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Mortal Kombat Kollection: I suck at fighting games. Best I've been able to do so far is make it to Goro without a gameover, but I always have at least a few from that rat fink. And then...uh...Tsang...Shung(?) usually beats the crap out of me some more. I've taken the stance of "the best defense is a good offense", but man, it's so much RNG: if they decide to block a few times in a row (which seems to be determined by equal parts luck and what attacks you've been predominantly using), it can be pretty hard to conserve health. First battle is usually a breeze, second battle is a toss up because now they're blocking all my best attacks that I used to kill them in the first battle, and the third battle (if you lose the second) is where you have to be really careful. The difficulty is so schizophrenic. Thanks to Oerwinde giving it to me on Steam via the Great Game Giveaway!

Maybe it's my (ir?)rational dislike of LA, but I'd prefer if all teams stayed where they currently are in regards to it...

That seems more like nvidia's fault, especially considering you said it was going to full clock speeds (I'm presuming that's what it was doing, since there's no other explanation for it gaining more heat) while watching videos, which isn't *usually* normal behavior - at least with even sort of new GPUs (I would say anything released in the last 5 years). It should only go to max clock speeds for 3D graphic displays, and none of that is 3D. An unusual problem.

Do the clock speeds change when you have it open? I'm presuming yes, since I don't see why it would increase the temperature otherwise if there's no activity increase, but just making sure. (Also, what version of Firefox do you have?)

There's might be a normal day/night cycle combined with scripted events that "hurry" it.

Uh...I haven't played the game, but I would presume stats. Dying Light would hardly be the first game to have different clothing you can wear without being able to see it - it *might* be the first game to have different clothing you can equip which neither you can see nor is of any use at all...but I probably wouldn't bet on that, either.

After letting the program run the entire night, though, the lowest it'll go is about 60, even though I'm not running anything different from yesterday...probably a Window's problem. I'm curious to see how far it'll go up if you keep letting the system run, though.

Most emulators let you choose the default behavior by way of settings. Why can't actual, real games do it?

The highest value I've had running that latency checker all day, (I did it after Googling it), is a value of 229. It's been in the 30s-40s roughly 99% of the time. I guess it's a probably situational thing.

Yeah, it would help if I could read. So is this a common problem with the 1150s? I didn't know there was a name for it, but I seem to have this problem once in a while, where my PC has inexplicably slows to a crawl: close to 0% CPU activity, close to 0% hard drive activity, more than enough free RAM available...and yet it takes 10-15 seconds to open Notepad...

Sorry, I'm ignorant: what's DPA latency? I did a quick Google search and didn't seem to find anything.

Some (most?) of us don't automatically get "sad" about some random person's life each and every time we read about them. That's not to say you *shouldn't* feel empathy, but demanding others to for every situation where there's merit to do is rather insane. I felt empathy for Anne Frank when I read her entire diary, particularly already knowing how the story ended before even reading it - this doesn't guarantee I'm gonna do the same for every random article I chance upon throughout my life about something bad that happened. Pick and choose your battles. Hey, speaking of Anne Frank, have you finished grieving for each of those 11 million individual Holocaust victims*? *Actually, that number is just for the ones that died - there were almost certainly many more victims that suffered in a hundred other different ways, including some of the soldiers being forced to participate in the atrocity, never mind the whole World War thing...

Was the first request a PM? I don't see any messages from you earlier in the topic, haha.

At least a few QBs still do that - I know Aaron Rodgers, for example, gave all his offensive line guys - even the ones still just in the practice squad - like $1.5k curved LED TVs (I"m not sure what curved LEDs are, but apparently this was significant enough of a detail to be included in the original report). I think Wilson...or was it Romo...did something of a similar nature this season, too.

He did give the truck to Butler. (edit) Seems like that was just a rumor - nobody knows if it's really true yet. It'd make sense, though, given the guy's just a rookie and saved the Patriots from losing their third Super Bowl because of miraculous nonsense.

I would rather they spend more time on proper/non-garbage looking dynamic shadows than keep working on already overdone sunrays...

I, uh, could take the Mortal Kombat Kollection of your hands if it were to your liking,

Its title card artwork was enough to grab my attention to get me to go to its store page, but it doesn't really look like my type of game...

Anna made me want to bash my skull in with a rusty iron rod - but what they did to Khan was nearly equally reprehensible. Once a passive and semi-spiritual wiseman, now a crack-smoking hippie whackjob who's personally directing and goading you on to your every bloody insane move. Didn't look the same, didn't act the same, and didn't even have the same voice actor - should've been a completely different character, and, in fact, if not for the name, he actually was. I don't remember what the difficulty curve was for Last Light, to be honest - but I do remember 2033's Hardcore/Ranger mods, which made going in guns blazing pretty danged hard unless you were okay with and accounting for the fact you were gonna die one one or two shots (though enemies would as well - but if you were facing multiple at once, you were at a serious disadvantage). My problem, though, lied more with the fact that the stealth simply felt ridiculous: like when you're running through that...Nazi, was it?...prison with Pavel, the entire situation was silly. The lighting of the level was way too bright - they should've spotted you immediately to begin with by Metro 2033 standards (never mind real life); firing your "silenced" revolver in what's essentially an echo-chamber and somehow not being heard by everyone in the room is equally ridiculous, and jeeze, I swear, has no-one heard of actual whispering? Because I'm pretty sure Pavel and the random prisoners you talked to were loud enough that everyone should've heard the various people talking bouncing off the walls and wondered, "hey, where'd everyone go and who are all these not very quiet people talking in semi-hushed tones?". Lack of attention to detail to stuff like that really gets to me, especially when it's for something as critical as the stealth system. Do it right - even if it means stealth won't always be perfectly possible for every single situation, or at least seemingly feasible, which it really shouldn't be to begin with - or don't expect the atmosphere and immersion to hold up. Anna falling in love with you after having only met and talked to you for all of five minutes also darkened my already dour opinion of the game - that was some seriously pathetic and oh-so-forced "storytelling". It was also the final straw for me before I quit.

What Gfted1 said. I am pretty sure it's still there, as I remember getting it while having the "various fan patches, tweaks, and whatnots" installed, I never finished Last Light because the story and characters were insufferable (and not to mention stealth was even more pathetically easy and exploitable than it was in 2033): was it a lot harder to get whatever's the "good" ending in LL vs 2033? Just exploring the levels in 2033 was enough to always be presented the good ending, even if you were constantly committing humanicide.

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Super Mario Bros. 2 (The Lost Levels) on SNES: currently killing my hands, but...I'm on World D (five after World 8 ), the last one. Tough game.

Wouldn't the 280X be a better value?

Shall I start personally blaming Hoover for the Great Depression, then?

I'm not concerned with what the Forbes writer is talking about - like an earlier poster said, I believe far too much responsibility for our economic conditions - whether good or bad - goes to the credit of the President...undeservedly. So I was curious as to what you thought *he* specifically did that helped our economy. The first link you posted...seems to have a huge list of things not really attributable to him - a whole lot of legislation jointly passed by both parts of Congress, and then signed off by him. Is not being a hindrance for these bills enough to be credited with mild to moderate renewed success of arguably the world's most complex economy? I don't think so. So...your link kind of illustrates the point I was making.