Actually thought it was Minecraft's fault too. Good to know they are carrying on a long legacy of silly... I guess...
Best posts made by KillaCoder
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RE: Game Deals Thread
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RE: The "Everything Zenimax has Done Wrong with Morrowind" digest.
I find Eve fascinating to read about but the actual game seems like pure misery.
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RE: The "Everything Zenimax has Done Wrong with Morrowind" digest.
Damn, that takes me back. The days when Half Life and Lost were relevant things instead of disappointments that petered out :P
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RE: Why (most) High Level Languages are Slow (article)
Some people are, in fact, a bit unhappy that Disney will never make another 2D movie. You probably don't understand why, but you might be able to puzzle it out eventually.
The point is, sometimes 2D is simply right for a game. Just like 3D is sometimes right for a game. Not every game needs to run on Oculus, and not every game needs to be CoD. There are different styles of things, and people like that, because not everyone likes the same things as you.
I wonder what you think about the difficult of HD 2D art. Have you thought about the fact that having more detail makes it far easier to see even the tiniest animation mistakes?
I mean, next you'll be saying that, because BlazBlue is 2D, Arc System Works is incapable of 3D. Of course, that means you haven't seen Xrd Sign, in which they have taken every effort to make their 3D look 2D. Because they know that 2D is the aesthetic people want.
So again, you are not everyone. Not everyone thinks every game should look like Crysis.
You are really misunderstanding his point, and getting offended for no reason. He didn't say all games HAVE to be 3D COD or Crysis, just that 3D blockbuster games are the most state of the art and technically challenging, which is true.You can prefer Disney's 2D movies or their 3D movies, but their 3D ones are more technically demanding.
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RE: You have got to be shitting me... links stop being links?
Driving Discodevs to (digital) suicide is a barrier to Discourse?
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RE: The Best of @MottBott
This is bloody amazing. I never knew bots could be so awesome
I love you @MottBott !
this blob of shit
This nearly made me spew tea at my monitor. So hilariously, brutally apt! -
RE: Why (most) High Level Languages are Slow (article)
not as much effort is put into weapons and such.
CITATION NEEDEDAll else being equal, 3D would require more work. In practice? Absolutely not!
CITATION NEEDEDThe majority of 3D games don't even have to worry much about collision.
CITATION NEEDEDA bullet moves fast enough that you may as well do it the old hitscan way.
Whether 2D or 3DIrrelevant if the game is 1D, like, say, FFXIIV
Not a number so I'm clearly being trolled here... oh well
You clearly don't know much about gaming. Think about the names of a few popular games. You'll find it eventually.
I'm aware of Call Of Duty, it had dogs many years ago though so I don't follow your nonsense
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RE: Why (most) High Level Languages are Slow (article)
Okay, cool, thanks for clearing that up. I now know that you will never understand the flaw in what you're saying.
There is no flaw. Only fact, that you are too emotional and irrational to accept. Oh well.
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RE: Smiley-Images and previews do not look alike
The new ones look too weird to me... More like "On Pills" than "Happy". Maybe appropriate for here though!
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RE: Why (most) High Level Languages are Slow (article)
Oh sure, I just mean it's a bit more understandable (I hope!) considering how fast hardware improves, that I assumed software was equally fast moving. Didn't help when professors told me books from 5 years ago were "obsolete"
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RE: Why (most) High Level Languages are Slow (article)
we will forget about 2D games
Not a chance in hell, they've made a massive comeback to the point where even the AAA developers make them.
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RE: Video game spotlight thread
@aliceif said:
Stop playing games that randomly distribute enemies and randomly trigger events.
I have nothing against randomness in game. I am against games that don't do anything to prevent situations where it's impossible to progress.
I enjoy them, something like FTL where I can get hammered to pieces in the first sector (out of 8) makes it much more fun when a combination of luck and skill gets me through. -
RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
@KillaCoder said:
Bombing the Middle East isn't risky. There's no one to stop you. It's just pointless.
Saving lives is pointless.
Tell me how dropping bombs saves lives in this case. You are bombing ISIS (and civilians as collateral damage) and it's not stopping them. If anything, standing up to you guys is giving them street credit and attracting more fighters.
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RE: What's wrong with me?
A hobby shouldn't be "work" though. It should be enjoyable. If you are having fun writing perfect code, do so. If a part of your code is a headache or a paralysis, then just chuck a quick pile of mostly functional garbage together and get back to the fun stuff.
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RE: We need more stereotype-filling quotes
This is like the worst thread on this site ever.
Let's never mention it again.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
I like the name Breaking Bad but found it very awkward when Jesse actually said the phrase to Walter:
"Guys like you don't just... BREAK BAD!" * turns and winks at camera *
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RE: Game Deals Thread
Also making grenades and ammo into powers. You can't change ammo types or throw grenades if you are tired from Biotics.
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RE: Inflicting Haskell on N00bs for Science
I'd make exceptions for people who were never exposed to it in such a way to know about it.
How very kind of you...
@xaade said:But 2 of the 3 highschools I attended had programming courses.
My school didn't, I don't think schools in general here do.
@xaade said:How can you say, "I want this to be my career, but I don't want to make any effort on my own to learn it".
Because you pay a large amount of money to an institution of learning to teach you? Can you imagine day one, the first class of the first year of a programming course starting off like "Hope you already know how to program!" -
RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
Oh 1980s Saddam = scary. It was great that America kicked his ass in 1991. No arguments about that.
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RE: Video game spotlight thread
No? Ok Tolkien never mentioned specific buildings but there are plenty of references to the good guys worshiping the Valar and the baddies worshiping Sauron. They COULD have had churches...
I've yet to play Shadow of Mordor. Just talking bs...
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RE: Inflicting Haskell on N00bs for Science
I think it's not even programming knowledge, it's having a reasonable mental model of how computers work -- you'll struggle mightily at CS if you haven't figured out that computers are idiot logic savants only capable of following step-by-step directions instead of black magic boxes...
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
But they're not, so it's ok for them to murder people and take slaves.
You still refuse to tell me how Europe could help stop them. Tell me how we could help. You tell me we should help and how shit we are for not helping, but you repeatedly refuse to say what, SPECIFICALLY, we should do. Invade with 10,000 troops? 100,000? Help you guys bomb them (cos that ain't stopping them)? Go back in time and kill Sykes and/or Picot? What? What do you want us to do? -
RE: Acquiescence
a point well made
Literally! It comes from fencing. The other guy gets past your guard and touches you with the point of his foil, you say touch (touche in French) to acknowledge his achievement. -
RE: From my friend who works in IT at a school, here are some screenshots of PDFs:
Oh come on, "slightly incorrect resolution/aspect ratio" = "train going near the speed of light"? Really?
...I admire your pedantry ;)
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RE: From my friend who works in IT at a school, here are some screenshots of PDFs:
Yes it is. My home bandwidth is good enough that I can stream ultraHD (4K as I understand it) over Netflix. I don't have any screens capable of displaying such high resolution, but I can stream it.
shrugs I'm sure you get that many pixels but I doubt the picture looks as crisp, clear and colourful as the same thing off a Blu Ray (or whatever a 4K movie comes on :P ) You can broadcast any old garbage in "1080P", doesn't mean it'll look as good as a top end Blu Ray movie, just that it has the potential to.Most streaming services automatically adjust their quality based on your connection speed. Netflix and Amazon will actually tell you (if you look) what kind of resolution you're getting.
Yeah but the same res doesn't mean the same quality. Youtube is compressed to shit even at "1080P". A Blu Ray is a different galaxy of quality. At least, to my eyes. My friends/family (and some folks in this thread) don't see/don't care about the difference. That's fine too. Hell, it's cheaper
@abarker said:Ever hear of a bullet train?
Yes, but not one that goes from 0 - 120 MPH instantly, runs for an hour at that exact speed, and then stops instantly. Unrealistic question, I refuse to answer, rant rant rant! -
RE: Game Deals Thread
Ugh, how can anyone be a fan of Sonic? He's basically the definition of empty comity-engineered corporate mascot. And his games suck too.
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RE: :fa_twitter: Tweed :fa_twitter:
Possibly I misunderstood you, I thought you were going "Rar stop blockbusters, make more movies I like!" If it's just "Screw blockbusters, I enjoy indie movies" then good luck to you :)
@Buddy said:I struggle to enjoy anything that didn't cost a billion dollars, where I can go back to something that I used to love just a couple of years ago and just spend the whole time facepalming at how cheesy it looks.
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Mass media used to make sense back when it wasn't feasible for just anybody to produce stuff in comfort of their own home but now they can. And they can distribute it out to anyone in the world who might want to see it. I honestly feel that if people would just lower their standards for production quality just a bit, and raise their standards for realness, this whole piracy debate would become academic. -
RE: From my friend who works in IT at a school, here are some screenshots of PDFs:
Depends what you consider HD I guess. The quality on the "HD" streams I've seen is nothing like Blu ray. Ditto for compressed rips. There's just no comparison to a movie on Blu Ray, at least for me.
There are vertical aspect ratios too though, and that's something that should be taught too. If they changed the label to "Samsung Phone" would that make it better?
Seriously, they're just made up figures. It's like those maths questions where a train is going 120 miles an hour or whatever. You're not supposed to argue that it's unrealistic for a train to maintain that exact speed for that amount of time
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RE: Setting Fire To Sleeping Strawmen (now with extra Toniiiiiiiiiight, you're right, you're right, you're right)
Go tell a person who now sweeps river mud out of their house on a semi-regular basis that climate change isn't happening because some places aren't getting hotter.
Don't see how more flooding = humans cause climate change though.
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RE: Ember.js woes part 2
Why would they, there's random dudes on the internet who'll probably do it for free :P
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
I remember reading this thread ages ago, the phrase/nickname/honoured title "derulaswamp" always stuck with me...
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RE: Setting Fire To Sleeping Strawmen (now with extra Toniiiiiiiiiight, you're right, you're right, you're right)
If we (humans) keep getting richer and more educated, birth rates will decline in the poorer parts of the world (as they have in the richest parts) and we will reach a stable, rich, healthy and educated population. With technology constantly improving and getting more efficient.
To me it, seems like an attainable stability that leaves humanity AND the planet pretty well off.
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
I don't believe he changed, no. He couldn't ever use them though, in the same way North Korea can't ever use their WMDs without getting smashed.
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
Until you damn
YanksIrish decided to takeit allmost of it for yourself, and declare independence!
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
I can't even comprehend the minds that get upset about this sort of thing... minorly "ugh, that's annoying" sure, but the crazy religious war thing is... odd.
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RE: Firefox Nightly: "you know that new and buggy feature you disabled?...
Have they now finally became the uglier, more bloated version of Chrome?
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RE: Valve now allows selling of mods
They'll return though, they specified that it was wrong to introduce them in Skyrim, a years old established free modding community. I imagine whatever upcoming games from Bethesda (or whoever) will have these paid mods.
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RE: 5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
You forget that 'Asian' is the PC codeword for Muslim in (certainly UK) newspaper headlines and articles.
Is it? I thought Asian would mainly refer to the Indian population.
In the US people would think you were talking about Chinese or Japanese people.
The world is confusing :) -
RE: Comcast not-at-all an abusive monopoly with not-at-all deceptive business practices!!!
32 euros a month, 70Mbps, shared between me and my roommate... and I thought Ireland had pretty bad Internet in general!
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RE: Windows needs an undo button.
Although, mednafen and higan are both rather demanding. Snes9x is less good but also more performant on slower machines.
What's the point of a more demanding one? Why is SNES9X less good?They all (including the maligned ZSNES) just play SNES games right?
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RE: Windows needs an undo button.
Blocked. I assume the demanding ones are better emulated?
Never had an issue with ZSNES personally.
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RE: Windows needs an undo button.
I... would not be using Linux, for anything, ever, if I can help it :P
Yes. Things like game speed can be very different depending on emulation quality. Frame timing accuracy is, for example, a huge deal for speedruns.
Fair enough, for certain folks I can see how that'd be vital. I actually find ZSNES's chunky old interface endearing :) -
RE: Yet another plot twist on unread post counter being wrong
This thing is never going to be fixed, is it.
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RE: My new 4k monitor-- God I wish I had taken notes while setting up this thing
I hate computers.
Yeah, me too. I set up my gaming PC in my living room, using my tv as a display. Last year, during the soccer World Cup, I got the bright idea that I'd hook up a monitor too, so I could game on one screen and watch footy on the other.The amount of heartache just trying to get two fullscreen programs working on two different screens...
Meanwhile my roommate just streams stuff on his iPad when he's playing games. I'm tempted to get one, honestly. At least it'll ****ing work!
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RE: FIFA also some nationalist trolling and political debate
You apparently can't tell the difference between conquest and the sorts of wars the US has had over the last century or so.
The difference in motivations for the wars are irrelevant to their results though. If the result is hundreds of thousands of dead civilians and a region in chaos, it really doesn't matter what the intentions were. Whether you were invading as the gee whiz good guys spreading democracy, or the evil imperialist oil stealers, the outcome was the same.Yes, that's obvious.
So why advocate more invasions and war, if it's obvious we can't do anything to stop the Muslim civil wars?
@boomzilla said:I guess if you think that nothing that happens there matters or can affect you...
I never said that though, did I?You're welcome.
For what?