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I never got around to read the Danish version. Bear in mind, I would have been around 14 at the time and preferred comics over novels *cough*. We had Danish translations of most of the Belgian/French comics at the time. My love for Tolkien came way later when I got an adventure game "The Hobbit" for the Commodore 64. I was stuck getting killed in the dark in the goblin caves (where you're supposed to find the ring) and the only clue was to read book. The game came with an English version of The Hobbit and I ended up reading it (and found my clues! I had to find and turn 3 trolls into stone, so I could get the sword "Sting", which glows in the dark when orcs/goblins are near, so it could light my way through the caves). I was several years older at the time, around 17-18 or so, and suddenly found the story interesting. Went out and found both Lord of the Rings and Simarillion in English and loved them. Especially Silmarillion is something I read over and over, even to this day. I probably just assumed a while ago your name would be something like Bruce Van (Der) C...something Given the Dutch/Africaans influence on the language
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I've been using Gorth first as a board game character since 1978, CRPG character since 1983 and online since 1991. Sort of feeling a bit attached to it Strangely enough, in online games and MMO's I'm known by a different name for the last 10 years. Sort of my secret identity No, not really. Just strange how names sometimes seems to "stick" to you and can be hard to get rid of again. Edit: as for the etymology, I had attempted to read the Danish version of Lord of Rings (courtesy of the public libraries), but it was just way too boring and too long. I did take a glance at an appendix page with a list of names and figured, oh, Gorthaur, cool name, I'm so gonna steal that. Right up until the first wargame on a tabletop and my opponent asked me to pronounce my generals name Nothing that couldn't be fixed by chopping off a few syllables until I could pronounce it. Sort of. Heck, one syllable left, how hard could it be???
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Tried my hand at green curry chicken. I should probably get myself small kitchen scale for weighing stuff. The eggplant didn't feel very heavy in my hand, but it sure was a lot of eggplant once I was done slicing it into little cubes It did taste great though. Like the Massaman, I cheated and bought a paste with the spice mix already prepared. It may not be bacon, but curry and coconut milk on the stove isn't bad either when it comes to fragrances
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Despite the amusement, actually not a bad cover
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She was definitely the "most enjoyable" part of the first Suicide Squad movie. I liked the first movie, but then I didn't really expect haute couture when watching it (and I bought the dvd dirt cheap). Unlike some other movies, I felt entertained afterwards, not like I had just wasted an hour or two of my life or was suddenly missing several brain cells
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Duh, I did. I stand corrected
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That one, he didn't make up. They are generally credited with reviving the genre of CRPG's at a time where it was more dead than a Norwegian Blue. Every 2 out of 3 games released were some kind of RTS spin off of Blizzards Dune 2 and Warcraft III (the two games that made Blizzard what they are today I think). Long gone was the glory of CRPG's and the memories of SSI's Gold Box Games (Champions of Krynn, Curse of The Azure Bonds etc.), Origins Ultima IV and V etc. Then suddenly out of the blue came this company that was started by two doctors to make medical applications and proposed yet another RTS "Infinity Wars" (to compete with the 2567 or so other RTS games in circulation at the time) to Interplay. Some clever guy (they had those at Interplay at the time) told the doctors that the RTS market was a few parsecs beyond the point of saturation, but hey, tweak your RTS a bit, add some D&D rule sets, add the option to simulate turn based combat in we can talk. BG and BG2 ended up selling millions of copies and suddenly CRPG's were hot. Interplay also launched Fallout in the same era, as well as Icewind Dale. But tl;dr; the CRPG market was stone dead at the time and everybody talked about it as something that would never come back.
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Not really news per se, just an interesting video about Bioware and its current situation (and what companies most of the ex-Bioware employees now work for, including a rumoued Kotor remake)
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I think the people at CERN are all convinced the Standard Model is not the answer to the universe, but it will have to be a stop-gap measure until they work out how the universe works in more detail... or blow up Earth in the process
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Thanks. Yeah, looks like the terrain is going to be a bit soggy for a few days still.... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56485246 "Warragamba Dam discharged 500 gigalitres on Sydney - equivalent to the volume of Sydney Harbour." (this is to prevent the dam from collapsing completely, a predictable flood, where you can warn people being preferable to it simply bursting) "No deaths had been reported but thousands of people have been evacuated and troops deployed after days of torrential downpours across the country." (good statistic so far, as most deaths in such situations are Darwin Award nominees) "Honey, you forgot to mow the lawn again!" (no, not actually a quote from the article, the picture is though)
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The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
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Does 4 six-packs of toilet paper count? -
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Thanks mate. I'm not living in low lying areas, so not really at risk. if the hill I live on floods, we have a different kind of (global) problem -
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What can I say? When it rains it pours? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56476998 About 18,000 Australians have been evacuated from flooding across New South Wales (NSW) as heavy rain continues to batter the east coast. Days of torrential downpours have caused rivers and dams to overflow around Sydney - the state capital - and in south-east Queensland. wait... south-east Queensland, that's me -
Eventually, a lack of skill will catch up with you no matter how good you are at marketing yourself. Anyone still brave enough to hire D&D? (Game of Throne "writers")
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Sydney... the city that is never happy. First they whinge about bushfires devastating the suburbs and now that they get a fix for that, they whinge about the fix. Ungrateful louts, all of them https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56473115 More Sydney areas ordered to evacuate over major flooding risk The authorities say anyone living in low-lying areas of the city must leave. On Saturday, Sydney's Warragamba dam started to overflow for the first time in years. Dozens of people have been rescued from floodwaters in New South Wales, with officials warning of "life threatening flash floods". Major roads remain shut in the area. -
...as long as people don't lump me into the same group as Swedes and Norwegians (I'm so used to being asked if I'm German by now because of my accent I'm almost inclined to just say 'yes')
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Looking at the bright side, it's not going to interrupt international air traffic to the same degree that it did a decade ago
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The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
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Hillary Clinton -
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That's what you get for not boarding at a terminal with extendable gates. Damn low airfare travelers -
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/19/italian-army-accused-fowl-play-tank-accidentally-fires-rounds/ Edit: Without pay wall https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-chickens/chicken-farmer-cries-foul-as-italian-tank-blows-up-coop-idUSL8N2LG5VZ Edit2: I guess the Italian Army was bound to win a battle some day... https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/m80t0h/tank_kill_chickens_in_italy/
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That's a very complicated way of putting it But in short yes. All I can do is take your word for it based on what I know of/about you at this point in time. Based on that, I actually will take your word for it, as I believe it's an issue that is important to you and you have given it a lot of thought, based on your past posting history.