ECS KA3 MVP

Ξ July 19th, 2006 | → | ∇ |

Decent board, but I could still design a better one. For the price, which is good, I still wouldn’t buy one though. If I wanted Crossfire, 975x is the only way to go. Writing interesting motherboard reviews is like encouraging a stone to roll. Up hill. You can shout at it ’til you’re blue in the face but it ain’t gonna happen.
We will be back at NBS at some point this week but it seems the summer heat has made people lethargic. That and the need for a net connection, and a PC, and some free time, and something to talk about. To certain degrees we each lack the former.

I’ve just seen Portal which is being developed by Valve to sell alongside Episode 2. Three letters describe the video experience, two of them are W and one of them is O. I can see it being used as a measure of intelligence; whereby instead of your usual run around and shoot, you have to think about the opening/closing/dropping/moving in all five (normal) dimensions to outwit your enemy. For a change it’s not just how fast your net connection it, how many frames you can render and exactly how high on caffeine are you to get a responsive twitch like that.

This month I have mostly been watching ask a ninja on youTube. It’s comedy genius: like a spiritual reading of all of life’s essential questions but with more violence. So, in fact, perfectly suited to humanity.