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Sunday, 09-Feb-14 10:29:10 UTC from web-
@snowcone I don't see any politics around
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@snowcone Nah, I'm just waiting for The Witcher 2 to install after completing the extra content of the first game. I'd rather not get into big talk right now.
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@snowcone I wouldn't have been no-lifeing it for the past week if it wasn't.
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@snowcone The first one is like $10 on GOG (Enhanced edition, which includes all the premium stuff plus OST, manual, two extra little story campaigns, software to make your own campaigns, and a bunch of other little extras)
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@snowcone God bless GOG and CD Projekt.
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@snowcone Also I grabbed the second one some months ago on sale for like $3
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@snowcone 2 is a sequel to 1. Direct sequel. You can even import a saved game.
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@snowcone You'd miss a whole lot. They're meant to be played one after the other. 1, 2, and the upcoming third game are part of a single story. Importing a save lets you get the items and the like you had on your character, it doesn't mean you start at the exact same spot.
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@nerthos you know that apple is now making an iwatch it is a watch but an iphone at the same time
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@djhedgehog Not surprising. Apple is known for marketing old ideas as new and revolutionary. Watch-phones were the "future" back in the '80s, and they were even built by companies like Samsung in recent years.
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@nerthos i did not know samsung did it too
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@djhedgehog I have to thank my brother for introducing me to that particular product. http://ur1.ca/gliux
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@nerthos i did not even know thanks for telling me
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@nerthos its amazing what you can learn every day
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@nerthos I don't think Apple has at any point actually admitted they're making a watch phone. What they might make is a watch-style iPod Nano w/ bluetooth to link to an iPhone to read texts and emails on your wrist, but it's been pretty conclusively proven at this stage that you can't actually make an independent watchphone to the standards of engineering Apple obsesses over.
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@ceruleanspark Samsung's model was basically what you described by what I've seen. They're basically a reinvention of beepers.
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@nerthos The Galaxy Gear and the Qualcomm Toq are both absolutely godawful both as watches and as smart devices though. Bulky, poor materials, bad battery life, slow UIs, unresponsive touchscreens. Say what you will about Apples pricing and marketing, they just flat out wouldn't release a product that bad.
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@ceruleanspark I said nothing about quality. I've never used one nor I intend to. I was just going for concept of the product. My issue with Apple products is not so much with pricing and marketing, since they're aimed at ultra-consumists, as it is with development and assembly that makes them restrictive to use and hard to repair.
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@nerthos people always say Apple stuff is restrictive, but I am fairly technical and way outside the bounds of the consumer market, and I have yet to find myself in a situation where I have wanted to do something on my iPad and been unable.
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@ceruleanspark play ps2 or gfba roms
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@ceruleanspark i mean gba roms
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@djhedgehog I have done both those things on my nexus 7 and have no desire to do it again. 90% of all games are horrible to play with a touchscreen.
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@ceruleanspark By restrictive I don't mean lacking in features, I mean products are specifically developed to be really hard to modify, be it in hardware or software.
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@nerthos Most people don't see the difference because software development and electronics work are impossible for them regardless of who makes it.
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@ceruleanspark Yeah but I'm a technician and was raised to control and modify my belongings in depth, same as my father, and to a certain degree my grandfather. Being bound to dev specs is not something I willingly deal with.
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@nerthos I think part of what makes Apple products so good for me is that the dev specs are what I'd choose.
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@ceruleanspark Can you set up a wifi hotspot for free with an ipad?
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@lulu Yes. Also my iPhone. That's more up to carriers than Apple though
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@oracle It's built into the OS anyway.
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@ceruleanspark Without rooting I used to have to use the trial version of a paid app on my android phone thanks to my carrier. Do you have to jailbreak your iPhone to get it to do that?
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