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Replaying Dead Space, the game still looks amazing! Visceral really was ahead of its time. Two more achievements to go!

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Unexpected

You know what is better than achievements? Unexpected achievements. The ones that pop up out of nowhere while you are just playing a game, minding your own beezwax.


More or less the same thing happened to me while installing a new game on my PC. After the installation was done,  the game suggested therecommended settings of my max resolution of 1650*1050 with no AA. Out of habit I have been gaming at a resolution of 1280*1024 with 2xAA, because that used to work for me in most every game without ahving to spend too much time tweaking in the video-options menu. Needless to say this was an unexpected and really nice surprise. It's funny how easily you can get stuck in your habits.

So I immediately fired up all the games I had installed on my harddrive and changed the settings to max 1650*1050 and boy does WoW look nice and crisp. No AA needed if you ask me as there were almost no jaggies to be seen due to the high resolution.

But the cooleste part of my rig is that the two key components came from my best friends back home in Suriname and my Girlfriend. When I turned 30 last year my girlfriend surprised me with this great samsung 2032BW lcd-screen. Dunno how big it exaclty is, but it's more than enough for me. And the videocard came from my friends back home in Suriname, when I was there for the summer. I brought them a couple of games and after my stay of 3 months, they rushed over to my house on the day of my departure to present me with an Nvidia 8800gts. Considering that I was still on an agp videocard, you could say that I was extremely happy with it and still am. 

So above all else I am gratfeull for all these awesome and fulfilling relationships in my life. And the crisp graphics remind me of this every day. :) 

Compared to my ex-girlfriend my current girlfriend is a Godsend. My ex used to scoff at me collecting stuff and made fun of me when I got excited about certain new releases, saying: it's all pixels anyways. My current girlfriend surprised me with a copy of Shadow of the Colossus form her first paycheck! She actually remembered that I really wanted that game. And although she isn't really a gamer, she now has the gaming knowledge to see that Peggle isn't really a game. (Can you control the ball? No? So there is no skill linvolved? What a stupid game) And when my savings were a little short to buy a Wii at launch, she chipped so I could still get it.

Big difference compared to my ex. 5 years and still going strong! And to my friends back in Suriname...friends for life!
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