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Off Topic / Re: Physics Megathread
« on: January 24, 2013, 04:59:05 PM »
Took my physics exam today. Got a boner within 5 minutes.
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Off Topic / Re: Snowday :D
« on: January 24, 2013, 08:03:39 AM »
Delay today. Exams pushed back 1.5 hours each. Meh. More time for cereal and coffee.
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Off Topic / Re: steam now has offline messaging
« on: January 24, 2013, 08:02:58 AM »Actually, they'll probably just get the horde of messages once they get the beta or they officially release it.... good point.
Looks like I'll get the beta later on.
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Off Topic / Re: Giovanna Plowman: what the forget.
« on: January 24, 2013, 08:00:21 AM »That's an ambiguous reference. Which twitter is fake.Probably the Giovanna twitter. Ariana Grande has a twitter but no such tweet exists.
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Off Topic / Re: Can someone tell me why people are so angry at Subway?
« on: January 24, 2013, 07:57:52 AM »whats datIt's 2 inches more than 12.
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Off Topic / Re: steam now has offline messaging
« on: January 24, 2013, 07:57:30 AM »Are you seriously comparing the removal of a stuffty roleplay command to an extreme form of censorship?His point is that if you're in beta and you try sending a friend offline messages, it won't work. At least this is what I'm interpreting.
Which is kind of right. It's great but I'd rather wait til its officially released so then EVERYONE has this capability.
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Games / Re: THQ Will auction off franchises
« on: January 24, 2013, 07:54:58 AM »here's how it works1st and 2nd boldface segments: wrong wrong wrong wrong WROOOOOOOOOONG.
EA is a producer. Company X is a developer. Company X has no money of their own to finance the production of a game they want to make. They turn to EA. EA gives them all the money they could ever need to develop the game, and handles things like advertising and distribution. In turn, EA can influence production of the game (since, after all, they're paying for it) and I'm sure receives some portion of any profits.
EA never once directly changes development of the game. They may, I'm sure, see the direction a game is taking and say "No, that won't work, not enough people will buy it - if you want our money you'll have to change that." They're just trying to make a smart investment, and who can blame them? They're paying another company millions of dollars to develop a game that could just flop.
So all I'm trying to figure out is if EA was actually the one that ruined games like Spore. I've never seen a single shred of evidence to suggest that.
(And, on another level, you should ask yourself if Spore was actually ruined - sure, it wasn't the game YOU wanted, but it was pretty successful and plenty of people loved it)
They don't just influence production of a game. THEY OWN THE PRODUCTION. They can do whatever they want with a game's production because they're investing in the developer company technically. If EA doesn't like what the developer is doing, then EA can simply pull the plug and close the studio. The developers are EA's bitches in short. EA tells them what to make and how to make it in order to rake in the maximum profit (i.e. "make a new simcity, make it run on origin so they have to use our online service, and make it online-only so there's really no way around it at all... for $59.99 and a $79.99 deluxe DLC edition" which works because SimCity is a great franchise to revive and give new life into. Same thing with C&C4, "make a new C&C, lets make it the finale! remove basebuilding so we can attract new and inexperienced players and open the target audience for this game further despite the fact that it's practically sinful to make a C&C without it."
They also reap plenty of the excess profits from their big title games, i.e. BF3, etc.
EA was partially responsible. The "dumbing down" of Spore's gameplay was done in order to make it more user friendly for children.
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Off Topic / Re: Snowday :D
« on: January 24, 2013, 12:16:35 AM »Our Teachers e-mail us work to do on the day.Happened during the "second winter break" in January-ish 2010 when we had a stuffload of snow. No one gave a forget.
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Games / Re: SimCity Beta is Here! The Beta is coming January 25-28!
« on: January 24, 2013, 12:07:06 AM »
Rumor has it if you order the physical copy on amazon.com you get a beta key, and you can cancel the preorder and still retain the key.
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Off Topic / Re: The Big Bang Theory
« on: January 23, 2013, 08:12:27 PM »
Yeah knew about these for like a long time now. Joke has passed on already.
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Off Topic / Re: Cold day!
« on: January 23, 2013, 08:11:39 PM »
Below freezing consistently in Baltimore (which is rare unless it's a really cold season but generally hasn't been too cold). Expecting snow tonight and Friday early morning through the day.
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Off Topic / Re: How great is the U.S.A? (image heavy!!)
« on: January 23, 2013, 06:25:17 PM »ok yeah, now it's REALLY obviousI love watching kids on the internet just go "ugh trolls!!" like holy stuff lol did you just start using the internet three weeks ago or something
good to know you were only trolling
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Off Topic / Re: Physics
« on: January 23, 2013, 05:13:18 PM »s=ut+0.5at^2we learned it as
WOOOO
x = Vit + (1/2)at2
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Off Topic / Re: Gaming headset that is also good for music?
« on: January 23, 2013, 05:10:11 PM »Just get a directional desktop mic; gaming headsets aren't that great for music.This. If you have a separate microphone you never have to worry about that stuff ever. It's great. I just have some weird old mic I had lying around and it's been the mic of choice for years now.
Go with sennheiser for your headphones once you have a separate microphone. I have Sennheiser HD 280s, I don't know if they're made anymore but if you give them power you get such amazing sound like holy stuff it's beautiful.