DemonKing

In the Vader costume? I think sticking a moldy old corpse up might have freaked out some of the others...although I dare say Christoper Lee would have liked Peter Cushing to be there.

Do as I say, not as I do... Well, I don't think including prices for brothels is the end of the world morality wise, but it would be nice if WOTC chose a standard and stuck to it...I seem to remember you could shag a drow prostitute in BG2 but a couple of years later you can't even stick kids in D&D games anymore.

Even if the graphics engine is 3 years behind the times and the storyline is finished off by a different team from the one that started it? Keep dreaming. Anyway, Herve will probably keep working out of his shoebox in the middle of the road with "Interplay" painted crudely on the side even if his French buddies try to convince him it really is over...a bit like those Japanese soldiers that they found still fighting the war on pacific islands in the 1980s.

I'm not that excited about NWN2 since I really disliked the tile system in the original and it looks like it will be making a comeback. Also I have some doubts about Obsidian's ability/commitment to provide the same after-product support that Bio has for the original. DA appeals because it will use rendered backdrops (my favourite) and at least its not D&D for a change.

Huh? Some of the one-on-one battles were OK, but the army battles were terrible...especially the one where two entire armies in hand-to-hand combat stopped in mid-swing just to watch Hector and Archille's cousin duke it out...and then retired immediately from the field after one of them was killed. I thought Gaugamela (the first battle) was well done...maybe some people didn't like it because of all the dust but I thought it demonstrated pretty well just what the Macedonian phalanx could do and you got a good idea of how a small disciplined force managed to beat a much larger but disorganised rabble. Also, I loved the technique with the eagle flying from one side of the field to the other to give you the "eagle-eye" view. I agree that the Indian battle was probably not to everyone's taste with the strange pink/yellow sepia techniques used but I thought it captured the chaos (plus fear) of an elephant assault pretty well.

That is weird. I only liked 2 bits of Troy - the Bana/Pitt fight and watching Orlando get the living snot beaten out of him (until he morphed into Legolas II at the end of the film). It was basically a Brad Pitt calender otherwise.

Well the city of Troy did actually exist...but of course as you point out, "The Illiad" is literature. Of course, saying that, the movie bears very little resemblance to the literature. Arrian, Plutarch & Quintus Curtius Rufus are the main ones. Most people think Arrian is the best source, especially for the battles. Have you seen "The Pillow Book"? One of my exes made me go see it and you get to see a young Ewan "tackle-out", if that sort of thing rocks your boat (actually the film wasn't all bad).

Hi all. I just saw Alexander yesterday (despite the panning most prople are giving it), and I was pleasantly surprised. Unlike the abomination that was Troy, this film was actually remarkably accurate in terms of the ancient source material...major stuff like Alexander killing one of his best friends in a drunken rage and the "Consipracy of the Pages" were there and even little details like the guy who assassinated Alexander's father having an accomplice waiting by with horses to try and make a getaway were included, for example. The costumes were pretty accurate and I thought that when CGI was used it was to good effect (the entry into Babylon, for instance). The battles, weapons, equipment and tactics were also pretty acurate (although far too brief in the overall context of the film). I think the film has two main flaws...while all the key elements of Alexander's life are present the film is a bit disjointed (for instance, why do we get a flashback to the assasination of Phillip's father right at the end of the film for instance, when it would have seemed to me far more appropriate to have it in sequential order like the rest of the film) and sometimes lingers too long on ancient Ptolemy (Antony Hopkins) rambling when some more detail on some of Alexander's early victories would have been preferable. Finally the homosexual elements of the story probably repelled a lot of the traditional key audience for such a film (testosterone laden young men). Frankly even I thought they were a little overdone - the point could have been achieved without the frequent longing looks and hugs. The film does make some effort to show that homosexual relations between Macedonian men were commonplace and accepted, but this doesn't mean that the traditional cinema-going audience is able to accept this quite so willingly. Also you can't see this film without mentioning the awful wigs they stuck on Colin Farrell (the first time you see him as "the young Alexander" actually drew groans from the audience) and the terrible accents either: Angelina Jolie sounds Russian, while the Macedonians sound like half-Scottish/Irish barbarians! Overall, it's a great film if you want to see a reasonably realistic depection of the life and times of Alexander...but not so great if you're looking for a typical Hollywood blockbuster epic with a macho hero.

Should be an interesting wedding night!

I come from Australia but live in Germany (because my wife is German), and I've also lived in England, the States and Ireland. Believe me - the rest of the world is great to visit but Australia is the best place to live (at least so far, for me). The food is better and cheaper, the weather nicer, the people friendlier, the rent minimal (unless you're on the North Shore in Sydney, of course) and the beaurocracy is practically non-existant compared to the hoops you have to jump through in some places. Plus because of the warm weather all year round the girls wear less clothes.

Forgive my ignorance but what is "pr0n"? I know what "p0rn" is, of course...but a classy woman like Sarah probably wouldn't be into that.

Well I'm having my delayed Honeymoon early next year...Egypt! It's been my dream for so long and I've been so envious hearing from all my friends that have been, that my wife has finally backed down and agreed to go, despite her fears for death by terrorist, chronic diahorrea ("the Curse of the Pharohs") and being abducted by the aliens that the built the pyramids. 2 weeks and we're travelling from Abu Simbel to Alexandria, including 9 days cruising the Nile in 5 star luxury. Whaooh!

I just bought a new Geforce Gt 6800 so if anyone is interested in my old radeon 9800Pro at a reasonable price, let me know!

So what inspired him to pop the question: was he trying to get you off the X-Box by knowing that you would have to run to the telephone to tell all your friends/relatives? Did he get down on his knees or what? Details. Details! Congrats anyway. I got married in July and the wife is a bit of a geek (she actually hugged the KOTOR extended edition box when it arrived) but she gets intimidated by most of my computer games (too complex). When she does play she likes things like Uru and the Hobbit, which are a bit simplistic/dull for me...plus she is a graphics whore.

Frankly I saw tough to the American X-Boxers...we all have to wait so if your version is a bit buggier than ours than too bad...you'll get no sympathy from me.

Coming from Australia where the queen is also our "head of state", it is even more bizzare. I have a feeling that part of the problem is the queen has been around for so long now (50+ years) that people are so used to seeing her head on coins and notes that they don't think twice about it. Hopefully when we get King Charlie and a few more of the old Monarch-loving grey hairs (of which our Prime Minister is one) die off we can finally become a republic. I can understand that not everyone is born with equal opportunity, which is why Paris Hilton gets to go on daily shopping sprees while the rest of us actually have to work for a living, but the idea that someone is "better" than others just because of an accident of birth is repugnant. Certainly an accident of birth is no qualification for making someone a suitable head of state, as history has demonstrated repeatedly. Now of course the British monarchy *theoretically* has no real power, but it still rankles somewhat. Get rid of them, I say. There will always be dumb movie stars and spoiled brats for the gutter press.

"No - I'll never turn to the Box Side!" (I was going to add "I am a PC Gamer, like my father before me..." but my Dad sees the PC solely as a way to get cheap porn, so I think I'll leave it out. )

I've enjoyed "The Machinist" and "Collateral". "The Bourne Supremecy" was also good but I hated the shaky cam that ruined all the action scenes.

I assume you mean the catalyst drivers? Did you uninstall the previous drivers before installing the new ones? This could be causing screw ups. Use the catalyst uninstaller in the add/remove programs section in MS control panel, or even better download Driver Cleaner ver3 (google it) and use it to unisntall all ATI files. Then reboot and install the latest drivers (including the catalyst control centre) and see how that goes.

I met a guy once whose job it was to manually jerk off bulls and horses for artificial insemination. I always wondered to myself why anyone would do this voluntarily for a living...

Museum Curator/Manager. And no I'm not a sad bearded guy that bores people to death talking about igneous rocks. Instead I bore them to death talking about how little money/resources we have and complaining about the politicians who after they cut the ribbon opening a museum and get their picture in the paper, decide they don't actually want to finance us any more.

I liked Jon Pertwee's frilly sleeves and collar, myself. Can't say I card much for the leather jacket look and the haircut is a little bit short, IMHO - all the previous doctors had hair that looked a little bit wild, or at least, hard to manage! The girl looks like just another dumb blonde bimbette. Dr Who showed that you can have an interesting character and minimal clothes on at the same time (Leela anyone?), but this look doesn't do much for me. Well, if the Doctor ends up screwing her, we'll realise the series really has gone downhill. Luckily my expectatations are not too high.

It all depends on who wins the next US election, I guess...

If everyone in the world got to vote then Kerry would win by a landslide...but as *only* US citizens get to vote, Bush still has a chance. As an outsider I must admit I don't know much about Kerry, but I do know he couldn't be any worse than Bush, so why not give him a chance?

Abba? Bjorn Borg? Tiger Wood's Girlfriend? Must be a few somewhere there!