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This thing has the shittiest keyboard I've ever used . . . scrabble-tile type keys that fall off if you speak harshly at them . . . which you will, since they're so shitty. I'm missing half a dozen keys now; I see new replacement keyboards on ebay for $16 but I don't want the nightmare to...

Has anyone used one of these gadgets? I know they're pretty limited and rough around the edges, but there's a used one for sale cheap -- just wondering what the general consensus is -- worth $65 Cdn for novelty value/farting around, or so useless I should avoid it at any price?

Worst game I ever played was Jeopardy on the PC. It had a bug that always let player 1 buzz in first, no matter what. If you were stuck being player 2 the resulting rage would make your head explode.

Galactic Civilizations, and Elemental in a few months.

If you like arcade racing Burnout Paradise Ultimate is under $30.

Not long enough to give it in-car views (hell, it doesn't even have side views except in chase cam), a rearview mirror, speedo, a menu system that doesn't suck, control configuration that isn't retarded, or even decent visuals. You can pretty much count the polys on the road when you go through...

Same here. I've never found any outdoor viewing conditions in which a glossy laptop screen is anything but an unusable piece of shit.

I have done that. I found that going from 1200 to 1080 made very little difference. However, there was an additional factor in play -- the 1920x1200 was a piece of shit TN panel and the 1920x1080 is IPS. :p The loss of vertical room may have been overshadowed by the image quality. It's...

Where to begin? I have never hated a piece of hardware like I hate this thing. I bought it to take with my laptop on trips so as not to risk losing my expensive MX Rev. I soon regretted the purchase. First, the flash memory feature. I've never found it useful, and it makes the usb...

Quoted for ubergayness.

It's not exactly intented to be a commuter bike :rolleyes: Look at custom choppers -- most of them carry enough gas for about 20 minutes of riding, aren't capable of doing anything but screaming down a (very smooth) highway in a straight line, and have exposed drive belts or fenderless tires...

I think the best mousing surface I ever had was a teflon coated cookie pan with the raised edges cut off.

Bought an original GTX260 back when the competition was the 512mb 4870 for the same price. Upgraded to a 4870X2 when I found a secondhand one locally for a good price.

Elemental Wolfenstein if it doesn't suck Mechwarrior 5 even if it does suck

+1 I ragequit my 245bw after a few months.

Not much info, but at least he doesn't say it sucks in comparison.

Well, with an 8800GTS as the minimum requirement not many people are going to be playing this on laptops anyway. And as someone who lives in a rural area with spotty internet service, I think that if a storm is severe enough to make you worry about losing your internet you shouldn't have the...

Apparently this is the least interesting review ever. :p

FWIW, I had a 600W psu running a GTX 260, Q6600 @ 3.7, 4 drives and some lighted fans. When I switched to a 4870X2, the power supply ASPLODED!!!1!! Just kidding. It's fine, and I'm sure your 485W Enermax will be fine as well. The lack of a 2nd 6 pin connector just means that cards that...

I have a 42" ips panel, as long as you can handle the dot pitch the size is fine. But I found even a 24" Samsung TN panel was too big for the limited viewing angle. 26" would be even worse.

Thanks, I gave it a try and whaddaya know, it worked. I cut off one of the 4-pin plugs from the extra cpu cable I'm not using, dremelled it in half to make a +2 plug, and spliced it into two of the ground wires from the 6 pin.

I just bought a used 4870X2 and discovered that my psu only has 2 6-pin connectors and the card's original owner lost the 8-pin pci-e adapter. I can't find an adapter locally and it'll cost me over $20 -- and more importantly, take a week -- to get one shipped. Now forgive me if this is...

Waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy back in the days of Heat.net, I was playing in an Unreal tournament (not Unreal Tournament, heh) and they accidentally loaded a single player map for one round. It was the very first level where the ASMD was available, in sort of a hidden area near the spawn point IIRC...

If the dot pitch doesn't bug you, you'll love a big hdtv. I have a 42", and while I'd like it to have more pixels, for me the extra resolution of a 30" monitor is outweighed by the disadvantages -- much more video card performance needed, and that tiny, tiny 30" screen :p

Elemental will be in open beta soon.

Coming over a hill at 150 kts in Longbow 2 multi and unleashing a massive barrage of Hellfires, Stingers and 30mm to save a teammate who was being engaged by a couple Hinds and a bunch of ground units. Also in LB2, sneaking up behind a Russian helo and taking it out with the .50 cal on the...

Deus Ex 2. In a very distant second, Spore.

Exactly. I think the hardest game I've played is Silent Hunter III on full manual mode in 1944-45 . . . no gimmicks or crappy game design, just a good simulation of a suicidally difficult situation that allows no mistakes.

I hope there's a good editor with support for single-player campaigns. I was fluent in UnrealEd and was pretty stoked about learning the AvP2 editor and doing some singleplayer missions . . . but the AvP2 tools were grotesquely primitive pieces of crap. I couldn't fathom setting up scripted...

In terms of enthusiast market share, probably the Voodoo 2. 3dfx had made a name for themselves with the original Voodoo and unlike the Voodoo 3 I don't think there was any viable competition for the Voodoo 2. D3D wasn't worth mentioning at the time and the very few big games that didn't come...

The single campaign with forced species changes between missions sounds a little iffy. I loved playing through the story in 3 dedicated campaigns in AvP2.

My G15 lcd viewing habits didn't change when I added a second real monitor. It's more convenient to have Everest or SirReal's app on the little screen right in front of me than to take up workspace on a second monitor off to the side. And when I don't really need 2 monitors going it's a lot...

I see the G19 as a toy, and thus not a value-driven purchase :p

Your TNs are in portrait mode?

Most customers wanted smaller size and didn't need 18 macro buttons; the screen was smaller but resolution didn't change so no loss there really. It's not like you need to read the keyboard lcd from across the room. I also paid $52 Cdn. for my G15 v2 so the v1 must've been damn cheap if the v2...

How about beating her over the head with a frozen trout? And last time I checked, I could see an entire page at once on my non-rotated monitor.

I found AvP2 multiplayer immensely addictive despite having the worst netcode in history. At times the lag and warping were so bad it was like a random teleportation effect.

No it won't. Even the seemingly blind people who don't mind TNs would have to take exception to the unsurpassed shittiness that is rotated TN.

And why bother with new video cards, I mean it all just ends up as pixels anyway.

I used to be a flight-simaholic but was forced to quit after my aging CH gear refused to work under XP. I still remember my first Longbow flight after I got a throttle and pedals . . . after controlling rudder and collective with the keyboard, a full HOTAS made it seem like the helo was hooked...