LadyCrimson

Ok...thanks, density removed from my person. More research needed now.

OK, backwards compatability, I think I can understand that. Most of the older games I'd want to play I wouldn't notice/care if it was slower performance or not, so DX9 emulation probably wouldn't bother me, really. Still not sure how that equates into the graphic card thing tho...older/current cards may become 'outdated' because they wont be as good at emulating older DX? I'm sorry if I'm being dense...

Hrm...uh...ok. More confused than ever. So those boards/cards may not support DX10, thus DX10 will emulate 9 so you can run Vista which requires 10?...should I, then, not even build a new system yet because of this, whatever this is?

One of my favorite foreign films of all time.

But how would you be running DX9 and DX10 (even if in emulation mode) at the same time? It's always overwritten the older version before...they will be seperate new whole thing now?

I think I've seen you (or someone else) mention the DX10 thing before. Is this because current pci-e cards won't work with DX10, or Vista, or what? And if that's the case, will the motherboards? I don't understand. Edit: And I keep looking at LCD's because my CRT's won't last forever, and it's getting harder and harder to find them here.

Pondering the possibility of building a pci-e system in a few months. Nothing will be ported over and while my natural inclination is to squeal like a wounded rat at high prices, money isn't an issue if spending the money actually means getting what I personally want. It would appear that Intel's Core2 thingie is the one to go for now, so I guess I'd go with that. I like Intel anyway. I have some other inquiries tho... Does this also equate into less heat, by chance? (Hubby and I were discussing the power usage issue this morning...between us we have maybe 8-10 computers on 24 hours a day so...). According to this, the Radeon X1900 XT 256mb is great bang for the lesser buck. However, if you're willing to spend bucks, Tom also says that the Geforce 7950 GX2 is better if you like to play at 1600x1200 with 6xAA. Now, given a choice, I really prefer to play games (and anything else) at the highest resolution possible. So video related questions: 1) The Radeon X1900 XTX can run OpenEXR High-Dynamic-Range lighting (HDR) and antialiasing at the same time. Tom's Hardware doesn't specifically mention the Radeon X1900 XT or Geforce 7950 GX2 having this ability. As a gamer, does this ability matter to you? 2) In terms of the resolution-size performance, if I like to do video editing/photography a lot as well as game, do you think the Geforce 7950 GX2 woud be worth the price over the cheaper Radeon X1900 XT? 3) LCD Monitors: If I want to use/play effectively in 1600, do I need to purchase a LCD monitor with a native resolution of 1600+? Most of the time I just see 1280 native on 19" monitors. Any thoughts on that? 4) LCD Monitors and 'ghosting'/pixel response time and video noise: Almost every recent review at Toms Hardware on 19 and 20" LCD monitors that I skimmed over said something to the effect that in practice, they were 'fair to terrible' in games, or video, or both. For example, this quote: Or this quote: This doesn't make me want to give up the CRT. Do you agree/disagree with Tom?

I thought I wrote this one already.... United 93. I was curious. It's actually pretty decent. It's not, of course, a documentary and shouldn't be viewed as such, but as a tribute/whatever it's ok. It doesn't focus on characterization/personification too much - ie there's no 'one main hero focus', just events and dramatic hypothesis. One of the more interesting things to me (I have no idea how accurate it is to reality) was the portrayal of the confusion and chaos that resulted in civilian and military paralysis or at least slow reaction times. Not an easy movie to watch and I can understand why some people would never want to see it, but it felt largely respectful and was well filmed. Tho occasionally I couldn't hear what people were saying because of so much other noise in the film.

So where's the commentary from all the BSG fans here? I thought it'd be all a buzz with chatter... :D Oh wait..it's the weekend. Maybe some people have more active lives than myself. teehee

I had a cat come home once with the top 3 inches of the tail skinned away to the bone. She probably caught it between fence boards while jumping to the ground, or something like that. We snipped it off and nicknamed her 'stubby.' I'd assume they hydrated the cat along w/the initial antibiotics. I'm sure he'll be fine.

I think the main thing is that even if there ever is a Kotor3, it's not in the plans now, and if they ever change their minds and start working on it, it'll likely be...a long time from now. I generally don't like to consider any game series dead unless companies break up, and even then, sequels to games occasionally are still made, even if it's a decade later. But yeah, in terms of wanting something "pretty soon" - like a year or two - I don't see that coming.

Edit: Oh dear, right reply but wrong thread. :">

*sniff* I like stories like these. Poor kitty...and yet, lucky kitty. Good to see it found its way home.

The img tag doesn't seem to like it when you have more address after the .jpg tag, particuarly the ?. when linking to an image, I think it assumes that the img file type tag will be the end of the link. When I try to go to that url manually, it tells me you've exceeded bandwidth limit. And...that's a mighty odd picture. Artistically, surreal, creepy, and kinda interesting. But I like the old one better as an avatar. :D

I tried to watch it three times...I fell asleep about 20 minutes into it the first two times and woke up to see the final 15 minutes the 3rd time. Gah. Well, what I saw seemed a bit disappointing to me too...but can't say since I didn't see all of it at once. I did, however, like Starbuck's storyline. That one I find kind of intriguing.

You went Alliance! For the Horde!! ...actually I have both....but my higher lvls are Horde

The people making the Restoration mod have some. http://team-gizka.org/downloads.html

It's not that you forget you once had a reason to be angry/hate. It's that you don't care anymore. I guess it depends on what you think a 'soul' does for humans in the first place...not that I actually believe in a soul...but if I did, my vision is apathy, not action.

P?? There's no 'P' in that name... And I'd put it under whatever the first letter of the official last name would be. If it's Sumner, than S. If it's Thomas-Sumner, than T. Either that, or S for 'Sting..'

Word. Having no soul, imo, means he should have no 'human-perception' morality stopping him from doing anything he wants to get what he wants, w/the result of making his actions evil only in the sense of cold and empty calculation. Anger/revenge/pathos/whatever as reasons for evil actions from a souless person is non-sensical to me. I react much the same way when supposedly souless demon servants start emoting in novels, for example. I remember preferring the guy from BG1...it's been so long since I've played either game, however, that I couldn't give any helpful reasons as to why.

Some people can get it to run just fine in XP...but yeah, I'm sure it's an XP thing, for whatever reasons. Myself, I've had more problems w/older games since installing SP2.

The game (on normal difficulty at least) is easy enough that if you want to be a melee consular, go for it. Sure you won't be as strong a hitter and you may need to heal a bit more often, haha, but it'll work...well, with sabers anyway. I don't know about sticking with swords, as I've seen some people post about. I don't have any advice on builds tho.

Re: Diablo1 XP Pro, SP2 (MS's firewall stuff is disabled), installed on C drive, using a DVD-RW drive, blah blah. Installed it - it ran. Patched it to 1.09. Made a chr. Went to bnet, made an account, was logged in to the lobby. Tried to create a game and it crashed to desktop. Re-booted. Then every time I tried to click play it would give me a big red and gold box saying "Please insert the CD-ROM." Uninstalled it, installed, patched - doesn't even run the first time at all, now, just says "Please insert the Cd-ROM". Another box says it can't read the main .mpq file. Repeat several times. Hit the computer. Tried another disc (I have 2 copies of the game). Same thing. Give up. PC sees the CD fine, I can go into Explorer and read the contents of the CD etc. Compatiability didn't do anything.

I wanted to play Diablo1 but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. So back to Summoner, then...

I love that line. The guy's looks seem pretty mundane tho. The two women seem more interesting.