Bartimaeus

Yeah? It's a BioWare game: does anyone remember how terrible Mass Effect 3 looked when it came out? All the stupid close-ups they did of the super low-res character textures...bleck. And that came out two years later...

Yeah, I always use one of the default presets in "create-your-own-character" type-games and try not to think about it later. If I dislike all of the default presets, it usually takes me a few days of warming myself up to the one I dislike the least so I can play with it. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but it is what it is.

Reformat to Windows 7?

I love Sam and Fuzzy, but...something that's been bothering me is that there seems to be zero explanation of the actual game mechanics. Am I just missing it on the Kickstarter page? Pretty sure I've read through the entire page a few times to see if I've missed something, and there's nothing there.

The controls are horrible, but I think DS2's are, too - just a different brand of horrible. Hated them coming from DS1 - still like DS1's better, and I know a few people who played DS1 first that agree, haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_rLFcHtSBM

Have you tried the very bottom PCIE 3.0 slot? According to the newegg page, the board properly supports 40 lane CPUs, so while the middle slot seems to be designed purely for x8, I don't think the bottom is. (edit) Looking at the manual, it seems like the third slot is the correct one for dual x16 usage with the first. I am guessing the fact that you have a 28 lane CPU is the problem - even though the port actually supports x16, your 28 lane CPU seems to not be configured to do so. I'm not sure if Asus could correct that in a BIOS update, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. It's the first "enhanced" edition of a game that I can say I one hundred percent approve.

Discovered roughly 10 seconds ago that clicking the little thought bubble icon to the left of threads on here, ( - or just the white circle for topics I haven't posted in), lets you go the earliest unread post. This will make reading new posts in highly actively threads on here a million times easier.

I still don't understand why when you enable visible BBCode Mode, all the buttons are disabled. Other forums that are not this forum seem to be able to have the regular buttons enabled just fine when the BBCode text is actually visible. I hate non-visible BBCode Mode.

Haha, yeah, you're not really supposed to play in between patches with (major) territory changes...lol What do you think of the new/revised mechanics?

I'm referring to some of the guys that were like, "HEY, I'm/he's talking to you!". No, they weren't physically trying to stop her - not that I saw, anyways - but they did want her to stop, nonetheless.

e: can't read Hey, I'm a young'un and have been here since the beginning of the project. Stubbornness and ignorance is surely not limited to the young. On the other hand, I've actually stopped paying attention to updates because I was getting so worked about perceived major changes and want to judge the game on its own merits, not as a Baldur's Gate spinoff...so you might have a point even so.

Six pages is too much for me to read in one sitting - for this type of thread, anyways - so I'll just throw in my two cents. Some of it definitely comes off as harassment, or near enough. What gives these people the right to think that they can accost a person - any person - while clearly on their way to somewhere...for not answering some random "compliment" on the streets of a city where there's...uh, a great number of people in the streets? If you had to answer every random thing somebody feels obliged to say to you on the street, you might not ever get anywhere. Doesn't matter what the subject of the person bothering you is: you have the right to continue on your way wherever you're trying to go, and ignore those who you wish to ignore. Others...not necessarily. It is, however, nonetheless exhausting, I'm sure, to be one the receiving end of all those "compliments" - whether genuine or not. As the person complimenting, I can understand feeling insulted that someone won't even bother to acknowledge a heartfelt compliment...but, c'mon, let's be realistic about this. If you're the type to give out random compliments on the freaking streets, well...there's something to be said for the appropriate time and place, and the probability of such compliments being genuine and without expectation - either of which being present kind of ruins the positive meaning of the "compliment". And if you are the rare type of good person to just give out compliments to brighten people's day or whatever, then you should probably be conditioned and/or good-natured enough that you're perfectly willing to let it go with not getting any sort of [positive] response, anyways.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. I remember why I haven't played this game since it came out. Can't get through it. Just can't. I don't know what it is about Clear Sky that makes it feel so much inferior to Shadow of Chernobyl, but there it is. I could probably think about it for a little and come up with a bunch of reasons why, but...that sounds like work.

I don't really get the hype about Civilization games. I've tried Civ 3, Civ 4, and Civ 5, all with their latest expansions...and I would say that I liked Civ 4 the best, but that all of them always feel pretty danged shallow, and have weird gameplay mechanics that don't make any sort of historical sense. I also hate randomly generated worlds/maps, so that might be a related factor. I wish they'd make some sort of official "Realistic Earth and True Start Locations" map. I've tried some of the mod-added ones, but they always feel really off and weird to play in.

VRAM is a pretty bad measure of how powerful a card is, anyways. Many "mobility" (i.e. laptop) chips have 2x-3x more VRAM they could feasibly use - if not worse than that. I have no idea why that is, but it's not very unusual to see some super low-end GPU have 2GB of VRAM with no way of ever actually using it - compare that with, say, the old 8800 GTX, which had, what, 256MB of VRAM, and still outperforms many of the lower end series cards that came out way later that have 4-8x as much and of a higher quality? So yeah.

Pretty groovy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PxE9mDCGg

I must not be very smart, because I can't make head or tail of this flow chart one bit...where does it start, why isn't everything connected, what's going on

The division between "my own kind" and "not my own kind" is pretty arbitrary. Should I bother dwelling on and feeling empathy for someone horribly murdered who was my next door neighbor? How about someone in my district? City? State? Country? Continent? Some people go all the way, some even beyond. Others don't even do the first. Similarly, some are so concerned with political ideology they don't consider those of the opposite ideology to be their own kind. Same with religion, race, and probably a veritable plethora of other such factors. I think it's abnormal to presume everyone shares the same values of what constitutes as "their own kind". Why should I necessarily feel a natural affinity for all those born in the same country as me - a country that's larger than all of Western Europe with some parts of Asia thrown in? I don't think it'd be bad to, but...for some, national identity is trumped by other factors - or might not be a factor at all.

http://www.phonopath.com/ WARNING: Requires Audacity (or some other audio editing program) to play. Pretty cool idea for a puzzle game. Unfortunately, I've always really sucked at understanding words coming out of regular people's mouths under even normal conditions. So...yeah, I really suck at this. :<

Haha at people saying 4GB of VRAM is "typical". Here, take a glance at Steam hardware demographic figures: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey 33% of people only have 1GB; a further 20% below that; 30% above, but still below 4GB. Roughly only 2% have 4GB, and finally, the remaining 14%, (well, actually, there should be 15%, but rounding curtailed a single point...), are something else - not sure what, given how uncommon 4GB is, it'd be weird if 6GB was several times greater. But yeah, if your game requires, at minimum, 4GB of VRAM, you'd be cutting out at least 83% of the potential market, (assuming these stats are good, which they probably are). Not the greatest idea, I would warrant. There's a reason minimum specs are typically low.

One of two 16-20s, apparently - kind of depressing, as I feel old already! I also fall into the 11-15 years of PC gaming. My first PC games were Age of Empires 1, Baldur's Gate 1, and Diablo 1, at roughly age 5.

Well, actually, we do allow it in the real world, (to some degree, anyways - depends on how it's said)...just not in the PROFESSIONAL real world, and you're generally ostracized and/or banned from offended places as a result...which, hey, players and admins still have the freedom to do, respectively.