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*shrug* the thing is, all he's done is seen a lot of videos and other secondary evidence regarding Mass Effect; some of which stirred a complaint with society that he has already harboured for a long time. Once activated, he let this build up to a furore, and Mass Effect as an item is no longer his point, at all; Mass Effect is simply one of the many components he has shaped in his mind, consciously and unconsciously, to suit a pre-made anger against the sexuality of our society. Now, I wouldn't say that 'anger' is absolutely unjustified. There is something curious about the scientia sexualis of our times, which insists on killing sex, never talking about sex, but ends up doing so anyway in various roundabout ways, and we have ended up with a Western / Westernised society that is overloaded on particular aspects of sexuality for no real good purpose. But he hurts his cause by accusing things without a basis in reality; he hurts his own ability to understand our society by allowing evidence to support his logic, not his logic to analyse his evidence. His apology - apart from the misunderstanding of the ESRB system which aries pointed out - is generally well-made, I think, and he has made a genuine effort to address some of his uncontrolled energy. The problem is that he has done this while still being unaware of the way in which he has built up this 'instinctive' fear and rejection of media sexuality, and he doesn't clearly understand what exactly is bad about it all - he just knows it's bad. And he will maintain this despite anything a gamer will tell him, because it is so deep-seated now in him (and many of us), it is 'natural'.

Yeah, NWN took years. And I remember the furore when they said maybe, they wouldn't even have a real campaign.

Wireless networks are dodgy on the best of computers. Now, if you're not having problems, don't worry. But if you are having problems, just remember that you might want to consider Norton as one of the many possible causes. You know, it's disturbing how Norton is similar to Vista in terms of the damage to your computer...

Of course, but I think in the wake of Bethesda overdoing that, the fans are all too keen to dress the older Fallouts in nostalgic memories of 'pure, unadulterated roleplaying goodness'. I love Fallout, but I hardly think it would have been as successful or well-known, or as cult, without its share of juvenile cool. I'm not saying it's a case of pot and kettle though. We can't say until the game is out, but Beth's F3 does seem to be erring on the side of gratuity.

Indeed - for all we laud the original Fallouts and though some lambast what they see as Bethesda's "LOOK NUKES AND STUFF ARE COOL" direction, many people got into and enjoyed the original Fallouts primarily because they could talk tough, screw people over, shoot them in the groin and plant dynamite on their corpses.

Woooo. I wondered when the thread would start farting up to the sky. I am always amused (and concerned) when people automatically believe our version of rationality is complete, perfect objective truth. I mean by that, some people believe that while we ourselves are not always completely rational, and thus make mistakes or believe bogus, rationality itself is flawless (by definition), and if one was to be completely rational, one would be as right as a human can be, because his thinking is all based on evidence that can be proved by scientific law. Which of course assumes that the scientific method that modern rationality is founded upon is a standard for judgment that is perfect, all-encompassing, and leaves nothing out. Yet our thinking, and our realities, are never so systematic; even a simple 'rational thought' holds multiple leaps in judgment that we all take for granted. I'm not even saying that there are miracles in this world that cannot be explained, the face of Mary on a bread, a dog that barks Hymn 485, or anything like that. But our trust in rationality and its perfectness is overcommitted and sometimes, it gets in the way of understanding ourselves and others. I've ranted multiple times, I think, on how I believe both rationality by scientific method, and even the most extreme of spiritual faith, are just two different ways of trying to understand reality. Both use completely different standards to understand the world: so if you judge rationality by spirituality's stick, then of course it's wrong; if you judge faith by rationality's stick, of course it's stupid bogus. But both methods have their strengths and weaknesses. It is simply that our society, and what we think are our 'natural' and 'instinctive' views, which have in fact absorbed in our past countless rationalist thoughts, that often sees rationality as a 'better' yardstick. I'm not saying there's an atheist's heaven out there trying to kill religion or anything. I think spirituality as a way we see reality will never go away - Sand here would probably say, because human beings will always try to explain what they don't understand through irrational means. In fact, that's right. They are trying to understand things through means that are not 'rational'. But if we lived in a highly spiritual social reality, Sand might well be saying, 'atheists will always exist, because human beings will always try to explain what they don't understand through rational means'. And it would occupy the same space in our discussions. There will always be these multiple coexisting epistemologies and I think committing oneself to just one of them can often be risky. There is a need for both reason and spirituality (whether it be in the form of religion or not) in any person's life, I believe - a fundamentalist nut who lives in church all day and decries any sort of scientific discovery is a fool, just as much as a man who would deny the existence of any spirituality and believe rationality can explain and solve everything and anything for us. Which is why, if real, most of the people on the OP's link are making a mistake. They say they can live on God alone, but if God is real, he encompasses rationality, science, spirituality, all those things. Theoretically speaking, there should be a way to God through rationality, through a scientist's work, as well as through a pastor's sermon. But instead of trying to find God in the world, they've just decided the world sucks and God only lives in churches. If God only lived in churches, God would be rather pointless. Finally, can I say I am always really really amused by all the fire spent in evolution discussions, especially by Christians. Most Christians would be better off thinking more about their own life and how they can show God to others through the way they live their own lives; endless ruminations about the flaws of evolution are secondary to that. Besides which, because so many of these people refuse to accept the scientific method as one of the ways in which we can see the world, they refuse to learn about it and therefore cannot offer proper critique of the evolution theories (proper critiques which do exist in the discipline of science). As a result, the evolutionists or new generations are more and more convinced that the opposition is a load of hot and bothered monkey behinds. You know, I've probably started this thread on the downward spiral now. Well, what will be, will be.

Ah, he fiddled personally with the encoding. In that case, yes, it would be best to have him give you another version.

I use AVG. It does give false alarms every now and then, but what antivirus is perfect? I think it's very good unless you in the past have gotten a lot of viruses or had a lot of trouble with simple ones. I despise Norton and McAfee. They annoy you more than the viruses, they take up too much room, and when you want to uninstall them they want to make *that* as annoying and clumsy as possible. I've had more frustration caused by them than most actual viruses.

Yeah, that's the one.

Ahh, misinformation. It's disproportionately effective even when you're completely wrong.

Yes, I agree. Anyway, I could link to that TV show where they stuck the words NORTH KOREA to Australia and showed it to random Texans and they were all like, "I didn't realise they were so big", but you know, we already know every demographic has its share of stupid people.

I wouldn't be surprised if most were true. Anyway, I'm Christian and this is hilarious.

Indo-European mythology is absolutely littered with monster hunters. I mean, it's what they do. Pidesco's 'big three' for example.

I did that when I was ten, Krezack. Now go and cry in the flashfloods.

Well, I anticipate old school tactical squad combat and lots of silly jokes.

Depends on your budget and how much time you have. Witcher guarantees +50 hours, and you'll have periodic little squeals of delight at the new rig, but Mask I felt was a more satisfying experience as a whole. That is, if you aren't one of those who hate NWN2 cameras or whatnot.

Looks like problem is solved then.

They don't need to bomb Australia, most of it's already Fallout.

Sounds pretty fun, the Sonic one. Pity it's not on PC. But, uh... who names a Sonic game The Dark Brotherhood?

Yeah, I don't know how comfortable Arkan is with this. Can anybody suggest a more friendly method? Also, maybe the supplier's website has an Uninstallation Tool, that is sometimes the case..

You can try going to Device Manager (Control Panel -> System), seeing if there is a Bluetooth entry anywhere. Then, if you look at the Properties of *that*, it will tell you what the driver file is (usually something like obscurename34.dll), which you can then use to find the driver. Personally I haven't had trouble finding drivers though, so I'm not sure - maybe someone else knows an easier way to spot those files.

KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms RPG trilogy, released in '95, '96 and '97. Delicious old school turn-based tactical squad combat.

In that case, use Export to backup, kill the registry entry, then delete everything (restart if you need). Once you have managed to destroy all files and registry entries, restart again and it should be gone. (Also, if it's something that starts automatically with Windows, you can check out HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run and delete an entry for it. Uh, don't trust me completely on those foldernames though, I'm not at home and am going by memory.)

Hrm, why haven't I heard of him? Porcupine Tree - Shallow Radiohead - Down is the New Up

Too much Jesus before bed, Wals.