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The only thing better than that is Jon St. John's reading of 50 shades of gray. 5oUa-3W0BFI Why is this not an audiobook?

I'm sick of people who don't genuinely give a shit about me asking "are you okay"? It's so goddamn annoying.

Haha, I agree! Not only that but the movie industry had a whole penguin period for a while. Was a bit annoying. Oh don't remind me of that ridiculousness. Where were the penguin Jackass copy-cats for those movies? I would've loved to wake up and see a news story about how a bunch of penguins just got killed trying to surf, or how they danced so much that orca whales were able to find them from under the ice and break through it. Of course, it wouldn't be a complete story without plenty of pictures of their dismembered corpses and blood. Finally, we'd have an answer to what's black, white, and red all over. Dead fucking penguins, that's what. Coming soon to a theater near you, Massacre of the Penguins! Don't miss it.

There's a part of me that would want to see an anime movie based on Catherine, but the game is pretty much a movie already. Then again, there's a Persona 4 TV show, so I don't see why not.

The small areas in Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas that allow or require you to go underwater were pretty well done, but they also remind me a lot of the water behavior in Half-Life. The visuals, imo (I require glasses, so I can't speak for people with 20/20) were spot on for what I see underwater. The controls are too smooth for water movement, which I think is a good thing. That keeps underwater segments from being realistic, which is what AAA titles are going for these days. I personally like the weightlessness in these sections. Even though you can just console command something similar to that, I like it when these sections exist within the game for the player to experience.

That's pretty weird. With the Thunderbolt connectors, it seems likely that we'll be seeing more components normally found in desktops in external enclosures. I wouldn't be surprised if, in about 5 years or less, that there will be computers that use these connectors to offer a modular system.

There is no helmet, Freeman. You're just being paranoid.

Banned because I bet your new avvy tastes like chili peppers... hot and spicy

ANY movies? Jek Jek, I think that's against forum rules I LIKE YOUR STYLE. Nah, Jking. Here's a good list of sites for people to prowl if they're bored, aside from Netflix. All legal, of course. http://freebies.about.com/od/halloweenfreebie1/tp/free-horror-movies-online.htm

I hate penguins, cocky little bastards. They can't even fly, so I don't get why they think they're the shit. Thank god for Orca Whales and Polar Bears for ridding the Earth of the pricks.

I don't use it because my profile picture would bring sexy back, and the world isn't ready for the return of sexy.

Adding more cores doesn't magically double performance. Well duh. (I cut out the rest of the quote because it was an unneeded explanation on my part) I only care about the final user experience when I speak of performance (so yes, you are correct in saying there's really no automatic doubling of performance just by throwing more cores at the problem; the software needs to be able to utilize the resources as well). Have your friend with the Pentium IV encode a 1080p video of Big Buck Bunny using Handbrake and report the average FPS. I would not be surprised if that average FPS would be about 1/4 of that what an i7 can hit. In that case, my original statement would remain true. To take from that metaphor you used, yes it's true a woman can only bear 1 child (well, technically that's not always true, but I'll let that slide) every 9 months (again, not always true, but letting it slide), it's also true that 4 woman can produce 4 children faster than a single woman can. Yes, but the gameconsoles and Apple computers are a little different from the PC market, they are closed platforms, there is only one vendor for each device that has complete control and the devices are nowhere near compatible to each other. A little different, but not enough to really split a hair about. Saying that the vendors have complete control of their devices is rubbish, considering my GC, PS3, and iBook are all running an operating system and custom firmware none of the venders distributed or approve of. That's only true assuming we lived in a world without Wine and Linux, but fortunately we do not. A majority of proprietary applications can be ran just fine in a Wine bottle on a Linux machine.

So in other words, the i7 should perform about 4x better (actually should be more, since hyperthreading gives an extra performance boost) than a Pentium 4 when not crippled down to a single core. There have been instances where companies have used new architectures and managed to maintain compatibility with older software by means of some minor additional hardware. Apple had something like that, a separate card in one of their computers, to bring native processing for older applications, and Sony had a physical chip in their PS3 all those years ago to natively handle PS2 titles. I'm not saying that this is a viable alternative for advancing architectures (in fact, this would just leave the software at a standstill), but rather a good solution for companies or individuals that have older software where no modern equivalent exists. Also, most gamers have a PowerPC-based computer in their living room and don't even know it (all three modern consoles, as well as the Nintendo Gamecube, use a processor that utilizes PowerPC architecture), so I'd hardly say users are turned away from that platform.

And yet my PSU has a floppy header on one of its cables, the fuckery is that about? (I know, legacy support, blah blah...) ASRock had a motherboard (not sure if it's been revised for this year) last year with a ton of modern and legacy ports on it (including IDE and a few others I can't recall). I'm surprised there's not a company that makes a internal 5.25" bay device that's a combination either slim ODD and a floppy drive or a floppy Drive + a ton of card ports/USB ports, but I guess the demand for floppy drives is to low to warrant that sort of thing. Fewer power bricks are always a plus, since most external devices that need the extra power have a power brick with them.

Even though Firefox isn't as fast as Chrome can be, I like it a lot more for my needs. Great plug-ins, and easy to sync between my hacked nook tablet, desktop, and laptop. Oh, and I don't have a facebook... so yay for it not working on Chrome?

Banned for having an avatar that gives off vibes similar to mine

I just ordered a couple of blu-rays from Amazon.co.uk for the first time. We'll see how this goes (I live in the USA lol).

That would definitely be a good idea, especially since most laptop manufacturers go for the cheapest thermal grease/pads as possible for their units. The stuff in my HP turned into some really nasty white, solid compound that I had to chip off the heat-spreaders to get off all the way. 76c seems really high, then again, my comfort level for temps on my CPU cores is 60c, though I'm managing to get satisfactory performance without hitting 55c these days (I'm hoping I'll be able to get them down to 47c later this month as temperatures continue to drop). What kind of power does your new laptop consume when under load?

AMD only beats intel in integrated GPU performance, other than that and price, I'd say Intel is still better (the new Trinity APUs are pretty boss in terms of gaming performance). And while that's a very valid point, Nvidia's recent stance is scaring third-party manufacturers away from allowing the user to over-volt their GPU to get the best performance possible from it. Nvidia could easily flex their policy to allow third-party manufacturers to produce these cards with over-volting features, but void the Nvidia warranty on the card and place the responsibility for covering/warrantying the card on the company that manufactured the unit. I'm surprised that's not how things work in the first place. Without the optional voltage tweaks, AMD cards will be able to easily match and even surpass Nvidia's performance when overclocked for less money.

Sushi is gross, at least for me. I can't eat anything fish or shellfish without having a really bad allergic reaction (and I say this realizing that not all Sushi has fish, but the taste of the rice reminds me of the fish anyway).

For every unused napkin that gets thrown away, a penguin dies... That's why I throw away 20 cases of napkins a day! Fuck penguins, man.

Lol, she says to the guy with a second generation iPod. That's funny. Honestly, fuck Apple. My Galaxy Tab is amazing. Maximum multitasking and I can do things like talk on Steam and Skype and look up Wikis and such while playing a game since I have such a shit computer. The page load rate for the Galaxy is better than the iPod, which me and my friend tested. So yeah, I support Samsung entirely. Google on the other hand, meh. But Samsung made some great hardware that Google ended up filling with unreliable fecal matter. My point still stands; you were incorrect when you mentioned that Apple devices can't update wirelessly (some can't, but no shit for that). I don't know why you felt the need to rant about Apple or your fancy Galaxy Tab haha. Mine can call, text, and take horrible pictures, the latter of which I use only for taking pictures of stuff I don't want to right down. Right on, guys. I'd be happy with a phone that had decent video and music playback sans all the extras, personally. I could have one, but I think it's a waste to have to pieces of electronics when there are plenty of devices that can do the job of both.

AMD is looking better now that Nvidia is telling third-party manufacturers to stop including means for users to control the voltage of their cards (which is a big part of overclocking). AFAIK, AMD has no such restrictions on their cards. I wonder how pricy those cards with overvolting will become now that most manufacturers will probably discontinue them. Source: http://www.overclockers.com/nvidia-says-no-to-voltage-control?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+overclockers%2FCWnQ+%28Overclockers%29

So strange to see green PCB after all the custom rigs I've seen. Anyway, what makes you say you don't have room for a decent PSU? I'm assuming your current one is a standard ATX size, so you should be able to swap it out for another ATX PSU. If you have the dimensions of the current PSU, I might be able to recommend a make/model for you to check out.

Same thing, but in Fallout. Same thing, but in real life Same thing, but in my pants. Not really. Just working on updating my Linux box.