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    Star Wars MMO

    in MMOs

    I agree the game does look great. My brother has done some research on it and from what he told me there isn't going to be a monthly fee to play. Instead if you want to customize your character (skins, etc) and get various additional add-ons/customizations you pay on a transaction basis. It's really the way to go if they want to compete with WOW for the business. I refuse to pay a monthly fee to pay any game on principal.

     

    Heh, me too. I'm kinda old fashioned, I guess. I might change my mind in the future though...

     

    This game looks kinda cool. It'd be fun if they let you wield a double bladed lightsaber like in Jedi Academy. :smillie_smilling:

     

    I dunno if this is the first MMO I'll pick up though in the coming months. There's a couple coming out sooner, so I might look at those first. :shrug03:

    Firefox 3.5 officially released

    in Tech Reviews, Support and PC Builds

    no, you just haven't noticed it :D

     

    taskmgr that firefox.exe throughout the day. you'll see, it's a real treat!

    Its at 67mb right now and been running all day. Thank goodness I have 4gigs of ram. :prplwacko:

    Also high on my list, yahoo messenger at a whopping 18mb. That's like 13 floppies!

     

    Wait a minute, is there a 64bit Firefox?

     

    http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=co...5&Itemid=75

     

    It's called Minefield. I haven't used it yet though, so I dunno anything about it. :unsure:

     

    I have to agree with ZeroDamage though. Firefox 3.5 does open up faster than the previous version(s) of Firefox I was using. :boing:

    Pre-order Windows 7 for $50 starts tomorrow

    in Tech Reviews, Support and PC Builds

    FYI supposedly it's first come first serve so when they run out of pre-orders they will go back to full price -or- it lasts until July 11th, as far as most sites show.

     

    http://gizmodo.com/5302371/windows-7-prici...ood-news-mostly

     

    So do I upgrade to Professional or Ultimate? I'm still really bitter they announced dropping Vista barely a few months after I got it with my laptop and offer no upgrade and no support.

     

    http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=167444&...1&zoomIdx=1

     

    This might help. :shrug03:

     

    Quick/possibly dumb question: So if I buy the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade (I currently have Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit on my computer), would you guys recommend a clean install? Or do you think the upgrade option should be okay? I haven't had a lot of experience with OS's, so I don't know which, if any, method is the better one or has less chance of technical problems in the future.

     

    I might buy this because it's really cheap, but I might wait a bit before installing it. You guys make it sound really good, but I just bought Vista a couple months ago. :unsure:

    Iran

    in General Politics

    If you haven't noticed, the current leadership in Iran is not an option. UN resolutions are being ignored and the kill-all-Jews rhetoric is not something our president should be having sit downs with. Right now there is a chance to change (real change) Iran. If we sit back while the Iranian government squashes a revolution, we will have missed our chance. Then all Hitler Jr. has to do is rattle his saber and claim that the West was responsible, blah blah blah and he will gain more support from the fundamentalists in that region. Like I said, I do not know what I would do but doing nothing is not the answer.

     

    If the government quells the rebellion or fails to do so, we will not have "missed" our chance either way. The Iranian government has already suffered a setback in credibility with its own people and that of the international community. Everyone knows that the crackdown on dissent has turned violent; I'm sure we've all read an article or two describing physical confrontations and even some deaths between riot police and civilians. The Tianamen Square incident in 1989 is a somewhat similar example of a political event with reverberating consequences, despite the fact that the opposition was "silenced" (at least overtly, but not absolutely). The damage was done to the PRC government's reputation, and certain changes have already been made to its political landscape though I'm sure there is still progress to be made.

     

    The Iranian government has already started accusing the West of interfering by engendering post-election violence (http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-21-voa8.cfm) as ZeroDamage predicted they would claim, but I doubt anyone is really accepting that conclusion; the supporters of Mousavi certainly don't believe the West is goading them into protesting. I won't dismiss the possibility that there may be some fundamentalists that will support Ahmadinejad in the aftermath of this event, but this appears to be an embarrassment rather than a positive development for the region; I am skeptical that he will gain the respect of fundamentalists by having the Iranian government undermine itself (unless they were fundamentalists that didn't like Iran, in which case ZeroDamage's assessment would be true...sort of).

     

    While I agree that Iran is experiencing a definite change now, I don't think we should act until we are absolutely certain of what our role should be, especially in relation to other nations that are observing this significant political and social occurrence. We should not forget our unfortunate participation in the 1953 coup in Iran, and the changes it brought that eventually influenced the 1979 revolution. I understand ZeroDamage and other people on this forum wanting to take some sort of action right now, if only to prevent unnecessary injuries (and possible deaths) of the protesting civilian population of Iran, but actions are as much about timing as they are about content.

     

    Ahmadinejad is already appearing callous to his critics and to dissidents post-election by dismissing their feelings and viewpoints and losing any former sympathies they had for him. At the moment, he is doing more damage to himself and the government without our help. He has made the first move and displayed his weaknesses as a leader, not just to us but to other nations and to his people. Our government may intervene at some point, but our current deliberation should not be mistaken as inaction or "doing nothing." Planning and careful execution are needed for responding to a development this tumultuous and important, and it is very much those things.

    What a slap to the face

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    I think its a hoax!

     

     

     

     

     

    Shaftiel

     

    I sure hope so because this announcement makes me a little :( .

     

    I wouldn't mind a sequel if it came 2 years after the first one, but this seems like a really rushed idea or a prank.

    They already made it it's own forum on the Steam forums.

     

    IGN has gameplay videos of it too.

     

    Yeah, I watched the IGN videos before I posted. It just seems really unrealistic to me that they're going to have 5 new campaigns, new melee weapons, a new game mode, etc. done in a couple months. I'd prefer they wait a bit before making a new one. o0o

    What a slap to the face

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    I think its a hoax!

     

     

     

     

     

    Shaftiel

     

    I sure hope so because this announcement makes me a little :( .

     

    I wouldn't mind a sequel if it came 2 years after the first one, but this seems like a really rushed idea or a prank.

    Gaming vest?! @ thinkgeek

    in What's Up?

    "Eight pneumatic impact hammers stitched into the vest pound you where you were hit - four front and four back ...Get pounded with body slams, crushed with G-forces and blasted with bullet fire"

     

    Why do I want to pay $138.99 to get physically punished? :biglaugha:

     

    Lol, they have Dead Space as a compatible game. If you ever wondered what it felt like to get eviscerated by a space creature... :freak3:

    Stoked!

    in What's Up?

    Looks pretty cool. Are you guys going to make videos and stuff when you train? That would be awesome (also dangerous). :smillie_smilling:

    I figured something out

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    [utube]bpBKX4UOjJs[/utube]

     

    Oohhh, I'm on youtube (for about 5 seconds). :biglaugha:

     

    Yeah, the end footage that Jackie posted was what I was talking about. He didn't show the part where I was shooting at the wall with my M4 because I heard the Boomer too, yet no one on the opposite team accused me of hacking. Jackie started shooting after I emptied my clip and managed to hit the Boomer, who was making a racket, and they started accusing him of using a map hack. My guess (and I'm sure everyone on our team guessed too) is that they were trying to set up to boom us as we went around the corner, but they waited too long. They made the same mistake upstairs too; the guy spawned too early, we heard him, and I think xpkoala killed him through the wall.

     

    Jackie just plays L4D the way other people play CS; you know all the hiding spots in the map, you predict your enemies' movements, know how to handle your weapon, etc. ;) He also usually plays on a team of people he knows, so his team already has a level of trust that a randomized team doesn't, although I'm pretty sure he could do equally well on a random team too.

     

    Still, 7:00 looks suspicious. I call major hacks on you! I have Valve on the phone right now... :biglaugha:

    New Bioshock 2 video

    in Computer Games

    9 minutes of gameplay footage. WOW, this game is going to be awesome. I was tense just watching this video. Click on the HD option to get a better picture.

     

    http://www.shackvideo.com/?id=14311

     

    Managed to catch this on IGN last night. Yeah, that whole scene where the Big Daddy had to defend the Little Sister from all those Splicers made me nervous; looks a lot harder than the scene you did in the first Bioshock. They also did a lot more with sound; half of my nervousness came from the Splicers yelling at you from the darkness. :freak3:

     

    Wondering how multiplayer is going to turn out. Drill, anyone? :biglaugha:

    Fire Ants are Zombies

    in What's Up?

    Oh man. They need to stop introducing new species of everything in NA. Next they'll need something to get rid of the flies...

     

    Reminds me of that one Simpsons episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother

     

    "Bart and Marge take the lizards to the Springfield Birdwatching Society. Principal Skinner, a member of the society, explains that they are Bolivian tree lizards, a type of lizard that steals a bird’s eggs and leaves their own eggs to be watched after by the mother bird. Skinner says the lizards must be killed by law, because they have killed many bird species. Bart escapes and runs away with the lizards, but before he can get away, Skinner catches up to him and they both struggle on top of the building. Suddenly, the lizards glide to the ground, where they start to decimate pigeons in Springfield. Since the town considered the pigeons to be a nuisance, they are delighted with the fact that the lizards have eaten all the pigeons. As a result, Bart is thanked and honored by Mayor Quimby with a loganberry scented candle. Lisa worries that the town will now become infested by lizards rather than the pigeons, but Skinner assures her that they will send in Chinese snakes, then gorillas, and then "winter will take care of the rest."

     

    :smiling2:

    I figured something out

    in Left 4 Dead 2

    Hunting Rifle + Being Good with it = Automatically Hacking

     

    Last night in one game... ONE game, I get accused of hacking 3 different times (once I wasn't even using the hunting rifle!). 4 times that day. I've been accused probably 10+ times in the past two weeks.

     

    Other people I play with are good, possibly even better than me and they've never been accused of hacking, but they don't use the hunting rifle. I'm the only one that I've seen out of everyone that plays on my friends list that uses it regularly in a Versus game. I don't know what my fascination with it is, maybe being able to pick off Smokers/Boomers/Hunters from across the level without them even knowing.

     

    So from here on out, I'm going to actually demo each one of my turns as a Survivor, go back and record it via Fraps, then make a compilation video and show it to everyone here so they can judge for themselves.

     

    ...

     

    ...Does every noob who plays the game use speakers placed ten feet away from them? Yeesh, it's not that hard to pinpoint where other people are...

     

    [/endrant]

     

    In that one game we played on No Mercy Level 2, the guys that accused you of hacking never mentioned the fact that I started spamming that wall with M4 bullets before you did because I heard the Boomer too. You shoot a couple rounds and hit the Boomer, they get all agitated. So...

     

    Spam a wall and not hit the Boomer= okay

    Spam a wall and hit the Boomer= hacker

     

    :biglaugha:

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