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This is... this is... this is awful.

With calls like this, I usually just say something like "Really? Yeah, I thought it was acting funny. Hold on a second... I've gotta find my wallet." Then I put the call on hold, go back to what I was doing, and wait and see how long it takes for the hold light on the phone to go out. So far the record is about twenty-eight minutes.

MAKE THE CICADAS STOP WITH THE BUZZING.

From my town, a little Bad Moon Risin':

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Thanks for the heads-up! Fixed.

Sonic 2006. "It's no use!"

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The little town of Haven is flying the black flag of mourning for Ryan Davis. The newly-opened Davis Memorial Park offers a chance for quiet contemplation.

In brighter news, Haven features every fruit known to animal science, with the singular exception of the wily persimmon. Visit its thriving shopping district, dance the night away in Club Lol, and have a soothing cup of coffee at the café. And don't forget to swing by Re-Tail, where you may even see some stunning fossil fragments awaiting good homes.

Rumors of mayoral graft and corruption, and a thriving black market in shipping exotic bugs to the far corners of the world for use as aphrodisiacs, are all terrible lies. The mayoral mansion was financed entirely through legitimate and ethical business ventures.

Please note that the possession, use, advocacy, aiding, abetting, inciting, or conscious thought of DOTA within city limits is strictly prohibited.

@kidavenger:

So, if someone new comes to a videogame website forum during the biggest videogame news cycle of the year, and they appear to be expressing a strong set of opinions about videogames, call them out. Got it. :)

What about enjoyably painful Gamespot memories? Do I get to check both boxes, or do I have to throw out the card and finish my drink?

This is true. With modern hard drives and controller cards, it doesn't have as much of an effect as it used to; but on most hardware you'll get significantly better results -- both a better recording, and (potentially) smoother gameplay -- if you have a separate hard drive dedicated to recording. Most modern games read data from the disk (textures, etc.) as you play. If the game and the recording are on the same drive, then the drive's read/write head has to go back and forth between "move to the game files and read the data the game needs" and "move to the free space and write the recording"; that can introduce random delays into both the game and the recording. If the recording is on a separate drive of its own, then the game's hard drive can act just like it would if there was no recording, and the recording hard drive can continuously write the recording data.

In fact, there are a few folks who will tell you that you should spend the extra $30 and get a separate SATA controller card just to hook the recording hard drive to; but with modern onboard SATA controllers (at least on medium-to-high-end motherboards), I think that's going too far at this point.