SteveThaiBinh

In the UK we have special holidays to celebrate the fact that the banks are closed.

A friend suggested the same thing, but it didn't work for me. At the moment I have some Dvorak, a further symptom of excessive Civ4-ing, but happily it's quite restful and helps me to sleep.

Star Trek movies? You mean all of them, with the old crowd and the new crowd? That'd be scary. And long. :ph34r: Thank goodness they seem to have stopped making them. Have all the series ground to a halt as well? It takes me three days to play a character from Quest for Glory 1 all the way through to the end of QfG5. It gives me a project for bank holiday weekends.

Who am I kidding? Of course I'll buy it, whoever makes it. I realise that this attitude is a license to LucasArts to make poor-quality games, but what can I do? It's all rather a moot point, since Kotor 3 won't be coming to a game store near me for a few years yet.

Seconded.

Happy Birthday to Surreptishus! Anyone else?

I voted no. Point me to evidence of his evildoing, and I will change my vote. Or I would, if you could do that.

No, not all possible combinations. I might if I thought something new would happen, but it seems unlikely.

The counter argument would be that it benefits the developing world by providing employment and income to the poor, except than in practice it so rarely does. A job in a Nike factory may be slightly better than staying on the family farm, but not much. However, for the West to restrict outsourcing would mean abandoning the neoliberal economic model and using tariffs to protect national industries, both in the West and in the developing world. There are some bad precedents there, and it tends to restrict overall growth.

As a non-Tremere, you need to be polite to the Prince and I think not kill anyone on the ship mission, then after finishing that mission you get a new haven. I know there's a special one for Tremere, which I think involves a quest you get from their primogen. I guess Jack just gave him the heads up, but it is only my guess. I like the fact that not everything is explained.

Happy Birthday. Is it still your birthday?

The fact that you have doubts and are willing to own up to them publicly, are capable of reflecting on those doubts and questioning established truths with humility and humour, probably makes you well suited to the counselling and pastoral care role of the professionally religious. Ironic, isn't it. Don't ever try to fake faith. Get a job with the Interfaith Network or somesuch.

I wonder if we'll ever see an Arcanum mod for one of these fancy new 3D games. (Apparently there are Ultima mods for Morrowind, or suchlike.) I'm playing Civilization IV. I really like the fact that you can have a small civilization with only a few cities and still have a decent chance at victory. I never managed to make that work in Civ3.

What's the 'Mighty Ban Button'? Does it do collateral damage, so it bans the target and gives warnings to five other random accounts? (I may have been playing Civ IV too long.) Schmarth, if you want to be a mod, why can't you just be one? Post pithy comments in spam-filled threads and PM warnings to flamers. You don't need the current mods to validate your modship. Live your dream!

Watch out for the Aztecs. Never trust a guy who's wearing a skull in his hair.

I came originally to find out about the cut ending, and I've done that, then to find out news of Kotor 3, and there isn't any, and I'm interested in NWN2 but that's over on the Bioware forums. There's no good reason for me to be here. Maybe that's why it's fun to be here.

I'm drawing a blank, I'm afraid. The literature of the victorious Spanish Christians didn't do much to celebrate the culture of al-Andalus. Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna is set during the last years of the reconquista I think, but is more about feudalism within the Christian kingdoms. I love the period, too, and could recommend some good history books, but alas, no fiction.

I sympathise with the mods. Sometimes if a thread is closed it's because participants, perhaps including the thread starter, have really crossed the line in a big way. At moments like that it might be hard to compose a civil PM just to point out the obvious reasons for closure.

Of course old adventure games are extremely short when you replay them, because you know the solutions to all the puzzles. However, the old adventures - the Sierra ones and early Monkey Islands - seemed long because there was no internet, or few people had it, so no looking for a solution. Some puzzles took me days, even weeks, because if you don't know the solution, what are you going to do? Designers were also more comfortable including bizarre and illogical puzzles, because that was an accept part of the genre, and those always took a while to get around. I'd like my first playthrough of any story-driven game not to be less than thirty hours, but if the game is really good and the ending very satisfying, who knows if I'll complain? A game might be short without feeling short - I've yet to encounter such a game, however.

One of the last missions in the main quest was fighting some kind of giants in their lair, I think. You had to send scouts in to lure them out one by one because they were so powerful, it took forever because there were so many of them, and a single misstep could see half your party unconscious. That was definitely one of the hardest games I've ever played. I don't think I'd have the patience to do that kind of thing these days. Great game, though. Shame the promised expansion packs never materialised.

You shouldn't be eating at the keyboard, and especially not monkey brains, live or dead. It's unhygienic. I hear 1000 lobotomised monkeys at typewriters are writing the script for the new TV series. Apparently, George liked their work on Attack of the Clones.

No, you're correct. Sadly, Bush won't be impeached because of it (or anything else), unless Republicans seeking re-election decide it would win them votes. I don't see how that might be, but I suppose anything's possible.

Yes. Yes it could. (Ahhh, but could it?) Yes.

I believe there's some research that students who write their own notes during lectures absorb, and later are able to recall, more information than those who sit passively and rely on the lecturer's notes for revision. It makes sense, since during the lecture you're thinking about what you hear and selecting the important points to note down, so it may be a more effective way of learning.

Yes. I'm glad they're at Obsidian, because obviously they're creatively very strong, but I hope someone is checking their programming from time to time.