Mr_Putter

75.67 on the Europe one. A few months ago I played the American one every day for about a week and was almost always getting over 90%. I think that's a really good way to improve your geography if you need/want to. 94.59 second try.

You know what, rather that just blurt out 3, I'm actually going to put some thought into this. This is a really well made topic. Props. 8-)

Wow, are you not bottlenecking like mad on that GPU? Anyways, I'm not even going to bother posting my present one...It's solidly low-end. But I've been saving for like 6 months to buy one, and I'm getting it sometime in February. Should look something like this: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 nVidia 8800GTS (of what make, depends on what's cheapest) 2Gig DDR2 800 (wanted Corsair, probably going to go with Mushkin though (cheaper)) Asus P5b Motherboard (or maybe a 650i, not sure) OCZ Gamexstream 600w Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250gb SATA harddrive Xfi-xtrememusic sound card Antec Sonata II case 19 inch CRT monitor (extremely hard to find these days <.< ) Maybe need to take that as a hint (btw, 17 inch LCD would be more screen, and a lot easier on the eyes... none of the new LCD's have ghosting issues like the old ones :))... and the E6600 is a great choice for price/speed, might want to take the into consideration... I love mine. Its the only processor I've ever had that can actually keep up with how fast I move around the screen, its awesome. LCD's...ehhhh, I can only imagine getting repeatadly annoyed by dead/stuck pixels. Even one and I'd be staring at it all the time. And plus, an LCD screen wouldn't be safe. Screens that aren't as durable, or atleast stuck pixels can get caused by tapping the glass, something my family does repeatedly.

Wow, are you not bottlenecking like mad on that GPU? Anyways, I'm not even going to bother posting my present one...It's solidly low-end. But I've been saving for like 6 months to buy one, and I'm getting it sometime in February. Should look something like this: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 nVidia 8800GTS (of what make, depends on what's cheapest) 2Gig DDR2 800 (wanted Corsair, probably going to go with Mushkin though (cheaper)) Asus P5b Motherboard (or maybe a 650i, not sure) OCZ Gamexstream 600w Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250gb SATA harddrive Xfi-xtrememusic sound card Antec Sonata II case 19 inch CRT monitor (extremely hard to find these days )

I don't really like watching sports...Hockey is particularly dull, and since I'm Canadian, that may seem wierd to some. Unless there's really nice goals (often they are just goalie mistakes), it's really bad. Soccer is a really graceful game. It's fun to watch, but I can't see myself watching anything but the World Cup (I was recently caught up with World Cup fever over the summer, and was addicted). It just seems like something so big, you have to get involved...All the countries in the world, billions of viewers...Huge fame and excitement and tensity (can you imagine being the goalkicker in front of billions of viewers?)...And I love seeing all the people go crazy, thousands and thousands of people screaming. Also, a really well executed play is nice too, and the kicks that float and spin and it just seems so neat. But only in small doses. Basketball is a sport that is sort of a mix. It's pretty boring, but the dunks...It seems like the most surreal, inhuman type of sport. The stuff they are able to pull of is just incredible by a normal persons standards. But without dunks (women's or highschool basketball), it just blows. I would say my favourite sport to watch is probably either football or baseball, probably baseball. Football because seeing a well-executed, strategic play done well...It really doesn't get enough credit as a thinking persons sport. But really it's an insane combination of physical and mental feats. Baseball...I don't even get it. It should be boring, but I just enjoy it for some reason.

There's another reason too...If you're cleaning deep in the ear canal you can push the wax farther in causing infection. I've heard that before, but it doesn't make sence. How can u put liquid in your ear, and what does it do to the wax?

We just finished this in chem, but since I don't pay attention, I can't think of how to do it off the top of my head. School starts tommorow (doing your homework on the last day of holidays eh? That makes two of us :P ), so I guess if when I have my chem book open tommorow and I happen upon this, I might see what's up. But like I said, school is tommorow so you can probably just get help there ;).

Lol, this reminded me so much of another huge mess-up this week in the world of sports: It just wasn't in a play-off game. I bet this Romo is going to be thinking about that one for the rest of his life.

Just saw it, thought it was pretty neat. I kinda missed the first 10 minutes or so cuz I was gawking at the rotoscoping. The story was pretty good, I thought, but I wasn't completely blown away. Overall a decent film.

Who knows how old I am, then?

Can't agree with you more, even though I haven't ever played it all the way through, I had to get rid of it before I could beat it and now that I have a SNES again I can't find it anywhere, though I found my second favorite game for it, Secret of Mana. Wanna hear something funny? My friends brother traded their SNES copies of Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana for a Chancey (Pokemon) card, back when that craze was going on. The guy on the receiving end of that (who I know a bit aswell) is sooooo happy. Thats gotta suck so much, how did your friend take it? A big group of us were playing poker a few days ago (including me, my friend, his brother, and the guy who traded with him), and someone brought it up. My friend has never really forgiven his brother (Chrono Trigger is one of his favourite games ever). His brother tries to play down the importance of it, but you can tell he really feels stupid. He still has the PS re-release, but judging my what the SNES version is selling for on ebay...

That'll run it great (as you've already found out). Just out of curiosity, though, what game is it?

Can't agree with you more, even though I haven't ever played it all the way through, I had to get rid of it before I could beat it and now that I have a SNES again I can't find it anywhere, though I found my second favorite game for it, Secret of Mana. Wanna hear something funny? My friends brother traded their SNES copies of Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana for a Chancey (Pokemon) card, back when that craze was going on. The guy on the receiving end of that (who I know a bit aswell) is sooooo happy.

I couldn't possibly pick only 1 game. That's why gaming is so good: it's so varied and there's no set formula for what a game can and can't have. That's why it's my favourite form of art. So I pick 4 games, for entirely different reasons (the only thing they have in common is that they are aimed at adults). 1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas...I've explained before, I think even in the last week, why this is quite possibly the high-point of video-gaming. This takes way too much flak from so called "experts" in gaming. I'm not even going to go into it again...But this is, and will be for the forseeable future, the high point of gaming. 2. Planescape: Torment. Best. Story. Ever. (I'm currently playing Chrono Trigger [don't ruin this for me Nadril], followed by FF7 in order to be able to better back up my claim...I just can't see it being any better than this). The story is better than any book, movie or game I've ever experienced. And even though it's a teen rated game, and there's no real reason a 12 year old couldn't play it, they shouldn't play it. The story is mature; you wouldn't be able to fully appreciate it, with all it's philosophical beauty, dark atmosphere, morbid happenings and truly interesting twists. The rest of the game is good, but the story elevates this to a point where few games will ever be able to reach it, and I don't think such a unique story is what the current and future video game execs are going to gamble with, so this may just be the all time best piece of writing in gaming. 3. Unreal Tournament: I'm talking original. This game is just...So well done. There's no real story, no characters...It's just easily THE BEST game for FPS gameplay. Half-Life series? Psssh. They're Good. Just nowhere near Unreal good. It's, simply put, never been matched before or since in terms of smoothness; it just feels right. Rather than clunkily moving your person around, it's almost like an extension of yourself. Competent graphics (even today), some of the best AI ever seen (with sick voice taunts), and dozens of amazing levels, this simply is my favourite FPS ever. 4. This is more of an honorable mention, but Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is simply an excellent combination of the above. Outstanding amounts of fun, a well-written, mature story, and fantastic gameplay. And style to spare. 5. Dark Forces gets note too, because it made me a life long PC game fan, and is better than Doom. Take that, Doom fans.

Index: for clicking, pressing, poking, pointing, flicking, picking (hah!), and so forth.

How the HELL do you get a 4.0 GPA?! It's called different (read: much easier), curriculums and marking.

Only 3 performances really jump to mind right away when asked the question: Kevin Spacey: The Usual Suspects Marlon Brando: On the Waterfront Clifton Collins Jr.: Capote Pay special attention to the last one: it was a crime that he didn't get nominated for a supporting Oscar, and William Hurt did. An absolute abomination. If I were to pick one, it would be that.

George Lucas. And not just because he made my favourite movie. If you watch the 2 and some hour documentary on Star Wars that came with the 4-disc trilogy, you can see how long and hard he really worked. The story of how he got the funding, spent ages creating a perfectly balanced story, directing and ultimately dreaming his hugely ambitious idea into fruition pretty well untarnished by the execs is a huge source of inspiration to me.

It's almost certainly your mouse. I've never had an expensive mouse (don't really need to spend 30 more bucks, I mostly play single-player games), always the standard mouse that comes with Dell computers. The same thing happens to me, maybe 1-2 times a day (In FPS, it would have me stairing at the floor or ceiling, spinning rapidly for say a second). And this exact thing has happened on the last 3 mice I've had, but I've pretty much learned to deal with it. Obviously you could buy a more expensive mouse, but only if it's really important enough to warrant $50+.

I like Pepsi. When it's cold, preferably with ice in it, it's much more delicious than coke. However, it's kind of nasty when it's warm (it's not as fizzy as coke), so at room temperature I prefer Coke. I get free drinks and McDonalds (where I work), so I drink a lot more than I should...All the ones they have their I drink (not Diet Coke though, yick), and so I pretty much rotate through. Mostly it's Coke and Fruitopia though.

That's completely wrong, you even said it yourself "You youngins' need to go and play GTA1 and GTA2 before you even talk about GTA." Most people who played GTA3 hadn't played the previous GTA games, and if they had, not very much. The reason GTA3 did so well is because it was a good game, a far better game than its predeccesors.

Then go for it :thumbsup: .

You have to take into account that this was the first one and was ment to have a storyline and not just have explosions with a plot that goes nowhere fast then ends up with 42098423095 twists in the end :) The first was the most ridiculous one...unless the second, which I only saw once when it came out and don't remember...That whole helicopter/train thing was completely stupid. I'm not really a fan of the series, but I was quite pleasantly surprised by the third.

Simply put, GTA1 and 2 just aren't very good. For the time, they were pretty fun (I remember having short periods of fun playing GTA1), but they weren't very good games. Plus GTA2 gives me a headache because of the wonky cameras. To fully enjoy the GTA series, you really only need to have played GTA3 and on (if you played GTA: SA w/ out playing GTA3 first, you probably missed a few major plot points). GTA3 doesn't even come close to comparing to VC and SA, but at the time there was nothing like it, and it's necessary to play to enjoy SA (and beyond....most likely).

What I notice about GTA games is that if I could make a graph of "Like for GTA vs. Gaming experience", it would be wild. People who know nothing about games HATE GTA. People who casually game LOVE GTA. GTA takes a lot of flak from people who play a lot of games/say they play alot of games. But people who play a lot of games AND can see the genious of it love it. I don't even want to have to go over, for about a millionth time why I think GTA: SA is the best game ever, but from the perspective of someone who has played in the triple digets of games and can realise the artistic merit (what? GTA has artistic merit you say? Yes!!), and ultimately find fun in all the different things, you can find a tremendously rewarding and entertaining experience. (woah, run on sentence). I now consider myself to have played most of the best PC games of all time (though I've yet to get deeply into RTS's and space-sims), it really overshadows everything else.