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David Carron
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I'm Dave. Nothing more nor less.
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Re: Quoteworthy
Jan 7, 2025, 12:52
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Re: Quoteworthy Jan 7, 2025, 12:52
Jan 7, 2025, 12:52
 
Bad games can never end soon enough. The good ones are never too long.

Life is too short to play crappy games.
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Re: Rumor Mill
Oct 3, 2024, 10:54
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Re: Rumor Mill Oct 3, 2024, 10:54
Oct 3, 2024, 10:54
 
I bought Skyrim 3 times, over about 15 years. Maybe I'll buy Starfield once... in a few years. When it's finished. And polished.

Not looking good for this year.
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Re: OotB: Sooner or later
Mar 12, 2024, 13:30
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Re: OotB: Sooner or later Mar 12, 2024, 13:30
Mar 12, 2024, 13:30
 
"With that in fact in perspective, losing science is a real possibility even without an imploding society or some other calamity, and besides how many scientists do you know that can build a fire, or hunt deer with a bow they made from what they can find in the forest?"

Your perspective is flawed.

Last I checked it took about 3000 years to get from iron age to the LHC. In between there was a site of learning called the Mouseion aka the Library at Alexandria, which burned down taking a vast percentage of human knowledge with it. I've heard it guessed that it burned down, unintentionally, in a battle.

I doubt Einstein, Aristotle nor Fermi ever needed to hunt to fill their bellies. Nor should you expect your grandparents, nor babies to survive from their labor alone.

It's almost like a healthy society requires a number of positions to put food on the table, build infrastructure, educate children and generally continue to function.
And not the application of the worship of firearms and the use of force in order to make people work together.
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Re: Solium Infernum Multiplayer Test Tomorrow
Jan 11, 2024, 14:08
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Re: Solium Infernum Multiplayer Test Tomorrow Jan 11, 2024, 14:08
Jan 11, 2024, 14:08
 
A game so old school that it's new again.
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Re: Starfield 2024 Update and Expansion Plans
Dec 21, 2023, 09:41
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Re: Starfield 2024 Update and Expansion Plans Dec 21, 2023, 09:41
Dec 21, 2023, 09:41
 
Good news people! No one said you had to buy it at *squints* $70.

I expect I will acquire this game once it's out of Early Access. I bought Skyrim a few times and was happy to do so.

But I do thank all the playtesters and modders out there for their efforts.
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Re: ItB: The worm turns
Dec 13, 2023, 09:02
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Re: ItB: The worm turns Dec 13, 2023, 09:02
Dec 13, 2023, 09:02
 
Fair. Mostly because the religious angle is only being hinted at in the movie, where in the book that is a major thread. All that said, we are only through the first half of the book.

ZandarKoad wrote on Dec 13, 2023, 05:45:
Seems to be one of those rare cases where the book readers appreciate the movie more than non book readers. For better or worse, depending on who you are.

Maybe the horrible Dune films of the past lowered standards such that anything passable looks great in comparison?
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Re: Biz Buzz
Nov 7, 2023, 17:03
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Re: Biz Buzz Nov 7, 2023, 17:03
Nov 7, 2023, 17:03
 
In so far as the Epic Game store, those points are irrelevant. More to the point the Epic Store is objectively terrible, by any metric of the user experience.

You’re effectively praising McDonalds on the business sense for selling McRibs, while I’m pointing out that their burgers are terrible.
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Re: Biz Buzz
Nov 7, 2023, 09:52
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Re: Biz Buzz Nov 7, 2023, 09:52
Nov 7, 2023, 09:52
 
To be clear, Epic isn't seeking neither "pro-democracy, pro-free market"; they are seeking to dominate the field and charge everyone else like feudal serfs. (See "enshittification" https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/)

No, that doesn't mean that Steam is terribly much better of a corporate overlord. But Epic isn't even trying to do anything but throw money at the issue.

"It's not that we are Epic fanboys. It's that we're pro-democracy, pro-free market fanboys. I guess I have to keep posting this by valued commenter Brym about Steam's dominant monopolistic position.
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Re: Epic First Run and Now On Epic Programs
Oct 17, 2023, 10:33
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Re: Epic First Run and Now On Epic Programs Oct 17, 2023, 10:33
Oct 17, 2023, 10:33
 
The thing that amazes me is the absurd amount of money they shell out for free games which they instead could have used to make their service actually palatable.
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Re: ItB: Thunderball!
Sep 19, 2023, 10:23
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Re: ItB: Thunderball! Sep 19, 2023, 10:23
Sep 19, 2023, 10:23
 
Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 18, 2023, 23:41:
Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 18, 2023, 22:30:
Pretty sure one 50 caliber round in the wrong location is going to cause the failure of any jet engine. Which is not to say I think the F-35 is a great aircraft. I have serious doubt about it. I am tempted to agree with you about it being a "shitbox", but I realize my knowledge level in that area is not far above an average layman, despite my 7 years, 3 months, and 10 days in the USAF -- so, I don't go that far.
*snip*

When compared to the last three generations and their capabilities in their eras, the F-35 is absolutely a shitbox. Sure, they can sit on the tarmac an an Air Force base and look pretty but they suck at CAS, especially when compared to the old Warthog which is also a much tougher airframe. You can rake both sides of an A-10 with 7.62x39 and it's going to laugh at you while still going brrrrrrrrrt.

The F-35 falls in to the same trap the Phantom did, which is idiots who breathlessly exclaim "technology is going to do ALL THE THINGS". While conveniently forgetting the lessons learned from the last time we tried that approach.

Quite positive that if no other lessons are taken by the Ukraine War that pocket change weapons like Manpads, compared to million dollar systems, makes much of the old technology really much less dominating and interesting to deploy.

That said, if a hick with a rifle can take down a 8 figure piece of military hardware then we need to storm the Pentagon and get our money back.
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Re: Try Star Citizen for Free
Jul 7, 2023, 12:08
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Re: Try Star Citizen for Free Jul 7, 2023, 12:08
Jul 7, 2023, 12:08
 
We should have an AMA Senate Investigation Committee with Chris Roberts and Derek Smart Popcorn.

Fixed it for you.
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Re: Try Star Citizen for Free
Jul 7, 2023, 09:37
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Re: Try Star Citizen for Free Jul 7, 2023, 09:37
Jul 7, 2023, 09:37
 
*sigh*

Star Citizen raised "over US $500 million as of September 2022", as cited by Wikipedia. I think you could Actually get to the Moon with that amount of money.

There are a lot of promises and bad faith, absolutely. Rotten to the core. But at what point do we acknowledge that at least some of these "donors" are suckers and enablers.
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Re: AMD Starfield Bundle Rumor
Jul 4, 2023, 09:41
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Re: AMD Starfield Bundle Rumor Jul 4, 2023, 09:41
Jul 4, 2023, 09:41
 
As much as I want to believe in the new hotness, it's going to be a buggy mess. As much as folks say that's Bethesda standard, it's the standard standard. By Xmas it should be stable, fixed and at a price that won't make you regret your life choices.
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Re: Steam Summer Sale 2023
Jun 29, 2023, 15:33
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Re: Steam Summer Sale 2023 Jun 29, 2023, 15:33
Jun 29, 2023, 15:33
 
So any recommendations? Is there a link to help out Blue's News via said purchases?
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Re: E3 2023 Announced
Jul 7, 2022, 13:24
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Re: E3 2023 Announced Jul 7, 2022, 13:24
Jul 7, 2022, 13:24
 
Nobody goes there anymore; it's too popular.
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Re: OotB: Fourthed
May 4, 2022, 15:14
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Re: OotB: Fourthed May 4, 2022, 15:14
May 4, 2022, 15:14
 
To be clear, most of those missiles were manufactured 50 years plus ago. I heard a statistic that 80% wouldn't make it off the launch pad.

I would bet that those sub launched ones would be better maintained. But I would also have bet that Russia steamrolled Ukraine in a week too. With poor maintenance on that equipment fielded being a major reason for their failures there.

...not that any single nuke landing being anything less then a serious problem all around. And they have 1500 of them "deployed"...

Mr. Tact wrote on May 4, 2022, 12:43:
RedEye9 wrote on May 4, 2022, 12:34:
He said we have 20+ attack subs who’s only purpose is to shadow and sink Russian boomers.
The Russians know their subs would all disappear before they could get off any nukes.
I hope he is right. I hope we don't find out.
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Re: Op Ed
May 4, 2022, 14:58
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Re: Op Ed May 4, 2022, 14:58
May 4, 2022, 14:58
 
13 states have legislation that automatically goes into effect (some immediately, others within 60 days) once the ruling comes out.

Despite 70% of folks wanting Abortion to stay, this is going down.

I'm predicting that the GOP is going to be the dog that catches the car and really not going to be happy with the future results of this.

jdreyer wrote on May 4, 2022, 13:43:
Bill Borre wrote on May 4, 2022, 12:28:
I'm not sure why letting states decide is such a disaster for abortion supporters. Sure a young lady might have to buy a bus ticket to California but is that really so onerous?
Some states are trying to pass laws to criminalize abortions for its residents even if they get them done out of state.

And the theory of this ruling puts all sorts of cases at risk: Griswold (right to contraception), Loving (interracial marriage), Lawrence (gay marriage), and many others. If this ruling passes as is, it's a radical reversal of 50+ years of court rulings. It's as if the court decided to undo decades of civil rights cases and allow Jim Crow laws again. Oh wait, I forgot they did already.
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Re: Quoteworthy
Feb 9, 2022, 15:55
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Re: Quoteworthy Feb 9, 2022, 15:55
Feb 9, 2022, 15:55
 
It's shocking to me that I'm still playing Skyrim and was happy to buy it a second time. The fact that they are looking for "most played" rather then "good" doesn't give me any hope.
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Re: Morning Tech Bits
Jan 21, 2022, 12:28
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Re: Morning Tech Bits Jan 21, 2022, 12:28
Jan 21, 2022, 12:28
 
Keyboard Aholes.

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Re: Get Loop Hero for Free
Dec 20, 2021, 11:40
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Re: Get Loop Hero for Free Dec 20, 2021, 11:40
Dec 20, 2021, 11:40
 
It's a game that mostly plays itself, however, the execution is well done.

I do have to tip my hat to you. You are not alone in your practice. Any easy money to developers, particularly to Indy titles, is a good thing.

Dev wrote on Dec 20, 2021, 11:36:
This is a fun one, I already bought it on steam, but sure I'll grab a free copy on epic so they have to pay the devs a bit more.
Definitely recommend playing this if any of the tags for it interest you.
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