DrCrowTStarwars

A bit of one, I always get them in the spring.

You know the one thing that could win me over to Windows 10 is if Microsoft announced that sharing would be easier and you could put passwords on files or folders.  Then it would be worth the time it would day for me to download the update.

Yeah I have admid.

I moved some of my stuff out, they had played on my computer before so they had saved games data already in My Documents.

In the end I figured out how to copy the data and put it in the My Documents folder on their account.

I really wish Windows had some sort of way to lock folders and files behind their own passwords, that would make things so much easier.

Still as I said the main issue is that modern versions of Windows only tell you something isn't working, not why it isn't working and that bugs me more then anything else since I not only have to spend time fixing the problem but I have to spend time guessing at what the problem is before I can fix it.

If you really think California is going to dry up then there is something you can do to at least try and help conserve water.

http://www.care2.com/causes/3-dumb-things-california-is-blowing-water-on-during-an-extreme-drought.html

One thing I do hate about Windows 7 is that it no longer gives you an error code when something messes up or it's can't do something.  In the name of making things more user friendly now all it does is say that something can not be done or a program has stopped working.  This is great for people who hate error codes but for people like me, I have no idea where to start when trying to fix a problem.

Here is an example.

I sent up a second user account so that my little brother and sister cane play games on my computer without my having to worry about them messing up my text documents or my video or audio projects.  The trouble is a lot of games install parts of themselves(including their game save files)to my documents.  I didn't think this would be a problem, because I could just instruct the computer to share the contents of that folder with the other user account I set up.  The trouble is every time I try to do that I just get the message "This folder can not be shared" no error code or link to anything explaining why so I can fix the problem, just that one message telling me it can't be done and nothing about why.

I really hate that.

If anyone has any idea what I am doing wrong could you please tell me?

Thank you.

TheBoost said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Okay, so last year I picked up a copy of Starcraft 2 because I love the first game and I am a huge RTS fan(Games that don't require super fast reflexes are great for me because of my movement disorder)and I looked it up online and it said that you didn't need a highspeed internet connection to play single play.  It just said you needed to log on to Battle.net once to register the game.

Now I was able to do this same thing with Mass Effect 3 on EA's Origin system so I figured it would not be a big deal.  Now Battle.net will not detect my computer as having an internet connection because it is too slow.  All I need to do is send in my Email address, a password, and the serial number of my game, why should that require a highspeed internet connection?!

I know this is a first world problem and something I should be used to by now and I am not really mad since I always know this is a chance you take with PC games these days but as someone who has been a PC gamer since I was a kid this recent trend of punishing the people who like me want to support the content creators just baffles me.

Wouldn't it be better to just have good tech support for people who buy the game instead of stealing it so people would want to buy it?  This way it makes me think a pirated copy is the better option, and that is just messed up.

I spent an hour on the phone with a guy from Blizard but he couldn't help me.  So now I am off to find a hack or a pirated copy of the game I paid for.

Way to go Blizard!

Modern gaming sucks.

Everything pertaining to computer games sounds needlessly complicated these days. What the hell ever happened to simply loading a disc in a computer?

 Loading a disk in a computer!? I remember loading 14 disks to play old Might and Magic, then tweaking the millions of settings to make it work on my computer. 

 Oh yeah those were the days.  I remember having to spend two days tweaking everything to run Wing Commander 5.

Still at least back then all the drives came on a disc and they didn't make you buy DLC to get the full game, you got all fifty missions right there in the box.

Still it was not perfect, I just wish they would give people like me the option to avoid downloading.  I would be willing to pay extra for the discs with the drivers at this point, if they would just give me the option to do so.

Also back them most drives fit on a floppy disc, now they are almost 500Mbs, how did that happen?!

I love what can be done with computers but I hate using them.

Davnes007 said:

Before I moved to the city, I lived in the middle of the woods basically. Even dial-up was barely an option.

Downloading any software was a test of patience. I know your pain.

 Yeah that is pretty much where I live. Dial up just stopped working a few years ago so now the only option is to hook up a cellphone and use that, it runs at about 5k a second. Stupid lines not coming down my road.

One of these days I will snap and become a Supervillain who's only goal is to destroy Comcast with giant rats.

Yeah well good luck, it will be interesting to see how you handle it.

I would love to see that when you are done.  Like you you said there is a lot of filler but the epic feel and action just keeps me coming back to it over and over again.

Okay, so last year I picked up a copy of Starcraft 2 because I love the first game and I am a huge RTS fan(Games that don't require super fast reflexes are great for me because of my movement disorder)and I looked it up online and it said that you didn't need a highspeed internet connection to play single play.  It just said you needed to log on to Battle.net once to register the game.

Now I was able to do this same thing with Mass Effect 3 on EA's Origin system so I figured it would not be a big deal.  Now Battle.net will not detect my computer as having an internet connection because it is too slow.  All I need to do is send in my Email address, a password, and the serial number of my game, why should that require a highspeed internet connection?!

I know this is a first world problem and something I should be used to by now and I am not really mad since I always know this is a chance you take with PC games these days but as someone who has been a PC gamer since I was a kid this recent trend of punishing the people who like me want to support the content creators just baffles me.

Wouldn't it be better to just have good tech support for people who buy the game instead of stealing it so people would want to buy it?  This way it makes me think a pirated copy is the better option, and that is just messed up.

I spent an hour on the phone with a guy from Blizard but he couldn't help me.  So now I am off to find a hack or a pirated copy of the game I paid for.

Way to go Blizard!

Modern gaming sucks.

Yeah I had that once a few years back.

On the bright side I lost twenty pounds in Two weeks!

On the down side I ended up reading every copy of EMG I own several times while I was stuck in the bathroom.

Get well soon.

Mondess122 said:

Mad Max

 Another Mad Max review?

Can't we get Beyond Thunderdome?!

The Hobbit:The Battle of Five Armies.

I don't want to get into a whole debate about this film since I think that has been done to death, let's just say that I enjoyed it.  I love the books, and I love Jackson's live action take on Middle Earth so knowing this is the last time it will be seen was kind of sad.  Still it was a good ride and I understand people not being happy with the CGI stunts and I would rather have real stunt men too.  That being said in this day and age it's hard for me to get mad about them.  I mean when the choices are between having a real person risk getting hurt to make the film or just using a computer effect, I can't really say they should put a real person at risk with out feeling bad.

One thing I do think they screwed up with in giving the Archenstone some sort of magical hold on Thorin that he had to fight off like the Ring.  In the book it was just simple greed and the fact that in the warrior culture that he came from you don't give up anything that is yours to someone else because that makes you look too weak and Bilbo ended up being the bridge between the warriors culture of the Dwarves and the peaceful town culture of the river people.

Still the rest of the film was good so I can just ignore that.

One not, am I the only one who thinks the MPAA rating system is broken when this film gets a PG13 and not an R rating?  I mean I lost count of the number of heads that went flying in this movie and the number of people burned alive.  When I was a kid slasher films didn't go this far and some of the gore is on par with Violent Shit, a series that was banned or edited in many countries when I was a kid.  Yet movies can still get an R rating just for mentioning sex or having cursing in them.  To me that is just messed up and I enjoy the way Peter Jackson has fun with gore, it's the MPAA that screwed up.  This is one of the more violent films I have ever seen and I would not watch it in a room with children.

Still as I said I liked it and I did tear up at the end knowing this was the last time I would see Jackson's Middle Earth. 

7.8/10

Oh and can I just say Inuyasha is a guilty pleasure for me.  I know I know I should hate it because it turns every Anime stereotype and cliche up to eleven, but it does it in such a way that I can't look away.  I know it's a bad show but there is something about the art style and the way stuff is handled that kept me hooked through the whole overly long series.

I feel a deep sense of shame right now.

I'm sorry I just find it strange that most of the same people who want tabaco and fast food banned, want pot to be completely unregulated.

It seems to me that it is a addictive and breathing smoke into your lungs is never healthy, so it makes just as much sense to regulate or ban it as it does stuff like beer, tabaco, and fating foods.

Now as I said I don't know everything about it but I keep hearing people making the claim that smoking pot is good for you and it makes people less violent, so if that is the case I have no problem with it.  I just have not been able to find the studies that support this.

Possessed said:

thejediknighthusezni said:

Post Praetorian said:

 

  ...While pot smoking might merely dull the mind and rob the spirit of motivation...

      I'm not sure the word "merely" quite works in that sentence.

      The destruction of human lives and human potential from this "victimless" neuro-active chemical has been nothing less than CATASTROPHIC.

     It isn't only the DEVASTATING dullness of mind and loss of motivation, it truly is a POWERFUL introduction and gateway to EVEN WORSE substances and behaviors.

     OTOH, It's a good thing the lords of media and popular culture are enthusiaticaly dedicated to helping create a society of sober, decent, and empowered individuals capable of recognizing intensely depraved, psycho control-freaks wanting to reduce the children zombified slaves. 8-l

 This post contains so much bullshit I don't even know where to begin.

Also pot definitely doesn't dull the spirit or mind.  Maybe low quality bud would, but high quality will absolutely not.

Is it some sort of health food where the smoke doesn't harm your body and gives you super powers?  I swear all I ever hear about these days is how if everyone just gave up food and started smoking pot all day long every single health problem in the world would go away.

I have been looking but I can't find the studies that state that pot is health food or wonder drug and it will never do any harm.  Is there just some kind of huge cover up?

I don't know because while I can't find the proof it seems to be common knowledge these days that smoking pot is pretty much the best thing you can do for your body and it will cure anything while making your smarter.

Maybe we should just pass a law requiring people to start smoking pot in grade school, so they don't get sick in the first place and they will be more relaxed and not start fights.

It seems to me pot is the answer the every problem in the world and the only reason we have wars and crime is that some people don't smoke post so they are edgy and violent.

At least that is the impression I get from talking to more and more people.

generalfrevious said:

Fourth for Cowboy Bebop.

 Yeah everyone should watch CB at least once.

Oh and I just remembered another great one, Death Note.  I don't know how that one slipped my mind.

Oh and don't even get me started on the fact that at least once a week we lose power out where I live for between a few minutes and a few hours, so at one point I had to start the download over from scratch.

Just don't get me started on that.

imperialscum said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

 Yeah, it's the exact same thing that happens with Hollywood blockbusters.  They are made these days to have wide appeal by having simple stories and as little dialog as possible so people in China can follow them, it's why Micheal Bay's "films" have made more money then all other films every made combined.

No offence but this is an ignorant claim.

First, films are either fitted with subtitles or synchronised. So claiming that dialogue/story is simplified so that people who don't speak English can understand it is absurd. And even if this was the case (which is not), why would you suddenly blame Chinese market? Far larger market existed/exists in Europe for decades where for example French, Italian, Spanish audience were/are on average very bad at English.

Secondly, Michael Bay has been making bad films since forever. Recent appearance of Chinese market really had no influence on his filmmaking.

Lastly, majority of people everywhere seem to like current mainstream Hollywood films. And that is the sole reason why they continue to make such films.

 Sorry but according to everything I have read from insiders there is a lot of pressure to make the big budget movies as simple and dialog free as possible and the business reason is China.  It is the big market right now.  All of Bay's recent "films" would have been box office failures if it were not for the Chinese market, it is what is pushing them over the top.

Why do you think so many films these days have last minute rewrites to place at least some of the action in Hong Kong or China, even when the rest of the story takes place in New York, LA, or some fictional city?  It's because the Chinese government restricts the number of movies from the US that can be shown in Chinese theaters every year, but if you film part of your movie in China then it will get a release.

Yes there are a lot of people who like the big budget blockbusters of recent years in the US but not enough to cause them to make a profit with budgets around $200 million. Remember that means that the films would have to gross at least $400 million in the US in order to break even and very few of them do that these days, it's China and it's boom market that pushes them over the top and makes them money makers so that is the market that is being catered to at the moment. It is just good business.

Yes there are subtitles and dubs, but just like over hear where dubs and subtitles into English are not always of the best quality, the same is true of dubs and subtitles from English into Chinese where there are two major dialects.  The more dubbing or subtitling that has to be done the more it costs, so keeping as little dialog as possible not only adds to the appeal of the movies in other markets but it helps keep costs(which are already out of control)down.  Again, it's nothing sinister, it's just good business.

I have nothing against the Chinese(I have an uncle who is Chinese and I like him)I was just pointing out that the reasons a lot of people think movies are trash are the same reason people think a lot of Anime is trash, but it's silly to write off both just because of this.  That is all I was saying.

Well if the housing speculators bubble ever bursts then the Chinese middle class(what is driving the Chinese movie market and the reason Hollywood films are really made for China right now)will be pretty much wiped out, so I don't think it will last since no bubble of this type ever does.

Still I wouldn't wish that on anyone just to get better movies, it just seems like the most likely end to this trend.

Yeah better internet is a mile down the road.

Okay now that it has finished let me explain.

I didn't buy a new video card this is an old one.  You see because of the internet thing I mostly play PC games made before 2011 because after that they tend to start requiring an internet connection to play.

Now I had to build a new PC in late 2013 early 2014 because my last PC was fried by some sort of power surge despite being plugged into a surge protector. Any way so I built my new pC from a kit and it came with a newer graphics card then my old one and more ram.  Still for the past year a lot of my games have been running slow and crashing.  It was only just this past week that I figured out why, the new video card while better then the one in my old PC was not being read by most of my games so they were trying to use my ram and only my ram to handle the 3D graphics.

Okay so I determined that the Graphics card I had in my old PC that worked fine with the older games was not fried and so I plugged it into my new PC.  Now for some reason it did not come with a disc of drivers in the box, but that wasn't a big deal with my last PC because for some reason it worked just fine plugging it into the mother board with having to download drivers, the motherboard seemed to have them or something.  This time the motherboard on my new PC couldn't find them so I had to spend three days downloading them off of a website.

Not a big deal and it was easily fixed, still by near the end of day three it was starting to get on my nerves.  I mean how hard is it to burn the drivers to a disc and stick it in the box?

Still all is well that ends well and all of my games are now running smooth as silk, so no real harm done.  It just got on my nerves at the time but it all worked out fine in the end so I guess I don't really have anything to complain about.

IamLam said:

There is a lot of great anime around, but usually you have to hunt for it. The majority brought to the US and Europe is the lower quality stuff that people think is more "suitable to the audience". Generally though the linework is better than western animation regardless of the varied genres or stories.

 Yeah, it's the exact same thing that happens with Hollywood blockbusters.  They are made these days to have wide appeal by having simple stories and as little dialog as possible so people in China can follow them, it's why Micheal Bay's "films" have made more money then all other films every made combined.

Still you wouldn't say film is a trash art form and say there is no artistic worth to Citizen Kane just because Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was made to appeal to other countries and is one of the biggest hits of all time.

The same is true of Anime.

Some other favorites of mine are The Big O, Full Metal Alchimest, The original Mobile Suit Gundam,Neo Genesis Evengelion., and the movie Akira, just to name a few.

There is lots of great stuff out there and writing off the whole out put because of the bad stuff is just silly.  Also just by virtue of the fact that Anime isn't only made for grade school kids means that there is more verity to it then american animation.

Cowboy Bebop all the way.

I have been rewatching it this weekend and it is has aged very well and has a great sense of humor.  Not only that but it has a really good dub and the who series can be had on Bluray for under $40.  It's well worth checking out.

I think my favorite episode is Toys in the attic.

"Lesson three, if you see a stranger follow him!"

I am getting sick of the way video cards these days don't even come with a disc with the drivers on them and the drivers are massive files.  So on my slow as a snail internet connection I have to go to the Geforce website and download the drivers just to get the video card working right.

I mean three days downloading, this is just insane.

I miss the days when I paid for something and it came with everything in the box needed to make it work.

Possessed said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I just woke up from the strangest dream I have ever had.

I dreamed that Frank Miller had framed another comic book writer for his murder as an "April fools day joke" and when charges were pressed I was forced to hear every detail of the case because I was selected for Jury duty and then the defense used All Star Batman and Robin as proof that Miller was insane and shouldn't go to prison.

I swear this all happened in my dream.

My brain scares me some times.

Not as weird as the dream I had a few days ago where I ate a heart-shaped chocolate laced with LSD and suffered a bad acid trip. I mean, really -- experiencing hallucinations in a dream? Talk about totally redundant.

 Yeah that's like doing drugs while reading Alice in Wonderland, what is the point?

  Because drugs make you cool, haven't you heard?

 Really???

I was always told Drugs ar bad, M'Kay.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'd be more concerned about amusement park robots malfunctioning and going on homicidal rampages, to be quite honest.

 So would I.

I am also worried about rich guys using diamonds to build killer space lasers, and taking out all of the world's governments.