Idk, my girlfriend of five years just spend all weekend (approx 30 hours of game time) playing Path of Exile with me, in the new 1 month challenge league.
She's been having me teach her things so she can improve in League of Legends, and wants to get as good as I am so we can duoqueue together in ranked.
There definitely are girls out there who are looking for nerds/gamers. The problem is most of them are subjected to so many supercreepy "oh there's a girl in voice chat in this raid I'm going to queue my mic and begin masturbating" and "white knight everything she says or does and follow her around like a puppy dog" type "gamer guys" that they're terrified of going anywhere near the rest of us nerds.
I got lucky and found a girl who had been sheltered from online gaming, she had only played Nintendo games prior to meeting me.
If nerds/gamers want to find women who won't reject them, they need to stop being awful people to every girl playing games first. Once gamer girls feel safe actually admitting to being girls in games online, gamer guys won't be rejected en masse by them anymore.
It's Seattle. "a new neighborhood" means "30 more minutes from work, minimum".
To be honest though, I don't see why someone would be upset about the design of the homes... the buildings look fine, and don't even look particularly out of place for Seattle architecture. They're not old, that's about it.
The problem is inevitably going to be parking. There is no possible way for homes like that to have enough parking.
I don't want "convergence" between my devices. Why would anyone?
My phone is used for wildly different tasks than my laptop, which is used for mostly different tasks from my desktop. Any form of convergence is going to hurt at least one of the workflows involved.
I want my phone software to be as lightweight/minimalistic as possible so my phone's battery can last, for example. A desktop doesn't have to care about that at all.
Just make the best phone software, or PC software, you can, don't half-ass both.
I have no idea how to do that, and switching to something that was more user-friendly out-of-the-box, so to speak, seemed easier.
I don't have anything important on that machine anyway, it's just for having a portable non-phone web browser and 20+ year old games, basically. Hence the desire to not have to fuck with anything, just make it work and be user-friendly.
I'm a Linux noob, but I recently wiped my Ubuntu installation in favor of Linux Mint beacuse whatever the default environment of Ubuntu is (Unity?) looked and felt like OSX.
I couldn't figure out how to do damn near anything, requiring me to google terminal commands to do basic functions because the GUI was so obfuscated.
Cinnamon on Mint so far has been quite user-friendly. Have only used the terminal when it seemed easier than going through the GUI, not because I *couldn't* go through the GUI. And it doesn't feel like a goddamn mac.
250,000 viewers for non-finals matches, close to 500,000 for the NA finals (sadly, the EU finals are too early in the day for many NA viewers to watch live) and this is the "split" (half-season, basically) that "doesn't matter".
The Mid-Season Invitational tournament coming up soon should draw a few million viewers though.
What makes those numbers (sadly) somewhat less valuable is the time the tournaments ran during.
S3 world championship was hosted in California, USA, meaning it ran on Pacific Standard Time. It was generally accessible to NA viewers (morning to early afternoon), moderately accessible to EU viewers (late afternoon to night), and not accessible at all to most of asia (middle of the night).
S4 was instead hosted in Asia. It was generally accessible to asians (early afternoon to evening), not really accessible to NA (it began at midnight PST), and fairly accessible to EU (morning to early afternoon).
Basically, some of the increase from S3->S4 is simply the game's viewership growing, but also some of it is more asians able to tune in live, and quite frankly, China and South Korea take esports far more seriously than anywhere else does.
I watch League of Legends professional play fairly regularly.
I'm personally Platinum-ranked in League of Legends myself. This means I'm (barely) in the top 10% of LoL players.
The pros know SO MUCH more than I do, the way they develop and execute strategies, the little tricks they use to get the most out of their champions, it's all on a whole other level from what I know/do. So I watch them to learn from them. For those who play League, I mean things like using flash during Gragas bodyslam or Vi vaultbreaker to instant-hit the spell before your enemy can dodge, stuff like that. Before I watched LCS I didn't know you could flash mid-spell without interrupting the spell. I became a better player because I adapted what I watched into my own repertoire.
I don't honestly care very much who wins, although some teams are known for more innovation than others, so I tend to root for them >_>
My post wasn't a question of "what does 2 teraflops mean", it was a question of what the fuck "there's no way you can remotely use that level of performance and features in games with an open source driver anyway." is supposed to mean.
Imagine, for a moment, Valve talks to AMD/Nvidia about open source support, and AMD actually follows through on open source support (stifle that laughter and bear with me).
Nvidia doesn't.
Steam starts running ads promoting AMD.
SOMETHING LIKE 90% of ALL POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS are seeing ads for Nvidia's competitor. Valve refuses to run Nvidia ads until they improve Open Source.
THAT is how Valve can use their clout.
Will they? Probably not. But they *should*, if their stated goal of legitimizing Linux Gaming is true. Otherwise they'll still be stuck at the mercy of Microsoft, which is the whole reason Valve is pushing for Linux gaming (they view the Windows Store as a HUGE threat to their livelihood)
They literally have more power than any other company, without exception, when it comes to mindshare of people who actually BUY PC games and games hardware.
With Valve pushing for Linux gaming, they need to apply some inside pressure on AMD/Nvidia to make their shit work at 100% with Linux.
Since we know neither company is willing to do the work themselves, that means they need to release full documentation so the FOSS people can develop/maintain proper Linux support.
Moto G is smooth-feeling and about $200. For the lower price, you lose screen resolution and camera quality and storage, acceptable tradeoffs for saving FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Hell, the OnePlusOne is $350 (fuck the 16gb version) and comparable to the Galaxy S5/Note 3 in performance. My sister-in-law has one and loves it, and she's directly comparing it to my Note 3.
He *is* a loser for doing a "first post" post, but when this article was put up, comments weren't loading, so it probably did appear like he was the first post when he submitted his non-first-post.
Although to be fair I never specified a programming language. Hell, I don't even know what languages my joke would have been valid in... I was thinking excel when I made the joke o_O
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Idk, my girlfriend of five years just spend all weekend (approx 30 hours of game time) playing Path of Exile with me, in the new 1 month challenge league.
She's been having me teach her things so she can improve in League of Legends, and wants to get as good as I am so we can duoqueue together in ranked.
There definitely are girls out there who are looking for nerds/gamers. The problem is most of them are subjected to so many supercreepy "oh there's a girl in voice chat in this raid I'm going to queue my mic and begin masturbating" and "white knight everything she says or does and follow her around like a puppy dog" type "gamer guys" that they're terrified of going anywhere near the rest of us nerds.
I got lucky and found a girl who had been sheltered from online gaming, she had only played Nintendo games prior to meeting me.
If nerds/gamers want to find women who won't reject them, they need to stop being awful people to every girl playing games first. Once gamer girls feel safe actually admitting to being girls in games online, gamer guys won't be rejected en masse by them anymore.
It's Seattle. "a new neighborhood" means "30 more minutes from work, minimum".
To be honest though, I don't see why someone would be upset about the design of the homes... the buildings look fine, and don't even look particularly out of place for Seattle architecture. They're not old, that's about it.
The problem is inevitably going to be parking. There is no possible way for homes like that to have enough parking.
Which is probably why "treasonous" was in quotes.
I don't want "convergence" between my devices. Why would anyone?
My phone is used for wildly different tasks than my laptop, which is used for mostly different tasks from my desktop. Any form of convergence is going to hurt at least one of the workflows involved.
I want my phone software to be as lightweight/minimalistic as possible so my phone's battery can last, for example. A desktop doesn't have to care about that at all.
Just make the best phone software, or PC software, you can, don't half-ass both.
As I said, I'm a Linux noob.
I have no idea how to do that, and switching to something that was more user-friendly out-of-the-box, so to speak, seemed easier.
I don't have anything important on that machine anyway, it's just for having a portable non-phone web browser and 20+ year old games, basically. Hence the desire to not have to fuck with anything, just make it work and be user-friendly.
I'm a Linux noob, but I recently wiped my Ubuntu installation in favor of Linux Mint beacuse whatever the default environment of Ubuntu is (Unity?) looked and felt like OSX.
I couldn't figure out how to do damn near anything, requiring me to google terminal commands to do basic functions because the GUI was so obfuscated.
Cinnamon on Mint so far has been quite user-friendly. Have only used the terminal when it seemed easier than going through the GUI, not because I *couldn't* go through the GUI. And it doesn't feel like a goddamn mac.
Desktops of some form (possibly just as a remote workhorse) will persist because of power users.
Laptops, on the other hand, will be pushed out of the market as tablets/phones get better at doing the jobs laptops are used for.
That being said, I cringe at your idea that a laptop with external HDDs are somehow comparable to a desktop.
Yes, yes it was.
250,000 viewers for non-finals matches, close to 500,000 for the NA finals (sadly, the EU finals are too early in the day for many NA viewers to watch live) and this is the "split" (half-season, basically) that "doesn't matter".
The Mid-Season Invitational tournament coming up soon should draw a few million viewers though.
What makes those numbers (sadly) somewhat less valuable is the time the tournaments ran during.
S3 world championship was hosted in California, USA, meaning it ran on Pacific Standard Time. It was generally accessible to NA viewers (morning to early afternoon), moderately accessible to EU viewers (late afternoon to night), and not accessible at all to most of asia (middle of the night).
S4 was instead hosted in Asia. It was generally accessible to asians (early afternoon to evening), not really accessible to NA (it began at midnight PST), and fairly accessible to EU (morning to early afternoon).
Basically, some of the increase from S3->S4 is simply the game's viewership growing, but also some of it is more asians able to tune in live, and quite frankly, China and South Korea take esports far more seriously than anywhere else does.
Strong this.
I watch League of Legends professional play fairly regularly.
I'm personally Platinum-ranked in League of Legends myself. This means I'm (barely) in the top 10% of LoL players.
The pros know SO MUCH more than I do, the way they develop and execute strategies, the little tricks they use to get the most out of their champions, it's all on a whole other level from what I know/do. So I watch them to learn from them. For those who play League, I mean things like using flash during Gragas bodyslam or Vi vaultbreaker to instant-hit the spell before your enemy can dodge, stuff like that. Before I watched LCS I didn't know you could flash mid-spell without interrupting the spell. I became a better player because I adapted what I watched into my own repertoire.
I don't honestly care very much who wins, although some teams are known for more innovation than others, so I tend to root for them >_>
They use Hulu as their back-end for southpark.cc.com now.
Oh good someone else understands
My post wasn't a question of "what does 2 teraflops mean", it was a question of what the fuck "there's no way you can remotely use that level of performance and features in games with an open source driver anyway." is supposed to mean.
It's a gibberish sentence.
Imagine, for a moment, Valve talks to AMD/Nvidia about open source support, and AMD actually follows through on open source support (stifle that laughter and bear with me).
Nvidia doesn't.
Steam starts running ads promoting AMD.
SOMETHING LIKE 90% of ALL POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS are seeing ads for Nvidia's competitor. Valve refuses to run Nvidia ads until they improve Open Source.
THAT is how Valve can use their clout.
Will they? Probably not. But they *should*, if their stated goal of legitimizing Linux Gaming is true. Otherwise they'll still be stuck at the mercy of Microsoft, which is the whole reason Valve is pushing for Linux gaming (they view the Windows Store as a HUGE threat to their livelihood)
Valve basically owns PC gaming marketshare.
They literally have more power than any other company, without exception, when it comes to mindshare of people who actually BUY PC games and games hardware.
wat
WTF is this post supposed to mean?
Seriously, I'm not sure why the AC thinks I meant Intel...
With Valve pushing for Linux gaming, they need to apply some inside pressure on AMD/Nvidia to make their shit work at 100% with Linux.
Since we know neither company is willing to do the work themselves, that means they need to release full documentation so the FOSS people can develop/maintain proper Linux support.
Not NEARLY as true as it used to be.
Moto G is smooth-feeling and about $200. For the lower price, you lose screen resolution and camera quality and storage, acceptable tradeoffs for saving FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Hell, the OnePlusOne is $350 (fuck the 16gb version) and comparable to the Galaxy S5/Note 3 in performance. My sister-in-law has one and loves it, and she's directly comparing it to my Note 3.
He *is* a loser for doing a "first post" post, but when this article was put up, comments weren't loading, so it probably did appear like he was the first post when he submitted his non-first-post.
Okay that made me giggle.
Although to be fair I never specified a programming language. Hell, I don't even know what languages my joke would have been valid in... I was thinking excel when I made the joke o_O
to AT&T? And maybe Verizon/Comcast?
I can't think of anyone more criminal.
Really? Downvoted for a bad programming joke?
specifically, RAND(toomuch,waytoomuch).