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  1. Dandain

    The Fishing Thread

    Just an extra rare fact about those specific fish, few salmon runs ascend 5000 feet+ from sea level. I just have a soft spot for those fish, and find them amazing. They are a keystone species in the forest I frequent, just thought I'd share them here. They are a nutrient conveyor from...
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    XCOM 2

    That was brilliant, thanks for the share.
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    The Fishing Thread

    Not many places in the world you can enjoy salmon spawning naturally at 5000 feet in elevation. I figured if there was a thread for these this is it.
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    Witcher 3

    I would say its 100% related to the performance of your PC relative to the PS4. If you are someone who would like to mod out things that annoy you, clearly you have to play on PC. If your PC is sketchy settings wise, then you don't want a game you can't play.
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    Greece - A New Hope

    I really hope that the Yanis Varoufakis' brain can help the Greeks in whatever way they need to gain longterm success. This might be Valve changing the world, so I am rooting heavily for the Greeks myself for that storyline alone.
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    Witcher 3

    Skellige really dropped the boat with points of interest in the water. Largely because water combat was hardly a feature of the game - and just a requirement to explore the swimming was fine but the ?'s were pointless. If they had not been out in the ocean I probably would have visited them...
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    Witcher 3

    What an incredibly enjoyable game. I don't really know what to say other than that. I'm satisfied, I'm glad I supported this studio since the first one. I look forward to literally whatever else they do with Witcher in the title.
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    Batman: Arkham Knight

    Seems like the people not complaining as much tend to have Nvidia 900's of some sort. That's a pretty high requirement.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Get Hype - FYI Pluto has 4 moons.
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    XCOM 2

    You don't need to necessarily crank the difficulty to ball busting, but I highly recommend playing with Ironman. For me, I like not having the option to save scum, because when you have the option you will. I feel that I get far more value out of my purchase, and I feel far more...
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    XCOM 2

    First game play reveal. Looks pretty legit, I think I pay full price for this one. First XCOM 2 Gameplay Footage - IGN Live: E3 2015 - IGN Video
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    DOTA 2

    The reborn beta is now available, you can start the download right on the play tab inside the client. 7.2 gigs.
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    I really enjoyed the Xenosaga trilogy, but I never play RPGs for their combat systems as a driver. It has a massive amount of voice acted movies basically. Its the only set of RPGs that my wife watched every single scene with me (it had a really convenient pause feature when the movies...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Really exciting, especially the fact that they could potentially get to measure some aspects of the heating/release as the comet continues to get closer to the sun and the tail forms/grows. It will get something like 19,000 km closer to the Sun by August I think the article said. That's a...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Just imagine how many kids the Duggers could have with 500 year lifespans.
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Cool stuff.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    It was mentioned, but to think about future space travel, it really does help to try and think about what your own life might be like if you lived some arbitrary length of time. 500 years or a 1000 seem on the far edge of imagining for us. But just some simple questions. If you...
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    Gardening

    That's the 4th year of that specific cherry, this is its first big year it had a lot of body to make buds. We harvested ~ 50 pounds of cherries from that one tree this year. Nature is really rad if you just step back and think that 100% of our existence is so dependent on the plant...
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    Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)

    I think Powerplay is clearly worth looking into. Its begun to organize human space in a way that is organizing human players in groups of various sizes. If you want the game to be dangerous, join a power and start undermining expansion efforts. The Felicia Winters #1 Fed faction is...
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    DOTA 2

    The MLG Lan is also live at the X-Games I believe. Mars Semis/finals are left. Some good Dota to watch.
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    Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)

    Powerplay is live today, both on steam and through the launcher. Mac and PC. ED universe is getting its first human faces, I think there is a lot to be pleased about, I'm excited about flying back to human space finally.
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    Gardening

    Harvesting soon.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    When thinking of the Fermi Paradox this is what helped me contextualize it a bit. Our modern civilization is consuming a very substantial amount of energy. Currently we consume mostly stored sunlight from millions of years in the past we dig up out of the ground, but one fact seems to...
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    So, I'm not sure if this is precisely related to the discussion at hand. However, I think it might be of interest to at least one person in the discussion. BBC did a Science of Dr. Who, and Brian Cox gives a lecture in a hall I should recall the name of but one that has stood for...
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    XCOM 2

    PC exclusive first launch, or at least only PC listed at the end of the trailer, has anyone commented about that officially? Game should be amazing for it.
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    Witcher 3

    So people are complaining about floaty controls, I realize they don't like them. I'll speak to a few points that may or may not change your experience. First, I don't feel any input lag on my system. I'm using mouse/keyboard and a xbox360 pad. Geralt's animation are definitely...
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    Witcher 3

    I5 4690k / 770 / 16 gig ram. Everything is on ultra at 1920x1080. With hair on Geralt I get like 39-43fps stable. Hair off, that jumps into the low 50's, With shadow on high vs ultra - but everything else I sit at 57-60fps The dips are in the low 50's. I haven't overclocked my...
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    The ethics of stealing video games

    Its pretty sweet my neg ended up in your profile Teck, Just put my name on it. Perhaps if you read it like the daily mantra it has become, there is 2,667 (currently) places that you can attempt to change your life on this forum alone. I think you should put on your 500 dollar sneakers...
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    The ethics of stealing video games

    When it comes to entertainment media, which has no bearing on life or death, any justification as to why its ok to steal is standing on pretty thin ground from my perspective. Its not as if any artist is withholding medicine from anyone's sick family member. At which point perhaps stealing...
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    Witcher 3

    I expect to be content with my purchase at least, and perhaps I will be blown away.
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    Witcher 3

    That was awesome.
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    Star Wars: Battlefront, as told by Dice on Frostbite 3 (PS4?/XBone?/PC?)

    I'm pretty sure Starwars Fans encompass a lot of individuals who would never pick up a Battlefield title even if they will play remarkably similar. I'm pretty sure they can be burned at least once by the battlefield+expansion maps $120/year fps plan. Additionally there have not been any...
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    DOTA 2

    I put rave in, over malaysia but went 9/10 - because rave went top 6 at DAC and this malaysia squad is so many time reformed. I think its a mistake of MY over Rave, even if Malaysia's ceiling is higher. They should have to win the SEA qual.
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    Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)

    This is fun to follow, I am interested enough in 1.3 / aliens. I look forward to this story unfolding and its pretty cool they are hand crafting a storyline its like DM'ing for all of ED.
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    World of Tanks

    Warthunder has a lot more sim oriented aspects as well, and offer arcade/realistic/sim difficulties. There is terrain penalties that affect you like muddy ground, view distance I believe is much further as well. I believe you can see 2+km in WT I thought WoT was like .5/1km view distance...
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    Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate

    Wasteland 2 is probably in a slightly more polished stated as PoE will probably get a few more patches as its only a month old or w/e. That might be a consideration to go wasteland 2 first if you have no preference.
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    Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate

    They are both worth your time, wizards or guns, you decide.
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    DOTA 2

    Was a good Lan, some really enjoyable games with quite a few nice diverse picks. Secret can only win if they can get chen, and chen is op or first class support at the time of said games.
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    Science Ethics and Racism in Drug Enforcement Thread

    What's the biological underpinning that makes people start doing horrible shit to each other? Especially when it passes the boundary of survival needs. Serious question.
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    DOTA 2

    Dota 2 - The Dota Major Championships After TI5, TI is no more, and it will now be 4 majors like CS:GO. This is a positive solution towards team stability and less emphasis on trying to win a stupid amount of money once a year.