Recent content by BOTA:49

I try to stay under the $500 mark any time I upgrade, but I did have a pair of 7900 GTXs a decade ago that were $500 a piece. As awesome as they were they were quickly eclipsed by the 8800 GTX and I felt like it was a waste to spend that much on GPUs at the time. My former GTX 780 Ti was $530...

That....is a terrible analogy. Transportation of any sort is practically a requirement these days. Having a high end GPU is not. There's no point in even attempting to discuss this with you judging by your posts, so I won't bother anymore. A) I never claimed to be an expert, B) I actually...

Call bullshit all you want, I was standing right there when it happened. You're grasping at straws to justify why she was fired for something other than price matching something she didn't look into. These policies are in place BEFORE memos are sent in (verify it's the same SKU, verify that...

As someone who worked retail for a number of years (including one of the stores used for pricematching)....bullshit. It's entirely possible that they'll lose their jobs over it. I've seen it happen before over $70 and some change with a TV that ran over $1300 simply because they didn't check...

Duke Nukem Forever and Aliens Colonial Marines. Duke could be had for $5 or so within a few months, and Aliens Colonial Marines could be had for free after a rebate (at NewEgg) about 4 months after release.

While that's true then they probably need to make some adjustments to their rules page. They should also mention that when a co-founder states reddit is “A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it,” that was just their position at the time. The disconnect...

I bought Borderlands 1 and was gifted Borderlands 2 because I refused to buy it. Unless someone gifts it to me again, I'd say not likely :p

Complete opposite for me, mostly because of Pitchford himself. First he claims the community was full of crap when Halo PC came out and had piss poor performance, followed by taking Brothers in Arms and doing whatever the hell they were doing with it with Furious 4, then taking Brothers in Arms...

Thought that for a while myself. Then I played Serious Sam 3, Shadow Warrior, and the remake of Painkiller. I'd LOVE to see Doom come back in the style any of those 3 games did.

I loved it when it came out, and the Custom Edition that allowed some decent modding was awesome, but that was the first time I realized how big of a douchenozzle Randy Pitchford is towards the gaming community. My then AMD 3200+/1GB RAM/9800 Pro had plenty of issues at 1024x768 at the time...

They are still around, but they completely left the enthusiast/home markets. http://www.dfi.com.tw/ Personally I miss Abit for my motherboards. I always had good luck with them. My old Abit AV8 with a 3200+ and BFG 6800 unlocked to a 6800GT was one of the longest lasting systems I ever had.

While I don't own a PS4 and an XBox One my roommate does. The Wii U does have it's faults, but quite honestly I have way more fun with it than I do with the One or 4 (as does my roomie). It's only secondary to my PC. Games that actually make use of the controller in ways that make sense...

My experience was the opposite. In WI I had Time Warner and they threatened to shut me down after using 157GB in a month (back in 2009). Now in CO with Comcast I've regularly gone over 400GB over the last 3 years and haven't heard a peep with faster speeds at the same price. Both of them...

Then to ZipZoomFly, then out of business. While their selection wasn't as good as Newegg, they were generally cheaper if I recall. I can't remember a lot of the companies I bought from back in 1999-2005, but I can remember using that god-awfule Pricewatch site to find some of them. Now it's...

I'm in the opposite boat. IW did great with CoD1, 2, and 4. Treyarch I thought did a great job with WaW (holy crap, 7 years ago already?!) by basically making MW1 set in WWII, and Black Ops was pretty decent with the not often visited Vietnam/Cold War settings. MW2 and MW3 both lost my...