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Crysis and Crysis Warhead are a must IMO. I just got Crysis 2, undecided as to whether I would recommend. It's good, but the gameplay is not for me. Has this rediculously annoying lag that modern FPS games seem to have on the mouse movements to smooth them out. That and the way the guy moves makes me feel like I'm playing underwater. It's like BFBC2, but worse. Also, everyone raved about the amazing graphics, couldn't be more "Meh" to me. I was impressed in Crysis with being able to see hundreds of trees several miles away, but in Crysis 2 everything feels way too close for my liking. It's just all very "Consoleish", but I guess that's the point.

I didn't mean that in the slightest. WWII is documented in libraries and on telly, not a forum about bikes. My point was that IMO this discussion is done, (hence the lack of replies). Obviously the facts will be documented for years to come.

Yehhh, as much as I care for the people affected, the riots were a fortnight ago now? Life goes on.

Drink bitter instead.

Pffft, overpriced and not that impressive IMO. My Grandad has a £500 Bose ipod dock, was alright sound quality wise, but the volume was pretty laughable. I'd pay £200 for it, but not £500. I have some Teufel Concept B 200s. £185 inc postage from Germany and they're loud enough for me. The big advantage though is you don't need to fanny around with setup or tweaking stuff, it comes as a complete kit and takes a USB input. They do higher end versions as well if you really want to spend more.

In other words, abuse?

I've never seen a cable die. I've seen ethernet cards, routers, drivers and firewalls cause connection problems, but never a cable. How do you know the wireless works?

CCleaner, Eusing Registry Cleaner, Defraggler. Run them in that order. Also, there's a PC tech support thread for posts like this.

Been there, I capsized a kayak once and found out rather quickly that the handle for my spray deck was folded inside. I just used my knees to force it off in the end, but it was a scary moment.

Snakes and girls.

Yup, motherboard, case and ram are a bit crap, and they don't even mention the PSU.

I think in the long run, you get more for your money if you build from scratch. The 2500k is the i5, general consensus is that it's the best value for money Intel chip ATM. That, 8gb of RAM and a GTX560 will be easily enough for now, if you feel you want more FPS in some games though then you can add another 560 later.

I'm struggling to do a 2500k build on £570, cheapest I've done was £800. Trying to make it possible to have a GTX560 and for it to have the option of adding another for SLI, but it's tricky.

I'll spec up what I'd buy now in a wee while.

Would not touch AMD right now. The Phenom II quads and even the 6 cores don't match up to the old i7 D0, and get slaughtered by Sandy Bridge. You'd be so much better off with an i7 2500k. This is coming from the worlds biggest AMD fanboy.

No, but I will push you off the ladder. It'd be quite a fall, so watch your step son.

Say that to my face. (You'll need a ladder).

Ubuntu 10 fail.

It wasn't poverty though, we never starved to death or dehydrated, we just ate cheaply and were happy with what we had. The key IMO isn't how much you have, it's how much you have to do. I work a 40 hour week at the moment and I'm bored shitless. My evenings are filled with f**king minecraft. All I want is more work so I can earn a better future for myself. These people don't want that, they've been brought up to fail. Society has no expectation for them, but unfortunately they are not a minority like the proerly poor people were where I grew up, (not like us, families who had to send their kids to school in shoes 2 sizes too small, properly poor), they are a majority, and when you have a big group of people all with a common grudge, shit's gonna go down. They all feel hard done too not because they haven't been given opportunities and not because their situation is shit, but because they are expected to grow up, live out their short lives and die in poverty. If they had any promise of a future, they wouldn't be taking part in this uprising, because they'd be where I am now, at f**king work! Humans are simple things by nature, if there is an easy way to survive and a hard way, they'll choose the easy way. But, if you force the hard way upon them, they'll usually be happier for it when they see themselves progressing. In conclusion, I'm a bit of a communist. People in general make stupid choices, so they need their choices taking away. (China's 1 child policy for example. probably the least nice thing to think about, but if they hadn't done it they'd have been f**ked).

Haha, certainly the ones convicted of being involved. Show them the mess, and be all "No more benefits for you until this is all spotless. Naughty rioter."

Trudat. If they sunk the money wasted in the benefits system into building more manufacturing type places and create loads of manual labour jobs that are easy to do, but need a person to fill the space then the whole system might even make a profit. The UK built an empire on the back of it's manufacturing industry, we can do it again. I was never quite that bad off work wise. At 16 I got a job in a pub on £3.30 an hour, did that for 6 months then left to be web designer, where I start on £5 and within a few months was put up to £7.50 (17 by that point). Oh and Matt, by your reckoning I've just realised, I must be in poverty right now! Can't afford clothes, very limited food budget and bills coming out of my ears. Still working full time though and trying to find freelance work to do outside of my job.

If you call that poverty, then yes. When I was a kid we had no money whatsoever. We didn't complain or riot, because we're not filth. My brother and I made do playing with our imaginations instead of expensive toys, and our parents worked like bastards to earn our family a better life. The scum and filth will always behave that way, regardless of their situation. For whatever reason, they were brought up thinking that it's OK to behave like this. There are jobs available, lots of them. If you're willing to deliver pizza, or empty the bins, or cut grass, or paint fences then you can get work. Probably not full time, and not paying much, but it is there. The fact is they don't want to work, or most of the chavs and scum I've known over the years don't. (Regardless of skin tone).

I thought Lowestoft had an almost completely white population? Sure I heard it was of the least culturally diverse areas in the UK...

Just inside the building at that point, but they'll have been in the shops by now.

Manchester news: There are bastards outside a friend of mine's building. 50+, he's taking photos with a long range lense to give to the police. Also just in, the Arndale center has fallen.