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It's amazing that ten years after I stopped playing CStrike people are still playing the same maps and I still have them memorized.

I guess I wasn't clear. The characters in the first books shit talk the Targaryens and portray them as terrible leaders etc, but in the end they might be the ruling class.

I'm no EA apologist but there is a distinction. Basically EA owns a huge number of game developing outfits like Maxis, many of whom have a sizable fanbase. And there is a perception among gamers that EA suits are forcing these good-natured development groups to sacrifice good games for short...

http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/ne...printerwit.jpg 3d printer that prints a race car that is a few times wider than a human hair.

I guess I have to check out of this thread for fear of spoilers, lol.

I miss having a house and a garage =( Now all the projects I can do are software or electronics related and that shit gets old after doing it all day.

A big problem is that Spartacus in season 1 goes through character development the entire season, but he is fully developed once he kills the dominus and then boom, actor change.

The exploit is to buy a smelter and import coal/ore and smelt it into alloy. Right now the profit margin for it is massive. Once you get a ton of money from that you can get processor plants from that alloy + imported plastic. And from there make tvs from the processors + alloy + imported plastic.

Is that any different from being able to visit cities and destroy everything? Or does it just give you more options to fake-destroy things?

Nah, the targaryens aka Daenerys

After reading Bradshaw's latest pile of shit if I bought it from Origin and could easily get a refund I would. Not going to stick it to Amazon though.

Get ready for accusations of greasing.

It's going to be interesting if the faction that was made out to be villians in the first books ends up being the heroes in the last books.

Hopefully this stops people from unjustly blaming EA for this shitshow. This is all on Maxis' shoulders.

There's definitely high value targets in NK that could be bombed. I'm sure that anyone of importance in the NK govt has some kind of fucked up vault buried into the ground though.

What will really be interesting is if the game is open enough to modding to alleviate some of the serious issues with it via modding. All of a sudden you're looking at a game that is significantly better offline than online.

I think a lot of it is a language barrier. To a native english speaker it's obvious that Nick has serious issues that dampen the impact of whatever he says. GSP probably literally can not understand what Nick is saying. The only real legitimate complaint I see him bring against GSP that GSP...

I don't think you can say they are trying to remedy it until they announce an offline mode patch.

I'd argue that Sean is being perfectly civil unlike those arguing with him, but Sean failed to come hang out with us in IRC and play simcity so feel free to insult him and then say he's being uncivil.

I don't really have a problem with that because I can't count many single player games that are 9s on the surface and 6s underneath. The real problem is the inability or unwillingness for review centers to change their score after release. More and more games are becoming evolving constructs and...

Another interesting problem for SimCity that caused the traffic issues to be more noticeable is that demand for everything is basically infinite. Instead of being greeted with unpopulated areas when you plop too many residential slots you have a host of happy sims freely populate the area and...

Yeah that's exactly what they need to do and they claimed they had done it (Or something similar) in their pre-release technical discussions. That kind of behavior carries its own set of disadvantages (It's harder computationally and memory wise to process and store that information) and...

Originally I thought he was saying that the UFC is painting him as a wolf and GSP as the shepherd in order to sell tickets, but apparently 'wolf tickets' is an African and African American slang for 'talking shit in a way that avoids a fight', which really doesn't make sense.

I'd say not taking congested roads or road type into account is a huge problem and it's exactly what they've done. It doesn't matter what algorithm you use if you betray the algorithm by not giving it cost.

Most annoying trailer ever. can't wait to play a biotic in SR4.

Basically the first few path search algorithms a CS student learns are more advanced than what is in simcity. A typical algorithm would assign cost to each block of road (from intersection to intersection) and the agent would search through the paths to find the lowest cost. This is like...

I can only assume that the massive marketing campaign in the last month demanded they not do the delay they should have. Either way they fucked up and it's ridiculous the game is in the state it is.

holy shit this presser is hilarious. Nerdy super athlete who is susceptible to getting his jimmies rustled vs pothead super athlete who needs medication to be functional but can't because of the athletic commission.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36YMv...ature=g-subs-u "they're selling you wolf tickets" GSP is looking around like, "Man everyone here understands Diaz but me" I just don't understand how you can be mad at Diaz. He's obviously a socially dysfunctional person who just wants to be a...

fuck that's not as good as a bet as I remembered... none the less your day of reckoning is at hand.

I know these guys are professionals but when I read shit like It makes me wonder wtf they were thinking. Cost-based pathing is graph theory 101. I've literally never seen a real pathing algorithm that doesn't take cost into account and I have no idea how one could ever implement a city simulator...

yeah the kid is retarded and I hope they stop putting him on the screen.

It's tough to say. On one hand Amazon may likely foot the bill for these returns, on the other hand they're generating a lot of good press and a lot of people are wishing they bought it from Amazon. Amazon is a fucking giant, but I'm sure they like the profit they make on digital sales as...

I'm getting increasingly excited by the idea of crackers being able to let you have one city that encompasses the entire region.

IGN put out a review and gave it a 7, which I think is a fair grade since parts of the game as so good and most of the big problems are fixable. And I'm not sure if the initial high scores are because journalists are shills or because they're under so much pressure to review a game within a...

He's Italian Argentinean! the prophecy survives!

It's very unlikely the server is capable of offloading the simulation at that level. There's just no reason to do it. And yeah, a limited offline mode is around the corner, but building a fully working server implementation that a user can build their own region up in a competent way is not...

That's not true. The pathfinding is bugged for a variety of reasons listed in detail above. (sims don't evenly distribute among the resources, they all dogpile on the nearest one, and the pathfinding takes shortest path rather than lowest cost path). This stuff is all detailed as working in the...

This is my bet.