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    Easiest/Hardest Musical Instruments to Learn

    I'm casting another vote for a keyboard, but not a piano. If you want to be a whole band, orchestra or choir, synth-group or guitarist, you need an electronic keyboard - more specifically, a workstation or arranger. Firstly, they're easier to play than a piano; the weighted keys on a piano...
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    The Escapist's Video Player - Feedback and Updates

    Yup - works fine for me across all browsers. Just to let you know, as you've been patching VPAID, that none of the videos I checked were serving ads. Obviously I can't tell if that's deliberate or not!
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    The Escapist's Video Player - Feedback and Updates

    We'll get this uploaded to YT along with a proper console analysis for you tomorrow. My OH is a web developer and has been strong-armed, ermm, I mean will be delighted to help out. I'm a C++/UE4 dev but I make the best lasagne in the house so I'm sure he'll be able to show you what you want to...
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    Joss Whedon deletes twitter account following mass of feminist criticism

    I can't have been the only person who read Whedon's tweet as 'don't write a male character and then just skin it in a woman's body', surely? This has always been an issue with writing, from the early days of fiction through to modern interactive fiction (or games as you youngsters call them...
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    The Escapist's Video Player - Feedback and Updates

    I had the same issue of being unable to fast forward or rewind the videos - Win 8.1/64 with two different webkit browsers, Chrome and Torch, in addition to Firefox and Opera. Same issue on a laptop with identical configuration. Essentially, clicking on the progress bar either before or after the...
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    ATI CARD ROUNDUP

    That's a really good point which no one else has mentioned. At a personal level I have to say I prefer the AMD open-everything philosophy but, from a developer's perspective, Nvidia offer tools which AMD do not. The final results appears to work equally well on both manufacturers' cards, but the...
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    ATI CARD ROUNDUP

    When I started reading through this I initially assumed that this was the usual teenage-esque defense of 'whatever I happened to have purchased is obviously better than the other thing you bought.' Having seen the cards that people have had and decried as crap or praised as great, it's obviously...
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    Source 2 Confirmed: Will be Free to Content Developers

    What I know of Source 2 is that it is heavily pushing the Vulkan API which is essentially openGL for next-gen. Unity 5 and UE4 will both support Vulkan as well, but those engines will also implement DX12. I would be surprised if Source 2 does not incorporate DX12, although probably not at...
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    LucasArts Classics Coming to GOG.com - Update

    I feel your pain. My copy got lost in a house move before I could get cellophane off the box. Over the years I have found two on Ebay - the first was an unopened, brand-new box, which I jumped on, but got a very apologetic email from the seller who said someone picked it up in his shop before he...
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    LucasArts Classics Coming to GOG.com - Update

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of wallets suddenly opened in unison and were emptied. The only Lucasarts game I could never get my hands on was 'The Dig.' *waves hand* This is the game you're looking for.
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    Death Threat Regret

    Or simply just don't deal with Steam. Whilst it started out as a fairly benevolent, perhaps encouraging, platform it has devolved into a scenario we have decided not to do business with. It seems to be the de-rigeur statement that indie studios live or fall by Steam sales but it just isn't true...
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    Building a new rig, have one last question

    Yup, sound advice. You don't need a new HD per se but, if you manage to boot from it as it currently stands, go out and buy a lottery ticket because the Force will be with you that day. You will end up re-formatting it so save what you need. The GTX970 is probably the best single option at...
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    Building a new rig, have one last question

    I can't fault what you've picked at all, in terms of value for performance. With that in mind, I would suggest that, as your PSU has given you several years of sterling service, you stick with it. If it was going to go 'bang', it would have done so already. The only moving part is the fan and...
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    Do you think the Gaming Industries attitudes toward Gender issues are Top down or bottom up

    Somewhat amusingly I was in the pub with someone from Rockstar North a couple of days ago. I made him buy me a lot drinks and cough up for the basket of chips because they have more money than us. I wondered if I was dining out on the tears of abandoned, victimised non-comformists and then I...
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    What's a song you love that has a horrible version of it?

    Whilst there are so many awesome candidates - Jessica Simpson's cover of Berlin's 'Take My Breath Away' (video link not included for health reasons), Ozzy Osbourne's butchering of 'Stayin Alive' and anything involving Sony's Vocaloid (hint to would be Vocaloidists - it's a tool, not a singer)...