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Face it, at this rate, in three years, only supercomputers will be able to run Dwarf Fortress over 50 pop.

We've got some minor discussion of it going in Multiplayer Networking. Didn't realize we had a proper ArmA 2 thread.

I can't be sure, but I think I also have that case.

See, I think Day Zed is less a zombie apocalypse game and more a Paranoid Douchebag Simulator. Or, if you prefer a "How humans would behave if the world went to shit" sim. Even if he hadn't added the bandit system, I gather there were already people basically functioning as bandits anyway. Day Zed (DayZ sounds weird to say quickly) is less about surviving zombies, because anyone with half a brain simply doesn't fight the entire town of zombies to get things done, and more about "Is that guy trustworthy?" "Is that dude going to shoot me in the back if I save him from zombies?" I think I can agree that the current implementation of the bandit/humanity system could use some work, but in the end I think it's a vital part of the way the game is played at the moment. For instance, my friend isn't a bandit at the moment. I am. We were holed up on the roof of The International (actual tallest building in Cherno, I was mistaken) and we saw a guy going to loot the guys we had killed a few minutes ago. So my friend went down and interacted with the guy. Except I did the talking. I wasn't a known bandit at the time, I was just the guy who had snarky remarks for everyones problems in chat, and helped the new guys understand the ArmA interface. So he goes down and does all the motions and pretends to be the one talking. But I'm doing the talking and lining all this up. So they team up and start moving down the street from my view point. My friend suddenly stops, and I say in Side chat "Woah, hold up. Did you hear those shots?" Well there weren't any shots, at least not until I shot the guy in the head from up high. I've started playing Day Zed less as a zombie simulator and more of a "How much of an devious asshole can I be?" simulator. And to be fair, that's maybe not how the game is meant to be played (though the main developer is a sanctimonious asshat who wants you to ragequit his game anyway), but it has delivered some of the most memorable and adrenaline pumping "HOLY SHIT!" experiences I have had in gaming, and I've only been playing it less than a week.

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Another song whose music video is, while cool, completely inane. Song is still :tup::tup::tup::tup::tup: though. ghb6eDopW8I

I've been playing it for several hours a night since Tuesday. Here's a synopsis of my playtime Thursday. "So I spent three hours trucking around from Solnichniy, to Kamyshovo, through Tulga, Msta, Dolina, the factory between Orlovets and Polana and finally into Gorka to attempt a car repair in the dead of night. We'd looted the grocery store in Polana, and all the other towns we'd passed through had been thoroughly ransacked, so we were all sitting pretty with your top-tier never-left-the-coast pubby weapon, the Winchester. Real beauty, that thing. So we're kitted out, ALICE packs, compass, map and watch, the whole nine. We decided to end the night by heading into Gorka from Polana and repairing the car. Turns out we need another tire so we head back (me in the lead ) to where I think the factory is. In fact, we run a whole circle around the factory without seeing it once, and end up back in Gorka. Gunshots. A Winchester and two AKs. We move into Gorka from the south, the up-hill side of town, and spot them in the barn/lumber yard area below the fuel tank in Gorka. I step into a three window for a moment (the log cabin lootable) and pull a CZ from my pack. My two compadres have moved into the industrial area where the gas tank is held, and are looking down the cliff for our new friends. I see one, I give it a second for him to pull up to the barn he's about to enter and click. Winchester down. The other two light out for the nearest cover, directly back into my friends. Winchesters and AKs open up. And then for a second, silence. I click again and it's down to me and the other AK. I get a brief glimpse of him, he's got a Kobra variant, so I decide to stick up the hill. It's a bad move. Pow, pow. Thht, thht. Two hits in the wall behind me. I take a crouch-walking shot, miss and end the night satisfied with the experience but with a hole in my face. This game just keeps delivering." And I ended tonight by having a standoff on top of a giant tower in the main city with two guys, gunning down one with an AKS-74U and forcing the other to leap to his death by dropping a grenade on his head. E: I lied about stopping for the night! I logged back in... for all of a minute and a half. "So a friend and I dominated Cherno on US7 for a few hours this evening. It ended with a weird firefight on top of the tall grain building in Cherno that I logged out after fixing myself up with, because it attracted a lot of attention (Grenades will do that). So I log back into a US hardcore server just to see if I can catch anyone on that building, and lo and behold there are three flares popped down-coast of Cherno. I take a look and see a group of three survivors. They get engaged by a bandit on the inland side of the Cherno gas station, and I open up with my CZ. Suddenly there's the crack of another CZ down and to my left somewhere and I quietly freak out, but keep sending rounds downrange. So does the other guy, and as far as I can tell he takes out one guy. I drill the last survivor through the armpit and suddenly stand, gaining a bandit skin. I take a minute to prone, back further back onto the roof and chuckle at the survivors talking in chat. I log the fuck out, terrified of what shit may be getting zeroed on me or the other CZ that opened up. TL;DR - A minute thirty of gameplay more tense than most things I've ever experienced in gaming"

I'm definitely in it for the experience, or the memories. Hence my general disdain for "casual" games and my prevalence for MMOs/multiplayer games. For instance, during the later days of my time in WoW, I set up a weekly trivia quiz in Orgrimmar. Every Sunday, a always surprising number of people would show up and answer the most inane and thought provoking trivia questions I could come up with. Mostly for in-game money, sometimes for rare or neat items. By the time I stopped doing it there were even a few low level orc and troll alts (they start very near Orgrimmar, the main Horde city) of Alliance players decked out in full twink gear because of their answers. I'll always remember that experience in general, but I'll never forget things like the half-hour argument over what tense was used in Nietzsche's famous abyss quote. Utterly pointless, but highly entertaining.

You're thinking of Arizona.

How does it feel to be so wrong?

Watching Smallville seriously for the first time (ever only caught bits and pieces of episodes even while it was actively on), not sure how I feel about this. I almost feel like I should just skip straight to the later seasons where it's less "Oh man, my hormones!" and more "Oh man, giant laser gun from space!" We'll see.

Absolutely terrible.

Not the exact same amount, no! I fully understand people pirating in situations where there just aren't stores (brick and mortar OR digital) available in their countries. Steam, D2D, those kinds of things frequently don't support a lot of Middle Eastern/Russian bloc countries, and I can perfectly understand that. But the amount of people who pirate things because - Fuck this developer - Don't have the money - Don't want to/have to pay Will never significantly decrease. The main reason being that these people are (in general) younger kids before they get their own income. And there will always be younger kids available to do this. Or maybe I'm wrong. Who knows. Don't get me started on the people who pirate games because they think they're morally right because a developer is using some shitty DRM scheme. There will always be self-righteous, entitled assholes.

The three point landing is basically the "Look at how cool I am" button for anything involving falling from a great distance/entering into a battle in style. You may increase the cool factor by extending one of your legs unnecessarily.

Oh jesus, really? Welp, waiting for TES:VI then. (For those of you potentially unaware, the HeroEngine is what SW:TOR runs on. It is a pile of shit.)

You're really in the wrong hobby for that wish. Autumn is basically the time when gamers spend a ton of money on games that we don't end up finishing until next Autumn. Damn you corporate big wigs!

I'm pretty amused by the number of people that said "Definitely" to "Do you think people would pirate less with _____" I might just be really cynical in regards to that.

More likely than not.

Absolutely. The video is completely stupid and makes no sense, but the song itself is just . Totally recommend you check out some of his other stuff, Wrestle.

That was the third movie! (And Portmans only worthwhile bit of acting in the entire trilogy.)

It's a Majesty universe TBS in the Civ 5 engine. I intend to try it out at some point, but I'll likely wait until they patch in MP.

Eh, eh? There are, we’re told eight or nine different broad methods of completing a level. These were but two, and both were fatal. Another would have been to look for side missions in the streets around the Golden Cat – which, despite being a multi-tier building filled with side rooms and cellars and surrounded by gardens, constitutes “less than half” of the level’s overall space. One side mission opens up the roof path that allowed a stealthier entrance to the cat, but another would have involved doing favours for a local gangster and thus persuading him to help Corvo’s cause. It’s not shown today, but done right this results in the gangster kidnapping the Pendletons and forcing them to work in their own slave mines.

Possibilities include: - Don't listen to him. Anyone who says "You know, pro player X did this so so will I!" is an idiot. - Force-staffing someone into a rolling meatball (chaos meteor). A better way to do this is Deafening Blast but sometimes you haven't leveled Wex. (In which case why are you using meatball, work that Snap/Spirits combo.) - I really don't know. He doesn't synergize particularly well with it, apart from the way in which all people can use force staff. Which is to say, be an unkillable jerk. (Or sacrifice friends/troublesome teammates on the bloody altar of the enemy team.)

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