System Wars Lounge v52: Happy 2015 Edition!!!

And misleading sensationalism... in a LEGO article (look at the header then read the full thing).

Must have been a sad attempt to get hits I suppose.

Sony is having a sale on Amazon for storage. 32GB microSD for only $12!

Shame they don't have Vita memory cards. Bastards. At the very least I hope to pick one up for my N3DS!

@nintendoboy16: Felicia Day!!

Yep. I'm quite excited.

Cons are amaaaaaaaazing (at least the major ones), I went to my first one back in 2012 (Denver Comic Con) and I went to Starfest last year in Denver. I wanna take the GF this year to Denver Comic Con cause I missed out last years with Stephen Amell (Arrow/Green Arrow).

Cons are like a nerd paradise and once you go to one you have to go to more of them XD

You all need to watch The Americans.

I watch americans everyday, they're alright

Tonally, that just doesn't work. Monkey antics may work for Dying Light, but The Last of Us is more about fragility than being empowered.

Open world might work on the other hand.

We got East vs West, may as well have Pirates (and Ninjas), I suppose.
But seriously now, yes please. Might be just a stepping stone for Berserkers, might be more useful for enemies than players otherwise, but yes please.

Does the tension ratchet up in S2 and S3?

Jesus christ Nvidia is in so much shit right now, lol.

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

Jesus christ Nvidia is in so much shit right now, lol.

And they're still better than AMD

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

Jesus christ Nvidia is in so much shit right now, lol.

And they're still better than AMD

Well yeah, AMD is ebola.

Still, nvidia is getting btfo. Which can only be a good thing via more competition.

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

Jesus christ Nvidia is in so much shit right now, lol.

And they're still better than AMD

Well yeah, AMD is ebola.

I really don't know why people are getting worked up about that NVIDIA 0.5 scandal, I think the majority of people are literally fracking stupid.

You don't see them up in arms when they buy a PS4, Wii-U or ANY console that lets say for example has a 40gb hdd, that doesn't mean you have 40gb, since they put the OS onto that HDD which chews up a few GB from that 40gb HDD so you're more likely to actually buy a 35gb console.

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

Jesus christ Nvidia is in so much shit right now, lol.

And they're still better than AMD

Well yeah, AMD is ebola.

I really don't know why people are getting worked up about that NVIDIA 0.5 scandal, I think the majority of people are literally fracking stupid.

You don't see them up in arms when they buy a PS4, Wii-U or ANY console that lets say for example has a 40gb hdd, that doesn't mean you have 40gb, since they put the OS onto that HDD which chews up a few GB from that 40gb HDD so you're more likely to actually buy a 35gb console.

still, it is a problem and could be argued as false advertising. They cut some corners to give people "4gb," and it's showing. As much as I like Nvidia for my gpu's I'm glad they are getting called out on this.

@Ballroompirate: I guess that means PC gamers are enlightened consumers who are not afraid to stand up if their product is falsely advertised, and console gamers are dumb zombies that just eat whatever shit these companies feed them.

Jokes aside, it's common knowledge that OS take up space, you can't really do anything about it.

@Technoweirdo: Well, there is a reason why it's considered the best show airing on TV right now. It's methodical, but it doesn't hesitate to explode when it needs to, while the tension they build until the explosion is so well developed. Basically, think Mad Men but with everyone having guns.

By the way, Season 2's premier is insane.

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

Jesus christ Nvidia is in so much shit right now, lol.

And they're still better than AMD

Well yeah, AMD is ebola.

I really don't know why people are getting worked up about that NVIDIA 0.5 scandal, I think the majority of people are literally fracking stupid.

You don't see them up in arms when they buy a PS4, Wii-U or ANY console that lets say for example has a 40gb hdd, that doesn't mean you have 40gb, since they put the OS onto that HDD which chews up a few GB from that 40gb HDD so you're more likely to actually buy a 35gb console.

Not really the same situation

From Anandtech (and Nvidia)

"Most important for the conversation at hand, we were told that both [970 and 980] possessed identical memory subsystems: 4GB of 7GHz GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus, split amongst 4 ROP/memory controller partitions. All 4 partitions would be fully active on the GTX 970, with 2MB of L2 cache and 64 ROPs available.

This, as it turns out, was incorrect.

As part of our discussion with NVIDIA, they laid out the fact that the original published specifications for the GTX 970 were wrong, and as a result the “unusual” behavior that users had been seeing from the GTX 970 was in fact expected behavior for a card configured as the GTX 970 was."

"All of the behavior from the GTX 970 we’ve seen in light of this correction now makes sense, and it is immediately clear that this is not a hardware or software bug in GTX 970, but rather the planned/intentional behavior of the product."

"The error, as NVIDIA explains it, is that in creating the GTX 970 reviewer’s guide, the technical marketing team was unaware of Maxwell’s aforementioned and new “partial disable” capabilities when they filled out the GTX 970 specification table."

"Unfortunately what this means is that accessing the weaker 512MB segment blocks access to the stronger 3.5GB segment if both memory operations are identical; or put another way, using the 512MB segment can harm the performance of the 3.5GB segment"

The argument now would be how the split segments effect real world performance now and in the future.

@funsohng: Considering the amount of ******* and complaining gamers (notice I didn't say PC gamers, I said gamers in general) have done the past few years, yes they they are entitled little brats, there's no way of spinning it cause the amount of complaining has gotten out of hand which majority of the time it's just pointless QQ.

The idea is to have as little reclassing as possible ;) But perhaps a total stat reset would be too harsh. Instead the stats could go like this (Class Mimimum+Current Stats)/2. The exception to this is of course promotions. This should mean that they will be weak after a class reset, but will have powerful skills from their other class(es) and you will be able to level them up fast.

@Ballroompirate: lolwut

That's a terrible comparison.

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

@Ballroompirate said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

Jesus christ Nvidia is in so much shit right now, lol.

And they're still better than AMD

Well yeah, AMD is ebola.

I really don't know why people are getting worked up about that NVIDIA 0.5 scandal, I think the majority of people are literally fracking stupid.

You don't see them up in arms when they buy a PS4, Wii-U or ANY console that lets say for example has a 40gb hdd, that doesn't mean you have 40gb, since they put the OS onto that HDD which chews up a few GB from that 40gb HDD so you're more likely to actually buy a 35gb console.

Wow that might be the most awful comparison I have ever seen LOL

Nvidia lied to consumers. Can't believe there's people defending that type of behaviour.

Law & Order will release an episode called "Intimidation Game" based on gamegate on Feb 11.

The story is about a female game dev that is threatened to not release a video game by the game community but she refuses to back down, thus agent Ice-T will be assigned to protect her.

lol

Polygon of-course already salivating over the prospect that this will damage those who they hate:

http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/29/7949153/law-order-svu-gamergate-episode-nbc-tv

A few hours before I take off to con, and to start let me say... I would love FOTC to do another US Tour (and in the Utah area). The one I went to in 2009 was the best concert I've ever been (although I've only seen BNL long before then and soon, I'm seeing FOB with my sister)

...

I feel a very strong compulsion to punch whoever wrote this episode. And maybe say some mean things too.

It isn't. It's quite good though.

Let's keep any gamergate (jesus, i can't believe it's still a thing) out of the lounge. Feel free to revive the old thread.

It's pretty funny that I've seen more violent behavior from those outside of the gg circle than within it, that LAO episode just seems like it's creatively bankrupt.

Still, **** polygon as usual.

oh dear at the above hard disk analogy, oh dear oh dear oh dear.

finished starcraft 2's brown wings of liberty campaign. i couldn't believe it when the story drew me into the game, i normally have no time for story whatsoever. i was genuinely intrigued to see what happens at the end, and the end was like - whoa. also, the game can render at 144 fps which is pretty schweet. i took a really long time to get around to playing SC2, especially considering how much i loved starcraft one. starcraft 2, it was a great gaming experience, i think i'll be playing through it again (or heart of the swarm) fairly shortly. strong recommendation from me.

Persona 3 movie time! :D Hear good things about this, hope it doesn't disappoint! :)

MGSV going to be at Taipei Game Show. Kojima said a release date announcement was coming very soon, so hopefully this is it.

http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=17680

@ConanTheStoner: Hype is already at max, no more hype is needed :P So gladed I waited this long to play GZ. Such a fantastic demo! And to think that what you can do there will be just a small part of what you can actually do in the final game! :O

Amazing! :D

PS: I don't recall the fatalities being this brutal btw! I mean, damn! :O

@Desmonic:

Man, I wish I would have just waited it out to play GZ. I ended up playing that shit into the ground. At one point I knocked out and extracted every single soldier from the base, talk about overkill lol.

But yeah you're right. As far as the play mechanics go I might have burned myself out on GZ, but TPP is going to offer so much more that it should be a non-issue.

A new trailer at this game show would be nice, but all I need now is a solid release date.

I think we need a new version of the lounge tonight.

I think we need a new version of verbtex, but you don't see me crying about it.

jk don't ban me plz.

This is the new Verbtex. The old model had that smell, and didn't process as fast. This is an upgrade.

Lol, you guys.

He's faster, but he still stinks. Like the combined stench of a million hermit basements.

Do let me know if I'm approaching that ban line.

You passed the ban line, then came back and shit on it, twice. :P

@speedfreak48t5p:

Well, good thing verbtex is the best mod of all time, even better than the best texture mods, and would never take me too seriously.

Even if he smells like Sweenix' granny panties.

I am sad to see my lounge go. Well, maybe I can make another one in the summer or something to give others a chance.

you think that's air you're breathing now?

I would make a new lounge but Alex would bitch about it.

From Software is going to be a Soul's factory from now on, since it's the only good thing they've done since the King's Field series. Seems like that type of game is all they're good at.

Otogi happened between King's Field and the Souls games, and Otogi was quite good. In fact significantly more successful than King's Field too.

@jg4xchamp:

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about the Otogi games. I know it'll never happen, but I want a third. D:

Also Metal Wolf Chaos, the most american game of all time.