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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20486 |  Major Shtupping (153) May 27, 2008 - 11:59 pm
| So then, you don't think that this means that you are saying they are un-appetizing?
"As opposed to the appetizing experience of chainsawing an enemy in half, headshots where I can spray grey matter everywhere,"
Please translate it from Mebian to english and use very small words for me. Apparently I require them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20486 | Major Shtupping (153) May 27, 2008 - 02:50 pm
| xmeb, I didn't notice your name before I replied. Of course you have the right to name your videos anything you want. But I had figured Dan had named it that along with wanting people to insult you.
It seems that I can't help you and you just aren't going to understand, if after growing up surrounded by marketing 24x7 you don't just know that calling something "phlegm" doesn't sell it. There are no cool kids anywhere who like phlegm, who look for phlegm, who crave more phlegm. It doesn't get you the chicks either.
Your comments about the headshots and chainsaws show your cluelessness too. Really... you hated the chainsaw in Doom and GoW? You refuse to headshoot people in games because its not appetizing? I guess you quit the final boss in Half-Life because it REQUIRED head shots... so do a bunch of bosses in other games.
You don't understand the joy in making a difficult shot at all? It's the test of skill in most FPS's...
Good luck in picking content for your future videos.
Link: http://kotaku.com/359885/gears......ainsaw-battles/ Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20471 | Major Shtupping (153) May 20, 2008 - 09:45 pm
| oh please. you don't keep doing something that you aren't forced to do if you don't like it on some level.
You really want me to believe that people join the military because they want to fix cars or deliver supplies and whatnot... Not that they want to shoot guns and blow stuff up real good? Yes, many people do join the armed forces to learn some trade, but then they don't STAY in.
And then after serving in one war, he continued re-upping because he hated it so much.
Look... I studied ju-jutsu for 26 years, and I freely admit that there is a small part of me that DOES enjoy the violence. I wouldn't have paid for all the lessons, and gotten the snot beaten out of me so many times if there wasn't something there that I enjoy.
Besides, you've been on the forums a while -- can you honestly say that his previous posts haven't been aggressive? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20471 | Major Shtupping (153) May 20, 2008 - 05:15 pm
| Soldier, although I agree with your point, you really didn't argue it very well.
The fact that you state you spent 14 years in the military and actively served in 3 wars, could perhaps maybe be used to suggest slightly that you did indeed turn out aggressive.
Please don't shoot me. :) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20419 | Major Shtupping (153) Apr 29, 2008 - 10:15 pm
| 1. The general snarky tone of the gaming news will continue...
Reading the 3 news posts since this clarification, I like the changes. I can tell the news from the coloring, and adding words like "news goons" and "bafflegab" liven up the articles.
But, come on, people. Is the millisecond it takes for the news page to load really that much of an issue?
And there is the problem for me. I DON'T use the news page. Ever. Either I'm looking at my RSS feed, or from the main page, I've clicked on the headline that I wanted to read. And from that article I click directly on the next article I find interesting. So all I have are headlines to see. So for example, I'm interested in GTA4 news (for when the PC version is coming), but the headline "Perfect 10's" could be about anything from a new Olympics computer game to skin models. "Perfect Stabbings" is a great title ONLY if you've read "Perfect 10's". If I had been in a hurry, I'd have skipped both stories.
3. I'll change up the formatting some for quotes to improve readability. I'm growing into this, so expect some pains.
Wallshadows, I think without this part and all the other snarky comments around the "my way or the highway" comment shows it was meant tongue-in-cheek, not head-up-a$s like you interpreted it. I think he is trying to entertain us, not make us move on to the shack or kotaku.
All in all, I think Brett will get to something acceptable for us as long as he keeps a copy of the Alone in the Dark articles printed on his wall labled "How not to do the news" Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20413 | Major Shtupping (153) Apr 28, 2008 - 02:51 pm
| Good review generally. Your writing style makes for an entertaining read to a so so game. I even agree with your rating. I hope you write more (PC) game reviews.
However, let me chime in with everyone else who dislikes the changes you've made to the news, since now they are the majority of articles on this site. The creative titles, while entertaining, are not helpful to me reading the news I find interesting. The snarky comments don't work in the middle of the news article either. It stops being news and becomes Brett Todd's Blog.
ALWAYS post the link to the original article (that's why this is the web and lets us see things for ourselves). And if you have snarky comments, add them before or after the news. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20366 | Major Shtupping (153) Apr 15, 2008 - 01:15 pm
| Vista is extremely sensitive to memory problems because it is always trying to use available memory. It seems to detect problems that pass through just about every memory testing util.
If you are OC'ing your RAM, run it for a week at the default settings, and set the voltage in the BIOS manually instead of leaving it on AUTO.(A bunch of new motherboards seem to occasionally provide improper voltage on the auto setting.)
If you aren't OCing still set the voltage manually, or see if someone you know would swap you their ram for a week. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20357 | Major Shtupping (153) Apr 13, 2008 - 08:08 am
| Then you completely missed the point. Intel was saying they would be integrated into the cpu in the future, so you wouldn't need to buy them separately.
Much like how early motherboards didn't have hard drive controllers, floppy controllers, and had separate add-in IO cards for mouse, printer and COM ports. All of these required setting up jumpers on the cards to work properly too. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20203 | Major Shtupping (153) Mar 29, 2008 - 05:32 am
| nVidia had a tougher time of it, with having to write drivers that:
1) supported the new driver model
2) were DX10 compliant
3) supported their brand new G80 architecture.
ATI's drivers were far more stable, but they had an easier time of it. When Vista came out, they didn't have any DX10 compliant cards, and didn't have to add that stuff for months. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20203 | Major Shtupping (153) Mar 28, 2008 - 05:36 pm
| Apparently no one experienced/remembers how crappy the original nvidia Vista drivers were. Dreamscene would cause my 8800gtx to get caught in a reset loop, and it was just showing video, not 3d. Good thing I didn't need or want dreamscene.
Most games I played would crash after 15 min or so, there were even problems with just running Aero.
Its took them like 6 months before their vista drivers could be called some sembla ce of stable.
nVidia didn't "choose" to rewrite their drivers. Microsoft made huge changes to the way video drivers work, so everyone HAD to rewrite their stuff. If they could have kept their old drivers, they would have. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20018 | Major Shtupping (153) Mar 17, 2008 - 01:41 pm
| I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 and I haven't had any problems with any steam games. I play TF2, Red Orchestra, and DoD: Source a bunch. I have never had any crashes or other problems except the latest update for TF2 would never download.
Deleting TF2 and re-installing it fixed that. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19935 | Major Shtupping (153) Mar 11, 2008 - 04:25 pm
| I buy my music on CDs, its the only way to get consistent CD quality music DRM-less. I know most people feel that ripping a CD takes too much time/effort, but it doesn't take me any of either.
Now that the RIAA has started to sue people who do this though, I have stopped buying any CDs except indie lables Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19752 | Major Shtupping (153) Feb 27, 2008 - 10:31 am
| I use a left handed setup at home, so I'm a big fan of the Razer Copperhead. With the onboard memory you can set the buttons to be reversed, and then never need to use the razor drivers again, or the mouse control panel either.
Since the button switching takes place on the mouse itself, all games see the switched buttons correctly.
Also, since it has 5 profiles, I can leave 1 set for right handed use, so when a righty person goes to play on my rig, a few presses of the button on the bottom of the mouse is all it takes to set it up for them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19586 | Major Shtupping (153) Feb 15, 2008 - 09:53 am
| We PC owners like to say that OSX is so stable because Apple makes the hardware too. If MS made the hardware, windows would be far more stable.
I guess that's true because with the Xbox, MS makes it all and it doesn't crash. It crashes AND burns! :) Flag this | Edit this post |
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