Gorgon

I forgot how good this is. Sound quality is abysmal, and it's just some fan video, but that's to be expected. Woot, from the glory days of MTV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTea5duGTbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqYibS3m7UM

I just now discovered something of indeterminable origin with mold on it in the back of the fridge.

Was the guy your father bought it from a salesman, anyway that's baloney most hardware has backwards compatibility all the way back to windows 98, earlier not guaranteed to work, but probably would, some some require XP. Nothing in existence that must have Vista, that would be suicidal for a motherboard manufacturer.

I rather liked the always watching, always being watched panopticum construct, It's very sci fi. Don't remember if it's that book, as he's written rather extensively about the prison system, and punishment in general.

I got steam to work. Incidentially it costs the same as it would in the shops, which is kinda odd since they don't have any distribution costs. Still it sound like a game I could get some millage out of, even if the AI is dumb as ever.

The game abounds with Mad max references. The male leather armor skin, thats Max's. The scoped magnum, the mad max 2 boss had one, and of course Mad Max 3 had a community of kids as well talking in their own made up dialect. Don't remember if they called the grown ups 'mongos' or not.

I nominate Nakskov.

Well for whatever reason steam did nothing but load for 20 mins after which I killed the process and tried again, same deal. Troubleshooting routers, internet connections, steam versions, etc. it's just too much of a hassle.

Well Northern Europe is all about the Lutheran legacy, so god is a spineless pinko liberal. All about forgiveness.

Which is preferable. I happen to have a free partition already with nothing on it. If I install there can I skip defragmenting windows.

No, those who discriminate on the basis of race or sexuality are not just expressing a different opinion, they are actively making the lives of those people harder for no good reason. Indifferent relativity does not apply here.

I got the ubuntu CD, and windows is already installed, this is the way it's supposed to be right, Windows, then Ubuntu.. otherwise ubuntu could overwrite the windows boot.

Although it was somewhat informative. I didn't know until this day that the bible had a 'thou shalt not shag sheep' commandment. Apparently such a warning would not have been out of place in ye olde Israel, or whatever it was called then. I gather this fellow is not too fond of homosexuals, but that's not really that novel. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast, to defile thyself therewith.

I need a little clarification, what exactly is this thread about. The PDF file was so exceedingly badly written I couldn't really tell.

If Boomer could find the fleet without a problem that must mean Cabal knew where it was all along. So, why didn't he do something sooner. Also, the spatial distortion caused by the jump... One wonders why they haven't been using that as a weapon if it can blow huge holes in the sides of ships.

just so we are on the same page, I'm saying that DRM constitutes bloat because it can slow programs down. I am completely indifferent to whether the linus installation uses 500 or 700 mb. It has no impact on performance, except perhaps boot times because of what is pre loaded. Grasping at straws with the last bit, I don't know how linux handles scratch disks and virtual memory. In any case programs you don't need are easily removed.

This is what I got after 30 mins of loading "Error, unable to load steam.dll". Doesn't bode well for me getting to play this game, demo or retail.

DRM slows programs down by unneeded processes, bundled programs don't to anything until you start using them.

Rifles are better, improved accuracy over long range, just as good in close.

The sea battle I lost, because I didn't have a clue what was happening, but sea battles have always confused me, so that's probably my fault. The graphics are nice. The ships are hard to maneuvre, but I guess that is realistic. Sea battles with wind powered ships have always been messy due to the unpredictable environment. In a 1v1 ship battle, the ship with the wind in her favor can engage and break off faster than the opponent, that is a huge advantage. Disable the enemy's rudder or mast and you can strafe it to pieces from where the broadsides can't hit you. Lines of battle were the order of the day for the largest warships, basically a gunnery contest to see who could cause the most damage in the shortest amount of time. Imperial Glory, an otherwise rather buggy dame of the same type handled naval combat excellently up to about 5-6 or more ships total were engaged, then it all became too much up to chance, as you couldn't hope to order them all around at the same time.

Isn't NORAD completely useless after targeting technology improved sufficiently to ensure a direct hit, which it is not designed to withstand. They might as well have built it out of straw for all the good it's going to do.

I agree, although I wonder what the damage would be over time, after radiation storms and such. Initial casualties in Nakasaki 39,000, Hiroshima 140,000 due to the firestorms, and that was the smallest device used. Total secondary effects due to radiation damage and subsequent cancer increase not known. The blast area does look very small, I would have my windows blown out if I happened to be inside I might survive, although it would be a good idea not to be downwind of the particle cloud.

Except for his unrequited man love for the NWN2 engine.

You can't change the keyboard assignments for select functions (bloody amateurish by the way) but you can bind those functions to your mouse, if it's even half decent.

You sure they didn't just cut the existing material into another season. Seems like I've seen it all before.