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Re: Why Linux is better than Windows or macOS for security |
Feb 10, 2018, 19:56 |
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 10, 2018, 14:30:
Brought to you by No-Shit Sherlock and Captain Obvious.
That is one of the many, many reasons I choose to use Linux. That and we get fixes much faster than Microsoft or Apple pushes out to their userbase. Also, free improvements to our favorite software for which we don't have to buy "versions" to receive.
Linux isn't for everyone, certainly, and that should be carefully considered.
There is a portion of me that wants to get on board with Linux, but the community has kept me away. There is a level of elitism to it that comes through if you ever need to ask something. RTFM seems to be the default stance to everything, and if you ever say, "I've read it, and here is the abnormal response I'm getting," there is always another level of RTFM people would use to not answer a simple request for information.
It became infuriating after a time, and though I had my system up and running well, the prospect of dealing with the community for other issues made me revert to windows so I could just game in misery. |
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| News Comments > CIG Responds to Crytek Lawsuit |
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Re: CIG Responds to Crytek Lawsuit |
Jan 8, 2018, 01:35 |
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jdreyer wrote on Jan 7, 2018, 23:12:
loomy wrote on Jan 7, 2018, 19:13:
I can't hear the sound of this loading screen lawsuit over the sound of me playing star citizen for hours this weekend
It was a slideshow for me. What's your system?
I haven't played it overly much, but I've found that the game is more CPU than GPU limited right now. I have a core i7 from a few years ago, and a 1060gtx, and I get around 20-30 FPS much of the time IF I set the game to high graphics. If I try to put it to low, my FPS drops to slideshow levels.
Hope that helps! |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Evening Metaverse |
Dec 27, 2017, 18:34 |
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| So far, I haven't met anyone who hasn't liked Bright. It's not the best movie, and it has its flaws, but it's fun. I feel like the critics were watching a different movie, and I wonder if their review copy really was different somehow. |
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| News Comments > Stellaris Humanoids Species Pack Released |
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Re: Stellaris Humanoids Species Pack Released |
Dec 7, 2017, 17:42 |
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Darks wrote on Dec 7, 2017, 13:39:
Me too, but the one thing this game lacks is a way to play it Coop with a friend. its a major task to try and find your friend so you can ally with them to play as a team.
This game needs to allow you the option to team up and be close to your fiends so you can conquer the areas together.
There's a game setup option called "clustered players." If you're just playing with a couple of friends, you should be able to find each other pretty easily after that. I hope that helps!
As for the pack, I can understand waiting, but I got it. I love this game, and art assets seems like a simple way for them to expand it in a way that is meaningful to some players, and doesn't effect gameplay. I hope they keep on producing packs like this. |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Evening Metaverse |
Oct 14, 2017, 21:40 |
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Beamer wrote on Oct 14, 2017, 15:12:
Blue wrote on Oct 14, 2017, 12:47:
Choobeastia wrote on Oct 13, 2017, 21:27:
Why would anyone against online harassment be on Twitter in the first place?
That's a very victim blaming sentiment.
Why would someone afraid of heights ride a roller coaster.
Oops, there I go blaming the victim again.
Roller coasters have one purpose. Twitter ostensibly has one other than harassing people. Or arguing with people. Or debating.
I don't think it's very good at that purpose anymore. I don't think it's good for communication, or ever was, nor for brand building. It's really only good for throwing mud. There remains a few people for whom it serves a professional or personal purpose, but man, let it go. Other social media lets that happen better. Yeah, you can reach a wider audience on Twitter, but it's no longer the audience looking for what you want. Twitter let that boat sale.
So I don't think your comparison is 100% perfect, but each day it gets closer to that.
It really is an imperfect comparison.
Your comparison would work wonderfully if normally roller coasters were comfy sofas, but someone figured out how to throw them through an intense ride. The sitter simply wants to sit, and be comfy, but some asshole comes along and sends them on a heart stopping ride involving tons of heights and drops. They didn't WANT that. They had no way of stopping the person, but they thought, "hey, this isn't likely to happen. Millions of people sit on sofas and don't go on those crazy rides."
Let's go to someone else. Home invasions. There are, according to google-fu, 125.82 million homes in the US. There are approximately 1 million home invasions in the US every year. That means each home has approximately a .79% chance of being invaded. Of course, some areas will be much higher than that, and some areas much lower. Now, if someone kicks in a door, burglarizes a house, and murders the people living there, do we blame the home invader, or did the people not have enough locks? Should they have set up something physical to block the doors, or windows every night? Does who we blame change if their socioeconomic status forced them to live in a better area, or worse area?
All of this is moot, really. The real point is that even if we do not agree, it costs nothing to be understanding of a group choosing to stand up against bullies. At the same time, we only diminish ourselves by demeaning them. |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Evening Metaverse |
Oct 14, 2017, 02:48 |
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Cutter wrote on Oct 13, 2017, 22:57:
Choobeastia wrote on Oct 13, 2017, 21:27:
Why would anyone against online harassment be on Twitter in the first place?
That's a very victim blaming sentiment.
No, it's jut common sense. If you walk into a biker bar or enter some ghetto then the odds are pretty good some shit is going to go down and it's no one's fault but your own.
That's a poor argument. First off, twitter isn't a "biker bar," or a "ghetto." Both of those places wear their looks of danger on the outside. If we were talking about the somethingawful forums, I wouldn't argue, but we're talking about twitter.
MOST of what goes on there, from what I've seen, is not aggressive or nasty. There is some of that too, but someone on the receiving end of it isn't to blame, and shooing them away from the site or service is an argument that will lead to everyplace online being off limits to anyone who isn't an asshole, or good at pretending not to care when they're hurt. |
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| News Comments > Star Citizen Gamescom Presentation |
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Re: Star Citizen Gamescom Presentation |
Aug 27, 2017, 05:08 |
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jdreyer wrote on Aug 27, 2017, 04:20:
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The other thing: this game does not respect the player's time. All that getting up, suiting up, walking, sitting down, parking, etc. etc. is going to get old really quickly. People are going to get tired of taking 45 mins to set up their mission. They're going to want get a group together in a few minutes and start the mission.
I think that it's for a different target audience than those that want to drop and play. For some of that, there are shortcuts. Nothing stops you from wearing your suit as I understand it, or from using shortcuts rather than the interactive menus in the cockpit. I feel like SC is for people who want to roleplay being Han Solo, rather than ones who want to get in for a quick 30.
Unrelated, wouldn't say that all are naysayers. Some are just offer criticism, which is fine. Just like not all who support the game are fanboys. I personally think that Chris Roberts is insane. He has unreasonable expectations, and puts a lot of pressure on those working for him. They're working for a fanatic, but... a fanatic is what I'm looking for, in a game like Star Citizen. I don't want corners cut, I want to see pie in the sky dreams, and hope that as they strive for it, they don't produce a horrorshow.
Right now, it's buggy, but it's looking on track, at least to me. Only time will tell. |
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Re: Morning Safety Dance |
Jul 20, 2017, 13:41 |
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| I would say that this doesn't constitute being news, so much as being a link to an advertisement as their 'report' is basically an advertisement for their own product. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Jun 25, 2017, 20:19 |
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NKD wrote on Jun 25, 2017, 16:59:
Their official statement is out. I don't know enough about how the UK does things to pass any judgement on it, but people might want to read it.
The TL;DR is they claim they are simply getting an advance on a tax rebate they are owed by the UK government, and by doing so they can avoid losing money in a conversion from USD and EUR.
It would be nice if Blue added that to the post. Regardless of anyone's feelings on SC, I've often felt like Blue is super anti-SC, and tends to favor the anti-SC posts. The fact that he posted Derek Smart at all is a little horrible. It's like posting Flat Earther webpages as 'articles,' rather than satire. |
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| News Comments > More on PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Success |
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Re: More on PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Success |
Jun 25, 2017, 14:49 |
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xXStellarDadXx wrote on Jun 25, 2017, 11:51:
I hear u can sell the pre order trench coat for a few hundred minimum...ill have to check into that...
Provided you can make it through Steam's horrific marketplace posting system. "You didn't download our app and give us EXTRA personal information, so your posting will be on hold for 15 days, after which your item will be posted without regard to any price fluctuation." |
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| News Comments > Saturday Metaverse |
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Re: Saturday Metaverse |
May 14, 2017, 17:24 |
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| Season 4 started off weak, but after following it a bit I started to get into it. A second viewing, having seen the whole thing played out, pushed it mush higher still in my mind. I'll definitely take a 5th seasons. The lack of lost momentum will likely benefit it greatly. |
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| News Comments > Vaporware Awards |
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Re: Vaporware Awards |
Dec 27, 2016, 23:32 |
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Orogogus wrote on Dec 27, 2016, 14:06:
Cutter wrote on Dec 27, 2016, 13:53:
The whole model is about keeping the money flowing in without nothing to show for it except the illusion that things are really happening. The alpha's they keep releasing is the same shit for several years now. That's a classic ponzi scheme.
That's not what the term Ponzi scheme refers to :/. That would just be a regular con.
Plus, it's not accurate in the slightest. There have been substantial additions, improvements, and overall progress shown in the different alpha releases. Either Cutter doesn't realize that because he hasn't hasn't actually played/watched them as they've been released, or he's engaged in hyperbole in order to bolster a weak position that supports his odd emotional investment in the idea that Star Citizen is a scam, or will fail. |
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| News Comments > Star Citizen Engine Switch Follow-up |
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Re: Star Citizen Engine Switch Follow-up |
Dec 25, 2016, 20:20 |
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Honestly, I would agree with you, but I feel that the more devout are the anti-followers. Full disclosure, I own a basic package, and I'm just sitting here waiting. I invested, now I wait to see if it was a good investment or not. I haven't even updated since the very first demonstration of the hanger module.
Some people, though, seem to have heavily invested themselves, emotionally, in being right about the game failing, or Chris Roberts failing. You could nearly believe Chris Roberts murdered their parents, with how dedicated they are, and how unwilling to see even the possibility that some development might represent progress towards a full release. It seems very odd to me that they might take such glee towards the idea of something failing, rather than investing in hope towards progress. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Dec 9, 2016, 14:13 |
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It seems clear that the article is pushing a specific perspective on the topic of video games and their effect on our psyches and our families. However, their skewed push doesn't invalidate their position.
For your anecdotal comment on shooters, please bare in mind the reason you lose interest in those earlier titles faster may be any number of things. The technology behind them is worse, you've aged and matured, and your expectations from games has changed over time. I do agree that video games hold components that are designed to provide a reward for behaving in a way consistent with the purpose of that game. Some people, specifically people prone towards gambling addictions or the like, or those needing in an extreme way an escape from their reality, may be especially susceptible to that, and find themselves either addicted, or at least relying on the game as a crutch/distraction.
Regardless, it seems rather clear the article is crafted in such a way to promote the idea that video games are dangerous to our minds and potentially our family values.
When I say clear, I mean clear from the perspective of pure journalism. The lead sentence is "Video games are more addictive than ever. This is what happens when kids can't turn them off." That states as fact that video games are addictive, and promotes the idea that they've become more so.
Next, if we take the first few paragraphs, we are treated with a narrative tale during which the video game addict is unreasonable, uncontrolled, emotionally abusive, and potentially violent. Meanwhile, the mother is presented as reasonable, "almost always triggered by a simple request from his parents: 'Byrne, please turn off the game. Please get off the computer.'" The parents are presented as polite, requesting not demanding, and as a result as a victim of her son, or more specifically what video games have turned her son into.
MOST people don't finish new articles or stories. Most only read the headline. Next up are the first 3 or so paragraphs. Blue does post one-sided articles from both sides of the aisle on matters like these, and both sides should be ashamed. Either way, that doesn't change the fact that this article is more editorial than journalism. |
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| News Comments > Battlefield 4 Known Issues |
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Re: Battlefield 4 Known Issues |
Nov 5, 2013, 04:36 |
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Morgan19 wrote on Nov 4, 2013, 17:02:
^ Assuming you're not playing HC, wouldn't spotting be more effective and efficient?
Sorry, I forgot to mention, I exclusively play on HC servers with no mini-map, no 3d spotting, and no hit-indicators. |
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| News Comments > Battlefield 4 Known Issues |
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Re: Battlefield 4 Known Issues |
Nov 4, 2013, 16:46 |
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For the flare grenade, I had a friend running as support using this to great effect. I was in the attack jet and if he ran into a vehicle he would flare the area for me so I could make a more precise run. It worked decently.
Other than that, no area of any map is dark enough to justify it. |
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| News Comments > Battlefield 4 Preloads |
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Re: Battlefield 4 Preloads |
Oct 27, 2013, 16:27 |
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While I know there's a whole lot of EA hate out there, what you're saying sounds to me like, "listen, the other guys are crapping on you and they're JUST pissing on you, grow up and take it."
I appreciate the 24 hour period of time, but unless a release was as extreme as Sim City's was so far as badness goes you don't always know within the first 24 hours if you hate something. Many people will get up in the morning, try a round of BF4, then go to work and not be able to play until the next day and thus not get a reliable window in which to form an opinion of the product.
Only because it's a licensed product can they get away with it. Most states have laws concerning return policies that are up there a bit in days, while video games float over that issue nicely by being licensed. |
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