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It’s darn near impossible to come up with something new and fresh these days in the way of TV programming.  After about 55+ years of TV viewing, there’s very little I haven’t seen before on network TV.
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So you’re saying Shatner makes a poor Archie Bunker?  I can’t argue with that 🙂

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I think so far the pilot of $#*! My Dad Says was the weakest episode. 

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Looks like Chuck and Chase are locked in for the season also:

http://www.nbc.com/news/2010/10/19/nbc-orders-full-season-pickups-for-new-drama-chase-and-for-returning-chuck/

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Settlers is  a good game.  Lots of interaction since you need to trade resources with other players to get what you need.

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I’ve never seen or played a GM-less RPG.  IMO, the simpler the rules, the more important it is for the GM to have control of the situation and being willing and able to adjudicate all of the oddball situations that come up.  IMO pretty much any rule system can be fun and engaging with the right GM.  It’s all about how well they can lay out the scenarios and often good storytelling is the key.

OK, that said, have you looked at the “How To Host A Murder” games?  I think those fit most of your requirements, but I’ve never played one.  As I understand it they’re basically canned mysteries and each player is given certain clues and they need to discuss things with other players to put the clues together and solve the mystery.

There are also some co-op boardgames out there if you haven’t tried them.  They tend to be light on the role-playing aspect but require coordination between the players to beat the board.  I haven’t played the D&D board game (nothing recent anyway) so I can’t say how good that is, but some others that I’ve played are Shadows Over Camelot, Arkham Horror, and Pandemic.  They might be worth looking into.

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If only these could be used as extenders then I’d be one happy geek also 🙂

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I can’t say I’ve seen anything like this, but one issue I ran into when upgrading a video card a couple years ago is that if you have an older motherboard you may need a BIOS update to support newer graphics cards, so check your motherboard’s compatibility list.

In my case, video that had hardware accelerated decoding would cause the player to crash.  (I was moving from and nVidia 6600 to an ATI 4670 FWIW.)

I haven’t seen motherboard compatibility discussed much with relation to graphics cards, so it might just be an issue with my particular VIA chipset.

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[quote=”shadymg”]
wtf is Terriers about?
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You know, about halfway through the episode I was still asking that question 🙂

There isn’t a lot of explanation about what’s going on up-front.  You see the characters do something and think “wtf?” then later it gets explained, at least somewhat.  It’s certainly more entertaining than having the pilot be the “how we got here” story, but it’s confusing at times.  I assume they’ll continue telling the back story as they go.

I guess these two guys are supposed to be unlicensed private investigators (I got that from the web site, though they do call themselves that at one point during the episode but at the time it’s not clear if it’s supposed to be their focus or if it’s like the unemployed IT guy calling himself a “consultant” until he lands a new job.  The main premise seems to be these two small-time “investigators” run afoul of a powerful criminal and interesting situations should ensue.

We’ll see where it goes form here, anyway.

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I watched Terriers last night and have to say it was better than I expected.  The name sounds like it belongs on Animal Planet, and I was on the fence after seeing the previews, but I found myself getting into it.   I think it has potential.

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Personally, I never pay too much attention to the unboxing portion of a review anyway.  99.99% of the time it really doesn’t matter to me how the thing is packaged.  I’m more interested in the product itself.

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[quote=”autoboy”]
The fact that it will run on iphone hardware makes it easy to build apps for it in the itunes store.
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I haven’t seen anything that indicates you’ll be able to run apps on it.  Engadget seems to think that’s not a feature: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/01/appletv-vs-the-competition-how-does-it-stack-up/

If it could run apps I would probably give it a try just to see what it can do.  Their $.99 TV show rental fee will never fly in my house (maybe if it had the capability to download and store them).  Good luck getting Hulu or any of the network sites on it.

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[quote=”Skirge01″]
To be fair, the fastload and super snapshot cartridges did allow for shortcuts to be used, so if you had one of those, you may have pressed a two key combo in order for it to type out LOAD “*”,8,1 for your lazy arse.  😉  I had super snapshot personally and remember typing $ to see the directory of disks, rather than LOAD “$”,8.  I wouldn’t have remembered that stuff had I not watched that video I linked to.  BTW, if you didn’t watch it through to the end, you missed the funniest parts, as the guy gets ticked off at himself and the Commodore keyboard layout!
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OK, I went and watched the video.  It starts kind of slow but the end is funny.  He’s cheating and using an emulator, though, which is probably why he as so much trouble with the keyboard.

Ah, the poke command.  I used to have the memory map memorized.

I had a quick load cartridge back in the day also.  I soldered a reset switch into it so I wouldn’t fry the computer shorting pins on the back with a paper clip any more (yes, I used to do that.  It worked great the first 20 times, but that last one…)

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[quote=”shadymg”]
you guys are showing your age…i used the C64 a ton but i don’t remember any of those special keys 😛 guess i was too busy using the joystick 🙂
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I guess it would really show my age if I told you that I wrote most of my papers in college on a C64 then 🙂   

Of course I also played Gunship when I should have been studying for finals 😉

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Pretty cool, but I think the keyboard layout will be  a problem for most users (Where’s the key?)  Of course, the press release doesn’t mention the OS, but connecting a mouse to a C64 would just feel wrong.

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[quote=”Matt”]
To sucessfully pass the Digital Cable Advisor tool aren’t you required to have 4GB of RAM?
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I believe the items on that page are recommendations and not requirements.

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