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how embarassing, my old card from my factory built system (my custom rocks) had a faster lan card in it than the one I was using (I've since swapped em out) so now I am using a WMP54GS

for combat I've found that the best combo is either acrobatic, sword, claw, acrobatic, magic, sword (in PS3 that's X, Square, Circle, X, Triange, Square) or instead of acrobatic off the bat, magic magic claw when on the ground the claw tosses people into the air and when in the air it does the exact opposite, I have found that most of the time I was fighting by the time I got halfway through a combo I'd reach the edge of the combat zone, or a wall, and the opponent would automatically appear behind me (sometimes with a tap square minigame)

how is rise of the Argonauts anyway?

My manager at gamestop has shelves and shelves of games, most of them unopened because he's been working so much.

It's better on a console, I'm able to save wherever I want and it always comes back to that spot, and instead of tap e it's tap triangle, and in general the controls are extremely well designed.

WoW, a frozen battle straight from norse legend

I'll accept that just being incredibly strong in the force could increase your life expectancy, but not that Yoda was consciously making himself live longer.

Figured out what was wrong, I think. My OLD computer (that I didn't format) has a WMP54GS wireless land card, my new one has a WMP54G (I'm guessing Version 1.0 considering that the version isn't specified on the card) fraking linksys disk that I've got. Guess it wasn't 1.0 I'm dling every version of the friggen drivers and am going to put em on my disk and hope it picks which one is correct. of course I think it barely knows what it's dealing with it's just listed as a yellow questionmark with "network controller" after it. turns out I have version 4.0 good luck finding that on the device Got it working and am now reinstalling applications that I like.

I'm on XP and I'll give it a shot tonight

It was certainly the prettiest at the time I came out IIRC, It also had the first real physics engine that was used for puzzles and combat, compared to some of its contemporaries. Also it was pretty good at making you like the characters. It did have an infulence on games today (people still use the source engine) but it didn't have anywhere near the amount of influence that it had in the past, and it also was held back because the developers had not changed the way they told the story from 1998. I think this hurt it because there are several points early on where you are supposed to look around at various things and trigger one of the doctors talking to you (Eli's and Kliners labs) It also suffered from not having what happened between half life's one and two being told to you except through easily missed things. Also they don't really explain who the combine are or their "benefactors"

No, it doesn't show we are evil per se, just afraid to die. Those that aren't scared of death are generally thrill seekers, or reckless with their lives and they either die young or get really lucky. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the darkside. Ah, but is Master Yoda truly afraid to die? He willingly embraces it in Episode V. usually when somebody is on their death bed they come to accept this as fact and they cannot change it. But before that the fear of death can be incredible (people do wierd things to stave off death) and one of the reasons the military "breaks you down" is to remove that fear or at least minimize it because when your in a warzone death is randomly dealt. If yoda was, as you say, extending his life via the force, he was probably doing so because of the fear of dying. I mean sure, you could put a nice face on it and say that he was trying to be altruistic and spread his knowledge, but from what little I saw in the films, his version of spreading the knowledge by the time the Jedi were wiped out was teaching children the basics and occasionally acting like a standard Oracle when asked questions.

well if he wants to impact the Sith empire he either has to get some position of power within the empire that would rely upon him using the dark side, or he has to somehow forment a rebellion within the Empire but that would probably not come to a head within his lifetime. Why does he "have to?" He could do what you are saying, and infiltrate their ranks by falling to the Dark Side, or he could do something else. Impacting an empire from within is not the only option. if he is to have the impact that would cause the Sith to take an extra 300 years to attack the republic he'd have to either form an army of disgruntled slaves or become powerful enough that he has his own army to forment discontent. while the disgruntled slaves would probably allow him to remain Lightsided the Nobility line would probably end up with him stuck in a terrible spiral leading to his darkside tendancies coming back to haunt him.

IIRC he gets money from the Escapist for all his games, or he writes em off as a job expense. That's what I'd assume. It would make no sense for a professional reviewer to pay for all of his games, but as often as he brings up the cost of games and complains about having to pay for them, it makes me wonder. The way it works is that you have to let every known distributor know you exist, promote your site as being bigger than it really is and hope they'll put you on their mail-out list. If they do (and consider you big enough), you'll get sent review copies of the games a few days before release. Sometimes you get them sent late (if some huge magazine/online site wants exclusivity) and sometimes not at all (Rockstars games usually only get sent to the biggest ones). When you don't get them sent home to you, you either pirate them (which is risky because in Sweden they check up on companies and their licenses from time to time) or buy them yourself. really early in the halo review he mentions that the escapist is buying all his games for him http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/vie...uation/8-Halo-3

there were files in a driver folder but I'm not the comp sci major my brother is unfortunatly so I'm worried about breaking somthing if I don't have step by step instructions.

After reformatting my hard drive, reinstalling drivers for my grafix, sound, motherboard, and other tools, I went to try to install my drivers for my WAN card. And i ran into the problem of the damn things drivers won't work. I've tried four different packages from linksys's website (I've got a WMP54GS) and all they do is install the freaking wan network monitor, not the actual drivers. Two things I'm gonna try when I get the tools to, is 1 hook up the thing via land line to my network and let windows try to find the drivers and 2 yank the old ass card from the system I'm using to write this (which is from '03/'04 and isn't nearly as powerful as the other one) and hope to hell I can find the drivers for this sucker anyone have any other ideas? I've been downloading the drivers onto a flash drive and using that to get between computers.

*Cue hate* I suggested that a while ago (or was it on the Bioware forums?) and almost got my head chopped off for treason. Oblivion is a dead world with cardboard cutouts for people, while Kotor is a living world with NPC's with more personality than a thimble.

Worked again today, Had two customers that were in bad moods on the phone, one was pissed because Ubi appearently shut down Haze's online multiplayer (probably because nobody played it) and was just trying to get people to stop buying Ubi games. (at least I think it was ubi, I didn't pay much attention) The other one was a guy who's rich enough that he owns two homes, one in Sac one at Tahoe, he bought rock band 2 about 3 weeks ago, and the drums went bad on him, so he calls US (even though there is a GIANT YELLOW STICKER on the box saying call EA with any hardware related problems) and demands that we take it back and either give him a new band kit, or give him his money back. I tried to explain to him that we can't take it back, but he just kept getting angrier and angrier. Finially I asked the floor manager if we could do a return and he kinda shrugged because while it's within 30 days (the defective guarantee on all our items) we couldn't really do anything about it. So I told the guy we might be able to do a return, he (I guess) thought I said that he COULD do a return of the entire item. Finially when the assistant store manager got there I talked to him, and he passed the buck to the store manager (who didn't work today). I donno if the guy showed up or when he would. Then we had a little old lady with bottlebase glasses, and a cane, who couldn't speak coherently, so I had to print out some reciept paper for her to write on (badly I might add) and then me and her husband or caretaker (I don't know which) had to translate the constant nyah nyah nur nyahs that the lady was shouting after I figured out exactly what she wanted. Turns out she wanted two reciepts for, of all things, gift cards because the cards were going to two different people. Oh almost forgot, I had a customer ask me for "a Gameboy PS" I finially translated that into a gameboy advanced SP and went digging for the best one in back (we only carry used anymore). Meanwhile my coworker/boss had to deal with a lady who wanted a used psp, and he was bringing out everyone that we had that looked good and she would shoot them down because they weren't perfect. (he later started cussin up a storm about her when no customers were present). On a lighter note, my coworker ended up screwing around with a thief who traded in his games by charging a refurbishment fee on each game that the guy brought in. the guy was surprised when what he thought was going to be over 50 in cash came back as 22 and change. the reason my coworker gave for the refurbishment? They didn't have cases. the guy gets frustrated and goes to Placerville because they "don't care if he has cases or not" and the coworker after the guy went out the door, called the placerville store and told them he was coming, then they made up a rule that he had done all the trades he could for the month. Its an interesting situation to be put in where you KNOW the guy is stealing but can't really do anything about it. You can't outright call him on it, and you can't really do anything else except for some stuff that is left up to the employee (like a refurb fee or faking a rule). Even though we should be able to call the cops and give them his home address (Pawn shop laws require that every trade in have a home address, and a signature for store credit, if you hand out cash you have to have a drivers license #) but the cops wouldn't do squat. They haven't done squat the past 4 times we got broken into (which eventually made the company extend a wall over windows and replace the glass with smash resistant safety glass.) even though they had a video of the guys breaking a window, and shuffling out at least four rockband kits, or just taking everything that was on our back counter and running out the broken window. We've been able to deal with thieves in the past (usually by either charging the refurb fee or refusing to purchase their items) but I'll always remember one night where four guys came in AS we were closing and practically demanded we take their games. The lead employee at the time started demanding all kinds of information out of them which they refused, so he simply kicked them out (they tried to use a PO box as their address, which isn't allowed on trades) closed up and walked away. Probably one of the biggest bothers when you shut down is those people who don't realize that you're closed and walk up tug on the door and then look at you as if you are just out to get them, then start bangin on the door and pointing. Even though there is a list of our hours right next to the handle they never look down and sometimes they call the phone inside the store just to get us to open up (depending on who's working the phone usually doesn't get picked up after close).

Given how little we know about the "prince" I wouldn't be surprised if he did turn out to be a real prince who just ran from the responsibility of being a ruler, taking a good portion of the treasury with him.

IIRC he gets money from the Escapist for all his games, or he writes em off as a job expense.

I'd say that Twilight princess is better on the Wii than Cube.

I never thought I'd hear about a symptom from the TV show House anywhere else (well the weird symptoms anyway) In the first episode of last season he had an astronaut with synesthesia of being able to hear with her eyes.

No, it doesn't show we are evil per se, just afraid to die. Those that aren't scared of death are generally thrill seekers, or reckless with their lives and they either die young or get really lucky. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the darkside.

well if he wants to impact the Sith empire he either has to get some position of power within the empire that would rely upon him using the dark side, or he has to somehow forment a rebellion within the Empire but that would probably not come to a head within his lifetime.

There is no difficulty curve in the game. The prince didn't remind me of dante, he reminded me more of the origional prince from sands of time, who hadn't been made a prince. Like we said before the game is hurt by the fact that all the conversations and personality development has to be practically modular because after each boss fight and restoration they have a "moment". but none of the moments reference anything that happened previously, and generally don't progress the characters in any meaningful way except in the very very end.