In more bad luck, my laptop was without a charge, but I've managed to fire it up using an inverter and a car jumper box with a battery in it for this makeshift update (I won't have access to the mail on my other machine until the power returns, so there may be some catching up to do after this.

Creston wrote on Dec 19, 2012, 11:39:

Oh, my bad. And yeah, the third book was split in two, and not really a whole lot happens in the first one (it's mostly setting stuff up for the second book). Then again, just about nothing happens at all in books 4 and 5, so this will likely be the last good season of the TV show anyway.

Creston

Creston wrote on Dec 19, 2012, 11:15:
Not sure that I like a super-sized season 3 for GoT. Fitting a book into a 13 episode season makes things move along, which is really the biggest problem with the whole Fire and Ice saga anyway...So making more episodes, eh. That'll just be more episodes where nothing happens... We could also call this the "Peter Jackson's the Hobbit" corrolary.

Creston

InBlack wrote on Dec 19, 2012, 10:55:

mch wrote on Dec 19, 2012, 10:45:
Are they still splitting book 3 into two seasons? Think I remember hearing that but not sure I ever saw any confirmation.

Yes they are. BTW the UK edition of the novel itself was split into two books. (Fucking greedy if you ask me)

Verno wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 09:29:

PSU is something you don't want to skimp on, wattage itself is unimportant though. Get a quality PSU at or around 400-500W, Corsair sells rebadged Seasonic PSUs which are outstanding. Again avoid anything OCZ, their PSUs have the highest defect/RMA rates.

Verno wrote on Dec 12, 2012, 11:14:
I actually have better luck replaying old NES/SNES/Genesis era console stuff than I do old computer games.

MrGrosser wrote on Dec 11, 2012, 15:57:
And uhhhh didn't they say 12/21/2012.. no the 12th?

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Nov 20, 2012, 13:04:
Nintendo seemed to adopt a policy of being their customer's worst enemy instead of being a proper challenger to their rivals ever since the SNES era. They would be on top of the world right now if it wasn't for retarded mistake after mistake. They've been one of the most paranoid companies against piracy since day 1, and it does not take a world class economist to realize how much they have suffered as a result of that stance.

Steele Johnson wrote on Nov 13, 2012, 13:09:
Why do something different if each iteration continues to sell millions of copies? People love these games, and if you don't, it's tough sh1t for you. Go complain about WoW clones or something.

eunichron wrote on Nov 13, 2012, 09:20:
Speaking of movies that are better than, but got stomped on by http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ , there's also http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/.