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| Jul - Posts by Knave |
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| Knave Member Level: 11     Posts: 21/26 EXP: 5844 For next: 141 Since: 06-21-09 Since last post: 1917 days Last activity: 1521 days |
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| I recall Albatross 18 being an excellent game to pick up if you wanted to break an addiction to swearing. Which is sort of ironic, because missing a shot (which happens on average once every minute) made people cuss up a storm. -------------------- Three tomatoes are walking down the street -- a papa tomato, a mama tomato, and a baby tomato. The baby tomato starts lagging behind, so the papa tomato takes a few steps back, squishes it, and says 'Ketchup!'. |
| Knave Member Level: 11 Posts: 22/26 EXP: 5844 For next: 141 Since: 06-21-09 Since last post: 1917 days Last activity: 1521 days |
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| I and several of my friends have had netbooks for quite some time, and I have to say that I have yet to see any major performance problems with any of them -- if an ASUS EEEPC1000H can run epsxe flawlessly, I don't think people are going to have any real issues. I have told many people that, despite more than half a decade building my own machines from scratch and being in possession of a quad-core high-powered gaming box, this pre-packaged, no-frills mini-laptop has been the best computer I have ever used. Netbooks are reliable, portable, and if you're willing to throw down an extra 50-odd dollars, full of bang for your buck. Screen size has never been an issue for me -- if you get one of the larger-sized ones, you will get all of the convenience of having a very small, portable laptop that functions well as a general-purpose computer, and you will sacrifice little to no real viewing area when you consider what you actually look at when you have a computer screen and you are not a programmer, digital artist, or web developer. -------------------- Three tomatoes are walking down the street -- a papa tomato, a mama tomato, and a baby tomato. The baby tomato starts lagging behind, so the papa tomato takes a few steps back, squishes it, and says 'Ketchup!'. |
| Knave Member Level: 11 Posts: 23/26 EXP: 5844 For next: 141 Since: 06-21-09 Since last post: 1917 days Last activity: 1521 days |
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| I still need to get better with pitching and estimating slopes on my short game. You can get all of the Pangyas you want on the approach, but when it comes to actually working on the green, there is so much fail involved that it gets almost depressing. -------------------- Three tomatoes are walking down the street -- a papa tomato, a mama tomato, and a baby tomato. The baby tomato starts lagging behind, so the papa tomato takes a few steps back, squishes it, and says 'Ketchup!'. |
| Knave Member Level: 11 Posts: 24/26 EXP: 5844 For next: 141 Since: 06-21-09 Since last post: 1917 days Last activity: 1521 days |
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| I'm not permitted to say the word "Skullclamp" more than three times per game of Magic I play with my friends. One for each copy of the card in my deck on initial play. It's a house rule, because people got tired of hearing me say "I Skullclamp _____ to draw two cards" 4-5 times per minute. Shattering Spree is one of the most bullshit cards I've ever seen.  Has anyone ever had a real 'Heart of the Cards' moment, where an entire game was turned around with a single draw? I get those every so often. I like to think of them as little rewards for using the same deck consistently for the last four years. -------------------- Three tomatoes are walking down the street -- a papa tomato, a mama tomato, and a baby tomato. The baby tomato starts lagging behind, so the papa tomato takes a few steps back, squishes it, and says 'Ketchup!'. |
| Knave Member Level: 11 Posts: 25/26 EXP: 5844 For next: 141 Since: 06-21-09 Since last post: 1917 days Last activity: 1521 days |
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| Four day bump, but when I heard '8400GS', I cringed a little bit. I would not pay $80 for that thing. I do not know how long ago Bloodstar got it, though, so if he did get it during the heyday of the 8000 series SLI promo, I suppose that absolves him a bit from my wonder. I have been building custom PCs since the middle of high school, when my friends and I inexplicably turned into enthusaists. This was around the same time we were building trebuchets in our garages out of plywood, bungee cords, and softballs, though, so I suppose after a while we just got bored and started with something a little more technically challenging. A few LAN parties later and suddenly we all get part-time jobs to fuel our addiction to PC parts. If I could offer my two cents, there are certain elements of past upgrades that will stay relatively consistent as the rest of the field progresses. A good general rule of thumb that we here have always followed is to upgrade your motherboard, processor, graphics card, and RAM, depending on your needs. I went through three upgrades before I replaced my hard drive (and that was because I could no longer find adequate IDE support on socket AM2+ or higher motherboards), and I have never once had to replace a DVD drive. The meat of an upgrade, actually, does not usually come from the individual parts (unless you are a fool as I am and spend $250 on a graphics card), but usually from the cosmetic upgrades such as a new monitor (can run you up to 400 dollars for a middle-of-the-roader from Newegg), a new case (some people just really like their liquid nitrogen cooling), or even a new keyboard (because sometimes W, A, S, and D just do not cut the mustard), which I have personally seen friends spend in excess of eighty dollars on. Generally if you search around, you can even get current-generation equipment for low, understandable prices. If you thirst for a quad-core processor, for example, you could try getting AMD's Phenom I x4 series, as with the recent release of the Phenom II, the older models, despite being excessively powerful, have dropped in price to cope with the coming of the new fluff. After a while, you develop something of an eye for a good value -- which brands are most reliable, which ones will get you what you pay for, and which ones you should never put next to a particle board desk (I had to learn that one the hard way). Buying computer parts is a little bit like being drunk -- generally, you want to be one step higher or lower than everyone else, whichever you can afford to buy at the time. If your friends all have supercomputers, either get something that is just behind them, or get something powerful enough to crack RSA. If they all have okay rigs, get a piece of crap, or get one that slightly outmatches them for a reasonable fee. Of course, if you opt for the piece of crap, one has to ask why you would ever want to upgrade in the first place.  -------------------- Three tomatoes are walking down the street -- a papa tomato, a mama tomato, and a baby tomato. The baby tomato starts lagging behind, so the papa tomato takes a few steps back, squishes it, and says 'Ketchup!'. |
| Knave Member Level: 11 Posts: 26/26 EXP: 5844 For next: 141 Since: 06-21-09 Since last post: 1917 days Last activity: 1521 days |
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| Number Munchers. Factors of six? 1, 2, 3. Factors of 8? 1, 2, 4. Factors of 10? 1, 5. Factors of 13? 1... .... ....Fuck. Primes are painful when you are nine years old. But someday, someday Muncher, you WILL get to the moon. -------------------- Three tomatoes are walking down the street -- a papa tomato, a mama tomato, and a baby tomato. The baby tomato starts lagging behind, so the papa tomato takes a few steps back, squishes it, and says 'Ketchup!'. |
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