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Well I liked the music. True the Scott Pilgrim character isn't a very talented bass player. Sex Bob-omb reminds me of a lot of college bands in the mold of alternative pop groups like The Ramones, The Pixies, Shonen Knife, etc.

I think it has to do with his Jimmy Kimmel interview back in April.

A 50% drop from 1st to 2nd week is pretty on par with films nowadays. The Expendables was also down 52.6%, the same as Scott Pilgrim and Eat Pray Love was down 48.1% in their 2nd week.

It also didn't help that there was five new films this weekend. Including two films that also target the teen/young adult market.

Also it ends up on the short end of the stick when you compare it's genres to the other films currently out.

Action - The Expendables, Inception, Salt or Scott Pilgrim?
Romance - Eat Pray Love, The Switch or Scott Pilgrim?
Comedy - The Other Guys, Vampires Suck, Dinner for Schmucks, The Switch or Scott Pilgrim?
Teen/Young Adult - Vampires Suck, Piranha 3D or Scott Pilgrim?

It's a jack of all trades, master of none issue.

Scott Pilgrim will probably bleed off a lot of theaters after week 3, maybe a bit this weekend. This weekend there are three new films, well two and a limited re-release of Avatar, an action/crime movie and another horror flick.

Excellent music video once again.

OK, a couple of other things.

Currently it's $84 cheaper without the OS. Now what can I buy for that $84.

First we can upgrade the memory, didn't touch that yet so here, still DDR3-1333 but Cas 7 instead of Cas 9 and with heat spreaders for $99 Vs $96. Can give you a few % improvement in memory intensive apps like games. $3 down $81 to go.

Next, kick the video card up another notch by going to the 1GB version of the GTX 460 which besides giving you more memory also gives you more memory bandwidth by going from 192-bit to 256-bit video memory bus (8-9% faster). That's $30 difference, leaving $51.

Lastly lets add back a 3rd party cooler. This is ranked higher than the Cooler Master V8 and is less expensive. Cost $40, leaving $11.

Note I didn't update the wishlist with these changes.

So in the end I'm still $11 under their package deal even with a 3rd party heatsink, faster memory (at least faster timings) and an even faster video card. Still the OS will cost $100 in either case.

I liked him a lot.

Sorry, misplaced this.

Yes, the HAF-922 is $60 cheaper than the bright red HAF-932. These were the three cases I was talking about.

And I was partially wrong, damn my eyes, the no window version of these cases have a mesh side for mounting side fans instead of a solid side and the 932 still has a partial window along the top. Still less expensive than the full window version.

The bigger 932 also has four USB 2.0 ports on the front panel instead of just two on the 922 as well as an IEEE 1394 port.

The first statement was a complement on the game's graphics.

I assume he cross posted due to no responses in his own forum.

His native language is French BTW. I'm guessing the post was machine translated to some degree.

Edit: It's a Google translation of this post.

Well considering it had a two day head start, I don't see VS lasting for the entire weekend and I would be happy to see it end up 5th or 6th. 2nd would just encourage whoever is financing those dopes to pay them to do yet another ??? Movie movie.

Piranha 3D is another late teen flick, horror instead of parody.

I've seen SP twice now. It's ranking up there with some of my all time favorite "fun" movies. The soundtrack also kicks butt.

Turn down World Detail, it now affects the UM shadow and reflection effects as well as draw distance.

And ... dun dun dun ... someone pops up looking for Grant.

And the "Blinded Me with Science" was great. Starting to wonder what the rest of the GD employees are thinking about Fargo's shift in personality.

I'm starting to feel really bad for Jo since now SARAH, Carter and Zoe are now involved while she gets to stew over Zoe and Zane.

I hope Carter's first line to Stark is "Aren't you dead?".

Google FRAPS.

Yes these have appeared from time to time before the great purge, now we have all the covers in one place.

I can think of two off hand.

Furmark which will stress any card.

GL Excess is somewhat old, haven't tried it recently.

Oh and thinking about it, UNiGiNE benchmark programs support both Dx and OpenGL.

Guy sounds like he has an axe to grind due to his ban for RMT.

Life is becoming more like being trapped in a Skinner Box every day.

The solution to the Fermi Paradox is that advance alien civilizations become trapped playing MMOs so they never leave home.