Recent content by Hobbes

Not at $80 CAD, I will wait until it's 33% off. It sounds pretty solid though, which is nice in this era of many AAA titles being broken piles of garbage.

I love simulators in general - the real simulators that actually simulate something. If I buy Donkey Simulator or whatever, I expect to actually be a simulated donkey, doing actual simulated donkey things. I have all the necessary tools to play a proper flight sim, including a lovely stick...

Please DON'T defrag your SSD... defragging is a method of making read/write operations more efficient on physical disks that have to spin to certain points to have data read/written - SSDs do not have to spin at all and thus don't see any benefit to defragging. Defragging is BAD for SSDs and...

I think I lasted about 10 minutes in Dead Space - it was creepy as hell, but I think it was just impatience and distractions that kept me from continuing. Another short experience was in a game whose name I've forgotten - someone here knows what it's called - a first person indie game where you...

People still use IE? I can't really imagine why, aside from corporate and governmental short-sightedness. Firefox dug away at IE's market share in gradual strides starting about 8 years ago, and Chrome nearly wrecked the market share of both IE and Firefox - at least in stats provided by my...

Your budget is $2000+ and you're thinking of throwing a 750 ti in your new rig? I totally endorse solid budget cards like that (I'm using a 660 myself) but my regular budget for new builds is usually half what you quoted. If you have the room, max out the value and throw a GTX 970 in there - if...