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Reply to My rant about cell phone insurance. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

The cell phone insurance doesn't make any sense, anyway, because of the deductible. The deductible can wind up being half the price of the phone. It's like, why even pay premiums? Plus if you're like me and you lose your phone, you can just eat the cost yourself. The point of insurance is when an earthquake levels your $250,000 house or you need $100,000 quadruple bypass surgery. So your $200 phone fell in the drainage sewer, bleh, it's call

Reply to RTSguru’s List of Best Space-Based 4X Strategy Games in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I can't get into SotS because of the UI. Bought the game, tried to play...I just didn't get into it.

Reply to For gamers fed up with paying for DLC in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I bought Dragon Age I from Impulse, and got the Ultimate Edition. They threw in all the DLC for free. DA:Origins was going for like $50 or $60 the first several months after it was released. I waited like 1 1/2 years, got it and all the DLC for $30. That arrangement worked out well: I got some good equipment and easy quests that made the game flow easier for free. I never had to play through the hard way and then be left craving for more, plunki

Reply to Stardock Support in WOM Support Elemental Forums

You might want to be a little more tact when posting on Stardock's own forum.

Reply to gaming rig? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

If you're going to buy AMD, get an ATI video card. Not so much for the performance, but because AMD verifies that compatibility platform a lot better because they're the same company.

Reply to For gamers fed up with paying for DLC in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I've been buying the DLC for Napoleon:Total War. It's cheap, like $3.50. It gets me just a little more replayability value out of the game. My last DLC got the game off the shelf and me playing it for like 3 more days.

Reply to The games you find truly groundbreaking, original, awe-inspiring and memorable in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote]it was my first MMORPG that wasn't a MUD[/quote] That pretty much says everything about the ground-breaking nature of MUD right there.

Reply to The game still needs More of Everything in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote]I really want to like this game but I find myself a little bored and wanting more of what the game has to offer.[/quote] I'm in a similar situation, except I haven't bought the game. I'm a gamer without a game right now. Right now I'm stuck on HOMM V, playing the individual scenarios, because I've already finished all the campaigns. I'm getting hard up for entertainment here. I want to dabble with Elemental. But with e

Reply to Actual conversation that really happened in our developer chat in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think the real double-standard in gaming is, males actually have to BE cute. Females don't. Some of our pickier male gamers with some real standards they hold to, they insist that the females have 2 arms and 2 legs. But some of our Halo gamers used to dismembering aliens with rocket launchers, that part is optional, too.

Reply to facebook and Facial Recognition–More Privacy Concerns in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I realized, sometimes Facebook is all bark and no bite. I logged on as an alias, and I got an email notice. Said if I didn't verify my personal info, I wouldn't be able to log in. I didn't care. Gave them the finger, didn't verify anything. Still able to log in.

XCOM on sale today in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

For $1.24, I assume we should pick it up.

Reply to Shogun 2 is Freaking Awesome!!!!! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Learn from the Shogun, my apprentice. Learn from Haiku: Chinese man eat fish Salmonella Poisoning Toilet seat long time

Reply to Shogun 2 is Freaking Awesome!!!!! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I think the AI's somewhat better this time. He camps on the high ground sometimes. The solo cavalry charge into your spearmen doesn't happen so much. He's pretty good at assaulting strongholds.

Reply to Shogun 2 is Freaking Awesome!!!!! in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Shogun 2 good, my friend. Consider wisdom of the warrior. He who stick flaming katana down throat for entertainment just as wise as Chinese man who dance in sour cream till his feet are white.

Reply to The games you find truly groundbreaking, original, awe-inspiring and memorable in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Wizardry - a truly addictive game that ran on an Apple II+ with 16 kB of RAM. Warcraft I - hello RTS genre Nethack - a highly successful, open-source community project. The source code itself was extremely hacked up, and the game had Easter Eggs galore. Play balance was seriously screwed up, but no one cared because you were too busy unlocking all the game's secrets. MUD!!! - the first internet game that I know of.&nb

Reply to Is your job THIS bad? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

The nets don't have to go out that far. The company can save a couple thousand dollars by cutting the length of the nets in half. Suicidal people would have to climb on the roof and make a running start in order to kill themselves; that is highly unlikely. The nets need only deter--not actually stop someone athletic and intent enough that they make a run for it. If we cut the nets in half, I anticipate suicides will only go up by about 1 or 2 a year but we save $20

Reply to DELETE THIS POST it is Obsolete Forums are not working with Fire Fox in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

I'm on FF 3 and don't have any problems.

Reply to Any awesome RTS out there? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote]I couldn't get past the third level (following his path) on the Alexander the Great campaign. [/quote] The Greek campaign is actually the hardest. Do it last. I think diplomacy played a critical factor in that one, because there were so many computer players. Napoleon was just gobs of fun. Do that one first instead.

Reply to Any awesome RTS out there? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

The AI started cheating on Tougher; it was even-steven on Tough. To not suffer attrition in enemy territory you could bring supply wagons along with you. A great trick to take out your opponent was to take out his supply wagons. His only counter would be to build more supply wagons, and that means building less guns.

Reply to hello? devs? in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

Just major in Computer Science; it's not too hard. Usually you can choose electives within your major according to your passion. But another factor is that a lot of the talent pool simply doesn't go into gaming. Salary-wise, gaming is not the most lucrative field you can go in. If the gaming companies were willing to simply pay for what they want, they would get it. But they don't, so...they learn Business Enterprise stuff instead and go work fo

Reply to Any awesome RTS out there? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Rise of Nations:Thrones & Patriots was totally awesome. That's basically a RTS version of Civilization. I've seen it run for like $10 at the retail stores now, bundled with the original.

Reply to hello? devs? in WOM Multiplayer Elemental Forums

Whoa! Look at that butt on that Law Suit. I wouldn't wish that fate on anybody.

Reply to Discontent in the world of AI research. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

I would love to work on HOMM2 period, but I have to admit, I come home brain-fried every day and I don't feel like coding yet something else. I guess I could elaborate on one of the problems, but the other two (that I won't be) are actually the more interesting/promising by far. It's to load-balance an internet server farm or cloud. You have incoming requests from all over for CPU, memory, disk load, etc.. All very random. Whe

Reply to Discontent in the world of AI research. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

I guess I'm one of those guilty people using AI for corporate greed. I'm doing research in neural nets and I'm trying to train them for a very specific application, and I'm laser-focused on solving about 3 specific problems with them. I seriously, seriously doubt that the academic community will suffer because of the work I'm doing, because I'll probably be publishing a couple papers and maybe filing for patent on this. In fact--2 of the problem

Reply to Ashampoo breached and customer data stolen in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Here's the part of the thread where I act surprised.... OH NO!! I can't believe this! I'm so surprised! I can't believe this is happening!! That part of the thread is now over. Carry on.