Bjossi

I'm waiting for Crysis 2 to go down in price.

Crysis runs near maxed out for me, and judging by RPS comments it may actually run worse than the sequel.

http://www.dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory

At least in July of 2009 Chrome was a bloated monster in a disguise. I'm trying to find more recent, similar benchmarks without success. I did however read more recently on another forum that Chrome ate memory like a hungry wolf.

Minimalism is one thing, but you can not call something bloated from the UI alone. Programming has a lot of doors to reach the same goals, you can uphold certain priorities while writing your code. Obviously Chrome engineers felt it was worth it to sacrifice memory for speed and stability (Each tab being its own thread, for example, which is a bloat feature in a stable program.).

The HD 5750 can run all modern games, technology-wise. My card is a notch above and it can run a lot of recent games maxed out (Except for AA of course.) with liquid smooth performance, like Bioshock 2.

Do you really think so? I'd love to see some real world numbers to back that up.

Potato Sack anyone?

Without add-ons Firefox seems fairly bare-bones to me.

I installed IE 9 because it was a recommended Windows update, plus I sometimes use IE if Firefox doesn't play well with certain websites.

But holy crap IE 9 is fast. Webpages in their ready form almost pop up like folder windows. I will be going to FF 4 at some point, we'll see how it competes.

You're not just buying a game for your enjoyment, you're indirectly supporting the development team and the publisher behind the game and their efforts. Despite games not being of tangible value the work that goes into them is enormous. But even the bestest games in the world may be crippled by anti-customer measures imposed by the publisher. Such circumstances automatically mean I will spend as little above 0 for a copy as I can find. The money you spend simultaneously casts votes, vote for the products/services you endorse, don't just blindly drop loads of money on something just for the entertainment value alone.

Publishers are like children, we need to discipline them and raise them up to be good citizens, tell them what is good and what is bad.

Not that much by today's standards but absolutely gargantuan in the context of that PC.

I don't give a crap about graphics, you can make the graphics look like a friggin Atari game, it's the game itself that matters the most. What matters the most is its controls, fun factor, and gameplay. Although on one exception is if the graphics begin to effect the gameplay on its own.

They often do, but not so much any more now that we have reached a sort of graphical plateau at this point. It is in the hands of artists to make games look noticeably better than anything else out there, not engine programmers.

Perceived quality and real quality are not the same thing. Obviously there was a lot of quality loss in the process, a difference like that can not be explained with the lack of 30+ headers and partly cut intros/outros.

I think it should be possible to perform all the needed tasks to achieve this by lossless means; I know for a fact splicing and deleting frames will be lossless if there is no re-encoding, but of course both sources need to be encoded with the same codec for that to be an option.

No! to the poll question. I want each episode to be "story-of-the-week" format, comparable to the "villain-of-the-week" format of some cartoons.

It is funny how "biased" the game world is in favour of Dave. It is always Mike who gets into trouble and does all the screaming while Dave is as calm as an elderly British guy drinking tea. Simba and Dave, or Dave doing his ninja moves; who ends up in trouble or pain? On a Rail was more fair though, couldn't stop laughing when seeing the end for the first time.

Quake 2.

HalfLife 2: Episode One.

DNA splicing refers to a process in genetics that has been performed decades before the mediocre Bioshock was even an imagination in K-Lev's brilliant-gone-mainstream mind.

Now, back to Freeman's Mind. I think having Freeman close his eyes isn't an annoying shortcoming but I think it can be avoided. As far as I remember he always stays still right before the screen starts getting black. Just loop that standing-still period for as long as necessary and paste the audio onto it. Then it would look like Freeman just stands still for a few moments to relax and be a nutjob, and then continues his journey. Though for this to work he does need to stand and look EXACTLY the same as in the previous episode for it to be a seamless transition.

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Will there even be an Ep3 or HL3? Ep2 was released 2007 and today Valve have still been more quiet than a corpse about any HalfLife news.

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Yes, it is the kinetic energy, both mass and velocity are factors in the equation. But calculating earth's kinetic energy seems challenging to me, firstly it is on a steady trip around the sun, but then the sun is on a steady trip around the galaxy as well as all the other objects. It's been some years since I last studied mechanical physics, and even then it was only entry level. . .

If you intend to make the series one long video without any black screens/credits that would be anything but easy, Ross talks while the screen goes black towards the end and during the credits, plus he may not be standing in the exact same spot at the start of the next episode.

Hmm, you could loop or extend the part right before the screen starts going black so it looks like Freeman is just standing still for a while, and you could add the "fade-out one-liner" to that new segment. So Freeman would stand still and think/talk to himself for a while and then start moving again as one would expect from the next episode. This could be really cool if done cleverly.

I thought that last bit of speculation would make it obvious I wasn't being serious. . .

I haven't done nor can I remember how to do the exact calculations but it seems to me earth, an entire planet, should be massive enough to withstand kickback of even that scale. But do prove me wrong, this is an interesting speculation.

I think we need earth defence cannons that can protect us against invading threats. One placed on each "approximate" side of the planet. I was thinking of gravity cannons, the Force gun in Dead Space on a LOT of steroids. We could rip big ass asteroids apart with a blast when they get very close or we could reel them in in one piece with a gravity beam and then make gnomes mine them down here on the surface.

I think we should resolve a more pressing matter first: where's Waldo?

I'd want Government Man to televise world-wide "Prepare for unforeseen consequences.". That is one stylish way to announce the potential end of human civilization.

It's about time he gives the Magnum a shot.

I should get shot for that pun.

Mike. Due to him being more down to earth his reactions (and accidents) due to Dave's shenanigans are hilarious.

According to Gearbox's FAQ the major sub-systems like rendering are built in-house.

You are both not alone.

What is your high score in Demonstar? If I remember correctly mine is somewhere between 5 - 5.5 million points.

I tried to fire up the game again after years of no playing and I pretty much suck as bad as I possibly could, I can't even pass level 2.