The Bard

That takes the biscuit, the cake and pretty much the entire bakery for the world's most sober description of one's own love life

Is BF4 even worth getting if you already have BF3 Premium?

Well I just bought a new GPU. MSI Twin Frozr R9 290 should pretty much set me up for 1080p gaming this entire gen. The thing about PC gaming though, is that I don't have any friends that are PC gamers, and there are barely any people on this forum either who prefer to get multi-platform releases on PC. I'm kind of getting sick of jumping into Planetside or Titanfall by myself. If any of you guys play frequently, hit me up my Steam and Origin Ids are both Audioserf. Playing FPS just isn't the same unless you got someone to shoot the shit with. Both literally and figuratively.

As @Ashley has said before, my rage is my most attractive attribute

The most important thing, and probably the hardest thing to gauge when you're in those flirtatious and fun first months because the other person can just seem amenable and kind because of that intense emotional energy you/ they have in the first stages of the relationship. Definitely the thing I value the most in my gal. Especially important if you're an asshole (guilty).

They're not going to do that though man.

I'd straight up buy a Wii U for kicks and upscaled VC games if they ditched the shitty controller and took eighty to a hundred pounds off the price.

Looking at the recommended watch dogs specs and wondering how long my i5 2500k is going to be competitive this generation. I did find the eight core cpu recommendation a little ridiculous to be honest - hoping it'll scale fine to a quad core. Really good move on EA's part, everyone with a half decent PC should get on this. Although a caveat; it plays a lot better with a controller.

I could live off Nando's peri peri salt.

@Frank, that whole story just made me want to watch Before Sunrise again. Your life reads like a discursive passage in a Fitzgerald novel.

Forever this. I had a long talk with Goron and Fused King on the podcast about what makes Metroid what it is. By design it forces you to create a visuospatial map in your head of where important points in the world are located. That's the mechanism by which it works. Why else would it be fun to get a new power, if it didn't give you a eureka moment when you realise that it can be applied to all these places you remember going to but couldn't access? By not holding your hand, it forces you to pay attention, which is very rare in games. To give you the ability to save anywhere would fly in the face of that completely.

Today I had to read this thread; it was a bummer

That suit is dope. I was looking at getting one that was a bit darker than that, but had a sort of gloss to the material. Then I realised I can't pull off anything that isn't black. It was like that one Matthew McConaughey was wearing on the Graham Norton show a few weeks back. Not that I watch the Graham Norton show.

Thanks, you're right. It's been a while since I did any reading on it. Isn't KHz indicative of kb/s though, since the greater the frequency of the samples, the more data there is to encode? But my point still stands; physical media is a different (for me: better) way to experience music. Edit: @Moogle, Oh I see what I was doing; using kb/s and KHz interchangeably. My bad. And there's no corresponding data on Vinyl sampling frequency because Vinyl encoding isn't to do with sampling, it's a more direct recording?

Shut up guys, you're harshing kav's buzz.

I don't know, in my mind people like him only really serve as a very visible lightning rod for batshit opinions that reasonable people can look at as a foil against which to judge how they shouldn't be.

We studied it, but I don't remember too much of what I learned. Either way, you have to admit it has a more familiar feel than ancient Egypt.

Actually Moogle's right, because digital music is encoded as a series of data points that are then interpreted by a machine, it can be more faithful to all of the overtones (frequency integer multiples that give any given instrument its timbral character), whereas with Vinyl music is encoded in terms of the variations in the depths of the grooves, there's a physical limit to the depth of bass and the dynamic range that you can record onto Vinyl. This difficulty is actually what gives Vinyls their "warmer" sound by the way; the overtone signature of bass instruments is reduced, making it a bit more soft). Though Vinyls usually match the traditional 44kbps you get on CD recordings (occasionally better, often worse because of damage, at least I think - not sure if the figures Moogle gave on projected "bit rate" equivalent on Vinyls is accurate) they can't come close to the 360kbps and beyond that you get on the highest quality digital recordings (yes, even MP3s). If you're going to conduct an argument for Vinyl, you sort of have to do it on an experiential basis rather than a sound quality basis.

North African cities and civilizations were magnificent though. Just look at reconstructions of Carthage for example which actually exists in a game (Rome 2: Total War. Ancient Egyptian civilization was quite expansive for its time and very wealthy as well. For the game, they obviously wouldn't be thinking of 3000BC, they'd be thinking more of the time around 500BC-100CE when Egypt had a lot of commerce with Greece and finally Rome, and there was a lot of cultural exchange going on. From artistic reconstructions of ancient Egyptian cities they look really architecturally interesting, if not the same scale as revolutionary France, and I've never played anything that takes a look at the events and culture of something from that timeframe, whereas anyone who took a fucking history class in the western world knows about the French Revolution.

Nobody really thinks that the quality is better, but Vinyl is more about nostalgia for a time when listening to music was more its own experience than something you do in the background while scrolling twitter. When I have Spotify open, I'm obviously near an internet device. With Vinyl, I'm in my living room, sitting on my couch with no distractions, and little choice but to listen to the thing until the whole side is finished playing. It might seem odd that I like a format for the constraints it puts on my ability to choose, but for me as someone with a roving focus of attention, it's just like taking a weekend trip to the lake district and bringing nothing with you but food and a book - the fewer stimuli in your environment, the better you're going to remember the one thing you have to focus on. It takes me back to when I didn't have a computer as a teenager, and ever week I'd go to Music Zone and pick up a few CDs for a fiver a piece, and sit there listening to them without thinking about anything else. So for me, it's totally to do with a love for the analogue age, and that when I think back and remember the experience of listening to an album, the memory isn't cluttered with all the detritus of modern living. Of course, that's a highly subjective set of criteria, so I'm not saying that I like it because it's better

I thought the Incredibles wasn't terrible, just completely unmemorable. It sits alongside Monsters Inc and Cars as my least favourite Pixar films. To be honest, while I love Pixar wholeheartedly, nothings ever going to replace cel animation for me. I think I'll watch The Iron Giant tonight. Also, I saw The Secret of Nimh for the first time ever a few days ago. It was immense.

Ah, gracias señor. Looks like a whole lot of discussion .

The final episode, when they arrive, is some of the most tense television I've ever seen. Great show, pitching Gyllenhaal and Jackman to reprise their roles from Prisoners in Season 2

Did anyone here catch True Detective?

Can't stop listening to this. The guitar interlude is one of the most beautiful passages I've ever heard.