What you did today

[Guard Dog]

So yesterday, I was playing a game of Rome Total War 2 when one of my fights started experiencing some frame rate issues.

I started the battle at 7pm and at 1.30 am I had 35 minutes left to go of the hour allotted.

The Battle was a pretty important one (my capital) and I was winning, if excruciatingly slowly. I didn't have any saves from right nearby, but either way it was not a battle I care to repeat.

 

So this morning I find that my mother had turned my laptop off. (Thankfully I may finally have a home for myself, I'll know Monday)

"it was making a lot of noise, and was really hot"

 

So, problem is, I got my OS on a Solid State Disk, and those aren't very happy with unexpected shutdowns. It happened once before and I was lucky when after 2 days I could boot up my computer again. So, I'm sending this message from a different computer, ready to drink my mother her blood.

How is RTW2? Performance issues aside?

[Walsingham]

 

So yesterday, I was playing a game of Rome Total War 2 when one of my fights started experiencing some frame rate issues.

I started the battle at 7pm and at 1.30 am I had 35 minutes left to go of the hour allotted.

The Battle was a pretty important one (my capital) and I was winning, if excruciatingly slowly. I didn't have any saves from right nearby, but either way it was not a battle I care to repeat.

 

So this morning I find that my mother had turned my laptop off. (Thankfully I may finally have a home for myself, I'll know Monday)

"it was making a lot of noise, and was really hot"

 

So, problem is, I got my OS on a Solid State Disk, and those aren't very happy with unexpected shutdowns. It happened once before and I was lucky when after 2 days I could boot up my computer again. So, I'm sending this message from a different computer, ready to drink my mother her blood.

How is RTW2? Performance issues aside?

 

 

 

*cough cough* Reviewed by us

[Gorgon]

I miss archers. The javelin guys can throw a mile perhaps to compensate. There are only siege engines during (duh) sieges. Fine on the face of it, but I miss them. Units move too fast making a coherent strategy difficult unless you are defending and can set them all to guard. 

 

You can pause and give orders, but it's a chore if you have to do it all the time. It also looks like crap on my computer. I would'nt advise trying to play it without a newish CPU and GFX. They say it scales well on old computers but that's pretty far from the truth. 

[Guard Dog]

 

 

So yesterday, I was playing a game of Rome Total War 2 when one of my fights started experiencing some frame rate issues.

I started the battle at 7pm and at 1.30 am I had 35 minutes left to go of the hour allotted.

The Battle was a pretty important one (my capital) and I was winning, if excruciatingly slowly. I didn't have any saves from right nearby, but either way it was not a battle I care to repeat.

 

So this morning I find that my mother had turned my laptop off. (Thankfully I may finally have a home for myself, I'll know Monday)

"it was making a lot of noise, and was really hot"

 

So, problem is, I got my OS on a Solid State Disk, and those aren't very happy with unexpected shutdowns. It happened once before and I was lucky when after 2 days I could boot up my computer again. So, I'm sending this message from a different computer, ready to drink my mother her blood.

How is RTW2? Performance issues aside?

 

 

 

*cough cough* Reviewed by us

 

Sounds like it took a turn in the direction of Master of Orion III. I was either going to buy that or Football Manager 2014. I was leaning towards the latter actually since I still play all the other TW games regularly.

[Walsingham]

My housemate walked in on me playing Empire Total War and said

 

"Feeling contemplative?"

 

I expressed surprise in the affirmative. To which he replied

 

"I know your mood by what game you are playing. When you are feeling positive, and deep in thought, you like to shoot Frenchmen."

[melkathi]

 When you are feeling positive, and deep in thought, you like to shoot Frenchmen."

 

That is very british.

[ShadySands]

Considering getting a new car

[Guard Dog]

My housemate walked in on me playing Empire Total War and said

 

"Feeling contemplative?"

 

I expressed surprise in the affirmative. To which he replied

 

"I know your mood by what game you are playing. When you are feeling positive, and deep in thought, you like to shoot Frenchmen."

That's the British national past time (queue Henry V speech in the play of the same name)

[Calax]

 

First day home for kitteh (she doesn't live with me)

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Is that you or a girlfriend in that picture Calax?

 

Today I went to work, went to class, and got home 20 minutes ago. Going to watch something and get to sleep.

[Calax]

A friend of the female persuasion, no romantics going on.

[Walsingham]

 

 When you are feeling positive, and deep in thought, you like to shoot Frenchmen."

 

That is very british.

 

 

Admiral Horatio Nelson; hero, lover, ****ing racist.

 

To serve my King and destroy the French, I consider as the great order of all, from which little ones spring; and if one of these militate against it (for who can tell exactly at a distance), I go back and obey the great order and object, to down – down with the damned French villains! My blood boils at the name of a Frenchman! Down, down with the French! … is my constant prayer.'

 

[Rosbjerg]

So what does it say about me when I wake up in a shock, sweating like it was a nightmare.. just as I was about to get married in my dream to a nice girl.. haha

[Blarghagh]

That says you suffer from cartoonish, sitcom levels of fear of commitment.

[Woldan]

Marriage IS a nightmare for those who dream it and those who live it as well. 

 

What I did: for the first time in months I managed to sleep without waking up at least 30 times during the night. 

[Rosbjerg]

That says you suffer from cartoonish, sitcom levels of fear of commitment.

 

So you're saying I should keep having meaningless relations with women, but as I start becoming emotionally distant, use humor to deflect the ever encroaching loneliness .. then hope for a women that will one day burst through my shell of Adonis like good looks and see the real me underneath? And of course all would be well if we stopped there, but in actuality the relationship is doomed because we are both so horribly emotionally scarred, self centered and thoroughly addicted to messing our lives up.. so we never have to face the ever growing disappointment with reality, each other and especially ourselves..

 

I just now realize I've seen too many romantic comedies.

[BruceVC]

 

That says you suffer from cartoonish, sitcom levels of fear of commitment.

 

So you're saying I should keep having meaningless relations with women, but as I start becoming emotionally distant, use humor to deflect the ever encroaching loneliness .. then hope for a women that will one day burst through my shell of Adonis like good looks and see the real me underneath? And of course all would be well if we stopped there, but in actuality the relationship is doomed because we are both so horribly emotionally scarred, self centered and thoroughly addicted to messing our lives up.. so we never have to face the ever growing disappointment with reality, each other and especially ourselves..

 

I just now realize I've seen too many romantic comedies.

 

 

At least you understand the ultimate hopelessness of the reality that you live in. And here I thought I was going to have to explain it in some way

 

 

Edited September 19, 2013 by BruceVC

[Malcador]

Drinks for a departing coworker were postponed to the guy being sick on his penultimate day. Hopefully he shows up, then a pathetic percentage of the office will go to this club renowned for being a cougar hangout to see him off.

[JFSOCC]

got my laptop to work again, yay!

[melkathi]

got my laptop to work again, yay!

 

Not even maternal sabotage can keep a good gamer down for long!

[BruceVC]

 

got my laptop to work again, yay!

 

Not even maternal sabotage can keep a good gamer down for long!

 

funny

[Nepenthe]

Am getting disturbing amounts of contentment from crapping into pretentious facebook status reports from doctoral students (ie. former colleagues) who think they are a lot smarter than they are.

 

There might be a pattern I'm refusing to notice.

[Labadal]

I have a nasty cold, been playing games all day.

[Malcador]

 

got my laptop to work again, yay!

 

Not even maternal sabotage can keep a good gamer down for long!

 

Is why I just turn my PC off when I'm not using it. Saves electricity as well.

[BruceVC]

I have a nasty cold, been playing games all day.

 

You should  get yourself nice friendly, steaming mug of Horlicks. That always makes me feel better.

 

Oh you guys probably don't get Horlicks in Sweden  ( okay whatever is the equivalent, Cloudberry soup?  )