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    So Giant Bomb did a video thing today where they started talking about the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

     

    My experience with the depths of ridiculousness in the SWEU was always stuff like the Hutt jedi. I was not aware of the horse that piloted an X-Wing, or Chewie being crushed to death by a moon, or the time Han Solo fought a giant ferret.

     

    I am okay with the new movies abandoning canon.

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    This is mostly a prefab unit, the stock parts and case from an Acer AM5811-E1512. I've replaced the graphics card with something from the AMD Radeon HD 6700 series, although I can't find the specific model anywhere. It's one I got from miffy495. The current HDD is a Seagate Barracuda Green ST1500DL003 1.5TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" internal drive; the original drive died a while back and the DVD drive has been disconnected for ages.

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    So my computer's been randomly failing on me for a while, and I figure it's about time I replaced it. I can salvage most of the parts, but I'll definitely need a new CPU and motherboard; they're what's been dragging this one down for so long. I have no clue what to replace them with though. I use my PC primarily for Photoshop, gaming, and opening hundreds of tabs in Chrome; so go nuts with suggestions. Just be aware that I'd rather buy from trusted sites (namely Newegg) and that I've got a limited income at the moment. Also feel free to suggest anything else I might need. RAM would be good; my graphics card is a little dated but fairly beefy.

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    Tons of people do use them in graphics industries, I'm guessing because of the nice interface and the reliable powerful machines that really do get used by their work.

     

    I'd wager that, first an foremost, it's because Adobe's creative software (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) used to be Mac-exclusive an older artists just kept telling younger ones to go Mac even after they went multiplatform.

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    While Sony's PSOne and PS2 classics may have more third party classics, at least Nintendo tries to make VC releases worldwide... they actually translated Sin & Punishment!

     

    Compared to Sony's Classics, I always have to buy some import PSN card and switch to a different country account to play them, then again... You can actually do this with Sony, if you want a VC game that only exists digitally in another country, you have to buy a new 3DS or Wii U, right?

     

    As far as I'm aware, Sin and Punishment and Monster World IV are the only games to ever be translated solely for their VC releases, and there are massive differences in the VC lineup for each country. Japan has nearly twice as many games available as NA or PAL do (291, 154, and 162 games respectively; with no guarantee of overlap for any given game).

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    GB's traditionally had a tendency to pawn that stuff off on Patrick, who has a Chrome extension dedicated to removing his content from the website, including Bombin' the AM.

     

    While they did put up an article about GG, it wasn't last summer (which would have been pre-GG away), it was two months after the fact, and after Zoe had already called out GB specifically as a site that hadn't done anything to cover or even prevent GG from using their names (I'm sure the article was in the wings for a while, but after two months they kind of deserve to get called out for it). And when they talked about it on the Bombcast, it was a very half-hearted discussion missing critical details; they described it in the vague terms of "people threatening game developers" and not the much more accurately descriptive "Gamergate-supporters threatening women." Everything else has come down to subscribers-only stuff like Jar Time or Danswers where it's less likely to go noticed. I don't think that anyone at GB is pro-GG, but they did a terrible job of showing it.

     

    It really made me appreciate the way that the Thumbs handled it: they haven't talked about GG much, but within a week of it starting they made it abundantly clear that they recognized and condemned GG for exactly what it was.

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    Two things:

     

    1) High-five, Danielle. Steven Universe is the best. We talk about it in the cartoons thread a bunch.

     

    2) the new Guitar Hero looks like somebody's Rainmeter skin. It looks clean in a very lazy way: stark black and white vector art and helvetica text against a Photoshopped lacquered wood guitar neck against someone's instagram video. It's simultaneously aesthetically pleasing and very off-putting. To me, at least.

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    I get the complaining about them, and I feel that the original versions of games should be preserved for history's sake, but honestly I love the idea of remasters and rereleases. My eventual goal is to replace my entire physical game collection with digital versions, so the sooner the better.

     

    I'm really fond of the way that Nintendo remasters (eg: Ocarina of Time 3D, Super Mario 64 DS) make the game look the way you remember it. Like, you look at it and think nothing's changed until you go back and look at how low-poly and retroactively crummy they look.