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Re: Best DOOM 3 Review yet :)

#86259
From: McGrandpa
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:28
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Allan Martin wrote:
> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:WFrRc.6389$va2.1643@fe1.texas.rr.com...
>> Allan Martin wrote:
>>> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:NJbRc.4176$va2.3593@fe1.texas.rr.com...
>>>> Buffalo wrote:
>>>>> "Marshall" <marshall@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:X19Rc.11981$9Y6.9858@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Herbl" <hoyghjwe3@gon.nom> wrote in message
>>>>> news:zP2Rc.34191$gE.22927@pd7tw3no...
>>>>>>> Good honest review :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.afrotechmods.com/groovy/review/d3review/doom3.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I wish I could tell you what the monsters are like in the game,
>>>>>> but despite having killed over 80 of them, I still haven't seen a
>>>>>> single one because it's so fucking dark."
>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> Marsall
>>>>>
>>>>> And:    "Overall, the game is just one big commercial for
>>>>> Maglite." ROTFLAMO
>>>>
>>>> and as a testament to how far iD have come in 10 years;  each saved
>>>> game is bigger than the entire original Doom game :)
>>>
>>>
>>> What's really cool about how far we have come is the fact that I
>>> just paid the same price in year 2004 dollars for 512 Megs of
>>> additional RAM that I paid back in 1983 for 64 Kilobytes.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, you had to remind me of that huh?  In 1987 I bought a 'house
>> clone' 286-12 with 2 megs of chip ram.  6 months later, I took lotsa
>> dollars back to the store and bought another 18  1meg chips to total
>> 4 megs.  I paid more for that 2 megs than I did the one gig of
>> DDR400 in this system right now.  Looking at both receipts and
>> feeling that weirdness right now :o\  Sheesh!  (lets NOT do this
>> with hard drives, ok?  my first was a 20 meg and this one is a 160
>> gig)
>
>
> Yeah, and you had to remind me of that. My first hard drive was 10
> Megs and cost about $1,100.


Ouch!  I saying nuttin!  nuttin at all!  yup!  <wanders off whistling a
forgettable tune>
McG. ;)

>
>>
>> McG.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> McG.
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