Commissar

You guys are missing out if you don't know Shadowrun.

Man. If I was a whiny little girl, or just trying to make an ironic point, I'd report this.

Shadowrun as either. Best potential for a MMORPG I've ever seen.

You all need to go wipe your noses.

Pretty sad that no RPGs made in the last two or three years are recommendable.

It would not be named after Star Trek. It would be named after two sloops, four schooners, a motorboat, and two carriers.

Well, that's the fault of Star Trek dorks. When I hear 'Enterprise,' I think of CVN-65, not a science fiction show. Whoever makes Star Trek appropriated the name, and that's unfortunate, but it shouldn't necessitate the end of a long-standing US military tradition.

Of course it should be. The first shuttle was called Enterprise it only makes sense the first interstellar ship would bear that name. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My reason's a lot better, because I know what I'm talking about.

If it's built by the US, it likely will be. The Enterprise has a long history in the United States, stretching all the way back to the Revolution.

Yes, we do.

You mean like almost instantaneous travel on Earth's surface? Could be interesting. Edit: And extremely scary once it starts being applied to military actions.

Man, I'm going to have to remember to study mathematics in my next life. If this is all possible and they manage to make it, whoever goes is just next in line in the long history of explorers. Plenty of people didn't want to set foot in a boat to go sailing across the Atlantic, nor hop atop a rocket and get shot into outer space.

Spiders. Five miles. Ten miles. Twelve kilometers. Twenty kilometers.

Might not be the genre of strategy you're a fan of, but Rome: Total War is simply one of my all-time favorite games. Medieval: Total War, its predecessor, is also very, very good, but I think once you've seen Rome it's difficult to turn back.

Yeah, no trouble there. Card fit like a glove, once I figured it out.

It was just a little hinge. Once I figured out how to release it, no problem. Getting the card itself in was a beast; the manual that came with it explicitly stated never to put the card into a black slot, since black slots weren't for PCI-E, but the black slot was what my ATI came out of, and the only slot that the card would fit into. Works fine. Dell must just be weird.

FEAR. It made my woman scream and fall out of her chair. Gets my seal of approval thus far.

This game is friggin' creepy.

It's just so, so pretty...

Jesus Christ. I've never seen anything more beautiful in my life.

Oh, the card itself works, according to Display Properties. What I'm checking now is if it -actually- works, you know what I mean?

We'll find out momentarily. Installing the FEAR single player demo at the moment.

In a "fortune favors the bold" spirit, I went ahead and hooked it up to the only available plug I had, leaving one of the plugs provided just dangling there, and booted up. No problems so far, installing drivers at the moment.

Yeah. Half the component wires of the only spare plug I've got come from the PSU, the other half come from the floppy drive. Fun. What're the chances the card works if I don't connect its power supply? Slim to none, I'm guessing.

Yeah, but it doesn't come solely from the PSU - some of the individual wires leading to it seem to come from just below my DVD drive. That's the only spare plug I've got that'll fit anything on this piece of crap dongle (molex) they gave me, so no matter what I'm still going to have a part of the thing just uselessly hanging there.