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Well one clue is how early the game would have finished if not for the twist. On the plot direction alone though, I think it was a case of being not really being a twist as such, but just one of two natural paths for the fairly story to take, either way wouldn't shock anyone, there was no real misdirection. A contrast would be DXHR's twist in that there was no twist. The thing that people expected to happen didn't happen, and I was glad for it.

A good PSU has a large quality fan that spins so slowly anyway that'd you'd not know it was running even if it didn't have the smart feature. You'll find that typically a good PSU has a single fan on the 'fat' side of it, instead of on the outwards facing panel (as used to be standard), so it'd be impossible to see it without physically opening the case. The other thing is that the good PSUs have tremendous tolerance anyway, they have fanless PSUs of 500W+ now. But I guess you'd find out when it tripped the heat threshold and spontaneously powered off.

Loading both a typical CPU and a typical gaming GPU to a proper workload, you'll typically find the GPU is about double the CPU in terms of power consumption, and therefore in heat. ~200W for a GPU, ~100W for the CPU.

Depends how long you define "relatively new" as - it's been around for somewhere between a few and several years, coinciding with the trend for higher efficiency PSUs - a more efficient PSU will have less heat to dissipate. Generally speaking you'll mostly see the feature on gold/platinum rated units, and not all of them at that. e.g. The Seasonic X series has the feature, the G series does not, both are gold rated units. Incidentally they're also the two units I recommend to people building PCs, pick depending on budget.

Well... no. The vast majority of content on TV is still 24 fps. South Park is definitely not made at any higher frame rate than that. Any differences you've detected in frame rates in the past few years is likely due to certain HDTV's with high refresh rates having a motion interpolation feature enabled by default. This makes the TV render extra frames, effectively doubling the frame rate of the 24 fps content it's receiving. Anyway, the game is likely locked at 30 fps because it's trying to emulate the show as closely as possible. That, and a lot of the more complicated cutscenes are pre-rendered with your character being actively rendered on top of it, so increasing the frame rate wouldn't do any good there. Yes and no, it's a mix of both, but yeah in that I have no idea what South Park is recorded at (I don't watch the show). There's a reason motion interpolation is dubbed the "soap opera effect". I defer to AVS:

It will run, yes, but not sure on what kind of frame rates you can get - might have to turn the detail down a fair bit. (Don't have the game yet myself so not sure what options are available). Closest I can find is that someone on the Steam forums reported it was fine with the previous generation version of your integrated graphics, so it'll be playable.

By the standards of the game universe, it totally merits its 5-star happiness rating shown there.

I don't even see the need for a switch, both inputs (or more) should be live at all times, and this applies for all games.

But it isn't, only the German version is censored due to national laws (Nazi-related stuff), and that version is separate from the rest of Europe. The UK gets the same voluntarily censored version as the rest of Europe-bar-Germany, so the reference to "the UK has no problem with it", along with the reference to PC piracy, reads to me like it's about the Australian/German PC versions. Then again it could be anything really because the thread hardly started with an informed statement. I think we could really do with a sticky in this forum with the specific regional differences so people can at least get annoyed at the right targets.

German and Australian versions are censored on PC, for different reasons.

Oh Aldi here in Australia sell a ton of Medion branded stuff too, such that it's pretty much considered their house brand. I think the real relationship between the companies is a bit more complex than that, but such is their image. Not seen one in person, but I'd assume it's just OEM parts in a generic chassis.

Or just sign up to Amazon or some other online store that ships internationally.

Well if they're trying to replicate the look of the current show, digital TV is 60fps! Maybe the game is trying to emulate the days of analogue TV back when the show debuted being at 25/29.97fps interlaced.

Maybe the fusion breakthrough in the science thread is closer than we thought!

Microsoft killed the WinXP mode feature of Win7 Pro, so it's that much harder now to run 16-bit executables - you'll have to set up a VM yourself. Other than that I don't think there's a massive difference in compatibility.

Some higher-end PSUs don't run their fans until the power load or temperature reaches a certain level, so if anything it's the sign of a good model. A quick search shows at the very least some Corsair HX series models have this functionality, though look up your specific model to be sure. (EDIT: Or just play a game for a few minutes and see it spin up I guess)

Don't know whether they actually do it, but in their terms of service they reserve the right to do it, yes.

Reads to me like a customised Clevo, likely branded a Schenker. So yeah, Taiwanese at heart, but 'finished' in Germany.

It does look odd that they didn't change the blood effects though. But unlike the actual game, I'd totally try that.

486 desktops used to cost well in excess of $5000. I don't know for sure, but my dad's DX2/66 monochrome laptop might have cost a similar amount.... But yeah, the enemy of gaming laptops is physics, and short of external GPUs (an idea that's been floated a few times), it's not going to get any better for some time yet.

Dammit, Google's taken over my intarwebs even more than I imagined possible. Also it's 2am and I've been half-sick all day. Otherwise I'd have played a whole lot more of the game instead of idly surfing the web while in bed.

Couple minor bugs, disappearing mouse cursor until I zone transitioned and an odd one where the main menu text didn't slide into their boxes (which were still clickable) and instead just sort of just stayed off the left edge of the page save the last few letters. Just played the intro and pretty happy so far. Either there's some reasonable choice in some of the options, or they've at least managed to disguise the lack of them (like Walking Dead kind did). Only a replay or reading spoilers will tell for sure, but the results of the given choices I made were reasonable enough that I didn't feel violently railroaded. Aside, I foolishly put no points in body or dodge and being hit once by a given enemy always took my hp down to about a quarter, oops. Got away with it long enough to rectify the problem so I didn't need to restart, luckily. Based on the original campaign's (non-)use of non-combat skills I had pretty much put all my points into combat related stuff, but it looks like I might want to start diversifying pretty soon. Mechanically there's obviously nothing new. I wish they'd clean up the level design a bit in terms of what's cover and what's not, at times there are things that look blatantly like they were intended to be cover, but aren't actually enabled as such. Party members not having overwatch by default is kinda annoying too, not sure why something so basic needs a skill level prerequisite, a carryover complaint for me. P.S. Stupid Google gives results for Daggerfall when you search for Daggerfall. Gee, thanks.

Could be power related, although that's a hard one to test. The most basic check would be to take a multimeter and use the back of the ATX or molex connectors to check the voltages are in order.

I put the US version in my Amazon shopping cart and it's perfectly happy to send it over to Australia, so I assume there's nothing stopping you from doing the same in the UK. Unlike here, expect to pay some customs charges however (which will be VAT plus a fixed processing fee).

You probably also want the Really Useful Dragons mod.