Oh look you're throwing a hissy fit. Well that's fine. Let's see, doing a quick search I can see 500+ mods for dark souls alone. And while that's not anything on say skyrim(50k+ mods), that's beside the point. As a useful tip: Those "mod tools" are the same "development tools" that were used to create the game. It's only in very rare cases such as ME/DA2/etc where people make their own tools. Or much like when I was younger and we had to make our own tools for 2da files.
As for those tools being "free" well actually they are. And worked at a real job? How nice of you to go back to insults, and if a game doesn't have mod tools it's because of laziness, or because the publisher doesn't want them to do it. See DA2.
It's that modding modern games is simply more difficult, because the games are more complex. Sure, a company can spend the time and effort to produce good mod tools, but that's not necessarily a good business decision.
Really? Odd that modding in skyrim isn't really all that more difficult, or even complex. Or Dragon Age: Origins, how about xcom? New Vegas/FO3? Dark Souls, or NWN/2? The witcher games? Come on, it's not a franchise selling issue it's a laziness issue. And would have CoH2 sold better if it had modding support? Well...yes. Generally games that have open support for modding, have a longer shelf-life, and make more money in the long run especially games that milk the DLC train. A more recent example would be Saints Row 3/4 right? There's no steam workshop support, but there are tools, mods and no shortage of goodies. With developers answering questions on items, much like with the REDkit, and back before Bioware was bought by EA, you could find the developers doing the same. Notice that one? No mod support for their games since EA came along...
Well steam is DRM, but you can and are able to mod many of the games there without a problem. The problem though isn't so much the DRM in cases, it's the publishers/parent company throwing a hissy fit.
Really, considering the quality of drivers out of nvidia for the last year I'm glad I switched to ATI. I think it started around the nvidia 302.xx series, where the mass lockups began and the nvidia forums(before they were hacked) that had the 480k post thread with 1m+ views for TDR's. Then it was the crashing with firefox, that lasted from the 302's right up to the 320's. It only got worse about the time the 310's or 315's rolled around and the drivers were causing hardlocks across all 400,500,600 series cards. And I think it was right around the 308's where the complaints got so bad that nvidia was willing to pay shipping costs for anyone in the continental US to have their rigs sent to California so they could try to find out why the TDR problem was so rampant.
I haven't heard anything good on the state of nvidia drivers, if I have a complaint about ATI drivers is that some programs are bit more sluggish compared to my nvidia card, but I'll take the stability over the TDR, TDR, TDR, TDR, TDR, TDR. And sadly it wasn't one card(had a 400, and two 560 series cards), and one configuration, or even one power supply or a particular CPU in my case. It was across AMD, Intel, various ram speeds, paired, non-paired, different PSU's, and machines in more than one physical location.
My general policy has been to flip-flop every generation and go nvidia to ati and back again. But the last series of drivers pissed me off to no end that I dumped them for ATI, and Matrox didn't go anywhere they're still making video cards only on the business end though. The problem of course is much like the CPU business right? Remember the days of Cyrix, AMD, Intel? Well it was a case of hardware pushing so fast that not all of the companies could keep up. Same deal happened in the videocard market.
I test drove 2013 impalla, there was no aux in on the stereo, no ad2p for the Bluetooth that, and the sales guy was like, but OnStar and xm radio are great.
There's an aux-in, it's either in the centre console or in the glovebox. And it'll always be where the SD card is for the map data. As for ad2p, I don't know of many cars that have it today.
I remember back in grade 3(the '80's), they went on and on and on and fucking on. About how everything under 100m above sea level would be under water by 2010. I should see if I can find the "work books" that were given to us as kids back then. As I sit here, that 100m sea level increase still hasn't happened. This of course went along with the "there won't be any trees here in north america" of course we have more trees now than 300 years ago. That there would be no rain forests, odd they're still there. The sahara desert will cover all of africa, odd it seems to be shrinking. I'm sure I'm forgetting a dozen other things too.
I really need to find those books/texts/worksheets, scan them, and post them online.
Hey mods, this is a reasonable enough statement. Modding it troll is in bad taste. If you disagree, respond to it and say why you think it's wrong.
Of course it's a reasonable statement, modding my post a troll is as a fine example of what's wrong with/. as much as reddit. People who mod it such are intellectual cowards who can't actually respond.
Care to read reddit? Stop being so kind, at least 4chan has something of value, it might be insanity with a dose of madness but it still has more value than reddit.
Hell I gave up and switched to thunderbird to get my emails. At least I know mozilla with any luck won't piss all over a simple UI. And if they do, it'll take them 3-4 revisions to get there before some genius who majored in art got their hands on it. Gmail's UI, along with their constant redesigns for searches, are getting as bad as the whole ribbon UI that MS started slapping in everywhere.
In my book the basic UI is pretty much done. And the reason is, we're on a flat screen surface. There's only so far you can go in simplicity. What they're doing now is trying to justify their place within the company while making statements that "people want change, and change is good." While making simple things more difficult to accomplish and trying to justify it as even easier.
Oh come on now. People like that already know that they're superior to everyone else, that's why they can immediately break down into ad-homs, insults, and all the rest instead of going with rational arguments. Even your low-information voter has finally caught that one, and people wonder why belief in "global warming" is dropping like a rock in terms of support to do anything? No one likes chicken little, and people dislike bullies even more.
You know, people have tried that. They were called racists and colonialists, right now in society it's a no-win scenario because every time *insert* tries to do something to uplift humanity, that needs a hand. There's some brain dead idiot out there screaming that "they're doing it to *insert insane reason.*" You know, much like the eradication of polio, after all that's just a myth. It's really a clever plot to make people sterile.
I say to hell with the lot of them, let them enjoy their polio, starvation, and diseases if they don't want help. One of two things will happen, they'll either get their shit together and want to do something. Or they'll kill themselves off and save everyone from their own stupidity. Personal note: I've done my bit traveling this rock trying to save people from their own stupidity, and living 700 years in the past. It's not worth the effort at this point, not unless people, governments, or groups are willing to get their hands dirty to do it.
Wait wait wait..... You sold parts needed to scrap nuclear missiles to the general public?
Hmm... seems that everyone needs to have some high-adrenaline hobby nowadays....
Sure. Don't you know that the stuff to scrap nuclear missiles is used in the manufacturing sector quite often, any machine shop or mill will be using the same tools. There isn't anything earth shattering regarding this. The difference is, certification.
I used aircraft parts as an example, and the likelyhood that the correct parts are made on the same assembly lines in China as the 30 cent Walmart versions is vanishingly small.
Actually the chances of them being made on the same assembly line is pretty high. The difference of course is that the line that has to "have" the certification, they'll use a higher grade material and take random samples for stress testing to ensure that it's right. They may even go as far as x-raying the materials before it goes through processing, and after to look for material defects.
I used to work in heavy industry back oh 15 years ago now. The stuff we sold went to the US military, and was used for scraping your ICBM's(particularly the minutemans). Everything had to be checked like that before it went out, but the differences were trivial in terms of what we sold to the general public and what went to the military.
I will tell you we don't want it here unless you can route it around environmentally sensitive areas like the sand hills and the Ogallala aquifer
You realize there's so many in-use pipelines in both those areas now it would boggle your mind right? And besides that, they already said they'd route around it if that would make people happy and the environuts are still throwing a hissy fit over it.
The whole Lac Megantic thing happened because the train lost pressure to its brakes.
Yes and no. There was a fire on the engine, the FD shut down the engine. The handbrakes according to the logs were engaged...and parts of the investigation are still on-going to determine if it was a deliberate act to derail the train.
You sound like the anti-nuke nuts, there's two major oil and LNG pipelines that run through my town. And I live within 100km of the largest nuclear reactor complex in North America(Bruce Nuclear). I don't have a problem with it. The oil pipelines have been there since the 60's, and there hasn't been a problem. We've had more derailments, and people killed by trains and transport trucks than the pipeline or even the nuclear plant has killed.
Because landlocked states and provinces aren't on the water, unless you live in another universe where places like North Dakota and Alberta have places that are deep enough to carry fuel loaded ships, or are on a coastline. And in other cases, because the environuts block building pipelines to...did you guess the coastline? Well big shock on that one huh...
I'm shocked they can't turn them off. They must be able to turn them off to protect the public's privacy. As we learned in the US, if you don't then you infringe on someone's privacy when you enter their home. A simple welfare check becomes a horrible invasion of privacy.
I'm not to be honest. We've had a pilot program of the same thing going on here in Canada off and on, usually it dies and someone else tries because they're not happy with the results. Interestingly enough, in Canada you don't have a "right to privacy" in a public place. And in the case of a welfare check, your right to privacy is superseded by the need to ensure you're safe and unharmed. The simple solution would be to delete video in cases like that after a privacy officer has viewed it to ensure that it's within the bounds of the law.
It. Helps when your news syndicate isn't actively trying to screw middle class into the ground.
Know what the problem with US media is? The people in control, are also in bed with people directly in politics. In turn, people are "leaning" on the press to change the narritive to ensure that embarrassing issues for mainly Obama don't show up in the press. This is shown very finely, when US political issues are explained succinctly in the media in other countries, like Canada, UK and Japan. As an interesting note though, I've noticed that most people in the US trust the media less then they trust the police. And viewership and circulation are way, way, way down across the board.
So they're killing themselves, and think they're doing a good job all the while involved in an echo chamber and living in a world of groupthink.
To what do you attribute this rare form of sanity?
Nothing rare about it up here over the last oh 10 years. We have a government that listens to people when they make noise. It's odd because for quite a long time, people were exceptionally silent on all issues. Canada being modeled after the UK in pretty much all things, there's a heavy inherent trust of the government "doing the right things." That changed during the Chretien government with the sponsorship scandal, and it's only accelerated.
What I do find odd is that 15ish years ago in the US, the same held true. Now, people are afraid of offending someone with their points of view because they might be called a racist or something else. Political correctness has gutted people standing up down in the US, and up here people have simply had enough of it. Probably take a few more years in the US before the same happens.
I appears they are relatively recent arrivals to Canada. What's the viewership levels like there, do you by chance have a feel for that?
If recent you mean that they've been on the air here for over a decade I guess so. But since it's only on the "pay" end for viewership or part of a news package, I couldn't tell you. None of the providers really offer that info up even with their quarterly reports. If however it wasn't profitable, it wouldn't be carried...that's usually how it works up here. It would have been replaced by something else.
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Oh look you're throwing a hissy fit. Well that's fine. Let's see, doing a quick search I can see 500+ mods for dark souls alone. And while that's not anything on say skyrim(50k+ mods), that's beside the point. As a useful tip: Those "mod tools" are the same "development tools" that were used to create the game. It's only in very rare cases such as ME/DA2/etc where people make their own tools. Or much like when I was younger and we had to make our own tools for 2da files.
As for those tools being "free" well actually they are. And worked at a real job? How nice of you to go back to insults, and if a game doesn't have mod tools it's because of laziness, or because the publisher doesn't want them to do it. See DA2.
It's that modding modern games is simply more difficult, because the games are more complex. Sure, a company can spend the time and effort to produce good mod tools, but that's not necessarily a good business decision.
Really? Odd that modding in skyrim isn't really all that more difficult, or even complex. Or Dragon Age: Origins, how about xcom? New Vegas/FO3? Dark Souls, or NWN/2? The witcher games? Come on, it's not a franchise selling issue it's a laziness issue. And would have CoH2 sold better if it had modding support? Well...yes. Generally games that have open support for modding, have a longer shelf-life, and make more money in the long run especially games that milk the DLC train. A more recent example would be Saints Row 3/4 right? There's no steam workshop support, but there are tools, mods and no shortage of goodies. With developers answering questions on items, much like with the REDkit, and back before Bioware was bought by EA, you could find the developers doing the same. Notice that one? No mod support for their games since EA came along...
Well steam is DRM, but you can and are able to mod many of the games there without a problem. The problem though isn't so much the DRM in cases, it's the publishers/parent company throwing a hissy fit.
Oh the irony of that post.
Iraq, a war for oil. No american companies operating in Iraq extracting oil. They're european, russian and chinese. Logic, not exactly strong here.
Really, considering the quality of drivers out of nvidia for the last year I'm glad I switched to ATI. I think it started around the nvidia 302.xx series, where the mass lockups began and the nvidia forums(before they were hacked) that had the 480k post thread with 1m+ views for TDR's. Then it was the crashing with firefox, that lasted from the 302's right up to the 320's. It only got worse about the time the 310's or 315's rolled around and the drivers were causing hardlocks across all 400,500,600 series cards. And I think it was right around the 308's where the complaints got so bad that nvidia was willing to pay shipping costs for anyone in the continental US to have their rigs sent to California so they could try to find out why the TDR problem was so rampant.
I haven't heard anything good on the state of nvidia drivers, if I have a complaint about ATI drivers is that some programs are bit more sluggish compared to my nvidia card, but I'll take the stability over the TDR, TDR, TDR, TDR, TDR, TDR. And sadly it wasn't one card(had a 400, and two 560 series cards), and one configuration, or even one power supply or a particular CPU in my case. It was across AMD, Intel, various ram speeds, paired, non-paired, different PSU's, and machines in more than one physical location.
My general policy has been to flip-flop every generation and go nvidia to ati and back again. But the last series of drivers pissed me off to no end that I dumped them for ATI, and Matrox didn't go anywhere they're still making video cards only on the business end though. The problem of course is much like the CPU business right? Remember the days of Cyrix, AMD, Intel? Well it was a case of hardware pushing so fast that not all of the companies could keep up. Same deal happened in the videocard market.
I test drove 2013 impalla, there was no aux in on the stereo, no ad2p for the Bluetooth that, and the sales guy was like, but OnStar and xm radio are great.
There's an aux-in, it's either in the centre console or in the glovebox. And it'll always be where the SD card is for the map data. As for ad2p, I don't know of many cars that have it today.
Oh...this shit again.
I remember back in grade 3(the '80's), they went on and on and on and fucking on. About how everything under 100m above sea level would be under water by 2010. I should see if I can find the "work books" that were given to us as kids back then. As I sit here, that 100m sea level increase still hasn't happened. This of course went along with the "there won't be any trees here in north america" of course we have more trees now than 300 years ago. That there would be no rain forests, odd they're still there. The sahara desert will cover all of africa, odd it seems to be shrinking. I'm sure I'm forgetting a dozen other things too.
I really need to find those books/texts/worksheets, scan them, and post them online.
Hey mods, this is a reasonable enough statement. Modding it troll is in bad taste. If you disagree, respond to it and say why you think it's wrong.
Of course it's a reasonable statement, modding my post a troll is as a fine example of what's wrong with /. as much as reddit. People who mod it such are intellectual cowards who can't actually respond.
Care to read reddit? Stop being so kind, at least 4chan has something of value, it might be insanity with a dose of madness but it still has more value than reddit.
I'm sorry, have you seen Chromefox 29?
> And if they do, it'll take them 3-4 revisions to get there before some genius who majored in art got their hands on it.
Hell I gave up and switched to thunderbird to get my emails. At least I know mozilla with any luck won't piss all over a simple UI. And if they do, it'll take them 3-4 revisions to get there before some genius who majored in art got their hands on it. Gmail's UI, along with their constant redesigns for searches, are getting as bad as the whole ribbon UI that MS started slapping in everywhere.
In my book the basic UI is pretty much done. And the reason is, we're on a flat screen surface. There's only so far you can go in simplicity. What they're doing now is trying to justify their place within the company while making statements that "people want change, and change is good." While making simple things more difficult to accomplish and trying to justify it as even easier.
Oh come on now. People like that already know that they're superior to everyone else, that's why they can immediately break down into ad-homs, insults, and all the rest instead of going with rational arguments. Even your low-information voter has finally caught that one, and people wonder why belief in "global warming" is dropping like a rock in terms of support to do anything? No one likes chicken little, and people dislike bullies even more.
You know, people have tried that. They were called racists and colonialists, right now in society it's a no-win scenario because every time *insert* tries to do something to uplift humanity, that needs a hand. There's some brain dead idiot out there screaming that "they're doing it to *insert insane reason.*" You know, much like the eradication of polio, after all that's just a myth. It's really a clever plot to make people sterile.
I say to hell with the lot of them, let them enjoy their polio, starvation, and diseases if they don't want help. One of two things will happen, they'll either get their shit together and want to do something. Or they'll kill themselves off and save everyone from their own stupidity. Personal note: I've done my bit traveling this rock trying to save people from their own stupidity, and living 700 years in the past. It's not worth the effort at this point, not unless people, governments, or groups are willing to get their hands dirty to do it.
Wait wait wait..... You sold parts needed to scrap nuclear missiles to the general public?
Hmm... seems that everyone needs to have some high-adrenaline hobby nowadays....
Sure. Don't you know that the stuff to scrap nuclear missiles is used in the manufacturing sector quite often, any machine shop or mill will be using the same tools. There isn't anything earth shattering regarding this. The difference is, certification.
I used aircraft parts as an example, and the likelyhood that the correct parts are made on the same assembly lines in China as the 30 cent Walmart versions is vanishingly small.
Actually the chances of them being made on the same assembly line is pretty high. The difference of course is that the line that has to "have" the certification, they'll use a higher grade material and take random samples for stress testing to ensure that it's right. They may even go as far as x-raying the materials before it goes through processing, and after to look for material defects.
I used to work in heavy industry back oh 15 years ago now. The stuff we sold went to the US military, and was used for scraping your ICBM's(particularly the minutemans). Everything had to be checked like that before it went out, but the differences were trivial in terms of what we sold to the general public and what went to the military.
I thought it was "burning" with a side of "getting screwed over." Though not quite as strong in the flavor and smell as government based colognes.
I will tell you we don't want it here unless you can route it around environmentally sensitive areas like the sand hills and the Ogallala aquifer
You realize there's so many in-use pipelines in both those areas now it would boggle your mind right? And besides that, they already said they'd route around it if that would make people happy and the environuts are still throwing a hissy fit over it.
The whole Lac Megantic thing happened because the train lost pressure to its brakes.
Yes and no. There was a fire on the engine, the FD shut down the engine. The handbrakes according to the logs were engaged...and parts of the investigation are still on-going to determine if it was a deliberate act to derail the train.
Yea but not in *MY* back yard!
You sound like the anti-nuke nuts, there's two major oil and LNG pipelines that run through my town. And I live within 100km of the largest nuclear reactor complex in North America(Bruce Nuclear). I don't have a problem with it. The oil pipelines have been there since the 60's, and there hasn't been a problem. We've had more derailments, and people killed by trains and transport trucks than the pipeline or even the nuclear plant has killed.
So why don't they ship this oil by boat then?
Because landlocked states and provinces aren't on the water, unless you live in another universe where places like North Dakota and Alberta have places that are deep enough to carry fuel loaded ships, or are on a coastline. And in other cases, because the environuts block building pipelines to...did you guess the coastline? Well big shock on that one huh...
I'm shocked they can't turn them off. They must be able to turn them off to protect the public's privacy. As we learned in the US, if you don't then you infringe on someone's privacy when you enter their home. A simple welfare check becomes a horrible invasion of privacy.
I'm not to be honest. We've had a pilot program of the same thing going on here in Canada off and on, usually it dies and someone else tries because they're not happy with the results. Interestingly enough, in Canada you don't have a "right to privacy" in a public place. And in the case of a welfare check, your right to privacy is superseded by the need to ensure you're safe and unharmed. The simple solution would be to delete video in cases like that after a privacy officer has viewed it to ensure that it's within the bounds of the law.
It. Helps when your news syndicate isn't actively trying to screw middle class into the ground.
Know what the problem with US media is? The people in control, are also in bed with people directly in politics. In turn, people are "leaning" on the press to change the narritive to ensure that embarrassing issues for mainly Obama don't show up in the press. This is shown very finely, when US political issues are explained succinctly in the media in other countries, like Canada, UK and Japan. As an interesting note though, I've noticed that most people in the US trust the media less then they trust the police. And viewership and circulation are way, way, way down across the board.
So they're killing themselves, and think they're doing a good job all the while involved in an echo chamber and living in a world of groupthink.
To what do you attribute this rare form of sanity?
Nothing rare about it up here over the last oh 10 years. We have a government that listens to people when they make noise. It's odd because for quite a long time, people were exceptionally silent on all issues. Canada being modeled after the UK in pretty much all things, there's a heavy inherent trust of the government "doing the right things." That changed during the Chretien government with the sponsorship scandal, and it's only accelerated.
What I do find odd is that 15ish years ago in the US, the same held true. Now, people are afraid of offending someone with their points of view because they might be called a racist or something else. Political correctness has gutted people standing up down in the US, and up here people have simply had enough of it. Probably take a few more years in the US before the same happens.
I appears they are relatively recent arrivals to Canada. What's the viewership levels like there, do you by chance have a feel for that?
If recent you mean that they've been on the air here for over a decade I guess so. But since it's only on the "pay" end for viewership or part of a news package, I couldn't tell you. None of the providers really offer that info up even with their quarterly reports. If however it wasn't profitable, it wouldn't be carried...that's usually how it works up here. It would have been replaced by something else.