Downloaded Steam tonight and have been having issues opening up some pages (I use Chrome) and playing videos. The connection is all together very slow otherwise. I uninstalled and that did not fix the issue. I reinstalled and things are a bit better but still having some of the issues mentioned above. IIs Steam using all my bandwidth? Is there a fix for this? Thanks, all.
Throwing myself on the mercy of the GB community here--I'm very interested in playing the new Source mod but am new to PC gaming and was unsure about the best way to download it. Is Steam the optimal way to go (I don't have Steam installed) or would it be easier to download the game directly from the site? What 'mirror' should I use to get things going? Pardon my ignorance, but any help (including detailed downloading instructions) would be greatly appreciated.
Spent a part of summer working thru the first three Jack Reacher books by Lee Child. I'm reading his third book right now (Tripwire) and will take a break after this. Having a difficult time getting into Child's writing style. He's functional as a writer but goes into far too much exposition, to the point of explaining directions when Reacher is driving somewhere. He also has a tendency to repeat dialogue which drives me nuts, like every third line ends with someone saying "Right?" or "OK?" in question form. It seems like a small thing (and it is, I guess) but it smacks of lazy writing and makes me a tad batshit.
I wouldn't care about the small stuff if Child was a bit better story teller. All three books amble along slowly, with bursts of action. Reacher himself is pretty enigmatic, although not terribly compelling as a character. My favorite parts of the books are Reacher analyzing a situation and taking care of it in short order. There's not much too him besides the fact he likes coffee and every woman wants to sleep with him. I don't know, i like flawed characters and the dude is almost too perfect of a badass. Kind of dull, at least in the first 3 novels.
Just got done reading Turn Coat, part of the Harry Dredsen series. And now I've started reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi again.
Have you read the entire Scalzi trilogy? I'm interested in plunging into some sci-fi before Cronin's "The Twelve" comes out next month and heard good things about Scalzi. How's the characterization in "Old Man's War." I'd be more interested in the character building stuff than the machinations of war. Not looking for Tom Clancy in space here. Thanks in advance..
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