Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-3547390-20160511221525

Ah, so a bit of light reading. Less than 200 pages, I didn't know they made books that small!

Garrettloader is pretty awesome and makes your life a lot easier without breaking such purity. No, it isn't as pure as loading up the original executable without a wrapper for DirectDraw, but I feel it is still vanilla as it doesn't change any mechanics or add any features. The only thing that effects the actual game is the wrapper, which looks exactly the same as the vanilla game, to me it isn't in the same category as an unofficial patch that messes things up.

The problem with that fishing is that it is an MMO where you get the same thing over and over, there is no rarity or exciting battles. Deep Sea Fishing, it was always fun to go after Great Whites, as you could be spending 10-20 minutes fighting that thing. Unlike the Fishing Hero MMO, there is no health bar and you don't eventually wear down the fish, you just gotta keep fishing until it comes to the surface while ensuring you don't get too much tension. I tend to also like fishing more if I can drive a boat for some reason.

What exactly would you consider serious hardware? I have a desktop with one of the best headsets you can get (Turtle Beach Elite 800, wireless 7.1 with a recharging station and powerful sound; the only weaknesses being its sensitivity, the fragileness of the headset, the charging station being a bit of a pain to connect to, and the hidden microphone not comparing with powerful high quality ones. The actual sound reproduction, the part that matters to me, is absolutely unbeatable, plus the microphone is pretty decent and is at least on par with the one I had before), the fastest Intel (AMD is way too unstable, I almost always see things telling me things won't work with AMD) quad-core processor (I could get more cores, but all the models have a slower clock speed for a single core, which is pretty important to me since most games seem to run on one core), the 4790k. My graphics card is already a GTX 770, so unless I am going for the most recent games I won't have any problems. With this I am getting 16 GB 2400 RAM, pretty much as good as you can go without it being overpriced for little to no benefit. Motherboards don't have too many differences as long as you got the peripherals you need and correct CPU socket. All in all, there isn't too much more I need to worry about in regards to interior hardware (beyond a SSD, which I am waiting for bigger sized models and better stability), if I did increase it I wouldn't get many benefits. At least with peripherals, you can see them, so an improvement will be quite noticeable.

I remember when I was working with tires, the hours were a bit insane. We had to work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and because we had to wait for a call to come in we often would end up twiddling our thumbs for most of the day. That meant the days went by extremely slow. Definitely not fun, nor was it worth it when I was being paid less than minimum wage, only getting $100 a week.