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I love, love reading the "armchair dev" threads. No word of sarcasm, I usually find them genuinely enjoyable and like participating in them. I read/lurk on a few forums, with this one being the only one I post on because, in general, the people here understand more and I have more interesting...

I would honestly disagree, this is personal but I don't see exchanging chores for money (assuming they both work) as a long term arrangement. In general it doesn't feel fair.

My girlfriend makes about 40% more than me, but we split everything down the middle (I pay a little more for food since I eat more). However, we also bought our apartment together and are both on the mortgage. If I were you I would probably figure out fair market value for renting a room in...

Sorry, ended up being quite busy today (still am, but taking a little break). Tad said, Keeping in mind I only worked on the project for maybe half its tenure, this is a simplification and like most simplifications it is sort of right and sort of wrong. For the sake of explanation I am...

Sort of. The full story, as usual, is a little more complicated than that.

Ideas are not the problem, ideas are never the problem. "Ideas" are useful as toilet paper if someone took the effort to write them down and less if they didn't.

"Idea men" are entirely pointless. What matters to a project like a video game are not nebulous "big ideas", everyone has those. Hell, you probably have ones just as good as the ones Brad or I have. What matters are the thousands of tiny ideas that solve complex and difficult problems. You...

Very much. Generally speaking framing action movies as character driven and with otherwise simple plots allows you invest emotionally in the outcomes of those characters. This emotional investment is key to building tension and impact. Both movies are excellent examples of this phenomena in...

It's a shame really, Dredd is an excellent template for an exciting and interesting action movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'll be honest, the naval battles never interested me in any of the Total War games. They never worked right, were always slow and boring, and I have always auto-resolved them. Once or twice a campaign I will take a blow to the head or something and forget this. Within 30 seconds, I end up...

Oh, I think I can imagine...

I find that hilariously ironic too.

No accounting for taste I guess? I enjoy the game more than any tab-target game since WoW, and have played it more than any tab-target game since WoW. Also, you still thump, but they added content and adjusted it so it isn't something you do a ton of. Personally I like thumping. The...

Agreed. Non-1st tier IPs and half finished software are worth very little, especially the unfinished software part.

Meh, something they should have done years ago. I think I even posted that somewhere in this thread... Keep in mind I still don't think anyone should spend money on this game due to the apparent working conditions at the company. That I absolutely do not support.

Look, I get it. But even half that amount is criminally reckless spending, and it really all depends on their staff size. Believe it or not one time expenditures like statues, buses and PAX booths can be expensive, and incredibly wasteful, but they don't add up to a crazy ludicrous number like...

Unless is some special or strange power supply, that fan is an intake fan. It is pulling hot air from the video card and exhausting it out of the back of the case (where the plug is).

I can't read that webpage with adblock enabled, so I will take your word that is what the article says. The article though, near as I can tell, is not an official source. Not that it isn't POSSIBLE to spend that much money, which 38 studios certainly proved, but that it is unlikely to the...

What? Ha, no. No one, including the developers, really had any idea what they were doing and what they were making. It was all one giant clusterfuck of an experiment, of which players were very actively involved. That can never happen again no matter how much many of us wish it would. And...

For cases where there is a vent there isn't a strict right way and "upside down" way, it is basically an option. You can either use the power supply fan to help vent the case OR you can give it an independent air flow. Which you choose depends really on a lot of factors.

Solid advice. I agree. The nice part is the rest of you system will probably be good for another 2 years, hell maybe 3 with the way things are going now.

I can't find that anywhere in the investor report here:http://www.corp.the9.com/news/2013/news_130906.html Are you referring to a different one? The only cost quote I could find was "We have great expectation for these two games on which we have invested more than $100 million in the past...

The developers posting on Rerolled comes up once in a while and I've posted a couple of times why we tend to stay away. Some of the reasons other people mentioned, but overall, the reason developers don't interact with players much is because players are very egocentric. They can rarely see the...

Nvidia cards are apparently now coming with a code for the new Arkham game. All I got was Splinter Cell

The classic start menu sucks balls on the PC as well. I am happy it is gone and replaced with something better.

Touchscreens/convertibles I assume? I dunno, I see the charms bar like once a week.

I dunno, took me all of half a minute to figure it out. One is the settings menu for those two actions and the other is the actions themselves. One is for sharing current content and the other is for sending it to a device like a printer. I opened an email and I could print it from devices...

Just because you don't know how to use something doesn't mean it is retarded.

What are you trying to do?

You can plug a 3-pin fan into a 4-pin MB fan connector. The connectors are designed to work with both types, and any relatively modern board will only have 4 pin connectors for maximum flexibility. The 4-pin fans arePulse-width Modulation (PWM)fans, which is a type of fan control usually...

MSI GTX760 TFis quietest 760.

I also wanted to add that I too fucking hate most CGI. It is way overused and usually looks like crap. I don't care what everyone says, Avatar looked like plastic shit and the entire thing was offensive to my eyes.Planet Earthlooks orders of magnitude better in every way and there wasn't a...

I just re-watched the movie after seeing the trailer and pretty much this. The technical aspects don't hold up that well of course (some special effects, acting, camera work, etc) but the core of the movie is archetypal and holds up extremely well. Loss, death, friendship, betrayal, rebirth...

Let's hope it gets improved soon, as I love nearly everything they've changed with the game. At some point I'll do a full write up with what I like and why, what I don't like and why, and what just doesn't work right.

Gotcha. I haven't been sieged, and the skirmish battles I played were normal land battles. Cities really seem to through the AI for a loop.

I jacked the Battle Difficulty (different than campaign difficulty) up to legendary, and battles are more difficult, but I still don't lose any, I just take a good chunk more casualties and lose the occasional unit. Are you playing as Rome? At this point I am not so sure that it is the AI. It...

Eh, color me highly skeptical. No one has yet to come up with a magic pill that can replace food, likely because for all we know there is enough we don't know to make replacing food not yet feasible.

This is part of the reason this thread is a useless cesspit, and I should just stop posting in it. A few simple words of advice and general guidelines are met with fierce derision and pedantic nitpicking. This is probably the worst thread on the entire board for someone that wants to get...