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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite for $2 on Steam
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 08:23 PM »
Maybe with all of these people on steam with it, we can get some matchmaking together for a DC sniper hunt :)
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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 08:22 PM »
Yeah, but I've had a bad experience with stock fans/pads... so I'm waffling on which to use.
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Living Room / Re: Command & Conquer Copies Ubisoft's Awful DRM
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 08:20 PM »
That's cool... cooler if they'd abbreviated plz better ;)

Oh... and notice that I put a reference to what the link goes to as a nod to f0dder. :)
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Living Room / Command & Conquer Copies Ubisoft's Awful DRM
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 01:13 PM »
http://bit.ly/acfGHj - (via Kotaku)

It seems that the wave has picked up speed... C&C requires that you have an internet connection to play.  And the representative had the nerve to advertise that C&C had no DRM...
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Living Room / Re: Howto: Torture people for money:French Contestants Torture People With Electric!
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 12:48 PM »
Well, they're just catching up to the Japanese level of game show it seems.
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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 12:22 PM »
That's what I thought... but this time I went on newegg and looked up arctic silver and got more than a page of hits, so I felt a bit overwhelmed :)
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite for $2 on Steam
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 12:21 PM »
I'm not sure what difficulty level I'm on... but depending on the range, it's almost *impossible* to get a headshot if a target is moving, and anything other than a headshot means that you're pretty much re-loading in many (most?) cases.  Contrast that with TF2, the BF series, CS... where I get headshots without thinking about it... and that's why I give it the hardcore when juxtaposed with them.  And yes, aim a bit higher... but then there's the breathing and heart rate to consider.  But it's fun nonetheless :)
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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 09:57 AM »
Good points. :)  Thanks for the info!

One last question.  They have soooo many types of arctic silver... what's the difference?  I've always just bought a middle of the line one (last time I got AS5), but never really understood...anyone want to take a crack at that? :)
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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 07:47 AM »
What about the motherboard?  And suggestions on that?  I just didnt see the difference...
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite for $2 on Steam
« Last post by wraith808 on March 18, 2010, 07:41 AM »
Sniping in Sniper Elite is as different from sniping in other games as ... I can't think of a metaphor.  But it's *really* different.  But it's a decent enough game for $2- I got it for $2.50 at the Christmas Sale, and haven't regretted it.

EDIT: I didn't really tell what the difference was.  You have to think and reason like a sniper- that includes heart rate on shots, awareness of muzzle flash and report for relocation, windage... and you're using WW2 era rifles, so it's worse than a modern game is with these factors.  And there's also the patience factor.  There's not really been a WW2 era shooter with this level of detail towards sniping that I can remember.  So if you like being a sniper in other games, this will be cool.  If you like using the sniper rifle in other games (i.e. like the kills and such), this game will be a bit frustrating.
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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D
« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2010, 08:22 PM »
Yes, it's very timely- I'm checking into upgrading my wife's computer after I finish my daughter's, and it seems that it's not as costly as I originally believed!

Two comparisons if anyone can weigh in.

Motherboard

I don't see the difference... I would go with the cheaper one, but I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything...

Processor

My wife does Sims3 and browse and some homeschool stuff... so Sims 3 is as intense at it gets.  Will the Dual Core be worth the $20 diff over the Celeron?  Is it something that she'd notice?  For video she'll have an x800 that I have laying around... AGP 256MB.

Thoughts?
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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D
« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2010, 02:01 PM »
Or for $200 you could get a Case+PSU (dunno how quiet), motherboard, CPU, and RAM that ought to best your current system in basically every way:
http://www.newegg.co...temList=Combo.352997
(onboard graphics)
Add your own hard drive, transfer the DVD-ROM from your old system, and you're set.
-JavaJones (March 17, 2010, 12:33 PM)

Actually, I don't know if this would be better than his current system, merely b/c of the CPU- celeron (even dual core) I'm really leery of vs a full P4... unless they've done some serious work on celerons that I don't know about in the past few iterations.

UPDATE: I did some research, as I've always dismissed Celerons, and it seems that they changed the die and increased the L2 cache, which are promising changes.  Does anyone know where there are comparisons of this new breed of Celerons vs non-Celeron processors?
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Living Room / Re: Ars Technica on the problem with adblocking
« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2010, 05:17 PM »
I don't buy it.  Their argument is that Ars is lying (basically) and that advertisers won't pay for impressions.  TV has done this for ages, and I can see where a firm would pay for impressions rather than clicks, as some sites generate loads of traffic and could bargain based upon that.
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Living Room / Re: Anyone playing Mass Effect 2 game yet?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2010, 05:14 PM »
Actually, I liked dungeon siege... 2 and the expansions, not so much, but the original was pretty fun.
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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D
« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2010, 04:36 PM »
It really depends on what you're *doing* with your computer whether spending more will get you the gains that justify the money, IMO.
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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated
« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2010, 10:08 AM »
There is no excuse or justification to pirating someone's work.
-y0himba (March 16, 2010, 07:23 AM)

QFE. And your thoughts pretty much mirror my own.  I thought it very telling when someone in another thread on DC was very skeptical that all of the music on my computer was purchased in one form or another.  It's not that hard not to pirate- just decide not to do it and don't.  For any reason or no reason.  Two wrongs has *never* made anything right. 

But everyone has to realize that for themselves- or not.  No matter how much you tell someone, no matter how much protection that you put in, no matter how many PSAs you annoy your paying customers with, pirates will pirate, because it's a state of mind that *none* of that will change.
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Living Room / Re: Stephen's Weekly Tech News - Edition 5
« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2010, 10:31 PM »
(where he basically said "while we're aware of what we've advocated, please understand we're not willing to go to jail for standing by it")
-40hz (March 14, 2010, 09:16 PM)

Did you really expect him to go to jail for this?
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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2010, 11:57 AM »
Well, the article was articulating something I said earlier- about the rock and a hard place this sort of DRM puts gamers in.  You either deny yourself the enjoyment of what is most likely a very good game- invariably doing nothing other than hurting yourself or contributing to the lower sales of the game which they will blame on the PC market dying rather than their DRM system.  Or you buy it, and support their decision to use DRM.
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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2010, 10:53 AM »
I think there are:
1. I know what URLs I've posted and have a record of them.  This helps me not to post the same thing over again, and be able to go back to the reference for something that I've posted earlier more easily.
2. There are several developer tools that I've been experimenting with for posting from bit.ly automatically to other places (and they've been experimenting with them too- they already have an interface to gmail, facebook, and pop in addition to twitter).  I have various groups of people that I interact with over different mediums (including print), and to be able to post all at once rather than from each individually is a great timesaver.
3. I'm already using it for twitter, so not to have a different URL to use for different mediums helps also.

I've thought about creating my own url shortening service to address issues 1 & 3 ... maybe I should take that approach (though using bit.ly is so easy...)
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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2010, 10:13 AM »
Interesting OpEd article on the UbiSoft debacle -  http://bit.ly/clZtRB
-wraith808 (March 12, 2010, 12:41 PM)
Why do you use bit.ly instead of direct links? please stop it.
-f0dder (March 13, 2010, 07:53 AM)

Why stop it?  What's the big deal?  As scancode said, I got it because I post to here and twitter and my blog... it makes it easier.  So what's your argument against, and I'll consider it.
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Living Room / Re: Pirate vs. Paying Customer illustrated
« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2010, 12:41 PM »
Interesting OpEd article on the UbiSoft debacle -  http://bit.ly/clZtRB
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2010, 12:36 PM »
No wonder he's the devil's advocate in so many discussions... :)
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2010, 10:07 AM »
For F0dder

fodder6666.png
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Living Room / Re: Ars Technica on the problem with adblocking
« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2010, 10:04 AM »
I was under the impression that you also get revenue just for displaying the ads? Might get more from a click-throug, though.
-f0dder (March 12, 2010, 04:24 AM)

Larger sites get revenue for views.  And post #6666? LOL :)
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Living Room / Re: Ars Technica on the problem with adblocking
« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2010, 12:17 AM »
But wait, if the ad never loads and is blocked from starting, how am I consuming their bandwidth? Effectively all I'm loading is text and a header file. No matter the site or its subject, content is king. Always will be. Like modern DVDs (pirate vs. paying customer), if you're going to frustrate my consumption of your content with ads, then -- for me -- your content is not worth reading.
-zridling (March 11, 2010, 10:39 PM)

I think they mean the bandwidth from the content of the site- not the ads, i.e. the text and header file.  And though that may be small individually, collectively that can be a large amount.  Not arguing one side or the other- just pointing that out.  And I don't think they'd have a problem with the people who choose not to read the content because of the ads, just those that block the ads and still consume the content.
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