First off, I would go to Pricewatch and see how much cpu-motherboard bundles are. You can build a beast for far less than HP, Dell, Tiger Direct, any of the 'big names' offer. Fedex, UPS, and the Post Awful are your friends. For instance, at Newegg you can get a CPU/motherboard bundle of an AMD A6 APU (the new chip with a quad core processor and DX-11 GPU on one die), a Gigabyte A75M-D2H motherboard, and toss in 8 gigs of Mushkin DDR3 for a grand total of $210. If you have a computer with a SATA drive, you are set. Just make sure the power supply is -at least- 500 watts, and I would recommend a 700-800 watt unit. Toss in a new 500gig SATA drive, a bluray burner and case, and you've spent about $500 for a mid-tower sized system that will handle anything out there. And if you need or want racing graphics, the APU will partner with a Radeon 6000 series video card for a Crossfire configuration. But that is all you need; if 500gigs isn't enough, just plug another SATA drive in (the mobo has 6 SATA ports, and it is truly power down, plug, and play) as you can afford it and keep going. You'd have all the video interconnects (VGA, DVI, and HDMI), a 7:1 audio codec on board as well.

Build it yourself, and you will never go back to store bought again. And you will never, ever, ever be at the mercy of the vendors who insist on customizing perfectly good standard parts to force you to pay -them- to fix things, rather than you being able to buy off the shelf components and fixing it =now=. If it has to be a laptop, well, you're stuck with the other suggestions.......

im currently watching high school of the dead
never EVER concidered myself to watch anime but after watching a couple of episodes of that and pokemon... i guess i would watch a series or two this summer.

That's a bit extreme, isn't it? Don't you think he's already suffered enough without having to go... out there?

The vampire one was nice, and I feel like a vampire at heart. It kinda slipped my mind actually Plus the 12th one really threw me off because it ties in with what Darren says at the very beginning of the book.

very informative, thanks! but im not spending a penny until augest for the sould purpose of it being spent on the system im intending to buy.

currently right now, youtube, AoE, Books and low req games are going to keep me company

thanks so much for the help though!

You must watch Digimon!!!!

I've kind of been put off watching new anime these days, all the same shallow plotlines and boringness. Only think I keep an eye on these days is when Gundam Unicorn is next out episode wise. Also rewatching Higurashi, Macross Frontier, Darker than Black that sort of thing. Plus the occasional comedy anime also.
Well i'm not suggesting he goes outside all at once. Short controlled doses are needed to build up his tolerance, too much fresh air at once could prove fatal. I'd suggest if you feel quesy at any given time take a canister of carbon dioxide with you to balance out the oxygen. Better safe than sorry

another quick question guys....

would it be reccomended of me to steer clear away from these forums until augest? dawnguard will be out and other skyrim info will be let out in here... i dont think i could handle the site of it but this place is great!

If you like HOTD, you'd like Angel Beats. These days I'm totally off action though. Much prefer stuff like Clannad, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kanon, Air, Lucky Star, Danshi Koukousei No Nichijou and Spice and Wolf.

I highly recommend all of them, but they're not action packed. Mainly comedy/drama.

my god! i was the arch enemy of digimon when i was young! we had people who liked pokemon and people who liked digimon and this seperated us and we used to have huge fights in the playground over who is best

since i was with pokemon i always protested that digimon copies because of the "mon" in the title and the pathetic names that they had for monsters haha

brings back good memories

Write a short story based on your Skyrim character.

I think most games from GoG run perfectly fine on less than 2gb. After all, most of them are pretty old. Just don't try the Witcher games.

They have Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1&2 (haven't played those but they're supposed to be really good) and Deus Ex (one of my favourite games ever), all of which are definitely worth checking out. They have lots of stuff though, from all genres. Since you have lots of free time I suggest browsing around a bit, and if you're unsure about meeting the system requirements you can always check them on other websites.

Yeah, I loved the end. Really stuck with me. Enough to ignore the plot holes I noticed. And I'm usually really bad at spotting plot holes so if I noticed them, they must have been blaring.

Still a good read though.

listing these down on my playlists on youtube currently as we speak lol.

is there any skyrim related tv series i can watch? i REALLY wanna catch up with game of thrones but i dont have HBO/sky atlantic

anyone...know where i can.... you know

watch it....


online?

Not allowed to say it here, but I'll give you a hint: google.

this... sounds interesting

OH YOU SNEAKY FOX!

if only they knew! heheheehe

Watch out the mods are lurking, they're evil. xD I used to collect pokemon cards back at school and by collect I meant borrow I meant steal and by steal I mean use my charms to aquire them from boys. Now I has all the cards! =D
Edit: when I say use my charms I don't mean like that I was 10. xD

No seriously. The method I use however requires a large amount of disk space. Can't say anymore. PM me for details if interested...

Also, not really Skyrim related or anything, but you could watch Spartacus. It's one of my favourite shows, and it inspired the fighting style of my current main in Skyrim (dual wield one handed swords). That's if you liked the whole brutal and ye olde aspect of GoT. If its the political intrigue and story you're going for, watch Boardwalk Empire. Totally unrelated setting, but still an epic show.

lol i stole them and once i got caught and damn i was good!
i was walking away and someone seen me with the guy's pokemon card in my hand and he was like HEY YOU! YOU HAVE HIS CARD! and 5 guys ran over and they were like give his card back!

and i was like "sure! i just want to make sure he had it personally since i FOUND it, i knew it was his i was just on my way to give it back to him because i seen if fall out of his bag"

that day turned out to be pretty sweet since the guy gave me some cards as a reward for "finding" the card hahaha

i stole it a week later anyway and didnt get caught

its okay about disc space... i have a 1TB external hard drive ready to be filled up hehehe.

ha! i love spartacus i only got up to like 9 episodes into blood and sand and couldnt find anymore episodes.... online

but the six!

oh lordy

the six!

Screw the pair of you! I've had girls charm cards off of me, and guys steal my cards! >

It's okay though, because I would then go on to use that wire thingy on the GBA to trade their main Pokemon for a higher level and more appropriate for defeating Gary, albeit generic Pokemon.

They were dumb enough to accept! I was the only kid with all three, venusaur, blastoise, and charizard in the whole school, if not the whole city! Muahahahaha!!

Okay, I'm done with my nerd rage now.

lol have we met before? you sound..... familiar muahahahahahhaah

HA! me and my friends did research before starting a new game and we all traded each other at the very beginning to have all three starters.

speaking of gameboys i have my game boy color with pokemon silver in it, i've been on and off with that for 2 years now and i've JUST made it into kanto

Oh crap, silver. I loved that game, haha.

I feel really guilty. I apologise on behalf of those mean kids. My quest to become champion of pokemon blinded me to my cruel actions. I justify my actions cause my parents didn't like cartoons so didn't let me watch/play pokemon cards so I had to ask friends to borrow cards! There was practically a real life team rocket in my school, sad to say I was a member D:

y-your a madman. A MADMAN!!