Salamander8

Been awhile since I posted. Vomitory's newest album; Opus Mortis VIII, came out earlier this year. Here's the first track from the album called: Regorge in the Morgue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU411VySbRg

mhmmm :) Homecoming was pretty sweet too...but another game that runs like trash on the PC. There are sometimes I wish I still had a console for those. I just played a demo of Amnesia: The Dark Descent......and I will never play it again. I screamed so loud lol...surprised the neighbours didn't come knocking on my door. Sheesh, I thought Silent Hill was scary...this is far worse. No weapons, dark as heck, and....urgh...I'm gonna have nightmares now lol Amnesia was a really solid and eerie game. I beat it once and started it a second time, but then got distracted by other games. Right now Minecraft owns my soul. It's been a long time since I really got into a game this much.

Ouch! I haven't played as much as I would like, but I've been reading about multi-player at work and the capacity for griefing sounds very high. I've only played single player and have not gotten as much done as I want. Every time I go to work on my mountaintop castle, I get distracted by ore when tunneling at night, or the island I found Saturday that had an active lava pool right at the surface so I could finally get some obsidian and make an excursion to the nether. Then I set up an underground tunnel network to connect my original shelter with my greenhouse/bakery, my nether gatehouse, and my dock so my using the oddly shaped mountain that was near my original spawn as the site for a haunted style castle hasn't fared well. I've only found one pumpkin so far so need more of those for jack'o'lanterns for the right ambience.

I use a ton of mods, yes including the skimpy outfits and body mods, but also quest mods and things like the better potion bottle mod. There are mods out there for pretty much every taste and you can ignore the ones you don't like so there is no point in atttempting to curtail other people's creativity.

How is MP for this game overall? I just pre-ordered it yesterday and ended up playing the beta so much I was a bit late to bed considering my wake-up time! The game is as addictive as heck in single-player.

Steam has issues, but the benefits for me at least, outweigh these annoyances. Case in point, after getting my new computer set up since I have all my files backed-up to my external drive, it was child's play for me to get my 220+ gigs of Steam games up and running without having to fart around with re-installing all these games, not to mention some company's lovely DRM and registry hassles. Steam also gives indie games a great platform for more exposure of their products. Local game stores have steadily been getting worse and worse with PC game availability so I buy more and more via Steam and/or Amazon.

Exactly Slof! I've never seen why some people complain about this or assume someone is gay for wanting beefacke in their game. In City of Heores/Villains, one of my best in-game friends is a lot like you Slof, she always plays male characters and always has them show a lot of skin and she has a healthly sex life with her husband in RL but her characters in game are gay/bisexual men. I always play females and often, although not always, have them show a lot of skin so we got along famously. My view has always been to tolerate beefcake along with my beloved cheesecake as some people like one or the other and some like both, and yes women can have a healthy and active view on sex just like a lot of men. Also there is nothing wrong with being gay, straight, bisexual, transsexual etc.

I love Zero Punctuation. I check these out every week and I often agree with his assessments. He has a lot of valid points buried in his very frank and humorous PoV.

Bloodbath - Ways to the Grave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khn1KG6QcMg

That's because Trolls are irresistibly cool. Oh yeah. When I still played WoW both my main (discipline-specced priestess) and my tank-specced DK were female trolls. I like the looks, especially if you pick the one face that is noticeably more attractive than the others, and their 'take no ****' attitude makes them a lot of fun to play. I preferred them over female blood elves which are awfully anorexic looking although my paladin is one. Some of the female troll quotes were hilarious and my favorite flirt emote of all time is the one troll woman one:"While enraged and in heat, a female troll can mate over 80 times in one night. Are you prepared?" I always play females when possible, regardless of the 'eye candy' level (although I do like that of course). I even played a female operative in Ravenshield and you only see yourself in that game through the death cam or reflections. I just find them more interesting to play, and barring exceptions like Half-Life and F.E.A.R., I won't even play a game where the only character choice is male.

I wasn't on the internet till 2001 due to paranoia and I've always had a router and Anti-Virus and only visit a few sites once I did get on. Any remotely suspicious E-mails get deleted unread as well. It's possibly an AV program quashed a virus here and there without telling me, but I've only had the one time I had to deal with a virus actually affecting anything. I have done more clean OS installs than I care to remember over other issues (Windows corruption being the reason for at least a few), but also for the virus that Karen got from clicking a specious link. I've always been pretty anal about what gets DLed and scan frequently, and have done complete wipes several times over the years even with no problems just to start with a clean slate. Speaking of BitDefender, it's time to get something new since it's being a complete git trying to get it installed on the new machine. Time for some research! The new comp is here and already up and running so it's all moot now anyway. I have my external drive packed with info from the old machine so I didn't even need to network them to get things rolling. Finally left XP behind for Win7.

No. Games in and of themselves do not cause violent behavior. Certain people with a previous trend towards violent behavior may be highly attracted to the more violent games simply by their nature, but they do not actually cause the violent behavior. Note a very similar argument can be and has been made for death metal, and other forms of entertainment violent movies, etc.). I myself tend to play more middle-of-the-road video games, but have played some of the more violent ones as well. Now if you tack that onto my love of Death Metal I should be a raving lunatic by some 'experts' logic, but the worst thing I've ever been involved with is a couple of speeding tickets, and I have no plans to change that.

:biggrin: Sounds like me, but some of these cheaper Steam games are surprisingly good though. I'm going to get the complete FEAR pack for sure. I already own the first one, but this is a good chance to grab the whole thing for $10.

When it started acting odd the first thing I did is a full system scan and found nothing as usual. I've only ever had 1 virus in my many years of using PCs and that one was from an old GF clicking bad links. Last night I was DLing stuff directly to my new external drive and it froze my computer up again and had to reboot three times to get it to work again! The backup to the external is all done so all I need now is to get the new one and plug this puppy in. This drive is one of the best investments I've ever made, and it wasn't even that expensive.

That does sound a lot like my issue. I ended up getting a 1TB external HDD to get my backups done and the new rig should be here by Tuesday. This one is so bad now that I had to reboot 6 times to get it to backup drive E without hanging indefinitely on selecting it. And this was after it did drives F and G with no hitches and G has all my Steam info, but the 'out of resources' error I got on doing a far smaller chunk of E until it finally let me do it. I appreciate the help folks. Sometimes PC issues are almost ludicrously simple, and sometimes they give me ulcers.