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SWTor still takes up a disproportionate amount of my precious spare time. Ran across a bit of well done humour (imho) in the trooper class story on Alderaan. Yeah, made me smile. Go ahead and ridicule me

Richard Garriott? If nothing else, he was one of the few "space tourists" so far, paying the fare for an extra terrestrial trip.

Thread pruned slightly. Being funny within reason is fine as long as it stays civil. As for NWN2, I think whether Neeshka was a romance option or not would be the least of its problems. A main villain that made you laugh for all the wrong reasons (like a 50's monster movie where the creature is obviously wearing a rubber suit) being one of my personal pet peeves, second only to the peasant girl that was forced on my party. Even the creepy stalker elf paled compared to that.

I see some intelligence and security applications for that as well, if they can indeed turn opaque materials transparent in a nondestructive way. No need to drill holes for spy cams anymore

In which case, he might end up under some car park for future archeologists to find. Despite claims to the opposite, absolutism is rarely absolute.

I'm probably old fashioned. I have no wireless gadgets. I tried a wireless mouse a few years ago and it drove me nuts. I just don't feel properly "attached" to my PC if there are no cables (didn't help that it was a crappy mouse either)

Yeah, happy birthday to young Adam

Turbo Pascal is for whimps. Real men use CC, LN and makefiles Interesting chap. Not sure I would advertise starting programming with LOGO (just kidding) I'll second his advice that great code is not complex, it's elegant and robust. I often spend more time simplifying code after testing initially that it works, then starting to remove code, then remove more code etc. until the very bare bones system that does the job is left. It sometimes drives developers nuts when I keep point out that something they were proud of is not necessary and please remove it, bridge those gaps, take that out, this is redundant etc.

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.