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Doubt many people do - it's usually just something you notice when the fan speed suddenly ramp up to maximum for no discernable reason.

Haven't noticed it personally, but the only obvious thing that comes to mind might be upgrading GPU drivers.

Instead of diet and exercise, I occasionally practise diet versus exercise. The idea behind which is to have no food readily available at home, and therefore creating the situation of having to exercise (by means of a bike ride or a long walk) if I wanted to get food. I don't have a car, see. I'm only being semi-facetious with it as a serious strategy. Most weekdays I have lunch at work and don't bother keeping my fridge and pantry stocked so when I get home that's it for the day.

I dunno though, FO3 might get you a post-apocalyptic novel, but it might end up an extremely silly one if you get too much into the game.

I know they stopped supporting the CK2 GamersGate version, but it's been well over a year now that they did it, all purchasers were given a Steam key and told there would be no further updates to the DRM-free version - all future patches and DLC being Steam-exclusive. I haven't played any other Paradox games so not sure about other titles. I guess for the ones which aren't in active development, the old downloads would be unchanged so it wouldn't matter. EDIT: In hindsight I shouldn't have put "many cases" which might be misleading, it'd just be for anything they're still developing for I guess.

In many cases, they stopped supporting the DRM-free GamersGate version and converted everyone's copies to Steam. This should have been a bigger controversy that that other similarly named silly thing that's been going on.

I don't know about other countries, but in Australia political interviews can often get pretty heated like that so I don't really view it as too unusual overall. Unusual in the context of usually compliant games publications, sure, but shocking? Eh.

I don't know why people seem to think cricket is a complicated sport.

Why? Imagine the elaborate rat-race mazes you could set up for your enemies!

Useful for games you do a lot of waiting on, such as Football Manager or The Sims. MMOs by their nature too, always behave like that.

I don't think the stench of horse armour will ever go away.

Maybe get them confident enough to open voting on the next city! :D

So you're telling me that the Tex Murphy Kickstarter game was not an FPS? Goodness me.

I like adventure, exploration, text-based choices and top hats. I don't like Lovecraft, horror, or scary things in general. So tell me, would this game put me off?

Now if it was better than modded Skyrim it'd be meaningful praise.

Since your board is AM3+, you could consider spending the extra on a drop-in FX series CPU like the FX-8320E. Depends how soon you think you can hang on to that platform before relenting and going with a new Intel one though, it'd be kind of a stopgap because it's a dead end path. And yes, there was some controversy over the GTX 970's memory configuration, but it's still the best option in the price range. There may be circumstances in which the R9 290X would be preferable to it, but if buying right now the GTX 970 remains the overall better choice. That said, personally I'd go for the regular 290 and put the savings towards a better CPU, whether as a drop-in upgrade or as part of a total overhaul.

Yknow the guys at the Bethesda forums would claim Obsidian is the one with the buggy rep. I don't get it personally, cause my experience with both has been buggy, so I don't see why either community would wanna bring up bug reputation. If we were talking about remastering Alpha Protocol then I'd have posted that more or less word for word except with Obsidian listed. But when we're talking about FO3+NV, there's only one common factor. What am I going to say, "Fallout 3 and New Vegas are being remastered, and all the new bugs in Fallout 3 are Bethesda doing what they do best, and all the new bugs in New Vegas are Obsidian doing what they do best." That's somewhat awkward for a one liner, and also doesn't quite illustrate my contempt for the use of this Gamebryo engine*. * As used by these games, they're technically an innocent third party.

The 760G is no spring chicken, but it's not that old. It should be PCI-E 2.0, even if the Asus site doesn't explicitly state it. Wikipedia has PCI 2.0 listed as a feature of the chipset. And indeed the manual lists what the spec page does not. R9 290 clear winner at that price point.

PCI-E is backwards compatible, so a newer card will work just fine in an older version slot. Theoretically it'd not get full performance, but the real world difference won't be something measurable outside benchmarks. That said, the GTX 770 is a superceded card and assuming you're getting one for around 300EUR as shown on that site you linked, it's a poor deal. For only slightly more you can get the significantly better GTX 970. For slightly less you can get the R9 290, also significantly faster. For a lot less you can get the similarly performing R9 280, which handily also has more VRAM. You didn't list what your CPU is, but there's a good chance it's going to be bottlenecking the higher end video cards. This is fine, you can move the card into a faster system in the future, but just be aware that you will be held back quite a bit in a lot of games by your old CPU. Some people might tell you to buy a cheaper card that matches up with the speed of your CPU, but it's somewhat flawed logic since upgrading is a thing.

This is Bethesda tech we're talking about. A remaster would do nothing but add even more bugs.

True, when I try to think of a sociopathic entity, I do tend to think of PayPal.

I will happily back it, but I do have to admit that UU was never my cup of tea. But it's a cup of tea that I respect and admire both as a genre pioneer and huge technical achievement. It's easy to forget that UU predated the comparatively primitive Wolfenstein 3D, despite all the kudos the latter title tends to receive.

No, ME1 was no better, indeed arguably worse - the charm and intimidate ranks had to be unlocked by having a sufficiently high value on the alignment meter. So you had the same metagaming issue plus you had to spend skill points on them. A moderate character then might end up 'wasting' points on both charm and intimidate without being able to max out either of them, and also is doubly punished since the points could have been put into a combat skill or whatever.

Mass Effect was Lawful Good - Rude Good so it doesn't really fit this discussion. Not many games do: you save the world regardless, just sometimes you're a jerk about it. Unless the 'Control' ending of ME3 secretly involved Shepard using the Reapers as his personal army to conquer the universe, I suppose. I do understand the perspective of your friend though, sometimes playing a jerk is actually harder than playing evil. Evil people presumably still have friends, things, places that they care about, yet in many games, it's expected that you be a jerk to everyone and not give a damn about anything, treat your party members badly, etcetera. This is nonsensical, but all too common a problem: the 'evil' option is really nothing more than Stupid Evil (or indeed Chaotic Stupid, or the elusive True Stupid). Still, the gentlemanly bandit archetype is a well-established trope so there's plenty of scope to play like that if a game allows it. Sometimes it's flat out impossible due to lazy scripting, e.g. magical karma systems where people automatically know what you do and react as such. No witnesses is no witnesses, dammit. Appropriately enough, one of my favourite Oglaf quotes (from "Abyss"): "Good and evil are relative, but being a **** cannot be allowed."

I use a similar device at work, 11.6" convertible. Nothing wrong with it and can use it hours on end just fine, but it pretty much is attached to the keyboard all the time, so the tablet part of it is kind of redundant. Only time I did use it in tablet mode was when I was away on a training course and needed to use it in a cramped training room where there wasn't really room to plant it on the table.