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- August 20, 2014, 11:44 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Oculus Rift DK2 - Initial Impressions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5737
Re: Oculus Rift DK2 - Initial Impressions
They had a small stand setup at GenCon this past weekend. It was pretty cool, but as you noted, it ain't high definition enough yet. I will be looking for this thing to be a "big deal" in about 3 years I would guess. Yes...that long...for it to be compact enough with a good enough resoluti...
- August 4, 2014, 7:34 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Guardians of the Galaxy
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8812
Re: Guardians of the Galaxy
saw it friday as well, imax 3d. I didn't think the imax3d brought anything to the table, so cheap asses go for 2D, you'll be fine. Great, fun, summer blockbuster. no doubt. Villain was kinda wtf who cares...but its not really about him being evil, its about Thanos. They just didn't really portray th...
- August 4, 2014, 7:31 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Video Card time..
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7998
Re: Video Card time..
yeah, I think that's the only Maxwell desktop GPU...so that would be the low power part, and the performance part
- July 17, 2014, 11:06 am
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: The Official NextBox Thread!
- Replies: 1335
- Views: 253983
Re: The Official NextBox Thread!
Still waiting to see official sales volume worldwide, but MS is showing significant growth of sales in North America after they dropped the kinect and lowered the price of the box.
Maybe a lesson is to be learned....nah, nevermind. They will fuck something else up.
Maybe a lesson is to be learned....nah, nevermind. They will fuck something else up.
- July 14, 2014, 12:14 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: World Cup 2014
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27649
Re: World Cup 2014
That dude was on the mat so much during the extra time, it was almost sad! I thought he was flopping on the that face scratch, because at speed, it looked like nothing, but then he got up and I was like wow. Now I'm thinking when he was on the ground rolling around that he was tearing it open! Eithe...
- July 7, 2014, 7:53 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Video Card time..
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7998
Re: Video Card time..
I can't believe at 1080p a 770 can't max everything!
- July 1, 2014, 8:49 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6913
Re: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
I don't need to watch a documentary. I'm Ukrainian. I imagine I have a better understanding of what Communism actually is than you ever will. Lets look at the "lower class" in communism. Today you make x...because x is what we determined the masses need. Not Y. Just X. You don't want to ma...
- July 1, 2014, 8:32 am
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2602
Re: Transformers: Age of Extinction
If I would have given up on Xmen after the stupidity of the third one, I would have missed two splendid xmen movies :) So you can't just discredit, although, I would agree that anything that has Michael Bay attached, you can probably discredit before its even filmed. That new planet of the apes movi...
- June 30, 2014, 4:56 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2602
Re: Transformers: Age of Extinction
Wow...how disappointing. Sounds like they rushed to release to a specific date, as to not go head to head against other summer releases.
They did make some cool trailers though! Guess I'll be waiting for dvd.
They did make some cool trailers though! Guess I'll be waiting for dvd.
- June 30, 2014, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6913
Re: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
I'm just using the term thrown around most by anti-capitalism folk. But I would think that the most common answer to someone identifying exploitation in the capitalistic society, is the worker who does his job, gets paid what he gets paid, and sees the amount of money the company makes "off his...
- June 30, 2014, 1:45 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6913
Re: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
Land of the Free doesn't work with any form of altruistic behavior. Its impossible to stifle what the US is. Communism, Socialism, they don't work for the majority of us. How many of us watch Star Trek, and think "yeah right" with that altruistic approach to life/work. I would argue, that ...
- June 27, 2014, 2:47 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6913
Re: A rich guy speaks out to other rich folk
Read the entirety of it. Its a good op-ed piece, agree with it mostly. But prying money from old hands is an impossible task. He's "young" in the grand scheme of the super rich, so his ideals are in tact. Its great to see new ideas and their implementation, and subsequent success, in citie...
- June 25, 2014, 2:24 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: World Cup 2014
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27649
Re: World Cup 2014
I guess you haven't watched a match with Japan in it yet! hahaha They were the worst so far.
- June 23, 2014, 12:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Poll: Obama rating slips
- Replies: 489
- Views: 139928
Re: Poll: Obama rating slips
its a presidential discussion thread. But you are right, its every politician. Vote in the self serving, get nothing in return.Spang wrote:The problem isn't one president or all presidents. The problem is capitalism.
- June 22, 2014, 11:38 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Poll: Obama rating slips
- Replies: 489
- Views: 139928
Re: Poll: Obama rating slips
I don't think we disagree. Just saying when it comes to blame on Clinton personally...its not just him. Its every single damn one of the suits we've elected since 1977...and counting. On the 2001 dealio, I'm using that as the turning year for the conventional vs. sub prime loan writing uptick. Up un...
- June 22, 2014, 11:36 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: World Cup 2014
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27649
Re: World Cup 2014
That was so disapointing after waiting an entire half for US's shots to start hitting. Oh well, not like they are done yet! Germany looked very human against Ghana. If US pushes pace like 2nd half tonight, they may pull out another tie.
- June 20, 2014, 2:53 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Poll: Obama rating slips
- Replies: 489
- Views: 139928
Re: Poll: Obama rating slips
Sort of true. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (Clinton didn't create the act, it just started being paid attention to early in his era) was created to ensure and help low income families get a mortgage due to banks denying families of low income status. Early Clinton era, a study was produced...
- June 20, 2014, 9:55 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Poll: Obama rating slips
- Replies: 489
- Views: 139928
Re: Poll: Obama rating slips
I don't see how Hillary loses, tbh, with the way things are right now. I will be voting for a third party, so my vote won't determine shit as usual, other than hopefully splitting up that free money they throw to these useless parties for elections. They should get nothing. Although I will give kudo...
- June 18, 2014, 7:27 pm
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: Game Deals (No Canadians Allowed!)
- Replies: 499
- Views: 120504
Re: Game Deals (No Canadians Allowed!)
Well, pre-emptive post to remind folks of Steam's summer sale tomorrow.
here's a linkie poo: http://steamdb.info/sales/
The countdown has started!
here's a linkie poo: http://steamdb.info/sales/
The countdown has started!
- June 16, 2014, 5:18 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
Well, his fatness aint gonna let them get ahead of his books. So he will ruin this show eventually, either by forcing them to go to 1 episode long "seasons"...or filler, fluff, sit around and drink wine episodes. Remember, he wrote soo much for book 5 he was done with most of 6...hahaha......
- June 16, 2014, 9:33 am
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
I'm all for changing the small details from the books. Like Cano said, the books are spitballed together, out of order jumble de bumble. Not good for TV, so they fixed it. The finale was fun, wrapped it up nice with a little brown bow...see what I did there? he was on the crapper, teehee! I will giv...
- June 11, 2014, 6:04 pm
- Forum: Video Game General Discussion
- Topic: E3 - 2014
- Replies: 60
- Views: 22503
Re: E3 - 2014
You have to have a low bar for console makers. They promote everything like its theirs, when the real geniuses of E3, are the game makers. In my mind, there is no winner of a console presentation, because most of their presentation is some other person's/company's hard work.
- June 11, 2014, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Video Game General Discussion
- Topic: E3 - 2014
- Replies: 60
- Views: 22503
Re: E3 - 2014
I think Microsoft "won"...because their presser was basically a giant admission to just being ridiculously stoopid and wrong last year, on what the xbone is/was to be. Its a gaming machine...they just took an extra year to realize that, and so fashioned their presentation around a gaming m...
- June 10, 2014, 9:27 am
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
- June 9, 2014, 1:21 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Edge of Tomorrow
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3915
Re: Edge of Tomorrow
Excellent point. Also, Yoga is awesome.Winnow wrote:Well, they had to show the cleavage shot just one more time!Kluden wrote:I liked it a lot too, except for one thing...
- June 8, 2014, 10:58 pm
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: World Cup 2014
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27649
Re: World Cup 2014
World Cup is fun, but I actually just prefer premiere league. I'll watch the matches, and pray the US pulls some amazing play out of their rears.
- June 8, 2014, 10:54 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Edge of Tomorrow
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3915
Re: Edge of Tomorrow
I liked it a lot too, except for one thing...
- June 2, 2014, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
And another item, did they run out of production money...as in I don't remember the dragons just being gone at Mereen...so what's up with that? they ate the shepherds goats...then nothing for weeks. and sadly, we are in for wasted 5+ minutes a week for the foreseeable future with Grey Worm/Hot Chick...
- June 2, 2014, 11:46 am
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
Yeah, the Mereen shit is just dumb after they moved in. Not sure how they will redo book timelines to make things more interesting. Actually, it appears they will make things more interesting by inventing a love story with a dude with no junk (and an uber hot girl, no doubt)...and the exile of Sir F...
- June 2, 2014, 8:48 am
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
What the fk is with adding the dumb useless stuff to storyline? I don't remember the whole grey worm and hot chick stuff from the books. Were people really clambering for more storyline with grey worm?
The arya part was great. I LOL'd too.
The arya part was great. I LOL'd too.
- May 20, 2014, 7:06 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Godzilla 2014
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1707
Re: Godzilla 2014
I'm excited to see it, just haven't had time. plus spiderman...and xmen coming out...too much shit to see at the theatre.
- May 20, 2014, 9:40 am
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Guardians of the Galaxy
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8812
Re: Guardians of the Galaxy
Gah! You know that guantlet is massive power...because it has comic lens flare!
- May 12, 2014, 2:02 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
They are dragging a bit...his fatness must have told them he has no intention of releasing another book for a decade or so. :) I'll take it though, at any speed, with these actors. Its just so much fun to watch, with the skill that is on display with these scripts. This could have easily been a fkd ...
- April 29, 2014, 10:05 am
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
I was curious as well...but what I think happened, is that the show writers told GRRM how shitty of a job he did trying to write like Sir Doyle, and told him for TV, you're just going to have to come out of the closet with it. Well, at least after GRRM told them now, he didn't have any further plans...
- April 28, 2014, 6:26 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
Well I guess last night's episode clears up all that madness
- April 25, 2014, 9:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: E Cigarette
- Replies: 93
- Views: 34902
Re: E Cigarette
if you're looking for the premium shizzle, its Alice and Vapeland, NiteLiteVapor, and Prime Vaping. No matter how good though, taste is everything, and taste is subjective. So happy hunting!
- April 24, 2014, 10:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: E Cigarette
- Replies: 93
- Views: 34902
Re: E Cigarette
I use high desert vapes. I only vape two of their flavors though. Chocolate coffee and Dueling Banjos. They also have a coupon going all the time for 40% off...its typically just FORTYOFF for the code. dueling banjos is my daily use. I like the mild tobacco flavors with caramel. They make and mix in...
- April 24, 2014, 8:43 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
OK, i rewatched ep2 before this weeks episode. I see now. Yeah, that's not in the book at all, all that handling. So I guess GRRM decided to show it, since he never wrote it well enough :) Yes they do. They specifically mention that Tyrell adjusts Sansa's hairnet. Later on, Sansa says that one of t...
- April 23, 2014, 7:37 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
OK, i rewatched ep2 before this weeks episode. I see now. Yeah, that's not in the book at all, all that handling. So I guess GRRM decided to show it, since he never wrote it well enough
On this past week's episode...did anything happen, or is it just me that it was like a week of nothing?
On this past week's episode...did anything happen, or is it just me that it was like a week of nothing?
- April 21, 2014, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: The Official PS4 thread!
- Replies: 1348
- Views: 245494
Re: The Official PS4 thread!
It would appear that console sales themselves are also following the games available trend. Microsoft isn't saying the amount sold, only shipped at this point, of 5 million. Sony has said its sold number is 7 million. But the same articles also show XBO's game attachment rate is about 3 games per co...
- April 14, 2014, 6:10 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
Yeah, I remember all that in the books, but it wasn't all straight up in the least. So circumstantial. So when did she put this gem in the cup, in the wine? The cup was thrown around that the last person to grasp it, beyond Tyrian, had to be it, no? So if the grand mama put it in the cup, than the p...
- April 14, 2014, 4:15 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 4
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12439
Re: Game of Thrones - Season 4
That episode was one I was waiting on for a long time.
- March 26, 2014, 11:33 am
- Forum: Video Game General Discussion
- Topic: Diablo 3!!
- Replies: 288
- Views: 80011
Re: Diablo 3!!
the expansion is now out...played it for 5 hours...leveled way faster than I thought it would be...and naturally, in standard blizzard fashion of expansions, they just make the HP of mobs super high, and the old "great" gear is trash. :) Having fun so far. Died a few times on Master diffic...
- March 25, 2014, 8:41 am
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: The Official NextBox Thread!
- Replies: 1335
- Views: 253983
Re: The Official NextBox Thread!
OK...maybe now its worth it. Xbone is $399 on amazon with code XIAMAZON...well, when its not sold out. I assume it got slick dealed...but that's the right price.
- March 21, 2014, 5:22 pm
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: The Official NextBox Thread!
- Replies: 1335
- Views: 253983
Re: The Official NextBox Thread!
"Inferior" is just what I used to shorten what I mean. Its probable the wrong adjective to use. What I mean by using it, though, is that the xbone and ps4 have the same APU, one has more cores/gpu units, etc. This would take more power, more circuitry, more design, more everything to utili...
- March 21, 2014, 4:16 pm
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: The Official NextBox Thread!
- Replies: 1335
- Views: 253983
Re: The Official NextBox Thread!
I'll still wait for the next round of drops, the $299 xbone that doesn't have the stupid kinect, and takes into account the inferior hardware, and is priced accordingly vs the competition! I'm not interested in titanfall. Since its just a partial game, I would be ok with it at $20 or less, like a DL...
- March 21, 2014, 4:14 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: True Detective
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3125
Re: True Detective
Agreed. Its wierd, the show progression, that's for sure...but definitely a can't miss in my opinion. Well written, dark as a mofocka, and down right nasty at times. Love the actors/characters chosen. Unbelievably well casted.
- March 21, 2014, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: The Official NextBox Thread!
- Replies: 1335
- Views: 253983
Re: The Official NextBox Thread!
Yeah, that's the third retailer now. I'm thinking the $50 price drop is hitting the states, and tigerdirect, walmart, and others are jumping the gun a little on the official price drop.
- March 15, 2014, 9:51 am
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: FFX/FFX-2 HD
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3163
Re: FFX/FFX-2 HD
Yeah, same mistake, meant 13...the one with Lightning. Hated it. 14 is the mmo, so i preclude from judgement What exactly did you hate about 8? I said it wasn't great...as in I could play it through...and not regret paying for it. I regret paying $20 for 13.
- March 14, 2014, 9:47 pm
- Forum: Consoles
- Topic: FFX/FFX-2 HD
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3163
Re: FFX/FFX-2 HD
FF7 is the obvious call...but I liked FF8. It wasn't great...liked it as much as FF9. FFX I didn't care for but still played it through. X-2 never bothered. 12 was lots of fun, hope they HD that one up. Great political story, vs stupid downtrodden boy gets strong story (although that's obviously the...