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Re: OotB: Bzzzt
Dec 20, 2024, 10:54
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Re: OotB: Bzzzt Dec 20, 2024, 10:54
Dec 20, 2024, 10:54
 
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 19, 2024, 12:25:
I definitely recommend the Panasonic Eneloop series. I have a whole raft of their batteries and two chargers. The batteries last a long, long time and the chargers are awesome.

Same here. I have dozens and dozens of AA and AAA eneloop batteries, as well as 2 chargers (a regular one and a super-fast one), and they've always worked great with zero problems. Never had any hit their recharge limit and need replacing either, and I've had some for years and years. I can think of no reason NOT to recommend them.
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Re: Life is Strange: Double Exposure Released
Oct 30, 2024, 10:01
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Re: Life is Strange: Double Exposure Released Oct 30, 2024, 10:01
Oct 30, 2024, 10:01
 
It's only Ultimate Edition that got the early release. I'm a total LiS sucker, so of course I bought that version and have been replaying the first 2 chapters for the last 2 weeks.

I'm loving the game so far, except for what they did with the relationship between Max and Chloe if you chose Bae (sacrifice Arcadia Bay to save Chloe). I still hold out (probably futile) hope that they will get back together by the end, though. But, the folks going insane over this and posting threats and all manner of vile hatred directed toward the devs and VAs and everyone else associated with it is just stupid. It's fiction. If you don't like where the creators took it, you don't have to accept it and can invent your own personal canon! I mean look at Highlander fans; we ignore basically everything in the franchise other than the first movie and the TV series; certainly, there has never been any movie called "Highlander 2" in existence! ;-) No need to kill the devs over it. Plus, you're talking about a game based around time travel and alternate universes. In this new game, you're explicitly traveling between those alternate universes. So, it's not hard to just mentally set this game as taking place in some alternate universe other than the one you imagine from the first game! Base your own personal canon on the story from the comics. Or whatever else you like.

I just hope Square Enix / Deck Nine didn't shoot themselves in the foot and doom future games in the series by pissing off a large portion of their fan base with the move. It would be a shame, since it really does seem to be a fun game and I'd like to see more. And, honestly, it would've been SO simple for them to NOT piss everyone off like this by just writing Chloe as being away doing something elsewhere so she couldn't be with Max during the game or something. *shrug*
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Re: Evening Metaverse
Sep 29, 2016, 06:15
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Re: Evening Metaverse Sep 29, 2016, 06:15
Sep 29, 2016, 06:15
 
They started shipping some stuff here via their delivery service about a year ago or so, and now they ship almost everything that way... The service seems at least as good as UPS or FedEx... As a bonus, we also got Amazon Fresh in the area, their perishable grocery delivery service, shipped via the same delivery service!
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Re: DOOM OS X & Linux Port Plans?
Jul 30, 2016, 08:44
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Re: DOOM OS X & Linux Port Plans? Jul 30, 2016, 08:44
Jul 30, 2016, 08:44
 
As much as I'd prefer it to be Doom they're working on, the better guess is Warhammer... What with Mars being the god of War, and those cryptic numbers below the planet pic apparently being part of an MC Hammer song...
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Re: SteamOS Street Fighter V in Spring
Feb 16, 2016, 06:06
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Re: SteamOS Street Fighter V in Spring Feb 16, 2016, 06:06
Feb 16, 2016, 06:06
 
Bundy wrote on Feb 15, 2016, 13:06:
Anyone using steamOS? I never saw the big advantage in it myself.

I got one of the first batch of Alienware Steam machines, so yes I'm running it... The only advantage it probably has over a regular Linux distro is ease of use on a machine like that... For a desktop machine, you'd want a regular distro, I'd think...
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Re: Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders Released
Feb 5, 2016, 06:15
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Re: Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders Released Feb 5, 2016, 06:15
Feb 5, 2016, 06:15
 
Though they don't mention it in the announcement, if you go to the Steam page for it, you'll see it's also available for Linux/SteamOS too...
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Re: Into the Black
Nov 19, 2015, 06:11
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Re: Into the Black Nov 19, 2015, 06:11
Nov 19, 2015, 06:11
 
I was hoping for a remake of the old DOS Pyro games, where you burned down various famous buildings while finding an escape route...
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Re: Steam Hardware Launches
Nov 11, 2015, 10:46
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Re: Steam Hardware Launches Nov 11, 2015, 10:46
Nov 11, 2015, 10:46
 
panbient wrote on Nov 11, 2015, 10:14:
So having said that, how well does the controller work for something like Civilization 5, a Total War title, or an old school RTS like Age of Empires 2? It seems most reviews I've found focused on using it to replace a traditional gamepad with a more multi-platform / console oriented title (like Tomb Raider or Assassin's Creed).

Those aren't my style of games, so I haven't tried any of those you mentioned...

The first game I played through on it was Portal 2, because I already knew it like the back of my hand, so I figured it would be ideal for just getting used to the controller... And, it took a fair bit of getting used to... But, I also think they've improved both the firmware and the SteamOS software several times since then, because that was immediately after I got it, and it has installed about a dozen updates since then... But, even that early on, by the end of the game, I was quite comfortable with the controller... But, then, Portal 2 was one of the games retrofitted with specific built-in Steam controller support, too...

But, I've played various other games, some with gamepad support, some with only mouse and keyboard support, and it works fine in either, even if you sometimes need to tweak the control setup a bit... And, I actually prefer it when it's a mouse and keyboard game, since the gamepad games tend to assume a right stick, and the trackpad emulating a stick is just kinda weird... It at least requires thinking of it behaving very differently than a normal mouse-style trackpad... Like it matters how long you hold your finger in place in one spot, just as if you were holding a stick in that spot... It's really just switching back and forth between that and games where it behaves as a mouse/trackball that causes temporary confusion...

Another potential issue I read about in previews was access to the battery compartment saying that it felt like you were breaking the controller the first few times you had to open it. Have you dealt with that yet? Or has that been refined leading up to release?

Yeah, it did strike me as kind of weird when opening it up to insert the batteries... The whole back plate that forms the 2 backside buttons pops off, and it does feel almost like you're breaking it or could easily break those buttons... But, I think that's just misperception... The real buttons lie under the plate, and the plate is just one solid hunk of plastic that rocks against those buttons when in use... That said, I've only put in the initial set of batteries it came with; so far, the thing seems to go quite a long while on one set of batteries, which is nice...
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Re: Steam Hardware Launches
Nov 11, 2015, 07:42
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Re: Steam Hardware Launches Nov 11, 2015, 07:42
Nov 11, 2015, 07:42
 
Bub wrote on Nov 11, 2015, 06:52:
I think is is kinda funny and awkward, most Steam games are PC games, but the Steam machine locks them down to game controller twitchiness and limited input options.

Not sure what you're talking about here, but you can plug in any USB keyboard and mouse if you really wanted to use them instead of the controller... It's just a regular old PC in small form factor! You can even open it up and replace the hard drive, RAM, even CPU if you wanted... Not sure what you think is "locked down" or "limited"...
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Re: Steam Hardware Launches
Nov 11, 2015, 06:01
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Re: Steam Hardware Launches Nov 11, 2015, 06:01
Nov 11, 2015, 06:01
 
nin wrote on Nov 10, 2015, 21:24:
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 10, 2015, 21:03:
The controller doesn't look half bad, reviews of it seem mostly positive so far; I'll probably buy one eventually.

I really want one, but kinda broke right now. Maybe after xmas...

It certainly looks neat. I have a bookface friend with one, and his review was generally positive.

I got one of the early pre-order Alienware Steam Machines a month ago, so have been playing around with it for a while now... The controller took me a fair bit of getting used to, but once I did, damn it works well! Especially for games expecting a mouse... In ones expecting an Xbox controller, it can be kind of weird, with the right trackpad emulating a stick... But, I mostly got used to that, too... But, it's far more natural when it's replacing a mouse...
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Re: New Steam User Record
Oct 20, 2015, 06:09
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Re: New Steam User Record Oct 20, 2015, 06:09
Oct 20, 2015, 06:09
 
I wonder if the bump was related to the early release of Steam Machines to people who pre-ordered early enough... I know I played last weekend for the first time I'd ever have been counted in these stats on a new Alienware Steam Machine...
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Re: More QUAKEs & Wolfensteins on GOG.com
Oct 2, 2015, 06:07
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Re: More QUAKEs & Wolfensteins on GOG.com Oct 2, 2015, 06:07
Oct 2, 2015, 06:07
 
It's bizarre that they don't offer Linux versions of these, given that not only were there official id-released Linux versions, but the code is actually open sourced and ported to just about every platform in existence... I want to like you, GOG, but you make it hard sometimes...
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs
Sep 24, 2015, 06:19
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs Sep 24, 2015, 06:19
Sep 24, 2015, 06:19
 
jdreyer wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 14:57:
What we have now 95 years or whatever is just stupid.

It's 95 for works-for-hire and anonymous works, but for the rest it's life of the author plus 70 years, which is even more insane... Not only does the author get to profit for life, but so do his heirs for 70 more years! Tell me how paying his grandkids inspires a dead guy to create more works? We've totally perverted the original intention of Copyright, which was to produce a robust Public Domain which was available to all to work with... Disney knows the usefulness of a robust PD, given that so many of their movies directly use old PD stories as their basis... But, they don't want to give back to the PD themselves; they just want to take, take, take, and keep all their stuff for themselves forever... So, every time the mouse is about to enter PD, they get Congress to give them another extension of copyright length... If they did it in a way that it only applied to them and Micky, I wouldn't care; but, as it is, it applies to everyone and everything, and it's totally destroying the Public Domain... It's a fucking travesty!
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs
Sep 23, 2015, 14:42
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs Sep 23, 2015, 14:42
Sep 23, 2015, 14:42
 
jdreyer wrote on Sep 23, 2015, 14:20:
It's quite possible that some Republicans are in office due to voter fraud:

Given the gerrymandered districts, they don't usually need to resort to such overt fraud for Congressional elections... But, if they are rigging the voting machine results, it's kind of amusing that even with that they still weren't able to give Romney the win over Obama... Maybe that explains why Romney and everyone on Fox looked so damned surprised and confused when the final results came in!
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs
Sep 23, 2015, 06:18
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs Sep 23, 2015, 06:18
Sep 23, 2015, 06:18
 
jdreyer wrote on Sep 22, 2015, 23:43:
Tie your electoral fortunes to the ISPs, the most hated companies in America. That's a surefire way to the presidency.

Between shit like this, and Trump being their frontrunner, I'm thinking the GOP has just given up and is not even trying to win this time around... Which is fine with me, because we sure as hell don't need them back in power ever again... I'm not sure the country could survive another Republican reign... We're still very much recovering from the last one... I just hope we manage to get them all out of Congress too, because that's where they do most of their damage...
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Re: Morning Tech Bits
Sep 19, 2015, 08:39
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Re: Morning Tech Bits Sep 19, 2015, 08:39
Sep 19, 2015, 08:39
 
DangerDog wrote on Sep 18, 2015, 15:51:
The focus of the story isn't on some kid who took apart a working clock and stuffed it into a cheap briefcase

Stop repeating the lie about it being a "briefcase"... It's a tiny little pencil case... You can see the damn scale of the thing by looking at the AC plug or the 9 volt terminals that are visible... The thing is tiny... Everyone spreading the "briefcase" lie is trying to make it sound like it looked like a briefcase bomb...
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Cybersecurity
Sep 10, 2015, 06:10
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Cybersecurity Sep 10, 2015, 06:10
Sep 10, 2015, 06:10
 
Or, everyone is really bad at it...

But, the article seems to be measuring only number of companies and money spent, not effectiveness...
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Re: etc.
Aug 30, 2015, 08:21
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Re: etc. Aug 30, 2015, 08:21
Aug 30, 2015, 08:21
 
Crossover characters from the games in the movie? Hmmm, it's set in 15th century Spain; AC2 is 15th century Italy, but Ezio does head to Spain in Brotherhood and Discovery... So, Ezio is pretty much the only possibility for a crosover character, isn't it? Unless they mean some NPC, like da Vinci...
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Re: etc., etc.
Aug 29, 2015, 09:42
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Aug 29, 2015, 09:42
 
Ozmodan wrote on Aug 29, 2015, 09:26:
Anyone can play a game, physical sports are an entirely different thing.

In what way? I'm pretty sure anyone can play football, baseball, and basketball too... I know, because I've played all three, and I'm certainly not the most physically fit person on the planet!

Maybe what you meant was not everyone can play at a professional competative level? If so, neither can everyone do that with videogames either!
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