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Demut

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You so silly, Steam

10 March 2013 - 02:46 AM

So Lucian and I played “The Banner Saga: Factions” right when it came out. Apparently there were still some problems with its compatibility with the Steam overlay since this is what our chat looked like:

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01:48 - Demut: Are you playing it right now?
01:48 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": yes
01:48 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": ggetttiing hhoot seervver uupddaatte
01:48 - Demut: yeah
01:48 - Demut: And what the fuck    iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis up   with the steaaaaaam chat?
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": i         dunnoo
01:49 - Demut: I tttttttttttttthought  tttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhat wass    jjuusstt                       me
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": thhiis gaamee  fuckss upp  typinng
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": tnaahh
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": iiiiiiiit''ss tthhee  ggamme
01:49 - Demut: hahaha
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": skyrrimm
01:49 - Demut: Yeah
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": would liikee maakke  aallteernate capps
01:49 - Demut: My opponent rage quit
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": loolll
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": i''mm sstickiinngg  iit  ouut wwiithh tthhe uppdatees
01:49 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": yyoouu sshhouuldd ppossteed this convvvvversation
01:49 - Demut: Earlier I spent like a minute fixiiiing this iiiissue
01:49 - Demut: Word
01:50 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": itt  woorkks fine if II  aalltt  ttabbb
01:50 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": buuttt
01:50 - Demut: But now I feel kinda relievedd tthhatttttt I can just ignore it
01:50 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": ffuulll  sscreenn
01:50 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": nnoppe
01:50 - Demut: heh
01:50 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": ggggggooddddaaammnn  thiss ffuck is ttaakiinng  his swwwwweeett  aassss ttiime
01:50 - Demut: Oh well, it's the first day
01:51 - Demut: Man, I cannnnnnnnnn't waittt to get   some mmmmmmore ddiverse teams
01:51 - Demut: It sucksss if you basically mmmmirror your opponent
01:51 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": yyeeahh
01:51 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": II wwoouulld mmuchh  prreffeer iif  ttuurrnnss  wwerree  ssttat  bbaased
01:51 - Demut: Meh.
01:51 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": lliikke  in ootthheerr gammeess liikee FFFTT
01:52 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": uuniitss wwiitth mmorree  aaggiiilliityy  ggoot  ttoo ggo fiirsstt
01:52 - Demut: Yeah, I guess that coulllllld work, too.
01:52 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": fft bbroo
01:52 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": it wworrkkeedd  perrfeectlyy
01:52 - Demut: Or beiiiiiing able to freely choose with whom to attack
01:52 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": eveen iin  mpp
01:52 - Demut: Like, you could either attack with the big unit or two smmmmmalls ones
01:52 - Demut: Something like thattttt
01:53 - Demut: I hate waiting like ten turns to use my giannt the second time
01:53 - Demut: You have to plan so far ahead
01:53 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": thhis nneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds toffucckiinnng  hhuurrry
01:53 - Demut: Are you in a matchh right now?
01:53 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": i  hhave  ttwoo prrommootttteedd  uunittss  annd II jjusstt  nneeeedd 33 reknnoownn
01:53 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": yyeesss
01:54 - Demut: Miine just finished after the guy rage quit so I'mmmmmmmmmm fine
01:54 - Demut: Although I got lllless renown than I would have normally, I thinnnnnnnnk :(
01:54 - Demut: Might be wrong aaaabout that though
01:54 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": fuck this noise
01:54 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": I'll play again tomorrow after they fix this shit
01:54 - Demut: Sure, I  think I'lllll do the same.
01:55 - Demut: Welll, quit it for today,  I mean.
01:55 - Frolaire "Can't find mah sun!": yeah

Surprise, surprise ...

06 March 2013 - 10:49 PM

Remember this thread from a while ago about an ominous website with a countdown to March 1st that might or might not reveal Prey 2? Well, as it turns out it’s actually a fan-made website meant to draw attention to the quarrel between Humanhead and Bethesda which caused Prey 2’s delay in the first place. It contains a petition to get the game finished, a neat little timeline showing all the information from its announcement till today, what media has been released so far (screenshots, trailers, interviews etc.) and a forum. To quote the makers of the site:

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Prey 2 means a lot to many people. While we’re not an official site, we hope our efforts to research and include all known Prey 2 material will show the depth and value this game experience can offer to fans old and new.

Who wouldn’t want to play an open-world first-person shooter as a bounty hunter in an alien-noire setting?

We hope others feel the same way and drop by to show their support for the game.

[...]

One of the core purposes of this website is generating interest in Prey 2′s status.

Well, that didn’t go as expected but let’s hope their plan actually comes to fruition.

Russia gon’ Russia

05 March 2013 - 12:36 PM

Today it’s been sixty years since Stalin died and what do those whack jobs over there do? Hold commemorations and praise him. What a bunch of imbeciles :lol: Falsification of history at its worst. Oh and according to a poll on the topic 53% of the people asked about their view of Stalin responded that they deem Stalin’s role in Russian history positive.

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Do violent video games desensitize people to violence?

13 February 2013 - 12:46 PM

No, according to this recent study (the article’s in German, sorry).

The Hannover Medical School conducted a study in which they had 56 participants (28 of them avid consumers of violent video games, 28 of them without any significant contact with that medium) watch pictures with different degrees of emotional content. They ranged from themes like a man sitting in front of a computer to a smiling elderly couple to blood-smeared crash victims. While they viewed these images their brains were monitored in an MRI scanner. Certain cerebral areas play a role in processing strong emotional contents. If the hypothesis that violent video games lead to a desensitization to violence were true the gamers should have reacted differently to the graphic images than the control group did. But this was not the case.

Gregor Szycik, head of the laboratory for cognitive neuropsychiatry, adds that the link between violent video games and aggressive behavior in real life which was shown in a series of other studies might have different roots:

“The possible induction of aggressive behavior by violent video games can be explained with different hypotheses. The desensitization hypothesis is just one of those and we couldn’t confirm it for the time being. But the results of the meta-analysis might be explained with other hypotheses which we’ll have to examine in the future.”

For instance, it might be that training a specific reaction to a specific situation on the computer over and over again (such as shooting as soon as you encounter an enemy) could lead to aggressive reaction in similar real life situations. The learned reaction patterns might then be automatically applied. However, Szycik adds:

“I do not assume that one can say per se that the consumption of violent video games directly and inevitably leads to violent actions.”

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Well, there we have it. One myth down.

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013

10 February 2013 - 08:28 AM

Who here owns this game, how do you like it (especially compared to its predecessors) and why haven’t we dueled yet :P ?

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