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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14979470 times)

Neonivek

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34830 on: July 14, 2013, 03:00:47 am »

A lot of current games are no where close to as compressed as they used to.

Yet like websites these changes were brought about because of changes in the abilities of the technology around them. As people's internet became faster websites became more data heavy because it is more visually appealing.

For games the less compression occurs because it makes the game faster and requires less effort to do.
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« Reply #34831 on: July 14, 2013, 03:06:27 am »

A lot of current games are no where close to as compressed as they used to.

Yet like websites these changes were brought about because of changes in the abilities of the technology around them. As people's internet became faster websites became more data heavy because it is more visually appealing.

For games the less compression occurs because it makes the game faster and requires less effort to do.

Well, that makes sense about being less compressed lets it run faster. Games further back were smaller so less file unpacking. I will say to it's advantage I don't need to swap out 6 CDs to play Shogun 2. :P
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34832 on: July 14, 2013, 03:25:07 am »

A lot of current games are no where close to as compressed as they used to.

Yet like websites these changes were brought about because of changes in the abilities of the technology around them. As people's internet became faster websites became more data heavy because it is more visually appealing.

For games the less compression occurs because it makes the game faster and requires less effort to do.

Well, that makes sense about being less compressed lets it run faster. Games further back were smaller so less file unpacking. I will say to it's advantage I don't need to swap out 6 CDs to play Shogun 2. :P
The first thing i think of when somebody mentions CDs is Starfleet Academy. I think that game had 8 CDs. One of my favorite games when i was a kid but i do not miss the CDs.
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« Reply #34833 on: July 14, 2013, 04:21:32 am »

I managed to one-shot the Underprince in Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption and thought I broke the game as a result. I had to search around the sewers for a good five minutes just to make sure I didn't skip any cutscenes like I did in the Temple of Set. Kind of a mild WTF moment but still, whenever I have a character in a video game that gets really powerful like that I always worry I might break the game said character is in and thus have moments like this.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34834 on: July 14, 2013, 09:23:59 am »


This is at the bottom of the screen, above the list with everyone online when you're at the forum index.
Wut?
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« Reply #34835 on: July 14, 2013, 09:27:08 am »

Much more interesting to click the info button in there and look at the statistics center.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34836 on: July 14, 2013, 09:30:04 am »

Man, we get 28,000 new users every year.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34837 on: July 14, 2013, 09:30:40 am »

Man, we get 28,000 new users every year.
Yeah, but how many actually stick around?
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« Reply #34838 on: July 14, 2013, 09:31:30 am »

... and arent spambots, or people asking for MOAR GRAFIX!

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« Reply #34839 on: July 14, 2013, 09:39:23 am »

Jeez greatorder, I had to refresh 5 times to get that image to fully load :o
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #34840 on: July 14, 2013, 09:43:36 am »


This is at the bottom of the screen, above the list with everyone online when you're at the forum index.
Wut?
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« Reply #34841 on: July 14, 2013, 10:26:12 am »

Yeah, but isn't that supposed to be a solid grey bar instead of that gap?
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they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

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« Reply #34842 on: July 14, 2013, 10:27:50 am »

I thought that was highlighting at first. But apparently not. That is weird.
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« Reply #34843 on: July 14, 2013, 10:28:28 am »

That's what you get for not using Core, the best theme possible.
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« Reply #34844 on: July 14, 2013, 10:29:43 am »

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how else am i going to sit in my mother's basement, with a bright forum theme at full contrast from the 3 screens around me? do you think i'm looking for a suntan?
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