Gryph

My new PC is this and I have a 450w PS: Gigabyte 965P DS3 Core2Duo 6600 2 gb PC6400 8800GTS 640 mb Linksys NIC Audigy SE 2 SATA HDDs (One is 300 gb and the other one is a 74 gb 10,000 RPM Raptor) 2 PATA HDDs (Both are 250 gb Seagates) 2 optical drives A 3.5" floppy drive (can't get rid of that yet) So...yeah, I guess your setup will require atleast 500 with those big HDDs and SLI cards so 600 is a good choice.

Looks good. I don't think I've heard anything about those adapters. I think the 600w PS is overkill but it ought to serve you for a long time.

Yay, we're back! Ok, I'm off now. Be back tomorrow night.

SNES for sure.

Google's ones are my favorite so far. And xkcd comics. http://www.xkcd.com/

Dreamcasts are pretty cheap anyway. You'll get more enjoyment out of the game if you buy a Dreamcast instead of upgrading your PC to play an emulator.

I'd like to always play games but I cannot be certain what my future holds for me.

Nope. Fallout 3 is being made by Bethesda. They're currently in full production and we should be seeing some media this year, hopefully sooner rather than later. They bought the rights to everything Fallout except the MMO - Interplay still owns the rights to that and wants to make a Fallout MMORPG. There was some news of a government filing for the MMORPG project with an ENORMOUS BUDGET (something like 75 million!) so I don't know how they'll secure that funding since they're bankrupt.

God that's so horrible.

Carlos Mencia is horrible. It's a travesty that his nonfunny ass is still on the air.

My thoughts exactly.

Yeah, I signed up last night. I hope to get some good time with GameTap today.

It'll be a while till I hear from most schools. I heard back from one school and I got in so I can relax.

So my past two blog posts were rather short and pointless entries that I was in St. Louis. It was quite an experience for me. During the orientation session of my second interview (Tuesday), the dean came in to inform us about the coming bad weather that would most probably ground our flights (we were all from out of state). That was very bad news for me since I had a major History test the next day I was hoping to study for when I got home. Every chance I got I checked the flight status on the computer and it still said "On Time." But just a few minutes before my actual interview at 1:00 PM, I checked my flight status, along with another applicant, and we were quite dismayed to see our flights canceled. Right after the interview I raced over to get my bags and head to the airport so I could try to make arrangements and get some meal vouchers or a free hotel stay out of them but all I got was a flight the next morning at 6:50 AM. It was the only flight going to New Orleans that wasn't fully booked thanks to Mardi Gras. The next morning I get up at 5 AM and skip my shower because I have to get to the Metro by 5:30 so I can be at the airport for 5:50. I arrive at the Metro in time and everything is making good progress until after that 3rd to last stop from the airport there is this loud BUMP! noise. The train slows to a stop and the lights go out. This is not good. The time is now 5:45 AM. So the people behind me start complaining and getting belligerent that they'll be late for work. The girl I was riding with, who also interviewed with me, was not pleased at all since that day was her birthday and it was already ruined for her. I realize it's no use complaining since we're in the middle of nowhere in freezing cold (oh yeah, I'm not used to snow and major cold since I'm from the deep south) so I just kick up my feet on the seats next to mine and relax and call the airline to try to make some new arrangements. I realized that if I don't make the flight I won't have to take my History test so I don't fret at all. However, we're told that a new train is coming from the other track that normally goes the opposite direction so all the trains are delayed. The time is now 6:25. I arrive at airport terminal at 6:30 and have to stand in a long time to get my boarding pass. By the time I get to security it's around 6:40 (flight leaves in 10 minutes) and that takes about 6 minutes. I learn that my gate is at the absolute end of the concourse so I have to run with my heavy backpack, suitbag, and long overcoat. I get there at 6:48 and thankfully the plane is delayed a few minutes otherwise I would not have made it. What a crappy day that was.

I agree with AphexMandelbrot (nice name) as well. I think I'm going to sign up for the service and do a review. And also play the new Sam and Max games since I finally have some down time to enjoy myself.

It was far too cold and late for any of that.

Awesome.

We will survive.

Congrats Mooney! And thanks for everything you've done for us James, your help has been very valuable.

My flight was grounded due to weather so I'm still here.

I'm in St. Louis, Missouri right now posting from a library. It's cold here.

I'd love to make games but I have no artistic or programming skills.

I wish I had the time, focus, discipline, and reason to learn any form of BSD or Linux.

Yeah, in the short run it's fine. And if the majority of people are still on DX9 in the long term, game developers will have no choice but to support DX9 too. They'd rather appeal to a broader customer base than appeal to Microsoft (which MS does not like of course). I doubt we'll see DX10 ONLY games for quite a while but plenty of games that have DX10 as an addition either by inclusion at release or patch. It just seems like MS released an OS that's not that great or important to upgrade to.

I certainly won't be installing Vista for a long time. I have yet to hear a really positive review of it. Most are just mildly positive like "It has a snazzy new interface" (which I didn't like very much since it's way too much clutter).