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Hey guys,

Not much going on in the site, but that doesn’t stop life!

Believe it or not, Tc-DaaX, one of my best writers, has been MIA since well before the holiday season. We’re worried, but not so much so. And thusly, the site has suffered. Doesn’t say much for my integrity as an administrator does it now? On the good side of news Aiglos is back, hopefully for good. His articles have always been awesome and sweet, and i think his disconnection has done him good in his recovery from the furry undercover work he did for us. With steady and regular medication it might lead to a full recovery.

If the title of this entry is any indication to you, I am in college now. I usually am in school for 4 to 6 hours a day. Books where enormous and the classes are all kinds of stressful and boring. Its not the instructor’s fault, the simple fact that i have to take them the first quarter is real issue. I’ll have to remind myself to get something along the lines of interesting electives in the spring.

It was all thanks to my funding, after i was approved i was able to purchase a laptop computer. So now i have my own computer and i no longer have to strain my marriage to get online. (Praise the pie gods) Unfortunatly, it came with Vista.

Now, don’t get me wrong, i really enjoy the Vista Aero interface and the search options. The error handling is smoother than silk and widgets are surprisingly useful, if not entertaining. But the way that microsoft really boned the pooch is how much memory and processor resources the OS takes to itself.

Not to mention the amazing amount of backwards compatibility issues that exist. The Unreal Tournament 3 demo that i was able to play nicely on my wifes computer looks like an old gameboy color game on this one. I simply chalked it up to the fact that Vista and OpenGL don’t play well, and the fact that the video card on this thing is, in fact, an ATI (yes, i feel dirty using it.)

So i tried the Call of Duty 4 demo that i have been drooling over ever since my neighbor brandon let me play it on his 360. and the graphics where fine,just unbelievably slow. completely out of sync with the audio to. And so I though, “maybe its just these new higher octane games that i can’t play, I’ll just try GameTap.”

I downloaded the client, and installed. Lo and behold, it crashes on startup, saying i had an issue with my video card drivers. I had forgotten one of the cardinal rules of gaming on a brand new PC, update the SHIT out of everything twice, remove the junk-ware and then reboot as needed. oye vey, i need a better hobby.

well after i have properly cleansed and sanctified the machine, it started running with a bit more pep, UT3 demo still sucks on it, but gametap runs well enough on it. Its got a smaller screen, but it works alright.

since most of my school stuff is computer related, i will be posting more, and i will see if i can’t encourage my writers to do the same.