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Another thing I forgot to mention. If your significant other can't handle a bit of sarcasm and/or jokes and stir up a ton of crap because of it I wouldn't really rush into calling them "the one". Could be just me though.
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Hey, you may never know. A friend of mine moved out at 16 to live with her 15y GF. By 18 he had his own company and now, at 22 they have 3 kids and they give jobs to around 15 people.
If you are just 14 then that gives you plenty of time figuring out if she really is the one or not. Keep us posted on any important developments
Though I still say that you should live with your partner for some time before committing to something more serious. Meeting someone for few hours or sleeping over for a few days is drastically different than sharing kitchen and bathroom. You WILL get surprises.
I'd even say living together without commitment and each having no good reason to stay can only strengthen the relationship and show how much you care of each other. If you get those surprises and manage to solve them without breaking up while not being married that shows the relationship is strong enough to last. Not breaking up simply because divorce is inconvenient will only lead to bad things.
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I can stitch together four 2560x1600 monitors and would have around 17x more pixels on screen than your average console title. When taking CoD stuff to comparison, that runs at 1024x600 resolution the difference is even greater.
Also, whoever told you plugging your PC to TV gives you low resolution had no clue what they were talking about
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Is it just me or are these basically clorified pressure plates?
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No, it's pretty awful in every way possible to measure
You'll find far better stuff from here: http://forums.technicpack.net/index.php/topic,2409.0.html
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Default install size of Fallout 3 + DLC: ~8-10GB I believeNumber of listed games that are better on PC: 3With a "bit" of tuning and mods: ~45GB.
It's basically the same game but in a form that is so immensely better than it's not even funny.
I used to have all three of current-gen consoles but pretty much the only things I ended up playing on them were the exclusives and a rare local MP thing. PC's are simply so vastly superior in every way. Before you bring in "but I can play on my couch!" then I can say I do that on my PC as well. All you need is willingness to build your setup.
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This is my first one' date=' so it does feel like she's the one.[/quote']For how long has your relationship lasted?
Feeling, that "she's the one" is pretty much constant any time you actually love someone but that doesn't really mean you still feel like it after a couple of years or after living together for a while. I'd say give it at minimum 2-3 years with minimum of 1-2 years of living together before deciding if she actually is it or not.
Though until then just relax and enjoy the ride.
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Don't buy snacks and beer/smokes (if you are old enough) for a week and you'll have more than enough. "I'm broke" is just a stupid excuse. Unless you live on a street you aren't broke, you just aren't prioritizing things properly.Not everyone who uses a cracked client is a griefer i am just broke
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Not really to be honest. The real-world performance difference in non-synthetic benchmarks between 1.6GHz with average latency vs 2GHz ram with low latency is just a few percentages while price difference is often >2x. Not worth the investment unless you are after some overclocking records.fast RAM is also a very important factor when it comes to java based games.The impact of RAM on performance was significantly bigger back in the K8 days but now the memory controllers in CPUs are immensely improved. Well, at least for Intel. AMD cache+memory architecture is unfortunately plain horrible for desktop usage. Basically FX'es caches/RAM are one step behind I3/5/7's. FX L1 ~ iN's L2, l2 ~ L3, L3 ~ RAM.
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I would assume that not rolling back the griefing damage would cause more problems in the long term for the community. At least as long as those backups are made frequently enough and griefing is discovered fast enough.
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Ugh, that GPU in there is simply horrible and very limiting for the CPU in there. I'd say for that CPU 560TI is bare minimum and it would give you at least twice the performance in games.
Also, minecraft can easily run on really shitty GPUs, all it needs is a decent CPU. My desktop has 6 years old q6600 CPU and 560TI and can barely pull MC at some 20-ish FPS. My laptop has an I7 CPU from less than a year ago and some random crappy NVidia GPU that has around 1/4'th the processing power and 1/6'th of memory bandwidth of the desktop 560TI and runs MC at 40-60FPS at same settings and resolution (1080p, everything fancy/maxed except view distance that is on "far").
Another note is that crysis 2 is not really all that demanding from your machine, as long as you don't crank up the settings.
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No one is giving you stuff for free or for less than it's worth. If you get some specific thing for cheap it means they just rip you off in other ways.
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Also, never buy a PSU by it's advertised output power. I remember videos of some cheap "600W" one that literally exploded before users reached around 450W load on it.
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Games seemed to be relatively good until around 2003-2005-ish. After that things went bad. I'm not sure how big impact did the new console generation have on it but I'd say it was pretty important. They tried attracting new crowds by dumbing down everything and often made MP be the only reasonable content. For me that likes a challenge and actually having to think while playing while also not being too fond of MP that was a bad thing.
There certainly have been decent games after that as well. Just that they often don't get wildly popular.
And a special note on WoW. I'd dare say it's the best MMO out there at the moment (GW2 might change it but I'm not holding by breath). Though being best doesn't really mean that it's actually good. It just means competition is even worse than WoW itself.
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Hardest part about building a custom computer is plugging in the front panel cables.
Price of a "high end" highly depends on what you define as high-end. If you are good enough with non-steroscopic 3D at 1080p resolution then 560gtx will last you for a LONG time and costs <200 vs 1k-ish for the 680gtx SLI.
Next biggest variable is the monitor. Random 24" 1080p one without 3D costs you around 150-250. If you want 3 or 4 screens at 2560x1600 each then be prepared to shell out 1k per monitor.
SSD is nice but doesn't really give you almost anything for gaming except lowering loading times a little bit on some games. Obviously that assumes your games actually fit on it (stupid Steam not allowing to split stuff over multiple drives. I'm at 1TB with half the stuff not being installed even).
General rule of thumb is that for gaming you should always invest (significantly) more to GPU than to CPU. I'd say getting a GPU at twice the cost of CPU is a decent choice.
The rest is really not all that important and prices don't vary all that much. Sure, you can shell out 500 for a motherboard instead of <100 but unless you are into liquid nitrogen cooling then it won't do you much.
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It might but assuming you bought the PC at same time as the GPU then your box is horribly unbalanced for gaming by having very slow GPU compared to the rest of the system.
Disregarding stuff like SSD and monitor, for a gaming PC the GPU should cost at least one third of the whole thing.
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You have misunderstood how technic works.What they should do is look at more mods and do a poll on which mods aren't being used and which are.It's a modpack used by it's creators that will contain the stuff they like and want to have. They just allow others to use it as well. If you want some custom stuff feel free to make it yourself but don't expect them to bow to other people wishes :)
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Basically it's a chest type where it's contents is shared between all instances of that chest type. Basically put one down at your home, go to the other end of the world, put down another one, fill it with stuff, kill yourself, spawn at home and in the home enderchest you'll get all the stuff you inserted to the chest at the end of world.
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I remember not having a landline at all. Though being occupied for half a century by Soviet Union kind of halted my country's progression.I remember phones with cords and rotary dials. -
If I'd be optimistic I'd say they did the right thing and decided not to do two things simultaneously (unify server + singleplayer and provide modding API). Being realistic I bet 1.3 will have hugely changed internals from partially implemented modding API meaning everything breaks and there is little point in making mods compatible with it since 1.4 will provide a proper and final API.Hey jakj how about this to add to your fire?
Looks like the mod api has been pushed back to 1.4
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Yeah, black and white is a must-play classic for sure. Be sure to get Creature Isles expansion as well. Teaching your pet to teach it's pet to do fancy stuff is rather awesome. I remember at one point I had mine trained to gather wood. So it went out, found some young trees, watered them with the rain spell, outrooted them and brought back to village. I was pretty much constantly overflowing with wood without having to clear the entire isle of all trees.
Eariler I simply listed the stuff I saw in my steam games list so a ton of older things are missing. Some of those are::
Total Annihilation, an RTS that should have reached about as far as Starcraft did. Tech-wise it was years ahead of other RTS'es even though it was released half a year before starcraft. Supreme commander is based on this but imho it got implemented significantly worse than the original.
Beasts and Bumpkins, a kind of a RTS/village simulator/god-game kind of thingy.
Master of Orion 2, third one is kind of "meh", first one simply far too limited. 4x space game in it's purest form
Mech warrior. I've only played #2 extensively and it was awesome. Not sure how good the newer ones are
Mech commander. Tactical strategy based on mechwarrior. Vaguely similar to WH40k RTS'es and company of heroes where you have small team of "soldiers" you use to take out enemies.
Dungeon Keeper. Do I need to say anything, really? Dungeons is somewhat similar to this but from what I've heard the originals are far superior.
Transport Giant. Kind of like transport tycoon on steroids + you actually get to manufacture things yourself, not only move stuff around
There are probably more but I haven't played a whole lot of games in past 5-ish years and I begin to forget some of them.
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So therefore that money will have to go in my parents' account(s) in order for any payments to be made. That is why they can stop me from buying a super incredible computer because they think the nonsense at PC World is better' date=' and they control my money almost exclusively for the time being.[/quote']Well, then all you have to do is to convince them the custom build is better.
Not sure how it is where you live but here in Estonia, if you want decent warranty you are better off buying components and building the thing yourself. Ready-made boxes generally have 1-2 years of warranty and you aren't allowed to open the case while individual parts have manufacturer's original warranty that's generally 3y+ and you can do whatever you want with the case, including upgrading individual components.
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Ooh, pretty nice place.
If you won't be overclocking get i5 3450 for 29£ less. Sure, it also has a bit lower clock speed but it won't matter that much. You can put that money into doubling the RAM. If you do find that extra 200£ then get either radeon 7970 or GTX 680, though latter will be blowing your 1k target by a little :)