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Icyedge on 15 February 2010
RolStoppable said:
richardhutnik said:
Severance said:
on thing you should know about life is, There will be whiners..... always.

Particularly when it is done in an area involving fanboys who feel a need to rag on something that is well done.  Mass Effect 2 is generating backlash posts now.... That, of all games, is doing it.

Mass Effect 2 is a small fish compared to NSMB Wii. Now that was a game that received serious backlash despite being the closest to the holy grail of gaming we ever had.

I dont hate NSMB Wii, but its fairly easy to understand why theres peoples that dont like. Theres no story, its repetitive and its not in line with the presentation of recent titles. Once again theres no hate in what im saying, simply observation an opinion. The developer behind NSMB Wii could have done much much more.



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iLLmaticV3 on 15 February 2010
nordlead said:
yay, a thread to complain about hypothetical complainers.

This.



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Squilliam on 15 February 2010
Icyedge said:
Squilliam said:
Of course. It could be argued that thousands of people died because the people who folded on the PS3 could have bought the discovery faster with GPU folding.

You joking right? The PS3 is 10 X faster than an average computer at folding.

 

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3#ntoc6

Thats an average computer.

There are fewer than half the number of active Nvidia GPUs but they deliver four times the performance that the PS3 gives.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats



Tease.

Kantor on 16 February 2010
RolStoppable said:
richardhutnik said:
Severance said:
on thing you should know about life is, There will be whiners..... always.

Particularly when it is done in an area involving fanboys who feel a need to rag on something that is well done.  Mass Effect 2 is generating backlash posts now.... That, of all games, is doing it.

Mass Effect 2 is a small fish compared to NSMB Wii. Now that was a game that received serious backlash despite being the closest to the holy grail of gaming we ever had.

I beg to differ.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/monty-python-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail



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Asmo on 16 February 2010

Leaving your PS3 on all the time consumes a lot of energy. Therefore, it is accelerating global warming.

Conclusion : we will all die very healthy.



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Grimes on 16 February 2010

I'm not whining, but let's say your folding costs $30 year in energy. If you took that $30 and just donated it directly to the research institute, who is to say they wouldn't be able to make better use of those dollars? They could even buy their own PS3s if that was the best solution.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

Ajescent on 16 February 2010
RolStoppable said:
richardhutnik said:
Severance said:
on thing you should know about life is, There will be whiners..... always.

Particularly when it is done in an area involving fanboys who feel a need to rag on something that is well done.  Mass Effect 2 is generating backlash posts now.... That, of all games, is doing it.

Mass Effect 2 is a small fish compared to NSMB Wii. Now that was a game that received serious backlash despite being the closest to the holy grail of gaming we ever had.


Let it go...



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Icyedge on 16 February 2010
Grimes said:
I'm not whining, but let's say your folding costs $30 year in energy. If you took that $30 and just donated it directly to the research institute, who is to say they wouldn't be able to make better use of those dollars? They could even buy their own PS3s if that was the best solution.

Someone will have to pay the 30$ electricity anyway. So even if you would give them 30$ it is still 30$ less.



Grimes on 16 February 2010
Icyedge said:
Grimes said:
I'm not whining, but let's say your folding costs $30 year in energy. If you took that $30 and just donated it directly to the research institute, who is to say they wouldn't be able to make better use of those dollars? They could even buy their own PS3s if that was the best solution.

Someone will have to pay the 30$ electricity anyway. So even if you would give them 30$ it is still 30$ less.

You missed the point. The researcher is in a better position to decide what is the best utilization of resources. Energy may not be their biggest cost. Computing power is only one tool, not a solution to a problem.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

Dgc1808 on 16 February 2010

^^^

Lol.



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