Respen wrote on Dec 4, 2012, 13:31:
Just a heads up, this install failed for me on Windows 8 64 bit with a 680 GTX.

I've tried downloading and installing twice, in both cases the installer failed to install Nvidia Update, 3D vision and HD Audio drivers.

Also of note, when manually looking for the drivers doing a search with Windos 8 specified on NVidia's website reveals no new drivers. However, these drivers do say they are valid for Windows 8 64 bit.

Annoyed.

Dades wrote on Dec 3, 2012, 21:04:

DDI wrote on Dec 3, 2012, 21:00:
How do I turn off the ugly as fuck giant button on my Steam UI

Wondering the same thing, why can't Steam follow any sort of standard GUI conventions?

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jacobvandy wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 19:46:
So, are you calling me a lunch box, telling me to eat a lunch box made of dick, or eat a lunch box full of dicks? Try to be clearer with your insults, even if they don't make sense.

Either way, now I won't feel bad to inform you that your computer is what's slow as shit, because everything I click in Steam responds instantly, including my enormous library.

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 17:57:
LOL, did you just use "I have a lot of games and sometimes it takes a while to look through them" as a reason for Steam being bad? A) You should append that with #FirstWorldProblems and B) I officially cannot take anything you say seriously.

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 17:47:
Yeah, but Steam is much more user-friendly and functional, not to mention less intrusive... If you're like any of the perhaps 95% of people around here, Steam is where you have the lion's share of your [digital] game library and social contacts. You say "oh, so since Steam is the most popular, it gets a pass?" Yes and no...

It got as big as it did because it WORKS, and works well. It is NOT always-on DRM, it does NOT phone home to some server every single time you launch a game to find out whether you're allowed to play something, it is NOT integrated into core systems of the games you play in such a way that will render them UNPLAYABLE when the master server is unavailable... If you lose your internet connection after the program is already running, i.e. you've logged in, it doesn't lock you out. If you've logged in at least once on that computer, you don't even need to be online when you launch Steam, because it has an actual, working offline mode... Yadda yadda yadda.

Uplay is a pile of shit. And that's all beside the point that you seemed to have ignored -- it's 100% redundant for games owned and launched through Steam.

Prez wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 16:57:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 16:42:

Sempai wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 16:25:
And dare i say Gabe and his Steam portal need to grow a pair and stop allowing this 3rd party bullshit through their ALREADY PROVIDED DRM SERVICE.

I don't see what real difference it makes, you're already using DRM enriched Steam, it's not like Uplay is resource intensive. PC Gamers: BOO UBISOFT DRM! same breath oooo I'll buy <insert title here> on steam and play that!

You don't see the difference because how you classify Steam as somehow only being DRM (and intrusive at that, when it is NOTHING like Uplay ) is patently wrong.

Sempai wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 16:25:
And dare i say Gabe and his Steam portal need to grow a pair and stop allowing this 3rd party bullshit through their ALREADY PROVIDED DRM SERVICE.

Techie714 © wrote on Nov 30, 2012, 12:09:
I really want this game but Uplay (Always on DRM) makes this a no buy. Even though you can set it to offline mode it's still BS...IMO. Just more crap to install on your PC & if you get it through Steam why must you have Uplay.....

Dades wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 22:18:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 16:01:
Do I think there's quite a few members in the GOP who shoot themselves in the foot for being anti gay? Yes I do, let the fuckers marry already and focus on the actual REAL issues we face.

Course then you have the completely far left socialists douchebags who believe birth entitles them to a life.

Liberals 50 years ago: "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

Liberals today: "Being born automatically makes me entitled to everything. Gimmie free healthcare, gimmie free college education. Down with corporations! (Except for Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Starbucks) Down with Capitalism! Forgive my student debt. Eat the rich! If you don't have the same beliefs as me you are part of the problem! Occupy Wall Street!!!1

More liberal blame, what a surprise same old party lines. The liberals are responsible for everything bad and its ok for you to keep harping about it if you make some token comment about being ok with gay marriage

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Beamer wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 16:08:
"somehow limited pie."

Dude, wait, what? How is it not limited? That you think its infinite proves you have zero economics background.


And how do I recite some liberal playbook? What talking points do I match them on? 0% corporate taxation?

Dades wrote on Nov 28, 2012, 22:21:
Actually I've only ever seen you blame democrats. Saying that you blame republicans because people correctly label you biased and actually doing more than lip service in assigning blame are different matters. You're a broken record with the antagonistic leftie liberal crap and it's why people dismiss you out of hand. No one is going to take you or your position seriously if you can't meet them halfway and do the same without being insulting. It's really endemic of the problems down there in general, confrontational all or nothing politics with no room for reasonable people and rational thoughts.

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Creston wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 11:13:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 11:03:

Verno wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 10:43:
Less awesome button, more gameplay. Also less poorly written Whedon wannabe stuff and teenage level sexual encounters. The first Dragon Age suffered quite a bit from it too but they really went nuts with Merill in DA2.

It's funny, now that I think about it Dragon Age 3 is one of the few games where I just want less of everything in the previous game. Combat waves, silly dialogue wheel, etc.

It's David Gaider doing the writing, not sure what you expected, having been stupid enough to waste months on their social site trying to convince the devs not to go the route they went with DA2, and seeing first hand how much of a childish douche the guy is, along with how fragile Bioware devs seem to be when it comes to criticism I don't have high hopes for DA3. And this is coming from someone who puts DA:Origins high on the list of solid games the last few years.

I don't know what happened to Gaider. He used to be a really cool, down-to-earth guy, and he wrote some really, REALLY good stuff. I guess the success went to his head or something... :\
(though to be fair, anyone would turn into a cynical bastard if he/she was exposed to the Bioware social forums on a day to day basis. It seems split down the middle between the fanboys to whom Bioware can do no wrong and who say that they thought the ending was great and that Leviathan was how all DLC should be made, and the people who hate everything Bioware does now. There no longer seems to be a middle ground.)

Creston

Verno wrote on Nov 29, 2012, 10:43:
Less awesome button, more gameplay. Also less poorly written Whedon wannabe stuff and teenage level sexual encounters. The first Dragon Age suffered quite a bit from it too but they really went nuts with Merill in DA2.

It's funny, now that I think about it Dragon Age 3 is one of the few games where I just want less of everything in the previous game. Combat waves, silly dialogue wheel, etc.

Beamer wrote on Nov 27, 2012, 12:36:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 27, 2012, 12:29:

Beamer wrote on Nov 27, 2012, 12:14:
Republicans are the victim, per RollinThundr. They aren't losing ground because they've recently embraced the absolute lunatic fringe of the American Midwest, choosing to make a big deal out of issues like gay marriage and choosing the wrong side on issues that matter to growing minorities, or ignoring the beliefs of new generations by assuming young people don't vote (which becomes problematic when you continue viewing Generation X as "young people,") no, they are losing ground because liberals indoctrinate the youth.

Because it's all liberals faults. Republicans are just victims.
And because the youth never, ever fell more liberal than conservative. Who ever heard of such a thing?!

Oh brother, who called them victims? Says the guy who thinks we can just spend indefinitely and it won't affect anything at all. Or the guy who supports the party that rewards illegals with bennies rather than making them become legal the right way. Remember kids if your for immigration reform you're racist.

Yeah it's when they grow up and learn something about how real life works, that they realize fiscal responsibility is an actual good thing.

Seriously Beamer I'm tired of the song and dance, poor gays, poor illegals yada yada yada. When we're fucking bankrupt in under 10 years because neither party wants to stop spending us into oblivion, gay rights and minorities won't matter a shit.

When did I ever say "indefinitely?" I said spending is less important than distribution of wealth. And it is. We need to be very concerned with how much our citizens are spending, which is the gas that fuels our economy. Burning a deficit isn't really terribly problematic. Again, it isn't good, but it isn't the end of the world.

Also, I've said to you a hundred times stop calling me a Democrat. I do not support that party. More than Republicans? Yeah, but so did the Electoral Congress, overwhelmingly. Also, tell me what is the "legal way," for people in this country to naturalize? I do believe, though, that your grammatical error in discussing immigration is amusing.

Shut up about fiscal responsibility. How could the party that refuses to raise taxes be fiscally responsible? It does not work. Again, you only look at half of an equation. It's absurd! You think that wanting to cut costs means fiscally responsible, yet somehow not wanting to increase income is still fiscally responsible. Wanting to increase income without cutting costs as much is not fiscally responsible.
There is no logic behind this.

I never said anything about immigrants, I said appealing to what a growing percentage of the country finds important. Guess what: that's immigration.

You have ZERO economic understanding. It's frightening. I bet you don't even know what the current rating of US debt is. I bet you don't know how it's changed historically. I'll bet you have no clue what a credit rating actually means.
You keep beating the same drum without ever demonstrating an understanding. Worse, you think someone saying it's the wrong drum to beat, that there are more important ones, means they're directly opposed to it.

Whatever, dude. Warren Buffet wrote a nice piece yesterday essentially saying what I keep saying. You just sit there and feel smarter than him.



As for the victim piece, because you're blaming people other than Republicans for the loss. You're still doing it. You're still blaming gays and immigrants, not that the party doesn't appeal to them and that their voice is actually one that people care about. Republicans lost this not because people are stupid. Those people ARE the US. Always have been. Republicans lost because they're too stupid to understand this. The fault is solely Republicans', not whomever you feel you'd rather point a finger at. Too many of their leaders are looking for blame and not looking in the mirror, which is funny, as they're also the "personal accountability" party.

Beamer wrote on Nov 27, 2012, 12:14:
Republicans are the victim, per RollinThundr. They aren't losing ground because they've recently embraced the absolute lunatic fringe of the American Midwest, choosing to make a big deal out of issues like gay marriage and choosing the wrong side on issues that matter to growing minorities, or ignoring the beliefs of new generations by assuming young people don't vote (which becomes problematic when you continue viewing Generation X as "young people,") no, they are losing ground because liberals indoctrinate the youth.

Because it's all liberals faults. Republicans are just victims.
And because the youth never, ever fell more liberal than conservative. Who ever heard of such a thing?!

Verno wrote on Nov 27, 2012, 10:40:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 16:07:
Shitty as it is, it's not really false. I actually find it pretty disgusting that American citizens would rather side with known terrorist organizations like Hamas because they hate the one ally we have in the middle east.

No sorry, you made that silly comment and you get to own it. Don't try to pass off that shit as somehow reasonable or remotely accurate. It is exactly the kind of ridiculous crap that makes people dismiss the right out of hand and one of the many reasons we're losing ground politically. Shit like that is killing the party.

Verno wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 16:01:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 14:34:

I dunno, liberals tend to hate Israel while often siding with factions who would love nothing more than their destruction. I don't think it's too much a stretch really.

This is one of the shittiest things I've ever seen posted on the forums.

Beamer wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 15:16:
I think our balance of wealth is a much bigger issue than our spending. Do you know who holds the vast majority of our debt? We do. What happens if our debt rating drops? Not much, really. It's not something to be proud of, but given that our debt is mostly domestic, not foreign, it isn't really much of a concern, compared to the drastic hoovering of wealth our few have done, largely by cutting jobs or sending them overseas.

Our unemployment and our offshoring have nothing to do with our debt or our debt rating. In fact, all that outsourcing overseas is due to our debt being valuable, if anything.

Furthermore, paper money can never be worth nothing. We can't much go through a drastic inflation due to the size of our economy. It would bankrupt everyone, and I don't mean everyone in the country I mean everyone in the globe. This isn't Argentina, where our government could fold and make our currency useless. Although, in truth, having a sudden burst of massive inflation making my student debt moot does sound like a nice idea...

I don't say tax the rich, you dolt, I say tax the income. If someone has a lot of income tax it a lot. Fix Reagan's redistribution of wealth. Warren Buffet wrote a pretty solid editorial about it today. Only a moron says "the rich won't invest if they're taxed more." History shows they invest more. In jobs. For the middle class.

Also, you're the idiot playing the race card all the time. "I'm a straight white christian male, there's a war on me!"

Beamer wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 14:55:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 14:51:

Beamer wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 14:46:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 14:38:

Cutter wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 12:46:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 12:37:

Cutter wrote on Nov 25, 2012, 17:15:
The Nazis may have lost the war but more and more it seems they won it if you take my meaning. We're headed for complete subservience and virtual slavery or bloody revolution. I'm personally down with the latter.

You folks did it yourselves by buying into being "progressive"

We mean people like you and your ilk.

It must suck being against fiscal responsibility.

I can't recall: weren't you against raising taxes?

It must suck being against fiscal responsibility.

Nope, I'm all for tax increases, along with massive spending cuts.

So you're not beating the Tea Party drum. What makes you think Cutter falls directly into a party line and is against any kind of fiscal responsibility?

And how do you identify as conservative if you think we should raise taxes? Doesn't that make you a socialist, in your own lingo and logic?

Beamer wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 14:46:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 14:38:

Cutter wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 12:46:

RollinThundr wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 12:37:

Cutter wrote on Nov 25, 2012, 17:15:
The Nazis may have lost the war but more and more it seems they won it if you take my meaning. We're headed for complete subservience and virtual slavery or bloody revolution. I'm personally down with the latter.

You folks did it yourselves by buying into being "progressive"

We mean people like you and your ilk.

It must suck being against fiscal responsibility.

I can't recall: weren't you against raising taxes?

It must suck being against fiscal responsibility.