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I don't believe you anymore.

Got an interesting new problem: My DVI-D ports don't seem to be transmitting display data to my monitor. I have one on my graphics card and on my mobo, but neither will work. I finally got a display back by using the D-Sub port. I already swapped out the cable, so I know that's not the problem. Any ideas?

edit: also, this was a pretty spontaneous problem. I haven't introduced any new parts lately. I finished watching a movie one night, shut down, and the next morning my display wasn't working.

Yes to all except the UPS. Haven't had money to spare on one. Thanks for the input. I just ordered a new card. It should be here later this week, and then I can get back to playing Child of Light.

I've been having fun playing the new Thief game by Square Enix since it came out Tuesday. I think they did a pretty good job rebooting the series. It still feels like a Thief game to me. It jumps into story/plot a lot faster than the old games did. The pure steal this or steal x amount of whatever quests are almost all side jobs.

Occasionally there are slightly odd inconsistencies. At the point in the game I'm at, the Graven have taken over several districts of the city, but they're just as hostile to me as the guards are, even though the first several missions involve helping their leader. And in another mission, you have the option of overloading the vents of a brothel with opium so that everyone passes out, but then you'll still observe major NPCs having conversations through peepholes after that. That particular trick was also poorly implemented...instead of just having all of the NPCs fall asleep, they wait until you're within a certain distance and get knocked out like you hit them with a blackjack. It took me a while to figure out why I kept hearing random screams...consequently when I finished the mission the game told me I took out about 30 more people than I actually did.

Still, lots of fun.

Finished Bioshock: Infinite...I may need time to process that. I seriously wish all game developers put that much time and energy into telling a compelling story. I'll probably replay it eventually.

Aside from that I am really enjoying the game. And yeah, the saves are becoming more frequent now.

Interesting. I loved the show, but I have no idea exactly how well it will translate to a game. Let us know when there's something more to look at, especially game play video!

Yeah, they pissed off most of their consumer base a while back when they split the shipping and streaming services into separate bills. You used to pay the same price to get both services...

Saw the headline a while back, but I didn't see the inforgraphic. Interesting, especially some of the in game demographic breakdowns. I'm not surprised warriors lead in profession breakdowns - they have by far the strongest damage output, but I'm surprised mesmers and engineers are way at the end...

Yeah, it took me a while to complete the story for the first game too, but I actually really liked the ending sequence (from Sanctum Cay onward I think) a lot. The story definitely drags a bit getting from the Shiverpeaks through the Maguuma jungle, but at least each step logically makes sense as being part of a story that would change if that mission didn't happen. It actually really bothers me how easily you could take out entire chunks of the GW2 personal story and still have the exact same result. Honestly, in the end I don't think it would have made much of a difference if the players were there or not in GW2.

Also: it helps that I don't have much extra money to be spending on other games...lol!

...after a year, it's about damn time! Mostly this is just I didn't have a whole lot of time during the school year, and I just didn't put a whole lot of effort into it. And the caveat being I finished the storyline...there's still an absurd amount of content I haven't even touched yet. So I thought I'd leave a few opinions...

As much as I do enjoy the game and as much as I like Arenanet, the story was kind of disappointing and anticlimactic. You'd think a final showdown with a creature called an elder dragon would be exciting, but it was honestly really boring. Cinematically it would totally be interesting to watch, but as far as game play it was really dull. Basically it turned into Deus Ex Machina to defeat Zhaitan. It honestly had a pretty great set up - you've reunited the members of Destiny's Edge, who have all gone into Arah to take on the dragon, but...nothing really happened. Apparently the final mission used to be incredibly difficult. One of the people playing with us told me it took them six hours to finish the first time he played a couple of weeks after launch, but now it's too easy.

Honestly, around level 45-50 I stopped caring a whole lot about the story. The characters weren't really that interesting (there were a couple I wanted to shoot because they were so obnoxious), and a lot of the missions were sort of...side stuff. They didn't really impact the overall course of the game. Except for a few key story missions and the dungeons, most of them could never have happened and the story wouldn't have changed at all. And the dialogue was really lousy. It was kind of after-school special-y a lot of the time, and during the last four or five missions, SOMEONE gets all noble and sacrifices themselves for the mission. The first time it happened (much earlier in the story) it was interesting. When it happens several missions in a row...kinda annoying actually.

I'm kind of disappointed in Arenanet on this point. In the original Guild Wars (and for the most part in Factions/NF/EotN) the story was really tightly put together and interesting, but the only part of GW2's storytelling I felt was on par with GW1 was the Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon, which successfully combined fun gameplay with a story that does a really good job of mining the lore of the original game to enrich the story.

Just wanted to put my thoughts down. I definitely enjoyed the game, but I think Arenanet could have done so much better by the storyline for GW2.

I only played the first one on demo. I was greatly disappointed in the judgement call of your char so early in the game. "Wow, this party was so off the hook that they left their smack, with a needle the size of an icepick, only partly used lying on the floor, let's try some for no reason at all!" *stab* Honestly a junkie that strung out that he would try something like that with no prompting could never have found their way onto an airplane in the first place.

That judgment call will make total sense later in the game.

I actually liked the first bioshock...Although one of my friends recently said that the only way to properly enjoy the first bioshock was to listen to all of the tapes to get the full story unwrapping, otherwise he thought it was boring. That's a shame. I was looking forward to getting Bioshock Infinite when I had the cash to spare. I don't generally have significant chunks of time to devote to playing.

I got bored after a while. I'll probably go back sometime when I want to play something mindless again. Right now I'm enjoying (albeit frustrated by) Thief...

That's exactly what was happening to me, even after I got back on. I eventually just let it patch all the way while I ran errands. Dunno what was up.