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| Games should be rated differently, more like hazardous chemichals |
| 2010.03.14 12:37:09 | Post by Delph1 | |
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I'm not that updated on the PC gaming front anymore. I know of the most popular games and do play some, but I mainly stick to playing on my PlayStation 3 nowadays. After playing through Metal Gear Solid 4 once more and reading the health warnings that comes up during the installations; "If you start to feel ill, stop playing immediately", I realized that the number rating system most gaming sites use is obsolete. We used to have a number rating system when we reviewed hardware and many still do. The problem is that the numbers are always relative to the period of time the product was released in, but as the review age the numbers remain the same. So if you go back and read an old review and compare the product to a newer ditto it may look equivalent or even superior if you only consider the numbers. Games on the other hand are a bit different. A great game will always be a great game, even if the graphics may get outdated and look close to pathetic when compared to modern games, there is (usually) more to it. There's a story, there are characters to bond with, and so forth. Still, I feel that numbers don't really do games justice anymore. Mainly because we often rate graphics, audio and other things that changes as times passes by. Instead we should treat games as potentially hazardous material. When a game is so good that you may be playing it all day and all night just to complete it shouldn't just be rated "100" or "10", it should have a big freaking sticker on the front saying "This game could be harmful to your health and well-being". That way I can easily push aside any games with happy smiley face and a text like: "This game is safe to buy," and go straight for the games with "Health insurance required", "Only an idiot completely void of his/hers own health would buy this" or my favorite: "This game comes with a free and mandatory 6 month stay at your choice of psychiatric clinic." Just a thought ...
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| CeBIT around the corner |
| 2010.02.28 20:33:49 | Post by Delph1 | |
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CeBIT down in Germany is opening the week to come. Right now Jonas (Mean Machine) is burning a CD with the discography of Rotting Christ and trying to get his Peugeot 10x-something ready for a trip down south where bars and beers are plenty and hardware is about to.
He will have have company with two friends from Stockholm and when passing Malmö he will pick Anton and together they will try to cover as much as possible of the giant event that is CeBIT. We have meeting scheduled with many of the more interesting companies of the computer industry and hope to see plenty of mouthwatering components. Stay tuned.
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| GeForce GTX 480 launches on March 26th ... |
| 2010.02.24 18:48:02 | Post by Delph1 | |
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NVIDIA managed to anger more than a few with its rather weak announcement earlier this week. To top it all off it kind of neglected to mention that it will not only show the cards at PAX next month, but the cards WILL in fact be released at the same time.
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| Linux Mint 8 - Ubuntu with codecs and then some |
| 2010.02.21 18:43:00 | Post by Delph1 | |
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Linux Mint started as a flavor of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs. It quickly outgrew the role as a sidekick to Ubuntu is today a much more mature and complete operating system than you might think. Mint doesn't get the same media attention as Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE and the rest with company backing, but it is still by far one of my personal favorites.
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| GeForce G210 with ATI chips |
| 2010.02.21 18:12:17 | Post by Delph1 | |
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It's true. In this article at Anandtech they discovered something rather amusing.
This is far from the first time this has happened as companies often buy "unspecific" memory chips in large amounts for less from memory makers, but it's still a bit funny.
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