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Ben Richards

9:00 PM

ooh, mmm... GW2 is fixed :3

allquixotic

does it strike anyone else as funny that it's cheaper to run Linux on Windows Azure than to run Windows?

they should at least give people a free pass on running Windows on Azure if you're going to rent their infrastructure

otherwise they're saying "use Linux, it's cheaper!"

Ben Richards

Now I'm back to being CPU bottlenecked :3

I totally want to overclock but it's a pain and time consuming

allquixotic

@BenRichards is GW2 as much of a treadmill as GW1?

Ben Richards

Treadmill?

allquixotic

linear progression... ding every X number of hours etc and then nothing to do once you're maxed

Ben Richards

9:03 PM

Oh. Not as much. It plays different than other MMORPGs though. You just have to get used to the play style, otherwise you will feel bored.

I got a good several hundred hours out of Guild Wars 1 though, so I never really had an issue :P

So long as you have a good guild, it remains fun.

allquixotic

@BenRichards I got a lot out of GW1 too, but if GW2 is just GW1 with better graphics, I'm not interested

Ben Richards

Oh hell no :P

It's much much better, IMO.

And you can actually jump! ;)

allquixotic

lol

Ben Richards

No dumb /jump emote :P

They have free trial periods you can take advantage of. Also, it's not that expensive at this point to get into. I think it's about $30 or something?

Still no monthly fee

allquixotic

I'll probably be playing Hearthstone, Planetside 2 and Galactic Civilizations III until Star Citizen starts to ramp up towards being playable, and then I'll drop everything and play Star Citizen for a long time( starting around Q4 2014)

Ben Richards

9:07 PM

Oh cool :P

I have Planetside 2 but haven't played it very much

allquixotic

I'm in a pretty good outfit in Planetside 2... TR on Mattherson server

Ben Richards

It's fun, but just hasn't gotten me hooked yet

Ah. I totally forgot what server I'm on, and what faction :P

allquixotic

I'm hooked because of the potential positive results of good squad/platoon tactics, voice comms, etc

and it's very skill based game

Ben Richards

True. I kinda have to join random squads because most of my friends are into console gaming :P

allquixotic

occasionally I do some pretty neat things all by myself, though

Ben Richards

9:09 PM

Yeah

If you can get out of the spawn/killed/spawn/killed spiral :P

allquixotic

one time I was defending a capture point in a small room in an outpost, and a long stream of six NC came in like lemmings, one, two, three, four, and I kept popping them and healing up and surviving

Ben Richards

Nice

allquixotic

I got taken out by a MAX finally but that's not fair because I didn't have my decimator out lol

Ben Richards

:P

allquixotic

I like the certification process in PS2 a lot -- you can either specialize in one thing or spread your certs out across many things

Ben Richards

9:10 PM

Yeah

I got things to do today so I'll be going

allquixotic

right now I'm a pretty badass heavy assault with most of the certs maxed, and several good guns with attachments for various ranges, and I'm working on getting a stealthy AMS sunderer (the one that deploys and lets people spawn at it)

kk o/

Ben Richards

Thanks for the pointers, @Psycogeek. It led me to where I needed to go

See ya @allquixotic

:)

allquixotic

@BenRichards let me know what server and faction you are lol

Ben Richards

@allquixotic I'll check now :P

Then I'll go

Oh, are you on steam?

allquixotic

yeah

Ben Richards

9:12 PM

I have it installed through there. You on my friends list?

allquixotic

I don't think so

Ben Richards

Let's fix that! :P

allquixotic

i can add you on my phone lol

Ben Richards

ok :P

106 MB update to PS2 :P

allquixotic

fast internet?

Ben Richards

9:13 PM

Yeah

Better than other updates I had :P

I actually did launch it not that long ago

Yes

allquixotic

i have a good memory lol

Ben Richards

And you can delete that :P

lol

allquixotic

hey it used to be your display name on SE

Ben Richards

I know :P

Thanks ;)

Mattherson and char name is Leonidas

allquixotic

same server, hmm, what faction?

it's really simple: red, blue, or purple?

red = TR, blue = NC, purple = VS

VS goes pew pew with energy weapons; NC uses big honkin' guns that fire slow; and TR just fires a ton of weak bullets in a hail of destruction >:)

Hennes

9:18 PM

@sammy I remember 25 ports being the default for oth serial and paralel ports. Andf then the PC showing up with a cripled printer port (sort of paralel, but most pins as output only) and two serial ports, one using 25 pins, one using 9 pins.

And LPT headers are nice for simple external devices.

Or as a soundcard.

Covox Speech Thing

The Covox Speech Thing (also known as Covox plug) was an external audio device attached to the computer to output digital sound. It was composed of the most primitive 8-bit DAC using a resistor ladder and an analogue signal output, and plugged into the printer port of the PC. The circuit was marketed around 1986 by Covox, Inc of Eugene, Oregon, for about 70 USD (79.95 USD as of 1989), but as its parts were much cheaper than the complete plug, and as its design was fairly simple, people soon started to build their own variants. The plug was used long into the 1990s, as sound cards were sti...

paralel port sound cards. Usually home made.

allquixotic

VTech Socrates

The VTech Socrates was an educational video game console released in 1988 by VTech. The console featured a robot character Socrates, named after the philosopher. The character is visually similar to Johnny Five from the Short Circuit movies. The system featured standard wireless controllers that communicated via infrared reception. In Germany, the system was sold by "Yeno" under the name "Prof. Weiss-Alles" [sic]. Games Many games cartridges were available for the Socrates including: Facts 'N Fractions, State to State, Memory Mania, Around the World, Hodge Podge, Game Wizard and Amazi...

a keyboard with an ABCD layout. lol

i remember Socrates from when i was a little kid

Ben Richards

@allquixotic VS

The augment guys

allquixotic

@BenRichards argh >_<

Ben Richards

Yeah but I can make another character :P

He's still in the single digits w/ level :P

allquixotic

you! you are the cause of the ZOE MAX problem! .... damn VS... figures... mumble