I had done something I always wanted to do , I got some new speakers. In my life as a gamer my speakers had been passed down to me, granted the latest pair were some nice ones but when someone hooked up a new pair for a bit, I quickly saw that I was outdated more than usual. So in complete shock, I wandered into best buy and bought a nice 5.1 surround sound set for a nice price of around 80 bucks. In total excitement I quickly set up the speakers, head spinning with ideas of me thinking something was behind me in fear, or being flooded with the sound of a nuke going off in supreme commander. Having set up everything, I started reading the manual, because I had three chords and only one hole for them to go in. Having read through and found what I wanted I got it working, I put on some music and started to notice that nothing was coming out of two speakers behind me, I got a bit worried. My brother than stated that you need a sound card to do 5.1 surround sound but you can make it like it is surround sound just not as good with a simulator. While I tore through the internet looking for it, I finally hit on something that looked promising (partly due to my brothers help by that I mean he was the one who found it). I quickly loaded it on as fast as I could and restarted the computer, per its orders. Well it seems to boot up fine and bam blue screen of death right in my face. I, for about 2 hours tried to find ways past, ways to install my old drivers and almost beating my computer to smothering pulp. When I think all else fails, I decide to look under the add/remover tool again and this time I found the damn thing hidden under another name, I uninstall while both my brother and I saying its not going to work hoping to trick it. It uninstalls, I reboot and install my old sound drivers with almost no hard ships. That night I just played around with 3 speakers instead of the holy back ones which wasn't so bad. The next day I buy a sound card for about 50 bucks and install the seconded I get back home and viola it does it with one hitch. I now get to play games, and immerse myself even more into them than ever before, now its just time to save up for a computer overhaul which I can tell you will have its host of problems. Oh and the moral of the story is, never buy something without making sure you can use it.
Total War: Rome II So it took almost 2 years but I think I finally like this game. It's amazing to me because Rome Total War probably up there in most played game. The hours I have put into the game, and the nights spent trying to take over the known world are so many. The memory of playing the demo for the first time sticks in my brain in the original game. Taking my force and attacking from the tress in a surprise maneuver just had me my teenager mind lost in a sea of tactics and battles. From that point it was nights spent avoiding homework going "just one more turn" as my armies marches across the classical world. There was something to a game that balanced a great real time war scenario with a simple yet fun turn based system that had you stuck once you started. Years went by, and more Total War games came out, but slowly they just stopped being the Total War games I loved. Looking at them I loved certain parts but the dark era of gunpowder nev...
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