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4K Blu-ray playback is neat and is a genuine selling point over the PS4 Pro (which I guess lacks the support because Sony don't want to cannibalise sales of their standalone players). However if they set too much of a price premium then the sensible option might be a PS4 Pro + Xbone S instead.

So it's just Interstate '76 with less cool cars and hairstyles then.

It's better than KoTOR, at least in terms of my personal preferences. Which is to say, I don't like Star Wars, and I don't like having to manage party members. (It does have party members, but for the most part they're completely autonomous and out of your field of view, so you can pretend they're not there) ME2's overarching plot is kinda dumb, especially for those who played ME1 first (I played them in reverse order) but the smaller-scale stuff is generally pretty well-done. But the same can be said for KoTOR so I'm not going to bother splitting them there.

Didn't it twig when you noticed you were replying to a thread discussing the benefits of having 1GB RAM ....in 2017?

The reason most HDMI splitters would be powered is for that reason, to boost the signal after it's been split. Splitting a signal doesn't have a detrimental effect on the source device, just the output device if the signal isn't strong enough. However for a simple two-way split, and assuming a fairly standard bandwidth (I imagine 4K displays might have some difficulty), I reckon a simple unpowered, non-switching splitter would be fine. Displayport works a lot neater because you can daisychain them. Modern displayport monitors often have a displayport out so you can run a line of them using nothing but standard displayport cables.

If your source is a fairly standard PC, couldn't you just hook them both up at the same time using different outputs (you might need a DVI to HDMI adaptor or somesuch) and run in duplicated displays mode? It wouldn't matter which one (or both) of the displays are turned on in that scenario.

ME3's ending was awful, but I never got to that point. It's not the reason I hate ME3. Kai Leng was idiotic, but I never got to the point where you meet him. It's not the reason I hate ME3. The about-faces on the Genophage and the Rachni queen were lazy and cynical but I never got to either of those points. They're not the reason I hate ME3. No, the game had completely fallen apart well before then. Right from the start of the game, it barrages you with rapid-fire idiocy, from the extraordinarily contrived tribunal scene ("we fight or we die!"), said tribunal being very conveniently wiped out, some kid dying, the MacGuffin for saving the universe being oh-so-very-conveniently located on the planet next door, two nonsensical dream sequences, then irrationally telling you you're in the right for demanding the Turians drop everything in their defense of their homeworld so they can help Earth. It was at that point I'd had utterly enough and quit the game in a fit of rage, never to return to it. This "EARTH EARTH EARTH" appeal to blind "patriotism" in a crudely cynical pitch to the brodude CoD audience destroyed Mass Effect as a franchise. P.S. I did watch the rest of the game unfold, painfully, on YouTube, and I consider my decision to cut my losses fully vindicated. All the decision points were fully predictable in such a way that the lawful good choice always resulted in the best outcome, as long as you always chose the blindly idealistic option you'd come out on top. All up, a complete waste of money, and comfortably one of the trinity of worst games I've had the misfortune to purchase (the other two being Oblivion and Call to Power).

My grammar game needs some work though.

By downloading it from GOG (where it's completely free), installing it and double-clicking the desktop icon. :D

Well for the battery life, Nokia just relaunched the 3310. 2G only though, so usage is limited to places where the 2G networks haven't been decommissioned yet. In all seriousness though, if you want a Windows phone it's really just a simple matter of looking up the Lumia range and going with the one with the highest model number that still fits your budget. Quick look on Amazon.de shows the top three sellers as the 650 at ~125EUR, the 55 at ~90EUR and the 950 XL at ~300EUR. Notebookcheck has reviews for the 550 and the 950 XL.

I didn't mind either the third or fourth games, really. Sure they were as middle-of-the-road as you can get but I went through each to completion and didn't regret it.

I remember I watched the first episode of an AoD LP where a fight broke out and a bunch of unarmoured combatants stabbed each other a few dozen times in extremely slow tactic-less turn-based combat before anyone died. Decided right then and there that the game was not for me. FTL was an interesting diversion but falls apart on the final level where the game just suddenly changes the rules on you. Screw that, I don't even bother playing the final level, though the process of reaching it is reasonably engaging.

I thought it was a nice gesture, but then I found out EA Access is a paywall. Classic EA. That said, 10 hours is plenty to get an idea of how good or bad the game will be, so that when considered in isolation is more than fair and I hope other games follow suit. I ragequit on ME3 in less than half that time, and played DA3 even less (through apathy rather than anger in its case). Demos would have saved me from both. ....maybe I shouldn't tell them that.

Enemy Within was good but after having completed the vanilla game I only needed to complete it once to get my fill since it was the same campaign, just with added mechs. (I completed normal vanilla, then C/I vanilla then C/I EW) Screw the "DLC" that came with it though, it's unreasonable to survive Portent without memorising the Thinman drops. I never got the Slingshot DLC but it suffers a similar issue with the pre-activated "Gankplank". Whenever I see someone complain about an unreasonable difficulty spike in XCOM it's almost always due to the DLC. Ultimately though, EW is important because it's required to play the final version of Long War. My gametime went from around 120 hours post EW, to 450+ hours by the time I completed a single Long War campaign.

Today I heard about Overcooked for the first time and immediately bought it for some four-player co-op insanity while I'm still on holiday. It's a blast with the full complement of players, pretty good with two players, and while I didn't try it solo, probably would suck single player. Shame it's local co-op only so it's not something I can play when I get home next week. Best co-op game since Monaco, which I absolutely adore.

Those are the exact traits I look for in a laptop. It's a business machine not concerned with being "sexy" but rather having things like the best keyboard available on a laptop, good connectivity options, being tough as nails, etc.

Impulse-bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T460s to replace my T440s. The new machine is a base model i5 compared to the older one which was a i7 (still dual-core) Haswell, so the final performance would probably end up fairly similar. Other specs are the same - the usual 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 1080p IPS screen, which is all that matters. I dropped the touchscreen which turned out to be more hindrance than help, and the backlit keyboard which I used maybe once a year. So really there was no reason for me to do this changeover, but the price was irresistable: $1000AUD for the new machine when I paid well over double that for the older one originally. The new one is about 20% lighter at ~1.35kg (3 pounds) which is nice but just icing on the cake. Old machine goes to my parents who were using my old Core 2 Duo Dell with an almost completely dead battery as a spare machine.

You're probably not comparing apples to apples if there's that much price differential. You can get a 4-port wireless-N router for under 20EUR these days, though it'd be a cheaper Chinese brand with a less polished UI. Something like this would absolutely do the job, and I run TP-Link gear no problem, cheap and cheerful but not as idiot-proof as the established brands in terms of setup. The primary price driver besides brand would be wireless capability. These days devices will come either with just the older wireless-N support, or with the newer wireless-AC standard. In the latter case they'll still have wireless-N as a fallback, it just means the device won't be operating at its maximum throughput. But that's not all, because there's a numerical rating attached to the standard, whether it be N or AC, e.g. N300 or AC1200. These numbers are a measure of their speed, but is not a direct representation of it. Now for the N standard it's pretty simple. The number just means the theoretical maximum throughput, i.e. N300 is 300Mbps. You will never hit that theoretical value of course, but it's easy enough to compare various products with that figure. The wireless-AC products though are misleadingly labelled because the number is the sum of two separate wireless bands that will be operating. When you operate an AC1350 router, you're not getting 1350Mbit, you're getting (theoretically of course) a 450Mbit wireless-N network operating concurrently with a 867Mbit wireless-AC network (and 1317 is rounded up to 1350 because reasons). This is why they are marketed as "dual-band". Modern devices will have the option to connect to the AC network and only get the 867Mbps or to the slower N network, you cannot connect the same device to both simultaneously. Older or cheaper devices such as game consoles would just connect to the wireless-N network and act as if the AC network wasn't there. EDIT: The USB ports on routers are not designed for you to connect a PC to them, rather they are intended for things like printers or an external hard drive to share between the other devices connected to it.

Hardware-wise it's about equivalent to a GTX 940M from what I can see. Absolute entry level.

So you want to play an incest simulator? You sick, sick puppy. if one genuine wants such, they can get it from most any japanese dating game. *shudder* HA! Good Fun! Dating sims have nothing on Crusader Kings 2.

There is a patch for it, but it's big (well, for the time...) and took aeons to apply for me. That said, wasn't there a way to register your Witcher 1 disc key on Gog and get it on their platform for free? GOG provides a GOG copy of either of the first two Witcher games no matter what platform you originally bought them on. https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup There is no distinction between versions, all editions upgrade to the up-to-date Enhanced Edition.

PC3L (or DDR3L) is the 1.35V standard so it implies that your existing sticks are optimally designed to run at that voltage, though it will typically accept 1.5V without issue. The stuff in that Newegg link is also DDR3L so it's correct (and it mentions 1.5V compatibility as a fallback). The timings may not exactly match but that's no big deal: while the sticks will all run at the speed of the slowest one, in practice any difference here will be a fraction of a percent. That said, if you do really want to match them up exactly, you can check the SPD tab in CPU-Z to see what your current sticks are qualified to run at.

Any of multi-class, classless level-based or classless experience-based. The common thread is that these systems go hand in hand with the idea of a dynamic *character* instead of a fixed-function machine, but the rate of power gain can easily be regulated by the "game master" as to eliminate any perverse incentive to grind.

Just go ahead and do that stuff now if you want, it's perfectly fine to do so. In my opinion, a certain dungeon beneath the hangman tree is more challenging early on, well with one clear exception, but I won't spoil anything for you. If it's the temple under the big tree, yeah, went there as one of the first things I did. Found it somewhat challenging (on default difficulty) I quite liked it though, gave me that "IWD Vibe". Off to visit the lordling it is then My first and so far only PoE run ended there, when I tried exploring that place solo. Success eluded me and I lost all momentum and ended up playing something else. This was before story mode was a thing, so I don't know how viable it'd be if I returned to it today.

Guessing the Squeenix holiday surprise box will contain the first episode at least, if you want to try it that way.