
 
Prez wrote on Aug 3, 2012, 12:31:
Still, would it kill Valve to even mention that, yes, they are in fact working on Half Life 3?

It's a never-ending slippery slope. As soon as they said they are working on it, you'd then have the people asking when it's supposed to come out. Then you'd have the people asking whether it has X, Y, or Z. The idea that people would all be happy if Valve said "We are working on HL3" and not want follow-up is nice, but unrealistic.
 
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News Comments > AirMech Closed Beta
1. Re: AirMech Closed Beta Aug 3, 2012, 12:55 Bhruic
 
Hmm, this is weird, afaik this game is still in open beta. Forum mentions them getting it on Steam, but nothing about them switching to a closed beta format. Seems a bit "false advertisment"-y on Steam's part if they are the ones making it sound like you can't get in without purchasing the bundle.  
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