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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 18, 2014, 01:09:38 AM »

It bothers the shit out of me that no one knows what happened to this goddamn airplane.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Satellites

« on: March 17, 2014, 01:35:29 AM »

Wrong, has to be line of sight to calculate location.  Look up how it works.

How about explaining precisely why you think that it wouldn't work the way Thork pointed out. Then maybe someone will take you seriously.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 16, 2014, 06:55:11 PM »

If watching speed run videos are any indicator, the best strategy is to wear no armor at all. It is also how you know that the game was poorly designed. Out of all the armor choices the best armor is... none of them.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 16, 2014, 03:53:54 AM »

Probably, but people should see it for what it is: bait and switch.

Even if they do see, they'll still buy the game. Gamers are the first to complain and the last to do anything about it. I can't say anything of course, I've bought games that I hated on before, during and after playing (see: Simcity 2013). In the end companies only change what they do if it significantly damages their bottom line and it never does.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Mormonism & The Book of Mormon

« on: March 16, 2014, 03:50:06 AM »

counting my gold

You're such a Jew.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 16, 2014, 01:34:17 AM »

The museum I'm referring to acquires actual specimens in order to compete with virtual museums.

You're not talking about that back water, ignorant museum catering to the "young galaxy" people are you?

Well, yes and no. I do get the feeling we're talking about different kinds of museums, though. The kind I'm talking about is more, uhh, interactive.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 15, 2014, 11:01:19 PM »

The plane was stolen by aliens for a primitive civilization museum. Prove me wrong.

The galactic alliance doesn't have a primitive civilization museum with actual items.  All items at such museums are virtual reconstructions.  Its cheaper.

The museum I'm referring to acquires actual specimens in order to compete with virtual museums.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 15, 2014, 07:02:23 PM »

The plane was stolen by aliens for a primitive civilization museum. Prove me wrong.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 15, 2014, 07:00:36 PM »

The problem isn't that people pretend Bitcoin is money, rather, the problem is that quite a lot of people pretend it isn't.

OMG BITCOIN SURE GOT TOLD

The comic is funny and not necessarily hating on Bitcoin. The author actually accepts Bitcoin donations.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 15, 2014, 05:50:47 PM »

Yet another game being released for PC after the console release. I guess they want to make sure the glorious PC gamers don't hurt the fragile morale of console peasants.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: March 15, 2014, 04:51:27 PM »

I don't believe there is a single scientist who says man is directly responsible in any way for climate change. Not one.

You're either using a very, very specific definition of "scientist" or you haven't turned on a television since the 60's.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 15, 2014, 02:45:43 PM »

Holy shit, would you assholes just shut the fuck up about this already?  We've had this debate a hundred times before.  There is nothing, absolutely nothing that you can say that you haven't already said each of those hundred times.  Stop derailing threads into yet another rehash of them!

Please only contribute to the discussion at hand. No one cares about your Dark Soul twitter feed.

That's not the issue at all. The issue is Dark Souls 2 was advertised by showing footage of the PC version and not footage from the console version. They never said it was PC footage. They lead people to believe that the console version would look like the version they showed footage of, but it's considerably worse looking now that it's out.

Maybe there was a disclaimer thrown in somewhere, I don't know.

They probably do this because it doesn't affect their sales at all but makes their PR skyrocket. No (intelligent) person buys a console for its graphics, so in the end no one says "Dark Souls looks like shit, I won't buy it."

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 15, 2014, 03:39:38 AM »

^ assuming you upgrade your PC every year.

If you bought a $600 computer since 2010, congratulations, you can play at a higher graphics setting and resolution than any console ever released.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Mormonism & The Book of Mormon

« on: March 15, 2014, 01:58:53 AM »

Final Judgement sounds like a boss fight.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 15, 2014, 01:54:25 AM »

"This is how it is going to look on PC"

"...and this is how it actually looks on your shitty ass consoles that use hardware from 2009"


I don't see how this is a problem. Do you really expect a console to have even remotely good graphics compared to PC?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 14, 2014, 03:44:59 AM »

No, but I don't like the vague threat of permanent disadvantages hanging over my head.  I wouldn't mind if the effigies were more like traditional consumables that enemies could drop, because then at least there would be some breathing room to play around with them and figure out when they should be conserved and when they should be used.  But with a strict limit on how many there are, there's no recourse if you discover that you should have used them on this other point in the game when you have none left.

Also, if you kill them enough times, enemies stop respawning when you rest at a bonfire.  That worries me.  Okay, it'll be helpful to not have to kill the same enemies I've killed fifty times before on my way to a boss, but what if I really need to farm souls?  Again, it's like the game is putting artificial restrictions on my ability to recover from mistakes.

Well, most of you lemmings bought their last game simply because it was hard to play, or at least they think that's why you bought it. What do you do then? Make the game harder!

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 12, 2014, 03:12:57 AM »

But tumblr doesn't keep you informed on the latest games, trailers, announcements and other miscellania like Kotaku D:

Well, that really depends on what your idea of "informed" is.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: March 12, 2014, 02:19:25 AM »

Climate change is God punishing the dirty round earth sinners. I have been instructed to build a very large dirigible and obtain two of every animal before everyone on Earth's surface burns for their crimes.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 12, 2014, 02:03:47 AM »

North Korea doesn't have the willpower, the manpower, or the intelligence to to steal a plane. They had a hard enough time stealing a train from China that was delivered right to them. China used the train to deliver aid, Best Korea was supposed to send the train back, and then proceeded to not send it back.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 11, 2014, 10:43:03 PM »

Yeah, I don't think "terrorists" care about paperwork.

Why would terrorists buy this plane? It isn't like on 9/11 where the terrorists were flying with FAA transponders. The plane would be a known enemy. It'd be shot down over any non-third-world country.