Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)

[Commander Obi-Wan]

Originally Posted by Negative Sun

£24.99 on Amazon

If I do the math correctly, that is equivalent to about $50 USD.

So, by the looks of it. I got a relatively good deal (approx. $18.89 USD and approx. £9.43) or you just got ripped off.

[TiE23]

I've seen that Star Wars game pack in stores for like $30.

Anyway, here is the stuff I got, minus N3 and GHII.

[Pho3nix]

What's with the knife? :S

[Anthony]

He'll cut you

[Negative Sun]

Originally Posted by Commander Obi-Wan

If I do the math correctly, that is equivalent to about $50 USD.

So, by the looks of it. I got a relatively good deal (approx. $18.89 USD and approx. £9.43) or you just got ripped off.

The UK in general is a ripoff, try and find me something cheaper in the UK, you won't

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Negative Sun

The UK in general is a ripoff, try and find me something cheaper in the UK, you won't

Red bull! and fish and chips.

[Negative Sun]

Try and find me the same product cheaper

[TiE23]

Originally Posted by Anthony

He'll cut you

My brother got it for my for my birthday. He has one and I'm always using it or messing with it, so he got me one like his, only nicer.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

and

[Negative Sun]

New tattoo:



That is my collar bone in case you're wondering...

[Dath Maximus]

more coffee....please...someone help me

[BongoBob]

Dath, you may need to switch vices. I hear cocaine is real popular these days.

[Tyrion]

Cocaine is fine, but stay away from video games. I heard they make you kill people.

[TK-8252]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

Cocaine is fine, but stay away from video games. I heard they make you kill people.

Try mixing the two.

[TiE23]

Cheaper than a bad Starbucks habit, too.

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by TiE23

Cheaper than a bad Starbucks habit, too.

Yeah, but once you're hooked on Starbucks there's no coming back from that. I've seen a few people who had Starbucks addictions, it was scary. They needed to walk only a few blocks over and they could get a quick fix, in different potencies of "tall, grande, vende". That's how ****ed up the stuff was, they had to resort to Italian.

My friends were suckered into that lifestyle of high latte's and fast frappacinos. Some of the weaker willed ones even tried espresso's: man, that's an addiction I would never want to wish on anyone, even my enemies. They withdrew into shells of their former selves: broken husks that wander the streets for $5.95 in change in hopes of a small, ephemeral fix to a better time long gone by.

Long, long gone by.

(This post was created with special thanks to Talking Heads. Oh David Byrne, this is not my beautiful life. *sniff*)

[Dath Maximus]

I dont go to starbucks...their coffee is weak and crappy...my coffee is the consistency of tar.

Which I got more of yet again.....

[BongoBob]

Actually, forget cocaine. I heard that Totally Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake makes you blow chunks of your mind into the milky way.

[Datheus]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

I abused the wire on my old monitor by transferring it from my computer to the xbox-360 and vice-versa so many times . . .

In other works, my wire for my monitor was fubar'd and since it was a CRT . . .

You must related to me your secrets of using a computer monitor for your game console.

[ChAiNz.2da]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

Wait, widescreens? You mean you have more than one 24" monitors running together? While that would be a pretty awesome setup, I'm fairly sure it would qualify for the carnal sin of gluttony or something.

I'm a video editor by profession.. it's work-related, even for the home 'puter.
One would be enough If I didn't have a ba-jillion different progz and palettes in my face...

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by Datheus

You must related to me your secrets of using a computer monitor for your game console.

Hazzah, and be amazed!

Xbox 360 + Xbox 360 Vga Cable.

[Negative Sun]

Got this stuff today:





Detail:






4 (decent) games for £10 ($20), not bad!

[Datheus]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

Hazzah, and be amazed!

Xbox 360 + Xbox 360 Vga Cable.

Good grief, answer me these questions three.

1. My understanding is that most CRTs computer monitors are progressive scan. You mentioned you had a CRT, so I am assuming this is true.

2. Does it allow for high def? I've been trying to figure out for the longest time how a next gen console on a computer monitor would work.. Does it default to 480p?

3. What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by Datheus

1. My understanding is that most CRTs computer monitors are progressive scan. You mentioned you had a CRT, so I am assuming this is true.

Yeah, CRTs are progressive scan but they can display interlacing fairly well too.

2. Does it allow for high def? I've been trying to figure out for the longest time how a next gen console on a computer monitor would work.. Does it default to 480p?

The Xbox 360 upscales the input from either 480p or 720p, depending on the game, to the higher resolution. It's still upscaling, but from my own experience the picture looks better. The vga cable itself is plugged straight into the Xbox and not used as a converter, so that's why it can display those resolutions. Also, you can specify which resolutions(1024x768, 1600x1200, ect.) through the dashboard in the Xbox 360. It's more or less like setting the resolution for a regular pc game, although there is a lack of 16:10 resolutions...

3. What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Depends. Do you mean an African swallow, or a European swallow?

Google proves that people have way too much time on their hands.

[Datheus]

Are there any monitors that wouldn't work with this?

If I go out and buy a 360 right now and the cable, would I possibly be making a blunder? Or does it work with nearly every monitor?

And you're saying Dead Rising, for example, would output at 720p, but I could set the xbox to upscale to 1024x768? what I've heard is that it's impossible to read the text in that game in SD, but HD it looks just fine.

In fact, is there a way for me to contact you on IM?

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by Datheus

Are there any monitors that wouldn't work with this?

If I go out and buy a 360 right now and the cable, would I possibly be making a blunder? Or does it work with nearly every monitor?

And you're saying Dead Rising, for example, would output at 720p, but I could set the xbox to upscale to 1024x768? what I've heard is that it's impossible to read the text in that game in SD, but HD it looks just fine.

Any monitor with a vga input would work in theory, but there's always the possibility that the universe hates you or something and it doesn't work. Be warned though that the xbox 360 will display only in aspect rations of 4:3 and 16:9, while most widescreen pc monitors display in 16:10 ratio, so there will be distortion. I use 1280×768 resolution to fix that up, as it's only 32 pixels from the 16:10 resolution of 1280x800. What monitor do you have, though?

Dead Rising works fine, text and all, on my CRT at 1600x1200 and on my LCD widescreen at the aforementioned resolution.

[Datheus]

I've got a http://www.amazon.com/ViewSonic-G90F.../dp/B00006B6WO

I've never been too keen on monitors.. I know the native on this is 1600x1200, but I'm using 1280x720 right now because I was curious. I'm not sure if that has more to do with my video card/Windows or my monitor.

PM me an AIM name so we can stop spamming the boards.

[TiE23]

I play my 360 on my 1280x1024 LCD all the time. The only game of mine that doesn't size right is PGR3. Otherwise my games go into 720p (width is 1280) or 5:4 in some cases.

[Dath Maximus]

3 guesses to what I got...

[TiE23]

Originally Posted by Negative Sun

4 (decent) games for £10 ($20), not bad!

Sweet shirt... And 3 decent games... XIII sucked.

[Darth Groovy]

I did not buy all of this stuff in one trip.

These are various items that I had reserved/picked up, traded for...etc over the past month. I just keep forgetting to post this stuff when I get it.

[TiE23]

Originally Posted by Darth Groovy

I did not buy all of this stuff in one trip.

These are various items that I had reserved/picked up, traded for...etc over the past month. I just keep forgetting to post this stuff when I get it.

... Gamer overload...

[MrWally]

Hey Groovy, I've had my eye on Overlord for the PC for a while now. All the reviews I see say it's a "pretty good" game, essentially. What's your personal suggestion?

Not that I'll be able to play anything for a while, since I'm leaving for camp to work tomorrow and I'll be gone for 3 weeks, but I'm looking for something to quench my thirst when I get back.

[Darth Groovy]

Overlord is fun, funny, and refreshingly different.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

onyx ds lite, pokemon diamond, bleach kokuihirameku requiem

[Rogue Nine]

oh **** jmac you need to tell me your friend code so we can tradez teh pokeymans

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

i'll im you later boo <3

[Datheus]

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Where did all my money go?

[Jeff]

My Pokemans, let me show you them. In 3D.

[Darth Groovy]

God I really HATE Pokemon...

There, now I said it and it feels good.