Recent content by Theo Samaritan

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    Modern Bard Performs Skyrim's "The Dragonborn Comes"

    I pick up no autotune and yes, I know what subtle autotune sounds like. Reverb is a fair bit different from autotune folks, and there is indeed plenty of that. Would it matter? Even if she used it a little (I honestly cannot pick it up if she did) it's still a better recording than most of...
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    Name Game: Nyan Puss

    Consider it done. Like hell am I going to use Zoidberg, though. Not the smoothest animation I've ever done but good enough. You'd have seen the .gif already if you followed her damn twitter. [http://twitter.com/#!/LaScaldaferri]
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    How does one go about making an indie game?

    They may not have displayed much insight, but James is an experienced game designer who has been working in the industry for longer than Yahtzee has been in his twenties. Not denying that Croshaw knows his stuff, just saying that you shouldn't devalue James' "experience by practice".
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    How many "retro-gamers" are here?

    There is at least me, if that counts. I grew up in a modern age of gaming - first console was the Playstation - due to the low income of my parents. But now I have my own income I find myself going backwards. I don't own a current generation console, but my c64 gets hours and hours of love every...
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    How does one go about making an indie game?

    To begin with, and I mean this is the kindest way possible, you are not Levine or Jaffe. You are an unknown who has not worked in the industry for even a year, let alone a decade or more. Secondly, even if you were, you need to run on different rules. Independent titles require all hands on...
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    DoTA and League of Legends

    What people in this thread are not considering is the fact that a good 70% of the players in LoL don't actually bother with the community at all. They nip in for a game or three, then nip out. They don't post on forums, they don't troll, and the only real time they spend looking at threads is to...
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    LoadingReadyRun: Annette: Internet Receptionist

    Damn the pair of you for being quick on the draw!
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    Rage Requirements Revealed

    For the record, the 9800 is literally nothing more than a repackaged 8800 with an extra chip for better HD processing of films. If you have an 8800GT or better you'll be fine.
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    PC Mod Returns The Pretty To Liberty City

    Check your TV, my PC copy of GTAIV has blue skies, unmodded. As does the PS3 copy my girlfriend owns.
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    Edge Games is Back With Bobby Bearing 2

    So he'll try to go to court with the next person to put "Edge" in their game, using this game as his only example, and get stomped again. Awesome.
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    Why does everyone hate Halo?

    People don't hate the series, they hate the fanbase that spawned off the series. That fanbase hate seems to be moving towards the COD crowd though.
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    Spore

    You know that CD key check that has existed for more than a decade? That is DRM. Sorry I was going to glaze over the rant but that's horribly uninformed. Also Starforce says hi, and that was originally infinitely worse than SecuROM (unless you consider "making your entire PC unusuable" better...
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    Question about ROMs

    Last time I looked into it here in the UK, a backup refers solely to the data found on the medium, rather than the actual physical medium itself. I believe this was clarified when people started backing up old studio release VHS tapes onto DVD. Due to this distinction, the actual method of...
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    Question about ROMs

    A ROM is a dump of the content found on a cartridge game - taken from the literal name for that content, which is Read Only Memory. So yes, a ROM and the original game is a different thing entirely, but a ROM that you have created yourself is still a backup.
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    Question about ROMs

    Not true. If you own the game, a ROM can be considered a backup copy, which is legal in the USA and Europe as long as only one copy is being run at a time.