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Comment Re:NEVER (Score 1) 398

Apparently my attempt at humor has failed. I was referring to the state of Georgia and not the country of Georgia. I have not made it to that part of Europe (Asia?) in my travels. And this was the Bible Belt I was referencing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_belt. I suppose I should be more aware of the international audience in future posts. :-)

Comment Re:anecdotal reviews are anecdotal (Score 1) 247

A) Don't know they can move while casting

This has been the biggest challenge to overcome. It's been pounded into my brain in the last 15 years that you cannot move while casting, doing a special move, etc. This is not a bad thing, combat is fun. I also like the fact you are mostly responsible for keeping yourself alive. Very refreshing not to have to have a healer or specific support/dps/etc class to run around and kill shit. No monthly fee is the icing on the cake too; I could care less about what my toon looks like and will never pay for those items. I'm grateful that many others will however.

Comment Re:Okay then (Score 1) 129

BTW OT but anybody know when the big summer sale starts? My youngest has been saving up for it and I swear every other question is "Has it started yet?" so knowing the date and time would be nice, thanks.

Not sure when it starts, but the game list was leaked all over yesterday if that helps at all - http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/09/possible-steam-summer-sale-details-arise/

Comment Re:Well, Damn. (Score 1) 128

Not usually an MMO kind of guy, but the more I read about GW2, the more I think I actually have cause to finally upgrade/replace my 4 year old gaming rig... funding, however, is a different matter.

What hardware do you have? My 4 year old gaming rig (purchased 08/2008) has no issue with anything even today. I've upgraded the video card once (Nvidia 260 -> Nvidia 460) and now have some SSDs. Intel 9550 with 8GB RAM. GW2 runs great, same with Skyrim (with most graphical features on high) for another example. Even 4 years ago I don't think that rig was bleeding edge.

Comment Re:Hard drive prices down? (Score 1) 292

Fair enough, but more than say 20GBs? Not saying that a 64GB SSD is enough for everyone, but it seems like it should be more than enough if you only put your OS on it, with plenty room for updates, software that refuses to go to a data drive, etc. Other folks in the thread had mentioned getting rid of the hibernation and pagefile too.

Comment Re:Hard drive prices down? (Score 0) 292

hell I'm using over 100Gb on my OS drive and I keep all my games and movies on a separate drive,

... while I back up my OS regularly I don't want to even know how much bullshit I'd have to go through to get a 3 year old Win 7 install pared down to 64Gb and squeezed onto an SSD. Does anybody have experience with mostly full SSDs? I know they need to use wear leveling and I'm curious how well that would work if the drive is damned near full. Lets say I have 108Gb on my OS drive and I buy a 128Gb SSD, is that gonna kill the performance? Increase the failure rate? Would it be better to simply get a hybrid or wait until the 256Gb drives come down?

What are you storing on your OS drive to use over 100GB? I have a 64GB SSD in my laptop (Win7 64-bit, 59.6GB formatted) that also includes an additional 20GB virtual disk (Win7 64-bit c: drive) and I still have 10-15GB free depending on what junk I currently have on my desktop. All of my data files are on the ~400GB spinning disk. The only other "tweak" is I have completely removed the windows page file (12GB of RAM) as I don't need one.

I've also gotten my c:\ down to 2-3 GBs free and not noticed any performance difference.

Comment Re:Hard to feel bad for them (Score 2) 687

This is why so many girls go into modelling and find themselves dispirited: it's made to look like a glamorous, well-paid job, but it turns out to be exceptionally sleazy and cheap.

For the most part, girls do not know what they're getting into.

That's why these ladies only do the job for one event and never look back,right? Because after the first time they know what they are getting into and shouldn't make the same mistake again, right? I somehow doubt that is the case though....

Comment Re:I am amused standing in a cashiers line (Score 1) 489

Cashiers used to be expected to be capable of some basic arithmetic, but not so anymore.

When I worked at a fast food joint in 1991 the management realized I could do basic arithmetic in my head and put me at drive through duty the majority of my shifts. Our antiquated (old even for 1991) cash registers could only handle one order or transaction at a time. Given the nature of drive through I typically had 3-5 orders to deal with at a given time. Any change I gave back had to be calculated in my head vs relying on a fancy cash register. Anyone else who worked the drive through had a calculator handy to calculate change. So based on my experience, even 20 years ago most cashiers failed at basic math. Maybe we have to go back another 20 years for these competent cashiers?

Comment Re:A bit outdated (Score 1) 461

It's hard to beat free though. One person's junk is another person's treasure. I'll put random "junk" out with the trash that Goodwill won't even take and invariably one of my neighbors will grab it before the trash truck makes its rounds. It's kind of scary as I feel like I live in a fairly nice neighborhood and I would think my neighbors wouldn't want this "junk" either. /shrug

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