He managed to fit the mbo and HD in but there was no room for a CD/DVD-ROM. love the Mac Mini concept (it's cheap, it's small, it's a new OS to tool around on) but I'm hanging on until the latest iteration of the OS is out in a few months before getting one. If only it had decent sound it would be just lovely next to my TV. http://www.mini-itx.com/ ...has loads of mini ITX projects. I just wish I had more of an artistic
The only problem I've had with Firefox 1.0 is that Windows Update still insists on using IE, and that's not really a problem since I just run automatic updates these days. The irony of using IE as default software is that it was so full of holes that in order to use it safely you had to become expert at running anti-spyware programs. As far as Firefox coming with adware - if you downloaded it from somewhere other than an official mirror then
Seems fair. Imagine you took out a subscription to National Geographic in August and they forgot to send you the October and December issues...
Nice to see some signs of life from SD. How come this place manages to maintain such a high degree of civility? SD advertise a game a month, don't deliver and people are still acting like they're doing them a favour showing up on a forum. It's creepy. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the Stepford forum...
That 17 year old girl was actually a 15 year old boy, if I remember right. Most of these companies ban selling in game resources for real money in their T&C because they don't want the legal aggravation of arbitration between buyer and seller if it all goes wrong.
, have them as an option.
Political Machine wasn't even close to being one of the best games of 2004. Even in context for (US OF A!!) it got surpassed by probably dozens of better games. Even the concept was a conceit, assuming that the rest of the world cares who's US President. If not then why make a US election game? I know, I'm only kidding. It's because you require huge amounts of self-re-inforcement. Do you want to see where the world will be in 10 years time? Look to Aus
http://www.ballerium.com/ I've no idea how it plays but there's a beta going on at the moment. http://www.shatteredgalaxy.com/ this one actually looks pretty neat. http://www.mankind.net/ on the go since 1998. Nobody else was posting the names of these failed previous attempts at MMORTS games... Personally , while I enjoy RTS well enough (Total Annihilation remains one o
You know, considering how drunk I was when I posted that, it still kinda makes sense. Apart from being a consultant or this fictional company I work for.
Like most of you I work for a living. At work we have a theoretical culture and what actually happens. In theory all customers are dealt with quickly and efficiently. In practice customers are so devious that they manage to stump me and mine on a daily basis. You can't train away every eventuality. What I've told my people is to just... and this is solid gold.... tell people the truth. If you don't understand the question then tell them you don't, and
Eclectic mix of genres there. Did you play Rome:Total War? I'm looking forward to an expansion to that. Most gripping game of 2004 for me. From your list I want to play ES:IV, STALKER and maybe GalCiv 2 (I'm a TG subscriber so what the hey). Unfortunately Dungeon Lords doesn't look like it's going to be any good or they would have released the demo by now. I think that's pretty sad cos DW Bradley has such a history I wanted him to pull it off
"I find it frustrating because the PvP people are such a minority of the overall player population. The man-children living in their mom's basements playing WoW have a lot more time to bitch than those who have to work, raise children, etc. " And yet ironically you're bitching about them. A lot of kids play WOW, it's true. That doesn't make them bad people. I'm playing a Tauren Warrior in the Euro Beta (on hold due to boredom and wan
So... why would Bluedev be taken? To me it's a fairly out there name but maybe there's a reason why more than yourself would be using it perhaps. To prove a point to my sister on her computer I agreed to set up an AIM account at home. I had to chose a screen name so I picked something from a story I'd written years ago: 700yearknight (ish... not giving my secrets away, precious...) It was already taken. Frankly this boggled me. I ende
Most Korean MMORPGs work that way so you if you really want to play that way there are a lot of options available to you. Or Shadowbane, possibly. Why, when there are so many alternatives available, would anyone want to see the carebear games become Lord of the Flies? The article mentions players in Everquest luring noobs away to kill them. I have no idea if that's even possible on the PvP servers since I never played them but even if it was i
I played AO from the disastrous start (which wasn't really as bad as some people have said) for maybe 18 months. Kobrano is right about the learning curve. You can spend days just working out how to maximise your character (never mind the time getting the parts you need) for your particular playing style. I've tried to go back twice but the first time it was like everything had moved on so far that nobody I knew was still playing and in the meantime th
There's a game coming out that I can never remember the name of that might appeal to you. It's going to be PvP with penalties for random killing. You'll also be part of a family and when you die (permadeath!) your offspring will carry on, so you actually need to get married and have kids to keep going. The permadeath is the thing that intrigues me. I see all these PvPers whining about how everything has gotten carebear when in reality they just miss ga
You're right about games getting easier in general - except for first person shooters! With a few exceptions (like HL2 and Doom3) I just don't seem to have the reflexes to play these on hard anymore.
Your historical analysis is off a bit. It all comes down to the 7 day war. Nothing else is relevent. Nice try, but pointless. 7. Day. War. The reaon why Muslim extremists bombed America? America's support of Israel. If you can give another realistic reason I'd love to hear it. If you want to write a historical fiction I'll pass. The reason why Muslim terrorists are currently bombing Americans and the rest of the world - far
Most athletes use steroids. It's relatively easy to beat the tests - until a few years ago most steroid tests could be beaten by drinking about a half gallon of water before giving your urine sample. Obviouly it's gotten more sophisticated since then but the guys dreaming up how to beat the tests will usually beat the guys setting the tests. One party has to adhere to protocols and one doesn't. Why do the top guys get caught? Because they're the top gu
I think I read somewhere that angriness equals powerlessness. So you get angry when a situation has been taken outside your control. That could be because someone is doing something you can't stop or it could be because your life has progressed to a point where you can no longer control all the details. It all makes you feel helpless and so you get angry. Alternatively it could be because you want to overcome your helplessness by becoming angry and add
Breasts are a buttocks surrogate. Um, are we allowing evolutionary talk on here? I wonder at times... Male monkey is attracted to the buttocks of female money becuase they denote when she's in heat. Nowadays we mate for pleasure (not personally but I believe it's quite popular) and the triggers are messed up. Swollen buttocks = ready to mate, so big boobs are attractive. Plus there's massages and TTfx.
The idea that homosexuality is a learned response or anti-evolutionary is one of the saddest things I've read on here. There are actually people on this blog, stating with a straight face that homosexuality is an aberration because it will lead to the decline of the human race. Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with men and men and women and women but I agree that humanity is doomed. But it's not because of homosexuals, it's because of heterosexuals. Homose
Maybe... just maybe... neither cheerleading NOR band should get letters.... maybe... just maybe... it should go to the sportsmen only. Yeah, pointless unrealistic comment. Your world will be ruled by varsity footballers and cheerleaders so this is just a way of getting you used to it. You might as well say why not give the groundskeeper a letter or the english teacher who told you to Carpe Diem... or... or...
Hugs rock. I gave them up about 7 years ago and still miss them. You are totally right to teach your kids that hugs are an all day thing. Virtually an all-person thing once they reach the right age and don't need as much supervision. 99% of people you meet will melt if you hug them and that can only make job interviews easier.
I understand that it's comforting to belive in Jesus. Theoretically. But you say it's not always easy to surrender our plans and let Jesus carry out his loving arrangement. Surely it's easier to do that than it is to carry on living our own lives. Your own life is full of obstacles and problems which prey on your mind. Is it not easier to surrender the future to a jesus? Once you surrender yourself to jesus' will, what major decisions do you have to ma
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