In order to take your life away may I introduce to you World Of Warcraft?
Fix'd.
Want proof? I have something like 34 days put into it since early march 07. Or ask Panda, he played it once, then had a crippling urge to play it about 2 month later.
Edit: Actual number was more like 35 days and 7 hours, or 847 hours.
RCS, you're way late to the party, Pokemon is so last year.
Also agree, needing to look up how to make characters is frustrating as hell. That's one of the reasons why I like World of Warcraft, if you screw up something like talent point allocation, you can just reset them and start again (although for a fee in the game, to encourage you to not to do it too much).
There's nothing more aggravating than spending days or weeks on a character, only to realize you weren't supposed to allocate points into some skill.
Haha, no, I actually stopped myself from downloading anything. As I told NoLonger, I have developed a paranoia of downloading too many things ever since I got my lappy, since I'm convinced that it will EXPLODE if I do too much. My boyfriend convinced me that this was silly for long enough to download the Sims 2 for me and one expansion pack... but I still insist that I play Bioshock on HIS very nice computer, and mine shall be left mostly alone.
I've stayed away from WoW for the potential of obsessive playing, and I've played Kingdom of Loathing a few times and thought that was fun! But if I'm in the mood for silly monsters, I would much rather play Munchkins face to face with other people.
So, you haven't gotten rid of me yet, I'm still here!
My brother gave me his beast of a laptop and I had trouble with it overheating. I took some glue and stuck some strips of cardboard together to make risers to put the laptop up on.
After I raised the thing up with three layers of cardboard and got some more airspace under the laptop it almost never overheats anymore. Last time it did it was 90 degrees in the damn apartment. Kind of ghetto, but it worked great.
Having owned several laptops I can't possibly agree with that. External temperatures definitely matter, a laptop's going to cool a lot more efficiently if you're cycling 70º air past it opposed to 90º degree air.
Maybe you're just spoiled on well-designed Apple laptops, but every laptop I've ever had overheated a lot more when the weather was much hotter and tended to overheat less in the winter.
Maybe we're unclear on our definitions of "overheating." Do you just mean the case gets uncomfortably hot? Because they're supposed to do that; heat emanating to the external case means it's being successfully sucked away from the sensitive internal components. To me, overheating is when the processor or what-have-you is not being cooled effectively, which usually results in the computer shutting itself off to prevent serious damage. Overheating of this type could not possibly be affected by the temperature outside, unless combined with a fan breaking or a heatsink no longer making contact.
It's not a matter of definition! The cooling systems simply won't perform as effectively when the difference in temperatures between the heatsinks and the air is 20 degrees less. As a result, 90 degree temps CAN cause a processor to overheat and shut down the computer. I've seen it happen.
EDIT: Mario fails at basic thermodynamics!
Also why are we discussing this here? Is there anything more to say about plants?
I feel I must clarify that I was referencing a difference in room temperature between 90 degrees and 70 degrees. As in the difference in temperatures is 20 degrees less than if the room tempurature was a more standard 70.
With that, I wonder if my barren cubicle could use a plant to make it look less industrial. Except I'd never care for it. I think the answer may be plastic.
I don't really like plant pokemon, but bug pokemon are pretty cool, and they're green so... close enough. When it comes to bug pokemon Yanma is the bestest.
Nowadays when I build my balanced Pokémon team rosters, I tend to leave out Grass-types. Too many common weaknesses, insufficient strengths. How often do you come up against a Rock/Ground opponent in two-player battles, or pure Water-types? But I'll always have a special place in my heart for them, and I still usually start with the Grass-type (Bulbasaur was my first Pokémon; I still have him too! I think he's currently on my Pokémon Stadium cartridge).
Nowadays when I build my balanced Pokémon team rosters, I tend to leave out Grass-types. Too many common weaknesses, insufficient strengths. How often do you come up against a Rock/Ground opponent in two-player battles, or pure Water-types? But I'll always have a special place in my heart for them, and I still usually start with the Grass-type (Bulbasaur was my first Pokémon; I still have him too! I think he's currently on my Pokémon Stadium cartridge).
Bulbasaur was my first one too. After that day, every time I started a new pokemon game, I picked the grass type, which sucks in D and P, because there were only TWO FUCKING FIRE TYPES IN THE WHOLE SINNOH DEX. You had Chimchar, the starter, and Ponyta, who was cool, but useless. I mean, Torterra is good, but if you pick Chimchar, then you're set through the rest of the game. And Piplup is useless. Seriously, Empoleon is crap. I mean, I like Empoleon, but his stats, especially for a starter, are incredibly lackluster. Seriously, for a game with so many water pokemon, the only good one is Gyrados, and he's way overused.
Yeah, seriously, lack of fire Pokemon in that game PISSED ME OFF. I tried using a Ponyta, I really did... but it just never grew into anything worthwhile.
Yeah, seriously, lack of fire Pokemon in that game PISSED ME OFF. I tried using a Ponyta, I really did... but it just never grew into anything worthwhile.
Luxray roxored my briefxors, though.
I remember going "OK, I'm not training anyone else until you evolve into Rapidash!" without knowing what level he evolved at. It was level 40, I believe. He was my highest level guy. And yet, somehow, he was still weaker than everybody else.
I could never bring myself to use a Pokemon that looked like someone had taken a nice soft poo on top of its head, though, so I had to stick with the mediocrity of Rapidash.
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Want proof? I have something like 34 days put into it since early march 07. Or ask Panda, he played it once, then had a crippling urge to play it about 2 month later.
Edit: Actual number was more like 35 days and 7 hours, or 847 hours.
Also agree, needing to look up how to make characters is frustrating as hell. That's one of the reasons why I like World of Warcraft, if you screw up something like talent point allocation, you can just reset them and start again (although for a fee in the game, to encourage you to not to do it too much).
There's nothing more aggravating than spending days or weeks on a character, only to realize you weren't supposed to allocate points into some skill.
Holy shit those are awesome. I must have ALL OF THEM.
Yeah, try saying that when Platinum comes out. You'll be all up in Giratina's Origin Forme.
What were we talking about? Oh yeah, plant Pokémon. Oddish is the best Pokémon in the world.
I've long since abandoned most other online games.
I've stayed away from WoW for the potential of obsessive playing, and I've played Kingdom of Loathing a few times and thought that was fun! But if I'm in the mood for silly monsters, I would much rather play Munchkins face to face with other people.
So, you haven't gotten rid of me yet, I'm still here!
After I raised the thing up with three layers of cardboard and got some more airspace under the laptop it almost never overheats anymore. Last time it did it was 90 degrees in the damn apartment. Kind of ghetto, but it worked great.
Maybe you're just spoiled on well-designed Apple laptops, but every laptop I've ever had overheated a lot more when the weather was much hotter and tended to overheat less in the winter.
EDIT: Mario fails at basic thermodynamics!
Also why are we discussing this here? Is there anything more to say about plants?
I say we take Mario's idea and go halfway, talking about plant pokemon.
I'm partial to Torterra. I mean, come on, it has a tree on it's freakin' back!
With that, I wonder if my barren cubicle could use a plant to make it look less industrial. Except I'd never care for it. I think the answer may be plastic.
It hurts. That's why i haven't posted in 10-some-odd days.
Bulbasaur was my first one too. After that day, every time I started a new pokemon game, I picked the grass type, which sucks in D and P, because there were only TWO FUCKING FIRE TYPES IN THE WHOLE SINNOH DEX. You had Chimchar, the starter, and Ponyta, who was cool, but useless. I mean, Torterra is good, but if you pick Chimchar, then you're set through the rest of the game. And Piplup is useless. Seriously, Empoleon is crap. I mean, I like Empoleon, but his stats, especially for a starter, are incredibly lackluster. Seriously, for a game with so many water pokemon, the only good one is Gyrados, and he's way overused.
Luxray roxored my briefxors, though.
I remember going "OK, I'm not training anyone else until you evolve into Rapidash!" without knowing what level he evolved at. It was level 40, I believe. He was my highest level guy. And yet, somehow, he was still weaker than everybody else.