Walsingham

My God! Were-Dalmatians! Back on topic, I have a question prompted by an email from an old bachelor acquaintance of mine, now in his sixties. What's wrong with NOT having either romance or love?

I would respond, but I fear your beauty. It's like gazing into the sun.

I don't think you have to get geopolitical to unfavourably compare the Chinese effort with the British one. It sounds as if the British one was knackers.

Great day yesterday. Free haircut in morning because I helped the hairdresser sort out some treatment for her mum. Got recognised in a major international anti-crime forum, and went to my favourite restaurant to work on some theoretical problems. Solved two of the theoretical problems over beer and snacks, validating years of work! In celebratory mood, so dragged many friends out to celebrate. We had great food, a mix of conversation from babies to famine to molecular chemistry and back to dating. Restaurant owners very happy to have their restaurant busy on a Wednesday, gave me half my food for free! Everyone left very happy. Had horrifying full realism nightmares about civil war in the UK, people being murdered in the streets, bombs going off, families fleeing for their lives. Bloody horrible. Woke up early and decided to get straight back to work. Hopefully I can fidn a cure for cancer and take another afternoon off!

Well I was going to but then I got confused by all teh mods, so I just put NWN2 in, and by golly I tells ya it rocks!

I just finished the main campaign, and absolutely loved it, although I was particularly amused to note that I had more *ahem* problems with my party as a Charisma 19 Lawful Good Favoured Soul than with my evil Charisma 10 fighter cleric. Goes to show how much comes down to spending time and effort on your party members, not just a few momentary rolls of the dice. I loved it so much that I opened up the toolset to see about building some environments just to hang out in. I could really see trying to build something expansive in the toolset. There's lots of things like the random number seeded item properties, that make it almost as good as the game itself.

What? I now have this image of you living in some gated community for beautiful people, where you walk gracefully from room to room, occasionally throwing raw meat to the 'norms' over the fence.

If any of you have lost the will to live you may have noticed that I have been quietly putting more stuff in my PC, a new graphics card, more RAM, etc etc. However, it was come to my attention that the damn thing is now heating my office on its own (the radiators aren't on, but it's toasty by my standards). I have a thermaltake case, and I could keep soup warm on the top right now. (note to self: eat more soup) Basically I was wondering about how important cooling is, and what simple things I can do to improve it on my PC. What would happen if I attached large copper wings to the casing? etc etc. (I'm taking delivery of a lot of copper to do random artsy stuff around my house.

DN, sounds like you're overcomplicating this. If he's got a string of mahdi girls behind him, just encourage one of them to say something.

I just caught up with 3 pages of posts, so I've got a lot of ideas here. - GD said romance and love are both together, but separate. I agree, and frankly, if I had to choose now I'd pick romance. But then I've had my fill of love (which I liked as GD's definition). Love is coplex, and makes demands on you. Romance is exciting and dangerous, and shows you the best in people. Love often reveals the worst. Which I guess is partly the point - to take the covers off a person and test/inform sharing a life together. - I don't know that pretty people are bad. I think it really comes down to how a person handles their good looks. Obviously if they make that the focus of their life then they'll be pretty dull to someone who is interested in, say, medical research. But to another person who equally is interested in using their looks, and progressing socially they're heaps of fun. I've known people who went out with someone hawt who got annoyed because they WERE more than a pretty face. They reacted like it was false advertising! - I was going to say something profound about what The Architect just said, but I've forgottten it.

Hi Brittany. I've moved this to our KOTOR section, where it stands a better chance of getting an answer.

I didn't bother seeing the Uk ceremony. I have zero faith in the kind of ne'er do wells who wind up being PR people*. I only met one who was up to much, and she was in teh process of moving careers to investment banking! EDIT: * PR people in the UK.

We're all missing the real story here, Wals went out with a girl!!!!! ROFL. But there's no story since you'd surely expect me to date mental cases. No disrespect here, Calax. She was a lot more mad than you seem to be. Although I used to think of her less as crazy and more as having a 'surprise brain'. being as how the two things I like most in life are challenges and the unexpected you can see the attraction. On the other hand I decided there was limited scope in a relationship with someone who chased strangers down the street shouting. I suspect the Army felt the same way. One thing I'd say, in seriousness, I for one am impressed by your commitment to meeting the challenges and doing your bit. If there's anything I can do to assist then go right ahead. Reading documents, getting advice on key issues etc. The only proviso would be that I am involved in a lot of stuff at the moment, and I'd really appreciate it if you could keep it specific. I can't take time to dive into the whole stack of legal literature for example.

Who would plagiarise Neil Kinnock? Silly sod.

That links to our treeman thread. The principle being then that what was formerly biological waste becomes a biological commodity. On the other hand, it could be used to help offset the costs of dentistry for poor folks.

Because they're delicious? mmmm... xenomorph thermidor. Tangy.

That makes me feel MUCH better. I was feeling guilty about wanting to blow up Feargus. Although I forgive all in the light of how great NWN2 is.

This really ought to be on the correct site, but it'd be rude to just kick this out, so I tried the update myself. It all seems fine, UK. Give me a shout via PM if you want to go further. NWN2 stuff should be on the Bioware fora.

Good point. I hadn't factored in the lost CRPG output. Good good. Although my opinon of THQ in general is poor, based on a single interacton with their customer services.

You mean it was lazy sensationalist journalism behind the whole evilness? Who would've thunk it?

If anyone's interested, and they probably aren't, I've prepped a map of the area, and was considering scanning/drawing it for reference. I've got an expanding list of characters and politics for the region (Tilea). But it is pretty fantasy generic.

I agree that with having several projects at once on the go it would be helpful to have 'modes' to drop into, on some sort of quickbar. i.e. LAZARUS, HOME, LAWSUITS etc

Pfah, itr was the undergroud lizard people. And the fact I have no evidence merely proves the control they have over the media.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7576131.stm

See? Romance is about excitement for both sides. It just seems to me that beyond that there's a lot of PERSONAL differences around what we like to see. Some people look for a slow banked fire, some go for a firework. I guess, running with the analogy, that the disjunction between the two parties makes for the fuel to the fire, while the similarities are the oxygen that lets the fuel react. Unless this is just my obsession with fire again.