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Whats kind of amusing is that the first ps3 review of the game has given it an 8/10.. but the waiting fans are slating the reviewer for describing the game as "not as direct as Call of Duty, but not as expansive and open as Fallout. Instead it's somewhere in the middle"... The DE forums are awash with people turning phrases like "my favourite colour is somewhere between Black and White."

I'm also giving some consideration to getting a non-analogue monitor if I'm going to have to put down the cash on a new graphics card... All the monitors are pretty much dropping to low prices and it seems a bit silly not to take advantage of that slightly sharper dvi connection and hd capabilities.

Thanks for the words of wisdom.. I shall give it some thought.

I'm another one who played the game and only had to deal with a few glitches that didn't really effect my enjoyment of Fallout NV. Although the one that screwed up plotlines because I'd done one quest earlier then another was a bit of a pain... But I certainly wasn't buried in glitches.

Righty-ho, since it looks like my graphics card is starting to flunk out and cause issues I'm poking around to consider replacements... So what do people think, is it better to spend more money on a single oomphy card, or to get two not-so-oomphy cards to run in SLI? Since I'm working on a budget, I'm not getting two oomphy cards.. Edit: The card that's flunking out is a GeForce GTS250, and the pc processor is a quad core 2.40Ghz

Rahr! Tuesday to Sunday - Research gathered; 37 pages of notes created, then turned into 30 pages of legible report and 2 pages of sources. .. Of course, that's just the first stage of the project. But I'm knocking it on the head for tonight. What's kind of funny is that while I'm confident its readable and conveys the information, there's still that small part of my mind whispering in the background that I've screwed up something, that I could have done it better and that I'm faking competency after all these years... Still, I'm ignoring that and doing the snoopy happy dance for the moment.

grr.. My graphics card could quite possibly be starting to frag out. I've been getting a fun amount of "display driver stopped working" and "nvlddmkm.sys" errors lately.. and now it's started doing the blue screen of death due to funky graphics issues.

One of those quiet evenings where it seemed everyone was busy. So since the sky was totally clear.. I built a small fire in the garden, and stretched out on a garden recliner with a cigar in one hand and a glass of port in the other, listening to Gregorian on my ipod and watching the stars slowly cover the night sky.

Deus sure as hell ain't pronounced deius by anyone able to actually speak a language that is not English. It's latin dude. Nobody really knows. Google says 'deɪ əs ɛks ˈmɑ kə nə' If anyone here remembers their phonetics course, that's what I said. Excepting that I didn't use proper symbols. It didn't really kick in till the 1100's or so, when it shifted more to Deus for church latin rather then the original "Classic Latin". Most english dictionaries have it described as "de-us" or "dee-us" for pronunciation.

The term "concept art" generally doesn't mean photo-realistic...

An interview with JJB outside the DeusEx art show in NYC JJB Interview

Good practice for this forum... I'll have you know I do not giggle. I cackle. Maniacally.

Eh, I pre-ordered the Augmented Edition from Amazon.co.uk and its only ?25. Well, it was when I pre-ordered it about 6 months ago. Now it's back up to the "Retail price ?44, but reduced to ?35 that's the standard Amazon charge for new games. But I still only have to pay the lesser price. And yes, I have a geeky happy dance for that price. Edit: And for some reason this keeps turning my pound signs into question marks..

Organising some research I've been doing dealing with some of the old Iraq troubles back in 2003 and the allies on the ground and came across a part of an article that struck me as kind of quirky. That they gave the one number for American forces, but then actually made a specific note about British forces being killed in friendly fire incidents and accidents. I'm not quite sure whether to take that as a small snark on the Americans who caused most of the friendly fire, or the British for suffering them... Or whether my brain is over-analysing it all after filtering so much crud.. Still, time for a lunch break. I think I'll try the kipper. "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast."

And to round out those Behind 2027 vids... DEHR - Behind 2027 - The Hacking and Social Approach

For that orchestral creepy vibe as night falls.. Been listening to some Midnight Syndicate.. [

The back and forth of dealing with a rambunctious puppy and trying to massage some fresh research into a readable report. Or at least the start of one. For some reason I'm battling the urge to spend money of late. I keep seeing books and music albums and the like... The evenings turned, the night sky is arriving and there's a batch of wood cut down from lowhanging branches off birch tree in the garden that was endagering the fence.. The other temptation is to use it to build a nice fire, and settle down with a bottle of port and a cigar to watch the stars emerge.

The $1 million car crash - 5 cars, 1 blonde in Monte Carlo

I have to admit its a bit annoying, the last month or so Steam won't let me go to offline mode. Just flashes an error message, and tells me I have to restart in online mode. But then I haven't been in a gaming mood the last month, so it hasn't bothered me enough to dig into whats causing it..

Some of my planned afternoon work was disrupted by another batch of anti-flea powder, mass hoovering and assorted activities. Even checked the chimney to make sure no dead pigeon had fallen down it. On the complete counter to that I've found myself being tempted by a variety of Arty style coffeetable books of late, from Syd Mead's Sentury to The DC Art of Jim Lee to various Futurist Architecture/Vehicle designs to The Art of Top Cow type of thing. But I'm generally restraining myself from such temptations... Being responsible can be such a pain...

And from Stephane D'astous

And now.. Deus Ex has gone Gold. So now just a few more weeks to waill till we get our grubby little hands on it.

Did a quick spout of research this morning. Chased the puppy around the garden. Contemplating the lunch snackage. Have to collate some news articles this afternoon.. identify the key points and massage it into some single report. Hm... just watched through one of the TOR Q&A sessions from ComicCon.. dang it. On the one hand I'm going that the CE is bloody silly money, but there's that Star Wars geek inside going "ooo shiny! I have a job now! I can splurge some silly money!"

Yeah, he was doing software engineering. Made himself indispensible as the key programmer for some software they developed.. then "left" the company to become a consultant.. whereupon they basically brought him right back doing exactly the same job but about double the pay scale because no-one else they had really understood or could troubleshoot it like him. I both admire the chutzpah for setting it up, but also kind of worry about the principles and ethics of the maneuver.

Eh, one of my friends had a dream of getting a Lotus. But he wasn't going to save for a Lotus until he could get a garage to put it in. So he got out of university and he drove the same crappy car he learnt to drive in, tended to get his shoes resoled rather then buy new ones.. I mean, he made a lot of money..but hardly spent any of it, really saving the pennies.... Then after about 8 years.. he went out ..and paid cash for a house (no mortgage) and then two months later visited the Lotus factory and ordered up his Lotus Elise (again, paying cash)...