Alyxx Thorne

I like Chell's Mind, I'm sorry...

And why are you sorry?

Vagineer would be robots' gynecologist

Why would robots need gynecologists?

For their vaginas.

Uhm, why would robots need vaginas...?

I play Duke Nukem 1 even if my computer can easily handle Crysis on a high setting. Doesn't mean I am wasting my computer on it. That's how I see it. As long as a game is good, for me graphics just aren't that important.

That's strange, because I am rather sure we are using the same Windows. There should be some buttons on the bottom of the window where you can customize each part of your theme.

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...moving on...

Genesis - Home By the Sea

You can easily customize the look of Windows 7. I've turned it darker and sexier. =P

 

Do tell. I am pretty clueless about customizing this thing.

Right click on your desktop. Choose "Customize". Then click on "Window Colour" and "Show colour mixer". Here, turn the "Brightness" dial down to zero and watch Windows 7 transform into sexy darkness. You can also turn it transparent, that helps a lot.

Here's a screenshot on how to do it (excuse the Norwegian text).

It's very ironic, because one of the first I had on *my* first computer was actually Tomb Raider2 and first Half Life. I was just watching how my Dad's playing these games. I really liked the second one, but I was a bit to small for playing FPS.

I played Tomb Raider II a lot as well.

Microsoft can be proud of Windows 7 and Windows XP, they are mighty fine operating systems. Though what I don't like is how much they love brightness. Everything is so bloody white with dark letters on top. The only dark theme Windows 7 offers is a butt ugly high contrast theme next to something like 10+ white stylish ones. Where are the stylish dark themes? Black Windows explorer, with cool aero effects? That would look really badass.

 

Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft art designers sleep in pale white rooms with their eyes open, with lighted halogen bulbs everywhere.

You can easily customize the look of Windows 7. I've turned it darker and sexier. =P

Linkin Park - Numb

Too bad they had to ruin it by mixing in Jay-Z...

 

Linkin Park - Papercut

 

Yeah I know. Whatever, Meteora and Minutes to Midnight are my best favourite albums

Hybrid Theory and Meteora are my favourites. Minutes to Midnight didn't have all the elements I liked about them so I kinda passed on that and lost interest in the band.

Il Caesar - La Musica Electronica 2001

I've played tons of Jack Jackrabbit 2, especially with my brother. He'd always be Spaz.

Yay, Spaz was my favourite one. Hangover rabbit who eats little birds!

And his special attack, I think he is a ninja too

Yeah. It was always fun playing co-op because both Jazz and Spaz had different special attacks.

Graphics IMO are somewhat important, graphics can give you another level of immersion in a game but in a lot of games you don't need them.

I think Tetris is a shining example. Essentially you don't need more than some coloured squares for it to work. I suppose that's why it's been ported to virtually every possible console there is.

Of course it depends on the game, that option in the poll is more or less redundant.

 

And don't forget that graphics are more than just real-time calculated engine features, you can't have good graphics without well crafted art (Textures, models...). A powerful engine can be made pointless by poor art design/direction, and in the same vein an average engine can shine if the art is well done.

I completely agree with you there. I think in the case of first person shooter games, graphics are incredibly important because the whole point of a first person shooter is to simulate a reality for the player.

I've played tons of Jack Jackrabbit 2, especially with my brother. He'd always be Spaz.

Torrents also have the major advantage that you do not lose progress, the downloaded segments will stay in the incomplete files if something bad happens. And if a new torrent is uploaded with additional files, as long as you make it download to the same folder as the old one did it will recognize the files already there and only download the new additions. I will be downloading this myself over the next few weeks and seed.

 

My only gripe is that I have to live with the file naming scheme of the torrent author, if I rename then things go screwy.

You'll survive, I'm sure.

Vagineer would be robots' gynecologist

Why would robots need gynecologists?

I am using Windows 7 Professional 32bot. I wish I could move to Ubuntu, but Steam won't make the move.

I actually managed to run Steam in Ubuntu for the short while I was using it. But it was glitchy to say the least.

People saying graphics are not important at all are being ignorant. Good graphics can be great for immersing oneself into the game world, and they open up new possibilities in gameplay, for example Splinter Cell would not have been possible before shadowmaps were invented, and the dynamic lighting/shadowing that came few years later made the experience that much better than it would have been. Doom is great for what it is, but you'd not create much atmosphere if you made STALKER in the Build engine.

I agree, but it depends entirely on the game. The games you talk about there are all very reliant on graphics to create immersion. Other games, like Tetris, rely purely on gameplay almost. And games like The Longest Journey might not be pretty to look at but it has a very good and solid story.

Linkin Park - Numb

Too bad they had to ruin it by mixing in Jay-Z...

Linkin Park - Papercut

Seabound - The Promise (Club Mix)

Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit.

 

My OS history is like this: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows XP and now Windows 7. The longest period was the XP one, 8-9 years.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit as well. Bought it on finance since it cost quite a bit.

I started out using Windows 98SE, then Windows 2000 before I moved on to Windows XP. I've never used Vista. Though I used DOS and Windows 3.1 when I was about 3-4 years old.

You probably would too if you lived on a fault line.

I live in hurricane country. It's not usually as bad as tornados and earthquakes, unless you're stupid and live in a city that is technically under sea level.

 

Yeah, I'm talking about you, New Orleans.

 

I don't really worry about much anyway, though. Natures wrath is pretty inescapable, I've just learned to accept that.

All we can do is just deal with the effects of it.

To me they aren't important at all. As long as I can see what's going on I don't really care. I don't play games for the sake of graphics for the most part.

Depends on the game for me. If it has a good storyline then I don't really need good graphics to be drawn into it. But gameplay is also very important.

Regarding graphics, as long as they don't look horrible, I'll be okay. Doesn't matter if it's an old EGA DOS game or the latest Crysis game.

I can see that girl loves Geoffrey's balls.