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Ah yes. I got a laugh out of that. I actually didn't have that happen until my third playthrough...a refreshing surprise

At 50 hours, I don't think you're really giving up on a game... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, if he didn't finish the main quest, I guess you could argue he gave up on it.

I wonder how long it will be before PS3 games start taking advantage of that hard drive "

But did you not just define it by saying that it is undefined? Similarly, there is the word 'indescribable'. To attribute the word 'indescribable' to anything that actually is indescribable makes that thing describable; you just described it. Indescribable is a paradox then. Unless you accept that it is merely not able to be described by human means. In that case, the word isn't describing the 'indescribable thing' as much as it is describing humanity's own lack of ability to describe the 'indescribable thing'. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, saying that it's undefined is not defining it. It's undefined because there's no real value for it. Just like x/0. There's no real value for it, so it's undefined. If you take some calculus, you'll find graphs that have breaks in them, where the limit from above is different than the limit from below. Since there is no single value for that limit specifically, it's undefined. To be honest, I don't think it can be compared to indescribable at all.

I'm not so sure. I have yet to play a game with AGEIA physics which really wowed me. It just seemed to be "okay, so enemies ragdoll less than realistically." You can't drag them, or even bump into them. *Shrugs* It is possible that games aren't taking advantage of all its features, but that could be because the features themselves suck. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I haven't read up about the card a whole lot, but the little bit that I am makes it sound like it's a physics accelerator, much like a graphics accelerator. I'm not sure how it would do ragdoll physics differently than the software version of a game...or why it would either. Awesome 3D graphics cards don't stop a game that has ugly graphics from being ugly, or sloppy code from being slow.

Well, in a hot topic like that I can understand.

I think the intelligence of a show like South Park is severely understated. They poke fun at current events like no tomorrow. As for them picking sides, for the most part they pick on both sides quite a bit. Maybe it's because it has a longer length, but the South Park movie (as well as Team America) definitely fall into this category.

528 votes??

I think so.

Oblivion certainly is a nice looking game. Even on the less than amazing settings (which doesn't surprise me either).

Well, mid 90s seems a little early. That was still the end of the Genesis run. They still released the DC in 2000. The DC didn't do as well as they thought, so they dropped hardware support and became a software only company.

You must live in some exceptionally religious neighbourhood Hades. I've had my doorbell rung once in 15 years.

Heh, nope. I liked their transition to publishing. I'm surprised you haven't seen one game that is Sega since the DC went kaput.

Sounds to me like it'd be more the game code than the card itself.

Don't copy that floppy! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hahahaha. I didn't even watch it...but I remembered. Don't copy.....don't copy that floppy! IIRC, there's an old school picture of the old school NWN games with an interview with a programmer.

Irregardless annoys me too. I remember reading that it was actually removed at one point from some dictionaries, when some genius realized that it has zero difference in meaning from regardless.

Well, that's pretty much what we have. Though a graphics chip (for example) has an advantage in that it is geared directly for graphics, and won't suffer from being a general purpose processor. It's entire purpose is to perform the intense vector calculations, and can benefit from the nature of graphics programming by gearing the chip on the graphics card to be particularly strong at it. There can also be an advantage with respect to memory. The memory architecture of a main system is much more static. Graphics cards were able to implement DDR RAM, as well as widen the pipe (to 256 bit), as well as ramp up the speeds of the RAM, while system RAM has remainined relatively static. The graphics card also does not have to share its memory. This can be a double edged sword though, as unused video memory is not particularly usable (IIRC, I think Apple made a bit of a hack to get the graphics card to pick up some of the cycles for running Mac OS X, but I'm not 100% sure....it is not common though) by the rest of the system. Even then, it would lose much of its speed advantage as it would then have to go through the system bus (which may be fast enough with PCI-Express). I think decentralizing the threads helps from a cost aspect as well. People on a budget can more easily mix and match parts. Even with a multicore processor though, there's still something that brings the information together. The processors are just closer together :D

I wouldn't think they'd need to be working well with each other. It's just offloading instructions off of the CPU. The Aegis card will perform all of the expensive physics calculations so the CPU won't have to. This leaves the CPU free to do other work (like AI).

I'm sure he'll be inspirational.

Nope. Clearly you have zero understanding of sports psychology. Thanks for coming. Nope. It let him know that just because he had made it to the big leagues, it was no longer a free ride and he still had to bust his ass just to stay in the lineup. Both of which are exceptionally common among young athletes. Gretzky was benched for the second period of a game back in his WHA days. He was fired up and scored 3 goals in the third. To say that a benching means that they don't think the player is good is just incorrect.

Does anybody know exactly how unemployment insurance works? :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The central hub will point you to a processor that can answer that.

Post carefully.

I go to the first unread post and go from there.

Eye Candy? I suspect it will be as worthless as 3D accelerators and high end sound cards. EDIT: I didn't see you say NWN2 in there. It's much more likely that it will support it compared to the other two games you listed.