Lu 

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  1. Oculus rift

    Definitely wait for CV1. DK2 is fun, but there's lots of small things that make it sub-optimal. It's fine if you need the hardware to work on development stuff, but there's so many little things that need to improve to make it less of a hassle. To name a few of the bigger issues: It's just too heavy to be comfortable, the lack of 360 degree tracking is rather annoying and there are only a handful of worthwhile demos and apps, while the rest is just complete garbage.
  2. Awesome Games Done Quick 2015

    I caught a few hours of it and it was pretty amazing. Full of sequence breaks, skips and generally just super good play. The amount of work that must've gone into planning and learning that is pretty amazing. What does MST stand for?
  3. Awesome Games Done Quick 2015

    I was really looking forward to seeing the Arkham City run, but the awkwardness made me turn it off... Bummed me out a bit. The Half Life 2 Episode 2, The Portal 2 and Aperture Tag run though! So good!
  4. Amsterdam/Brussels

    If you like good Thai food, a walking distance from Amsterdam Central Station is a place called O-Cha. The place is tiny and you can only pay with cash. A meal there is going to set you back about 10 or 11 euro's and it's going to be delicious. You won't regret it. If you decide to go there, you might want to go a bit earlier, as i've heard it's pretty much packed after 6-7PM. The Rijksmuseum is kind of a prerequisite unless you really hate museums.
  5. Star Citizen

    New commercial! Testing out their character animation tech, apparently! And just before the holidays they pushed out Arena Commander 1.0, whatever 1.0 means in the context of a project like this. It adds a pretty nifty ship signature system. Details on it found in this pretty lengthy release notes thing. The short 'n sweet of it is that all ship's signatures are based on 3 major things: Electromagnetic radiation, determined by a ships electric systems; Infrared radiation, determined by a ship's heat output; and cross section, which is based on the actual volume of the ship.
  6. Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-

    So bummed out that this hasn't been announced for PC. It looks gorgeous and I'd love to play Guilty Gear again!
  7. Life

    Wasn't me, but I can confirm I vaguely remember you speculating they were an item. If the Idle Thumbs network is ever looking for a good Idle Thumbs gossip based podcast, you should definitely consider Dibs as host though.
  8. Hatred: The Most Despicable Game of All Time?

    Who is claiming censorship here though? Because I think most all of us that have talked about the game here are pretty aware of the difference between Valve refusing to sell it and actual censorship (which I'm pretty sure no one here is advocating for). Am I an outlier in that the things in Hatred don't really perturb me? Looking past the shock value all I see is an uninteresting shooting game. Postal already did all that stuff and that was shit too. But who knows, maybe it can be a cathartic experience for some douchey misanthropic teen... That opening paragraph of this article pretty much nails it for me: "Hatred is the most controversial game of the moment, following in the footsteps of games like Night Trap, Postal, Super Columbine Massacre, Hooligans: Storm Over Gift 3, and many other much decried titles that nobody gave two shits about after release because they turned out to be completely irrelevant. For now though, it’s achieved the media firestorm it wants, sucking everyone from Valve to people who should know better into asking what it says and means for the gaming industry… which is of course precisely nothing, except that publicly accessible tools and distribution methods mean that arseholes can make games too. So, y’know, shock revelation there." Great article. Funny stuff.
  9. Hatred: The Most Despicable Game of All Time?

    I feel confused about this whole Steam removal thing. I understand it's within Valve's right to refuse to put any game on Steam for whatever reason, since it's their platform. But why would they draw a line here, with this game? Or maybe they decided not to after all, since it's back.
  10. Life

    Mega Congratulations to the both of you!
  11. Why doesn't this have its own thread yet? Well, now it does. So, I've heard I'm not the only one who got sucked into this Arma mod. I figured it'd be nice to have a place to talk about DayZ stuff and share stories OF SURVIVAL! We have a Steam group if you want to connect with other DayZ playing Thumbs. You can find it here. Maybe some time I'll tell you guys about how I accidentally blew myself up with my own grenade after I survived for like 8 hours... But that shit ain't funny to me yet.
  12. Plug your shit

    I'm kind of with Spenny and Lacabra at the moment. I think the noise in general is hugely distracting from your actual work. With noise I mean the constant movement of the entire screen. My eyes go all over the place. If I ignore the instructions and just use the mouse, I still end up with a horizontal scroll bar somewhere in my screen which looks a little messy? When deciding to scroll back up to the categories, I was initially rather confused when it just kept going until I noticed the loop.
  13. It is! You know, I have completely forgotten to put it in the Steam group event schedule ever since MNC! I'll try to add it to the Steam event schedule from now on. Last week was the last one of the year though. It will resume in Januari.
  14. Fun game! Those were a few really intense matches!
  15. This video game starts in an hour!
  16. Let's do something special for the final Randomizer of the year. Out of all the games we've played so far, vote on the one you want to see return FOR ONE EVENING ONLY! We'll play the winner on Monday the 8th of December! We meet on Mumble at 8PM UTC. I still have 2 gift copies of Bionic Commando too.
  17. Alright, tomorrow we're going to revisit Bionic Commando. Just as a heads up, you will need Hamachi as we'll be playing on a simulated LAN, since the master server is no longer around. As always, we meet on our Mumble channel! In hamachi you need to go to 'Network > Join existing network' and connect to the following: (Case and space sensitive:) Idle Ham 1 Idle Ham 2 Idle Ham 3 Password for all 3 of these: games If you cannot join 1, then it's full, so join 2 and so on. Let me know if you have any problems.
  18. Alright, tomorrow we're going to revisit Bionic Commando. Just as a heads up, you will need Hamachi as we'll be playing on a simulated LAN, since the master server is no longer around. As always, we meet on our Mumble channel! In hamachi you need to go to 'Network > Join existing network' and connect to the following: (Case and space sensitive:) Idle Ham 1 Idle Ham 2 Idle Ham 3 Password for all 3 of these: games If you cannot join 1, then it's full, so join 2 and so on. Let me know if you have any problems.
  19. Tacoma from Fullbright

    I love scifi! Even more, I love visions of the future that present something a bit more realistic than depressing, poorly lit grey tunnels of tubes and metal plating. Looking forward to this.
  20. Its beginning to look a lot like GOTY

    My top games of the year: Legend of Grimrock II: All 'round amazing successor to an already great game. It addresses pretty much all the issues I had with the first one, mainly where everything kind of looks the same. Grimrock 2 makes up for that with amazing variety and wonderful puzzle design. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Such a well realized world that I loved being in. The game had a nice way of making beautiful natural landscapes feel ominous. It stuck with me in a way that most other games this years have not. The Wolf Among Us: Aside from my minor gripe that it kind of does the same thing The Walking Dead does at the end of the season, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Escape Goat 2: Yea, really! A really good puzzler. It's great. Wolfenstein: The New Order: Can't tell you how much I missed a good shooter in my life. Pretty amazed what they managed to do with Wolfenstein of all things.
  21. Star Wars VII - Open spoilers

    Colbert laying down some truth with his analysis of the lightsaber.
  22. I rate this video four thumbs out of five! No but seriously, well done.
  23. Star Wars VII - Open spoilers

    I for one would never have guessed that it is in fact Andy Serkis doing the narration in that trailer!
  24. Star Wars VII - Open spoilers

    CONSIDER ME TEASED.
  25. Gents, it's starting and tonight we'll be playing Build & Shoot! Download it here. The game is free and tiny! Feel free to hop on at any time!