Well I finally did it. For the past almost year I have been running a hackintosh build on my main rig and decided it was time to step up to the plate and go for the real deal. I have had this thing a few days and I wanted to post the unboxing photos. Just to give some of the specs:
One 2.8GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
3GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
1TB 7200-rpm Western Digital Black drive
I still need to order some more ram for this thing to get at least 8 gigs but I was not going to pay Apple prices for RAM. I went with the maxed out video because to upgrade later was going to be a fortune. So that was something I really didn't mind paying Apple prices to upgrade. $200 vs $400 to upgrade aftermarket. So let's get right down to business:
I know some of you played Warhammer Online back in the day and my main complaint was always long waits in BG queues and limited RVR action. A few weeks ago I fired the game back up to see what it was like. The first thing I noticed is that they consolidated a bunch of servers. Normally this means the end is near so I was a little worried.
So in order to play I had to transfer my characters to a server. I chose Badlands mostly because it was the first in the list. I log my dude in and I am at a warcamp in some zone and I immediately get this war herald screen. Basically it tells you where the hawt action is currently. The next thing I notice is a shit ton of gold spam.. Which for a dying game is sorta weird. The first thing I do is I jump in the scenario queue (similar to BGs in WoW) and I get an instapop. I was expecting I would have ti...Read more... (3288 bytes more)
Couple starves real child while raising virtual child
Posted by: Foo_Guevara
Oh, how the Koreans love their video games. The couple in this story left their child to die of malnutrition. They returned home from a 12 hour session of playing Prius Online to find their 3 month old daughter dead from starvation. GG.
Need a proxy? Use Google app engine!
Posted by: Foo_Guevara
There's a great little tutorial I found, linked off of Lifehacker about how to leverage Google apps to create your own proxy. Definitely going to be using this to supplement my own home internet connection which is spotty at best. Give it a shot, looks pretty cool.
