Everything posted by Gorth
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Hottest things is my shorts
Sounds like a typical summer day here. 27 degrees would be a mild spring day. I need to get my mind out of the gutter... I really read that title as 'in' instead of 'is'
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Phone Etiquette
Let it be said up front that I hate phones passionately. Especially the mobile ones. It's some Trojan device created by the denizens of hell to make life miserable for mankind because they were stupid enough to embrace it. Apart from that, I have two very distinct attitudes. On my home phone (land line) I don't have a message bank nor Caller ID (because nobody I know has ever been given that number). Only calls are spam calls and sometimes I just hang up, sometimes I lead them on a merry chase if having had a hard day (if they can waste my time, I can waste theirs). My work phone is different and anybody with legitimate business calling me has been added with name etc. as contact. Depending on who calls, I decide whether or not getting back to them is a priority or not.
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This George Zimmerman thing
So, technically you just have to kill all witnesses and you can claim innocence as the burden of proof is on the dead guys to prove they aren't guilty of anything. As the law is, the verdict is correct. It's still a silly law. Did anything prevent him from just keeping an eye on what he considered a suspect while waiting for law enforcement to arrive? No, haven't read up on all timelines and attempts at reconstructing events. One of the two key witnesses is dead, so we'll always only get one side of the story. The rest we have to extrapolate the best our various bias's and prejudices allows.
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STEAM!
Thread getting a bit long (understatement)... More Steam! here
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Prank death DJ sues her employer
Pretty much this. Part of the reason why doing live pranks on radio with unknown and unsuspecting victims is a new low. I guess they have to compete in cringe worthiness with the latest reality TV. You can cook, dance, almost sing do silly stunts? Guess what, we can humiliate common people right in your living room, beat that.
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BREAK BREAK - Fallout New Vegas in Steam sale
Already got it and bought every bit of DLC since its release?
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SW: The Old Republic Part 5
I've had character dedicated to just trading on the GTN since I started playing "for real" (after the basic f2p). Buying cheap, selling with profits and now I have one of every high priced armour suit (Mira, Thana Vesh, what have you) from the cartel market and a couple of extra million credits in the bank. I wish real world stock markets were that easy
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Securom & Hardware Changes
Maybe the Steam versions of these oldies differ from their original optical media versions? Wouldn't make much sense trying to tinker with hardware settings on Direct Download software.
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Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition
Yeah, I wish, but no. Whether sufficient or little money, I still consider "Time" the most valuable currency. Money lost can be replaced. Time lost is lost forever.
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Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition
Never been particularly interested in this project. If I had unlimited funds, I would probably pursue something a bit in the direction of the Icewind Gate II project, except actually focus on building a *new* engine, that could work with the existing data files and assets (rather than trying to reverse engineer and tweak binaries which is a recipe for disasters and/or chronic headaches).
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Non-romance dynamics in games
I liked the way it was handled in PS:T between TNO and Annah/FFG. If played the right way, no doubt about there being some kind of sexual tension, attraction even, but not a romance. More like the ties that binds people (un)naturally together when thrown into a situation where you have to survive as a team for a while.
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Prank death DJ sues her employer
She enjoyed the limelight and "popularity" (notoriety?) before things turned sour, not sharing any of the back patting with anybody else. Now suddenly looking for somebody to share blame with? Either there is something else going on or it's just hypocrisy of the worst kind.
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Hey Devs: Old Games & Great Scores ♫ You Like
Yep, I know the first one alright. Norman was a genius. Game design, artwork, coding, music composition... Back when developers were one man armies. Cosmi still exists as far as I know. Music of Forbidden Forest was awe inspiring.
- Don't trust to popular science
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new scientific discoveries
Sparta vs. Samoa... waiting for the outcome There are entire websites dedicated to amusing auto-correct results
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SW: The Old Republic Part 5
Don't feel too bad about subscribing for a while, we wont tell anyone Heck, I've got two subscriptions at the moment. Buying the expansion for my "alt" account (I run a completely separate accounts, one for home one for on the road, traveling with my laptop, just in case my laptop gets lost, compromised or otherwise). Didn't intend to subscribe on that one as it already had all the "unlocks", but it was less than $5 to get a month complimentary with expansion. I'll let that one "lapse" again though, as it really is just an alternative to Windows Spider Solitaire when passing time in hotel rooms.
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Warmachine Tactics Kickstarter kicked off
They would probably have done that years ago if they had some legal basis for it. Warmachine is an old miniature wargame not unlike older versions of the GW games. Privateer Press has been around for more than a decade IIRC.
- Update #58: Crafting with Tim Cain!
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POST YOUR SPECS
I remember my very first build. Forgot to attach the fan to the CPU. Wondered why it kept stalling and stopping 2 seconds into POST. Then I noticed something was missing and touched the CPU with my finger tip, giving a slightly startled yelp of pain (it was very hot). Those were the days [/nostalgia] Nice build indeed. I wish I could add more RAM to my current system, but unfortunately ye olde Gigabyte motherboard doesn't want that.
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Book Request: Books that are like ...
The Eisenhorn books... nobody escapes the Imperial Inquisition, whether alien, heretic or mutant, they are all vile in the eyes of the Emperor and must be rooted out where they can be found.
- Time for a paradigm shift!
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SW: The Old Republic Part 5
Story doesn't make sense. I believe 'he' is a 'she' I think that one is going to be an easy decision... I'll invite that companion with as much enthusiasm as if had been a Gungan. If nothing else, because the first encounter with them rammed home the message that the Star Wars movie franchise of which I had been a fan up until the 3rd movie was truly dead. Bad enough that it started out looking like an episode of the Muppet Show (no offense intended to Muppets anywhere, I love the Muppet Show), but the sheer stupidity of Ewoks and them fighting Imperial Stormtroopers just pushed the movie over the edge into too much sillyness.
- Leaked Abbottabad Report
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Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition
Try here. Not AutoUpdate, but as far as I know the only place to access updates at all. If you have the GOG version, it is already at the final patch. Thanks My version is the old retail collectors edition (with maps and metal rings etc.). I might just get the GoG version as a matter of convenience (and while still available).