Whoever did this is amazing. 

I found this pic today and wanted to share it.

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As you may or may not know, I have a general hatred for consoles. Not because they are evil themselves, but because they have suffocated the PC Gaming market with their rising popularity. However, one console has managed to gain my respect over the past few months…the Nintendo Wii. Now wait a minute, before you start preparing the tar and feathers, let me point out that I DO NOT own a Wii and have no intention of purchasing one (not while there are still good PC games out there to spend my money on). Anyways, moving on, my introduction to the Wii began at my friend’s house playing the popular Wii Tennis and before long, I was hopelessly addicted. The intuitive controls, responsive gameplay, and importance of personal skill level (which is far too lacking in most modern games) had me immediately hooked. After playing a few other games such as Shaun White’s Snowboarding, Crash Bandicoot, and Wii Golf, I can’t help but admit that the people at Nintendo definitely deserve some praise for this system. It is innovative, fun, interactive, and appealing to a wide audience……and I can no longer shun it just because it shares a genre with the PS3 and XBOX360.

Here’s my rationale for being able to approve of this system and still have a clear conscience.

1.  It’s target audience is very different than the PC gaming crowd. We enjoy things like high performance, 24- hour gaming sessions, and Mature ratings. Wii-ers enjoy things like “fun for the whole family”, exercise, cute little pixelated characters, and giggling.
2. It’s games are in a totally different genre. Yes they may have Call of Duty, but is it really the same?…I don’t think so. 
3. I cannot willfully stand in the way of innovation. The Wii is good…real good. Don’t compare it to a PC though. It would be like comparing a Lamborghini Murciélago to a Trek mountainbike. They’re both good quality and can both be alot of fun, but given the choice……you know what you would choose. 

I’ve upgraded my rig again. Now I have twin 500 gig hard drives. Here’s the specs: Seagate ST3500320AS, 7200RPM, 32MB cache, SATA (of course). Couldn’t pass it up when I saw it at Newegg for $65 and free shipping. Merry Christmas to me! Oh, and by the way, it’s alot of fun when people ask how many gigs your hard drive is and you snap back with a cool “it’s a terabyte”.

If you want to overclock your CPU (something I plan to do in the coming weeks), it’s a good idea to have an aftermarket heatsink/fan and high quality thermal compound to facilitate adequate heat transfer away from the processor. I am using the Coolermaster Hyper TX-2 heatsink/fan and I’ve made a video of how to properly apply thermal paste. I’ve chosen to use Artic Cooling MX-2  as it is arguably the best thermal compound available right now. Make sure you read the rest of the article to see how my temperatures improved just by upgrading my thermal paste.

How to Apply Thermal Paste to your CPU from Jon Anderson on Vimeo.
click to see how the MX-2 performed

Yeah, I’m not going to be getting much done this October. November either for that matter.

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I love this game! I liked it when I got it, but now, after 21 hours of accumulated gameplay (I know, not that much compared to some), I am absolutely addicted. I thought my favorite class was the engineer (after all, that’s what I am in real life) but the great thing about TF2 is that different situations call for different characters. Here’s how I decide what class to be:

If there’s a Heavy who knows what they’re doing then I’m all about supporting him/her as a Medic, but there’s a few things the big guy must know. Accept the fact that you’re going to die when the Uber is over — get out there and cause some confusion, don’t hide in the doorway trying to pick off stragglers. It’s the rest of the team’s job to use this moment to gain ground or set up a stronghold. Secondly, If I’m close to an Uber, don’t run out into the open and get killed, I can’t Uber you if you’re dead. And lastly, if I jump out in front of you, it’s not because I’m excited to see you, it’s because someone’s coming from behind…so turn around and spin that gun.

I love being Engi (oh how I hate that spy). There’s no greater satisfaction than having well placed defense stations for your troops to fall back to when they’re overrun. Or holding a position for an entire game knowing that without my well-placed Sentry/Dispenser combo, our team would have been ploughed over like the St. Louis Rams’ defense this year……ouch. Yep, I could spend all day as Engi and never get sick of it. (did I mention that I really hate spies)

Why is the Demoman so much fun. I think of him as a portable sentry gun. If you’re good, you can effectively defend a door or hallway for an entire game using the right combination of stickies and grenades, and I just can’t explain the happiness I feel after launching 4 grenades down a tunnel and seeing my name start to pop up at the top right corner of the screen. The Demoman is also great when I’m playing on a less experienced team that doesn’t really know how to utilize their engineer and medics.

I only use the Soldier for certain situations. Usually at the end of a CartPush game, when the enemy is making its final push for the last checkpoint, I’ll switch to a Soldier and just start launching rockets frantically at anything moving ~ Hey it works.

And that’s it, those are my four classes. What classes do you like and why?

See you in the game. BTW, I’m “anderson23″

Crytek whines and complains, Ubisoft throws in the towel, Epic…fails epically. But one PC game development company stands undaunted by the terrors of Piracy — in fact, it’s not even something they worry about. Yes, I’m talking about Valve, the brilliant people who brought us Half-Life, Team Fortress, Portal, Counter-Strike and more. While the rest of the industry struggles with messy DRM, poor sales, and angry enthusiasts, Valve quietly codes its games, confused as to what all this Piracy hype is about.…………………………………

Why do people pirate games I ask you? … Answer: Because there is no penalty, no downside whatsoever. In fact, piracy often brings a bonus…if it means that you won’t have to deal with annoying DRM.

Valve changed this. With their incredibly successful (15 million users) content delivery system, aka. “Steam”, the consequences for pirating a game could mean that you’d never get to play any of your Steam-powered games again. In 2004, Valve indefinitely suspended 20,000 Steam accounts of gamers who tried to pirate Half-Life 2, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg — Valve has been suspending accounts for fraudulent activity since the launch of Steam.

Why does their system work? Read the Rest

Part 5 of the series is a video tutorial on how to disassemble your gaming PC to upgrade the graphics card and CPU. If you have any problems viewing the video, please leave a comment so that I can fix it.

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Part 4 of the series is a video tutorial on how to startup your Gaming PC after you’ve assembled it. Make sure you click the “HD is OFF” button after you click ‘Play’ which will take you to the Vimeo website where you can view the video in HD and full screen. If you have any problems, please leave a comment so that I can fix it.

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