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@ajr Right now I'm trying to rely on AI teammates during planning but they keep dying unless I take direct control of them. Often times when I tell them to open a door and throw a flashbang inside, they'd just immediately get shot by an enemy who was hiding away. What I'd do normally in that situation would be to open the door just a crack and toss a grenade that way but it seems like the AI don't know how to do it unless I haven't figured something out.
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@gameragodzilla You can shoot through thin walls but that will alert them. Sounds like you need to learn how to surveillance the enemies first. Biggest points: they'll move and make noise you can hear occassionally if you pay attention, windows can provide both intelligence and entry points, and when you do engage MOVE. More often than not if you keep your soldiers moving even if it goes completely sideways you can salvage it. It's all about thinking quick.
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@gameragodzilla As far as planning goes, design your missions around the AI. Delegate yourself anything mission critical. Much easier that way. Not always possible, but usually is and it saves a lot of headache.
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@gameragodzilla Try not to be surprised this is from the original XCOM (well, TFTD), but theres some good if basic squad tactics stuff in here: http://www.xcomufo.com/x2notebk.pdf
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Can anyone give me a quick rundown of why I should ( or should not ) CFW my 3DS XL ?
Friday, 03-Feb-17 20:34:12 UTC from web -
I wonder if that is real ( probably not ) http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/856563
Friday, 03-Feb-17 09:02:15 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker that'd require people to not be wimps. Won't happen, as cool as the concept is.
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@nerthos ... darn the whimps
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM Though I did enjoy that I do not know what is scarier, that a movie like this would never make it past the rating board in 2017 or the robotic voice that keeps telling me the approximation of injuries
Friday, 03-Feb-17 09:22:43 UTC from web -
"It is 2017, what do you mean you do not have FaceBook ?!?" ... Really, people like that exist apparently. I used to have FaceBook, it did not add anything to my life really, and when FaceBook decided that my e-mail was invalid my account was lost in eternal limbo. You can not get support anywhere, probably because you are the product, not the client. Advertising companies are the client. I reckon they get proper support.
Friday, 03-Feb-17 08:23:12 UTC from web- toomuchinformation likes this.
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I totally was about to do something, but I forgot what it was
Thursday, 02-Feb-17 23:36:13 UTC from web -
I feel bad. I made someone a bit barfy and dizzy with my VR experiment, such that he had to stop the experiment. It's fine that he did that (I said that it was his right to do that at any time). I just feel bad because I made him feel bad.
Thursday, 02-Feb-17 21:43:04 UTC from web-
@adiwan Aww, how considerate to feel bad, well kinda. I am not 100% sure what you made your guinea-pig do. Maybe you have an all wrong FOV, those things get me queasy on a normal monitor, let alone VR.
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i feel more alive each time i icecle shot a Flyign Pharah dead
Tuesday, 31-Jan-17 22:41:28 UTC from web-
@nerthos anyway, if i need it i know a good number of people who are good at those things if i feel like i'm gonna buy many games for it (what didnt happen with the wiiu)
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@mushi Your money. I was just advising against impulse buying one before knowing whether it'll have many games you'll want to play, or whether it'll be possible to use non-scam sd cards
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So I finally looked up what that mess what about between Leslie Jones ( The black ghostbuster, 2016 ) and Milo Yiannopoulos was about. Holy crap what a lot of noise about bleeding hearts and 'virtuous' trolling. And though I think it boils down to a battle of "everyone should be nice to everyone" vs "I will use freedom of speech in a defiant way to combat your standpoint". Oddly enough this time around I am very much on Milo's side this time around.
Wednesday, 01-Feb-17 13:11:19 UTC from web -
Someone: [posts victims of Quebec shooting]
An idiot: UM WHY aren't you posting pictures of all the people who Muslims have killed???!-
@tiffany *quickly googles*
> Fox News deletes false Québec shooting tweet after Canadian PM's office steps in
Oh great, another one of those
I guess I have to wait a week before I get to know what happened.
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i am confused http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/856496
Tuesday, 31-Jan-17 21:01:31 UTC from web-
@mushi By what ? Miëtra ?
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@critialcloudkicker SymMeitra
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@mushi Better :)
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Who remembers PowerPC?
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@archaeme Ohyeah, good old AMD. I almost always forget about those lovable brand the moment we're beginning to talk about high-end stuff. Mostly because they no longer seem to make high end consumer-grade hardware, and have settled nice in the middle field. I do really hope 2017 is the year that stuff like RYZEN will give Intel a run for their money though. Aswell as whatever they are doing with GPU's
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@critialcloudkicker Ryzen looks promising from what I've seen, but we'll have to wait and see.
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@archaeme Too bad waiting is not one of my strong suits. Also I am seeing more and more CPU abuse on Reddit boards ( especially PCMR ) just because Ryzen is not out yet.
But the way some people are talking about it ( mainly online, and I know of at least one guy who can not seem to shut up about it ) you'd think Jesus was coming.
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Wear thong underwear backwards
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@maiyannah To be fair most old stuff is higher quality than modern stuff. A few years back they replaced 1920s formations of the first metro in the country for modern ones and it was a complete downgrade, from wooden interiors to bare metal and plastic seats.
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@somercet 1644ºK for iron, while the most combustible types of wood require 14 minutes at 453ºK and it goes up from there. Both temperatures are way above what's possible to happen under normal conditions. Plus this is moot as considering it has plastic seats and acrylic parts, the newer ones would ignite way faster. Also, the older ones were made of steel as well, likely much thicker considering manufacturing standards of the time, and in any case the parts that used to be made from wood are replaced with plastic in the modern ones. The wooden parts were the seating and wall/roof interior coverings, while the floors, railings, and walls were steel.
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How goes in this place
Tuesday, 31-Jan-17 19:57:03 UTC from web -
So what (smart) phone are you guys using ? I can swear by my S7, but one of my friends who has the S7-edge is swearing off on Samsung now
Tuesday, 31-Jan-17 18:34:50 UTC from web-
@awl Howmuch of a pain is it to play nice with your PC then ?
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@critialcloudkicker to access media I have Dropbox attached to both so that isn't a big deal; I don't use itunes on the pc at all. Outside of that I don't have reasons to link the two.
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@awl Cool, and it works for you. I'd probably go insane trying to make it though.
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I wonder if I can remember every teacher I had in school who wasn't a substitute... I already know I can't by name. #oldmanscribus
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@scribus If you remember all your teachers by name then there's something wrong with you.
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@nerthos I only remember the important ones names, and maybe even not all of them.
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@nerthos I only remember some vague faces of teachers I had. And then there are my favourite teachers of which I had about 3. I reckon everyone remembers at least some, no ?
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Apparently one of my co-workers is keeping track of how many times another one of my coworkers is mentioning she is vegan. I know for I just found the book used to keep track. This is going to be one of those Baader-Meinhof thingies now isn't it ? ( quickly rolling through the past 8 weeks & pages, average of 5 I'd say )
Monday, 30-Jan-17 21:56:08 UTC from web -
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@adiwan Oh it is THAT bullFrankerZ again >_< . Only this time around Sony is not around to say "it looks diffrent", Heck I even remember the adaptor's name by head, it was the PhotoFast CR-5400
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@maiyannah Can that even be called an "SD card" at that point then ? Might as well be a "Nintendo-innards speciality storage with SD card form factor"
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@critialcloudkicker Or something, yeah.
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"Darkness is good: Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." -an actual real thing Steve Bannon said
Monday, 30-Jan-17 18:17:55 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Source?
I find it hilarious the way how people are mocking Trump as being a sort of Joker. #TheTrumpster -
@tobi Interview he did with The Hollywood Reporter shortly after the election. http://rainbowdash.net/url/856488
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@mrmattimation thank you!
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I have no reason to be as happy as I am right now. The only thing I did was find an UltraStar Initial D .txt file with all the information required.
Sunday, 29-Jan-17 22:46:40 UTC from web -
My head is exploding. Gotta love headaches
Sunday, 29-Jan-17 11:23:58 UTC from web -
anyone know a little mandarin and knows what is that Mei's voice line that sort of sounds like "adjabutchuan djuan na" ,-, ?
Sunday, 29-Jan-17 00:57:12 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker not it is a reagular voice line of her
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@mushi If you can get me a soundbite I can probably ask someone. But I tried looking for it myself but I fear I know too little of the Brazillian tongue to make any sense of the "sounds like" part
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@critialcloudkicker oh, i found it, she says "Dàjiā dōu zhǐwàng zhe wǒ na" which means "everyone is counting on me", aparently
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One of my friends told me that 'exposed' is such an overused cliche word that lost all meaning. So I told him I thought the same thing about 'butthurt'. That did dissolve into a conversation of the difference between 'attention seeking' vs 'attempt at humour' REALLY fast.
Sunday, 29-Jan-17 00:40:10 UTC from web -
One of my buddies just passed this to me along with the message "well, that failed. Got any idea's ?" http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/856414
Saturday, 28-Jan-17 19:40:59 UTC from web -
Is this the end of Hitman ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7P9Mx23Ucg
Saturday, 28-Jan-17 13:27:49 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker ― Wtf dude your coffee tastes afwul!
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@tijagi Yeah, I know. That is why I do not drink it. Also pretty sure something like this will happen to those who drink it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxKWohWHMg0 . Only with a cheese-wire.
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Can anyone explain to when and how the RX 480 is now better than the GTX 1060 ?
Saturday, 28-Jan-17 16:10:58 UTC from web -
Tbh I think people were meaner on the internet ten years ago. Now if you want to insult someone you just call them fat on Twitter. Before, people on sites like Newgrounds would team up to create entire 20-minute hate videos about users they didn't like.
Saturday, 28-Jan-17 12:52:09 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation It might have something to do with the fact that these days you can just make a video game and /someone/ out there will have a problem with it. It seems that everyone these days every stranger on the Internet is ultra sensitive to anything. And humans are inherently lazy, why make a 20 minute hate video about that person you dislike when just opening the book of super short insults at a random page, tweet that to them, and have pretty much the same result ?
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@mrmattimation back then it was quality over quantity, now it is the other way round
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WTF. I updated chromium on Debian and all my extensions vanished and I cannot install them again. It says "Installation is not enabled". I cannot find an option for this.
Saturday, 28-Jan-17 11:48:34 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker I found out that with the recent change they made it impossible to install extensions when not logged in with a google account. That's major BS. I liked chromium as a secondary web browser but that's a big deal-breaker. (note: chromium is the non-google-branded open source chrome browser)
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@adiwan Phew
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sometimes when I'm auto dueling the AI makes really dumb mistakes and even though I'm the one who loses I tell Yugi he deserves this
Saturday, 28-Jan-17 11:56:11 UTC from web-
@tiffany You're a monster
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I just found myself in a situation where I had to explain how individual civilians can not be directly held accountable for what is written in the Geneva Convention doctrines... It was weird
Saturday, 28-Jan-17 11:25:05 UTC from web
