I have an insane roommate who's an argumentative, messy asshole...
But ever since he got WoW for Christmas, he never leaves his room except to work and leave the occasional Pizza mess on our stove.
I LOVE World of Warcraft without even playing it.
I'm not sure why this Anonymous Coward is adding on to my original post saying it wasn't flamebait.
But, truth be told, mine was somewhat flamebait/troll.
But I don't care because it's 3am and I still love my Gamecube, Nintendo and Super Nintendo.
"There are many things about console gaming that we can apply to make the Windows game experience better. Install is one area where we're working with game developers and publishers to simplify the overly-complex install process--do you really need to answer all those questions and click on all those buttons to play the game?"
Because it's so damn hard to click next four times! Christ, not everybody that plays video games needs it to be f***ing Mario Party 9 for the PC!
How about this for innovation, allow me to boot/load into a streamlined mode whereby I can unload all that windows bloat much like I used to do with booting into DOS.
How can any history of video games be complete without mentioning the psychedelic mushrooms in Rise of the Triad? The mushrooms would make the camera swirl around drunkenly while the colors warped around.
Which also led to the most nauseating level in gaming history, the vomitorium.
Which was a large cube room covered on all six sides with springs that would send you flying in any direction. With a liberal dosage of Rocket launchers, enemy robots and mushrooms floating in the air.
how well 3dmark runs on your computer.
Case in point, I recently picked up the eVga 6800 (Non-ultra) card recently, and very happy with it BTW.
And, after a bit of tuning, I managed to get a score of 85xx with 3dmark03.
Next, I successfully unlocked the extra shader pipes with RivaTuner bringing the total number of active pipes to 16.
Well, when I reran the test, in the opening sequence "Battle of Proxycon," the FPS jumped from ~55Fps to ~75fps during the first elevator shot. The rest of the demo also ran with about a 20% performance boost.
Naturally I was quite pleased with the performance boost (Doom 3 also runs smoother with the extra pipes, and no artifacting even!).
The Nature test, on the other hand, ran exactly the same as before hand. No faster or slower. The ogre test was moderately improved in speed.
The odd thing is I got a score of 80xx even though the test ran faster!
Nothing changed, I just unlocked the pipes. It makes no sense, and I would gladly entertain any theories as why better performance would give a worse score.
*shrug*
At that point I gave up trying to please 3dmark, uninstalled and got back to playing some games.
Don't worry, true to Sony Form, they'll release a slightly updated version six months later that is missing all the cool ports because of "lack of developer support."
You know what I think?
Preach it brother! My thoughts exactly!
Although, it's mildly amusing to put your sig as:
386sx/16mhz 2mb of ram Fujitsu 80mb hd Win3.11 etc...
Just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota as a matter of fact. A co-worker of mine used to work for them. Best Buy purchased Geek Sqaud a few years back, (Although, if you ask any of the original Geek Squad crew, they formed a "Strategic Business alliance) and they still run independent of Best Buy which is the main reason their competent. At least, here in the twin cities they're still really good. I can't speak for the rest of the country...
Speaking as someone who spent four years working with digital photo printers, you will always get better results from a store (Ritz, Proex, Wal-mart etc) than you will ever get with a home printer. Reason? They buy a $750,000 digital printer, you buy a $200 printer.
More accurately, save for some of the higher end dye-sublimation stuff, you are typically spraying ink onto a piece of paper which inevitably fades over time as it oxidizes. They have gotten better, but you're usually looking at about a 20 shelf life for the average home printed print. Fuji guarantees it's crystal archive prints not to fade for 100 years (Although, in all fairness let's see you try to get a reprint on a faded image in 50 years!) and Kodak guarantees its paper for 75. Maybe it won't make a difference, but you'd be surprised how much a 20 year old non-faded picture can mean to someone.
The modern mini-lab digital printers are using good old fashioned (Well, old in the relative sense.) light sensitive color emulsion photo paper, exposed to a laser and then sealed in photo chemicals to produce their results. Lasting far longer than a simple dye could.
Yeah, I know, I sound like an ad for a photo mini-lab, but I'm really sick of enlarging prints from a crappy faded inkjet printer, and people wondering why it looks so horrible.
Oh yeah, and one other note, when you take your pictures in, make sure they're getting printed on the giant mini-lab in the back of the store, and not some POS dorm fridge sized printer on the counter. Because I know for a fact that certain stores *coughritzcough* lie about how long the photos coming off a Fuji PrintPix printer will last.
*I* remember surfing the web on a 2400 baud modem dialed into a Unix terminal session and pulling stuff off usenet.
People had bad grammar back then too. (j/k)
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I have an insane roommate who's an argumentative, messy asshole... But ever since he got WoW for Christmas, he never leaves his room except to work and leave the occasional Pizza mess on our stove. I LOVE World of Warcraft without even playing it.
I'm not sure why this Anonymous Coward is adding on to my original post saying it wasn't flamebait. But, truth be told, mine was somewhat flamebait/troll. But I don't care because it's 3am and I still love my Gamecube, Nintendo and Super Nintendo.
going out of business in 3....2...1...
One school of thought:3 290991/qid=1121403013/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_ur_2/002-6 005550-7916829?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055
And a pretty enjoyable book at that.
That flash game is to Katamari Damacy what Lou Albano is to Super Mario Bros.
From TFA, "when the lonely depression that game was trying to make the player aware of finally settled in..."
Uhhhhh..... ok... I'm sorry you feel sad, but that game was charming and fun.
Someone else who's played one of my all time favorite games, "Armed and Dangerous."
:)
That makes me smile.
"There are many things about console gaming that we can apply to make the Windows game experience better. Install is one area where we're working with game developers and publishers to simplify the overly-complex install process--do you really need to answer all those questions and click on all those buttons to play the game?"
Because it's so damn hard to click next four times!
Christ, not everybody that plays video games needs it to be f***ing Mario Party 9 for the PC!
How about this for innovation, allow me to boot/load into a streamlined mode whereby I can unload all that windows bloat much like I used to do with booting into DOS.
Read this or watch this for the joke. Cheers.
The 2020 Olympics will be held here. ^_^
How can any history of video games be complete without mentioning the psychedelic mushrooms in Rise of the Triad? The mushrooms would make the camera swirl around drunkenly while the colors warped around. Which also led to the most nauseating level in gaming history, the vomitorium. Which was a large cube room covered on all six sides with springs that would send you flying in any direction. With a liberal dosage of Rocket launchers, enemy robots and mushrooms floating in the air.
mental note: Check break returns in preview mode BEFORE I hit submit...
how well 3dmark runs on your computer. Case in point, I recently picked up the eVga 6800 (Non-ultra) card recently, and very happy with it BTW. And, after a bit of tuning, I managed to get a score of 85xx with 3dmark03. Next, I successfully unlocked the extra shader pipes with RivaTuner bringing the total number of active pipes to 16. Well, when I reran the test, in the opening sequence "Battle of Proxycon," the FPS jumped from ~55Fps to ~75fps during the first elevator shot. The rest of the demo also ran with about a 20% performance boost. Naturally I was quite pleased with the performance boost (Doom 3 also runs smoother with the extra pipes, and no artifacting even!). The Nature test, on the other hand, ran exactly the same as before hand. No faster or slower. The ogre test was moderately improved in speed. The odd thing is I got a score of 80xx even though the test ran faster! Nothing changed, I just unlocked the pipes. It makes no sense, and I would gladly entertain any theories as why better performance would give a worse score. *shrug* At that point I gave up trying to please 3dmark, uninstalled and got back to playing some games.
Don't worry, true to Sony Form, they'll release a slightly updated version six months later that is missing all the cool ports because of "lack of developer support."
"Some installations are also finding that Windows workstations can't to log on to the Mac after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4." ergh....
Veritest used webbench to do their testing.
will debut the Nintendo GameTriangle on the Disney channel with Erin Carter, Mandy Moore and Hillary Duff hosting.
It's true, my uncle works at Nintendo.
You know what I think? Preach it brother! My thoughts exactly! Although, it's mildly amusing to put your sig as: 386sx/16mhz 2mb of ram Fujitsu 80mb hd Win3.11 etc...
Just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota as a matter of fact.
A co-worker of mine used to work for them.
Best Buy purchased Geek Sqaud a few years back, (Although, if you ask any of the original Geek Squad crew, they formed a "Strategic Business alliance) and they still run independent of Best Buy which is the main reason their competent. At least, here in the twin cities they're still really good. I can't speak for the rest of the country...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff Mostly because it keeps popping up while I'm chatting with Trillian...
Let me just be the first, of many, to say when can we SLI this card (or a revision of this card) and have the power of 4 6600 chips?
Domn't forget http://www.btefnet.net/
Excellent tv site and all in HD-tv
Speaking as someone who spent four years working with digital photo printers, you will always get better results from a store (Ritz, Proex, Wal-mart etc) than you will ever get with a home printer. Reason? They buy a $750,000 digital printer, you buy a $200 printer. More accurately, save for some of the higher end dye-sublimation stuff, you are typically spraying ink onto a piece of paper which inevitably fades over time as it oxidizes. They have gotten better, but you're usually looking at about a 20 shelf life for the average home printed print. Fuji guarantees it's crystal archive prints not to fade for 100 years (Although, in all fairness let's see you try to get a reprint on a faded image in 50 years!) and Kodak guarantees its paper for 75. Maybe it won't make a difference, but you'd be surprised how much a 20 year old non-faded picture can mean to someone. The modern mini-lab digital printers are using good old fashioned (Well, old in the relative sense.) light sensitive color emulsion photo paper, exposed to a laser and then sealed in photo chemicals to produce their results. Lasting far longer than a simple dye could. Yeah, I know, I sound like an ad for a photo mini-lab, but I'm really sick of enlarging prints from a crappy faded inkjet printer, and people wondering why it looks so horrible. Oh yeah, and one other note, when you take your pictures in, make sure they're getting printed on the giant mini-lab in the back of the store, and not some POS dorm fridge sized printer on the counter. Because I know for a fact that certain stores *coughritzcough* lie about how long the photos coming off a Fuji PrintPix printer will last.
*I* remember surfing the web on a 2400 baud modem dialed into a Unix terminal session and pulling stuff off usenet. People had bad grammar back then too. (j/k)
It was interesting looking at the 01, 02, and 03 posts just to see how much the /. community has grown since then.