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The New Comic Thread for Wednesday, March 25, 2009

scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
edited March 2009 in Social Entropy++
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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    Well played, robit.

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  • scsscsscsscs Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Well played, robit.

    Robot rabbit.

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  • SlagmireSlagmire Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    scsscs wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Well played, robit.

    Robot rabbit.

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  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I have a feeling that most people who get excited about this sort of thing have no clue what it means. How exciting is boiling clouds in urine, anyway?

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  • ThreepioThreepio New Westminster, BCRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    This has my nomination for best depiction of a burger in a web comic.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Haha, I tried to explain Azure to a few people the other day and they just looked at me.

    To be fair, I didn't know them and I don't think they spoke any English, but it was a very similar situation!

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    On a side note, isn't this just another version of the Phantom?

    EDIT:

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    Well, that explains everything.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Gabe has a little schmutz on his lips there. Right there. Here, take a napkin.

    On your right...your other right.

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  • XevoXevo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Hah, I love this one. It's hilarious how many people think the basic concept is even remotely feasible, which given the latency that currently exists on the internet makes it pretty unrealistic right now. The idea of Gabe not even understanding what they're talking about really drives it home. Hopefully they recorded a podcast for this one!

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    So more or less you're playing a ps3 that's halfway across the continent and they are giving you a streaming feed of it.

    I think i'll pass.

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    except the lag will make this prohibitively crappy

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    So now when a farmer plows through a fiber line in Ohio, you won't just lose online play, you just won't be able to play your games at all.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    man, this opera omnia shit is fantastic. thanks, drunkpooro.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Reminds me of one of my favorites:

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2009
    someone let me know what they're talking about

    I get the joke (and it's a good one!) but I don't have the context

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  • XevoXevo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Shacknews has a decent writeup of the service: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57804

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Engadget wrote:
    What if you could stream games, any game, over a decent broadband connection to your PC or Atom-based netbook at the same quality as the PS3? Would you walk away from your beloved console? That's the of hope of Palo Alto-based OnLive. But this is much more than empty rhetoric -- OnLive's been dropping jaws of the press who've seen it working this week. GameDaily dubbed the play "fantastic" after seeing Crysis streamed "smooth" off a server to a plain ol' MacBook laptop. See, OnLive claims to have perfected the interactive video compression technique so that latency is low enough to support on-line multi-player setups. Broadband connections of 1.5Mbps (71% of US homes have 2Mbps or greater) dials the image quality down to Wii levels while 4-5Mbps pipes are required for HD resolution. At the moment, OnLive is showing 16 high-end titles at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco and expects to be able to release new games within the same window as traditional retail launches. The games can be played on "any PC (Windows XP or Vista) or Mac" without the heavy cash-burden of a high-end graphics card, fast disk, quad-core proc, and truck-load of memory. Otherwise, OnLive plans to release what it calls a MicroConsole with Bluetooth (for voice chat) and optical audio-out that can be connected to your HDTV over HDMI -- pricing has not been announced but it will cost less than a $250 Wii. There's a community element too, of course, with OnLive reps boasting about it operating on an "unprecedented scale." This includes the ability to join live games at any point, the creation of "brag clips" that saves the last 10 seconds of game play for sharing, as well as leaderboards, rankings, and the rest. And if you think publishers will never buy in to the model, think again: Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, THQ, Epic Games, Eidos, Atari Interactive and Codemasters are already on-board. Expect OnLive to launch this Winter with monthly subscriptions available in "a variety of different pricing packages and tiers, competitively priced to retail." Damn.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I always forget about this because I don't experience it here in the US, but places with bandwidth caps on their internet usage are shit out of luck when it comes to this service.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    You know what I love?


    Monthly fees to play single player games.

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  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Lucky Cynic linked me to the interview with the President on GameTrailers a day or two ago. Apparently they get around the lag problem with magic or something.

    The dude seems really excited about people being able to share videos of their "awesome gaming moments".

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    he spelled cheque wrong

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Brought to you by the man behind WebTV and the Moxi DVR box.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Drool wrote: »
    Brought to you by the man behind WebTV and the Moxi DVR box.

    My future uncle-in-law worked on the Moxi box.

    He also helped market Blu-Ray.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    NotACrook wrote: »
    I always forget about this because I don't experience it here in the US, but places with bandwidth caps on their internet usage are shit out of luck when it comes to this service.

    The OnLive boss guy just talked about that, but it's not very convincing.
    As much as we love the Utopian vision of the future that OnLive -- which plans to offer game streaming direct to PCs, Macs and set-top boxes -- provides, we're still left with plenty of questions. For one, what does piping in games mean for those with bandwidth caps?

    As an example, at the 5 Mbps OnLive requires for HD gaming, a Comcast user capped at 250 GB monthly could expect to get around 3.8 hours per day of game time -- assuming they used their connection for nothing else.

    When questioned about it at a press event for the device last night, OnLive founder Steve Perlman didn't seem concerned. First, the console is rarely using the full 5 Mpbs. In fact, he said, it's often far less. Also, Perlman hopes that ISPs will give special consideration to OnLive as the service may well drive cable customers to upgrade their datastream. For now, consider it another challenge for OnLive will have to handle when their product launches in winter of this year.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The fact that (according to the demo video, anyhow) a low-end Dell desktop was capable of running Crysis pretty damn well through OnLive is neat.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    special consideration from cable companies? haha good luck.

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Comcast is all, "It's OK, hog our bandwidth. You're using OnLive!"

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The Far Side wrote: »
    Soooo its like gametap, but everything is run on their computers rather than yours, is that what i'm getitng here

    Yeah, the concept is the client takes your controller inputs and sends them over the latency-free interwebs to their massive server farm which is actually running your game. The server is taking snapshots of the screen and compressing it using Wizardry until it is super tiny, then sending you back the streaming video, which apparently gets uncompressed in realtime back on our end into a high-definition video, all without the appearance of lag.

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  • XevoXevo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    JoeUser wrote: »
    The OnLive boss guy just talked about that, but it's not very convincing.

    I don't even want to see the bill for an ISP that charges beyond a certain amount, given the amount of gaming I do in any given month. Assuming the service actually works as advertised and would have all of the games on it that I would want to play, I can just see the hardcore power gamers bringing ISPs to their knees with the ridiculous amount of bandwidth needed.

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The Far Side wrote: »
    ahahah at GDC its been revealed that almost more people own the Wii Balance Board than the PStriple

    that is hilfuckingarious

    Thats fantastic

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2009
    The Far Side wrote: »
    ahahah at GDC its been revealed that almost more people own the Wii Balance Board than the PStriple

    that is hilfuckingarious

    holy crap nintendo figured out how to market goofy peripherals

    why couldn't they have sussed this out in time to make ROB a hit

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Oh, also, if there's a power outage in Palo-Alto because of an earthquake, you don't get to play your games.

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    The fact that (according to the demo video, anyhow) a low-end Dell desktop was capable of running Crysis pretty damn well through OnLive is neat.

    Crysis can run on a pretty cheap machine these days. Especially if you can put it togehter yourself. And you can run it at a lot higher resolution than standard definition.

    Standard def would make Crysis look worse than Halo 3, even 720p would be pretty crappy. So you're not really playing Crysis at that point considering it's basically just a graphical showpiece.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    It's all going to depend on how well their new video compression works.
    The entire company is structured around a new way to stream video that the company has created -- "interactive video compression" -- which, according to the official line, has extremely low latency, and brings video lag down to "about a millisecond." Using that technology, the company plans to have five servers across the country that will host your games completely, and it'll be streaming the video from the game to your Mac, PC, or television. Sound ambitious? It is.

    Five servers?

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    but...why would this service eliminate the cost of high end video cards? Whether you have the program on your computer or you're getting it from a server, your computer still has to generate the images on your screen.

    I mean, right? That's what a gpu does

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  • XevoXevo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    The Far Side wrote: »
    ahahah at GDC its been revealed that almost more people own the Wii Balance Board than the PStriple

    that is hilfuckingarious

    And I bet a very small percentage of those people actually use either device to play games regularly.

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