Foy

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by Foy 14y ago
Yeah, if I'm headed to my cottage or some place without Internet access I make sure whatever games I want to play are updated then I switch to offline mode. Sometimes I can go straight to offline mode but to be on the safe side, switch befo
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by Foy 14y ago
Valve does the "cloud" right. Everything is local but on the cloud as backup if needed.
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by Foy 14y ago
Personally, I love Steam for the fact there there are no $0.99 fart apps or flash games. Everything is high quality. No games on the store were purchased a thousand+ times with hacked Steam accounts just to get them to the top of the Steam
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by Foy 14y ago
It's barely even DRM... it's more like you just have to be logged in to Steam to launch online games or games that specifically require an Internet connection. I've started Steam in offline mode to play my singleplayer games whenever I don'
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by Foy 14y ago
My options are: 1) Pirate a game + free - slow download - maybe doesn't work, maybe it's a virus - whatever cracked the DRM might cause bugs - multiplayer rarely (if ever) works 2) Buy from Steam - not free + but, cheap + 2
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by Foy 14y ago
I guess you could try reaching out to one of the many indie developers on Steam. Anyhow, what I suspect though, is that Steam isn't going to become some "app store" like the current Android and Apple ones, rife with fart apps and other usel
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by Foy 14y ago
Until now I don't think it's been terribly important. Mostly it's just game save / config files. Although I suspect that all the steam cloud files are present locally and only put on the steam cloud as backup.
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by Foy 14y ago
Don't forget the only thing that would really change is that there would be non-games on the Steam store. The entire "product" already exists, they just need to bring non-game titles to Steam. (and from the sound of that announcement it see
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by Foy 14y ago
All 40 million gamers do things on occasion that are not video games... If, as a gamer, you already frequent Steam for your games and they also happen to sell non-games that you want.... why not buy from Steam?
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by Foy 14y ago
Thanks for the link, I'll look into it.
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by Foy 14y ago
When I think of practical uses for a venn diagram I think of writing labels in each distinct section... this doesn't seem very practical in that regard. What would be really cool (and practical) is if all the different segments / sections w
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by Foy 14y ago
I like to think that a reasonable man would know swallowing magnets is extremely dangerous. It's just that apparently there aren't all that many reasonable men. u_u
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by Foy 14y ago
Good to know. My medical knowledge in this area extends in so far as my being able to say "there is iron in your blood".
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by Foy 14y ago
You've said "drug laws are bad" at least two or three times, so I feel you must want a response... Drug laws are not bad. The current state of drug laws in the states, however, is appalling. I believe, for instance, that some substances sho
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by Foy 14y ago
In my mind, it is PAINFULLY obvious that swallowing two of these will require surgical removal. What I'm more interested in, actually, is what happens if you swallow just one? Are these magnets strong enough to influence / interfere with th
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by Foy 14y ago
TL;DR - Americans are too stupid to handle magnets safely. Therefore we have to ban this product.
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by Foy 14y ago
Agreed, he had one pill in his pocket and apparently he doesn't do drugs at all. Therefore he CLEARLY deserves to have his career ruined. Also, he should probably be humiliated and stigmatized for the next couple years... then for the rest
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by Foy 14y ago
From my point of view, those are a series of very simple mistakes that anyone could make. He even made half of those mistakes under bad "professional" advice. The whole "war on drugs" is absolutely crazy, by the way. For what he did, he di
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by Foy 14y ago
More importantly, why doesn't the clock just show milliseconds too? This is an Olympic combat event... one second is a long time.
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by Foy 14y ago
Oh thanks! I was wondering where exactly I had heard that.
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by Foy 14y ago
I hear nightmarish stories of micro-managers all the time. They feel that in order to do their jobs they have to tweak EVERYTHING that crosses their desk. One memorable anecdote I came across was about an animation artist who was in charge
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by Foy 14y ago
You'd probably get better results if you share it before you leave. The value and influence of an exit interview is questionable, at best. Just my 2c. :)
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by Foy 14y ago
I've read in multiple places and wholeheartedly agree that it's important to focus on visibility in your work. If your managers can barely describe what you do, or how you do it, then your job is just asking to be cut. When I show my client
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by Foy 14y ago
On Windows I've retreated to Desktop which remains fairly sane as long as I opt-out or remove shortcuts being created after an install. "My Documents" is a nightmare... I think only one folder (out of nearly a dozen) and only one file are a
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by Foy 14y ago
As a rule of thumb I just don't use vendor prefixes... if my stuff breaks I just say I'm ahead of the times. 8)
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by Foy 14y ago
FWIW All the "demo" images look like this: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/demosk.png/ Using Opera 12.
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by Foy 14y ago
He never said to ban the suspicious accounts, just don't charge companies for their clicks. The detection part aside, it's a simple fix. I just wonder why FB hasn't already. (Is it because it'd hurt their revenue when they need it the most?
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by Foy 14y ago
Isn't most mass media fairly uniform anyways? I remember hearing criticism that the Rwandan massacre was overlooked for quite a while because most airtime / view attention was dedicated to the OJ Simpson trial.
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by Foy 14y ago
Still, I habitually don't read System Reqs. I'd expect something more like one of the "Single Player", "Multi Player" bullets under the ESRB rating. "Requires 3rd party bullshit"
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by Foy 14y ago
Fable 3 doesn't mention GFWL anywhere, except that it's published by "Microsoft Games Studios" which would be a big hint... if you look at publisher info. Which is why I say it's usually a crap shoot. :( EDIT: In terms of Tom Clancy's Ghost

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