Recent content by Encolpius

Ever since I was a young man, I've played the silver ball. Apart from the period between ages 12 and 27 when I stopped going to arcades on holiday and discovered The Pinball Arcade on Steam respectively. And now I've got into it a bit heavily. Whenever I go anywhere, out comes my phone and onto...

Hello peoples. Not posted here for months. Looking for new job and all that codswallop because my current one's looking unstable. As an aside, if anyone knows of anyone or anywhere who wants to hire a moderately experienced property litigation solicitor, PM me. I'm single, own no property and...

Because the utter idiocy, jobsworthism, and stupidity of modern life really does make you want to lash everyone you encounter with sarcasm and shout, "WHAT IN THE NAME OF SANITY" at them. Like for instance, today, the bloke delivering the stationery to our firm just dumped it outside the door...

This is a problem that I've had for a while now but haven't really noticed since I very rarely use it as most of my stuff is downloaded. However I've still got a few items that require the disc in to run. Basically, when it's idling, it vibrates against the case unless I put a few objects on...

So what is it then? Is is Barbara Markay, with "Give Your (Richard) To Me," The Reynolds Girls with "I'd Rather Jack," Father Ted and "My Lovely Horse," or maybe Shira ft. Asco with "Pound On My Muffin." Unless of course it's Komar & Melamid with "The Most Wanted Song."

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Well, I've spent too long over the past 18 months on my backside (a state of affairs for which the Fat Cow below is partly responsible, alas) and as such am now a bit of a Fat (deleted). Accordingly, I have decided to attempt the Swimathon again next year in April. Basically, it's a 5-kilometre...

Good evening. Which games are, in people here's opinion, the most terrifying of all time? Well, I'm going to nominate the 1990s pointy-clicky number "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream", based on the short story by Harlan Ellison and co-written by him. No jump scares, but old-fashioned mind...

Here's a trainwreck from Coolermaster (who have many uglies under their belt). It's a total mess because it's actually very large and bulky (full ATX sized).

PC cases nowadays, especially the so-called "gaming" cases, are BUTT UGLY. Seriously. What with being way too wide, LED fans (why oh why oh why), front plates that look like tank treads, belt-hitching names, and other tacticool nonsense. What's wrong with "less is more" and all that. Sorry...

On a side note, I bet he gets all borsant if you say that to him in real life.

So, build is below. Thing is, next year we'll start seeing PS4 / XBoner stuff come out and probably a bump in system requirements. All things considered, how much life is left in my system, do people think, especially considering I'm hoping to be able to play The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 on...

Well, when I turned the Fat Cow on this evening for the first 2-3 minutes there was a bit of a grinding noise coming from the PSU. However it wasn't causing any smoke or burning and the air was being let out just fine, although the intake fan on the lower left side was very dusty. Temperatures...

Well, I think it's time I did. However, I have a 1 TB hard drive and I have filled it up with over 550GB worth of gear. Given that most affordable SSDs only go up to 480GB, how am I going to do this without having to basically wipe loads of stuff? In an ideal world I'd splash out five hundred...

Hello, What do people reckon is the best game, ever, of all time, on the PC, and why? For me, it's a two way tie between Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Baldur's Gate II. The former because of its hard science fiction setting, finely balanced and intensely strategic gameplay, ladle-loads of...