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MMOs are cheap per hour played. Assuming you would otherwise spend the time playing normal priced games you'd probably end up with a net win in the end.

Feargus probably messed it up in between waltzing through the offices collecting high fives.

Paradox apparently acquired HBS. Or as the HBS guys put it, they've joined the Paradox family. "Yay" or so.

I will, if or when I feel like playing an MMO again. It's not going to be a for a while though, I guess.

But muh Classic was haadkoah! Yeah, not really. It was just slow. Which is what Kungen liked about it apparently. Well, it wasn't even that slow when compared to the other MMOs out at the time. Getting to max level in Everquest took longer than it took to clear all WoW content in Classic... The evolution of WoW is pretty interesting. From really easy endgame that just took ages to do for design reasons - and Blizzard's inexperience in designing bosses that actually worked - to actually hard content that can be cleared in a short time.

Speaking of the Coffee Shop, I found an old transcript while looking for the Lord Jim screenshot. It's a minor exchange that I copy/pasted, no screenshots sadly. =/ 'Twas a fun situation when Yrkoon found out that Lady Ayanami aka Goldenbell had more, uhm, land down south than she should have. *cough* The Goldenbell Fallout! Starring: Redrake as the Romanian dense lawyer Tingeling as the initiator Yrkoon as the fooled one Maji as the one who warns Fluffy Doc, as he who once was Goldenbell The location: Tarna’s Coffee Shop The time: 10:57 PM The dense lawyer enters the room and leaves the door open, and, as usual, blunts into the already ongoing conversation. A debate has been raging so far about how to deal with Andy the Internet Troll. Redrake: I'm not signing that. I'm the one who informed Andy about the existence of this board in the first place. Tingeling (to Redrake): Why am I not suprised by one worthless waste of space bringing others of its kind? Maji (to Redrake): I always knew that Andy was too dumb to be for real, but that it is an alt of you is... surprising, to say the least. This round goes to the blunt gardening tool. Redrake, wittingly replying to Tingeling: Because you are one yourself? Tingeling, retorting: The wit, it doth truly burn like no other! Keep honkerin' with the one-liners, bud. Redrake: Get real! I'm not trolling with a wet-behind-ears anime lover. Get back to your Goldenbell fanclub. Fluffy Doc (addressing nobody in particular): for once I agree with the lawyer (editor’s note, in the ongoing conversation were three – 3 – lawyers involved). Yrkoon (to the gathered group): !!! Now there's a blast from the past. What happened to our lovley Lady Ayanami/Goldenbell anyway? Maji: Before I answer, I shall ask you: Do you really want to know? Tingeling (to Yrkoon): Oh man, there's a story that really should be left dead and buried, lest its stupidity infect you, too. Yrkoon, not heeding the warnings: Yes. Maji (to Yrkoon): Goldenbell's real name is Tim. Do I need to go on? Yrkoon: GAH!!! Maji: Well, just don't say you haven't been warned. Redrake, too late as always: Let's just say that I didn't call Fluffy the resident transvestite without a reason. Maji (to Redrake): Stop trying to profile yourself as the harbinger of information. Why do you post this redundant nonsense?

I have a screenshot around here somewhere with a post from him from when he banned The Pope.

Finished Yoga Fire. Loved the setting, the looks, the music and the questing. Much better than the first one. Not enough press X for awesome in the game?

I bought Elex and got Rime in the process, I'd call that a win.

Heppner > u.

We had to fight hard to prevent Interplay from axing the entire Fallout section and every other day someone else from the community became mod and tried to reign them in. Speaks volumes when they were perfectly willing to keep YoP and it's myriad political flame wars (speaking of which, remember Yrkoon and Crucis?) but would have almost ditched the Fallout forums after that. Fun times indeed.

Don't worry old man. In your case it's true. edit: Lord Jim was Interplay's original site admin when they closed down the BIS board. He started banning people left and right and told them to screw themselves if they had a problem. Interplay removed him from his post rather quickly, but he certainly didn't help during the transition phase...

The only BG1 forum I remember was the oldstyle one with no avatars and that threaded BB like format. I think I recall when they shut that one down but I never went to the new ones, or didn't stay for long, or something. Ah, the early days of game forum-ing. I used to spend a lot of time at a Ceasar3 forum and a DK1 forum and ... 'net seemed a lot calmer and more rational back then overall. Probably wasn't tho and it's just my nostalgia. Yeah, Interplay opened up custom avatars for everyone when they closed down the Black Isle boards and created the new Interplay forums. The Lord Jim incident followed shortly thereafter.

I might back that simply because it's sci-fi.

Don't worry, you'll be fine. Save for a few points that can be either skipped or cheesed with traps KOTOR is a fairly easy game. Click on this once you left Taris and reached the next destination, it's just a tip and only a spoiler until you did so:

G3N13 aka. G3 was the guy with the upside down Xzar avatar. He was active at Interplay's Baldur's Gate forums and later went to Ashford City and left after Barren made a WoW subforum at Lord Tingeling's request. Things were weird there until Barren's hoster just died and had no backups. And yeah, Silvy is Peterond Silverbow from BIS. I'm not sure the original Lair should be counted either, itwasn't exactly a replacement board because Interplay was far from sinking when she made her own after some community drama. I'm no longer sure what that was about, I think it was YoP and how that "cesspool of flamewars" stained the boards but damned if I know if that caused her and Tess to leave and do their own thing or not. Extremist disappearead at the same time due to an accident, not sure if you remember. Were you still a moderator when Kitty (no longer know her full nick or name, Katherine something? community manager from Interplay) managed to get us free games for moderating and we all picked Lionheart of all things? edit: I think I asked you that Lionheart question before and you said no. Stupid brain!

Winterwind (aka 1888). Although that's pretty dead at the moment wiht Josan being all busy and married. G3 made his own forum which is still going but it's private and invitation only, so we're not supposed to share the link. Silverbow is still there and posts every now and then. If you like I can ask him, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind you having the link.

Thank you! Guess I'll be diving into one hell of a rabbit hole after work today. You can find out about Qistina and Eldar if you're so inclined. Just keep in mind that Qistina was always deadly serious while oby at least... well... we're not entirely sure oby was for real. He might have been an early prototype Russian posting AI. There'd be so much more to show but, to borrow from PS:T, time lays waste to all things. Especially forum posts. When people say that the net never forgets a thing they have no idea what they're talking about. I remember hilarious posts from Andy at tarna's coffee shop - and Ashford City, for a time. Two of the Interplay replacement boards that sprang up after we lost our second home to Herve's Cataclysm. He constantly kept trolling everyone and claimed Viet Nam is actually spelled Veit Nam. Times like these I wish the 'net wouldn't forget so much.

You might not guess it by the description of TrueNeutral, but there were worse things than oby. There once was a forum romance so terrible it shook the foundations of this board, setting fire to unburnable things and striking terror even into the most steadfast of hearts. But the storm has passed and Bruce now sits, every day, lost in loneliness pining for Qis, Destroyer of the West.

If this is an alt... then who is the main? dun duuuun duuuuuuuuun Don't you know there are only like 5 actual people who post here! In the end, we're all alts of Gromnir. Scratch that, we're all manifestations of Ravel. Actually we all are Eldar. Even the five who believe they're not.

The GOG versions worked for me without any issues. Then again I never had any problems with KOTOR at all, except for the weird bug that some dialogues would suddenly fast forward, which a reload of an earlier usually fixed. Caused me to rund around spamming quick save all the time.

Finishing the campaign it will unlock the Inner Sphere systems for you to visit. Yeah. It's not a very exciting reward for finishing the game.

...and some things would probably be controversial now. I remember when the powers that were at the BIS board gave Caelis the title "Pink Islander", that'd be liable to cause a Twatter ****storm abous cis something something homophobia something these days.

The Linux version of Everspace is finally released...

Plenty of people who let their pets sleep on the bed.