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Spawncampers are always frustrating and take a bit of coordination. Ultimately, for me, anytime the enemy team is overextending and ignoring the objectives, I tend to do this: Obviously, the video kind of idealizes it, and the big challenge is getting away from the other team. My favorite tools for this are the BONK energy drink, and Dead Ringer. BONK might even help you kill a demoman, because it nearly guarantees you to get in close - try holding down the fire button as it runs out, so that you'll fire your first shot the instant invulnerability wears off. But, what makes it SO creamy-sweet if you can pull it off is that for the enemy team, being in the wrong place (at the opposing spawn) is an even WORSE situation than being dead; they're going to waste a lot of time just getting to you, and then they have to kill you. Also, a pretty unusual "supar-pro" tip: On maps that have two spawn rooms, like 2fort and badwater (the red team sometimes spawns on the first floor) you can try to teleport yourself to another spawn room by changing classes; so if I'm a heavy, and want to spawn in the other spawn room, I just press 'comma, 2, comma, 5' until I'm where I want to be. I had a pretty sweet moment yesterday, when I was defending a point as Demoman, saw a spy shimmer while walking over my stickies. I set them off, and I guess he had the dead ringer because he survived while getting blown straight upwards into the air. I took out my grenade launcher, timed it just right, and shot at him as he came down, hitting him in midair.

Wait, huh? How? IE on a phone, as far as I know, is only available on Windows Phone. But Google hasn't made Chrome for Windows Phone. My best guess is that you have an Android, and found some sort of half-baked IE emulator...?

Darn, someone beat me to Spec Ops. Phoenix Wright is in some ways a bit formulaic (on the broad view, someone could probably predict many of its twists) but it's still masterful in execution, and each game they always manage a big revelation that surprises everyone playing. Ghost Trick (my avatar) goes in the same category, as it's the same creator. The villain in that game was especially well-thought out. EDIT: Oh man! Almost forgot: Papo & Yo. It's very effective at combining gameplay with its storyline message. In fact, it takes only a little bit of genre-savviness to figure out the "twist" of the game from pretty much just the opening quote. Still, that doesn't diminish the experience at all - in some ways it helps it to be aware of the metaphor as it's occurring. (Whereas by contrast, Spec Ops: The Line is an experience far better left unspoilt)

If the mark of maturity for a game is having extreme amounts of blood and nightmare fuel, then maybe get a 3DS and play Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies. Honestly, I don't own a Wii U but I mildly support it; and I own a 3DS. I think the gamepad is a bit of a gimmick, but Nintendo still makes some great games.

Just beat The Swapper. While most adventure-puzzle games with a story go for a pretty humorous setting (ie, Portal, Quantum Conundrum) Swapper was super-eerie, and even dramatic at the end. I think in my ending I killed an innocent person - not out of deliberate choice, but out of panic in an attempt to survive. What's more, after going on YouTube, I think I like the other ending more.

I use Internet Explorer, but I end up switching to Firefox for some sites. The sad thing about IE is that it currently IS a good browser, but it would be a much BETTER browser if the older versions of it had never existed. Now, so much of the web structures itself around detecting IE, and using old workaround code, such that things no longer work. But that's hardly anyone's fault in particular, except for the ghost of evil past Microsoft. Hopefully years from now that'll all be in the past.

Definitely mystery. I absolutely love the Phoenix Wright games, as well as Sherlock Holmes. I especially like the ones where every element seems to fit in a logical way that's needed to catch the killer - some of them just have a series of clues followed up on to finally locate the culprit, and some of them involve jumping across the whole city to just pursue lead by lead. My preference is more of the "locked room murder" type, or at least the ones with shorter lists of suspects.

Anyone ever play Mark of the Ninja? The ninja had a special tattoo ink that, once applied, would grant its owner extreme powers. However, because this power is very corrupting, and the owner would eventually turn evil, they are forsworn to kill themselves before that happens - and until then, to only use their powers for the betterment of their clan. What might be an interesting policy for myself would be to spend time searching for someone that I know to be of especially good character, and willing to sacrifice immensely for a good cause. Once I do, I would then search the news for somebody especially in need of death for the betterment of some group (say, a war-hungry African dictator that remains untouchable at all times, and could never be attacked by NATO without endless bloodshed). I'd then write two names; that dictator's name, and my own; and pass the responsibility of the next choice off to the person I chose earlier.

I thought about it ever since I saw that NVidia Shadowplay supported Twitch TV broadcasting. But I realized looking back on a long video I uploaded of Amnesia - it takes special personality to make it worthwhile to watch. You either have to be very good at the game, and make it worth watching on your own merits (Nanosuit Ninja, for instance) or you have to be especially bad, and funny in your failures. (OR, you can plan out your failures in a semi-scripted, amusing way)

Not to say that it *helps*, but I often listen to the Spec Ops: The Line soundtrack. It can often be a somewhat depressing game.

It's the apocalypse! All that will survive of the human race is whatever we've put onto a disc drive somewhere. So, we need to take stock and make every kilobyte count! We buy lots of electronic devices these days, many of which have their own storage. Sometimes, we buy small portable storage devices simply because we found them for $5 and thought someday we might use them. Or, perhaps I do this much more than others. Here, try to think of all electronic devices you own that have some number of gigabytes of onboard storage, and add them up. Some computers list it incorrectly, but remember that 1 GB is 1000 MB (not 1024 - that's just memory), and similarly 1 TB is 1000 GB. *Technically* a lot of hard drives have a little less storage than advertised, but you only have to count it that way if you really want to. SSD: 128 GB Main HD: 2 TB External 1: 1 TB New external drive: 4 TB 3DS storage card: 32 GB SD card that came with 3DS: 4GB Flash drive: 16GB Flash drive: 8GB Flash drive: 16GB Laptop onboard: 500GB Smartphone: 16GB Tablet: 32GB PS3: 120GB "Steam machine" (living room computer): 500GB Total: 8,372 GB (8.3 TB) Edit: Apologies - I had thought I was in the Media Discussion forum when I posted this. If a moderator comes across this and agrees that it belongs there, could you please move it?

I played it for a long time. I think I now understand the plight of WoW players. Just recently, I thought about it and asked myself "...I know I want to upgrade my skills and run more dungeons, but think to the goal of it all...WHY?" Just this moment, I have no compulsion to play it, but once in a long while something seems to bring me back.

Honestly, while I'd avoid buying a prebuilt computer myself (because I can build and fix computers) there is one major benefit to buying it wholesale, prebuilt, from someone else: It's now their problem. I know you want the quickest fix you can, but at least you can make yourself less of an "easy sell" to these people by pointing out issues and demanding they be fixed.

Yeah, that's an important point; what platforms will you be playing on? And if you intend to be playing co-op and stuff, what are some games you're thinking of playing? You said to PM, but hopefully it makes sense to answer that much in the thread...?

I personally blame "height: 100%". This is a little different from <html>'s default height property, and in my case it caused an annoying repeating background rather than a smooth one. My solution, if you're not already set, is "min-height: 100%". background-size might have helped, but I think that's a very new property that not all browsers support. Er...wrong. Internet Explorer has supported gradients since 10.0. It doesn't even need a "-ms-" prefix. The manufacturer-specific prefixes ie -joe's-browser-shop-linear-gradient() are useful for backwards compatibility, but the most recent versions of all browsers now support the standard "linear-gradient" format. It's your choice whether you're aiming to support the older browsers as well. Also: In case Google is giving you w3schools results (BOOO!) I highly recommend using the Mozilla Developer Network site. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ Good luck!

Basically just trying to reach index.html? From what I'm getting so far, this is where you'd need to mess around with configuration: https://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/configuration/basic#sph_location-root-and-index Have you messed with the conf file at all?

I got it a little while back, and I've been playing it on my "Steam Machine" setup. Dante is such an idiot when it comes to letting himself get caught by the demonic city security. I have a number of games I'm playing, so I keep forgetting to play through it.

I haven't followed, but it does seem like the proclamation draws many parallels to "PC gaming is dying". The stock price has definitely fluctuated lately, but make sure you're reading the graph right. I'm not quite sure what to say about the Wii U in particular - it kind of makes sense to me that it hasn't done well, because it's pretty much done *everything* wrong. The controller gimmick is a bit useless, which is actually not much of a surprise in the end; No one buys a 3DS because of the 3D, they buy it for the games - and there are LOTS of them. The Wii U, on the other hand, still hasn't quite premiered all its staple classics or that many innovative franchises. One thing that hasn't helped much is holding back on internet inclusiveness. For those who don't know, the reason that Nintendo's policies towards online have been so backwards compared to other game companies is because of their focus on kids. Many of Nintendo's best games are E-rated, and the important thing about catering to parents is that online interactions blow away the ESRB rating - AND it's illegal in many countries to require a child to give out personal information for an online sign-up. Thus, friend codes as opposed to gamertags, etc. BUT, this is now a nation where parents throw an iPhone at their kids to keep them quiet, and then step into the next county to relax. Possibly makes Nintendo's notions a bit too outdated or optimistic....

GRRRRRR!!!! I HATE girl gamers!!! Gamers are fine. Girls are fine. But girl gamers? OOOH, it makes me so MAD!!!

I remember really enjoying the original. I'm thinking this is one I should see in theatres!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqilNNhMJPQ Whenever I hear this, I always imagine (and in fact, always wanted to animate) Pinkie Pie falling down an infinite flight of stairs in a bouncy, painful way.

The Sisters, from Hitman: Absolution. Those were the highly-inappropriate stripper nuns in some of the marketing. After they blow up 47's motel room, they basically wander the area going "Where is he? Find him already, you incompetent buffoons!!" This is kind of standard fare for Hitman, except that the game had described them as being the agency's most elite, highly trained killers. I guess I'd expect them to at least check inside the overturned icebox before declaring that 47 has "vanished" But just to add some positiveness, I recall Mr. Freeze from Arkham City as being a particularly memorable boss. I liked that it forced players to use a variety in their attacks. "That strategy will never work again, Bat-Man."

I think The Walking Dead goes without saying, and probably someone has mentioned it before me. My personal note goes to Spec Ops: The Line, when you reach the top of the Burj Khalifa, and discover the madman responsible for Dubai's doom.

Does anyone remember some of the skyboxes in STALKER? I guess that's one of few that I remember as a highlight. To me, it felt like a perfect mix of brightness and storminess that made the zone feel natural and livable, but just a bit threatening.

Disney's animated shorts channel? http://www.youtube.com/user/DisneyShorts Not only do they have a wide range of great new Mickey Mouse cartoons, but a pretty good set of amature movies by film students and other vaguely Disney-related people.