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Article: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/23/3264342/i-am-alive-comes-to-pc-in-september-with-new-features-upgrades In a nutshell, the previously console-exclusive title "I Am Alive" will now be coming to the PC this September. For $14.99, I might buy it, but I'm still irked with Ubisoft after how they called 90+% of PC gamers pirates and how their software service got screwed up not too long ago (so my purchase also leans on whether the Steam version will require their bloatware). This release feels like a backpedal on their former statement about PC gamers. Sadly, it'll probably work because I'm sure enough people will publicly praise them for bringing the game to the PC.

At least the text in shitty looking, modern games (like DNF) renders properly in 1080p. Dark Souls for the PC just upscales it, which makes it difficult to read. I might not mind this much in other games, but if you intend on playing Dark Souls as it should be played, you'll be reading quite a bit.

What you say actually illustrates how sexuality is NOT a choice. Doing something that goes against your instinctive feelings is a choice, yes, but it cannot change your instincts. A strictly heterosexual man can override the instinctive disgust and have sex with another man using his will power (and perhaps imagining that he is doing it with a woman to keep his wedding tackle up) but it will not make him homosexual. I suspect, it is the same with fully homosexual people. There may be some middle ground with bi-sexual but again, being bi-sexual is not something they chose - it's who they are. I believe it has now been accepted in scientific circles that people are born with their sexuality already predetermined. There is still a debate going about how much of that is determined genetically and how much through hormonal influence during fetal development in the womb but once you're out, you're pretty much all set... Regards Actually what you said and what I said (I don't even know how you could misinterpret the meaning of my words, but congrats on doing what I thought impossible) shows that sexuality is a choice. Is the biological part a choice? Who knows, but the lifestyle part is and always will be a choice. People who step back, throw their hands up, and blame their biology are pathetic. If you're going to make a lifestyle choice, own up to it, don't say "well, it's in our genes..." bleh. Also, who are you kidding? Humans have proven that they can override their instincts more times than I could hope to count in my remaining lifespan. I'd hate to imagine where I'd be if I were a weakling that couldn't override and change my 'natural' feelings to suit my own agenda.

It might be the card and how it cools. I know some coolers are better suited for some situations than others. For example, reference cards with rear blowers perform better in cases with the motherboard rotated 90 degrees than they do in traditional cases. Of course, it's possible your case handles cooling better when oriented in a conventional way, too. It could also be that the heatsink for the GPU is vapor or liquid style, and those change their cooling efficiency depending on orientation... This too, silly me for neglecting to mention it.

Sexuality is a choice, regardless of what people say. People, whether they'll admit it or not, retain a certain degree of free-will, with or without some biological leanings present. A gay person is free to choose to live a straight person lifestyle, date members of the opposite sex, etc. The same goes for straight people and everyone in between on the sexual spectrum. The issue that should be coming to light is whether or not those choices would make a person happy. Very few people, not including me, are capable of making a choice that goes against their gut reaction and learning to accept, like, and even come to embrace it as part of their self. The rest would be miserable living a lifestyle that went against what their gut tells them, but unfortunately most who are against homosexuality either don't believe this, care about it, or understand, if not all of the aforementioned. Edit: I envy people who aren't exposed to Fox News at all... here's a recent panel they did on Asexuality http://video.foxnews.com/v/1797282177001/

I stand corrected, THAT case makes the ones in the U.S. seem tame haha. That reminds me of the incident between Amazon and Apple for the "Amazon Appstore" name. Where were Ubuntu devs when Apple released the Mac App Store?

Yep, just saw reviews on the pirated version as well. Assuming this is what the final version will look like, an assumption that I'd be surprised to find inaccurate, I'll have saved myself 40 bucks. I guess this is what happens when people petition for console games to go to the PC. Granted, things could improve through updates and DLC, I think we know that From lacks the same dedication as developers that chose to put their games on PC on their own (at least when Skyrim came out with those terrible console textures, Bethesda released an update to fix it). At least the seems to run at a constant 30 frames per second, whereas the console versions can't even manage that (I'd know, I played through the PS3 version twice).

Apparently you didn't hear about the Proview v. Apple lawsuit out of China. That makes the cases in U.S. Patent courts look tame.

How can turning the whole world into a bunch of miserable wankers solve any problem? Regards It'd certainly cut down on our population and make people appreciate the freedom of being able to express themselves and embrace whatever their chosen sexuality is.

Sex should be banned worldwide. That would solve so many problems, including sexuality problems.

In general, I find all technology-related patent lawsuits (so the ones including kodak, intel, AMD, apple, samsung, htc, et cetera...) to be ridiculous. Just because Apple's involved here doesn't make things any more farfetched, which is contrary to the general consensus on the internet. There was actually an interesting article by the Tek Syndicate talking about whether Apple has actually invented ANYTHING since the Woz years. Turns out, they've only invented 5 things. Everything else was just a meshing of already invented items into a successful product. Also, there's this: http://allthingsd.com/20120807/samsungs-2010-report-on-how-its-galaxy-would-be-better-if-it-were-more-like-the-iphone/ Take it for what you will, it really shows how far Samsung has come, or rather how close they've come, to making an iphone look-a-like (in terms of software, anyway).

It might be the card and how it cools. I know some coolers are better suited for some situations than others. For example, reference cards with rear blowers perform better in cases with the motherboard rotated 90 degrees than they do in traditional cases. Of course, it's possible your case handles cooling better when oriented in a conventional way, too.

The newly released GTX660 Ti includes a free copy of Bordlands 2 for a limited time. Edit: This actually includes all Nvidia GTX 6-series cards, available on Amazon and Newegg.

Nice buy, one of the last great AMD desktop processors. Saw it on an ad banner on the anime news network this weekend and the price was fair, only $12 shipped. Hopefully I won't be regretting this movie XD

Yeah, the game is stupid easy to beat in a short time (9 was the last PS1 FF title I remember being satisfyingly long). I actually beat the final bosses with an average party level of 50, with just commonplace materia. When I went back after getting all the things I listed, the game was lagging from all the stuff it had to do.

True, the controls for the Wii feel better than the Kinect, but fall a bit short of what the Move can do, even with the added block you can get to enhance the Wii-Mote. But, the Wii has the better game library for motion-based games. They may not be the best overall, but for what it is, it's fun. Not my thing, though, since the game library doesn't appeal to me enough to justify buying a system.

I didn't even know the Wii had 10 good games. Well, technically it has 10 good rehashes of old formulas or games that were very successful on other systems, such as RE:4 and Okami.

Good luck, would be more impressed if you finished it in a day after getting Knights of the Round, W-Summon, Omnislash, AND beaten multiple Weapons But hey, I know those are time consuming and would kill your game time. I probably won't pop by, just because my ISP is enforcing arbitrary bandwidth limits lately. The internet's going to hell.

If anyone's interested, the spec requirements for this game are up: http://www.bethblog.com/2012/08/14/pc-system-requirements-for-dishonored/ Looks like my video card won't be able to handle it...? I'm not sure, I'll have to look it up since my card is DirectX 9 compatible with 1GB of video RAM. I originally saw the story mentioned on another site I frequent, where it was titled "Dishonored PC Requirements" and I thought it meant something entirely different.

You probably installed Steam and the games via Wine, unless you very recently tried it. Emulating games is always a bit jerky, just because you're running a general emulation layer on top of a game (most ported games also work like this, except the emulation layer is specific to the game and works much better).

That's not going to happen. Valve already gives the option for developers to make use or not make use of the DRM features of Steam. And I find it unlikely that any big time Software developers such as Adobe(if they will be on Steam at all) will make use of said DRM. That is because tablets(which the interface is clearly based of) weren't popular until recently. No need to get aggressive here. You were making it all about Adobe's business practices with your examples (I mentioned Adobe, but only as an amusing anecdote to illustrate what kind of content a Steam Workshop could provide for creativity applications in general), which was causing the thread to drift away from Valve's practices and how they'd handle digital distribution of software. This thread isn't about the software developers that may or may not use Steam. It's about Valve's approach to the new market they're entering. Just because you find it unlikely doesn't mean it won't happen. Wishful thinking fallacy at its finest. I find it likely because software developers (yes, even big ones like Adobe) have entered other digital distribution systems and have been making use of the DRM offered by those systems. Also, regardless of tablets, the move was inconsistent with what Microsoft had been doing in the past with their desktop OS. It illustrates a point that counters your point that because software developers didn't do something in the past that they won't do it in the future. In fact, there's a plethora of examples I can use to further show that just about every major software developer has made changes to their products inconsistent with what they've done in the past. To keep it on-topic and about Valve, look at this move. Sure, they sold games before, but this will be their first step into selling regular applications as well. According to you, this is an impossible move because they hadn't done it before.

Your whole computer? Sounds like you might have an infection or maybe somewhere something else became corrupt.

(Just to point this out, this is really de-railing the thread. This will be my last reply on this subject just because this thread isn't about Adobe failing to protect it's products, it's about Valve hosting regular applications and the pros and cons of their decision.) Neither did other game publishers. They waited until someone else made a service before they went as far as forcing us to launch a client tied to our games. Only somewhat recently have other services started appearing, such as gog.com, GFWL, and Origin. By the logic you've presented, Bethesda, Square, 2K, or Telltale shouldn't be using Steam DRM because they didn't bother making their own clients to house their products. But they do, and so can Adobe and any other software developer out there. Just because they haven't done something before has very little bearing on whether they'll do so in the future (look at Windows 8's new interface, Microsoft didn't do anything like that for their desktop OSes in the past). This would turn into a non-issue if Valve would change how it handles the DRM of the content it sells.

I don't think that's entirely accurate. Adobe's protection scheme improves a bit with each iteration, but people crack the software or create a keygenerator to get around the need of a genuine activation key. By that same measure, game companies haven't done anything to combat piracy either since you can very easily find cracked games online. Just because their methods aren't that effective doesn't mean they aren't trying to do something about it. They still have the freedom to use Steam's DRM to further protect their products.

I'd agree. I also think it's stupid for Bethesda, Square Enix, Telltale, and 2K to require to have Steam to start their games, but they do it anyway. I can see Adobe having the same arbitrary requirement. Also, bear in mind Abobe products do have the DRM in the form of the product/activation key. They could easily implement that alongside Steam's DRM (think how Bioshock 2 works with Steam) to further lock down how many machines you can install the application on.