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  1. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    I couldn't care less about what they say for the specs for Bethesda games, because it's going to be dominated by mods. The big takeaway? You're going to need a lot more VRAM than other games because of A: ULTRA HIGH textures from amateur/undergrad artists who don't care how your game...
  2. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I declare Hodj the winner due to a_skeleton_03 not even attempting to find fraud at this scale. He could've at least tried to dig up some climate nonsense. Let's move on to Parkinson's Spoons. Is this risk of shaky obese people too high to allow this technology to proliferate?
  3. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Thats how i read it too.
  4. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    If either of you had any idea of what you were talking about, could make a coherent argument and have confidence in your argument you wouldve been able to state your case and win in a single post instead of jerking each other off over several pages. Either way the floor is open to closing...
  5. Tuco

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Only took one post to back off from the absurd notion that "The only role of a tester is to emulate the customer". I don't know what to say to that other than you probably don't even believe that statement or think of testing in such meaningless terms that any use of the product is emulating the...
  6. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    I agree with Skanda on #1. Regarding motion sickness, it's not a binary thing like driving, boating or even roller coasters where someone 'gets sick when I sit in a car and read', it's a continuous spectrum of sickness that depends on what you're doing in the game and whether everything is...
  7. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Agree 100%. I think the hard part of high damage ballistics is making a hard game without players getting instantly gibbed.
  8. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Re: Vats, one thing that Project NEVADA did was make it so you could engage bullet time at the cost of whatever the VATS resource was. You could also sprint using that resource. So it was essentially a mana bar. The bullet time worked like in Max Payne, and gave you the advantages of VATS...
  9. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Yep. A big dreamer gets 100 million dollars and no bean counters are above him to whip his ass. The other, more insidious part to that is that unless this thing gets widespread adoption far beyond the 1 million backers it has now, it's possible they are making more money than they will...
  10. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    fucking swiss, too neutral to even link an article
  11. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Because its awesome. When i get into a show that has already concluded i stay the hell away from threads on it. In this case the show is stronk enough that it warrants a thread for that large group of people.
  12. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    CiG will enter a lawsuit against the Escapist, buy/sell? I'd say sell. Their lawyers will probably tell them any resolution will happen long after the game is supposed to be released. The only upside would be the immediate PR boost of, "CiG is so confident in SC that they're opening their...
  13. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Even if SC is amazing there is going to be a ton of salt over the amount of money spent on unused ships.
  14. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Thank you for the information. Of those examples you listed, were they unknown journalists with no reputation who built their reputation by publishing anonymous sources in the same shady way the Escapist did? And even if they did, how much other bullshit was published the same way that was...
  15. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Didn't we all agree there'd be three threads? 1. Spoilers galore. 2. Published content only. 3. HBO content only. Oh wait that's what I and nobody else wants =(
  16. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Yeah. The response of, "Would you want your grandma looking through your bank records? No? Then our donators shouldn't be able to see how much money we have." is pretty inappropriate.
  17. Tuco

    ASSHAT OF THE YEAR 2015 VERSION! Nominations round

    We shall decide what to do with the winner of this competition when it happens. I think all ideas are on the table including permanent banning.
  18. Tuco

    No Man's Sky

    I wouldn't hope for much more than being able to see a bunch of cool, undiscovered worlds that no one has seen and if you cut through far enough it's very possibly no one will ever see again.
  19. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    It's a lose/lose for them. If they disclose that they are running out of funds people will think the payoff of a real game release is in jeopardy and be hesitant to dump money in it. If they disclose that they are sitting on mountains of cash people won't have the extra motivation of helping the...
  20. Tuco

    No Man's Sky

    I wonder why they didn't announce a release data on Colbert. It's not like they'll get a bigger platform to announce it?
  21. Tuco

    ASSHAT OF THE YEAR 2015 VERSION! Nominations round

    I nominate Eomer for not posting enough this year.
  22. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Look, don't engage in this kind of logical argument unless you want to risk Hodj coming in here and shitting in this thread with overly verbose descriptions of whynegative proofsare annoying. Here's what we know about IDCardGate: 1. The author of the article identified an image of these...
  23. Tuco

    No Man's Sky

    I think it's an idea they had that appeals to people's hopes for a space exploration meta verse (Like Quaid's favorite game, Star Citizen). But the developers never set out to do that, they just wanted a procedurally generated universe.
  24. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Yes, the one source that they've leaked out enough information to be proven wrong on is bad. That makes them 0/1 and they have the ability to confirm at least two of the other ones. At this point I think you want to believe the Escapist as much as whales want to believe Chris Roberts. I know...
  25. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    From that link: The card in question, identified by the author: I'm just disappointed I'm on a machine that doesn't have mspaint, but just imagine me writing derek smart on that card then poorly blacking it out.
  26. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    The author confirmed via twitter it was those generic HID cards:Liz O Which means the only confirmation on their anonymous sources the Escapist has provided has turned out to be false or misunderstood by the Escapist. This should give you pause to take the Escapist at their word for whatever...
  27. Tuco

    No Man's Sky

    Ok video interview and presentation. One thing that caught my attention, I'm surprised they invented their own periodical table. I'm sure they had good reasons for doing this, but initially I feel the same disappointment I felt when I started hearing about details about Spore. Not using our...
  28. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    A source is anonymous if their identity isn't published. Source (journalism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia When a publication uses an anonymous source they are saying, "This person who has real credibility says this. You will have to trust us that A: That person has credibility. B: That...
  29. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    All these shenanigans really circle around the real point here: Anonymous sources shouldn't be the core of your journalistic entry.
  30. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I don't really give a shit either way I'm just here mostly for the lulz, but according to: Liz O @lizzyf620 If it's one of those, they're not ID (ie. not personalized). They have some numbers on them, and unlock doors, in my experience. @I_Am_A_Number gotcha. Was told that the identifying...
  31. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Oh and their lawyer made a public lawyer-demand: Chairman's Response to The Escapist - Roberts Space Industries The funniest bit was that the Escapist verified sources by looking at their sources' ID cards, but CiG claims they don't have company ID cards.
  32. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I tried looking for a first post in this thread to tell me when I backed this game but couldn't. One of my first points was comparing SC to Amalur, so if you guys are going to look for someone to take the heat for the lazy comparison it's me. This is in 2013:
  33. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I think you're reading into an argument that me or Erronius aren't making. Neither of us are saying that SC will follow the same path as Amalur because of the similarities. Just that the similarities exist. There are massive differences between the two games and franchises that are almost all in...
  34. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    What other cases in gaming history have there been where a new IP has a massive MMO development underway made by a high profile person making 'the game he always wanted to make', but that MMO was preceded by a more constrained singleplayer game in the same IP? I really can't think of one...
  35. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Would be extra shock if they finished the scene, zoomed in on Howland Reed and then faded to this guy looking as if he was reminiscing.
  36. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Chris Robert's TLDR response, big waste of time, IMO: Chairman's Response to The Escapist - Roberts Space Industries (When I read that link earlier he hadn't responded, so I figured I'd repost it)
  37. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Thanks for the correction.
  38. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Bro I already made that joke you can't take it.