Pardon me for sounding ignorant, but... who?

Must be someone from before my short time.

Quote from: Luciana on February 28, 2015, 10:06:50 AM

Does every kind of scandal need a "gate" at the end of it?
Spygate
Deflategate
Gamergate
We get it, watergate happened. Shut up already.

Exactly. And the place was called Watergate. Not watergate-gate. and It wasn't named water. Its stupid how they add gate on everything these days.

Relevant:


But in regards to the OP, I constantly forget which side is which. I understand it was originally to do with ethics in journalism regarding video games (and later got moulded into a sexist debate to dodge the bullet), so is this good news or what?

Even if this is good for video game journalism, I still think it has a long way to go. It's nearly been 2 years since DICE was found to be using incentives with popular reviewers to make BF4 seem better than the reality, and although they aren't strictly "journalists", reviewers have far too much influential power in the industry to be ignored too.

I'll revise one thing to my last statement, if it's functional or expected to last long, I have no qualms paying what I could consider exorbitant prices, like jeans.

Ones that are artificially "weathered" and £15-£20 aren't likely to last 2 years, whereas the £120 ones (using Levi's as an example) would last at very least a decade, even with intensive use. Of course this doesn't apply for teens per-se as most are still growing - but once the spurts are over, good quality at a tad hefty price can be worth it in the long run, but not necessarily.

Damn, now I'm sad.

I don't know, perhaps because it's the "normal" thing to do?

Personally I prefer cargo pants and a funny T-shirt and a standard hoody, all of which would cost me below £80 if I shop right. but I can understand why people would do it, as whatever brand that sells those T-shirts with pictures of Rio DeJaneiro or California, (or other places I've never been to on people that haven't been there either which I regularly see getting wasted at nightclubs).

It's just an unfortunate trend, which companies have reigned in on and suckers have bought into.

Hmm.

Fuck it, I'll vote Plaid.

21.2.

But I still think the BMI system is totally flawed and shouldn't be used by doctors as an indicator of health.

Ok, set-up my account and the like, it seems my old account was wiped. Ah well, will try with my other one.

SuperGreen19 is my noob account for now, though I'll see if I can revive my other one.

English - Native, fluent.

Irish Gaelic - Native, though shite in all aspects of it. (I can tell you what a few words are)

Welsh - Non native, mild understanding and reading, poor speaking. Apparently worthy of a C in GCSE's.

Russian - I know the Cyrillic alphabet. That's all.

Italian, French, Bulgarian, Polish, Spanish, Malaysian, Turkish - A variety of random  words and expletives.

Simon from Misfits, and The Dude for my mentality.



As for physically...well... Roy from IT Crowd, tbh: (0:55 if the time thingy doesn't work.)

Wait, have they started crucifying people yet? Or running a survival-lottery in a town of perceived greed and corruption?

As 2D evil Caesar's Legion were made out to be in FNV, ISIS are just behind them in reality. All we need now is a face for ISIS to be some intelligent, at-one-point-good guy to suffer from cancer and then the ISIS "Empire" to collapse. Oh and maybe a bit more slavery and the like.

Currently in bed, in the aftermath of a flatparty and homemafe pizza burger (Will explain later)

Hangover by morning imminent. 'Night.

I play it when I don't want to think.

Seriously, at least with Gears or Fallout or Borderlands or Battlefield I think a little before I charge into a room packed with baddies. On MW2 I can just run all the way around and empty bunkers of them until I get shot, and repeat it over again.

Quote from: Kupo on February 18, 2015, 04:46:14 PM

I personally prefer the game where you buy a better computer.

Quote from: SuperIrish on February 18, 2015, 03:52:10 PM

You might be able to run Half Life (and 2) if you modify the Direct X settings (Enter "-dxlevel 81" or even 70 to reduce the strain from the game properties...if you have Steam), and CounterStrike Source if you keep the settings low.

Steam-independent games are probably better for your laptop considering the low RAM, so I'd check out any games made pre-2005-ish tops.

Though with that setup you won't be able to play a 1080p video without stuttering. Oh, and don't expect ANY of these to run at 60fps, more around the mid 20's if you're lucky.

This. All of this.

Like I said, I didn't buy this for gaming. I'm going to be getting a custom made tower eventually for that. I'm just wondering what I can play on this.

Also, I used to play Half-Life and CSS all the time on my 12 year old tower. Pretty sure I can run those games with medium settings, but maybe the videocard is my problem.

From experience on my previous laptop, it almost certainly is the gpu.

Lowering the software level of DirectX lowers the graphics levels further than just having stuff on med/low settings, at the cost of fighting smudgy blobby polygons.