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PC Gaming January 22, 2025

Your Computer Is Your Enemy

Your Computer Is Your Enemy

The old cliché, “If you want a friend, get a dog” still stands in the 21st Century. It is well established in the medical community that animals can do much to extend the human life span as well as improve the quality of life. Don’t live on or vicariously through your computer.

A pastor once said his job was to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. Thus we have the difference between a real live pet and an inanimate electro-mechanical object – in this case the personal computer. The pet comforts while the computer, improperly used and/or over used, is a thief and a murderer.

Besides, the computer, especially if you run a Microsoft Operating System and Microsoft production software, requires much more maintenance than does a pet. This alone is enough to drive most users’ blood pressure through the roof. How many times do you suspect that needs to happen before it begins to take a toll on the human body? It is even more aggravating than the days when we only received three (3) snowy channels on a small black and white television and each channel required another trip outside in the
rain, in the cold, in the snow, in the heat to adjust the huge antenna attached to a corner of the house which spilled the rain directly into your face as you looked up to see in which direction the antenna was pointing. If you were lucky someone was in the house calling to you when you got the best picture.

You know what I am talking about… like when your computer locks up with a box popping up on the monitor’s screen saying it needs to restart now, and won’t let you do anything else until you acquiesce and reboot. There goes your last few minutes of work. Another blood pressure jump! It sure is for the Tennessee Mountain Man!

Father may know best, but mother knows even better and she always made the children set across the room from the TV concerned about it ruining their vision. Now that same mom allows the children and grandchildren to set on top of a twenty-one (21) inch monitor, even closer to a laptop, and play games ad infinitum. The result being more and more of our children are wearing glasses and contact lenses at younger and younger ages.

Mom also insisted that little ones spend much more time outside playing in the yard than obsessing over the magic box in the corner, and the children were healthier. There were fewer cases of childhood diabetes and hardly any childhood obesity.

Children learned skills greater than cheating x-box and PSP, and mom and pop never heard of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The computer man and everyone else is seemingly required to work on or at computer consoles to some extent these days. As a result, the entire family now either suffers from a computer related ailment or is at real risk of developing one.

With the advent and prevalence of the personal computer and gaming gizmos, the heart, which is a muscle, gets little or no exercise. As if the TV did not create enough couch potatoes resulting in what amounts to atrophy of the heart muscle, the PC seems to have claimed the remainder of man.

A computer cannot hold you on cold nights or enjoy a walk hand-n-hand with you in the moonlight. It cannot comfort you when you are sick or improve your mood when you are sad. It cannot feed you when you are hungry nor give you a drink when you are thirsty… at least not yet. The PC cannot yet carry on a civil or reasoned conversation. Irrespective of one’s addictions and all the attractions on the internet, it is not true social interaction and it certainly cannot satisfy the libido try as some may.

Used improperly it can and does drive wedges between husbands and wives, and between children and parents. Like a drug, once addicted, and it is addictive, it can cost one his job and it has. Like a nosy gossiping neighbor or ticked off lover, it has the propensity to tell the world (friend and foe alike) everything it knows (both good and bad) about you. And, in case you didn’t know, there are hackers from people with malicious intentions, to your employer, to Microsoft, to insurance companies, to financial institutions, to the government who have the ability to ask your computer what it knows about you whenever they wish. And, your computer… your friend in whom you confide everything, like a spurned lover is more than willing to betray her paramour and spill her guts literally.

My computer… my friend? With such friends who needs enemies?

If you don’t know how to protect yourself from a gabby computer you might want to seek the help of professionals like the folks at Remote Helpdesk 1. Now shut the glib computer down, and go outside and play.

PC Gaming January 21, 2025

Why Do People Play Online Games

Why Do People Play Online Gamings

In a recent article on CNET, William Moss observes that in a Net coffee shop in China, of the couple of hundred people using the cafe when he visited it, with the exception of 2 people, everyone else was seen using them to play video game.

People paying loan simply to play on-line video games on per hour basis show the pull and popularity of the on-line games.

Below is an attempt to understand why on the internet games are so preferred these days?

An on-line game actually describes the sort of video game, which is used your computer system while you are attached to the Web. These can be single gamer video games that you have fun with a remote server or multiplayer video games where lots of customers like you are having fun with each other.

There was a time when computer system video games were for the supposed geeks or geeks who were basically solitary beings. With the increase in appeal of the Web and also with broadband accessibility coming to be progressively economical, the high quality of complimentary online games being supplied has actually raised drastically. Playing games online is no longer a solitary task. Studies show that it is a social experience that a growing number of characters and also out-going individuals are coming to be part of.

Free pc gaming websites have ended up being the locations for gamers to fulfill and have social interactions. Popular regulars at gaming sites are a typical sensation that all of us recognize. These pc gaming sites commonly supply games that vary from a fast, informal game during your coffee break to involving multi-player games.

Why do people play on-line games?
a. Firstly, the appeal of anonymity. Besides you can produce an individuality on your own and also can be what ever you intend to be. This is a really powerful factor for individuals to hang out at these social sites.

b. Web is a remarkable medium that enables you to be part of a culture where all are equivalent. Absolutely no discrimination of any type of variety.

c. The video games are ending up being progressively very easy to arrangement. Many of the times you just do not need an indigenous installment on your PC. A web internet browser is all you need to play a multiplayer video game. This has eliminated the os associated difficulties that one would certainly otherwise have run into. These games are mainly free and on top of that you do not need to mount anything to enable you to play these video games. You just came across video game, possibly from a good friend or via an e-mail or a newsletter. You simply go to the video gaming web site as well as you are ready to play. No configuration related troubles in any way. This most definitely is a large factor to the success and appeal of on-line games.

d. Online video games are preferred since they provide individuals who are bored playing with their computer a chance to connect with genuine challengers. As a player you can chat with various other gamers, you can join hands a few players and plan against the others, simply the method you perform in real life, however with the advantage of privacy.

I am sure there are extra factors. This by itself can be a topic of research study for social researchers. Web is transforming the means we live. It is transforming the method we play for certain.

PC Gaming January 17, 2025

Get A Lot More From Your Games With Playstation TV

Obtain More From Your Gamings With Playstation TELEVISION

With any kind of generation of gaming, there comes a specific share of gripes and problems concerning the gaming consoles and their devices. Some become aggravated if their TV does not sustain the HD or 3D graphics they’re looking for to get the absolute finest in video clip top quality from their games. Others are constantly plagues by “screen seeing” when they intend to play sofa co-op or various other multiplayer with their buddies offline. Well, the response to your TELEVISION troubles is ultimately below in the kind of the cutting edge Playstation TV, possibly the coolest thing I have actually seen for video gaming given that the controller.

The Playstation TV isn’t your day-to-day device as well as, because of this, most likely isn’t for everybody. With a standard list price of around 0 it can be outside of the budget plans of your average gamer, but also for those people who are searching for the outright best in graphics, you absolutely can not obtain any type of much better than this. Despite its extremely slim and also sleek 24″ size, it flaunts an unbelievable 1080p screen (something you don’t really see in TVs smaller than, claim, 48′) as well as “quad-speed structure sequential display technology” which is a truly elegant means of saying it strikes the 240hz refresh rate that you see in higher end LCD Televisions (of which the only refresh rate greater is a Plasma TV’s 600hz). It likewise houses powerful integrated speakers and a speaker which indicates you get high quality audio in any dimension area.

In addition to all those remarkable physical attributes, it still has another trick up its sleeve … it’s a fully functional 3D TELEVISION for any type of type of 3D media. You can connect it to your PS3, sure, however it also attaches to your COMPUTER or cord box as well so despite where you’re obtaining your HD 3D material from, it will certainly show in crystal quality. Now right here’s where you’re obtaining something that definitely nothing else accessory can use you, your own complete display in 2 gamer gaming modes.

It’s called SimulView and it’s an innovation special to the Playstation TV. Capitalizing on the 3D features of the TELEVISION, it splits the “Player 1” and also “Player 2” screens into separate screens only got by one pair of the TV’s 3D glasses. Essentially just Player 1 can see his or her display with their pair of glasses and also Player 2 will only be able to see theirs, both completely display and both in stunning 1080p 3D high meaning. No ore squinting while you attempt to decode what’s going on in your half of a split screen or fretting that your buddy will see where you are by checking out your screen, they have actually obtained sufficient to bother with their own full screen to themselves. The TV itself is really a bundle, prepared to play out of the box with its TV device, one pair of 3D glasses, HDMI cord, as well as a duplicate of MotoStorm: Armageddon for your gaming pleasure. If you appreciate having the absolute ideal when it concerns playing your PS3, you’ll like the Playstation TV.