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  1. Nija

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Now they are talking about dropping DirectX support and only supporting Vulcan. PROGRAMMING (Engine, API, Hardware, etc) - Page 6
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    Smartphones

    It's the standard G4, 16GB. 32GB is $199. Right here: Amazon.com: Moto G (4th Gen.) Unlocked - Black - 16GB: Cell Phones & Accessories Edit: You can get it for $50 cheaper but you'll have to suffer Amazon-produced software updates to it which include ads on the lock screen and some other...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    If your PS4 is ejecting discs try elevating the front of the unit. Put a penny under each corner, with nothing underneath the eject button. If that doesn't work you can open it up and physically unplug the eject button. At that point you have to eject the discs in the UI.
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    Smartphones

    Just ordered a 4th gen Moto G from amazon for kid use. If anyone has an iPhone 6 or SE or even a 5s that they outgrow, think of me. I'd like to get her on an iPhone but can't justify the cost of new. I've had not great luck in the past with random dudes on the internet so I'd rather deal with...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    @Crone if there are any other outlets on that wall, like an existing coax cable or phone jack (lol), you can open up that outlet and use the existing cables as pull wire to get your ethernet cable up into the attic. Tape up a string and the ethernet cable, pull ethernet up into attic. Use string...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I would guess the problem is the PS4 wifi - unless you have a pro. Wifi on PS4 is notoriously terrible. You say you can't wire, but I'd start thinking about it. Put a 10 port switch behind your entertainment center and run one wire to that. Cable all devices from that point. Life becomes so...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Yep, that's what I have as well. I bought two, when Mario kart 8 came out. One for my parents. Both were not refurbished at all. They were brand new - the WiiU sold so poorly they just needed to unload unsold units.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If you don't have a PS4, buy a Pro. If you have an old PS4, flip a coin.
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I'm just confused about how you can guarantee the Switch will be worth purchasing in two years. I would like for it to be worthwhile, as competition is good, but Nintendo is pants on head retarded. All I'm saying is that it's a very bold claim to say that two calendar years from now the Switch...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    You're 100% buying it if it proves to be a worthwhile purchase, right? That's not 100%. What guarantees the success of this product in the next two years? What Nintendo product in the last 15 years has inspired that much confidence?
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    Horizon: Zero Dawn

    Not a honeymoon issue? The game has been out a day.
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    Horizon: Zero Dawn

    Hold up, let the fucking honeymoon run its course. THEN you can make ridiculous claims like this. For fuck's sake. You do it to yourself.
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    Nioh (Team Ninja)

    When should I start seeing a problem with medium armor? I'm using a set now strictly for the damage bonuses.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Remote play works WAY better than you expect it to. It's amazing on the PS4Pro, as that will do 1080p remote play, while the PS4 will only do 720p. It's magic.
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    Nioh (Team Ninja)

    Back at it. Forgot to turn on the capture for a long play session so I missed some fights. Here's the spider queen:
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    Weather

    Hey, look, what did I predict? Evacuation order for where I live (Yuba City) yesterday. I was 100 miles away at the time. I stayed away and came back today to get my house in order and collect my dog. I think we're staying - supposed to rain on Wednesday night. Going to prepare for the worst and...
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    Weather

    I really doubt this has gone national yet, but I'm closely watching the spillway at the Oroville Dam in northern California. It's the tallest dam in the US, and the spillway has a serious erosion problem that chopped it in half. Now the spillway which could originally handle 250,000 cubic feet...
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    Nioh (Team Ninja)

    I'm going to keep clipping out boss fight videos for future reference. I don't think anyone would appreciate me linking them individually in this thread, so instead here's a link to my videos page. Game is super good if you're still on the fence. If you don't have a PS4 yet, now is a great...
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    Nioh (Team Ninja)

    Here's my fight against Hino-enma, the bat boss:
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    Nioh (Team Ninja)

    I'm not amazing but I've put hundreds of hours into the souls games over the years. I'm settling in on spear / dual swords. Here's the fight against the bandit leader from the first side quest: (link will stop working in a few weeks, don't plan on turning this into an actual video. Jump to...
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    Nioh (Team Ninja)

    This game is great. I'm streaming but just to cut out funny parts, if there are any. Target has an in-store thing which gives you 30% off if you you buy a $1 pre-order card. I chose the Red Dead Redemption 2 card.
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    That's how shitty liberals are these days. They think plumbers make minimum wage.
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Reality seems to be telling us that Nintendo is a company that got really lucky a few times, like a bumbling old fool or something along those lines. Anything you thought was calculated probably wasn't. What a disaster. I remember hearing Miyamoto talking about how nobody really likes or wants...
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    Space Hulk: Deathwing

    Vermintide DLC just came out: It's also on PS4/Xbone if that's acceptable. The console version comes with the two previous DLC releases baked in.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Lambda my tuples, baby.
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    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    Dude early EQ2 was a total mess. I started at the relaunch, when the PVP server opened, but I didn't like having fucking 45 abilities to use on my Dirge. Total shitshow unless you were some kind of sperg savant.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Levels at defense contractors implies the number of years you have been there. More = better than. Skill doesn't apply to this calculation.
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    Parent Thread

    I have three kids, total, years and years apart. Condolences to you twin and triplet(!!!) people. Christ. Food budget is going to look like a hockey stick graph.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Man, Office 365... We had a C-level exec experience inbox corruption. Microsoft hasn't been able to fix or do anything about it for two weeks now. We had to make a rule to pipe mail to a temp mailbox while we hope to get the old one going. We have a backup that they provide, but it's fairly old...
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    Parent Thread

    Parenting thread.... here's my tiny 10 year old gunning someone out from center field.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I would not recommend playing unpatched modern console games. There is a crazy rush to create the master disc with data that is certified by Microsoft or Sony. Often they get that certification and keep that build on there despite having 3 months (or more) of progress made after the disc version...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    They probably have stats that show how often the blu-ray drive is used. I've never used mine, personally. Data drives a lot of these decisions, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't worth the $20 extra dollars. (or whatever the cost was)
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    Titanfall 2

    Well, this time around they got fist-fucked by their launch date. They couldn't have picked a worse time to launch. That said, both Amazon and Target are having inventory issues. That's possibly a good sign for us - more players to play the game with. Not so much EA, who is only getting...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If you release a game with a 60 FPS target and it often can't hit that target, and THEN there is a new hardware that can more often hit your fucking original target, what do you do? You patch it out so it performs as bad as the existing equipment. Amazing.
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    What do you do?

    I've been doing technology bullshit since the mid 90s. I'm rounded enough that I'm top line support for most groups (network, database, development, sysadmins, ops) so I have a constant stream of piddly bullshit to fill in the gaps. The main thing that keeps me happy is that I get to prototype...
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    What do you do?

    I work from home. I keep a full time job and a part time job. I tend to stay in the biotech/pharma industry, and I still like the job title "Generalist". Full stack can get fucked. I bailed on the SF Bay Area lifestyle when my 3rd kid was born. It's not worth the stress, cost, and time spent...
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    Titanfall 2

    Picked it up at that price point. Thanks for the tip.
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    Tom Clancy's The Division

    Crossposting from the console thread. This is now $13 used on gamefly, PS4/XB1: GameFly
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You can pick up The Division for $13 used from gamefly: GameFly