Uh huh.

I don't ever make a fuss about that. I figure the games that are worth my time I'll discover naturally. I would like to have a PS4 for some sequels, but I cannot justify the purchase at the moment so I'll probably wait a few years and see if I can get one cheaper and hope it lasts me long enough to enjoy what I'm missing.

I recently updated my website to include the SpeedHack/TINS games I hadn't uploaded there yet and saw that the zip to what happens to be my most recent game had the title misspelled. Was too lazy to fix.

Those are some pretty graphics, Chris. I'd rather games focus more attention on game-play rather than visuals though. Especially in games where the goal is to be as photo-realistic as possible. Most photo-realistic games do not age well. I much prefer more stylized visuals. Just take The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess for example (both Zelda games). The former released in 2002, and the latter in 2006. Despite this, The Wind Waker has aged much better and still looks good today compared to Twilight Princess, and this is due to the former opting for a cartoon art style while the latter went for a good-for-the-time photo-realistic art style. This is even more evident in both games' HD remasters, where The Wind Waker still looked much better and newer than Twilight Princess, and it mostly boils down to art style. Though I imagine this will be less of an issue as graphics technologies continue to improve in the future.

Also, even though the CG girl looks quite real, it still doesn't look absolutely real. It looks good, but still approaches the uncanny valley some. Her skin looks slightly wet or like it's made of some material better suited for a creepy doll. It just feels off. I wouldn't say she looks creepy, but it's close. Probably more mesmerizing than anything though.

One thing that needs to be recognized is that real is not perfect. For something to look real, it usually cannot be perfect. Typically video game characters are designed to be perfect.

Unfortunately, perfect sells very well, even though it's less real. It's not every day that we get legitimate characters that are flawed or less than perfect. When we do they're usually gems though.

Basketball-sized breasts in pornography is basically the same thing. This has probably rarely, if ever, happened in real life. I personally think they look ugly. It almost seems like everybody is coerced to think they're great so they're not called a faggot (Firefox is trying to correct my spelling, as if I haven't typed it enough in online gaming).

It seems like "normal" people prefer to act in a way that everybody else agrees with, but unfortunately they aren't steering towards a true group consensus which should bias towards good decisions, but they elect the biggest idiots to be the group leaders and everybody has to follow them. It's basically politics.

Attractive Asian girl is kind of a win on every checklist. Not that I'm for "fat positivity" or whatever it's called, but the reality is that they'd have a lot more difficulty selling the quality of the graphics on a fat chick. Let that sink in for a second before you blow your load. Your brain is easily fooled. We're probably watching most of these videos in SD or maybe HD at best unless you go out of your way to select 4K. And yet somehow they look amazing even in SD. It's the same basic tricks that have been played for a decade and beyond.

What's notable is that I didn't see any actual games there. Not even real game demos. Just graphics demonstrations. And I bet you they cheat as much as possible.

I just started playing The Witcher 3. I was impressed by the demos back when it was new, and had the impression that it was a more impressive Skyrim. It kept going on sale on GOG DRM free and so I finally bit. Started playing it and I'm extremely underwhelmed. It seems not at all to be what I was baited by. It might not be a waste of money at the price that I paid (I think about $25 or less), but I'd be rather upset if I paid full price. At least so far. Mind you, I'm completely new to the Witcher series. But if they reached me with marketing they were obviously targeting me because I didn't seek them out. So they'll take my criticisms and like it.

I remember getting the Witcher 3 for free because that happened to be some deal with a video card I bought. (Actually, I think the timing had it so I basically "pre-ordered" it. I remember having to download the GOG client to download the game as well.) Graphically, I was amazed at how much detail was being put into games now, and that was it. I felt the game wasn't a game that targeted me, so I didn't play too long. If it was for the card I have now, I most likely wanted to play GTA V at a higher quality than the card it replaced.

I'm betting we're going to need either 32769 or 2147483649 posts for that to happen...

Though it's 2018 so maybe we'd need 9223372036854775809...

I believe it used to be MySQL, but there's no guarantee that it still is (but I would bet on it).

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Your descendants damn well better be Allegro. CC Forum members or they'll be hell to pay

You forgot the commandant to be fruitful and multiply

Too bad there aren't any girls here.

That's an eyepatch, not a club. I'll ask my sister to join. That'd be a start.

Edit
Bambams should invite his fiance here. Also, happy 1000th day of this thread's existence!