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Sorry, when was NASA bought out by Rupert Murdoch? I must have missed that.

Haha. Well I think you can move the whole folder to another computer and it runs perfectly (the cdkey is stored in an mpq file in the folder from memory).

If you have the CD keys you can download the game easily enough (Blizzard even hosts such downloadable clients on their own server). Though I suppose if you've lost your discs you've also lost your keys.

Civ 5, woo!

So what 'gifts' does Gfted bring to this forum? Extremist political rhetoric and an account creation date in the year 2004?

That's you with the hat, isn't it funcroc?

In fact, they can release the toolset AFTER the game is released.

You know what I'm having lots of fun with right now in Diablo 2? A ranger. It's a paladin that uses bows instead of swords. Holy Fire is his main aura and skill, and the class is viable because you can find a few unique bows with piercing and explosive arrows. The explosive arrows carry over fire damage from other sources (e.g. Holy Fire) to an area, so it makes the skill AoE. Not what Blizzard intended, but I don't give a rats!

I suspect that fact that there's less emphasis on dialogue will allow them to create a tighter, more coherent story. Throwing lots of words at the problem isn't guaranteed to solve it. As an example, take Deus Ex 1. Brilliant story. Few people would argue otherwise. Yet the basis of that story wasn't walls of text.

Great. Just the man. What went wrong? I wasn't strong enough. Or old enough to design a makeshift lever system.

I don't think there was 60,000 lines of dialogue in IWD, either.

Don't go alanschu.

If anyone wants to join me on Hardcore Ladder via the Europe realm, let me know here! If you need a copy of Diablo 2, you can purchase it via the blizzard store for 40 USD or 25 Euros.

Says the guy who never has anything positive to say about anything. Ho-hum!

Oh, and I think they've completely reworked the class system, because this doesn't sound like powers with cooldowns to me (which I don't mind one bit, since it sounds more like Diablo 2's skills!) Unless he's just describing a weapon switching system like in Diablo 2 (and I think IWD2?)

Yeah, I don't understand the fuss about that. It's like the people here think the two are mutually exclusive. Or maybe they just suck at action RPGs. Then again, neither was Planescape: Torment.

This sounds awesome! I'm heaps psyched about the mention of a melee sorceress. I love to try and build melee characters out of mages. :D

Then I think you'd like this website! http://www.physorg.com/

Oh! The filter just replaces all words it considers inappropriate (which is a stupidly large list - thanks mods) with 4 asterisks.

Speaking of liquid physics, I just jizzed in my pants!

Did you read the article? These solar super storms are a result of the peak of TWO different cycles overlapping. The last two times this happened were 1859 and 1921. Here's what happened to the crude electronics of 90 years ago: I did read the article. A period of 22 years for one and 11 years for another. Hence why I asked what happened 11 years ago (the shorter one), as well as 22 years ago (which should have had some period of overlap as well). Really? I thought it mentioned that solar cycle lengths are based on averages? Because the "11-year cycle" may actually last 9 (or 13, or whatever) years (and similar for the 22-year one), the match up between the two cycles isn't guaranteed every 22 years. In practice it is far rarer. Every decade or so for a strong one, and every 500 years or so for an extreme one (the kind that removes night-time for several days, as happened with the 1859 one). Oh, and Wals, yeah a Faraday cage would work... IF you unplugged everything from the outside world (and that would be hard to time since you don't know when the CME will happen). :D

Is it really? I thought components today were also significantly more advanced at dealing with things like EM interference. I'm no expert on the subject, but you are talking like one. What I see are news articles depicting a worst case scenario type situation. Your posts make it seem like we're all pretty much ****ed, which comes off as being an awful lot like fear mongering. I've only taken 1st year physics at university, so I'm not an expert. I referred to my uni's e-journal database before posting though (if you want to do similar, Google Scholar is probably your most accessible source, though without a university's access you won't be able to view most articles). The notion that modern electronics are hardened against EMR and energetic particles from a solar storm is laughable - what gave you that idea? Ignoring what MIGHT happen, and sticking with what we know WOULD happen given a suitably powerful coronal mass ejection: most satellites would be severely damaged or destroyed (this is the most consistent prediction), and electricity and telecommunications grids would go haywire (as they did every time before - catching fire, etc, due to the massive current entering them). I think this pretty clearly means we're ****ed. I don't believe this means we're ****ed permanently; that we couldn't recover after a month or two. And it wouldn't surprise me if they don't have a new fleet of fully functioning satellites ready to launch after the event, since that is one of NASA's recommendations, and they're aware of when this will occur. And I suppose they'd also manufacture a bunch of replacement transformers for the electricity grid beforehand, too, since those would be in short supply and the most likely part of the grid to suffer damage from the storm. Things would become a lot worse if the CME happened over the course of several days as the Carrington event in 1859 did. That would mean the entire Earth would be hit rather than a continent or two. Then again, if we can predict precisely when such a CME will happen, a lot of the damage can be mitigated (by essentially turning things off - satellites in low power modes, unplugging transformers, etc). Predicting with such precision is unlikely to be realistic, however. I hope you will believe the scientists at NASA working on problems like this, as they wrote a detailed report on the issue: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12507 Oh, and I just noticed that the House of Congress approved $100 million in funding to harden America's electricity grid against this event. Smart.

Um, I spelt it the way the Romans spelt it. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/summa#Latin

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