Archive for October, 2007

YFO – Yawning Festival Online!

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Recently, a lot of MMO development teams have given up on their designs because they were different, difficult to implement, and innovative. The smart ones backtrack, and produce games that duplicate that “same old” experience. Why is this? Because a good franchise with killer art will sell faster than any of your so-called “cool” ideas. […]

One upgrade leads to another.

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

One upgrade leads to another, and a third, and some breakage in today’s episode of “The Idiot Who Keeps Taking Apart A Perfectly Good Computer”. What was the lame justification this time? My chipset fan was going berserk. Whine! Whine! Shut! Up! “There’s only one solution” Obviously, this is the world getting revenge on me […]

Five Old Video Cards

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Ah, the endless upgrade cycle. During my recent adventure (“Hey let’s put a fanless heat sink on the nForce chipset” coming soon to a blog near you!), I discovered all (well, nearly all) of my old video cards. Woot. Let’s see, that’s… a Voodoo2, a Voodoo3, Voodoo 5 5500, GeForce3 Ti 500 (with aftermarket passive […]