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@Ashley @ReZourceman Whyyyyy LSP?! She's the epitome of terrible YOLO Swag culture. Hate her and her hi-jinks.....totally don't just want all those lumps to myself. On that note...Picked up AT:HIKWYSOG. I enjoyed the demo so why not. Also, Tales of the Abyss 3DS, gamestop has no physical copies of Animal Crossing sadly (and that's where my giftcard was too)

Cube, hate to say this but you are awful at SMB Booted up SMB, ran through 1-1 no prob (well lost my 'shroom) hit the top of the flag pole and shut down. Game is way fucking harder on the 3DS though, tiny too close misaligned buttons and tiny D-Pad. Fuck that noise. Hand me a NES or SNES controller and it's muscle memory from there.

...... I suck Games 308 Hours to beat main stories 3460.95 Hours for completion 6514.73

I will never argue that fact. I will however argue that what is stranger are the countries mixing Metric and Imperial. Also Hahahah, well played.

Yeaaah I rent a 2 story place. I overdid it with leg lunges/free squats one night. Holy crap going upstairs to bed was awful, and downstairs the next morning...and to the toilet, you get the idea. Awful. Dunno when it is, but a local zoo holds a annual 5K, might do that with my Sister and Brother in law, they did it last year actually. Realistically I want to lose about 40 pounds. Google tells me, 2.8 stone. Stone is strange.

Stairs? First time in this thread, I saw it mentioned in the Good Stuff thread.... You people make me feel like I'm hardly doing anything. Gym's have people so they scare me from going. I've just been running on my sister's treadmill instead. Today was quite the day I've typically just been running 1 mile (1.6km) (5mph(8kph), 12 minutes) and stopping. Today I ran 2 miles (3.2km) for a full 24 minutes. Was kinda proud of myself with no one to tell.

According to Wikipedia... How much water do you drink if you wake up drunk? I usually suck a bottle or so down right away. Sometimes before hitting the bathroom even.

Turned 24 today, a nice dinner out with the Parents. A DELICIOUS 14oz New York Strip steak, rare (Because anything else is overcooked.) potato soup, and a big ass piece of Broccoli. Fuck yeah broccoli! Got Luigi's Mansion (Animal Crossing wasn't available, no biggie) $30 gift card, and snap-pop thingers. Throw em and they pop. Fun!

Dehydration is a large cause of the hangover. I use to get fucked up on 151 and chase with water. I'd drink 2-3x as much water as alcohol and wake up good. The other trick is to wake up drunk still and then sober back up. Also, Bananas, or Potassium in general helps. Not sure if it helps to sober up or helps hangovers...but something like that.

It comes with a headset, you just have to supply your own tape to attach the kinect to your head.

Just throw that first one right out. The CPU on that is....well...a step above a netbook seems about right. The second one would be passable. You could do basic computing happily, but I don't think games would be possible for the most part. 3rd & 4th are near as I can tell identical. Exception being the HDD sizes, basic gaming would be possible. I misspoke before in the thread, my Lenovo is an A6 not an A8. Skyrim could be technically playable...but it would play pretty bad and look kinda crappy. Otherwise I haven't experimented with it much beyond playing Binding of Issac. Light gaming approved basically.

Sadly very rarely. It's just not the same as those days before hats.

Yeah, I'm definitely getting it right away. And I too bought The Slip, and I love it, but it does have a different feel to it from the others. There is nothing NIN has done that I haven't enjoyed, even one off movie tracks (Perfect Drug, Deep, Burn). Gotta say though, The Fragile gets the most playtime from me though.

Smexy. If you're looking to upgrade the GPU, the Nvidia GTX760 just hit, and delivers great performance at a pretty good price.

Dat grass texture :awesome: /troll Looking quite pretty I suppose. And it is surprising to see how GT5 aged...It's pretty ugly at 720p even with 4xAA...

Little bummed at the lack of anyone talking about Hesitation Marks by NIN. First real release since Year Zero in 2007 (The Slip was free, and Ghosts I-IV instrumental). So this is kinda big. Soundcloud-Came Back Haunted It's different, but grew on me part way through the track.

Sounds like a reason to ragequit for the opposite of last time. And awesome willpower there :wink:

Yup. I got it all patched up and get the dreaded ?????????????? message haha.

Took me faaaar to long to actually find the download link after running the benchmark. Downloading now though.

Because it was retail games. Comparable to if you could share your steam library (which beta code suggests is coming?) PS3 simply allowed sharing of digital goods. Which was FANTASTIC and under promoted quite frankly. Sadly though publisher pressure reduced the share limit from 5 PS3s down to 2...Maybe users? But I'm thinking consoles as users can share right? Not sure but still. It worked quite well really, I've done it once with Grandia for a friend since my disc was fucked (). I logged on downloaded the game logged off and he could play it anytime. Honestly allowing a 60 minute trial (similar to what PS+ does) would be FANTASTIC. So many games don't have demos because ermahgerd lost sales, even just an hour lended to someone you can't let borrow the disc could be enough to get them hooked. As to Demo's losing sales.....yeah look at Gunpoint. http://www.pentadact.com/2013-06-18-gunpoint-recoups-development-costs-in-64-seconds/ Actually this goes SO FAR towards the idea that the industry needs to Curb rampant spending. It's like minecraft to a smaller degree. He paid $30 for the software, made a (excellent) game, and earned enough through presales to quit his day job. At which point sales continued through the roof. Go figure he put out a demo because he didn't want to get initial hype sales without those people playing first. Edit, that was a helluva drunken tangent. But I like it.

@Deathjam is correct, on an APU the GPU doesn't have dedicated VRAM. @flameboy, the Newegg and Amazon laptops are the same, but the Tigerdirect is actually different. It has the A8/7640G APU instead of the faster A10/7660G. The difference isn't huge, but it is there. And I'll say also, that I quite like the quality of my Lenovo, with an A8 I believe. I don't play much on it though.

Gamers aren't terribly bright is what I'd go with...but at least they did speak with their wallets successfully for once.

Actually, these AMD APUs (CPU and GPU on the same die) are quite a bit better than any Intel offering without a discreet GPU. The HP Pavilion (AMD A8) is a 4 core and quite capable at playing games. Specifically it should be able to play everything @flameboy mentioned with the possible (but unlikely) exception of The Old Republic. Hell, a simple google search turns this up Skyrim on high@1600x900 30-35fps While I'm loath to link to Tomshardware....it paints a similar picture. AMD last gen APU (Llano, A8 w/ 6550D) still trounces the Intel HD4000 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ivy-bridge-benchmark-core-i7-3770k,3181-5.html Get the Pavilion is what I recommend. Or slightly out of budget, http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834310645&IsVirtualParent=1 It's a single bump up in the APU line is all. Sorry, but you get the shaft in Canada as far as Newegg, and Tigerdirect's stock goes. I don't know if you could order from the .com sites and ship to canada instead. I do suggest looking into it though as Newegg usually has great deals and a large selection.

So closer to 2/3rds. I'm curious where you get the $37 figure. I've never seen anything concrete and have been led to believe it was a higher figure (though still obviously not the full 60). Honestly that's another reason stores like having Used games, the stores don't make much profit off of initial sales.

Built in 3G specifically just for authentication would be great. Knowing MS it would not be cheap though, (Anyone remember the Wifi adapter....).