Recent content by Delta2501

How about magic nanomachines that preserve my current health and bodily condition, unless I will to the contrary. I'd like to live indefinitely without fear of injury, hunger, disease or the ravages of time, plus the option to stop if ever I changed my mind or got trapped inescapably. Ideally it...

David Mitchell had a good rant on the subject of weird baby names. Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xblh12XgQ4o I basically agree with him. Neutral names just draw less attention and let the child form their own identity, whereas a name that is obviously of a certain class...

Hello again, Thank you all for the responses. This is what I'm now proposing to go ahead with: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/208OW Changes are the GTX 760 Graphics Card and the 120GB Samsung SSD for the operating system. I've also added in the cost of Windows 8 (standard), taking it to...

I think I might go for the Nvidia GTX 760, seems a decent next step up. Would the same CPU and Motherboard be okay or would you want an intel one instead of an AMD? Would that motherboard bottleneck the graphics card too much making a better one a good purchase? Also, 760 is DX11 so I was...

I spoke to someone else who recommended getting a small SSD drive for the operating system and better memory (faster and/or 16Gig rather than 8). Any thoughts on that suggestion?

That's really informative, thanks again. I'll look into the 760 too, I wasn't really sure what the next model up was since I'd heard the Ti was an improvement over the normal 660.

Thanks, that's very useful. While I think oh it, are there different types of cards with the same basic model number? I saw one place that was selling a more expensive 3gig version of the 660 Ti but most only had 2gig, and there were several variants on the 2gig Ti.

Is that £600 UK? I'm in a similar boat to you (building for the first time). What got me sold on the idea was this article, which might be a handy starting point: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/14/build-a-next-gen-pc/ I then went and discussed the matter on the GameFAQs PC Hardware...

Hello everyone, I was looking to put together a medium-cost PC, ideally something that'll run new games at medium settings for 4+ years, and someone on the GameFAQs hardware board very kindly referred me to this build: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1GLel If anyone can't see the link, the...

I'd also like to recommend Nightmare House 2. Excellent horror game (and enough action to keep TC happy). I've been meaning to check out one called Radiator too, as the Stanley Parable creator recommended it in his release notes. Off-topic: the original Deus Ex has some brilliant mods too...

I haven't seen the film so maybe it's handled as badly as he suggests and just an excuse to say "Aren't fat people disgusting", but couldn't obesity be seen as a legitimate symbol of consummerist excess? Alcoholism and general materialism would also work, but would be harder to portray, whereas...

Shadow of Chenobyl (the first released) is fine, but be sure to try the "STALKER Complete" mod which restores a ton of content and useful features (e.g. ability to sleep to pass time) and brings a huge graphical upgrade (just turn off the motion blurr feature if it causes slowdown). I...

At time of writing I see 65% against the proposition. Thank you, escapists, for rekindling my faith in humanity. Apart from the whole arms race concern there is the fact that police require cooperation, and police being unarmed can reassure and act against attempts to characterise them as...

It's not his fault the higher ups insist on Zero returning. They even vetoed him killing off a fallen X in Zero 1 and made it a replica instead. Having the real X would have been a much better and dramatic start to the series. Him finally being driven into well-meaning vigilantism after years...

This sounds awful but I have to point out that X wasn't the first reploid. He is the original, the ones based on him are reploids. Now I feel bad. I enjoyed the SNES X games, but the tighter controls in the Zero series were great for me. I also think it is a shame ZX hasn't seen more love as...