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Hexartes · 2013-02-25 19:11:00

What's your favorite? I prefer the classic.

Bunny · 2013-02-25 19:14:24

I don't play the game, but League of Legends has an excellent health bar.

Each segment of the health bar represents 100 hp, and in this way it manages to show both percentage of health lost and an estimate of the numerical value of their health while looking stylish and avoiding any pesky numbers.

Classy.

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-25 19:17:12

Disappointed, thought this was a thread about everyone's favorite animation studio, Hanna Parpera

Obā-san · 2013-02-25 19:19:55

SF_Sorrow · 2013-02-25 19:20:17

The movies are pretty nice, though I lean more towards the books

Section42L · 2013-02-25 19:55:13

Fuck you, Hewlett-Packard.

Tachyon · 2013-02-25 21:35:06

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-25 21:49:32

the official condiment of the patriarchy

Previous Calica · 2013-02-25 22:26:24

I have a Hewlett-Packard laptop because it seemed to be the best laptop I could get for a thousand dollars.

It's alright, I guess.

Viani · 2013-02-25 22:28:50

I REALLY WANT A DISGAEA GAME

BECAUSE LVL9999 is so much higher than LVL81 or LVL50 or even LVL100

Imipolex G · 2013-02-25 22:36:47

I have a Hewlett Packard computer. *defiance*

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-26 05:18:20

Viani said:

I REALLY WANT A DISGAEA GAME

BECAUSE LVL9999 is so much higher than LVL81 or LVL50 or even LVL100

They are the crack cocaine of the video game world

Salix Babylonika · 2013-02-26 05:34:10

spinor said:
I have a Hewlett-Packard laptop because it seemed to be the best laptop I could get for a thousand dollars.

It's alright, I guess.

spinor said:
I have a Hewlett-Packard laptop because it seemed to be the best laptop I could get for a thousand dollars.

spinor said:
a thousand dollars.

spinor said:
a thousand motherfucking dollars.

how do you people have this much money

Princess Alice · 2013-02-26 05:43:37

It's called a student loan, for those who don't mind going into crippling debt for the vague promise of maybe getting the chance to maybe get a decent career someday.

Previous Calica · 2013-02-26 06:04:28

Actually, it's called a stipend. Except I think the laptop was actually paid for by my parents as a delayed graduation gift.

Either way, I'm a grad student; I'll have to teach future biologists what a derivative is, so I get paid an okay amount and the vague promise of maybe getting the chance of getting to breathe next to tenure one day.

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-26 06:04:31

$1000 is still way too much for a laptop

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-26 06:05:19

....unless you're in one of those degree plans that requires a mac laptop, like the art degrees at my university do

Princess Alice · 2013-02-26 06:07:07

spinor said:
Actually, it's called a stipend. Except I think the laptop was actually paid for by my parents.

Either way, I'm a grad student, so I get paid an okay amount for the vague promise of maybe getting the chance of getting to breathe next to tenure one day.

I figured, but I felt like using Lazuli's post as a soapbox for my own little political ranting.

Sorry. >_<

Salix Babylonika · 2013-02-26 06:20:50

Central Avenue said:

spinor said:
Actually, it's called a stipend. Except I think the laptop was actually paid for by my parents.

Either way, I'm a grad student, so I get paid an okay amount for the vague promise of maybe getting the chance of getting to breathe next to tenure one day.
I figured, but I felt like using Lazuli's post as a soapbox for my own little political ranting.

Sorry. >_<

That'll be a $12 soapboxing fee, ma'm.

Else we'll have to haul you off to Internet Prison.

lee4hmz · 2013-02-26 13:16:44

I spent about $1000 for my lappy, but I specifically wanted a desktop-replacement with a huge, full-HD screen.

Viani · 2013-02-26 15:08:00

how do you people have this much money

gambling

Fossilmaiden · 2013-02-26 15:09:26

Previous Calica · 2013-02-26 16:26:59

lee4hmz said:
I spent about $1000 for my lappy, but I specifically wanted a desktop-replacement with a huge, full-HD screen.

Yeah, this laptop has a 1080p screen and 8GB RAM.

Obā-san · 2013-02-26 16:39:44

(*copious drool*)

Viani · 2013-02-26 16:40:30

dear lord

glennmagusharvey · 2013-02-26 18:52:50

> laptop with 1080p screen

How is this even portable

Fossilmaiden · 2013-02-26 18:57:08

Quite easily?

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-26 19:06:12

glennmagusharvey said:
> laptop with 1080p screen

How is this even portable

Those tiny little new iPhone screens are something like 720p now

Previous Calica · 2013-02-26 19:10:18

Man, the next Nexus 7 is probably going to be 1080p* and that fits in people's pockets.

This laptop is something like sixteen inches diagonal, I think. It's big enough that I rarely leave with it on a day-to-day basis, but small enough I can take it to, e.g., Buttercup's house.

*Actually, I've heard 1920x1200, which is 1080p** plus a little bit of extra room for controls and such.

**Also, "1080p" for 1920x1080 is a bit of an abuse of notation, but everybody uses it, so it doesn't really matter.

Princess Alice · 2013-02-26 19:17:33

spinor said:
Man, the next Nexus 7 is probably going to be 1080p*

dammit

i guess i deserve this for being an early adopter, but stil

glennmagusharvey · 2013-02-26 19:18:46

Oh they just stuff more pixels into a given screen size. I figured a 1080p laptop widescreen would be like 17 inches in diameter diagonal, and the computer would be like ten pounds or heavier.

Hexartes · 2013-02-26 19:18:55

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HIT POINTS

Princess Alice · 2013-02-26 19:23:19

...how do you have the "diameter" of a rectangle?

I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking your phrasing but I'm actually not sure which dimension you're referring to. The width? A diagonal measurement?

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-26 19:26:27

I just finished with a 1.5 hour intensive lecture on circles and their relationships to triangles and other shapes in advanced geometry today and now this

brain short-circuit: imminent

glennmagusharvey · 2013-02-26 19:27:22

Sorry, I meant diagonal.

Previous Calica · 2013-02-26 19:29:01

In terms of screen sizes it's usually the diagonal measurement, by tradition. And actually I was wrong, my screen size is 17.3 inches, apparently, and the laptop itself is seven pounds.

But there's nothing that says a 1080p screen has to be a certain screen size.

Princess Alice · 2013-02-26 19:57:44

I knew screen sizes are usually reported by the diagonal--though I always found this stupid--but "diameter" threw me off. Maybe I'm just having a derpy moment.

My laptop has a 15.6" screen. I don't think I'd want one any larger than that, really, though a bit more resolution would certainly be welcome.

Viani · 2013-02-26 20:00:43

Are 32GB RAM computers in existence yet?

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-26 20:23:01

Viani said:
Are 32GB RAM computers in existence yet?

yep

Princess Alice · 2013-02-26 20:26:13

Man, I remember when 32 MB was considered an impressive amount...

Anonus · 2013-02-26 20:28:38

Kexruct said:
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HIT POINTS

But what of the formidable knowledge of Timed Hits :P

Tre · 2013-02-26 20:30:54

Kex, if it makes you feel better, I'd talk about hit points, but the games I play tend to not actually, y'know, use them. If it's not a one-hit-kill like Rayman Origins, it's a educated estimate of how much red/blood/black and white's on the screen, like Mirror's Edge.

Dead Space's system is pretty cool though, since you can directly see how beat up Isaac is just by looking at his gear. I'm probably never gonna play the games cuz I'm a pussy, but still.

Justice4243 · 2013-02-27 13:09:30

My latest Laptop (supposedly ultrabook, but it's rather large) was over $1000,

But it is as thin as can be with something that plays blu-rays (also burns DVDs, CDs), has 1080p, blue-tooth, 8GB ram, a solid state hard drive, and touch screen.

It's almost the same specs as my gamming Laptop, but that has a graphics card and slightly faster processor (with less cores).

Princess Alice · 2013-02-27 13:27:30

CHECK OUT MY MAD LAPTOP SPECS

Processor: 2 GHz Pentium Dual-Core

RAM: 3 GB

Hard drive: 250 GB

Wireless: 802.11g

Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium (x86) and Xubuntu 12.10 (x64)

Battery: I dunno but whatever it is it only charges to 53% now

Fully functional USB ports: 1

USB ports that work when they feel like it: 2

Princess Alice · 2013-02-27 13:49:43

also the fan does this thing where it'll run (loudly) at maximum speed for like a minute straight for no apparent reason after i log in...no matter which operating system i'm using

glennmagusharvey · 2013-02-27 13:55:03

My parents have this older laptop that has this weird habit of the fan turning on, then off, then on, then off.

No, I'm nowhere near it right now. No, I don't know what causes it. No, it doesn't do it all the time.

...wait, Centie, you dual-boot?

Imipolex G · 2013-02-27 14:29:43

Malfunctioning fan was, as I recall, an early indicator that one of my earlier laptops was about to kick it.

Fossilmaiden · 2013-02-27 14:45:08

My last laptop decided not to give any indicator, it just spontaneously decided to give up the ghost. That laptop was kind of a jerk.

lee4hmz · 2013-02-27 15:13:25

I actually got rid of one of my older laptops (a castoff from work, as with some of the others) because it would freeze solid after being left on for a few minutes, no matter what the OS. It was an older ThinkPad with a floppy drive built in (totally rad), but between it constantly freezing and the fact that its screen was only 800x600 (in a world where most programs look at you like you have two heads if you have anything less than 1024x768), out it went.

Corporal Forsythe · 2013-02-27 16:50:01

definitely a heat issue there

probably just a dust buildup inside

glennmagusharvey · 2013-02-27 19:19:37

My laptop's fan broke once. Thankfully it was still under warranty at the time.

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