Well getting back to that box, I do agree PC's are the way to go but like I said the gaming industry is in serious need for a reboot.I actually anticipate another game crash like what happened during the atari era where there was a saturation of hardware vendors.

Maybe this will force indie's back into a more suitable environment for risk taking and open source will become the predominant platform to develop games.

NB Confession, I secretly desire the return of SEGA into the hardware side of things but I know

this won't ever happen.

"SEEEEEEEGGGGGAAAAA!!!!!!" (intro sega genesis theme is such a fond memory P)

Its now called play station, look for PS4 soon, everybody will want it, coming in time for Christmas.

I order the parts for my new PC this week, I have it all picked out. It will be a game box when I am done.

River

I ended up buying two, one for my son (he will trip out when he gets it). Cooler Master case, 3.8gh quad core processor, High speed graphics card, modular cable ready 850w power supply. Its sweet, its quiet, its fast.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:08 pm I ended up buying two, one for my son (he will trip out when he gets it). Cooler Master case, 3.8gh quad core processor, High speed graphics card, modular cable ready 850w power supply. Its sweet, its quiet, its fast.

River

Ugh.....Stop it river P Yer making me drool. All my efforts atm are focused on health, supplementation. anything to keep me pretty. I'd be more focused on a transition hrt rather than getting a gaming PC. I swear after I leave the house, and go on hrt I will treat myself to a sweet kick ass PC. Then we'll go one on one on steam eh?

I realized its apparently how most geeks socialize.

Ok here's whats really cheesing me off like real bad. 2 of my best buds live just right across the street, yet most days , and really most, they'd rather individually spend their time locked onto their own Pc's rather that meet under a single house to play.

I'm so pissed. Ughhh. I swear going out to play outside has become a relic in the past.

foxytaur (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:37 pm I realized its apparently how most geeks socialize.

Ok here's whats really cheesing me off like real bad. 2 of my best buds live just right across the street, yet most days , and really most, they'd rather individually spend their time locked onto their own Pc's rather that meet under a single house to play.

I'm so pissed. Ughhh. I swear going out to play outside has become a relic in the past.

There are many reasons for that...

Time and space considerations. With online games we can have friends from all over the globe, it is easy to connect in game, but personally? It is difficult to find intersecting free time for even two people to meet, when they live in different parts of the city.

We tried. Gathering more than a few people is "mission impossible"...

The need to leave behind someone's perfectly tuned computer (what? play not on my PC? It is set up wrong! Shock! Horror!). Have you ever typed on a keyboard with layout different from the one you regularly use? That is similar...

A bit of lazyness... as usual.

That are three from the top of the head..

I

fhunter wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:17 am have friends from all over the

world that I have and most likely will never meet, something like this place, but as a gamer, yes a gamer, I have my Naga, Nostromo, my new fast PC, and I am ready to go kill something (cyberly of course). I stopped playing WOW blizard keeps screwing the game so I finally quit but before I did I was gaming on my mage with this hunter in a PVP server when a hunter three levels above us attacked, now normally that hunter would have taken us both down however, I told my questing friend to keep him busy will I took him down, I moused over hit one key on my Nostromo then did 1/2 million K damage, yes he was dead. If you play wow that was a lvl 82 taking down a lvl 85. He did not come back for a second round I think he left in shock. My hunter friend was in total shock, wondering how I did that, sense he also had a mage I sent him the macro I used. My son also plays a mage and at lvl 85 with that macro does 1 million k damage. thats one key stroke and a mouse hover. Patt and I spent about 5 hours one night putting that together. So anyway this hunter friend on line asked about this macro and when I told him my son and I built it, he asked how old my son was, being very impressed with a kid helping with that, I told him my son was 29, then he asked how old I was and I said 66.

River <---------- Gamer

Looking for new games to play on line for free, no more monthly fees.

Oh yah, right. My computer has a crank on the side and sparks arc from the terminals when I put the mast up in a thunderstorm. Next I am going to re-animate the body I built from spare parts. --FLO--

I love all this jargon of River's I don't understand.

I have a new video card. It's pretty cool. It has a gig of memory, which I don't think it uses. I have a screen, though, so that's all that matters!

My lastest internet radio consists of a 3.3ghz quad core hyperthreading ivy bridge on a supermicro X9SCL-F motherboard sporting 16 gig memory and 9 ttb datastorage (128gig ssd os partition). Plays the radio good.

talula wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:57 pm My lastest internet radio consists of a 3.3ghz quad core hyperthreading ivy bridge on a supermicro X9SCL-F motherboard sporting 16 gig memory and 9 ttb datastorage (128gig ssd os partition). Plays the radio good.

Too much power. Waaay too much power. That is not interesting.

The last time we built internet radio, it was built on 200Mhz iP1 MMX machine, with 64Mb ram + some spare HDD. Worked good.