XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Does Jeff still live in Petaluma? They just opened a casino a bit north of there in Rohnert Park.
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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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kingofthedead45
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Figuring this is the best place to post this, considering this is the Giantbomb thread
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-great-escape-of-30-000-steam-keys/1100-4780/
An article posted by Patrick detailing the events of a "give away" for the game Blackwell Deception. To sum things up, things went haywire, multiple times, and people were able to exploit and snatch and grab 30,000 steam keys to re-sell(or unknowingly exploited the system) of a game that was already being given away for free. It's an interesting read, give it a look.
Reason I'm posting it here is, well, there's been plenty of occasions on Gaf where we discover an exploit of some sort and quickly "abuse"(I use the term loosely so don't kill me!) it. In this instance everybody getting these keys caused this guy tons and tons and tons of stress. In retrospect we do the same when we make threads about something we can nab on xbl/psn or some promotional website for free due to some exploit. Are we okay with what we(Gaf) do after reading this article?
(Also, not sure if this constitutes its own thread or not, but I am rather interested in others perspective on the situation)
Posted for new page...50ppp am cry.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Figuring this is the best place to post this, considering this is the Giantbomb thread
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-great-escape-of-30-000-steam-keys/1100-4780/
An article posted by Patrick detailing the events of a "give away" for the game Blackwell Deception. To sum things up, things went haywire, multiple times, and people were able to exploit and snatch and grab 30,000 steam keys to re-sell(or unknowingly exploited the system) of a game that was already being given away for free. It's an interesting read, give it a look.
Reason I'm posting it here is, well, there's been plenty of occasions on Gaf where we discover an exploit of some sort and quickly "abuse"(I use the term loosely so don't kill me!) it. In this instance everybody getting these keys caused this guy tons and tons and tons of stress. In retrospect we do the same when we make threads about something we can nab on xbl/psn or some promotional website for free due to some exploit. Are we okay with what we(Gaf) do after reading this article?
(Also, not sure if this constitutes its own thread or not, but I am rather interested in others perspective on the situation)
There was a thread about it.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=707845
With the footage of the Xbone version that is out there at the moment, it's pretty safe to say that Xbone has the lower resolution than PS4 and suffers framerate drops as well. Seems like every version of Ghosts is garbage.
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-call-of-duty-ghosts/2300-8158/
Quick Look of Ghosts up. Almost 2 hours! Jeff, Brad, Vinnie.
Quick Look of Ghosts up. Almost 2 hours! Jeff, Brad, Vinnie.
I don't get it
He's talking about Starcraft Ghost I assume.
I should be doing hw
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shadyspace
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I cannot believe I'm getting involved in this clusterfuck of a conversation but Patrick's response to this guy cracked me up in how stupid it was https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/397904625803612160
Aint nothing wrong with that response. People constantly wanting to hear a side being picked is annoying though.
why is it stupid?
I think it is more that people are very...anxious about purchasing the "right" console. Everyone wants to be on the good side of history. No one wants to be the guy who bought a ton of HD DVDS and betamax. Everyone is concerned they will make a choice, and then it will end up being the "unpopular" one.
Antiwhippy
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Where's my delirious and sleep deprived bombcast at? Any hints from Jeff yet?
He said on Twitter they finished recording it about 25 minutes ago.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Ooh, awesome. Perfect timing.
its patrick, alex, justin mcelroy and someone else i am forgetting doing a spoiler podcast.
Ah, cool. Thanks.
It should be an interesting conversation. I'm looking forward to hearing Justin McElroy's thoughts on that game.
pieatorium
Member
regular ass everyday guns will fire in space, the cartridge has is own oxidization the reaction all happens in the airtight shell before exposure to any atmosphere or lack thereoff
Those people can just relax, neither of these consoles will be the betamax. Both will sell plenty, and the vast majority of games will be multiplatform. There is no losing choice.
Insert Wii U joke here.
I was reading that as Windjammers Online, goddammit.
The Dear Leader
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I'm gonna put my shitty Unity skills to the test and make spiritual successor to Windjammers called Zephyrslammers or Gustthrusters or something like that.
SuperSonic1305
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Pretty funny seeing Patrick complain about lazy dev comments and now the Ghosts cutscene is a cut and paste from Modern Warfare 2.
TheLegendOfMart
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What is it with Brad and his knee jerk reactions where he doesn't think before speaking, Jeff was talking about PS4 and how it doesn't have DLNA and he pipes up "stop pirating TV shows then", because that's the ONLY reason people use DLNA.....
Patrick only has a 1080i TV, you expect him to notice the difference?
Just joking Patrick
I think he was kidding, GB always says things like that for shits and giggles.
TheLegendOfMart
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I don't because Jeff carried on talking about it and said something that Brad went "oh" at like he doesn't have a clue what DLNA was used for.
funkystudent
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He was joking but come on. There is a little truth to the joke.
But in this case its kind of a standard thing and its a bummer it wont be there day 1.
Its not like the people who want .mkv playback. They know what you are up to and we know why Sony and MS wont support it.
thats all i have ever used it for...
TheLegendOfMart
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I have 300+ movies and 2000+ tv episodes that I have ripped from my own bought Blu-Ray and DVDs, I don't appreciate being likened to a pirate just because I want to stream the content from my NAS. I have lots of stuff plugged up to my TV would be nice to get rid of a couple of boxes and have one that does it all.
The pirate community uses MKV because its currently the most useful, that's the same for people ripping and backing up their own content they purchased. Its unfortunate that those with legitimate uses can't do it because its popular for people with illegitimate uses as well.
funkystudent
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Whats so special about .MKV anyway? What makes it the file format of choice over other formats?
I was thinking about this very thing before but I never bothered looking it up.
firehawk12
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How the fuck does that even come up in a Tom Clancy novel? lol
TheLegendOfMart
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MKV is very flexible. It can store any video encoded in any way and audio in any format with mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1, HD audio, subtitles that can be styled with embedded fonts, chapters, it even supports branching video whereby you could integrate an alternate ending as a "video angle" where you could switch it on the fly and have no interruption in what you are watching and have it seamlessly integrated into the movie and that's only scratching the surface of what it can do.
I use MP4 for compatibility though but its very limited, can't have AC3 (what comes on DVD, if you want a compliant file that can play in devices that support MP4) or HD Audio (that comes on Blu-ray), can't have forced subtitles you have to encode them into the video, only supports text subtitles, etc...
If I wanted to convert my Blu-ray to MKV all I need to do is demux (basically take the component video, audio and subtitles out) and mux them into MKV. To do that with MP4 and keep it compatible I have to convert the audio to 5.1 AAC then use OCR to convert the subtitles into SRT plain text format. Though I do transcode the video down to 720p purely for archival sake, I don't have the HDD space for 300 30-50GB untouched Blurays as well as my TV archive.
He really has lost the plot since the 90s. Some of the latter books are even more crazier.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I just want Sam Fisher to go, "I'm fighting for the right to make abortion illegal in America!" before he starts torturing some random guy in the next Splinter Cell game.
It's pretty odd to hear that Patrick and McElroy, people who generally have different tastes in gaming than I, have pretty much the exact same comments on Beyond: Two Souls than I do.
Also shameless Let's Play plug
Also shameless Let's Play plug
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