Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

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  1. j.p.

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    We all take turns at the radio broadcasting to the fillings in your teeth.
     
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    Damn it, knew I should have been wearing my foil hat more...
     
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    Because they tell me the same things. well at least similar.
     
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    Hey guys. Important news.

    Kenny Loggins Will Re-Record Danger Zone for Top Gun 2

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  6. j.p.

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    Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot predicts that the speed of light will be much faster by 2027. Or alternately has admitted he doesn't know the difference between bandwidth and latency. Either way he's steering his company right into that iceberg.
     
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    Uhhh... actually, it's a Viable Technology. Yes, my company has built something for it. Yes, I've tried it. I couldn't fucking tell the difference, and I was as skeptical as you when I first heard of it! I don't know how it'd play for all games, but for Tomb Raider I didn't know I was playing stream.
     
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    That's a little different than what I think he's talking about. I could see streaming from a PC 30' away being playable, even on commodity hardware, and even on peoples' garbage WiFi. Streaming over the Internet runs up against the laws of physics pretty hard though. Unless maybe you've got datacenters in every city bigger than 100k people but I sincerely doubt that's what Ubisoft has in mind.
     
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    it's more about -what- you're streaming really, the most complicated part of gaming while streaming is simply your interface, but as long as your wireless can deliver the video faster than you can react to it (which really isn't that impressive, at 30fps you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference) and since you're usually delivering to a much smaller screen size, you don't really need 1080 or HD and I can reliably stream 480p on airport wifi. On top of that upload and download are separate signals and you're pretty much looking at a reasonable level of viability. Of course, anything wireless is bound to suffer some growing pains 'went through a tunnel, got back my character was being mauled by rats' Computers still have a hard time distinguishing between no input and no connection, the reverse can happen too 'oh god I'm getting mauled by rats, run away! fck can't run, rubberbanding!' This usually occurs when your computer, which uses predictive algorithms to guess where you would be going based on your last received input, does not then receive further input and therefor assumes you have not moved, then it receives input and resumes moving. Now adding in things like touch screen interactions and such will make this more complex, but given the current level of wireless, I think it's well within reasonable parameters. Give it another technical generation and it may not just be viable, but commonplace.
     
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    Just... What in the fuckery?
     
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    Seriously who ruins perfectly good jello for a meme?
     
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    All I can guess is, maybe didn't bother to open the case before powering up, and they had packing foam inside? I mean it looks like the end results of an electrical fire with firestop, but that'd be a whole lot of firestop inside one computer...
     
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    I'm pretty sure that it's actually the first stage of a Zerg infestation.
     
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    well then we're all screwed, because I don't think we have anywhere near the level of hardware we need to stave off a zerg swarm.
     
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    Maybe also a hell creature invasion. Where is the doom trooper?
     
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    I can not believe I actually thought you all knew what heresy looks like.

    That is obviously the computer of a heretic that has been corrupted by Khorne.

    This whole thread needs to be purged now..
     
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    nah, not enough blood.
     
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    Seems as if you know to much information on this matter, you must be a heretic.
     
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