where did i ever say i was forced to reinstall every 2 years?
ive noticed exactly how much its slowed down because i usually did format after 2 ish years
the main source of cruft for me has been firefox and its ridiculously slow database
the best solution for those 2 thus far has been an ssd and windows 7s rather agressive preloading of programs
the main source of cruft for me has been firefox and its ridiculously slow database
the best solution for those 2 thus far has been an ssd and windows 7s rather agressive preloading of programs
youre vastly exaggerating there
ive had windows run for 2 years+ without any real cruft issues
ive had windows run for 2 years+ without any real cruft issues
am i the only one amazed that none of you seems to have seen this before?
there are a lot of things about the ui that work way way better
for example you can click on window previews when you alt tab now to save time
also you can access windows and quicklaunch programs via windows+number key
aside from what jack said
youve got a 2nd hand and thus presumably rather odl pc and expect to be able to play games at twice the pixle count of 1080 where even high end machines will struggle with some games?
youve got a 2nd hand and thus presumably rather odl pc and expect to be able to play games at twice the pixle count of 1080 where even high end machines will struggle with some games?
it is a valid argument against incredly petty points of criticism
also i noticed another blatant misinformation... you can stop nukes in sc2
also i noticed another blatant misinformation... you can stop nukes in sc2
1) Starcraft only has 84 units, over half of which are buildings and their add-ons! Total Annihilation has over 250.
99% of which will fullfill exactly the same role as other units maing them redundant
2) In Starcraft, only 12 units can be in a group at once. Note that this was claimed to help "prevent rushing", not that it really does because you can just hotkey groups of units. Of course, Total Annihilation has no limit.
irrelevant now and to a certain degree the selection limits helps by forcing you to manage units better
3) In Starcraft, a maximum of five units can be built at once by each building except Zerg, who can only build three and only at certain times. Total Annihilation has no limit.
hes clearly never played starcraft
for oen there is no limit to the number of units that cna be built at any one time and for another only idiots queue
4) In Starcraft, only nine commands can be given to one unit at once and you can't see what has been queued or in what order, nor can you undo any queued commands and the commands can only be spells or movement orders. In Total Annihilation there is no limit, and you are shown exactly what each unit will do and in what order and you can undo and redo any of the commands in any order.
who gives a shit? if youre playing at a speed where youve got time to map out 20 steps in advance youre doing it wrong anyway
5) In Starcraft, when a construction unit builds a structure, or a unit plant builds a unit, no other units can help construct, hence the build speed cannot be augmented in any way. In Total Annihilation, you can have as many units as you want help construct buildings and units to speed it up. (Note that even in WarCraft II, you could make an extra peon help build a structure.)
who gives a shit?
also wthat mechanic would only make sense with the terran lore and make the game even more tilted towards terran than it already is
6) There are a limited number of resources on any given Starcraft map. Total Annihilation has no limit. However, when making a map, you can simulate the 'limited resources' concept by restricting all resource units (Solar Collectors, Metal Extractors etc.), and place lots of debris, rocks, and trees. That way you will have to reclaim them, much like in gathering your resources in Starcraft.
great neverending games
how exciting
7) In Starcraft, you can select all units of the same type, but only on the screen, and only 12 of them. CTRL-Z in Total Annihilation selects all units of that type on the map.
who gives a shit?
again if youre not microing units youre doing it wrong
8) Starcraft has no water units whatsoever. In Total Annihilation, you can build entire bases on or under the water!
who gives a shit?
9) In Starcraft, there is no way to reclaim the minerals of dead units, buildings, and incomplete buildings (not that there is any debris from buildings, of course, as it "magically disappears"). In Total Annihilation, all destroyed units and buildings leave behind scrap metal which can be extracted and reused. You can even extract the metal from operational units and buildings, friend or foe.
who gives a shit?
10) In Starcraft, all units see in a circular radius, with small line of sight restrictions from large mountains. In Total Annihilation, you can choose between circular line of sight as in Starcraft, permanent line of sight as in Command & Conquer or true line of sight, where units cannot see through walls or over cliffs.
who gives a shit?
11) In Starcraft, all units shoot in a circular radius, including through wall and over cliffs. The projectiles are not effected by elevation, wind, or gravity. Total Annihilation uses true physics to determine the path of projectiles.
which im absolutely certain makes the game play completely different?
course it wont
12) In Starcraft, the only change in elevation is onto plateaus and bridges and such, but you're not really "above" anyone as far as the game is concerned. Total Annihilation has everything from small hills to huge mountains that affect the game dramatically.
who gives a shit?
13) You can not see the energy of a unit unless it is selected in Starcraft. In Total Annihilation, you can see the remaining armour of all units on the screen at once, or turn that off if you prefer more atmosphere.
irrelevant now
14) In Starcraft, aircraft can not land. In Total Annihilation, not only do aircraft land, but some can do so underwater.
who gives a shit?
15) The music in Starcraft is all played on a synthesizer. The music in Total Annihilation is played by a real orchestra and if you prefer, you can put in different CDs and play anything you want.
who gives a shit?
also this is epic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9wMRuJuYw&t=0m35s
16) In Starcraft, you can't deselect your selected unit ever, unless they die or go into a assimilator/extractor! In Total Annihilation, you can always deselect everything by right clicking.
who gives a shit?
17) Right clicking in Starcraft uses "smart commands," but left clicking only uses commands that have been selected. In Total Annihilation, left clicking uses "smart commands," unless you have a command selected. Then it uses that command. Right clicking deselects. Note that you can change the mouse settings in the options window in TA to mimic that of StarCraft.
who gives a shit?
18) In Starcraft, the only way to have a unit hold fire is to move him around or to ally with the enemy. In Total Annihilation, you can set units to hold fire, to return fire only, or to fire at will.
bullshit... hold position lurkers is one of the most important micro tricks ever in sc
19) At a Starcraft unit constructing building, the only command you can give units built there is a rally point. In Total Annihilation, you can tell units where to go and set waypoints; you can have them hold fire, return fire, or fire at will; and you can have them hold position, maneuver, or roam at their destination. You can even set them to a patrol route before they exit the building!
who gives a shit?
also having just a rally point is a good mechanic that benefits better players
20) StarCraft only has one construction unit. Total Annihilation has nine different construction units. Each of them can build different types of structures at varying speeds.
unfocused and pointless
21) With the spawned version of Starcraft, you can only play a game hosted by the person with the CD that you used to install StarCraft. In Total Annihilation, with the spawn, you can play any multiplayer game, so long as the CD
layer ratio is at least 1:3.
who gives a shit?
22) With Starcraft online games, you have to play IPX simulated games on the internet, so you cannot use IP addresses. In Total Annihilation, you can be the server which cuts out the middle man and speeds up games, but if you want, you can always choose to play with simulated IPX.
who gives a shit?
23) In Starcraft, flying units do not fly; they hover. They are more like flying vehicles. All air units in Total Annihilation use a physics engine to determine the flight path, really bank, and do not stop in mid air like all flying units in Starcraft.
who gives a shit?
24) Projectiles in Starcraft always hit their target and do damage, whether it appears so or not. Projectiles in Total Annihilation use a physics engine to determine whether they hit or miss their targets and the damage is determined by how close the explosion was to the target.
i bet that makes 0 difference in practice
25) Units in Starcraft cannot fire while moving. If you set them to, every unit in Total Annihilation will automatically aim and fire at enemy units in range, moving or not. This is great for hit and run missions or 'driveby shootings'.
its also stupidly overpowered and destroys micro
26) Many weapons in Starcraft do not have projectiles. For example, there is a siege tank with its massive artillery shells and marines' gauss rifles that travel at infinite velocity, and then the explosion just appears on the target. Every weapon in Total Annihilation fires a projectile using a physics engine that determines how to hit the target.
who gives a shit?
27) In Starcraft the largest maps are 256x256. Total Annihilation has maps at least four times that size, for longer and more thought out strategies.
who gives a shit?
oh yeah the kind of people who play 30 minute no rush games
28) In Starcraft there are only two ways to get resources - mining minerals and vespene gas. In Total Annihilation there are several ways to get resources. You can reclaim plants and rocks, you can use metal extractors, metal makers, many different energy producers, and most units produce a bit of energy themselves.
who gives a shit?
29) In Starcraft if your hatchery/command center/nexus is destroyed, you keep your resources somehow, so that marine had better have deep pockets. In Total Annihilation your Commander stores all your metal and energy, so if he dies you lose most of your resources. You can also build metal and energy storage facilities so you can have a higher maximum resources capacity. Construction plants and several units also store resources.
who gives a shit?
30) Starcraft has crystals and vespene geysers growing out of the surface of space stations. Total Annihilation drills the metal out of the space station.
who gives a shit?
31) The Starcraft storyline in the manual states that the Protoss race teleport all their prebuilt buildings and warriors from the Aiur (The Protoss homeworld). However, when fighting a battle on Aiur, the Protoss gain no advantage whatsoever. In non-campaign maps TA does not include the homeworlds and therefore does not have to deal with this problem.
who gives a shit?
32) In Starcraft a marine can shoot a burrowed Zergling on the other side of a mountain wall past a barracks behind a tree underneath a Siege tank with pinpoint accuracy! In Total Annihilation you cannot.
who gives a shit?
33) In Starcraft, you cannot choose your colour. It is selected for you randomly. You are just as likely to get purple or yellow as something you want. In TA, you have a choice of ten different colours, including black.
untrue
34) Starcraft has no way at all to get new units/structures into the game, other than expansion sets, because the units are hard coded into the StarCraft engine. Total Annihilation's game engine was built specifically to load units found in the directory. When booting up the game it searches the directory and says "Oh a new unit, I'll just add him in here!" and you can then play with it normally. You can also download new units online that were posted at Cavedog's website weekly, and from many others.
who gives a shit?
35) Multiplayer lag in Starcraft is presented by the game momentarily pausing and commands being delayed by up to five seconds. Lag in Total Annihilation multiplayer simply slows the game down.
so being laggy makes the game easier? brilliant
36) In Starcraft it's harder to control your units because of the unsatisfactory unit AI. For example, when trying to move a dragoon up stairs he will move jerkily up the stairs, and then decide to go back down and try to go onto the higher platform in a different way. You have to manually click for each step you want him to take. In Total Annihilation units go where you want, when you want, in the most efficient way possible most of the time.
first of all im pretty sure thats bs
and also in part the rubbis dragoon ai just makes the game more skilloriented
37) In Starcraft when you initially set up the game to host, you can not change the settings when the game has been hosted. If you decide you want to play a different map, you have to completely rehost the game. IIn Total Annihilation you can change all of the settings (except for game name) while the game is being hosted, and then view the settings even while in the middle of the game.
so the hoster can change the game settings at weill when hes losing? brillant
38) In Starcraft if you want to restrict units from play, must build a custom scenario and disable the desired units for each player. In Total Annihilation, when hosting the game, meaning you can edit the unit restrictions with a few clicks you can limit the number of that unit available in the game at any time by one player, or completely prevent them from being used altogether. Other players in the game can also view the unit limits/restrictions.
who gives a shit?
39) In Starcraft all of the super weapons (nuclear missiles, psionic storms) are impossible to stop after they are casted/lauched. In Total Annihilation, you can build missile defense systems which fire anti-nukes and takes out the missile in mid air before it reaches your base. Note that the antinukes also take out other ICBMs and you can build mobile versions.
who gives a shit?
40) In Total Annihilation, most weapons as well as units are an object in the game, meaning that a Big Bertha could very well hit a bomber flying past or a nuke could hit a fighter flying overhead. In Starcraft, all weapons are mere graphical effects, and nothing like this can ever happen.
who gives a shit?
99% of which will fullfill exactly the same role as other units maing them redundant
2) In Starcraft, only 12 units can be in a group at once. Note that this was claimed to help "prevent rushing", not that it really does because you can just hotkey groups of units. Of course, Total Annihilation has no limit.
irrelevant now and to a certain degree the selection limits helps by forcing you to manage units better
3) In Starcraft, a maximum of five units can be built at once by each building except Zerg, who can only build three and only at certain times. Total Annihilation has no limit.
hes clearly never played starcraft
for oen there is no limit to the number of units that cna be built at any one time and for another only idiots queue
4) In Starcraft, only nine commands can be given to one unit at once and you can't see what has been queued or in what order, nor can you undo any queued commands and the commands can only be spells or movement orders. In Total Annihilation there is no limit, and you are shown exactly what each unit will do and in what order and you can undo and redo any of the commands in any order.
who gives a shit? if youre playing at a speed where youve got time to map out 20 steps in advance youre doing it wrong anyway
5) In Starcraft, when a construction unit builds a structure, or a unit plant builds a unit, no other units can help construct, hence the build speed cannot be augmented in any way. In Total Annihilation, you can have as many units as you want help construct buildings and units to speed it up. (Note that even in WarCraft II, you could make an extra peon help build a structure.)
who gives a shit?
also wthat mechanic would only make sense with the terran lore and make the game even more tilted towards terran than it already is
6) There are a limited number of resources on any given Starcraft map. Total Annihilation has no limit. However, when making a map, you can simulate the 'limited resources' concept by restricting all resource units (Solar Collectors, Metal Extractors etc.), and place lots of debris, rocks, and trees. That way you will have to reclaim them, much like in gathering your resources in Starcraft.
great neverending games
how exciting
7) In Starcraft, you can select all units of the same type, but only on the screen, and only 12 of them. CTRL-Z in Total Annihilation selects all units of that type on the map.
who gives a shit?
again if youre not microing units youre doing it wrong
8) Starcraft has no water units whatsoever. In Total Annihilation, you can build entire bases on or under the water!
who gives a shit?
9) In Starcraft, there is no way to reclaim the minerals of dead units, buildings, and incomplete buildings (not that there is any debris from buildings, of course, as it "magically disappears"). In Total Annihilation, all destroyed units and buildings leave behind scrap metal which can be extracted and reused. You can even extract the metal from operational units and buildings, friend or foe.
who gives a shit?
10) In Starcraft, all units see in a circular radius, with small line of sight restrictions from large mountains. In Total Annihilation, you can choose between circular line of sight as in Starcraft, permanent line of sight as in Command & Conquer or true line of sight, where units cannot see through walls or over cliffs.
who gives a shit?
11) In Starcraft, all units shoot in a circular radius, including through wall and over cliffs. The projectiles are not effected by elevation, wind, or gravity. Total Annihilation uses true physics to determine the path of projectiles.
which im absolutely certain makes the game play completely different?
course it wont
12) In Starcraft, the only change in elevation is onto plateaus and bridges and such, but you're not really "above" anyone as far as the game is concerned. Total Annihilation has everything from small hills to huge mountains that affect the game dramatically.
who gives a shit?
13) You can not see the energy of a unit unless it is selected in Starcraft. In Total Annihilation, you can see the remaining armour of all units on the screen at once, or turn that off if you prefer more atmosphere.
irrelevant now
14) In Starcraft, aircraft can not land. In Total Annihilation, not only do aircraft land, but some can do so underwater.
who gives a shit?
15) The music in Starcraft is all played on a synthesizer. The music in Total Annihilation is played by a real orchestra and if you prefer, you can put in different CDs and play anything you want.
who gives a shit?
also this is epic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9wMRuJuYw&t=0m35s
16) In Starcraft, you can't deselect your selected unit ever, unless they die or go into a assimilator/extractor! In Total Annihilation, you can always deselect everything by right clicking.
who gives a shit?
17) Right clicking in Starcraft uses "smart commands," but left clicking only uses commands that have been selected. In Total Annihilation, left clicking uses "smart commands," unless you have a command selected. Then it uses that command. Right clicking deselects. Note that you can change the mouse settings in the options window in TA to mimic that of StarCraft.
who gives a shit?
18) In Starcraft, the only way to have a unit hold fire is to move him around or to ally with the enemy. In Total Annihilation, you can set units to hold fire, to return fire only, or to fire at will.
bullshit... hold position lurkers is one of the most important micro tricks ever in sc
19) At a Starcraft unit constructing building, the only command you can give units built there is a rally point. In Total Annihilation, you can tell units where to go and set waypoints; you can have them hold fire, return fire, or fire at will; and you can have them hold position, maneuver, or roam at their destination. You can even set them to a patrol route before they exit the building!
who gives a shit?
also having just a rally point is a good mechanic that benefits better players
20) StarCraft only has one construction unit. Total Annihilation has nine different construction units. Each of them can build different types of structures at varying speeds.
unfocused and pointless
21) With the spawned version of Starcraft, you can only play a game hosted by the person with the CD that you used to install StarCraft. In Total Annihilation, with the spawn, you can play any multiplayer game, so long as the CD
layer ratio is at least 1:3.who gives a shit?
22) With Starcraft online games, you have to play IPX simulated games on the internet, so you cannot use IP addresses. In Total Annihilation, you can be the server which cuts out the middle man and speeds up games, but if you want, you can always choose to play with simulated IPX.
who gives a shit?
23) In Starcraft, flying units do not fly; they hover. They are more like flying vehicles. All air units in Total Annihilation use a physics engine to determine the flight path, really bank, and do not stop in mid air like all flying units in Starcraft.
who gives a shit?
24) Projectiles in Starcraft always hit their target and do damage, whether it appears so or not. Projectiles in Total Annihilation use a physics engine to determine whether they hit or miss their targets and the damage is determined by how close the explosion was to the target.
i bet that makes 0 difference in practice
25) Units in Starcraft cannot fire while moving. If you set them to, every unit in Total Annihilation will automatically aim and fire at enemy units in range, moving or not. This is great for hit and run missions or 'driveby shootings'.
its also stupidly overpowered and destroys micro
26) Many weapons in Starcraft do not have projectiles. For example, there is a siege tank with its massive artillery shells and marines' gauss rifles that travel at infinite velocity, and then the explosion just appears on the target. Every weapon in Total Annihilation fires a projectile using a physics engine that determines how to hit the target.
who gives a shit?
27) In Starcraft the largest maps are 256x256. Total Annihilation has maps at least four times that size, for longer and more thought out strategies.
who gives a shit?
oh yeah the kind of people who play 30 minute no rush games
28) In Starcraft there are only two ways to get resources - mining minerals and vespene gas. In Total Annihilation there are several ways to get resources. You can reclaim plants and rocks, you can use metal extractors, metal makers, many different energy producers, and most units produce a bit of energy themselves.
who gives a shit?
29) In Starcraft if your hatchery/command center/nexus is destroyed, you keep your resources somehow, so that marine had better have deep pockets. In Total Annihilation your Commander stores all your metal and energy, so if he dies you lose most of your resources. You can also build metal and energy storage facilities so you can have a higher maximum resources capacity. Construction plants and several units also store resources.
who gives a shit?
30) Starcraft has crystals and vespene geysers growing out of the surface of space stations. Total Annihilation drills the metal out of the space station.
who gives a shit?
31) The Starcraft storyline in the manual states that the Protoss race teleport all their prebuilt buildings and warriors from the Aiur (The Protoss homeworld). However, when fighting a battle on Aiur, the Protoss gain no advantage whatsoever. In non-campaign maps TA does not include the homeworlds and therefore does not have to deal with this problem.
who gives a shit?
32) In Starcraft a marine can shoot a burrowed Zergling on the other side of a mountain wall past a barracks behind a tree underneath a Siege tank with pinpoint accuracy! In Total Annihilation you cannot.
who gives a shit?
33) In Starcraft, you cannot choose your colour. It is selected for you randomly. You are just as likely to get purple or yellow as something you want. In TA, you have a choice of ten different colours, including black.
untrue
34) Starcraft has no way at all to get new units/structures into the game, other than expansion sets, because the units are hard coded into the StarCraft engine. Total Annihilation's game engine was built specifically to load units found in the directory. When booting up the game it searches the directory and says "Oh a new unit, I'll just add him in here!" and you can then play with it normally. You can also download new units online that were posted at Cavedog's website weekly, and from many others.
who gives a shit?
35) Multiplayer lag in Starcraft is presented by the game momentarily pausing and commands being delayed by up to five seconds. Lag in Total Annihilation multiplayer simply slows the game down.
so being laggy makes the game easier? brilliant
36) In Starcraft it's harder to control your units because of the unsatisfactory unit AI. For example, when trying to move a dragoon up stairs he will move jerkily up the stairs, and then decide to go back down and try to go onto the higher platform in a different way. You have to manually click for each step you want him to take. In Total Annihilation units go where you want, when you want, in the most efficient way possible most of the time.
first of all im pretty sure thats bs
and also in part the rubbis dragoon ai just makes the game more skilloriented
37) In Starcraft when you initially set up the game to host, you can not change the settings when the game has been hosted. If you decide you want to play a different map, you have to completely rehost the game. IIn Total Annihilation you can change all of the settings (except for game name) while the game is being hosted, and then view the settings even while in the middle of the game.
so the hoster can change the game settings at weill when hes losing? brillant
38) In Starcraft if you want to restrict units from play, must build a custom scenario and disable the desired units for each player. In Total Annihilation, when hosting the game, meaning you can edit the unit restrictions with a few clicks you can limit the number of that unit available in the game at any time by one player, or completely prevent them from being used altogether. Other players in the game can also view the unit limits/restrictions.
who gives a shit?
39) In Starcraft all of the super weapons (nuclear missiles, psionic storms) are impossible to stop after they are casted/lauched. In Total Annihilation, you can build missile defense systems which fire anti-nukes and takes out the missile in mid air before it reaches your base. Note that the antinukes also take out other ICBMs and you can build mobile versions.
who gives a shit?
40) In Total Annihilation, most weapons as well as units are an object in the game, meaning that a Big Bertha could very well hit a bomber flying past or a nuke could hit a fighter flying overhead. In Starcraft, all weapons are mere graphical effects, and nothing like this can ever happen.
who gives a shit?
for someone who says hes into doing photos on your pc youre pretty blind if you dont immediately notice youre in front of a tn screen
... its the same 17" macbook pro screen from different angles
and its glaringly obvious from almost all of the angles that its a tn panel
and its glaringly obvious from almost all of the angles that its a tn panel
any proof? no? good now really do shut up this is getting mighty embarassing for you
yeah clearly an early 2011 model of the macbook is way out of date
there never has been a macbook with an ips panel thats the facts and now shut up before you embarass yourself even more
there never has been a macbook with an ips panel thats the facts and now shut up before you embarass yourself even more
yeah thats so clearly an ips panel on that macbook pro 17
http://www.notebookcheck.com/typo3temp/pics/526a3da266.jpg
as usually youre talking out of your arse
http://www.notebookcheck.com/typo3temp/pics/526a3da266.jpg
as usually youre talking out of your arse
no macbook pro that ive ever heard of or seen has had anything other than a tn screen
if they had ips screens id be almost tempted to buy one
as usual youre talking out of your arse
if they had ips screens id be almost tempted to buy one
as usual youre talking out of your arse
the only valid criticism of sc2 as a game that i can think of is that ghosts are bullshit and that clicking faster than your opponent wins games too often
also yay for marine king and bomber winning with funday monday builds
also yay sase and <3 k-9 the casting lyote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtWnk4Nzz6Q
also yay for marine king and bomber winning with funday monday builds
also yay sase and <3 k-9 the casting lyote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtWnk4Nzz6Q
afaik the only laptops in the history if everything with any panel type other than tn were ibm from 5+ years ago the lenovo x220 and some hypeexpensive recent hp business laptops
apart from the ui being a lot better in every way i dont see how anyone would go out buy 3 identical monitors and presumably a rather expensive pc with a rather expensive graphics card to actually render games at that sort of resolution but not be able to afford a comparably dirt cheap 7 licence
looks like the ai cars run on completely differen physics than the players car
by doing the same thing
that why everyone drives tiny cheap banged up cars in big old european cities
usually people will park their cars out of gear and without the handbrake on (on flat road obviously) to allow for that to happen (and also minimizing damage caused by it)
oh my god standing next to that for 24 hours is a whole 8 times higher than the dose you get during a perfeclty normal day through natural causes
ok seriously granted its almost a whole order of magnitude higher than normal but thats far from incredibly high
its about performance per watt... and bulldozer quite simply sucks in terms of that
how i feel about their pricing scheme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEb6HCG7ec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEb6HCG7ec
im gonna go out on a limb here and assume that you havent touched or even thought about little big planet in quite a while either which according to you was pretty much the game of the century
basically anything you feel strongly about has been completely wrong thus far
basically anything you feel strongly about has been completely wrong thus far
while i didnt particularly like drive (too slow cooking for my tastes... and it also felt like i was watching a worse version of taxi driver) its important that you remind yourselves that youre talking to someone who cannot fathom that theres people with oppinions other than his who also dry humped avatar for several months
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG