Well, all is still not well in computer-land. The computer is still up and running, and I can perform a variety of basic tasks like downloading and DVD watching, however the video card's fan came loose somehow (before the reinstall procedure) and while a makeshift solution is holding it more or less in place it's not cooling the card adequately. I'm running at 97-98 degrees...
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Hosanna, angels, and all that.
Not only is my computer working again...but I didn't have to reinstall Windows. My amazement cannot be expressed in words.
Not only is my computer working again...but I didn't have to reinstall Windows. My amazement cannot be expressed in words.
andvari:
Obviously Jeebus loves you.
Further updates: Dog is away again. Very cuddly, very cute...breath a terrible, noxious stench. I'm just as glad, really. I'm not a dog person. I enjoyed being around this one for a few days. He's quiet and prone to sleeping a lot. But even he was more high maintenance than I want in a pet, and I'm just not mentally geared to play with him...
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So: newses.
My CPU and motherboard came today. I will be installing them on Sunday with the assistance of a friend. Ideally this will lead to the renewed functioning of my computer.
In anticipation of this state, and because it had 15 dollars knocked off the price for 48 hours only, I have just ordered The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. So expect me to have...
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My CPU and motherboard came today. I will be installing them on Sunday with the assistance of a friend. Ideally this will lead to the renewed functioning of my computer.
In anticipation of this state, and because it had 15 dollars knocked off the price for 48 hours only, I have just ordered The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. So expect me to have...
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andvari:
The average house price was around $200 000 this time last year, so it's not the price itself that's insane, but the inflation. We don't even have a nice river like the Mississippi, and certainly very few river front mansions.
The problem with your assesment of Iran (so far everyone's problem) is that you assume rational action. There seems to be far too many emotional appeals and pre-Iraq type hype for any sort of rationality to apply. Basically the Iraq war is irrational and yet that went ahead anyway.
I think Bush has already made up his mind to do something with the military and we are in the build up and hype phase.
The problem with your assesment of Iran (so far everyone's problem) is that you assume rational action. There seems to be far too many emotional appeals and pre-Iraq type hype for any sort of rationality to apply. Basically the Iraq war is irrational and yet that went ahead anyway.
I think Bush has already made up his mind to do something with the military and we are in the build up and hype phase.
andvari:
Ahh, you caught me. I did ask for your position. It's just been one of the things that has annoyed me so much recently. I talk to all these people who can come up with rational solutions to these sorts of problems. I listen to politicians who can come up with rational solutions to these problems...and the final choice always seems to be bugfuck crazy. 
Right, beat Suikoden IV. Really, even despite my having made certain tactical miscalculations, the endgame was not hard. I cleared the final naval battle without losing a single ship (though it was close). Both groups I sent into the last area were level 99 from wall to wall, so even though I forgot to properly equip the detachment party I simply released all enemies from...
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Thoughts on my current Gamefly rentals:
The Warriors I may have mentioned previously (I forget these things easily). I honestly believe Rockstar has the golden touch. I don't think there's a single post-GTA III Rockstar game I haven't loved to bits. The Warriors is certainly not that exception. I'd never previously heard of the movie it's based on, but when I heard about the game...
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The Warriors I may have mentioned previously (I forget these things easily). I honestly believe Rockstar has the golden touch. I don't think there's a single post-GTA III Rockstar game I haven't loved to bits. The Warriors is certainly not that exception. I'd never previously heard of the movie it's based on, but when I heard about the game...
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andvari:
Sorry I haven't posted on your journal in a while SG was doing something weird that every time I tried to comment I got take back to my last comment, which I believe is five or six entries ago. Then it wouldn't post whatever I wrote. Your account, sir, is cursed. 
pepelepew:
Yes I am big Suikoden fan myself. Ya number 4 was quite awesome.I wanna try Suikoden Tactics because it looked interesting.
Soon, my precious, soon.
(Just bought a Socket 939-compatible motherboard with both AGP and PCI-Express, thus preserving my video upgrade options. And a Venice model Athlon 64 3200+. Probably won't actually ship until next week, but they *will* be mine. And then, I pray, my computer will actually run again, and Oblivion will suck my life away.)
(Just bought a Socket 939-compatible motherboard with both AGP and PCI-Express, thus preserving my video upgrade options. And a Venice model Athlon 64 3200+. Probably won't actually ship until next week, but they *will* be mine. And then, I pray, my computer will actually run again, and Oblivion will suck my life away.)
Fantastic Four itself was fairly meh. It was ok, and I liked a couple of the changes they made to the formula (although taunting us with the prospect of an invisible naked Jessica Alba was little short of cruel.). But all the same, the script wasn't all that, and I really didn't care for the whole "failed relationship" bit with Reed and Sue. That just...
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pepelepew:
Ya I agree with u the Fantastic Four was ok. So was the Incredible Hulk.Ya I hate that crap on the DVd's too, they really need too make a auto-skip option for that. Ya it the same thing at movie theatre.With those stupid cell-phone ad. I mean does anybody actually still turn there cell phone on during the movie.
Tonight I watched Snatch, another wonderful movie from the guy responsible for Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Much like that movie, he draws together a large, colorful cast of criminals and ne'erdowells, most of them with some sort of strange British accent, and launches them into a complicated plot where various people get in trouble with other people and fuck over still other people...
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onesandzeros:
Snatch is pure classic. Fantastic Four on the other hand........well ya know.........they tried right.
I don't have Oblivion, and it's crushing me. I can't even run Morrowind right now to make a pale stab at making up that lack. (Morrowind's great, but I've been there, done that.)
Yes, that's right, I've been reduced to trying to substitute Daggerfall for Oblivion.
It's...not working so well. Daggerfall has some interesting characteristics, and I really prefer the character designing in some ways...
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Yes, that's right, I've been reduced to trying to substitute Daggerfall for Oblivion.
It's...not working so well. Daggerfall has some interesting characteristics, and I really prefer the character designing in some ways...
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andvari:
I don't actually blame Uptight...or really anyone else. I just think that his stands often act like black holes that everything else starts to circle. He's not intending to destroy the thread, the people responding to him aren't either. But it happens anyway and all too often.
pepelepew:
Oblivion is very good tho. I am playing and am enjoying it. Even tho I have not played it much since I have got kingdom hearts 2 tho.
I've actually read the first issue of Y: THe Last Man. It was pretty good, although the author seems like he has some women issues.
The rest sound really good. I have a lot of reading ahead of me.
With Sandman, I cracked Preludes and Nocturnes and I really didn't like the art. Does the artist change up or is it the same guy for the whole thing?
I have to get a 1 page guide to choosing graphic novels written up, so I'm doing a lot of research. It's proving highly entertaining.
After all, I didn't like the art on league of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but the story was enough...so far.