Commissar

Now, honestly...do I sound like the kind of guy who'd know how to do that?

Don't worry about it, I had an overclocked geforce 5500fx. It's just the card is professionally overclocked already it's quite safe, it's kinda like saying "Oi, Numpty I'm already overclocked so don't push me any further else I'll burn your house down and kill the kiddies". <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Right...but doesn't overclocking equal hotter running? I'm not in the mood to start figuring out how to put extra heat sinks or fans into my case.

Alright. This overclocking business has me a bit wary, though.

Well, alright. Tell me what sort of adapter I need to plug my monitor into that beast, and I might just start looking at the nVidia card.

So ATI just sucks in general, huh?

Out of stock, and I'm impatient. Plus, I own stock in ATI. Edit: Plus...and I'm really displaying my lack of knowledge here...but that doesn't seem to have a monitor port on it.

Sure...but the other thing to keep in mind is that I'm currently running an X300. Anything's going to be a huge upgrade. I can't even play the FEAR demo with this card. Here's a question for you; X850XT, at 256mb memory, or an X800XL with 512mb? I can get them for almost the exact same price, and I have no idea how important the actual card's memory is to the performance, so which one's the way to go?

Knock that **** off. Go elsewhere if you need to work off a sugar high.

The price is that good because it's refurbished. God knows what that means, but I'm significantly wary of buying secondhand computer hardware.

Wasn't STALKER supposed to come out last year? I'd heard great things about it, and then it just dropped off the radar. Hope it's still up to snuff when it comes out, 'cause it's a truly unique concept for a shooter. Glad to see that Akella's finally going back and making a true successor to Sea Dogs in Age of Pirates. Little disappointed to see that there won't be a new Total War game out, though. Some of those RPGs look pretty interesting, though I haven't heard of most of them.

Know what? I'm starting to see the appeal of consoles. I drop three hundred bucks, I could have myself a brand new 360.

Don't make me cry. I've been looking at the X850 series on Newegg. They any good?

Yes, I would prefer to stick with ATI, just because I'm lazy and don't plan to do a full reformatting of my disk in order to get rid of my old drivers.

I've finally been allowed to upgrade my video card. I currently have an ATI Radeon X300. I know that's a horrible card. Shut up already. I was on a budget when I bought my latest desktop (can't cut into the high heels fund, after all), and went with whatever crap Dell was willing to shove into my system for a low price. I have no idea what info anybody'll need about my system to make a determination as to what I ought to get, but I'll throw out that I'm currently riding around on 2 gigs of RAM, and a 3.20 gigahertz P4. I'll obviously need a PCI Express card. I've been informed I cannot, under any circumstances, spend more than $300. Help me out.

I don't really have a garage.

Ha. I wish.

As I explained elsewhere, I ended up getting some, anyway.

I didn't like Anchorman myself, the first time I watched it. It grows on you, though. I love scotch. Scotchy scotchy scotch. Down into my belly...

Spoken like a man who's seen Full Metal Jacket and not much else.

Yes, in fact, it does explain it. Here's the explanation I've gotten: "I'm so arrogant that I believe I know what's right. I also think that none of you guys have ever thought about this stuff before, despite massive evidence to the contrary in every thread I've ever made, and consequently I will bestow upon you, little sinners, the wonderous gift that is the key to entering heaven." I've heard it all before, from people much more persuasive than you, and yet I remain unconvinced. I shall remain unconvinced, forever. I am a doubter. No, worse than that - I am an unbeliever. An infidel. You're not going to change my mind. I have the common decency not to try and change yours, why can't you do the same for me? Because you think I'm going to hell, and want to save me? I think you're wasting your life and missing out on some of the truly great experiences a young man can have because you follow archaic rules that don't make a lot of sense, but hey...I leave you to it. I live a pretty good life. I donate to charity. I'm kind to people, for the most part. If there is a God, and he wants to send me to hell because I used the ability to reason that he apparently gave me, so be it. Doesn't sound like much of a loving sort, though; that's more a malicious trickster.

I'm...familiar with them, yes. Don't think they spin webs, though.

He might be running on Pascal's Wager.

Oh-ho-ho. Anybody would be a little weirded out by waking up covered with spiderwebs. I didn't freak out, though, and I'm not the one who's scared of them now. Go back to thinking I'm tough-ass! Please! Or I'll cry! And I'm no longer mad about the ****-blocking side effect. That's why God made kitchen tables.

When the hell did everyone around here become spider experts? I'm just kvetching, not honestly trying to solve the problem. It'll go away on its own, like the sinus thing, and that dead hooker in the garage.

Who leaves a dead spider to just rot in a puddle of Raid? I would normally agree with the they "leave us alone" policy, 'cept I think we crossed that line with the whole trying to cocoon Commissar thing. And you might want to reconsider. She's pretty hot, Russian and all. She might make it worth your while. You can come search every inch of the mattress and move the bed frame around, too. I'll be at the club, just do whatever you're going to do before I come home, and we'll pretend it never happened.