Jables Swan
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Danoss (or any one else), have you played the Marvel Legendary deck building game? I was watching a review of it this morning and thought it looked interesting.
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AusGAF 9 - F*** Off, We're Full (Of People With Different Ethnic Backgrounds)
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BananaArnie
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people have been trying it on horses for years
reptilescorpio
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PC games are way cheaper than console games which balances out the lack of resale value (ignoring selling your Steam account of course....)
We have had plenty of Cloud threads though, there was a really great one in the OT a few months back that opened my mind a lot.
The Cloud won't duct tape 3 Xbox One together though.
EDIT: Here is a thread for Omi!
We have had plenty of Cloud threads though, there was a really great one in the OT a few months back that opened my mind a lot.
The Cloud won't duct tape 3 Xbox One together though.
Public name for the Cloud service should be Xbox Four
EDIT: Here is a thread for Omi!
Oh man. I'm normally not a big fan of Amir0x, unless he's of the same opinion I am... then some of his rants just become *glorious*.
That article, from what I've read in the thread (no traffic4u, PA) is just a clusterfuck of wrong and corporate fellatio.
codswallop
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I expect a worthy thread roundup once a day from now on, along with the bargain posts. Thanks.
reptilescorpio
Member
2002 countdown! Woot! The year of Dave Grohl.
No one was talking about the lols so I wanted to make sure you didn't miss out
Also Techland finally made a great game! And it is in the price bracket/game design spot that I love the fuck out of. No bullshit, no fat, just pure awesome.
No one was talking about the lols so I wanted to make sure you didn't miss out
Also Techland finally made a great game! And it is in the price bracket/game design spot that I love the fuck out of. No bullshit, no fat, just pure awesome.
viciouskillersquirrel
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So apparently some far right nationalist fuckwits calling themselves Restore Australia are planning an anti-Muslim protest in Brisbane this afternoon in response to that British soldier getting murdered by those two dudes. Among the stuff they claim to be protesting are Sharia Law and halal food.
Halal food.
I just hope nobody does anything stupid.
Halal food.
I just hope nobody does anything stupid.
Know what? I like this route. Good quality AA (or even "A") titles like this and (from what I can gather, I'm yet to play it) Blood Dragon that are around the $15-$20 mark will probably be the saviour to single-player gaming. Games that you can finish in a few days, maybe replay a little bit that actually stand up in an apples-apples value comparison with going to the movies. Better value, but easier to compare because of roughly the same price and "disposability", I guess.
Yeah, I'm kinda hyped about getting some online action. Before I powered it off, I quickly went into a few lobbies and while the "L license" one (or whatever) I couldn't join an existing game, within about 15 seconds I found a full, proper lobby with what must've been 20 people.
That's why Lucid should be making PGR5 for 360. Potential audience? Few million. Potential audience for X1? Right now, zero.
reptilescorpio
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Imma go down there and cook my cat with them. Sounds like a fun group!
Mmm, mate of mine is really into ARMA (does ShackTac stuff) and they are getting into distributed AI servers and such for online play. Which seems like a really cool implementation of essentially 'cloud' technology.
Is that confirmed or are you just basing it on R*'s track record?
reptilescorpio
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Confirmed. It is all in the thread.
It does have its uses but is limited in relation to games due to latency and the like. Stuff like AI and physics can benefit from moving server side but again it will depend on how efficient they can make it. We will get there eventually but not as fast (or slow!) as some people posting in that XOXO thread are saying.
Will be a bitch getting those games going without the original servers though down the track.
It does have its uses but is limited in relation to games due to latency and the like. Stuff like AI and physics can benefit from moving server side but again it will depend on how efficient they can make it. We will get there eventually but not as fast (or slow!) as some people posting in that XOXO thread are saying.
Will be a bitch getting those games going without the original servers though down the track.
Sorry quoted the wrong bit, I meant to quote the June PC part.
Oh for sure, but the overall theme is 'nope, its all fucking terrible', which is so wrong.
reptilescorpio
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There is some hyperbole in there but I just cut it down to being mainly about XOXO.
Also Simcity.
Oh, that is based around the whole 4-6 months delay from console release to PC release for GTA3, GTA VC, GTA SA, GTA4, GTA4 Eps.
Take 2 like money. PC gamers have money. GTA4 sold well. Take 2 will want that money again.
Also Simcity.
Oh, that is based around the whole 4-6 months delay from console release to PC release for GTA3, GTA VC, GTA SA, GTA4, GTA4 Eps.
Take 2 like money. PC gamers have money. GTA4 sold well. Take 2 will want that money again.
shanshan310
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Ugh. I'm willing to bet good money none of them even knows what halal food IS. Speaking of which, they should really be making all food halal. It doesnt cost any extra.
codswallop
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Halal isn't about preparation of food (besides slaughtering animals in a specific way), it's a list of rules relating to what muslims can/can't eat (e.g. pork, blood), just like kosher is with jews.
Edit: Maybe you are thinking of HAACP?
Damn straight. That's one of the few games this generation I would've been disappointed not to have missed out if I were a PC-only gamer.
reptilescorpio
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Yup. I like the ideas behind it all. Makes more sense to me than other religious stuff I won't point a finger at.
I remember eventually reading the designers saying it would be a complete rebuild to get it running on PC as the whole project was a fucking mess cobbled together and that they were shocked how well it all held up in the end in terms of glitches and bugs.
That could have been bullshit from a pissed off developer but it seemed to be accepted at the time by the usual insiders.
Since Max Payne 3 ended up on PC my worry of GTA5 skipping PC despite the huge market they would be missing out on has been lifted. If MP3 was worth doing then GTA5 will be high on the priority list (still behind DLC though I bet).
I remember eventually reading the designers saying it would be a complete rebuild to get it running on PC as the whole project was a fucking mess cobbled together and that they were shocked how well it all held up in the end in terms of glitches and bugs.
That could have been bullshit from a pissed off developer but it seemed to be accepted at the time by the usual insiders.
Since Max Payne 3 ended up on PC my worry of GTA5 skipping PC despite the huge market they would be missing out on has been lifted. If MP3 was worth doing then GTA5 will be high on the priority list (still behind DLC though I bet).
Typical GAF knee jerk reactions taking everything they hear literally and not being able to apply their own analysis over any little bit of text or sound bite that comes along. Of course there is plenty of hyperbole mixed with truths, it's a console launch. At the end of the day it's a video games console, are the games good? Well obviously we can't answer that, instead it's all "GDDR5" this, "DRM" that, "Microsoft kidnapped my baby" etc.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Halal bacon cheeseburgers and black pudding.
There are some very conservative Christian and Jewish groups that forbid the consumption of halal food on religious grounds (just as food prayed over by Catholics might be haram to some Muslim groups) and there may be some argument regarding animal cruelty as well. Thing is, it's complicated and it doesn't affect 99% of the population.
These guys are opposed to it because it's associated with Muslims. Watch them try to ban algebra next.
reptilescorpio
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Fuck yes PS4 style recording on PC.
Storage size looks great too. Thanks NVIDIA! Might be able to do away with FRAPS. I guess I should be using Afterburner anyway it seems.
Storage size looks great too. Thanks NVIDIA! Might be able to do away with FRAPS. I guess I should be using Afterburner anyway it seems.
ClivePwned
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On some foods there is a tiny logo with arabic text on some products pronouncing it is halal certified. There may be some tiny payment to an Islamic organisation the same way having the heart smart logo would involve a licensing payment.
My current in-laws were the receivers of emails saying to not buy certain cheeses because the money goes to Muslims. I think it's an overreaction to be sure. Cheese is cheese.
reptilescorpio
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The Aldi here sells local Warrnambool cheese so we can get cheap cheese while still supporting white people!
I ate some Cracker Barrel cheese that said it was halal. It tasted nice, but now I'm not so sure. Will I be okay? I'm worried.
In case it's not clear, I'm absolutely joking.
I had an argument with friends over the exact thing above. They felt it was their right to eat things that aren't halal. I asked them how it affected them, how does any food being halal actually affect their lives? They said that by eating it they're supporting their religion which they don't agree with, it means that the Muslims are winning.
We are no longer friends.
God damnit. nVidia are doing their best to make sure I steer clear of AMD next GPU update cycle. But from memory, they're generally not as OC-happy as ATI cards :/Fuck yes PS4 style recording on PC.
Storage size looks great too. Thanks NVIDIA! Might be able to do away with FRAPS. I guess I should be using Afterburner anyway it seems.
I wonder how they feel about religious tax exemptions.
Or the inbuild exceptions for anti-discrimination re religious organisations
That's no joke. I hope you burn in halal for that.
What's it referring to?
reptilescorpio
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WiiU bundle on Amazon.co.uk is now outselling the Vita 32GB memory card after the bundle was dropped by 70 pounds. Thread.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Sidebar: The religious grounds for not eating food that has been prayed over in the name of foreign gods, by people of other faiths or "offered to idols" are flimsy within Christianity, but *may* be a legitimate cause for concern among super-uptight denominations.
This was actually a debate in the very early Christian community.
The Greek city temples would have ritual sacrifice of crops and livestock, offerings to the gods. Rather than burn these offerings in an act of ritual consumption, as was the Eastern practice, they kind of just sat there through the ceremony as the gods did not physically consume the food. Afterward, the food would be divided among the temple priests and any excess would be sold in the marketplace.
This food would then be bought by ordinary people and eaten like any other food, with no way to distinguish the sacrificed food from non-sacrificed food.
The issue for the early Christians sprung from the fact that, Christianity being a very Jewish phenomenon at the time, some early Christians considered themselves as being subject to Jewish food laws, including one that forbade the eating of food offered to other gods. This gets complicated, as Greek-born worshippers of Yahweh were in many cases considered exempt by the synagogues from the majority of Levitical law, apart from the Ten Commandments, and there was heated debate among Christian groups as to how Jewish they actually needed to become (circumcision was another debate), but the big takeaway here is that people were worried about sinning by eating food offered to the Greek gods.
On one side of the debate were the richer, more educated Greek Christians, who, citing historical precedent and the idea that since the Greek gods don't exist in the Christian worldview, going over to their friend's houses and eating whatever food is offered to them is fine, even if it's not kosher or was originally temple food. On the other side of the debate were ordinary Greek Christians, who held that the Greek gods did exist, but were in actual fact demons, so eating food offered to them was spitting in the face of God.
The conflict, when you boiled it down was between those who wanted to remain a part of the Greek civic community and those that did not.
The people who thought it didn't matter eventually won out, with Paul writing in one of the letters to the Corinthians that they were technically right, but to not to be dicks about it by flaunting delicious temple steak in front of those that disagreed. Other Jewish food laws were also dropped from Christian practice, though the basis for doing so is more textually clear.
The thing is, without categorically condemning the concept, the shade of reasonable doubt remained within the text, so I could see an argument on religious grounds why someone would refuse to eat halal-certified food, especially if you're Jewish.
TL;DR: The only Australians who should be worried about eating halal food are super devout Jews and those belonging to some very obscure Christian sects who don't think that the debate was settled 2000 years ago. Even then, you always have the choice of not buying this food.
Maybe some animal rights people too, who object to the method of killing used on animals.
Thanks for that history lesson, that's pretty cool and I had no idea.
Those friends weren't religious at all, just bigoted arseholes. Give them a reason to rail against another race, religion or culture and they'd take it. I'm glad I have nothing to do with them any longer.
That's the biggest "who gives a shit?" thread I've ever seen.
Hey, do you want me to post Blur to you, in case you don't want to wait for PAX?
I've heard plenty of good things about it and it does sound kind of fun. Deck builders aren't really my thing, though (I can't stand the constant shuffling), so I can't speak from personal experience, but I don't think I've seen many negative opinions of it.
Man, that is some crazy stuff. I guess it is mostly driven by ignorance, but you did the right thing to distance yourself from it, given they wouldn't listen to reason. I'm sorry you were forced to make such decisions, though.
"It had been losing money on several contracts" meaning those jobs may not have been necessary and not all will be replaced. It's certainly true that no one needs to buy a Falcon though, and that's kinda the point of the first half of the article.
reptilescorpio
Member
I thought everyone was blaming the closure on Ford doing a shit job at selling their cars? Or was it another FUCKING LABOR, CARBON TAX KILLIN MA JOEB thing. They said they lost $300 million or something.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm maybe. I don't have many games to play right now. AusPOST costs are painful though. Do you have a carrier pigeon you could duct tape it to?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm maybe. I don't have many games to play right now. AusPOST costs are painful though. Do you have a carrier pigeon you could duct tape it to?
Well, they may have been over paying their management, its been known to happen! Dont know many cleaners who are over paid or under worked >.< (Although they may have been lowballing tenders to get contracts!)
Also, what if theres a war?! What factories can we turn into tank makers or plane makers? None! Cause we closed all our factories down. But at least we have catering and cleaning down! So at least we can clean and cater to our conquoring Chinese factory having overlords!
We're practically a US vassal state and they have plenty of factories and plenty of unemployed.
WITH UBOATS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN?! GOOD LUCK GETTING US SUPPLIES!
Did Chris Hadfield teach you nothing? We can just zap them out of the sky from the space station. War has changed!
A number of people have said if you take away all the cool Marvel characters that they love, it's an average to good deckbuilder. Since the characters they love are there, they enjoy it more than they would if they weren't. I think I've managed to say the same thing twice there, but the point is there.
Ignorance is one thing, willful ignorance is another and that's absolutely what it is. It is maddening and not something I'm willing to tolerate.
FallbackPants
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Had my job interview with the ABC this morning. Went pretty well, but they said there's only one position going, not a bunch like I'd thought/hoped. So I'm not mega confident, but still hopeful. I'll hear back next week apparently