Hell yes, the Gauss Rifle's my favorite energy weapon from the series, though finding energy cells for it can be a real pain in Fallout 2 (You can buy them only in Shady Sands and in Vault City, and I think one other location though I don't recall where, but thats it). Taking out Enclave patrols helps as well, but at…

Probably.

This is one of the bigger attacks in history but not the biggest. The largest IIRC was also against CloudFlare and hit roughly 400 GBps using a vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol daemon that virtually every router, switch, UNIX and UNIXlike OS uses. And base daemons like that tend to go unpatched for…

Naw, Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics were the supposedly "shitty" ones, and Tactics wasn't honestly that bad, but its story is kind of stretching it for a Fallout game. They're hard to reconcile with the first two games and Bethesda's releases as far as story goes, Bethesda excised them from the canon for the most…

No kidding, thats a pretty good design for a sub-machine gun, especially for a work in progress.

PPSh 41? Or a MP 18?

I kind of like it because pilot vs. pilot combat is an area that I feel a lot of people need practice in. Its my strong suit in that game, but people do have trouble with it more than I'd have figured.

I do like the contrast in gameplay between fighting on foot and fighting as a titan. The titans are kind of clunky as…

I saw that you weren't participating in the "debate" (if you can call a shitstorm a debate) and figured you'd have an opinion, given that you know writing and public relations pretty well from previous conversations I've seen you have here with myself and other people about other topics. I think giving airtime to…

Pretty much Doc, I was hoping you'd say something yesterday coming from a PR standpoint when I basically did the same thing you're describing and got accused of using weak rhetorical devices for my trouble because I'm concerned about sexual violence in gaming period, as well as shitty writing and overuse of the same…

Yeah thats pretty damned stupid too Spratchet, I said something about that when it happened. I also said something along the lines of tweeting that you're supporting a terrorist organization while making bomb threats is a good way to get dead or thrown in prison for the next thousand years or so really quickly.

Honestly there really isn't, the red tape comes after the incident occurs usually. Law enforcement and what they do in response situations like this is a bit different than what all-hazards/all-incidents Emergency Management does with the fire, public safety, medical and specialized units all under one commander for…

Holy shit, really? I've never donated through PayPal, nor have I ever purchased anything with it, I have an account but I don't think I've ever actually added a card and used it. Plus, if I'm purchasing off the Internet, I use a credit card because of the way that disputes over fraudulent charges work vis-a-vis debit…

Yes, they could if the content was recognized. That's a big if considering how much data they collect every minute and how few analysts they have compared to the massive amount of data they take in.

I hope they return to a quality over quantity mindset, but that remains to be seen and like every Intelligence Agency in…

Well as far as an investigation goes, its just how it is. The prosecutor has to get admissible evidence that they can enter into a trial, but if they know for a fact via inadmissible evidence that a crime occured, its not generally difficult to get a subpoena for the records from the telecommunications provider…

They pay or steal information from a credit bureau or public database and use the address that they get from that. Its really frighteningly easy to do.

They do, but for it to be admissible they have to subpoena the call's metadata from the telephone network's central office or bracket exchange for the area code and network segment the call originated from.

Its not difficult for investigators to do, and if they need to, they can leverage intelligence agency assets to…

I know for a fact that they can, but it crosses over into law enforcement territory so active collection's pretty hard if not impossible. However, getting a warrant for Section 702 metadata during a prosecution probably wouldn't be too difficult since NSA/CSS can't really disavow programs that the public knows about,…

Absolutely Cameron, Swatting is the stupidest and most dangerous "prank" possible. I'd actually go so far as to call it attempted murder, all the number 1 on the door has is less than a second when the breacher gets it open to decide whether or not to pull his/her trigger. They are trained to not hesitate if they…

The problem is that it is about violence in general, at least to me. But Ms Sarkeesian chalks it up to sexualization, which is an aspect, yes, so i'll go into that. But again, it only seems to matter to her when its a female that's being victimized as she makes no mention of any male characters suffering sexual…

First of all, unless you're working for the NSA/CSS, you have no idea what I have and have not watched. I have watched the video, and I did before I read the article. My opinion is my opinion, and you may disagree, but I stick by what I said.

Also, I usually don't reply to greys or people I've never seen before here,…

I think this woman's full of shit and kicking a hornet's nest intentionally to make money and to play the victim card as soon as the hornets attack her. Its not right to be attacked, but seeking an attack to prove your point is rather stupid. Anyone intentionally putting themselves in the line of fire for the sake of…