alanschu

What happens if the company goes out of business and you can no longer get the game? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You can always burn the game onto CDs/DVDs yourself though. You get the same problem with patches and stuff too, for both types of games. "Alun" ... ouch.

Ignores ignores! Don't give in to temptation!

I've yet to see one that only gave you a single download. If it did, I'd certainly never buy it. Some, including Steam, provide unlimited downloads though.

The company doesn't give them to you stacked... Its you who does the stacking when they give you those sleeve jackets to screw around with. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not sure what your point is. My post was a response to the top post. Even if I keep them in sleeve jackets, they don't get scratched up. They get scratched up when I don't put them away and all the dust and other junk falls on them and murders the crap out of them. I find it odd for you to put words into ShadowPaladin's mouth anyways.

So uh.......some good things happened. Rita obliterated some guy with an open ice check. Laraque smashed the crap out of Brad May (who earlier tried to take on Rita for his hit). We didn't get shut out. It's still only counts as 1 loss.

Hmmm. I don't think I've ever owned a PC game that had discs directly stacked on top of each other.

I remember players like Chelios playing throughout the playoffs with a broken ankle. I think with braces (and even skate technology), finding ways to take weight off the ankle is probably not THAT hard of a thing to do. I'm going to the Colorado game tonight, so if you see any bizarro things that Aebischer does in net, it's because I'm manipulating him with the force. And when Ales Hemsky lays out Rob Blake, it's because I put a Force Shield on him.... <sigh>....If only I were a jedi...

All discs that I keep in cases have remained in uber-condition too!

Were they actually "broken" ankles and wrists? In any case, you can brace the crap out of them like a bunch of crazy mofos to the point where you're not really putting any weight on them. Blurry vision though is blurry vision.

Oh, in other news, I see Lacie has 1 TB drives now. For about $1000 bucks Someone hold Shadow back! Resist!!

As soon as it became available, my Dad got an account that had no caps on bandwidth usage for a flat monthly rate. Still can't get over that. WOW! Did you like needlessly copy them repeatedly??? I have Duke3D on my computer, and it's only 40 MB. The Ultima Collection takes up 250 MB, and that's 8 games! (UC doesn't have U9). I bow before your dedication. Maybe if I was older and could have bought more games myself I could have attained your library. I thought mine was big (including consoles)... Two 500 GB....yeesh........Mr. Moneybags here......thinks he so better than us!

Because they like to roleplay their characters differently. Sometimes I pick armor just because it looks cool, not because it has +23543 to wisdom.

Many download services don't offer "lifetime passes" though, because it's too easy to abuse. I'm only allowed 5 installs with my Eastside Hockey Manager. I don't blame them, otherwise I could just buy the game once and give the registration code to all of my friends.

Expensive?? Yeah, like $1000 buckaroonies!! I wish my arms were self-regenerating and made of money like yours! I'm jealous more than anything I have tons of games, but many of them are quarter filled CDs from the late 1990s and even on floppy disk! 900 GB! Wowzers. I remember full installing Baldur's Gate to it's 2 GB install back in the day Did you fill the hard drive just with games though? I've seen people with rather extensive music collections, and videos are just gigantic. I don't d/l them, but my roommate does and he's always complaining about what he should delete

Many games can actually be purchased via download for the PC now. I bought Eastside Hockey Manager doing so, and I know places like Gamespy have the Direct2Drive service that offers tons of downloadable games to be bought.

I've calmed down since I got married. Ask me another :"> I still have one around here, blew up while full of games (of course I have the originals so it's only the saves I lost) but it does highlight a problem I tend to have with downloading. Games at the moment seem to come in at around 6-8 GB (looking at some of the latest releases). Since the revolution has access to the Nintendo back catalogue it should be a good litmus test. The games are a lot smaller too since they are N64/Snes/Nes. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think 6-8 GB still might be a wee bit large. Some are, but those are still rare. My KOTOR 2 directory clocks in at 5 GB, but that's with 1.5 GB of saved games. Vampire Bloodlines is 2.86 SC: Chaos Theory is 3.5 GB. WOW: 5 GB Half-Life 2 is just over 6 GB Rome: Total War is my biggest at just over 8 GB. Considering those games are all relatively new, coupled with 500 GB Hard Drives, you must have JUST got married. Even then, as you say, that's current. I'd wager that the majority of games in my library barely break 650 MB though, given my library is rather extensive. When did you get these hard drives? I have a 160 GB and a 250 GB drive, and mountains of free space. I could see needing a TB of HD space if you were a movie junkie, but I AM a game junkie and can't fill up my HD space fast enough. How many games do you have???? Most games for the PC AFAIK rarely touch the CD drive, aside from checking copy protection. I can verify this as I can play any one of my games without the CD in the drive (i.e. I eject it after I pass the copy protection).

2 500 GB HDs??? What models? And still, at 1 GB average per game, you'd need 900 games! 2 GB average per game is 450 games. Certainly a little on the expensive side, ignoring the cost of the hard drives themselves? You also make it sound like it was a long time ago......500 GB drives a long time ago??? With a few hundred games???? I wish I had your bling!

900 GB would only be a FRACTION of your game library?!??!

You missed the Oilers outplaying Calgary for the first 30 minutes, sleeping for 2 minutes (which resulted in two goals) and then phoning in the rest of the game

Coming out first definitely helped out the Dreamcast! I'd have given him more benefit of the doubt on the "computers" thing if he hadn't already performed other gaffes to begin with. In addition, when I ask him serious questions about his expertise on various topics where he simply dismisses a concern made, I get no answer. He also chastises others for misquoting, when he's done the same himself. And when shown to be wrong in a situation, he'll often try to backpedal the issue in an attempt to save face.

LORD OF THE DANCE!!!! EMBRACE HIM!

If that quote is so out of context, how come no one has seen it your way? Once Hades said "A computer is a computer" he shifted the focus away from just PCs. If unified memory is the end all be all for consoles, why wouldn't it be the end all be all for "other" computers?

I believe it saves them like 700k on cap spaces for this year because the cap consideration is based on average salary paid.

I have to study for a midterm......guess I'll wing it on that test