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Off Topic / Re: Stupid Aunt

« on: January 09, 2013, 11:49:44 PM »

No, it's from National Treasure. It was said by Ian, the guy who wanted to steal the Declaration of Independence.

That was Zelda, the swordsman with the green outfit.

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Games / Re: Should I trade my Bill's Hat for ARMA: II Combined operations?

« on: January 09, 2013, 11:49:06 PM »

no no no no stop no

wait till the steam market allows actual hats to be sold then sell it at an even higher price

^^^^^

isn't a bills hat worth like $50+ anyway

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Off Topic / Re: I can not talk to women effectively.

« on: January 09, 2013, 11:22:08 PM »

I'm actually afraid for valentines day this year

Don't be.


Not every guy is capable of just straight up finding a girl and shooting a one-liner to get conversation going.  It's not something everyone else has, don't worry.

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Off Topic / Re: forget google

« on: January 09, 2013, 08:33:27 PM »

I just want YouTube to quit loading videos at 360p when 480p is available.  I'm not on loving dial up, Google.  Give me high quality video.

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Off Topic / Re: I have a new respect for Truce

« on: January 09, 2013, 08:32:07 PM »

it isn't a difficult thing to understand

Took me two read-throughs but I got it.

Congrats I guess, I'm not into coding so idk.

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Games / Re: THQ Will auction off franchises

« on: January 09, 2013, 08:24:13 PM »

They can still pull the plug and you better hope they pull the plug, because if EA does get a hold if it then you are going to get trailers with stuffty dubstep music, brown shaders, major lore forget over. Then you will feel what the old fallout fans felt when their game was ruined.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLgI-qbrWVo

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Games / Re: THQ Will auction off franchises

« on: January 09, 2013, 08:13:11 PM »

Games Workshop owns the franchise so I don't see that happening. Unless the games are advised under Matt Ward.

They own the franchise but Relic is licensed to make 40k games and THQ owns the "Dawn of War" franchise.

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Games / Re: THQ Will auction off franchises

« on: January 09, 2013, 08:09:15 PM »

please sweet loving christ I hope the dawn of war franchise does not get raped by whoever buys it

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Off Topic / Re: 2 of my friends got in trouble over a fake cigarette

« on: January 08, 2013, 06:40:32 PM »

Can we bring it back to the topic?

Ok,

However it's still inappropriate for a classroom environment.  As far as I can see, there's no real illegality of e-cigs for minors, but it's just not something you do in a classroom environment for forgets sake.  You have to be an absolute ass to do that.

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Off Topic / Re: AT&T/U-verse sucks really hard

« on: January 08, 2013, 06:39:50 PM »

AT&T is not good at anything they do, but most especially any home services they provide.  I don't know why people even bother with their home services, their cellular services are even worse.

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Off Topic / Re: 2 of my friends got in trouble over a fake cigarette

« on: January 08, 2013, 06:31:36 PM »

AHAHAHHHHAHAHAHHAHHAAHH, OH JESUS CHRIST. good luck to you in life, mate.

They aren't AS harmful, but I'm not entirely convinced that they're clean either.  I'm sure it does not cause the harmful side effects of real cigarette smoking at the same rate at least.

However it's still inappropriate for a classroom environment.  As far as I can see, there's no real illegality of e-cigs for minors, but it's just not something you do in a classroom environment for forgets sake.  You have to be an absolute ass to do that.

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Off Topic / Re: NVIDIA Project Shield: PC Gaming in a handheld console

« on: January 07, 2013, 10:27:32 PM »

No it's not.

Streaming from a big server-rack corporation versus streaming from your home PC... and we're talking about full-on video games here not movies or whatever.

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Off Topic / Re: NVIDIA Project Shield: PC Gaming in a handheld console

« on: January 07, 2013, 09:50:43 PM »

I don't really see the point of playing steam games over wifi for me because I can just play my steam games on my home PC..

Personally, I would rather sit in bed sick with this rather than my laptop...  much more convenient/less space using.

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Off Topic / Re: Taxcut

« on: January 07, 2013, 09:18:54 PM »

taxing companies is dumb anyways seeing as they are comprised of taxpayers.

usually these taxes are paid for by the consumer who is also a taxpayer so everyone loses.
except the man...

Why is that dumb?  The government could rake in such a boatload if they didn't hand out tax breaks to the mega giant corporations that can actually handle slightly less profits.

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Off Topic / Re: NVIDIA Project Shield: PC Gaming in a handheld console

« on: January 07, 2013, 08:38:55 PM »

ew it just streams? only interested if it lets us stream from our own PCs ..

........ THATS WHAT IT DOES.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/01/07/nvidias-project-shield-an-android-based-handheld-with-steam-big-picture-streaming/

NVIDIA’s Project Shield: an Android-based handheld with Steam Big Picture streaming

The tech world has gotten itself into a lather over the bombardment of announcements coming out of Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s one that’s relevant to us, though: NVIDIA’s Project Shield. While it may look like an HD screen bolted to a parody of an Xbox controller, the Android powered device is also capable of streaming your PC game library.

Powered by the also-announced Tegra 4 mobile chip, Shield promises a full Android gaming experience. That may sound a bit rubbish, especially if, like me, your Android device is almost exclusively a platform for running Canabalt. Still, it means the handheld will be able to play the upcoming Hawken Android, as well as the newly announced ArmA Tactics, a turn-based ArmA for tablet devices.

But perhaps the most interesting aspect of Shield is its ability to hook into Steam for local network streaming through Big Picture mode. NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, showed off the streaming during the presentation, playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Assassin’s Creed 3 with reportedly little to no lag. The downside is it requires a Kepler-based graphics card inside your rig, meaning you’ll need a GTX 650 or better to push pixels towards the device.

Project Shield offers a 1280×720 screen, but can output to a standard 4k TV. It’s expected for release in “Q2″, but there’s currently no word on pricing. In the meantime, you can see the Shield’s website for details.

A shiny new PC-playing toy. Any takers?

tl;dr: if you have a GTX650 or better GPU, you will now be able to drop the game on your PC, pick up your controller, take a stuff and continue playing AC3 on the toilet

the limiting capabilities here are obviously your own computer and the fact that it requires a local network connection (i.e. you can't be in your office and play your games from your home computer, it has to be within the immediate LAN)