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#1 · (Edited)
This title explains itself. No porn, bondage, or basically anything under the 18 year level.

My first random thought:

When I did my taxes the other day, I had a feeling that I would end up paying the Man around $1,000 like I payed last year. My taxt rep was looking through my info when he looked up and said "Do you love me?" This took me completly by surprise. Taking my agape jaw as indesicion, he asked again, "Im serious, do you love me or not?"

At this point I was planning my escape route (break his leg, leap over the cubicle and jump through the glass wall), I said "Well your.....um......ok....*tensing to run*
He said good, because I just saved your @$$ and you are a lucky b***. You owe the state $932. Wait for it, the Fed is kicking you back $934. And with some legal wrangling, I can increase the return so you can get an extra $75, which will go directly to me won't it? Now get out of here"

XD
 
#23,964 ·
I'm def going to get UE4.

Next week is when I'll have the funds for my new PC but since the parts are ÂŁ1200 total on the current build I'm thinking of getting the parts I'll upgrade more often second hand.

A GTX 770 is about ÂŁ250 new but a second hand R9 290 is ÂŁ200 and far faster, a good buy to keep a build going until maxwell in summer.
All those miners are jumping ship right now and offloading nice amd cards cheap. You can get 7970's for the price of a gtx 750ti.

So far I'm gonna get the SSD+PSU+290 in one block and when devils canyon is released in june bump in a new cpu+mobo+ram instead of jumping on a 4770k.

2 upgrades of about ÂŁ500 Pricey but it should be a build that lasts years with only a few GPU upgrades.


The indirect lighting! omg










Mirrors edge in ue4



Deus Ex in UE4





Just waiting for someone to import skyrim into it..
 
#23,965 ·
Pretty amazing stuff!

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On a random thought... how in hell can someone come to the idea to pay money just to look like Justin Bieber? or sixpack implanted? i mean... WTF? humanity got that low already?
 
#23,968 ·
Pretty amazing stuff!

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On a random thought... how in hell can someone come to the idea to pay money just to look like Justin Bieber? or sixpack implanted? i mean... WTF? humanity got that low already?
All I can say that the US in particular is obsessed with plastic surgery, and I think it's ridiculous really. Most of the time it's really obvious, so defeats the whole purpose. Usually it turns out badly, like all nose and boob jobs. People who seek plastic surgery should tackle why they feel so insecure about how they look rather than seek to be different. Life should be about accepting yourself, and not caring about what society feels about you. Maybe it's a fear of rejection that they have to sort out somehow.

Weird interview, Bethenny talks out about plastic surgery but has had obvious facial surgery. Maybe they are making a ton of money out of all this though.
 
#23,969 ·
Although it's a matter of semantics, you should distinguish between plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery. Plastic surgery's goal is to restore form and function, so it's pretty much indispensable in this day and age, while cosmetic surgery is a type of plastic surgery. What you're describing is the latter. I pointed this out, because people tend to think plastic surgeons spend their lives doing nose-jobs and boob-jobs, while this isn't necessarily true.

In my opinion, people who care about what society feels about them are the one's who probably need it. I'm referring to people with disfigurement, be it from birth or from an accident. Those people will always be stared at, so if plastic surgery corrects their issue and if it improves their self-esteem I support it.

On the other hand, people who don't fall in this category and who probably don't need cosmetic surgery know they won't look any better for a lot of people, but they will feel better about themselves and this is why they make the decision to undergo surgery. Even if you're rejecting the body you grew up with, if you'll feel better about yourself regardless of what others think, I support it.
 
#23,970 ·
It's me or this guy got payed by Apple or someone else? look at this two videos, pay attention at the first one and then look at the second one. There is definitely something fishy here.


Damn, that PC looks like a stupid waste of money. (link: PARTS)

#EDIT: Also, no love for Blender. Multiplatform and would've rendered super fast with CUDA. But wait, money was wasted on two FirePro cards.... agh, stupid waste of money.
 
#23,971 ·
The funny part is that in the first video they choosed a PC that was capable to beat the Mac Pro by a big margin because PCs are simply faster at such a price tag. In the second video they came with more money and then allegaly the Mac Pro beated a 4k dollars PC which is fishy. One thing i have to say is that i own several tablets and PCs with SSD and Windows 8 installed and absolutely none of them ever need 30+ seconds to boot as i'm able to boot in less than 5 seconds. In fact, not even my VAIO TAP 20 which is equiped with a internal 2.5" HDD require more than 10 seconds to boot Windows 8.
 
#23,973 ·
The funny part is that in the first video they choosed a PC that was capable to beat the Mac Pro by a big margin because PCs are simply faster at such a price tag. In the second video they came with more money and then allegaly the Mac Pro beated a 4k dollars PC which is fishy. One thing i have to say is that i own several tablets and PCs with SSD and Windows 8 installed and absolutely none of them ever need 30+ seconds to boot as i'm able to boot in less than 5 seconds. In fact, not even my VAIO TAP 20 which is equiped with a internal 2.5" HDD require more than 10 seconds to boot Windows 8.
If you have a $4,000 PC, the boot time is 0 because it's on 24/7.
It comes down to this, if you have an expensive PC, it's because you actually need it, you're a power user.
If you have an expensive mac, it's because you want to take pictures of it to post on whatever flavour of the month blog you're using.
 
#23,974 ·
Years of forced exposure to bullshot conditioning are keeping me sceptic about Unreal 4. Design makes the difference, not the technologies. I'd rather see procedural environment generating made the norm, it scales better than spamming a game's scenes with superheavy ultraHD textures (80 gigabyte games coming soon. Such bandwidth friendly, much overage, wow!) and calling it the 8th wonder of the world.

At least it'll democratize access to higher level engines, but nowadays everyone is doing the same except Unity which severely limits access to difference-making features.
 
#23,978 ·
.... and Microsoft listened my request! today i just got this response on my mail:

Allow .NET games on Xbox One
(No Status)
Thanks to everyone for contributing to this UserVoice request. As was tweeted by @joebelfiore during BUILD 2014, support for C# development will be coming to Xbox. Please stay tuned for more information. The .NET Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dotnet) is the best way to stay up to date with the latest in .NET.

Habib Heydarian,
.NET Team


Visual Studio team
Product Team, Microsoft
This means that soon enough my apps/games are going to be available on the Xbox One.
 
#23,980 ·
I have some projects here that for now i'm keeping secret. The ability to code universal apps is gonna make the process easy and one of the things i definitely love about what MS did recently. Basically means 1 app/game logic that runs in all devices with special views for each one to fit them best, 1 development time, multiple releases, more profit... how cool is that? personally i hate to say this but development-wise MS tools are light years ahead of the competition.
 
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