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General Discussion / Re: Nintendo wants a cut if you show any video of its games

« on: Today at 03:17:32 pm »

Royalties can be included in contracts but with various ways of being fucked out of getting them. A friend of mine developed a Poker game published by a fairly big company(Not naming names for various reasons), and the only way they would have gotten royalties would have been if the game made a profit AND they paid back the development costs. So, basically, the game had to make over a 200% profit before they got royalties. A poker game is likely to not make that much money...

He and the friends he made the game with never saw any money out of that.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Wii U vs Oyua

« on: May 18, 2013, 07:48:51 pm »

That was a really strange rant coming from an employee, though I can see where he's coming from. There's also quite a lot of confusion about the power of the Wii U but from wasting way too much time reading about it the Wii U seems to sport a more efficient, user-friendly but much weaker CPU, and a GPU that's far more capable (a heavily customized 2009/10 mid range Radeon HD -- so much so it's barely recognizable).

The GPU's basically weaker than the X360 one, but it's more efficient so it some of that speedloss isn't as dramatic as first appearances suggest. People seem to think it's got 160 SPs and 8 rops... the X360 has more than that, around 50% more. More efficiency can only do so much...

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Gaming Discussion / Re: FFVII DoC

« on: May 16, 2013, 10:29:47 pm »

It's a passable game. Not really much else to say.

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Site Talk / Re: About ROM / ISO Information

« on: May 16, 2013, 08:41:38 am »

While it would be nice to have, if the info's not there in the first place, where are you going to get it? Realistically, I think the current approach is the best solution, provided submitters (and approvers) abide by the guidelines.

Some do list it in the readmes, like most of Gideon's semi-recent and later patches(I think he's been putting that info in his patch readmes since 2007 or .

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Only 16% of gamers hate grinding ?

« on: May 14, 2013, 08:20:28 am »

According to todays GameFaqs poll.

I can't belive that such a vast majority of gamers actually "like" grinding to some extent (picked one of the first 3 options). I mean, are they stupid or what ? How can you like a repetitive and boring thing ?

GameFAQs is primarily occupied by jRPG and MMO players. Both genres are grind heavy... Do the math.

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General Discussion / Re: Hey if anybody is looking for a great controller for cheap take a look :D

« on: May 13, 2013, 09:54:29 pm »

I still get mad about the fact that the DC controller had less buttons than a Super Nintendo controller.

Fucking hell, Sega.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 10, 2013, 11:26:25 am »

I played it once as a kid with my dad at an old arcade called Aladdin's Castle. Fuck I miss that place.

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General Discussion / Re: Living in Caracas, thinking of returning to the states

« on: May 10, 2013, 10:22:53 am »

Honestly, it sounds like you're afraid for your safety. It just come off from the way you talk about where you live. If that is true, then GTFO as soon as possible.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 10, 2013, 10:21:37 am »

I wouldn't mind having a fully functional T2: The Arcade Game cabinet and a 6 player style X-Men cabinet.

T2 you'd likely have to replace the CRT at this point... Maybe hack up the board to support an LCD(The game's fixed lightgun is actually an analog stick that is sensitive enough to work like a lightgun). > Likely'd have to do the same to X-Men.

Fuck I love those games.

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General Discussion / Re: YouTube Glitch?

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:36:40 pm »

No, but I'm getting sick of the recent glitch that makes the player randomly assume the video is suddenly finished.
I think my record is now having to refresh the page FIVE times to finish a SINGLE video.

Yeah that's driving me nuts.

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General Discussion / Re: Tell me more about how we should support the KeystoneXL pipeline.

« on: May 09, 2013, 07:38:57 am »

Primary uses for oil are not fuel for power plants though... Nuclear energy would replace coal and natural gas, not oil. Oil is used for lubrication, materials(Plastics, etc etc etc), motor fuel, etc.

One could make the argument that it would help replace oil if we all switched to electric cars, of course, but there would still be a significant energy use for many years for oil.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 08, 2013, 09:39:21 pm »

It's more like what is so holy to you that seeing it could possibly cause you to do stupid things with your wallet.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 08, 2013, 09:12:31 pm »

Heh, a lot of games listed here are those that people already own. I meant what games do you consider your holy grail/s regardless of whether or not you have it.

oh well! hehehe

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General Discussion / Re: Tell me more about how we should support the KeystoneXL pipeline.

« on: May 08, 2013, 05:08:08 pm »

The main issue is there's not enough oil there to warrant basically fucking up the environment. It'll run dry within a decade or so. That's not gonna get us energy independence.

Hell at this point, energy independence is something of a myth. It's impossible for a country as large as ours.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 08, 2013, 01:54:34 am »

Best of the three.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: PSP games still coming

« on: May 06, 2013, 09:09:17 pm »

The Vita has much less momentum behind it compared to the PSP... I suspect it'll be like a lesser PSP. It'll make money for Sony but it'll be far from a true challenger to the 3DS.

Which is sad, because the system already has nice games on it.

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Site Talk / Re: Uploading save files

« on: May 06, 2013, 05:31:33 pm »

We've approved files like that in the past.

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Gaming Discussion / Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 05, 2013, 03:42:49 pm »

I managed to pick up one of mine today. Shouldn't have done it, but I got Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete for about 17 bucks today(With 19 dollars in trade in credit) applied already). What are y'all's?

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General Discussion / Re: Hey if anybody is looking for a great controller for cheap take a look :D

« on: May 05, 2013, 01:58:29 am »

That does sound pretty nifty.  But $30?  I guess it's relatively cheap.

I got my first one(My sister basically killed it through methods unknown even to her) at a site for 18 bucks. It's 22.50 here: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/758301-REG/Logitech_940000110_F310_Gamepad.html

Basically, the cheapest xinput supporting controller you'll find that is worth a fuck, if not the cheapest period.

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General Discussion / Re: Hey if anybody is looking for a great controller for cheap take a look :D

« on: May 04, 2013, 09:15:41 pm »

A good cheap XInput compatible controller is the Logitech F310. Wired, dual-shock style layout, xinput compatibility, a switch on the back to switch between xinput and direct input. Only complaint i have is the triggers on the back are FUCKING STIFF