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  1. This for example (and really only one of many!): What's the meaning of "under Bhutto"? It is implied that she helped forming "the Taliban" (as if "the Taliban" were a couple of people coming from Pakistan that later emiigrated to Afghanistan), but it could just as well be "during her time as prime minister" and not being related with her personally all. It also implies to the reader a connection between her and Bin Laden, something that makes her the devil in every sincere american citizen's eyes. It then implies that she probably was not even murdered at all. Coupled with highly subjective and suggestive statements, in these two senteces "it is a bit of an irony that she may have been...", it clearly marks the article to be read with great caution.This does not mean I'm a fan of Bhutto's politics - in fact, I'm not very informed about her. This article however doesn't inform very much, it mostly raises doubts and evokes negative feelings. [Edited for better English...]
  2. Well, work it would, but at the low end of performance. The processor is a weak point. If you insist on AMD, you could a) wait some months until they're competitive again, or b) buy a better AMD dualcore, like the 5000+ black edition, or a 6000+ (89 W TDP), they're cheap as hell and quite a bit faster / better to overclock than a 4000+. Plus, why only ddr2 667? Is ddr2 800 so much more expenisive? If not: Get that instead. To those recommending a 8800GT 512: It is faster than the chosen 3870, but also proportionally more expensive. Both are hard to get. The 3850 512 MB is easier to find (here at least), slower, but overproportionally cheaper. Intels Core2 processors currently have the lead in performance per clock cycle (aka IPC, instructions per cycle) and performance per watt though.
  3. I'm actively trying to avoid (most) sex scenes in the game, because the "real" quests are not as cheap as this nerd-attraction It's not a B-grade RPG for sure. Granted, it is noticable in more than one aspect that the designers haven't made any game on their own before, BUT: the world is quite cool, fantasy beyond standard including witchhunts, racism, moral ambiguity. Main character is cool and you can define him nicely in skills and talk, like you should in a western RPG. Alchemy is cool (hit me, but one of the more interesting aspects taken from MMORPGs, others are quest tracking, money-making quests "kill X of Y"). Graphics have some really nice moments despite what Bokishi may think Mostly unforseeable and satisfying / disturbing consequences of seemingly small decisions (I'm not very far in the game, so this may not be true throughout the whole game, but I hope so). Challenging yet not frustrating difficulty on normal setting. Books are useful. Nice and relatively elaborated "Journal" not only containing quests but also Infos on NPCs, Monsters, World Locations, Gameplay and Alchemy recipies. Consistent art direction. You don't have to save the world from a great evil (though: who knows... I'm not very far in the game yet). Well, these random points have absolutely nothing to do with the topic, but only show why Kaftan Barlast should at least try the game, so: Sorry!
  4. lol then, Xard! I hope this board is liberal enough to a) spot the deliberate inaccuracies and attributions in the quoted as well as the articles praising Bhutto and b) recognize that dictator musharraf is by no means the lesser "evil"
  5. I'm no gardener, but I thought they are no exception, cyanide even smells like (bitter) almonds (or the other way around ). Anyway, magic > natural posions
  6. Tigranes: It wasn't directed at you While we are not exactly of the same opinion, this is key, until we're all ready to live in a completely culturally mixed environment, which will be in a thousand years or so...:
  7. This should be possible, I think. It takes a strong will and clearness over the own condition however, awareness of how ones body / mind works. I know a case of a person who is to weak to make it on her own and who doesn't recognize her condition, and it is not nearly funny being around her right now ... Anyway, I mostly spent today playing The Witcher, nine hours or so
  8. There clearly are swiss tendencies on this board, which saddens me. I thought some of Sands posts on the previous page quite agreeable, mostly these: and The idea with the military service however would exclude any elderly or young people from taking that route, so I voted for "bad idea" in this poll, even if I'm not amercian, and don't hold any of this so very hyped grudge against immigrants. Hyped by people like the slug, writing something over the oh so horrible expenses because of the evil immigrants, which in the sum over ten years seems to be as big as the military budget for 2008... The USA have about 300 million inhabitants iirc, so oh HELL YOU'RE BEING FLOODED WITH ILLEGALS (according to the slug the case with 0.2%)... sheesh, really, cut that destructive hype and cool down.I'm glad people like Sand are looking for solutions to something percieved as a problem. Changes in the law affecting the whole USA could possibly relax the discourse somewhat, because part of the heat is to blame on the inconsitencies in various states / cities, if I'm informed correctly. If immigrants really have to be divided into legal and illegal ones (which they shouldn't in my old fashioned opinion), it should also be clearly defined what to do with illegal ones, and how they can become legal. Military service is one idea, more ideas are needed
  9. Don't forget the nurses, doctors, rebels, sorceresses, or politicians. Ok, true, and the wise yet fishy elder of the brickmakers.
  10. we hates you, stupid office work!
  11. ... as it was exactly one year ago
  12. I didn't find this clich
  13. Yes, the character's name is Geralt Witcher No, it's just an unfriendly guard on nightshift trying to be cool...
  14. Bite my shiny metal a**? - no, wait, that was something different Anyway, if DnD magic potions (not DnD magic in general) were available, I think they would have a helpful rather than a destructive effect on society. Weapons would be less lethal (thanks to potions of cure XYZ wounds), disease could easily be cured (but not inflicted, I don't think things like mummy rot potions exist in the rules) etc. Gummi bear potion would be cool, too. We'd all be colour- and cheerful and fluffy All in all: I want potion!
  15. monolith, I want NOLF 3 now. Thanks
  16. junkie xl feat. dave gahan - reload likeable
  17. ancient drive - death embraces her half past eight in the morning, got to get some sleep
  18. I only played Tragedy in Tragidor, Pool of Radiance Remastered (First Chapter), and Dark Waters 1, plus some with smaller scope. Of these, I only recommend Pool of Radiance Remastered, it really seemed professionally executed, though not very original in terms of storyline. It just kept me playing like a full price game should. All three chapters should be available by now. Tragedy in Tragidor didn't have that much appeal, it was not so interesting and not very carefully executed (floating buildings and trees, not all doors set etc), and Dark Waters felt like a pre-alpha version of something that could become slightly interesting. Both modules could however already be improved by now.
  19. I just downloaded it. Its good as well. But I prefer the simplicity of the original song. Any others? I think F Zero could have had something you like, but I only own some tracks of F Zero GX, and this game is on the electrical end of the musical spectrum. Now listening to: f zero gx - blackshadow f zero gx - bloodfalcon sounds like "daft punk meets trance" or something like that. Great fit for a sci fi high speed racing game.
  20. just beat the mr.robot demo
  21. not so lol imo :/ well... tool - parabola
  22. Still bewitched Because of the lack of an ingame screenshot-option, I rarely catch the best moments, though I thought this in this one here the crisp and cinematic design comes over not too bad.
  23. The same reason why by now you must be dating only elderly silcone balloon-ed women with brains like hazelnuts and 5 millimetres of makeup to cover the lines in their faces that survived the botox treatment :/ Yeah, that's jealousy speaking (jealous for your PC-Hardware). Now, would all of you feeling to show off how awesomely great their knowledge of conquering women do this in a sperate thread, and only write in here what was up today? Sort of on-topic, you know? Thanks. I finished the second paper due after these holidays One to go.
  24. rather interesting (cool, but not funny):
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