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And you're that fun roundabout thing.

Thanks for the advice. I'll see what I can do about getting some extra cash to spend. By the way, I have two card slots on my motherboard. If I upgrade and later find my original card ust needed some more peanut butter or something can I 'dual weild' them together?

I see what you mean. In that respect I agree,

My existing graphics card is malfunctioning, and I'm thinking about simply upgrading rather than trying to fix it. I curently have a nvidia 7900GT. I've been looking around and can't make up my mind where to go. An 8800 is way outside my price range. I can 'afford' around

... I have good news...

Maybe you feel that way, but was PST REALLY better than MotB?

Alright then. It occurs to me it would makee more sense to have GD manage it, since I'm confident he can crack teh whip and knows where to crack it. HOw about I do two things before we kick off. 1) I do some work for Tale, doing some dialogue. That would help me learn teh system, and chalk up some credit. 2) Begin an outline of the story and main plot, then maybe get stuck into teh journal entries. If I can complete those then you'll know I'm serious, as will I.

You'll have *this* and like it! A toffee.

I can see that they'd be both war weary and not very keen on being ruled by anyone. I'm not 100% on being ruled by anyone either. Hence I support democracy. I want a say in things without having to shoot anyone. Maybe these chaps have realised that if stable democracy can be introduced then they can get what they want, or at least some of it, by 'jaw jaw rather than war war' as Winston put it. What bugs me more than anything is the perception I often meet of this meeting Coalition versus Iraq. I let that general perception bug me too much. I apologise. I very much appreciate you sounding out ideas, Steve. I know I have a lot of preformed ideas of my own, but I hope I'm not totally immutable. I may well be, but I try. I am just occasionally a little like this.

I guess it could have been America, but I think the doctors are light on their history. Soldiers in the trenches had no need of Americans to give them bugs. They were ankle deep in water most of the time, in all weathers, and literally walled in with corpses; al the time surviving on no fresh vegetables or meat. You couldn't invent a more plague-friendly environment. I'm amazed it took as long as it did for an epidemic. I'm not saying it wasn't you fiendish yankees. I'm just saying I rate living in a disease factory higher. As for the Vietnam question, I can see I need to go back to school and look at Ho Chi Minh again. However, ignoring any temptation to get bogged down in a Vitenam discussion here (we can always do it somewhere else), I don't see how the anti-domino theory concordes with the fall of Laos and Cambodia.

I think dialogue will be tricky. But if you're up for it...

She's hot in a kind of physically highly toned, but spent last ten years wading through slaughter kind of way. I think I'm going to be able to handle the central theming, but some subsidiary adventures would be cool. You know, things she can send people on, other things to be happening. I mean just being a gopher will get tired fast. At least one thing I was thinking of was to tie in the soul-eater thing from MotB. I'll try to not to get spoilertastic, but there's obvious room for someone like that with another mortal turned superbeing. Although I'd like to leave room for new characters. Xan would be an interesting guy to have around, I did think his philosophy would provide some good extra commentary. But I see him more in a kind of 'I couldn't be bothered to leave the mine' thing. After that it would be amusing to see how you gain influence with him.

It's based on personal preferences. And it's that's dead. And I was thinking of having him as an entirely non-Jeeves butler spirit. The basic plan is to have the Lady of Murder as bhaalspawn, obviously, and a bit less into fanboy clerics who go around murdering for no reason. Murder for no reason is like low fat yoghurt. And she likes accessorising. It's a nightmare trying to find shoes that match platemail.

Er... 1! Good advice, Steve. I'll try storyboarding it first.

But BG fans are getting so old we're in danger of being Minsc. Why not take the shiny new and make it cool.

Can you imagine anything cooler than a geriatric Minsc, and Boo ... with a tiny mustache.

I've been thinking for a long time about writing a high level mod for NWN. NWN2 being as cool as it is I tought it would rock to use it. My plan is to have the PCs drop into campaign as the grandchildren of bhaalspawn, called to the Planes in the new home of the Lady of Murder. We have a small world with stuff to do, and a modular series of extension campaigns/missions based around serving the needs of the Lady, or her many Deified/mundane enemies. I'd like to have both dark and humour in the missions, and also some serious BG2 NPCs available for missions, especially Minsc (and Boo) Xzar Jan Jansen I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who could tell me hwo many man hours this is likely to require, and anyone who can use the toolset.

It is the first time I'd noticed a spellslinger being better than just marching my PC up to the target and smacking them upside the head with a section of fence post.

I wasn't drunk. I was very tired, but that's not an excuse. I'm simply asking, what was it that made PST special? Travel in the planes? Meeting dead gods? Philosophy? Serious decisions? Your companions? All those things came out for me.

...Or they don't attend the high school and they won't talk to you. Actually I think this may be just a London thing.

I always like to do salmon on the grill or oven. Better if you enclose it so steam cook faster but I kind of like to leave it open so the butter caramelizes then I add lemon. But anyways. a little olive oil, salt and pepper, tons of garlic, tons of onions, then a nice squeeze of lemon to make an awesome tangy sauce. Make some rice or asparagus and your set. Very easy, very quick, very nice. It gets a too dark too early tho to grill so it's like :'( I reckon we'd get along just fine in the kitchen. Plenty of good flavours there. How'd you like curries?

Oh, Sand, and your adorable psychotic frenzies.

I don't really know what it's like to be adopted. I do know what it's like to have a ratfink for a father. I am pretty certain having no good role models is why I can't see myself as a family man.

Well, at least you still got it. It's always worth knowing. I just cured writer's block by doing the Harlem shuffle around my office. It's things like that which made me a bad 9-5er.

Hit the bargain bins. Nothing quite like a bit of bargain bin action. I think I need to get out more.