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Just pop a Typhoo teabag in a cup and pour boiling water in, 2 sugars and a little whole milk.
people other than apple make tablets?
oh lol
funny you would think people who prefer pc gaming would understand why people would want high build quailty & a unix based os. the fanboyism is strong in pc circles, though.
and i guess macs are more for people who use computers for coding / working vs just wanting to playing games.
Stumpokapow
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Okay, that looks (and sounds) amazing, but dammit, 'heart' is not a verb!You can go forth, or sally forth, but you do not "heart forth"! Every time I try to parse that particular phrase, my brain's language center spits out a string of error messages and crashes to desktop. I really hope the narrative provides more explanation for the peculiar title than "she ventured forth... with heart", because I shouldn't have to suffer like this for nothing.And no, "I <3 U" does not count.
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/11/do-you-heart-new-york.html
The use of "heart" as a verb dates to 897 AD, and includes Tennyson and Shakespeare among its users.
dark_inferno
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You know who showed the first tablet? Bill Gates. And nobody cared. Apple shows Ipad and everyone looses their minds.
And yes there are many other tablets that arent from apple.
Well im studying games engineering and i get into courses with people who are studying business informatics.
And seriously... all of them have a mac laptop. Like they dont even know what the fuck linux is.
yeah billy g was ahead of the curve, but failed to time the market right the release a solid device at the time.
wouldn't it make sense to judge computing products by their performance and support rather than condemning apple users as "conformists"?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Man, my ratio of Steam bundles to aspirational bundles filled with useless Desura keys has been pretty bad lately. My "list of bundle games that don't yet have steam keys" list is probably at almost 200 games or so now
I keep buying these "greenlight" / Desura bundles, while thinking to myself "Pretty soon Valve plans on getting rid of Greenlight, and when that happens I'll have all of these games on Steam".
I suspect that once this change happens in the Greenlight process, the days of seeing a $2 bundle with 6 games will be over, since these developers are obviously taking a loss on the price of these games in exchange for the extra exposure.
Who knows.
Personally never had a use for "support", short of the rare RMA. I care more for value, i.e. price/performance.
Jawmuncher
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It'll be interesting to see exactly how Valves plans for a open store front will affect a lot of things. Still I could see bundles still being common though, since we still see Android bundles fairly often.
And I heart that new avatar of yours. Capcom needs to release a real Dino Crisis 3 one of these days. None of this "dinos in space" nonsense.
Interesting! That usage (to "give heart" to someone) still doesn't square with the way it seems to be used in the title, though - it seems to have been meant more as a substitute for "to go" than "to give". ("Give forth heart, Alicia"?) It just feels wrong to me, Stump. -_-;
ah i should have clarified i meant dev support in terms of apps for tablets. i'm always seeing android users lamenting ios exclusive releases.
No. There is absolutely no reason to pay the Apple premium for a pc for "work".
My hackintosh has the same specs as a mac mini. Hell, it has twice the mem and an actual graphics card, and cost me a *third* of the 900 apple wants for theirs. Sure, it's not a cute little white box I put on my desk, but who the fuck cares what it looks like. It's a computer case.
I also have an iPad (for dev work), which isn't bad, but my cousin's Samsung tablet can basically do exactly the same stuff and cost 200 less.
I track auctions and estate sales, and Apple stuff always gets bid on crazily, even older G4s that are basically 10 years old and worthless get insane bids that could get you a recent i5 system at least.
25% off ($2.99) for the next week. Also, 1C is prepping a few more things, including UFO: Aftershock.
dark_inferno
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I nearly didnt see any quality difference between Galaxy and Iphone. And looking at the price and power they deliver somebody must a. know nothing about specs or b. be ignorant as fuck and just buy it for the name.
If you look at Xbox and PS and Nintendo you see some fanboys. Its the same with Apple. Im not a fanboy when it comes to OS. I HAVE TO use them all unfortunately. Linux is by far my favourite when it comes to coding and working. Windows for gaming. And Mac yeah well... for nothing.
PandaPedinte
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I think greenlight is going away late this year, but we always need to consider the "Valve time", anyway I'm also curious to see the repercursion of Valve opening the store.
Flappy Bird and Candy Crush Saga clones everywhere.
i can't speak to a desktop, but coding on my mbp is way nicer (in terms of build quality than my older linux/w7 machines.
re: the samsung, can you play xcom on it?
i also find it hilarious that you own a mac & ipad after the whole "conformist" comment
i've seen fanboys in everything - pc gamer fanboys are as crazy as the others.
i chose my iphone over anroid phones because its the only premium smartphone that is reasonably sized. give me an htc one ultra x thats the size of a 5s and i'm all about it.
looking down at someone as ignorant because of their phone choice is fedora as hell b
Would you look at that. Another person's spirit to break. Muahahahaha
Jawmuncher
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Wow someone was pretty lazy with that daily deal. I recall getting it cheaper than that in the past on steam.
Thanks. All my hopes lie at E3 to see if the rumor turns out true.
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I don't own a mac. I own a system I built myself that I also run OSX on. And I have to own an iPad because I develop software for it.
This is also the only reason I run OSX on the other system, because Apple are fucking protectionist assholes that force you to use their shit if you want to develop and test something on their portable hardware.
Anyway, we're straying far off the subject of the thread here, and I really have better things to do than to get into another of these stupid wars =p
Oh wow...I totally forgot about this.
Yeah, it was 75% off a few times last year.
Stumpokapow
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Err, no, that's very relevant. SFF PCs come with a price premium because of their SFF. There might still be an Apple price premium, but you don't deduce it by saying "my custom built rig is more powerful than a Mac Mini so the Mac Mini is overpriced".
Your complaint here isn't that Apple is overcharging for the Mini, it's that they don't have a standard desktop offering at all. They've got a workstation offering in the Mac Pro, they've got an integrated display option in the iMac, and they've got an SFF option in the Mac Mini. They don't have a standard desktop offering. This is because the desktop business is barely a business at all anymore. There's no margin and there's no volume. Same reason every other desktop OEM is fleeing like crazy, and why you hear all your favourite OEM desktop manufacturers announcing tablets and mobile devices rather than desktops. Laptops surpassed desktops in the early 00s, and the adoption of PCMCIA wireless cards and then integrated wireless only accelerated that shift.
It's cool. I'm primarily a Mac user, I like their offerings a lot, but I also have a Windows desktop PC because Apple doesn't participate in the market segment.
Not bad at all.
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FiveElementNinja
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Dammit Steam.
I'm still fine
derExperte
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A bit of Unix under the hood doesn't help when Apple's habit of suddenly cutting off support for older OSX versions kicks in after only a few years or they take months/years to fix known security holes. One of the reasons why most companies prefer Windows isn't so much price but predictability and known roadmaps. Getting very well built devices also isn't much of a problem anymore.
And the craziest fanboys I've ever known were indeed Apple users.
True. But Gun Monkeys, as fun as it is, is really dead.
Anyone have any idea what price point Tropico 5 is going to land at?
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all valid points, and i agree with you.
except that last bit, euro football fanboys are the craziest. they'll straight up cut you.
No idea, but I imagine it'll be whatever Tropico 4 released at.
More_Badass
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The atmosphere in the trailer alone is fantastic. What do you think, guys? Get it or hold off?
With playfire rewards for Gun Monkeys and trading cards for most of the games that bundle pays for itself, really.
Jawmuncher
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Hold Off it's been cheaper.
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Hold off, it's not that great. Just play Bio Infinite and call it a day.
There's going to be a 4-pack!
Wait...
It's going to be hilarious if this goes up on the store as-is and people find that they're getting NASCAR instead of Tropico.
That would be quite something lol
Please be Binding of Isaac Rebirth.
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System Shock 2 is the greatest video game ever made (influencing everything from Bioshock to Dead Space to Portal to...), so there's that (just remember to rebind the keys and know that the opening is stereotypically 90s PC and a bit too drawn out).
Some people are like "Meh, buy for $2.50 vs $5," but these people can be reliably disregarded because they're not saying "IT WAS WORTH IT AT $10" which it totally was. Yes. It's gone on sale at 75% off. And if I could afford even one copy, I'd buy it and give it away on modbot right now, just so other people could enjoy it.
MMBosstones86
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But can you throw it?
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