Something is very wrong with your system. Im running at 1024 on high on a 9800pro, 1Gb DDR1 and an Athlon XP @ 2.3ghz. The game runs GREAT, over 50fps for the most part. Many servers are laggy but also many that aren't. Indicitive of hosters overloading thier bandwidth or servers.
+ I have played the demo since the first day and am hopelessly addicted. Not one crash, not a boot to the desktop, NOTHING. Quite possibly the most stable game I have ever played.
And your shooting problems? Use bursts of fire not streams, go prone, people WILL die. Holding full auto for anything longer than a second, 99% of your bullets will randomly fly in a 10 foot radius and of course you will likely die.
"but you'll probably want to save it for LAN parties."
Ah, with this ridiculous statment you dissolved all 10 small bits of credible information in your transparent review. If BF2 is anything, it is a online multiplayer FPS and calling it a LAN game shows that you've missed the plot completely.
Funny were seeing this happen just as the new Star Wars movie comes out.
1) Dubya sees advance screening of SW6 2) Dubya demands urgent funding to develop space weapons to protect against Sith invasion. 3) George Lucas is sent to Guantanamo. 4) Dubya blows up the moon, certain that it holds enough WMD to wipe out planets in a single burst. 5) Barbra calls Dubya and tells him it's just a movie.
If you consider ducks, geese, turkeys, deer, and bullseye targets people, and they may likely be relatives considering your confidence is such crack induced statistics, then you would be correct.
In this other place the rest of us stay at.... Earth, the majority of shotguns and rifles, which in many countires like Canada make up for the majority of Guns (and the US too I'm sure) are used for hunting, target practice, and gathering dust.
You may have some ground to stand on if you stated handguns, but I honestly don't know.
Don't tell me that 70,000 people we're playing Counter Strike on the crusty old Half LIfe 1 engine because of the graphics. Gameplay sustains a game's life after the initial buzz, look what happened to Doom 3, all flash no substance. And on the other hand you have Gameboy's Tetris, what a graphical nightmare, but still a strong classic few didn't enjoy for a long time.
You're a lost cause with way too much time on your hands. I've obviously stirred some anxious emotions or you wouldn't be typing 400 words every post, 90% off which involves repeated statements about how offtopic I am, the remaining 10% barely tip toes on anything we've covered so far.
And when you finally gently touch on something regarding our conversation, in this brief case: How you draw from that some inference that I think Canada owes the US something
You state something the comletely opposed tp your previous comments: Let's rewind: Don't worry, though, you Canadians can still enjoy the products of our most advanced drug companies at heavily subsidized (by US consumers!), artificially low prices.
So you're not implying we owe our "artificially low prices" from "(your) most advanced drug companies" at the expense of "heavily subsidized (by US consumers)"?
Are you using a greek to engish translator and you're just not aware how your sentances are being reordered changing the entire meaning?
No, you're still in denial, displancement, what ever. READ: Not grounded in reality.
Imagine there are 100 cars avaiable in North America, they are all American made. The Canadian calls up an say he wants to buy 50 cars at the discount rate of $5000 per car. 50 Americans call up and buy individual cars at $10000. So the low Canadian price is "subsidized" by the Amercian?
You're high. You want to talk about armchair economics. Just because one guy gets ripped and the other gets a good price, there is no direct economic subsidy. Think Philisophy 101, Psych 101, hell any subject that teaches elementary logic.
post hoc ergo propter hoc Now there's a relevent latin term. And youre guilty of it.
As much as you type, say another 1000 words, you still said what you did, it wasn't a vague statement. Now suck it up and deal with it. You sound like you may be educated, take reponsibility for what you write and if you can't directly defend it, admit it.
Not only do you avoid every question I put to you, you disguise your complete lack of a defensible position by useless self gratifying mush words like: pop-psych (look im hip) ad hominem (look everyone I know latin) identifiable disorder (look I watch ER!)
You can take your expensive drugs, let your goverment take advantage of your poorest citizens. If they really need education or healthcare, send them over to dodge (if they're lucky) bullets for a few years. Keep telling yourself Canadians are socialists and Sadam is Al Queda, whatever you need to do to ignore your own problems at home.
Did it ever occur to you, that your logic is completely flawed?
That the reason we pay less for our drugs is collective bargaining power and is completely unrelated to the reason your own pharmaceutical industry is bending you over when you're sick?
Canada isn't doing anything wrong here and we don't owe the US a squirt. You act like US citizens are a bunch of martyrs for our benefit. What a complete crock of shit.
Maybe if you looked within your own borders a little more often, you might find that most of the problems in the US (gasp!) are caused by Amercians exploiting your own. You're right, about one thing, you're not in denial. The correct term is displacement.
Displacement is the redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses from an object that gives rise to anxiety to a safer, more acceptable one. Being angry at your country and bashing Canada can be an example of displacement.
Does you US centric world of drugs have room for: [b]Bayer AG[/b] Building W 1 Leverkusen, 51368 Phone: (800) 269-2377 Fax: (212) 571-3050 Web Site: http://www.bayer.com/
Socialist? Maybe a few isolated Premiers, Boob Rae in Ontario, and Vander Zam(sp) in BC.
Aside from those brief red blinks we're pretty much 100% capitalist pig dogs. We just don't let people suffer because they can't afford healthcare, that line is purely American.
Register Ed #1: Hey, watch this, we'll post a fake anti-opensource, pro-microsoft quote from Linus and those Slashdotters will have a hissy fit!
Register Ed #2: But if the quote is fake, we can't post it!
Register Ed #1: We'll just state that it's a fake quote, right after the quote. Do you think Slashdot readers or editors actually read _complete_ articles!
I've had some phone calls lately from clients that were disconnected from Roger's Highspeed Cable becuase they were trojaned or mass mailing. After inspecting 3 systems, they were all infected with NetskyP and Bugbear.
Both were very easy to remove, I even used Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (gasp) that was quick and easy. I wish they would kick all of these infected PC's offline and we wouldn't be dealing with these erratic spikes that have now made turned FPS gaming into a modem like affair.
I bet a few of the "free" antivirus companies, like AVP could make a killing sending out "AOL Like" demo cd's that cure the ails of all these banished network newbies.
And why would they do that? Instead of having a usable desktop background with actual icons they can click. You're over thinking this process, it's just a cool idea for a background, one that appears like your monitor is transparent to what is behind it.
That's it!
Oh and also the guys using a fish angle lens and a DV cam bolted on the back of their monitor with live streaming video framegrabbed on to their desktop to get a realtime desktop displaying the back of their montior.... just kidding heheehe
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1. The HALO engine couldn't render this many vehicles and players in such a large map in it's wildest dreams. Ok maybe at 480x400 :)
2. If you think BF2 is about city scape graphics, you have MAYBE played the demo (1 map).
What sets PC gaming apart is:
4. Clear visuals. Your $5000 LCD/Plasma/DLP couldn't do what my 10 year old 14" KDS monitor does on its worst day.
And on a 21" CRT at 1600x1200, your FPS days on a console are over. Period.
Something is very wrong with your system. Im running at 1024 on high on a 9800pro, 1Gb DDR1 and an Athlon XP @ 2.3ghz. The game runs GREAT, over 50fps for the most part. Many servers are laggy but also many that aren't. Indicitive of hosters overloading thier bandwidth or servers.
+ I have played the demo since the first day and am hopelessly addicted. Not one crash, not a boot to the desktop, NOTHING. Quite possibly the most stable game I have ever played.
And your shooting problems? Use bursts of fire not streams, go prone, people WILL die. Holding full auto for anything longer than a second, 99% of your bullets will randomly fly in a 10 foot radius and of course you will likely die.
PC Game makers are trying to lure in more of the console crowd?
"but this is simply due to the more modern (and several times more expensive) hardware in a current gaming PC. "
One word. Monitor.
Computers are not turning into consoles. Consoles are turning into computers.
"but you'll probably want to save it for LAN parties."
Ah, with this ridiculous statment you dissolved all 10 small bits of credible information in your transparent review. If BF2 is anything, it is a online multiplayer FPS and calling it a LAN game shows that you've missed the plot completely.
And make space for paying customers.
WIFI squatters?
"Hello sir, how about a nice warm boot to the ass on your way out?"
The smart yoghurt might be reading this!
Next thing you know your frozen yoghurt will morph into poisin. Then who get the last laugh?
ME! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Smart Yoghurt
Apple: ***Get photoshopping realtime with the new G6, 200% faster than the Pentium 5 and AMD x64!***
PC User: Hey doesn't the G6 use the same Pentium 5 and PCs?
Jobs: These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Is this possible?
Last time I checked molten metal (burning death) and Mercury (deadly poison) was toxic.
AHHH, Nothing like a warm sip of heatsink juice to warm you up on a cold winter night.
Funny were seeing this happen just as the new Star Wars movie comes out.
1) Dubya sees advance screening of SW6
2) Dubya demands urgent funding to develop space weapons to protect against Sith invasion.
3) George Lucas is sent to Guantanamo.
4) Dubya blows up the moon, certain that it holds enough WMD to wipe out planets in a single burst.
5) Barbra calls Dubya and tells him it's just a movie.
One day they'll build a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
If you consider ducks, geese, turkeys, deer, and bullseye targets people, and they may likely be relatives considering your confidence is such crack induced statistics, then you would be correct.
In this other place the rest of us stay at.... Earth, the majority of shotguns and rifles, which in many countires like Canada make up for the majority of Guns (and the US too I'm sure) are used for hunting, target practice, and gathering dust.
You may have some ground to stand on if you stated handguns, but I honestly don't know.
So true.
Don't tell me that 70,000 people we're playing Counter Strike on the crusty old Half LIfe 1 engine because of the graphics. Gameplay sustains a game's life after the initial buzz, look what happened to Doom 3, all flash no substance. And on the other hand you have Gameboy's Tetris, what a graphical nightmare, but still a strong classic few didn't enjoy for a long time.
You're a lost cause with way too much time on your hands. I've obviously stirred some anxious emotions or you wouldn't be typing 400 words every post, 90% off which involves repeated statements about how offtopic I am, the remaining 10% barely tip toes on anything we've covered so far.
And when you finally gently touch on something regarding our conversation, in this brief case:
How you draw from that some inference that I think Canada owes the US something
You state something the comletely opposed tp your previous comments:
Let's rewind:
Don't worry, though, you Canadians can still enjoy the products of our most advanced drug companies at heavily subsidized (by US consumers!), artificially low prices.
So you're not implying we owe our "artificially low prices" from "(your) most advanced drug companies" at the expense of "heavily subsidized (by US consumers)"?
Are you using a greek to engish translator and you're just not aware how your sentances are being reordered changing the entire meaning?
No, you're still in denial, displancement, what ever. READ: Not grounded in reality.
Imagine there are 100 cars avaiable in North America, they are all American made. The Canadian calls up an say he wants to buy 50 cars at the discount rate of $5000 per car. 50 Americans call up and buy individual cars at $10000. So the low Canadian price is "subsidized" by the Amercian?
You're high. You want to talk about armchair economics. Just because one guy gets ripped and the other gets a good price, there is no direct economic subsidy. Think Philisophy 101, Psych 101, hell any subject that teaches elementary logic.
post hoc ergo propter hoc
Now there's a relevent latin term. And youre guilty of it.
As much as you type, say another 1000 words, you still said what you did, it wasn't a vague statement. Now suck it up and deal with it. You sound like you may be educated, take reponsibility for what you write and if you can't directly defend it, admit it.
Not only do you avoid every question I put to you, you disguise your complete lack of a defensible position by useless self gratifying mush words like:
pop-psych (look im hip)
ad hominem (look everyone I know latin)
identifiable disorder (look I watch ER!)
You can take your expensive drugs, let your goverment take advantage of your poorest citizens. If they really need education or healthcare, send them over to dodge (if they're lucky) bullets for a few years. Keep telling yourself Canadians are socialists and Sadam is Al Queda, whatever you need to do to ignore your own problems at home.
Did it ever occur to you, that your logic is completely flawed?
That the reason we pay less for our drugs is collective bargaining power and is completely unrelated to the reason your own pharmaceutical industry is bending you over when you're sick?
Canada isn't doing anything wrong here and we don't owe the US a squirt. You act like US citizens are a bunch of martyrs for our benefit. What a complete crock of shit.
Maybe if you looked within your own borders a little more often, you might find that most of the problems in the US (gasp!) are caused by Amercians exploiting your own. You're right, about one thing, you're not in denial. The correct term is displacement.
Displacement is the redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses from an object that gives rise to anxiety to a safer, more acceptable one. Being angry at your country and bashing Canada can be an example of displacement.
So pasting facts is: "illustrating your take on things"
And when these facts directly rebut your last 2 posts it is: "absolutely nothing to do with the discussion at hand"
You're in denial, can't you see?
You're the one that started the "_INSERT COUNTRY HERE_ is only _INSERT POSITIVE THING HERE_ because of the US." rant.
A quick and factual reality check was exaclty what your initial comment required, and received.
Does you US centric world of drugs have room for:
[b]Bayer AG[/b]
Building W 1
Leverkusen, 51368
Phone: (800) 269-2377
Fax: (212) 571-3050
Web Site: http://www.bayer.com/
[b]Alcon Inc[/b]
Bosch 69, P.O. Box 62
Hunenberg, 6331
Web Site: http://www.alconlabs.com/
[b]AstraZeneca PLC[/b]
15 Stanhope Gate
London, EN W1K 1
Web Site: http://www.astrazeneca.com/
[b]GlaxoSmithKline PLC[/b]
980 Great West Road, Brentford
Middlesex, EN TW8 9
Phone: (888) 825-5249
Web Site: http://www.gsk.com
[b]Novartis AG[/b]
Lichtstrasse 35
Basle, 4002
Phone: (877) 999-8850
Fax: (212) 830-2405
Email: investor.relations@group.novartis.com
Web Site: http://www.novartis.com/
[b]Roche Holding AG[/b]
Grenzacherstrasse 124
Basel, 4070
Web Site: http://www.roche.com/
[b]Schering AG[/b]
Muellerstrasse 178
Berlin, 13353
Web Site: http://www.schering.de/
Now pull your head out of your ass, ahhhh doesn't that feel better? I bet you thought Glaxo and Bayer were American, didn't you.... comon, be honest!
AC is right.
$0.99 isn't enough, how about $0 biotches!
Socialist?
Maybe a few isolated Premiers, Boob Rae in Ontario, and Vander Zam(sp) in BC.
Aside from those brief red blinks we're pretty much 100% capitalist pig dogs. We just don't let people suffer because they can't afford healthcare, that line is purely American.
You guys stole Shatner, now were taking the whole frikken show!
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So they should let people upload Mp3s and Google will distribute them for free!
Why don't you just ask them to throw all thier money and stock into 1 000 000 suitcases and mail them to every lawyer in the world.
Ok ok, the artists get to split 1 suitcase.
ya none needs more than 640k
Register Ed #1: Hey, watch this, we'll post a fake anti-opensource, pro-microsoft quote from Linus and those Slashdotters will have a hissy fit!
Register Ed #2: But if the quote is fake, we can't post it!
Register Ed #1: We'll just state that it's a fake quote, right after the quote. Do you think Slashdot readers or editors actually read _complete_ articles!
Both: MUAHAHAHAAAH FOOOLS!!!
I've had some phone calls lately from clients that were disconnected from Roger's Highspeed Cable becuase they were trojaned or mass mailing. After inspecting 3 systems, they were all infected with NetskyP and Bugbear.
Both were very easy to remove, I even used Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (gasp) that was quick and easy. I wish they would kick all of these infected PC's offline and we wouldn't be dealing with these erratic spikes that have now made turned FPS gaming into a modem like affair.
I bet a few of the "free" antivirus companies, like AVP could make a killing sending out "AOL Like" demo cd's that cure the ails of all these banished network newbies.
And why would they do that? Instead of having a usable desktop background with actual icons they can click. You're over thinking this process, it's just a cool idea for a background, one that appears like your monitor is transparent to what is behind it.
That's it!
Oh and also the guys using a fish angle lens and a DV cam bolted on the back of their monitor with live streaming video framegrabbed on to their desktop to get a realtime desktop displaying the back of their montior.... just kidding heheehe