. . .the annoying freezing, I'm still having fun playing Fallout 3: I'm at level 10 now and still haven't progressed very far on the main quest--just because it's so cool wandering around exploring and doing side quests. I just got ambushed by a team of three mercenaries hired by someone annoyed by my goody-goody ways--but they were dumb enough to ambush me from the bottom of a stairwell. Before they could get clear, I tossed a couple of grenades down there, whipped out my combat shotgun and blasted away, and extracted some very nice equipment from the resulting goo while muttering, "How goody goody do you think I am *now*, losers?"

Good times. ]:-)

Youngsters in full concentration, as seen from the game's POV.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham

nt

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I built my own computer system & we've been through some rough times together. But that crazy mutant expansion pack is the first software I've tried to run that actually *scares* me. I mean, how the hell is this barnacly, antediluvian 3D engine pushing my CPU up to 50°? And crashing my graphics card every 10 minutes?

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH

...that is important.

Gaming, porn or just cruising the Internet, really it is all the same....a way and means of wasting time.

I'd take a look myself at this game if I knew how...

On a more serious subject, a Blogger killed himself live on camera last night....something I predicted just a short while ago when I personally went nuts over a "Cutter," cutting their flesh in a live broadcast and wrote thus:

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I'm Very Unhappy with you, OP....for being a Cutter.

Stop this nonsense....NOW.

Find a better way to feel who you are, and if you aren't, then work on it.

You're just a coward in life, in my opinion.

Truthfully, I'm ashamed of you.

Now go out and make yourself a better person, more interesting, more happy, more alive.

And put the Fu%^&ing razor blades down.

Nao!

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I'd go find the news article about the suicide of this 19 year old kid last night....but screw it, you're just going to have to take my word for it or find it yourself.

The only redeeming grace is that he did it with pills.

The internet is sooooo full of possibilities....and even creates them itself...they would not exist, I often suspect, except for the fact that the means of showing off, (nudies of every possible female ever born, I often think), to broadcasting, (think Jackass on steroids), and you get...

Live Suicides.

Hummmmmm...wtf....the story extremely distressed me this morning.

Traveller

Heck, Manny Calavera frightens me.

That's what God invented kids for. I'm a watcher, not a do-er. But I'm going to get this one just to look at, based on your description. That way you'll have someone to whale the tar out of anytime we're both online. Valve has the reputation for making games with some of the best graphics around.

(Regarding console games, I thought Call of Duty 4 and 5 had really great background graphics and realistic move ment of the human body, something that's apparently very hard to bring off. Gears of War was not in the same league - very stilted and artificial.)

I love the lush backgrounds in some of these games. I bought Crysis just to see how fast it would run on my new super-duper PC, and also really likes the backgrounds in Far Cry.

Even a dead midget is far from light. - Confucius

nt

... but if it helps turn catchy apoplectic, I'll have to take it up.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.