So while I was waiting for the Black Rain tickets I decided to do some video watching but on a tech site rather than rotting my brain on YouTube or the various other video sites that pop up daily. At least I thought I wasn’t rotting my brain. I started off because of what showed up on my Google home page about Quake Wars vs. Team Fortress 2. These guys “Ben & Rob” don’t do badly hosting and speaking but the information is just lame. They discussed Quake Wars without once bringing up BF2 or BF2142 which are kind of what it is essentially is like. They’ve taken Wolfy ET and combined it with the proven successful BF model. I could be completely wrong but I thought CWET was developed for ID and meant to be sold but they decided to offer it as a free game? They said it was created by modders. There may be content by modders but the beginnings I’m fairly certain was ID.

I watched a few more of their driveling commentaries and then checked out the HIS HD 2900XT review by Rodney Reynolds. Good information overall but he describes the card as if it’s revolutionary in design, discussing how large the heatsink/fan housing is, etc. without mentioning that ATI x19xx’s and nVidia’s 8800′s look similar in build as this and occupy two slots. He also needs to work on o-v-e-r e-m-p-h-a-s-i-z-i-n-g in movements and when he speaks. Good overview tho, didn’t realize a few things. I think I’m happy that I went with the nVidia 8800GTS for now. I can’t imagine Crossfire with the 2900XT considering a single card requires a 6pin and 8pin power connector.

That’s it for now… just boring post of my viewings on Toms Hardware.