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Please... retail WoW is a dumpster fire. The lore is a total joke; its actually worse its insulting to the players who are still slogging through. You know it, I know it and I think even though they won't say it, the WoW devs know it. Player numbers have been on a steady downturn. Streamers...

Haha yeah I remember that time well. You used to go to a mall or computer store and it was mostly Mom & Pop ISPs all over the place... like some guy running a rack of modems with a few hundred customers. The first ISP I signed up for was while living off campus at college. The guy included a...

Just curious; what did you use your Pentium Pro for? I remember when the CPU was released, it seemed like a very niche market. I seem to recall the main use case was if you ran NT or other 32bit OS, as performance in DOS games and such was lackluster compared to a Pentium. I vividly remember...

I actually still have one of the Amptron cache modules. I had it stashed away in some memorabilia; I think I was going to maybe make it into a keychain at one point.

Haha yeah I am glad someone else remembers them. I tried building a system with one of their motherboards using a Cyrix PR166 CPU and could never get it to be stable. I ended up just going to one of our local computer shows (remember those???) and buying a name brand motherboard and Intel P200.

Does anyone remember these motherboards from back in the day? A friend and I were talking about hardware we dealt with decades ago. We both worked from this 'hole in the wall' distributer and the only thing he would stock would be Amptron boards, usually paired with those awful Cyrix...

Too many to list, but our first family computer was an Apple IIc with color monitor. Played countless hours of The Bard's Tale and Ultima IV on that thing. Never had an Amiga or Commodore :( First PC was a generic beige box 8086 running what had to be original DOS. It booted up to a text menu...

My top 10 oldies: The Bard's Tale Ultima IV Might and Magic III: Isles of Tera Ultima VII: The Black Gate Castlevania Super Mario Bros 3 Wing Commander Hero's Quest, later renamed Quest for Glory I Secret of Monkey Island 2 Need for Speed 2 SE, played on a 3dfx card of course!!

Power to you man. I always felt Classic had such awesome and epic dungeons but the raids were so packed with trash it was crazy. I never did Naxx or AQ40 but I heard the prep for Naxx was legendarily painful. TBC had the better raids, IMHO. Kharazan, to this day, is one of the best small...

Have to re-necro this thread. I am sorry to say I never realized until today that Billy had passed away. I remember VE fondly and visited the site regularly. I have great respect for him and other 'first gen' gaming sites because people like Billy did what they did out of love. Yes, some of...

This isn't arguing about who likes what kind of food; something that is clearly subjective. I am telling you, flat out, that the 3900X didn't show up anywhere, in any meaningful quantity on any major retailer site. I am happy for people to jump in and tell me when/where they ordered one but...

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Why are you splitting hairs? This isn't me slamming AMD; I want a 3900X, I can wait a few days or whatever longer. I am just saying, it was clearly not a 7/7 launch because there was essentially no availability in any meaningful quantity. Like I said, go to Amazon and search for "ryzen 9...

Dude, you can't even search for the 3900X on Amazon. The only way I could find it was direct links from tech sites. To my knowledge it was never in stock. I watched Newegg on Sunday morning and same thing, it was never available. That is pretty much the definition of a paper launch. "They...

Agree. I won't be seeing any future MCU movies, at least not in the theaters. I consider Infinity War to be where the MCU ends. Thanos won.

This is my biggest beef with putting Captain Marvel in the second Infinity War movie. There has been 10 years of buildup and backstory in the MCU, starting with Iron Man, continuing with Captain America, Thor, etc. The movies gave us reasons to care about these characters. Tony Stark in...

That is sort of my point. The last 10 years, starting pretty much with Iron Man, the MCU has been building towards Infinity War. The build up involved introduction of many well known super heroes such as Thor, Capt. America, etc. Most of these super heroes had multiple movies to establish...

Why oh why did they shoe-horn Capt.Marvel in at the last minute. Really makes no sense.

^^This^^ As long as Bobby is bringing in the dough for investors, he is doing his job. The only way he is bringing in dough for the investors is if customers are paying money for Activision Blizzard games. Until customers actually stop paying Activision Blizzard, Bobby's job is likely safe.

Glad there is competition out there. Personally, it is still not a replacement for Fortnite for two reasons; One it isn't cross platform which kills it for me pretty much (my kids play Fortnite on their Switches, I join them sometimes on PC). Second, my kids are pretty young and Fortnite does...

Microsoft is certainly betting the farm on Teams, as they are basically killing off SfB and making Teams their one stop shop for collaboration. Between Teams and Slack though, IMHO, Slack is a lot more intuitive.

Last good BF game was BF1942 :(

Right, the moment the input and network traffic from your joystick button press has to pass through a single router, you are already way into noticeable lag territory.

I am very skeptical of game streaming vs. running local. I tried the whole steam box thing and while I am sure better solutions will come along, on a wired connection streaming off a very capable PC, the latency made any action game essentially unplayable. You can get away with shit like turn...

Diablo 3 was a financial success for Blizzard I am sure, but from the standpoint of quality - which is what Blizzard has always prided themselves on, it was a huge disaster and black eye. Torchlight II was a better Diablo 3 than Diablo 3, IMHO. There was a lot more innovation and replayability...

What massive regret Davidson and Associates must have for selling Blizzard for what... 7mil? Obviously hindsight is 20/20, but imagine if Blizzard had remained private. The huge amount of money coming in from WoW would have let them continue to be a truly independent studio. Now, despite what...

If Blizzard had the same motivation, thirst and innovation - it would be a Blizzard title in place of Fortnite as the most popular game of all time. What did we get instead? Overwatch.

Remember when Blizzard was an innovative company putting out top quality games? Pepperidge Farms remembers!

Many people I know get practically livid when I mention the topic of 'eSports' being in the Olympics. I agree, they are two different things. Let someone come up with an Olympics equivalent for eSports if they want to.

Personally I thought BF1942 was the best of the series, although I am probably in the minority on that. The physics were just so awesome, shelling near people and watching them fly like 100 feet in the air.

I am sure Apple will still manage to keep profit margins on phones high, but sales wise I don't see a bright future for Apple - for phones anyhow. My boss just got a Xiaomi device and if you look around at the competition, unless you are dead set on iOS, there are just so many other superior...

Awesome that he was doing what he loved right up to the end.

Confirmed my suspicion that I will be holding onto my 1080ti for a while.

One of the more interesting concepts I remember from a college class was the concept of 'locus of control' http://wilderdom.com/psychology/loc/LocusOfControlWhatIs.html Your statement makes it sound like you have an external locus of control; you believe things just happen to you, good luck or...

Thanks for the heads up Kyle! I owned a Steam Link for a while and will just toss out my own personally observed caveat; action games are not an ideal experience for this device. Playing games like Pinball Arcade had a jarring input latency. If you are doing turn based games or something...

Part of SemiAccurate articles are behind paywalls but they are painting the picture for Intel 10nm as dire. What if they need to go back to the drawing board on something critical? It could very well be 2020 before we see 10nm for the masses (from Intel).

Holy crap, its Kane from Command and Conquer!

Was going to post something snarky but trying to wrap my head around the dichotomy of SWJ/progressive abhorrence to guns, even apparently to the degree of outright bans, not just to keep them out of the hands of "bad guys", and the glorification of violence (including loads of gun violence) in...

Yeah for most things longer than a few words, I prefer face to face or a phonecall. I just suck at texting and auto correct is the devil. Don't get me wrong, Facebook has its uses. For keeping in touch long distance with family it is a great platform. Myself and a group of friends used to...

Facebook is OK for immediate family communication, sharing photos of the family, etc. Beyond that, it is a cesspool. Our neighborhood FB page is a prime example. I saw a flame war erupt because someone didn't like where their neighbor was parked. The entire online altercation could have been...