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Post by Den on Nov 19, 2016 4:32:37 GMT -5
Monospace is the best kind of space.
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Post by Den on Nov 13, 2016 16:27:40 GMT -5
Yes, and cooked just how Trump likes 'em - well done and with ketchup.
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Post by Den on Nov 13, 2016 3:07:35 GMT -5
Den. I take it you voted for Trump? 1st big benefit to a Trump Presidency....TPP is dead. Unfortunately I did not. I missed the registration period. I did however persuade a few friends to go Trump after that. Back when I had made that particular post in June, I had only loosely looked into their policies, "following the money" of their political/financial connections, and some of their history. Hillary's connections to Saudi Arabia, multinational banks and the like, her total screw-ups in Benghazi and the Syrian Bloodbath, the investigations into the Clinton Foundation, and her bizarrely aggressive desire to escalate conflicts in the middle east during her time as a senator and Secretary, you didn't need any Wikileaks to see that kind of stuff. In comparison, Trump is a very successful businessman with hundreds of wins and so few failed business ventures that top ten lists have to include ideas that didn't even make it out past the planning stages, the list of them being several very high risk red ocean projects. He did things that most businessmen had to do to meet the bottom line because of the way the economic landscape has changed since the 1970s. His only financial ties are limited to his father; Trump has nobody above him calling the shots, and he has no foreign sponsors influencing his decisions. From that alone, I advised against voting for Hillary. She would have just done more of the same, following Bush and Obama in starting more wars and throwing the country further into debt. Economists since the 1980s were predicting that the late 2010s would be the point where the Global economy would rupture, key nations would fall too far into debt or run out of resources, everyone gets desperate and World War III would take off. And in that, I believed that of the candidates, only Trump would have a chance of at least delaying it and not being the one who starts it. I've always believed that WWIII is inevitable, still kinda do, but the "*Exit" surge that many countries have done and are likely planning is a glimpse of a more hopeful future. I hadn't really cared about the election until just the past few weeks because people locally wouldn't shut the hell up about it (hence not registering in time). As time went on and I saw more, the leaks, the Veritas videos, a lot of perspectives from both sides, behind the scenes accounts, the way media, celebrities and academia colluded against Trump, a very very horrifying narrative being written around Trump that he had to bear for two years (talk about temperament, he's kept it cool and on point for that long), and most of all Hillary's ranting and raving about "Russia!". It would have driven me further to vote Trump, and it only hardened my dislike of Clinton further, not just as a would-be president, but as a person. Also Trey Gowdy and Jason Chaffetz are cool guys. The Schadenfreude is VERY strong right now after this upset win, but I don't care for that kind of thing. The people who have been all for Hillary on an emotional level (mostly fear) need to have those years of deep-rooted cognitive dissonance pulled away. Hostility and mockery ain't gonna do that. I believe a lot of Trump supporters are still somewhat in hiding (beyond some smug mocking through the safety of the internet). I myself am. Even now, I'd rather not bring up being in favor of Trump around strangers and the people I know in person. Philly was 90% blue after all. I do wish that the remaining unreported votes (specifically all the military absentee votes which surely would be overwhelming in favor of Trump) were put into the total and put the popular vote in Trump's favor as projected if only to give one more middle finger to Michael Moore and to shut up all of these college kids starting riots. If we're not all dead by 2020, he actually pulls it all off and runs again, I'll vote Trump. Now I can get back to playing video games.
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Post by Den on Nov 12, 2016 19:31:31 GMT -5
Let me try my hand at making a vague connection. Hitler's position on Germany wasn't "Make Germany Great Again, let's close our doors and work on our image". Hitler was all about "Germany is rightfully entitled to conquer the world because the Aryan Race is superior to all, also those Russians suck". Or another way of saying it, " Germany is Great Because We Are Good". But wait! Both drinking water at the same time? Coincidence? I don't think so! BUT WAIT OH MY GOD THEY'RE BOTH HITLER BUT WAIT OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
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Post by Den on Nov 9, 2016 20:51:53 GMT -5
I disagree with the idea that Trump is a bad choice. Donald Trump is a first in office - one hundred percent business, zero percent politician.
Trump has no financial ties to any outsiders nor any political connections (on financial terms). All of his money is his, earned by him (after his dad helped him out) and not some sort of handout by foreign interests or stronger financial powers. Even Ronald Reagan was beholden to sponsors who influenced his decisions. Reagan had the cash to fund his own campaign and the charisma to win almost every state, but he had political ties lobbying for him even before he was in office. Trump has enough money for himself that he won't care for anyone trying to buy him off. As a businessman, he knows full well that he wouldn't want anybody having control over him like that. He doesn't want to be in the middle of a pyramid. Unlike every other president who turns gray by the end of their term, Trump will retain his healthy orange glow.
The only ones who are swaying his actions are the PEOPLE who voted him in. In effect, the people in control of the USA at this moment are the disenfranchised workers of the Rust Belt. There is a reason why Trump's words have resounded with business owners and middle class workers. They come from the same field of education, not academic smarts, but of management, finance and real-world experience. College kids who don't really know the real world beyond their campus favored Hillary's fear mongering, virtue signaling rhetoric. Grownups with only a high school education but a lot of experience that earns them more money in the real world flocked to Trump.
Unlike a politician who loves to stall on absolutely everything and have to weigh their decisions based on conflicting interests of all of their paying lobbyists, Donald Trump will go fast. His policies and plans that he espoused for the past two years that won him the election will hit the ground running. The government will probably be struggling to keep up with his pace.
The "nationalism" we will see is not going to be some kind of imagined petty "oh no nazis!" junk, but rather economic nationalism that will allow the US to stand on its own feet without outside influences having a say in how to run the country. The USA is catching up with Britain's Brexit, and as the EU crumbles, its other nations like German and France will be fed up with the effects of uncontrolled Globalism. Especially, Donald Trump is the first guy since JFK who dares do anything that would threaten the Federal Reserve Bank.
Most of all, Trump's win against all odds was just enough to get him the Electorate. The Republicans will back him, but Trump is probably the president with the lowest approval ratings first getting IN to office (the rest start high to mediocre and almost always end poorly after four to eight years). If Trump doesn't hold true to his plans that got him elected, the people will NOT be happy. His presidency is one that truly rests in the hands of the people more than any other president. Either Trump goes FAST and gets things done or the people that are on his side at the moment will side with the dissenters currently trying to incite riots around the country.
Trump is going to be a first. There's no way to predict if he will end up being a terrible or great president, we have no historical parallel to look back on. Especially when a full Republican majority in all three branches (I wouldn't really call Trump a republican, many of his ideals at the moment side with the right, but he's more of an Independent populist reformer who was able to seize the GOP) hasn't happened since the 1920s, so that'll be interesting to see.
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Post by Den on Nov 9, 2016 2:58:49 GMT -5
It's okay, he'll only evict the illegal mice. Any mouse who came through the proper channels and contributes to the society behind the wallpaper will be just fine.
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Post by Den on Nov 9, 2016 2:30:48 GMT -5
I wonder what Trumps policy is on Mice? Mice. Mice are great, they do some good things, cute things. Mice love me, I have a lot of big buildings, they scurry around behind the walls and the ceilings. Great walls, beautiful ceilings, you should look up at 'em sometime. But then I get the exterminators, good guys, exterminators come in to evict them. The mice aren't paying their rent, get 'em outta here.
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Post by Den on Nov 7, 2016 23:30:40 GMT -5
Vote Den 2016 and I will put an end to pop-up ads.
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Post by Den on Nov 5, 2016 14:55:59 GMT -5
It's possible the numbers are from game files, given the mouseover on the item column suggest .txt files, so someone else may have already extracted the data. Cra0kalo, the one who had made the VPK Tool extractor for Titanfall 1, appears to be looking into the starpak files for the PC version of Titanfall 2.
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Post by Den on Oct 31, 2016 17:27:27 GMT -5
Since it seems hip spread for most weapons is the same when sprinting or standing, making use of Gunrunner for carbines/shotguns and a few other weapons is ideal, so I have Auto-Sprint on. With no need to press Sprint manually, I put crouch (hold, not toggle) on SHIFT. I have maximum control over mobility, digits always on Jump and Crouch.
Now I just have to reorganize these extra ability keys without anything falling out of reach. Not a fan of having anything bound to MOUSE2 on this wheel.
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Post by Den on Oct 31, 2016 0:31:15 GMT -5
Well, my favorite weapons so far are the L-STAR and the Sidewinder SMR. Both wacky projectile weapons in a game full of lethal hitscans. Just like the old days, I'll pick up a more conventional rifle or whatever else from a Grunt or enemy pilot and stick that in the secondary slot.
The AT weapons and sidearms don't really feel like they're worth a gosh darn golly gee whiz, but I do love the P2016. Feels like the kind of gun that will go underrated.
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Post by Den on Oct 30, 2016 16:21:43 GMT -5
I'm guessing these values are taken from an official strategy guide? I've not seen any activity regarding unencrypting the game's *.starpak files.
I've only played a few rounds so far, but those damage values do appear to run in line with the number of shots needed to take down a pilot. Seems like Spectres take the same amount of damage as a pilot, and Grunts take about half, so the health variation between them is the same as last game, just 100&50 instead of 200&100. No idea what the newer, bigger robots can tank, but it's quite a bit.
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I'd imagine the damage scaling sticks to the Source Engine's measurement scale. 16 units is one Foot for the worldmodels, 12 units is one foot for viewmodels and character models. So in the case of the R-201's 1250 to 1400 Units... 1250 / 16 = 78.125 Feet * 12 = 937.5 Inches / 39.37 = 23.8 meters 1400 / 16 = 87.5 Feet * 12 = 1050 Inches / 39.37 = 26.67 meters
Alternatively, they could have scaled it to the idTech 3 scale they're used to and made 1 Unit = 1 Inch for both worldview and character models. 31.25m to 35m.
Given that the game has many ways to measure distance in meters, a simple test to see where damage begins to drop is all we need to figure it out. Sucks that Custom Game demands a minimum of two players, so I can't test it alone on PC.
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Post by Den on Oct 28, 2016 12:09:55 GMT -5
Well, I'm loving the fuck out of this.
It even runs better than the first game. I was worried that I would finally have to upgrade this five year old graphics card, as it was having trouble playing the first game smoothly.
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Post by Den on Oct 27, 2016 15:53:18 GMT -5
27GB download? So if it has the same level of compression as the first, that will be about 62GB uncompressed.
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Post by Den on Oct 21, 2016 13:03:18 GMT -5
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Post by Den on Oct 17, 2016 11:55:18 GMT -5
All these leaks are coming to a head. Get your birddogging on.
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Post by Den on Oct 16, 2016 6:17:06 GMT -5
What is this heresy.
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Post by Den on Oct 14, 2016 15:51:49 GMT -5
It was just Matchmaking Lobby talk. He loves Tracer, loves her. Has more hours played, believe him.
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Post by Den on Oct 14, 2016 15:09:59 GMT -5
A scathing accusation! However, in the same image they've made a mistake in showing us that Trump is PC MASTER RACE. As we all know, Hillary is a console peasant and plays Torbjorn exclusively.
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Post by Den on Oct 14, 2016 14:31:20 GMT -5
Well, that looks pretty good. Only once or twice does the player wall jump in rapid succession, but that 30KPH slowdown appears to be gone.
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Post by Den on Oct 12, 2016 18:54:32 GMT -5
Nah, the Clinton campaign have a big filing cabinet of stuff they have ready to throw at Trump in regular intervals in an attempt to demoralize his campaign. That tape was one of the many little things they've known about for a long time, as soon as Trump threw his hat in to the race. Any failing campaign throws out any "surprise" attacks they have during October just before the vote. If anything, they were likely wanting to wait a bit closer to voting day before dropping that particular tape, but they had to use it now. If they hadn't, the Wikileaks content would have dominated the headlines.
Surprise, it didn't work. This particular attack's only casualty was collateral - the poor guy in the tape with Trump, Billy Bush.
It was effectively dismissed and Trump's barrage thrown out in the second debate made the tape a dud despite the media still trying to push it. Even when the ruling class got desperate enough to pull a dozen GOP members who were never on Trump's side to crawl out and make some mean comments, everyone has already forgotten about it. Everyone is on the leaks now and you can see the DNC and the media scrambling to try and excuse all of it away. As they get more desperate, they're throwing out random, baseless accusations, trying to push this sexual assault angle.
Trump grabbed the Clinton campaign by the pussy.
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Post by Den on Sept 30, 2016 8:20:57 GMT -5
That is too unfair of a scenario. Trump wouldn't be able to handle roided-out Clinton after her handlers stick her with a drug cocktail.
Their battlefield should be on a hexagonal map of the United States in a 1v1 match of Civilization V at max difficulty with Barbarian spawns set to high.
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Post by Den on Sept 26, 2016 18:22:04 GMT -5
I expect this will be an accurate depiction of the debate.
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Post by Den on Sept 25, 2016 18:39:57 GMT -5
Give shotguns to Bastion.
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Post by Den on Sept 23, 2016 19:04:24 GMT -5
It makes sense, the damage dealers are too strong versus the squishy Offense and Defense lot, but the Tanks and healers can survive and they aren't much worse on the damage dealing side. Drop the offense, let them mingle with the unused Defense guys and put on more damage sponges.
If this actually sticks and some competing composition like overwhelming damage to reliably break apart the line of tanks doesn't come out, then it would need a sweeping change to break this meta. In general, condensing and lowering the damage:health:healing ratios. Healing is too strong and tank health is too high versus the average damage which is comparatively too high for the common 200 HP heroes.
Healers are throwing things all out of whack. It's all Lucio's fault. Ana's Nanoboost is also contributing a lot to this particular composition.
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Post by Den on Sept 23, 2016 5:20:23 GMT -5
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Post by Den on Sept 10, 2016 0:00:00 GMT -5
What's the deal with Aleppo?
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Post by Den on Sept 4, 2016 17:48:58 GMT -5
Yes, Symmetra's ability to set up her array of turrets takes too long compared to Torb who can drop the only one he needs very quickly. As soon as an enemy team enters the area, Symmetra's ability to rebuild her defensive array is reduced to nigh-impossible. That's why her presence is only in key areas like the first point of Hollywood and then immediately swapped out once the enemy gets on top of it.
I think that she could be able to deploy sentries from a much greater distance, perhaps a fully charged Alternate shot will do its usual thing of passing through enemies, and then sets up a sentry at the point of impact with the environment. That sort of 1HP distraction that can hit the enemy from behind after they've moved up could give her the defensive support edge she needs, and the long charge time of the alt shots would be a limiter.
Or something.
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Post by Den on Aug 23, 2016 9:50:08 GMT -5
The ability to launch several arrows in succession until his quiver is empty, and then fletches a new set of arrows right on the spot.
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Post by Den on Aug 22, 2016 18:21:22 GMT -5
Unfortunately no Grapple in Training and no control environment nor speedometer in active matches.
However, I had gotten pretty good at "Slingshots" over walls to send myself soaring a good distance. Hook the top of a wall, double jump just before hitting it and pressing Grapple again to release, vaulting over the wall and going fast.
From the general feel of it, the Grapple has a slow acceleration rate on the initial catch, but it ramps up to pull you in at a speed of at least 40KPH. Can't be certain, but I think the Double Jump at the end of a long grapple may kick you above 40KPH. Not by much, 50KPH at best (and succumbing to airspeed friction, slowing down over time?) if you jump at the very end of a long range hook.
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