Posts by Combustable Lemon
33 posts • joined Wednesday 17th October 2012 15:48 GMT
I rather like youtube the way it is..
...and as such i rather like this.
Re: I patiently await
This pretty much happened didn't it?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/26/avira_auto_immune_false_positive/
Close enough, sadly i don't think it fell on it's own sword and instead it just had a bit of a fit.
They aren't quite at the same level as Apple yet then...
They had to pay people to do it.
*Is not paid by anyone, just couldn't resist, honest..*
"For that sort of money, they could have bought eight and a quarter of Marilyn Monroe's bras."
Excellent! This is the new way all money should be quantified!
"That'll be 1/16th of Marilyn's bra Sir."
sigh
I had a beta account for this game, good job it used a unique password etc.
I've not even touched it since it was "released". This whole game is just a failure that keeps on giving.
Re: If you ask me
"If you really think any data coming out of the self-regulated nuclear energy sector or their paid university minions is remotely believable, well..."
Yeah, you're right. I too have invested in a tin foil hat and feel safer already.
Thankfully i've managed to shake "most" of the people i used to get this from but for a while i used to make a habit of "helping" in the sense i would tell them what was wrong, tell them what needed to be done but at no point even suggest i was going to do it for them. Very quickly the ones who don't want to learn cease asking you what is wrong, the ones that do want to know how to solve these petty problems i have more patience with.
Re: Seriously?
Yes because posting anonymously on an internet forum to aggressively insult a reasonably wide range of people with vulgar language based on your own personal opinion is the mark of a truly remarkable individual whose lofty heights of morality we should all aspire too.
Wait a moment, I’m sure I have a tiny violin in here somewhere to quell your pseudo-rage.
I have no vested interest in this either way, I just can't resist the opportunity to mock such a stupidly pointless post.
Origin is hateful
Stating the obvious but still, it's true. Sadly i like the battlefield series to much not to install it, judge as you will. It did amuse me somewhat that i logged in the other night to be greeted with a 1 question survey asking me if i would recommend Origin to my friends, i couldn't hit the "no, not ever" response quick enough, i would hope everyone else does the same.
Re: well hold on there pardner...
I installed Win 8 over a Win 7 install about 3 days ago or so, got to say that so far i actually like it. All of this rampant "it's rubbish" type speak is a complete nonsense. It took me all of about 30 mins to learn how to use it, since it largely works exactly like Win 7 did, and it is faster (or at least it seems to be on my machine).
As for the start menu, in between pinning to the desktop and windows + r what exactly do you need? If anything, for the type of user who needs to use the start menu that much, i'd think the visually appealing large interface would be helpful.
Downvotes, etc.
The best cup
This happens once a day, but not every day.
I originally thought that when I occasionally made a truly exquisite cup of tea that really it was just the best cup of the many cups I’d had that day. Now some days I don't manage to make a truly brilliant cup of tea at all. It always seems to occur sometime after eating (so, never in the morning) and I seemingly do nothing different when making it but somehow it is amazing compared to all the others. Despite years of trying, I have still to track down the exact method to make this infrequently occurring cup of awesome.
Re: Darksiders, Homefront and Saint's Row versus Zelda, Battlefield 3 and Grand Theft Auto
"My understanding is Darksiders was a moderate success,"
No, this isn't true... Darksiders, the original, was a moderate success, so much so that they were in two minds whether to even bother to make a sequel. They eventually decided on it and I think this firmly showed that they should not have made a sequel since it was just a re-hash of the same game.
Aren't we overlooking DoW here? That was a massive THQ owned franchise that had only gone downhill in recent times and I don't hold much hope for DoW 3. THQ failed for a multitude of reasons but being "too original" was most certainly not one of them, Darksiders was just a clone of 'God of War" for example...
Also Battlefield 3, a clone of CoD? Yes, I guess you may be onto something there. In the same way that Ridge Racer is a clone of Grand Turismo... As in they happen to be the same genre. I feel if you want to draw the similarities of CoD and BF3 into question then you can't ignore that God of War and Darksiders are practically the same game.
Doesn't everywhere technically have exactly the same amount of history? Call me pedantic if you must.
Re: "pillow biting"
I didn't actually know that. Well done for perpetuating a phrase that horrifically offends you by telling people just how offensive it is when, clearly, people just weren't making that connection.
And so the "I’m really offended by x" circle continues, sigh.
"I still have my old spccies, c64 and cpc464, snes and nes etc and i love breaking them out for some old games. in 30 years and i get nostalgiac for some ps4 games i don't want to be stopped with errors because the sony server was decommissioned years before"
I think the main problem here is that by this time you will have used your Playstation 4 to keep the undead hordes at bay by hitting them with it and are now wearing what remains of it as a sort of improvised armour in the "Apophis" asteroid torn world of 2043.
Posted in Reg Hardware Awards 2012: The Winners...
Re: The Apple what?
Which bit wasn't a black eye?
The tedious little note added to their site regarding a UK court hearing that suggested UK courts are rubbish? (Which i don't particularly disagree with, they are, but it's not for Apple to be hinting at that).
The whole maps issue?
The lackluster release of products this last year doing nothing to really innovate at all? (Not that i am saying any company actually did, Samsung probably did more than Apple in the last year though, like it or hate it).
The continuation of these pointless, pointless court cases?
I could probably go on but i can't be bothered to go digging. Apple have had a bad year, both technology wise and PR wise. Maybe you need to start actually looking at what Apple did over the last year before you start trying to summon a hoard of fan boys frothing at the mouth from your imagination to explain survey results as anything other than they are.
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Black Ops 2? Really?
Shhhh, you'll just encourage them...
Re: Hmmmm
It doesn't seem completely unreasonable. There are other devices whereby the solder on the board inside was less than perfect and had a tendency to crack causing connections to fail. This was fixed by heating it up at which point the fissures would re-seal. I wish i could remember what device this was but i think it's affected more than a few things. Not sure that is the case here, just thought i'd mention it.
Have to agree with some people here, quite sad. I went from one of the top of the range Asus boards to an Intel board and couldn't be happier with it. The Asus (and all the hassle it caused me over the year or so i had it) was just flaky by comparison and when it's a third more expensive i'm not sure that's a good quality, amazing features or not.
Probably doesn't mean much, given how a guy looking for UFOs was able to access their network with no more skill than your average office worker. I would imagine they see most nations with computers as a "threat".
"I blame the bow and arrow"
In the sense that you wish it'd been more effective?
I'm probably the only one...
but i abandoned msn a long time ago for... Steam of all things, between that and whatsapp on my phone i've managed to rid myself of MSN entirely. It was surprisingly easy and i recommend getting rid of it to anyone over using Skype, the bloated piece of rubbish it is.
Optional
Surely the idea here is that it would not be flown into a warzone? I'm not convinced they are trying to create it to fly into active warzones where they do not already hold the air. Take the Iraq war as an example, within 1-2 days of the conflict there was little/no threat of planes being shot down (although it did still happen, didn't it). Given the load something like this could hold, landing even close to where you'd like to be will still be a better idea than trying to get everything in using conventional planes (Considering cost/how much this can move) i'd have thought.
If it's largely hardware (vehicles, etc) then it can move on it's own after you land, if not and it's equipment then it's just loaded up and moved after landing via vehicles. I'm not convinced you'd even bother trying to fly something like a C130 into an active warzone where you don't already hold air dominance so i don't see this as being much different really.
If your against an opponent who has a reasonable air force/surface-air defence, i don't think this is "that" much more vulnerable than any cargo plane and if you are going to fly it over SAMs, etc then you deserve to have it shot down.
Just what i reckon...
The way to do it...
Distribute your music for free via the internet, assault youtube, etc.
Then tour and charge money for that, make your money through live performances. I think these days the profit in this method is probably comparable to the usual method. (Although i will concede that this means you are actually good and don't just get rammed down the throats of the masses via repetative radio play..)
This isn't really about making a living, this is more about not being able to live in a mansion and have 17 cars, welcome to the rest of the world.
Borderlands 2
Which part of Borderlands 2 was great exactly?
Story, average,
Shooting, average.
Abilities, OMG i can have ANOTHER 3% bullet damage.... Average (i'd say below average actually).
The game was so repetative i didn't actually finish it and i doubt i'll bother, it'd be a travesty if a game like that was awarded game of the year by anyone.
Still atleast it looked okay, sort of, ish.
Quite enjoying Far Cry 3 currently but Game of the year i reckon should be Dishonored.
Re: Goat Jam
@Sorry that handle is already taken.
Well said that man.
Re: Nummy
May i just point out that given the time period when the turtles were being consumed in large quantities. It's likely they tasted fairly average but given the taste of most food in this period they probably seemed brilliant.
Re: 4 8 15 16 23 42
I hope you googled those numbers and didn't just recall them...
Re: A major omission
Ah yes, i know that game. Something to do with hats right? I think there is a sub game included, something to do with objectives and shooting,
Re: Wot? No Deus-Ex?
Hmm, first thing i did on entering the comments here was find deus ex, i knew other people would be missing it.
Having read the rationale for ommiting it in the list i am slightly less annoyed. Aslong as we are agreeing it's genre defining for something then i'm happy.
I think we are missing some of the games that defined multiplayer FPS but i think that would be a different list.
Just on the point of dues ex, did anyone else notice that if you never level up pistol skill you can just outright sprint at single enemies and kill them in 1, unmissable, shot to the head because at point blank their head fills the huge crosshair? It's entirely possibly to do the first level (and more) only with the pistol and this tactic without taking a hit, hilarious stuff. Ahh, good times.
Re: Nice
"My point was, and I'll try to keep the words short, that they should be able to switch easily - but that its the software that creates the lock in - not the hardware. Whether a user uses Samsung or HTC matters not a jot because, ultimately, they're on the same platform (Android). It's when they switch to iOS, Blackberry or Windows that they'll have the problem." - 45RPM
I read all of that just for you to state the obvious... what a let down. Maybe you are so hyper intelligent i am missing the point, doubtful though.
@AC 15:57
Obvious troll is obvious.
Re: "If only we were a sovereign nation capable of making our own decisions...."
"So does this mean that Britons can watch "extreme" porn, conditional on it being *hosted* outside the UK?"
More of this, (not the extreme porn, that would be weird) but it's a valid point.
If i decide i would quite like to ruin some infrastructure via, i don't know, some kind of (not state sponsored) virus and inflicted it on a country we have reasonable ties too if i am then caught in this country, am i prosecutable? Given the crime is, clearly, committed in their territory and not ours surely they have to demand my extradition? No? It all seems to open up a bit of a grey area as to where you are committing a crime.
Also in McK's case the whole thing was farce, branded a terrorist in America no doubt and making their country look that pathetic I’m sure you'd find a nice unbiased jury, right?
