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General Discussion / Re: Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD on Steam this thursday

« on: 2016-05-16 06:28:15 »

This could be pretty neat. I succumbed to SE's addicted cycle of repurchasing the same games over and over, and was pleasantly surprised by how damn good this PC port looks. It is by far and away the definitive version of this game. My only complaint is that the game is locked at 30 FPS.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: windows 10

« on: 2016-04-17 02:13:37 »

Cortana is improving, but has nothing on Google Now. Bash in Windows 10 beta is surprisingly good though. Running Ubuntu inside a Windows cmd feels naughty. I could not work around a few deps to get Java installed yet unfortunately

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General Discussion / Re: FF7 "episodes" are full-sized games

« on: 2016-04-08 23:17:13 »

I'll likely pick up part 1 to see what's up, but if it blows then the other parts get skipped.

I got tricked by FFXIII. I really wanted to like the first one, but I thought it was pretty bad when I actually got to play it. XIII-2 was a marked improvement on the first and XIII-3 was actually pretty good, despite the Japanese soap opera style dialogue. Who am I kidding, I'll probably buy them all whether they suck or not, I have no self control.

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General Discussion / Re: FF7 "episodes" are full-sized games

« on: 2016-04-08 08:12:01 »

I'd have a hard time seeing how they could turn the OG into a 90+ hour saga without adding a bunch of stuff. I'm definitely biased and will obviously need to play the new games with a really open mind. XV will probably be a pretty good indicator of what's to come.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: It's a wrap!

« on: 2016-04-05 03:31:12 »

All is lost

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-03-24 05:31:52 »

Issues me and Donald disagree on:

1. I believe in gun control for the mentally ill and criminals.
2. I believe children should be required to be vaccinated.
3. I do not believe those on welfare should be subject to drug tests.
4. I believe people on no fly list should be banned from guns and ammo.
5. I believe the government should fund space travel.  I take this stance because I am well aware of the contributions to science NASA makes as a result of it. I think Donald is thinking of this in the rigid terms of "hand outs". A lot of people fail to see the massive contributions we gain in other areas because of this - especially aviation technology.

I would have a really hard time talking to someone who was against all of those things. What kind of society would we have if everyone felt this way?

1. The most dangerous group of people should definitely have guns
2. Everyone has polio at Disney Land
3. Nobody who would genuinely benefit from welfare would get it
4. Definitely give watched criminals guns
5. Space is stupid and expensive, let's not even bother

That kind of world sounds really dumb to me, I'd prob move to Canada

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-03-24 04:41:33 »

Makes sense, I would be packing some heat too if I talked as much strawberrys as Trump, especially about Mexican drug cartels.

Have you guys taken one of these: https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz
It asks your opinions on all the big political issues, then tells you which candidate you actually side with. It is amazing how uninformed a lot of voters are, a lot of people vote just based on which personality they like/how religious they are.

Utah evidently loves Ted Cruz -- I wonder why.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-03-24 02:25:12 »

This is basically totally unrelated, but it is my all time favorite Piers Morgan interview relating to American policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQPZ-taYBs

Edit: Does anyone know the gun control policies between trump/clinton/bernie?

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-03-23 04:19:11 »

The election process made a lot more sense when there were a few hundred million less people. It didn't scale well to where we are now population/technology wise

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-03-23 03:17:55 »

Sanders has friendlier policies that don't benefit rich people and companies over us peasants most of the time but I don't think that makes him more 'truthful'. It just means he's a chill dood. Trump isn't as chill, but you don't know if he's truthful. Neither have any power to make action on their stances except bash the other guy on tv.

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7th Heaven / Re: The Next Catalog Update...

« on: 2016-03-06 03:22:15 »

EQ2Alyza, you are awesome.

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7th Heaven / Re: The Next Catalog Update...

« on: 2016-03-05 04:17:57 »

This may be a stupid question, but is the laptop keyboard patch available in the catalog? It sets the default keyboard bindings to keys that aren't in the number pad. I recall needing to go digging through the deep web of 1997 to find it whenever I want to get the game set up.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-03-02 19:14:17 »

Judging by the results of super Tuesday, what was kind of a joke is now looking pretty serious. Trump could actually win this thing. Having stayed at various trump hotels, I will say this much, if he turns Scotland into a golf course, it will be pretty high end.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-03-02 16:35:49 »

That is even better than the lightning_cloud mashup

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Completely Unrelated / Re: my birthday

« on: 2016-02-20 15:11:26 »

Another year flew by and we still haven't reached the Singularity. Enjoy it!

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-02-12 17:02:30 »

Tin foil hat time: does anyone feel like things would generally not change much no matter who gets elected?

There is so much money floating around, that it seems nearly impossible to curb its influence. I remember the Obama campaign, it was all about making change. He had my support because he made it seem like he was going to pop the artificially inflated industries caused by the war on drugs. In actuality, when he got into office the budgets for those programs actually increased. I'm not sure if that can be attributed to systematic lying or a real lack of influence that the president actually has.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-02-10 04:36:24 »

True, he's old. But him getting elected can show the population that we do still have some say in politics and can change things.

As well as he and trump are doing, I think at least by next election we will start to see a real change in government.

I'm not saying I like trump, I'm saying people like him because they perceive him as anti establishment

Don't get me wrong, if I absolutely had to pick one of them I'd go with Bernie, but he'd better pick a young and like minded VP if senility or nature strikes. If he won, wouldn't he be the oldest active U.S. president? 84 ish years old after two full terms, I don't know if anyone could do that job at that age

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-02-10 01:42:04 »

Bernie seems pretty likeable, but he's also 74 years old. He would be closing in on 80 after his hypothetical first term. He should have ran two or three decades ago

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Trump & Clinton supporters: What is wrong with you?

« on: 2016-01-29 17:46:52 »

They are all liars Shard, they are all playing to win. For most people, the most likeable personality gets their vote because that is their only metric for comparison. I imagine the majority of people who actually vote and hold very strong opinions toward one candidate or another don't actually know each candidate's true stance on most issues. It's kind of stupid. Part of Trump's appeal is that he just says whatever he thinks, there isn't a thick lawyer-esque facade covering everything, even if what he says is pretty racist and ridiculous, he sounds honest-ish in his ideas.

Edit: If my only options are sociopaths, my vote goes to Frank Underwood. The deep southern accent is endearing.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: [SPOILERS] Star Wars Episode 7: Ticking All The Wrong Boxes [SPOILERS]

« on: 2016-01-03 05:51:55 »

From a scifi, pseudo science perspective, a sun is basically the most energy dense object in its solar system. It isn't completely unreasonable to assume that a space faring civilization would want to do something with the free energy. It's also star wars, it's never NOT been kind of outlandish. I don't know what you were expecting lol

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Completely Unrelated / Re: [SPOILERS] Star Wars Episode 7: Ticking All The Wrong Boxes [SPOILERS]

« on: 2016-01-02 19:43:02 »

The wow factor and feeling of being involved in an epic story are almost there, just not quite.

I kind of agree here. I think all of the previous star wars movies were around 3 hours long, but this new one felt a lot shorter to me for some reason. This film definitely provided a lot of setup for the next one.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Star Wars Episode 7: Ticking All The Wrong Boxes

« on: 2015-12-22 21:00:56 »

It was a good movie, can confirm.

I think DLPB has spent more time trolling this movie that he's not seen than the time it would have costed his life in actually seeing it.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: [FF7 PC] Full source code reversing project?

« on: 2015-12-20 00:08:10 »

ergonomy_joe should be able to share code that he has personally written, character for character, out of his own brain.

It is really interesting to see the logic underneath, even for the game over/insert disc. Those address-for-var names make it just a little harder to digest

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: [FF7 PC] Full source code reversing project?

« on: 2015-12-19 17:28:19 »

Wow, that is really impressive. How much time has it taken you to get to this point?

Where can I look at more of this code?

This 'reversed' code is really no different than recreating the backgrounds, which are allowed. You look at it, analyse it and recreate it by your own means.

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General Discussion / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] Multiple mods - The Reunion (R03e)

« on: 2015-12-14 23:38:31 »

I refuse to buy the PS4 port simply because it doesn't have this mod rolled into it.