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Drama / Re: Lord TonyŽ : Pumping out insane amounts of low effort / low quality topics.

« on: September 23, 2016, 01:49:27 AM »

You act like anything this stuff for brains has ever posted was even remotely quality.  This thing has never brought any kind of quality contribution to anything whatsoever.

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Off Topic / Re: [TECH] Apple announces iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, AirPods and more

« on: September 08, 2016, 02:10:40 AM »

Let's be honest if anyone still hasn't caught on to the fact that Apple products are for people who don't know how to use technology and are dumb enough to throw cash at Steve Jobs' corpse then they deserve this hell.

It's nice they finally caught on with the whole water resistant thing but too bad they royally forgeted up with this earpod bullstuff whatever the forget.  As if I want to use bluetooth bullstuff earbuds that I'm going to need to recharge and that will drain my phone's battery using bluetooth radio, as opposed to the thing that's worked for decades and still does it best.

Maybe this earpod stuff is catered to the iOS crowd that can't stop talking about crossfit so now they don't have to deal with wires.

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Off Topic / Re: THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU HIT 1 MILLION RESIDENTS AND SC4 DECIDES TO CRASH

« on: September 06, 2016, 11:41:26 PM »

https://steamcommunity.com/app/24780/discussions/0/882963336725216682/

The link on the first comment of that thread says "use software mode" which is absolutely the worst advice.  Using software rendering in SC4 is terrible and glitchy.  Force hardware rendering and SC4 will actually take advantage of your hardware.

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Off Topic / Re: Crysis 2 Tessellation & You

« on: September 01, 2016, 11:30:09 AM »

The reason behind this is not CryTek. The ones who did this stuff is nvidia. They wanted to show how good the tesselation on cards are and also probably make AMD cards explode. They overdone it.

It was probably Nvidia that threw money at Crytek for it to pump up the game with a billion tessellation models, and Crytek internal managers probably told modelers "okay do a bunch of tessellated models now that they want us to showcase their tech."  So they probably scratched their heads and were like "alright let's just blow up whatever the hell we can."

Tessellation, in the short order, really adds little.  You might get nicer fine details but at the end of the day who really gives a stuff about a closeup of a brick wall?

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Games / Re: Battlefield 1 Beta rolling out (LIVE GAMEPLAY VIDEO)

« on: August 31, 2016, 04:04:19 PM »

PSA 42% is "100%" for resolution scale.  I cranked it all the way to 100% because I thought it was going to render at 42% of 2K which was silly because I have a GTX1070 and cranked everything up max, and I was dumbfounded at the 30-40 fps I was getting.  Someone forgeted up there.  Set it back to 42% and cranked everything up and a solid 60 but might overclock my monitor and go for 120.

The armored train is fun as forget.  Bomber turns and moves slower than anything imaginable, while the fighter is actually halfway decent.

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Off Topic / Re: Crysis 2 Tessellation & You

« on: August 31, 2016, 04:00:46 PM »

Very interesting read and very thorough.  I think it's important to note two things though:

1.  Crysis 2 as a whole was a bumbling mess.  The game leaked some 40 days early (and then when people heard about how dumb the clusterforget plot was and how linear it was it went on to be most pirated game of 2011 http://www.pcgamer.com/crysis-2-most-pirated-pc-game-of-2011/), and the game was probably half/quarter console port internally which sucks because it was the 360/PS3 at the time.  On the other hand though, the game still looks pretty damn well even on low/medium settings when I first played it (I think I played it with a GTX460 not long after the 400s just came out), the optimization is kickass and tessellation didn't do much impact in performance except in large extreme scenes, but that doesn't excuse the engine from still being a mess internally especially regarding the water...

2.  Crytek wanted to probably flare their CryEngine 3 lats and show how super cool and up to date it is.  They had a comparison page showing off how super cool brick walls will look in the "Ultra" patch.  I tried looking for it but looking up "crysis 2 tessellation" brings literally hundreds of results of the same thing OP talks about which speaks a lot.

I'm just glad Crysis 3 actually went on to be better looking, much more fun and open, and actually tie up all 3 billion loose ends in the plot (sort of kinda maybe). 

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Off Topic / Re: Banks accounts are now going to become more vulnerable to identity fraud.

« on: August 29, 2016, 04:20:19 PM »

I've never had this kind of protection done for any fraud alerts on my cards lol.  They were live phone calls anyway though but idk.

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Off Topic / Re: What was the most infamous event in Blockland's History (Including the Forums)

« on: August 28, 2016, 03:11:36 PM »

when magick mage left :^(((

Definitely the most tragic event.  I miss Magick Mage.

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Off Topic / Re: Programming Megathread

« on: August 18, 2016, 11:40:08 PM »

i need to get back into programming to prepare for actually being a computer programmer. i'm pretty good with object oriented programming (specifically java) since i've been doing that for 4 years in high school but it's been like 3 months since i've actually done programming. i was planning on picking up C++ or C, or maybe playing around with python but i haven't been motivated enough to do anything and i wouldn't know where to start since basic tutorials are too basic and i'm too lazy to look for intermediate things. what do i do?

I'd recommend what trinick said, but on top of that if you're looking for a new language to hop on I'd suggest just going balls deep into C.  Why?  Why the hell not.

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Off Topic / Re: Hillary cannot mentally run this nation

« on: August 16, 2016, 06:24:29 PM »

Like I said before my attention span is short and I only have access to a phone which is a complete shame because I have alot I wamt to say about this. But typing  up 3-5 paragraphs would be a nightmare on this phone. If you want to have s discussion by all means PM me but I probably won't answer until Wednesday

Gotcha, good and civil end here.

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Off Topic / Re: Hillary cannot mentally run this nation

« on: August 16, 2016, 06:13:16 PM »

The USSR was the closest thing a communist or socialist country will ever be to being successful.

Oh but of course it wasn't true socialism of course. Instead we should look for inspiration from countries like France or Greece, maybe even Venezuela. I'm sure their economies are doing great.

It really wasn't though.  My parents and grandparents actually lived in the USSR.  To call it socialism is massively incorrect.  My mother's family lived a lavish lifestyle because my grandfather, her father, was a state attorney.  Nicer car, nicer larger apartment, more money, etc.  In contrast, my father's side lived a simpler life because they didn't work high up in the state or anything, they were probably only a bit above the common person.  The "socialism" in place was more like just flat out oligarchic communism, where the state owns the majority of like everything and people get whatever the state needs to/feels like ration/ing out.

France and Greece are absolutely horribly managed countries, not to mention the majority of western countries spend way too much on defense and god only knows how well that stuff's paying off in the long run.  Greece itself also ran itself totally aground by shelling out piles of cash just to host the Olympics in 2004.

Comparing planned socialism in the US to other countries in the world is laughable and impossible.  You really just can't compare the world's strongest economy to other nations that have a fraction of our power.

The post I was replying to in the first place was slandering anyone who didn't want to get forgeted over by Sanders.

The whole chain is the same.

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Off Topic / Re: Hillary cannot mentally run this nation

« on: August 16, 2016, 05:54:32 PM »

Molten has absolutely no idea what he's talking about considering one of the kinda biggest requirements of a socialist society is for democratic control of the production. forget, even a quick google search would show that the USSR was state-capitalist, not socialist. The nomenklatura (forgive me if this is a mistake I don't know much about russian history) was in complete control of the means of production iirc, not the workers.

If he wanted to cite a country or territory that is a testament to why socialism doesn't work, he could've said something like Cuba instead, but if there's a recurring trait of stupid people it's that they're almost always wrong about everything

Even so with the USSR, there was that "everybody gets equal" mentality except because of their stuff distribution it meant like the majority of populace had to wait in the bread line or eventually were allowed to get a car if they proved their worth/pay/etc.  Being a person of a higher class or position was the key to having anything remotely lavish in the USSR.

And even so regarding an irl socialist state:  current socialist countries include PR/China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam.  China is doing fairly well economically overall minus the hiccups here and there with their stuffty stock markets, albeit considering they're 1 billion plus growing it's kind of hard to even have anything remotely like the socialist state we'd want in America.  Cuba is doing okay, it wasn't doing hot in the past but it's slowly making it's way to doing better considering it had pretty stuffty leadership prior, with the addition of the US opening back up to Cuba (because god knows loving why we'd still be closed to them post Soviet collapse), it's bound to become the crown of the Caribbean in decades.  As far as Laos and Vietnam go they still have some stuffty leadership leading their socialist states.  A socialist state is only as good as the management making sure things actually go smoothly and prosperity without sacrificing quality for everyday people is the goal.

So the guy who's whole political campaign was about ending corruption on wall Street decided to support one of the most corrupt politicians of all time because of "the ebl Republicans". Funny since Bernie recently bought a new car and bought a vacation home for 600k. I wonder who's money he was using...

Probably his own paychecks.  He's a Jewish 74 year old who's been in Congress, House and Senate, since 1991 and has been living a pretty simple life til those purchases.  All his political campaign money was given to Hillary's campaign and the DNC, because that's how the political party operates upon candidates becoming a nominee and the un-nominated support them.  I think he's probably reaching the point of retirement soon after this election cycle (inb4 "see he's too old!!", try running for presidential nomination on a huge progressive movement and getting roosterblocked by the party establishment and media.  You'd be tired of that stuff too) and wants to just live comfortably with the money he's made having a great political career.  If he actually used campaign money, it'd be a massive scandal as long as we forget the fact that it isn't even possible since all campaign donations are publicly accounted for and Hillary/DNC take it as part of the political process.

That's funny coming from you, the same handicap who said later in this thread that the USSR wasn't "muh true socialyst sistem"

To be fair your arguments in this, your quoted post from Ike, and Ike's post you quoted don't rely on anything but slander and ad hominem.

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] China tells citizens to "prepare for a people's war at sea"; Putin eager

« on: August 16, 2016, 01:40:19 PM »

There's been like tens on tens of articles like these about how X country is going to escalate Y issue into conflict but this stuff like never happens.

WW3 won't be physical arms, it's already going on as cyber warfare.  Nobody wants to lose face or military means when you can just hack each other without the public knowing, without official declarations, and without any rules of engagement for cyber war.

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Off Topic / Re: Hillary cannot mentally run this nation

« on: August 16, 2016, 01:33:46 PM »

America chose NOT to be handicapped by not voting for the brain dead socialist who later on sold out his supporters anyway.

Lol I love seeing this time and time again.  I guess every other Republican candidate who ran a campaign, then suspended it, then voiced support for Annoying Orange (except Cruz, but that's probably because Annoying Orange insulted his wife and father which is a pretty richard move) is also a sellout.  Yeah sure you could call it being a sellout, being a pusillanimous individual, etc. except for the fact that you're running for office with a national political party.

I've backed Bernie for the longest time and was incredibly disappointed with the democratic primaries.  The DNC forgeted everything up and it was always clear Hillary was going to rig her way to nomination.  The only reason Bernie didn't suspend and start supporting her before the convention was because he promised to go solo all the way to convention.  Up to the point of supporting her he was already being booed by fellow Democrats in Congress for not falling in with the party to have a unified front against Republicans (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/bernie-sanders-booed-house-democrats-225161).

You can be a candidate and fight for your beliefs all the way, which he absolutely did.  But the number one goal of the Democrats is to stop the Republicans and especially stop Annoying Orange from becoming president.  He's not a sellout for doing what he has to do, being a member of a national political party, which is to fall in line with the nominated candidate of the party and support them.

nooooo he didnnn't...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-Annoying Orange-wants-to-ban-the-internet-will-ask-bill-gates-to-close-it-up-a6764396.html

He did say he did and that he'd ask Bill Gates to do it which was pretty lol.  Of course no one took him seriously considering it's a human right, one person can't close the internet, and Bill Gates didn't even really do anything with the development of the internet as we know it.

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Off Topic / Re: [UNSETTLING] Olympic weightlifter dislocates arm

« on: August 16, 2016, 01:23:10 PM »

looks like he dislocated his armenia

boooo