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Good idea, might try doing that at some point. I don't think my french is good enough to read something like Harry Potter at this point though...

Tides these days

Started using tf2 lobby a bit, made me realize how bad I am...and those guys aren't even that good in the comp scene. Lol..

I agree with you, i think it's stupid. Oh well.

@duff: i can't go look it up since i'm not staff anymore but iirc we used the warning panel just for notes from time to time so it could have been something completely inconsequential. If you're actually worried about it i'm sure one of the staff would be happy to look it up for you...

I'm sure there are a lot of people with no warnings.

I don't think it's terrible to vote for a candidate because of one issue. If you think it's important enough, all power to you...

Censor can't be applied on a per-forum basis unless this new upgrade has added that functionality.

Sweet!

I can't see semin squirting back over to russia just yet. :P

I don't think that "quality" applies to the best possible healthcare the US can provide, but rather the average healthcare they provide, which is much more relevant.

I've never really found cracked to be particularly funny, the style of writing is very generic and got old quite quickly.

Yeah accuracy is huge for soldier. A good solider is probably making contact on 75% of his rockets.

I'm not going to buy a $40 game.... but skyrim's system reqs are higher than crysis' 2.

Whether or not it is "outdated" is largely irrelevant. My friend is using an "outdated" ATI 4870, but that slugger can still run Skyrim on pretty much max settings. What matters is how good the hardware you buy is and how well the devs can code the game. PC hardware may be vastly superior in every way, but developers cannot make the most of that. They have to basically design their program to work "reasonably well" on a few select configurations and then hope that everything else in between is alright. With a console, you have exact parameters and specifications for which to design and test your game on. These specifications will never deviate or vary. Ugggggggggggggggggh. So wrong. Developers account for the fact that people have older PCs. The argument where "I can use my 3 yr old PC and play game on high settings" says more about the game than your stupid PC. Biggest example of this is Blizzard. They lean towards cartoonish graphics because more people can play it on their PC. Valve is also guilty of this. Just look at their most popular games (Tf2, Dota 2, Portal). Playing TF2 and bragging about how PC has superior graphics is like a midget bragging about his height. Like I said, I can play Skyrim on maxed settings. Is there another game with superior graphics you'd like me to test? A console has graphical limitations too. There's a certain point where console game makers can't make their games with graphics any better because they've reached the maximum the console can support, just like how PC game devs reach a point where they don't want to push the envelope too far because it will make the games inaccessible to too many people.

Like I said earlier, I bought my PC in march 2010, and I have yet to find a game I can't run on max graphics without any upgrades. So yes, a PC will eventually become outdated, but it's not nearly as bad as you're making it seem. And my pc wasn't even top of the line when I bought it.

You could've bought a regular PC for $500. That means the PC gaming premium you paid is close to $1000. That's a $700 disadvantage. But I wouldn't have, because a $500 PC is not good enough to do what I require a PC to do (outside of gaming). So for me, like I said, about $300 was gaming specific, which is the price of a console.

I disagree with the notion that pc gaming is inherently more expensive than console gaming. While a gaming PC certainly almost always costs more than a console, a console is often superfluous to your normal expenditure, whereas a pc is not. Pretty much everyone has a need for a computer, so much of the cost of a "gaming PC" is eaten up by the normal PC cost of ownership. I spent $1500 on a "gaming pc" more than two years ago, but I also use it as a main computer (splitting duties with my laptop, and it will eventually take over once my laptop dies), so I didn't really spend $1500 on gaming. Probably only $300 of that cost was gaming specific. Of course, consoles also function as DVD players, but in this day and age any computer will as well, and it's a minuscule portion of the cost. Also, two years later, I still haven't found a game that my PC won't run (I can run Skyrim on maximum detail, for instance, with no lag), and I haven't upgraded anything on it (I did replace the PSU because it burnt out but that wasn't an upgrade).

It's such a stupid argument....pc gaming has its positives and negatives, just like console gaming. Personal preference is all there is to it.

Key word "wealthy".

Sweet.

Well, looks like life will suck until the point your healthcare is entirely socialized, at which point things will be much better (provided the money is managed responsibly).

The problem with obamacare is that it's half-assed. They should choose either purely public or purely private, and not wallow in the middle

Gus could be good, was just so inconsistent. I wouldn't be surprised to see him do much better in detroit. Some crazy bad contracts handed out..Jason Garrison, brandon prust, wtf?