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Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="120" id="2484604"]For all the idiot evolutionists in the thread. I specify idiot because not all evolutionists are idiots, so don't take offense unless you are one. Stating that evolution is not proven is not an endorsement of creationism, intelligent design, or any other alternate theory, fairy tail, whatever you want to call it. It's a simple statement of fact. Jumping up someones ass because they state a simple fact is rather silly, I've

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Agent of Kharma, would you be so kind as to define "evolution" for us? because nearly all of your criticisms so far don't make any sense with the definition most of the world uses. And ZehDon, where did God come from? wherever He came from, the Universe may as well, and if He has always existed, then so could an endless chain of Universes, each at some point triggering the creation of the next one. God is an acceptable answer to how the Universe came to be, certainly, but it's not a n

Reply to 24 Hour Impulses: The Concept in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Here it's 50% off Mount & Blade, which I'd get were it not for the fact that Christmas is approaching fast and my bank account is nearly empty.

Reply to Deniers and skeptics. in Everything Else Stardock Forums

In theory, a denier and a skeptic are two different things. In practice however, a skeptic is nothing more than a denier who puts forward some illogical excuses to avoid admitting the truth. Just look at creationists for instance, despite the wealth of experimental data proving that there *is* such thing as evolution with flies and other short-lived species, they'll either deny it with a vague handwaving of "humans are different", "that's not evolution, that's adaptation/natural selec

Reply to Galactic Civilizations story so far and the fate of the Yor in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

*IF* you get to make GalCiv III? most depressing comment in the whole post. [quote who="CrusaderScott" comment="8"] I would like to keep it that way with but perhaps with a small change: maybe we could appoint fleet captains that would give a bonus to maneuvering, firing, etc.? That way the player would still be realistically inable to micromanage a battle, but combat wouldn't seem so heavily attrition-based either.[/quote] The Europa Universalis series does t

Reply to Oh wah, quit bitching about the pirates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

You know, I do think availability is a huge factor behind most piracy... every single game on my computer was gotten legally, most through Steam or Impulse but a few others through retail. But over half of my PS2 game collection is "pirated", simply because the titles were never available here in my country, and I'm not paying $60+ in shipping, handling and import taxes just to play a game (if I can at all, many titles are region-locked and so I'd have to import another PS2 as well, with all

Reply to which game in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Call of Duty: - World at War: great multiplayer, rubbish single-player. - Modern Warfare: multiplayer not as good as WaW, single-player not as bad as WaW. - Modern Warfare 2: haven't played it, but I've heard it's pretty much like the first one. Left 4 Dead: - Original: great co-op action, *awesome* Versus mode (one team plays as survivors, another as infected), but single-player is lacking. N

Reply to 24 Hour Impulses: The Concept in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

No, Steam allows you to see all sales through their website, under the Specials tab. It does show notification windows for some deals, but no deal is ever announced through there that doesn't also appear on the Specials so don't worry about keeping the client open. Besides, nearly all sales they've done last for at least two or three days so you don't even have to visit daily, the only exception was the special TF2 sale during Halloween which only lasted for 3 hours but I don't think they'll

Reply to FPS Genre: Is It Going Downhill? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="lbgsloan" reply="22" id="2475145"]Quoting Bomthret, reply 21Its been the big hitter genre for a long time now. I think it has kind of burned it self out abit. I honestly cant remeber the last FPS that really grabbed me, they all feel rather the same now after so many years. Definitely agree with you on that one. Frankly there hasn't been a major improvement to the FPS formula since Duke Nukem 3D introduced the jump button. A friend of

Reply to 24 Hour Impulses: The Concept in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I hate these 24-hour offers. No, not because the pop-ups annoy me or anything, the opposite in fact: it's far too easy to miss the pop-up the first time and then you have no way of knowing unless you actively remember to right-click on the tray icon and select "View Promotions...". Perhaps they could add an opt-in feature where it annoys you even *more* about the promos? a big click-through message when you start Impulse or such, maybe, keeping the current "small tray bubble" as the default o

Reply to Top 25 Games of the Decade [Results are In!] in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I nominate Perfect Dark (2000), the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy (2003-2005), Gran Turismo 4 (2005), TOCA: Race Driver 3 (2006), STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007), Far Cry 2 (2008), FEAR 2 (2009) and Torchlight (2009). Also, Final Fantasy 3 doesn't belong in there as it's simply a port of a far older game.

Reply to Nikon software woes... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

You could try running Windows XP inside VirtualBox and running the software in there, performance may be lacking but it's worth a try, and I doubt it's gonna be any worse than using an older computer.

Reply to Bing is better in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Everything in Bing is excellent except for their searching algorithms. Which, in a search engine, is kind of important I'd say. I really like Yahoo too, but for some reason everytime I need to find something I instinctively type "www.google.com" instead of "www.yahoo.com". I'm a victim of advertising :(

Reply to Impulse Thanksgiving Sale! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Browsing through Meridian4's catalogue, I noticed that both Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor are discounted yet the Shadowground pack isn't. Bug, or intentional?

Reply to New Security Software Ratings in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

From what I've heard, as far as firewalls go nothing beats an OpenBSD box in between the interwebz and the rest of your LAN, though I've yet to try it (lack of space, time and money to do so). Still, I do use the firewall on my router, a few tweaks here and there and I've yet to see a problem with it. Antivirus, I'm partial to Avast myself. Its relatively unintrusive, doesn't soak up resources like a sponge and on my grandma's computer at least it has stopped every virus that's tried

Reply to Impulse Thanksgiving Sale! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Oh. My. God. Thankfully I own most of the games on sale already, otherwise my bank account would suffer like never before. No title on this sale should be missed people!

Reply to Only 23% Even Attempted To Play Multiplayer Demigod in Demigod Stardock Forums

Well, I'm part of the remaining 77%. I bought Demigod because somebody was offering a 50% off coupon for it on another forum, and it looked interesting. Bought it, played a few skirmishes against the PC and discovered two things: first, that it was a far better game than Sins or SupComm for a 'quick gaming fix', since even hard matches were over in less than an hour while even easy matches in Sins took over two hours. And second, that I'm *really* not cut out to be an online strategy player,

Reply to Impulse Weekly Roundup - November 20th in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

And so, finally my silent prayers were answered and we got a deal on Supreme Commander: Gold! perhaps it was cheaper elsewhere, once upon a time, perhaps it was cheaper here the last time it went on sale but I don't care. All I cared is that it's an amazing game for an excellent price, I even said to myself that if it wasn't for sale this weekend I'd pay full price for it and voila! a deal on it. I so love my luck. And for anyone who hasn't played it yet, Prince of Persia is an amazin

Reply to Little PC game gems in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Huh? I distinctly recall playing UaW skirmishes before even touching the main campaign... anyways, my main problem with the game wasn't that, or the fact that it used the attrocious GFWL, or even the corniness of the whole setting and specially the campaign's plot but rather, quite simply, that the camera sucked. Your choices are essentially "close", "up-close" and "uncomfortably close" and the minimap hasn't learned anything from SupComm or Sins so it doesn't show you any info about units ot

Reply to Dragon Age DLC at launch is bs..... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

You know, it's quite funny that some people here are claiming DLC is taking time up that they could be spending making a full expansion... when I was a kid, I often got pissed off at expansions, because in my mind, they could've used that time to make a full sequel instead of throwing a poorly-written mini-campaign, a couple new MP maps then sell it again for full price. And for bonus brownie points, make its MP incompatible with the original version, fragmenting the community forever and for

Reply to Dragon Age Reviews Are Coming In in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote]'test the waters' of Impulse !!!! The only real alternative of Impulse is Steam... the only real way to "test the waters" is give to both the same right of distribution and see who is the best...[/quote] There's also GamersGate, Direct2Drive and their own online store as well, but I think it's more of a "vs effort" comparison, see if they get enough sales to make it worth their time dealing with Stardock at all, but that's just my personal speculation. [quote]I wont lie

Reply to Dragon Age Reviews Are Coming In in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I seem to recall a post by a Stardock employee saying that some companies limit the availability of the game at first to 'test the waters' of Impulse, so to speak. Though given that both the regular and the Deluxe edition of Dragon Age have been consistently within the top 5 in sales since its release, *despite* having to compete with titles with worldwide availability, I don't know what else they could possibly be waiting for. But then again this is EA we're talking about, if t

Reply to Dragon Age DLC at launch is bs..... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TatertotEatalot" reply="12" id="2445523"]I honestly believe that Bioware got away with DLC because of it's reputation of games such as baulders gate and such. If you had a company who has produced pure shit, you think people are going to buy the game + DLC? I think not.[/quote] If you had a company that had produced pure shit, would you buy the game *alone*? DLC is an orthogonal concept to quality, and I don't see how selling crap is somehow made better by not offering

Reply to Dragon Age DLC at launch is bs..... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Yeah, imagine as if Sins of a Solar Empire required you to pay $10 for starbases, or Warcraft III charged you $30 for a fourth hero per race... gamers would *never* stand for it. Also, there's no "shared experience" in Dragon Age, it's single-player only. Were it otherwise, I would've complained loudly about the "+3 attrib points" and the "+1 skill point" books included as preorder bonus, but as it is the only one you 'cheat' by using them is yourself. Seriously, it's as if yo

Reply to nudity vs violence in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]Really a wrong example since "having sex" is not something bad in itself... maybe you can rewrote it like : how many times have you heard about somebody watching a violent action movie, then going into a killing rampage? and conversely, how many times have you heard about somebody watching a porn movie, then raping somebody else?[/quote] Except that rape not only includes violence as well, making the comparison sightly less clear, but that rape is seldom featured in