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Cool. I hope you aren't a supertanker pilot, though. No worries. No oilspills are going to result from my nodding off at the keyboard, nor is anybody going to wake up with the wrong brain transplant A bit. Unfortunately, I am sort of between graphics cards and it showed. The hud was a mess, but to be fair, the game did warn me that the temporary card wasn't up to the task. Didn't figure out how to save a game though. Can it only be done at save points or did the botched up hud hide something?

A bunch of Llamasoft classics made available by their creator. Look under Softography and then 8bit/16bit/console (zero gen?) for downloads.

The original Elite game made available by one of its creators Look under Archives for emulator files and original source code (for those who wants to see how it was done)

Do you even have a day job? Where do you get the time to play all those AND patrol the boards? For me usually gaming sessions are 2-3 hours, but most days I don't play at all. And you are into Paradox games... care to share your secret for time dilation? Work days are between 10 and 18 hours and I have a lot of brief moments to check out forums at work. Then I have a few hours at home to read things that caught my attention more closely or to game, although I don't do it as regularly as I did a decade ago. I can easily spend a week not touching a game. Sometimes I sleep at night, sometimes not

James Bond is the only one of the three 'B's I know Probably as good a starting point as any. Kill a few bosses, blow up their bases and sail towards the sunset on a raft with the current Bond girl

I know/knew Red Faction, as I had it way back. The box seems to have gone missing during a relocation somewhere I tried Red Faction 2 for short while (back when it was new) and found it horrible, lacking the (admittedly artifical) sense of freedom of the first one with small, cramped levels and weird vehicle minigames. I haven't seen RF Guerilla, only heard about it. A bit more than $20 for the bundle, so if it turned out to be awful, it's no big loss. DMC4 was because I wanted to try out an action/platformer game (and give my usb xbox360 controller something to do) and it seemed like the only one of its kind that they had for sale Otherwise point and click stuff, RTS (the sword of the stars stuff) and a racing game (with destructable cars of course)

Trying to expand my horizon a bit beyond the usual crpg/strategy stuff. Did a bit more shopping, trying out game genres that are usually outside my field of vision. Got the following to try out: Crash Time 2 Devil May Cry

My IELTS is on the 8th and 9th of May Your first language isnt English? What is it? Danish... second language German... third language English... and a smattering of French as a backup language @Steve: I don't remember the required score, nothing outrageously though (not academic level)

My IELTS is on the 8th and 9th of May

Maybe he used one of them Monty Python Hungarian/English dictionaries?

Oh look, those nice guys at Gigabyte provided the motherboard with a stock watercooling block on the Northbridge Yeah, finally got to unpack some of the boxes, just to realise that I forgot to order a wireless netcard (my old/current motherboard has it built in). Time to go shopping in one of the local retail stores over the Weekend.

I hope it was just bad luck... as the warranty goes out the window when you start taking it apart and put your own cooling on it Thats a hefty model that Toxic. Takes a more serious gamer than me to even consider the crossfire option though. I'm a casual gamer at best (usually playing more old than new games), but fast OpenGL is a godsend for previewing scenes in my 3D apps, the latter also being what I need the processing power and memory for.

Well, a good thing that I still have a couple of weeks to think about it. I wasn't too impressed by the manufacturing quality of the Sapphire card* and my trust in Asus plummeted like a rock with the motherboard that I'm in the process of retiring (I kept running into stability issues until I downclocked it from 1333 to 1111 which is a bit of a joke). Gigabyte is a completely unknown brand for me, my new MB being a first. Well, got most of the parts for my upgrade stacked under my desk here at work. Need to take a taxi to work one of these days so I can get them home and start assembling it *the metal "front" plate was placed all wrong, making it impossible to use monitor port 1 (because it was pressed too tightly against the casing) and I needed non standard screws etc. to actually get it fastened to anything. Sloppy design or sloppy construction, don't know. A lifespan of less than 2 years wasn't too impressive either.

Bullfrog... R.I.P. They made some awesome games. I remember playing Populous and Syndicate on my Amiga.

Sometimes that's true and sometimes it's not. While I think that all the 5970s are reference designs -id est the stock coolers, clocks, etc.- you might want to make sure as non-reference designs can make one type better than other. XFX, if they make that card yet, is another company you might want to look at since their double-lifetime-guaranty, basically a transferable-warranty, might help if you ever want to re-sell the GPU (or simply need to REM it down the line, most cards come with more stringent time-limits). Hope this helps. Warranty is probably a moot point for me, as one of the first things I do is take it apart, throw away the fan etc. and put a full sized watercooling block on it (I run it out of the box for a fortnight first to catch any doa or other obvious errors)

Anybody knows of any significant differences between Gigabyte, Asus and Sapphire when it comes to the same GPU? I.e. they all currently make 5970 cards, specs look similar, prices look similar etc. Same card with a different sticker slapped on it?

Did you play Battlefield Vietnam? Did you download the free Battlefield 1942 pacific add on for it? Basically the same levels except on the same engine as Battlefield Bad Company which means destructable buildings and cover. I think they dumbed it down a bit too much though. You have infinite ammo for ALL weapons including bazookas in grenades. Not quite as horrible as it sounds: You get 3 rockets for your rocket launcher, once you fire/reload all 3 you then have to wait about 20-30 seconds to get another 3 rockets. Also, the classes have been combined to make 3 classes from the original 4-5. Also, to be a bit of a geek, I find it incredibly annoying that they don't give the Japanese their actual rifle. Why are they using a German Mauser? Just skin an Arisaka rifle. It would work identically! Yeah, I have both Battlefield 1942 (plus Road to Rome) and BF Vietnam (the music brings back childhood memories) + the Pacific Addon. Hmm, I might just pass on this then. Maybe wait and see if they make a demo of it.

I'm mildly curious about Battlefield 1943 (because I loved BF1942). If it is just a console version of 1942 re-released on the PC with a few bells and whistles, I won't bother. Sometimes hope dies last.

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According to Berlusconi because the left has uglier women

http://www.newsweek.com/id/236096 Will attempt to respond more fully later. That is both good and bad, isn't it? Those guys are supposed to be better than other people.

As it says in the Aeneid, "Beware of geeks bringing gifts"

The first movie character I thought of when watching the video clip was Simon Gruber (yes, different gender, I know)

Funnily enough, that's how I like it, actually. The entire game should be bleak and grey. I'm just afraid that if they try to make it more 'cinematic' and add more emotion and depth to characters they'll end up disneyfying everything. i.e. Do we really need to see Abigail or Triss break down and cry and tell sap stories about their past in TW2? I know that's not what you mean, but I'm just afraid of it being handled badly. The last thing the world needs is an emo Geralt

Bought a few games from Gamersgate... Against Rome (RTS in the "easy" category) Spellforce 2 Gold (to satisfy my curiosity) Beyond Good & Evil (heard a lot of good stuff about it. Can't go wrong at $5) Post Mortem (Point and click adventure) Still Life (Point and click adventure) Archon Classic (Remake of the Westfall/Freeman oldie) Druuna (Serpieri - nuff said) Syberia (Looked good in the reviews) Syberia 2 (Because it came bundled with the first one) Disciples II Gold (Because my old discs are getting worn and scratched) I guess I'll make up my mind which one to play first when they are all downloaded Edit: Oh btw, all together, 10 dollars or so more than Dragon Age