Everything posted by samm
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Cardinal sins of game design
Thanks, Mote Carlo, now I don't have to write this Thiefs in BG2 were teh ubar class, because you could kill e.g. demogorgon with traps only... Sins: Claiming on the game box that choices influence the game world. Unwarned points of no return. Inconsistent game design, including art.
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The Music Thread
Novembre - Child of twilight
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Correcting rumors about Sarah Palin
definitely.
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Correcting rumors about Sarah Palin
Haha, taks, Eurosnobs... Our knowledge indeed is anecdotal, because we only observed it on our own... Of course you can get more exclusive treatment, also for unneccessary stuff like cosmetic surgery, when paying on your own, why does that surprise you? But you're right, Mr. Moderator, I've lost track of how that connects to Palin. Or Edwards for that matter Well, I heard that whole Palin affair actually helped raise McCain's approval score (or whatever that's called in English). Does it only suggest that any kind publicity has a positive effect because it's raising awareness, or could it mean that the US voters actually think she'll be a good VP? Or is the higher approval not related to her but to something McCain did lately?
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Correcting rumors about Sarah Palin
Germany, austria, switzerland
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Radeon 46xx coming
Today, it was launched officially. The consensus from different reviews is: a solid competitor for the 9600GSO (i.e. 8800GS) at the same price point, slightly slower at low resolutions, faster with higher resolutions and AA. Price/performance slightly lower than a 9600GT. Uses a less power in idle, more under load where it also gets quite hot. It almost matches the speed of ATI's previous performance generation 3850. Ideal for decoding HD videos (better VC-1 support than nVidias offerings). All in all: a decent mainstream solution.
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The Large Hadron Collider
Who knows what would happen? Being stretched/compressed alongside with time certainly makes for an interesting experience. Also, who says that a bad thing != benficial for humans?
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The Large Hadron Collider
Just because they're scientists, it doesn't make them more certain about what will happen. In fact, chances are especially scientists will tend to be divided, until the Large Hadron Collider is up and running...
- The Music Thread
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The Music Thread
Solar Fake - Creep Just reminds me of how good the original really is. At least it's a cover that's in a completely different music genre, which does make it interesting.
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How do I Disable UAC on Vista?
That sounds like a bug, and why do you use windows authentication?
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Romantic drivel
It's totally off topic, so sorry, but it fits pixie's comic so nicely... beware of rainbows in the yard!
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The Music Thread
Fields of the Nephilim - Sumerland (live, from the Visionary Heads DVD) take me...
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What are you playing now?
That was not really what I needed to hear I'm sorry to be the one to tell you... ... Maybe Akella will do unexpectedly good and manage to develop a series of fun Disciples games.
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How do I Disable UAC on Vista?
No. If you're using your computer professionally (and still have Vista installed for some reason ), you'd be wise to let it active.
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Correcting rumors about Sarah Palin
Same here. ( Even if education often leads to not wanting to have anything to do with the subject again in one's life, for example math, thanks to our incompetent teacher ). If however the goal would be to reduce sex, then preaching abstinence only is naturally the one way to get to that goal.
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What are you playing now?
And it looks damn good, too Disciples II Guardians of the Light The franchise might be ending soon (http://en.akella.com/News.aspx?id=587), but probably some similarly fun round based fantasy strategy games will crop up
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Newbie seeking help with graphics cards
By the memory interface. The real ones have 256bit, the fakes only 128 (see here). Also, stay clear of the versions with 256MB Ram.
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The Music Thread
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
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Persistent Spell can be taken on Non Spellcasting class
Wrong forum If it concerns NWN2, please go here: http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Discussion
Amazon(.com) would be awesome if they'd deliver their products to my country... Ic, it seems pretty obvious now... And there I was looking for an NWN2+MotB+SoZ box
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Google Chrome Is Amazing
Well, then they should rephrase again. It's ambiguously put: "Falls Sie Nutzerstatistiken an Google senden m
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Discussion
Kelverin: MotB has been out for a while already Meaning: I don't get the intention behind your links.
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Google Chrome Is Amazing
So they've rephrased it then. If google wouldn't be redirecting me to the german version, I'd link the english one, but well... here's the german one: http://www.google.de/chrome/intl/de/privacy.html. Google itself says among other things: Urls or queries entered into the address bar are sent to google. Also, user statistics are sent, unless one deactivates it with some option. Each browser gets a unique id upon installation. This id is sent to google upon installation, during use and update. If one doesn't deactivate the option to send user statistics, the id is included as well. If reports are sent, informations about the programs, services and files open at the moment the report was created are sent as well. Others may not care, I however don't feel paranoid when not liking such things. As long as FF works, I'll not use this, second choice would be Opera, though I might give Chromium a try *shrug*
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The Music Thread
And I didn't even notice it *g* spelling correction program running in my head seems very efficient, which has an unfortunate effect on my own writing... Nefilim - Still Life