you forgot about www.google.com. I'd say that was pretty good.

sounds a lot like how ooo handles game balance. thanks for all the great info everyone. Can't wait until I actually have time to sit down and play this game. January and the end of the 4th financial quarter can't come fast enough.

Awesome. This sounds like they fixed most of my problems with Oblivion. I can't even play that game without the ooo mod. I remember going months without sleeping so that I wouldn't level up. It was the first time I ever played an rpg where the game got harder every time you gained a level.

I have a friend that works for Apple support. He is not an Apple employee. Apple outsources all of its supports and does not listen to any feedback that the support centers supply back to Apple (a source of frustration for my friend). Apple is too much of a top-down company.

For those of you playing the game, how is the leveling system balance so far?

Warcraft III was not even the first time Blizzard used a raven in their marketing. Check out the opening cinematic for Diablo, which came out 8 years earlier.

People won't treat valve the same way because Valve isn't treating their customers the same way. I'm not upset that Sony got hacked (my personal info was compromised by the gawker hack 6 months earlier and I'm still here). However, I am upset that Sony didn't tell anyone for 2 weeks. At least valve is being honest…

Politician/Collector/Enabler for me.

use google voice for your texts. Problem solved since the texts are transfered over the data network.

Not this one: [www.youtube.com]

did you catch the parappa the rappa cameo?

If you keep your eye on slickdeals.net you can get yourself a ATI Radeon 6850 for about $120. There was a deal a couple weeks ago for the 6850 for $110 with a free copy of Deus Ex included. The 6850 will run just about any current game at max settings and once more taxing games start to come out in a couple years…

I was also surprised at how well Battlefield 3 ran on my 5770. I'm running high settings except for the textures which I have set to Ultra. The runs just fine at 1080p.

Video cards are not as expensive as you might think.

I'm running it just fine with an i7 and an AMD 5770. I am using high settings except for textures which are set at Ultra. (running 1080p)

I played this game until 4am this morning. Some of the servers were really laggy (it was strange because it would be completely smooth for 10 minutes, then for the next 3 it would lag and everyone in the server would start experiencing severe rubberbanding.) But the server issues were only a minor flaw in an…

I can't stand the majority of Japanese comedians. However, Downtown cracks me up every time. I you can find Matsumoto's クラクション rant (I was going to link to the youtube video but it got taken down), give it a watch. Its one of the best pieces of comedy ever written.

Good point. I might not be able to run the game on Ultra settings, but I was still impressed with how the game ran on High.

Beta runs great with a 5770 at 1080p. I was afraid that this game was going to eat my rig alive, but I was happily surprised and won't have to upgrade for another year or so it seems.

That may be your argument, but unfortunately it isn't what you agreed to when you signed your contract with your carrier.