prophetik music

i did shapeshifting for two reasons. in the event that one of my mages runs out of mana and i don't have a potion (happened often earlier in the game), and a tank dies, i have another free tank without effort. the bear is really damn powerful later in the game, too. plus, there's the constitution bonus. morrigan and wynne both had ridiculous stats in the magic department but were getting killed in three hits. the extra health helped a lot.

i hate EVERYONE

we have differences of opinion on 'high settings', schwaltzvald =) stampede, when he says high settings, he's not talking about AA. anti-aliasing is the thing that separates good cards from lower-end cards - it's what requires the most ram and the fastest clock rates to achieve, generally. i'll put it this way: a 9500 or 9600 can play crysis on medium-high to high if AA is off. that doesn't mean it's a good card - it just means that AA is everything for graphics quality. does crysis LOOK like it's on high? no. most modern games depend on AA for graphics quality and the 'high' settings just reinforce that. modern game graphics still rely on a good cpu, too. yours is passable, in that regard. not great, but passable.

actually, it is - in classical music, the 'for x chamber ensemble' is rarely capitalized because the title isn't the whole thing, it's just the first part. so, Locke's Theme for brass quintet is totally appropriate.

a 9500gt is enough. what processor do you have? check out the extreme power calculator. put in everything (be generous, you want extra), add 25-30%, and that's your minimum power needed. the key is to plan for psu efficiency - if you need 400w of power, you need 600w at 66% efficiency. see what i mean? regardless, i suggest you go with the modxstream pro 500w psu. it should be enough to cover your needs unless you've got a ridiculous amount of peripherals or a huge quad core. it's a great psu, it's modular, it's guaranteed to be over 80% efficiency...it's great. just put it in a computer for firouzi, here. for more info on efficiency and all that, check out my guide in my profile. i should point out that the 9500 is pretty damn bad. it'll handle itself, but look into getting the 9800gtx+ (it'll play new games at medium-high to high settings)...and the evga version is 119 dollars with their lifetime warranty. the rebranded version, the GTS 250, is the same card and everything with a different name. if these are too much, a 9800GT is excellent as well. now, back to the OP. how much do you want to spend? everything i said before is just as good now, but you'll almost definitely have to upgrade your psu as well regardless of what you put into it. i'm pretty sure you've got a 300w psu in there, if that, so you'll need much more to handle a graphics card of any ability. also, thanks for the compliment =) i spent about two months of free time writing that. it's getting outdated - i wrote it right before the gtx2xx cards came out - but it's still got info regarding plugs and all that.

finished this game last night, around 60 hours played. i loved it. there were some minor gripes, but i really enjoyed it. i just wish that most of the decisions made in the last few hours of the game actually mattered with THIS runthrough. sure, it's cool having stuff for the next game, but who really took advantage of that with KOTOR 1 and 2? how many people are actually going to 'continue' with DA:O 2 comes out? maybe it's just me, but i like more closure than the fallout 3-style ending allows. edit: archaon, do you realize how easy it is to leave a dungeon and go unload all your stuff on a merchant and run around topside for a while? like, easier than any other game i've ever played. so stop bitching. they made it long on purpose - some people LIKE to grind dungeons. like me. edit 2: did anyone else think it was enormously funny to find OMG SPOILER sandal in Drakon Fort at the end of the game, and when you ask him how everyone in the room was dead /OMG SPOILER he says "ENCHANTMENT!" and takes you to the rune screen? i laughed for a solid ten minutes at that one. i had to get up and walk around. edit 3: i should point out i did the entire game with myself (champion/berserker), alistair (templar/berserker), morrigan and wynne (both shapeshifter/spirit healer). i used sten before i got wynne, but he dies too much. both alistair and myself were sword-and-shield fighters. i was mostly damage-based - i was doing 70-80 a hit with a sword, plus up to 25 bonus from runes - and alistair had juggernaut armor, constitution of 50-something before being enhanced, and a tower shield that was very, very expensive. he had like six hundred health =) basically nothing could kill him, including being the only one alive at the end of the paragon battle in the deep roads. once you get up higher, you can keep enemies on the ground for the entirety of the battle between war cry, shield bash, and stone fist. i REALLY like that. oh, and kanthos, cast grease once you've got earthquake, before you do inferno and fireball. it's a significant increase in damage, and it's like 2 mana to cast. if your characters have indomitable, or the shield bonus that doesn't allow knockdowns, they can kick ass the whole time your enemies are on the ground, too. even more so when your tank has massive dragon-scale armor, with 75% fire resistance. you can just leave him in there and tank the shit out of them.

first of all, if you actually want to learn about all this you should check out the guide that's in my signature. it's got pages - literally, pages - of computerspeak turned into plain english. which is why i wrote it. download a program called cpu-z, run it (no install, just run the .exe), and tell us what's under the motherboard pane. a screenshot would be glorious. depending on what you've got, i'll be able to give you definitive answers on what to get based on what kind of cash you've got. this is, after all, what i do with my computer business, after all =)

lol, meteo AND damned. you didn't even bother to google the phrase, first, did you? VHD's usually pretty cool about releasing his arrangements, but it might be a good idea to try and figure it out by ear yourself. it's always a learning experience when you notate something you love by hand.

depends on the track, really.

yeah, the stuff i've seen so far is pretty cool.

i wouldn't mind more dirt on the bass track. like, just layer some noisy shit on there to dirt it up. this feels really more like funk than hip-hop to me, personally. the rhodes does it in.

not at all, dude.

it's my own damn thread and i can dp if i want. i updated the first post to reflect the mass of tails that are in this here cave. calebyte and i have been working on some new concepts for this release that are going to be pretty cool. i'll let you know more soon enough.

why thank you, tart master.

there aren't any, really. if you want to contribute then just shoot me a pm saying what you'd like to try remixing.

it works so awesome, actually, that i'm still #20, and i haven't run F@H on my system in two years.

holy SHIT, i've been trying to find the name of that track for years. someone showed me deltron 3030's stuff a while back and i haven't been able to find the name again. AWESOME!

i like olive garden. they have good rolls.

gnarls barkley is fantastic stuff, specifically their 'st. elsewhere' album. lots of creative audio there. they're obviously not instrumental tracks, but there's a lot going on in those tracks that can be applied to an instrumental piece. afro samurai's OST comes to mind, too. pretty much anything by the RMZ is awesome. he was one of the guys in wu-tang clan a while back.

that chick in all his pictures was his sis?

obtuse, theophany, and sound test are all vying for that track on the project. i'll only take one in the end, but i'm going to wait until all of them are finished to 'pick'. the others will be bonus tracks - i'm not turning away new mixers just because they're new.

plan on two meals a day, with two 'snacks' - drinks or munchies. that'll give you headroom for if you go out or if you go to a grocery store and eat in a cafeteria, like my room has done several years in a row. bring money for merch. there's always cool stuff to find, like my awesome stuffed 1up mushroom i found two years ago =) if you split a room for three nights with three other people, it costs 75$ a pop. edit: pre-regged! and a shirt!

i'm going. i'm driving cyril the wolf, so he's going too.

i don't get deals, actually. at least, i rarely hear about anything and act on it. so, no, probably not.

so i've got a buttload of 360 cables and parts, and a ringed-out 360 (falcon with a BenQ drive). i'll take whatever i can get. also, i can get cases for modern games. i'll charge 2 bucks a pop and ship as many as you want at the same time. just let me know. i can also get standard cases (slimline, ps3, psp, ds, green, ps2, or normal) for a dollar a pop. they're in nice condition.