Recent content by hatseflats

Interesting. I'm doing a history minor (6 courses) so I'm by no means an expert, but AFAIK the exact facts are kind of crucial because if you get them wrong, you are likely to draw incorrect conclusions (of course, this only refers to important facts, not whether a soldier is carrying a Lee...

Oh wait, you totally can't in the final release. Disabling Metro was only possible in the pre-release versions. Which is one thing why I think Win 8 is a complete dickmove by MS. If they had offered consumers a clear option to disable it in the control panel I wouldn't have been bothered...

Gabe worked at Microsoft for 13 years... And he has shown to have a lot more vision than Steve Ballmer. It's a shame GOG supports Win 8, it's better for everyone involved to ignore that OS.

Season 3 episode 1

SO I decided to watch an episode just now, and it was certainly different from what I expected. More fantasy stuff than little girl stuff. It was also atrociously bad. Seriously, who can stand to watch that polished turd? Just 5 minutes in and I'm pretty sure my IQ dropped by 20 points.

I like the fact that most people here are sceptical about projecting current trends into the future - a big mistake often made in bad science fiction. However, I think the OP has a point here. Allow me to explain. The obvious mistake to make here is to confuse the rise of tablets and touch...

This. Absolutely this. Exploration (or challenge, for that matter) is pointless without a higher purpose. Which is, in the best cases, increasing one's comprehension of the real world (or the Primary World as Tolkien called it), at least in my view.

Try Steely Dan. They haven't made a single (serious, non-cynical) love song. That is also the reason why it's one of the few bands whose music I can listen more than a few times. The love song stuff is usually clichéd and lacks creative and intellectual depth.

That's a real shame. They've made some of the most enjoyable games of the past few years. I enjoyed Red Faction Guerilla, Metro 2033 and Saint's Row tremendously.

Lol no. That was one of my main gripes with Bioshock: despite all the hype, it actually wasn't brilliant in its political stuff. It was the standard criticism and rather simplistic. A 12 year old should definitely be able to understand it if he or she is interested in these kind of things. I...

Wait, what? Dropping support for 11 year old software gives precedence to having to buy new hardware every year? That doesn't make the slightest of sense.

This does not seem like a RAM or GPU or GPU RAM issue. In those cases you typically get a BSOD. This seems very much like a power supply malfunction. The other option is probably the FX processor problem. If I were you I'd look into the FX first, then try to find out whether your power supply...

Lots of valid points are being made here. I would like to add my view on windows 8 and its relation to (the dying?) PC. I've followed the developments quite closely, because this is the stuff that interests me, and at first I genuinely didn't understand what Microsoft was doing with windows 8. I...

Yeah except for the small detail that it's bullshit. Of course, if there had been a monopoly capable of raising prices from "almost worthless" to "really expensive", then increased competition by an influx of diamonds from another supplier would destroy the current prices rather than not have...

Lemon sponge cake. That stuff is food of the gods.