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My last name is Schumacher, so there's some German ancestry there. And given Hungary is nearby.

As far as I know my family tree does not branch into Hungary.

Though the same could still be said for our schools. Though unless they are exceptionally smart and get everything funded by scholarships, they may have to take out some student loans or something. Though if they are exceptionally poor, they'll undoubtedly qualify for the bursaries which are handed out based on financial need. THere's also plenty of smaller scholarships that are handed out more liberally that make things easier. As for the hours, I'm not sure if them seeing it as a job is any better or worse. They'll work harder, but in my own personal experiences I worked harder at university when I had some personal financial investment in it. I imagine that this is a bit of a wash, and probably cancel each other out. The biggest benefit of your system is that people would not be coming out of school with any student loan debt.

I guess that makes something we have in common.

I'm curious what, if anything, you know (or care) of the issue Jorian.

Last I check no one was forcing you to sit in any particular way. You can still sit the way you want.

Aebischer was still getting a fair share of starts to start the season though. 3 of Huet's first 4 games had less than .900 Save Percentage. His lead in the GAA and Save% is a recent phenomenon, as was his most recent shutout. Unfortunately, the ballot doesn't update as players play well, and Huet's push to the top for save percentage and GAA has been his stellar play in the last little bit. Depending on when the ballot was put online, I don't see it as being a giant affront. After October he was a mere 2-1-2, a GAA of 2.92, and a save percentage of .899. Kiprusoff got off to a slow start, but he still played twice as many games, and has the recognition of being one of the elite goaltenders in the league. He gets on the ballot by reputation alone. On the plus side though, you can write in your vote, so it's kind of moot.

I disagree. The big thing they did was make it viable for people to play it and make progress, without allocating hours of their life per day to it. Some "hardcore" MMORPGers hated this, but you can't really argue with the results. It's possible to play for an hour and actually accomplish something.

Most likely you hit Print Screen, then open Paint and paste it in there. I'm not familiar with another way.

I think by the time it was set up, Aebischer was playing at the time. Didn't Huet have a bit of a dry spell?

I assume he's referring to the article that talks about Nintendo replacing the guy's strap.

I said VOIP, which is Voice Over IP. Been using it since the Roger Wilco days back in the late 90s. I'm not confusing you with Gromnir. The first part was towards him, and the second part was towards you. The miscommunication it seems is that you thought we were typing not talking. Given I thought you understood I was talking, it seemed like you were making a statement that pausing was still somehow redundant for our game. Just noticed this last bit: Sorry Gromnir, but I actually did have two other people (3 persons not named alan.....how witty). There names were Stefan (who now works at Bioware) and Chris (my roommate). Sorry if my anecdote wasn't good enough to counter your anecdote. As for the "interface gotta work for everybody," I'm not sure what you're talking about here. Didn't NWN also allow the ability to pause? It's not like every server has to have it enabled. Are you actually encouraging the action of removing options for the users? I'm surprised that you of all people seem to be making such blanket generalizations.

I am a bit leery. I always seem to get in the same range, which seems bizarre. I'll consistently hit in the .120 .130 range on some clicks, and my slightly slower clicks are usually in the .180 range. I never seem to get anything in between. If I am a bit slower, I'll get in the .250 range. EDIT: I'm not sure the speed of the sheep is consistent, but the measurement of time seems to be based on where they end up. It could just be my mind playing tricks on me due to speed, but I swear that some of the sheep where I have gotten super fast times (less than .100) have actually come out slower, and some of the more high ones have actually come out faster. But maybe there's something to that.

It's a strategy game that has each player controlling their own country. with a host of decisions to make. Even then, as I said, I've done the same in D&D style games such as BG2, both Icewind Dale games, and Neverwinter Nights. You talk about games like Everquest and WoW, which is odd because I stated that pausing would be a much bigger issue in a persistent world. You stated straight up that pausing in "any legit MP session" was "idiotic," based on your own anecdotal evidence. I'm providing my own anecdote that there are in fact people that play MP, that still use pause at times. Not necessarily a whole lot, but in a game like Icewind Dale (which features D&D style combat) where my friends and I are each controlling 2-3 characters, pause comes in handy at times. Same went for Neverwinter Nights. "Idiotic" seems to be a bit harsh of a term for pausing in a multiplayer game. If none of the players care that there is the occassional pause, nor do any of the players do annoying stuff like intentionally pause the game in bizarre fashion simply to be annoying, it's not really that big of a deal. Yeah, they were usually pausing to do something in combat. The most common instances where if we were ambushed in the game. Given the explanation can be given at the same time as the pause, it didn't really matter if the explanation was redundant. As we got better at the game, and more acquainted with our characters, it typically didn't happen as much. But I'm not sure why it should matter to you that some of my friends were pausing the game. Did it affect your game experience? I'm not saying there should be full on support for pausing, to the extent that it cannot be disabled.

Jason Gregor commented that he felt the boos were the loudest he had heard, including Mike Comrie's boos. I had a chance to hear his full press conference today as well, where Pronger spoke about how he really enjoyed his time with the team. He feels that the Oilers are in good hands with MacTavish and Lowe at the helm, and stated that he feels Edmonton has some of the best and most passionate hockey fans in the world. He loved being a part of the 'Our crowd is loudest' competitions between other teams during the playoffs. He spoke quite highly of the organization and their professionalism. I read a Kevin Lowe comment that states he still doesn't fully understand Pronger's reasoning for his trade request, but qualified the statement by stating the obvious: he isn't Chris Pronger It's funny, because I think if he had come out publicly stating all that he said yesterday, there would have been less hoopla over the whole ordeal. Oh well.

I suspect it'd be a much bigger issue in a persistent world. And I made sure to state that it was with my group that it was not an issue, and made sure to not generalize it to other people. Perhaps one factor was that we always stuck together, so it wasn't like we'd be busy pausing for a fight while the other people were doing random stuff across the map. The fight I was pausing for was the same fight they were involved with. Also, whenever someone paused, they usually mentioned why they were pausing it over whatever VOIP we happened to be using. It's not all that uncommon either. The Paradox games are real time, and they involve a multiplayer that allows pause (which is a good thing, because sometimes big events happen and you want to spend some time contemplating what may be the best course of action). If someone pauses the game, only they can unpause it for the first 30 seconds. After that, anyone can unpause it.

I don't have a problem deleting stuff. I have a problem with undoing stuff. Like the fact that some stuff is not undoable.

Well, it's a bit early to rule out NWN2 on the MP front. I recall having issues with the original in MP as well, not to mention toolset issues. I thought it was pretty funny because I remember people being upset that NWN didn't follow in BG2's footsteps.

I rolled my eyes at Sand who said he questioned my judgment by siding with Qara, and felt like siding with Garius as a result.

I love watching some of those old videos of hockey highlights. I was too young to really appreciate Gretzky in all of his awesomeness. I knew he was great, but when you're 5 you don't really comprehend that he's absolutely demolishing previous scoring records. There's a great game with Russia versus the Finns where Pavel Bure gets 5 goals, and you can really see just how fast he is. A loose puck and he'd be two or three strides away, and by the time he gets to it, he's already at max speed leaving the defenders in the dust.

I preferred Qara to Sand. She melts faces. Appropriately, it was her that killed Sand in the final fight.

sorry vol, but it doesn't work... not with 6 or even 4 folks all able to stop game on a whim. makes us wonder if you ever played mp nwn. HA! Good Fun! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I only played NWN 2 MP with 2 other people (so 3 total), but we still had pauses. They weren't too common, and usually when it happened we wouldn't unpause until everyone is all ready or not. I imagine it would depend on the people as to whether or not pausing would work or not. I can't imagine adding an extra person would have pushed it past critical mass and made it unwieldly.

Both are probably acceptable options. You may also want to contact Lucasarts, the publisher of the game.

See mkreku, sometimes finding old posts and doing some digging CAN be fun. You're well on your way to becoming like me! My favourites are still:

I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here. I mean, in order to rotate, you'll need to have a point to rotate around. Are you saying you cannot change where that point is? The biggest issue I have had so far (which isn't too much. Stupid life has interferred with my toolset work) is the undo implementation.