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    Ok, I'm building a gaming PC. I'm expecting 4-5 SATA devices, no IDE, and while I'll be building it with a single GPU I want the option to get a second one down the road. This stuff is going into a large case. I need to pick a mobo, and I'm torn. I'm looking at two boards from Asus, the P8Z77-V and the Maximus V Gene. The P8Z77-V is a bigger board with more room to grown in the future, but the Maximus V Gene looks like it meets my requirements despite being a mATX board, and it's got some good reviews. What do you guys think? EDIT: Nevermind, I went with the P8Z77-V. So I'm putting it into an NZXT Phantom White case with a Core i7-3770K, 2 8GB sticks of Kingtson HyperX Blu Red series RAM, and an EVGA GeForce 660ti. I've got a 128GB Kingston HyperX SSD to boot off of, and a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black drive for my games, and a Samsung DVD burner with Lightscribe. I'm powering it with an Antec HCG-750w PSU. I'd like to get a third hard drive for storage, and I haven't ruled out a Blu-ray burner, but they'll have to come a little later.
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    That big compared to movie Prime? How big compared to Unicron, if you know? I'm aware of Energon Prime's weird proportions... for better or worse, I have Energon on DVD. I'm strangely attracted to the design anyway, for its heavy G1 influences (and a G1 repaint sounds even more geewunny). If I can get him, and repaints of Armada and RID Prime, I'd be pretty content. As for Omega Supreme, I'm mostly digging the fact that the new head and arm make him look like he could work with my Classics toys, and combining with Optimus is a plus. The fact that half of him turns into something that's reminiscent of a Gundam Magellan-class ship is cake.
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    I actually like it. I think it's one of the better designs I've seen for the movie.
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    Were the Energon Toys any good? From the pics, I kind of want both of them.
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    Pokemon Black and White 2. The obsessive-compulsive kid in me will be busy for awhile attempting to catch them all on his way to the Elite Four.
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    What's up with this Year of the Snake Optimus Prime and Omega Supreme I'm hearing about? I didn't get (back) into Transformers toys until Generations, so I missed Energon. These guys look pretty nifty, but it looks like they're Hong Kong exclusives?
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    I have to admit that the MP tapes are looking pretty good. But I'm still only going to get what's released in the U.S.
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    Yeah, this isn't a real Gundam Vita game. There won't be a real Gundam Vita game until I get another U.C. Battle Game. With a real Victory campaign!
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    Yeah, they kinda made that movie, except it's a Shih Tzu. And it looks better than Taken 2.Seven Psychopaths.
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    Hmm. I guess I'll try Google's for awhile. I can always switch back later.Oh, and it looks like new desktop won out. Newegg's running some deals. I ordered an NZXT Phantom case for $99 and free shipping, and an EVGA stock GTX 660 ti for $279. Plus there's a rebate on the case. Don't know if I'm ready to buy the rest yet, since my dad's telling me he wants to buy my old computer but won't have the money until later. But I can always use the card in my current box, and I think the case will keep a month or two.
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    Do you have the router set to automatically use the ISP's, or something else?The most compelling reason I had to use OpenDNS was that it wasn't my ISP's, who I prefer to know as little about me as possible. But is there any reason to use OpenDNS vs. Google's public DNS? And David, for what it's worth, I never had an Xbox Live issue, just a complete inability to open any web pages.
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    Watched it tonight. I dug it. Not my favorite DC animated (that'd still be Under the Red Hood), but it's in my top five. I liked it better than Year One.
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    Does anyone here use OpenDNS? I've had this problem lately where, after running my bittorrent client for a little bit, my internet connection would drop. After poking at the different links in the internet chain, I'm pretty sure it's my router. Resetting the router would bring my internet back up in short order. Today, I was doing a little torrenting. My network gave me no trouble, and after completing my download and turning off my desktop, my wife had no troubles getting on on her laptop. Later still, I had no trouble getting onto my laptop. Then out of the blue, my laptop reports that it's connected to my network, but there's no connection. I grab my iPad and verify it's the same there. So I reset my network. Didn't help. Reset it again, still didn't help. I notice, though, that Chrome on the iPad was telling me that it couldn't find Google.com because it couldn't resolve the DNS. Now, ages ago, I set my router to use OpenDNS's DNS servers instead of getting them automatically from my ISP. On a whim, I log into my router and change the DNS servers to Google's public DNS servers. After saving the settings, I'm back online. I went to Down for Everyone or Just Me, put in 208.67.222.222, and it came back with it being down for everyone... but I don't know what criteria they use, and if it could accurately report on the status of a DNS server anyway. TLDR; anyone having problems with OpenDNS today?
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    Actually, you can play a lot of board games online. My one buddy had a huge Axis and Allies table setup that he used to play with people online. But no, we actually get together and play in person. Since half of us are married and all of use are busy with our day-to-day lives, it's our way of creating a little social time where we can drink, play games, and hang out, every other week. This week we'll be playtesting the new version of Dungeons & Dragons, due to be officially released maybe in 2014, and I'm kind of excited because our group didn't care for the current edition. As for playing videogames online, I don't care for it. I strongly prefer single-player games. If I play multi-player, it's with the same group I play board games and D&D with
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    If I can get four guys together, we're probably going to play Dungeons and Dragons or a board game like Talisman.
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    Yeah, Hasbro's really blowing their distribution lately. I don't really recall having much trouble finding Classics or Universe toys, or even the first wave of Generations. But I had to go to Kohl's to find Jazz, Smart Toys to find Laser Prime, and I'd given up on Perceptor only for him to turn up one day at Ross. Then for Prime I've never seen Voyager/Powerizer Starscream outside that one time I bought him a TRU, and only occasionally have I seen Bulkhead. I only saw Knock Out once (when I picked him up). I've seen Hot Shot twice, and passed both times. To this day I've never seen Airachnid or the Vehicon. But every time I go to Walmart or Target, I see at least four peg hooks filled to the brim with Bumblebee.
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    Did you like the first one? See, I played the first one and didn't like it. I might end up with Borderlands 2 anyway, though, since they're giving away copies when you buy a GTX 660ti graphics card, and I'm on the very edge of buying the card.
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    I could be wrong, but I think Greyryder's referring to Iron Man's armor, not the toy.
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    That's interesting. I mean, it's interesting as a design choice, and not a game in which I am interested in paying to import. I'll either buy Gundam Seed Battle Destiny or hold out for a new OYW Gundam Battle game on the Vita.
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    I was just going to ask, is this in the Gundam VS. or Gundam Battle series? Or is this going to suck like majority of Gundam games?
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    I think I might have just hit my deal breaker. An MSI laptop with a 17" 1920x1080 screen, 2.3GHz Core i7, 12GB of RAM, and a GTX 670M will run me about $1450. I can build a desktop with a 3.4GHz Core i7, 16GB of RAM, 2TB hard drive, and a GTX 660ti graphics card for around $1200. In addition to having a Blu-ray burner, the desktop will actually end up with 3TB of storage, since I'll reuse a drive from my current desktop. Or, I may reuse the DVD drive I have, since I'm honestly not sure if I'd ever burn a Blu-ray, and spend that money on an SSD boot drive. Now, as you said, the portability is awesome. It might even be worth the extra $250. Except that, in terms of performance, it's not. Futuremark has a 3D Mark GPU score of 2830 for the GTX 670M. The GTX 660ti scores a 8560. Higher is better. I'm not sure where I'd rather play, but with that kind of difference in performance, I'll drag the tower upstairs and hook it up to the TV. Steam's got a new beta interface for just that purpose, I hear, so I won't even have to change the resolution to see from the sofa.
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    I actually hated Oblivion. I bought it with my 360 at launched based mostly on hype, having never played Morrowind. Didn't care for it, traded it in. Years later, I tried again on PC, figuring maybe it was the controls. Nope, still didn't care for it. Down the line, played Fallout 3 and loved it. Thought maybe my tastes for that style of game had changed, and tried a third time. Still hated it. Even though I couldn't stomach Oblivion for much longer than the first Oblivion Gate, I gave Skyrim a try and loved it. Never actually finished it though. I played for probably 80 hours and didn't play the main story beyond learning my first shout. A bunch of other games were coming out, so I kind of put it aside and never got back to it. This holiday doesn't look as full of games as last year, at least for me. I was thinking that I might pick up Dawnguard and give Skyrim another go.
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    I've honestly moved on to more PC games than anything else. And frankly, I'm not fond of the Wii. I hated the controller (even holding it sidewise for games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii never felt comfortable), and while once every 9 months or so there would be one game I absolutely had to play, odds were that it was the only Wii game I bought for the next nine months. That said, I'm cautiously interested in the Wii U. I dig that I can play the handful of Wii games that I have on it, and that I can re-use my Wii accessories (although I have a feeling that I'm going to wind up buying a "hardcore" controller for it). I'm curious to see what ideas they come up with for the Wii Pad, and I dig that I can plug any old external hard drive into it. The old school Nintendo fan will probably want New Super Mario Bros Wii U at launch, and Bayonetta 2 is a confirmed Wii U exclusive. And while not exactly cheap, it's priced reasonably enough that I'm basically sold on it now.
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    There is no way I can take anything you say for the rest of your life seriously after a comment like that.
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    Mirror of Fate is after Lords of Shadow, yes, and will set up the plot for Lords of Shadow 2 on consoles. As a whole, the Lords of Shadows series is a reboot of the Castlevania series, so yeah, a new chronology. One that is, on the surface, incompatible with Lament of Innocence and the official Castlevania timeline.
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