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Hades might have a point there.

Here we go. I don't really want to go to war immediately, so I'm going to concentrate on building up the empire, financially and scientifically. The settler being finished in Meatytown will be settled in the Southeast. Turn 1: Nothing much. We are the largest empire in the world. Go ahead and rejoice. Turn 2: Optics is done. Chose Printing press for the nice coin boost from all the cottaging we've done. Wang Kon did the Magellan dance. Turn 4: Made the M*A*S*H with an explorer popped out of Irvine. Turn 5: Elizabeth asked for Nationalism. Mindlessly thinking of Cate Blanchett, I caved in and gave it to her. I've also been starting universities in most cities. Oh, and National Epic was finished in Port Avellone. Turn 6: Enoch's Fault has been founded to the southeast. Two workers are now near the city to get it up to speed. Turn 7: Printing Press is done, which got us to +3 gold. Research on Banking has begun. Turn 8: Wang man offered us Astronomy and 35 gold for Education. I said yes, because the stars are the future, and pretty and stuff. Turn 9: Wang Kon asked for Guilds. I told him to fork off, despite his awesome facial hair. Exconomics is next. Turn 10: We finally meet the Japanese. They are worse off than Hammurabi! Turn 12: A barb longbowman popped out of the fog of war. Turn 13: Economics is done. Changed to Free Market and Bureaucracy. Replacement parts is next in line. Turn 15: By the way, with the civics changes (why the hell were we still in barbarism??), our economy is now able to support another city. As such work has begun on a Settler in Irvine. I'm going to place it here. It gets the three resources and a bunch of water tiles for the dike. Colorful women will take our production capacity to new heights. Turn 17: A Pytheas is born in the Land of the Urquharts. I'm going to send it on a quest for cash, because I like upgrading. Turn 18: Now we go for Rifling. Chemistry and Steam Power should be up next, for the wonderful dikes. Because we love them. Also, I recommend we research constitution, and then change to Representation and Pacifism, to get those great people going. Turn 20: Furry Clams is founded in the previously shown location. Set up for the next guy: Some bastard poisoned Urquhartburg, and Babylon is a free state once more. I say we attack the bugger. Akkad and Nippur are pretty awfully placed, though. The year 1550AD beckons.

Psycho Alien Nightmare On Elm Street Ju On The Haunting (the 60s masterpiece, not that dreadful thing from a few years back) The Shining The Thing

Actually she'll probably be going at you, because the way you killed those orcs shows you have no respect for her.

I'll be able to play out the next turn 3 or 4 hours from now.

Bloom is a part of HDR.

Lhasa De Sela - Con Toda Palabra Incredible. Edit: Here's a video.

I remember there was a bunch of people waiting for a Christmas release, last year.

You've got the power.

Of course. But I'll bet TSLRP won't be done before Spring.

Yeah, the 8800GT sounds like a bargain: http://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA+Debuts+Con...article9424.htm And it actually looks good too! I love those one-slot designs.. I wish they would go back to those again. I wouldn't worry about DirectX10.1. It will be years before any games come out that uses it anyhow. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/geforce_8800_gt/ Tom's Hardware already has a review up for 8800GT, and it is looking sweet.

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Bend It

2012?

Sissy.

Umm... WMP does not, in any way, rock.

Here in Portugal, it's possible to get a E6750 for less than 170

Get a PS2 instead.

This is with medium settings. Not too ugly, I'd say.

Actually, that was the resolution I was using to begin with. Anyway, as for the settings, reducing everything to medium except for object detail, made the game almost perfectly smooth on my rig.

Crysis' CPU benchmark makes my PC cry. It's all the explosions. Also, for perspective on a life of gaming:

Crysis demo as well. Pretty. With everything on high things are a bit too slow, although without any actors in sight, it manages to be quite playable. I'll have to tinker with the settings to see if can improve performance without losing too much in the looks department. Edit: I just ran the GPU benchmark, and I get 10 FPS with everything on high. Considering my system and the way the game looks, I have to say the game is pretty well optimized. I wonder how much the performance would improve if I just got one of the cheaper core duos.

My USB gamepad isn't detected by Windows since I got my new mobo. This seems to be a result of the combination of this specific gamepad with this specific mobo, as the gamepad works on all other computers, and all other USB devices work with this mobo. Seeing as this only seems to be a plug and play issue, I was wondering if I could do a manual installation of the device using the driver files (the inf file and whatnot) in the installation disc. I'm guessing this should be possible but, so far, my l33t googling skills have failed to find the needed information.

Instructions for Steve.

Steve's next. After that, I guess Enoch can go again.

What? Shouldn't this be in Skeeter's you silly mod?