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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Havelock wrote: »
    Ugh. Whoever created the timed platforming puzzles for the Assassin's Tomb in the San Marco Basilica for Assassin's Creed II can go die in a fire.

    Especially whoever thought that dicking with the camera pov halfway through the most difficult timed puzzle was a great idea.

    Good to know I am not the only person who feels this way. The camera is awful in that one.

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    WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    this is stupid why is nobody home i have no one to get a burrito and watch an indie flick with

    afternoon [chat]

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    electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Also is it just me or are columnists basically people we pay to be up their own ass?

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    amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So should I buy bully and Alpha Protocol for under $10 or not?

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    TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Hey desc did you wanna hike through the valley slash bike across the beaches? I have been told those are lovely things to do.also apparently some restaurant in the valley has the best hot cakes. Can't remember the name. Think it started with a d? Also mazzy your state is weird

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    electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So should I buy bully and Alpha Protocol for under $10 or not?

    Yes. Do this.

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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Yes, it is. What did we do this time?

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    TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Yes, it is. What did we do this time?

    Just weird, alien scenery and towns. Your dying towns are more depressing too.

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    amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So does steam detect that you're on a different IP or something? I made the account on my laptop at home, plugged it in at work to get Bully, and had to enter a code because it said I was using a different browser or computer.

    What's up with that?

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    WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Can't believe you didn't check out Toronto, Tarr. Disappoint.

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    NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2011
    Tarranon wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Yes, it is. What did we do this time?

    Just weird, alien scenery and towns. Your dying towns are more depressing too.

    colorado is just a pale shade of alaska

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    TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Can't believe you didn't check out Toronto, Tarr. Disappoint.

    I tried pretty hard! In that I even was like hey toronto person I am looking for couches wink wink. Nothing doing.

    Also trinidad is pretty cool I guess

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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Tarranon wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Yes, it is. What did we do this time?

    Just weird, alien scenery and towns. Your dying towns are more depressing too.

    The ghost towns in the mountains and such? Most of those are left over from the 1800s. Otherwise the state is growing. Not sure if the standard move away from rural areas makes us weird.

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    Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    this is so slow!

    websense apparently isn't working but the network is chugging in response....

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    DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2011
    i feel so damn full. ugh. my lunch wasn't even that big.

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    DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2011
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    Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    now things are moving faster

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So does steam detect that you're on a different IP or something? I made the account on my laptop at home, plugged it in at work to get Bully, and had to enter a code because it said I was using a different browser or computer.

    What's up with that?

    Do you have a webcam? Since the last UI update, Valve is able to connect to your webcam to track your movements.

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    WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Tarranon wrote: »
    Can't believe you didn't check out Toronto, Tarr. Disappoint.

    I tried pretty hard! In that I even was like hey toronto person I am looking for couches wink wink. Nothing doing.

    Also trinidad is pretty cool I guess

    I would have offered you mine, but I'm already sleeping on it!

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    Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Drez wrote: »
    So does steam detect that you're on a different IP or something? I made the account on my laptop at home, plugged it in at work to get Bully, and had to enter a code because it said I was using a different browser or computer.

    What's up with that?

    Do you have a webcam? Since the last UI update, Valve is able to connect to your webcam to track your movements.

    that's not too creepy....

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Drez wrote: »
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    desc wrote: »
    Man, I feel I've stumbled on the most insufferable bullshit presentation technique - text-heavy slide - break it up by more or less randomly highlighting words in a different color.

    Stab him with scissors.

    It's me. I do this.

    It works. It shouldn't work, but it does.

    It's just easier to read slides with some quasi-random variation in color.

    Text-heavy slides are terrible. Even worse is when the presenter reads them verbatim. Slides should have pictures and key points that remind you (the presenter) of what you should be speaking intelligently about.

    Personally, I don't think anyone should present anything that they can't present extemporaneously. The slides are there for the audience, not for the person speaking.

    This presentation is like 80% full screen pictures of SEM images to disguise my lack of results.

    It's just it turns out, text-heavy slides become way more readable when I break up the blackness with a theme color. Happily, they're basically there to remind me to emphasize some particular point - I don't believe i preparing for presentations, giving the same presentation twice etc.

    I understand. And please don't take offense to this, but I just don't think there should be text-heavy slides in any presentation on any topic ever. A slide should have, at most, ten words, and even that is pushing it.

    It's usually just a big blur for the audience. It's fine to have a speech prepared, but a slide you are showing the audience shouldn't contain your speech.

    32 words on the one which made me think to post this. The main problem is the expectation of a conclusions slide - there's no way around it and this one is surrogating for the fact I hate them.

    Just put a big yellow smiley face for the conclusion slide. Or the symbol for tragedy.

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    Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Bad Teacher was pretty funny.

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    So does steam detect that you're on a different IP or something? I made the account on my laptop at home, plugged it in at work to get Bully, and had to enter a code because it said I was using a different browser or computer.

    What's up with that?

    Do you have a webcam? Since the last UI update, Valve is able to connect to your webcam to track your movements.

    that's not too creepy....

    Why would that be creepy? I routinely check on people through their webcams. By the way, you have very perky nipples.

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    KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Also is it just me or are columnists basically people we pay to be up their own ass?

    Usually yes. What is even worse is when newspapers repackage such columns for foreign markets. In NZ we increasingly get them from the big Australian owned newspapers

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    is the F:NV dlc worth getting?

    edit": i need an answer in the next 10 min

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    Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Also is it just me or are columnists basically people we pay to be up their own ass?
    YES. LZ Granderson should be out of a job. Who the hell in the Gay and Lesbian Journalist Association voted him member of the year, because that dude should not be near a word processing device.

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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Oh Tar if you are still on a train, here is some reading for you.

    Why everything you know about the collapse of the Soviet Union is wrong and what it means for today.

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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited July 2011
    Ow. Did I sleep with one arm behind my back tonight or something? Shoulder aches like hell today.

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Elldren wrote: »
    is the F:NV dlc worth getting?

    edit": i need an answer in the next 10 min

    For 6 bucks versus 20 bucks?

    Hell yes.

    I was waiting for all the DLC to come out, but hell's bells, at a 70% discount it's damn well worth it.

    Mind you, I haven't actually PLAYED it yet but the reviews have been positive.

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    ok

    20 bucks for F:NV + DLC seems like a plan

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    TomeWyrmTomeWyrm A Limited Liability Partnership Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Drez wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    is the F:NV dlc worth getting?

    edit": i need an answer in the next 10 min

    For 6 bucks versus 20 bucks?

    Hell yes.

    I was waiting for all the DLC to come out, but hell's bells, at a 70% discount it's damn well worth it.

    Mind you, I haven't actually PLAYED it yet but the reviews have been positive.

    Yeah I mean even if the content is barely par it's still what...$3 per DLC right now? I say get them.

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    WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Ell what is your avatar/sig from

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    Niceguy MyeyeNiceguy Myeye Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Sweet, got a job offer for some seasonal thing. The good news is that it's a little more pay than my old one. The bad news is that it's kind of over with in October/November.

    However, that buys me time to find a long term one.

    The best news is that I start before my severance pay runs out, so it's like getting 2 paychecks!

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    HavelockHavelock Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Havelock wrote: »
    Ugh. Whoever created the timed platforming puzzles for the Assassin's Tomb in the San Marco Basilica for Assassin's Creed II can go die in a fire.

    Especially whoever thought that dicking with the camera pov halfway through the most difficult timed puzzle was a great idea.

    Good to know I am not the only person who feels this way. The camera is awful in that one.

    It is so very, very awful.

    If the fixed camera stuff was benefitial in any way I wouldn't have a problem with it.

    It honestly feels like it was included only for the sake of making an already difficult series of platforming puzzles more difficult in a "wow, that was a dick move, guys" kind of way.

    It makes me wonder if it's actually easier on console as opposed to PC.

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Elldren wrote: »
    ok

    20 bucks for F:NV + DLC seems like a plan

    Wait, you can get F:NV + all the DLC for 20 bucks? F:NV is only $14.99...holy shit.

    That is a steal. I'd say F:NV was worth the $50 I paid for it.

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Ell what is your avatar/sig from

    http://vimeo.com/22253725

    I'd been looking to get F: NV for a while

    everyone here seems to love it

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Elldren wrote: »
    is the F:NV dlc worth getting?

    edit": i need an answer in the next 10 min

    yessssss

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    TomeWyrm wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    is the F:NV dlc worth getting?

    edit": i need an answer in the next 10 min

    For 6 bucks versus 20 bucks?

    Hell yes.

    I was waiting for all the DLC to come out, but hell's bells, at a 70% discount it's damn well worth it.

    Mind you, I haven't actually PLAYED it yet but the reviews have been positive.

    Yeah I mean even if the content is barely par it's still what...$3 per DLC right now? I say get them.

    Not only that, but the DLC adds perks and raises the level cap, so the main game is enhanced by the DLC even without going to any of the new DLC content/areas.

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    DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    I was contemplating getting RUSE, because it seems awesome, but I think it's one of those games that would sit in my game library forever without getting much love from me, to be honest.

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    Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
    So after a few days I've lost all interest in Just Cause 2.

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