Zoom wrote on Feb 27, 2016, 06:11:

rudra wrote on Feb 26, 2016, 11:26:
how can you actually experience the insanity and all that

In Amnesia it works as you see through the eyes of your character, and you start seeing dark stuff crawling across the view, your heartbeat goes up, breathe heavily, and start crouching in fear in a corner. In Soma they introduce slightly different effects due to the storyline and what the character has become... but the principle remains the same. With their very immersive engine (audio, graphics, 1st person perspective only..) the effect is impressive.

because how freaked out and immersed can you really be sitting around a table with some dice and a bag of chips? - how can you actually experience the insanity and all that

Grumpy Sod wrote on Feb 26, 2016, 11:04:

ldonyo wrote on Feb 26, 2016, 09:40:
I loved the p&p game! I hope they do a decent conversion of Chaosium's rules, although I hope they go easy on the sanity hits.

The problem I see is that (at least when me and my friends played it) p&p Cthulhu required a certain amount of meta 'oh, okay, I'll look in here even though I know I'll die because my character doesn't know how stupid it is', which doesn't translate well to enjoyable gameplay on a computer/console.

bigspender wrote on Feb 25, 2016, 18:07:

Kosumo wrote on Feb 25, 2016, 15:06:
"They are NOT like westerners...they do not have western values...and until that is realized...which it is by people that can think for themselves, things will go to pot. "

Yeah, but they are human beings.

Or are you saying that westerners are somehow better and we should not mix with those 'dirty' middle eastern people and just leave the refugees to their fate.

Hatefully sterotypes are far form where modern western people should be aiming to be.

Thinking like that and things will go to pot, Pol Pot

Of course western society is better. There is no question that the best western societies have about 1200 years of moral, ethical and technological advancement.
Look at Saudi Arabia. Richest country on earth, has not been affected by wars. Not taken a single refugee and crucifies and stones people when they protest FOR human rights.
And before you cry racist. I'm from the middle east.

Redmask wrote on Feb 25, 2016, 18:27:

HorrorScope wrote on Feb 25, 2016, 18:16:

Redmask wrote on Feb 25, 2016, 17:32:
Windows 10 is fine, nothing remarkable but a solid iteration on Windows 8. Reverts most of the fuckups in 8, slims down the installation and footprint, cleans up the configuration panels and under the hood changes are all good. What I don't like is this forced reporting of information but it takes less than a minute to block it and forget it.

Windows 7 is fucking ancient and outdated, much like its adherents who seem to confuse older with better.

Win 7 still feels clean and reliable to me, the only things it doesn't offer me is when DX12 proves itself and is really supported.

Bullshit, it doesn't offer you a lot more than that. Improved SMB speeds. A modern copy function/dialog that doesn't hang the whole fucking OS if its waiting on I/O. Virtual Desktops. A better start menu if you're a 70 year old grandmother who still uses such things. A much smaller footprint. Slimmed down system requirements and better support for devices like the NUC. Refresh PC functionality that just works. Improved performance almost across the board now that drivers are more mature. DX12. A Task Manager that is actually useful. Better file explorer. A real notification center that applications can use instead of 100 system tray icons. Hugely improved multiple monitor support. Better search functionality, both in options and indexing. Much more stable. That's just off the top of my head and without getting into maturity of the kernel/OS or any of that stupid Xbox gaming shit I don't use but others might care about.

Windows 7 is really old now. Run a modern fucking OS.

LibertyOrDeath wrote on Feb 25, 2016, 10:21:
Well anyways, if this was a republican I guarantee there would have been the word "republican" somewhere in the article and in the title.