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  1. In Sto-vo-kor there is no beer on Klingon Beer · · Score: 1

    That's why we drink it here!

  2. Re:only 5.5%!?! on Klingon Beer · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean the one where the Klingons looked like sad rejects from the late Beatnik period?

    Personally, I always liked Voltaire's description:

    What is with the Klingons? Remember in the day
    They looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold lame.

  3. Re:Fork? on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 1

    MS-DOS for Linux? Mac? It can finally happen!

    To quote Londo Mollari, "I can only assume that you have not been paying attention!"

  4. Good for Jimmy on Jimmy Carter: Snowden Disclosures Are 'Good For Americans To Know' · · Score: 1

    He's wrong about a lot of things, and he was a terrible President, but I've always thought he was a fairly decent guy. Good for him.

  5. Re:Freeze Your Credit on Big Data Breaches Give Credit Monitoring Services a Boost · · Score: 1

    A credit freeze is only good IF the company issuing credit actually checks.

    I would think you'd have legal recourse against a creditor dunning you for debts issued while you had a credit freeze in place.

  6. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    GMO food is either harmless just a quicker form of breading

    You shouldn't be eating fried foods anyways.

  7. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 0

    I dont know that thats 100% accurate, there are a couple of "legit" "alternative" medicines that we just havent finished studying, but may be proven to be effective.

    And when (and if) they are proven to be effective, they will cease to be "alernative medicine" and become "medicine."

  8. Re:Journalists usually have a hidden agenda... on In the Unverified Digital World, Are Journalists and Bloggers Equal? · · Score: 1

    Once they were occupied by Russian troops, you better believe they'd vote to join Russia. I'd vote to join Russia too if I had a Russian soldier standing next to me. Kosovo, of course, wasn't occupied by any foreign troops.

  9. Re:Journalists usually have a hidden agenda... on In the Unverified Digital World, Are Journalists and Bloggers Equal? · · Score: 1

    No one raised a finger when Kosovo was carving itself out of Yugoslavia.

    And there's your difference. Kosovo carved *itself* out of Yugoslavia. *Russia* carved the Crimea out of Ukraine.

  10. I've got their title on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 1

    They can call it "Limits to Growth"!

  11. Re:"You might not remember Final Fantasy XIV" on Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, they never got rid of the "character" level, whose sole purpose was granting "bonus" attribute points.

    Nope, "physical levels" were abolished in patch 1.19, which went live on Sept. 29. 2011. That was a big patch; it included true induction into a Grand Company (before 1.19, you could only be a recruit), Ifrit became the first Primal fight released, the first beastman strongholds, Kobolds and Amal'jaa, were opened, airship service was started, chocobos were introduced, XP chaining was introduced, battle regimens (which never worked, as far as I can tell) were eliminated, and the materia system was introduced. Really, 1.19 was when FFXIV became worth playing. They still needed to fix the overall engine, requiring the relaunch to 2.0 (and they did a complete revamp for 2.0 besides that as well), but 1.19 was, in my opinion, when FFXIV was fixed.

  12. Re:"You might not remember Final Fantasy XIV" on Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it had a lot of problems. One I haven't heard mentioned much yet (possibly because it got patched away within a few months after release) was the wonky experience system. You literally couldn't figure out how to level your character.

  13. Re:Easy potshots != thoughtful analysis on Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots · · Score: 1

    It's easy to shit on the graphic artists, but were they in charge of the gameplay?

    He's not. The detail with which backgrounds are going to be rendered isn't decided by the graphic artists. Or, at least, it shouldn't be. If it was, then the fault *still* isn't the graphic artists', but the management's who assigned the wrong people to the job.

  14. Re: Maybe there's also another reason? on Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots · · Score: 1

    FF7 for the PC was a direct port. It came out a little bit after the Playstation version.

    I've never playied the PC port myself, but I hear it's quite bad. Very buggy.

  15. Re:Don't buy it then on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    I think he's not so concerned about offensive video games as about offensive video gamers, and what the games themselves might be able to do about that.

  16. Re:Regional delay on Is This the End of Splitscreen Multiplayer, Or the Start of Its Rebirth? · · Score: 1

    It also depends on whether you group the TurboGrafx-16 with the NES or with the Super NES.

    Not really. The TurboGrafx-16 was indeed the first of the fourth generation, but from the TurboGrafx-16 to the Atari Jaguar was still only six years (1987 to 1993).

  17. Re:Early 8-bit consoles on Is This the End of Splitscreen Multiplayer, Or the Start of Its Rebirth? · · Score: 1

    Was it longer than the second generation, which started with the Atari 2600 and ended with the NES?

    Yep.

    From the Atari 2600 to the NES was six years (1977 to 1983). From the Xbox 360 to the Wii U was seven years (2005 to 2012).

  18. Re:This has gone beyond madness on Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    A deadlocked security council can't block the general assembly's ability to issue "recommendations". The GA can't vote to do anything real under this provision.

  19. Re:Let me guess... on DirectX 12 Promises Lower-level Hardware Access On Multiple Platforms · · Score: 2

    DX10/11 couldn't force Vista on people. DX12 is even less likely to force Windows 8 on people.

  20. Re:Let me guess... on DirectX 12 Promises Lower-level Hardware Access On Multiple Platforms · · Score: 2

    XP had majority market share when DX10/11 were launched.

    And virtually every game released after that supported DX9 until Windows 7 got traction. And a lot of them even after that.

  21. Re:This has gone beyond madness on Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    The vote has to pass before the US is out, and the vote doesn't pass if the US vetos it. So the US isn't voted out.

  22. Re: Birds can be vicious buggers on 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest · · Score: 1

    I'm 48 and sniggering.

    14 year olds come in all age ranges.

  23. Chickens from Hell? on 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest · · Score: 1

    If they're anything like Pigeons from Hell, we're all screwed.

  24. Re:Y'know what would be awesome? on Unreal Engine 4 Launching With Full Source Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could call it Quake!

  25. Re:To be fair... on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    But how many different makers of multimeters are there? A few dozen? Probably not as a many as a few hundred. You're not going to even come close to running out of easily distinguished colors.