Alyxx Thorne

Sorry but this is not something I'm into. I love having dreams but not lucid dreams. Just feels like I'd risk fucking up my brain and my perception of reality.

I don't really see how creating incompatible arcitecture would improve anything anyway, but then again I am not much of a programmer.

Yeah, the less cables the better in my opinion. Speaking of, the failed PCJr computer from the early 80's used external RAM expansions. That's just so weird to me.

No but with the risk of hallucination and paralysis... don't feel I want to.

Sounds a bit fucked up if you ask me.

I still play Doom today, and the good old DOS version too.

To brighten up a few things: When IBM decided to build their own desktop computer, the "IBM PC", they decided to use the Intel 8088 processor (basically a cheaper version of the the Intel 8086) and later switched to the Intel 80286 (an extended version of the 8086). Also, in 1980 they decided to sign up with Microsoft to develop an operating system "MS-DOS" which they rebranded "PC-DOS" For various reasons, the IBM PC was a success, despite the crappy architecture and OS in comparison of other machines at that time. One reason may be the good reputation of IBM; however IBM encuraged other companies to sell licensed clones of the IBM PC and other companies, like AMD, also started to manufacture their own 80x68 processor clones with their own extensions, which where then copied by others and so on (e.g. AMD made the original 64 bit extension to the x86 architecture). What you are now most likely sitting in front of (except if you are using a "smart" phone or other embedded mobile device) is a heavily modified/evolved version of the IBM PC with an x86 based processor with a horrible mess of a patched up architecture with hundreds of extensions, backward compatible to 1979. The dominance of the Wintel platform (Windows + Intel) on the desktop and the Windows monopoly have secured that it remains that way and the x86 processor gets patched and extended all over. My personal hope is that, with the shift towards mobile platforms with newer architectures and the upcoming WinDOS 8 disaster, we might someday get rid of that stonaged abomination they call "x86 architecture". There's a reason the orignal Ageia PhysX PPUs flopped. People don't buy extra hardware that no software utilizes and software developers don't develop software that utilizes hardware nobody has. Nvidia graphics cards don't have a PPU on them. Nvidia acquired Ageia, but only uses the PhysX API (Application Programing Interface) and implements it with GPGPU (i.e. program running on the GPU), so it could theoretically run with GPUs from other vendors (e.g. AMD) as well, but Nvidia forces PhysX to their platform by making it refuse to work on other GPUs (and it is probably optimized for their GPUs only as well), so developers using PhysX would either lock their software on Nvidia GPUs (or good ol' way slower CPU physics on others), or have to take the extra effort of using two physics engines with an abstraction layer in between. But there are other physics engines that use GPGPU, like Bullet, which is even free (as in free speech not free beer; i.e. no restrictions, aka "Open Source"), so why use PhysX? Yeah, I am aware that mostly all PC's nowadays still use technically the same standard dating back to the late 70's. It's actually a bit cool in my opinion. Regarding nVidia, my ATI card has no problem emulating PhysX anyway so it's not that of a big deal to me.

They did. It's called not clicking the like button.

Well, nice to meet you, Humin.

A movie about kids made out of garbage pails. A Nightmare on Elm Street

That sounds awesome. I've always dreaded peeling eggs.

Story of my childhood.

Eh, for me it depends on what I need. For instance, it is impossible to get floppy controllers for modern motherboards so you're more or less forced to get an external USB floppy drive if you want a retro compatible computer these days. But for most components like hard drive and such I prefer internal. I dunno, just feels like the less shit I have outside my computer the better.

It's going to be impossible to beat Intel anyway since they have the advantage of basically having been there since the beginning and actually were popular way before ATI started up. The Intel + Microsoft combination was a staple for PC's back in the 90's and I think Intel is going to survive any competition simply because they have better funding. That being said, I still support AMD all the way until they disappear. Their cards do the trick for me even if nVidia offers more advanced onboard stuff like PhysX.

I think I heard about them but never found them that interesting. I was probably way too much into Pokémon at the time.

I think that's the main reason he wanted a new game engine to work with. Imagine making a 90 minute movie with the amount of bugs the Source engine has.

Mythbusters in New Jersey. Ghostbusters 2

Deal. I'll flash my breasts for you. Or maybe just one of them. Okay, I'll give you a wink and blow you a kiss. how's that?

Dreamt I got a phone call from some lawful good dragon LARPers. I also found a box full of SNES games and a Super Scope shaped like a sniper rifle. That needs to exist irl.

I'm gonna stick my head out the window while cruising downtown and sing this like a goddamn Katy Perry while getting my face full of hail in the middle of December this year.

I have a feeling that satellite I just hacked is gonna end up somewhere near your IP coordinates. Might wanna hide under a table. Or something. But seriously, man, cheer up a bit. Maybe things will get better?

I only have a cellphone other than my desktop gaming computer really. Never bought any of these newfangled iPhones or iPads really. I'm such an outcast. And proud of it!

I don't have Facebook either. It's kinda overrated. Anyway, I prefer Firefox for the same reasons. Just allaround great compability with plugins and it does what I want it to. I see no need to switch to Chrome. And I still think Firefox is a more badass name.

Poison headcrabs taste like . Fish sauce. It's death in a bottle.