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I use IPT as a main site now and RevoTT as a backup. Between the two of them, I've never failed to find what I wanted. @wamphyr, remember that the MAFIAA is quite active in spying on public trackers. Private trackers are a bit less risky.

For Windows 8, if you dislike the Start Screen but want to retain the ability to run Metro apps if required:Pokki. It's a Start Menu with some sort of App Store built in. Even if you ignore the apps entirely, it's a really decent start menu replacement. My only complaint about it is the lack...

On a somewhat related note, the lightning to 30 pin connector doesn't allow you to control the iPhone as an audio source. What the fuck? Edit: Never mind. It's because the lightning connector is chipped and the old devices (like my clock radio) aren't capable of authenticating to the phone...

In layman's terms, you are mostly wrong. Fearmongering is bad. Also, haven't we rehashed this to death? As long as The Sleeper doesn't use this kind of nonsense, life is good, right?

Okay, seriously, enough. You're being ridiculous. All I have to do is install cygwin and I have the same thing you have. Please, tell me that's not good enough -- then we can move on to how Apple owners (including myself) defend the need to jailbreak their iOS devices to make them similar to...

My bad. My attempt was weak, though, so they paid no attention to it. Pass the popcorn?

Should be able to, a client is a client as long as it's the right version, no?

Stop feeding the rustled jimmies, Bragon. Seriously.

Unfortunately, it doesn't need access to any command prompts or controls to do damage. IIRC, it has a few routines in it that allow it to do the following: 1. See the processes in the process list that could be seen by the user loading the DLL. If you aren't running EQ as an administrator...

Yeah, they aren't for gaming. You could probably game on a fully specced Mac Pro without much trouble, but you'd have to be made of money.

Oh, yeah. I turned UAC off. Don't know if people who are having Steam issues have done this.

IPT if someone has an invite for you.

Pokki confirmed awesome. I might just use this everywhere.

I've never had a problem with Steam in Win8, so, yeah, not sure what's up with that. Might be an order of installation that I just happened to do, or absence of .NET x.y.z that I just happen to have, or whatever.

Nah, I'm referring to the wanton comparison of EQ's numbers in its best years to the startup numbers and subsequent dropoffs of a bunch of other MMOs. You can't say "oh, EQ did 400,000 users and stayed level for x years" in the same sentence as "RIFT did x" and "TERA did y" and "AsianMMO_006 did...

Excellent. Looking forward to it.

I'm referring to the forum post(s), which were definitely not done by Rogean.

Same, PS2 doesn't crash for me. Might be a driver or DirectX thing, that's fairly common.

I have a couple of friends who have a 3D TV, and every time I ask them what's so great about it, they find some way to change the subject. I've never heard a good thing beyond "hey, Avatar looks incredible in 3D".

That was more timing and happenstance than anything else, though. EQ wouldn't make those numbers in today's world. You can't go back nearly 15 years, to a world without any real staple MMO, and say "hey, but it did really well" without taking that into account. You really think that if you took...

I don't even get this statement. Windows 8 IS Windows 7 with a few different bugs and a start screen instead of a menu. Why do people keep making mountains out of mole hills?

I think I'm gonna give this place a go after all, just to see how it evolves. Kegz, do you guys have a git repository or something where people can submit code? I threw together a few patches back when I was running a server that haven't made it into EQemu, and I wouldn't mind seeing them put...

By the way... the above statement makes no sense whatsoever.

I'd link you to the FOH P99 post that mentioned the DLL waaaay back, but I can't as it's gone. The only reason their DLL is likely illegal is the lack of full disclosure on their part. Once some of us figured out what it was capable of doing (by looking at the strings in the DLL, before it...

Thunderbolt != Lightning. Different connector.

I can't help but think that OP is the greatest troll ever for setting this thread in motion. Well played.

Why would it have anything to do with any server other than P99? Anyway, he was running SEQ while playing on P99, which he readily admitted to on their forums. He got caught and banned. The end. The purpose of the DLL was posted on the P99 forums almost immediately after it was discovered...

Uh. We all knew what that DLL did from day one. But nice try there!

For the record, if I could do so, I'd replace this Alienware with a Macbook anyday. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a gaming desktop replacement Macbook.

Yeah, I mean, that was kinda a tongue-in-cheek statement from me in the first place. I've never lost a laptop that way, but the second I do, you can bet I'll be heaping praise on MagSafe as well.

Fair enough. That's my own preference and situation talking. I use GbE at home, but most people probably don't care about that either.

My wife and I use our Panasonic plasma for gaming quite often, and we haven't caused any damage to the thing after years of playing games with HUDs and whatnot for hours and hours at a time. I mean, I wouldn't leave the thing on for days with a fixed HUD, but hours is definitely not an issue.

I... can't agree with you. They are comparable on many fronts. The items you listed may not match off tit-for-tat, but a lot of what you mentioned also falls into the category of "most people don't care": - Retina screen. Most people are fine with 1366 x 768. - SSDs are great and all, but...

Ouch. FW wins this round, and I get to retract my statement above, because that's 3 times the price for very little (if any) difference.

I would love to know where this "twice as much" thing comes from. So, you'd go spec out a Macbook and tell me that that Macbook should be literally half the price you specced it at? What are you using as a comparison?

Agreed, which is why I mentioned that there isn't as much bullshit to wade through on a Mac site / in a bunch of Mac torrents. If there were as many OSX users as there are Windows users, though, that would change. People want "choice", whatever that means, because in the end, competing...

Yes, you're generally right about the torrents. Doesn't mean there aren't any, just that there aren't as many, but we already knew that -- there are only a fraction as many Mac users as "PC" users, and not as much software. It follows that there won't be as many torrents. There also isn't as...

No one can argue very effectively that buying Apple hasn't always been more expensive, on average, than buying elsewhere. It's true, they are more expensive, in general. You need only look at their Black Friday "deals" to see how much of a niche market they serve. Yes, there will be notable...

This is actually pretty much the only thing stopping me from saying "hey, I think I'll try to play here", and "hey, I have a fair amount of experience with eqemu, I might want to offer to help those devs". I don't trust Toop for an instant. Anyone who watched him burn out on P99 should have as...