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noel

How has 'Games for Windows Failed' ?

When's the last time 'Games for Windows' as a differentiator for you or anyone when buying a game?

noel

I liked toon town a lot and for that reason alone this game looks cool.

I'm currently playing a totally stupid webgame called Mechquest

http://www.mechquest.com

noel

Sylvus wrote:
noel wrote:But it's also a much more portable version of my large collection of leatherbound books and my apartment that smells of rich mahogany.

I think I used to live in that apartment right before I moved to the mansion recently seen on Entourage.

noel

I've had more people, strangers included, get their iPhone out to "show me something" than all other types of phones combined. And while the iPhone may do things better than other phones, it certainly doesn't do anything that other phones cannot do (please note that's hyperbole, it probab...

noel

I totally agree. The main thing for me is to have a smaller sized device with some meaningful browser and application capability.

The iPhone does that on a level that the blackberry (as good as it is) just doesn't match.

noel

Roger that. It's just under $2k after the second year assuming you go with the cheapest plan and don't add SMS. Maybe if you have a cell bill coming in regularly that's not a big deal, but given that my crackberry is free, I'm just gonna sit on the sidelines and drool. Maybe I'll get an iTouch when ...

noel

This game needs it's own forum!

noel

It makes total sense. Phones are status symbols now, much like cars. The iPhone is the 'it' phone, and AT&T has exclusivity to it. Therefore they can charge whatever they want, and people will pay it...because people 'need' to have that phone. People that can't reasonably afford to get that pho...

noel

I don't agree with that at all. Certainly there were problems the last time they did this, but nothing compared to what they've got going on now. There were far fewer problems last year than this year because of the degree to which they've compounded it. MobileMe is now working fine as of 2 hours ag...

noel

I'd already made the decision to hold off on getting one (variety of factors including the free crackberry I already have and the battery life of the iPhone 3G), but I can say this: The release of the 3G has been an unmitigated disaster. Many people aren't able to activate their phones at all (no ca...

noel

I've been wondering when there was going to be another donation drive. It seemed like it should be coming up soon.

I've always been happy to donate, so don't feel like you have to pay for this shit out of pocket unless you want to.

noel

Winnow wrote:I'd recommend extreme homophobes rent it and watch it alone in case you turn out to be closet homosexuals. I'm sure their biggest fear was walking out of the theater with a raging hard-on.

I LOLed!

noel

I guess that's your problem then, but it's weird. That's definitely not related to DX10, which btw is backward compatible to DX9 games (D2 isn't a DX9 game btw). My dxdiag shows all three items on that screen as enabled. Are you running NVIDIA's drivers or the ones from your card manufacturer, etc? ...

noel

No way. I'm using an 8800GTX that supports both DX10 and DX9 just fine. With Vista, DX10 is installed, period. I would highly recommend you reinstall it in the following manner: Remove it entirely. 1. Install D2. 2. Install LoD. 3. Patch. Attempt to play. 4. Restore any backed up characters and then...

noel

I also recently installed D2 and LoD on Vista. I'm not having that issue. Out of curiosity, have you installed the latest patch? There are known Vista issues with D2: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=22661&categoryId=3202&parentCategoryId=2613&pageNumber=1 Latest Patc...

noel

I just saw this and it's really fucking creepy. My home street is in vivid detail and I can walk down it house by house. Jesus. Why is it so creepy? You can go "outside" and do the same exact thing. I fail to see why everybody is making such a big deal over Street View. So well said. Shou...

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FYI, I've been reading about D2 on a variety of message boards, and the '5 classes' thing is apparently not set in stone for release. From what I'm reading, 5 are 100% for sure and planned, but they're not set on there only being 5. Personally, I have Titan Quest and it's expansion, but I'm replayin...

noel

Now on a not so serious note: If only he'd bought an iPod!

Edit: He's back!

noel

I'll go on record as saying I'm seriously concerned for Winnow.

noel

I sent him a PM re: the comics forum on Friday evening, and it hasn't left my outbox. In all seriousness, I hope he's on vacation or something because like you said, it's unlike him to go this long without posting etc. He's pretty well connected gadget-wise, so it's surprising he hasn't at least got...

noel

That's totally impossible. I know for a fact that Winnow owns the same hardware, and he's said nothing like that! We won't be fooled by your lies Boogahz! (Winnow appears to be on vacation or something, so I'm filling in for him at this time in the interest of balance) (10 days 'til the 3G iPhone!)

noel

http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/30/049204&from=rss "You can save on long distance and air time with the new 3G iPhone. iPhone Hacks has the scoop on an upcoming iPhone 2.0 App named 'iCall', that will let you switch between VoIP and normal GSM calls anywhere in North America...

noel

I saw that headline yesterday, and at first went, "oh no!". Then I read the article and went, "oh yes!"

What a fucking idiot.

noel

I'm looking forward to enjoying the hell out of this. As I've grown older and my life has changed, I just don't have the time for meaningful play in an MMOG. I loved D2 because I could log on for just a bit and still maybe get a nice piece of loot etc. I'm looking forward to this. I just wish they'd...

noel

My snap is being overworked at the moment.

noel

My bad then. Just upgraded to Firefox 3 and forgot to enable my sarcasm filter.

noel

The prices were never really 'fixed' though. It's been $16.00 for a standard retail (non-sale price) CD since I was 11 years old. That's going on 23 years. ><

noel

I guess it depends on who gets elected as next President :P I respect the hell out of you and most all of your opinions, but... it does? I think it's pretty naive to think that the presidential election going one way or another is going to affect the growing global oil crisis and focus on alternati...

noel

Kind of a funny tangental point: CDs have three things going for them that can't be matched in any of the online stores: * significantly better audio quality than most online music stores * the full album, every new song from your favorite artist * a physical product you can hold in your hand So whe...

noel

Same. Websense while VPNed in and no problems.

noel

AFK to shower ><

noel

I'm sure it was the best there was at the time. Sucks that we can't do some kind of ultra-long distance upgrade though. =\

noel

miir wrote:On the contrary, there's loads of good, free MMOs.

That wasn't meant to be a blanket statement about free MMOs. I was referring specifically to Air Rivals.

noel

The one thing I am SO fucking sick of reading is: ...and declining CD sales in part due to the iPod... So let me get this straight. Even though a large portion of their consumers have moved on to purchasing their product in a manner that better suits their needs, they still expect these same consume...

noel

I gotta agree. I saw it initially on a gamespot 'Great Free MMO' list. Figured I'd post it here even though I hadn't had a time to play it yet.

After I did, it was just too one-dimensional to be of any value to anyone. Then again, you get what you pay for.

noel

Awesome.

noel

The list is kind of all over the place, but I see Grace Park as an omission. No one here would kick her out of bed for eating crackers... She's #5 on the official list. I'd boot her up to top three consideration through. Turns out reading is HARD. #3 might be a bit too high, but I'm not complaining...

noel

The list is kind of all over the place, but I see Grace Park as an omission. No one here would kick her out of bed for eating crackers...

noel

Nick wrote:In fairness Noysy has just made a completely beautiful post.

I'm calling drunken EQing as motivation for his masterpiece!

noel

When did bannings register with the forum?

noel

Simplified explanation: The 'You laugh you lose' thread had some things posted to it that while not overtly pornographic were highly questionable for safeness in a reasonable person's work environment. People were pissed off. Funkmasterr said they were all stupid because if they worked in an environ...

noel

One of the greatest comedians of my time.

Dead in an LA hospital from heart failure. Can't even find an article on it yet.

noel

I'll agree with Fairweather and Winnow's most recent posts as well as Spang's. When starting posting here back on EQVault, I flamed the shit out of all three of these guys. The thing that's disappointing to me is that though I may have an extreme difference of opinion with someone on a topic, and fl...

noel

http://www.airrivals.net/index.php I just saw this today. Haven't had a chance to download/install, but might be worth checking out. Seems to be a flight-sim type MMOG where you're a pilot and fly around in squadrons etc. Looks Robotechish, and perhaps fun. If I get a chance to try it, I'll comment ...

noel

The friend who IMed me the link to that thing said it would be available in Q4 '08. I honestly didn't look at much past the front page and the photos page. Running on Windows mobile would steer me away from it. I don't have any deep-seeded religious feelings about Windows mobile, and don't care that...

noel

As far as I'm concerned, there's no real reason for there to be a moderator on any of the forums here. I just checked the moderator logs and 38 of the last 50 actions were mine. I use my mod rights to keep the comic post threads up to date when new comics are added, etc. In this sense, the ability ...

noel

Are you new here? You are officially my favorite poster here. Seriously though, that one was long even for winnow. Wasn't a knock on you. It just seems like everytime I read a post from Spang lately I laugh. Btw on the subject of phones, this HTC thing looks really cool: http://www.htc.com/www/defa...

noel

Spang wrote:Are you new here?

You are officially my favorite poster here.

noel

That's pretty much how he is anyway. He is an unjaded man from a different time. Also, the two frame picture I posted is typical of Cap. He's more concerned with the American people and the American dream than allowing the flag to represent or participate in the bullshit it gets used for these days....

noel

Funkmasterr wrote:A site full of some of the most inconsiderate, rude, pathetic people I have encountered in my entire life and I'm being lectured about being considerate.

IRONY4TW!

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