Monte Carlo

Anything to do with Twilight should trigger a forum taste filter and be erased.

Tunnel Fighting urges are tough, I feel your pain. I find that the original Sacred Gold, which is so cheap it's silly, booted up and played for an hour or two scratches that itch. There a couple of half-decent BG2 mods that also provide an adequate tunnel-fighting fix.

STOP. Start your own soppy knitting circle thread somewhere else to discuss relationships. This thread is about ME. Solving problems. And stuff. Girly men.

@ Wals. There are some up-armoured 432s floating around, but there are also enough really old ones to buy. The Mastiff was bulk-bought and is apparently v. popular, I don't know if there are any serving types who could tell me if that and Vector basically put the resurrected 432 programme into mothballs again. If I wanted an old 1960's vintage Abbott SP gun I'd be laughing. But I don't. I want to drive it around a field. It's been a big thing I've wanted to do for many years, my dream would be a tank (a Sherman, one that was actually in use with a WW2 Yeomanry preferably) but I have to be realistic. Maybe I need to start smaller, maybe a scout car of some description.

Currently researching the purchase, upkeep and maintenance of a vintage armoured fighting vehicle. Seriously. Am thinking of either an ageing FV432 APC or maybe an old-skool M1 Halfie. I need a field to drive it around in.

BG2 used to work fine, to be honset it might be all the mods including Widescreen.

Company of Heroes Online, which will be free to play (no doubt with lots of DLC) goes live in September. This is the good bit though, if being griefed by pro-smurfs all day isn't your bag, is that the single-player campaign (The original 15 mission USA Normandy one) ships free too. Given that it's possibly the best WW2 RTS ever, that is an astonishing opportunity, it still looks and plays great.

Hmmm tried to play BG2 but for some reason the vocals don't work (music and ambient sound does). Damn Vista.

Alternatively, hire yourself a US Naval Aviator's uniform, No. 1 dress white's, and re-create the final scene from An Officer and a Gentleman. OTOH, I remembered that a lot of you Scandies are peacenik hippies who might not dig that whole military vibe. Give it a try anyway, it's easier than Wal's 'hidden jewellery' fiasco which proves why I'm the guy with the problem-solving thread and not him.

Thanks a lot, man. That's thirty minutes laughing like a t***. Anybody who dares question the innate awesomeness of the Internet needs to read that thread!

12 years. Wow. It doesn't seem that long ago. And in many ways it's yet to be equalled!

Maybe you should do some research next time before you put money into the sand. Yes, mum, will do.

I don't know.

I have installed it. The game is rubbish. Am exploring whether to uninstall it, but now Empires TW looks tempting.

Not in Sweden, it doesnt. Sending unsolicited flowers or a gift of any kind to a girl you're not intimately familiar with, is not socially acceptable. Unless you're Alexander Skarsg

This falls outside of my remit of advice-orientated qualifications, Orogun01. Motherly love is a powerful elemental force with which we meddle at great risk.

The answer is = roughly the size of Wales.

As it happens the young Monty, circa 1987, faced an identical dilemma. A very beautiful girl worked in a store. I sent her flowers with a not-very-cryptic clue as to who I was. Her female co-workers cooed and fussed over the floral tribute. I got a date and went out with her for a couple of very pleasant months. You can have that one for free. It actually works.

If you folks don't stop discussing freaking Twilight this thread might self destruct.

Tomorrow is experimental Steam day... I will let you all know what happens. I am wearing special protective clothing and Kevlar mittens for the occasion.

Green Zone. Matt Damon has two facial features (stoically baffled and slightly less baffled) but this is a solid action movie with a gritty and convincing Neocons-are-bastards subplot and some interesting camerawork. I give it 7.5/10, not least for the main bad guy's (mysterious US special forces dude) 1970's p0rno moustache.

I was berating the moron tendency in this case and bemoaning the general moral degeneration of the country (etc). Then my wife, quite astutely, pointed out that the halfwits have always been with us but now have Facebook to share their stupidity with the rest of us. So I blame teh intaweb.

The violence is amusing because it cannot harm you. Purchase a Bengal tiger and re-run the exercise. You will realise that video games have de-sensitized you to nothing.

Good to see Dave give the wierdos on the Bio forums a well-deserved slap-down.

Dave indulges in the usual passive / aggressive Bio style. They really are thin-skinned. I'm not exactly a graphics whore but those screenies are embarrassing.