Say Nothing posted:

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Explain more. I haven't followed any of the XBone drama since they backtracked from everything they said at E3.

Say Nothing posted:

Farecoal posted:

It's a weak piece of crap with voice controls that don't work about 50% of the time, a useless but mandatory Kinect camera that makes it cost $100 more than it's more powerful competitor, a confusing and awkward UI, stereo sound only, a massive Day One update required to remove all the DRM stuff, a controller that cost $100 million dollars to make worse than the 360's, makes the image quality of whatever cable box or other media equipment you plug into it worse, doesn't even act as a DVR, has lovely launch titles that cost $60 and yet have "micro"transactions, and can barely display games at 900p resolution without chugging framerate wise.

tldr: Half of it's features are broken and don't work or are missing, it is lovely and underpowered as a game console, and yet people (on SA even) are still getting it.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Beautiful. I'm no console warrior but gently caress Microsoft for the stupid poo poo they tried to pull with this thing. (No used games/mandatory Kinetic/mandatory internet connection, etc) I was worried after their backtracking that the thing might not be a disaster.

Say Nothing posted:

Farecoal posted:

It's a weak piece of crap with voice controls that don't work about 50% of the time, a useless but mandatory Kinect camera that makes it cost $100 more than it's more powerful competitor, a confusing and awkward UI, stereo sound only, a massive Day One update required to remove all the DRM stuff, a controller that cost $100 million dollars to make worse than the 360's, makes the image quality of whatever cable box or other media equipment you plug into it worse, doesn't even act as a DVR, has lovely launch titles that cost $60 and yet have "micro"transactions, and can barely display games at 900p resolution without chugging framerate wise.

tldr: Half of it's features are broken and don't work or are missing, it is lovely and underpowered as a game console, and yet people (on SA even) are still getting it.

Leper Residue posted:

I was gonna say this is the nerdiest rage I've seen, but then I stepped into the Xbone thread on games and wow, the anger.

canyoneer posted:

Leper Residue posted:

I don't know who these two people are, but the look on the refs face just seals the deal.

Farecoal posted:

It's a weak piece of crap with voice controls that don't work about 50% of the time, a useless but mandatory Kinect camera that makes it cost $100 more than it's more powerful competitor, a confusing and awkward UI, stereo sound only, a massive Day One update required to remove all the DRM stuff, a controller that cost $100 million dollars to make worse than the 360's, makes the image quality of whatever cable box or other media equipment you plug into it worse, doesn't even act as a DVR, has lovely launch titles that cost $60 and yet have "micro"transactions, and can barely display games at 900p resolution without chugging framerate wise.

tldr: Half of it's features are broken and don't work or are missing, it is lovely and underpowered as a game console, and yet people (on SA even) are still getting it.

pentyne posted:

Is the always connected Kinect feature still required? Because I'm pretty sure if the console requires an active camera broadcasting it'll be banned from any military base (which are big purchasers of game consoles)

Leper Residue posted:

I don't know who these two people are, but the look on the refs face just seals the deal.

Farecoal posted:

tldr: Half of it's features are broken and don't work or are missing, it is lovely and underpowered as a game console, and yet people (on SA even) are still getting it.

Inco posted:

The Kinect is no longer required. If it's active, the microphone will always be listening, but the camera won't be on all the time.

Sexgun Rasputin posted:

The person being punched is Anderson Silva, arguably one of the best fighting dudes ever. He was defending his title as middleweight champ, showing extreme contempt for his opponent by keeping his hands at his sides and dancing like an idiot and doing big keanu matrix leans to be like "haw you can't touch me" and the other dude did a combo that was one punch too many and turned his lights out.

Farecoal posted:

tldr: Half of it's features are broken and don't work or are missing, it is lovely and underpowered as a game console, and yet people (on SA even) are still getting it.

Elfface posted:

It picks up voice commands from game/TV/voice-chat audio. Yes, if you say 'Xbox turn off, confirm' over chat in a game, you can turn off your opponent's console.

Elfface posted:

The 'ultimate home media device' turns surround-sound for anything except itself into stereo.
It picks up voice commands from game/TV/voice-chat audio. Yes, if you say 'Xbox turn off, confirm' over chat in a game, you can turn off your opponent's console.

canyoneer posted:

Beeswax posted:

As Sexgun Rasputin already said, the guy getting punched is Anderson Silva, one of the best MMA fighters of all time. The guy punching him is Chris Weidman. Anderson Silva was defending his UFC Middleweight title, which he had held since 2006 and defended 11 times (while occasionally taking fights in a higher weight class as well). Silva is well-known for taunting his opponents by dropping his hands and asking them to hit him, only to dodge everything that's thrown at him.

Basically, watch from 2:50 onwards (and ignore the desynched audio)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa6vj9_aderson-silvads-vs-forrest-griffin_sport

He did this in pretty much all his fights.
Anyway, after Weidman clipped him with a jab Silva did a big cartoony show of being wobbly-legged and dazed. Weidman proceeded to punch him again and ended the longest winning streak in UFC history. Welp.

A lot of people were happy to see Silva get his comeuppance as his arrogance had rubbed people the wrong way even if he is a fantastic fighter. Others (like me) still like him because it's funny watching him clown on people.

edit: Seriously, watch the Weidman match. It is quite something.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11lgtz_ufc-162-anderson-silva-vs-chris-weidman-full-fight-video_sport

veedubfreak posted:

That was one of the most boring fights I've ever seen. It was like watching my cats fight. Dance dance dance, jab, roll around on the floor a bit, freeze, roll some more, freeze, kick kick, stand back up.

LeJackal posted:

So pretty much all MMA fights.

FogHelmut posted:

Yes, the thousands of tons of speeding steel remained perfectly safe.

Basebf555 posted:

MMA can be kind of like a sword fight in the sense that in most cases one mistake can end the fight instantly. Its not like boxing where your expected to take a certain amount of punishment every fight(unless youre Mayweather I guess). MMA fighters like to feel each other out and the first round is often fought pretty conservatively, especially in the high stakes fights at the top level of the sport. You don't usually see guys just standing toe to toe duking it out unless it is a low level/underground event, or the two fighters are just lovely and got matched up because Dana White(head of UFC) knows that they'll pound each others faces for our entertainment. Those kind of fighters rarely actually get anywhere in the sport as far as wins and championships go.

pentyne posted:

Because I'm pretty sure if the console requires an active camera broadcasting it'll be banned from any military base (which are big purchasers of game consoles)

TheSpiritFox posted:

Forums, gaming, and personal schadenfreude.

Forums first. I'm sure some of our readers have heard about Reddit and Pedogeddon. When their jailbait subforums were aired on Anderson Cooper from a "Holy poo poo this exists I'm Anderson Cooper and I'm loving horrified" point of view. Many of us were disappointed at the outcome, overall. Reddit took over a year to genuinely shut down the CP trade going through their site. They shut down the primary subforums complained about, but Reddit can just pop up new ones and did. The guy (Violentacrez) who was basically the ringleader seemed like he was just going to go about his merry life stealing pictures off of facebook and posting them into a creepy subreddit.

The last I heard until the new GBS 2.1 Reddit.jpg thread, that's where it ended. Reddit finally self policed, dude got away scott free, life went on, and the pedos probably just took that poo poo to PMs and IRC or something.

And then I got to watch the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6plIjdaVGA

That is some weapons grade loving schadenfreude there

FogHelmut posted:

You tell that to Don Frye

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

TheSpiritFox posted:

Forums, gaming, and personal schadenfreude.

Forums first. I'm sure some of our readers have heard about Reddit and Pedogeddon. When their jailbait subforums were aired on Anderson Cooper from a "Holy poo poo this exists I'm Anderson Cooper and I'm loving horrified" point of view. Many of us were disappointed at the outcome, overall. Reddit took over a year to genuinely shut down the CP trade going through their site. They shut down the primary subforums complained about, but Reddit can just pop up new ones and did. The guy (Violentacrez) who was basically the ringleader seemed like he was just going to go about his merry life stealing pictures off of facebook and posting them into a creepy subreddit.

The last I heard until the new GBS 2.1 Reddit.jpg thread, that's where it ended. Reddit finally self policed, dude got away scott free, life went on, and the pedos probably just took that poo poo to PMs and IRC or something.

And then I got to watch the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6plIjdaVGA

TheSpiritFox posted:

Next, gaming schadenfreude. Hopefully this story reaches some new ears, because it's my favorite. For those that don't know, EVE online is an MMO that is "being a psychopathic rear end in a top hat in a world with no consequences the game" basically. You buy ships and stuff for those ships, and then people blow your ships up and you lost most or all of the poo poo you were just flying and go buy new ships and poo poo. They let you buy in game currency with time cards or spend currency on those cards to extend your playtime without paying, lets people buy EVEgold(isk). So any ship has a dollar amount based on how much it's worth and how many cards you could buy for that value. The big ships are worth literally thousands of real world dollars, but take a shitload of people to destroy and enough time that usually the big ship owner has time to try to summon help and get himself out of the situation.

And then comes this story. Plex (time cards) are actual items in game until you use them, which is what lets you list them on markets. You can give them to a character, you can sell them to people, you can use them.

And you can put them in the cargo hold of a ship and transport them.

Cue some idiot flying around in one of the weaker small ships with a cargo hold of destructible money. When you blow up a ship, everything is either blown up or dropped into a salvageable wreck, cargo hold stuff included. What survives is pretty random, but there is a chance that blowing up a ship with good poo poo means you might get to take some of that good poo poo for yourself.

Well, that didn't happen this time. Two dudes encountered a ship which they scanned (because you can do that) to see 74 plex in the cargo hold. That's a little over 1200 dollars in real life dollars. So they blew it up, hoping for spoils of war. They got none, all 74 plex were destroyed when the ship was. And because the rules specifically allow this kind of thing, that's 1200 dollars that CCP (the owner of EVE online) had spent on their game that just vanished into a black hole, basically. Gone and unrecoverable. And the two instigators, though they did not get money for what they did, became somewhat e-famous for having blown up 1200 dollars of someone else's money in a manner which was both legal and acceptable to the rules of the game. Further, unlike a Titan kill, this was some tiny cruiser that probably died in less than four salvos. Probably less than a minute from when he got scanned to when he died, with zero chance of doing a single drat thing to stop it or save himself and his cargo.

And the absolute best part? There is never, ever a reason to load a plex into a ship, really. Plex are given to an account, which can then be given directly to a character wherever that character is. You can fly your character in the cheapest shittiest newbie ship that you get for free for dying, and then once you arrive at your destination you can give that character all of the plex you want and move it directly to the station, never exposing any of it to the guns of other players. This is the preferred way to get plex to a major market hub.

Beeswax posted:

As Sexgun Rasputin already said, the guy getting punched is Anderson Silva, one of the best MMA fighters of all time. The guy punching him is Chris Weidman. Anderson Silva was defending his UFC Middleweight title, which he had held since 2006 and defended 11 times (while occasionally taking fights in a higher weight class as well). Silva is well-known for taunting his opponents by dropping his hands and asking them to hit him, only to dodge everything that's thrown at him.

Basically, watch from 2:50 onwards (and ignore the desynched audio)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa6vj9_aderson-silvads-vs-forrest-griffin_sport

He did this in pretty much all his fights.

TheSpiritFox posted:

Well, that didn't happen this time. Two dudes encountered a ship which they scanned (because you can do that) to see 74 plex in the cargo hold. That's a little over 1200 dollars in real life dollars. So they blew it up, hoping for spoils of war. They got none, all 74 plex were destroyed when the ship was. And because the rules specifically allow this kind of thing, that's 1200 dollars that CCP (the owner of EVE online) had spent on their game that just vanished into a black hole, basically. Gone and unrecoverable. And the two instigators, though they did not get money for what they did, became somewhat e-famous for having blown up 1200 dollars of someone else's money in a manner which was both legal and acceptable to the rules of the game. Further, unlike a Titan kill, this was some tiny cruiser that probably died in less than four salvos. Probably less than a minute from when he got scanned to when he died, with zero chance of doing a single drat thing to stop it or save himself and his cargo.