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Matoyak
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On 7/12/2016 at 1:45 AM, CritterKeeper said:You know, I don't think I've ever seen a movie or TV series for sale on a flash card.
Well, I wasn't saying they weren't going to be selling DVD movies or games or what have you, though it really wouldn't surprise me to see them phase those out as well relatively quickly in favor of Bluray. I was talking blank, storage DVDs, the kind you burn things onto.
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7 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:I'm curious, did they say if they'd be stocking bluray discs? Compact discs? Or are they just getting out of physical media altogether?
Flash media is what he said they'd be shifting towards. Like SD cards and suchlike.
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2 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:although I believe DVD is going to hang around for many years to come.
Not being sarcastic, but is it? I had to purchase some DVDs for a school project last fall and the manager of the electronics department at my local Walmart told me they won't be stocking DVDs starting Spring 2017.
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1 hour ago, SeriousJupiter said:I hope by "something darker" you mean that Blaike could have married Pandora just so she could get him everything he could ever want instead of implying that he forced her into anything, because frankly, I don't see that even being possible. Pandora is intelligent and extremely powerful and immortals are allowed to defend themselves against mortals, so I don't see how Blaike could possibly have forced her into anything or abused her in any way. Also, if he had, I don't think she would have kept his last name. Nope, I bet there's only cuteness ahead (until Blaike's death, that is).
I think the implication was the other way 'round. That she was the one who pressured or tricked or forced him. I don't think either is at all likely.
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4 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:Sounds like small bits of DLC shouldn't be a problem, as long as it's A) clear what you're buying, and
priced appropriately. So, are tiny bits of DLC available for 10¢ or 25¢, or do they never offer anything for less than $0.99 or $1.99 or such?
Usually DLC for non-phone games are between 5 and 30 dollars, depending on the content. Small cosmetic items generally range between $1 and $15, again based on the amount of content (Or the licenses being used. A Han Solo skin would cost more than turning Akuma's vest pink, for instance). Often you'll see packs of cosmetics for larger amounts of money, rather than individual costumes for smaller. It is generally always very clear what you're purchasing...the appropriateness of the pricing is a bit more hit and miss. And then there are the things where the DLC is intended for the main game, but can't make it in for a variety of reasons (Cut content that they want to put back in being one, where they leave hooks for it in the base game). Then there's the more malicious times where it's cut intentionally, and actually done before the game goes Gold... (Though this doesn't happen nearly as often as people like to gripe about. It certainly DOES happen, though. Assassin's Creed 2 did this. I believe one of the Dragon's Age games did it as well). And most commonly is when the game goes gold and can't be changed, but the devs still have 2-4 months between when the game went gold and when the game releases, so they work on the first DLC content during that time, and have more content available for purchase during the release window of the game. (This often gets labeled as the previous by conspiracy theorists).
Phone games are a bizarre bundle of Other Issues, and generally fall into "micro transactions" rather than "DLC Purchase", though lots of people have begun conflating the two.
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1 hour ago, Danny Beans said:On the subject of fanservice:
I must say, I like this month's pinups a lot more than I have in a while. Not being a fan of the Jessica Rabbit body type, it's nice to see everyone with their own proportions. (And I know that puts me in the minority - these are chosen by vote, after all - so please don't construe this as a complaint about other months. I'm just very happy with the way the voting turned out this time.)
As someone who tends to be slightly turned off by the Jessica Rabbit body type, I'm also relatively happy with this month.
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4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:I wonder if the transformation process alters the mind of the subject in such a way that the completed cool robot person believes that he or she asked for robotification regardless of what the original squishy person may have desired or requested?
Not in the normal Deus Ex world, no. Maybe in Dan's version?
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20 minutes ago, hkmaly said:... that "cool robot people" is from the game or Dan's replacement?
Dan's replacement.
20 minutes ago, hkmaly said:... did the person asked for "all of this" before or after some injury resulting in amputation?
No, he never asked for it. At any point.
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I'm a bit surprised that Dan hasn't mentioned Dishonored yet as a game that doesn't require killing in it. It's a better example than Deus Ex, as there is nobody you're required to kill. It's a somewhat difficult run to do, though.
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8 hours ago, Scotty said:Tedd Forgot To Do Something would be pushing canon though, it references as taking place after "lunchtable revelations" and while I can believe that Tedd would accidentally go to school as a girl (because Elliot went to school as a girl, though on purpose) the fact that Tedd would forget that he had a tail makes me wonder about it.
I'm pretty sure I've seen Dan say that one's definitely not canon, though I of course can't find it now that I need to.
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On 6/22/2016 at 6:29 PM, partner555 said:Ah, webcomic time. People don't always realise real life passage of time is not equivalent to story passage of time.
I've always been of the opinion that real life passage of time should be factored in when writing something released in the vein of webcomics. Not to say that the two should be lockstep with each other, or that they should be related to each other with a function or equation or something, but that when plotting out the story it should be taken into account how long it's likely going to take to tell. Don't pack 10 different storylines into one comic day, for instance (Something I've seen done before). You have direct control over the story and can change it around how you need. If a bomb is going to blow up, you can control how long they have to know about it before the timer itself shows up, and you can do a lot of your stories then. Once the timer shows up, it can't be 10 minutes for 3 months, that really detracts from the urgency of the story, which is the effect one is going for with a timer like that. The medium should be a part of the story being told, and the release times of subsequent chunks of the story will affect the pacing of its consumption, which has an effect on the pacing of the story itself in the minds of the readers.
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On 6/24/2016 at 2:32 AM, InfiniteRemnant said:Anybody here know how to use Unity Editor?
~raises hand~ But you'd need to give me several million dollars and a team of at least 12 people, and about 2-3 years. Then you might get something a few hours in length. If you wanted something as good feeling and open world as Mirror's Edge: Catalyst or Assassin's Creed 2, only Crazy Taxi instead of story you're talking between 20 and 500 people, a different game engine (Unity could theoretically work, but it'd be a bit painful), between 10 and 60 million dollars, and 3-4 years.
11 hours ago, JustBecauseICantDraw said:I don't understand what a parkour computer game would actually entail ...
It's a complex problem. To get parkour feeling right is TOUGH.
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12 hours ago, banneret said:I should broaden my science fiction and fantasy reading, as my resurgence has been dominated by mysteries and thrillers. These have accounted for between 40% and 60% of my yearly consumption for the last four years running. This year I believe I've read twice as many mysteries and thrillers than I have science fiction and fantasy combined.
If you're wanting to get back into fantasy and speculative / science fiction, a good place to start nowadays would be with Brandon Sanderson (I'd recommend Mistborn). All of his books have a core element of mystery to them, some kind of puzzle to figure out, and a lot incorporate aspects of thrillers and suspense works.
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9 hours ago, mlooney said:Does make you sound like John de Lancie? Can you warp reality with it? Does it make you friends with Fluttershy?
Hmm. Let's answer these in order:
- I don't believe so.
- The call quality is so good I suspect it might do this by default. (Seriously, there's normally so little static and background noise that my friends and I often have to do checks to see if someone's there if they haven't spoken in a while).
- Unfortunately not. She seems like she'd be a fun person to hang out with.
2 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:People seem to love unauthorised 3rd party addons for things, so there's probably a voice filter out there somewhere for the correct pitch and tone, but you would need to learn the speech mannerisms yourself.
Discord is new enough that I suspect this hasn't happened yet. It was in alpha when I picked it up late last year, and I suspect it's still in alpha, though I can't find anything saying such.
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9 hours ago, mlooney said:14 hours ago, Matoyak said:Then maybe just don't comment on it?
What, do you need to be under 28 to enjoy video games or to want to help someone understand what the joke in the comic is based around them when someone expresses their lack of knowledge in it? ~rolls eyes~
Because there may be something other than the VG aspect of the comic, you know what the forum is about, that I feel like commenting on.
Doing that is very different than doing this:
On 6/21/2016 at 10:34 PM, mlooney said:Oh, and for the record, if I say in a reaction to a NP comic that I don't know what this, assume there is an ",and I don't care" following it, unless I say otherwise in the comment.
In one you're commenting on something else. In the other you're saying "I don't understand this and I don't want to."
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2 hours ago, Scotty said:If I'm playing with friends, I'm more likely to be using Teamspeak or Discord for voice chat.
Discord is surprisingly good for a program that iirc is still technically in alpha. (It might have gone into beta since I started using it, though?)
2 hours ago, Stature said:Some would use Skype for voice chat. As someone who has not done it yet, I have no say.
I'd recommend Discord if you ever try it out. Way better than Skype.
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12 hours ago, mlooney said:Oh, and for the record, if I say in a reaction to a NP comic that I don't know what this, assume there is an ",and I don't care" following it, unless I say otherwise in the comment.
Then maybe just don't comment on it?
12 hours ago, mlooney said:I don't need all the under 28 set telling me the details, particularly if you do it via other VG.
What, do you need to be under 28 to enjoy video games or to want to help someone understand what the joke in the comic is based around them when someone expresses their lack of knowledge in it? ~rolls eyes~
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4 hours ago, Random Wanderer said:The explosion in that video did not look anywhere near powerful enough for an "ultimate."
Well, D.Va is one of the characters the devs are going to be fixing the balance of soon. They haven't figured out whether they want to up the damage of her Ult, or up her survive-ability outside of her mech last I heard. So yeah, it's a bit weak at the moment afaik.
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3 hours ago, Avistew said:Oops. Well at least I have an excuse for mixing the two of them
Yeah, I didn't get that it was Elliot either until the commentary. (Also, welcome back!)
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50 minutes ago, Scotty said:55 minutes ago, Matoyak said:~nods~ It'll depend on the person, and where in the south one is located. Even here in Texas I see wide disagreement on it. (Even words like "Howdy?" have disagreement. Some view it as a general "hello" and others view it as the question it is "How are you doing?". [Guess which one I subscribe to.
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I can see where howdy would have started off as "how do you do?" then getting shortened to "howdya do?" then again to "howdy?".
That is the etymology as I understand it, yeah. Some people nowadays just use it as another "hello", though.
50 minutes ago, pfc said:So I have no objection to acknowledging the existence of triads... I just think it's important to clarify that "poly" is a broad term for dating multiple people (not necessarily all at once) and that specific types of relationships within that (solo poly, triad, primary, anchor, etc) are just that, subsets. It's frustrating that people assume that because you're poly, you're a. in a sister-wives scenario or b. in a triad relationship!
Dan mentioned on Tumblr that he was aware of an issue in today's comic related to the definition of polyamory in it, and that he'd be addressing it in the next comic. I suspect this is what he's talking about.
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47 minutes ago, Circe said:2 hours ago, Matoyak said:Yeah, this is actually a point of contention. Y'all can be (and is frequently) used on a single individual, with "all y'all" being used for a group. I personally only occasionally use "all y'all" and instead just use "y'all" as both plural and singular. ~shrug~ Sometimes I also just say "you".
The way my Southern relatives explain it is like this:
You - one person
Y'All - one - four people
All y'all - five or more people
~nods~ It'll depend on the person, and where in the south one is located. Even here in Texas I see wide disagreement on it. (Even words like "Howdy?" have disagreement. Some view it as a general "hello" and others view it as the question it is "How are you doing?". [Guess which one I subscribe to.
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14 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:4 hours ago, mlooney said:Y'all NOT ya'll. It's a contraction for 'you all' and it always means plural.
Then what's "all y'all"? That might could be plural.
Yeah, this is actually a point of contention. Y'all can be (and is frequently) used on a single individual, with "all y'all" being used for a group. I personally only occasionally use "all y'all" and instead just use "y'all" as both plural and singular. ~shrug~ Sometimes I also just say "you".
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17 minutes ago, mlooney said:I have no idea what this is about...
Grace is dressed as / cosplaying as D.Va from Blizzard's new class-based multiplayer first person shooter (In the vein of Team Fortress 2) Overwatch. (A game I have yet to play at all). http://overwatch.gamepedia.com/D.Va is the information on her, and here are a few more images of her in the spoiler. Dan seems to have gotten the feel of the character quite well for Grace's outfit there:
17 minutes ago, mlooney said:...but jet pack mecha Grace is one of the cutest version of her Dan has drawn in a while.
Yes, very much so.
EDIT: Good lord, this forum... So spoiler tags will cover the entirety of the rest of your post it seems, ignoring the closing tag. You have to go into the source mode and cut the two closing divs out and move them up to where you actually want your spoiler to end. -
8 hours ago, mlooney said:9 hours ago, hkmaly said:Are you sure it's just coincidence?
Pretty sure. The order of weird stuff
Hit by lightning (1980)
<time potentially passes>
Poly relationship
And how certain are you that you aren't a time traveler?
NP Wednesday July 6, 2016
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That's how ours is. And Pokémon Go alone can run through all the allotted monthly data within two weeks. Data is very expensive, so we had to set ours rather low.