Coop is fun. I mean, most games with coop are fun because you're playing with friends, anyway, but if shoot shoots are your thing and you like coop, it's good.

It's the most arcadey "Tom Clancy" game ever made, though. It's more "Far Cry: Military Guys" than anything else.

Cutter wrote on Feb 24, 2017, 13:07:

ForgedReality wrote on Feb 24, 2017, 10:23:
Yay! nVidia wins again! XD

No, what this article clearly illustrates that only the criminally insane are fans of Nvidia.

Seriously though, 9.5 years? That's fucking it? This is why the world not only needs a global death penalty, but we also need summary executions in open and shut cases like these. Just take them out of the courtroom around back of the courthouse to a firing squad and be done with it.

You get more prison time for running a torrent site for TV shows than for murder.

Like, that sounds like some sort of "meme" or whatever, but it's actually the truth.

thecakeisalie wrote on Feb 24, 2017, 14:54:
"These bans are applied on an account level, not at the hardware level"

So Ubisoft is allowing the cheaters to just make another account so they can buy the game again and keep playing. They pay lip service to the community by "banning" cheaters yet allow the cheaters to pony up the cash for the game again and play if they want to. Never one to pass up a quick buck, eh Ubisoft? LOL.

As someone that deals with handing out bannings on some services, hardware or other "fingerprint" style bans are extremely easy to circumvent and almost always impact innocent users. They're only useful as an immediate, temporary, stopgap.

But yes, of course ~LOL UBIBUX SUX~ XD etc.

Well, I know two, so, uh...?

I didn't realize the BN community had this many assholes in it. I mean, going by these comments, y'all voted for Trump and wear MAGA caps indoors.

(I'd rather a new Shadow or Mordor being announced)

Can you source to where wikileaks made those claims? I believe there's a difference between them publishing an email as-is and a third party like Alex Jones taking it well out of context and warping it into absurdity.

People have always trusted the intelligence communities

We must live in alternate realities; nobodies trusted these since the cold war started.

Nothing actually found in the Podesta emails (or the Clinton emails) was even remotely bad

I'd say the DNC clearly showing favoritism to Clinton over Sanders since day one was pretty bad. Also DNC/Clinton getting special access to interviewers / debate organizers to prepare questions for Clinton and against her opponents seems pretty bad. And there's how the Clinton foundation used the Clintons speeches and contacts in foreign countries and large companies to amass wealth and influence for reasons that don't seem very much related with charity and more "for profit", as was spelled out. Also how well tracked "top donors" are and the funny relation the numbers of zeroes have with positions in the state department. Those things seem pretty bad to me. Maybe not illegal, but nobody sane was hoping to find evidence of ritualistic murders or plans to bomb an orphanage.

The RNC was also hacked, but since they had an agenda none of those emails were released to the public.

That's your interpretation. Another one is that there was nothing of interest to anyone in them, or that the level of access had was less because of "better" security (aka hovering over a link before clicking it).

Since nothing of consequence was found in the emails there is no reason to be upset with anyone but the hackers. Hacking another nation's political process is an act of war. You should care who did it

All the hackers did was publish how politicians think and talk behind our backs. Also, they did nothing more than what the NYT did by revealing stolen Trump tax documents, and I remember people praising them for that.

And if this was an act of war then I guess the US is currently at war with a lot of countries.

When the cries of "show me proof" are answered with "here's proof" your first response can't be "well I don't trust you anymore!".

If by proof you mean the recent joint report, that's not proof. It just states that Russians would know how to do this and how, and that everything pointing to Russia is just speculation.

we can believe the CIA, who doesn't seem to have any particularly strong motive here

What strong motive did the CIA have to fund the cocaine trade into the US?

Did they manage to nab the server code somehow, or create their own?

Don't you need to have bought WoW in a box to use this, anyway?

What's the moral difference between getting a free 11 year old version of a heavily patched/"updated" game you can't otherwise play officially, and getting an 11 year old abandonware game that's no longer sold?

1. Why do people now trust the likes of the CIA or NSA?

2. Who even cares who "hacked" (very strong word for falling for a phishing attack...) the emails? It wasn't the russians writing those things, and the writers aren't disputing their veracity. If someone hacked your SO's phone and only showed you proof they were fooling with somone else, who would you be mad at?

Whoa, Project IGI; that's one name I didn't expect to hear of again. Nostalgia...

People blame fake news for making Trump president and consider it the worst thing ever, but when Trump's people say they'll move against fake news, it becomes protected speech...

Good for him.

sir wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 20:14:
Oh scary wary woo, now the powers that be will know that I occasionally look at videos of large breasted ladies and like watching classic rock videos on Youtube. Somebody lock me up already. It seems to me that the only people scared of this legislation are those with something sinister to hide. It's akin to that crap that's often spouted about how the UK is a horrible place to live as it is the most surveilled country in the Western world. Really? Well, I've lived here all my life and the supposedly Orwellian observation is completely non-intrusive. Unlike, say, a round from a semi-automatic AR-15. But we don't have many civilians wandering about with those over here.

I don't mean to be insulting, but after having lived about equal time interspersed in the US, UK, mainland Europe, and also a few years in western Asia, I gotta say that this is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read online. Like, it's at that teetering point where it might be coming from a place of absolute blind ignorance, or blatant trolling; and these days, it's really hard to tell which.

Seriously, it ticks all the boxes for a quote from a model citizen in some dystopic novel. Funny how so many of those take place in the UK...

eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 18:59:

sir wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 18:04:

Cutter wrote on Nov 29, 2016, 11:17:

Popular opposition to the law has already provoked over 133,000 citizens to sign a petition calling for its repeal, and although that is unlikely to happen, the petition's motion must now be considered by Parliament.

133,000 out of 65 million people. Kind of says it all about how most Brits value their privacy and allowing Big Brother to do whatever they want. Very sad indeed.

Actually it says more about how this story has successfully flown under the radar and received little coverage since it first became an issue, but don't let that get in the way of your obvious attempt at trolling.

It certainly flew under the radar in terms of public perception, but think about what that says about UK media... from outside (German viewpoint) it seemed like the UK media made a concerted effort to not mention this negatively. Even big proper news sites had opinion articles FOR this law. Meanwhile in Germany and elsewhere, it was considered as "something worse than 1984 put into law" (that was a sadly unofficial quote)

Meanwhile, the UN derided the law as and I quote "worse than scary" and found that the UK gov led an and I quote "orchestrated propaganda campaign through its allies in the media to get the law passed with public consent"

That is some scary shit, coming from the UN. Gotta say I am actually glad a country like that isn't in the EU for much longer

Pretty much this. I'm an expat now in Germany, but I lived in the UK for almost a decade and have lots of friends there, so kept myself abreast on this matter. It was one of the most revolting things I've ever witnessed, between the larger UK media just not covering much at all, and the complete lack of political opposition.

Multiple reports and public hearings with civilian experts from the industry and civil rights groups all trashing the entire thing, completely ignored. Whole thing was fast-tracked so hard. Like ffs, the voting for its approval was 3/4the empty because those that /said/ they opposed it were too spineless to attend and say anything.

US gets a lot of flak, much of it deserved, but even now it's a god damned utopia compared to the UK.

SpectralMeat wrote on Nov 15, 2016, 12:10:

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Nov 15, 2016, 11:49:
Also play the game that Donald Trump won the election off by saying Hillary Clinton has failed the USA with Benghazi and got one of the most influential players in EVE killed. Sean Smith AKA Vile Rat.

?? Whaa?

Sean Smith, one of the americans killed in the Benghazi attacks, was a "talking point" during and before the elections; it should be easy enough to find a few mentions of his name here and there, as well as his grieving mother's speech at the RNC denouncing Clinton.

He was known in EVE as Vile Rat, undoubtedly among the top 3 most influential players in the game, both in its virtual politics and social aspects, and as a player representative for the developers. He was also a Something Awful goon, but I'm not sure what pull if any he had over there that wasn't directly related to his EVE antics.

That's just general context, though; the exact meaning of that comment is something I'm unable to decipher.

"secondary payments when games hit a certain level of success with consumers"

Fuck off. Most game VAs are utter garbage and are paid ridiculous amounts for less than a day's work comprising the entire game. Meanwhile the actual devs spend 2-4 years on the project and "only" get normal wages, nevermind royalties.

You should get paid for the work you do, not for the imaginary value you give it, not when most VA's could be replaced by random devs or people off the street pulled into the audio room for a few minutes were it not for these repulsive guilds and syndicates and still do a better job.

If you're going to have a cry about not being able to feed your family in between jobs, maybe get a steadier job.

A child-like part of me hopes they just say "oh, we need another few months for PC".

But right now I'm just bitter. Even if it is just PR spiel and a PC version is coming, it's a scumbag play.

And if there isn't at all, whoever made the call needs to get gout. On the tip of their pecker. PS4 /or/ Xbox exclusive I could understand, because that gives perks; but there's no reason to exclude PC in this day and age if you're already going for both those two, technical or otherwise.

nin wrote on Oct 17, 2016, 11:28:
As long as it's not multi only, I'm all over it...

The multiple characters makes me think it's at least part multi...

Hopefully it's more a hint at having a posse or outlaw band to be in / manage.

Please be a new Red Dead, please be on PC...

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