Recent content by Illessa

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    Game of Thrones Abridged: "The Children" - Peter Dinklage Needs More Emmys

    You know he only had an Escapist contract for this one show? All his video game related content will be happening on his Patreon [http://www.patreon.com/mattlees] funded Youtube channel [https://www.youtube.com/user/MattLees]
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    Watch Dogs PC Modders Find Hidden "E3" Settings, Improve Performance - Update

    M:LL runs just fine for me thanks, I just picked up a GTX 780 so it's looking pretty beautiful. But I know a bunch of people that had problems with it initially, especially on some AMD cards (another game that suffered from disparity from that graphics card sponsorship stuff I mentioned...
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    Watch Dogs PC Modders Find Hidden "E3" Settings, Improve Performance - Update

    Don't be ridiculous, I'm sure there are plenty of excellent coders at Ubi, there will also be some rubbish ones who just keep their heads down, or who write terrible code that "Gets the job done" very quickly. This is true of pretty much all software houses of more than a couple of dozen people...
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    Watch Dogs PC Modders Find Hidden "E3" Settings, Improve Performance - Update

    Yeah, it's obviously a snippet, and a lot of nested #ifs make sense for code that has been heavily optimised on a per-platform basis. The language is a C-derivative, probably HLSL - as Areloch pointed out it looks like a shader. [EDIT] Veering away from coding geekery I actually agree...
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    Watch Dogs PC Modders Find Hidden "E3" Settings, Improve Performance - Update

    Doubt it, that would be dumb. Why would they decompile their own code? I've never known a big corporation to just chuck out their source code as soon as they ship (and I work in the VCS space so I've seen the kind of crazy webs of ancient projects these companies end up with). If nothing else...
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    Watch Dogs PC Modders Find Hidden "E3" Settings, Improve Performance - Update

    I seriously doubt they did. No way decompiled code would look like that, the comment wouldn't be there, and that #else stuff is specifically compile-time logic that would vanish in the final files (that's literally the point of that syntax). So either W_D shipped with uncompiled C knocking about...
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    "Pigeon Dating Sim" Hatoful Boyfriend Remake Coming This Summer

    Umm, it's glorious? See? [http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?67529-Hatoful-Boyfriend-A-dating-game-about-pigeons]
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    "Pigeon Dating Sim" Hatoful Boyfriend Remake Coming This Summer

    The original game was just one person yeah. Pretty sure Mediatonic are a dev-for-hire, so they're probably doing the upgrading and porting and such.
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    Feed Dump: Feed Dump UK Special: Booze, Cats and More Booze

    The full paper isn't online that I could see (abstract is here [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871612001032], interestingly they had real & placebo cigarettes which also appeared to contribute to the effect) so who knows. Alcohol free beer and wine do exist and some of...
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    Luftrausers Isn't About Nazis But Vlambeer Is Sorry Anyway

    It's been 70 years, still well within living memory. The main people I saw discussing this on twitter were Jewish, and oddly enough WW2 has left something of an imprint on Jewish culture. It's not like I saw any cries of "Ban this sick filth" or anything, just some pretty reasonable people...
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    The Magic of Old Adventure Games

    I agree, I always look forward to the snippets of dialogue when you try daft combinations of items, much more so than trying different verbs which all too often just result in stock phrases ("I'm not putting my lips on that"). Yes putting in the extra lines is a trivial task, but they all add up...
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    Double Fine's Broken Age Episode One Early Access Begins Jan. 14th

    What? They've not added more methods to monetise - all they're doing is releasing the game up to a natural break point a couple of months before the full game is complete, in the hope that it will take the pressure off the company bank account a bit, as they're currently sinking their own money...
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    Double Fine's Broken Age Episode One Early Access Begins Jan. 14th

    I'ts not an episodic game. It's a standalone game where the first half is being released a couple of months ahead on early access to help with funding the second half. Hahahah, welcome to games development (hell software development in general). When the main thing you're paying for is...
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    Bitcoin Rival Coinye West To Launch This Month

    There's tons of the bastards [http://coinmarketcap.com/]. They're all separate, and vary somewhat in the details, but work on largely the same principles. There's nothing stopping you trading between them (I'm sure there's someone out there providing that service), but generally everyone uses...
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    Elijah Wood Joins Cast of Double Fine's Broken Age

    From the VGX spot [http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/u2e4fw/broken-age-vgx-2013--world-premiere-featurette], Tim Schafer hooked up with Elijah Wood through twitter. Given EW has said in interviews that Monkey Island is his favourite game he's probably not asking for vast scads of cash. In fact...