TheMightyEthan

Scientists grow human brain (equivalent to 5-week fetus) in a lab. I'm normally on board with the progress of science, but this makes me a little uncomfortable... Not this brain specifically, but where this line of research could lead.

That's intense...

I've never seen an ad longer than 30 seconds that I couldn't skip.

I just finished Shadow of Mordor: Lord of the Hunt. It was a nice little addition to the main game, though ultimately not very meaty. Still, it got me back to Mordor so that was nice.

Stealth demonstration: I still need to see more of Uncharted, but so far I am looking forward to this game much much more.

I've definitely heard people say "ninety-whatever hundred", but I agree the hundreds system gets less common the closer to 10,000 you get. The woman didn't actually sound British to me, but she did sound like she had a little bit of a British accent on top of whatever she originally had. Though it's possible you're right and it's actually just a US accent I'm not familiar with.

I wish they would just balance things separately for crucible and PvE.

The wolf packs are the entire nerfing process: they're reducing the damage each wolf pack round does, leaving everything else the same.

We only say the hundred thing for numbers less than ten thousand, and not for even thousands. So 2000 would always be two thousand, 2100 would be twenty-one hundred, 2150 would be twenty-one fifty (which can actually lead to confusion when talking about money, because $21.50 would also be twenty-one fifty). That's all in addition to the other way of actually saying two thousand one hundred and fifty, which would obviously also be understood, it's just less common in speaking. And for anything 10,000 or more you would never do the hundreds thing. Another thing we do that I'd be interested to know if you guys do is like with 301 instead of saying three hundred and one we would usually say three oh one. Or like 356 would be three fifty-six. Do you guys do that too?

So apparently Gjallarhorn is not among the exotics that you will be able to upgrade beyond 365. That's fine, whatever, but it does raise the question of why are they bothering nerfing it if it's going to be obsolete anyway?

I just got far enough to understand what you meant about houses being in the thousands. I don't know how it works at other places in the country, but around here at least you typically have a central east-west street and a central north-south street (because everything's on a grid), and the numbers count out from there. So say Main Street runs north-south and is the central street for address purposes, and you have numbered streets that run east-west (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc). If you're in the first block to the east of Main Street then the number part of your address would be 1XX - the XX standing in for the specific building number. If you're in the second block east then it would be 2XX. Often odd numbers are on one side of the street and evens on the other, so the address on the south side of 3rd street to the east of Main might go 101 E 3rd, 103 E 3rd, 105 E 3rd, etc. Then in the next block, the second block east of Main, they'd be 201 E 3rd, 203 E 3rd... The north side of the street would then have all the even numbers, so it'd be 102 E 3rd, 104 E 3rd, etc. On the west side of Main it would work the same way, but you'd be counting the other direction, and they'd be W 3rd instead of E 3rd. So you get to the thousands once you get more than 10 blocks away from the central street. North-south running streets would work basically the same way, but north-south. Some towns start off in the thousands, so like the first block would be 1XXX instead of 1XX, but otherwise would work the same. It's a very systematic way of naming things that can be useful for navigating. If you tell me an address in town then just based on the address I have some idea of where it is, without any other information (especially if it's on a numbered street).

There's a Twitch archive up, and Eurogamer has a pretty good text rundown: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-19-everything-we-learnt-about-destiny-the-taken-king-tonight

Something interesting to me about that video is how the guy who's been living there for 10 years still has what I would call Generic American accent, but the lady who's been living their for 13 years has a touch of a British accent.

Is there any brick-and-mortar store that will actually price-match an online sale?

No, I've never heard that before.

Do you have an Nvidia or AMD card? If you have Nvidia, open the Nvidia Control Panel, click on "Adjust desktop size and position" on the left pane, click the "Size" tab at the top, check "Enable desktop resizing", then click the "Resize..." button. That will bring up an interface that allows you to adjust the horizontal and vertical size to account for overscan.

I don't know what I just watched, but it looked hard as shit.

Did they turn up the orb drop rate on strikes? Because Jesus Christ I'm getting a lot of them.

Yeah. And really it's just the first part of the first that's great, the second half is not as good. I actually liked the GGO first half of 2 better than the second half of the first.

Yeah, I'd like a Surface Pro 3 to replace my laptop and Nexus 7.

Welp, guess I'm playing Destiny again.

You could do the things gradually so that you correct the bubble without crashing it.

Yeah, see, I'm not particularly interested in a single one of those games you mentioned. Yeah, I'm with Hottie on this. I'm definitely getting Halo 5 in October, maybe getting FO4 and/or Tomb Raider in November, but that's it. AC:S I'll possibly get on sale sometime next year, and Mad Max I'll probably get after a price drop too.