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Does anyone know Skals question about SSDs and system speed? Would startup be faster? Navigating through your system?

Bump for Skals' question.

Smart, smart, smart decision. Who needs laptops when cellphones are entire computers anyways! Build a rig!

Discussion =/= argument.

Just trying to help out bro, I'll leave.

Dude wat

A 560 is definitely not an outdated card. Just because it's not the newest model on the market, or second from newest, does not mean it is outdated by any means. Also you all seem to be comparing the desktop cards, the GTX, and not the laptop cards, the GTX M.

I don't think they can be weighed against each other fairly.

Meh, theres tons of accounts of Sasquatch and the dude who made that video came out and said it's his buddy in a gorilla suit. That's the dude's natural walk too, he just walks funny.

Its obvious that aliens exist somewhere but I doubt they've made it here.

Why come in the first place? Why not watch from a distance, with no risk of being caught at all? If we can see ourselves from space now, imagine how far alien tech could see us from!

Imagine if all countries pitched in and made that their top priority! We could have a space station the size of a small moon in no time!

Yeah it was. Forging a crowbar.

It's not ready yet.

Four Lions.

Was quite funny, although pretty sad at the end. I watched it again just because as a yank it was quite hard to understand a couple of the things they said.

Think there's enough interest to start another TWHL game of drawception?

The only thing they are up to date about is weapons.

lol.

It's funny because our stance on weapons was decided hundreds of years ago. Even more funny when you realize we haven't designed a half-decent weapon in about sixty years.

You're looking for Germany or Isreal I think....

this thread = lol.

Seems to me everyone outside the US thinks that the US has become idiotic when it comes to sex, but the reality of course is that we used to be idiotic when it comes to sex and are slowly becoming less idiotic as science advances and knowledge spreads.

We are an isolated place with the exception of Canada and Mexico, cultural change can happen slowly here. Hence why we're still so homophobic. Hell, seventy years ago it wasn't OK to be black here.

Pointless thread is pointless.

They definitely don't teach that as standard stuff. Either he had a teacher who should never give sex ed again, or he's making it up.

Wait so... what's the point of this thread? That sex is bad? Or that the US supposedly has a lot of it?

Dimbark that's quite the drastic change from the first stuff you even posted here. Keep going.

Wow super excites that go is only 15 bucks, many more people will be able to get it rigt away!

Archie I agree with Daub, but not where it meets the walkable space. It makes perfect sense that there would be stains on the edge since tons of people use that space, it would need to be mopped regularly, and over long time stains would appear. However, where the wall transitions into it, I think it could stand to be broken up by something.

Other than that it looks really great. Lighting is awesome, colors are good, shadows are nice, all around really great stuff.

Its a mini game.

Awesome, well done then.

Is it just one level that looks that way? The sun's nice and low, I don't think it's going overboard, personally.

Looks really good. The background really nails a sweet spot between sophisticated and simple. Nails it hard. Probably my favorite one so far.

Are you in the TWHL platoon X-layer?

I felt it was too much like homefront

Huh?

Also, what's the best free recording software? Kinda off topic I know but it's for BF3. Gotta love this game, I just got 15k xp off of a 3.5k point match. Because medals.

Trempler I love the colors. Good call on keeping the red, love the gold, and excellent, excellent, excellent decision on contrasting the banners with the green. Fantastic looking stuff!

Amen to that. Yesterday I ignored D3 completely just to force myself to play BF3 all night, because I don't want to fall out of practice. The first ten-fifteen minutes were not pretty.

There were lots of /facedesk moments.

I re-fell in love with the G3A3+bipod+holo in semi-automatic. I don't know how the patch changed this setup but it's absolutely obscene now. Keeping it in semi just erases all of the recoil, it's brilliant. Such high damage.

I was dicking around on the antenna with a friend, killing people at sniping ranges with it. I was getting suppression assists on guys at Bravo, and trolling snipers camping in their uncap.

Also semiauto rifles just plain feel badass, deliberately dropping someone in 2-3 shots while he sprays rounds around like a sprinkler.

just as good

I could talk for hours about why it's better, why they went in the wrong direction, and what direction they should have gone in. Anyone else feel 4 was the best "modern" title in the series?

People aren't complaining because the game sucks, they're complaining because the always-online requirement (whatever you want to call it) is getting in the way and stopping them from playing the game the way they want to and enjoying it.

As I said on the other page:

Likewise, I feel it is missing the point(the point is fun, remember) to discount a great game when you love games, because of some inside-industry political bullshit. But whatever.

That's pretty much been my point the whole time. And to boot, the connection is justified, to prevent the game from turning to complete shit right away like every other Diablo game. Diablo and Diablo II are both severely broken games. Broken, broken, broke.

+2 for map a fy_map

I know you all hate them, and we ignore them completely as a result. When people submit them we say things like "it looks nice but it's just a fy_map"

The deliciousness of a TWHL fy_map compo is almost too much.

I do! This is the Now Gaming thread though. I'm now playing Diablo III. Is anyone else? No? That's really odd because we just talked about it for a few pages.

ITT: We ignore Blitz's questions like he never even asked them, we ignore Blitz's explainations like he didn't type them, and we circle-jerk.

I'm damn tempted to repost the explaination of why Diablo is broken just because it got buried. I wrote it for you guys. Would reposting be against the rules? I'm damn tempted to do it and just say "ban me". I'll wait 15 mins or so for someone else to chime in.

Here we go:

Urby: Read my baseball analogy again. You're telling me that walking up to the plate was never ruined, which is true and fair. You are correct. I'm talking about, however, everything that happens once you get to the plate. The actual game. The most basic elements of the Diablo metagame are:

*Economics(the most important thing by far, affects every other aspect)
*PVM(tied closely with economics)
*PVP

Economics was ruined first. Duping. Third-party sites selling dupes, bots, leveling services, you name it. Items intended to be nearly mithical in rareness are so common that they go for a couple of cents each. Here's a site selling duped Stones of Jordan, among what are supposed to be the, if not THE, rarest items in the game, in TEN PACKS for $2.99 http://www.diabloitems.net/uswest-non-ladde
r/unperm-items.html

The odds of high runes dropping are one in the thousands, and that's if a rune drops in the first place, and that's if the mLvl, aLvl, and iLvl (cLvl doesn't come into play in this particular example) are all high enough to drop the rune. But alas, even they are valueless.

Obviously when the economy fails, the other aspects of the game fall right behind it.

By "retards ruining Diablo" I of course mean everyone who wants all the glamour without doing any of the work. They want elite items but they don't want to do 2000-3000 high trav runs to get them. They don't want to stack 600% magic find and spend an hour a night doing 60-second Meph runs. They don't want to stay up long into the night perfecting the build with which they will run Ubers for torches. They don't put effort into playing, at all, and they want all of rewards that those who do put effort forth earn. They supported these sites who dupe and use bots, and they diluted the economy to the point where it simply died. They don't like Diablo, but they played it anyways, and they ruined it.

Does that make sense?

If someone mentions DRM one more time I'm going to drown a sack of kittens.

In fact, you just buried the page long explanation of why Diablo is a broken game and why the connection is needed that I put time and effort into typing for you guys, contributing to the discussion of Diablo III in the Now Gaming thread. And you buried it with the same thing you've repeated to me over and over. Then you implied I'm a dick.

I'm the dick.

[edit] Sorry for double double post. Fucking ban me.

you're really losing your cool here man.

How do you know that. Yes, you. I said, How. Do. You. Know. That.

Also, how is Diablo not a PVP game?

Also, my taking time to type out thoughtful responses to questions like "what did you mean by 'ruining diablo' and I'm putting effort into explaining things here, and I'm just being called an asshole and being accused of attacking and being mad and stuff! This is nuts!

How would you know I'm losing my cool? Are you injecting imaginary emotion into my typed words? I'm trying to explain shit here, and you're just calling me mad. What the hell, man?

What? Did I say that? I said no shit, to agree with you! I agree it's going nowhere! Holy shit!

How is Diablo not a PVP game? PVP is insanely popular!

No. Fucking. Shit.

What? Explain.

Furthermore, what do you mean by "it's not PVP"?

PVP is like 1/2 of Diablo.

It's a co-op game that you can choose to not let anyone else into. There are no "multiplayer" or "singleplayer" options in the menu. It is one menu. I've spent 15 hours in so far and you've never played it.

I. Give. The. Fuck. Up.

Pengy: That's all valid. Except you didn't jump in the convo compaining that there was no single player, you jumped in complaining about DRM, which is irrelevant. That is all I was disagreeing with, then trying very hard to explain to you all why.

Also, please use quotes to show me where I attacked you personally. You also accused me of assuming what you think, I politely asked you to show me where I did that, and you ignored me. Please do these things, those accusations are very unfair.

Urby: Read my baseball analogy again. You're telling me that walking up to the plate was never ruined, which is true and fair. You are correct. I'm talking about, however, everything that happens once you get to the plate. The actual game. The most basic elements of the Diablo metagame are:

*Economics(the most important thing by far, affects every other aspect)
*PVM(tied closely with economics)
*PVP

Economics was ruined first. Duping. Third-party sites selling dupes, bots, leveling services, you name it. Items intended to be nearly mithical in rareness are so common that they go for a couple of cents each. Here's a site selling duped Stones of Jordan, among what are supposed to be the, if not THE, rarest items in the game, in TEN PACKS for $2.99 http://www.diabloitems.net/uswest-non-ladder/unperm-items.html

The odds of high runes dropping are one in the thousands, and that's if a rune drops in the first place, and that's if the mLvl, aLvl, and iLvl (cLvl doesn't come into play in this particular example) are all high enough to drop the rune. But alas, even they are valueless.

Obviously when the economy fails, the other aspects of the game fall right behind it.

By "retards ruining Diablo" I of course mean everyone who wants all the glamour without doing any of the work. They want elite items but they don't want to do 2000-3000 high trav runs to get them. They don't want to stack 600% magic find and spend an hour a night doing 60-second Meph runs. They don't want to stay up long into the night perfecting the build with which they will run Ubers for torches. They don't put effort into playing, at all, and they want all of rewards that those who do put effort forth earn. They supported these sites who dupe and use bots, and they diluted the economy to the point where it simply died. They don't like Diablo, but they played it anyways, and they ruined it.

Does that make sense?

Oh, and I think comparing it to rape is a little harsh. Like, way harsh. I called Huntey out on his unfair comparison and so it'd be terribly unfair to him if I didn't disagree with this also. I guess not everyone knows someone who's been raped.

[edit] Archie I agree with everything you just said. RAGE was shit, Vsync is over-hyped as being bad. I'd use it in BF except my FPS is usually 55 or so, and turning it on would make absolutely no sense. Which is too bad, because the tearing in BF3 is among the worst I've ever seen. It's so bad lol. So much tearing. I mean yeah mouse lag is a terrible thing from a competitive standpoint, but my guess is that 90% of the people who bring that up aren't competitive enough for it to actually make a difference in their playing.

Oh and if you guys are seeing my long writings and taking it as "mad" or "aggressive" or "taking it personally" you are very, very wrong. Take it as "passionate about games". I love teaching almost as much as I love learning.

I'll explain what I meant when I get home I'm on my phone. I'll answer penguin too. Also, if you're detecting aggression sorry but I was basically being outright ignored. It took me all damn day to explain something as basic as a game not having a single player. Very frustrating.

No one is arguing that there is a single player mode

Like four people were.

Stop taking this personally

LOL

Why do they need to be online to do that?

I answered this. Back in the thread. Short answer: to stop retards from ruining Diablo like they ruined every other version of Diablo. They ruined it for everyone.

He's in the world there all by himself, playing at his own pace. That's pretty much the definition of a SP game to me

If you drive a four-seated race car alone, does it magically become a one-seat race car? No, there's gonna be three empty seats. Likewise, for the hundredth time, there is no singleplayer Diablo III. Your bro is playing a multiplayer game, online, alone. Which is perfectly fine! I've probably done about half of my first play through alone so far.

Why does this seem to go in and right back out everyone's ears?

Diablo 3 is a multiplayer game that is 100% about end-game. The actual game known as Diablo begins when you reach level 60 with your first toon. Consider that equal to reaching 80 or so in D2:LoD, which could be done in a matter of hours. (although my fastest 1-80 ever is closer to one full day)

It's basically like this: Diablo is baseball, and lots of people seem to think that the walk up to the plate is the whole game. They get there and shout "DONE!". Baseball is the game. You start playing when you get up to plate, even if you're on the field before then, as you're walking up. Does this analogy make sense to any of you? The first playthrough, being told the story as you go, is merely walking up to the plate in the world of Diablo. The first pitch hasn't even been thrown yet.

Oh, good idea with the windows.

I'm not sure how heavily focused on Multiplayer the game

As I've said a bajillion times. THERE IS NO SINGLE PLAYER DIABLO III. There were previously Diablo games that you could play singleplayer.

What I'm saying is that you should not have to log in at the start of the game [meaning you have to log in just to launch the game to get to the main menu], only if you choose to play MP from the menu.

There is no "Multiplayer" menu option. This is a multiplayer game. You can create your own instance. You can then chose to allow other people into it. Freinds can request being allowed in via the list. You can invite anyone in at any time.

Anyone can join any game made public by it's owner at any time through Quickjoin.

There is a full chat channel system just like before.

There is no singleplayer.

A full PVP section of arenas is coming in the future.

TL;DR you guys are trying to fight me over DRM when the subject doesn't even apply to this very fun game.

[edit] goodnight <3

Ok, by equate I meant compare. Sorry. That is what you did. I don't really feel that fair at all. I compared it to race cars. You compared it to slave labor. C'mon, man. Whatever, it's besides the point anyways. How does this particular misunderstanding negate the rest of the discussion?

I've got to go to bed real soon, nowish, got work. Leave me any discussion. I will also accept PM's. Tootles.

Ok. This is good. I'm following you like a pair of heat-seaker missles right up until here:

Instead, the security uses an abitrary system

Explain how Diablo III, a multiplayer game (regardless of whether previous games in the series were both multi and single), requiring an internet connection(among the most stable in the industry through experience) is "arbitrary". Check my previous posts, I gave a few examples of why it's necessary if you want some easy points.

The club being the game? The security being Blizzard? The people being allowed in = us?

Ok, I get that much, that's a good start, but I totally don't get "allowed in". Not one bit. You pay for the game to buy your ticket into the club. You are not "allowed" in. You paid to get in.

I still don't follow you, explain more.

they have every right to complain about it

To who? Me? Here? Why? To accomplish what? I jumped into this discussion about Diablo 3 to discuss Diablo 3. Complaining is not discussing. Kthanks.

Oh and don't apologize for trying to explain your point to me, that's the whole point of this, is it not? I love games and I love discussion, no mad here. No mad, friends.

What? I mean, I read what you said, but I don't see how it is like that. What do you mean by "at will"?

Can you please elaborate for me?

Oh and Pengy, what did I say that seemed like an assumption of what you think? I didn't intend to.

At no time did I say anything about the gameplay of the game itself.

Exactly. Like I said:

"Likewise, I feel it is missing the point(the point is fun, remember) to discount a great game when you love games, because of some inside-industry political bullshit. But whatever. "

edit: sorry for double post
You guys are too defensive, you're missing the important bits I wrote. Maybe I write too much.

No I do understand why, I just think it's a bit silly. And saying it's similar is equating it.

[quote]It requires a connection to download your game and update it. After that, unless it's a multiplayer-only game, you're free to play the game on or offline.[quote]

Except that you need to turn to offline mode then shut down. When my internet cuts out, I can't play 50 or 75 of my games. That's not as bad as D3's connection... how?

Again, nothings really to stop it from failing other than Blizzards experience and good track record with WoW. If there existed a company that could do this better than them by some measurable degree, you'd have a point.

It really works less then that IMHO. Honestly, who predicts when their internets going to go down? How many LAN parties do you guys go to? Offline mode only ever fucks me, and I still love steam and use it all the damn time. If my computer's on, Steam is running.

Oh, and I wasn't contradicting myself Archie, you misunderstand me. I was not talking about the service, I was talking about the game. He hates on multi because it's the same objective on the same maps every time. Chess is the same goal on the same board with the same pieces every time. He is completely missing the point of multi.

Likewise, I feel it is missing the point(the point is fun, remember) to discount a great game when you love games, because of some inside-industry political bullshit. But whatever.

I really don't think equating requiring an internet connection to play a multiplayer videogame to modern day slave labor is fair.

And we all use Steam. It basically does require a connection, and it's basically the most popular fucking thing ever.

TL;DR Diablo 3 launches, internet-wide First World righteousness bandwagon ensues.

THATS MY POINT! That's nuts! Judge a game by how it plays! If you enjoy playing it, play it! If you don't, don't! Don't make your final stand against your corporate overlords! Bad shallow gaming community, bad!

It's like when Yahtzee discounts all of multiplayer gaming because it's the same every time with different people and outcome! Futbol is the same every time with different people and outcome! Baseball! Chess! No one likes those stupid fucking things, right????

Gaming is about FUN not OVERCOMING FIRST-WORLD OPPRESSION.