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#1 XaosII
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@anthonyautumns said:

@princeofshapeir:

Since it's not an free or F2P game, I hope the game should have at least a single player campaign. Or something like the Campaign mode of Unreal Tournament.

Pretty sure they've mentioned that theres absolutely no single player. There may be bots, but i don't think they are for anything other than training mode.

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@richietickles said:

HOLD ON! WAIT A MINUTE! I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING THAT MIGHT CHANGE MY WHOLE OPINION ON THIS THING.

Ok, does this mean me and a buddy could live as roomates, but get married and share all the financial benefits of marriage like health insurance, life insurance, etc.? Actually, not even live as roomies, just get married. Is this legal? Is this possible?

Sure. If you had a female roommate, such a scam wouldn't be any different.

Have fun with the legal aspects of divorce though, since i'd imagine you'd only want to marry each other temporarily.

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I know its not one of the two listed but it meets a similar criteria as the first monitor. Maybe consider the recently released Acer Predator XB270HU?

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The maximum wattage of an R9 290 is about 320 watts. Manufacturers may recommend a much higher power supply because they are unable to predict the power consumption of your other components so a larger power supply gives them more leeway for their components to guzzle down power. Its entirely possible to be able to run an R9 290 at max power on a 400 Watt PSU as long as you are very careful and selective about the max power consumption of other components. A 750 watt power supply is more than enough unless you intend to run multiple R9 290's. I wouldn't bother upgrading the PSU.

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Im pretty sure even half of the non-digital releases probably have day 1 patches anyways. Theres almost no point to physical copies of games beyond the novelty aspect.

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#6  Edited By XaosII
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Its like Warcraft 4 without the scale and scope of any of the Warcraft games, and characters from their other franchises,

So basically, nothing like Warcraft 4.

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I am trying to make a digital mirror for my bathroom. It'll be a sheet of glass, with two-way reflective mirror film, a display behind it, and an Intel Compute stick connected to it. Since this will be part of a swinging cabinet door, I dont think i want it bigger than 24 inches and the lower the weight the better. I don't care if its a monitor or a TV, but i don't need a TV's tuner.

So in short i want (in ideal order of priority):

  • Retina burning brightness settings to counteract the film's masking effect.
  • Thin
  • Light weight
  • At least one powered USB port.
  • Low wattage would be nice since it'll likely run 20-ish hours a day.
  • less than $200 since this is still mostly an experiment.

Things i don't care for:

  • speakers
  • max resolution (1080 or 720)
  • viewing angles
  • refresh rate
  • color accuracy
  • TV tuner
  • matte or glossy
  • panel type

Any suggestions?

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@PredatorRules said:
@KHAndAnime said:
@PredatorRules said:
@Zaka said:

I found a second hand Dell UltraSharp U2412M monitor. So is this good for gaming you think?

No, it's 8ms, try to find one with 5ms

This 8ms is faster than many 5ms monitors

How do you know?

Because refresh rates have generally been pretty useless figures for monitors in the last 4 or 5 years.

The vast majority of monitors tend to have fairly aggressive panel overdrive - enough to overcome ghosting problems of TN, IPS, or even VA panels. There is only a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of people who would end up being bothered by the nearly non-existing ghosting found on any modern monitor. Its largely why you just don't hear people complaining about ghosting any more.

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@gamerguru100 said:
@Storm_Marine said:
@bigbeard86 said:

“I thought the LSAT tutoring gig was going to be a temporary thing, but five years and one bar admission renewal later, here I am,” he said. His business has greatly expanded and he makes $100 an hour,but that is far below what he would make at a law firm. And, he said, “I waffle constantly, but I’m still in the mindset that I need to find a real job.”

I know, right? How the flying **** can you bitch about finding a so-called "real job" when you're making one Benjamin an hour?

Probably because its a tutoring job? He expected tutoring for the LSAT to be temporary instead of finding a fixed, regular job. $100 an hour is on the higher end for tutoring, but not extravagant. Its likely he might get someone to tutor him for 5 or 6 hours, then not get anyone for a week or two. Frankly, someone who made $600 in a week ain't exactly living a luxurious lifestyle.

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@Starshine_M2A2 said:
Playing World of Warcraft, get into an argument with someone for one reason or another, then I'll notice something in the game that will immediately make me suspicious. Like, I don't remember having that little gold (I'm talking a difference of about ten coins here....) or a while later the auto login will stop working for a brief moment. Small bugs and glitches like that which are common but because they happen around the time I argued with someone I immediately think;
It sounds ridiculous but is that kind of situation even possible? Is it really that easy?

You have to keep in mind that WoW is not a direct connection between party members. Each person talks to the WoW servers and it is responsible for maintaining and updating the game's state. Other people's IP shouldn't be exposed because they have no reason to directly communicate with the player.

If someone were to hack your account, they'll likely do much more than pilfer a small amount of gold. It takes time and can be fairly difficult to hack through a large, mature, constantly updated software, like, WoW so they are going to need a bigger pay off than a small amount of gold.

So far you've gotten several different answers between "its really easy" and "its really hard" to answer your question. The thing is that both responses are right.

There is no such thing as a completely unhackable system. But it can be made so difficult that it makes it unreasonable or impracticable to breach to anyone that doesn't have a country's budget backing them with resources.

The problem starts to arise when an exploit is found in a system. These tends to be flaws, bugs, and oversights in the implementation of code. You can think of it like the relatively recent Heartbleed bug; that was a bug that was running around for many years before it was found out. If a hacker finds out about a certain exploit, they generally have very, very easy access into parts of the system they aren't supposed to. It can, however, take a lot of work, knowledge, and skill to find the flaws and exploits; this is not the kind of thing a random person on the internet is capable of doing.

The best thing you can do is keep all your software up to date.