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  1. Tuco

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yeah it's annoying but keeping the discovery of new coins limited to very specific methods prevents exploitation. If research labs could offload processing to the mining community there'd be a chance for a lab to subvert the process by having mining that can be done very efficiently if someone...
  2. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    It's a shonnen manga, unique character defining abilities exist because it makes the fiction better, not because it follows a coherent set of physics defined in the universe.
  3. Tuco

    Assassin's Creed: Unity

    Revolutionary France huh. Day 1 purchase but it's way too similar to Ezio's AC for me to be that excited.
  4. Tuco

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    A lot of people are cancelling their purchase from GMG. No idea how much loss GMG from cancellations but I hope it's zero.
  5. Tuco

    ReRolled AssHat of the year, round 1 VOTING

    My prediction
  6. Tuco

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Yeah D3 is a huge temptation but it's in line behind TESO and Dark Souls 2. I hope I don't miss the exciting release week fun, but I guess I had enough of that at D3's release where I got to max level in 3 days.
  7. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    It's all a balancing game. Dana White has to consistently reject contracts to avoid overpaying for fighters. Even if this means short-term losses because they lose a fighter here and there it means ensuring long-term profits from having more profitable contracts.
  8. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    seems like bullshit to me
  9. Tuco

    ReRolled AssHat of the year, round 1 VOTING

    Thanks for putting this together. I'm glad that all the above members are part of this community but I think you and the nominators successfully captured those members of this community who have frequent outlandish behavior.
  10. Tuco

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I'm guessing they knew about it all along and were just cooling the mark.
  11. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Nah, all you could get now is a blurry imax screen. Note that there's different imax screen sizes, ranging from 7k to 18k, so this image understates it but is still a good comparison.
  12. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    I don't think HMDs will replace tvs or are even attempting to. Even most current movies don't make sense for an HMD. The last movie I watched, 12 years a slave, is better on a screen than an HMD. Like Column says, HMDs could allow for currently impossible media experiences. But that's...
  13. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yeah I agree that isometric games wouldn't be good in a rift. I think third person games would be great though.
  14. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    cool rift simulator, no idea how accurate vs overemphasized it is: oculus rift simulator
  15. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You could be right. There's always an element of fudging with games like this where there's loose control. It's similar to auto-aim with guns. However I think it's legit, you can see the sword shaking like someone is holding a controller and there's no real reason to fake it that much.
  16. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It looks legit to me, a bunch of journalists are doing that demo so if it was faked people would know.
  17. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    Kakashi still has the ability to rez since he watched that old lady do it to Gaara and he's the ultimate copy ninja. I think he's going to die though, there's no reason for him not to since Rock Lee is basically a copy of him.
  18. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Oh the flight sim people have some very impressive setups ready for Star Citizen/Eliteangerous, Eve:Valkyrie etc. I know almost all racing games show the avatar moving the wheel, and I remember people talking about how weird to see in the Rift.
  19. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I think RPGs, flight sims and racing games are all hugely impacted by using a rift. Especially since immersion is the key force in those games. For online FPS I'd say competition is the key component to them, and a rift is only desirable if it helps you compete (Which may be true with the high...
  20. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yeah. It's limited by the fact that it's an open loop system with no feedback. When there's no large mass of a sword that gives weight to the movement you're always going to be able to just rotate it with your wrist and swing your sword around 10 times a second. Making large, sensible sword...
  21. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    Would anyone else mind if Naruto spent a month giving a one page storyline of each major character in the Naruto universe killing Madara?
  22. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    Who thought Vegeta was going to beat Majin Buu? Guy isn't even Naruto's Vegeta (Sasuke is the closest thing and even that's a bad comparison). Guy beating Madara would be like Tenshinhan beating Majiin Buu.
  23. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The directional wifi could be used to support an HMD right? And I agree that the xbone is in perfect position to support an HMD since they have so much focus on the kinect. I don't like using my body as a controller but being able to use the kinect + an HMD is so much better than having to...
  24. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Microsoft: We're willing to "see how the VR space evolves" | Ars Technica Kind of disappointing they aren't at least talking about jumping in with a 'me too!'. I expect they'll change their mind.
  25. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    possibly fake leaked info about morpheus: Massive Information Leak Regarding Sony's VR Headset: Tidbits include target price of $250-$299 and target launch window of Spring 2015. : oculus
  26. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Oh ok, yeah I can understand why that'd be cool. I don't really have enough imagination to think of how good it'd really be. Most movies the characters, plot story etc are the important parts and the director/editors have very tight control of the shot to maximize the impact of those elements...
  27. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    I don't really get the theater-in-an-hmd part of the Rift. What does a virtual big screen TV in the rift have over a real big screen TV? I would assume that a real big screen TV has better resolution and a host of other advantages (Like not having to wear an HMD). If the CV1 is 1440 and the...
  28. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Yeah those are all big issues but not really damning. I'm super excited about what they're doing because the question of whether or not they were taking it seriously has been answered pretty well. Now the big question is how much pressure and support they'll exert on game developers to make...
  29. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Reading the Morpheus reviews people seem pretty happy with it. People say it's almost as good as DK2/Crystal Cove which is way more than I expected from Sony.
  30. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Yeah I'm thinking if we don't get a CV1 announcement before July it probably means it'll be a while. A CV1 announcement will reduce the DK2 sales (Which they want to get the DK2 in the hands of real devs instead of just enthusiasts).
  31. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Just put a pre-order in, I think if I change my mind before July I can cancel...
  32. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Yeah Oculus changed their story. A couple months ago they said no dev kit, then recently they said they'd do a dev kit with identical specs to the consumer version. Now they're saying they'll do a dev kit 2 and the consumer version will be improved. My guess is that they're constantly...
  33. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Who is saying that body-control is 'LOL KID STUFF'? I don't like it because I don't want to physically move around and my body isn't a very good input device for the games I want to play.
  34. Tuco

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    What he really needs is some timeskips. He should have had a couple timeskips in the books already.
  35. Tuco

    [Manga] Bleach (spoilers to current)

    I think the reason we like Zaraki is because whenever he fights one of these dicks he has the same attitude the reader has, as in he's thinking, "Wow what kind of dumbass character do I have to kill now? This is dumb hurry this shit a long fucking hell" He also has the best 'power ups' and...
  36. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    Bro he punched him. This is a huge mirror to the Lee vs Gaara fight. I don't think there's a question that Madara is going to come out of this okay, but Guy is the first person to make Madara look mortal which is the most one could ask from someone like Guy.
  37. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    Fuck you guys that was awesome.
  38. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    On the other hand their hmds have been awful. A big question is whether the dinosaurs responsible for zero innovation are also responsible for morpheus. I think we will know today if that's the case.
  39. Tuco

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Apparently the design helps reduce the amount of force on your face. The biggest question will likely be if the solved the motion sickness problem. We will know tomorrow, but I'm betting Sony can match what the rift did.