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So this supposedly goes live in about 6 hours. They'll have some various discussion of the competitive possibilities of BRINK from people who have played Splash Damages previous games in a competitive setting. And at some point (presumably at 12PM EST) they'll have some pub matches commentated. Probably your best chance to see BRINK at the moment, and later on (in a couple weeks) they'll be casting the start of the BRINK competitive scene, which should be nice. QW:ET and W:ET played seriously are. . .something to see. I'll also note that I've seen several Thumbs on my Steam friends purchase BRINK in the last couple days. We should get together and pub-stomp (read: get our asses kicked) a server.

It's a case of you taking shit too seriously and not expressing yourself well, Tanu. And that's all I have to say on the matter, because it's pissing me off. . . .

Despite how utterly amazing that trailer is, the thing that always strikes me most is the big guy in the tank top with the black bandanna, who just shoots a guy off-screen, drops the gun and pulls out another one. None of that trailer is completely true in any respect (melee is limited to gun stocks for example) but that part just strikes me as really cool. That said, I hope the game is half as good as that trailer, and gets the community it deserves. (Which means, if it's shit, everyone just goes back to TF2. Which works for me.) As for SP component: Bot-match campaign with small story clips, exactly like MP. Fiiiinally, that first video is from an early build, if I don't miss my guess. So it's probably considerably smoother now.

I think I'd have less of an issue with religion if people actually used it as some sort of guiding principle for life, instead of taking it so damned seriously. Crusades, doomsayers and. . .this, come to mind. . . jxDEBOi0F3o

Pre-loaded on Steam. *Smug*

I have expressed my true feelings for this community in the tags and probably don't mean it. Considering how the search engine functions, I don't see the need for them, especially as they've become petty bickering-tools.

Unfortunately, I have suspicions of progressive, objective-based cover shooting. And this on top of finding it hard to care about a third Mass Effect (even after my near 180 on ME2) is just. . .eugh. We'll see, as always, but expectations remain middling.

Not to be a braggart, since bragging that something is fundamentally wrong with you as a human being is a poor choice, but I can listen to Nyan Cat all day. It's actually kind of soothing, hence my being broken. Remixes are fantastic as well, mostly.

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I believe that's basically what's occurring, yes. Still irksome.

@: A few posts ago The only thing I have ever taken away from the Toy Story movies is: "You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity." Everything else about it was relatively uninteresting.

As much as I like Ezio (probably one of the better characters in video games in quite a few years, in my opinion) I would like to see them move on. And I definitely don't want to revisit Altair. He was such an unlikeable jackwaffle and I felt like Ezio was a response to that, so it makes me sad they're going to revisit him. That said, Constantinople around this time period? Fuck yes.

I explained over 4 or 5 posts that I dislike the Half-Life series with great intensity, TP, so you're not alone.

So lost. . .

Picture for me gentlemen (and where appropriate, ladies) a game. A video game. That takes the city management elements of Anno 1404, the exploration of a procedural galaxy generator, and the starship and race customization of Spore. Now imagine it's free, in alpha, and is running on an engine that was developed starting in 1995. Still with me? Right. No, it's not the prettiest thing on the ground. Ground textures are rather just a thing, and nothing spectacular. But the procedurally generated wildlife comes up with some astounding cool and sometimes frightening and weird things. You can see the entirety of your solar system from the ground of any planet in the system. At the appropriate times, mind you! If the sun is out and it's mid-day, you can't see the stars, but you might be able to pick out your neighboring gas giant. Hell, if you have a binary star system, you may never see a night! (Godsdamn that would be so nice right now.) Starship customisation allows for pretty much anything you can come up with, though one of the developers (or at least the one doing the screenshots) seems to have a thing for Star Trek replicas. The race options are. . .detailed and interesting. (I could have created bi-pedal, three-armed, cyclopian birdmen, if I wanted.) The basic idea of the game is you start with your own system, in a sector, somewhere in the galaxy. (Eventually there will be multiple galaxies, I hear.) You start with nothing, just a torch and a knife the tutorial NPC gives you, provided you don't off him first. You move from there to creating the basics of a city (housing, food) and eventually working into an entire city of manfactorum and production chains. Once you have everything set up (you're making petrochemicals to make plastic, mining crystals, mining ore to make metal and making mechanisms in order to produce an electronic component, for instance) you move out into space. You take a rocket initially, and must find the components to create grav-couplings and wormhole drives, from which you can make proper starships from. All of your civilization is run by civilians. You attract these with sufficient food, housing and luxury needs, and in turn they run your factories, mines and what-have-you. You have to keep them happy (sufficient amounts of luxury goods, equal jobs to equal people [overwork or out-of-work makes them unhappy) but other than that, once there, they run things for you. Starships (and spaceships later on) can be crewed by trained men, or by a handful of actual players. Ergo, a single starship can be crewed and ridden in by multiple players, instead of the typical one. (EVE, STO) Starships generally travel within systems. They can move to the nearest systems, but must do under their own power. Spaceships (the reason you leave you homeworld to find two special components) are able to traverse wormholes, taking you from system to system much quicker. That's a basic run down of it, and I currently have a mostly set-up city going (I was working on getting the final power/electricity chain working when the server kicked the bucket) and should be in a rocket scouting the system by this afternoon/evening. I'll get some screenshots before I go to bed if the server isn't down for the night. (Perhaps) unfortunately, I'm a bi-pedal bird, but you can create your own race and join my empire by creating your own empire and then joining mine, which, if anyone is interested, I can go over later. The government is set to Dictatorship currently, simply because it's the only one that isn't either totally or partially broken, but we don't have any positions of authority filled other than mine, so I can give a good few people building rights. I think I can even give regular citizens build rights, I'll have to look into that. So, anyone interested?

Yeah, planets are incredibly poorly optimized right now, and certain systems/setups just seem to utterly hate you moving around in game. This computer that I'm posting on has no issue for instance, but the one downstairs (which is actually better) has issues moving. It can build, and work and design, but if I try to move in an established city, no bueno. But yeah, I'll see about taking screenshots and annotating them, or taking some video of the various crew postions. Because A. We have no enemies currently and B. We're only Tech Level 2 We only have 6 unique stations on a ship currently (helm, navigation, engineering, sensors, weapons, captain) so there would be a few issues with everyone getting a turn off the bat, but you can still just stand around on a spaceship if you're not technically crew. Space however, is perfectly fine for performance and looks fantastic. So, anymore people for a great STAR TREK?! Or something. I promise not to crash the ship into the sun.

As it's an alpha, there seems to be a pretty common issue of not being able to move very well. There's also the fact that there's a giant galaxy to be simulated at all times and 4 servers on which to do it. I've actually gone and founded another empire, with (delusions of grandeur) the stuff I learned from the first. It's the "Kushan Embassy" and entering everything between those two quotes when creating a new character and selecting "Join Empire" will find you in New Tiir, where you may contact me if I'm on (Orv), which I am most days. Also, if you find yourself wanting to learn city building, hit up the manual and let me know and I'll make you a government position and send you off somewhere. Alternatively I can give you a ride to the ringworld we're busy colonizing or teach you how to make ships of your own. Since the idea that a starship can be crewed entirely by players was what most interested me about Hazeron (though, I'm considerably more into for other reasons now) I think a THUMBS SCOUTING EXPEDITION would be fantastic. We can all take turns at various stations and captaining the tub. . .I mean ship. You don't have to do anything else. Just show up on the appointed night at the appointed place and hop onboard. You do have to install the client of course, but no other effort would be required. TL;DR New Empire - Kushan Embassy (Join as previously indicated) Thumbs Night? (We all take turns doing various tasks on the ship and as captain) Express interest! Or don't.

I. . .hmmm. I honestly hadn't considered it before, but it does seem to have, doesn't it? I can't come up with a solid answer for the phenomena either. The spice must flow works, I guess.

Rock Paper Shotgun PC Gamer Massively I check each about three or four times throughout the day, and that's basically my PC gaming news drip in a bottle. I go to Giant Bomb more for their video content than their news content (TNT, etc).

Well, I don't think there's been a Doctor Who two-parter that I've not enjoyed (Weeping Angels comes to mind here. I enjoyed it even though it left me a bit skittish for a while.) And yeah, it could probably stand to be a three-parter, but my suspicion is that it'll come back to haunt them later. After all, if my guess is correct, but that's not horribly hard to make a logical-leap to make. Still really enjoyed it, thought Canton was fantastic (as I usually do with that actor) and it's nice to know Doctor Who can still manage the psychological horror, which I've always loved from them.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/12/15/blight-of-the-immortals-blight-up-pt-1/#more-46203 I'm not a giant fan of Neptune's Pride from the little I managed to play of it (damned internet) but this looks like it might be more up my alley. Thoughts? (And really, hilarious back-stabbing not-co-op-co-op with Thumbs? I can't think of a better way to worry myself to death.)

The terrorist attack or the testing for Sony? (Oh gods I'm such a bad person.) I. . .honestly don't remember. I believe I woke up and was told about it, so I was quite likely asleep.

Just watched the first of the new season of Doctor Who. About to watch the second one, and the post will be edited accordingly but uhm. . . WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?! Back soon. Post-Ep2: Damnit, I love Doctor Who. What the hell is going on.

What the fuck is going on here?! So very confused. . . (Please don't actually explain it to me. I just wanted to express my disbelief at. . .whatever this is.)

Channeling Millard Filmore, Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington all at once, is how that is achieved. Also Science.