Recent content by Wintio

The only problem is that this sort of independence really highlights the limitations of choice in gaming in my opinion. For example, the beauty of this system is that I should be able to play for a while, capture a few castles and then sit back and make peace with people. Sure there will be...

I'm playing Mount and Blade at the moment and this game does this completely. The game doesn't give a damn what you do, those kingdoms are going to keep warring and trucing all day long. It's quite a good idea, although I would say there are too many cities/lords to keep track of for many of...

I used to run into this a lot. I always played rpgs with a strategy guide next to me because I couldn't stand the thought that I wasn't doing it the "best" way, or that I might have just chosen the wrong dialogue option and now the uber mega sword was beyond my reach forever. I recently...

I personally have always felt that Runescape did fast travelling the best. Once you have a proper character, you can fast travel pretty much anywhere you like... But you need to use a variety of methods, sometimes linking several methods together. From regular magic (and two other spell books...

I'm a bit of an achievement hunter and I definitely would be disappointed if I lost my account. It's a nice little way to look back on what you've done, there are many good memories attached to some of those achievements. I quoted what you said about books because I hang on to most of the books...

The solution is definitely more bike lanes, only problem is it's a chicken and egg situation... People don't want to bike ride because it's not safe, and they don't build enough bike lanes because there aren't that many cyclists. I can only hope that in the mad dash to get carbon emissions down...

Here in Australia the quakes were plastered all over the weekend newspapers, so most people should know about it here. Although it didn't get anywhere near the coverage that the New Zealand earthquake got.

I've always had computers I've put together myself (with the help of my more technologically capable friends). The price is just so much better that way, and the customisability lets you spend the money on the parts that are important to you. I can't understand why anyone would go with a...

Meme did me in. It looks like the french word même, which means "same" so it even made sense for it to be based off. I still prefer même (rhymes with the middle part of remember) than meme (meem apparently).

I'm with Astoria. I'd gladly take a nice cool winter's day right about now. Anything to stop the continuous 35+ degree days. It's madness! (also tropical cyclones, noone likes cyclones).

I picked up a few, everything worked fine except for star wars battlefront 2. After a while of googling I found that I had to get new (old) sound drivers and fiddle around with the stereo settings... In the end the game does work, albeit without sound. It's the most obscure fix I've had to do so...

I'm going with the books as well. I played all the games through to number 3 at least twice before I knew there were books and honestly, I couldn't tell you what was happening in the story of any of the games until I read those books. They're not all good, but some of them really are, and it...

Seek out something you haven't done. A lot things are quite easy, cheap and probably something you've wanted to do for a while. If you have an instrument around the house, maybe now is the time to learn it. If you've heard about a good author, now is the time to get a book (try your library). My...

I'm pretty new to steampunk but I got my hands on my first steampunk book last week (Leviathan) and I quite enjoyed the change of setting. It's a fun idea to play around with, and I hope to see more of it.

I agree with what seems to be a majority of people here that nuclear power is a good idea, particularly if used as a solution to tide us over while we develop more sustainable power. I hadn't heard that before, if true it certainly makes you wonder if it could be our renewable energy, but i...