Recent content by Nomad

More journalistic content. A return to strict forum moderation - what made the Escapist forum stand out from the crowd was the lack of one-liners and image posts. If I want to see a string of gifs with looped movie scenes taken out of context, I'll go to reddit. I come here for the discussions...

This sounds like great news to me - welcome back. The Escapist has been a part of my standard browsing rotation for a decade at this point, but during the last few years I've kept it there mostly out of tradition since there hasn't been much going on here - and I had started to worry that one...

On exchanges: I can take my bitcoin to Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Gemini or one of the plethora of more minor actors and exchange it for USD or EUR at the current rate, though. The market value of bitcoin isn't fictional - you can absolutely exchange 1 bitcoin for $ 8 881 at the time of...

Yes, people buy things with bitcoin - and other cryptocurrencies - all the time. Steam allowed you to buy software with bitcoin at one point, but stopped when bitcoin adoption raised to a level where the transaction fees started going through the roof (the transaction fees and times are directly...

First of all: thank you for the above. It really grinds my gears when the OP just leaves a link and tells people to discuss it, rather than raising the discussion on their own and leaving the link for reference. Second, you mention your slight "anti-marriage bias", and I do think it shows a...

1. The stock cooler will suffice for mild overclocking, although it may be a bit loud. Most aftermarket air coolers will suffice for moderate overlocking - find one that is somewhat cheap and easy to mount (like a cooler master hyper 212 evo or something). Actual water cooling is overkill for a...

I miss it. It was one of the things that made this forum unique - you could count on most of the posts being worth a read. Now, having to sift through memes to find worthwhile material doesn't exactly help my motivation to keep reading. At this point, I'm mostly doing it because I've been doing...

This seems to me like it would be a bad thing, and also like it would be connected to the recurring complaints about the pace on the forums having slowed down these last few years. You could, then, also view it as a victory for the "others". We're just the people that got left behind.

I take it you haven't played Elder Scrolls Online? It is filled to the brim with chosen one-speech directed to you specifically, even though you can plainly see ten other people standing right next to you, speaking to the very same NPC about the very same thing.

You should probably run the form by your supervisor before going live with it. You're going to have problems with data analysis with the current setup, since there are a number of questions that lack proper responses. An example would be the question about product placement affecting the...

That would depend on which card we're talking about. Any GTX-line card from the current or last generation should be able to run pretty much anything, though - but not always comfortably. Assuming it's a 750, it would be pretty much bang on target for the minimum system requirements for The...

If you don't already own the copy of the OS they're installing, that'll work out well for you in the end anyway. For the next year, the upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10 is free - so given that it's the ultimate edition, that'd net you a copy of windows 10 professional, which costs closer to...

Well, if the OS they're installing (presumably windows 10, if it's the "latest version") isn't one you already own, that's a little over $100 right there. So that'd leave $250 for picking components if you'd spend the money on a new machine - not a whole lot to work with. You can make it work...

I get what you're saying, but I'm not convinced that's a useful way of thinking about it. A top-of-the-line machine that's 5 years old is still going to be mediocre when compared to a current generation entry level machine, even though it originally cost four times as much. Basically, the value...

That sounds to me like you just need a working computer. Then the question should be how much money you need to spend to get a working computer. Will fixing your existing computer cost less than buying any random new one? If yes, then what you're doing is cost effective. If what you're after...