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Chaos Rising. Was a bit shorter and linear than I would of liked. DOW II had a fair few kind of randomly generated missions to kind of tide over stuff, but Chaos Rising was mission after mission. Very linear. Which had the downside of not really letting me average out the levels of my squad like in the main campaign. Also the final battle was a bit messed up. I'd of wanted another "all in" type of affair, even kitted out everyone for the occasion, but it never happened. I think it lasted about 4-6 hours (I had a fair bit of idling so Raptr is a bit useless to measure) I assume the ending sets you up for Retribution. Not sure I want to buy it asap. Gonna do some skirmish maps n then a bit of a foray into MP.

You use ram in pairs, so 2/4/6/8 etc. Maybe someone can illuminate the issue but I don't even know why RAM is sold in single sticks.

Depends on what you want out of a mouse. If you just assume more cash on a mouse = more betterer at playing games, then any mouse will do. However if you want to maybe have access to a couple macros, or say map the grenade to your mouse, then you'll want a gaming mouse. Or if you find your hand is uncomfortable, then get something that's more ergonomic. And $40 is a pretty good price range. Personally I'd recommend anything with Logitech or Razer branding though there'd be a few other brands worth looking at. MS make nice mice. Also what's with the mice fascination today? Had my housemate asking me for recommendations this afternoon. The Deathadder was among my suggestions which led him on to the Naga. He's a big WoW guy.

The game just updated. I hear it's got things related to the Potato Sack ARG. http://store.steampo....com/news/5227/ edit: yep. Potato. http://steamcommunity.com/id/gentIemen/screenshot/560905110038744582

If you have bought, or buy before 30th April, Dragon Age 2, you will get a free PC copy of Mass Effect 2 http://dragonage.bioware.com/me2offer/

http://piracy.ssrc.org/adobe-logic/ I'm sure anyone in the digital creative industries this information is old hat, but I think it's maybe a sign that games companies shouldn't be looking to Sony-DADC for info on how to battle piracy, but maybe ask the software market, specifically Adobe. According to that article Adobe made $3.8billion last year. EA's revenue for 09 was $3.6billion. I've personally never bought anything from Adobe. Folks say games are expensive, CS5 would buy you a game a week.

The PC version didn't have enough polygons left over for the fedora though. Also still has the uncanny valley creepiness to it.

@Ethan: 0,65568,256,8192,32,256,32896,0,8320,16384,512,0,0,0,0,0 Just right click on it, hit copy. It makes that. If you copy that number sequence above into the player with right click and paste it'll load it in. Spacebar erases it all. here's one: 130562,70398,130814,2,130560,74492,74258,18,130066,8956,8704,130054,12,760,130572,518 and another 32256,0,62,34,62,0,0,131070,131070,0,768,810,62,0,0,508. I call the this one "Pong" btw you can see now why it's in my procrastination folder

They're getting better n better.

I listen to EpicBattleCry. Though not been able to keep up much lately. On the topic of voices I'd suggest anyone wanting to join in grab Audacity (and LAME) and make a short recording n upload a dropbox link (cos forum auto-process MP3 files) Just read a few paragraphs of something, maybe a news article or from a book.

second 107 kinda sucked.

I have a bookmark folder called "procrastiantion" so I'll share a few: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html#top http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/ http://www.lamebook.com/ http://www.bash.org/ http://www.fmylife.com/

Yeah, they're fine when they're hacking some dodgy lawyers server, but when they're crippling users access that aren't really involved with stuff it get's annoying. Also I should shunt this over to the other thread... So yeah links n stuff to this: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/05/hacker-group-anonymous-attacks-sony-and-psn/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/anonymous-attacks-sony-to-protest-ps3-hacker-lawsuit.ars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSCUU4Fg9k There's more stuff if you google about.

http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 One of the VFX guys writes about how he did some of the effects in Tron Legacy. Not in too much detail (most of it is trade secret) It's pretty heavy on technical terms n reference's to programs such, but at the very least it has some nice photos. Shame none are wallpaper sized.

Yeah they messed up a bit there. I wonder if it's to do with Android Market being the Android market n not PS Store, so fiddly to tie up the two?

Oh once I googled the plot I kinda got it. But there was even stuff I thought I'd "got" that turned out to be different. Like the "Sephiroth" that killed Shinra at the start was actually Jenova. And for 80% of the game Sephrioth was actually encased in some amber thing missing half his body or whatever. Also there's a hidden cutscene thing that shows off the Zack n Cloud thing, like how they came to be at Midgar n Zack dead n shit. Advent Children is pretty messed up too, I think it's maybe just a Japanese thing. Like a cultural thing on story telling.

It's up on the gaming sites so I've read about it a dozen times for the news feed.

Oh you not heard? They're having "sporadic maintenance" on PSN and websites. aka Anonymous are currently targeting Sony over the Geohot case.

VII? Was that a typo? FFVII and Prototype are the only two games I've played where I've had to go to a wiki and read the plot there.

Skype is a free program for Windows, Mac and even iOs n Android. So it's not hard to grab. A mic would be an issue. And not trying to ruin it, just hopefully keep things in mind that should help make it much better.

Just as long as you're aware podcasts: 1. Will 9 times out of 10 be shit 2. Isn't a simple case of just go on skype and talk for an hour 3. Needs a good technical work out before starting to resolved any issues of dodgy static mics, low voices n such 4. Isn't a simple case of just go on skype and talk for an hour If you're aware of those things at least you're partially prepared. ehh Aligning timezones will be an issue except for Saturdays. ehhh Your main thing to do is to get some form and structure to it. So before starting you need a GM who will run the shbang, move topics on, and you need to have picked up on topics to discuss before hand. Be it general things or the weeks news. You can't just say "podcast" and expect it to be brilliant. So draft a kind of script before hand. Don't be too afraid to let things go off on a tangent though. ehhh Some kind of chemistry to. So a few non-recorded test runs would be a good idea. Like get to know each other a bit before hand. The way you're suggesting it sounds like there wi'll be a core few, with rotating guests, so those core few need to be pretty friendly. ehh Accents probably will be an issue. But as long as folks are pretty clear should be good. ehh You need to get Faiblesse on.

Day 21 - Farm that sells the best manure. I'll get back to you on this one.

http://board.pressxordie.com/topic/873-building-a-gaming-pc/page__view__findpost__p__45725 Along with "recommend me a game to play over xmas holidays" or similar. Specifics work wonders: How much you wanting to spend? Any preferences of genre? (or chip maker ) What platform are you on?

I'm on whatever is standard with Cyanogen, which I think is ADW.