Everything posted by astr0creep
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What are you playing now?
Of course you do! :D
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Something for you to think about
This is sad and yet good. If she can lead a "normal" life that is. There is not much difference between her and people getting shot in the face, saved, plasticsurgerized and burn victims yet we don't hesitate in doing everything we can to save those. Why then would she deserve abortion? Wouldn't death also be preferable for the cripple and mutilation survivors?
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What are you playing now?
IWD 2
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Diabetes thread
I can just picture it now: Joe Shmo: "Honey, can you poor me a nice cool glass of my pee please?" Honey Shmo: "Of course smooshypoo" Joe Shmo: "Slurp, hmm... Slurp, slurp... Oh my goodness this is soo sweet!" Honey Shmo: "Oh Noes! Shmooshy you're diabetic!" Joe Shmo: "Noooooo! Thats unpossible!" The End.
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What Music Are You Currently Listening To?
George Thorogood and The Destroyers
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Diabetes thread
Actually I'd blame site security. On the subject of DB, I was thinking this morning that if the problem is sugar crystallising in your capillaries surely you could go for a steam bath and the stuff would dissolve back into your blood. Provided you were drinking the right amounts of water you could excrete it/burn it off? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Water is essential for sure. Docs recommend 8 tall glasses a day(about 8x 750ml?) allowing a diabetic to pee out a lot of excess glucose. It also helps the kidneys. As for the steambath, it's an interesting theory. I'm guessing it would have to be very hot for a while because, as I understood it, crystalized glucose is like rock?
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Gothic 2
Why? And what do you think of the other Infinity engine games? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Although I did enjoy the story, I found the gameplay boring. Actually what annoyed me the most was the incredibly slow pacing and I wanted some spells or skills but it would take forever to get enough xp for a levelup and then all I had was 1 choice or 1 point to spend, after like 10-15 hours of play. It must be noted though that I had never played table top D&D before at that time and I found the whole rule system very annoying. Add to that the instant game over when the main character died(I understood why but it was frustrating) and how hard it was to gather enough money for equipment and resurrections of party members and I just gave up. I used cheats to fix what I was annoyed with and moved on. IWD was ok but with basically the same problems as BG1 with some improvements. I loved Torment because the problems I had with BG1 were irrelevant as it was a slow paced game more because of the dialog and storytelling and that is ok. the gameplay was essentially the reading. But my gripes aren't for the engine itself, more for the D&D rules and as the editions evolved, my enjoyment for D&D-based CRPGs grew. I still prefer FPRPGs like Morrowind, Wizardry and Ultima Underworld though.
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Gothic 2
I hated BG1... :"> I cheated to levelup so I could finish it faster. I never found or even heard of that ring.
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Gothic 2
I remember going on the search for Zidane's ultimate weapon. I eventually had to look it up on the internets. I had to send my chocobo digging on the right pixel... in the ocean. Without the nets I would never have been able to find it. This is the kind of game design that really pisses me off.
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Diabetes thread
I will try not to scare you Wally... If your pancreas is genetically built to fail it will, no matter how you eat or the amount of exercise you do. However when it does, if you already have good living habits it will be a cakewalk for most of your remaining life(it gets harder toward the end because of the complications diabetes brings when dealing with other health problems).
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Morrowind in just over 15 minutes
OMG! That was amazing! It usually takes me 40-60 hours to finish that frakking game! (w00t)
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Gothic 2
I did QA on the Gothic 2 expansion Night of the Raven. I had never played G1 but I bought it during the QA project as I had some problems getting used to it since we were testing the German version and I don't understand German... Anyway long story. The expansion adds a chapter between the first and second because apparently C2 was very difficult mainly because there is not enough xp gainable in C1. The new chapter is very well integrated in the game. It also adds pirates! The problem I found with Gothic 2 was Chapter 1. It is way too long to complete and you spend most your time running away from everything while fetching this and that. Some quests are pretty good though and others rely on dialogs. Once C1 is done you hunt dragons. How bad can that be?
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Don't you dare forget about The Goonies.
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What are you playing now?
Are you using any interesting mods?
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Technical stuff
Sounds like another victim of Starforce to me.
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What are you playing now?
I was looking for Night Watch, found it, noticed it was European so I checked and found it has Starforce.
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
I didn't find it funny at all, except for that spoon joke and the other one where the Sarge is running and gunning with his guts hanging from his belly. Hilarious! I can't wait to see the "sequel"
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Dog Soldiers - Best described as Evil Dead with Werewolves instead of zombies and soldiers with guns instead of stupid teenagers. (w00t) But no boobies, practically no humour and no Bruce Campbell Lots of gore though... I enjoyed it.
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What Music Are You Currently Listening To?
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
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Americans too fat for X-rays
Yes, water is essential for losing weight. It certainly worked for me. Hades, you're on your way to better living! GO GO HADES!!!
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What are you playing now?
Has anyone here ever played Legend of Kay on PS2?
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
I'm about to watch Dog Soldiers in preparation for The Descent.
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Picture Thread 2006
You are right in my case. :">
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Diabetes thread
I found the DAISY(now TEDDY) website and came to the same conclusions. I have Type 2 so perhaps that is why the doctors never mentionned the relation between the auto-immune system and the pancreas. Or is it relatively knew knowledge? I find it all very interesting. It's like the cells of the immune system are too effective and the first insulin secretions began after the immune system was fully developped, therefore, not recognizing these "news" cells, the immune system destroys them. Makes me want to become a researcher in that field.
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What are you playing now?
Summoner 1 - PC.