SteveThaiBinh

Good question. I played Planescape: Torment and just about got the idea that low Armour Class was good, but I have no idea what THACO is, though I've seen it in the character sheet. I think it's seventeen or eighteen? I'm also having some problems with 8s that look like 2s.

My hotmail has a 2MB limit. It's usually fine - it's just a bit full now, of stuff I can't really delete for a while. Not the Bioware newsletter, though, if it's lacking in Dragon Age goodies.

Baldur's Gate - for the first time ever. I was worried at first about the basic graphics, but very quickly adjusted and am enjoying it a lot.

It was a fantastic game ... errr ... console? machine? I think we called it a TV game. My fingers still remember holding the strange keypad/controllers.

Thanks. I'll probably just bookmark that, then.

The last sports game I played and really enjoyed was Tennis for the Intellivision:

Yes, the soundtrack's usually very good. I'm considering signing up for Bioware's community newsletter. Anyone know how big the email/file is? (I'm trying not to crash my hotmail.) Oh, and is it worth reading ever at all? How likely is it that I will get actual news about Dragon Age in the near future rather than, say, repeated encouragement to purchase NWN premium modules?

There's no world shortage of food or basic necessities, yet there are still famines in the world, and they're man-made. On the original topic, it's interesting to contrast our fascination with fake violence with our obsessive, at times self-delusional, demands for safety and the minimization of risk in everyday life - health warnings on food, airbags in cars, baby harnesses...

That will please the forum dwarfophiles. You know who you are! Ferelden: a name that just screams 'generic'. That said, I'm optimistic. A PC RPG in development is a rare and precious thing. Go Bioware!

It's a good question. On what grounds are we restricting the freedom of speech of the convicted criminal? Is it because of who he is (and what he's done), or because of what he has written? If it's because of who he is, then there's no way the rules can be applied consistently, but also no reason why they need to be. Criminals are a special case, and society has the right to restrict the freedoms of those who break its rules and endanger society. If it is the content that we are objecting to, then it depends on the criteria the Prison Service is using to censor material (whether by withholding it for experts only, or deleting passages from a manuscript). I'd speculate that they're only using existing laws that apply to everyone, laws against incitement to murder, libel, indecency or (I think ) causing harm or distress to relatives. In that case, it should be possible to be consistent, and the same laws that govern what a prisoner can publish apply to what a newspaper or anyone else can publish. There's a big difference in who is applying the law, though.

You can indeed. Many charities would be reluctant to take money from such sources, but I think some would. Prisoners lose many rights due to their actions, but should they also lose all right to make any kind of amends for their actions? That would be harsh. If he's willing to do something that benefits society, that gives no reward to himself, and that does no harm to society, I think it's OK. On the other hand, if you see the notoriety or cheap thrills he gets from publishing his lurid account as a reward, I can see how you might want to prevent that. Yes, although that's not exactly the same issue.

That wasn't really an issue here. There was a scandal about this kind of thing some years ago, and there's now a law in the UK that prisoners cannot profit from their crimes in this way. Nilsen was going to give all the proceeds of the book's sales to charity.

It's not the same, Mr. Walsingham, sir. The Prison Service seemed to want the right to withhold the entire manuscript on principle, rather than just to edit parts that were dangerous or damaging. They also wanted the right to withhold the manuscript or parts of it from Nilsen himself, rather than, as I said, censor it for publication.

Draikin, how do you get these numbers? Are they publicly available? What does LIMTED ED mean? Surely it can't be 'limited edition' when it sold more than the 'normal' game?

Stating with certainty that Kotor3 is not being made is no different to saying that one rumour proves Kotor3 is already in production. Most games have months, if not years, of development behind them before they are announced. One rumour proves nothing. If there were a flurry of independent rumours, well, that also proves nothing, though it would be grounds for modest optimism. Failing that, we just don't know. Our own opinions on whether Kotor3 should be made, or whether it will be a good game, have absolutely no impact on whether it will be, or is already being, developed.

I hear Windows Vista pretty much looks like this.

I don't like the idea of someone being denied the right to freedom of speech, but I'm not happy about the implications if that right is conceded. What if a convicted criminal can't find a publisher for his autobiography? Does he then have a right to publish it on the internet? Are prisons suddenly obliged to give him internet access so that he can publish his work? Can he update it weekly? There are prisoners who could use such liberties to gather a following and do immense harm to society. Prisoners have a right to meet a lawyer in private and discuss anything they wish with him. So long as that right is protected, I'm less worried about their freedom of speech being curtailed in other ways. With respect to Nilsen and his autobiography, I would have solved it in this way: he should be allow to publish it (though not profit from this), but the prison service should be allowed to delete passages in the way that classified documents have deletions when they are published. On Nilsen's death, the full document should be published, as this is in the public interest.

Since the leftmost block of four and the rightmost block of four don't overlap, it obviously doesn't matter which you rotate first. I worked it out the first time I played. Since then, I just click the options in a semi-remembered, semi-random order until one works.

Link. Anyway, the clue is in the sig.

I waited in a queue for half an hour and then the link to download was dead. Is there anywhere else you can download this from? Edit: No matter, fifth time of asking it decided to be nice to me. Hmmm. Dark. Odd approach for the first trailer. Perhaps it's 'financial' spring? That could be anytime.

Rumours are fine, it's seeing the same rumour over and over again that gets me.

It's cheap because it's fairly old. It's also excellent, a fascinating story, terrific characters (especially the lead), and as the title would suggest, it's long - a lot of game for your money. Buy it.

Beachcomber. CENTENARIAN SEES TRAIN Aged 138, old Mrs. Whiggleham, of Arspneigh, avowed that she had never seen a train. Our representative said, 'But sixteen trains pass your window, I am told, every day'. 'Oh', said this grand old lady, 'are they trains? Nobody ever told me they was trains. So I didn't know I'd ever seen one. Fancy that now. Why, there goes one of them now. I never thought I'd live to see a train'.

Vrook got to him. Vrook. :angry: