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    Anime

    in General Discussion

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    I stopped watching anime about a year ago. After a while, it just became more and more of a cliche jumble and every show looked the same. The only anime that I would recommend watching that have been released in the past two years would be Eureka Seven and Gurren Lagann.

    Well, I try not to let anime alter the way i think, but then again, they do alot of crazy stuff in anime, which is really fun. My friend started wearing weights like Rock Lee on his feet.

    I hate you and I hate your friend, simply because you represent everything that is wrong with the "otaku" (god I hate that word) culture in the US. Please stop being such weaboo failures.

    Why I don't play PC games.

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    If I saw such a system I'd believe it. My $1600 workstation doesn't even really run stuff that well.

    I am typing on one right now.

    Athlon X2 4000+, 2gb DDr2800, HD3850

    I get a solid 50+ fps in TF2, and the whole thing cost me around $450-500 in parts.

    Just out of curiosity, what graphics card are you running?

    Why I don't play PC games.

    in General Discussion

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    I don't believe you can make a great PC gaming system from scratch for $400, by the way (the cost of a 20GB PS3.) A capable one, yes, but the nice thing about consoles is that they just work out of the box.

    Not super great no, but enough to play the Orange Box and other games that scale relatively well at decent settings. Besides, putting it together is half the fun.

    There's no question that PC gaming is clunkier and more cumbersome, whether it's the time it takes to boot up the gaming experience,

    Thats negligible, especially if you have a fairly fast hard drive. I would compare it to PS2 load times, if that.

    to general responsiveness,

    Don't know about you, but response has never been a problem with me, especially with mouse controls.

    to having to worry about your PC becoming slower and more cluttered over time..

    This does not happen if you know how to take care of your computer. Disable java, delete cookies, defrag with something other than Windows Defragger, don't use Norton, McAfee antiviruses, avoid IE like the plague, don't frequent suspicious porn sites, and you're set.

    Why I don't play PC games.

    in General Discussion

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    Well, relative to their previous consoles/handhelds, not really - for example, one of my friend's Gamecubes fell from a table ~3 feet high and stopped functioning, whereas that wouldn't happen with the NES or SNES.

    To me, it seems to go like this:

    If a device uses optical media, it becomes infinitely more fragile. This applies to everything, be it music players, game consoles, even computers.

    Why I don't play PC games.

    in General Discussion

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    Nintendo has had a great reputation for well built systems...excepting when they switched to disc-based systems. I never had that problem in Metroid Prime 1, but I have had some other issues. However, nowhere near as buggy as PC games tend to be.

    The Gamecube and Wii are very reliable, I don't really see why you would say otherwise.

    I did encounter the MP bug, and I could make it happen repeatedly by going straight from the ship to the first elevator. Thats retro Studio's fault though, not Nintendo's.

    Why I don't play PC games.

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    I mean, I didn't pick my laptop out to be a gaming rig, but it had all the necessary specs to run the program (although not the recommended video card), so what could possibly go wrong, right? Ha. Imagine my frustration when the game totally stopped responding sixty seconds into the game, that is, when I first stepped through a Portal.

    Research on The Google dug up this thread, along with other. Apparently the integrated Intel 945gm chipset just... doesn't work with most of The Orange Box. However, there's a handy fix on this page, right? Well. Sort of. I got to exercise 14 in the game before it decided to slow down to a nice 2 frames per second, because apparently I'm not allowed to place portals too far away from each other before the game goes wacko.

    This is where you fail miserably. If you had done any research at all, you would have discovered that the Intel 900 series chipsets (any of them) are NOT meant for any kind of 3D gaming. At all. They are simply incapable of doing it. Everything can go wrong when you do not have a 3D capable video card, since that is what actually renders the game. It is the most important part of any modern gaming PC.

    Tldr: Read the box, check the specs, make sure you are capable of running the game, and you will come to enjoy PC gaming.

    Besides, the PS3 version has graphical issues, and Playing TF2 on the 360 with a controller and being limited to less than 16 players just isn't right.

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