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TalkBack / Re: Microsoft Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Activision Blizzard For US$68.7bn

« on: January 18, 2022, 02:28:04 PM »

By Publisher

Microsoft
Halo, Fable, Forza, Age of Empires, Gears of War, Mech Warrior

Activision
Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Tony Hawk Franchise,


Blizzard
Warcraft, Starcraft, Overwatch, Diablo

Bethesda
Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Dishonored

King
Candy Crush, Farm Heroes

Id
Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, Heretic and Hexen, Prey

Mojang
Minecraft

Rare
Banjo Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark, Viva Piniata, Grabbed By the Ghoulies, Killer Instinct

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By Genre

Shooters
Doom, Halo, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Perfect Dark, Quake, Overwatch

Strategy Games
Age of Empires, Warcraft, StarCraft

Fantasy/ Role Playing
Warcraft, Elder Scrolls, Fable, Diablo, Minecraft

Platformers
Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Banjo Kazooie, Pitfall, Conker

Crafts
Starcraft, Warcraft, Minecraft

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: The Official "Are you a better Mafia player than Khushrenada" challenge.

« on: January 14, 2022, 07:03:20 PM »

I got a 50/50 record. I imagine I'll be voted out immediately in this upcoming game.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: January 12, 2022, 08:18:43 PM »

The Matrix Resurrections 6.5/10 - A lot of great ideas, but not put together in a way that keeps the film riveting. Another case of the trailer being better than the movie. The best I can describe this movie is chasing the dragon.

Candyman 5/10 I actually enjoyed the first 2 acts of this movie, but the third act happened at lightning speed and it made the movie terrible. This movie has some serious pacing issues. I feel like more should have been explored before it devolved.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LXXXVIII: Pikmin Mafia. Sign-up Thread.

« on: January 11, 2022, 02:17:59 AM »

Im back, so I'm in.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: This Image of Edea Lee from Bravely Default is now an NFT

« on: January 06, 2022, 11:44:12 PM »

So I made this picture using a  GAN (generative adversarial network) algorithm. Well really I just refreshed on
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Anyway. It does a good job making a fake person portrait most of the time. Sometimes the results are horrifying.


I call this one Thingking of you.


I call this one thinking about Sharktober


I call this one Neo Tatum


I call this WTF?

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Приезжайте в Чернобыль (Joke Thread)

« on: January 05, 2022, 10:35:07 PM »

In Russia NWR mafia wins you.

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NWR Forums Discord / Приезжайте в Чернобыль (Joke Thread)

« on: January 05, 2022, 08:59:43 PM »

В этом радиационно-стойком (но не идеальном) костюме вы можете свободно ходить практически в любом месте.



https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Radiation-Demron-CBRN-Suit/dp/B07DBV824T



Приезжайте в Чернобыль

https://www.travelocity.com/things-to-do/chernobyl-tour-from-kiev.a2232146.activity-details?endDate=2022-01-20&location=Shevchenkivs%27kyi%20District%2C%20Kyiv%2C%20Ukraine&rid=3000662600&startDate=2022-01-06

приїжджай відвідати Чорнобиль(for Ukranians)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSIrED1xEk&list=PLrQ_Pm77mn_trbnVDgFqXAvJYSmuIAdkC&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5WNu22zg80&list=PLrQ_Pm77mn_trbnVDgFqXAvJYSmuIAdkC&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VVgRE-KgJs&list=PLrQ_Pm77mn_trbnVDgFqXAvJYSmuIAdkC&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sB43zc-M1I&list=PLrQ_Pm77mn_trbnVDgFqXAvJYSmuIAdkC&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrnICTogtY&list=PLrQ_Pm77mn_trbnVDgFqXAvJYSmuIAdkC&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wN0iu9T9Vw&list=PLrQ_Pm77mn_trbnVDgFqXAvJYSmuIAdkC&index=6

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia LXXXVIII: Pikmin Mafia. Sign-up Thread.

« on: January 05, 2022, 01:47:46 AM »

If it starts later than the 12th of January then I should be in.

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TalkBack / Re: Former Nintendo Partner Acquired By iRacing Developer

« on: January 04, 2022, 03:46:59 PM »

"Wit launch title?"

The Wit was a console Nintendo released around the same time as Wii. It was exactly the same except the branding. It's a collectors item. Very rare. They only made 42 of them. I saw one go on ebay for $9000 dollars.
The terrible thing about it was it only played Wit branded games, and there was only one of them Wit sports.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Let's talk about teaching about CRT in schools.

« on: January 02, 2022, 02:27:10 PM »

When I went to High School my programming classes were exclusively taught on CRT monitors. It was between 1998 and 2002. What a time that was. We had to store all our projects on floppy disks. I tried this wild thing of storing some program files on Geocities. Early cloud storage. Geocities gave you more space to work with than 1.43MB floppy disks.  Which, would have worked if the teacher hadn't blocked Geocities when I went to turn in a program. I told him what happened and he gave me another day because he wasn't an asshole. In college we got to move on up to zip drives and usb drives. My first usb drive was like 32MB. That was a leap in 2003/04.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Spider Eye & Hawk Man)

« on: January 02, 2022, 03:58:14 AM »

Amazing Spider-man and Amazing Spider-man 2 had such radically different tones that we could argue that they are in fact different universes.

The Amazing Spider-man 2 suit was great, what I like in a Toby style Spider-man suit. But The Amazing Spider-man suit is so different that it's actually cool. The main problem with it, I assume is that it's made of rubber. I've seen some cosplay printed versions of the suit that have the same look, but are probably comfortable.

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TalkBack / Re: Xenoblade's Graphics: Why HD Does Not Matter

« on: January 01, 2022, 02:02:17 PM »

I've been playing a lot of n64 games with bumped up resolution recently, and good Art design stands the test of time. Take Quest 64 vs Aidyn Chronicles. Quest 64 is a much better designed game.

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NWR Forums Discord / Let's talk about teaching about CRT in schools.

« on: December 29, 2021, 02:43:46 PM »

Cathode Ray Tubes were a dominant technology for much of the 20th century. I think kids should know about them, and how they had superior refresh rates and color depth to our current LCD monitors. I recently bought an n64 USB controller and I was playing Mortal Kombat 4 and I noticed there was an amount of input lag that really hindered my ability to perform fatalities. I think if CRT monitors were lighter we'd still be using them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BVTHxc4LM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdMtwQQUmo

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General Gaming / Re: Deadline December 2021!

« on: December 28, 2021, 11:25:17 PM »

I did not mention it above but I am playing Fallout 4 on PS4.

and Fallout 4 to beat on Ps4.

How far into the game are you Perm?

Not very far.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Spider Eye & Hawk Man)

« on: December 27, 2021, 02:42:07 PM »

That has always been an issue in comic book movies. The Dark Knight left the Joker alive at the end, but unfortunately Heath Ledger had passed away. Killing villains in their first outing is bad for franchises. Thor did this right. Which is why we were able to have the Loki series. Although, Loki has died a bunch of times.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Spider Eye & Hawk Man)

« on: December 27, 2021, 04:52:13 AM »

Because Sony wants too keep making billions of dollars of Spider-man expect:

The Amazing Spider-man 3 (Andrew)

The Web of Spider-man (Tobey) - I imagine some Dr. Strange 2 Sam Raimi stuff is going to go down with Tobey. Make it a TV show.

The Spectacular Spider-Man (Tom) - The home series is over, Tom is now able to go forward as a man without the need for father figures.

It would also be interesting to find out that they all have hand web powers, they just didn't know it. The fact that they can synthesize it artificially is just a result of Spider-knowledge.

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TalkBack / Re: A Businessman's Prerogative: Meta, NFT, and Repeating Other Meaningless Buzzwords to Make Me Mon

« on: December 23, 2021, 11:12:26 PM »

I bought Cubivore for $15 in 2007.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224755786614?epid=10024

I bought GCN component cables for $12 around the same time

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133881405908?hash=item1f2bf421d4:g:svAAAOSwrj1hRaSK

I wish we didn't return my broken Atari Jaguar though.
I still got Alien Vs Predator and the box
https://www.ebay.com/itm/324855977155?epid=8594&hash=item4ba2ecd4c3:g:g6wAAOSwl11hfEN2

Still got this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/353809341166?epid=66184738&hash=item5260ae1aee:g:V0EAAOSwUE5hdfzS
Stickers fucked though

These aren't my listings.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: December 22, 2021, 12:53:24 AM »

Spider-man No Way Home: 8/10 - one of the top movies in Spider-man history. It has issues,  but they're minor. The first act is hilarious. It slows down a bunch in the third act. It's one of those cases where the fight scenes are better in the beginning of the movie. Great all around.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Spider Eye & Hawk Man)

« on: December 22, 2021, 12:38:12 AM »

For years I read all these comments about "How does spider-man make such a crazy suit? How could he possibly make such a suit without help?"

And the answer has always been Spiders weave webs. Spider-man has superhuman knitting and sewing skills.

also What If The symbiote suit found Miles Morales in the MCUverse. Has this ever happened in the comics?

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General Gaming / Re: Epic Game Store

« on: December 22, 2021, 12:13:26 AM »

the last game before Second extinction was Loop Hero

This page updates with all the previous Epic game store releases
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-games-store-free-games-list/

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General Gaming / Re: Epic Game Store

« on: December 19, 2021, 08:13:33 PM »

I couldn't even remember what it was an hour ago. I woke up this morning. Clicked a few times. I have it now. I might play it.

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General Gaming / Re: Epic Game Store

« on: December 18, 2021, 02:04:36 PM »

I barely caught Shenmue 3. I told my friend about it over the phone and he was like "awww" I didn't have time to tell him about it. I figured he was probably sleeping. I already have Shenmue 3 for ps4, but I didn't mind snagging a pc version.

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General Gaming / Re: Which gaming company will become the next Activision-Blizzard/Ubisoft

« on: December 16, 2021, 02:29:21 AM »

I heard some off-color things about Silicon Knights back in the day, but they're defunct.

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General Gaming / Re: Deadline December 2021!

« on: December 10, 2021, 06:35:37 PM »

I've been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the last few weeks. I still got the Uncharted: Lost Legacy, Shenmue 2 and 3, Cyberpunk, Resident Evil 7, and Fallout 4 to beat on Ps4. On Gamecube I never beat Beyond Good and Evil.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 87: Harvest Moon - Seasons of Mafia Town. Year 6.

« on: December 02, 2021, 07:42:17 PM »

Yeah, you didn't have an avatar. So I got creative.