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  1. As the Glain-Neidr prepared to take off, Claud received a message from another ship on the expedition.

     

    "Should I put in on screen, Captain?" Claud asked.

     

    "No, keep working on that code," said Scorch. "Launch as planned; I'll handle the other ship." Scorch turned in his chair to his personal console and opened the message, a video file of a gray man.

     

    "Hey, Is this working? I just thought I'd introduce myself since we'll become the 'best of friends' over this journey. My names Srakenyl. Just call me Srake though. I'm a... Doppleganger. I'm not much of a fighter as I'm a pilot. My gunner will be doing most of the fighting. Hopefully we won't have to do much of that though. So what about you guys?"

     

    "This is Scorch, captain of the Glain-Neidr. I'd love to chat," he lied, "but we're currently preparing for take-off. Maybe we can all talk another time." Scorch closed the com-link. The success of his role in this expedition relied on his fellow captains not knowing about him or his ship's history. He could only hope that his cover could buy him enough time to get to the golden planet.

     

    "Captain, we're ready to depart," said Destiny.

     

    "Good. Take us to the Valiant."

     

    "Hopefully that bucket of bolts will be warmed up and ready to go by the time we get there," Destiny said under her breath.

  2. Of course that's assuming the hackers haven't already run off with credit card info, in which case there's not too much the end user can do about it aside from monitoring their statements. If I recall, the advice Steam gave in that email (which I only got last night after the server crashed) is pretty much the same advice Sony gave its PSN customers. Luckily, I wasn't affected in either case, since I don't store that kind of info and have my preferences set on all online stores to force me to re-enter my info with each transaction. Usually I don't use a CC if I can get away with it.

  3. Seems like a fairly basic set-up, power consumption wise. I'd say you can probably bump it down to 500 watts and still be fine, unless you overclock your CPU and RAM.

     

    Here's a fairly reliable power supply calculator, courtesy of Newegg. Based on your specs, Newegg is telling me you only need about 390 watts to power your setup, so you could probably do 400 watts. I'd still recommend 500, though, because the newegg calculator doesn't account for additional PCI cards. Granted a sound card and WLAN card won't add much to your requirements, it'd probably be a little close to that 400 watt PSU's limit. 500 would give you room to upgrade your GPU (if that's something you'd be interested in doing with your system), as well.

  4. Yeah, but when I tried calling it, all I got was a rooster or something squawking in my ear for 10 minutes before an irate farmer came by and put it out of its misery. Later that month, I received a bill from a sex line... WTF did I call?

     

    I can't believe Steam got the PSN treatment.

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