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My first SoJ was actually a Mephisto's Soulstone. See, I got scammed.

I've said before what a great card the GTX 460 is. It can easily max out Skyrim including a bunch of FXAA tweaks and it's a nice small card too relative to your average Radeon card. It also has lots of nice copper coil inside. I've never had any power issues with it.

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It's terribly fun to build a new PC and I wish I hadn't gotten into this expensive hobby. LOL

My problem lately is deciding on my next upgrade. I want to finally purchase my two ssd's and raid them, yet at the same time I want to get a 27'' monitor just to finally have a dual monitor setup. Neither one of these upgrades I need at all right now but I still really want them.

When do you ever NEED any of that?

Like, all the time do I need it. Are you serious?

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i think im just going to go with the 560 ti with the recent price drop due to the release of the kepler series graphics cards. would now be the optimum time to buy, or should i wait another month?

560 Ti is still an amazing value and will be for some time. You can easily find it for 200, maybe less, and it's a great card. Some of the pricing on the 680 goes toward stuff I'm still not sure sure I'd utilize, especially the 3D stuff. But yeah the 560....eh, it's about a good time to buy it I think. I don't think any time soon the price will drop dramatically though. It's about where it's gonna be for awhile but that's still a good price.

Me too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_o-ULSWWng&feature=g-all-u&context=G27a2fbcFAAAAAAAAAAA

I'm totally quitting my job and <insert other humorous made up stuff here>.

Yeah you don't need to be a hardware enthusiast just to want the 680. I certainly wish I could get one for myself but I'm not budgeted at all for that kind of hardware right now. My next big investment is a second ssd so I can do RAID 0 on my desktop.

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So I am going to rant a bit because this bugs me a lot. PvE people and Blizzard "cough" Jay Wilson "cough". I feel like people who are agaisnt PvP in Diablo didn't even play the game.. It honestly hurts my brain to see people agaisnt PvP in this game. Truly hurts my brain. I can't grasp the concept of hating on something so much when it has literally zero effect on any PvE'ers.. If you don't want to PvP it's very simple. You just don't do it. It makes no logical sense to hate or bash something that doesn't effect you.. I'll say it again. It makes no logical sense. So I am not sure why PvE players care so much that PvP people want Blizzard to back one of the biggest, if not the biggest thing about Diablo 2's endgame. PvP.

Who's bashing it? I think most people just aren't that concerned over PvP but they ain't exactly bashing it.

And I may feel like people who don't know the story that well also didn't even play the game as I feel that's what makes the game most entertaining. But everyone's playing it for their own different reasons.

I also just think it's debatable on what D2's endgame is. I assumed more people in D2 just did character builds, uber-Trist, MFing, crap like that. That's what I saw most people playing for, not PvP.

Yeah that FAQ I think mentions that's the purpose of the chained zombies. Seriously that was so awesome. I never saw anything cool like that in any other zombie movie or game. It was just brilliant. Only thing I'm wondering is why the zombies on the chains aren't trying to bite her. Like if she uses the chained zombies to deter others, why aren't the chained ones all hungry for her. They're just kind of standing there.

I think Rick is a bit broken now though or a tad psycho. I mean, he's gonna have to change more in order to survive and continue being a leader. It's like, he killed Shane, but he absorbed some of Shane's pragmatism and ruthlessness. Though I always think Rick was ruthless but he had better control over it than Shane ever did. So he'll need to become a bit harder in order to survive the upcoming ordeal.

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My friend has a vacation (more like mandatory fun) that his mom insistes he do. The problem is, it is planned during the release of D3, but Corry(Affe)'s true intentions are to play D3 at launch. This petition is to help convice his mother that he is needed in battleing the evil!

http://www.ipetition...ation-in-order/

Your friend is likely overweight and his mom is just trying to get him outside more. I'm with mom. Does she have a petition of her own?

Yeah I was talking with a buddy of mine and we agreed it was that talk with Shane that finally pushed him over the edge. As if Shane was becoming detached from his feelings but when Laurie did all that apologizing to him it gave him some new hope that they really could be together. Now Laurie is all self-hating and she's taking it out on Rick I think. I mean she was the one who first suggested that he kill Shane.

I seriously wish we could see Daryl's brother but it's starting to look less likely and I can't bring myself to read ahead in the comics to see if he appears. Actually no, cause in the comics that scene never happened anyway. Glenn just rescues Rick from the city and they never meet Daryl's brother and none of that stuff ever happened. I'm glad the comic is significantly different from the show though. They are different for valid reasons and not just superfluous reasons.

I really wish we'd see the black guy Morgan and his kid again. I think they're story was really fascinating and they were good characters.

I have mixed feelings about the ending. I wasn't expecting a really happy ending or anything. That's not what upset me. But there really were some things that made no sense. Also, I didn't even know which ending I was choosing. I walked up to one of the pathways and just sort of went with it. Plus, they say all the endings are almost identical anyway. I've only experienced one though.

My biggest beef though wasn't with the ending but with the From Ashes DLC. I've never seen a DLC such as that available on the same day of the game's release. And I thought that since the Protheans were such a huge part of the story, they should've been in the full game and not as some DLC afterthought. Everyone seemed very underwhelmed at the presence of the Prothean too. It was just sad when he was standing there in the Citadel and like two or three people came up to him and were like, "Oh, gosh, wow, you're really a Prothean? No way!" And that was it.

There were a lot of moments that just felt really flat storywise. Like characters and their motivations were kind of hard to understand, especially the Illusive Man's. I also thought whether I destroyed or just irradiated the Collector base in ME2 would have the biggest repercussions of any decision I'd ever made in the game. There was one like from a character that was like, "Didn't you just irradiated the base though?" And I was like, "Yep." And then the Illusive Man seemed to be using the technology to create husks? Or to enhance his soldiers with? But storywise I didn't understand what the effect was cause his motivations throughout the game were so confusing anyway.

I think it was supposed to be part of the game's mystery that you didn't quite know what the IM was up to, but I couldn't tell HOW important his plans were compared to the sheer might of the Reapers. I kept wondering when I'm gonna have a confrontation with Harbinger, but unfortunately Harbinger was just a pawn. I think that was actually the part of the story that disappointed me the most was that the Reapers were just the tools of someone else as a way of resolving the "inevitable" conflict between organics and synthetics.

I thought what would be more interesting of an idea is that the Reapers really were masters of their own destiny and no one controlled them, yet they seemed to have reach the zenith of their own evolution and so they began creating this cycle every 50k years try to assimilate something into themselves that would finally allow them to escape the evolutionary dead end they were in. I didn't see why synthetic life and organic life had to necessarily be at odds especially since the breakthrough you have in the game with the Geth.

Now I did like the idea that the Crucible was conceived not by the Protheans but by a race that preceded them. I just didn't like that the Reapers were controlled by some other intelligence that unfortunately took on the avatar of that stupid kid. For me it kind of removed the mystique and threatening presence of the Reapers. And the fact that Harbinger never taunts you or comes back for his sweet revenge for what you did to his Collectors was all kind of disappointing to me. Mostly because Sovereign was such a great antagonist in the first game. And his motives kind of made sense too. But now I didn't quite understand the Reapers' motives anymore cause they were basically destroying civilization for the sake of saving civilization. As if they know without a doubt that synthetics and organics will inevitably wipe each other out every cycle. How can they know that if they're the ones killing everyone and basically contriving the cycle themselves?

And maybe synthetics and organics will go to war inevitably. But how do the Reapers know that the cycle they bring is any less destructive than what a synthetic/organic war would bring. It was just strange how in a few lines of dialogue this ghost/machine kid basically (for me anyway) removed all logical motivation for the Reaper's actions. I mean, that's the direction they wanted to go with the story, and I guess I gotta respect that. I'm just not convinced that was their story all along with the Reapers and it felt made up on the spot to me.

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Q: I'm a black woman & didn't understand or like the brilliant last scene with the BLACK zombies in chains!
A: Michonne is a major character in the comic book. She uses those walkers to repel others.

I hate people. What a fucktard that person asking the question is. Even if they haven't read the comics, maybe if they did a bit of research (like I just did) they would easily find that Michonne is a black woman. Even if she wasn't black, WHO CARES. Grow the f up trying to pull the racist card watching a zombie apocalypse show.

Well, I think it was intended more as a hypothetical question the way some questions in a FAQ are.

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Andrea's character in the Walking Dead comic was another good one. She didn't need to be battle-savy with "girl power," she just had very deadly aim and practiced daily with a rifle.

I don't really like her character in the show that much. I hate her contradictory logic about the post-apocalyptic society. Especially when she goes on about how that suicidal girl needs to decide for herself whether to live. Cause Andrea in the first season, pretty much didn't make that decision really on her own and yet she still insists on living. It was Dale that guilt tripped her into not killing herself and so she didn't want Dale to die too so she did flee the CDC building. Yet later she was pissed at Dale for robbing her of that choice, but who was stopping her now? If anyone really wants to kill themselves they're gonna do it. But people intervened anyway and arguably saved Andrea's life. Yet she's all saying no one should intervene in that girl's life and try to stop her from killing herself? I just thought she was stupid. Plus she shot Daryl because she was further stupid.

I have many things to say about the third ME, but I've not really gathered all my thoughts together yet. Looks like you pretty much had no thoughts either.

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I like Zayl. If it has to be from a game,

Wasn't D2's Necromancer supposedly Zayl?