PSNOT 3.0 - Let's Talk About University of Kentucky, Baby!

pitfallharry219 said:
Actual cover of the NY Daily News today:
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Sorry I missed his injury. Maybe it can be career ending (please?).

 
guardian_owl said:
I figure they did that so they can eventually port to it phones. It's pretty much entirely touch controlled isn't it?
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You move around with the analog sticks, which I guess could be replicated on a touch screen (though I have to imagine it being kind of clunky being mixed in with touch combat).

 
I guess there are two novels that bookend the Shadow Complex story. I wasn't aware of them until I went to update my trophy card last night, and I happened to see this topic on Shadow Complex on the front page. The topic turned from someone talking about how they were looking forward to the game to someone saying they wouldn't support it because the guy who wrote the novels is a Mormon who hates gays, even though the writer had nothing to do with the game and only acquired rights to produce the books set in the universe.

Orson Scott Card is the author. The name seemed familiar to me, even though I had no idea who he was before reading his wikipedia page.

Anyway, Shadow Complex is awesome so far. Definitely worth $15 if you're on the fence.

 
A guy on reddit asked about how Platinum Trophies work, response is pretty much what we always see:

"This used to be the case [that developers had to "apply" for a platinum trophy], but things changed fairly recently, and now I believe developers are free to choose on their own if they would like to have a platinum trophy or not."

 
tylerh1701 said:
A guy on reddit asked about how Platinum Trophies work, response is pretty much what we always see:

"This used to be the case [that developers had to "apply" for a platinum trophy], but things changed fairly recently, and now I believe developers are free to choose on their own if they would like to have a platinum trophy or not."
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Which makes it easier to see which devs care about trophies and which don't.

 
pitfallharry219 said:
I guess there are two novels that bookend the Shadow Complex story. I wasn't aware of them until I went to update my trophy card last night, and I happened to see this topic on Shadow Complex on the front page. The topic turned from someone talking about how they were looking forward to the game to someone saying they wouldn't support it because the guy who wrote the novels is a Mormon who hates gays, even though the writer had nothing to do with the game and only acquired rights to produce the books set in the universe.

Orson Scott Card is the author. The name seemed familiar to me, even though I had no idea who he was before reading his wikipedia page.

Anyway, Shadow Complex is awesome so far. Definitely worth $15 if you're on the fence.
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Oh, I didn't realize Orson Scott Card did Shadow Complex. Yeah, he's an asshole. He actually torpedoed the Ender's Game movie by making a bunch of stupid comments like that right before it released. People boycotted it in protest and Lionsgate had to make a statement about the views of the author not reflecting theirs.

I didn't realize he's Mormon. I just figured he's an asshole.

Edit: Oh, he didn't even come up with Shadow Complex in the first place, he just wanted to write licensed books about it. Skip to 9m:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70jw88ERrQ

 
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Salt and Sanctuary is going to have a limited physical release on PS4 but no other details available yet. Also the Vita port is still being worked on, but it's being handled by a porting studio, not in house.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
I am saddened every time my youngest begs for that steaming pile of crap. I have fought the good fight so far by saying it is not on sale. I am hoping he forgets about it by the time it does.
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You should be safe. It's not like there will be anything on tv 24/7 in a few months to remind him of its existence...

 
pitfallharry219 said:
I know that, Therm. That's why I wrote it in my post.
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Yeah, I read it when you posted it, but then got distracted while writing my post, looking up the details of the boycott (it was a few years ago now), and trying to get stuff done for a meeting I have in 16 minutes. Too many damn meetings lately and I always feel like I should have something to show I've been working (at least a little) since the past meeting. So annoying.

 
Pretty sure I have copies of both OSC books that Shadow Complex shares a universe with. Read the first one before shadow complex was announced, never got around to the second book. Definitely gonna have to pick up the PS4 version of the game eventually, I'm swimming in my psn backlog right now though. 

 
Sagemoon said:
Pretty sure I have copies of both OSC books that Shadow Complex shares a universe with. Read the first one before shadow complex was announced, never got around to the second book. Definitely gonna have to pick up the PS4 version of the game eventually, I'm swimming in my psn backlog right now though.
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I'm pretty sure he hates Pokemon weddings, just FYI.

 
Rocketbirds 2 review:

https://invertedaccess.com/2016/05/04/rocketbirds-2-evolution-review/

It's alright, the additional Rescue Mode is actually more fun, because you unlock new weapons with money and get armor and collect secrets and stuff. It has online and offline coop (and also can be played solo which is great) but i had issues getting a stable online match. 

If you played the first one, there's far less stealth in this one. It's just straight out action, shooting enemies and strafing back and forth.

 
Wrencrest said:
Gotta love it when another department wants you to double check their work! Corporate America! Lots of Love!
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We have to have a second tech review and verify any manual computer entry done in the lab.

All because someone screwed up when entering something, so it's assumed anyone can make that mistake.

"It's the process that is at fault, not the person. We need to fix the process."

:eye roll:

 
My wife is often asked to proofread material before it's sent out and constantly removes apostrophes from abbreviations and plurals at her workplace. People take her edited copies and then put the apostrophes back in. Like Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) becomes MIP'S because almost nobody at the Department of Children's Services understands what 's means when added to a word.  :wall:

Not corporate America, but close enough.

 
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tylerh1701 said:
Rocketbirds 2 review:

https://invertedaccess.com/2016/05/04/rocketbirds-2-evolution-review/

It's alright, the additional Rescue Mode is actually more fun, because you unlock new weapons with money and get armor and collect secrets and stuff. It has online and offline coop (and also can be played solo which is great) but i had issues getting a stable online match.

If you played the first one, there's far less stealth in this one. It's just straight out action, shooting enemies and strafing back and forth.
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I think you mean the opposite of what the sentence is saying in the first part (that they aren't enough to ruin the experience) based on the second part in your sentence "These issues add up to enough to ruin the experience, but they could all use a bit of refinement."

 
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Thermopyle said:
My wife is often asked to proofread material before it's sent out and constantly removes apostrophes from abbreviations and plurals at her workplace. People take her edited copies and then put the apostrophes back in. Like Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) becomes MIP'S because almost nobody at the Department of Children's Services understands what 's means when added to a word. :wall:

Not corporate America, but close enough.
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I used to do copy proofing for commercials and pitches and print ads and various other whatnot at the old ad agency I worked at and ran into the same thing all the time. Not with acronyms like that, but plenty of other WTF things. It's amazing some of these people writing the copy got jobs with such shitty grammar/spelling/punctuation.

 
guardian_owl said:
I think you mean the opposite of what the sentence is saying in the first part (that they aren't enough to ruin the experience) based on the second part. "These issues add up to enough to ruin the experience, but they could all use a bit of refinement."
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That second sentence doesn't make any sense. I think YOU'VE got it backward. Missing word "don't" I think.

EDIT: never the fuck ing mind.

 
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guardian_owl said:
I think you mean the opposite of what the sentence is saying in the first part (that they aren't enough to ruin the experience) based on the second part in your sentence "These issues add up to enough to ruin the experience, but they could all use a bit of refinement."
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Yup, missed a word there. Thanks!

 
Zimm108 said:
I used to do copy proofing for commercials and pitches and print ads and various other whatnot at the old ad agency I worked at and ran into the same thing all the time. Not with acronyms like that, but plenty of other WTF things. It's amazing some of these people writing the copy got jobs with such shitty grammar/spelling/punctuation.
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I guess the ones that fail are video game journalists.

 
Zimm108 said:
I used to do copy proofing for commercials and pitches and print ads and various other whatnot at the old ad agency I worked at and ran into the same thing all the time. Not with acronyms like that, but plenty of other WTF things. It's amazing some of these people writing the copy got jobs with such shitty grammar/spelling/punctuation.
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Those people got hired for their creativity. If they had impeccable spelling and grammar, you wouldn't have had a job.
 
Wrencrest said:
So does it really have team goals or objectives (not just number of kills) or is it mainly just competitive MP?
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I don't think you'll like it but you should try out the mp anyway. It's definitely team oriented as the best player on the team could be someone with zero kills.

tylerh1701 said:
Played the new Table Top Racing for a couple hours last night. It's pretty mundane. There are 20 "tracks", but really only 5 courses with 4 different routes for each. Makes it feel repetitive really quick.
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Yeah I played it a bit. Held my attention for a bit as it had some kart racing elements but then it died down hard.

 
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