You're one of those kids that would probably eat me alive and I didn't
say that MMO's suck and heard that you're a new daddy. Congratulations
by the way. Child gets a little older: think of the MMO possibilities.
You know, after school and sports of course. :-)
Brian Weeden wrote:
I didn't playing MMOs because they sucked, quite the opposite. I liked them
a bit TOO much, and I just don't have room in my current life for the time
commitment they require. i still have some very fond memories.
Running a guild in a MUD in college (Dragons, Legends and Lore) and spending
days working through the hardest area. It was this massive tower with a
Royal family, and there were somewhere around 15 secret doors you had to
find by reading room clues to get all the way to the top and find out what's
really going on.
Being part of an all-night 100-person raiding part in DAOC and taking the
last treasure fort. Tanking in Darkness Falls and seeing a party run by
followed closely by thatT huge Prince dude with the wings and his entourage
in hot pursuit.
Sitting on a hill overlooking a 700-person battle for a bridge and an island
in Planetside, with tanks and bombers and mechs everywhere. Could almost
smell the napalm.
Llama hunting with a bunch of friends and disc shooters in Tribes 2, and
hitting that perfect cap run where everything from flag grab to the escape
is one long glide.
Taking our time to work through the entire Temple of Atal'hakkar in WoW with
some close friends in one sitting and appreciating the little details the
designers put in.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote:
It's my first MMO. After all these years of playing games it took the words
"Dungeons and Dragons" and "free" to get me to try it. I still play it in
single player mode however. Someday I'll take the plunge and join a social
group. Probably get eaten alive by the kids in there. LOL
Brian Weeden wrote:
I'm sure it's great but I went cold turkey on MMOs. With a toddler in the
house and another on the way I am strictly a single player, pause any time
sort of gamer now (not that I didn't enjoy my time with MUDs, DAOC, and
WoW).
Oblivion, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Civ 4 (still going strong),
Dead
Space, the Witcher - those are my type of games now.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
Montreal Office
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote:
I have something you might be interested in Brian:
Dungeons and Dragons Online: behold the power of free
http://bit.ly/8dUTM
Brian Weeden wrote:
I bought a Q6600 for $250 in March 2008. I consider that to be a dirt
cheap
price to get a processor that will meet my foreseeable needs for 3-4
years.
I bought a Radeon 4850 for $180 in Oct 2008 and it has suited me just
fine.
The last game I played - Batman Arkham Asylum - ran very smooth. And
yes,
I
am running a 24" LCD. I've considered getting another 4850 and doing
SLI,
but I don't really see a need at this point and I'm not sure I"m going
to
get much value as opposed to waiting another 6 months and getting a
whole
new card. The next major game I will be playing a lot - Dragon
Age:Origins
- will probably run just fine on my current setup.
However, I am still running a pair of Seagate SATA drives that I've had
for
years (250 GB boot, 80 GB data). So my upgrade this winter will be
Windows
7 64-bit, another 4 GB of RAM (because I multitask a lot and run VMs),
and
a
SSD boot drive. But I have no incentive to change my CPU.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
Montreal Office
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote:
With gaming it depends on the resolution you play at. With a 30"
monitor
you're going to need some decent horsepower and even with my 24" there
are
times I wish for something better than my 4850 (5850 coming up as soon
as
price takes the 1st drop). I'm confused, you speak of an Intel quad
core
processor you bought 2 years ago being dirt cheap? Did you get it used
because new and cheap don't equate to Intel processors. LOL
Brian Weeden wrote:
Hard drives have been the major system bottleneck for most computer
users
for years now. I'm surprised that it's taken this long for that fact
to
settle in AND for companies to realize that's the future growth area.
Video cards? Eh...unless you are a freak you can get by. I play most
new
games and get by just fine spending $200 every couple of years.
Processor? The quad core intel I bought 2 years ago was dirt cheap
and
I
have yet to saturate all 4 processors.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
Montreal Office
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]>
wrote:
Yep, Vista and Win7 are both very hardrive intensive compared to XP.
Better
pony up the dough and get a solid state drive with the "barefoot"
controller. LOL
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
I've noticed this 'problem' on both Vista and Win7. It seems like
the
system puts it's file manager to sleep, so that if you try to do a
disk
action, you get a substantial delay. For instance, I'll be playing
a
game,
then I jump to email, when I try to drag and drop, there is a delay,
I
get
the circle, then finally it moves the message. Of course, the next
message
goes quickly. The same with getting disk directories. I'll click
on
a
drive, get the 1st half of folders, then the circle and then the
moving
bar,
then it finally gives me all the folders. Of course, after that
point,
everything works quickly. My power settings are for always on, so
it's
not
a power down. Anyone else seen this?
Thanks....Steve
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