The Bard

I went for the 7870. I'm currently running a single 5770. It seems to be bottlenecking my 4.5 ghz overclocked i5 2500k somewhat . Eventually, when the price comes down on the 7870, I'll probably run it in crossfire.

Hell, I've played it twice through and am now buying a £250 graphics card just so I can play it at full settings.

I do it all the time to my mate Richard. They're always haikus full of racial epithets though. He's Thai. So yeah. Love thread.

Hands off fuckers, he's mine. Although I'm sorry to hear that Goron, I'm pretty sure you'll move on to find someone with whom proximity and commitment aren't such issues. I went through the same thing approximately a year ago. Your first impulse is going to be to attatch significance to every date or holiday that comes by and on which you did something together in years previously, or coffee shops that you went into together, but you've got to check yourself when that happens and realise it's going to bum you out and wrongfully enshrine something that you're likely to find again soon with someone else. Unsubscribe to her Facebook posts on your news feed, don't trawl through her pictures, and definitely don't call her, because all that's going to do is furnish your sense of misery and longing for something that flat out isn't good for you. Also, go out. Sow those oats, it'll help you move on

It's made worse when you chug a can of Monster energy and are left hyperactive but still as unable to concentrate on anything. Also: Yeah, what the fuck has been up with the ridiculous hail storms? It's fucking April.

Went to bed at around 6:30am and then the spawn of some cave dwelling community decided to repeatedly kick a football against a garage door at 10am. Firstly, why the fuck would you want to kick it against a garage door, which will absorb more of the impact than a wall will, making it more difficult to get the damn thing to return to you. It will also make a fuckton of noise, making anyone who is having a lie in want to thrash you to within an inch of your life. I find that I really can't think straight or read properly when I haven't had a good nights sleep. Anyone else get this?

Well that just went and proved me wrong didn't it?

Well just to think about why you like something. Again, you might not share my opinion which is fine, but I'm bored by small talk. It isn't enough for someone to tell me that they like something, I like to be told why and how that thing interacts with the person. You learn something new about both the person you're talking to and the thing they're talking about. And maybe they'll crystallise and reveal to themselves something that might not have been immediately obvious. It's why I love writing; just the act of putting your thoughts in order helps you find interesting patterns in them. But hey, maybe that's making demands some people aren't interested in fulfilling .

Well there are only so many interesting things to say about Linkin Park

I used to hold that opinion when I was, like, 16, way before you were even a member here, so I call bullshit. People change their minds you know, and there are certainly compelling arguments on both sides. I refer you to this post, as an example, and on which I've gotten a thanks from you no less (and which you clearly won't read since you don't give a shit about the actual specifics about a persons viewpoint), and hell, that was in 2010, so trying to claim that me and Oxigen share the same ideas is, like I said, deliberately dense. Secondly, its rather presumptuous of you to think that because you've no interest in talking about taste, in music or otherwise, that everyone else shares this sentiment. Challenging your own assumptions and motives is never an idle pursuit.

Remind me never to watch that show.

You're either completely illiterate and incapable of understanding any nuance in an argument, or you're purposefully being dense. I never said anything about there being an "objective" side in music (at least as far as music is something to be interpreted), nor do I characterise things in that wholly binary way. Then again, people need only reference your comment about a critique being invalid in anything that pertains to subjectivity for evidence of my first point .

We call them dirtfoots where I'm from. They be out creepin.

Shit's not funny, but it's kinda funny.

Well, it's the variables that they have to provide contingencies for in the code that produce unforseeable interactions that result in the sort of bugs that you describe. Also on PC, for example, the problem is further compounded by the fact that everyone playing will have a different machine, with different components and drivers installed, presumably working on a different version of Direct X and Windows. Now, if it's something like the original Prey, for example, the range of possible actions is very limited by the games scripted nature - you walk here, trigger a set of enemies to appear, the only real choice you have being the weapon you use to kill said enemies - whereas with Fallout or Skyrim, right off the bat you have a character whose traits are customised to your specifications, meaning he/she is going to interact with the environment in a totally different way to how another persons character will. Add to that an unimaginably huge amount of interactive things in the environment itself, such as the cheese wheels and the soul gems and the flowers, not to mention the physics elements and all the other bullshit. I mean, I heard there was a bug that was somehow triggered when you picked up every cheese wheel in the game. Now how exactly would it occur to a QA team, or the developer to test for that? How are they going to hypothesise the existence of a player who makes it his sole mission to pick up every one of this or that random item, and the contortions these actions are going to cause in the code? These are the reasons that I'm more liable to give them a pass; I'd rather they keep making huge systemic games of this caliber, and I'll deal with the bugs as they come.

I know, I mean, it's a weird thing with games right, like if you went to see a film at a cinema and it kept cutting out for 30 second intervals, you'd be pissed and want your money back, but because there are so many more variables in video games, you kinda have to learn to live with it, especially in Bethesda games, where the amount of player input is so drastically more consequential than in most other games.

Stop to think for a moment, about the financial ramifications of paying a full QA team to bug test a game for six months, and then tell me whether it seems like a viable course of action to you. I'm more prone to give Bethesda a pass because I know that the nature of the games they make mean there exist such a huge amount of interactive systems that nobody can holistically test before release.

Whereas I am of the opinion that the original was a total mess in terms of level design, and, although I still really enjoyed it, I'd much prefer a more focused effort like the second game. Very excited.

I think your main misfortune is that you hail from a town of farmers and druids. And pasties

Looks like the game may be in more trouble than thought

Of course, in that case, if authorial intent has been established, is it not simply a poorly executed piece of art than something deliberately racist? Also, I assume that source was operating on its own assumptions and interpretations, which speaks to their own thought process, but I, personally, doubt that was the comment trying to be made.

I think it's a little disingenuous to call something racist simply because you don't understand the point it's making. I think there's something in the jovial nature with which pieces of cake are being parcelled out, in contrast to the agonising protest. I haven't read up on the piece or anything, but I don't think it has anything to do with female genital mutilation (of course, that's the problem with performance art - you can never be sure that your audience isn't going to cut a cake in a place that would roughly equate to where the female genitals are located), but just how black labourers were exploited, bodily, in every way you can imagine, they were caracaturised, their humanity reduced, and their protests ignored because there was another buck to rinse from their forced bondage. It requires a bit of induction, but it seems to be fairly obv. It's not grand or sophisticated, but it's still interesting. I looove Ghost World . Also, the comedic effect of the paint - is that not part of the point?

Between this and your unaccountable dislike of Lewis Carroll, I've no reservations in calling you an absolute cretin

I'll be living in London, so I'll stroll in when the cool people arrive, unlike the last two years when I've gotten up at 5:30 in the morning to catch a train down.

Inhaling while you life seems so counter intuitive, since your core muscles are contracted, meaning your diaphragm is trying to push the air out of your lungs. In fact, that's pretty much true of any lift you do...