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    light gaming, web surfing, streaming movies

    From the sticky: 1. Gaming (Civ 5, League of Legends, small amounts of Skyrim), Streaming Netflix/Amazon... nothing too heavy 2. ~$1K 3. USA 4. Intel, EVGA, ASUS 6. Monitor, Windows 7 Ultimate OS, Keyboard, Mouse, Headset 7. Default Speeds for now, might undervolt/underclock. 8...
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    Bastion Dev's new Game: Transistor

    SuperGiant Games said its going to be released in 2014... News release: http://supergiantgames.com/ Youtube Reveal Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTik6sYT_BE Bastion was one of the best games of 2011 for me in terms of emotion, so I am looking forward to this game.
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    THQ files for bankruptcy

    http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/19/thq-bankruptcy-sale/ Press Release So the second company will own all of THQ assets including the 4 studios? I hope everything works out for the best, after the Humble Bundle sale, I thought they would be a little more secure.
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    M.O.R.E. - Old School Turn Based 4X Space Game

    Similar to Master of Orion 2, Gal Civ, Pax Imperia, etc. I am a big fan of MoO2 so I just pledged yesterday, I hope its good. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1447560584/more-oldschool-turn-based-4x-space-strategy-game Unfortunately, it hasn't received much media coverage and its not...
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    YAJT - Job advice

    My current situtation: I have been working as a contractor at a internet company in the analytics department for 12 months now, with my contract ending in 6 months. My manager here was my manager indirectly at my previous company, also in analytics department at a financial company, but I...
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    Suggestions for this build...

    CPU: Core i7 920 Mobo: eVGA x58 3-way SLI Video: eVGA GTX260 Superclocked x 2 RAM: Corsair 6GB Dominator DDR3 (1600Mhz) PSU: PC Power and Cooling 750W SLI Certified Case: ??? Hard Drive: ??? Optical Drive: ??? Sound: ??? - built in? So far the price is around $1,100 +/- $100 and I...
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    Total Loss on a Salvage Title Car

    Here is the story so far: My parked Civic with a salvage title was hit by another car. The driver of the other car has accepted liability already and my insurance company did an estimate on the cost to fix... The amount it costs to fix it is already greater than the value of the car...
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    Job Advice

    So far, I was trying to move to another department for career growth and to learn new skills. However, it seems like my current department is trying to delay the transfer by going to the senior manager for both departments (we work very close with the other department, headed by the same...
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    JAVA or .NET

    So my cousin in India is doing a project for his college degree and he wants to know what language to focus on, .Net or Java. He plans on coming to America later on for work and needs to know which one American companies prefer. I checked job sites and it looks like different companies...
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    Accident Advice

    Here is what happened today at the local BART parking lot... I was coming home from the train, and I pull out and I run into a silver volkswagon and bust up my rear left bumper. The reason I hit it is because it is outside of my field of vision and the car is parked (illegally) in the drive...
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    Help me judge this build?

    I have these things on a temporary wishlist at Newegg... Lian Li PC-61 Black Case Asus A8n-SLI Premium Mobo eVGA 7900 GTX 512 MB Video Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego CPU OCZ 2GB PC3200 Unbuffered Dual Channel Memory Seasonic S12-600 PSU Zalman CNPS9500 Fan/Heatsink Creative Inspire T5400...
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    Job raise question

    Okay, I have been working at my current job since October of last year... I started out with a really low salary (around 50K). I have been doing a really good job and I just recently got a promotion and a 10% raise. My boss primarily gave it to me because he feared I was looking for...