Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5641163-20150522174501/@comment-5641163-20150524052555

That last paragraph made me laugh out loud. I confess, I do resent my clients sometimes for constantly expecting me to - y'know, leave the house, but since they pay the bills I don't have much choice. And the job is so varied - I never actually said but you probably surmised that I do primarily domestic IT support, fixing family computers and their kids' laptops etc, plus a couple of very small businesses - so I never know what I'm gonna find. Given the choice, I'd stay home all day and night gaming, so this line of work isn't bad; if the phone doesn't ring (and sometimes it doesn't, especially in the summer) then it's almost a bonus to have time to play. Except for those bills...

Starting out with W7. Luck is right. It's mind-blowing how far we've come. I even used Windows 2 once when I was at school. Dear god, it was hideous, and only one computer in the entire place was capable of running it.

Incidentally, I have a tiny utility that checks my e-mail accounts and pops up when they arrive, so it's fairly easy to stay on top of things, hence my speedy responses. Doesn't work in some full-screen games (like Resident Evil Revelations 2 that I've just been playing) so if there's a pause, you'll know why!

Heh, Stardock, my keyboard shortcut app comes from them, and I too once tried customisation of just about everything, but every time a new browser version or Service Pack came along it'd break everything and I'd have to redo it. I used to have different wallpapers as backdrops on all my game folders, which I loved, but they removed that function in 7 and it simply wasn't worth the effort trying to 3rd party it. Closest I have now is an add-on for Firefox that lets me backdrop Google so I don't get blinded by the bright white every time. After they took iGoogle off me, the bastards. :-(

Ha! Your one-finger skills sound familiar to my own early technique. For the longest time I was the same, incredibly fast at being incredibly inefficient! It took a conscious effort to make myself learn to touch-type, something which is actually really easy. You just have to make the decision to type without looking at the keys or moving your hands. Initially you just type garbage, but after a few days you pick it up almost automatically. As mentioned, all those years playing Descent helped a lot, rotation & movement in 6 axes using just the keyboard is no mean feat.

I salute your gaming prowess, whilst knowing I could never compare. I don't have the patience for extreme difficulties, though the same friend I've mentioned a few times always plays on "Insane" or whatever, much to my amusement. Sure, I play Quake et al on Nightmare but more modern stuff would likely just drive me crazy. "Normal" in most cases, "Hard" on games I've finished before, that's my limit. I'll leave the hardcore stuff to pros like you!

One of these days you'll have to get yourself an i7 with 16GB and SSD (oh, and perhaps rob a bank), so you can actually play and render at the same time. You won't know what to do with yourself!

My cat just came in demanding food, which I will now provide. He has such a hard life. ;-)