User information for Carlos Silva
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Carlos Silva
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frag.machine
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November 9, 2006
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Wildone wrote on Jul 20, 2010, 11:06:
Tried to place this last night it said "steam servers currently too busy try again later" excuse me? I wanna play my fucking game I paid for. Tried like 8 more times and gave up. Fuck you.
I'm fine with servers busy just after a patch release. I can wait to download the patch in the next day if it's the case. What really pisses me off is being kicked from a perfectly normal game because "VAC servers went down", or suddenly realize all my loadout is temporarily unavailable in the middle of the battle because "this server lost connection with VAC servers".
Looks like TF2 grew beyond Valve expectations (and infrastructure).
kxmode wrote on Jul 16, 2010, 12:53:nin wrote on Jul 16, 2010, 11:41:Luther wrote on Jul 16, 2010, 11:37:ASeven wrote on Jul 16, 2010, 11:29:
Cliffski, you have my axe!
And my inflatable hammer!
And MY VUVUZELA!
...and my bow! I have to charge for the arrows though. In this economy they're expensive!
No problem, I am having a couple beers and filling some jarate jars for free.
And I wish the game would be able to remember my last search filter, as used to be since always. 
Animals for Crackers wrote on Jul 7, 2010, 11:45:<insert
<Insert Gabe Newell falling into the chocolate river joke here>
Here, I fixed that for ya.
Zyrxil wrote on Jul 7, 2010, 09:55:
Well you are. Didn't you hear all 100 winners get a trip to Valve HQ? Robin Walker's gonna wear a top hat and sing and everything. Pass the word on!
And the winners will be able to see the Woompa Loompas working on Half Life 2 ?
I just realized that in the second announce, at the first time I haven't checked the scores. I dont know, I think it's a bit frustrating and weird, it's like we are all looking for a Willy Wonka golden pass. 
You must construct additional pylons.
No mention of any open source engine ? What about Darkplaces, Tenebrae or Nexuiz ?
eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 21, 2010, 23:03:
Wow, thats .. thats.. thats absolute retarded pricing. Retail pricing for a time limited rental game ON TOP of a monthly subscription fee???
Who is ever stupid enough to fall for that scam?
Sadly, I suspect there's plenty of Homer Simpson clones in the world gladly willing to embrace this. I can even hear the "WOOHOO!".
Microsoft could not care less about PC as gaming platform. They invested too many money, time and effort in their own ecossystem, which generates far more revenue than they ever dreamed in the PC.
Patches aside, Valve needs to do something about the VAC and craft servers intermittently going down during the game. Not a client network issue, since the server latency and the gameplay itself flows nicely, but it's a PITA being suddenly stripped off from all my items between respawns just because the VAC server is down or unreachable for a moment during the match.
xXBatmanXx wrote on Jun 12, 2010, 21:22:Dmitri_M wrote on Jun 12, 2010, 18:14:
I'm think it's great the largest sporting event in the world isn't American, kinda hard joining into something when it isn't American made? I don't mean to sound like I'm trolling, but for the rest of us who watch American\Euro television or American films as a norm we don't dwell on cultural differences and aren't taken aback or offended by minor things.
So first you say it is a pain in the ass, then you say we are being jerks.....well, this isn't the largest sporting event, I believe the Super Bowl is.
So please come down off of your horse.
Football, or "soccer" as people in the USA insist to call it (funny thing you guys to call "football" a sport where you don't use a real ball and most of the time is played with the hands) it's indeed the more popular sport in the world, and the World Cup is the biggest event in the world for an individual sport. There are more countries affiliated to FIFA than to UN.
Sleeeeepy wrote on Jun 11, 2010, 19:09:kxmode wrote on Jun 11, 2010, 17:09:nin wrote on Jun 11, 2010, 16:30:At this point is it a pun to call it Duke Nukem Forever?
Duke Nukem Never
Duke Nukem Whenever
Duke Nukem Whatever
Duke Nukem If Ever
Duke Nukem Takes Forever
fujiJuice wrote on Jun 11, 2010, 15:15:SuperBill wrote on Jun 11, 2010, 15:06:
There will be no DNF they've slipped too many technology cycles and even if it were to be released it would be akin to releasing an 8-bit Nintendo game to compete with Crysis and all the funds have pretty much dried up to finance another engine shift and redesign.
They could always just go digital distribution only, and make people agree to something that says absolutely no support will be offered for their purchase. I think people would still buy it, and it's better than nothing. This is of course dependent on how close it was to gold. If it was buggy and unfinished in areas, but still playable from beginning to end, I would throw down maybe $5-$10 just out of curiosity.
If it's not finished, they should release it as freeware, using some kind of "as is" license. In the past more polished games were released for free (RTCW:ET) just because the producers weren't happy with the final result, I don't think it's right to expect people to pay a dime for something half-baked, even "just out of curiosity".
#11: Could not agree more. While stills vital to win the game itself (protecting sentries, spy checking, airblasting heavy-medic combos, etc.) the pyro is very unlikely to figure among the top score players because he(she ?) lost a lot of kill factor in the latest nerf. It was actually demoted to a auxiliary position in gameplay. Meanwhile, the scout stills able to kill a full-health heavy with two point blank, crit FaN shots - and now can even abuse the Boink! with less penalty.
creatorswhim wrote on May 12, 2010, 17:14:"Capitol news! But the excellent puzzle adventure Portal won over 40 Game of the Year awards; Surely it must cost at least five or six hundred dollars."
Only if Steve Jobs were selling it.
In this case, it would be called "iPortal", would be classified as "a never seen before experience" (ignoring all the PC users) and you wouldn't be able to create the orange spot because "it was a useless feature that could eventually spoil your experience". Six months later, iPortal Mini would be released, with the previously "useless" ability to create the orange spot.
ReverendTed wrote on May 4, 2010, 10:13:frag.machine wrote on May 4, 2010, 08:20:Actually, with this money you could buy one of the custom-tooled cartridges Sasha fires at ten thousand rounds per minute.
With this money you almost can buy a real minigun.
Yeah. Sorry Valve, you won't see the color of my money for that.
With this money you almost can buy a real minigun.
xXBatmanXx wrote on Apr 28, 2010, 11:42:Blue's News on Geocities.
OMGMYEYESWTFBBQSAUCEBURNTHEWITCH!!!!!!
Good Lord. Half of the pixels in my monitor are dead now.
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