Posts by Thrik

I'd agree with that, although I do like the history section. It can be useful if you think you remember someone working somewhere, or know someone from MapCore once worked there, but can't remember either who or where.

My old Samsung eliminated itself, so new phone.

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My favourite feature is the 120 fps video capture (Matrix Hamster).

I think there's been sufficient backlash that Blizzard will look into revising their style somewhat. They do often listen, after all.

It's still a minority though, whereas essentially all conventional television owners are going to be using it for non-gaming purposes too.

I guess we've kind of gone on a tangent here, though. Most people already have PC monitors and most people already have televisions, so including either in the net cost of a gaming cost equation seems fundamentally flawed to me. Plus if you want to get really complicated, you can plug your console into a lot of PC monitors anyway.

Pixar has such an amazing track record. It'll be a sad day when they (surely inevitably) screw it up.

Looks great. After Casino Royale I have absolute faith in the current Bond team and am anticipating this hugely.

Pretty cool that they're tying the plot through from Casino Royale somewhat, although it's not clear to what extent.

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An SDTV is good enough for TV and movies still. It is not good enough for a big number of console games that are designed for HDTVs such as Dead Rising, which is famous for being unreadable on SDTV. I know personally if I were to get a new console right now, I'd have to pay for an HDTV to go with it, I don't already have one. A friend of mine recently bought a big screen TV for a console. The HDTV is a required part of modern console gaming.

I think you misunderstood my point. I said that people are now buying HDTVs anyway, not SDTVs. Considering how much HDTVs cost, anyone buying an SDTV at moment is making a mistake. And with perfectly capable HDTVs going for less than £400, it's still priced competitively with PCs if you do include a HDTV in the cost (which I don't).

This is different to PC monitors where you're typically not going to use it for anything other than PC usage. I have a big 24-inch PC monitor, but I wouldn't want to exchange my lovely sofa and huge television for it — nor would most others I imagine.

You're right that HDTVs do enhance consoles a lot, but most people have one or in the process of getting one anyway simply for *gasp* watching TV and films. They're not something most people will buy specifically for consoles.

Yes, but only in the level design forums.

Pixar so it has to be good.

Amazing reviews too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

I kind of like the general theme of a robot alone on Earth after the collapse of mankind. Not really post-apocalyptic as a lot of them escaped to space, but it's close and has a darker tone than usual I'd imagine.

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While I don't disagree that console gaming does get expensive fast, I think it's worth bearing in mind that most people these days are getting high-definition televisions regardless of their gaming habits and thus it isn't really fair to factor the cost into the overall cost of owning a console, much like you wouldn't factor in the chair you're sitting on.

A PC monitor is different because its one and only purpose is generally for displaying the PCs visuals, and has no side-uses such as films and television.

With regards to value-for-money, consoles are still a long way ahead of PCs. As someone who owns one of the more powerful PCs around and consoles, I feel I can confidently say this based on (warez-less) experience.

I agree, Relic are absolute legends of the RTS aesthetics. They've done a really good job of getting that old 2D feel into a vibrant 3D world, whereas Blizzard are clearly adopting a stylised hand-painted look for essentially everything. I suppose at least it means Blizzard has a signature style, which isn't bad for a developer to have.

I personally never got into Diablo so I look forward to playing this game on its own merits and not based on how it resembles the predecessors.

This shot could so be right out of WoW though:

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Another pro-PC article.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=160866

It's not that slow. We're about to run our second TF2 league at Wireplay and most clans involved have had a great time. And while the general speed is definitely lesser than in TFC, I've found TF2 immensely fun and filled with just as much depth/skill progression. Maps such as Goldrush in particular get absolutely chaotic just like TFC maps did.

Really comfortable and fast asleep while waiting in the airport a couple of days ago.

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I was running TFC league matches. I don't see how competitive TFC play really correlates to TF2 not being a great game though, albeit one primarily geared towards public/care-free play (which is ideal with most of us working full time now anyway).

You guys must be mental. TF2 is an absolute blast.

Plenty of information about the new Call of Duty here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_World_at_War

It would appear to be Treyarch.

The difference being I was in a different country with no convenient computers and no awareness of the problem, Johnny. Try as I might, I can't sit here 365 days a year monitoring the site. 350~ days a year isn't a bad number, though.

I could have gotten a taxi to the town with an internet cafe to fix this if I'd known about it, but I was unfortunately completely ignorant. I was counting on the server performing as it has done for months with zero hiccups, and of course as fate is a cruel bitch the server went and threw a wobbly almost immediately after my plane took me into the clouds.

Still, as I said I'll be providing mobile phone number to various people so they can reach me in cases of emergencies from now on.

As you probably noticed, the forums went down on June 19th. I left to go to Greece on June 17th, a fact I made known publicly beforehand. As such, I wasn't actively checking the forums as usual and wasn't aware that there was a problem.

The direct cause of the downtime appears to be that the password used for logging into MySQL was no longer functioning, thus preventing the forum software from interacting with the database. Changing to a new password immediately fixed the problem and there are no apparent other effects.

At this time I don't know why the password was changed. I see nothing that could indicate it happening automatically or as a result of some bug, nor can I see any logged actions of it being changed manually by anyone. My only speculation at this point is that server maintenance changed something, but there's nothing to indicate there was any.

I'll continue to look into it, but in the meantime I apologise for the downtime and hope you'll be able to get right back into posting. As a future preventative measure I'll be leaving my mobile phone number with key staff members so I can always be contacted should something like this happen again.

Edit: It would appear that some server maintenance was indeed the cause, which knocked out the MySQL access on various databases — including some others that I host. This is the first time anything like this has happened to the server, and it just so happened to be during the one time per year that I'm away for a prolonged duration. I guess that's Murphy's law for you.