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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
May 16, 2014, 15:17 |
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jdreyer wrote on May 16, 2014, 13:09:
Save The Internet.
Glad someone in this country still has the time and cojones to protest. We've become such a docile nation of sheeple.
Wait, you mean I have to stop using the internet and go outside if I want to save the internet. Sigh, ok... Oh a new cat video... |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
May 14, 2014, 13:55 |
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And thanks to an archaic US law, any message left on Gmail for more than six months can be requested by police without a warrant, as it is considered "abandoned." What kind of fucked up shit is this? Does this apply to people who save their snail mail letters in shoe boxes too? |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Evening Metaverse |
May 11, 2014, 20:05 |
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Cutter wrote on May 10, 2014, 00:13:
Lol The Ferengi Plan, love it!
If we could only get more internet sites to throttle access to all government networks maybe then they would get the message, fire this asshat lobbyist and put a real human in charge of the FCC. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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State of Decay? |
May 11, 2014, 19:55 |
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| I don't see it on their main page, but the Humble Store has State of Decay for $5. It's on my Steam wishlist, which is exported to isthereanydeal.com, which emails you on price changes, which is how I heard about it. Anyway, I don't remember putting it on my wishlist, but I must have heard a recommendation or read something good about it. I just bought a few games from GMG's sale a few days ago adding to my ever growing back log of games to play, so I'm being more picky about buying things. Is it any good? Is it worth $5? |
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Re: Morning Safety Dance |
May 7, 2014, 20:24 |
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I haven't gotten that one, but I've had three phone calls from Nigerian scammers. The first two times it was the same guy and he used the same name both times. The first call was to tell me I'd won some sweepstakes from Walmart. That day I was at home and not doing anything so I played along. He wanted me to go buy some kind card to pay the taxes before they could send me the money and call him back after I got the card and give him the information on the card. While on the phone I was researching him and the number he called from. I found a page on the FTC website about these scams and it said to report them, so I did after I got off the phone with him.
A few days later, using the same name, he called and said he was from UPS. This time I was in a hurry and not in the mood to play. I called him out, reminded him that he claimed to be calling from Walmart last time and I already reported his stupid ass to the FTC.
A few weeks later I got a call from the same number, but this was a different guy giving me the same sweepstakes pitch from the first call. Again I wasn't in the mood to play, so I told him to get his buddy that called me the other times and go fuck themselves. I haven't heard from them since then.
If anyone wants to have some fun with them, call 876-403-8511 and ask for John White. |
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| News Comments > Towns Dev Leaving; Towns 2 Possible |
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Re: Towns Dev Leaving; Towns 2 Possible |
May 7, 2014, 19:30 |
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Towns was never on Steam Early Access. I don't even think Steam had the Early Access program back when Towns was released. I remember the shit storm it caused when it was greenlit and they began selling it while it was still in beta.
If Early Access was around back then, they didn't use it. I got the game in a bundle long before it was on Steam. It was distributed on Desura, and I played a few hours of it then. The game had potential, but it was buggy. When it was greenlit on Steam I was sent a Steam key, and when I activated the key it definitely did not have the Early Access banner on its store page. |
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| News Comments > Free Anomaly: Warzone Earth |
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Re: Free Anomaly: Warzone Earth |
May 6, 2014, 23:54 |
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Omni wrote on May 6, 2014, 10:46:
Sadly you don't get a code just a direct download.
I find it sad people are complaining about a free, DRM free game. |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Evening Metaverse |
May 6, 2014, 23:50 |
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jomisab wrote on May 6, 2014, 21:26:
Mashiki Amiketo wrote on May 6, 2014, 19:39:
Duh. If you think ISP's aren't throttling then sandvine wouldn't be still making a mint selling their boxes.
Been pretty fortunate with Cablevision I think. 101 Mbit for $55/month and always get better performance than even that. No issues with Netflix etc....but I know they are one of the few ISPs to install Netflix's server hardware in their datacenters.
Just pray to God that Cablevision never gets bought out by some evil POS company like Comcast or Time Warner.
I can choose a local cable co. or AT&T Uverse. I've been fairly happy with my local cable co. recently, and I guess I have AT&T to thank for that. The price has been $50 a month since they first started offering service, which back then was 512kb/s down 128kb/s up. They did upgrade slowly over time, but before AT&T came along to give them some competition their standard service was 4mb/s down 128kb/s up. Once AT&T started advertising they boosted the standard service to 10mb/s down 512kb/s up. Each time AT&T upgrades, so does the cable. Currently I'm getting 20mb/s down and 2mb/s up. They do offer a 50mb/s plan for twice the price.
In the fine print on their website (last time I checked) there was a data cap of 250GB per month, but they apparently don't enforce it as I regularly hit close to 300GB or more without extra fees. |
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| News Comments > Space Engineers Sells 500K |
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Re: Space Engineers Sells 500K |
May 6, 2014, 23:18 |
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| This has been on my wish list for a while, but I'm going to have to wait because I'm too busy with other games, like Kerbal Space Program. I just passed 300 hours in KSP yesterday. I like to design and building things, and don't know if my brain can take having another space stuff building game. When I'm not playing it, I'm thinking of stuff to build in KSP. |
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| News Comments > Wolfenstein: The New Order Specs |
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Re: Wolfenstein: The New Order Specs |
May 2, 2014, 15:03 |
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FloorPie wrote on May 2, 2014, 13:24:
deqer wrote on May 2, 2014, 09:49:
4GB of ram? wtf? Windows 7 can't even run properly with only 4GB of ram. It becomes sluggish quite quickly after you install everything like updates, drivers, software, and more.
I think you mean 2GB. That or what the heck are you running in the background all the time?
You're probably thinking of Vista. I ran Win7 on an 8 year old system that only had 2GB of RAM, and it ran just fine. |
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| News Comments > Divinity: Original Sin in June |
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Re: Divinity: Original Sin in June |
Apr 25, 2014, 23:49 |
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| I'm really looking forward to this one, maybe more than the other RPG's I backed on KS (PoE, WL2, TToN), and I never played the original Divinity games either. I backed it on the last day at the $25 level, but wish I'd gone for a collectors box now. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Combine Harvester Demolition Derby |
Apr 24, 2014, 14:17 |
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| Oh, that kind of combine. I thought it was going to be some kind of HL2 mod or something. |
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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Re: Evening Safety Dance |
Apr 23, 2014, 11:18 |
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Prez wrote on Apr 23, 2014, 10:03:
I linked my FB account with the Digital Shadow site and the "infiltrating target" percentage remained at 0% forever. I must be off the grid! Yay me! \o/
You have to disable any script blockers or it does that. |
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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Re: Evening Safety Dance |
Apr 23, 2014, 08:05 |
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| I have a Facebook page, but I don't use it. I wanted me to disable a privacy feature to allow the app to read my public profile, and just for shits and giggles I did. Every section of the results page just said insufficient data. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Apr 22, 2014, 20:55 |
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Happy Earth Day! Here's hoping you got the Earth something nice to mark the occasion... I drove a diesel 100 miles today and got 46MPG for the trip. 
nin wrote on Apr 22, 2014, 08:55:
I'm drinking a bottled water right now, does that count? 
I only drink bottled water, but I have a filter on my tap and fill them myself. The tap water here isn't too bad, it only has a slight public swimming pool taste to it, but the filter gets rid of that. The best tap water I ever had was the town I went to college in. It was a small farming town of about 15k people with 1/3 of that being students. It's been my experience that the smaller the city/town, the better the water. |
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| News Comments > Frozen Synapse Free Weekend; Sale |
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Re: Frozen Synapse Free Weekend; Sale |
Apr 18, 2014, 18:42 |
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Cyanotetyphas wrote on Apr 18, 2014, 18:22:
The key to getting through Frozen Synapse is understanding that the game gives the advantage to the defensive shooter. This means that for most encounters you're better off rushing to good positions and then baiting the enemy into walking around a corner into you or crossing your cone of view through a window. Rushing and trying to clear corridors will result in your guys dying quickly. The only problem is some missions give you time or point constraints, so you really have to "hurry up and wait" which can be challenging.
I will say though that this is a long ass game holy moly. I've made good progress, but I looked up where I was and couldn't believe how much was left.
There are ways to deal with people that hide in defensive positions. One game I won against a guy that started in well defended area and I was pretty much in the open. I used a unit to distract him then rushed in while his units were distracted. It takes timing to pull off and using the simulation mode is a must. I had a unit get in position where he could be seen by multiple targets, set him to ignore and not engage. Then he would duck behind cover before the enemy shot him while my other units ran into the building and wiped him out. |
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| News Comments > Frozen Synapse Free Weekend; Sale |
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Re: Frozen Synapse Free Weekend; Sale |
Apr 18, 2014, 18:30 |
MeanJim |
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Whiskers wrote on Apr 18, 2014, 12:10:
It can be a lot of fun but I stopped playing because 75% of the people would just stop making moves as soon as they lost a guy. Still pretty fun though.
I quit playing it for the same reason. They kept saying they were going to fix that by having the game auto forfeit if your opponent doesn't make a move after two weeks, but the last time I played it I had three games in a row where my opponent quit after realizing they couldn't win. I haven't played it since then, but if they finally fixed that since then I will definitely get back into it.
I bought it directly from the dev's site when it was released and played the DRM free version of it, but I saw they recently added Steam features like Steam notifications when you have a turn waiting. |
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| News Comments > Sunday Tech Bits |
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Dell, Microsoft, Best Buy Offer XP Trade-In Discounts |
Apr 13, 2014, 17:19 |
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| The Best Buy trade-in is only for notebooks which is probably smart of them, but it still sucks. I looked into it the other day because I have 7 "working" XP computers I could trade in (2 are notebooks). I'm sure I'm not the only one with a closet full of old computers that would take advantage of this if the offer applied to desktops as well. |
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