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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24332 |  AstroFly (228) Oct 27, 2011 - 11:13 am
| | I have only tried the multiplayer at this point, and it is consistently crashing after about 10 minutes. The beta never crashed for me. I checked the Battlelog forum and there is a thread over 50 pages long with people experiencing the same thing. Many have new Windows installs with all of the latest drivers and updates, and they are still getting the crashes. DICE is working on it apparently. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4692 | AstroFly (228) Jul 15, 2011 - 10:54 am
| | HAHA I just chcecked my Steam Library and all I am going to say is that I have a LOT of games that I haven't played yet. I got all of them at least 60% off. I'm a sucker for big sales, especially when they are for really good games that are a bit older. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23795 | AstroFly (228) Jun 20, 2011 - 09:45 am
| | Ahh the memories. I thought Quake 1 was amazing. The graphics and sound created an atmosphere that I had never experienced before. And this was the first multiplayer experience I had. This was kind of a 'paradigm shift' in gaming for me. Then I remember installing a Riva TNT card and seeing Quake 2 in OpenGL mode for the first time. I was amazed. I wasted a lot of time playing Q2 multiplayer on my 56k modem with 150 pings. After getting used to OpenGL, I tried software mode and it felt like I couldn't perceive the scene very well and I wondered how I ever did without it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23548 | AstroFly (228) May 12, 2011 - 10:53 am
| | I am so excited about this! I loved Tribes/Tribes 2!! I think these were my all-time favorite games. There were so many fun roles and things you could do, like set up a radar net with turrets, or sneak an inventory truck behind the enemy base. I hope Ascend is basically the same game but with updated graphics. I am praying they don't dumb it down for the consoles. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4673 | AstroFly (228) May 03, 2011 - 01:56 pm
| "Americans cannot now complain if Pakistan were to send an agent to kill an American citizen in the USA."
Osama Bin Laden was not a Pakistani citizen. He is a Saudi Arabian. Also, the Pakistani government professed that if OBL was in their country, he was an unwelcomed criminal that also inspired attacks on Pakistani civilians, and therefore concurred that he should be brought to justice. So if a similar individual caused massive destruction and the deaths of thousands of Pakistani civilians and was hiding in the U.S. despite being the citizen of a foreign country, I highly doubt the U.S. would get too upset if a Pakistani agent killed him. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4673 | AstroFly (228) May 03, 2011 - 01:29 pm » Edited on May 03, 2011 - 02:15 pm
| | Take a look at my first post. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a philosophy that only applies to relatively minor crimes with limited costs to society, where the prospect of letting the guilty go free is considered a fair price to pay in order to avoid punishing the innocent. In cases like an international terror organization that is basically conducting special operations warfare against western civilization, this philosophy no longer applies. Sorry, it is now war and a "No Holds barred" situation and anyone who disagrees has no place fighting this kind of threat. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4673 | AstroFly (228) May 03, 2011 - 01:20 pm » Edited on May 03, 2011 - 02:19 pm
| | I whole-heartedly agree. People like OBL operate outside the usual legal protections for regular crimes. This was more like war, where liberties must be taken with peace-time rights for the common good. Ultimately, there is no such thing as universal truths and rights for any given situation. Many, much better people than OBL die every single day, and I he got what he deserved regardless of what delicate sensibilities some people may have. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4654 | AstroFly (228) Feb 16, 2011 - 02:15 am
| | I think it's very likely that she had a transient ischemic attack, which is a temporary stroke that can starve the speech center of oxygen and lasts a few minutes to hours, and doesn't cause any detectable brain damage. The paramedics that treated her are not qualified to diagnose conditions like this. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23300 | AstroFly (228) Feb 14, 2011 - 01:00 pm
| | Obviously a lot of people are pretty naive when it comes to how business actually works. I've read quite a few comments like "Game companies are just looking for excuses to 'hate on' the PC platform and move to game consoles." and "Crytek leaked this on purpose to justify moving away from the PC" The fact is that when it comes to making development decisions, game companies don't have sentimental feelings about platforms. They are concerned about financial things like budgets and whether a platform will generate the revenue to justify that budget and opportunity costs. If revenue on the PC is low or lower than what they judge their product's value to be, and they determine that sales on game consoles would be 5 times higher in part because the platform is much more secure against piracy, they will be financially obligated to their stakeholders to develop for game consoles. Business behavior is directed by the pricing signals determined by demand, and if demand is artificially lowered by piracy, there's not much they can do about that. They have to obey the numbers. This is how our society works and how resources are allocated to their most efficient use. Piracy distorts this system. There are a lot of people willing and able to buy something because it has value for them, yet resources are being shifted away. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23300 | AstroFly (228) Feb 12, 2011 - 02:28 pm » Edited on Feb 12, 2011 - 02:29 pm
| | Yeah I've been reading posts and apparently this release is glitchy with placeholder sounds and somewhat unstable. A lot of people are saying they stopped playing it as a result, which would seem to mitigate this disaster somewhat. Nonetheless, a lot are saying this game is awesome and looks amazing. I wonder if Crytek uses identifying and unique hidden markers in each 'review copy' so they can tell where this release came from. It would be much worse if it came from a Crytek employee, as they would be exposed to further leaks for Crysis 2 and future projects, and suspicion would fall on everyone. They must be desperately trying to figure out where it came from. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23300 | AstroFly (228) Feb 11, 2011 - 11:29 pm
| | Unbelievable and a huge shame. How could someone so willfully undermine the thousands of manhours of work and commitment of honest hard working and creative people that are adding value to society? All so each gamer can save themselves just $50. What is their motivation??? Ego? What is the theory on how someone could get their hands on the pre-release? Was it hackers that infiltrated Crytek through a trojan compromised network? I think this will now be the last release Crytek will develop for the PC. No doubt hundreds of thousands of people worldwide will download this, and it truly exposes our ultimately destructive self interested nature. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23291 | AstroFly (228) Feb 11, 2011 - 12:45 pm
| | Or did it occur to you that the Crysis engine on full graphic settings was coded just fine but it was simply too advanced for any available hardware at the time? And that the intention was that when later hardware became more powerful that you could then turn up the graphic settings so that the game looks great compared to current offerings ? The game still looks awesome over 3 years after release. I never could empathize with the spoiled entitled cry babies that would not tolerate a game that was too advanced for their rig. Just because you couldn't buy anything powerful enough at the time for full settings at 1680x1050 doesn't necessarily mean the game wasn't 'optimized'. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23293 | AstroFly (228) Feb 10, 2011 - 11:37 am
| | jacobvandy: So do you have the Rock Band 3 Pro mode guitar with the buttons or the Fender one with the strings? What do you think of it? I've been playing the real guitar for a few years and I'm thinking the Fender real string guitar might be a lot of fun. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23279 | AstroFly (228) Feb 05, 2011 - 12:17 pm
| | I'm stoked. BF2 is one of the best games ever. It ended up having a lot of hackers though. A while back I fired it up again and someone in a jet continually shot me no matter where I hid so I quit for good after the first round. If game consoles used a mouse and keyboard, I would ditch PC gaming for consoles in a second. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4636 | AstroFly (228) Dec 14, 2010 - 03:47 pm
| | Why is that every time the United States experiences a seriously negative event, there are always theories that pop up claiming that the U.S. actually orchestrated them itself?? Usually it's shadowy and powerful forces involved, like the CIA. There's never any evidence, yet for some reason complete conjecture is readily accepted as "probably true". There must be some interesting psychology in this phenomenon somewhere. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4628 | AstroFly (228) Nov 16, 2010 - 12:01 pm
| Well I guess you could say that inflation is neither innately good or bad for either lender or borrower, as long as the inflation rate is predictable. The interest rate will include an extra amount so that the lender is compensated for the loss in the money's purchasing power. The Chinese will be unhappy if the inflation rate will soon be higher than what provisions their multi-hundred billion dollar loan to the US includes.
Deflation on the other hand, does have real negative effects on the economy. First of all, how does one compensate the borrower if annual deflation is %15 even with a 0% interest rate? Use a negative interest rate? There will be a disincentive to borrow money. Also, there is a disincentive for both spending and investment, and therefore a significant drop in aggregate demand followed by further deflation resulting in a downward spiral. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4628 | AstroFly (228) Nov 14, 2010 - 12:08 pm
| | Funny, but I think it partly shows a bit of a naive understanding of macro economics, such as why deflation can be harmful for an economy. For one thing, during a period of sustained falling prices, people have an incentive to put off purchases they would otherwise make, as they will be cheaper later, and obviously this isn't a good thing during a recession. Investment by companies will therefore fall, another key component of aggregate demand (consumer spending+investment+government spending +net exports= aggregate demand). The result is a downward spiral in demand and for the economy. I think misinformed things like this video can be problematic when the average person takes them as gospel and they base their opinions and vote on it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23101 | AstroFly (228) Oct 12, 2010 - 12:33 pm
| | I'm kind of thinking about trying WoW. I've never been into the RPG fantasy theme type of game before, but recently I decided to grab Oblivion for $10 and now I'm kind of into the build-up-your-character and go-on-quests thing. Flag this | Edit this post |
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