I just got really irritated when everyone said they liked it mostly for the crazy original multiple stories converging plot thing, when it had been done so much better prior. Like in Amores Perros.

Sweet.

Haha, and thanks for sticking to my budget more than I was! ;)

I went ahead and got that case anyways because total it was only going to come to around $170 with shipping which is good enough for me, I expected the shipping was going to be an extra cost after the budget anyhow.

Thanks for all the help guys, I'll let you all know how it turns out.

I'm thinking about this one of these now:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135060
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135091

with probably a cheap card like this just for video out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141052

and one of these cases:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811192069
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811154087

any thoughts?

Sweet thanks for the tips.

I think I'm gonna go with that mobo since I've found it for around $70. However it doesn't really make the video out easy, it seems like I'd have to probably buy a $30 converter or something, and I feel like I'd probably just be better off buying a cheap video card with video out or a different mobo.

Thoughs?

Hey guys I'm wondering if some of you guys could help me out with a little PC I'm looking to build.

Basically I'm wanting to make a little emulation box that my girlfriend can hook up to her TV. I'm looking at using a GameEx front end and load it upo with a bunch of emulators and games, so the most strenuous tasks the PC will be undertaking is this front end running a N64 emulator or whatnot, and I don't think that's a whole lot. A big note is that I'll need an easy way to output video and audio to TV, either S-Video and audio, or whatever. I don't think I really need an optical drive, or a huge hdd. I was thinking it'd probably be pretty easy to have a solid-state pc.

I'd prefer to keep this as cheap as possible, under like $150. I think this can be done if I don't splurge for a small form factor case.

I have a bunch of hard drives lying around I could probably use if needed.

Thanks for any suggestions guys, I appreciate it.

Sorry if this has already been brought up, but I didn't really feel like reading the whole thread.

I've never really been a die-heart on either side of this issue, I don't really know what the popular arguments are for either but to me this doesn't really change anything.

To me evolution is fact, organisms can mutate and evolve into other organisms, creating new species, etc, etc. However I don't see how evolution explains initial origin of anything. I'm one of those annoying people that don't understand the Big Bang or whatever, because how does something go bang when nothing exists prior?

Creationism says a higher being made things, but I think its stupid and ignorant to think every species that exists now has always and were all created.

So this new evidence gives evolution even more scientific proof, super, I think anyone claiming evolution doesn't occur in any sense is in denial and closed-minded. However this evidence still doesn't solve the origin problem, and I think creationism is a fine solution for that, but I'm spiritual and am okay believing that.

So, if any of you guys that love this issue to death have some arguments for either side over this I'd love to hear it.

Saw it tonight, it was a pretty packed house. There were surprisingly a lot of kids there too, I feel like there should be such a disconnect from little kids and comics these days, I mean I never read comics when I was a kid I figured there werent a whole lot of younger kids these days reading them either. Are there still cartoons on tv, or do most of these heroes live on in kid culture because of toys and stuff?

Anyways I thought it was a pretty entertaining movie. I loved how they laid out the first parts of the film, quickly presenting the origin story in montage and fleshing it out throughout the film, its refreshing. The whole scientist on the run scenario was pretty tight too. Its remarkable that a place like where hes hiding actually exists, those houses are crazy.

The CG doesn't really bother me so much because its a definite improvement over the last film, and its as realistic as I can really imagine, I mean we are talking about a green giant essentially, there's not really a spot in my brain that knows 'normal' for that. I think the Hulk is probably forever destined for a bit of uncanny valley.

The fights are pretty sweet, they seem to find a good mix of destructive carnage and super strength. I do think its a bit weird that the two giants can throw each other around so much, I mean shouldn't their strength be about fitted for each other? It makes sense that they can throw us a mile, not each other.

Overall I'm pretty happy with Marvel at the moment, this is a worthy next move after Iron Man, and they did good even though the first one was a more hip and less serious franchise. They do have their hardest stuff to come though, its gonna be hard to hype the next few movies, Captain America I feel won't be extremely hard but Ant Man and Thor, It'll be interesting to see how that handle it. They better have some damn good money set aside for those advertising campaigns.

Its probably because Liberty Leading the People is such an awesome painting, or that the whole French Rebellion time period I find really fascinating, but to me it gives the whole album a sort of death-conscious not very cheery rebellionish feel. Violet Hill is the most obvious about this and to me the lyrics make pretty direct references to the social inequality of that time and such.

I dunno, I like it all...

I've listened to the new album a couple times already and so far I really like it.

I really like the greater emphasis on strings on the album, both guitar and the addition of a lot of violin. The violin part in 'Yes' is awesome. I also like how they seem to be less afraid of pure instrumental parts, with Martin's voice being downplayed in some of the tracks.

My favorite tracks right now:
Life in Technicolor
Cemeteries of London
Yes
Viva La Vida
Violet Hill
Lovers in Japan

A definite improvement over X&Y which seemed to be a little 'spacey'. Also, in Talk they did sample that Kraftwerk songs, not exactly 'ripping off'.

Like in previous installments: from bathrooms, busses, random office rooms, in a room beyond a classic squasher trap room, you know places that make 100% sense. Like, damn I need bullets for this shotgun, now where could i find some... oh theres a sewer entrance there thank god now I can get some bullets. Or damn I wish I had some acid grenades for the grenade launcher I found inside the chimney... oh wait theres that bathtub in that one room I bet if I drain away the muddy water it will reveal some acid grenades.


PS. these are not actual events in the series but they could be.

Because there aren't hundreds of civil conflicts in Africa, fueled by other foreign countries shuttling arms to which ever group they favor at the moment. I feel like heavy arms in a poor African village ruled by a militant group would be a little more understandable than some random Spanish town.

All this racist talk is somewhat annoying. The whole 'theres no humanity here' thing is sort of blown out of proportion. You take a village full of non-zombies, then have a evil group of ruling militants and I wouldn't see a whole lot of humanity either, if the militants are like real life then their probably pretty bad heartless people. I think the setting of the game is pretty interesting.

this is sooooo good to hear,

like everyone else it seems, it makes me wanna go play the original one again

it was sooo fun

Seriously not recommended since it fucks with all of your program settings - if you installed a program with UAC on and turn it off it is likely to need reinstallation and vice versa.

I haven't experienced anything of this sort. I think UAC is a pretty pointless thing to have active especially on a single user PC.

Speaking of which that fucking Mac ad pisses me off that makes fun of it, I'm all for Macs but those ads are such pretentious bullshit.

Even though the excuse that the name is acceptable because since you're an amateur and it sounds like an amateur game, it works, is perfectly reasonable (it's not), I suggest you change it.

For one thing it doesn't connect at all with your actual proposal work. Try picking one word from your technology services then spruce it up with a creative word. Elegy Technologies, but not Elegy, example.

I think there actually is a small market for a good technology adept individual in small business markets because a lot of them have no idea about any of this stuff and wouldn't see the difference between your skills (if marketed right) and a big tech service company that probably costs more.

There isn't a real set price for services like making websites, especially in small towns and such, and you can exploit that for opportunities and gain.

You can use the green screen crazy colors and texture effect without making a fucking black and white sin city clone. Sin City was black and white with some color, the Sin City movie style made sense. This comic doesn't seem to be colored that way, the style really doesn't.

Its like they were Spirit = Comic, Sin City = Comic, Spirit = Sin City.

It just seems retarded since other comics like Spiderman have transitioned 'fine' without some stupid hey this was a comic book style gimmick. Anyways, The Spirit looks like a shitty story anyways and doesn't seem interesting at all.

Man, is that really all the new NiN album is? I haven't really every listened to them but that songs like some shit you could make in Fruity Loops in like five seconds, if you have any egality questions at all you could only improve by getting better music, geez.

I don't understand the whole falling down thing, it doesn't really explain itself. Was he tripping? It looked more like a dead fall.

The footage and everything pretty tight, the cuts fit with the techno type music, but the storyline makes no sense at all. I feel like all amateur film kids try to make crazy deep movies that end up not really having any substance. Its not really just you, I feel like its pretty common. That's why I don't ever do anything creative, I always want to make it deep and then I hate myself.

Here's a tip to not be disappointed in the future:

See Jessica Alba in role, lower expectations.

See Hayden Christenson in role, don't see the movie.

Wow, this rumor died pretty quick.

Joystiq reports that the designers have been approached by bounds of producers and scribes wanting rights for a movie, and they aren't eager to give them to an industry that frequently (always) screws it up.

I've heard alot of people mentioning the productivity functions and other hacks involving Twitter. Google Remember The Milk, its a Twitter based to do list, which I guess with Twitters mobile features becomes handy.

Theres alot of posts and uses at lifehacker.com, just search for twitter post there.

I don't think its a positive, but I think they developed it the most they could of through the format the film utilizes.

I'm not trying to say its one of the most emotional and romantic love story ever in film, I just think it was satisfying enough to justify where the plot goes.

I really enjoyed this movie.

I don't really want to try to tackle everyones complaints because for one I don't need everyone to like it with me, and secondly its practically impossible to change message board user's opinions.

I think the love story part of the plot suffers from the format and presentation of the movie. Relationships aren't usually simple things, especially when they're dysfunctional or not your own and the fact that this movie doesn't offer a lot of back story doesn't really help this out. From what I picked up this wasn't some girl the lead just sorta liked, they had been friends 'forever' most likely he had always loved her and then they had their one night of passion, blah blah then he whimpered out. Then bam, hes going to Japan they're both stubborn, leave on really bad terms, ruined their prior relationship and then hey the world is ending.

Everyone is confronted with their own mortality, the fragility of life and the fact that we're not all invincible and he realizes that hes an idiot and doesn't want to leave the girl thinking he doesn't care about her. A significant point is that he knows Beth isn't okay, he gets the call shes hurt shes stuck shes going to die without help, theres no thought that hey 'I'll fix things between us once this all blows over'. If he evacuates when he has the chance, shes not going to be there and hes going to go on living realizing that he was a dick to this girl he loved and she died thinking he didn't care about her and he maybe had a chance to save her.

Without the love story it would of been a humanistic viewpoint of the monster/disaster genre but one missing alot of aspects of humanity. When shits going down and the worlds falling out around you, yes you're wanting to survive but you're also fearing for the lives of those you love.

Also, all the gripes about the 9/11 imagery are being a little unfair. Yes its in NYC and hey theres destruction, uncertainty, and people being afraid, but its not going to far or being exploitive.