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Can't hear other players voice chat
by The_Lady_A- 2 followers
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At the moment voice chat isn't working for me, to the point where I can't hear other players. The only time it has worked is in the lobbies before missions and in ps4 party. It's set to 'everyone' in the interaction menu so I don't know why it doesn't work. Could someone help me with this please?
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Be My Eyes
by zmurko- 1 reply
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http://bemyeyes.com/ So simple, yet so revolutionary, amazing idea. Congratulations Denmark!
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shopping at Gamestop
by Sinister- 1 follower
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Not safe for work, kids, school or anyone offended by bad words.
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I am looking for a videoplayer for my Android. It needs to be able to play most formats from a NAS and stream them to a chromecast unit. Any ideas?
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Android vs iOS
by Nagvera- 6 replies
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I know it has probably been asked before a million times but I've got a really good connection when it comes to Apple, I love how it all works together and being part of what I do what do you guys think? Do any of you even use iPhones? I'm interested how many members of XDBX use android or iOS! Let me know what you prefer!
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Unreal Engine at the GDC 2017
by Smurf- 1 follower
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Minute 18:10 was my personal highlight, it will work wonders in a simulated game mode
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Where do you see computers 20 years from now?
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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SO roughly 20 years ago we had these And have what ever it is you are using, and our smartphones are much more capable then the dinosaur in the pic. So doing that math how will be doing our PC work (iif the PC still exists) and/or what will we be doing it on 20 years from now? Think it'll be like this??
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One of the coolest websites I have ever seen
by pete_95973- 4 replies
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Might not work on mobile. You can scroll around the globe and listen live to thousands of radio feeds in seconds. http://radio.garden/
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Nintendo Switch Debut
by Smurf- 2 followers
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Earlier this week, Sony announced a temporary price cut for the PlayStation 4. It goes into effect today, dropping the prices of the Uncharted 4 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare bundles down to $250. The new PS4 price cut is good until February 25.
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Xbox One
by skip_rat- 6 replies
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I know we are primarily a Sony PS3/4 crew but I was wondering if anyone else plays on Xbox and if so what games do you play? I have a Xbox One (and an old 360) and I mainly use it to play Forza 6 and Horizion 2/3 although I do have a few other games such as Dirt Rally and Need for Speed as they were cheaper to pick up secondhand than on the PS4. My user ID is the skip rat, feel free to add me .
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PS4.5 (Neo) 1 2
by Smurf- 3 followers
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At GDC they were hinting of a PS4.5 in the near future, most likely to enhance VR and bring 4K video.
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Do you log out of website when you leave?
by JustHatched- 4 followers
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Like this site, when you are done browsing it for the day to you log out? I usually do not log out of anything, I'm to lazy...
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PC Free Ubisoft Games
by ScottyB- 11 replies
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http://www.pcgamer.com/ubi-30-gifts-a-free-ubisoft-game-each-month-starting-today/
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Specs for Sims 4 on a new PC?
by Lann- 1 follower
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The kids want to play sims and I dont know anything about performance on the last years graphicscard. What do i need to build/buy to get a cheap computer that can run Sims 4?
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I have noticed a lot of lag recently, much of the lag seems to come from certain players, although there have been crazy instances of lag with quite a few players in the crew. It can be pretty frustrating during contact races and DM's with said players literally bouncing from one location to the next, killing you at least a second after you've taken cover and even instances of players getting back up off the floor and continuing after clearly being headshot killed. I don't wanna show anyone up, I'm simply trying to find out something that may help people find faults with their connections and maybe improve them over time. It would be interesting if members would t…
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I've sung the praises for the Sony Gold headset on this forum before and my opinion has not changed. They have always worked flawlessly for me. However I realized early on that while they look bulky and robust, in reality the plastic it thin and brittle and seems prone to breaking. Other users confirm this and I've read reports of them breaking. So I've always handled them very carefully like they were made of glass. They've never been dropped or tossed. Last Friday I got home early and the EU playlist was still going on so I joined and when I picked up the headset the head band cracked in half. I was careful to not put any stress on the wires that connect the left to rig…
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4k TV or VR?
by Squirrel- 2 followers
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Question as the title. I'm now happy with my PC set up for now. The next thing on my upgrade list is going to be my viewing equipment. I currently have a 3 year old 40" 1080 LCD TV, nothing wrong with it really but seeing as my PC is 4k compatible I think I could get better. I've seen 4k TV's at around £400 but the alternative is getting the oculus rift or PSVR. 90% of my free time at home I'm gaming, other 10% of the time I do have company and end up watching films TV etc. Should I buy a new TV or save up the extra cash to get the VR equipment? Few things I'm not sure about are, is the Rift compatible with Playstation VR or is the PS VR compatible with P…
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Sony PlayStation Network Two-Factor Authentication is finally here, though its Protecting your PlayStation account Info via your phone number, on a SMS-based 2 step verification type of protection.
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Whats your PC Specs?
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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Now I've almost completed my PC upgrading it would be good to have a comparison of what peoples systems are. Mine is as follows: CPU: i7 6700k Overclocked to 4.6GHz Motherboard: ASUS ROG Z170 Maximum VIII GPU: ASUS GTX 970 RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengance DDR4 2666Mhz Cooling: Corsair H100i V2 Storage: 250GB SSD 1TB HDD Power: 700W Cooler Master
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What is the 3 best apps on your phone?
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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For me GPS, comes in handy for flower deliveries. Flashlight, comes in handy at times Whack A Mole - kills boredom
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What do you think you would do in your free time....
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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If video games were never invented??? I think I would either be more into flying my RC planes, work a 2nd job or be doing a whole lot more fishing
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Game Design taken to a new level!
by lIIlCompleXlIIl- 0 replies
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Ok, so this is a really cool device. It can be used for sooooo much, but I can see it being used in Game Design, and I can't wait! ~Rubs hand together and laughs all evil.~
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I was wondering how many people here have the camera/motion sensor accessory for the PS4. If you have it do you ever use it? Mine has sat under the TV since day 1 but other than a few minutes setting it up I can't remember ever having used it. In fact I was thinking of selling it as I'm sick of moving it to dust
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Playstation VR <GBTN> Tester!
by lIIlCompleXlIIl- 11 replies
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OMG OMG OMG!!! Ok, so I'm sure you all have noticed by now that PS VR is getting ready to release in NA. If not, CLICK HERE to find out more about it! So, I have been signed up through GBTN (Global Beta Test Network) For a little while, trying to get that dream job of being PAID to test video games... well, my dream has come true! On June 30th, I received an e-mail asking if I had already pre-ordered, or planned on pre-ordering, the PC Oculus Rift, or the PS VR setup. I replied to them, and said more than likely not, do to the cost. They had responded and just asked that if I change my mind, to let them know. So Mrs. Complex and I sat back and talked... Figur…
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #172 (Apr 14-20) Alien dir. Ridley Scott/1979/1h57m One of the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time, Ridley Scott's Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as a member of a deep space mining crew who takes a detour to an SOS message on the long journey back to Earth, finding a crashed ship full of eggs. My favourite thing about this film after seeing it so many times is how worn and lived in the ship is. I totally believe that it's real and functional and that this crew has spent months living in it. The opening sequence where we explore the empty ship while the crew is in cryosleep not only builds tension but allows us to take in the incredible details in the production design. Speaking of design, H.R. Giger's design for the xenomorph is the best in movie history (though the lil guy who bursts out of John Hurt's chest is kinda cute and goofy looking). The aggressively ph*llic look of it works well with the very male perspective fear of r*pe and childbirth. The whole cast is excellent, alongside Weaver and Hurt you have Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto, the latter two making a great comedic double team. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier/2013/1h56m Now You See Me tells the story of a group of Las Vegas magicians known as the Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) who rob banks live during their show, distributing the money to their audience. They are being tracked by Mark Ruffalo's FBI agent Rhodes who is determined to uncover their secrets. Totally forgettable fluff, there are some nice moments in here, and I liked the twist at the end even though you can see it coming a mile away. The big trick showpieces are entertaining in that artificial Vegas way that also feels hollow and meaningless. My biggest gripe here is with the four main characters and that I didn't like any of them. Like real magicians I found them to be annoying and so far up their own *sses that I was actively rooting against them every step of the way. The exception is Harrelson, though he comes close at times. There's solid support from Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, with Ruffalo giving the best performance in the film. This is the definition of inoffensive cinematic background noise. 5/10 Cinderella dir. Georges Méliès/1899/6m Georges Méliès here with some more ground breaking work from the dawn of cinema. Not only is this the first film adaptation of Cinderella, it's also the first film adaptation of any fairy tale and also the first film to use dissolves to transition between scenes (with this being his first film with more than one scene). Watching this is to watch the evolution of film in real time, and, like the rest of his work, it's nothing less than magical. This is Méliès becoming more innovative and inventive with his films becoming more complex and technically demanding. The sets and costumes are beautifully detailed and like illustrations come to life. It's amazing to me that a film from the 19th century can still be so magical. 8/10 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies dir. Pat Boonnitipat/2024/2h7m This family drama/comedy from Thailand stars Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a lazy young man who has dropped out of college to try and start a streaming career ("wow four viewers" his mother chides early on). When he learns that his grandmother (Usha Seamkhum) has cancer he thinks that he can weasel his way to the top of her will by moving in with her to care for her. A tender and gentle film that also surprises with some pretty dark humour, I found this to be incredibly charming with two excellent lead performances from Assaratanakul and Seamkhum. Seamkhum is particularly impressive in her late in life film debut as the wily old woman who sees through all the bullsh*t from her grandson, but also sees something of herself in him. The plot is fairly predictable - of course the two will grow closer to each other and form a real bond by the time she dies - but the journey to that point, and the touching epilogue, I really enjoyed. There's a lot of family drama with the grandmother's children but it always feels close to reality and not emotionally manipulative or overly melodramatic at any point. 9/10 Shock Treatment dir. Jim Sharman/1981/1h34m Shock Treatment is a sequel to one of my all time favourite films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and picks up with Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) a few years later with their marriage now on the rocks. To rectify this they appear on a TV show with the result being Brad getting committed to a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Cosmo McKinley (Richard O'Brien) and Janet getting groomed for superstardom. This is perhaps even more bizarre than Rocky Horror, certainly more cynical, with the world now seeming to exists as a series of TV shows, a live studio audience never leaving, sleeping in their seats as the film happens on screens all around them. It's a strange dystopia that seems to predict the dominance TV would have over our lives to an even greater extent in the era of commercialism and Reganomics. If there's not a camera on you then you don't exist, like the antithesis of Rocky Horror's theme of "don't dream it, be it". Many of the Rocky Horror cast returns with the exception of Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad (though DeYoung and especially Harper do an excellent job in the roles) and most notably Tim Curry. I kept imagining him in the role played by Barry Humphries (most famous for playing Dame Edna Everage), a garishly sleazy host called Bert Schnick. Humphries is great, but we all know Curry would have been better. Another slight let down for me is the soundtrack. As a musical this doesn't really compare with Rocky Horror, though there are some catchy tunes in there, the main theme still popping into my head occasionally. 9/10 #21xoxo dir. Sine Ozbilge, Imge Ozbilge/2019/9m This animated short from Belgium shows a girl (Indra de Bruyn) and her experiences with online dating, hooking up with several men before finding a genuine connection. The most striking thing about this film are the visuals, with the film being rotoscoped, a process where live action footage is traced over by animators giving it natural movement, a process used by Disney for Snow White back in 1937. Here it's given a thoroughly modern makeover, with the screen bombarded with text and images and memes representing the experience of being chronically online. The aesthetic also calls to mind pop art of the 60's, showing that the digital world may be new but the problems of finding a partner are anything but. It's at times overwhelming, purposefully so, but there's still a cohesion between all these elements. The ending is a bit on the nose but it's well done, wrapping the whole thing up maybe a bit too neatly. 7/10 Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves dir. Chintis Lundgren, Drasko Ivezic/2019/18m Another animated short, this time from Estonia, this tells the story of Toomas (Drasko Ivezic), a wolf who is fired after turning down his boss's advances. With a wife and children to support he turns to prostitution and then gay p*rn. Meanwhile, his wife Viivi (Chintis Lundgren) is learning some things about herself thanks to militant feminist Alexandra Horn-Eye (Lee Delong). This reminded me a lot of Bug Diner, another charming and cheeky animation about sexuality and relationships starring anthropomorphic animals. That was stop motion while this is animated in a simple yet effective style, the linework wobbling between frames like Doug, the 90's cartoon. Like Bug Diner, this is also a very mature film with more human characters than a lot of live action films that tackle the same subjects. 8.5/10 No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman dir. Jessica McGoff/2025/14m (no trailer for this, so here's one for a similar film) This short essay film explores the films of Chantal Akerman through her use of space and locations, how she films them, how she moves through them and what they represent. McGoff doesn't narrate this film, rather her essay is presented as text on the screen over clips from films that illustrate her points. I like this approach and how it's executed. The text isn't presented in blocks but line by line and is edited with the rhythm of the film clips so that they're unobtrusive and allow you to fully immerse in the various worlds of Akerman. This doesn't go too in depth with any of her observations as they are things you will pick up on by just watching the films, but it would work as a good introduction to her and what to look out for in her work. 7/10 Hotel Monterey dir. Chantal Akerman/1973/1h3m (no trailer so have an extended clip) Staying with Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey is an observational documentary in which she explores the titular hotel, a cheap one in New York where she stayed when she first moved to the city, from the lobby to the roof. It starts off at night where her camera captures people milling about in the lobby, taking the elevators up and down. She then prowls the corridors like a ghost, her very formally structured compositions bringing out the textures of the grimy yellow walls. Methodically we move upwards until we are on the roof, it is day now, and the feeling of escape is palpable. We do this all in silence, and I mean total silence. No music, no background noise, nothing. Not only does this make us even more aware of what we're seeing on screen, but it also makes us aware of our own environment. An exploration of space is happening on the screen and in real life at the same time and it's kind of amazing once you notice that. It's like Akerman speaking out of time saying here I am, where are you? This also feels like a prelude to her masterful film News From Home, in which she takes the same approach but expands it to the whole city, though this time with sound. This totally isn't for everyone, it's not even close to what you'd call entertaining, but if you give it a chance you'll get so much out of it. 8.5/10- 1
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Local Hero (1983) dir Bill Forsyth A great early 80s British light comedy drama. Peter Reigert (who I have never seen in anything else) plays Mac, a lawyer / accountant / fixer working for Texas based Happer oil. The CEO, Mr Happer (Burt Lancaster), sends Mac to oversee the purchase of an entire Scottish fishing village that they want to demolish to build a new oil terminal. Mac expects at least some of the villagers, led by their lawyer / accountant / hotel manager Gordon Urquart (Denis Lawson - Wedge from Star Wars), to put up somewhat of a fight. But they are not quite the simple folk he expects. They already know what is going on and Urquart intends to squeeze as much cash as possible from the big oil company. It also co-stars a young Peter Capaldi, almost unrecognisable at times, as Oldsen, a Scottish Happer Oil employee assigned to help Mac and Jenny Seagrove as marine biologist Marina, working for them in what she knows is really just a job to generate good PR in case of environmental problems. Marina has slightly webbed feet, making her seem a bit like a mermaid as she swims, which her job requires a lot of. This is possibly a nod to the Jerry Anderson puppet show Stingray that had a mermaid called Marina. (And maybe having watched Team America last week this is what subconsciously made me decide to watch this film that I have seen many times before). It also features a host of other faces, mainly Scottish actors, familiar to anyone who has watched a lot of British TV over the years, like me. But sometimes it takes a while to recognise them, because this was made over 40 years ago. One of the non-Scots is Christopher Rozycki, who is great as the captain of a Soviet fishing trawler that makes frequent visits to the village. He quite clearly is not a believer in the political ideology of his homeland. He has a great line I wish I could remember word for word, but at one point he says to Mac something like “Don't look so worried. You are doing a great thing here. You are making people very rich!”. It is a beautifully made film, technically very, very good. It's set mainly in the village, but starts in Houston and switches back there a couple of times and has some stunning scenes of the Scottish countryside and coast. There's no great tension to the story, no massive plot twists. It's quite a gentle tale of Mac falling in love with the village he has basically come to destroy, but the locals just wanting the money. Forsyth got a well deserved BAFTA for the direction and a nomination for the original script. It also got a number of other worthy nominations including Chris Menges' cinematography and Mark Knopfler's modern score that includes the iconic “Going home” guitar – saxophone instrumental that accompanies the end credits. The only acting one was for Lancaster but the rest of the cast are very good, even down to some quite minor roles. I do have to pick it up on a couple of factual issues. The village is shown on a map in North West Scotland, but the oil is (was) all on the east, in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. And I know, from a friend who used to live there and remembers the filming, it was mainly filmed on location in various villages on the east coast. The other thing might have been a deliberate joke at the expense of Hollywood. This is when Marina is showing Oldsen a colony of what are described as grey seals, but what we see on screen are quite clearly sea-lions, the sort you might well see in California but certainly not Scotland! Those don't really detract from the overall film though which is one of my all time favourites. 10 / 10- 2
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