Recent content by Gitsnik

*cue groaning masses screaming 'not again'* Damnit people I keep telling you - play nethack! I go from FPS to RTS with no real concerns, but always go back to nethack every few months. The immersion is great and my imagination does the most of the work. Most fun I ever have is staring at a...

Turn the volume up next time, you can actually hear him speaking to them in another language. Much of what you see as a plot hole in that film needs a bit of volume or a slow down. Biggest plot hole(s) for me would have to be (obvious): 300: How did the story of the death-sphere at the end...

Yeah because having that much solid aluminium and 90-whatever% recyclable materials is worth nothing... Anyway I've been playing a lot of uplink on my mac lately, but asking that question around the escapist forums yields a lot of prejudice and non-advice. Still, "Steam" is pretty useful...

No. It did, but I actually took the time to train it. Amazing how that helps. Funnily enough, works on babies too. Except those creepy people who are 50+ and wearing diapers.

I once used a pencil to pass electricity through a glass of salt water (when I was measuring salt content to resistance factors). Stupid graphite pencils.

Using period weaponry, and thus keeping with the theme of course, I would be using three units of archers on the open field. First unit does long shots - death from above - whilst the second unit fires low and straight. Split the third archers into fire teams and flank them to get at the exposed...

Why? Because it's a Mac? There's a reason I started this thread and it wasn't to hear BS from fanboys of either side.

Yeah I forgot to mention I have a copy of Windows 7, so that's out. I'll edit the FP to reflect. Thanks for pointing that out.

Straight into the thick of things, my old XPC gaming rig finally dropped itself over the weekend - I actually think it's got a dead PSU - and I am looking for a new one. There are some unusual caveats (for me) in that I'm doing this on a budget of around $1,100AU, which can make it hard. So I...

I've got quite a few of the standard tells... but I've also got a bit of training in that sort of thing so I deliberately introduce them into regular conversation. Works for me, screws with people who think that things like a "glance to the left" are a give away. My fiance can usually tell...

My lifes motto has just been updated. This is kind of like Anne Rice though - just because she's stupid *now* doesn't mean that she has-not wrote some (very un-manly) good stuff in the past. Or Top Gun getting boycotted because Tom is a dick now. That makes no sense. This has just turned...

I noticed. And I also noticed that none of them identified the marking, so I guess they all took them on the internet and think it means something. Kind of like those how much should I earn quiz's. Noone wants to see that their job is only worth 10,000 a year, so they boost them up. Edit...

God I hope this doesn't turn into another IQ pissing match and if it does I hope you all have the brains to tell us which test you took, otherwise they're just random numbers. Look up mensa on the web, find an office in your city or near by and call them. There is no chance of doing it over...

Congratulations, you necromanced a thread that's at least a month old and quoted a post from February to tell me you read a book that three or four other people already told us about. I'd say you win a cookie, but frankly you just seem like your quote-whoring me for some reason I can't fathom...

Nor the noob who quoth nothing but the video game? Armour for me would have to be the MKVI armour (because, let's face it, we're all in Iron Man mode at the moment), or some good old TDA. I don't like running anyway.