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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: December 21, 2013, 08:25:35 PM »

Talking about the DS2 PC development, as well as DLC for the DS2:

http://www.edge-online.com/features/dark-souls-producer-says-pc-version-was-rushed-problems-were-expected/

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)

« on: December 18, 2013, 09:47:48 PM »

It's disappointing the Wii U isn't doing better with sales. There's lots of good Nintendo IPs coming out next year, but there's still a huge lack of 3rd party games. I wonder if games like Hyrule Warriors will keep the console alive.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)

« on: December 18, 2013, 08:17:07 PM »

Huh..

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Technology & Information / Re: My phone has been shipped!

« on: December 18, 2013, 01:35:55 AM »

Wow, it really nose dives when not plugged in. Use your phone less, Blanko.

I've heard you shouldn't charge a battery unless it's low on charge because it reduces the maximum charge the battery can hold.  Makes sense because my phone's battery life sucks and I used to charge it and leave it plugged-in overnight.

I've heard the opposite about Li-ion batteries. You're not meant to leave them plugged in, because heat generation can kill them, but charging them early is supposed to prolong battery life.

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Technology & Information / Re: My phone has been shipped!

« on: December 17, 2013, 11:15:52 PM »

What's battery life like?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)

« on: December 17, 2013, 08:25:29 PM »

Obviously I don't care what anyone plays it on and if you prefer it without 3D that's fine, I just really don't understand how people seem to have such a difficult time with it. With the sheer amount of people I meet who have so much trouble with the 3D I feel like either everyone took literally ten seconds to try to figure it out before going all old and "grarh this newfangled whirr-sprocket gizmo is terrible!" or I'm some kind of god at using it.

I've used it for around an hour with both Pokemon and ALBW. I'm more interested in the gameplay, I didn't find the 3D to be much more than a gimmick. There's probably games out there that capitalise on it more than ALBW does, but I'm not really interested in them.

Even with the small screen on the 2DS, ALBW looks very pretty. The only thing I'd get the XL for is the big screen, which is great, but I found it to be a tad dimmer than the 2DS because of the 3D feature.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)

« on: December 17, 2013, 04:51:59 AM »

Played about an hour of A Link Between Worlds, and I'm liking it on the 2DS. The joystick is much better than the dpad was for controls in A Link to the Past and I'm liking the early story more. Besides that it's pretty similar so far.

buuuuut you're missing out on the best 3D ever ;o;

I played it in 3D on a friend's XL. Wasn't terribly impressed, especially since 3D kills the battery faster. The 2DS feels very cheap and plastic-y, but I'm more than happy with it. ALBW was really fun as well, I'm yet to really delve into hero mode for my second playthrough.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)

« on: December 17, 2013, 12:17:05 AM »

Playing Super Mario U and Rayman Legends on the Wii U and both are pretty fun. Trying to get a copy of the Metroid Prime trilogy but it's so damn hard to find anywhere. Also, DayZ standalone alpha was just released, so my holidays are probably going to be consumed by that as well.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 16, 2013, 11:38:35 AM »

There was a fourth season?

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Technology & Information / Re: Laptop needed

« on: December 14, 2013, 10:28:45 PM »

So I just got an e-mail from Dell. They cancelled the laptop because they ran out of stock.

I'm furious. they didn't even contact to offer alternatives or anything. Just cancelled my payment.

Dell are going to get an irate phone call on Monday.

I told you. Dell, never again.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 08:55:08 AM »

I'll not have you comparing anything on Community to Dane Cook.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 08:00:02 AM »

Him appearing as a Drow for Dungeon's and Dragons wasn't funny?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 07:38:31 AM »

Yeah, he was good up until Season 3, where I think he had some moments but was largely unfunny.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community

« on: December 13, 2013, 01:00:06 AM »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/community-season-5-promo_n_4425336.html?utm_hp_ref=community-nbc

This looks completely over the top.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 11, 2013, 10:19:13 AM »

Yep, that one was pretty lazy. Then again, it was posted on 9gag.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 11, 2013, 09:37:51 AM »

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Technology & Information / Re: Laptop needed

« on: December 11, 2013, 02:02:32 AM »

I have a discount code for Dell, so I think I'm going to go with ...

XPS 15

A few months ago it was £1200. I'm gonna be able to pick it up for about £500.

I've had terrible experiences with Dell.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: December 10, 2013, 09:40:02 PM »

So if I had bothered to read the Facebook posts down the bottom (which are usually frustrating), this dude accounts for Dark Souls on PC:

"I won't defend all bad PC ports (and there are plenty), but at least Dark Souls doesn't deserve the flack it gets. From Software never intended to do a PC port, and they were pretty up front about not knowing how. They only did it because a very vocal group asked for it, and when they did cave to those demands they said it wouldn't be optimized for PC. All the texture and frame-rate issues that were fixed by DS fix are in the console version of the game, at least to my knowledge (I played the console version and saw footage of the 'broken' PC version). It's an almost exact port of the game with the same quality that was in the console version, and came with the free DLC that the console gamers had to buy separately, so if anything I'd say it's very slightly better even pre-DS fix. Unfortunately when people say "I want a PC version of this game" what they actually mean is "I want an optimized PC version of this game that isn't built around the constraints of ancient 360 and PS3 hardware", and that's not something that From Software was in a position to deliver. People asked for a PC port of the console version, and they got a PC port of the console version."

So Jim Sterling dun goofed.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: December 10, 2013, 09:34:23 PM »

Why did I sit through that?

Because you're in a Dark Souls thread.

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Arts & Entertainment / Dark Souls

« on: December 10, 2013, 09:26:54 PM »

Gonna revive the Dark Souls thread with this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/8545-Shaming-PC-Ports-Because-Why-Not