Good news for poor ppl....not me....ok me

[Twilo]

Who the hell would want a $200 bass guitar?

Also, rich farmers in Ireland buy Dell, which have onboard Intel EXTREME graphics on them.

EXTREME

Graphics.

So too, I bet, do PC World PCs

[Salka]

Who the hell would want a $200 bass guitar?

Also, rich farmers in Ireland buy Dell, which have onboard Intel EXTREME graphics on them.

EXTREME

Graphics.

So too, I bet, do PC World PCs

FUCKING Dell. You have no idea how much I hate it when bastards bring in quotes from DELL. If they love DELL so much, why don't they MARRY Dell!? In fact, they might as well do just that, because just like REAL marriage it's gonna end in them being FUCKED OVER, by Dell. They think they're so smart going for DELL, huh? Well, let me tell you a thing or two about DELL. Their customer service is SHIT and they put you on CONFERENCE calls. I don't even know what a CONFERENCE CALL IS, because I was trying to ask what a conference call was along with TWENTY OTHER PEOPLE ON THE LINE, pretty much.

I want a $200 bass guitar. I nearly learned Bass, but when I got my first guitar for my, like, 10th birthday or something, Mom couldn't tell the difference between a Guitar, and a Bass Guitar. She miscounted the strings, apparently.

PC World PC's do not have Intel EXTREME graphics, they have 32mb SIS Graphics. Whatever the hell that is.

I can't wait until I'm in college, and I can be transferred to PC World in Dublin, where I will be going to college. Because I hear that, up there, all the computers have 64mb SIS Graphics. And 256mb of RAM!!!

[Twilo]

And the streets are paved with Gold!

And vomit!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

And naked leprechauns run around and it rains Barry Manilow records and all the boys look like reformed child molesters and....and....

[Salka]

Oh, well I'll be living with my relatives in Dalkey, you know, where Bono from U2 lives. My dear uncle, Ray fucking D'arcy, is a very accomodating person. I'm sure you'll agree.

[Twilo]

Unless they have a World Class UNIVERSITY in Dalkey, then Ray "Fucking" D'Arcy isn't going to protect you from Jimmy "The Hook" Maloney in the City Centre.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

What's with all the profanity all of a sudden?!!

[Salka]

He was up for Cork.

Ray "fucking" D'Arcy is right.

Today FM should be 24hr Donal Dineen

Rayo is thee best ever! You're just jealous that your uncle is like, probably, not cool, and also you are probably related to Bertie Ahern or something. I don't know.

HEY, YOU DON'T KNOW A FELLA CALLED JOHN KEANE, D'YA?!

He is so, so, so, so, so fine. I'm gonna stalk him one day and find out where he lives, and I'm going to leave threatening and yet sexual messages in his mail box every day. That will surely show him how much I truly love him. Then we can get married and he shall be mine, forever.

[Twilo]

There's a pub in Dungarvan called John Keanes, but, being in Dungarvan (and by extension, Waterford) means that this pub sucks.

[Salka]

Oh

I'm gonna find out what type of car he drives so I can stalk him further.

Until then, let's return to the subject of Graphics Cards. Whatever happened to the Voodoo? I was only thinking about that yesterday. Wasn't the Voodoo once THEE graphic card to have? Now only ATI Radeon or GeForce seem to be worth anything.

[Twilo]

I still use my Voodoo 3 3000 (which was the best purchase I ever made) in the p450.

3dfx made the Voodoo 5, competing with nVidia's GeForce 2, and lost. ATi's TNT of the time sort of floated around as an alternative. 3dfx was "0wned" and eventually got bought up by nVidia, which left itself and ATi as the only real competitors.

ATi shed it's budget card image (ATi Rage, oh man) and came out with the Radeons and stuff.

nVidia brought back SLI'd cards recently (hooking two graphic cards together for MAXIMUM GRAPHICS) which was a 3dfx invention (voodoo2's could do it)

[ysbreker]

err, the more modern TFT-screens don't have that ghasly motion-blur and 'don't look at me other than this very angle' characteristic. I don't know what TFT-screens yufster is used to look at but they are almost as good as CRT monitors now.

[edit]This'll learn me to hit reply halfway through reading a thread where yufster is posting in...[/edit]

[Chris]

It'll also teach you to try and fucking discuss games or gaming hardware on a gaming site in the GENERAL GAMING FORUM. cough.

[Salka]

I wish you guys would all stop blaming me. It's not all me. I think if you looked at this thread you would see that it's not just me. In fact, I was the one that returned the the topic. Closer inspection would should that it's not even not just me, it's also Twilo and Trep.

As for the TFTs... bear in mind that Ireland is about two years behind every other country as regards technology... Besides, the most affordable TFT screens are still explode-in-your-facey. The better ones are ridiculous prices.

[Chris]

You're right, it's not just you, it's mainly you and Trep. I wouldn't claim otherwise. Twilo seems like a more recent helper.

[Twilo]

Yes, I help to stoke the furnace of off-topic digression.

Recently.

Face it, I'm INDISPENSABLE

[Wormsie]

Who the hell would want a $200 bass guitar?

OK, so what other cheap and reasonably good alternative do you suggest instead of Squiers? ALEMBICS?!?!?!?!

[manny_c44]

OK, so what other cheap and reasonably good alternative do you suggest instead of Squiers? ALEMBICS?!?!?!?!

How about this violin base?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=bass/search/detail/base_pid/508160/

[Wormsie]

No thank you.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

You're right, it's not just you, it's mainly you and Trep. I wouldn't claim otherwise. Twilo seems like a more recent helper.

Excuse me, but I was not the one who lapsed into discussions about life in Ireland and clueless rich farmers.

[Chris]

Ok great, sorry I made any implications about you and Yufster wildly taking threads off course. That actually never happens.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Glad to hear it.