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    Gaming Terraria won't launch from steam

    Delete local data won't delete your saves. Even if it did, and if you're worried about it, go grab the saves and back them up. They're in "C:\Users\YourName\Documents\my games\Terraria" in Win7. But they won't be deleted, steam doesn't delete saves, or at least it never has any time I ever...
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    Kojima: Games shouldn’t try to tell stories

    Chess doesn't have a story, what's the point of boxing millions of chess boards a year? In the end, regardless of personal preference, people play games because they want to _play_ them. Story isn't playing. There's maybe 5 NES games with anything even remotely resembling a story: we all played...
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    Kojima: Games shouldn’t try to tell stories

    I dunno, I've been telling my friends this for years. Chess doesn't have a story; obviously it doesn't need one, people have been playing for centuries without one. A good game is a good game because the people playing it are creating the story as they play. An expositional narrative within...
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    Obama ordered wave of computer attacks against Iran, including Stuxnet

    Sadly, you've made my point for me with your response. Every day I listen to people go on and on about how leaders have no idea what they're doing, but then I see that those same people have a tendency to barely be able to successfully organize a trip to the grocery store. If you truly believe...
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    Obama ordered wave of computer attacks against Iran, including Stuxnet

    You might have missed the memo on this one, but the Russians already told us that if we built a missile defense system anywhere near Iran that they would attack the bases that compose that missile defense system because such a system would disrupt MAD. So, that's not really an option, although...
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    Apple Thats it. HOW the fu*k do i connect to the internet on my ipad 3?

    I'd also guess that you aren't using a correct password, or your router is blocking access from unknown devices (this is common, and relatively easy to fix). If you have admin access to your router, go in and check the connected devices. If your iPad is telling you it's connected, it should...
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    Anybody have WoW?

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    Anybody have WoW?

    Yeah, that's the main skill. Have more time than other people, get more gear (or more practice) than they can get in the time they have available to allocate to the game, and PvP against all the other people who haven't prepared as well as you have until you get into the bracket where you're...
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    Anybody have WoW?

    Italics: topic was "Anyone have wow, i'd like to have someone explain it to me", so his post was about as offtopic as possible. Yes, football is a game, sure it takes "skills", but I don't see football players going around telling everyone that "Football takes skill, baseball is for pansies."...
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    Anybody have WoW?

    Amendment: There never has been nor ever will be a game that requires an amount of skill that's noteworthy. Even the most complex game is like making dinner, or driving a car, etc. You may use skills while playing, but the game doesn't require skill. Do you need to be more skilled than your...
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    Anybody have WoW?

    I'm going to go ahead and flame the crap out of you, right now. It's a videogame. There's never been any game, ever, nor will there ever exist a game for the rest of the history of the universe, that requires skill. Get over yourself, and stop polluting this guy's thread with off-topic flaming...
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    Gaming trends through the years...

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    Gaming trends through the years...

    Additionally, with AR tech, it's not _always_ in your face. Real-life ads are always there, always flashing, always lit up. AR ads would only be there in so far as you have your AR tech enabled. Phone not in front of your face? No AR. Google glasses (or similar tech) not being worn? No AR. Don't...
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    Gaming trends through the years...

    The cool thing is, these devices don't _require_ visual stimulus. For example: SSID broadcasts can be shown as waterfalls. Relatively easy to triangulate, especially if you can choose to broadcast specific location. We already use this in google maps mobile to find position. RFID chips in...
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    A “Proper” Pokemon Console Game Could Save the Franchise

    I wasn't aware that a game franchise that sills gigajillions of copies of it's main series games and even it's "got nothing to do with POkeMonz LOL" spin-offs make a ton of money, was something that needed to be "saved". Unless you mean "saved from 17 year olds not playing it because they think...
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    I have pseudocode for experimental file compression.

    Quoted ya because I was expounding upon your point :)
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    I have pseudocode for experimental file compression.

    Accepting as a theoretical truth that you could in fact do this (it's not possible, but fine, we'll assume that it is) generating a 500MB file full of random data takes a long time, just based on write speeds alone. The likelihood that your data will be correct is abysmal. It would take...
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    I have pseudocode for experimental file compression.

    The bolded part is why this can never work. Big enough file? Compressed size no longer fits in 200B. 200B pointer for the decompression can only have so much compressed data in it. if file "A" is 200 bytes of zeros, "B" is 200 bytes of 1, etc. You got millions of possibilities, sure. That's...
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    I have pseudocode for experimental file compression.

    You're trying to use hashes as compression. It _sounds_ suspiciously like you're trying to reverse engineer a file from its MD5 sum. This can't be done realistically, and probably can't be done literally due to Conservation of Information. There's complex high-level physics about how much...
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    Hardware Real MemoryStick Duo or MicroSD to MemoryStick Duo Adapter?

    I got a high performance microSD in an adaptor, no stuttering, load times are equivalent to my old sony branded MSPD and sometimes better. you get what you pay for, of course. If you put a $10 microSD in an adapter and compare it to a $40 MSPD, the performance will be terrible. If price is...
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