Smoked marijuana and fresh marijuana smell completely different. Hell, even cured and uncured smells different.
And yes, I have been searched several times under the pretense that they "smelled pot" coming from my car, even though I haven't smoked pot in 4-5 years now.
The giveaway this time? Troopers noticed an overwhelming smell of raw marijuana which gave them probable cause to search the car.
Car smells like pot, they get probably cause, they find a hide, bam, they have intent. The only thing is that I've had cops tell me my car smells like pot before when I don't even smoke pot, nor do any of my friends. They just wanted to search my vehicle. So there is that.
Play Tera. The combat system is amazing. There are a handful of lock-on skills, everything else is a skill shot. You place your attack wrong, you wiff. On the flip side of the coin, you can dodge roll and backstep most boss mobs attacks and massive AOEs. The combat system places a huge emphasis on skill, with gear level coming in second (until late game). I main a tank (Lancer) in the game, and its unlike most other tanks in games I've played. I cant just shout, grab agro, and tank and spank. I have to chain my skills with perfect timing, watching the BAM to find out what he is going to do next, and throw up my shield block before I get hit so I can absorb the damage.
Manaya's Core Hard Mode run - I love the art style they did in this game, as well. This is also by far the hardest instance in the game, even though its ilvl requirement is massively below the dungeons I run for my end game PVP gear. Anyways, I'd say check out the game. It went F2P recently, but most of the stuff you pay for is just costume stuff. The only real reason to get Elite Status is for more character/bank slots and to run twice as many in game dungeons for late game. Considering that the ones you need to run take 1-2 hours to complete, just casual playing end game you'd be fine without it. You can get instance reset scrolls dropped in game that let you go in twice a day if you want.
Fucking. This. I've been happy with T-Mobile for ages. Great service in my area, always great plans, and customer support is amazing. I got some weird charge one time for some service that apparently my friend activated on my phone (T-Mobile TV), and I told them I had no idea that I did it, so they gave me the two month retroactive refund on the service ($24 credit) on my next bill. I got my last bill checked out by someone in store when I went to upgrade, and he looked at my usage and threw me on some plan that wasn't exactly advertised. I pay $70/month ($20/month is the fee for the phone sub) for 500 anytime minutes (I never use my phone during peak hours) unlimited talk, text, and uncapped data at full 4G speeds (no tethering). They are by far one of the best companies I've had for cell service.
Oh, and I always get someone in Georgia when I call their support line. Always a plus.
Besides the fact that there are 4 contact mobile companies and 5 non contact mobile companies that service where I live, whereas I have 2 providers for internet - TWC and Verizon. I have been happy with Verizon. I always get the speed I pay for, and then didn't bitch when I downloaded my 400gb steam library after a hard drive died.
For someone who 'steals', isn't it odd that my steam account is worth $1790 (Note: This does not include my Origin/GoG/Humble Bundle purchases)? The fact that game companies break their own software when I use a certain set of tools that have a legitimate use is robbery on their part. They used to go out of their way to punish people like me. Now that I get almost everything through Steam, I no longer have to deal with that problem (though the GTA 4 SecuROM no license bug was a bitch when it was launched - and THAT required a crack to play). But please, go on and keep making assumptions about me.
DRM is pointless. It's cracked within a dayour two the games release. Before I had steam, there were countless games I had that freaked out about daemon tools. I used it because I was a careless kid and scratched up CDs. It was nice to always have the.iso incase the disc couldn't read. I had to paste a few games just to get them to work. DRM only punishes paying consumers, not pirates.
I learned causality from gaming early on, I didn't learn it from my parents. I was unsupervised from 14 going on (with very lax supervision) when I was 10. I got into drugs... 'responsibly'. I never let them take over my life and interfere with me being a normal person. His real life is due to his poor decisions, not due to his parents lack of supervision. I turned out fine.
At 16, how were you able to get meth and sell it for sexual favors without repaying the guy for meth? If you make up stories, try to make them believable. Seriously, as someone who was exposed to some weird shit when they were younger, and I was getting stoned and spending most of my class time getting drunk in high school. After highschool I got heavily into RCs, MDMA, and other designer drugs. Guess what? I was able to still run my own side business, go to school, and hold a full time job. I was never really supervised after I turned 14. All I fail to see is someone who really lacked focus in their life. Mine wasn't given to me by my parents, I just wanted that bank. I saw that being a total fuckup like the people I hung out with in HS was going to lead me nowhere fast, so I broke away from them to make it for myself. Maybe I'm different, but if I was getting laid by my friends mom to fuel her drug habit, I'd be looking down that road and wondering if I really wanted to take that. Maybe you were just too weak minded to have that foresight. Or maybe it was games teaching me early on that if I fuck up now and screw off, its going to be a long and painful path to the end boss.
Fair enough on the first point. Maybe its just me, but majority of the people I hang out with do own XBox 360s. I have a fringe few that have PS3s, but I do understand that my sample size does no reflect on the situation as a whole. The original point was more so about Fighting Games being better on consoles, and I was just pointing out that its a specialized controller for people who even take it remotely seriously, and honestly, most people who play fighting games do it on a 360. Since I hang out with mostly guys I used to hang out with at the local arcade, that probably would explain the bias to having 360s and wired 360 controllers.
I wouldn't have the stats on hand about update, but one thing that I would say is this - If you're anything like me, you would have tons of spare parts laying around. You know, the "just in case" fallback after you upgraded. I actually built a secondary rig for TV gaming out of spare parts accumulated over the past 2 years of upgrades. I'm not sure about the state of PCs today, but I was under the impression that most people enjoyed building their rigs. It was their pride and joy. It was part of the experience that came with PC gaming. Doing so and upgrading to keep current will leave you with a trail of parts to build a secondary PC. The only thing I really had to buy for the rig was a 7770HD due to the old 6870 burned out (OC experiment gone wrong). So thats about $120 spent on a system that basically works as a full home theater system. All the apartment's music, movies, MAME/Taito Type X2/Misc. emulators, and steam accounts were on that rig. I think that people look at it as "I need to build a new system" rather than "Lets re purpose all the old parts that we have laying around".
It just happens that (from a sample size of a large group of friends) that we all own 360s and PCs. We switch between both, so we have the controllers laying around. They are mostly wired due to us being cheap (they run $25-30 new Vs. 50 for a wireless) and we are all broke college students. On the topic of the fighting games, it would fall into "Specialized Controller." Playing with a KB setup is just near as terrible as with a gamepad. Even the specialized '6 button fighting layout' - where there are 6 buttons for your thumb, not 4 - controllers for 360 are wired. Most 'serious' players like me buy controllers for these games. Just like you buy a flightstick for a flight simulator. The DDR/Rock Band point is moot - The base models of all those games COME with the controllers, therefore are the LCD for the game controller input. Its the update packs or new music packs that do not come with the controller. The flight stick rarely comes with the flight simulator.
Just a quick list of games I play that have XInput support (well implemented) - Hell Yeah!, Jet Grind Radio, Rhythm Destruction [PC Exclusive/Indie], CaveStory +, Waves [PC Exclusive/Indie], Beat Hazard [99% Sure PC Exclusive], Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, Any racing game out since 2008, Strike Suit Infinity/Strike Suit Zero [PC Exclusive/Indie], Tera [PC Exclusive/MMORPG], Skullgirls, SSF4AC, Street Fighter X Tekken, Serious Sam DD, Any Source Engine game, almost every console port (Mass Effect series, Dead Space series, etc.), Hotline Miami. Those are just the games that I have in my steam library/own. For the racing games, I own the whole series for: NFS, Grid, and DiRT.
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Xinput support is very much alive and well with PC gaming right now. The whole point of Big Picture Mode with Steam is about playing on your couch with a controller.
There are no wireless fightsticks for Xbox 360 (well, any worth using). And Windows has amazing 360 support. Its on par with a 360. Any game that says "Gamepad Supported" really means "Xbox 360 Controller Use Only" due to it using xinput (the API for using a 360 controller with DX). Everything 'Just Works' with a 360 controller on Windows 8 (Win7 requires a driver install). You are aware that they make wired 360 controllers with USB, correct, and that they are decently common? I have one sitting on my desk right now as we speak.
Whats the difference between testing KBM input versus a 360 controller input anyways? Its all just instructions sent to the application to run. The only thing you would have really test would be the analog support, but then that is covered by anyone who owns a joystick. Its like telling me that they "Deprioritize" play testing Microsoft Fight Simulation 2000 with a flight stick and throttle because it doesn't ship with a PC. It it works better with a certain input device, majority of the devs will test with it. Either that, or they are idiots.
As someone with a large MAME and Taito X2 emulators, I beg to differ. I also play Skullgirls and SSF4AC on my PC with a 360 arcade stick (Hori RAC Pro 2 and a Mad Catz TE). Any 360 controller works on PC, so I fail to see why it's better consoles.
I use Sony V700s for DJing. They are loud, push lots of bass, and comfy as hell. And they are $100. For live shows, I use Allen and Heath Xone XD53s. A bit more bass, unnecessarily loud, but are uncomfortable on a large head for longer than an hour. Oh, and they are $200.
Expecting government entities to do their homework on this stuff seems a bit... Unlikely. I was thinking too narrowly minded and was thinking Ubuntu as not as large of a distro due to only thinking about servers as opposed to desktops.
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here - Ubuntu is the release of Linux that is not necessarily meant for the most tech savvy users, and it may not be as closed monitored as other, more security focused Linux distributions. It may be easier to get something passed everyone since people aren't watching it as closely. That's not saying it can't be caught, but that it might take longer to find.
On the other hand, someone that makes systems meant for spying probably has a firm grasp on security systems and how to protect against them (due to being the nature of the breaches). It could be viewed as something good. I reserve judgement on this issue until the person has shown to be trustworthy or not. Its a moot point though, as I run Linux Mint on all my machines running Linux.
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Smoked marijuana and fresh marijuana smell completely different. Hell, even cured and uncured smells different.
And yes, I have been searched several times under the pretense that they "smelled pot" coming from my car, even though I haven't smoked pot in 4-5 years now.
The giveaway this time? Troopers noticed an overwhelming smell of raw marijuana which gave them probable cause to search the car.
Car smells like pot, they get probably cause, they find a hide, bam, they have intent. The only thing is that I've had cops tell me my car smells like pot before when I don't even smoke pot, nor do any of my friends. They just wanted to search my vehicle. So there is that.
The giveaway this time? Troopers noticed an overwhelming smell of raw marijuana which gave them probable cause to search the car.
Play Tera. The combat system is amazing. There are a handful of lock-on skills, everything else is a skill shot. You place your attack wrong, you wiff. On the flip side of the coin, you can dodge roll and backstep most boss mobs attacks and massive AOEs. The combat system places a huge emphasis on skill, with gear level coming in second (until late game). I main a tank (Lancer) in the game, and its unlike most other tanks in games I've played. I cant just shout, grab agro, and tank and spank. I have to chain my skills with perfect timing, watching the BAM to find out what he is going to do next, and throw up my shield block before I get hit so I can absorb the damage.
Manaya's Core Hard Mode run - I love the art style they did in this game, as well. This is also by far the hardest instance in the game, even though its ilvl requirement is massively below the dungeons I run for my end game PVP gear. Anyways, I'd say check out the game. It went F2P recently, but most of the stuff you pay for is just costume stuff. The only real reason to get Elite Status is for more character/bank slots and to run twice as many in game dungeons for late game. Considering that the ones you need to run take 1-2 hours to complete, just casual playing end game you'd be fine without it. You can get instance reset scrolls dropped in game that let you go in twice a day if you want.
You know Mario just hit 25 only a few years ago, correct?
At that point, why not just buy a handheld gaming system?
Fucking. This. I've been happy with T-Mobile for ages. Great service in my area, always great plans, and customer support is amazing. I got some weird charge one time for some service that apparently my friend activated on my phone (T-Mobile TV), and I told them I had no idea that I did it, so they gave me the two month retroactive refund on the service ($24 credit) on my next bill. I got my last bill checked out by someone in store when I went to upgrade, and he looked at my usage and threw me on some plan that wasn't exactly advertised. I pay $70/month ($20/month is the fee for the phone sub) for 500 anytime minutes (I never use my phone during peak hours) unlimited talk, text, and uncapped data at full 4G speeds (no tethering). They are by far one of the best companies I've had for cell service.
Oh, and I always get someone in Georgia when I call their support line. Always a plus.
Besides the fact that there are 4 contact mobile companies and 5 non contact mobile companies that service where I live, whereas I have 2 providers for internet - TWC and Verizon. I have been happy with Verizon. I always get the speed I pay for, and then didn't bitch when I downloaded my 400gb steam library after a hard drive died.
The fact that you keep calling me a thief even though I never said I didn't pirate anything that I didn't own, and now by dodging the question above.
Great trolling, you got me... But on the off chance you are not trolling, I ask you this.
How is it stealing if Im pirating a copy of a game that I own so that I can play it?
For someone who 'steals', isn't it odd that my steam account is worth $1790 (Note: This does not include my Origin/GoG/Humble Bundle purchases)? The fact that game companies break their own software when I use a certain set of tools that have a legitimate use is robbery on their part. They used to go out of their way to punish people like me. Now that I get almost everything through Steam, I no longer have to deal with that problem (though the GTA 4 SecuROM no license bug was a bitch when it was launched - and THAT required a crack to play). But please, go on and keep making assumptions about me.
DRM is pointless. It's cracked within a dayour two the games release. Before I had steam, there were countless games I had that freaked out about daemon tools. I used it because I was a careless kid and scratched up CDs. It was nice to always have the .iso incase the disc couldn't read. I had to paste a few games just to get them to work. DRM only punishes paying consumers, not pirates.
I learned causality from gaming early on, I didn't learn it from my parents. I was unsupervised from 14 going on (with very lax supervision) when I was 10. I got into drugs... 'responsibly'. I never let them take over my life and interfere with me being a normal person. His real life is due to his poor decisions, not due to his parents lack of supervision. I turned out fine.
At 16, how were you able to get meth and sell it for sexual favors without repaying the guy for meth? If you make up stories, try to make them believable. Seriously, as someone who was exposed to some weird shit when they were younger, and I was getting stoned and spending most of my class time getting drunk in high school. After highschool I got heavily into RCs, MDMA, and other designer drugs. Guess what? I was able to still run my own side business, go to school, and hold a full time job. I was never really supervised after I turned 14. All I fail to see is someone who really lacked focus in their life. Mine wasn't given to me by my parents, I just wanted that bank. I saw that being a total fuckup like the people I hung out with in HS was going to lead me nowhere fast, so I broke away from them to make it for myself. Maybe I'm different, but if I was getting laid by my friends mom to fuel her drug habit, I'd be looking down that road and wondering if I really wanted to take that. Maybe you were just too weak minded to have that foresight. Or maybe it was games teaching me early on that if I fuck up now and screw off, its going to be a long and painful path to the end boss.
The samefag is strong with this one. Seriously AC posting to another AC about how its "thread over" Nice try AC. Nice try.
Fair enough on the first point. Maybe its just me, but majority of the people I hang out with do own XBox 360s. I have a fringe few that have PS3s, but I do understand that my sample size does no reflect on the situation as a whole. The original point was more so about Fighting Games being better on consoles, and I was just pointing out that its a specialized controller for people who even take it remotely seriously, and honestly, most people who play fighting games do it on a 360. Since I hang out with mostly guys I used to hang out with at the local arcade, that probably would explain the bias to having 360s and wired 360 controllers.
I wouldn't have the stats on hand about update, but one thing that I would say is this - If you're anything like me, you would have tons of spare parts laying around. You know, the "just in case" fallback after you upgraded. I actually built a secondary rig for TV gaming out of spare parts accumulated over the past 2 years of upgrades. I'm not sure about the state of PCs today, but I was under the impression that most people enjoyed building their rigs. It was their pride and joy. It was part of the experience that came with PC gaming. Doing so and upgrading to keep current will leave you with a trail of parts to build a secondary PC. The only thing I really had to buy for the rig was a 7770HD due to the old 6870 burned out (OC experiment gone wrong). So thats about $120 spent on a system that basically works as a full home theater system. All the apartment's music, movies, MAME/Taito Type X2/Misc. emulators, and steam accounts were on that rig. I think that people look at it as "I need to build a new system" rather than "Lets re purpose all the old parts that we have laying around".
For clarification - Well implemented to me means I plug the damn thing in and it works. Zero configuration needed.
It just happens that (from a sample size of a large group of friends) that we all own 360s and PCs. We switch between both, so we have the controllers laying around. They are mostly wired due to us being cheap (they run $25-30 new Vs. 50 for a wireless) and we are all broke college students. On the topic of the fighting games, it would fall into "Specialized Controller." Playing with a KB setup is just near as terrible as with a gamepad. Even the specialized '6 button fighting layout' - where there are 6 buttons for your thumb, not 4 - controllers for 360 are wired. Most 'serious' players like me buy controllers for these games. Just like you buy a flightstick for a flight simulator. The DDR/Rock Band point is moot - The base models of all those games COME with the controllers, therefore are the LCD for the game controller input. Its the update packs or new music packs that do not come with the controller. The flight stick rarely comes with the flight simulator.
Just a quick list of games I play that have XInput support (well implemented) - Hell Yeah!, Jet Grind Radio, Rhythm Destruction [PC Exclusive/Indie], CaveStory +, Waves [PC Exclusive/Indie], Beat Hazard [99% Sure PC Exclusive], Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, Any racing game out since 2008, Strike Suit Infinity/Strike Suit Zero [PC Exclusive/Indie], Tera [PC Exclusive/MMORPG], Skullgirls, SSF4AC, Street Fighter X Tekken, Serious Sam DD, Any Source Engine game, almost every console port (Mass Effect series, Dead Space series, etc.), Hotline Miami. Those are just the games that I have in my steam library/own. For the racing games, I own the whole series for: NFS, Grid, and DiRT.
. Xinput support is very much alive and well with PC gaming right now. The whole point of Big Picture Mode with Steam is about playing on your couch with a controller.
There are no wireless fightsticks for Xbox 360 (well, any worth using). And Windows has amazing 360 support. Its on par with a 360. Any game that says "Gamepad Supported" really means "Xbox 360 Controller Use Only" due to it using xinput (the API for using a 360 controller with DX). Everything 'Just Works' with a 360 controller on Windows 8 (Win7 requires a driver install). You are aware that they make wired 360 controllers with USB, correct, and that they are decently common? I have one sitting on my desk right now as we speak.
Whats the difference between testing KBM input versus a 360 controller input anyways? Its all just instructions sent to the application to run. The only thing you would have really test would be the analog support, but then that is covered by anyone who owns a joystick. Its like telling me that they "Deprioritize" play testing Microsoft Fight Simulation 2000 with a flight stick and throttle because it doesn't ship with a PC. It it works better with a certain input device, majority of the devs will test with it. Either that, or they are idiots.
As someone with a large MAME and Taito X2 emulators, I beg to differ. I also play Skullgirls and SSF4AC on my PC with a 360 arcade stick (Hori RAC Pro 2 and a Mad Catz TE). Any 360 controller works on PC, so I fail to see why it's better consoles.
I use Sony V700s for DJing. They are loud, push lots of bass, and comfy as hell. And they are $100. For live shows, I use Allen and Heath Xone XD53s. A bit more bass, unnecessarily loud, but are uncomfortable on a large head for longer than an hour. Oh, and they are $200.
Replying to undo mod points. Didn't mean to hit troll.
Did not know that, thanks for the heads up. Maybe its time to switch distros.
Expecting government entities to do their homework on this stuff seems a bit... Unlikely. I was thinking too narrowly minded and was thinking Ubuntu as not as large of a distro due to only thinking about servers as opposed to desktops.
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here - Ubuntu is the release of Linux that is not necessarily meant for the most tech savvy users, and it may not be as closed monitored as other, more security focused Linux distributions. It may be easier to get something passed everyone since people aren't watching it as closely. That's not saying it can't be caught, but that it might take longer to find.
On the other hand, someone that makes systems meant for spying probably has a firm grasp on security systems and how to protect against them (due to being the nature of the breaches). It could be viewed as something good. I reserve judgement on this issue until the person has shown to be trustworthy or not. Its a moot point though, as I run Linux Mint on all my machines running Linux.