Child of Flame

OMIGODOMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD!!!1111!!1ELVENTYSEVENTY!!! There's a trilogy about Extra Sensory Perception and I MISSED IT?!!

This encourages postwhoring IMO, because leaving the post count/levels, but taking away the Registry Date, and Member number....leaves the post count as the only way to tell a veteran from a newbie. Then you start to get n00bs coming in (Not to be confused with newbies); who get the genius idea to post wherever they can, even if their entire post consists of an emoticon, and amass several thousand posts in under a month. I've seen it rip a forum apart not only be spreading division among the ranks. (people with gigantic post counts who've been there less than a month acting like jackasses to people who've been at said forum for a year or more because they're obviously veterans because they have a veteran post count). I've seen it happen before, it's not pretty. I hope this post makes sense, I've been up all night <curses his insomnia>. If nothing else, think of how much slower it will make the board run? :ph34r:

Man, my school this year so totally rocks. I didn't even go to school more than half the time my first three years, because I hated the teachers, and I hated the students even more. I was always made fun of because I was smarter than everyone else, add in complications in my home environment, and I was one miserable teenager. Now, I'm in independent studies, and I only have one official hour of school a week where the teacher checks my progress. I'm on the path to graduate three months ahead of everyone else, even though I did almost nothing my first three years. Gotta love the California public education system.

Heh, I do independant studies, so I started a week ago, but I only have one official hour of class a week. It is teh r0x0r. When I was still at a regular school, I went to school later than the public ones, had shorter days, and got out earlier. All because we didn't have all the teacher's vacation filler vacations they did.

In case no one's heard the news. New Line Cinema actually has a Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash movie in the works. Though more likely it would just be Freddy & Jason vs. Ash.

Old Western Culture (Rennaissance)=Teh Shiznat. New Western Culture=Teh Suckness.

Nah, He renamed us "If you got oil, we invade" States of America. Hehe, thanks, hope I don't get sent to a camp for using the wrong new name. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nope, so long as you were in a free speech zone when you typed it you're okay. As for myself, I'm from Grass Valley, California, United States of Whatever the F*ck It Is, Terra, Sol, Milky Way, Universe. Sex: Male Age: 17 I did however vote that I lived in South America because I felt bad for that option as it had no votes. Assuming Di hasn't voted, she just lives a stone's throw away from me.

I'm staying out of this thread because it's liable to get ugly real fast if I post in depth, but I would like to say this: Weiser Cain, you a hateful, childish, idiot, spewing from your mouth whatever the government tells you. To everyone else, I think the better term for this school of thought, rather than 'drone', would be 'lemmings' or 'sheep'.

I added some things to the quote. Read the bold. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's poor posting form.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Can someone tell me WTF the point of that post was? It doesn't even add to post count since this is WOT. Christ.

Yes, but I don't want to see a puny weakling chestburster soon to be predalien....I wanna see a fully fledged armed to the teeth pred alien come to maturity. It is easily the most dominant species in AvP2, I mean, I was able to take out three preds all gunning for me within seconds. One of them shot five f*cking spears that were all a DIRECT HIT and it didn't even phase me. I just hacked them to pieces, and dined on their flesh to replenish my health. The predalien f*cking rocks. Huge pounce distance, increased strength, small arms resistance, AND it can wallwalk. B) But the chestburster on the other hand...

All I can say is WTF happened with Carly Patterson...other than the obvious pressur.

Eh, maybe after these cards are older, say, the price that a 9600XT is right now (around $150), and I already have a PCI Express board this would be a viable option....but right now, while it's new, it's certainly too much money, not to mention, any of those cards can run any game on the market.

New for the movies, yes. New for the book/graphic novels franchise, no. And nothing gets done with them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There are? What's left if they didn't show a predalien? We've had Runners, Drones, Queens (No Praetorians, but they're basically a queen minus the egg sack). Plus the quasi human queen with the human reproductive cycle plus the eggs, which gave birth to the human/alien baby in Alien Resurrection. I guess that there could have been new variations of the preds....but they're all basically the same, minus different weapon preferences, and body types. Kinda like oomans. I really, really wanted to see a predalien. It's really the only species that hasn't been done on the silver screen. Sounds like they did a setup for an appearance of one if they make a sequel though. Here's hoping.

Erm...first of all, how old are you? Everyone used to buy Nvidia/3DFX instead of ATI, because they were so new to the market. Just like Intel vs. AMD. =)

I would be very caeful when buying a wildcat card for games. Number one the cheapest I have seen it sold for is $700.00. Reason number two being there is a difference between a gaming card and a rendering card. From all the information I have gathered these cards are built specifically for rendering in CAD and for people doing Computer animation. Which means all the fun support for pixle shaders, anti ailising, and anisotropic filtering are non existant. Also more ram does not always equal faster, the arciteture of the card has a lot to do with it also. This is appearant in the new Maximum PC where the lower clock speed of the GeForce 6800 gt was offset by more pixel pipelines giving it an edge in the bench marks over the X800 pro. Most people also assume more GHZ=better performance. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The new 512 MB model is fully OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0c compatible. I just haven't seen many reviews on it. They're trying to compete with the big names, only time will tell if they succeed. Of course, AMD and ATI used to be little players too, and look at the behemoths they've become.

Eh, perhaps Dubya is smarter than he appears. Hell, I've said myself before that he could just be fooling all of us. But he certainly acts like an idiot for the most part (rather than do press releases, he went bass fishing with whatever the flock that guy's name is on the Outdoors Channel); and he seems to have many, many hidden agendas. Namely OIL. Truth is, we really don't need oil, as was proved by POTC's article about Hemp, but it we started using Hemp instead of Oil, all the corporations would be out of business. No more Chevron, Texaco, Shell, etc. They'd be f*cked. Of course, the Tobacco farmers could grow hemp instead of Tobacco, and that bird would be killed. <shrugs> Brings to mind one of my favorite political cartoons. Dubya: We have approximately 710 reasons for going to war with Iraq. Dubya's Advisor: Erm, sir... <flips sing over, revealing the word 'OIL'.> Dubya: Correction, we have approximately ONE reason for going to war with Iraq.

Yes, but once you get to 60-70 FPS, your eyes really aren't going to notice a difference so long as it's not lagging anywhere. Plus, I was playing off the overclocking potential of the card I linked to, not what it does out of the box.

I'd go for THIS CARD if I were you instead. You really won't see much of a performance increase between the card you picked, and the one in the link; it will be negligible at best. Plus, look at not only the price difference, but the heatsinks on this mofo. It not only has the normal GPU heatsink and fan, but they've got all the ram decked out as well (usually you have to buy those suckers and install them yourself), which is awesome for overclocking. And yes, you can overclock an XT into what's called 'overdrive'. Also, the 9600 models are much better for overclocking because of the kind of heat sensors they have onboard. The only real reason the 9800 is more expensive, is because the people who don't know their sh!t see the bigger number and think it's better. But the 9600XT is be best bang for buck.

Why was your family mostly nude? I can see why you wouldn't have been able to make a purchase though if your family were nude, no-one would have had any place to carry money, or a credit card. At least, not comfortably. Unless they're accustomed to that sort of thing. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> <glares at those who made fun of his grammar slip up> THE ART WAS MOSTLY NUDE DAMN YOU!!! <_<

Max Payne would pwn as a movie. We need more movies with tough guys just kicking ass, saving questions for later. :D

IMO, STALKERS: Shadows of Chernobyl, looks like it has almost as many RPG elements/opportunities as Deus Ex, if not more.

You bloody ****. :ph34r: Since I've only posted this once and it's not so much annoying as an attack on one's faith in humanity and all that's good in this world, I can only assume the last definition is the one you're thinking of. In my defense, I would argue this is not so much nonsensical as a concise philosophical argument for Nihilism. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed....nihilism looks mighty good right now.

Damn, I saw some of the most awesome fantasy art at the fair earlier today.....I didn't make a purchase though, as I was with my family, and they were mostly nude.

That explains it, try using Babelfish.