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As Kor mentioned, you should see The Machinist. It will give you quite a different perspective on him as an actor.

Rescue Dawn - Extremely good, made me want to rent the documentary. Christopher Bale may be the best actor of the last couple years.

Actually, I stopped using Xfire because of NWN2. I never really missed it, and have continued without it since.

I've always been under the impression that the higher performing the laptop is, the shorter the life span. I would think that would just be based on the temperature that a gaming rig versus a non gaming rig has to run at.

Is this DSL or Cable? Is it plugged directly in or is it wireless? Are you using a router? I know I have issues with my Cable because of the splitter. One line goes into the TV and another goes into the modem, and occasionally it drops out. If you are using a router, you might want to play around with the settings there. I used to have packet loss when I ran at 108 mbs, but when I dropped to 54, it became more stable and honestly made zero difference in speed.

Sometimes Dark Raven's negativity makes me cry on the inside.

Hmm, I've crashed twice to the desktop during the introduction. I'm running Vista and the 1.1a patch. I guess I might have to wait on 1.2. Oddly enoigh, it never crashed when I was playing on my old PC with XP, but it ran terribly.

Wow, I'm sorry your childhood sucked.

I'm pretty sure if you compare PC game sales and you take out all the little casual games like Solitaire and Bridge, you are looking at a smaller games sold market when compared to all the consoles. But I'm sure we could find some sales numbers to solve the argument. On the other hand, the game industry has grown tremendously overall since the days of Fallout, so it's tough to compare sales numbers.

I'm trying to make the connection here between joining the Obsidian message board and Morrowind. Perhaps he thought it was an Oblivion message board? I mean, he actually joined the board to ask the question...how odd is that?

The Western Conference is frighteningly even so far. They are only like two teams that are dropping off at this point in the season. The Eastern conference is fairly tight too.

BiA is also an entirely different approach to game desing, albeit closer to CoD than OFP. That is, if you are down with OPP.

OFP and CoD are entirely different approaches to game design.

Jagged Alliance 3 should be coming out. It has a chance of being on a par with Silent Storm, which is good enough in my eyes. I don't expect anyone to ever recapture the magic of the old Sir-Tech team, but I'll be happy with a decent squad based strategy game.

If you're trying to quit, good luck to you! I'll never understand why people START smoking. I've never met a person in their 40's who is like "Man, I'm soooo glad I'm a smoker." I've met tons who have quit or tried to quit and still crave it almost every day. It just seems like a crappy thing to be tied to for the rest of your life. It's also not really all that high up there on the good drug scale. I can see the appeal of pot and alcohol, but tobacco seems like the risk is waaaaay greater than the reward. But hey, I guess we all have our addictions. Granted not all addictions stain and smell and cause health problems in the people around you, but you get the point.

On the Wow expansion, I just don't think I can bring myself to grind from 58 to 68 in order to access the new areas. I wish they would build a well-rounded expansion, instead of just catering to the high level characters.

Nothin' wrong with a bit o' leg and underarm hair on a lady ;-)

Woohoo, exchange shooting sprees for more 1 on 1 murders.

I hear it doesn't compare to Need for Steam.

Whatever, Jade Empire let me hook up with both romantic interests. At the same time. And I learned a new martial arts style when it happened.

Lord of the Rings + DX10 + running on high res = purty time. Seriously, everything looks insanely good. Screenshots don't do it justice. I'll jump on The Witcher when I have a couple hours to play.

Speaking of PC's, I just got my fancy new Alienware-51 7500. It's wonderful. I'm now using Vista...it's not too different so far from XP, but I'm still busy installing stuff.

I see no reason to upgrade to Vista unless you are getting a new computer. It's a long term decision, really. Someday, Visa will replace XP as the standard OS, Microsoft will force that. But XP still has life in it, so I see no reason to rush out to get it. But if I'm building or buying a new PC, I see no reason not to upgrade either, as it will save me the need later on.

I was at the Sharks game, so I didn't get to see any highlights last night. I'll take your word on it It's good to see Edmonton beat the Blues, when did St. Louis get good again?

Geez, everybody who is trashing Vista seems to be stuck in 9 months ago. Get with the times. XP wasn't all that stable in the first year, either. You can expect a a year of growing pains from any OS. I have a Macbook that I got from work. It's not bad, but it's limited by the available software. PC's tend to require a bit of know-how in order to be effective, whereas Macs are built to be easy. I think there is plenty of room in the world for both.