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[quote who="Savyg" reply="51" id="2907601"]I think I speak for all of us when I say we do not care about your sexual preferences.[/quote] That was the point of my post. Everyone has their own tastes and it is OTT to demand conformity, or belittle others because their's are different. My response was excessive to hammer that point home. If you put down people because they have different tastes, you should not be surprised when they take offense and insult you back.

Reply to Why the IE9 ‘Upgrade’ Disappoints in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frankief" reply="39" id="2906915"]It is my understanding that due to the new technologies included with IE9, Windows Xp is simply not capable of running it, That is something MS cannot fix. Surely it is time for some of you to face the facts tha Xp is over ten years old and is yesterdays technology and it is time to put it out to pasture. Windows 7 is the best version of the OS that I have ever had the pleasure of working with. My experience does not go back as far as others but I

Reply to Why the IE9 ‘Upgrade’ Disappoints in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I suppose you need IE to update your Windows OS periodically, but other than that, why would someone use IE for anything else?

Reply to Way to go Shafer :) in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

You know, if everyone ignores the pathetic little troll, he'll get bored and go away. (that's a hint, btw)

Reply to My own little take on the PC Gamer's top 100 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="AdmiralMaximus" reply="34" id="2903676"]A link was posted if you look back. I will briefly explain my problem with your post and then stop talkign about it all together as I drop the subject. I have no problem with you giving me your thoughts on the games that are on the list and whether you would have replaced certain games by others and furthermore giving me your experiences of whatever games you may have played, etc. The issue lies with the fact that your post simply

Reply to My own little take on the PC Gamer's top 100 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="AdmiralMaximus" reply="32" id="2902356"]Another usefull comment on the list I see. Is part of growing up also not being able to follow guidelines? If so I suggest you wait a few more years until you are passed adolescence before making comments about maturity and `growing up`.[/quote] And what "guidelines" are you talking about? Your heading asks for opinions on the game rankings, but it doesn't say don't post disagreements about the worthlessness

Reply to Way to go Shafer :) in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="rebelito" reply="28" id="2901123"]yet Soren designed Civilization 4 and Shafer designed Civilization 5... the HUGE difference between the two is out there for anyone to see it. Chanta![/quote] This assinine childish crap has already been done to death on several other threads. Grow up. The decisions that wrecked the Civ franchise were made by the heads of the companies.

Reply to Way to go Shafer :) in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Thanks, much clearer now. :)

Reply to Way to go Shafer :) in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

From the Gamespot article: "The moderator then asked if publishers should spend a lot of money developing enemy AI. Shafer said that it doesn't make a lot of sense financially, but Browder disagreed. He said the Starcraft II AI was very carefully designed so it can't cheat, since it doesn't know the player's location." Wish there was more on that aspect. The article is sort of vague and short. I would have liked to hear their full responses to

Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="297" id="2900464"]A/ Visit Steam Support and create your support account or login to your existing one if you've requested help from our support team in the past. Submit a question with "[Steam Guard]" in its Subject, categorized as "Account Questions" and then "Email Verification." If you have a retail CD Key or last four digits of your credit card as proof you're the account's rightful owner, please enter that too.[/quote] And then in the

Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="291" id="2899199"]Steams new features are good and wellintended I'm sure, but if someone were to lock his account to his CPU, what would happen if it broke..? I'm sure (or absolutely HOPE) that Valve has thought out something that works.[/quote] I'm sure they thought out something that works for valve in that situation, like making the person have to buy their games again. [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Reply to Simple Yes Or No Poll - Multiplayer in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lord Cobol" reply="2" id="2897498"]Wouldn't play it. No interest in any multiplayer. Believe it ought to be done so others can have it, but not a high priority for me.[/quote] My take is the same.

Reply to Who is worse, Fallout fanboys, TF2 fanboys, or Civilization fanboys? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

[quote who="Abraxis-" reply="152" id="2895512"] Quoting gyrate, reply 8I don't see how Civ fanboyz couldn't be the worst. They are backed by 2k which I believe stacks the deck using shills. These people are there 24-7 to post immediately if you post a dissenting remark. Most aspire to work there, are beta testers, or other types of coders. I found one guy who was actually a beta tester there. His name is Dale. He can say whatever he wants to you in response to your post, but when you

Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Ah...consoles and steam. Now that is a bodacious relationship, like flies and dung. But which are the flies and which are the dung? I see a controvery over which gets which role. [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to My own little take on the PC Gamer's top 100 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="AdmiralMaximus" reply="29" id="2895324"]@scratch the pitch: I made comments of my own at the beginning regarding the usefulness of lists like this one. if you dont like them or have nothing to comment on the actual rankings of this list please refrain from comments like the one you posted. It was exactly posts like that one that I was hoping to avoid on the thread. About SupCom. I'm a little surprised that SupCom would make it but not Total Annihilatio

Reply to My own little take on the PC Gamer's top 100 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

These kind of lists have about the same usefulness of others like "the 100 best songs of all time". They are for mindless herd animals to adjust their personal tastes so they can remain part of the herd. Everyone has their own tastes, making up such lists is absurd, the exercise of those insecure about what they enjoy doing without some kind of herd mentality "approval" of some kind. Or, it just represents which companies bribed the author the most.

Reply to My own little take on the PC Gamer's top 100 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="DKL" reply="6" id="2893390"] #11: X-COM Free Open Source version actually reached the point of being fun to play, http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News You should try it instead of original. They still didn't implement tanks/platforms properly, but otherwise its feature-complete.[/quote] Looks interesting - thanks.

Reply to My own little take on the PC Gamer's top 100 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

#11: X-COM That's funny because I only recently fired this game up again and started playing it. It's been about 10 years since I played it. I remembered it as a lot of fun. Funny how time skews the memory. Once I started playing it again, I began remembering all the less than fun stuff about this game that had annoyed me before. The cheesy cheats the AI used (couple of examples: simply made you miss when shooting aliens, the mind control stuff), the incredibly poor mou

Reply to What Do You Think About An “Emergency Off Switch” For The Internet? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Skimming this thread I found only one person was possibly in favor of this kill switch, besides the op. That must be pretty disappointing... [e digicons]:P[/e]

Reply to Interview land in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]We have basically zero voluntary turn over here...It’s a weird crew here...this is the sort of thing we talk about a lot (weird stuff).[/quote] And then all that talk about zombies. Sounds kind of ominous, like: "You say you want to leave? Ha ha ha..." [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Reply to “Night Dragon” An Attack on our Energy Infrastructure in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="51" id="2890524"] Meanwhile, those souls who still fret the night away worrying about the Chiacoms under the bed, there is a solution. It's quite painless, too. Attach small pictures of Milton Friedman and Leo Strauss to the skirts on your bed: I have a Chiacom motion detector under my bed.... and if one [or several] dared to hide under my bed, it sets off an alarm that plays Lucille Ball's whiny ass voice at 98 decibels. And for the foot loc

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Sucked

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Nuke what?

Reply to Dead Island - Ever been deeply disturbed by a video game trailer? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I got bored about halfway through. Seen one zombie hack n slash trailer, you've seen them all. Nobody killed any puppies or kittens in that. To really get the juices flowing you need to kill puppies and kittens. And laugh about it afterwords. The laughing is very important.

Reply to “Night Dragon” An Attack on our Energy Infrastructure in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

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