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River is watching you ...

Your PC is into S&M?

Arnie does have a large chest ...

Update: my local cinema is no longer showing it. Only about a month until it's due out on DVD, though ... Wallpapers for those of you who do that sort of thing.

You ain't missing much. A friend of mine fell asleep in it. )

Are you sure? I have noticed a pattern with you lazy Scandinavians... P.S. Baley, you've already done it! You were the second forum monkey to do it! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Baley wants to roleplay another person in the questionaire. It would take a lot of discipline to not share OoC info between his submissions, but maybe Baley has some experience with multiple personalities ... "

Look who's calling who a pervert! Necrophiliac!

I don't understand. Why would you want to buy a console to play a game you've already own and have played on PC?

But Bastila is dead, Jim.

1. Some TVs may now have the ability to take a computer signal, that's true. It will still have an upper limit, though. You seem to be saying that the TV has the resolution of a high-end monitor, YET costs a bomb AND is cheaper than a monitor. If that were the case, then no-one would buy monitors and just buy TVs. The reason monitors cost more than TVs is because they have better resolution, LCD refresh delays (sub 4ms) and brightness and contrast ratios, etc, so I'm not following your line of reasoning there. 2. Console games are not going to support these resolutions as a standard. Even if the better games do (and how much are they going to cost?), they will be 1080i (interlaced), (1920 x 1080 or about 2.07 million pixels) but that ain't going to better a PC resolution, which (with widescreen monitors) is already way beyond that (WHUXGA = 7680

Necrophilia?

... An infinite number of Shakespear-authoring Bonobos, who asphixiate their enemies with sexual acts.

I can quit anytime I want. I just don't want to right now.

I need a very good pc for my work (IT consultant), hence I have an IBM laptop (credibility in the first 90 seconds of meeting, etc). Also, IBM (well, they are Chinese Lenovo, now) make the best batteries and are in the top percentile for all their components (sold their harddrive business to Hitachi a while back, so they just rebrand the best). Only downside is they cost a bomb, but it's all on business lease / three year depreciation cycle, so I don't even notice it. :D

Of course,with a console you're further away from the screen,so you don't really notice the low resolution eg Morrowind on the X-Box looks better than the PC version at the same resolution. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I can get a projector for my PC, so that I can re-define being "immersed" in the game. :D Next, I want a force-tactile feedback suit and dimensional suspension array (like in Lawnmower Man), and a sensation-feedback pulse into my brain ... "

Strip-tease Force Users ...?

Another new game arriving by Steam, soon.

Your monitor must rock! Not to mention your GPU.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was talking about potentials. The computer potentially can run silly resolutions whereas the console is limited by the NTSC ratio 4:3 is 640 by 480 resolution. PAL is 720 x 486. Even dvd is only: 720 x 576 pixels (PAL DVDs), or 720 x 480 pixels (NTSC DVDs). I run my laptop at WXVGA (1600x1050) resolution. That's about 500% more detail per frame than PAL, which is in turn 20% more detailed than NTSC. The point is, if you are a graphics whore, then the console will never be good enough.

2. Actually Dell 20" LCD for c.

I would concur with this advice: right now we have an IT conjunction, much like the vaunted celestrial kind, whereby some of the slowest-upgrade-cycle parts are about to crystalise into their next incarnations, like motherboards, SATA-2 and PCI-Express, etc. Bearing this in mind, the new tech is still a little expensive, and the compatibilities haven't been completely ironed out yet. Also, after Xmas there will be even more discount on stuff released for the fat man's big night. One item to be on the lookout for soon (as you are in the UK) is LCD monitors. The manufacturers are all over-stocked as people haven't been buying them at the expected rate, so they are bound to be reduced from an already great price. (Dell have their big 20" and 21" models, the former is 25% off and c.

Sounds like a goooooooood story ...

Another casualty of Civ 4 ...

I find Symantec tends to mess around in the Windows services a little too much for my liking. I have used it a lot (was the site licence for IBM when I worked there, for example) and it ALWAYS gets the viruses that have infected a system, no doubt, but I don't like the fact that there are more products mushrooming out of the initial beachhead AV program. I do like the Norton Personal Firewall application, though: it seems to be more intuitive to use than the last time I used ZoneAlarm, for example. Be careful of some of the free AVs, as they may not update fast / well enough to catch some of the early threats. Personally, I think Sophos is the best BAR NONE, but I don't think they do an end-user product. (Their server product is straight from Back Rogers, though.)

Correlation, causation, etc. Problem here seems to be using large amounts of input options as the definition for 'complex'. A PC is a multimedia and multifunction machine; it requires by nature an input device that enables the user to take full advantage of what it offers, videogames and otherwise. On the other hand consoles are more limited in their uses (which isn't necessarily bad), and their primary use is for gaming and entertainment - you don't require anything as complex as a keyboard when a handful of buttons will just do the job. Moreover, an input device is not reflective of the complexity the games it allows you to play; a game can be complex and only utilize a handful of buttons, but of course, it all depends. Typing of the Dead is not a complex game simply because it requires you to use almost all the buttons of your keyboard, it's in fact a pretty simple game. The Sims 2 is a fairly complex game as it involves micromanaging many aspects of each Sim, yet it only requires a very small amount of buttons to succeed. A shooter where you can only change weapons with four different keys as opposed to using the mouse wheel to cycle between weapons isn't necessarily more complex gamewise. Also, with the advent of streamlining videogames - which happens in all platforms to some extent - what are the odds that you'll actually get to use all the buttons in a keyboard as opposed to all the buttons in a gamepad? Most PC games nowadays only require players to use a very small number of buttons: if you add to it the ability to customize controls, and the extra control methods you have (ie, mouse input, combining keys, mouse wheel). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, I think Mr Walsinger has already admitted that might have been a hasty remark. I would argue that a simple control system (i.e. one that strives to limit complexity) helps make a better game, and this may very well include make the gameplay more complex. All the olympians do on a diving board is jump, but they are able to perform innumerable dives of almost infinitely variable difficulty, for example. However, one can't get around the fact that consoles are a fixed platform. They may be ahead of the average PC when they are released (but then, so is every new PC), alas, though, they cannot compete after a couple of years. Don't forget that the monitor has a many times higher resolution: I can run games in 16000 x 12000 widescreen now, HDTV won't do that in this generation of consoles. (I don't particularly like playing games on a tv, personally, but that is my own preference.) Secondly, regardless of whether consoles may be better value than a PC, the games are costed to include this initial subsidized investment, so the console's relative value is inversely proportional to the amount of games played on it. So the games do not get better and the value of the gaming system drops with every game played. Thirdly, the ability to add content (either from the developer or the community) means that there is extra value in the PC game. I can't seem to find any variance information. ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> variance

I'm Revan, and so's my wife!