Ah, see I got my PVR for $20 new, but open box (which is why I assume the USB cable and CD was missing). I would love to have a Black Magic, but $200 is way too expensive. Not to mention, like you said I'd need a good computer and HDD to make it work well, I'm fairly happy with my Hauppauge when it works well.
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Halo |OT19| 793 Posts, And None Worth Reading
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User 73706
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re: speedster
Instead of $3 per 1000 views (I would have exactly $7.50, rip), why not try to move up in the ranks within the company of intrigue and prestige that is Red Lobster? Start stealing cheese beeyuzkutz and giving them to the local homeless. Form a vagabond union. Use said union to orchestrate small-scale heists at local jewelers and pawn off those peas and carats for unbelievably high sums of money. Proceed to rule the west coast.
Instead of $3 per 1000 views (I would have exactly $7.50, rip), why not try to move up in the ranks within the company of intrigue and prestige that is Red Lobster? Start stealing cheese beeyuzkutz and giving them to the local homeless. Form a vagabond union. Use said union to orchestrate small-scale heists at local jewelers and pawn off those peas and carats for unbelievably high sums of money. Proceed to rule the west coast.
Steelyuhas
Member
The bike is the plan and Speedy is the rider:
Lmao.
Anyways, I think in order to be accepted into that $3 per 1000 view program, you would have to be a Machinima partner wouldn't you? So yeah, unless you are one, that gif seems pretty accurate.
I'm going to make an infographic for the Reach stats, and then I'll release the full stats.
Link to article on my blog: http://aegisfate.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/stats/
This article comes as I conclude the collection of HaloGAFs Reach stats, almost two years after bungie.net stopped updating them. In this, Ill talk about the good things and the issues with bungie.nets stat presentation, as well as address some of Halo Waypoints issues.
All in all, stats have become a huge part of Halo since their introduction. Theres a lot thats good, but theres so much room to improve.
Link to article on my blog: http://aegisfate.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/stats/
- Bungie.nets greatest strength is how easy and natural it is to navigate. From the main service record, it is easy to get to weapon statistics, medals, or game history. The navbar on the left allows for access to nearly every page in the service record.
- The weapon page has detailed statistics that can be sorted in numerous ways. Even when comparing statistics, sorting works as expected.
- The medals page is concise and shows all potential medals. It also includes the similar sorts as the weapons, allowing to see detailed medal stats for specific maps and playlists.
- The career stats page gives a good summary of a players top weapons and basic stats like Kill/Death ratio.
- File Shares are easy to manage and can be sorted easily.
- Heatmaps are incredibly useful to analyze map behaviors.
- The Game Viewer is great for reviewing a match.
- Although, incredibly under utilized, the RSS feed for games is pretty helpful when reviewing stats.
- The API is a close second place for the best thing that bungie.net did.
- Medals and weapons should link to the game history. If I do a sort on First Strike medals, I should be able to click the medal and be linked to every game where I earned the First Strike medal.
- Heatmaps are sometimes broken, and they will only show a red dot in the very corner of the map.
- Heatmaps should distinguish between a map name and a base map. Forge World is the worst offender of this, because the sections where maps are, are painted red.
- The RSS feed isnt obvious enough. For such an incredibly helpful tool, it has a tiny button.
- The weapons page does not show every single weapon. It should show a weapon, even if a player doesnt have any kills or deaths with it.
- The weapons page also doesnt have a default ordering. It changes based on the number of kills with each weapon. It needs a default ordering, and it could be based on alphabetical order.
- The weapons page doesnt show what weapon(s) you were holding when you died. This type of statistic could be interesting to see.
- There isnt an All Multiplayer or All Co-op sort. This means if someone was gathering statistics they would have to get stats for Arena, Invasion, and Competitive to get an accurate multiplayer set of stats.
- Ive gone over Waypoint a lot, but Ill just start off with how slow it is. If you need to drop Silverlight, do it.
- Bungies greatest strength is Waypoints biggest flaw. It is difficult to navigate.
- Waypoint also has incorrect stats. When I made my way to the ODST page, it said that I had 47 out of 47 achievements. This would be great, except for the fact that I dont have Endure yet.
- The War Games page on Halo Waypoint is fairly useless and also has the all capitals text.
- The background animation is annoying on the Halo 4 stats. Although it can be turned off, it shouldnt be there in the first place.
- The recent games list is short, and there should be more complete game history.
- The two column stats page is bad design. If I have a large enough screen, I should be able to view everything concurrently. It also creates a dual scrolling scenario, which generally isnt a good thing.
- The Halo 4 section doesnt show how many lifetime challenges that a player has completed.
- Halo 4′s Spartan Ops sorting introduces horizontal scrolling in addition to the dual vertical scrolling.
- The webapp for Halo 4 crashes a lot.
- The Halo Reach section clumps all challenges together.
- The data presented on the main Halo Reach page isnt very relevant.
- The Halo Reach playlist page links to maps that dont exist.
- Custom challenges are awesome, but they are buried under so many menus.
- When entering the File Share for Reach, you cant go back to the service record.
- Theres much, much more that I havent even covered
All in all, stats have become a huge part of Halo since their introduction. Theres a lot thats good, but theres so much room to improve.
And Microsoft is only giving away something like $3750 in total for the entire program.
And I'm pretty sure hundreds have already subscribed to the program, some having millions and hundred thousands of subscribers.
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
Yay, my friend gave me a 14-day trial code. Might play some Halo 4 today, I'm not sure.
And those stats, that's a lot of work Karl. Really nice.
And those stats, that's a lot of work Karl. Really nice.
User 73706
Banned
At least 343 confirmed HaloGAF Smash Bros. is slated for an early March release on windows phones.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Tripping is broken but fun!!!
What would be everyone's like special move thingy. (That's what the shiny orb thing does?) As you can see I've only played like twice.
xxjuicesxx
Member
After you make the infographic can those of us who want to take a look see the excel?
Good work on that tho.
Good work on that tho.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Hahaha holy shit. #GSOSpeedyWhy do you need a script for this when you can literally copy and paste your posts from the Xbox One reveal threads?
Err... I told Microsoft I don't mind the Microtranscations and I really liked the options and benefits it gives to gamers, and delivering more options is never a bad thing, and I would not mind, and almost like, seeing it implanted in more games.
I was then given a free copy of Ryse: Son of Rome, and since I was honest when I said Ryse and Knack will never touch my systems, I sold Ryse for like $30 at Gamestop.
User 73706
Banned
Tashi's Final Smash lowers the kill ceiling to three feet above the playing field.
Mix's has everyone choke to death on airline food.
ExWife's compresses the entire playspace into a 240x360 .gif.
Karl ignores all other players, becoming immune to damage.
Funknown and Bigshow (who are a pair, like the Ice Climbers) pull out akimbo Combat Evolved pistols and can only strafe.
Plywood deems the combat UNACCEPTABLE and summons an army of debatably legal-looking girls in yoga pants and instagram filters.
Heckfu & Biggy (another pair) deem the humor tasteless and start an unskippable cutscene where they spend a day out set to Chariots of Fire.
Overdoziz expresses his disinterest in a one-word exclamation before turning into a Monitor and dropping tanks on the battlefield.
Fyrewulff puts you to sleep, steals $200 from your Microsoft account and then drops the Spire on you.
Mine, Omegapost, summons a cascade of meteoric walls of text that rain down from the e-heavens.
Ghaleon gets his Fully Powered Beekeper Suit and immolates the competition with a combination of hoses and pesticides.
Daedalius becomes invincible, complains about how much your Final Smash sucks and then disappears from the match until another one is used.
Zoojoo spawns fezes on everyone's heads, which can't be removed.
Slightly Live yells at you from beyond the fourth wall, criticising your controller choice and that Karen Traviss is the modern-day Ayn Rand.
Kittens insta-kills any fighter within earshot that's a white 18-35 hetereosexual male.
Dax blinds you with Abrams-esque lens flares before giving any Ghaleons on the field invulnerability.
Sai-kun sends your character into an inescapable dance animation before melting your speakers with trap music and spamming tumblr photos of overly-muscled, hairy gentlemen.
Bish (who I guess is an honorary halogaffer thanks to the pre-ghaleon modding) just boots you from the game and IP bans your console.
Nowise flies around in a wheelchair doing double damage, but squanders it by calling your character out for doing shit I'm pretty sure you didn't even do.
Ora crossfits to get quadruple damage and pentuple-wields Halo 3 ARs. Any Wahrers on the battlefield become invulnerable.
Speedy pilots an XBOX HUEG WUN and finishes by spewing a mysterious, milky-white coolant from the console's vents. CBOAT makes a cameo.
juices drowns you in a sea of his rejected 343 job applications.
Finally, Jellycrackers summons a horde of live studio orchestra doppelgangers to disorient enemy players. The Final Smash has a 50% chance of bricking all consoles in the game because Mixcraft has encountered a fatal error and must shut down. Attempting to reload your project factory resets your console.
Nice work Karl. Agreed, waypoint is a mess. Hell, even the necessary community forums used for admin related activities moved off-site. It's much better than it was in recent memory, but at that point the site was basically unusuable.
I have some of the same issues with b.bext although their site runs as smoothly as it ever has. It's just the design I can't get past. The forums/groups, etc... were so much easier to navigate before due to simplicity. I'm sure it'll improve once destiny is released and there's a reason to return, I just can't get used to it.
I didn't have that problem with waypoint, the site just never worked properly. Stats always incorrect, horribly slow loads, PM's never worked (still don't think they do), always had to re-sign in even if I just closed the page... Silverlight. CC's just pretty much stopped using the site altogether.
I have some of the same issues with b.bext although their site runs as smoothly as it ever has. It's just the design I can't get past. The forums/groups, etc... were so much easier to navigate before due to simplicity. I'm sure it'll improve once destiny is released and there's a reason to return, I just can't get used to it.
I didn't have that problem with waypoint, the site just never worked properly. Stats always incorrect, horribly slow loads, PM's never worked (still don't think they do), always had to re-sign in even if I just closed the page... Silverlight. CC's just pretty much stopped using the site altogether.
Can anyone tell me the symmetric situation on the Castle and Champion Maps?
Wow. First you say microtransactions are good and you want more of them. Then you turn around and sell a freebie. Wow.
Yeah. I'll see if Wu can host it on HBO, since my dropbox got hit hard when I did the Halo 3 Image Pack.
Wow. First you say microtransactions are good and you want more of them. Then you turn around and sell a freebie. Wow.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
I specifically mentioned the Microtransactions should remain 100% optional and should NEVER be required to progress or have fun with the game. I don't see an issue with letting people who just want to beat the game with no effort do so by paying money.
Also, Microsoft is a company, not a friend/family/loved one. I'll sell their gift. If it was someone personal, I would keep the gift and at least try and appreciate it.
Lol now I want see both pair's fight like this it would be hilarious. Don't I get one or am I DLC?
If your going to throw money at a game to finish it then why pay for it in the first place? That just seem's like a waste of even more money.
Jellycrackers
Member
I was reading the list and about to be really sad until I saw this at the end
On a semi-related note, I just uploaded another new track. A preview track for an album I'll be putting out in May. This one gives me a little more "Destiny" feels than it does Halo. Although maybe a little darker.
http://youtu.be/4-49Dw4tQSc
Orochinagis
Member
I am not there either too. *super sad*
User 73706
Banned
Stormtrooper makes every enemy's attack miss and causes a horde of diphlosaurus to melt the faces off anyone in the match with a BMI of over 22.
Orochinagis turns into Poncho Chief and pummels the competition to a small Spanish brass section.
I was reading the list and about to be really sad until I saw this at the end
On a semi-related note, I just uploaded another new track. A preview track for an album I'll be putting out in May. This one gives me a little more "Destiny" feels than it does Halo. Although maybe a little darker.
http://youtu.be/4-49Dw4tQSc
Dammit! My next album is using that "world in space" theme for the album art too.
On a serious note, I think it's a good mix of ambient, alien atmosphere and that trademark darkness your pieces have. It's ominous but not straight-up horror, so I think it's going to sound a lot like a natural, more atmospheric extension of what was in Derelict.
Do you have CineBrass, by the way? It's pretty fun to play around with.
Jellycrackers
Member
Thanks! I wish I had CineBrass. I'm still using brass from EastWest Symphonic Orchestra Silver. It sucks lol. But I don't currently have the money to spend on more libraries.
Alright yay, I found my operation genesis game for pc but the disc was broken :'(.
ElzarTheBam
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Demoncarnotaur
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My god, that looks amazing. There was something so appealing about the way Bungie handled their art assets and landscapes.
ElRenoRaven
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Syphon Filter
Member
Why not xbox one?
That seems more likely than a solely 360 release, why not make it cross generation?
User 73706
Banned
Damn, that has not aged well. Looks like an OG Xbox shot.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Simple. Because odds are if it were in production it would have started long before this gen was finalized. Also it would give us all 3 of the main games in the trilogy working on the same console without any BC issues. And also again the 360 has the greater user base.
Halo: Reach livestream going up now, for another day. Will be playing for a good while tonight, but I may have to break for dinner at some point (cursed mortal needs).
Audio issues have been fixed! Game sound will be heard, with no garbage music!
As always, message "Ghazzarro" for an invite.
Let me know if the stream is laggy, I've increased the bitrate again, but I'm not sure if my internet can handle it!
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/ghazzarro
Audio issues have been fixed! Game sound will be heard, with no garbage music!
As always, message "Ghazzarro" for an invite.
Let me know if the stream is laggy, I've increased the bitrate again, but I'm not sure if my internet can handle it!
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/ghazzarro
just get a job
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
He mentioned that he has like $1000 to blow to go to E3, I'm pretty sure he has a job lolol.
E3 is fun but if you're going there to wait on line to play new games for fun (and not for work) you're doing it wrong. I also recommend being over 21 to enjoy the parties and late night activities properly. But hey, the conferences are pretty damn awesome.
User 73706
Banned
Part of me wants to save up for PAX, but the fact that I'll only be 19 has me concerned. Then again, I don't really drink in the first place, so admission would be the only real issue.
When Speedy and HGS go to the bars, when talking to the bartender, he's like: "Give me your finest wines"
e: stream will continue after I go pick up and eat Pizza
Exactly. It's not about drinking, it's about getting into places. PAX is a different beast though. There are lots of activities and others that are under 21.
Steelyuhas
Member
Isn't it though?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
PAX Melbourne, Aus was a total joke to get tickets to even go to the event. At least they already secured far better venue(s), I think they're doing two exhibition buildings this year, so at least I'll be able to actually attend the second Melbourne PAX event.
You don't even want to know how much the weekend tickets were scalping for on eBay, not worth it for that limited space and inflated prices.
You don't even want to know how much the weekend tickets were scalping for on eBay, not worth it for that limited space and inflated prices.
I meant for someone who doesn't drink. But yea for those that do drink, it makes for the best of times lol.
User 73706
Banned
So, real(ly stupid) talk here: as long as you teetotal as fuck and look it, is it hard at all to get into bars during events like that? Seriously, all I want are fruity virgin drinks and to play billiards. The bouncers won't kill me for it, right? Right?
Steelyuhas
Member
snowangel.gif
The chances of someone under 21 getting into bars are pretty slim.
This is probably a really, really bad idea, but what is mine?
User 73706
Banned
You sucker punch the closest target just out sight of the mods' vengeful eyes and then run like hell.
No idea about your Final Smash, though.
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