TV's Frink said:
xhonzi said:
RedFive said:
[I] recently graduated BGSU with an education degree, focusing on high school English.
My favorite things are ...Battlestar Galactica...
Is that why you went to and graduated from Battlestar Galactica State University?
Fixed.
Well, I was actually transposing BSG to BGS, but 'State' works as well. ;)
TV's Frink said:
Is it too soon to add splitscreening?
Wait, did you already buy me dinner?
[/Ba-dum-tish!]
Gaffer Tape said:
Mielr, I'm so sorry you have to put up with crap like that. Thankfully my YouTube channel has mostly well-mannered people post on it, but every time I get an e-mail saying that someone has posted on one of my Dragon Ball-related videos, I hesitate to see what it says, for fear it's going to be a, "U liek the japonese version? wut a gay little faggut u are. english version rocks. grow up y ou little bitch!" On their own, they're no skin off my back, but, cumulatively, they do start to wear me down. So I can certainly understand why you'd want to disable comments eventually. I just don't know where that person gets off. It's your video! You have every right to choose how and if people are allowed to react to it. Damn sense of entitlement...
MOAR SQUEAKY CHAIR!
^Ah, the truth at last!
Well... I still give you credit. You might not have created it, but you gave it life. And continue to do so.
The question is not how bieberiffic you are, bkev...
It's how bkeveratorsome the biebs is.
(and how well respected)
CP3S said:
RedFive said:
<stufF>
Whoa! So very much in common! Creepy.
Great. And now CP3S has a new boyfriend.
It's just great.
RedFive said:
[I] recently graduated BGSU with an education degree, focusing on high school English.
My favorite things are ...Battlestar Galactica...
Is that why you went to and graduated from Battlestar Galactica University?
*snigger*
doubleofive said:
I like it, mostly because when my friends cast an Oceans parody, I get to be the computer nerd who never does anything. ;-)Johnny Ringo said:
I've always wanted to do a heist movie. How about - 005's Eleven?
...Adywans's familiarity with Star Wars makes him very reluctant to get involved, but when he begins to think of it as a good way to get back at his rival, George Lucas (Tv's Frink), who owns the three Companies, Adywan agrees to finance the operation....
Wait, isn't that the plot of Ocean's 1138?
greenpenguino said:
Ziggy, you must hand over your bowie fanship now. you have disgraced us bowie fans with your dis-knowledge. You must now renouce bowie and be forced to be a fan of......
JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!! MAW HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Justin Bieber playing bkev?
or just regular Bieber?
Because, as I said earlier, I am a fan of the former.
CP3S said:
I actually tried changing my Xbox settings from 5.1 to two channel, and it fixed the problem. Obviously it is a glitch in the game though, I tested all my speakers and they're are working, and the problem didn't exist until after the first time I quit playing and loaded a saved game. So now I have to remember to switch my Xbox back to surround after each ACII session.
Well, at least that's something. Is it enough to keep you from finishing the game?
I read someone's complaint that the vocals dropped out for a couple of hours- they switched to subtitles, and then the voices (in my head) came back (and told me to murder people).
Maybe try 5.1 again after a segment or two?
CP3S said:
Haha, so I sat down to play Assassin's Creed II and there is no voice audio
Finding absolutely nothing helpful online. Well, I guess that is the end of Assassin's Creed II for me.
EDIT: Well, spent even more time searching and I am officially giving up.
Soooo, hopefully I can at least get a few bucks for this POS game by selling it on amazon.
Wow, that really sucks.
What kind of audio set-up are you using? Digital from Xbox to TV/Receiver or analogue? Have you tried using whichever one you're not using? Have you tried changing your audio out settings on the xbox itself?
Have you tried not pirating the game?
CP3S said:
So, Xhonzi, getting way ahead of myself here, but have you tried out any of the DLC? 340 msp each makes them sound a bit tempting, if they really add anything worthwhile.
You can go back a number of pages and find my historical response to that question... but here's the hindsight version:
I decided to wait for the two DLCs to go on sale. About a week after I decided that, they went on sale. I didn't buy them. I watched a youtube of someone playing one of them. It looked mildly interesting, but then I had just seen it- did I need to play it? The reviews were rather poor.
And they did this odd thing where there were versions of each DLC. The story, and the story + another "Templar Treasure" or something.
The reviews for the single piece of ACB DLC are much higher. I just finished ACB (well... almost- I have to go back and do a few things yet) and I'm leaning heavily towards the DLC.
Alexrd said:
walkingdork said:
Sure the mainstream loves the PT and the new Indiana Jones movie, but that's because the mainstream thinks whatever they told to think.
Really? Any source for that?
Most of your posts about the PT/Clone Wars?
^Why is respected forum member bkev not in the movie synopsis?
Maybe that's why he thought it was the result of "too much time".
Which reminds me: If bkev ever gets unanimated, I think Justin Bieber would be up for the task.
^ easy there, spoiler!
Ziggy Stardust said:
Oh, you have no idea...
Eh....?
doubleofive said:
I was going to say I wish we could assassinate people multiplayer-style, then I realized that's what Brotherhood is.
Duh. They had it used at Gamestop for $55. No thanks, you're not getting that much for a used game out of me. Think of it, selling someone a game for $60, buying it back for $20, then selling it AGAIN for $55, the developers seeing none of the second and third sellings... I feel bad.
Or the used car market, or the used housing market, or anything sold on ebay, etc...
Renting or borrowing games/movies/books apparently steals money from the producrers/artists as well.
Listening to the radio is as good as putting your hand in the pocket of the musician and stealing his hard earned money.
Watching OTA TV is stealing money from hard working movie studios and cable companies.
Going to the park and enjoying fresh aire and the sunset is "stealing" from all electronic boogaloo entertainers.
---
But back to games. (Sorry, I've had this conversation a lot... but I'll try to keep it short and friendly)
$55 is a little misleading. They may pay $20-$30 for the used game they put back on the shelf at $55. And they may sell a few copies at $55, but they will definitely still have some of those copies when the sticker price drops to $40 and below. But still, $20-$30 went back to the gamer that bought the game in the first place. And if he's trading in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood this soon after release, he probably bought it new and will probably buy the next AC game new. He might buy a lot of games- even a lot of Ubisoft games- new. Something he probably couldn't afford to do (at least, at the magnitude he does) if he wasn't getting some of his $60 back when selling them to Gamestop.
Out of the potential $35 that Gamestop is making, some of that goes to pay the hourly wages of the Gamestop employees that spend some of that money on... you guessed it- games. Most of the rest of the money goes to pay for the rent, the electricity, the employee benefits, advertising, etc.. Gamestop makes so little markup on the sale of new games (because sooo much of it goes back to the publisher (the developers don't usually get a cut of sales $$$, but they do get to make their next game and maybe get a payraise when they do)) that they probably couldn't stay open selling only new games. So those used game sales are keeping Gamestop open so that they can continue to sell both new and used games. And since such a large percentage of new games in the US are sold at Gamestop... those used sales really are propelling the sale of new games. Not quite "sucking the life out of them" as some would say.
Sure, if all sales of used games were sales of new games at $60, the publishers would be making a lot more money. But that's not realistic. Most sales that don't happen at $60 wouldn't happen at $60. And of the $60 new sales occuring today, a lot of them wouldn't without used games supplementing the cost (both to keeping Gamestop open and keeping the new-game-buying-gamer's wallet full).
And back to the $55 price one more time- I don't usually need a game right when it comes out, so I don't usually pay $60 new or $55 used. But let's say I did. I get %10 on used games at gamestop, so that $55 sticker means I'm really paying $50. And though I've probably bought 100 things at gamestop over the years, I can count on one hand the number of times that I've bought something that wasn't "buy 2 get 1 free". So, if I bought 3 $55 games (that are really $50 games), I'd only pay $100, which makes them $33/game- about half the new $60 price. So, at least when they sell to me, that game that they paid $20-$30 for doesn't have so much markup on it anymore.
So, you don't have to feel bad for putting money in the games market- even if it's not a "new" sale. Surely, buying games directly from the publisher is the way of ensuring that more of your purchase price goes directly to the publisher. But as long as you're putting money into the games economy, good developers are making money from you, even if it's indirectly.
/end rant
The lunches will be in the breakroom at Mod-A. The one with 3 vending machines.
Don't be late!
CP3S said:
thejediknighthusezni said:
The greatest misconception about '1984' is that GO was warning us about what could happen. That is true, but only part of the truth. <snip>
Oh man, I just fell in love with you... a little.
Alright...
Greenpenguino- care to join Gaffer and me on our date?
TV's Frink said:
Note to self...don't visit Leonardo.
;-)
Yeah, I mean... Frink and I splitscreened a couple times over several hours... but I wouldn't have kissed him. On the lips.
CP3S said:
Yeah, I finally got my assassinatin' gear and assassinated my first assassinee.
I.... don't think that that's a word.
I was giving the game a lot of crap last night for Xhonzi's benefit (he is the one that recommended it to me), but I was actually enjoying it quite a bit.
You had me worried. I always somewhat over-recommend things only to find that people don't have the exact same tastes I have (shocker!).
doubleofive said:
There were way too many things to collect in AC1, drove me batty. 100 Templars? 100 Flags in EACH city and the countryside? There were other things too, weren't there?
AC2 has 100 feathers and that's it. I think maybe I can do that, but I'm not going out of my way to do so.
And I had no idea about the surprise, I LOLed.
There are only 10 feathers in ACB. I'm kind of disappointed. But there are 101 flags. And they all show up on treasure maps, if you buy them.
You're clicking the "strikethrough" button that looks like "ABC"?
ImperialFighter said:
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (released 1972/directed by J. Lee Thompson)
Theatrical Trailer - http://www.youtube.com?v=UxnZHKFHmH4
Coming Soon... Due for release 2011...
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (coming 2011/directed by Rupert Wyatt)
Teaser Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N1gxvWnc_w
I wish they would have kept the title 'planet free' (previous title was just Rise of the Apes).
But the trailer looks relatively good. As a PotA fan, I'll be keeping an eye on it. And heaven knows I have the TV show, the cartoon, and the Burton stuff on DVD, I'll probably blind buy it if I dont' see it in the cinema.
There are a few moments in AC2 that tie back to AC1, which made me glad that I played it first. Actually, AC1 still hooked me- but that might have had more to do with it preying on my low-level OCD (must... collect... everything...) than anything else. I was just thinking the other day that I think it would be nigh impossible to play/enjoy AC1 after seeing all of the improvements in AC2... And I, knowing its shortcommings, didn't regularly recommend AC1 anyways.
005: You spoiled the surprise! But it's one of my favourite moments.
EDIT: Well you didn't ruin C3PX's surprise. But, still...
