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From what I can gather from growing up watching Rugrats, it's to like, celebrate and comemorate when there were some people in a temple with only a days worth of oil, but it lasted twelve days ish, or soemthing like that. Anyone else have more knowledge? Why is it called "hanuka" in english? Anyway, what I kind of remember about what I call "Chanukka" ("Ch" being the velar fricative) is that it contains several rememberance days for the rebuilding of the second temple (?), and that what you said about the oil. Families come together, eat traditional food, sing, exchange presents, and every day for the duration of the celebration (11 days?), another candle is lit. All in all, Chanukka seems related to christmas in so far as it seems to be grounded in a celebration of light in the darkness, too, and the customs seem similar.

You can't change difficulty during the game, only the one time at the beginning. I'm playing it on medium and rarely had any problems surviving battles so far, unless certain monsters shot my character from a distance or from behind him where I couldn't see them... Attack sequences are only a matter of timing your mouseclicks, nothing wild really

Yes, and it will probably a bit disappointing when/if it comes out. that "if" is the reason I put it on this list of hypothetical sequels...

another ps:t-like title, but not ps:t 2 baten kaitos 3 zanzarah 2 icewind dale 3 (actually rather a successor of iwd1, not of iwd2 in terms of atmosphere, music, storytelling etc) disciples 3

they were fun live, less opera-style singing voice and strings are synths, but they came across more powerful somehow than on the youtube videos. deathstars - white wedding

zanzarah demo. fun

sisters of mercy - gimme shelter

orphaned land - norra el norra the album "mabool" is great imo and should be highly recommended to people interested in both innovative and traditional metal collide - tempted decoded feedback - phoenix deine lakaien - over and done. Hm... I'm trying to assemble tracks for a sampler with music I liked that came out the past five years for a gift to my father. Difficult task, especially to keep it interesting, and still enjoyable for a classic / jazz listener and player... *sigh*

Yes, I'm afraid they can. I've been to a phone store lately because my old mobile phone needed to be replaced, and there was someone whose phone had been stolen, so he had his sim deactivated by the company. He was at the store asking why he had to pay monthly bills even though he was unable to use his phone even if he had it, because the sim was disabled. They told him he agreed to paying a monthly fee of XX CHF for two years when signing the contract, that did not state that you don't have to pay when you cannot use your phone. In your case, I assume you have to pay $20 anyway, you'd just not have to pay for calls until their cost hits those $20. Reread your contract, and get to their store as fast as possible with a valid ID, or frustration could be great. Note though, I'm living in a different country, so my guesses may be wrong.

ayreon - day three: pain ah yes! diary of dreams - giftraum

hm, I'm in the mood for some progressive stuff... ayreon? yes

already imagining how an english speaking person would probably pronounce this made me laugh

reminded me of . pass me the laza beem!

Ah, another cool topic *g* I prefer PCs, though macs certainly are not as bad as people seem to think they are. I program on them frequently which works well, and some look stylish. It's a matter of how much money you're willing to invest, and for what purpose you need the computer. As I like to change hard- and software parts every now and then, as well as gaming, there's not much choice but a PC (with XP and Ubuntu).

Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Got to love that riff

Aw man, no. A wolf should pose a serious threat to a Lvl. 1 character. A goblin should be as dangerous as a kid trained in fighting with weapons - that is, less dangerous than your character (unless it's a mage going melee) but definitely not unable to kill you. I do agree that wizards and sorcerers as they are now are not very balanced compared level to level to another character class: not able to really do anything at the beginning, while being potentially ridicoulously powerful at higher levels. And yes, that does mean that these classes should also in my opinion be able to defeat that goblin on level one using their speciality (spells), but: that is in fact no fact. It's depending on the DM, depending on how warlike the characters are, depending how great a hero you imagine your lvl. 1 pawn to be etc. pp.I for one always find low levels particularly appealing because I can still more or less relate with what's going on which later just isn't possible anymore. DnD already begins losing appeal with the tank being able to stand in front and take all the blows of that grizzly bear, treant or whatnot and ends with puny humans defeating a colossal dragon. In short: When it's all about stats and strategy and nothing about comprehensible relations. I'm not asking to play real life now, I just wish a DnD round would feel like a dangerous adventure trip, not like... Well, I don't know... something that feels "distant". And being able to mosh through hordes of goblins at lvl 1 would not make the game more immersive to me.

krookie. The Owner: Are you bored? Anyway, I'll try to take this serious, just for fun Planescape: Torment.

mkreku: Sadly, it won't be Outcast 2. That was in production some years ago and then cancelled, with Totems being a new game entierly. Appeal (developers of Outcast) went bankrupt, Elsewhere founded, then bought by 10tacle, and the concept of Totems still seems to stand. karka: Interesting, thanks for pointing those out!

Totems. From the guys that made Outcast. Please, please let this happen and be great... mysterious website

:/ was a highlight among the usual stuff coming from the radio at work, but now that I have free music choice, it's plain boring.

Xard: That could be the case because you're crappy at drawing It's probably harder to appreciate others' artworks if you're a master of the same art yourself. That's a great point. The worst you'll have to do is tinker with the old stats to produce a new Mystra. With as much as you guys like to play with the rules, I don't see why that's a problem. This is what will most probably happen with our round(s): We'll stick with 3.5. I know others who still play 3e, even AD&D, because they've grown up with this system and didn't want to change to some ruleset they thought inferior or superfluous. My problem is, that I like to play on the Living Greyhawk campaign every now and then, and was looking forward to Living Forgotten Realms - but if both setting and rules will be as bad as they now imo seem to become - I won't be able to play that. I would have liked to, because it's fun to be PGing when you've had enough RP in your home round, and being able to change things in the world while playing that will affect everyone in the world who's also playing the same campaign.

You could probably try to turn down (or even off) the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering to be able to increase the resolution again without getting too low a framerate. Don't worry whining about being ignored doesn't make the people more likely to respond...

Yes, ATI doesn't really compete at the high end graphics cards right now. The new HD 3xxx series is priced lower than the 8800GT, fitting exactly to their speed (though the slower model, the 3850, offers especially good speed for the money). They also draw less current than nVidias similar offerings, unlike the monster that is HD2900 Pro / XT. I think I read - but don't find the source right now - that two 8800 GTs (512 MB) in SLI, probably two 3870 in Crossfire too, outperform an 8800 Ultra while being less expensive.

...which the others don't have? (gf 8xxx series and ati hd series all have unified shader architecture, x1xxx from ATI already had that to some extent iirc, though not dx 10 compliant.) It's faster than its competitors because it has a rather efficient architecture combined with high clock- and memoryspeeds. It's faster than the 8800 GTX only because of increased clock speeds for memory and gpu, but is unproportionally more expensive. There's a GF8800M GTX, too, which is the fastest available notebook gpu and a bit slower than the old version of the 8800 GTS. I think it's not too clever to call these "best" graphics cards, though. Who wants a notebook that runs for an hour or so, just to be able to play the newest 1337 crysis? Or spend substantially more money on a 8800 ultra when it's marginally faster than a GTX? Well... The OP clarified his initial posting, but it's certainly not my definition of "best" *shrug*

even better "translated" than that nipple-song. [edit] okay, can't decide... they're both funny. what a substantial dilemma!