Recent content by Nova5

I'd say its about as bad. Good point, though - I tend to ignore the Minecraft posts here at this point, so they didn't come to mind as an example.

Now that I could get behind. Sadly, I think the Escapist has moved away from its 'news' roots in favor of... What does the Escapist actually bill itself as now? A clean, organized, and accessible layout like ArsTechnica [http://www.arstechnica.com/], Rooster Teeth...

While that's true, it doesn't change that one comes to a news site for 'news'. Mind, this comment thread is posted in the "News Room".

It's posts like this that have me wondering: is the Escapist starting to incorporate random shit as 'news' that belongs in the staff's twitter feeds? Stories have become much shorter, less timely (e.g. Rooster Teeth's "Immersion" series had been out for months before it was posted as 'news'...

That's so intensely rare, proprietary, and fucking expensive that I didn't feel the need to add an asterisk. But yes, congrats, correct on a technicality. On that note, do you honestly believe the poster I was replying to was referring to that?

What are you talking about...? You mean their crappy custom-written utilities they stick in with their driver packages? Every manufacturer has that shovelware. I just usually reformat with my own copy of Windows 7 and install drivers' from the chipset manufacturers' websites, to keep it clean...

I would recommend this Toshiba laptop [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214188] as a low cost solution. Bought one for my mother the other day. It would easily meet your needs, and have a long, healthy lifespan. Why not just run bootcamp? I run Win7 via bootcamp on my...

If you haven't played Deadly Premonition, it's worth a go. Though, I'd recommend Alan Wake first (play it on normal/hard difficulty if you want to feel any actual tension, though - easy is too much of a cake walk for even casual gamers). Amnesia is a PC/Mac title only, though it doesn't take...

Alright, probably your drivers then. What you'll need to do is right-click on "My Computer" and select "Manage" from the context menu that pops up. It'll open a window titled "Device Manager". There will be a list of different types of components, one of which will be "Display Adapters". This...

Things I'd check: -Color settings -Refresh rate (this can happen on some monitors if it isn't set right - yours probably should be 60Hz) -Latest drivers for your graphics card (you can easily check which one you have [http://tinyurl.com/654t9zh]) If you let us know what kind of operating...

For the record, I didn't mean to imply "go at it entirely dry with nothing whatsoever". Should've thought that wording through a bit more. To me, going at it with nothing but 'elbow grease' is using just alcohol and a toothbrush. On a 360, that OEM shit just refuses to come off.

Keyboards, whenever they start acting up. I disassemble them and blow 'em out with some canned air, maybe a rubbing alcohol scrubdown if they need it. I open my XBOX 360 once a year to scrub down the heatsinks, get the dust off the fans, clean out the airduct, and re-apply some thermal...

That deserves the understatement of the year award, man. It has saved me so many headaches this year.

I'd recommend the ASUS VW246H 24". It has a 2ms refresh rate, a beautiful display, and the following inputs: HDMI (1x), VGA (1x), and DVI (1x). Picked one up recently, and I'm looking at getting a second one to replace my secondary monitor. Pic: NewEgg Link What I'm using it for...

Netbooks, as a rule, generally support external (USB) DVD drive booting. I occasionally have to reformat my father's netbook for him (no DVD drive), so I use a computer tower's internal DVD drive and an adapter from Rosewill. Together they function like a USB DVD drive, and are a helluva lot...