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GTX970 just came in. I'll replace it with a Pascal maybe later or just do a total rebuild when the time comes.

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Only guessing, but you can probably construct the detector tocollapse the wave functionbased on how far it is from the lens. Exactly how this is done I have no idea.

I am, obviously, in no way qualified to comment on Ellis' published papers, I assume they are accurate. However, I can comment on his philosophy. "he considers them dangerous because they rob us of free will and moral accountability." To which I can say... so what? The universe has no...

My understanding is that the flow of time; that there exists a beginning, middle, and end; is essentially an illusion. This conception of time describes it as just another point in the universe as if the universe were a map with spatial distances between events. This implies that everything...

I've clocked nearly 60 hours in the game, and am sitting at 37% with the Velen and Novigrad main quests complete. I haven't touched the Island yet. But I think I've seen enough to comment on the game as a whole. Despite my earlier complaints about the UI and some of the controls (which still...

These kinds of mistakes drive me up a wall, I find them nearly unbearable. It isn't unique to the Witcher, most games that make easily fixed and elementary mistakes make me feel the same way. The problem with the sign quick menu for example is that it negatively affects both combat and as a...

What I should have clarified is that both games do the expensive part pretty well, large amounts of content to explore, discover, and interact with... but then they fall flat on their face with the more systematic stuff that doesn't cost much because it scales across the game. Good systems are...

I think W3 has a good parallel with Skyrim. Both pissed me off and made me wonder aloud for similar reasons, but Witcher 3 isn't nearly as bad as Skyrim was.

He echoed almost exactly what I said somewhere up thread. Can they not release the patch early on the PC?

Alright, I've asked about this before but I really need some graphics card advice. I built my PC in October of 2013 and with it a GTX760. My usual practice is to do a new build every 4-5 years and a GPU upgrade about halfway between. I'm a bit of a cheapskate, but I don't mind paying for...

Joke is on him. Artists hate their own work more than even the harshest critic.

By your logic, since I've only ever worked on MMORPGs and multiplayer games, they have all been worth your money! But that is stupid logic. Out of the 7 released projects I've worked on I think only one has been worth the money. And that one doesn't include the free-to-play game that was my...

Ha, I am surprised you posses the brainpower to properly operate a keyboard. Over here in adult land we are happy to give money to artists that provide us with dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of hours of entertainment. Whether a game is "single player" or "multi-player" is...

Because unlike you we aren't freeloading idiots. We know that if no one pays professionals to make big budget video games, then we won't get any more big budget professionally made video games. Since we like those quite a lot, spending thousands of hours a year playing them, $50 here and...

Any game that has a simultaneous console release is made this way. The reason you do such a thing is because console releases are extremely profitable due to a much wider market. Higher expected sales from a wider market means a much larger budget. A much larger budget means more features...

Thanks for the great discussion. I haven't played Divinity, but I have heard about it. A colleague played it, enjoyed it, but lamented how easy it was to build overpowered/unkillable characters. I'll probably still give it a try when it goes on sale. I want to stress that I still love all...

There are a couple videos about these already, they are totally impractical and pointless. It is much cheaper and far more efficient to put panels that track the sun on roofs and other man-made flat surfaces, roads are pretty much theworstplace to put solar panels. A rooftop system can...

Sure, that makes sense. Although a turn-based Sci-Fi game with guns (and not perfect), I think the new XCom is a good example of what Fantasy RPGs can do in the core combat department. The new Shadowrun sort of went in that direction but didn't really execute like it could have, and I couldn't...

I would say NWN2 is the best implementation of D&D systems in a video game, but that is sort of damning with faint praise. I'm pretty much a straight up J.E. Sawyer fanboi, but my conclusion about the game is the same as it is for pillars of eternity, it is probably the best possible version...

I said this above, but it holds true here as well, the systems underlying the math behind everything you do is terrible, as is the progression system where you pretty much just click more buttons with the occasional cross-road that actually matters. Dual wielding for example, there are 5? 6? (I...

That is the benefit of a large budget and an enormous amount of custom content. It doesn't reflect how good, or crappy, the underlying game systems are. PoE has stealth, detection, and alignment. There is no reason to have both spot and listen, you only need 1 "detect stuff" stat, any more...

I am going to disagree because I think D&D style systems are fantastic for P&P but terrible for video games, and I think Pillars is an improvement but still suffers from the same fundamental flaws D&D does. I am not dismissing your preference though! I can explain A D&D style system is...

I've played the game a good 50 hours now, I quite like it but I actually feel its cRPG roots are mostly what is holding it back. They should cast off those outdated core systems and just make a really good pausable real-time tactics game with exploration, story, and progression systems. To...

I play PC games on my TV all the time, just plug it into HDMI. I specifically built my PC to be very portable for just that reason, but you can do it with any modern computer really. My only major issue is that I am still waiting for the XB1 widi drivers for the PCMight be waiting a while...

I took a look at those screenshot comparisons and it looks mostly like optimizations to me. You'd be surprised how much good looking stuff has to be cut in order to get the game to run well when do or die time comes. It really sucks when that happens but developers don't know how good the...

About a 1&1/2 years ago I did a mini-itx build with the SG05. I'm generally happy with it and the case is only 8 liters. The main limiting factor right now is the size of the Video card, so even though the computer isn't very old I might end up doing something next year with Skylake and Pascal...

Do you think Pascal is really going to be as amazing as Nvidia says it will be? I know the 10x thing isn't for gaming, but just how much better in size, power use, and GPU output do you think it will be over the current 900s?

I've been very happy with the Surface 2, it is by far the best tablet (for me) I've used. Keep in mind I don't really need apps and used it mostly for work and reading the web, which it does nicely. The ability to dock Skype to once side while doing other work cannot be understated.

Seconded, I am pretty happy with myReadyNAS 102. Based on the price cut it looks like they may be coming out with a new version soon? You can wait or just pick this one up cheap. It hold up to 8TB on 2 disks, so you can buy a pair of Western Digital Red drives and through them in. I am just...

This nonsense especially galls me for mods like SkyUI, which isn't really a mod and more a "make the UI usable on PC" patch. I don't have a problem with buying content mods, since that is extra content; but mods like SkyUI, and the unofficial patch mods are the equivalent of Bethesda charging...

The should have released with a new game. Part of the problem is that when you try to convert an existing mod scene like this, all sorts of shenanigans ensue. At least with a new game, knowing there would be aid mods going in, modders/contributors that have been ripped of would have been able...

My guess is that he knows way more about pumping.

"Game Feel" is by far the most esoteric and difficult part of... well making a game. This is because it is the end product in a chain of multi-disciplinary interdependent processes which all have to interact and any of which can not be good enough. Engine and net code are extremely important...

You are right, I should have added Piketty to the list. My point was that the best social science comes from non-social scientists, but people with other types of training. The people in my list have all done original research as well as more meta-research (such as the published books).

And? How does that change the fact that medical researchers and public health officials do some of the best sociological research there is? That was the entire point of my post, that you have to go outside of sociology into other fields to find decent sociological research. You are just...

Do you actually believe this nonsense or are you just trolling?

I love numbers, so this statement piqued my interest. I read this and I was generally curious where rape falls on the "compared to other crimes" scale because this is something we can actually look at. Also I live half my like in spreadsheets anyway so I can use them pretty quickly. To the...