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DMZ - any risk?
by djw180- 1 follower
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As some of you may know I have had really bad connection issues in the past. I contacted RS support and got some quite helpful advice. Based on that (opening up some more ports on my router) the situation has greatly improved but is still not perfect. So their latest advice is "set your console to a static IP address, and assign this address to the DMZ". The reason I would like to know more about this is previously they had said assigning to DMZ was "not recommended" and just to open up a whole host of different ports on my router instead. So are they are risks associated with assigning my console's IP address to the DMZ? All I use my console for is games (just G…
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Taco Bell Contest
by Sinister- 1 follower
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Taco Bell is giving away 6000 PS4 systems from now til nov. Odds of winning are slim but the drawing is time based. Winner every ten minutes. Doesn't hurt to try. I won an iPad from a raffle once.
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So lets get into it, Region Free & Region Locked. Now when purchasing a physical copy of a PS4 Game of course the game will work on any PS4 console because their both region free, but when purchasing a DLC Season Pass, Map Pack, Codes or Expansion they are Region Locked. The problem poignantly rest upon the country that the PSN Account was set to during the creation of that PSN Account and the region of the physical copy of a PS4 Game. These two must match in order for you to be able to install those DLC'S downloaded or you will be greeted with the waiting to install message when you check your 'notifications> downloads.' A some what normal occurrence for those of …
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Oculus Rift
by JustHatched- 4 replies
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Thoughts on the leader in the virtual reality realm? I've read things and seen clips of video of Oculus, seems pretty ground breaking if it works like intended. At some point someone will put VR market if this attempt fails, and I do think by Playstation 6 we will no longer be using the console, controller, tv setup we all know, I think most games will be VR. By then I should be to old to combat roll across my living room to avoid being virtually shot.
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PS4 Instruction Manual
by revbouncer- 7 replies
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Ok during the last PL Dodge said be sure to video your best lap. I'm sure there are many more things that need to be learnt for the new people to PS4, eg party chat. Please feel free to explain how to use these features and any others that are unique to PS4. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated by myself and I'm sure some others that may not know yet how to use all the new stuff.
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OMG. I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. It had a system update a few days ago and now all I'm getting is this error: "Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped" and "Unfortunately, Google Play services has stopped." This has been going on all day. I've Googled the error/issue and can't seem to find a solution to solve this. I have unlinked my Google account and tried to re-sync it, but it's telling me that there was an error communicating with the Google servers. My daughter's tablet (same tablet) isn't receiving these errors. My phone (Android as well...) is having zero issues. Is anyone else getting these issues? I've reported …
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A Step Forward in Gaming
by omarcomin71- 1 follower
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Thirty years ago today the world was introduced to "Super Mario Bros". I had an Artari 2600 but this was a game changer. Instant addiction. Happy Birthday Mario!
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PS4 update 3.0 details
by SeymorScagneti- 1 follower
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PlayStation has detailed the features that will be introduced in its upcoming PS4 system software update 3.00. Codenamed Kenshin, the update will increase online storage capacity from 1GB to 10GB for PS Plus Members, introduce YouTube live-streaming capabilities, and allow direct sharing of videos up to ten seconds long on Twitter. PS4 update 3.00 will also introduce a new events hub, which will provide an overview to players of activities taking place in the games they play the most. This may highlight events such as a double XP weekend, a special enemy appearing at a scheduled time, or the launch of seasonal in-game events. Players will be able to receive notifications…
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PS3 vs PS4
by omarcomin71- 1 follower
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For those of you still on PS3 take a gander at this comparison I saw on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/gta5pagee/videos/737087216414436/
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Need advice on what phone to get 1 2
by PrancingSkeleton- 2 followers
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So I'm getting a new phone and I was asking my friends for advice. Almost all of them said that getting the iPhone 6 is the best choice. So, I need a little more advice to really know what's the best phone. Right now, I have the iPhone 5, which I absolutely hate. I'm leaning towards Android, more specifically the Galaxy S6. So yeah, if you have any advice on what phone I should get it would be much appreciated
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I have a cellphone with a decent 4g connection. Is there a good gadget to use in order to create a wifi that I could hook up my ps4 on. I am asking in order to bring my ps4 on a vacation.
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Wii U bombing out
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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I have read this in multiple places, seems the Wii U isn't taking off the way Nintendo had hoped. http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/23/wii-u-sales-tracking-50-less-than-gamecube-one-tenth-of-wii-4706243/ We had thought of getting they kids a Wii U but went with getting them PS3's a while back. Nintendo has more kid friendly game track record than Sony but I think it was a good decision as I expect developer support for the U to drop, or at least that is what a few articles say
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Defected PS4-Sony aren't repairing/replacing.
by vishesh_91- 1 follower
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So,I've had this issue for quite some time with the PS4 where it ejects the CD on its own randomly and then I can't put it back in.Got the console sometime in October-November '14 and its happened only 8-10 times till now. Took the console to Sony in March earlier this year and the engineer said that the screw below the eject button was loose.He tightened it and gave it back to me in 10 minutes.I thought that fixed it completely,but a month later it happened again and naturally I went to Sony's Service Center again. This time they asked me to deposit the console and if they find it happening they would replace it with a new one.Now,the key thing is that the CD did…
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I just launched my website.
by n9neliives- 1 follower
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..... well not today, but about 5 days ago haha.... Been working hard on it for the past 2 weeks, as well as getting my auctions ready for eBay. I'm officially self-employed now So, go ahead and check out my website and either comment in the facebook comment box on the main page, or right on here and let me know what you think about it http://www.geodeplanet.com
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Morbidstix? Any good?
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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It finally happened to me (I went all DavidCore on it I guess), the R2 and L2 hinges are broke on my PS4 controller. I will get a new one over the weekend but also want to fix the old one since parts are fairly cheap Anyone ever ordered from these people http://www.morbidstix.com/ ? Are their parts any good?
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oldschool gaming
by ems-medik- 2 followers
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What was your first console and what was your favourite game and/or fondest memory of it? My first console was the Sega Master System and i LOVED the Alex Kidd games
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Think Geek
by xXEternalDarkXx- 5 replies
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Dude! Has anyone ever been to think geek? Went on gamestops website the other day & found out about them, they have some pretty cool shit for sale, like a goddamn usb ROCKET LAUNCHER!!!!!1 lol WOW! & I just saw a "KGB disappearing ink" pen lol (sorry, just got paid lol)
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Jalj's Not-In-Order-Always-Changing Top 10 List Number 1: Nintendo Video Games! Welcome to the first ever Jalj's Not-in-order-always-changing-top-10! I figured i can't be calling myself the so called resident list maker while not actively making list for everyone to see. Yet while i do keep busy making lists to myself and always trying to get others to list their favorite things, I have never done anything like this. I am planning on starting my very own entertainment podcast in the new few weeks and i thought it wouldn't be bad to actually start putting my list out there for others to see as well as getting input from other people to see what they like so i can have…
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Jalj's Not-In-Order-Always-Changing Top 10 List Number 1: Nintendo Video Games! Welcome to the first ever Jalj's Not-in-order-always-changing-top-10! I figured i can't be calling myself the so called resident list maker while not actively making list for everyone to see. Yet while i do keep busy making lists to myself and always trying to get others to list their favorite things, I have never done anything like this. I am planning on starting my very own entertainment podcast in the new few weeks and i thought it wouldn't be bad to actually start putting my list out there for others to see as well as getting input from other people to see what they like so i can have…
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PSN europe beta tester
by Kudisanga- 5 replies
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Is there anyone from europe interrested in become beta tester for PS4? They have open nominations and i can nominate a couple. I have been beta tester since early days of PS3. It's a casual with few must do things like obey the NDA and participate in at least one test in 3. You will have to use psn forum to access the beta forum and some times you get to test cool games but at moment it's been quiet but since they are recruiting maybe some games are coming.
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FYI: PSN Maintenance
by Jaggy- 2 followers
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Taken from the PSN status page: Planned Maintenance Reminder Routine maintenance and improvements for PlayStation™Network will be performed for approximately 1.5 hours on Monday, June 29, 9:30 PM PDT (June 30, 4:30 AM GMT) to June 29, 11:00 PM PDT (June 30, 6:00 AM GMT). Anyone who already has a PlayStation™Network account can still sign in to their PlayStation™Network profile, play games, and use most applications while this maintenance is carried out. You will not be able to access Account Management, PlayStation™Video, or complete a purchase in the PlayStation®Store during this maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. We recommend activating yo…
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Ps4 media server
by Kudisanga- 2 followers
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A week gone after the big surprise from the wife, and starting to thing that something fishy with sony. New generation console and you cant even stream you own music or movies files? Seriously? 2014 and you give me less quality than predecessor ps3? One of the best feature and you left out! I am not paying subs for a music service when i own a huge music library, same to amazon shit i have my own tv and movies. It was IMO the best feature any console would have. Hopefuly they will follow m$ and put the media player back on. Rant over
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PSN Connection vs Rockstar Servers
by Jaggy- 1 follower
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For those of you present last night, you know Torrid & I couldn't stay connected to the crew lobby or the playlist for more than five seconds without getting kicked. We haven't changed any settings on our Playstations for the past week. Everything worked fine, with both consoles running, until last night. We could play GTA Online just fine as long as we stayed away from the crew lobby and the playlist. So I highly doubt our connection issues have anything to do with the settings on our Playstations. I don't know where to go to check the recommendations that DC has given because I don't mess with that stuff. Nor do I really want to mess with it, again, considerin…
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PS3 Performance
by silenttigercd- 1 follower
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Since buying my PS3 and GTA V this time last year I've noticed the performance diminish. The frame rate often noticeably drops, obstacles, and sometimes buildings, have been appearing when I'm on top of them. Initially the frame rate appeared to only drop when there were lots of other players nearby and we all had a high wanted level with police choppers etc. Now it's happening all the time. Yesterday in the H2H a track had a slalom made out of tyres which didn't spawn until I entered the slalom. This happened on both laps. Is this happening to everyone else on PS3? I'm aware GTA V pushes last gen consoles to the absolute limit so suspect performance has gradually dim…
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E3 2015
by G37- 23 replies
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Really .. really surprised no one has brought up anything from the gaming conference. Outside of repetitive Mario work (which I can't stand) there were a couple things that really caught my eye. One of which is Persona. Always been a fan of these and I grew up on JRPGs (not sure how many others of you are here that like this genre). Out of everything though, this got a serious fist bump from me when I saw it: They said it'd never happen. It may be a cash grab, which is fine, because honestly, this title deserves a serious remake. It deserves to be brought into the HD era. This was a game I did grow up on and really brought to the Western market a di…
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #173 (Apr 21-27) South dir. Chantal Akerman/1999/1h11m This documentary sees Chantal Akerman travel to Jasper, Texas in the aftermath of the brutal lynching of a black man, James Byrd Jr., who was dragged behind a truck for several miles, an act so brutally violent that he was decapitated during it. This is not a crime documentary that seeks to explore what happened, but rather a portrait of a town and the people who live there and how they are trying to process what happened shot in Akerman's distinctive style. Like a typical documentary there are talking heads interviews with people close to Byrd Jr., but Akerman's use of long takes and silences allows us to really absorb what they're saying. These static shots are juxtaposed with extended tracking shots where Akerman drives through the community, filming people going about their lives with this tragedy still hanging over them. This is something she did in News From Home in New York, but the context here makes it feel like a funeral procession. The most effective of these shots is the very last one, the view looking out of the back of a truck as it drives down the road where Byrd Jr. was murdered. It just keeps going and going and forces us to imagine the unimaginable torture he went through. Incredibly powerful filmmaking 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Meetings of Anna dir. Chantal Akerman/1978/2h8m Akerman's follow up to her revolutionary Jeanne Dielman, The Meetings of Anna is a deeply personal semi-autobiographical film about a female director, Anna (Aurore Clement), traveling around Europe promoting her latest film. This is a melancholic film about isolation and even when Anna is talking to other people there is a disconnection there that always makes her feel alone. Like Jeanne Dielman this is heavy with repetition and routine, with each different hotel room blending into the next, each conversation being interchangeable with any of the others. This culminates with the ending where Anna returns to a home just as anonymous as any of the other rooms she has inhabited and, lying expressionless in bed, she listens to messages on her answerphone. People are reaching out to her, but she doesn't return the call. Akerman's style really lends itself to this story, with the carefully composed shots feeling almost like a prison trapping her. The feeling also comes through in Clement's performance. Her detachment from other people growing over the course of the film, that is apart from the scene with her mother (Lea Massari) in which she is able to revert to an almost childlike state of vulnerability. 8.5/10 The Black Hole dir. Phillip Sansom, Olly Williams/2008/3m This comedic short film stars Napoleon Ryan as an office worker putting in some overtime when he prints out a black hole (though technically it acts more like a portal than a black hole, as that would immediately destroy the planet). At first he uses it for trivial things like free snacks from the vending machine, but his greed leads him to a darkly comic end. It's very simple with an obvious message, but I thought that the ending moves it up a notch, making it feel like a mini episode of The Twilight Zone. 6/10 The Platform 2 dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia/2024/1h41m This is a prequel to what I thought was a fairly decent dystopian thriller set in a prison where the cells are stacked on top of each other with an open hole in the middle. Every day a platform loaded with food is lowered down cell by cell, with nothing being left for the prisoners at the bottom. This adds nothing to the concept with totally forgettable characters who I didn't care about. There are a few scenes of quite grisly violence but again, it's nothing that the first film didn't do better. I did enjoy the small appearance from Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor), one of the main characters from the original film, memorable because he actually had some character. 4/10 Three short films from Georges Méliès: A Terrible Night 1896/1m The Vanishing Lady 1896/1m The One-Man Band 1900/2m These three shorts from Georges Méliès really highlight his earlier career as a stage magician whilst also showcasing his evolving cinematic techniques. A Terrible Night is the simplest of the three where a sleeping man is harassed by a giant spider. There's really nothing of note here other than the fact that this is the first creature-feature. The other two are much more interesting and entertaining. The Vanishing Lady gives a macabre twist to a classic trick where he makes a woman disappear beneath a sheet, but not before she is transformed into a skeleton. The final film is the most playful and experimental and it sees Méliès using what were at the time cutting edge editing tricks to duplicate himself several times over, creating the titular one-man band. These films, while charming, all feel like Méliès honing his techniques in preparation for his magical longer films starting with 1902's A Trip To The Moon. I'll give these a combined score of 6/10 Inside Out dir. Pete Docter/2015/1h35m Going through all of the Pixar films in order I've finally come to the point where I've not seen hardly any of them going forward, having gotten burnt out by all of the sequels. I knew nothing about Inside Out going in and I can't believe it's taken me ten years to watch this, it's fantastic. It tells the story of 11 year old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) who has just moved to a new city with her parents, leaving behind all of her friends and everything she loves, stirring up her emotions. These emotions are personified and live inside her head, with Joy (Amy Poehler) doing everything she can to keep Riley happy. But lately it seems like Sadness (Phyllis Smith) keeps making things worse. When the two are accidentally expelled from HQ they have to work together to make it back and save Riley's mental health. This is a brilliantly simple concept well executed with a strong message that's not just for the younger viewers. The fact that it can be unhealthy to want to be happy all of the time and that you need a healthy mix of emotions, even negative ones, for good mental health. This is also a really funny film, with the juxtaposition between Joy and Sadness's personalities making them a great double act. There's also good support from Lewis Black, Bill Hader, and Mindy Kaling as Anger, Fear and Disgust. The instantly recognisable voice of Richard Kind also appears, playing Riley's forgotten imaginary friend Bing b*ng who ended up as my favourite character. I wasn't really looking forward to this run of Pixar films, but if they're even half as good as this I'll be satisfied. 9/10- 2
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Bladerunner (1982) dir Ridley Scott For me, this is one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. It's a film that has be re-released at least twice. I have seen the original theatrical release, the 1992 Director's Cut, and the 2007 Final Cut. The 1992 version, I think, set the trend for other director's to release Director's cuts of their films. It's certainly the first one I ever saw. However, despite the name, Ridley Scott did not have complete control over that version. He did over the 2007 one, and it's that one that I am reviewing. I could not remember the differences to the 1992 one without looking them up, but both of the later ones get rid of a voice over (a bit like a 1940s detective film) and different ending that got added to the original after feedback from test audiences (I think). It's based on the Philip K. d*ck novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. The basics of the plot is the same as the book, but the specific story is very different in places. I would recommend the book to anyone who is a fan of serious sci-fi, but it's the sort of book you need to really concentrate on. It was written in 1968 and set in 2019 when that seemed a long way in the future. The world the story is set in is way more advanced than we are now. Harrison Ford plays Deckard, a retired LA cop, a Bladerunner, who specialises in tracking down and terminating rogue androids, called replicants. These are indistinguishable from real humans to all but the experts. Even people like Dekard can only tell for sure by lengthy interrogation of suspected replicants that is designed to show up lack of emotions that real humans have. Replicants are banned from Earth, only supposed to be used on off-world space colonies. Any that do get found on Earth can be killed on the spot. Deckard is brought back by his boss Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh) and his assistant Gaff (Edward James Olmos) because a group of replicants hijacked a ship that was later found abandoned on Earth. They are believed to be in LA seeking their creator, Mr. Tyrell (Joe Turkel). The replicants, at least those that have not already been eliminated, are lead by Batty (Rutger Hauer) and others are played by Daryl Hannah, Brion Jones and Joanna Cassidy. William Sanderson plays Sebastian, a lonely man with a premature ageing disease who makes his on androids (not realistic or dangerous enough to be classed as replicants) and Sean Young plays Tyrell's PA Rachel. The cast are, overall, good, but Rutger Hauer gives the best performance I ever saw of him as Batty varies from charming, to psychopathic, to child-like fearful naïvety. There is a big plot element to do with Deckard and Rachel that I won't spoil, and various things thrown in that have kept some fans speculating as to the true nature of the various characters. If you know the film you will probably know what I am referring to here. I will say that I don't see in the film all the things that some claim to clearly see, but I see enough to agree with the consensus. Also some of the theories about that do not apply to all versions of the film. The sets and cinematography are stunning. It still looks to me well ahead of its time, as does Ridely Scott's Alien, so to me it shows what great film makers could achieve well before they had access to sort of CGI and AI tech available today. It also has a pretty good modern score from Vangelis. The best scene is the penultimate one, just with Batty and Deckard and includes the famous “tears in the rain” monologue that, apart from a few hundred years of technological development, would not have been out of place in a Shakespeare play. 10 / 10 The theatrical version I would only give an 8 to because, although I have only ever seen it once, I do remember the voice-over annoying me and the altered ending, a little bit added on, pointlessly changes the story.- 2
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