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    Should Video Games be considered a Sport?

    Perhaps you'd like to say why swimming should be considered a sport? Also, fencing, boxing, and wrestling being in question has absolutely nothing to do with my metrics. No, they wouldn't. So, we agree on the big picture?
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    Should Video Games be considered a Sport?

    Yeah, I need to make an amendment on my criteria for being a sport: 1. Prolonged physical activity where athletes must move around under their own power 2. Unchanged 3. An agreed upon objective scoring system 4. Unchanged So to answer? your question? I would say maybe, maybe, no, maybe...
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    Should Video Games be considered a Sport?

    Add another to the "no" option. To me, to be considered a sport, the activity must incorporate ALL of the following: 1. Physical Activity with running required 2. Active Competition (meaning playing both offense and defense) 3. An agreed upon scoring system 4. Agreed upon rules enforced...
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    AMD responds to Hairworks, Gameworks and it's engagement with developers.

    Is that how you read posts? You intentionally miss the point? I take it you said something similar about the side profile shots?
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    Witcher 3 Performance Discussion

    Image quality and performance impact of HairWorks with varying tessellation and HairWorksAALevel settings: http://imgur.com/a/IMDy6#0
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    AMD responds to Hairworks, Gameworks and it's engagement with developers.

    Agreed. Also things may not look that bad from the sides like most (all?) of the comparison shots out there, but change the angle and there's a clear difference between even 64x and default tessellation limits. http://imgur.com/a/IMDy6#0
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    what was your video card history like?

    Used in main rigs: 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 3DFX Voodoo5 5500 * ATi Radeon 9700 ATi Radeon x1900xt 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB ** ATi Radeon HD 4850 512MB ** AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost Used in HTPC: ATi Radeon HD 5770 * marks the beginning of selecting and installing the card myself **...
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    PS4 is definitely running at a higher resolution and framerate compared to PS3. The lighting, however, is nonsensical. Way too bright and the colors are wrong. It should not look like it's noon in Majula where the sun is always setting (rising?).
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    Dragon Age III: Inquisition announced!!!!

    Didn't Obsidian develop that game? How many of those patches were due more thanks to BioWare than Obsidian?
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    That's a whole lot of nothing as the answers to those questions were pretty much known from the beginning. The ONLY question that needs to be answered in no uncertain terms is will DX9 users be able to play with DX11? It's bad enough that it looks like we'll have to pay full price for a...
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    Shadow of Mordor Graphics Compared: Xbox One, PS4 and PC

    Well I seem to have a different opinion than most here. My ranking would be: PC>Xbox One>PS4 I was surprised that I liked the Xbox One better than the PS4, but there were a few shots where it seemed to have ever so slightly more detail. Still that might've been due to YouTube compression...
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    Looking for cheapest tablet with support for two external non-cloned displays

    Thanks for the response, but she ultimately decided to go with a desktop and to take her note 3 phone and/or laptop with her on trips instead. In the interest of curiosity though, I'll try to answer your questions anyway. She didn't have a budget per se. She wanted to spend as little as...
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    Looking for cheapest tablet with support for two external non-cloned displays

    My sister has asked me to find her something that will be primarily a work computer (email and Office), but she'd also like something lightweight to take with her on trips, hence why she's considering a tablet. I've seen the surface pro 3, but that's awfully expensive at ~$800 plus hub/docking...
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    Dark Souls 2 Russian VPN $26

    That May 2 date is only for the UK boxed retail version as they had issues with the packaging. All digital keys worldwide have already gone live, as well as those contained with boxed copies of regions not affected by the packaging issue . In any case this Russian key will work, but a few...
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    Sure, if the movie was filmed in the more common 2.x:1 ratios then letterboxing is better in the sense that it won't cut off or stretch the image. Some people may not like having wasted screen space and opt to stretch (which I've never actually seen a TV that stretches vertically, only...
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    I've seen a few minor quips, but generally, no. I was more referring to the technical side of the game like graphics, performance, PC-centric features, etc. Which I believe is the purpose of Durante's article. I don't think he'll be spending much time talking about the gameplay as that's not...
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    Dark Souls is on Steam

    Easier to just say the majority of summon signs are placed in the bonfire room with Solaire.
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    So, it looks like Durante's technical analysis article is scheduled to be published tomorrow. Everything he's hinted at says he's happy with the game, but I think he set reasonable expectations unlike a great deal of others.
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    Had a longer post written up but I was logged out before I posted and lost it. Don't want to type it again so basically I'm content with the graphics and performance. I'm more disappointed I wasn't signed up for GMG's email service so I didn't get a voucher code despite having bought from them...
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    Probably the scenes where your character is in an area with the remains of a dragon, is crossing a rope bridge with drakes flying about, and just the overall darker atmosphere. None of which are that big of a deal. The first is a slight hit to the atmosphere as after killing the reanimated...
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    Dark Souls 2 Game Discussion Thread with Spoilers

    Sounds good, thanks again, Tzzird. Looking forward to the game!
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    Dark Souls 2 Game Discussion Thread with Spoilers

    Thanks, Tzzird. Pretty much how I think it should be done, in theory at least. Individual counters per enemy and maximum spawns based on enemy strength. Would be pretty lame to suicide ~10 times and then have a straight shot to the boss. How do you feel it works in practice though? Also, I've...
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    Dark Souls 2 Game Discussion Thread with Spoilers

    Figure I'll ask this here even though I'm waiting for the PC version. Can someone explain in detail the new respawn mechanic? Any information I've been able to find has been rather ambiguous. Is it based on player deaths, enemy deaths, or a combination thereof? Is it worldwide, per level...
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    Dark Souls is on Steam

    Yes. There are ways to give more light, or you can brave the darkness without them.
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    Converted someone to pc gaming..

    Well done on the conversion. I agree the lack of a PC "authority" is both the system's greatest strength (much more freedom to do as we please) and its greatest weakness (lack of advertising).
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    Dark Souls 2 PC - April 25, 2014

    I've said my piece elsewhere on From and their foray into PC gaming with Dark Souls and I go against what many think of the endeavor. I had said I wouldn't defend them if they made the same mistakes again with DS2 and while my post may seem as such, it's really just me thinking of probable...
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    Dark Souls is on Steam

    That better be for a one-of-a-kind ~6' solid bronze statue! Also damn you for putting the $ in, squashing my hopes of it being ¥25,000.
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    Dark Souls is on Steam

    Gah! Edited my post thinking that maybe I was wrong and the interview originally came from IGN, but I re-watched the IGN interview and nothing about PC was in it. I had copied it in case I wanted to put it back in, but of course I copied something else over it. So I'm going to rewrite...
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    South Park : The Stick of Truth

    Glad I'm not the only one. I've managed to last through maybe 5 minutes of a video before I go elsewhere. Most of the time that I watch him trying to understand his appeal I'm out before a minute. He's constantly yammering as if he's afraid of there being any silence and he's swearing...
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    Dark Souls is on Steam

    If that ad was intended for NA the faker forgot that we spell it "Armor" and also could've saved some time by cropping out that part from the previous ads where the work was already done, spelled correctly, and localized correctly. Also, I too hope we get a physical/collector's release as...
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    Dark Souls is on Steam

    Yeah, I'm not so sure about the validity of that ad. The ad is for the European version as evidenced by the word "Amour" (sic) "Armour" is spelled incorrectly here despite being correctly spelled for the previous ads. Europeans were already getting the better (imo) collector's edition with...
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    Few tips for Dragon Age Origins needed

    Not exactly. You can however use this mod to edit a save file with the face from another save.
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    Good basic audio receivers?

    Careful! The 1712 is a 7.1 receiver while the 1713 is only 5.1. They are also roughly the same price after you factor in shipping for the 1712. Also, the 1712 has Audyssey MultEQ XT which isn't available again until the Denon AVR-2112CI. Though the 2113CI is the better deal since it's the same...
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    HOT: Every GTA game evarrrrr $10

    What about London?
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    Steam 2013 summer sale is here!

    Looking at my playtimes I'd say, "definitely." I even just bought a second copy to give to a friend.
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    The [H] SpiderOak Referral Thread (Think DropBox, but BETTER)

    Used anotherguy's as he was the last to person to mention using the previous poster's referral. Here's mine: https://spideroak.com/download/referral/d0dae31c9b6e5da10acd570dbe049913 Thanks :)
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    Last day of the GOG.com sale.

    Pretty sure GOG no longer stands for "Good Old Games" and hasn't for sometime now (I think since their "stunt"). As far as I know, GOG is just GOG, it's not an acronym. As for the sale if I understand it correctly it will still go until July 5, but every game/bundle that has been or will be a...
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    Xbox One Interview of the Day

    Well that was a waste of time. Joe was too angry and confused to conduct a level-headed interview (in his defense he did say it was impromptu) and MN dodged every single question by questioning Joe's intelligence and paranoia.
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    Any Haswell Mobos that support 3 PCI express 3.0 16X slots?

    http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4484#sp Seems to be what you want.
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