Well, GXC, it's time for you to open that small box in the corner. No, not that one shaped like a wine bottle... that one over there, the rectangular box. The one wrapped in camouflage wrapping paper with a gun belt for a ribbon and a grenade for a bow. Don't worry... they've both been deactivated (they tell me)
Inside the box, wrapped carefully in multicolored gauze pads, is a CD case with your own licensed copy of Half-Life 2 downloaded from Steam for your ease of use. It's the
Gold edition, so it comes with HL2, CS:Source, HL2
eathmatch, HL1:Source, Day of Defeat:Source, strategy guides, a T-shirt, hat, posters, soundtrack CD, and more.
'Course, you'll need a decent internet connection for all that gaming, so look out in the yard on Christmas Day for AT&T to be setting up your own personal T-3 line. What's a T-3? about fifty times the speed of a T-1, which is about 30 times dial-up or anywhere from 3 to 16 times the speed of cable. You've got faster access with higher throughput than most companies out there. Don't use all that bandwidth in one place, eh?
Got the games, got the internet connection... all you need is someone to play. So... your own personal gaming server, guaranteed to have a game up and ready for you to join in 24x7x265. Choc's even given it his blessing, so you know it's got to be good... or maybe it's just the catnip talking again [img]smile.gif[/img]
*ack* Almost forgot... new game, new connection, new server... gotta have a new computer to go with it, don't you? Of course! Alienware is all the rage, so rage on with
this one. It's been tweaked and upgraded a bit, but you shouldn't have any problems putting those two 30-inch LCD displays up, will you?
Hope that will do you this Christmas season... keep 'em locked and loaded
[ 12-20-2004, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]