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General Discussion / Re: Need advice on purchasing headphones

« on: January 12, 2013, 03:56:05 am »

Get in-ear headphones that completely seal your ears. Active noise-cancelling isn't really necessary, unless you can't wear in-ears, for some people they just aren't comfortable. The ones Dank linked to look like in-ears. Over here earbuds are distinctly different from in-ears, not sure if that's a marketing thing or if the stuff Dank linked to just look like in-ear headphones. They generally have the best sound quality anyway, especially for bass frequencies. The only noise that can't be shut out is from whole body vibrations. In-Ears will pretty much shut out normal noise, traffic, other people speaking by 100%. The only thing that'll still get through is deep bass that gets your whole floors vibrating. As long as your neighbours aren't hip hop fanatics you should be fine. If they are, nothing except moving away will help. That you can sound-proof a room with foam plates is a myth. It doesn't actually work. The only way to build a sound-proof room is to built a completely uncoupled room within a room, which costs many thousand dollars.

For cheap but passable in-ears I recommend these: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-EP-630-In-Ear-Noise-Isolating-Earphones/dp/B002EL4MXY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357980537&sr=8-1&keywords=Creative+EP+630

For that little money they are actually good and have a rather neutral sound (the cheaper headphones get, the more they'll usually artifically inflate the bass to sound more "fat" - which just makes everything worse). Last time I bought new headphones I did a lot of research and those came out on top for super cheap ones. I bought them just to test if I can wear in-ears comfortable and later upgraded to expensive Shure in-ears, but the Creative ones are really decent on their own too.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: GCW-Zero Handheld on Kickstarter

« on: January 11, 2013, 07:35:15 am »

The developer community is shifting towards Android and ARM. I think this is coming too late and it's not going in the right direction to be successful. Don't get me wrong, more choices are always good, but I just don't believe this will see much software support.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Victoly!

« on: January 10, 2013, 04:49:58 pm »

OK, new face here going to mention a bundle of games that I finished recently.

The new faces of today are the regulars of tomorrow

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Site Talk / Re: Blue Jean Theme - Beta Test Revamped Forum Template

« on: January 10, 2013, 04:26:18 pm »

I've always been using this theme, so far everything just sticks out as different. Need some time adjust. What I can say already is that it seems as if the button in the upper right to hide the profile header doesn't seem to do anything. Using the latest Chrome.

Good job on the groundwork and I'll post some more in a day or two

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Hawken for Android (Project Shield)

« on: January 10, 2013, 03:50:14 pm »

Tegra 4 is supposedly pretty horribly outdated already. Typical nvidia design, not too efficient and now they ramp up power consumption and shit on efficiency to try and stay competitive. Don't believe the Tegra chips are somehow good just because nvidia is involved. They do have some exclusive games, true, but that's only because of nvidia giving developers lot's of money for it, not because the games couldn't technically run on other hardware too.

That whole segment is evolving pretty rapidly right now, I don't think any chip is top of the line for more than 6 months at a time. I doubt you can buy anything future proof. But yeah, tablet gaming isn't so great anyway - at least until those bluetooth controllers for Android devices get more easily available and widely supported. Then at least they'll be nice for emulation. But then you'll have to place the tablet in front of you and play with the controller - why not just turn on the TV and play on a real console? Tablets are for websurfing on the couch IMO, nothing more.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer diagnostic help

« on: January 10, 2013, 02:09:19 pm »

What you see should be the VGA Bios, it gets executed even before the normal Bios. I'd put in a different graphics card and try to boot, just to see if it helps. If not, I'd agree that the mainboard is most likely damaged. It can happen with time, hair fractures and such shit. I hate mainboard problems. They can manifest so utterly randomly.

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General Discussion / Re: Android music players

« on: January 10, 2013, 10:45:38 am »

Just upload shit to Google Play Music and use the associated Android app. Much more convenient than jamming your entire collection onto your Android device.

Ok but that only works at home with wifi on, doesn't it? I only have a 150MB data plan a month, so I can hardly stream on the go.

I actually started using Google Play Music as an online backup of my collection a while back. Unfortunately I have more than the allowed 10000 tracks and the uploading will take weeks. I have a ton of stuff not in their database

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General Discussion / Android music players

« on: January 10, 2013, 10:09:31 am »

Has anyone tried some music players for Android beyond the stock one? There are a shit ton on the Play Market and I'd gladly hear some thoughts on some before having to try out all of them myself. If it's truly good I wouldn't mind paying a bit for one either. Though for that it would really have to offer something beyond a fancy 3D coverflow.

Just to clarify, I mean a simple music listening software for a tablet or a smartphone, not a dedicated playback device built with Android. I'm sure you all understood me, but these days there is actual hardware for Android with just about anything, so I thought I better specify

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General Discussion / Re: People in Connecticut to burn violent video games.

« on: January 10, 2013, 04:43:20 am »

By the way, apparently they called off the game burning. They say they already grabbed the medias attention so there is no need to go through with it anymore. 

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General Discussion / Re: People in Connecticut to burn violent video games.

« on: January 10, 2013, 02:50:39 am »

I don't mind if you don't agree, but don't act haughty about it.

"Reality Distortion Field"?

DankVerse, where everything fits into the world of self-affirmation for the one true enlightened. 

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Gaming Discussion / Re: In defense of Wii - A tribute & send off to the most controversial console ever.

« on: January 09, 2013, 05:31:49 pm »

Grandia 2 is bad. I played it last year or so. If you search you should still find my gaming progress posts. I didn't finish it, it just wasn't interesting enough. Extremely condensed: No challenge at all, no depth to the battle system. No worthwhile plot to make up for it. Just meh.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Kotaku: MS and Sony should be worried about the Steambox. Very worried.

« on: January 09, 2013, 04:17:30 pm »

Too much hassle, perceived or actual, for most folks. As soon as they see the graphics settings dialogues for games, a ton of people check out.

If Valve sells a dedicated Steam PC, don't you think they'll detect if you start games from that and load up the perfect settings for it automatically? That would be SUCH an obvious application. Valve isn't dumb, they'll do just that.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Looking for GBA recommendations

« on: January 09, 2013, 04:15:30 pm »

Summon Night is boring. Extremely limited and boring. If you want to play RPGs on the GBA play Golden Sun or one of the myriad of remakes, but don't waste your time on that mediocre crap.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Looking for GBA recommendations

« on: January 09, 2013, 03:36:49 am »

Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 1&2

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Reggie blames poorWii U friends on gamers having a lack of friends

« on: January 08, 2013, 04:59:05 pm »

They say they're putting out news but then they include their opinions on there. Unless it's specifically an opinion piece, news should be objective as possible.

I don't need another copy and paste machine for press releases. Good journalism should always contain analysis, extrapolation and opinion. Software can put out press releases automatically into articles without anyone lifting a finger. The actual content produced by the journalists is what seperates shit sites from good sites.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Hawken for Android (Project Shield)

« on: January 08, 2013, 01:41:00 pm »

Did I ever mention I'm playing Mechwarrior Online? It's pretty good. It's still in (open) beta, but it's already pretty solid. Two game modes and about a dozen different mechs with 3 to 4 configurations for each. The gameplay is exactly as I remember it from MW4. It's looking really nice (CryEngine 3) and they managed to capture the feeling of the massive weight of the mechs quite splendidly.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Hawken for Android (Project Shield)

« on: January 08, 2013, 03:47:49 am »

Mechwarrior is slow because it's a simulation and not a mecha cockpit grafted onto Unreal Tournament.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Victoly!

« on: January 07, 2013, 12:30:49 pm »

and partly because developers know most reviewers don't play more than half a game before assigning a score.

So do actual customers. Not sure about the exact number and I'm too lazy to google, but I think only 10-20% of all bought games get played through to the end. So many devs don't assign the ending as their highest priority

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Victoly!

« on: January 07, 2013, 08:33:58 am »

First game of the year beaten, and it's Risen 2. Nothing about it is better than in the first game, but several things are worse. 6.5/10.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: New to PS3; looking for some games to try

« on: January 06, 2013, 03:49:02 pm »

Skyrim, while not the best thing ever as the hype machine makes it out to be, is much much better than Oblivion. Compared to Morrowind, Oblivion was a huge disappointment, at least for me. So if you enjoy Oblivion so far, you can't go wrong with picking up Skyrim. I'd say damn the DLC to hell and ignore it all. In my playthroughs, I'm usually fully equipped, skilled and hellishly overpowered after a third of the ingame content, why add more random sidequests when I can just finish the game and move on instead? But that's probably just me.