Draugr wrote on Jun 17, 2012, 15:29:
Dell also has a 27" standalone monitor with the same guts as the apple cinema dsiplay (or whatever it's called,) minus the apple pricetag/tax

Alamar wrote on Jun 17, 2012, 14:23:
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But that's in the living room... I want a '1440p' resolution on my desktop, because I like screen real-estate... Which may come in the form of the 27" iMac, but I want to wait on the next model, which could be a year+ away...

-Alamar

Hellbinder wrote on Jun 17, 2012, 11:01:
When the 360 came out PC were already ahead of it, yet the graphics on the 360 were superior. when you understand why that was true you will get what a significant increase in quality those specs would bring the 720.

Beamer wrote on Jun 14, 2012, 14:57:
They're almost all total crap, but as they get more power and better input options they'll become the same as what PC games are now.

SpectralMeat wrote on Jun 14, 2012, 08:15:
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The problem is many people still recalls PC gaming as sitting at a desk with a 15" tube monitor, and you have to upgrade your PC components every 4-6 months to have games running at 20fps, update drivers, hardware conflicts, lots of wires everywhere, viruses, etc etc.
Where consoles you pop the disc in sit back on your couch and play the game, put the headset on and you can instantly interact with others in MP....

Sepharo wrote on Jun 3, 2012, 02:07:

kanniballl wrote on Jun 3, 2012, 01:52:
Also, the eyes were tender while wearing the "bandaid" contact lense.

Good god tell me about it. That's why I'm up right now, decided to hop on the internet to see if that was normal and lo and behold there's your post

I thought it was dryness but drops aren't helping... Feels like that contact is a rock in there. Didn't bother me this much the first night.

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jun 2, 2012, 17:06:

Agent.X7 wrote on Jun 2, 2012, 14:16:

Sepharo wrote on Jun 2, 2012, 12:43:
Had laser eye surgery on Friday morning.

Lasek in one eye and Lasik in the other because of my dry eyes. Lasik is with the flap and Lasek is the surface treatment, the same laser was used and was a very quick painless process. I'm almost 20/20 already in the Lasik eye, a few more days and I'll be there. The Lasek eye has a medical contact on and is more of a week of recovery, that eye is currently pretty blurry but still probably not as bad as it was without my glasses before. I need to put a ton of eye drops in though... 4x steroid, 3x anti-bac, 1x anti-inflam and then artifical tears throughout the day as my eyes dry.

I'm still nervous about the end results but the doctor and his staff are extremely helpful.

Nice, I had Lasik on both eyes a couple of years ago. Best money I ever spent. I couldn't see the alarm clock in the morning without putting on my glasses, and now I am better than 20/20 in both eyes.

I was freaking out for a while too because I couldn't see very well afterwards, but it healed up nice. I'm sure yours will too.

Pretty much same experience for me, except I had PRK instead of Lasik. Better than 20/20 now too. Of course the doc said that my vision will still degrade as I get older, but I really couldn't care less. I haven't had to wear contacts or glasses since then (about 4 years ago now), and life is so much better

Hope it works out as well for you Seph!

nin wrote on May 29, 2012, 09:56:

from:
20+ keys on a keyboard + 1 joystick (with X buttons)

to:
1 XBox Controller (and that's it)

Actually, the more I think about it it might not be that bad since the XBox controller has 8 regular buttons + 4 DPad buttons + 2 ThumbClicks

So 12 decent buttons + 2 crummy ones.

Pretty sure you could hold down one button while using another. So you could use the U/D on a D pad for one thing, and then hold down a button while using U/D on the D pad for another.

Not that that would be fun or anything...I certainty wouldn't want it.

Just think! More thought had gone into a XWing/TIE sequel in this thread than Lucasarts every has!

panbient wrote on May 29, 2012, 06:35:

Ceribaen wrote on May 29, 2012, 05:05:
I don't understand why we've never seen them take XWing, TIE Fighter, and XvT and combine them into one upgraded package. There's a kickstarter I'd get behind.

Of course, they'd probably dumb down the controls and build it for XBOX/PS3 first - and forget to give a configurable keyboard layout in the PC version, expecting you to use a console controller to play.

Guessing you never actually played those games since you NEEDED to own a joystick / flight stick to actually do anything besides look at the menus.

Nucas wrote on May 18, 2012, 17:30:
i just switched over to chrome from 10 years of opera (from v10 onwards opera was never as stable as it once was)
i don't know how i've lived without extensions like adblock and noscript, quite potent.
blues is the only website on my ad whitelist so far, since he's the only webmaster i can think of who gives a shit about what kind of ads he runs.

nin wrote on Mar 21, 2012, 10:17:

The Rock was indeed good. But I don't think it would have been nearly as good w/o Connery.

Arma and BB were tolerable.

nin wrote on Mar 21, 2012, 10:11:
See, the deal there is, the moment I see "Michael Bay" I don't bother going any further...


Problem solved.