The important part of the First Amendment, which everyone seems to gloss over, is that it is an explicit restriction on the actions of the gov't. The gov't is not allowed to make restrictions on free speech, religion, assembly, etc, except as already noted above.

This has NOTHING to do with whether Facebook says you can't say this or post a picture of that, or Twitter says we will ban you if you support this other thing, or Blue bans you for posting ASCII pics of tentacles doing awful things here.

Those are corporations and they are allowed to restrict whatever they want on their own platforms. If they feel allowing it will cost them more money than it makes them, then by the almighty rules of capitalism that's what they will do. You can shout "free speech!" at them but it's totally irrelevant. FB can be as hot on censorship as they want it to be. If they drive people away and go broke, there's no law against that. A business is allowed to be self-destructive. The gov't can't refuse to give someone a driver's license because they are gay, but a bakery can refuse to make them a wedding cake. If that bakery loses customers but decides it would rather do that than bake a cake for gays, it can.

The First says the gov't can't tell FB "you're not allowed to post that." It does NOT say it can tell FB "you have to allow people to post that." It is a restriction on powers, not an expansion of them. All of the Bill of Rights, the first 10, are like that. Many of the later ones DO grant powers, such as the ones for Prohibition or income tax, but not those.

Flaming Cliffs 3 (a poor Russian translation) has multiple planes for a single decent price and they're much easier to learn.

You get a US fighter, US attack plane, a Russian attack plane, and a few Russian fighters.

If you try and like them, and you get into it, and you want more fidelity, then you can move up to the A-10C, or Hornet, or Tomcat, or Harrier, or whatever. Starting with one of those is not forgiving or fun for most people.

Everyone seems to forget Crysis Warhead, which was the original sequel and actually was more of the first.

The 2nd and 3rd games were fine technically, and the gameplay wasn't bad or anything, but the setting and the storylines were not nearly as good.

You have this big showdown with the aliens in the mid Pacific, and then you're in Manhattan because reasons. I can understand not wanting to repeat the uninhabited Pacific Island theme, but they could've made it in Japan or Okinawa or Taiwan or Alaska or some other rim area where you start in the countryside and end with the city as the 3rd act and not the entire game.

Also, I have spoken with many, many people over the years that loved Crysis UNTIL the aliens came into it, they preferred fighting the humans. So the 2 sequels went straight to aliens and the humans seemed like an afterthought. It was Crytek's midichlorian moment.

If you preordered Ep 3, and they kept the money and never refunded nor delivered it...

THAT is a scam. This was not.
A shame, a disappointment, a blatant case of mismanagement (where they couldn't control their feature creep), certainly. People wanted to play the final chapter. They weren't demanding some brand-new genre-busting tech for it.

Where's the outcry for not making the final film in the Divergent series? Isn't that a scam for everyone who paid to see the earlier films and didn't get their finale? That were forced to READ the books to see how it ended?

It's a bed for one, because it's already acknowledged that if you get it you won't be having anyone else in it with you.

Just rename it Squadron 2042, the date when it will finally be released by some other developer who will buy the rights when Cloud Imperium collapses and redoes it ala Duke Nukem Forever.

In a span of 7 years we went from WC1 to WC5. It's 2019 and with more money and no "publisher interference" they've managed to make a lone... something... sadder than Wing Commander Armada was.

For the amount of money they've raised they literally could've paid for a stealth fighter jet, which could be built in less than a year by a company that actually had competent leadership and knew WTF it was doing.

At least we've had the question of "what happens when a creative lead gets infinite resources and no outside interference to make their vision" answered...NOTHING. Someone crowd fund a producer to interfere the hell out of this and get a game RELEASED.

I saw MiG-25, MiG-23, and MiG-29 in that along with a couple that were too far away to identify, but no Su-27s. Of course, DCS World has plenty of Flankers, the 27, the 33, and the J-11 now as well.

That councilman must have watched the Naked Gun films since he pulled a Frank Drebin.

Cutter wrote on Sep 7, 2014, 08:45:
4K gaming? Right. And how long did it take for 64 bit gaming to become a reality? I remember using XP 64 bit because I was stoked for the coming onslaught of 64 bit games! 15 years later....finally a trickle begins.

Wow, it sure is exciting living here in 2020. I'm playing that old game Ryse at 4k at 120fps easily on my current system.


Unless somehow you had XP 64-bit 6 years before it was released in 2005, that is. That's when FEAR and Quake 4 came out.
So it's not even been 10 years, and XP 64 was never commercially released, MS waited for Vista's release just 7.5 years ago to start the 64-bit push or half the interim you've been waiting.

Rosco wrote on Aug 12, 2014, 12:42:
Since everyone seems to be reminiscing about Sierra, I'd still like to see a real continuation on No One Lives Forever. Contract Jack just didn't cut it.

Seeing as Contract JACK came out right after NOLF2, it was hardly a continuation. It was more a "meanwhile, over here..." story. It was also a blatant attempt to attract the run'n'gunners with no cutscenes and minimal story. It alienated the NOLF fans and failed to attract new players, double fail.

Did they ever find out who owns the NOLF IP? Monolith said they don't own it, Vivendi said they didn't know...

They killed Flight because it wasn't making them money, because it sucked, and they had no clue what to do.

They killed MSFS11 because FSX didn't make them ENOUGH money (it was definitely profitable, but MS isn't interested in only making a LITTLE profit) and they were focusing on the Xbox.

:33 Su-27
:48 F-15 dying, not sure if another F-15 is supposed to have shot it down or that's just weird editing
:58 Su-27s
1:04 Su-27
1:07 Su-27
1:20 Su-27

There were no MiG-29s (any of the 3 models in DCS) or Su-33s in that video, nor any of the other planes except 27's and 15's.

Serious Portal

LOL! Hypocrisy FTW!

You: Fuck this shit, it totally sucks! Stupid name slam, sucks!
Him: Aren't you being unfair?
You: STFU stupid troll!!! I'm always awesome, but your questioning of my awesomeness proves YOU suck, too!


Yeah, HE is the one acting like a jackass. You sound like a member of Congress, not a reasonable person.

I replayed both NOLFs in the past couple of years. NOLF1 installation is a challenge on 64-bit systems (the installer is 16-bit) but an enterprising modder made a 32-bit installer that worked.

I also replayed Contract JACK, and it was not as good, as I remembered.

You seem to be confusing Direct3D with DirectX. OpenGL can't do sound or input.

As for OpenGL, as it's older than D3D, it's interesting that it's not in wider use. Why might that be? I was playing more games in OGL in the 90s than now.

It always baffles me how many people seem to think that racing is about a driver beating a track. If that was the case, it would just be whoever lapped the best time and they'd be done with it.
The inclusion of right turns along with left hardly makes some big difference in the competition, it's a detail. Of course, if you look at many other racing disciplines they MOSTLY turn right, with a few lefts thrown in. I'm not sure why turning LEFT is seen as so miserable.

Good old Stomped, I miss that place too.

Dark Forces is available pretty cheap. Got it on a Steam Sale a couple of years back in a big SW pack along with Jedi Knight:DF2, Mysteries of the Sith, JK2: Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, and maybe some others.

I just finished replaying it a few months ago. The graphics are so low-res as to be an impediment at times (is that an enemy, a wall, or a painted backdrop??) but other than that it's still quite good.

Why can't Disney have EA remake that using the Frostbite engine? Same missions, same story, same levels, just make it look 20 years newer.

New console games will all be 64-bit, so they're not going to want to waste time porting to 32.

32-bit is dead.