$500 gaming Rig

I recently upgraded my rig, as we all have to do, and I wish I'd have read this first, so you probably should. Like the autor I tend to buy just behind the curve. While I can justify this by saying that as a dev I need to be playing on what best represents the cross section opf players, the truth is that I'm poor, or at least a tight ass.

This little gem of an article is almost exactly what I bought with a couple of exceptions. First, I couldn't get the amazingly good valur of the AMD 3000 and had to spend an extra 30% for the 3200 (not worth the money in any tangible way) and second I couldn't get a mobo with both PCIe and AGP to support my current and future upgrades. If you are like me, you buy cpu/mobo/ram one year and video card the next. Right now a board that supports both and is a 939 socket is a clear winner. As I said, wish I'd have read this first (not to mention the great $50 HD they recommend).

Tom's Hardware Rocks.

The Daedalus Project Updates

The new issue of the DP has a lot of interesting stuff. I've been running a silent campaign to get some of the WWIIOLers to participate so the MMO sphere (shoot me please) isn't entirely filled with elven chicks (disclosure: I prefer wookies). Take a look and if you haven't participated in the study, do so immediately.

Here's the link for the survey.

I am a bit swamped with the upcoming release so if you see anything that looks interesting drop a comment for Daler's sake.

Penny Arcade!

Just in case you live under a rock, Penny Arcade has given 10k to charity in the name of Jacky Boy. Apparently he was just kidding about giving to charity if someone would make a game where you could pee on people and kill store clerks, like we don't have enough of that already!

What to me is the real shocker is that Gabe and that long winded fella seem to be rolling in it. I had no idea that you could actually make money on a web comic. Whodathunkit. Order of the Stick though, now that is some funny stuff...

Lego Love.

Seriously. Lego. Love. Don't click this link. I don't know why its even here. Funny as hell though.

Ender Kicked My Ass

In the spirit of everyone's favorite child military messiah the Navy has started putting your tax dollars to work on the web recruiting future generations of little Beans. Cool huh!

Jack Thompson Again

Well, Jack's in the news again. Looks like his "supporters" aren't entirely in tune with his tactics. Some sort of twisted "The enemy of my enemy is too much of a raving lunatic to be my friend" sort of thing. Thanks to Gnpatton for the heads up. Jack's antics are better than the Chappelle show...well ok they're not as good as the Charlie Murphey stuff but he's got Mad TV's ass whipped.