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Today my little sister actually said thank you for my helping her out. They say as you get older you see everything...

It's a damn good thing we don't have any real Russians on the forum of their opinion of the Russian police's incorruptibility would be truly a marvel to witness. Actually, can someone please invite a Russian in? I feel we're missing out.

The only thing I'm taking comfort in is the hilariously short time the Muslim Brotherhood managed to retain power. After decades saying they had all the answers...

Well, you sounded technically adept, so hopefully it won't be a problem.

With affection, if not respect... I'd rather they used their best units to secure hospitals and arms dumps.

Something I fear you chaps may have forgotten: Felicia Day gets terribly excited about crafting things in Skyrim. I for one rather like the notion of Felicia Day getting all excited.

That is really cool.

Just a thought, but have you considered dressing up a bunch of homeless people and luring the entire office drinks outing into a sequence of dimly lit and increasingly baffling situations, culminating in a point where the bravest of them has to mud-wrestle Neil Gaiman for the key to a grating back into the streets above?

"There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn't be a cop." The Long Goodbye

Bring on the Benny Hill style battles and arenas!

Um... as others have already said, thi sisn't a simulation it's a fantasy game. I can understand repair and maintenance. I polish my shoes. But that doesn't mean I dream of doing so in my fantasy other worlds. EDIT: On further consideration I can see how it can help with immersion. but I would suggest ading it as a scripted event with certain areas like a swamp or burning house or sandstorm or what have you. In this way the players would be reminded of the fragility of their uber kit, and samsara in general. Without it getting bloody annoying.

Most all of the OO devs left the project to start Libre Office. I have it on my machine, but I cannot say whether there are now colons where you expect them. Edit: woops, I see your thread, now. Thanks, and thanks also to the other offers I've had via PM. Libre Office looks worth a try. Do you know what versions of Word and Excel it will save up to?

I thought that was you shooting. AGH! We're being shot at!

I think it's pretty clear that there's a good portion of gamers who freaking LOVE crafting. So demanding it's not in there is moot. If you don't want crafting to influence your particular game experience don't take the skill. My main concern was that it sounded a bit pedestrian. I'd like to see a crafting experience based around a system which allows for experimentation and improvisation. It should also be different on each play through. My only sensible thought on how to do this would be to have each visible crafting material possess a hidden array of values. For the sake of argument: 'spleenium', 'kavorkium', 'salad', and 'my left foot'. Your basic grey rock might contain two spleeniums on one play through, three on another. Effects recipes depend on the precise combinations of the four elements. It's up to players to experiment and get them right. For the sake of cowards it would be worth having some visible items possess stable values of the four elements. For the sake of True Englishmen, some combinations of elements would explode unpredictably.

That's the American interpretation. I would have described the American system as two intractable lines of blindfolded pikemen stabbing each other very slowly, while trampling a lot of people who are pretending not to notice while discussing celebrities. Rather than mobs of goons.

No time to read the OP right now. But damn you've put some effort in. Well played.

Everyone loves prosper.

That does look good. Is it an old building? Or has it just been built right?

According to the BBC the Tamarod movement has the following manifesto: The Tamarod movement says more than 22 million people have signed a petition complaining that: Security has not been restored since the 2011 revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak The poor "have no place" in society The government has had to "beg" the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $4.8bn loan to help shore up the public finances There has been "no justice" for people killed by security forces during the uprising and at anti-government protests since then "No dignity is left" for Egyptians or their country The economy has "collapsed", with growth poor and inflation high Egypt is "following in the footsteps" of the US I thought this rather supported my contention that it's total bollocks: - How does angry protesting increase security? - In what fantasy Egypt are the poor (and we're talking proper poor here, not Western poor) going to have a 'place'? - Do they know of anyone else handing out billions of dollars? - Practically speaking, Morsi would have to be mental to start attacking the same Armed Forces who are protecting him - What the **** is dignity anyway? And how much do they want? The same as Kent? Me burping? A really good cesar salad? - Morsi couldn't possibly have turned the economy around in the time available and with global conditions as they are - Who else is Egypt going to align with to get funds and investment? Russia? China? They already have partners in the region.

Go and have a walk wank, you daft bugger. Fixed that for you. You guys know nothing about health. And I feel you are being rather too charitable about Raithe's wanking deficit.

The problem is a social one. Boards are chosen as a boys club. Shouty ****wits like Ballmer get chops. The solution is smarter investors who get the shrieking abdabs when they see a shouty ****wit at the helm.

Got seriously annoyed today by Open Office. I know it's free, but I have a rather simple point to make: If you don't have development time to do a feature properly do not include the god damned feature. I am talking principally about formatting of visual and text elements. They should not change between saves. They should not autocorrect to standards buried inside the source code. It is a hundred times better to present a handful of features done well, and let the user improvise using them, than to have thousands, with unpredictable and undocumented interactions. The example I'd use in the converse is Paint.NET, which with one notable exception (shading) is trouble free. It isn't photoshop, but it's free and it works.

OK. Maybe not EXACTLY like starlings.

There's no hive mind. The explanation of how the zombies started was implied but never really stated. Probably like those flocks of starlings.

I've only recently become interested in Roman history. But it seems to me that a reliance on the mob is exactly what doomed the Republic. That or it could have been a giant space station. I get easily confused.