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Azure Envy

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  1. 200,000 isn't too much for a Honda, I've been told. Friend bought a Titan X. It may have a busted fan controller. Sucks.
  2. I'd say it was money well spent. 4690K is a much more appropriate match for the 290X. You'll see a definite improvement in real world performance. More than that 1400 point increase would have you believe, anyway.
  3. Inexplicably slow performance for one. File copy operations were significantly slower on Vista than XP. I believe they eventually did fix it a few service packs later. 7 was what Vista should have been.
  4. Why not both? Dudebro, broham, hamsauce. Hamhocks? Homesilce. Holmes. Probably not.
  5. I'm guessing because they have too much time on their hands and are offended by everything? If they implemented such a feature, I'd probably check it off since I care zip about achievements. That said, I'll just continue to ignore the little pop-ups if that feature never comes to pass. I can't say its really bothered me at all. My 2c.
  6. I'm sure it's trivial to do, but they don't care enough to do it. That's all.
  7. I don't believe achievements have taken away anything from games. If people want to 100% a game, more power to them. Getting all achievements doesn't net you anything -- you can still enjoy a game without chasing them down.
  8. Makes sense to me. Everyone with a PC plays League of Legends.
  9. Brilliant. Cinematic (30 FPS): $19.99/mo. Cinematic Max (45 FPS): $29.99/mo. Cinematic Max Turbo (60 FPS): $34.99/mo. with 1-year annual commitment. Bundle your streaming gaming with streaming TV and voice for one low monthly fee and get 3 months of Call of Duty Premium absolutely free.
  10. 18. Apparently I lost a lot of points on the road test due to slowing down before four-way intersections with no stop signs. That explains a lot of things.
  11. PlayStation Now is a service designed to stream PS3 games from the cloud. Not quite the same. There were rumblings of PS1/2 emulation locally on the 4, no doubt to sell you FF7 yet again.
  12. Appreciating how my old 3570K is only about a frame off from a friend's new 5820K build. Of course, he's got a Titan, but eh. I'm more amused that the FX volcano is competitive with an i3.
  13. Black Note 4 with a matte black case. A unique color combination for sure.
  14. I used Slackware/Red Hat/Mandrake before... way back when. I've got openSUSE on a laptop these days. Seems nice enough.
  15. That's the thing about DOS gaming, it spanned quite a long time period so I guess it comes down to -- is there any specific game you'd like to play with it? Most of the time, I hear Doom -- which is awesome, because... it's Doom. To give you an idea of specs, I used this machine to play Doom in 1994: 486SX 33 MHz ("The S is for sucks. -J. Romero), 4 MB of RAM, a 230 MB hard disk and a Diamond SpeedStar Pro VL (with an entire meg of DRAM). That said, you'd be hard pressed to find anything remotely close to that age in a thrift store, let alone a store in general. Unless you're really big on collecting and are prepared to look high and low for some vintage hardware, DOSBox is not a bad solution at all. Of course, if I had the funds and more room, I'd love to collect some of this stuff...
  16. Can't really go wrong with the ever-popular S3 family. I had a #9 968-based board that did well in DOS games. Tseng ET4000 and 6000 chips were reputed kings of DOS gaming as well. Voodoo Banshee, what else...
  17. DOS is the greatest gaming platform of all time.
  18. If you have the money for a current generation console and the required accessories to make it useful (games, online services), you have the money for a decent PC. We're all more than happy to help if you decide to move in that direction in the future.
  19. Except when they don't and brick your ability to sleep (PS4). They're computers too and aren't immune to bugs. That said, they're still easier to use and work with, but you pay a premium for that. Games, online subscriptions, proprietary hardware support (i.e. fight sticks that only work on XBOX ONE, for example). Origin has "limited trials" for some games and even allows you to return a game within 24 hours (digitally) if you don't like it. But I usually pick up all my games on sale for five or ten dollars anyway, so it's not that big of a deal if it turns out to be crap or I don't ever touch it. Granted, it's not like buying a physical disc you can resell, so if that's important to you, more power to you, keep doing it. But all the things you talk about are also characteristic of the digital marketplaces for consoles -- but they rarely, if ever have the kinds of sales that PC digital games do simply because those stores have no competition. For the record, I own a bunch of consoles and buy a mix of digital and physical copies -- though I've been moving toward digital since I don't have room for cases and the like.
  20. Seems like this worked for a few. http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-run-command-conquer-red-alert-2-on-windows-78/
  21. Hmm... let's see. I've got my staff badge, lanyard and shirt... I picked up the three mascot plushes, Golden Gates, Silver Span and Copper Chip... got the BABSCon '15 tote and shirt. I bought three prints, the one on the top left by TheOnlyCottonCandy, and the two on the right by BerryPAWNCH, both signed, very happy about these. I also got a few buttons from TheOnlyCottonCandy and one of the MLPF mascot from @@Simon as well. It was great meeting you and Feld0 at the con, even if it was only for a minute or so. THE VENDOR HALL NEEDS ME! (probably... not really.)
  22. Of course. I actually never had any plushies up until now. I couldn't resist and bought the three mascot plushies. I was also eyeing the Aria plushie at CutieCorral.. But I had a budget to stick to, so I just took a card. I'll be back...
  23. Nice collection of chibis you got there...
  24. My (ever so slightly updated) machine: Intel Core i5-3570K, 4.1 GHz EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 ASRock Z77 Pro3 16 GB Kingston HyperX blu CM Hyper 212 Plus 960 GB Micron M500 SSD, 2x2TB Toshiba HDD 1x3TB Toshiba HDD SeaSonic M12II-650 Bronze CM Storm Enforcer 1xViewSonic LCD, 1xDell U3011, 1xDell U2312HM Corsair Vengeance K70 MX Blue Mechanical Keyboard Logitech G502 Mouse Sennheiser HD 598 Headphones/PC 141 Headset/Logitech G930 Headset/Sony Gold Wireless Headset
  25. post con blues...

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    2. Silver Letter

      Silver Letter

      I'll post some tomorrow most likely. I want to assemble a post-con blog to detail what I liked most and such. I do agree that cons end rather soon because it's so fun to be around so many other fans.

    3. Plageius

      Plageius

      i might have seen you

    4. Apple      Bloom

      Apple Bloom

      I know the feel all too well. I hardly ever get emotional but while sitting in the airport waiting for my flight home, I started thinking about all my friends that I wouldn't see again and I literally started crying.

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