Recent content by Gamblerjoe

I preordered a while ago. Im a in a guild with people I met playing DDO. Our guild has one ally and 2 adversaries. All 4 guilds are ready to go and will be active upon launch. I can't wait for this game. They do the story so well. Rather than make you pick up a bunch of quests which will...

Thanksgiving and Independence Day have nothing to do with each other. Independence Day is the celebration of the day we signed the Declaration of Independence. Thanksgiving is an incredibly mixed up holiday with contested origins. Essentially some religious zealots felt that we needed to thank...

I think its just a matter of time. Since hardware progresses so much faster than software, prices of good gaming PCs will continue to drop. If more people owned gaming PCs there would be much more incentive for the industry to cater to them. Without getting too much into reliability issues...

I went to mmahits.com to watch a fight that I missed. I have only missed 2 UFC PPV events in the last few years, and only because I just spaced on them. I got some kind of malware that Norton could do nothing about. I just ended up creating a new user account on my PC.

Quit cold turkey. I know you probably don't like for other people to call you out and tell you about the tough things they have done, but I quit marijuana, alcohol, fast food, soda, and pizza all at the same time, while also changing my erratic sleep schedule to a normal one and starting to...

Its winter in Maine, and Im poor, so I do most of my living in a single room. Iv got a couch, a TV, a pellet stove, a small exercise bench, some dumb bells, and my gaming area. My gaming area is a 8x2 foldable table with my monitor, keyboard, mouse, coffee maker, desk lamp, speakers, and some...

Im just clarifying the facts. No one has said anything terribly off base. While most people are aware that your body need electrolytes, they are unaware that they help you absorb the water that they are in. What we learn about osmosis in school tells us that the lower the salinity, the more...

Actually this is true. What you know about osmosis doesn't work perfectly in the human body. In short, the closer the salinity of the liquid you drink is to your blood, the more of it you will absorb. When you drink pure water, you absorb less of it than you would a sports drink.

The only reason casinos don't want people to count cards is because it gives the player an edge. It isn't actually illegal or considered cheating, but Casinos are private property, so they can kick out anyone for any reason. I'v never played particularly high stakes, so I don't think anyone...

This is a matter of definition, not opinion. By definition, exploiting and cheating are two different things. This may not be important to most people, but as a card counter, the definition of the word "cheating" is extremely important to me. Personally though, I don't use exploits, and I...

I chose fists because I train in MMA under a fighter that has proven himself in the Octagon. If my challenger is a better fighter then I would probably chose swords instead.

Well, its not the first one to come up, and its not a very good video, but the first two words of the title are indeed my first and last name. <youtube=0S_jnET7Bqw>

Im talking about getting an actual degree in VG development from DigiPen, the leading school in that field. You don't think that having military experience would be an extra drop in the bucket when it comes to getting work in what can be an extremely transient business?

I have to agree with this. If you really need improvements, I would start with a video card, then RAM, then run your specs into a calculator to see if u need a better PSU, then a nice case. A coolermaster should run you about $100 and will vastly increase the longevity of your components.

I just put together a good gaming rig. My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 550 Ti which cost me $120. If your current motherboard has a PCI-e 16x slot then I reccomend this card. You will be able to keep it around once you are ready to step up to a real gaming PC. edit: I just looked up your...