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    New Xbox One Backward Compatibility Titles Playable Today

    It'll do fine if they time it with the "next-gen" release. The problem is dev time, major devs typically don't want to devote that much time to water under the bridge when there are new and current projects to be working on, unless there are tangible benefits for their bottom line, so I agree...
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    Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label

    Statistics is about trends, not how special you think you are. Hurr-durr you don't know any women because my girlfriends and I are all gamers doesn't really mean anything.
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    Print Books On The Rise Again In The US

    E-readers are still way too slow and small. Good for a throwaway novel, but anything substantial you'll want to be able to flip back and forth in your hand and have a larger viewing surface.
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    Print Books On The Rise Again In The US

    Print is still far superior in look and feel to any electronic reader I've used yet. It's nice that the ebook push has made digitized books so readily available, though. Now you can buy almost any book online and read it instantly, where you'd have to wait a good number of days for a specific...
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    “Star Wars” Heading For Box Office Record Of $215 Million-Plus In US

    I'm just wondering what they're going to do for Star Wars Episode X. They can only butcher the same story so many times.
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    Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label

    You're trying too hard. ;) Anyway, I already knew the plot weeks ago when it was originally leaked. The spoiler campaign is really late to the game tbh.
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    Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label

    She's "a girl," but not representative of most women at all. So I don't really see her point. You didn't get banned for the spoiler? You must have friends in high places.
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    FAA’s Drone Registry Will Be Public, Including Names And Addresses

    Yeah, I agree with you there. If everyone knew what they were doing, we wouldn't have any problems.
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    Squad

    The game is great. If you feel like Arma 3 is too unstructured and you don't have time or the will to join a unit, then this is really the next best thing. Sometimes I want to jump into a game and shoot some stuff yet not be playing COD or Halo, and Arma 3 is honestly pretty terrible for that if...
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    “Star Wars” Heading For Box Office Record Of $215 Million-Plus In US

    It's not really a big spoiler anyway, who actually watches Star Wars for the riveting plot twists? It's a big circus of a laser show in space.
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    FAA’s Drone Registry Will Be Public, Including Names And Addresses

    Maybe don't ruin their life by dropping things on them, and they won't see fit to ruin you financially. Juries are also notoriously stingy with awarding damages so it's not like everyone's looking to the skies for a payday while you're playing with your toys.
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    Acer Predator X34 | $1,299.99 - $9.99 + $6.99 Shipping = $1,296.99

    Technically it's an OC and not guaranteed, but I'm wondering if FreeSync "just works" with an OCed refresh rate as well.
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    Acer Predator X34 | $1,299.99 - $9.99 + $6.99 Shipping = $1,296.99

    What's the FreeSync range on this panel? Edit: 30-75 hz. So what happens if you OC it to 100 hz like the X34?
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    Fallout 4

    I don't even know if it's worth it, it's a twist-cap ffs.
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    FAA’s Drone Registry Will Be Public, Including Names And Addresses

    This is the US, not some third-world country. If you want to fly your lawn-mowing drones willy-nilly without rules and redress move to Costa Rica or something. Regulation is the price of doing business, or "having fun," in someplace that most people would like to live. Now this doesn't apply for...
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    What are you guys running for surround/eyefinity monitor setups?

    If you're gaming, variable refresh (G-Sync or FreeSync) makes a big difference if you're not pegging all your games at 60 fps (which I presume you're not since you only have one 980). The visual smoothness is literally more than double with 144 hz vs 60 hz refresh, which may or may not be a big...
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    Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label

    Gamer usually means "hardcore gamer" not "filthy casual." Most women don't have the personality-type for the former. Anyway, unless the woman is making moves in terms of marketing herself as a "gamer girl," they usually don't want that label attached to them unnecessarily.
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    “Star Wars” Heading For Box Office Record Of $215 Million-Plus In US

    Not really. It's entertaining and a good kid's movie and is visually spectacular enough in IMAX with Laser, but it's not a freaking masterpiece or anything.
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    Multiplayer shooters. Does K/D always define the better player?

    Like I said, it's a good statistic overall with a lot of long-term reliability. There are always outliers, but the primary mechanic in most FPS games is still to shoot the other guys dead before they can do the same to you, with objective-based play being contingent on your being alive to secure...
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    Multiplayer shooters. Does K/D always define the better player?

    In the long-term, K/D and K-D are pretty good indicators of player efficiency in FPS. If you're not shooting and taking out the other guys, it doesn't matter how well you're working together because in a game(mode) with parity the other team is eliminating your players, for the duration or...
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    Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing A Key Flaw

    I go to various countries in the EU occasionally for work-related activities. They are not as "diverse" as the US is in aggregate, and most of that "diversity" isn't on the roads.
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    Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing A Key Flaw

    No, and no. This is the end-game, but they need to get their foot in the door first with cars that can handle some basic stuff, even if that means they have to road test with human obstacles present. What works in Europe wouldn't necessarily work in the US. Most countries over there...
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    UK Movie Pirates Sentenced To A Total Of 17 Years

    What about white-collar crimes that put the entire country "at risk?"
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    Molten Aluminum Vs Water Balls

    Can't make a man value his own life and limb. In the end they pay their own price so I'm not too concerned.
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    Man Hit By Car While Playing Fallout 4

    The comments on that site are a mess. Guy was in his own apartment on a Sunday, and you have people tearing into him for being a fat slacker without a job for playing some vidya.
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    Man Hit By Car While Playing Fallout 4

    No insurance, driving into a building and injuring someone, and somehow the driver gets off with a ticket? I thought Texas had their shit together.
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    Bioshock patch fixes 30 FPS physics engine cap

    Some guy probably did it over the weekend back in the Gamebryo days with the expectation that 60 fps Vsync-ed would be the edge case and no idea that in 2015 somebody would still be milking his code for millions...
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    Acer Z35 Ultrawide: True 200Hz!?

    You're going to be CPU-limited at 1080p-and-a-third, but with G-Sync it's not a big deal if you're floating between 100 and 200 fps (or even dropping to 80 or so).
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    Ark... For an 8yo

    Let him play it, real world and all. With a couple of blockheads for parents he's going to need to grow up fast. No reason to hold back the children, I say.
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    Bioshock patch fixes 30 FPS physics engine cap

    I wish there something similar for Skyrim. 60 fps lock is bad enough, but the physics ran at half that at most.
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    China Tells The World To Respect Its Censorship

    What's the deal with making fun of people you're apparently not fine with having their government repress? I'm as chauvinistic as the next guy, but this seems self-defeating.
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    OLED monitors incoming!

    Sounds like they want to compete with Sony for the professional market first, before cannibalizing their own consumer display market. $5,000 sounds about right if that's their goal.
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    Why Popular YouTubers Sound The Same

    Why would you be surprised? Most people are socially driven, not internally driven. Pewdiepie is a good-looking guy with some silly antics who got in early. It shouldn't be a surprise that someone like him snowballed in popularity as Youtube grew.
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    Star Wars Battlefront Real Life Mod At 4K 60FPS

    It looks pretty much the same to me, too.
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    Red team fan had to go Green. :D

    I hope AMD doesn't die. Having gone with Nvidia and G-Sync after buying ATI/AMD for some years, the difference in user experience is so much better with Nvidia than I ever had with AMD even when they weren't doing quarterly driver releases. I need AMD to stay alive so Nvidia doesn't jack the...
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    DOOM is up on Steam

    It's Bethesda making a Doom game. I have zero expectations.
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    The End Of Work?

    AI is a scam. Along with the silicon wall we're going to run into the next few decades, it'll mean tech progress is going to slow way down unless we can pick up the slack in the human intelligence department. The idea that we can all sit back and relax while machines of our own creation, much...
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    Total WAr Humble Bundle....do any of these charities not suck?

    Give it all to Humble Bundle if you don't want to support Sega or any of these charities.
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    Kickstarter Hires Reporter To Investigate Failed $3.4M Project

    The only way Kickstarter works is because there is nearly zero accountability, and people know they can shoot for the moon because they won't get sued out the ass when they fall on their face. Of course, if it continues going down this path eventually the money will dry up, but you gotta milk...
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    Wi-Fi 'Allergies': Is Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Real?

    Parasites? She's got bigger problems than low-grade EM radiation.
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