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Sleeping Dogs. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's probably the most derivative game I've ever played, with the combat right out of Arkham City pretty much and everything else taken from open world game cliches, but it was a whole lot of fun, something I can't say about all the games it technically steals from. Totally worth the 25 bucks I paid.

I haven't seen a card like this before! It looks weird! So the antennas stick out of the pack of your PC? won't that get in the way? It looks weird! Pretty much. You can fold them up, but they haven't stuck out any further than say a DVI connector. As far as how the card performs... I really do prefer ethernet...

Doubleposting, but this is too good.

Probably one of my favorite games of last year. It did get stale, but there was just enough variety for it to still be fun.

Are you using mouse+keyboard? I found that it worked best to just take my hands completely off the mouse when driving and drive with the WASD, but I then switched to controller and it was a whole lot better.

I don't see the issue. It's cute!

This place has internet included in the rent + cable in the room that I can pay for if I want, but I figured I'd try the free wifi and see if it's decent. I can always pay for a cable hookup if I decide I need it, I guess. As far as ethernet hookups, I think it's becoming more common. 2 of the 4 places I looked at last weekend had them, but that was in a city.

Didn't particularly want to buy this, but the apartment I'm moving into doesn't have any ethernet hookups. Fingers crossed that it's a good card.

To each his own, and I'm not trying to turn this into a PC gaming thread, but I hope you know there's a bit more to PC gaming than that.

Oh, erm, yeah. TPS. So that makes 5 of us from the boards that bought Borderlands 2. I figure it'd be tough with time zones and stuff, but I'm sure Duke and I will be playing some coop when it comes out.

Spec Ops is fantastic. Not perfect all the way through, but one of the best FPS campaigns I've played in a long time.

Have you oiled your sword and all? I know you said juiced up on potions, but you'll want to make sure you buff your damage if you can too.

Bit late, but wanted to say that's a great album. (edit: django django's album, that is. I haven't heard the bloc party one.) It is. I heard it first when I was over in the UK a couple weeks ago and have been listening to it a lot since. They get no exposure over here in the US.

Ugh, wish I was going. But won't be up there until the day it ends, and I sort of need money for other stuff.

I can only speak for California and Washington, but California's is around 8 dollars an hour (different in some cities), and Washington's is about the same. As far as cost of living being higher in the UK, I'd say that's debatable. I can find a dinky little apartment where I currently live for around 300-400 dollars a month, but where I'm moving it's closer to around 700-800+ for a dinky little spot. Cost of living in the countryside is pretty low, yeah, but once you move into a city it skyrockets, and it depends on the city. Out of curiosity, are taxes removed from your paycheck over there as well?

Because minimum wage in the US is generally lower than it is in the UK and Europe. I take it 8-10 pounds an hour is probably minimum wage around the UK, where even in the bigger cities here it's only about 10 bucks max. Multiply that times a part time job of 20-25 hours a week and you're going to have a really tough time making just rent. So that's where tips come in. Makes a $9/hour job more realistic and livable. As for just restaurants/bars, I'd imagine it's because you're serviced more at those place than at stores where the checker really just runs your items through and takes your money.

Old World Blues is worth playing, as is Honest Hearts (IMO). Dead Money is skippable, I wasn't a huge fan of Lonesome Road, but it might be good depending on your taste.

Thanks Sleeping Dogs. Breton is great.

I was playing last night and was just walking around and somehow found a 9mm pistol lying on the ground. Keep in mind I'm only 2 hours into the game, way before guns appear at all. I have no idea why this one was here. Unsure how to actually drop it, and not exactly willing to waste such an opportunity, I went on a shooting spree, looking for gang members around lockboxes and drug busts, and I was really surprised to see how that went. I thought all the jackasses would just run at me and try and take my gun, but surprisingly they got scared and ran away. So I shot them. And it didn't feel good at all. After smashing guys into telephone boxes, heads in doors, or screens in restaurants, something about shooting a cowering individual, a quick death, just didn't feel right. I wish more games did that.

I think it's great to know that the last time republicans gave a shit about my welfare I was a fetus.

Think GTA+Arkham City+Saints Row a bit. I'd say the story is more like GTA, the combat is the most like Arkham City, and the driving is sort of Saints Row-like. It's a pretty serious game from what I've seen so far, so I would say it's probably closer to GTA than Saints Row altogether, although as FDS said its roots are in True Crime. I haven't played more than a few minutes at a friends house, but I've bought it on Steam and will definitely be playing through it when I get the chance and work and moving settles down. So maybe never.

Yay Deus Ex in SFM.