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Zero Punctuation - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
1. Suggesting that "community made maps" are awful and annoying - do you even realise that games companies pick mappers, artists and designers up FROM THE INTERNET? Many get hired BECAUSE of their community driven work on mods, and maps, and such. There are thousands of custom maps and mods, just as there are thousands of films, games, cars. Some are amazing, some are terrible. That's how it goes. You wouldn't have such diverse and interesting games, with such amazing art and mapping if it weren't for community driven development.
2. Levelling system not suited to dedicated servers - you can't be serious. There are LOADS of games with levelling systems that involve dedicated servers. This is so wrong i can barely begin to..... i'm lost for words - battlefield 2 had it over 5 years ago. What on earth are you talking about?
3. "I no longer have to worry about landing on dedicated servers where all of the game settings are messed with to make the experience absolutely absurd" - In MOST other games, you can search for dedicated servers by specific settings and gameplay, giving you hundreds of results to choose from, which you can then cherry pick and, if you find one you like, you can favourite it and revisit. You CANNOT do this with IW's new system.
NOT having dedicated servers and a server browser is LIMITING your choice, it is LESS choice, and LESS free for you to find what YOU like. Whether that be custom sounds, maps, stats padding servers, or the THOUSANDS of servers for you to choose from that are STRICTLY against that kind of thing and play vanilla style with absolutely no custom map rotations or ANYTHING.
The problem the poster above me has is ignorance and selfishness. Yes i said it. You complain about custom maps which you think suck and therefore you want NO ONE to be able to play on them. Do you realise that when we use a server browser to search for dedicated servers, we are both able to filter out gamestyles we don't like? You can block those servers from appearing in your list, if you took 5 minutes to do so!
I don't like vanilla gamestyles, so i filter them out. I don't complain about it, i don't say you're an idiot for complaining about it.
You don't like modified gamestyles, but you don't filter them out, you join them and bitch about it. You complain, and then call people idiots when they say 'how come we can't play our unique style?'
You really have no leg to stand on here, whatsoever. Our complaints are absolutely sensible. It's like saying that vegetarian meals shouldn't exist because you're not a vegetarian.
"Wahhh, i got a vegetarian meal and it was horrible, i hated it, it ruined my experience." Well don't fucking order vegetarian food then, don't say that they should REMOVE vegetarian food from the menu - it doesn't affect you in the slightest, you can still get your meal just how you like it, but it seems you don't want anyone else to get what they like
Also, seeing as you posted what end up being trivial links that mean nothing, i'd like to post a few meaningful links of my own:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Duty-Modern-Warfare-DVD/dp/B0021AETOU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1259260808&sr=8-3
http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-Modern-Warfare-2-Pc/dp/B00269QLJ2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1259260829&sr=8-3
There's a reason the star ratings are so low (and they were lower in the first few weeks after release)
Zero Punctuation - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
It could have been the next big online "scene" thing, with big money involved. cod4 was kept alive in the online scene for a long time thanks to people modding the game and all the customisation really kept the game popular for a long time. It basically kept IW afloat, kept them in business, and allowed them to make mw2.
IW, in their infinite wisdom, thought that customisation and modding was theft and piracy. They decided that they could SELL people these updates rather than let the community make content for itself. As such, they removed dedicated servers - you play on a P2P system not too far off from the xbox/console style where your ping is always very high as you connect to another person's computer. You have to use the matching system which basically matches you with the lowest ping server in the style you request that it can find. This ensures heavy lag for a lot of people, moderate lag (over 100ping) as an average, and virtually unplayable for a few. When the map changes, they have a system of "migrating" you which basically tries to keep your experience uninterrupted but mostly disconnects you. One of the IW guys actually was quoted "I've been playing mostly with 100ms and that's just fine!"
They disallowed any kind of modding or customisation, instead opting to bring out DLC for the PC. This includes not allowing any kind of demo recording and there's no developer console.
Because of the P2P system, you are limited to a very small number of people playing in a server, meaning large battles aren't possible anymore because a person's pc (which is hosting the game live) just isn't usually capable of handling so many connections.
There's a shed load more. http://www.modernwarfail2.com/about/ . They really screwed up and shat all over the PC fans which basically kept the franchise alive and allowed IW to make a lot of money with this game. They did a direct port from console to PC not only because it was easy, but also because it allowed them to control the game rather than the community. Whilst console users are used to all the above complaints and have chastised PC users for their pickyness, PC users are used to much better things and the PC multiplayer of this game is abhorrent to them.
Grey Diamonds optical illusion
Take the picture ForgedReality posted. Right click, copy image. Paste in MS Paint. Use the square selection tool to take a piece of the picture. Move it up and down.
Marvel as you see the colour get lighter and darker as you move it up and down the pic.
Weeeeeeeeird.
Frankie Boyle - Jokes that cost him his Mock of the Week job
Avatar Machine - Augmented Reality
What it Takes: Phoenix Anarchists face down NAZIS (NSM)
Awesome Compliation of Lucky Escapes
Laughing Gas is funny.... very funny
This video is a lie.
I've done Nitrous hundreds of times (even have a $85 personal dispenser) and it definitely does not work that way.
Also, it effects your voice opposite of what helium does - makes it drop about 1 or 2 octaves. None of their laughs seem to be effected by the gas whatsoever. This is something you have no control over. If you inhale the gas, your voice drops.
Last, inhaling/exhaling the way they are doing would be sure to make them seriously dizzy, probably fall over, and maybe even pass out. But again, noone seems to be that effected by it. So, again, I call lie.
Not necessarily if they're nose breathing at the same time. They're obviously not toking on x-times-exhaled air for 30 seconds, so i assume that is a given. Try getting an inflated balloon and breathing in and out (with your nose blocked) 20-30 times, you'd be surprised how hard it is. I'm 99% certain these guys are substituting fresh air with their noses to go with the balloon gas (whatever it is) which they are trying to get the effects of.
This also effects your first statement - if they are breathing in/out to get themselves 'nitro-genated' (like oxygenated but with nitrous, get it?), getting it into their system as best they can - like divers do - breath in and out deeply many times before taking a large breath to get their blood oxygenated due to it soon being highly de-oxygenated, then their lungs wouldn't be full of gas and hence their voices would, at least from a physics point of view, not be affected. The change in octave of taking in certain gases is caused because of the different properties of the gas passing over your vocal chords. Air passing over our vocal chords sound normal to us, heavier gases sound deeper, lighter gases sound higher. So unless the nitrous affects the inner workings of the body such that the vocal chords are slack/tight, the pitch may be unaffected or mostly so.
As for the laughing, i know nothing. I was skeptical of the first guy's stupid laugh. Seemed extremely fake to me, but the other 2 didn't seem that way.
Frankie Boyle Top 5 Jokes
Some of these were definitely not top5, they were just standard material for him.
Michael Moore Helps the NYPD Distinguish Wallets from Guns
Michael Moore is such a simpleton. He exemplifies everything I hate about television and mass media and socio-political discussions. And no, I'm not a conservative, I used to like Michael Moore. I bought his "The Awful Truth" series on VHS when it came out. But I now see his movies as cheap, manipulative, over-edited 4-panel comic strips, just like so much of modern mass media.
It was a tragic mistake when the police shot and killed Amadou Diallo. From what I understand his English wasn't all that great and was probably confused with what the cops were telling him to do. He pulls out his wallet and the cop nearest to him starts back-pedaling in panic, as he doesn't know what it is. And the cop trips as he is retreating and falls down violently. The next cop reacts instinctively, thinking the retreating cop sees a gun and is in danger. And he starts firing at Amadou. The other cops respond in kind, thinking that "these guys know something I don't, that this guy is a threat" and they start firing too. It all happened very quickly. Then when they find out it's a wallet and they misread the whole thing they are traumatized and shaken. Quite a different picture than that which I've heard described, which is a comic book image of grinning, evil, trigger-happy racist cops, standing over Amadou in a semi-circle, gleefully pumping bullets into his body and reloading and firing more and giving high-fives and smoking cigars and saying to each other "he got what he deserved for not obeying our orders".
But all these details I've just included wouldn't easily fit on a picket sign or be boiled down to a simple-minded protest chant.
Talk about anti-michael moore propogandistic reaction..
You claim to be an ex-fan of moore. I suggest that if anyone else had made this, you'd be laughing. It's not in the same vein as the stuff you claim to dislike about him, it's just good old fashioned humour.
I watched without bias, and i thought it was very funny. You're definitely anti-michael moore whether you admit it or not.
Lady Ga Ga before she was famous
Self Healing Bio-Concrete
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
It would be cool if we could put self replicating bacteria in our gas tanks.
They would have to have something to feed on though
Rags from all the rag heads we kill?
Huah, am i right gentlemen? Shame to waste a good invasion force by removing our need for oil.
Visualizing Empires Decline
Or what land masses have america invaded and held onto since formation? I didn't even see some nature of american bubble appear at all, as i was totally expecting. Or was that 'empire' formed before this timeline?
Better yet, let's have an australian aborigine bubble and show a british wart leaving the larger british bubble (via a kick from a warty leg), marching in shackles up to the aborigine one and swallowing it whole. Then the warts that would eventually form america can form, split, attach themselves to the native american bubble and eat it like a plague, slowly taking more and more of the bubble's surface area until, victorious, the last of the native american bubble is devoured, and all the colours mix together to form a new colour which calls itself america.
David Mitchell dislikes his teammate's behaviour
The man is a LEGEND of comedy. For anyone interested in people of sophisticated intelligence doing very silly things, check out "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", a collection of the radio broadcasts of which can be found below for anyone interested.
http://www.archive.org/details/ImSorryIHaventAClue
Often accompanied by famous guests on the show - including bill bailey, harry hill, phil jupitas, jeremy hardy, and the next presenter of this show here sifted, rob brydon, to name a few.
She has a rash on her pussy!
Oh and these Curb clips do suffer from being shown out of context. Watching an entire episode is far more satisfying. Unless it's just Leon who is an amazing character.
Open that asshole up larry.
Kitty Cat Loving Nearly Interrupts Traffic Ticket
Before all the militants clamour up - i don't give a shit. I'm pretty sure i could judge a nutcase attack dog from any other type of dog in the 5 seconds window i had between it jumping out and crossing the ground to me before it became too late to actually defend myself. Given the choice between killing one innocent dog and taking 5 seconds of a vague risk of being bitten, i take the risk and i'd want my police force populated by same. This is an offtopic disclaimer!!! Pre-emptive reply to the gunfreak militant psychopaths that we have on the sift!!! Sorry to drift offtopic!!!
Zero Punctuation: Dragon Age: Origins
Have we had a PERFECT reincarnation of BG using modern day gaming standards? Not yet, but it was close. Maybe it's a holy grail we're looking for, all us die hard BG fans.
I will however admit that the side quests and storyline in BG were so incredibly involved and engorging. Dragon age did not drag me in as much. I was absolutely infatuated with Leliana's accent and when i realised i could get my sexy redhead elf girl to get it on with the sexy orlaisian bard temptress, i was obsessed with getting that to happen.
I don't think that counts, though. I believe it was Durlag's Tower that i always remember most of all from any game, ever. The story and depth of that place was immense, you were slowly taken through the dwarf's footsteps and his eventual decline into insanity which led him to kill all his loved ones. That storyline really blew my socks off, and it didn't need lesbian sex or a hugely attractive exotic accent to do it.
Alright, Dragon Age isn't QUITE our new baldur's gate, but it's been the best contender by miles and miles. Maybe if this one does so well and we show our appreciation for the display of quality in areas that we most wanted it, they'll be able to improve on it and give us more. And maybe then we'll have our new baldur's gate.
She has a rash on her pussy!
Jacob, Get Off The Xbox 360
I'm not saying that's what's happening here, nor that it's indicative of anything. I'm saying this sort of behaviour CAN ruin a large portion of a person's life, it absolutely disgusts me.
It's so unfair and so unnecessary, and the kid is so upset and so trusting... it reminds me so much of things that were done to me and makes me want to weep. That's why i'm so judgemental of it. It's too close to the nerve for me, and i know what this sort of shit can do to someone.
I remember when i was 7 or 8, i had a sister who was around 15 or 16. One day she was in my front garden talking to her friends and a few of mine. I went outside to join in. As soon as i got into the garden i heard her talking about how strong she was in that childish way. To prove it, as soon as i got close, she offered me a hug, then when i walked into it thinking "how lucky i am to have a sunny day, good friends, and a nice sister", she grabbed me around the neck and literally choked me. I wasn't even crying because i couldn't breath at all. I was screaming as best i could for her to let go, struggling, i couldn't even draw in a single breath so all my calls for help were limited by the breath that i had in my lungs to begin with.
She threw me to the floor and burst out laughing at me, calling me a girl and a baby and all the rest. In front of my friends. For those 30 seconds, i was scared for my life and it seemed like it went on for hours. Even recanting this story has made me cry for the last 10 minutes. I cry because i remember how innocent i was, how trusting i was, how fascinated by everything i was, how easily things came to me..... and the person i became now because of evil shits like this.
But that was many many years and a catalogue of abuse, and this is just a video of a twattish prank. However i'll leave it, because i feel better for writing it, and maybe in a roundabout way it'll make an impact on someone else.
Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No