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Heh, Wiccan. My parents are Wiccans, and I have to say it's a pretty awesome religion.

Also, neo-druids (based on the ones I've met, anyway) are a joke. I don't care who you are, you don't get to call yourself the 708th reincarnation of Arthur Pendragon. Nor his adoptive father Uther (I'm so sick of people saying Uther was Arthur's dad. If you're going to call yourself a legendary pseudo-mythological figure, at least get his relationships with other legendary pseudo-mythological figures right).

Also, I consider myself agnostic with leanings towards Wiccan and Buddhist philosophies (apparently they can coexist), and a touch of existentialism (creating meaning for yourself - it may be the work of a diety, it may not; ignoring the more ridiculous parts of existentialism, such as asserting you are a bird suddenly makes you a bird).

Granted, you can speak Germany. That's the only word you can say for the rest of your life.

I wish I had put a wish here.

(Not picking on your spelling, IWM, just makes it easier to corrupt)

Damn, Deon, that's some cool shit right there. I seriously wish I had your texturing skill.

Most of my textures are just Blender procedurals...

Wow, this topic is 7th in the top ten topics by number of replies, and THIRD by number of views.

Way to go, Heavy Flak! 

RAM should make the game load/save/start faster, but as for actual FPS increase, it's not going to make a huge difference.

What's worse about this whole thing is that America seems to want to take the rest of the world down with them. They propped up AIG, an insurance group, when Lehman, a large accredited bank, was also flagging. Lehman had huge amounts of foreign investment. I'm sure you don't need to be an economics major to figure it out.

Even here in Australia we're feeling the crunch of the American collapse. Unfortuntely, our completely fucking stupid previous government refused to completely withdraw their economic investments from the American market and move them wholesale to the Asian market. If we had, we'd be somewhere up with Canada right about now. Unfortunately, America's about to crash and it looks like we might only just make it by clinging to the Asian market with two fingers.

Well, it's not as great as some of the rigs on here, but here goes:

Windows Vista Business/SuSE Linux 11.0 (dual-boot).

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM (2 separate sticks, because I'm building piecemeal at the moment)
Gigabyte 8400GS (will soon be an 8800GT of some kind; probably 1GB)
320GB SATA II hard drive
70GB IDE drive (in external caddy)

I bought it with 2GB of RAM and no OS for only AUD$625 (including postage and handling), and got a legitimate copy of Vista for free. The Linux install is because I liked SuSE 10.1, and I'm learning Lunix as part of my studies next month, so I figure it would be good to have. When I loaded up 11.0, I was absolutely gobsmacked; it's really improved significantly over 10.1. Also, Compiz rocks.

Runs Crysis beautifully at low settings, has a few issues in heavy combat at medium. Also, no overclocking, because the case fan in this makes noise at the moment, so I'm going to replace it with a 120mm on the side.

Also, anyone got some ideas of the overclocking potential on an E6600 without a considerable increase in core temp?