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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 7, 2016, 14:38 |
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I'd go for a world without nukes, but until someone offs Putin and heavily changes the shithole that is North Korea, it's probably not really safe to do so.
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| News Comments > Saturday Safety Dance |
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National Talk over encryption vs safety |
Aug 7, 2016, 14:36 |
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FBI Dillwallet: We feel that we need to be able to break any kind of encryption at any time, thereby making encryption essentially completely pointless, because we will lose our master key within a week of receiving it.
Nation: Hell No.
This was a good talk, FBI. We should do it more often. |
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| News Comments > Xbox One Controller Windows Issues |
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Re: Xbox One Controller Windows Issues |
Aug 7, 2016, 13:52 |
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That's pretty typical Microsoft right there. Microsoft controller on Microsoft OS, and it doesn't work.
I'm sure plenty of people here remember the good old Sidewinder days, that always had major fucking issues in just about every version of Windows.
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| News Comments > Battlefield 1 CE With No Game |
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Re: Battlefield 1 CE With No Game |
Aug 6, 2016, 10:55 |
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EA has been pulling these kind of stunts for a long time. They once sold a boxed copy of a UO expansion pack that merely contained a note saying: "Thank you for buying the expansion! We want to make sure that it meets up with our players' standards, so it's not actually ready yet. Once it becomes available, you will be first in line to be allowed to buy it able to download it for free!"
So compared to that, this isn't too bad.
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| News Comments > Dishonored 2 Details |
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Re: Dishonored 2 Details |
Aug 5, 2016, 14:11 |
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El Pit wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 13:29:
Creston wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 13:12:
It is SO MUCH more fun to play KILLLLLL. The powers just work so much better, you have so many more options. Just summoning hordes of rats to chew through that guard checkpoint is fantastic.
You... sniff... YOU... MONSTER!!!! VIRTUAL LIFES MATTER!!! 
Okay, Beyonce. 
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 5, 2016, 13:15 |
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CJ_Parker wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 12:30:
It is incredible what Win 10 customers have to put up with, free "upgrade" or not.
It's even more incredible how some people will keep defending it... 
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 5, 2016, 13:13 |
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HorrorScope wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 11:56:
Another were partitions are removed and boom there goes someones linux dual boot.
Oh, nice. That's truly quality work there.
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| News Comments > Dishonored 2 Details |
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Re: Dishonored 2 Details |
Aug 5, 2016, 13:12 |
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nin wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 11:28:
Creston wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 11:08:
Yeah, quite looking forward to this. I really enjoyed my "CORVO KILLLLLLLL!!!!" playthrough where everything tasted my wrath.
I've only completed it once and went goody two shoes, so I need to do a chaos run and see the differences on the first one...
It is SO MUCH more fun to play KILLLLLL. The powers just work so much better, you have so many more options. Just summoning hordes of rats to chew through that guard checkpoint is fantastic.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 5, 2016, 11:10 |
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Countries fight to host the Olympics to generate money and tourism fill their politicians' pockets.
FTFY.
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| News Comments > Dishonored 2 Details |
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Re: Dishonored 2 Details |
Aug 5, 2016, 11:08 |
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Yeah, quite looking forward to this. I really enjoyed my "CORVO KILLLLLLLL!!!!" playthrough where everything tasted my wrath.
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| News Comments > Morning Interviews |
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Re: Morning Interviews |
Aug 4, 2016, 15:51 |
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CJ_Parker wrote on Aug 4, 2016, 15:05:
I disagree with that. Holocaust is also just an old Greek word but it has become synonymous with the genocide of the Jews in WW2. Likewise, Apartheid has become synonymous with extreme racial segregation and prejudice.
That's a very fair point, but on the flipside, the fact that the genocide of the Jews in WW2 is referred to as the Holocaust doesn't mean the word can't ever be used again. It is used in different contexts. So to say that the word apartheid can't ever be used for anything else ever again seems weird.
Those terms, imo, should not be used lightly in inflationary ways especially not in video games where you have a very high chance that some dumb kids will think that racial segregation in South Africa has been named after the video game Deus Ex MD and not vice versa ("d00d the game is so popular they have even named real life shit after it!!!11").
Yeah, but by that benchmark we can't use any more words ever.  Let's not start making rules just to protect ignorance.
The dev should use their creativity and come up with a term of their own. Not that hard and problem solved.
But if they call it Florpheid, nobody will know what it means, and it has no resonance. Justified or not, Apartheid evokes an image of brutal and often violent segregation, which judging from the trailers is exactly what's being shown in DE:MD.
I don't see an issue with using it again, same as I wouldn't see an issue with something else being referred to as a holocaust (as long as it isn't referred to as THE Holocaust.)
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Re: Morning Safety Dance |
Aug 4, 2016, 14:41 |
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including whether to designate the electronic ballot-casting system for November’s elections as “critical infrastructure,”
Because that will make it guaranteed unhackable. 
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| News Comments > Morning Interviews |
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Re: Morning Interviews |
Aug 4, 2016, 14:39 |
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CJ_Parker wrote on Aug 4, 2016, 13:01:
Quboid wrote on Aug 4, 2016, 11:01:
It is rather cack-handed marketing. Is there a specific 'apartheid' controversy, or is it just that the game includes segregation? I'm in favour of games tackling such issues even if the result is likely to be a bit of a caricature.
The controversy is or was that they were calling it "apartheid" which stands for a unique kind of segregation and lots of injustice and suffering in South Africa.
I don't think that anyone had a problem with the segregation theme per se (many games/RPGs had those in the past) but only with using the term apartheid which probably should not be tampered with in this way.
Which I think is much hand wringing over nothing anyway. Apartheid is simply the Dutch word for segregation, so it being called Apartheid in South Africa isn't because of some kind of special feeling or the idea that the struggle there was worse than elsewhere, that's just what it's called in Dutch, and thus what it's called in Afrikaans. (which is basically a dialect of Dutch.)
So while it's weird that people in the US would call the Aug segregation "apartheid", the whining over how that diminishes the struggle in south africa is just ugh. There must be an entire segment of the population now that literally does nothing else but find shit to be offended about on the internet.
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Evening Metaverse |
Aug 3, 2016, 23:37 |
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You know, as much as I can get behind the whole idea of a currency that's not under the control of governments, and thus can't be manipulated to favor the elite / Illuminati / secret alien overlords etc., all this news about Bitcoin values just tumbling all over the place because of event X, Y and Z makes me think that perhaps having the governments stabilize your currency isn't as bad as the Bitcoin people make it out to be...
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