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  1. Re:Like the games themselves on The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting · · Score: 1

    That's completely besides the point.

    If you have to deliver a line and you're given:

    'You betcha.'

    In a spread sheet, its hard not to do a 'crappy' job. In a cartoon, there is a script that flows progressively. The article is saying that the games don't. So the line could be responding to "So do you want to go to a bar after work?" or "This bowl of rancid meat sure looks appetizing huh?" and there is no context, and either could be menu choices the NPCs need to respond to. If they do it wrong, they get told 'x' to indicate they should do it again.

    Honestly? Bringing up the argument of subs versus dubs? I suppose it is almost fitting though, given how the article is about things out of context.

  2. Re:Woohoo! on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    I was wrong by the way, it was an 8600M GT. Maybe that's why it played just fine.

  3. Re:Woohoo! on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    My bad, I was guessing, seems I was off a bit.

    You're correct, it was a 2007, and it had an 8600GT. I was too lazy to go into the other room and check at the time.

  4. Re:Woohoo! on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    You don't say? a mobile graphics chipset in a laptop isn't as good as an 8800GTX? I'd never have suspected.

    Honestly though, I'd imagine it is better than intel integrated GPUs in many laptops. For one thing, it played the orange box just fine when it came out. And considering that it is Valve and the source games being considered....

  5. Re:Woohoo! on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    Crap compared to what?

  6. Re:Apple / About this Mac / More Info on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

  7. Re:Native clients I hope. on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    Last game off of a disk I played was Wolfenstein 3d. I've been buying them on discs or off steam lately.

  8. Re:Woohoo! on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every mac currently sold has at least an Nvidia 9400. My macbook pro I bought in... 2006 has an nvida 8400. My mac pro has a gtx285. Which lineup are you referring to?

  9. Re:whatcouldposiblygowrong on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    To name a few...

    1) All the zombie pcs their servers are controlling.
    2) All the computers the zombie pcs attack.
    3) All the email addresses the zombies spam.

  10. Re:Dredge? on The Evolution of Reading In the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    Seriously, the dredge are Tyrian mole-people, completely unrelated.

  11. Re:the correct solution on Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? · · Score: 1

    Or rather than overwriting, reboot the system with the files he was working on.

  12. Re:Activision on Infinity Ward Lead Developers Axed Unexpectedly · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the story demonstrate otherwise?

  13. Re:Go Pirate Party? on Europe To Block ACTA Disconnect Provisions · · Score: 2, Funny

    I personally would go with the pry bar. You never know when there will be a resonance cascade.

  14. Re:FIST... on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    I meant more the invasion of privacy without a warrant and no consequences.

  15. Re:Hunters.. on iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic" · · Score: 1

    But it's not a tablet PC. Its an oversized iPod.

  16. Re:FIST... on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    That, or they're trying to figure out how they can do it themselves.

  17. Re:Obligatory on Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Is the plural of Lego Lego?

  18. Re:Obligatory on Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And the parking lot isn't full of Toyotas,Fords, Hondas? Its full of Toyota cars, Toyota trucks, Ford cars Ford trucks and Honda Cars?

  19. Re:Whee on Is Plagiarism In Literature Just Sampling? · · Score: 1

    How bout Weird Al?

  20. Re:Who cheats who on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 1

    Which is kind of the point of a do while, to force it to run at least once. You use a while if you want it completely conditional, Do While if you want it to run at least once and then check the condition.

  21. Re:They Would Simply Rotate Them 180 Degrees ... on USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes · · Score: 5, Funny

    They would, except someone faxed them the memo informing them of that, and it was upside down.

  22. Re:Opt out is a valid option on India Objects To Google Book Settlement · · Score: 1

    10,000 dollar fines if he reports a violation of the national do not call list.

  23. Re:No flash support on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they'll use an open standard with HTML 5 video rather than h.264 then.

  24. Re:Extra things you'll need on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    People who don't want a Tablet computer, but rather an iPod Tablet?

  25. Re:Extra things you'll need on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    But...but... but yours isn't an iPod, so it isn't as good.