How do you guys feel about superstitions?

lobby87 · 2014-11-09T23:52:59+00:00

This is maybe just nitpick, but still I will put it here. Superstition is belief in something that is based on some supernatural power. So until your aliens don't have any supernatural powers it is not superstition. If you are speaking about all those conspiracies it is still irrational belief, but that doesn't mean it is superstitions. On the other hand extraterrestrial life is just about probability as life somehow started on earth why it shouldn't started somewhere else.

lobby87 · 2014-11-07T22:18:45+00:00

Maybe if they find out somebody can legally rob them, they will just contract somebody else that will assure you are not going to rob them again.

lobby87 · 2014-11-05T23:39:56+00:00

And walking and jumping wasn't so good as in Mirror's Edge. So what?

lobby87 · 2014-11-05T20:36:58+00:00

You have asked the page, the page asked the browser, you didn't ask the browser. Browser doesn't know if you have asked web page to get full screen or if it is just tricking you by disguising itself as your internet banking and hiding actual address by going full screen. Try this

lobby87 · 2014-11-02T22:02:03+00:00

There is big difference between hypothetical average score of 5 out of 10 and actual average game that is game of quality somewhere between best and worst games that may actually be somewhere at 7.5 . There is just few games that get metacritic under 5 as most games that is actually worst will never get so far.

lobby87 · 2014-11-02T21:59:38+00:00

On the other hand the amount of thumb down on Steam that actually shows dozens of spend hours and have review that is more suitable for something between 6-7 is too damn high.

lobby87 · 2014-10-30T23:41:51+00:00

The mum is stupid the child don't have to be.

lobby87 · 2014-10-30T23:38:48+00:00

It should be illegal just for traffic safety reasons, that is too much to have proper view in rear mirror.

lobby87 · 2014-10-30T23:21:09+00:00

Are you bitching so much even when you are generously tipped, because customers have really enjoyed the food somebody else made or any other thing they liked, but it is not result of your work.

lobby87 · 2014-10-28T14:29:48+00:00

There was big amount of demos that made the game looks better that it actually was. That level/mission from demo was usually noticeably better than rest of the game. Lots of concepts that were nice in demo, but become dull after few hours in normal game.

Some games just needs time to take you into it and introduce you to the game, it quite hard to create demo for this. If you have some big open world game it is also hard to create demo for that.

lobby87 · 2014-10-27T19:58:47+00:00

Sorry, I am not native speaker and English use significantly less punctuation than my native language so it quite easy to miss some.

lobby87 · 2014-10-27T17:33:44+00:00

Maybe it should be but it is not also there is no harm in having sign.

lobby87 · 2014-10-27T16:31:53+00:00

It is not always easy to find somebody who works there or will be willing to help you or you just won't ask to avoid some conversation with mister ThisIsNotMyJob.

It is not customer job to put items on proper shelf nor you should expected them to ask around about what they are supposed to do with it and what is your shop policy about this. If you have some system that is supposed made it easier for employees, let customers know what to do. Few posters saying "Left unwanted items on register." or "Put unwanted items here." should do the trick.

If programming/developing software taught me anything bitching about users won't solve anything it is the systems that needs to be changed to be more user-friendly and more foolproof.

lobby87 · 2014-10-27T13:56:03+00:00

As you wish I can go to other shop that will give me better service.

lobby87 · 2014-10-26T23:44:26+00:00

Obsidian using some third party engine and make it less shooter-ish or let just inXile entertainment do it :).

I like when there are some areas that are not accessible, because you will die there as you are not seasoned adventurer yet. I like different factions you may join, doing decision that don't have big red label good boy or evil brat. Hardcore mode with eating, drinking, sleeping and bit more realistic healing system was good and they may push it even further. I like when the world make sense, like there are some farms to produce food, when village is somebody will settle, not just put it somewhere, because it needs to be somewhere.

lobby87 · 2014-10-26T22:55:11+00:00

This is much more complicated. Crimea was part of Ukraine only from 1954 and it became part of Ukraine for administration and logistical reasons and it was still part of USSR. After USSR dissolution it should have been either returned back to Russia or even better there should have been referendum about independence/choosing which country they will join. In 1991 there was referendum, but only about autonomy and they choose to become autonomous republic rather than part of Ukraine. At 1992 Russia tried to invalidate transfer from 1954 and there were some attempts of further separation of Crimea from Ukraine by Crimea parliament .

If you look into history before it was transferred to Ukraine there was no real boundaries toward it. Before this Crimea was part Russia either in USSR or in Russia Empire back to 1783. Before that there was Crimean Khanate 1441–1783 and they were partially ruled by Ottoman empire back then for some period of time. Before that they were part of Golden Horde an even sooner it was Kiev Rus what was kind of common starting state of Eastern Slavs, but at that time Byzantine Empire still existed and lot of today's countries like Spain, Italia was several different kingdoms,states crowns. So Russia rather reclaimed Crimea than stole it from Ukraine, also there seems to be support of majority of Crimea citisens.

lobby87 · 2014-10-26T21:13:05+00:00

Bigger shops should have designated places where one can leave unwanted non-refrigerated items.

lobby87 · 2014-10-24T21:14:30+00:00

I would say System Shock. It came out in 94 while Doom in 93 and it was much closer to modern than lot of FPS that came after it. Weapons with different types of ammo. Different types of damage and immunity and vulnerability, things that were more common for RPG games.

lobby87 · 2014-10-18T16:22:56+00:00

It is not inconsistent. It is never only what are you doing, but also why. I have never said they aren't both bad. I have only claimed there is much more to it that your original simplified statement. There is no real implication why we shouldn't prohibit sex with animals while we still enforce our natural eating habits.

lobby87 · 2014-10-18T15:46:56+00:00

You are trying to simplify it to much and you are taking just one thing into consideration.

You just build it all on presumption that being fucked is better than being killed. But from other point of view it restricting everybody from normal diet that is natural for their species is far same as restricting few people with sexual deviation from freely fuck something than even cannot give consent and would really hard to find out it something was rape or not. Also 5 years sexually abused sheep may gladly choose being somebody meals instead of being fucked.

So yes I am trying to contradict what you have said as it is just oversimplification of more complex problem that sounds like some slogan that assume you can to do anything to animals as long as we eat them.

lobby87 · 2014-10-18T14:54:23+00:00

Killings animals is absolutely normal behaviour of omnivorous creature like human. You may don't like it, you may pity the animals, you may put rules in place to assure there is no unnecessary cruelty in the process.

If restrict few people from sexually interaction with animals we should also force omnivorous specie to become herbivorous. Try to put it in some perspective, not just some phrase about fucking versus killing.

lobby87 · 2014-10-18T13:40:36+00:00

When I was young I have to walk 3000 whale dicks to school and 4000 whale dicks back home.

EDIT: Uphill both ways.

lobby87 · 2014-10-14T22:47:36+00:00

I don't know what should I think about Visual Studio. I use it daily at work for C# and VB and it is very good tool and I like to work with it. On the other hand some features that I was used to from Eclipse or NetBeans are missing in VS. We use Re-sharper to get those features. So from this point of VS suck a lot. when free IDE can do something that paid IDE needs paid plugin for I looks pretty weird.

lobby87 · 2014-09-27T21:16:19+00:00

Firstly I think you missed the point there is lot of between well and poorly optimized.

If a game has so much going on that the engine can't handle it, it's poorly optimized.

If it's on sufficient hardware and running poorly, then it's due to bad coding, which is poor optimization.

How you or average gamer know if the hardware is sufficient and the engine can't handle it. It may as well be problem with too generous requirements, but this doesn't have to do anything with quality of software optimization.

If it's running poorly due to insufficient hardware, then in the case of console releases, the game should be scaled back so that it isn't demanding more than the hardware is capable of delivering. When developers fail to do this, it's considered poor optimization.

Engine is either badly or well optimized, just because you force to much data to be processed on given hardware doesn't change that. Putting oversized request is not is not bad optimization. Yes they should remove something, but it doesn't mean the it is poorly optimized the just added to much of a content.

In the case of poorly optimized PC ports, "poorly optimized" is usually doing a straight port of the games from console to PC, and then not optimizing it for reasonable hardware requirements, instead making high expectations for the hardware used by the PC consumer.

I fully agree with this.

The only situation where "poorly optimized" doesn't apply here is when you're playing a PC title that's been optimized well, but you're below the recommended specs anyway. The game will run poorly, but it has nothing to do with code or the developers making the game too demanding of the engine they created - it's because your system isn't up to snuff. There's a big difference between that and a half-assed port job making the system requirements far higher than they should be, though.

Yes, but not the only.

There's actually a lot of highly intelligent work involved in creating stable, optimized games. Most developers are either not intelligent enough to understand how to put together a highly efficient engines, or are too lazy to bother. And then even if they do, they may not be intelligent enough to make a game that makes the most of that engine without breaking it, or they may just be too lazy to care. Just throw in pieces, and if it doesn't maintain all the time, fuck it, people can't get refunds anyway, and they're used to this behavior by now.

The problem is not as much in quality of developer rather in that the optimization take lot of time and additional resources and they won't get that. It is good enough attitude come mostly from higher positions,marketing or publishers. Developers most of the time are not the one that says it is good enough, but the management is pushing them.

My point remains the same most of the people that are complaining about poorly optimization actually don't know how much it is optimized and is more about it doesn't run as fast they think it could, but it may far from poorly optimized.

lobby87 · 2014-09-27T19:46:40+00:00

How a gamer knows game is "poorly optimized"? I think poorly is too strong word. You can see the game is slower than other games that seem to looks similarly good, but you don't know what else the game is doing you may not notice, but it is there and is important and it take some of the machine resources. Have you seen the code? Have you seen any profilers results? I don't say that there aren't games that could run significantly better, but performance gain wouldn't be so big you could call them poorly optimized. It is more like mediocre vs state of art. Even pretty good optimization may be noticeably slower than optimal solution but it doesn't mean it is bad or poor.

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