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D&D is pure awesome. We're using the pathfinder system and I'm playing an alchemist - among his talents he can make a number of bombs equal to his lvl + his Int bonus every day. Both me and the DM are treating him as a sapper (he's called Shrapnel) and we keep calling his bombs cussers. Last week I blew up a church housing a Malar cult (planted 10 cussers and set them off) and this week I did the Drum. Several in fact along a road and I got what was left of the Malar cult (a hundred thugs who had descended to the level of Khorne berserkers) to run after me on that road. Almost blew myself up but it worked. Did I mention I'm doing all this insanity in the middle of a city?
Oh and the DM told our party leader that he's going to become the villain. The guy said no way. Today both the guy and me came to the conclusion that the only way to stabilize the region is take over the region. heh.
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Posted 26 June 2011 - 07:38 PM
The meaning of life is BOOM!!!
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Posted 26 June 2011 - 10:45 PM
Got me a new iMac and it's awesomesauce! Only problem is that it makes the Malazan Empire skin really dark and strange and it hurts my eyes so I think I'm going to have to change the skin I use. 
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Posted 26 June 2011 - 10:50 PM
Congrats on the Mac! Hope you have a gaming system in reserve though... I miss my games.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 06:15 AM
Departure in 19 hours 5 minutes. Loooooong plane ride is a-coming. But then...PARIS! LONDON! BBQ! Yay!
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 06:16 AM
Gust Hubb, on 26 June 2011 - 10:50 PM, said:
Congrats on the Mac! Hope you have a gaming system in reserve though... I miss my games.
What is it that makes Macs bad for gaming, anyway? I'm setting up a virtual PC anyway, so I could run my games on that but I'd still be using Mac peripherals.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 06:47 AM
Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast, on 27 June 2011 - 06:16 AM, said:
Gust Hubb, on 26 June 2011 - 10:50 PM, said:
Congrats on the Mac! Hope you have a gaming system in reserve though... I miss my games.
What is it that makes Macs bad for gaming, anyway? I'm setting up a virtual PC anyway, so I could run my games on that but I'd still be using Mac peripherals.
Hardware?
A virtual PC won't mean usable virtual processing power.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 07:01 AM
Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast, on 27 June 2011 - 06:16 AM, said:
Gust Hubb, on 26 June 2011 - 10:50 PM, said:
Congrats on the Mac! Hope you have a gaming system in reserve though... I miss my games.
What is it that makes Macs bad for gaming, anyway? I'm setting up a virtual PC anyway, so I could run my games on that but I'd still be using Mac peripherals.
Get out! You can't be on the 'net and NOT realize why Macs are considered so horrible for gaming!
As Gothos said, the hardware is simply lower end. For the same price as a fancy new iMac, you literally get twice or greater the amount of power in a PC.
Now, thanks to the Heel Face Turn that Apple made when they adopted Intel processors and graphics card, the old incompatibility issues are not as prevalent as they once were - but up until recent years, say over the last five or six, Apple used to use different hardware entirely for their PCs, which led to a number of problems, especially for games, being unable to run on the machine, no matter the 'power' it had. This problem is still there in some ways due to the different architecture in the system, despite the hardware changes, leaving some games unusable to this day.
They're simply inferior for gaming, basically. Or you pay ridiculous prices for lower-than-top specs to be able to run modern games at decent rates, at least.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 07:06 AM
Tag Team mode engaged.
Basically, the only reason to buy a Mac is to look fancy when writing your book at the local Starbucks and the fancy design. Oh, and when your knowledge in computers is actually a negative value and you never want to learn. And when you want to pay half a healthy liver whenever any element of your machine goes bonkers and you're fine with giving it away each time for weeks to a service outlet. And when you never, ever want to upgrade anything in your machine. And...
Basically, the only reason to buy a Mac is to look fancy when writing your book at the local Starbucks and the fancy design. Oh, and when your knowledge in computers is actually a negative value and you never want to learn. And when you want to pay half a healthy liver whenever any element of your machine goes bonkers and you're fine with giving it away each time for weeks to a service outlet. And when you never, ever want to upgrade anything in your machine. And...
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 07:13 AM
Gothos, on 27 June 2011 - 06:47 AM, said:
Hardware?
A virtual PC won't mean usable virtual processing power.
A virtual PC won't mean usable virtual processing power.
Good point.
Silencer, on 27 June 2011 - 07:01 AM, said:
Get out! You can't be on the 'net and NOT realize why Macs are considered so horrible for gaming!
As Gothos said, the hardware is simply lower end. For the same price as a fancy new iMac, you literally get twice or greater the amount of power in a PC.
Now, thanks to the Heel Face Turn that Apple made when they adopted Intel processors and graphics card, the old incompatibility issues are not as prevalent as they once were - but up until recent years, say over the last five or six, Apple used to use different hardware entirely for their PCs, which led to a number of problems, especially for games, being unable to run on the machine, no matter the 'power' it had. This problem is still there in some ways due to the different architecture in the system, despite the hardware changes, leaving some games unusable to this day.
They're simply inferior for gaming, basically. Or you pay ridiculous prices for lower-than-top specs to be able to run modern games at decent rates, at least.
As Gothos said, the hardware is simply lower end. For the same price as a fancy new iMac, you literally get twice or greater the amount of power in a PC.
Now, thanks to the Heel Face Turn that Apple made when they adopted Intel processors and graphics card, the old incompatibility issues are not as prevalent as they once were - but up until recent years, say over the last five or six, Apple used to use different hardware entirely for their PCs, which led to a number of problems, especially for games, being unable to run on the machine, no matter the 'power' it had. This problem is still there in some ways due to the different architecture in the system, despite the hardware changes, leaving some games unusable to this day.
They're simply inferior for gaming, basically. Or you pay ridiculous prices for lower-than-top specs to be able to run modern games at decent rates, at least.
Until now, all my gaming I've done on a PC anyway, so I've never really given gaming on a Mac
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 07:16 AM
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^regarding the repair/maintenance issue.
Oh, and you can also get away with owning a Mac if you are a 'digital artist' and so have that whole snobbery issue going on, or like proprietary formats that no-one else can work with.
And if you love having "no viruses" (which, btw, has nothing to do with the brilliance of OS X or anything - it's because THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH MAC USERS FOR PEOPLE TO BOTHER MAKING VIRUSES FOR THEM - and also is not a real issue on PCs with even a basic antivir. The nightmare stories are a by-product of quantity of consumption. 1% of 100,000,000 is a lot more than 1% of 10,000,000, for example), I guess you can get away with the Mac excuse, still.
Oh, and not having right-click, I guess, is kind of a thing of the past (as Mac conceded the brilliance of the concept by adopting it), or want to have a touchpad for a mouse as an optional peripheral. >.>
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 09:18 AM
Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 09:19 AM
I have to do a test on the computer-which means I wont have to pretend all that much
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 10:40 AM
Congrats to Cyphon.
I must say, Starcraft II seems to be running better now than it ever did on my PC. Baffling.
I must say, Starcraft II seems to be running better now than it ever did on my PC. Baffling.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 10:49 AM
Just how old was your PC?
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 11:04 AM
Well...I suppose it was 4 years old. That said, though, it was always a bit temperamental when playing games.
To keep you guys happy though, I will say that I'm using MS Outlook for my mail and stuff but over night all of my contacts and calendar entries seem to have disappeared. They're still on my phone, thankfully -- and actually they're still in Address Book and iCal, respectively, on the Mac -- but I'm not sure how I'm going to get them back into Outlook yet.
To keep you guys happy though, I will say that I'm using MS Outlook for my mail and stuff but over night all of my contacts and calendar entries seem to have disappeared. They're still on my phone, thankfully -- and actually they're still in Address Book and iCal, respectively, on the Mac -- but I'm not sure how I'm going to get them back into Outlook yet.
The love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 11:06 AM
Just use gmail's browser interface (remember to enable https though)!
And 4 years is ancient. Damn, my machine is over 1,5 years old and I'm starting to feel a bit of a strain in it. Or maybe that's because my hard drive is a bloody mess.
And 4 years is ancient. Damn, my machine is over 1,5 years old and I'm starting to feel a bit of a strain in it. Or maybe that's because my hard drive is a bloody mess.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 01:28 PM
Shall I start a thread on the evils of the iMac? This is the what is making you happy now thread and being a mac user, you guys are bringing me down (though, I am still amused on my descent).
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 01:32 PM
My lightning fast ninja reactions seems to have saved my Laptop from the disastrous Irn-Bru event of a few days ago. No harm done.
The time has almost arrived where I can end my exile out in the backwoods and return to the big city The big city....where actual people live. Instead of cows and inbred hicks with pitchforks and torches.
The time has almost arrived where I can end my exile out in the backwoods and return to the big city
The big city....where actual people live. Instead of cows and inbred hicks with pitchforks and torches.
