LadyCrimson

Stuff like this is why I still won't allow HTML/whatever-based emails (if I can't read it in the old text-only or message-source modes, I'm not reading it). Not that this totally relates, I'm just saying I'm super paranoid/careful. Making all files/ext. visible is the very first thing I do in Windows.

Where I am (California), Community Colleges are largely regarded as the "stepping stone" to the University ... usually for cost reasons, as mentioned, or sometimes because the student isn't quite sure what they want to focus on yet, and spending time at a Community College first can help them with that, without costing an arm and a leg/wasting their funds as they dabble around, so to speak. I think almost all of my family started at Community Colleges (many at DeAnza, the one Hurl mentioned, actually), moved on to state U's, and are now all very well employed. My mother used one to pad out her U. degree with more "modernized" education when she had to go back to work (eg, her degree was gained in the 50's and she wanted a job in the 80's). Worked very well for her. Whether they are sub-par in "quality" or not really depends on individual school. And of course a 2-year Associate degree may not be enough for jobs that require/insist on 4+ year degrees, but that should be obvious. I would not call them completely useless, however...it just depends on what the student's goal's are.

I'm waiting for the Early Access awards. If they don't have them already. Speaking of such, I find myself more interested in open world building games, but so far none of the ones on EA Steam are quite far enough along for me to dive in. I think one needs a bit more than the ability to dig holes in dirt and kill an animal (can't use it yet, mind, just kill it) before I'll spend any cash on Steam. If I was into MP server environments, Grav or Life is Feudal look somewhat interesting. Maybe in a year or so.

I rewatched "This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated," a 2006 doc. about the movie rating process/people who do it. I find what's presented in the doc. itself rather disheartening. Not surprising, mind, but certainly disheartening. Not about whether there should or should not be ratings or inconsistency of ratings ... it's their secrecy and such that bothers me. I don't think that should be allowed. Why be so secret vs. transparent? Just makes one think they have something to hide. I had actually forgotten about Greico.

@Rosbjerg - very scary. I'm so glad you recovered and are on the mend.

HGTV - the "house hunters" type shows are always so fun to watch (in short bursts), so you can mock the buyers with all their complaints about how they can't buy this house because oh no, it doesn't come with a dishwasher, or gee they'd have to paint the walls a different color, or the bathroom sink isn't a pedestal, or something else equally as asinine.

I remember being surprised that I liked the first film as much as I did. Not that it was awesome, but it was sorta cute in places and a bit less of that certain humor style I dislike than I thought it have. I never really watched the show (maybe saw a few episodes), but I remember when it was a thing ... all the ads, all the Depp swooning. But the first one was enough. Not interested in a 2nd movie.

The only mechanics which bother me are the ones I don't like. ...of which there are likely many, but most of the time I can't remember specifics very well, if I wanted to put them in a list, since I usually don't play (or think about) games that have them, for very long. So I just end up with "I didn't like that game." Yeah...I'm that simple.

The third time may sometimes be the charm, but I get the feeling it may not be in this case. Since you stated no replies are needed this time around, this need not remain open...please do not repost this same topic yet again.

Yeah...it's just a curse of my super-finickiness. One day I may have the energy to actually move to Linux. One day.

Far as I'm concerned ... no. I keep most games with a forced fps 60 cap, after having one game where mega-high fps = overheating GPU. More than 60 does, of course, give you more "cushion" in case you do run into some fps spiking, so some may like higher for that reason alone. That said, I've heard if your monitor is 120hz that it can make a difference. I do not have a 120 monitor so can't confirm or deny.

Metro is not the only reason I dislike it. If you/others like 8, that's great. I just don't. And yes I've tried it...on hubby's pc's and my recent laptop. P.S. - I'm still not a huge fan of Win7, either. Haha.

That's how he feels 24/7 regardless. I joke about the sports car but I think it's likely apnea sleep deprivation. Like living on 2 hr. sleep a day, only for decades. When he was young it wasn't bad - took him hours to "wake up" in the morning but hobbies and new experiences/goals kept him moving/motivated. By his 40's mental/physical energy slid drastically as more and more he feels like he never "wakes up." Hobbies slowed/stopped, TV increased, etc. which makes it worse. And yes, I'm sure he finds it depressing. It is a little better in summer vs. winter (cold/long nights don't help). Hubby is part Vulcan - he'd just calmly lift an eyebrow and ignore you. He's not into sports or most gym routine type stuff (just likes hiking, or swimming, mostly) but has always wanted a good rowing machine. We don't really have room for one...they're usually so big now (the water ones are cool, tho). He thinks about building one himself, so it could be smaller, but that requires energy/motivation. >.> Maybe I can figure out how to make room, somewhere.

I did see some on Amazon, but then user reviews were claiming when received, the keys didn't work/it wasn't legal. Hence..."iffy" to go that route since you don't know who is really trustworthy on something like Amazon. OEM Win7 Pro is what I'm using now, hence my question. ... I should have bought a few copies a bit later or something, but I didn't. Sorry, I hate it. I just have to hope Win10/whatever is at least slightly more tolerable to my picky self.

Oh. For some reason I thought XP32 could get close to 4, it just couldn't go over 4. I've seen people posting playing unity indies on XP, but yeah, can't speak for percentage's of stability on such.

PoE may still run on his/her rig, but how good actual performance may be is pretty up in the air I think. 3GB for an XP system always seems odd to me, but I tend to use even numbers of RAM. Can you still find RAM that would work in your motherboard/system so you could have 4 instead of just 3?

I don't want to make a new thread just to ask this, so... ...can you still buy Windows 7 from Microsoft? When I go to their page I just see 8.1 stuff. ...I know you can try to get it from other places but trusting whether what they send you is a new/legal copy seems rather iffy. Sigh. I may have to use Win10 or whatever when I build the new rig.

I don't have an answer, but I can give information that when I run the current beta, on my 64-bit Win7 system the .exe by itself likes to use about 1.6-2GB of system RAM. Up and down a bit depend on area/what you're doing and all that. That could, of course, not be what your rig ends up using, doing the same thing, since it's a different O/S/config etc, and I don't know what the final/full game will be like vs. beta.

I like the unit graphics in that one. Wish I still had the patience for that sort of RTS.

Yeah, the WTF series can be entertaining. One of the few where I may watch the whole video, vs. just click-skimming. Although if it's long, I still probably won't watch it all. I do miss magazines. I can read a ton faster than people can time/speak through their videos. Some YT reviewers need to learn how to be a bit more succinct. If you want to babble a whole industry thesis around something you like/don't like in one game, don't call it a review.

Dear hubby: I love you but if you complain one more time about how you're tired/hate getting old etc but then do nothing but sit in the recliner watching 8 hours of TV a day, I'm going to stop listening. Just buy that sports car already, k? K. Today I went for my walk, raked the back lawn, made some noodle stir-fry (real noodles, not top ramen), tussled with a spastic cat whose new thing in life seems to be claw-climbing the back of the couch like he's rock-climbing Mt. Everest, cleaned the house, and generally tried to keep my mind busy. Now time for a couple hours of video game, then some zz's. Which is the best part of the day. The zz's that is, not the video game.

For some reason, I thought this was going to be a member meet and greet thread for playing games or maybe even IRL. I should have known better. ...and if anyone robs Bieber, I'm more than willing to take a little of redistributed wealth. So I can build my dream cat shelter. Yeah, that's it.

Might still be usable if one has very limited hand mobility. The simple push motion and needing nothing else was why my dad could even play the Atari. But you'd have to make some other kind of adjustments as well now, because of gameplay/control changes over the ancient games. I'm guessing.

I was mostly talking about their appearance (Bok's are pretty fancy looking to my eyes), although the ones in your link do retain the same general shape as the NES one we had ages ago, and a couple hubby bought when he wanted something for a pc game once. I've never been a joystick person tho. I mostly just remember the Atari one.

Joysticks have come a long way, baby.