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    what displat choice for elder scrolls??

    I don't think there's any new content in the original game world, and one of them will dump a quest on you almost immediately. But they did add some useful stuff to the base game, like an overhaul of the journal system. I'd probably install them, but disable them. Just run the launcher and...
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    Good video card that'll work on 300W PSU?

    I wouldn't risk it. Most of those no-name PSUs are garbage. There's a decent chance it's just going to blow up, whatever the specs say. Then your friend gets to spend a month without a PC while he waits for a replacement. And he won't find out until then whether it took the GPU and/or CPU...
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    Broforce — Contra meets The Expendables

    Early Access now on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/
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    C++ linked lists

    It's really pretty straightforward. Linked lists give you unlimited size and fast inserts/deletes, but accessing data takes time. Arrays allow fast lookups, but they have a fixed size. Vectors provide inserts/deletes/resizing on arrays, but these operations are not cheap. If you're using them...
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    Replace a string with a corresponding string.

    I'd just run this file through sed, or your text editor's search/replace, to turn it into a list of sed commands. i.e. Replace each "<old_id>,<new_id>" with "sed -i 's/<old_id>/<new_id>/g' <input_files>", and just paste the whole 1400-line script into the shell.
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    Dark Souls mod thread

    What's the problem with motion blur? Seems to be getting along fine with DSFix over here.
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    Titanfall - Respawn Entertainment's first game

    The problem for me is that, whenever I drop $30 on a game, it ends up on sale for $5 before I get around to playing it. So it's hard to justify spending any more than that, at least until I've done something about this backlog...
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    Direct2Play - legit?

    Shit, just took a look at their prices and it's barely even worth it any more. Thief is cheaper on GMG right now.
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    Direct2Play - legit?

    My understanding is that, while violating a contract leaves you open to litigation, it is not in itself illegal. In other words, the law doesn't say that you must honour a contract, only that if you don't, then you are liable for any resulting damages. So it's well within your rights to violate...
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    Direct2Play - legit?

    It's not illegal to violate a contract. And if anyone's in the wrong here, it's the seller; the EULA is between the publisher and the end user.
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    Direct2Play - legit?

    Steam has authorised resellers, and these guys certainly aren't among them. That said, you don't really have much to worry about. No idea what the law has to say about this - in the dozens of discussions I've seen about this, I have yet to see someone back up a claim one way or the other -...
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    c++ command line arguments and "^" ?

    Nothing's stopping you from typing "abc"x^z", but the quoted string is terminated by the second quote. The x^z is not quoted in this context, so the caret will not be taken literally (the x^z will resolve to xz). If you want it to be taken as a single quoted string, you need to double any...
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    c++ command line arguments and "^" ?

    I think I can see where the confusion is coming from. There are two parts to this problem: the OS parsing the raw user input to build the command line string, and the program parsing the command line to build the argv array. The documentation in question only refers to the second half of this...
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    Titanfall - Respawn Entertainment's first game

    The thing that defines the gameplay of arena shooters is not just the freedom of motion they give you, but the fact that you can fight while you're at it. As long as you're coming to a near stop and pulling up your sights every time you take a shot, you're always going to be stuck with the...
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    Borderlands 2 - Free weekend

    The install folder might take up 20GB, but the download is only 5.8GB.
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