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  1. Alkorin

    Pebble Watch

    So, anyone else get one of these off Kickstarter? Pondering downloading the SDK and doing some watchfaces (or even a simple stopwatch, timer, etc).
  2. Alkorin

    What I Know Best: Game Development - Someone should hire me STAT.

    The Fallout series has been excellent in terms of giving you a sandbox to explore, yes. The problem with doing this in an MMO is... well, try to imagine Borderlands with 500 people in each zone. 4 people is aggravating enough.
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    TERA

    What, you mean, is it any better yet in terms of mystics soloing? Almost certainly no.
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    What I Know Best: Game Development - Someone should hire me STAT.

    Any Harvest Moon MMO would sound far too much like Farmville Online. No thanks unless it has farm girls la ~
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    New Rule: Should we cull all EQ-Neckbeard discussion from game threads?

    It's really very simple. We can either talk about games without looking like a bunch of whining bitches, or we can let what's going on now continue. Moderation probably isn't the answer, so what is? Turning every single MMO thread into "EQ is better than this game because x, y, z" clearly isn't...
  6. Alkorin

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Yeah, but... it's Rogers. Doesn't paying them just make your head ache?
  7. Alkorin

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    My login problem was PeerBlock. Problem solved. Duh.
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    Laptop Computers

    I tried TERA and Battlefield 2 on the G75, they were both fine at high settings. Mine had the 660M in it. If the one you buy has the 670M, even better.
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    Torrents

    My RL coworkers that I invited are likely banned as well, and I'm on parental leave for a month. This should be funny when I get back to work.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Looks like it has a problem with my laptop somehow. It's patching fine on my server. So, I'll just patch it there and copy it to the laptop. After seeing Byr go supernova over not getting everything handed to him on a silver platter, I have even more hope for this game now.
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    Torrents

    Yeah, I had an exceptional ratio, and I'd donated. They're kinda bitches for not giving me a second chance. You're not allowed to trade invites, but I didn't do that -- I gave them to people on a forum that I frequent that haven't been douchebags. Oh well, whatever. IPT is 10 times the site...
  12. Alkorin

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It still refuses to let me download the whole game update. What shenanigans are these? Edit: I'm not alone with this problem. It may be A/V related. I might try uninstalling nod32 for this, because I really want to play it for a few hours just to see what's up this time around.
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    New Rule: Should we cull all EQ-Neckbeard discussion from game threads?

    Probably wouldn't be too hard to do. It would be more a question of how the themes work than the code. It should be fairly simple to put in something like "hide all off-topic comments" or "NO DERAIL" or whatever. The real question is: Why can't people not be dumbshits on every post?
  14. Alkorin

    Do You Cheat in Video Games?

    Maybe when I was 15, sure. That was a very long time ago. I don't see the point, especially with today's games.
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    What I Know Best: Game Development - Someone should hire me STAT.

    Fair enough. They certainly weren't the first. But man, are those things perky.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It's downloading normally now. I think it got caught up on something and refused to get past that point until I deleted whatever it had half-downloaded. I seem to remember the updater dying with some strange error the first time I tried, but that's not a new thing, so I just tried to restart it...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I know, I remember it being dog shit (that's the joke), but at least I could log in once in a blue moon. This updater has me stuck at: I uninstalled, reinstalled and it's got this stuff cached somewhere, because it's still updating at the same point. Suppose I'll need to find and delete...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Got in to this weekend's beta. The launcher died on me mid-update, and it won't continue to update now, just sits at the same place forever. I see you brought your A games, SqEnix! PlayOnline was better than this shit.
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    What I Know Best: Game Development - Someone should hire me STAT.

    Fixed that for ya. Also, TERA got Elf titties right.
  20. Alkorin

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Hilarity. I wonder if they're going to clean up the advantage(s) that the guilds these people were in have claimed as a result of their bullshit, too. Unlikely. As usual, they swat at flies, but they do nothing about the piles of rotten food everywhere.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Suppose that depends on what you're trying to win, doesn't it? Like any speculative investment, this one is tugging at a lot of peoples' wallet strings as it hits the roller coaster. Hopefully it'll stabilize soon. Edit: So far today on Mt.Gox, high 140, low 65. And it was closed for...
  22. Alkorin

    Parent Thread

    Sitting here reading Rerolled at 2:30am because the baby woke up and fussed over eating. Now I'm wide fucking awake. I swear, she's not even a week old and she's trolling me already.
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    New Rule: Should we cull all EQ-Neckbeard discussion from game threads?

    Dude, you lose all credibility for linking paladin-only anything. Derail or no derail.
  24. Alkorin

    Computer Issues

    So the only thing you haven't swapped is the motherboard at this point? I'd turn it on, switch to onboard video with the PCIE card still plugged in and use something like HWiNFO to check the PCIE voltage/status. If everything other than the PCIE works, that's a probable cause.
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    New Rule: Should we cull all EQ-Neckbeard discussion from game threads?

    That's, what, twice that the "no" voters have invoked the Hitler/Nazi rule? You know, the one that says once you bring that up, you lose the argument?
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    New Rule: Should we cull all EQ-Neckbeard discussion from game threads?

    How hard is it to keep discussion on one game to that game's thread(s) when it would otherwise derail shit? Yes.
  27. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Ahh, wtf. I went to try to make some more money this morning and Mt.Gox has suspended trading for 12h to allow the market to "cool down". Haha. https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21...n-for-12-hours
  28. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Keep in mind that they could just be saying this to allay concerns about their stability. A lot of other sites were affected today as well. I find it somewhat hard to believe that they were all suffering from "increased demand" at the same time.
  29. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I just put in an order at $115.42. Man, how far is this gonna fall today? Edit: Looks like it ended up stopping around $105. I jumped in and bought at $140 as my $115 order never went through (thanks to Mt.Gox's issues). It's back at $200 and climbing now.
  30. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yeah, it's gonna rebound. Too bad all my BTC related earnings are at Mt.Gox, and it's essentially unresponsive.
  31. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Trying to buy a bit to sell later, and Mt.Gox is so fucked up that I can't. Bah.
  32. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    This is kind of like saying "if you own the bank, you're in a good position to make money". No shit? Edit: Coins taking a bit of a tumble right now. Down to under $200.
  33. Alkorin

    Parent Thread

    We're supplementing now, mostly because the baby is fussy and my wife's milk isn't in yet (hopefully soon). She is also taking this as a personal failure. I don't think that's uncommon at this stage as the hormones are still screaming and it's gotta be tough to regulate that when the baby is...
  34. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    More so now than ever before, yes, but we're in dangerous territory as ASICs are poised to jump into the market en masse any time now. Then again, "any time now" has been hanging over our heads for months, so...
  35. Alkorin

    Google Fiber Heading to Austin, TX

    There's a bunch of Google Fiber stuff inhere.
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    Laptop Computers

    Yeah, if I had to do it all over again, I'd go with the G75VW any day of the week.
  37. Alkorin

    Parent Thread

    I hear that. Last night/this morning went a heck of a lot smoother than the night before. We're slowly learning a routine. I almost went nuts tonight trying to figure out what our daughter wanted. Turns out she was just really, really hungry for some reason. Could be because she wouldn't latch...
  38. Alkorin

    Torrents

    Whoops. Looks like I wasn't allowed to give out RevoTT invites here. I'm banned. Sorry if anyone I invited got banned. Oh well.
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    Parent Thread

    HOLY SHIT. If I could go back and kick my own ass when I was saying this was going to be a mere adventure, I would. Our daughter was born on Saturday at 6pm, and I'm already feeling like I've been hit by the zombie truck. I was by no means ready for the steady state of "wake up/stumble over to...
  40. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    From your mouth to <insert deity here>'s ears. At that price I could pay off my rig in a month or less. And potentially build a couple more.