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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.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 11, 2014, 10:40:28 PM »

I keep watching videos of Dark Souls and teasers for Dark Souls II. The game honestly doesn't look fun to play, it looks like people play it simply to say they can beat it. All I can see is a generic RPG with a story that exists but isn't told.

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

« on: March 11, 2014, 10:37:47 PM »

The most logical conclusion is Thork's. It requires no conspiracy or motivation. The plane malfunctioned and crashed into the ocean. Depending on how it malfunctioned and how it crashed, there might be survivors, but I'd imagine they would have found them by now. As far as I know life rafts are equipped with GPS and what-not. At least the military ones are.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 11, 2014, 06:30:13 PM »

I use the Steam store home screen for my gaming news. It is probably easier on your wallet to use Kotaku, so that's a point for them.

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

« on: March 11, 2014, 06:27:38 PM »

The Island got them

It's okay, in three years they'll get off it and become millionaires. Also the one fat guy to survive will never, ever lose any weight.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia Invades Ukraine

« on: March 10, 2014, 10:42:31 PM »

We still need Katsung to tell us how this is all an FBI trap for him.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 09, 2014, 11:14:11 PM »

Why is it that this is such an easy yet disturbing way to explain the story of Dark Souls?

"Long ago, during the Age of Ancients, the Dragons ruled a boring, one dimensional setting. The Dragon version of Tolkien was said to have once put to pen the idea of a tree that was sort of a brownish gray, instead of just gray. He was immediately executed for his dangerous, heretical ideas. It would take the four Lord Souls - weird spirit things that some naked zombies found in a fire - to put an end to this era of stupidity. The Souls transformed these naked, on-fire zombies into naked, on-fire humans that would quickly learn just how on-fire they truly were.

The Furtive Pygmy was the least popular of all the four Lords. He was slammed against many lockers, and was totally turned down by the Witch of Izalith when he asked her to prom. But the Pygmy understood how to play the long con, and set a dark plan in motion: to have sex with countless numbers of zombies. Like, thousands of them. No butterface was too stank for the Furtive Dick, in those days. From this long period of weird, secret corpse fucking, there arose all of humanity.

All humans today are descendents of a single corpse fucker. The gods - descendents of the other three Lords - were totally freaked out by this. From their big ass ancient city, they would rule over this sea of incestuous corpse fucking murder-happy pedophile weirdos, who also were all midgets. This would later be known as the glorious Age of Fire. Eventually, the gods would leave the capital of this age of horrifying sexual frenzy. Human historians would be totally confused as to why.

And so was set, the stage for the possible beginning of a new, Dark Age. Where supposedly it'll still be corpse fucking, but without light? I guess? Set forth, noble sex weirdo, to claim your birthright and fulfill the dark wishes of the Furtive Pygmy. It'll be rad. Probably."

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: March 09, 2014, 08:51:09 PM »

So the quests aren't instanced then.

The NPCs are instanced, so you can't see other player's NPCs, but you can see other players.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Corporate America gets even more disgusting

« on: March 09, 2014, 08:50:08 PM »

Armalite is a great gun manufacturer. David should be happy he got one of their guns for free.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia Invades Ukraine

« on: March 09, 2014, 04:11:13 PM »

Just last week Ukraine threatened Russia with nuclear weapons despite the obvious handicap of it not having any.
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/ukraine-leader-threatens-russia-with-nuclear-weapons/78181

Threats are hardly actions.

This is the strawiest of straw man arguments.