I got the joke, but I still felt compelled to point it out. I don't really see any difference in prices now compared to what they would have been a couple of years ago.. you guys still seem to get most things cheaper.
Damnit, so there really is no point to me levelling up (apart from when missions require it). Still, I think I've done my stats okay, and my improved equipment is still helping things to get easier overall. I had assumed that some of the monsters in the Shivering Isles were more difficult to kill because they were a higher level, but it's probably more that I should start using magic effects on my weapons to take out enemies (usually I just slog it out with my axe and shield).
They could, but people wouldn't pay. I've actually re-bought a couple of old games that I already own because they were so cheap, well worth it. Annoying that I can't transfer my old save game though, I should probably look into accessories for ripping PS1 memory cards..
You level up when you achieve a certain amount of points on your major skills.. seems fine to me, no worse than "kill 100 of these mobs for enough XP to level up".
Yep I got the Platinum GOTY edition. I had assumed that the expansion was available on the store and that I'd buy it later, but it seems you can't even get it on the store.
Wow, I've just checked the price and it's only £10 on Amazon these days.. that's less than you'd expect an expansion pack to cost anyway so worth it even for people who bought the original . That's got to be the best value for money on a new game, ever.
I got Oblivion on PS3 (including the expansion pack) for £12.. it has literally hundreds of hours of gameplay (I've done ~33 hours so far on a warrior, my character is at level 17/25, I've done hardly any story mission, and I would really like to go back and play the game again as a mage and then maybe a thief or something). If you can be patient then you can get really good deals.
Half-Life 2 episodic content usually costs less than half of a full game, and you can get plenty of cheap-ish games off of the various consoles' online stores.. I don't think we're going to see the big games getting much more expensive, but we are seeing a lot of smaller games or older emulated games at cheaper prices.
Mirrors Edge I can agree with, but you enjoyed the single player on MW2? Sheesh.. the multiplayer is definitely fun, but I found the single player way too linear, scripted and contrived feeling for the most part. I used to play a lot of FPSes on PC so I'm not impressed by a lot of the offerings these days.
If you enjoyed the MW2 single player then I really recommend getting the original Battlefield: Bad Company (not BC2, it was almost as bad as MW2), it has a less linear feeling (though of course it's still very linear), and has a great sense of humour.
GTA IV I enjoyed but for the damn "friends" texting you all the time to get you to do stuff. Even when you put your phone on silent mode you still get thumbs down from them every so often in the corner. I'm the type of person that likes to overachieve in games so I can't stand that kinda thing.. in GTA games I've always spent a lot of time just roaming the city and having fun, but I don't like the idea that doing that means that when I want to get back to the story I'll have to start going out on mandates and dates with my friends and gfs just to get all the bonuses back. I find it difficult enough to remember to do stuff with my friends in real life without having to keep up with virtual friends too:/ I didn't even complete the game, it's the first GTA that I didn't bother with all the way through, and then play for a few weeks/months more just having fun with the vehicles and exploring for hidden packages etc.
MGS4 is another game I've stopped playing after a couple of weekends even though I was enjoying it.. it's not so much the length of the game that puts me off, as the length of individual missions. It's not the sort of thing I feel that I can just save halfway through a mission (I can't even remember if you can do this or if you do whether it'll mean you have to re-do portions of the game), so I felt that if I were to play it again I'd need to devote something like a 4 hour session to it..
I wouldn't say I've felt this. I'm level 17 and haven't really done any grinding so far, I just keep getting reminders to go sleep every so often when I'm not expecting it:P I've just been doing side missions and wandering around exploring (which does necessitate killing a few mobs just to stay alive of course), and very occasionally doing some story missions - I only have a couple of pieces of the Crusader's Relics and 3 Oblivion gates under my belt. At the weekend I discovered my copy of the game has the Shivering Isles in it, didn't realise the PS3 version had it built in - it only cost £12 new as well! Great game:)
Are you not allowed to update D4X for personal use? Of course, making something that other people can use is always nice and saves someone else going through the same hassle.
This makes me wonder: why are you loading all of your software on boot? Also, you could probably make use of hibernation to speed things up.
My machine does in fact boot up to the login screen in 10 seconds, Ubuntu 10.10 from an SSD:) Another 10 or so seconds (including loading up some extra apps I've installed) to a usable desktop, and that's with only a 1.6Ghz Atom..
I thought the only 2 choices for HTML5 were Theora or H.264? And the whole point would be that doing this would drop IE's marketshare "a fucking lot", which was my whole point. It's pretty anti-competitive, but it would be funny to see Microsoft on the receiving end of their own tactics to get rid of that godawful browser.
I kinda see this as an advantage - Google could simply serve up Youtube videos in OGG Theora format only, and if you try to visit it in IE9 it could say "we're sorry, your browser doesn't seem to properly support web standards, try one of these instead.."
You call yourself a "victim". Unless you are claiming that this woman raped you, then you're not a victim and you're not "unlucky".
He could have been the first victim - she could easily have been on the pill for a while and then stopped taking it, or just pretended she was all along.. could say that was his fault for having unprotected sex, but if you were trying for a serious relationship then not trusting your gf over such a thing isn't really a great start.. plus condoms suck, and not in a good way.
I asked, and got told to FO. For the tiny amount of money involved it would waste much more of my time than the value that I'd get back from the refund. I'm finally starting to dislike Sony as much as most other Slashdotters. Previously I'd thought that the gaming division was pretty good even if the rest was run by morons.. but no longer.
But I don't use IE (in fact I never even use Windows these days unless I'm doing IT support), I was just saying why some people might prefer to stick with IE6 if Windows updates to IE7 automatically and they don't know of any alternatives
Nah, IE 7 and 8 look like ass. I'd much prefer to look at 6 if I had to choose between the design of the three of them. I had thought at first that I didn't like IE 7 because of the menu arrangements, but Chrome's menu system is similar and I like it fine. So really it's just the sheer amount of wasted space and overall fugliness of more modern IE versions that I don't like. You can't customise it all down to one line like you can with FF. Maybe you can get skins/themes/whatever that make it more efficient, but I don't even care. With Chrome you don't even need to customise it, it's nicely laid out from the very beginning, minimum of wasted space and no fiddling necessary to customise it on each computer/account that you use it on.
Who ever said that Google was a FOSS vendor? They're primarily an advertising company, though yes they do a lot to encourage OSS development and some pretty cool technologies/ideas.
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I got the joke, but I still felt compelled to point it out. I don't really see any difference in prices now compared to what they would have been a couple of years ago.. you guys still seem to get most things cheaper.
Damnit, so there really is no point to me levelling up (apart from when missions require it). Still, I think I've done my stats okay, and my improved equipment is still helping things to get easier overall. I had assumed that some of the monsters in the Shivering Isles were more difficult to kill because they were a higher level, but it's probably more that I should start using magic effects on my weapons to take out enemies (usually I just slog it out with my axe and shield).
They could, but people wouldn't pay. I've actually re-bought a couple of old games that I already own because they were so cheap, well worth it. Annoying that I can't transfer my old save game though, I should probably look into accessories for ripping PS1 memory cards..
GOTY edition is $20 on Amazon.com, standard is $15
You level up when you achieve a certain amount of points on your major skills.. seems fine to me, no worse than "kill 100 of these mobs for enough XP to level up".
Yep I got the Platinum GOTY edition. I had assumed that the expansion was available on the store and that I'd buy it later, but it seems you can't even get it on the store.
Wow, I've just checked the price and it's only £10 on Amazon these days.. that's less than you'd expect an expansion pack to cost anyway so worth it even for people who bought the original . That's got to be the best value for money on a new game, ever.
I got Oblivion on PS3 (including the expansion pack) for £12.. it has literally hundreds of hours of gameplay (I've done ~33 hours so far on a warrior, my character is at level 17/25, I've done hardly any story mission, and I would really like to go back and play the game again as a mage and then maybe a thief or something). If you can be patient then you can get really good deals.
Half-Life 2 episodic content usually costs less than half of a full game, and you can get plenty of cheap-ish games off of the various consoles' online stores.. I don't think we're going to see the big games getting much more expensive, but we are seeing a lot of smaller games or older emulated games at cheaper prices.
Mirrors Edge I can agree with, but you enjoyed the single player on MW2? Sheesh.. the multiplayer is definitely fun, but I found the single player way too linear, scripted and contrived feeling for the most part. I used to play a lot of FPSes on PC so I'm not impressed by a lot of the offerings these days.
If you enjoyed the MW2 single player then I really recommend getting the original Battlefield: Bad Company (not BC2, it was almost as bad as MW2), it has a less linear feeling (though of course it's still very linear), and has a great sense of humour.
GTA IV I enjoyed but for the damn "friends" texting you all the time to get you to do stuff. Even when you put your phone on silent mode you still get thumbs down from them every so often in the corner. I'm the type of person that likes to overachieve in games so I can't stand that kinda thing.. in GTA games I've always spent a lot of time just roaming the city and having fun, but I don't like the idea that doing that means that when I want to get back to the story I'll have to start going out on mandates and dates with my friends and gfs just to get all the bonuses back. I find it difficult enough to remember to do stuff with my friends in real life without having to keep up with virtual friends too :/ I didn't even complete the game, it's the first GTA that I didn't bother with all the way through, and then play for a few weeks/months more just having fun with the vehicles and exploring for hidden packages etc.
MGS4 is another game I've stopped playing after a couple of weekends even though I was enjoying it.. it's not so much the length of the game that puts me off, as the length of individual missions. It's not the sort of thing I feel that I can just save halfway through a mission (I can't even remember if you can do this or if you do whether it'll mean you have to re-do portions of the game), so I felt that if I were to play it again I'd need to devote something like a 4 hour session to it..
the leveling system sucks and pushes you to grind
I wouldn't say I've felt this. I'm level 17 and haven't really done any grinding so far, I just keep getting reminders to go sleep every so often when I'm not expecting it :P I've just been doing side missions and wandering around exploring (which does necessitate killing a few mobs just to stay alive of course), and very occasionally doing some story missions - I only have a couple of pieces of the Crusader's Relics and 3 Oblivion gates under my belt. At the weekend I discovered my copy of the game has the Shivering Isles in it, didn't realise the PS3 version had it built in - it only cost £12 new as well! Great game :)
Hive honestly no idea what you guys are talking about.
Are you not allowed to update D4X for personal use? Of course, making something that other people can use is always nice and saves someone else going through the same hassle.
What, you've never been Beeing before? You are missing out, my friend.
http://www.amazon.com/Eric-Whitacre-Cloudburst-Other-Choral/dp/B000E1XOUS
Got it a couple of years ago while looking for Polyphony stuff after hearing them on the radio :) Even better is
http://www.amazon.com/Morten-Lauridsen-Lux-aeterna/dp/B0007GP69W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1272966899&sr=1-1
Their CD singing Whitacre's stuff isn't bad, but Lux Aeterna is truly awesome.
This makes me wonder: why are you loading all of your software on boot? Also, you could probably make use of hibernation to speed things up.
My machine does in fact boot up to the login screen in 10 seconds, Ubuntu 10.10 from an SSD :) Another 10 or so seconds (including loading up some extra apps I've installed) to a usable desktop, and that's with only a 1.6Ghz Atom..
I thought the only 2 choices for HTML5 were Theora or H.264? And the whole point would be that doing this would drop IE's marketshare "a fucking lot", which was my whole point. It's pretty anti-competitive, but it would be funny to see Microsoft on the receiving end of their own tactics to get rid of that godawful browser.
I kinda see this as an advantage - Google could simply serve up Youtube videos in OGG Theora format only, and if you try to visit it in IE9 it could say "we're sorry, your browser doesn't seem to properly support web standards, try one of these instead.."
You use Pokeberry on SolPan.
It's super effective!
You call yourself a "victim". Unless you are claiming that this woman raped you, then you're not a victim and you're not "unlucky".
He could have been the first victim - she could easily have been on the pill for a while and then stopped taking it, or just pretended she was all along.. could say that was his fault for having unprotected sex, but if you were trying for a serious relationship then not trusting your gf over such a thing isn't really a great start.. plus condoms suck, and not in a good way.
I asked, and got told to FO. For the tiny amount of money involved it would waste much more of my time than the value that I'd get back from the refund. I'm finally starting to dislike Sony as much as most other Slashdotters. Previously I'd thought that the gaming division was pretty good even if the rest was run by morons.. but no longer.
She might be a bit creepy, but I certainly wouldn't refuse her Palm.
Not how I use it
Presumably the original Mickey Mouse character design should be in the public domain. And older Linux kernels will be eventually too.
I'm interested - what is your problem with older versions of Linux becoming free of restrictions?
But I don't use IE (in fact I never even use Windows these days unless I'm doing IT support), I was just saying why some people might prefer to stick with IE6 if Windows updates to IE7 automatically and they don't know of any alternatives
Nah, IE 7 and 8 look like ass. I'd much prefer to look at 6 if I had to choose between the design of the three of them. I had thought at first that I didn't like IE 7 because of the menu arrangements, but Chrome's menu system is similar and I like it fine. So really it's just the sheer amount of wasted space and overall fugliness of more modern IE versions that I don't like. You can't customise it all down to one line like you can with FF. Maybe you can get skins/themes/whatever that make it more efficient, but I don't even care. With Chrome you don't even need to customise it, it's nicely laid out from the very beginning, minimum of wasted space and no fiddling necessary to customise it on each computer/account that you use it on.
Who ever said that Google was a FOSS vendor? They're primarily an advertising company, though yes they do a lot to encourage OSS development and some pretty cool technologies/ideas.