nin wrote on Sep 27, 2016, 21:34:
Also getting a couple of cool updates...

http://steamcommunity.com/games/257850/announcements/detail/580226743110138539

Prez wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 19:27:
I like this girl!

shiho wrote on Sep 24, 2016, 03:18:

Slick wrote on Sep 23, 2016, 21:40:
Is there a better way to bridge the retard-gap?

Well, I wouldn't call you so much a retard as a low-information voter. No need to insult someone when they can simply educate themselves. There is always hope for someone like you, and this is where you can start.

Look into Obama Administration's scandals over the past 8 years (making a deal with Iran which pretty much lets it make a nuclear bomb, and lying about negotiating with "moderates" over there, IRS-as-Stasi scandal, NSA expanded spying scandal, sacrificing Americans on American soil in Benghazi and lying about it for weeks, reporter spying, keeping the press out of the White House, violating judge's immigration orders, suppressing our border enforcement laws, destabilizing the Middle East, the VA scandal, creating a new Cold War with Russia, removing Cuba from state terror sponsor list, repeatedly inciting racial division and attacks on police, shitting on America in his speeches overseas, etc), and not just the ones covered by Pravda- sorry, I meant CNN or Reuters.

Look into his past of 20 years under the spiritual tutelage of fascist, anti-Semite Jeremiah Wright, who blessed his wedding, and his other father figure, the radical commie Frank Marshall Davis. Listen to him morally equating socialism and capitalism, and cover for the world's most militant, backward religion time and time again, all the while posing as secular.

Then step away from the media soundbytes which compress Trump's message into two words. Watch a complete speech of his. See the man who speaks off the cuff, and yet channels the common sense that has long been gone from our government. An energetic, charismatic man with a heart and street smarts, a man with a message so much more positive than anything Obama has ever droned off his teleprompter.

A man who, despite vicious attacks from the media, which programmed low-information voters like yourself to hate him, and attacks from popular conservatives and even Fox News, outmaneuvered his political competition, outmaneuvered the press, and is outmaneuvering Hillary Clinton.

These are the qualities we need in a Commander-in-Chief. What we don't need, is someone who is knowingly importing Muslim radicals into our country, which essentially makes Obama the biggest homophobe in American history. If you can't connect those particular dots, look up Wikipedia and Pew research statistics on what percentage of Muslims, similarly imported into France, Britain, Germany, UK etc, and even the ones already here, believe that homosexuality is a sin, what percentage believe in violent jihad and Sharia Law, what IS Sharia Law, etc.

Hopefully this will help you in your goal. Get informed, and godspeed.

theglaze wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 19:49:

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 17:50:

theglaze wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 16:08:
now I have to pay almost as much to open a crate which awards like a slot machine

That's the thing though.. you don't "have" to pay for anything. Your fixation on cosmetic modifications to a car that will only be seen for a couple seconds at the end of a game by anyone, is simply a choice. Some people focus on the gameplay mechanics and simply playing better, others want to "pimp their ride". If the latter crowd is funding the release of free content for people who are just interested in playing the game, I think it's a successful model for everyone involved.

Of course, the game is still fun even if all the cars were the same. However, dont just disregard the cosmetic side of the game, and their encouragement to the player to consume, manage inventory, and trade-up

The new crate system is based on a gambling model, and it's not compatible with the Steam Marketplace. I can't pick the car decal I want for my $2 ride, I'll have to feed the slot machine $1.25 each time.

Psyonix has done some things right, such as no functional advantage to mods to the car and not segregating the community from modes and arenas.

But forcing its players to gamble to win the next tier of cosmetic items? I find that disappointing.

Good luck on the slots, everyone!

theglaze wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 16:08:
now I have to pay almost as much to open a crate which awards like a slot machine

SpectralMeat wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 12:53:
Yep, this is how DLC should be done for all MP focused games, so playerbase doesn't get severed.
All maps/game modes are free, cosmetic stuff paid DLC.
I wish more devs/publishers would follow what these guys are doing.

theglaze wrote on Sep 22, 2016, 11:03:
Yeah me too!

It better be free. The case+key micro gambling system they've introduced exists outside the Steam Market, so it's all cash money for them.

Meanwhile servers are still crappy, with car and ball warps even with sub 100ms. Besides content, I haven't seen any updates announce improvements to the technical side of the game.

DrSquick wrote on Sep 21, 2016, 22:08:
Has anyone been having crashing with the driver previous to this? In Overwatch I have been getting a "display driver stopped responding" about once an hour. I monitored GPU temp and it doesn't seem to be high temp, it maxes out at about 80C, but it sometimes crashes as low as 71. I'm hoping this new driver stops it. I'm on a 770.

ForgedReality wrote on Sep 20, 2016, 00:53:

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Sep 19, 2016, 21:48:

Slick wrote on Sep 19, 2016, 20:23:
I've been playing this all afternoon, really give's "the worse"'s WD_1 mod a run for it's money, GTA V Finally looks and plays like I've wanted it to. Still a couple wonky things happening, the new road textures like to pick and choose when they're streaming in, it's a real mess when flying a chopper above the city.... but other than that it looks great, runs great, and the driving handling alone is worth the upgrade. Feels a LOT more like GTA IV episodes from Liberty city now, cars have weight, you can Finnish Flick them around corners and dodge through traffic. And maybe I haven't played it in a while, but the fast cars seem faster. Like you have to really watch your speed when maneuvering, you're not just flooring it the whole time.

If you want to test your control with a fast car, get the RE-7B with the carbon spoiler and stock tires/rims. There is a glitch with that particular combination that makes it easily the fastest vehicle in the game. Races can actually be quite a bit harder with it because many of the tracks were just not made for that kind of speed in mind. It's a great car all around, even if you choose not to glitch the speed.

I assume that just works with this mod and not the stock game...

Slick wrote on Sep 19, 2016, 20:23:
I've been playing this all afternoon, really give's "the worse"'s WD_1 mod a run for it's money, GTA V Finally looks and plays like I've wanted it to. Still a couple wonky things happening, the new road textures like to pick and choose when they're streaming in, it's a real mess when flying a chopper above the city.... but other than that it looks great, runs great, and the driving handling alone is worth the upgrade. Feels a LOT more like GTA IV episodes from Liberty city now, cars have weight, you can Finnish Flick them around corners and dodge through traffic. And maybe I haven't played it in a while, but the fast cars seem faster. Like you have to really watch your speed when maneuvering, you're not just flooring it the whole time.

Shineyguy wrote on Sep 19, 2016, 16:17:

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Sep 19, 2016, 16:04:
Been having a lot of speed issues when pulling up bluesnews.com for the past 2 days. Anyone else notice general slowness in loading pages here?

Tracert shows the last couple hops sporadically timing out, and when it does ping, it's showing at nearly 300ms (my internet is 80mb down/4mb up):

6 * 270 ms 270 ms 63-218-212-170.static.pccwglobal.net [63.218.212.170]
7 272 ms * * colo-lax6.as8100.net [96.44.180.102]
8 * 268 ms 269 ms server35.bluesnews.com [216.45.58.170]

Just throwing this out here, but the speed of your internet does not directly correlate to ping times to specific servers.