Tigranes

Using old Fish & Chips paper packets as a pillow, that's how.

Who are you again?

Complete a single creation, be it book, music, film, game, whatever, and complete it properly enough to be proud of it. And, uh... find true love and strawberries that taste just right?

Naw, he'd take levels in Orc.

Since I don't believe in an absolute and universal value of Good and Evil, that throws me into "Alignments are bad cookies" party, but I suppose it's the most efficient way to do it in RPGs, pnp or not. Unless reputaiton/faction system comes in.

Not sure if he's talking about this one: In TOB, one of the things you have to do is... go kill some kobolds or something. Seeing as you are level 30something demigods and this is certainly below you, the questgiver suggests you 'outsource', by casting Stone to Flesh on some poor souls trapped in the dungeon, and making them do the dirty work. Out comes the intrepid Bondari, together with a brainless barbarian and Tim the wizard, of One Magic Missile Before Rest fame. They return with your required item, and a scripted sequence shows them trying to take you on for loot & glory. You turn into the slayer and lay the smackdown forthwith. Bondari proceeds to reload, then give you the item peacefully. edit: rofl.

I don't know. Wouldn't that mean that the new, younger generation (or simply new gamers) should have a similarly hard time playing, say, KOTOR, as the older did with their games? Personally, I started PC gaming with PS:T and Baldur's Gate II. Leaving PST aside (because its combat is crap any way you look at it), BGII was *not* hard. And I was what, 12. I had no previous experience with D&D, all I knew about RPGs or Fantasy was LOTR and Final Fantasy VII. (Hey, I was 12.) I had no idea about those dice rolls and whatnot, still could get by without much trouble, apart from a few frustrating areas. Granted, I seem to be faster at getting the hang of games than most people around me, but I don't think it's quite true that new games are just as difficult.

I call non-US resident.

I thought they said they were using KOTOR deaths.

In BG series, the main character could not be resurrected: spawns of Bhaal who have a very high concentration of Bhaal's essence have their corporeal form disintegrate upon death, a la Sarevok. Therefore if YOU die once, it's over. Also, I think they still intend you to play the game from the POV of the protagonist: so that you as a player could be watching your party members die then resurrect them, but when the arrow hits you then the screen should go black. I am fine with anything except KOTOR-style dumbdowns, there's really no excitement to already-easy battles because there's no risk. You never lose anything unless you have to reload. IE games were good because there was always a chance that you could do something stupid (or get a bad roll) and have a character clean chopped off.

Author is credited as 'robot chicken', apparently it's in his style but not by him. What the crap is he saying when he answers the phone, btw?

Has your mom ever had a character die?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO9zwhersfk...al%2Dc%2Ecom%2F

Yes he is.

No. Refresh rate bug can be fixed by going to Baldur.ini and editing the line, i believe it's called frequency something.

One person thinks Arsenal played better. Other person does not. Since neither of you are foolish enough to believe that with football there can be a definitive judgement of quality, we can leave it at that.

It's a known issue, especially with ATI cards. I believe in bio's BG2 technical forum they still have a sticky up, it's from a gaming magazine editor who advises you on how to fix it. Pretty much, you must install Catalyst driver without the display driver, then do some more stuff. If you're not ATI, no idea. Every reinstall in a while it happens for me, too - just play at a lower resolution. Some people have never been able to solve it.

While I'm walking around in fractured bones, yeah. So Eldar can't keep it going until/if we find another DM? He seems to strongly veer towards "I lurve you all but I really have to quit", although we wouldn't mind not having a set-in-stone session time.

It's okay, we all knew that. Except possibly blank.

Alright. I'll actually stick around online for a few hours anyway, I'm sure some of you will too.

So I go back to sleep?

Right, well, I'm going to sleep now. I will endeavour to awaken by the time (7am for me), and check here. If I am a bit late just start, I may arrive late but I wouldn't actually miss the session. I just really suck with alarms.

So do we have a session same time, or what?

But its true, American News gets information faster than anybody else! Then they don't report it.

Eto'o definitely has good ball control, and when he did do something it was spectacular, but he was anonymous for most of the match. Iniesta, Giuly and Larsson were the most dangerous, Ronaldinho often had no end product (except for a few through balls). Domenech is going to regret leaving Giuly out, and US is going to regret leaving Adu out.