Steam Sales

[monroeski]

Then just rip them to iTunes. You know you can check CDs of music out from the library...just saying

I do rip them, I just don't rip them to itunes. Base MP3s are fine for me.

And I prefer to actually own the music instead of just checking them out and taking it all, even if I'm buying used and the original band/producer/whatever isn't getting any money off it anyway. Just old fashioned that way, I guess. I'm not a huge music buyer in the first place, which is kind of my original point. I have a higher tolerance for spending money on "crappy" games because I consider games in general to be worth it while I don't think some other things are.

[dyne]

Got Force Uneashed 1 and 2 for $5 each. Finished the first on the 360. Figured for that price I'd get the 2nd.

[James]

Got Force Uneashed 1 and 2 for $5 each. Finished the first on the 360. Figured for that price I'd get the 2nd.

Grabbed those. Good thing I checked this thread!

[kpxgq]

I do rip them, I just don't rip them to itunes. Base MP3s are fine for me.

And I prefer to actually own the music instead of just checking them out and taking it all, even if I'm buying used and the original band/producer/whatever isn't getting any money off it anyway. Just old fashioned that way, I guess. I'm not a huge music buyer in the first place, which is kind of my original point. I have a higher tolerance for spending money on "crappy" games because I consider games in general to be worth it while I don't think some other things are.

ive moved completely to the cloud/streaming for my music needs.. pay $10/mo to slacker (spotify and rdio work too) and i can stream music ad-free 24/7 on my PC, my squeezebox radio, and my cellphone. i can request any song i like at any time and can also cache a whole station for offline listening... usually i just let the service mix the songs for me

i actually downgraded the 16gb SD card in my phone to a 4gb one since i dont keep any mp3s on it... just the whole process of shopping for songs and buying them and then syncing them to my player seems so archaic to me now

netflix was pretty cool and similar too (streaming movies and tv shows to my PC and phone)... the problem to me is that movies require more dedication of time and effort and i would rather use that time and effort for real life and gaming... so i dont mind paying more to get a single movie every once in awhile... music is a very passive activity that i do for at least 10 hours a day so i can justify $10/mo for it

[Astros Fan]

someone over at anandtech's PC gaming forum won the steam daily deal...so it does happen!
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2212444

[Kamakazie]

someone over at anandtech's PC gaming forum won the steam daily deal...so it does happen!
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2212444

That's awesome!

[Astros Fan]

That's awesome!

Want some more awesomeness?

http://www.coustier.com/index.php?faq

Just sign up, recreate your wishlist and those titles that go on sale will be auto-emailed to you that 'hey! XXXX game is on sale for $xx!!' or whatnot. This guy wrote this site himself and works great.

this is what the email looks like:

This is a message to let you know The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Digital Premium Edition is on sale at Steam.
Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/20..._7_7_204_150_1
Original Price 39.99
Sale Price 23.99
You will not be notified again unless you visit www.coustier.com and modify your game tracking list.

[James]

Just a random note:

Just went to the stats page. 89.83% of people have multi-core CPU's, and >50% have 64-bit OS's. Maybe it's about time game designers focus on multi-threading and large-address memory options for their games?

[Kamakazie]

Just a random note:

Just went to the stats page. 89.83% of people have multi-core CPU's, and >50% have 64-bit OS's. Maybe it's about time game designers focus on multi-threading and large-address memory options for their games?

Haven't they been doing this for years now? Seems logical considering that even this console generation has been using multi-core CPUs.

[James]

Haven't they been doing this for years now? Seems logical considering that even this console generation has been using multi-core CPUs.

Yeah, I guess. But even now the majority of games do not parallel-scale well. More to the point I'm thinking about Skyrim, with it's "LAA" bug/patch/fix/break/fix situation. The game only ran properly with LAA enabled. Games are getting bigger, they need more RAM. There has to be a reason for people to spend $90 on 16GB of RAM these days.

[Timman_24]

Yeah, I guess. But even now the majority of games do not parallel-scale well. More to the point I'm thinking about Skyrim, with it's "LAA" bug/patch/fix/break/fix situation. The game only ran properly with LAA enabled. Games are getting bigger, they need more RAM. There has to be a reason for people to spend $90 on 16GB of RAM these days.

Skyrim is a poor example though because they stuck with older tech like DX9. From the ground up that game was made to be lightweight. The graphics are absolutely stunning for the tech and the amount of graphical power you need to run it (hardly any.)

The big games that are being released right now have been in development for several years and the engine they run on are even older. I think in 2012-2013 we will start to see real multi-threaded games.

I know UE3 became natively multithreaded in 2009. UE4 will be built from the ground up to support multiple cores, so that should be a large turning point.

[Astros Fan]

Supposedly ARMA III is going to have a minimum CPU requirement of an i5. That's the steepest requirement I've heard on anything be worked on with next year release.

[Vindir]

Supposedly ARMA III is going to have a minimum CPU requirement of an i5. That's the steepest requirement I've heard on anything be worked on with next year release.

ARMA is about the most cpu intensive game ever though. I'm pretty sure they should have just listed ARMA2 as requiring an i5.

[Geforce255]

ARMA is about the most cpu intensive game ever though. I'm pretty sure they should have just listed ARMA2 as requiring an i5.

I agree, my I7 cranks on ARMA II. It's just on a couple of cores, but the game pegs them.

[Astros Fan]

Nuclear Dawn free weekend...cool. I've been wanting to try this game out. One person plays commander and does the RTS, and the other 30 people run around FPS style blasting each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpWQWj7Vxc8