Posts by blackdog

I have an idea, go figure

Gone Home

We are floored. The New York Times says, «Gone Home is the greatest video game love story ever told.»

Sorry for the uncool gravedig, but this video popped on my Youtube homepage yesterday. Here Gearbox explains the inception of Borderlands and how they shifted to the cel-shaded look.

it's just part 1, next should be online tomorrow.

DAT NORTHWEST T_T

and bacon donuts? lol.

I like this car channel, they actually do show more points of interest than the car itself in those "Epic Drives" episodes.

"We have more flexibility with the architecture of the Xbox One, is that we can dial back the power of the box considerably. [...]

Xbox One can actually dial it back to a lower power state, so low in fact that it can [be] in a mode that uses virtually no air flow."

[...]

del Castillo says the Xbox One will notify the user of impending problems with some type of notification.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/…source=facebook

Hope i'll be able to play tonight, thursday there was the GO update taking forever, my parents are also back and my dad is downloading stuff as if there's no tomorrow...

Looks like too good... but if it's possible, my friends will think i'm really generous!

Some analysis of the update

really a bummer that the cases are 1 weapon, I mean... 2€ for 1 gun?

Anyways, in my opinion the inventory was really quickly pieced together and just makes me more convinced that the UI could use some improvements here and there. Looking at guns seems really pointless to me, it's so clunky that I'm demotivated at that, there should be like a gallery (see Splinter Cell Conviction).

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Amazing, dude! Looks really tasty.

My girlfriend is a bit of a master baker so I should post up some of the things she cooks in here! She can't eat gluten/dairy so she has to be quite imaginative with the recipes. Xantham gum is one of the things she has to use to make cakes rise... Sounds like some kind of alien plant extract.

Thanks man!

Yeah it tasted very fine, even though I was hoping the coffee+rum I put on the sponge would be tasted, but I couldn't even smell it. (Probably I was afraid to wet the sponge too much.)

Just read a little about the Xantham and yeah, really sounds like stuff from another planet being food intolerant is a bitch, but it's nice when you are able to find replacements.

lol Minos... i thought about doing that myself

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Well, you can't redeem bf3 on steam (it's origin only) but if there's a game you want to give away, don't activate it, just pass on the actual serial so someone else so he or she can activate it her/himself

i'm only interested in BF3, there are others both on Steam and Origin, i'm curious if I can give those to two people or not (I guess it's not but just to be sure).

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I don't drink caffeine (That includes Coke!) for a couple of hours before bed

I don't drink caffeine at all, except the pot of tea I have in the morning/afternoon break... but that's not every single day. Soft-drinks have been sorta banned from our family too. I sometimes get a coke when I'm out for a pizza, otherwise it's pretty rare.

Any kind of sugar-y food is bad in the evening, I mean sometimes (especially when it's hot like in summer) I indulge on an ice cream while watching a movie (this last month I went particularly crazy on that)... and if that's at 23-0, then you get going for a while.

Btw we should just quit the computer at a certain time, sometime i can feel sleepy, get to the computer and i'm back in the land of the living.

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Yup, just give the codes to someone who wants them. Duplicate keys don't give gift copies on Steam once redeemed, so give the actual keys away,

Bought the bundle yday.

So what you mean, that if I redeem -eg- BF3 on Steam, I cannot give the Origin code to others?

I was just reading the studio's story earlier.

Unfortunately I can't get into the game atm

Practically none.

I own the Xbox 360, which is my first proper game console.

I inherited an Atari XE in my childhood from my cousin, but it's not listed because it's considered a computer I guess (it had keyboard and ports for printer and music keyboard). Games with the infrared pistol were a blast, and some 16-bit stuff I still think about it sometimes, I regret we sold it.

My father has always been a geeky guy, he got an MSX and then it was all PC marvels when they came out... I remember I was the first in my school to have a computer with a CD-ROM

I remember I wanted a GameBoy, but my parents considered it too expansive and got me Batman Return's GIG Tiger

Gone Home is Available NOW!Posted on 08/15/2013 by Steve Hooray!!!!!!

On STEAM! And through OUR WEBSITE!

We’re overjoyed!! More soon!!

They have also cards for those of you...

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Yeah, in Conviction it made sense to not have it, but I was expecting it to return. No big deal, eh, just appears to "go back" a little.

Agreed that the EMP belt was op.

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OCP?

The device attached to the pistol to disable electronic devices: http://splintercell.wikia.com/wiki/Optically…led_Potentiator

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unfortunately getting my legs to respond is very hard when I first wake up, might be something to do with being so tall and blood flow when ive been lying down for 6-7 hours.

Do you stretch? Try to force yourself out and do a couple of exercises like a series of squats. I'm not tall but I often feel like my legs are made of wood after getting up.

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I am firmly convinced that I am not biologically "wired" to go to sleep at 11pm like a robot just because society turned off the lights. After dinner, I get this burst of energy and creativity that typically lasts until 2/3am.

Could this have to be also with your diet? I mean, I think everybody (here) can relate to what you are saying.

I haven't done any research, but my personal experience just tells me that the "delayed sleep" in my case is self-induced by staying up to party/play/study/sport. In the latest years in particular i did notice that after my basketball trainings I was too awake, if i'd go to bed i would generally turn in it for hours. Even worse if i did eat something when I got back/after the matches (around 11pm).

So, at least for me, it's just a matter of self-discipline and patience to take the time to adjust your sleep: when I was running in the morning, waking up 6-6:30, I would go to bed around midnight and sleep without any problem. When I was working in Namibia, I adjusted too* and most of the time I would fell in complete coma at 23:00 if I tried to watch a movie (still dunno how my laptop did never fell from my laps).

Anyways, my recent visit to the oculist, revealed that I sleep with my eyelids not completely closed, and this must be a change that happened (in fact I started to be disturbed by LEDs in recent years, so I must cover those if I want to leave the laptop on in the night to download stuff).

*took me a couple of months, it was tricky because i went from the then extending daylight of the north emisphere to the opposite cycle.

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+1 blender can go eat a dick. you never use blender in a production environment, just like you would never use gimp.

my opinion anyway.

I understand what you say; but for how it is structured, would it be good enough to learn modeling basis?

(Aside from the fact that Autodesk is quite generous and has very nice student licenses compared to Adobe.)

I was thinking to try it myself.

Anyways, being free and multi-platform, I'd think it's perfect to make small assets to use in community maps or even to work on a small-mid sized indie project.

On this regard, Valve's initiative doesn't come much as a surprise... I am wondering if they are going to switch production or at least create platform-agnostic tools for Source 2 (so you could use 'em also on SteamBox).

I think i've read the PC version is rumored to come earlier this time, like 3 months after... so still in 2013.