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#1  Edited By Colonel_Cool

I bought Max Payne 1 and 2 on Steam a couple weeks ago when it was on sale. I want to play the game in a 4:3 resolution, but it just gets stretched across my 16:10 screen and it looks terrible. I want the black bars on the side, which works for older games on my laptop. I have an ATI 4870, and I can't seem to find a way to use the correct aspect ratio ANYWHERE in the Catalyst Control Center. Can anyone help me out?

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#3  Edited By Colonel_Cool

At school I use my laptop, but at home I primarily use my desktop.

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#4  Edited By Colonel_Cool
@ryanwho said:
" @HaltIamReptar said:
" The Internet gets more and more hostile every day. "
Actually celebrities have been game since the inception of celebrity. Only difference is now thinned skinned peasants won't even allow the richest people on earth take a few friendly jabs. Really, you fools are about a stone's throw away from the assholes who defend superrich lobbyists. Its kinda sad. You can't even make fun of the most well off people on earth anymore without someone jumping down your ass. I have to wonder what the fuck happened. "
You're the thin-skinned peasant my friend. Even in the land of opportunity, the amount of money you make isn't necessarily proportional to how hard you work. Life isn't fair, and some professions pay much more than others. Get over it.
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#5  Edited By Colonel_Cool
@Rayfield said:
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Vanity Fair just ran an article detailing the highest paid actors/directors in 2010 and it's harrowing. Acting is one of easiest jobs on the planet and these people made in 12 months more money that you or I would see even if we lived to be 1,000 years old. 
 
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Really? That's like saying a professional pianist has an easy job because all he basically has to do is press buttons. When you take into account what an actor has to do to memorize his part in the script, study, analyze and develop his character, balance his performance against other actors, etc, acting is really quite complicated. Actors can even add their own personal touches to their characters; they don't always just recite the script verbatim. They often improvise, and can really add a lot of extra depth that wasn't originally written in. Not to mention that during filming, everyone works long hours and has to go through tedious makeup, travel, multiple takes, etc. It's exhausting work.
 
And the money big actors make is pretty fair if you think about it. Movies make millions and millions of dollars. Is it fair for actors, whose performances and name recognition (which is mainly built on awards and stuff) help define and promote the movie, to scrape by with an average person's salary? They are the ones who help sell it, and if they can't get their share in the millions of dollars their movies make, then they are really getting unfairly treated.
 
Take the movie Dinner for Schmucks for example. It was a bad, unfunny movie. It took in a gross amount of about $73 million in the box office. Without Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis, it would have been seen in the trailers as just another bad, unfunny comedy movie with no recognizable actors. However, Carell's and Galifianakis' reputations from The Office, 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Hangover, etc are the biggest things promoting the movie. So why shouldn't they get their fair share of that $73 million when such a significant amount of that income can be attributed to them?
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#6  Edited By Colonel_Cool

Lord of the Rings is pretty good.

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#7  Edited By Colonel_Cool

...It's like Minecraft in real life.

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#8  Edited By Colonel_Cool

I remember playing this a few years back. It's very dated now, and the level design is pretty horrible. However the game's storyline, told entirely through reading computer logs, is absolutely fascinating and really adds to the atmosphere. It's intelligent, mysterious, and thoroughly intimidating. Durandal in particular is one crazy motherfucker. He's a rampant computer AI hell-bent on finding ancient alien technology to prevent the eventual collapse of the universe so he can become a god. He is by far the highlight of the series, and his insanity puts Shodan to shame. It's also great to see in retrospect its influences on Halo and System Shock. Technology limitations considered, Marathon is some of the best sci-fi I've seen in games.

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#10  Edited By Colonel_Cool
@cgoodno said:
" @Colonel_Cool said:

" Definitely Watchmen. The monologues especially made me cringe inside. It didn't help that the movie was boring as fuck. "

Which is hillarioius to hear considering the monologues were straight from the graphic novels. 
 

The graphic novels are equally as pretentious.