Timewaster's Guide Archive

Recently I've been getting a lot of questions from my friends about when MB3 comes out, so I finally wandered back to Brandon's blog to find out. While I was there I saw something about MB1 in paperback having a reprinting, and followed an Amazon link. I'm poking around for a bit, and lo and behold, I come across this.

I couldn't believe I didn't find this sooner, it was hilarious and kept me laughing for a good long while. Anyway, my question finally. Was this a co-ordinated effort by the TWGers, or was it sporadic? If it was co-ordinated, why wasn't I notified?

Spoilers for the first and second book.

In the first book my favorite scene is Kelsier's fight with the Inquisitor right before he dies. It was monumentally awesome.

In the WoA my favorite scene is when Vin figures out how to fool atium even though she doesn't have it.

Scenes like that are part of why Brandon is such a cool author.

Yeah, because everyone knows SE absolutely loves newbies.

I'll be doing it again this year. Hopefully I won't quit when I'm three fifths of the way there again. My username over there is FMP.

I don't like her face, but other than that I think it's awesome. That scene was incredibly awesome and gripping, and I'm glad it got selected.

That's funny, because a quick look at the lowest prices on motherboards at Pricewatch shows a good half of them being close to $200. Sure if you want low end you can spend $50, but if you want a computer to last a while....

Oh, and that was mobos ALONE, no memory, no cpu. In stores I haven't seen a decent mobo at under $100. Love to know where your shopping Sprig if you can get a *good* mobo for $50. The ones I investigated at that price had 90 day warrantees.

edit: Incidentally, Dell's 3-year warranty is $170. If you decide to go 2 year, it's less than $70. Both of those are ON SITE. Meaning you dont' have to do anything to get it fixed, jsut call 'em up and wait for 'em to show up.

Newegg has pretty good MB's for around the $70 range from what I've heard. They also have a reputation for excellent customer service. I don't like Pricewatch, they tend to recommend things that are superfluous or outdated, and I haven't had much luck finding what I needed with them.

Sprig, I'm curious, why three gigs instead of four? You could easily get 4 1 gig sticks for only a little more. Are you recommending that because of cooling problems with the sticks being too close to the CPU?

Also, it might be worth it to wait a little and grab a Penryn when they come out, since Intel is pricing them very competitively, they have enormous caches, and they're 45 nm. I'd probably wait some more to see how they do though.

Of course if it were me I'd go close to what Sprig recommended because I have to buy everything myself and I'm a teenager with a crappy budget. I probably wouldn't go with the 6000+ though, but that's because I'm into overclocking and would rather buy a cheaper chip and clock it to the same performance. I wouldn't recommend that though, its easy to destroy things if you don't know what you're doing.

This one really depends, since I am disgusted at the idea of my brother procreating, but only one of them. Out of respect for my sanity however...