Gah, I'd had this problem a few weeks ago, but then it went away so I was hoping that it wouldn't come back... but now it's back, and it's as horribly, incredibly frustrating as ever.
Essentially, my new computer won't turn on sometimes. Oh, it powers on, all the fans and lights and such power up, the CD works if I press the button... but it doesn't get beyond that and boot, and the monitor stays in 'standby' mode, the yellow light, blinking, whatever (depending on monitor).
I think there's some kind of power or electric problem, that hopefully isn't so bad it can't be fixed, because sometimes a few weeks ago when it was last doing this I managed to get it working by plugging in and unplugging some speakers from the sound card, or plugging the speakers into other ports on the sound card. Also, the one time (then) that I tried running the system without the sound card in I think it booted. Or sometimes it just randomly starts this time, while the previous time it wouldn't. It makes no sense.
So, is it a power problem or something, or is my sound card (a Soundblaster X-Fi) going bad? The latter would be pretty annoying, the only other soundcards I've got are definitely inferior Soundblaster Live!s. :(
In case you're wondering I'm posting this from my older computer, which works as well as it has for many years now, but is frustrating because of its age and because of how often it crashes. I need my newer computer working more reliably.
I mean, the computer does turn on some of the time. This problem does not happen every time, obviously, as I've said such as how it went away for a few weeks, but now happened again). But I really need to figure out what is wrong here, just saying "oh well it'll fix itself/it's not too bad as long as I can eventually get it to start up somehow" isn't the best attitude, I think. :)
A lot of Whitest Kids U Know stuff is lame, but they have gems hidden in there. This is one of their funniest bits. You can tell the writing is good when you can do it simply and effectively (and hilariously). They only use 1 prop, and it's a household item.
Pretty awesome news, and unexpected... Konami made the best beat 'em ups, and this one never got any kind of a home port. Even The Simpsons had a DOS version, though they couldn't do console versions because of licensing, but X-Men had nothing, until now. It's awesome that that's changed. It is only 4 player on a single system (6 player online, drop in drop out), but you can't do better than four on a single system on the 360.
Gothic 3 was terrible, absolutely terrible. I tried to play it several times, but the combat is just so utter atrocious that it's horribleness bled into everything else and just made me hate the whole package.
On the other hand, I tried the demo for Gothic 4 today, which is done by a different company [the Gothic 3 developers went on to improve with last year's Risen], and they've done a very good job here. Combat is definitely improved, and even better than in Risen, it feels smoother and more intuitive and only slightly frustrating in some aspects. Writing is decent and doesn't feel too stilted or anything, although the voices are a bit hit and miss.
Overall, I like what I've seen so far and I'll definitely be picking this up after I finish New Vegas.
This is a model of my hand I made in 3D..
I think it's a pretty good first try considering I eyeballed it with out a reference photo (like I should of used)
