Posts by Duff-e

2K Games and Gearbox Software Announce Duke Nukem Forever® Has “Gone Gold”

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/sh ... p?t=121799

holy shit that owl city song makes me want to jump off a cliff

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On episode 10/13. Cheesy at times but overall pretty funny.

He represents my district and I voted for him. He also lives like 15 minutes from me

I'm pretty sure that guy is wearing a shirt that says JewTube.

Hope you guys haven't seen this already, I thought it was cool. Apparently this is running 30fps on an xbox 360.

http://miciwan.com/GDC2011/GDC2011_Mega_Meshes.pdf

http://www.allposters.com/-st/Video-Gam ... 50320_.htm

I've purchased from them before with no issues.

http://www.choiceofgames.com/blog/2011/ ... depressed/

I read this and thought of you guys

Orpheus the mayor has been trying for years to tax any vehicle in Manhattan area that isn't a taxi or a bus.

Times square, herald square and many other popular areas will probably become pedestrian only traffic in the future. They have been doing experiments to see the impact for a while now. It's not surprising Manhattan can't accommodate a Semi, the government doesn't even want SUVs on the island.

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I have no doubt that the only places in NYC where you can park a semi are probably desolate/crummy/industrial neighborhoods. Talk about bums and prostitutes, how about Philadelphia or Chicago? Anyway my point is a tourist isn't going to encounter this kind of stuff. The bums in NYC probably make more on loose change than a person who works for minimum wage.

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You're an idiot, Orpheus. I mean, are you reading the garbage you have been posting in this thread?

Ignore the troll JeanPaul.

Anyway I've lived in NYC my whole life. The highline on 10th avenue and 21st street by the standard hotel is really nice. They converted an abandoned above ground railroad track to a nice park. It's in a very trendy neighborhood so you'll see lots of other interesting things.

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A lot of tourists stick to the popular spots, 5th avenue, times square, rockefeller center, central park etc but I really recommend getting out of Manhattan at least once. Go to 14th street union square and take the L train to Bedford Avenue to see some real life Brooklyn hipsters. Walk up Bedford to Manhattan Avenue (yes Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn) which will bring you into Greenpoint. That whole area between Williamsburg/Greenpoint/Mccarren Park is pretty much Manhattan part 2. There is tons of stuff to do, bars, stores and it's super super safe (just do your adventurous exploring during the day, stick to routes you know at night). As long as you have a smart phone with a map you wont get lost.

It really all depends on what your personality is like. If you really want to experience NY get on the 7 train to Flushing, Queens and experience this:

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People call Flushing Fu-shing ;\ It's really crazy though it's like a different world. As a bonus the ride on the 7 from Manhattan to Flushing is all above ground so you get to see all sorts of cool stuff. Maybe try walking over one of the bridges.

If you're looking to check out the neighborhood of a particular ethnicity let me know. Indians are Elmhurst/Jackson Heights, Hispanic in Corona, Chinese in Flushing/Elmhurst, Polish in Greenpoint, Blacks in BedStuy, Italian and German in Ridgewood etc etc etc. There are enclaves in pretty much every part of the outer boroughs, especially jews/russians in lower Brooklyn.

Check out the progress on the WTC:

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NYC is great. Nevermind the people who say it's dangerous. Both my parents were born/raised/lived their working lives in NYC and will tell you Manhattan is a cesspool of crazy immigrants. The city has a reputation from when it truly was a shit hole but it really couldn't be more removed from the truth these days. Some parts of the city are so safe it's like you're walking around Disney World. It certainly has enough security guards:

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New York is notoriously the largest and least loved of any of our great cities. Why should it be loved as a city? It is never the same city for a dozen years altogether. A man born forty years ago finds nothing, absolutely nothing, of the New York he knew.

That's if you take it literally. It could also mean creating art/being human.

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this is silly

All of it is zero-sum nonsense. Believing it requires a paranoid them against us mentality. There are better ways to be an activist than to be alarmist.

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- you guys dont think that oil will eventually run out ?

If the oil runs out there is still plenty of coal and over a trillion barrels of oil that can be extracted from oil sands (through modern technology). Not to mention every other form of energy in production, water, solar, steam, etc.

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- you dont think science is of more value to mankind than religion politics and the financial system ?

Why science vs religion/politics/financial system? Is that some kind of natural juxtaposition or is that just the bias of the author's perception that makes those things opposite each other? Religion/politics/finance today isn't the same as 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago or 500 years ago. They're all different. To boil them down to something like morals/power/money is naive. They change with time just like everything else.

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- you guys would prefer to live in a world where not all of the energy is clean and renewable?

- you want to live in a world where there are poor people ?

Big "evil" companies like Monsanto have made famine virtually non-existent in the western world. There is poverty and low income people but citizens aren't dying on the street. That's a major improvement from even 100 years ago which is relatively recent history.

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- you dont want to live in a world where everybody gets equal chances ?

The idea of equal chances is subjective. Some people need bars of gold to be happy, other people are fine with heat, shelter, clothes and food. To suggest that everybody should get equal chances is just rhetorical nonsense.

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- you would prefer to slave over money and kick up your money/time/health/live to the people above ? instead of having all your needs met and you can live and express yourself however you like at all times ?

Before Enlightenment chop wood carry water, after Enlightenment, chop wood carry water.

I don't know how cheap it is but I've played with an samsung intercept which is pretty cool.

AMERICA, AMERICA, GOD SHED HIS GRACE ON THEE.

I thought you....were.....Russian....nevermind

Whoops, you're right, I meant its

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I guess that'll teach the US not to intervene in events that are not of their concern heh."

I can assure you almost certainly that we have not learned this lesson.

Also D3 correct me if I'm wrong but they're terrorizing Russia because of your influence on their state right? Wouldn't they leave you alone and focus on internal conflict if you left them alone? I know that's a naive simplification of the situation but how does it make MORE sense to occupy them?

That's an interesting stance Warby but then the question is...where do you get your news?