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Rendering/Animation is just a hobby on the side. Development and test environment for same is the primary reason for needing some "grunt" (it's also going to get a number of SSD drives, as it's going to be used for testing a lot of data manipulation and multi-tier services interacting with a SQL backend, i.e. creating say 500 instances (completely arbitrary number to illustrate idea) of a test app. doing things through levels of tiers before reaching the backend). Involves quite a bit of virtualisation too. If I could also use it for gaming when not doing that, it would be an added bonus and save some physical room space

Do they actually consider the royal family "English" these days? It used to be the norse Normans, the french Angevins, the scottish Stuarts, the dutch Oranje, the german Hannovers (I seem to remember a funny anecdote about name changes during WWI because it wasn't fashionable to be German in England at the time)... what are they these days?

As a target, you are sort of trapped like a louse between two finger nails. No reacting will re-affirm that you don't care about the subject, re-acting will be seen as confirmation that the abuse is justified. I've found that with a bit of practice, you can "freeze" somebody out by actively ignoring them. I.e. carry on the conversation about everything except explicitly what the abuser is whinging about. Nothing seems to agitate people more than realizing that they specifically are not so important as they give themselves credit for. Edit: That being said, somebody need to and it up their for the server merges and forced name changes in SWTor (still fuming mad, nerd tage over that one)

Has to be very offensive to get deleted. Merge it is, thanks

Not playing it yet, but I pre-ordered (and paid) Europa Universalis IV from Gamersgate. Digital Extreme Edition no less (what a ridiculous name). Very much looking forward to it. I got that itch that has turned into a sore spot, constantly scratching the same place for a few years with EU III now

Post is fine. Just slightly out of place. Moved to the gaming section where is quite on topic Loved the original Syndicate to death. A pox on who or whatever prevents American Revolt from getting released together with the GoG version of the original.

Of course, not many people would get the joke

This thread isn't quite new anymore. Sequel announced here

Start of old thread end of old thread In the latest news: Recursive Design Is the newest fad Also, in previous news:

what's the consequence of answering "yes"? Mind you, I'm expense claiming every trip

Thread pruned a bit. I'm sure it's possible to disagree in a less antagonistic manner

I had planned on playing tonight, but then I remembered the notice somebody pointed me to, servers are going to be down today. *sigh* Aussies (APAC) always gets screwed out of a day of their sub every time they need to update something (starting at 19:00, i.e. after work and ending at 24:00, i.e. bed time) Edit: Somewhat unrelated anecdote. Ran into an amusing "feature" with my Agent. Doing class mission on Nar Shaddaa, disguised as droid, seeking out cell leader. Doing the ID check at forcefield and getting through to boss. Getting diverted to flashpoint before dialogue (heck, can always return to previous location, right?) and true enough, returned to previous location. Except, Boss is now gone, nobody to talk to. No biggie, probably just have to go back to starting point as mission seems to have "backpedalled". Guess what, Agent and door handle are located on opposite sides of force field, so he can't leave the boss room. No problem, log out and log in, should take you out of story/mission area, back to entrance. Nope, Agent and door handle in exact same, mutually inaccessible positions... *Grrr*. Fast travel all the way back to Promenade and start all over again.

I was *so* tempted to post a WWF bearhug image...

Do you want a real answer or is that statement more rhetorical? Bioware's own fault, they could just give us more context already

Did you try the official forums (bug report section). Since you are a subscriber, you should be able to post Yes, "automation" of activities is a violation of the games TOS. As for having too much money, you could "invest" it in high values items and just sell one every now and then if you feel strapped for cash as f2p/preferred. A bit of extra work, but it saves the CC's for the escrow stuff. Since I intend to keep one of my two accounts as subscriber, I simply transferred all my money to my main char on that account, then transferring a bit on a need basis back. I don't really bother with it anymore either, as cash is plenty when you reach the higher levels. It was nice for a time though, just being able to constantly sending companions on crew skill missions without worrying about being able to afford it (watch those gathering and mission skills skyrocketing). The other benefit was you got to listen to some truly pathetic whinging from people when you suddenly started flooding the market way underbidding in order to press prices down in general (so I could pick up the item I was really interested in at a lower price, saving sometimes hundreds of thousands of credits when people start panic selling). I'm still smiling from ear to ear thinking about that Edit: Since ex-Gorth has reached level 45, I guess the time has come to go looking for a guild, so he can start getting familiar with operations. Those world bosses look like a bit of a handful for a single character

You mean, the board room discussion went something like this... Exec #1: I heard Skyrim sold well, shouldn't we make our own Skyrim, similar but different? Exec #2: Brilliant idea. Lets create a world that is much more open than previously and add Dragons to it! Joking aside, I *am* curious about how the game is shaping up and I would lie if I said I wasn't interested. The two previous games were so different from each other, that it means I won't try to expect a third to match any of them in style and what they are trying to accomplish.

Just wondering if anybody out there uses machines designed for non-gaming purposes as "entertainment" systems on the side. It's mostly going to be used as development environment (MS Visual Studio and MS SQL Server) or hobby (E-On Vue virtual landscape and animation and Thea - an unbiased rendering system). Considering some of the fun of the past with things running on wow32 and tweaking of core affinity and what have you, I wondered if somebody had actual experience running legacy software on not just multi-core, but multi-cpu environments, not intel x5? and x7? chipsets but something completely "alien"

Isn't that what various Google services are for? Running into dark spawn? See the little ad for skin conditioner. Armour and weapon needs upgrading? See the little ad for your local hardware/tool store... etc. Sad thing is, even if DA3 doesn't do it, somebody will eventually.

Skaven never gets old. Unless you are part of the council of 13 of course. 'Grey Seer' and 'Temple of the Serpent', continuing the story of Thanquol, are worth reading if that brand of humor (the world seen from Skaven perspective) is your poison.

Managed to put in a few hours of SWTor last night. My Bounty Hunter is now only a few millimeters on the progress bar from reaching level 44. Way over what he should be for his progression in the story, but never mind that. Also got his crew skills up in the 400+ range, going towards 450. Since his crafting skill is cybertech, I can now manufacture mods for the other guys saving a lot of commendations and not to mention better equipment for the ships (grade 2, 4 and some purple stuff for beyond grade 5). Makes a few of the space missions a bit easier. Tattooine was great fun. Alderaan felt like it dragged on a bit. Ran into an area that looked harmless from the outside, but was full of level 55 wild life. Way to go... I ended up as canned cat food

Anyone turn in any heretics? Sadly no, just people emailing saying "Is $my_name screwing around with the servers again?". Curses Reminds me of a time when I just *had* to try this rwall thing. Guess what, it worked. Got a lot of funny responses from the Norwegian university where I ran it... (that was a long time ago, definitely wouldn't be possible these days).

Because every time someone makes a smart, well thought out, original enttertaining film, it bombs, while all the garbage sequels or dumb films packed with big stars doing what they're known for makes millions. If you're in the film business to make money, which makes more sense to make? I was about to write something slightly similar. Entertainment today seems very heavily influenced by what investors expects their target audience to be rather than something made by people with visions and ideas. The latter still exist, but seem to drown in the noise (hype) of the bulk entertainment industry, industry being a rather apt description. Individual movies mostly have all the charm of car #87523402 that just got off the assembly line. Hmm... maybe that's why my only movie purchases the last 5 years have mostly been stuff released pre-1980 (with a few rare exceptions which can be counted on one hands fingers).

Just a general curiosity topic... I'm planning on building a work station after New Year (so still 6 months off, busy saving up). Apart from being good at what I need the processing power for, I was curious if it is completely "useless" for gaming (the apps I run will happily devour each and every core/thread thrown at them). Current contenders for that build are Asus WS motherboards with intel 602 chipset and two E5 (xeaon) octacore processors. Anybody got any experience using such machines for non-work related purposes?

For what it's worth, your spelling of 'Warden' was better than mine

Yeah, homegrown English terrorist who tried to blow up the parliament with IED's Completely tangential: The Pope is apparently offering up Indulgences for twitter followers. As for Scientology, I prefer people to do their own thinking and making their own decisions based on that thinking. Don't need a demagogue for that. As for the Mormon comparison, not sure how well it stacks up. For some reason I always compared Mormons and Sikhs, finding they had more in common.