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AWA Daily Quest for today (10 ARP): Rent a flick
Just click on the quest itself in the Daily Quest section
Visit the Videos section: https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/Video

I'm not totally sure about this:unsure: but as per my understanding, tomorrow's Daily Quest will also be a 10 ARP one, Courtesy of April Fools Artifact Fixed.(y)

Also not totally sure, but when you do the Steam Quests this week, you can do it without equipping the H`erkow Warrior Script Artifact (adds an additional 1 ARP to Steam Quest) when the 2x ARP Boosters are gonna be activated later this week. We already know that the Boosters don't work with the Twitch Quests anymore because of the Twitch Artifact, and basically I wouldn't wanna take a chance (Technically it should work and shouldn't be an issue as this is not the main Steam Artifact and non upgradable also, but this is AWA🤷‍♂️).

Basically the reason I'm being very cautious is cuz the payout is big if everything works as it's supposed to. Steam Quests 3X , 25 ARP each with Booster = 75+75 = 150 ARP
so how do u receive boosters? cause i don't have them anymore on my daily login
 

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I have the important ones enabled (which is most of them in my rig lol), I bought a clean OEM version of Windows 7 Pro (that I made an upgrade DVD for 10 Pro with), so no third party bloatware gets installed I use just for my rig or for repair jobs when I need ALL the Windows tools that some versions don't come with.
Me I had windows installation it came with the notebook, I just debloated manually all the crap software, then when I had that disk problem, I installed a clean Win10 with a the disk image downloaded from Microsoft website. I had to download all notebook drivers but at the end I have a very clean Os.
Samsung Magician I let run because its only really doing anything it shouldn't while on the Internet , but EVERYTHING does that.

I don't run my Mobo's extra software, just the one that lets me tweak the CPU speed and voltages
I've still installed Samsung Magician but I disabled the autostart. When I need it I open it manually.
I don't care how powerful of a PC you have...I'm running a 24GB 3090...its STILL best practice in my experience to keep your Desktop and Start Menu as clean as humanly possibly ALWAYS.
Yeah better keep it tidy! Sometimes I've my order in the disorder haha I'm trying to keep it more organized now.
Sometimes its worth the convenience, better than extra toolbars or docks/dockers floating over it at least, Windows itself is based more on convenience than resource management in the graphics department, particularly any version above Win 7...and they still haven't fixed the core API that all the basic drawing functions are using for general UI elements (Windows/Dialogs, Buttons, etc.) although they use 'some' custom ones for the Default UI like the Start Menu button and such.
I'm not fan of candy eye stuff and docks, I prefer the classic way.
I switch my UI back to Windows Classic, or as close as I can without using a 3rd party program (although some are actually pretty good), I would have to reinvent the wheel and make it myself because thats me haha. Even with the old functions its still less resource demanding as long as you keep it clean.

Having an animated desktop is just...well 🤦‍♂️
I used to disable all animations and use the classic Ui, no animations no trasparency. Since I have new Win install I kept the standard Ui for the moment. For now I'm ok with it but if I'll need extra power I will disable them again.
Cortana instead is a must to silence :LOL:
I didn't read this during my rant above, but exactly my point and Windows is worse (I shouldn't talk PC here :ROFLMAO:)...I'm sure anyone who ran a slow or older PC/Laptop has seen the wallpaper or even folders on a solid background just 'melt' down the screen as it lagged.

Proof in point right there.

The Start Menu is more that it dynamically creates (now it modifies, which isn't as bad) every single time you click it or change it...I've made my own dynamic menus with icons/color etc. for adding custom commands back at the lower level with the original API used...its not so bad when you do it just to add something since it only needs to be modified that one time or when first creating the menu on program load

During testing big menu's though I noticed the killer resource hog it became after a few times (and yes I was releasing the memory lol), I can't even imagine the Start Menu doing it every single time with program icons that it probably uses the ExtractIcon API for at the lower levels of the code...which is a pretty ugly function IMO, and was simply never done right :LOL:
I don't use Win10 start menu as much as I used in the past with Vista, Xp etc... I've everything I need on the desktop or in a shortcut in the win bar, I use more the search bar to find fast the program I want to start, if I don't have the shortcut ready.

But no, I meant Blue Screen...although the chickens certainly want her dead :ROFLMAO:

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Cool :D I didn't know about the blue screen.
My sister is into cosplay and draws Manga, shes actually extremely talented IMO.
Nice, which cosplay has she made?
Just checking...Witcher is more realistic looking. Its not that you got the game idea wrong, just the wrong game :LOL:
lol I was searching which character I though she was from the Witcher 3, I don't know the game but when I saw the cosplay I though she was her

I've said this quite a few times, but last I read into it there was a Ransomware that nothing could remove, it encrypted all your files on your drive and insisted you pay to have them decrypted...in some cases they actually did decrypt them, in others you just got ripped off and fucked.
Ransomware is very bad, I heard about them.
I can't speak for Quake and Duke Nukem, but when we started this convo I checked DOOM (1993) and it shows controller support on the Steam page, I added them just to have for memory sake really lol.
Now I had a flashback: playing Doom on Sega 32x with the controller, back in time it was so cool to play it on a console but very strange to play with sega controller because Fps were meant to play with kb+mouse on pc. Not very hand to play with a sega mega drive controller.
I still have it the real thing
(not my pics) I have them all boxed sealed for collection

Sorry for the rant fellas...lmao.
It's ok :LOL:
Since there are a few minutes, let's then begin and end the most comprehensive discussion of all cinema that has ever existed.
Thank you all.
Oh nice video I love mute movies!


Playing games is playing games, It's not accumulating hundreds and thousands of them in a virtual library.
Playing games is playing games, not "playing" for days installing third party mods and patches.
So playing old games is more about old memories than about an adequate perception of reality.
Old games will give you absolutely no idea about modern trends, about modern controls, about modern structure of levels, about modern approach to telling the story, about possible activities, (possible) interaction between players, etc-etc-etc, other than run and shoot. A modern player will throw Duke at the fourth level, where all the fun will be running through the same gray dark corridors in search of a red card (Doom is a little better thought out in this regard, it will start to get boring only in the second episode). This is advice of the level that the grass was greener before, rather than any real comparison of what was and what is now. The fact that their community is still alive only says that medicine in the world is now at a fairly decent level.
DbLH3LiX asked a suggestion for easier fps games and I gave him a suggestion, he didn't ask for modern or old games.
They are newer, the majority wasting their time bitching online are younger. That and what I said above are the end of the discussion for me :LOL:

Like I said, I lived it...idfc what some children of the inter-korn who emulated it on a shitty emulator that didn't get the speed right say about it, ken did as well...and agrees. Like I said, one on one without pressure its a different story, reddit is the land of the troll 🤦‍♂️
lol reddit is the land of the troll....so true!
Both SMK and CTR are great games but I prefer a bit more SMK.... btw each time I read CTR my mind reads CRT📺
Yup, text adventures were one of my favourite genres on old 8-bit computers. Zak McCracken was the transition from text adventures to point-and-click, I think.
wow Zak Mckracken, it was my first adventure I used to play it at my daddy's office lol I still have the 3" inch floppy disk somewhere.
 

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part2.. (all replies didn't fit in one post due to character limits)
Never Ending Storyyyyyyyy AaaaAAaaAAaaaaaa from Commodore64


These games teached us english...

Never Ending Story

Artax dies in swaps. cry cry cry. Ohh Atreyuuuu

Incredible Hulk

get mad
bite lip
attttackkkk

I never forget when he gets out of his chair and become hulk

Castle Of Terror

e
w
s
n
ok sw ne
got lost
Great Never Ending Story!! Atreeeyuuuu:ROFLMAO:🐎 Never played it but love that movie!
Those text games were so cool because they stimulate our imagination as when we read a book. With only text games we had the greatest ultra realistic graphic because it was created by our mind.
Yes I learnt more english words with videogames then with school education.

AWA Daily Quest for today (10 ARP): Rent a flick
Just click on the quest itself in the Daily Quest section
Visit the Videos section: https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/Video

I'm not totally sure about this:unsure: but as per my understanding, tomorrow's Daily Quest will also be a 10 ARP one, Courtesy of April Fools Artifact Fixed.(y)

Also not totally sure, but when you do the Steam Quests this week, you can do it without equipping the H`erkow Warrior Script Artifact (adds an additional 1 ARP to Steam Quest) when the 2x ARP Boosters are gonna be activated later this week. We already know that the Boosters don't work with the Twitch Quests anymore because of the Twitch Artifact, and basically I wouldn't wanna take a chance (Technically it should work and shouldn't be an issue as this is not the main Steam Artifact and non upgradable also, but this is AWA🤷‍♂️).

Basically the reason I'm being very cautious is cuz the payout is big if everything works as it's supposed to. Steam Quests 3X , 25 ARP each with Booster = 75+75 = 150 ARP
Thanks for your precious infos Legolas! :)
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind free on Fanatical - Peaky Blinders: Mastermind | Steam PC Game
Cool thanks mystery93! I was always thinking to get this but not sure, and maybe one day I will watch the tv serie too.:) (y)
Thanks(y), "Sold out - Sorry, this product is temporarily unavailable.":(
Does anyone know if this is gonna be restocked or not🤔 ? , I see a lot of them in the giveaway section though.
Restocked now Legolas I got it :)
 

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Restocked now Legolas I got it
Thanks(y), but it turns out it was never "sold out". it's a message shown to those in giveaway restricted regions:(🤬 ,
and on top of that Opera browser which I normally use to get from Fanatical is crashing again and again. Uninstalled and Reinstalled and still crashing, I gotta somehow fix Opera before I get this.:cautious:
 

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