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Joelbanks5

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    Joelbanks5 reacted to sazrocks in FaceID is 2.5 years ahead of the competition   
    We'll see. TouchID actually fails quite often for me since I often have sweaty hands (live in a hot climate); not uncommon to have to wipe both my thumb and the button down.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to ChineseChef in EU Piracy Report Suppression Raises Questions Over Transparency   
    There is also a 3rd.  The "I would buy it, but there is no legal way to buy it in my area"
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    Joelbanks5 got a reaction from TeckMonster in Anime Club - Heaven Society   
    I need more anime to watch! lol I finished the series I was watching and only have 1 movie I plan on watching and I have a long ass trip ahead of me. Can I get some recommendations for anime similar to what I've watched so far 
     
    the list of what I've seen in order of my favorite to least favorite:
    -koe no katachi
    -your lie in april
    -Orange
    -kimi no nawa
    -Kokoro connect
    -plastic memories
    -my teen romantic comedy snafu
    -5cm per second
    -the girl who leapt through time
    -tamako love story
     
    And I plan on watching wolf children. What other movies or series are there that are similar to these?
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to TacticlTwinkie in ESL Not Allowing Transgender CSGO Players Into Female Only Tournament   
    Is the ESL arguing that the players that are biologically male have some sort of advantage? There is a similar debate in combat sports, where trans-gendered athletes are having to compete in their biological sex's division. But there is some reason to this, as there are genetic differences in bone structure, bone density, angle of the hips (relates to kicking power), etc. I say all this to ask this question: Is there a biological advantage to being a genetic male in competitive gaming? I don't see one, but perhaps someone else knows if there is indeed one. Its the only logical reason for not allowing trans-gender competitors in a "All Female" video game tournament.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to EunSoo in The Acer Predator X27 has almost every feature you might ever want in a monitor   
    probably the reason they choose 27" is because for most people using it as a monitor on a desk, 32" is too big for them. Yes, there are plenty of people who would say the opposite but for a lot of people (including me) 27" is the sweet spot.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to Beskamir in What did you say? Lyrebird will mimic a voice for you.   
    This sounds like it'll be great for text to speech. Heck maybe we can finally have AI based voice acting in games opening the doors for much more dialog.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to PlayStation 2 in Man gets dragged off a plane (old, I know)   
    VeggieTales is an untapped gold mine of memes. 
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to Ostwind in Moon landing   
    them not believing the landings were real doesnt affect the fact that they were real, if they're going to go against all the evidence then let them languish in their stupidity.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to vanished in stuck in your radio   
    It gets locked.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to vanished in A Question   
    This is starting to cross the line into spam
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    Joelbanks5 got a reaction from Humbug in New Star Wars RPG in development   
    While mass effect andromeda did have a few fetch quests, there were far more elaborate and entertaining quests than those. And some of the fetch quests I honestly liked as they made me feel like I was making the outpost or whatever they are and planets more habitable and establishing the Milky Way species in the helius cluster more. The only fetch quests I remember just being an absolute grind was finding remnant tech for the museum, plants for hydroponics, plants for brewing, and ship wreckage from the turian ark.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to MimigaKing in Cloudbleed Questions answered by Vivaldi   
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to Agosto in Blizzard remasters original StarCraft   
    WARCRAFT PLS
     
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    Joelbanks5 got a reaction from Praesi in Mass Effect: Andromeda stats?   
    Yeah I agree with the story being a dumbed down version of the trilogy, it has a lot of the same ideas and concepts just re-skinned for the andromeda galaxy. 
     
    I think many of the side missions are great, mainly for me is the role playing perspective which I love how the implemented in this game. I don't normally do side quests but these ones are for the most part fun and they make me feel like I'm actually making the planet more habitable and what my when I complete them, which is the role playing part I like. As far as animations go I've got to say I haven't really seen as many weird animations (or maybe I just can't recall them) as everyone is saying there are. I've got a few weird facial animations towards the end of the story missions (the beginning didn't really have many) and other weird animations I have yet to see if I ever will. The eyes do some weird shit quite a bit though. My favorite improvement made in this installment to the series is the amount of dialogue and comments, only a few times in between story missions did I run into a time when I would talk to a team mate on the nexus or in Kadara port would they start repeating the same thing over and over (I absolutely hate it when that is in games), they had a lot to say about main missions but also because I played a lot of side missions they had small conversations about those or comments which is nice. The part I hate most about andromeda are the relationships, they really fell flat here, half the game you're flirting with them and nothing in their normal dialogue changes to show a growing relationship between you two and the other half you have one kinda meaningful scene with them that just isn't very good. 
     
    And your our friend is right about the combat, if you go down the combat tree or the tech tree it might be a little stale but when you play as a biotic going down the biotic tree it's so fun, you can dash all over the place from enemy to enemy with charge, throw people around like rag dolls, or ground pound near a group of enemies and send them all flying. This was a great improvement, though I will miss the shooting from cover for the kind of nostalgic feeling. One thing thy did that I don't like to achieve this is making all the enemies' abilities kit and their tactics to keep you out of cover. That's like the main and only purpose of all the enemies.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to Spork829 in The future of floatplane   
    blamedennis.exe
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to Ryoku in Mass Effect: Andromeda stats?   
    Word is that they scrapped the game after a year of trying to make it like No Mans Sky.  Which would explain the lack of polish in area's, doesn't excuse it though they should have delayed the game longer and released it in a more polished state.  Over all though I've been enjoying the game and have 60 hours into single player.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to Bouzoo in Physical retail stores are dying. Gamestop closing approx 225 stores worldwide.   
    I do buy more and more stuff digital, but that feeling when you go to a game store and they have everything, I feel like a happy little kid. Good luck getting that on Steam. 
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    Joelbanks5 got a reaction from BingoFishy in Quadcopter Deterrent   
    lol is there a video?
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    Joelbanks5 got a reaction from elfensky in Quadcopter Deterrent   
    lol is there a video?
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    Joelbanks5 got a reaction from JAKEBAB in Quadcopter Deterrent   
    lol is there a video?
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to shermantanker in No Man's Sky Pathfinder Update   
    I'm sure I'll check it out at some point down the road. This and the last update were pretty dang cool, but Mass Effect is out in less then 2 weeks. Gonna go dark for awhile with that.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to MEC-777 in Those Mass Effect System Recommendations Were For 30fps   
    How about; let's wait and see how it runs at release? lol
     
    I'm not too worried. If I have to turn settings down a little to achieve 60fps min. so be it. I'll be playing this for the story and gameplay, not eye candy. The ME series has never been among the more "pretty" games out there in the past. 
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to LAwLz in Bad practices, Unreliability and other reasons why ypou should NOT get the Floatplane club.   
    The way I see it, floatplane club is a donation and as a thank you for the donation, you get some extra stuff.
    Get it if you want to support Linus, and that by itself is enough of a reward for you.
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to LAwLz in Adam ruins everything legitimacy?   
    Haven't looked into it that show, but please bear in mind that it is possible to speak only truth and facts, and still be misleading.
     
    It's the same as with benchmarks. By cherry picking you can make any component be as good as any other one. 
     
    Telling the whole story is extremely important, but it's hard to know what the whole story is if you're not heavily invested in the subject. 
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    Joelbanks5 reacted to AlwaysFSX in f*ck computers   
    Hahaha. Building a computer is one of the easiest things to do.
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