Recent content by wiersmaster

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    Game Theory: Beware Link's Hookshot in Legend of Zelda!

    For starters: the force Link experiences when launching the hook is only about tenth of the value calculated in the video. This is because the chain 'unrolls' over a second: after 0.5 seconds, half the chain is still standing still (i.e: didn't accelerate (i.e: didn't exert any force))...
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    Escape to the Movies: Interstellar - Doesn't Live Up To Its Own Name

    I find it kinda funny that so many people assume Bob thinks the movie is bad because of Nolan, while I think it is completely reasonable that Bob thinks the movie is bad because it is a bad movie. Ironically, a big part of the reason that it is so bad is that the first part is so f*cking...
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    XCOM: Enemy Within achievements

    I just noticed the achievements for Enemy Within can now be seen on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/XCOMEnemyUnknown/achievements , all the way at the bottom. Some interesting ones: G'day Kill an elite enemy Sniper with one of your own snipers in single player All Hands on Deck...
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    Balance of Power Creator Says Kickstarter Used To Be Cool

    So he wants to make Fate of the World [http://store.steampowered.com/app/80200/], but more boring? I'm not surprised that tis didn't work out. The game doesn't sound like fun at all, the video is pretty bad and to top it off, it doesn't seem like he did a lot of promoting. Contrary to...
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    Assassin's Creed 2.85

    I've been convincing myself that the reason Ubisoft keeps making these Assassin's Creed 2.x games instead of a proper sequel, is that Assassin's Creed 3 is such a big overhaul of the series they need a lot more development time... The longer they go on with this, the longer my dream stays...
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    Ubisoft Kills Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC

    I don't like what he's saying, but I know where he's coming from. I've noticed that most people who frequent 'respectable' game sites don't admit to/do regular piracy (anymore), but I've noticed in my surrounding that it's only increasing with 'new' gamers (both casual players and younger...
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    Internet Explodes Over Origin's Invasion of Privacy

    I don't get what all the fuzz is about :/ Steam/Valve does something that looks/sounds a lot like this. [http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey] Even better, contrary to EA, they don't specify what information they can gather, [http://www.valvesoftware.com/privacy.html] effectively giving them...
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    Nexus 2 on the way. Needs your help.

    I'm honestly a bit surprised that nobody posted this here yet. Anyway... As the title says, The sequel to "Nexus: the Jupiter Incident" is finally officially on the way! [http://www.mwent.hu/news/nexus-jupiter-incident-sequel-making] There is a catch however: there's no funding yet...
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    Dragon Age 2 Disappears From Steam

    I find it interesting, funny and worrying how everyone is saying how stupid and evil EA is doing something like this. All we know at the moment about the reason is this: ie: It's Valves fault. I know that's coming from EA etc. etc. But it's certainly not entirely wrong, and probably mostly...
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    Wii U Controller Limitations to Save on Costs, Says Nintendo

    This decision is actually pretty logical. The costs they are cutting isn't in the order of $20-30. Think closer to $100+. The reason for this is VERY simple: the controllers only draw the image, probably to save both (significant) costs and weight. This means that the WiiU has to do all the...
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    Get Into the Holiday Spirit With the Humble Indie Bundle #2

    I suspect it launches in ~15 min, since wolframalfa says it is then 9 am PST.