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Is it stupidity, or a sort of intellectual laziness? I get the sense that he gets a Cool Idea and then incorporates that into a story without really bothering much to think through all the ramifications outside of the immediate plot. Intellectual laziness with a heady mixture of chasing 'cool ideas...

Oxymoron wrote:For Linux people :

A thought-provoking opinion piece regarding the involvement of corporations in the open-source world.

Big software houses chasing mobile or console computing has made some rage inducing software changes for desktop and server enviroments.

evilsoup wrote:Zod, no, I haven't
I'll have to look into that
my instinct is that I'll run into a similar problem, just switching bbcode for mediawiki or whatever... but maybe someone has written a wiki with WYSIWYG capabilities

mediawiki and WYSIWYG

And how exactly does it differ from all the other "Bird/Swine-Flu" "pandemics" which have erupted in the last decade and have failed to make even a notable percentage of the dead normal, "vanilla" flu makes every year worldwide ? Bird/Swine-Flu is vastly nastier in a h...

RogueIce wrote:So I finally saw The Hobbit and I have to say that scenes with Sméagol still bore the shit out of me. It hasn't gotten any better since TTT.

The Lord of the Rings, book, series may have had excellent world building and technically very well written, but I found it horrifically boring.

I'm just going to point out that he's talking about Spacebattles. The upper limit on creepy is really somewhere in the "get your head blown off by actress's security guards" territory. The upper limit would be pedophilia roleplay, the parties involved in that one largely got banned and th...

evilsoup wrote:I thought that Tuvix was a better character than either Tuvok or Neelix

This was not a high bar to pass

"taking over" probably has the wrong tense.

Aaron wrote:It's out?

Yes, unlocked at 10pm my time. Played till 1am, then went oh-crap and went to sleep.

Flagg wrote:Arthas dies, Illiden dies. The end.

There is no end, silly. It keeps going like a shambling zombie.

Bioshock Infinite is quite fun for the opening 30 minutes so far. But the mouse acceleration being on by default, and tiny PoV by default is rather anoying.

But since this game gives me options I can fix that.

The amount of fanboys gushing over the new Simcity and willingness to forgive outright lies is kinda horrifying. Maxis/EA has outright lied to people's faces that multiplayer is 100% required and that they "offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers so that the computations...

RyanThunder wrote:Man. Vendetta is such a fucking moron.

Assuming Vendetta is using the same nick on spacebattles, that is utterly nothing.

Go read some of the utter bullshit he posts in the Non-SciFi-Debates forum over there, it's brain meltingly bad.

Although you raise an interesting issue, as kickstartered games are a kind of preorder. And I don't mind putting down money for those. Kickstarter games generally come with a lot more stuff, and have the money going nearly directly to the developer (only about 15% taken by kickerstarter + amazon) c...

Somehow people should be happy to jump at the chance of working a menial job that has zero career growth and no prospects because... just because, really. Meanwhile the gap between rich and poor continues to widen and nobody is game enough to point out that in the game of 'who's the biggest spoiled...

Again, I don't mean to sound snide, but you could just use the windows key, couldn't you? Windows key is only capture in fullscreen mode direct to the VM. RDP in RDP this fails, windowed mode this fails, multi-monitors is a fucking pain in the ass because the cursor to travels to another monitor. T...

Issue 4: Remote monitors/Virtual Machines - GAAAAAA!!!! This is where the edge model breaks down. RD or a VM window for windows 8 makes me absolutely insane. The first time I tried Windows Server 2012 I rage quit and deleted the VM when trying to deal with the 1x1 pixel required to hit to bring up ...

Look, if the moderators of this board think it's inappropriate, delete the post. lol If it helps, this board is currently physically in Australia. Just no stock trading, or having boards for that explicit purpose. I don't want to touch the legal reporting requirements that ASIC requires for places ...

zhaktronz wrote:in australia you can be charged for engaging in unregulated high risk behavior. its mostly used to prosecute morons who go swimming in flood water and then have to be rescued

To be fair, normally it is idiots swimming in flood water and now rescue services are now retrieving a water logged corpse.

I'm half surprised they didn't do a fund drive just to buy a new server. The issue is time. Kier Darby is the only guy with the proper access to the server, but the forum admins have a hell of a time getting contact with him. Throw in that Xenforo is being sued by vbulletin's owners and Darby's for...

Holy shit, no wonder they've been having server problems. And yeah, CRW has some really popular authors on it. I should take a look again... They where spamming >25000 post threads in under a week. Not to mention Xenforo had some structural issues where it would read an entire thread after a post t...

So just for fun I did the same thing with SB, same time, plus a year earlier. If you can show the member ship population by the same time, you should see a massive spike late 2009ish just preceeding the posting rate going insane. I wonder what caused that huge explosion. Late 2009, the Creative Wri...

That Sony loves money more than anything. Thier insurance arm apparently makes money compared to the consumer electronics parts which randomly hemorrhaging it. Hey Veef you seem like someone who might know this: who owns the rights to the old Shining Force games, particularly the third if it's spre...

phongn wrote:He went on a rampage and left. I have no idea why.

I was always amazed he stay for so long given how hostile parts of the forums treated him and the hot/cold relationship with the mods/admins from a public perspective.

Those rumors are likely true. But one saving grace of the EU is that Valve/Steam is in deap water over having button labeled "Buy" in what is marketed as a 'store' with 'sales' without actually permitting customers to sell or transfer what they own. I'm hoping this brings actual changes: E...

Stofsk wrote:On almost-full settings, it is fucking gorgeous.

Crysis has nothing on the Witcher 2 for resource requirements. But damn if it isn't so much more immersive.