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  1. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    I imagine Survival mode is a separate off/on thing and that very hard is the hardest difficulty setting. Either way whatever difficulty setting gives the highest chance to drop legendary weapons is what I'll choose. I generally don't like it when they tie rewards with difficulty, it makes for...
  2. Tuco

    Parent Thread

    Congratulations! Having 2+ kids at once must be a nightmare and comes with risks (rest in piece little girl) but man if you wanted 2-3 it'd be nice to just get it done in one shot. If you had 3 kids at 3 year iterations it'd be an extra 6 years before kindergarten and an extra 6 years before...
  3. Tuco

    Parent Thread

    I think anyone who is real with themselves and has a normal kid thinks this when times are bad. People won't admit it when things are good or in public of course. And those people that are image building on facebook? They've probably thought it the most and that's their way to offset those...
  4. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  5. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Sorry for not linking. I calculated that each point in Intelligence increases XP gained by AT LEAST 6.666...% (using reasonable assumptions and basic math) : fo4 He thinks it is 10% per point.
  6. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Guy has some evidence the int bonus is 10%. It's not definitive without knowing the leveling curve or perks, but 10% would be pretty good.
  7. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    That's pretty much it. I wouldn't even call it a complete overhaul of the stats/leveling system.
  8. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    I watched this whole thing, was a bit disappointing since it's the same blind theorycrafting as everything else. We really don't know anything about optimal builds.
  9. Tuco

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

    I prefer minimal comments in code I read, the people who decide how much to comment all their code then just eventually shit bricks of useless comments bother me more than the guy who comments nothing and I have to figure out what's going on by reading through code. I used to, but for the last...
  10. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Nope. Itll probably be the same with a few improvements. In fact I'd say compared to changes made from ES2->3->4->5, FO3->4 has the fewest known changes pre-release.
  11. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    I'm top ten. It's great.
  12. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    didn't watch, going to skim over this weekend: I guess this guy did a one health bar, no sleeping/eating/stimpack run of FONV/FO3 or something. I didn't watch those vids but that sounds impressive at the start.
  13. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    So is anyone else planning on rerolling when they discover their name isn't voiced? I'm usually Tuco in these games but it's such a novel feature (No one else has attempted that, right?) that I feel obligated to use it. If I had to guess what they used as a base for their name selection it'd...
  14. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Tunneling makes more sense for adventure style games or scene exploration VR (which will be a huge field of VR, it includes things like virtual museums/art galleries, architecture demos, product (ex: cars) demos, animated virtual porn etc) and makes very little sense for other fields of VR. I...
  15. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    It's a concern but I won't really care until players are saying the game is unfun because of those tradeoffs. A huge space that can occur is the flight mechanics and it seems like they are working with player concerns to improve it while still providing a level of realism.
  16. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    I really hope we get full perk tree leaks in the next 10 days.
  17. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Re: special vs perks, I'm surprised that's the case. I know at first SPECIAL points will be allocated purely to get perks, but I'm assuming that perks will reach a certain level of exhaustion at high levels and SPECIAL will become more attractive.
  18. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    I like the change as long as vats isnt a laggy buggy piece of shit like it was for me in both fo3 and nv on multiple platforms.
  19. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Those who played FO3/NV and the new MadMax game, how do you think vehicles in fallout would work? I feel like it'd negatively affect the game in certain ways.
  20. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    art of fallout book announcement: https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game.../2015/10/28/41
  21. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Speaking of side views, the NBA had some streaming GearVR display last night Theres no debate about it, the NBA VR live stream was a step in the right direction - UploadVR
  22. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

    Yeah you could either view it like you're a bystander watching them, or could view it like they are miniature figures fighting on a table in front of you. One thing that kind of puts a hamper on it is that fighting games are so competitive and the visuals are incredibly important, if your...
  23. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    That is a thing you know... Nuclear photonic rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  24. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Not that I'm some kind of true EMDrive believer, but their argument isn't that "This violates conservation of momentum and here is why we think it does.", it's "This does NOT violate conservation of momentum and here is how.". Meanwhile, a lot of reputable physicists look at their explanation...
  25. Tuco

    Battlestar Galactica

    So I started watching this over the weekend at the suggestion of several people, one of whom says that BSG is the greatest TV show he's ever seen. I just finished the first season and the first episode of the second season. I enjoy the setting and the premise and like the characters that...
  26. Tuco

    Age of Conan

    PvP wise it wasn't anything special. At least not on launch. I had a lot of fun playing this competitively at launch, being one of the first max-level folks on uhm, Deathwhisper? and I liked that there was literally one zone you could level quickly to cap, bringing a lot of fun PvP for a...
  27. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Did they say anywhere what kind of force these things generate? If you want to read about some of the cool,possibleadvances in space thrust technology, here's some of that emdrive bullshit: Some retired physicist (or something) set up a gofundme and is showing off their progress on their...
  28. Tuco

    Parent Thread

    Also we're doing well with scolding the kid when he blows raspberries when eating his food. He gets a little confused still but realizes he's being disciplined and cries a bit, and his behavior has improved.
  29. Tuco

    Parent Thread

    Re: Screen time, my plan is to measure the kid's success in whatever game they're playing and tie their 'screen time' to that to give them more time if they don't suck. Like arcade games where you have to put in more money when you die, or racing games where you extend your time if you hit a...
  30. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    No idea if there are aliens in FO4 but they were in FO1,2,3 and NV.
  31. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Ok. Let me propose a ruleset then, post your modifications and we'll vote later. 1. All quest (subquest, companion, main quest etc) must be in a spoiler without exception. 2. All character build, combat etc. discussion can be outside a spoiler unless it impacts #1. (Ex: How do you kill...
  32. Tuco

    Virtual Reality

  33. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Knowing that reviewers are exploring New Boston or whatever has really kicked my anticipation into overdrive. I feel like I'm falling behind in an MMO sense and I'm going to roll my character and get PK'd by some asshole from Gamespot.
  34. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Yep. What do you guys want for spoiler policies in this thread?
  35. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    They really have red/white outs in this game? That's annoying. One fear I have for this game is that when broader user-testing occurs and people say things like, "Having to spend 5 docking to your stupid space station to cycle my quests sucks.", Chris Roberts will have such an attachment to...
  36. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Won't help me for the ~100 hours of my first playthrough!
  37. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    I agree. It'd suck if they did it like Amalur though, and made say, South Boston an area that rubberbands to 5-35, but you get within spitting distance of it at level 8 but don't start exploring it until level 30 and it's permanently locked at level 8.
  38. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    lol I forgot about that. I have to imagine that they won't lock the levels to anything.
  39. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Oblivion was the most egregious level-scaling system. Skyrim and FO3 were better but not far enough IMO. If mobs hit a level cap pretty quickly and players don't hit a soft-level cap (Ex: where hitting level 42 requires as much experience as levelling from 1-41), intelligence could play a...
  40. Tuco

    Windows 10

    I want to reformat my wife's laptop. She uses it as a graphic design work station and I use it as an HTPC. Should I use Windows 7 or Windows 10?