Bartimaeus

Robobama would have eliminated republicans, as he would no longer be restrained by Human emotions and morals, instead having nothing but a heart of cold and lifeless steel. Silicon is superior to worthless human flaws, Who cares if futurist morality goes against your human laws? Morality carries no weight here, no-one ever heard of it in cyberspace, Cyborgs are my companions now and I play the human race.

I'm not sure if I necessarily agree or not, but these oh-so-contemporary (whether contemporary for now or ten-fifteen years ago, ) posts found in this particular topic for this question are kinda making me think the same thing...but then again, as a normal person, I don't see any other way to really answer the question, regardless of what your reasons for your [non-]choices are. So I guess let us be us...and don't let pseudo-intellectualism get in the way, particularly if it's built off of debasing others. Don't mind me, just internally monologuing here...

You have a problem, but not having a girlfriend isn't it (nor necessarily one in general), I don't think... (e: in retrospect, that probably should've been a to seem a lot less passive-aggressive...)

Thanks.

Ignoring the implications, those are pretty cool pieces of work.

Sprite-based a la the Infinity Engine games, (or, in other words, there's only so many frames per animation, so by increasing the FPS, you increase the game speed)? Has to do with how animations work. One of the first videos of the game was about it. Could you link to it, since I'm curious? I must confess to not liking South Park, but I'm interested in that particular facet if they explain it.

1. What're you talking about? What would you be using a magnifying glass for? 2. Are you kidding? Buy a whole new one when you can just fix yours for pennies in comparison to the total cost of a new one? Why?

How'd you determine it was the motherboard?

Sprite-based a la the Infinity Engine games, (or, in other words, there's only so many frames per animation, so by increasing the FPS, you increase the game speed)?

Froze to death this morning because we have a garage underneath our apartment and the jerks who own it keep leaving it open...

If you think it's temperature related, have you opened up your case while it's on and checked to see if your CPU, GPU, and PSU coolers are working properly, (and/or checking temps like mentioned by Humanoid)? A non-functioning CPU fan would definitely cause something like that, for example. If nothing there looks funky, I'd probably start swapping out components. I would definitely not throw everything away...lol

Holy clutter, Batman...

In what way do you think they are not supported compared to desktop cards? Your video card is essentially for running a modern desktop interface, and fairly unintensive indie games or games that are fairly old (e: at high settings), (>4, 5?). There's not much more to squeeze out of a 710M... I think the fact that you were even *TRYING* to play XCOM at higher settings and weren't running into severe difficulties suggests that the drivers are performing very well indeed...

(I still can't tell if the "genres" they list are actual genres, or if they're making fun of themselves...)

None. All of my opinions are the only correct options. Um... 1. I don't really like any of the MEs anymore. I say "anymore", because I did like the first one at the time I played it, was more or less ambivalent when I played through the second, and was rather sick of the series by the time I started the third. Keyword here being "started", because it had nothing to do with the ending of the game, and all to do with the (shooting) gameplay generally being a complete bore and/or chore to get through. I wasn't an advocate of the "let the game handle the dialogue so you can get through it faster" option, but I honestly don't think I would've minded a reverse of that - a "skip the awful gameplay" option would've been grand. I was only playing for the (now, in hindsight) rather subpar (but nevertheless rather enjoyable) story, anyways. 2. I've never liked any turn-based CRPGs, (actual turn-based, not internal timer turn-based like the Infinity Engine games). 3. I think romance, (or rather, how romance is done in games today and in the past), can right shove off. Especially in games where it's either romance or nothing, (a la Baldur's Gate 2, where if you say one "mean" thing - and where your options are either 1. don't be a jerk, 2. be a jerk, 3. be a jerk, 4. be sort of a jerk maybe depends exactly on how it's said (basically, be a jerk) - to most characters of the opposite gender, said character(s) never ever talks to you again outside of "scripted" interjections). 4. Honestly, I really miss the internal round timer that the Infinity Engine games used. There's something about it that makes combat seem a lot more "solid" and quantitative, so to speak, to me. Something more appealing about a +1/2 attack per round stat on your weapon as opposed to 23% faster attack...I hate numbers like that being used as percentages, for some reason. Probably more.

I have the MK550 combo myself - though I use a G400 mouse instead. I am mildly satisfied. Its comfort isn't as good as my old Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 that I thought I ruined by washing it, I have to admit, though, (it's actually perfectly fine, but was shorting out for a while, which made me think it was broken). Keys are a lot harder to press down, too, which can create cramps after excessively typing for long periods of time...I always think about going back to the Microsoft keyboard, but I never do thanks to the bunch of Fn macros that this Logitech one has...

I don't think I've ever used a real mechanical keyboard...are there any decent "ergonomic"/curved mechanical keyboards? (P.S. This might be more suited to Skeeter's Junkyard...although it is a fairly quiet section...)

If it makes you feel any better, I've never bought anything on Origin.

Origin doesn't accept my card, Steam does. I guess EA doesn't want my money. does that make their portal better? Offline mode. That's all. Just curious...have you used their offline mode recently? I'm not saying it's better, but I recall them saying something a while ago about how they were in the process of changing how the offline mode works, (or rather, how it sometimes doesn't). I've never had problems myself with it, but just curious...

People's idea of "old" for computer parts sometimes disturbs me...my mother was still using an old single core Athlon 64 up until a few months ago...now that's getting on the old side. I am still using single core Athlon 64 for my PC gaming and it is enough for all the indie games I play. There was not a single PC AAA game that would convince me, that upgrading it is not waste of money. I do 95% of my gaming on PS3 now, and I am satisfied. If all the games you play on PC are indie games, I would probably feel the same way.

Yeah, I have Chrome installed for that. Maybe I should ditch it and just run two different versions of Opera like you.

No...but maybe I should try it. I'm still stuck on (Old) Opera 12.16 myself...won't update because they switched to Chromium as a backend in later versions, and I really don't like it, Tried out a new version again recently...still do not have a normal bookmarks menu. Until they at least give me a way to have more than a couple of bookmarks, I won't be updating. Oh, how I miss Opera.

2033's stealth could be frustrating and in some ways difficult, sure. But if you look at it from a realistic standpoint - as in, how would this situation play out if I were actually doing this - what you could do was quite frankly ridiculous. I've played through 2033 several times with killing every single human opponent and never causing an "alert" while only using knives/bolts. That's fairly difficult, especially considering you often run into situations where two or three guys (or even more) are bunched together and notice immediately when one of their own dies. From what I played of Last Light, it was pretty rare you ever ran into more than two guys together like that, as you could often kill guys right by other dudes without them noticing, (but of course, like 2033, it was inconsistent as all heck). Breaking out of the Nazi stalag defied belief, where you were shooting them with your little dinky silenced revolver in a huge chamber where sound would very much echo around and be heard, where it be the bullets or the sound of bodies dropping... I don't know why they got rid of the 4-stage stealth watch in favor of the two-stage one. Truth be told, while I was a little annoyed by the stealth, it's not what made me quit...

I thought the opposite - overall - in regards to Metro: Last Light. Much preferred 2033. The stealth was even poorer in Last Light than in 2033, the plot was completely pants-on-head retarded, (particularly anything involving Anna, who you make love to after having maybe five minutes total of actual face time with her - I quit and then uninstalled maybe fifteen minutes after that), uh...I felt like the gunplay was about the same, except more hampered by the even more ridiculously easy stealth, so I never used a real gun against anything mutants at any time, anyways...Khan went from a wise old man to some crack-smoking hippie "duuuude"...Miller and the other Rangers basically became your archetypal American meathead soldiers...I was very unimpressed, overall. The final nail in the coffin, though, was that (quite frankly) idiotic love-making scene with Anna. Maybe it was just me, but I would've shot her before doing what Artyom did with her. If you're going to make a tsundere-like character, please spend more than literally no time at all to transition between "you are a worthless sack of crap, I laugh at you with my thick Russian accent, ha ha ha" and "oooohh, artyom-san, I missed you soooooo much, I've been so worried about you and oh how I missed you! now come make love to me in this disease-ridden hell-hole...". When that...Communist, was it?...held her hostage as leverage against you, I immediately shot at him. The completely psychotic things you can do when you're being forced into impossibly railroaded situations not of your liking!

People's idea of "old" for computer parts sometimes disturbs me...my mother was still using an old single core Athlon 64 up until a few months ago...now that's getting on the old side. Well I said older not old, just meaning it's not the current generation of CPUs or GPUs (am a full tick-tock behind on the CPU at least ) Hah. Yeah, I suppose so. Don't mind me - I'm just being fussy.