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The widescreen mod works perfectly on retail IWD, that's the version I have and used earlier this year. Or maybe last year. Either way, it was an easier install than modding BG2 retail was. Which was still far better than wasting $20 on Overhaul's version. I did install Tales of the Luremaster as well as HoW, since that wasn't specified. Heuristics update, most likely. That's the 'predictive' part of the AV package that is designed not to catch known viruses but to catch unknown ones by behaviour or code snippets. If the heuristics have been updated too broadly all sorts of new 'threats' may be found in existing files, and they entirely deserve the ' ' around them. I've had gog installers, gamersgate installers and very well known mods flagged, Bioshock multiple times, all sorts of things, some after they've been on my computer for years and have been checked dozens of times previous. They were all false positives. If you've only had one of those you're lucky.

T72BMs were exported*. And manufactured prior to the break up of the USSR as well, so it is feasible for Ukraine to have inherited them, same as they inherited the rest of their T-72s. *As, uh, T-90 variants, which may be where the confusion comes from, to be charitable. If you'd like an independent cite here's one, if you'd like more info than you could ever use (and from nearly two decades per current crisis, for added independence) here's another.

Paradox tutorials are universally poor. My favourite was them thinking that having Adolf Hitler (!) 'narrate' the 'tutorial' for Hearts of Iron III was a good idea.

Story Mode? In Icewind Dale? ... Yes Corporal Hicks, it's the only way to be sure.

Pretty good satire list, that.

Sometimes Bruce has some subtlety in his... posting, that isn't one of those times. Couldn't be more obvious. You've dropped your 'accent', oby. Though I tend to agree, for much the same reasons as last time. Nowhere near as much conclusive information as there should be, same fuzzy commercial satellite pictures as evidence, no to little independent corroboration for such information as they do have. Basically no critical evaluation from the media, as a consequence of them only ever listening to one side on the ground and not actually examining the information provided.

Obviously not or he'd be WikusVC, JannieVC, FannieVC, JoostVC, ReubenVC, FrancoisVC, FafVC, AndreVC, PikVC, RuanVC, GerhardusVC, HendrickVC etc, not BruceVC. And that has exhausted my 20s trawl through every afrikaans movie character, rugby player, cricketer or politician I can remember.

The Nordic games will probably be back at some stage. Stated reason was that they couldn't agree on pricing but supposedly it is not directly due to GOG's pricing policy itself but due to incompatibilities with a contract they [Nordic, to clarify] have signed with a 3rd party meaning they literally could not reach agreement on prices even if both wanted to. But both parties seemingly at least do want those games back.

To be fair, Walker's tirade has been ignored on RPS for a while. One mod tried to reinstate the ban a couple of days ago because he was bored of the discussion or something... and another mod then started a topic ignoring that nearly immediately. It's rather ironic that all the defenders there seem to actively want it to be all about Quinn so they can legitimately shut it down/ high horse about privacy, and they tend to be the ones going on about that particular aspect. Many of the others including long time members are trawling through RPS articles looking for when RPS 'invaded privacy' (as with Max wossname) or complained about tactics they themselves have used on this issue ('The Silence'). RPS is also one of the few sites I have some sympathy for being defensive as they're in a bad position. Serves them right for being illogical and unapologetic SJW (and holy asterisks did Grayson, primarily, annoy me by shoehorning SJW into every interview he did) but, you should not slag off former employees except with very good reason, and at present the reason falls short of good.

Oh dear, and Bruce was doing so well. Now he's back to "I'm leaving the thread forever. Or ten minutes, whichever is longer" Yeah, but nobody would think there was significant impropriety there if they hadn't become an item. That isn't really asking for 'appearance of propriety', at the time, it's asking for retroactive appearance of propriety due to something that happened in the future. Journalists and devs meet and socialise at conventions, it's part of the reason for having them. Given the nature of the game footage and screenshots are essentially the same thing. But in any case the screenshots are still copyrighted.

The really ironic thing and best illustration given the subject matter is that if you'd talked about the things that Manning or Snowden revealed, prior to them being revealed, chances are you'd have been labelled a conspiracy theorist- despite them being correct.

The DMCA was probably legitimate, as the original video did use game footage from Depression Quest. Bit of an own goal in any case, due to the Streisand Effect.

Meh, that spoilered stuff is suggestive only. If I'm going to hang someone for such things I want a bit more conclusiveness than a quarter of a head in a picture and some people obviously knowing each other. Frankly, I'd be surprised if games journalists didn't know and interact with a lot of game devs, that is legitimately a part of what covering games entails. I'd accept that it certainly looks like several of the other 5 were genuinely compromised, I just don't find the case against Grayson compelling- though I'll admit that 'zero evidence' is a bit strong, zero compelling evidence would be more accurate. Easy for me to not care anyway, I actively avoid reading Kotaku and was not exactly enamoured with Grayson from his RPS output.

Ah, but surely the interview they formally want him for is also just a formality as well? They have, after all, interviewed him previously (then let him leave the country while, yes ironically, leaking the interview) and can/ have held interviews in other countries, in other cases. Given the somewhat... unusual treatment of his case I don't see why he should trust the system at all. While it is a rather roundabout way of doing so getting him to Sweden then not charging him but having a sweetheart extradition to the US would certainly be a legitimate fear, from his perspective.

If you're close to the sea you always have relatively high humidity though- take Mumbai for example, it's on pretty much exactly the same latitude as Nagpur but is on the coast rather than inland, has the same monsoonal climate just more extreme (drier when dry, wetter when wet) yet its lowest average humidity is 67%. It's that humidity where the water comes from. Even in drought conditions Florida or Mumbai will get humidity from the sea so there's plenty of 'easy' water to extract, you cannot say the same for inland places with humidity in the 20s. I'm not saying that this device is useless or anything, just that it is likely not to work as well in areas where it would really be useful.

Bruce actually disowned the whole mess, and he has stayed out of it too. Appropriate kudos must be given and there's no need to drag him in. And to be fair to Nathan Grayson- who I dislike from his time on RPS- there has been zero evidence that he broke ethics either. It's gone well beyond that. If it was just some indie dev bonking journalists that would be one thing, and it probably would have blown out by now. Probably not enough public interest, might inflame some rabid MRA types but then they're basically reverse SJWs and get inflamed randomly at trivial stuff. Certainly I didn't care at the beginning, besides it reinforcing my already low view of the gaming journalist fraternity sorority consanguinity- I have even agreed with SJW types on some things like the Dead Island Torso and Twitcher booby cards. As it stands though the attempts to censor the whole thing and to couch it only in the terms of sexism has backfired massively and it's now far more about censorship and hypocrisy (not just 'liberals' trying to silence critics, but also that SJWs have used similar, personal, stuff to smear people themselves) than the original incident. At this point the SJWs are doing an excellent job of making enemies who don't care much at all about the typical SJW issues. Said it in the RVGN thread in GG but the whole [ech, overstatement, and given Bruce's contribution unfair. The SJW crowd participating in this incident at least] SJW crowd is coming across as cult or Scientology like.

He hasn't been charged with any crime.

Florida is, basically, a big swamp next to the sea, with appropriate apologies to Floridians for the rather blunt and stereotypical description. Florida does not match many places where water would be needed very closely at all- which are, basically, monsoonal, ie lots of water when there's lots of water, otherwise near desert. Somewhere like Nagpur in India is hundred of km from the sea and has up to 45 degree heats (up to 35 degree mean daily temperature) in summer with 27% average humidity, and seven months with less than 20mm average monthly precipitation. Tampa, say, does get to an average mean temp of 32 degrees, but average humidity never drops below 69% and it has seven months of less than 70mm rainfall, which is still quite a lot especially if you have high humidity which retards evaporation. So the question is whether that device could efficiently work in Nagpur's significantly different conditions- fundamentally, there's no shortage of water in Florida, just shortage of potable/ fresh water whereas there is, fundamentally, a seasonal shortage of water in Nagpur.

You can get some 'free' energy out of heat pumps via entropy, iirc, so in theory you can get very efficient heating/ chilling cycling. The question is whether it works well in appropriate conditions. You want something that produces water well in the dry season when humidity is low and temperatures high, something that produces water well only when humidity is high such as during/ after rain or monsoon is a lot less useful.

Wouldn't count Romero, personally, main thing he did was be frontman for an ad campaign for a much delayed, buggy, mediocre game- and indirectly make it so that Eidos couldn't buy out Looking Glass- but at heart he was no worse than, say, Mike 'awesome button' Laidlaw fronting DA2 promos. I expect people to promote their products. Derek Smart PhD, Cleve, in a different way Tim Langdell, they all trolled like the Japanese fishing fleet chasing the last tuna in existence.

Yeah, it did. That has some relevance to the current situation as well, given that the same accusations are being made again.

A poster on a board has no obligation to respect others- within reasonable limits- and Nonek didn't go to BSN or whatever to make his comment. A journalist at least theoretically does have one, as well as obligations towards being honest and objective. But games journalism isn't really journalism in the classic sense anyway. Indeed, the response of some to the current scandal is more reminiscent of someone defending Scientology or a cult- varying from the equivalent of sticking fingers in ears and yelling "Nahnahnah I can't hear you" to trying to silence others even using illegal methods and threats. In the end, the initial stuff is primarily a question of morality and integrity, plus elements of applying what you preach; but some of the acts leading on from that on the other hand go far beyond those sorts of issues. I don't even care particularly about SJW, I just turn on the brain filter and don't engage most of the time.

An article from a Polish (albeit english language) website that mentions the previous Witcher movie? Pretty irresponsible given that 'The *****' caused PTSD in a third of the people who saw it.

Excellent, more money for us, and with world dairy prices dropping as well. Jolly decent of the EU to throw our farmers a bone and hand us a market like that. Still doesn't make up for the CAP though. And in slightly more relevant news, Ukraine has been invaded by perfidious Russians intent on spreading mischief and mayhem. Or alternatively Russia has got tired of Ukrainian stonewalling and sent their aid convoy in without waiting yet longer than the week it's already been for permission. Either way, things are going to get interesting.

I don't block anyone- even gimmick accounts who commit grievous insults against the purity of dear sweet logic. If you don't have the discipline not to reply to something pointless you're either taking things far too seriously or should remove yourself from the internet for your own sanity. Or you have far too much time on your hands.