Gambler

Gambler

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Reply to Announcing Elemental: War of Magic in Elemental News Elemental Forums

Black borders and somewhat pale textures with lots of "smudged" colors make screenshots look like a bunch of flat cardboard cutouts. Graphics is okay, but it needs a better representation of volume. Different lighting? Higher contrast? No borders? I don't know, but it needs something different.

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Reply to Fallout 3: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

My character carries a rocket laucher, minigun, flamethrower, assault rifle,combat shotgun, magnum, hunting rifle, pack of gerandes, dozen of landmines, laser pistor, laser rifle, ripper, super sledgehammer, spiked knuckles and a portable nuclear missle laucher to fend for herself. Despite having huge amount of ammo, I'm forced to constantly switch between all of these, because enemies have ridiculous amount of hitpoints, which consume all the ammo you can throw at them. Fortunately, I

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Reply to Programs need to play nicely with protection. in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Viruses work by exploiting vulnerabilities in the OS and user applications. Running software that pretends to "fight" viruses is 21st century voodoo. The real solution is to fix vulnerabilities, and dump software that's hopeless (like IE). [quote]Then run antivirus/spyware and see what you find.[/quote] Nothing. The secret is that I run Windows 2000. Most of it's security problems have been long fixed.

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Reply to Programs need to play nicely with protection. in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Running a bunch of bloated crap to offset someone's inability to write system and network-enabled code is a half-measure. [quote]try running your PC without an Anti-virus, Firewall or Anti-Spyware app running and see how long it takes for a nasty to latch onto your box.[/quote] Several years, if you update, don't use IE and don't open random executable attachments in spam emails.

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Reply to Firefox 3 Memory Efficiency in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]40-60 tabs? Wow, that's a lot, that's got to be pretty uncommon right?[/quote] It [I]is [/I]a weird way to use tabs, primarily because there is no good way to navigate that many. Even TabMixPlus (which is not yet ported to FF3). That's not to say memory management can be ignored. I wish FF3 improved startup time too, because is quite noticeable on Windows and really, really long on FreeBSD/xfce. It's one thing when you surf, it's another thing when you just want to open some

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Reply to Firefox 3 Memory Efficiency in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Hm... Running it on my laptop now without portable apps stuff. I guess they [I]did[/I] improve memory management. At some point it was something like 33meg, which is smaller than after startup. Weird.

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Reply to Negative karma? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]...which is your opinion.[/quote] I hope you understand that my post above was sarcastic. The problem with sarcasm in 21st century is that very few things are seen as too absurd to be in earnest.

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Reply to Negative karma? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Propositions: -There should be different kinds of karma, so that you can indicate what behavior you're referring to. -People with a lot of positive karma should be able to give out more karma to others. - N00bs should not be able to give karma, until they have some positive karma. - Posts that accumulate large negative score should be deleted. We don't want to bother reading something the majority of people doesn't like, do we? - Threads with positive karma should float up an

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Reply to Firefox 3 Memory Efficiency in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The drop in memory use[/quote] For GalCiv2.com on my computer, the memory use goes like 45,180Kb in Firefox 2 vs 54,140Kb in Firefox 3. That is for portable installations, which have no add-ons.

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Reply to Elections in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hopi

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Reply to Bioshock DRM Limits Removed in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Just because a disc has strange copy protection methods on it that prevent some drives from even reading it doesn't mean the drive is broken (especially as you count only two such protected discs as evidence, and make no mention of how it handles others).[/quote] I said drive[b]r[/b] (software), not drive (hardware). It could read other DVDs just fine. That's the point, though. It was not merely a hardware issue, since WiC would only launch with the original DVD in the drive,

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Reply to Bioshock DRM Limits Removed in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Don't buy BioShock. It's not just about DRM, it's about design. They stole every single feature from somewhere else, and sewn them all together into a ridiculous Frankenstein game. The entire storyline is presented as a bunch of tape recorders scattered throughout the city. You shoot waves of mutant zombies... I mean, splicers, collect the tape recorders, shoot splicers, collect, shoot, collect, shoot... You can't die. You can't die even symbolic death. Everything that requires

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Reply to Bioshock DRM Limits Removed in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]should support for the game be ended in the future, 2K will ensure that users are still able to install and play it.[/quote] I would be more willing to buy games tied to online services if this was an actual part of license agreement.

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Reply to Brad's Impulse Launch Review in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I have one application that can manage a load of games[/quote] One app to rule them all, One app to find them, One app to bring them all, And in the darkness bind them. As I said before, the problem is not with Impulse, but with the fact that StarDock seems to be preparing to make it [B]the only way[/B] to update (and, perhaps, install) their games. "You will [I]need[/I] to use Impulse to get it. Go here to get Impulse." Correct me if I'm wrong on this one. <b

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Reply to Brad's Impulse Launch Review in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

If I want two pieces of software to be decoupled, and someone else wants me to shut up, then those aren't exactly two sides of the same argument. If I'm arguing that something [i]should[/i] not be done, and someone else is re-stating that it [i]will[/i] be done, it's not exactly a reply.

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Reply to Brad's Impulse Launch Review in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Just tried to install it. It behaves really weird on Windows 2000. Installation goes on for a very long time, showing a progress of several million percent. Both Impulse and ImpulseDock crash upon launch. "System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'uxtheme.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)"

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Reply to Brad's Impulse Launch Review in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote][b]Zubaz[/b] That comment, in context, is about freedom (freedom based on class even [and a bit of research would indicate that Brad's "class" came from hard work]) and is an accurate acknowledgment of options.[/quote] That comment appears virtually every time someone criticizes something online. It's not context-dependent. [quote]The criticism is that the user doesn't like something[/quote] The substance of criticism is not that someone disl

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