Gorth

The ultra left wing zombie apologists? "ultra left wing zombie apologists" , good one. Thats the line of the day for me Join the ZCP (Zombie Communist Party)

I've finally placed an order for a new case, so I figured when it arrived, I would try a few things, amongst them switching the "rails" on the PSU (tried the monitor output on the gfx card to no avail), just to see if it's the cause. Doesn't help I'm going to be out of state all next week, so it wont be before the week after that again

Ah yes, Kangaxx. Still on my to-do list in my current game. Got the staff from the Twisted Rune (is that the name?) and am about to go up against his cousin in Watchers Keep (4th level, working on getting access to Lum the Mad's machine). There is a Demi Lich and a Dragon in the Gith Yanki part of the dungeon. Not too worried about the dragon, having already taken care of the black (whose name I can't remember), Firkraag and the silver dragon (for a nice skin armour for Viconia). The latter is now 100 in Magic Resistance and has absurd saving throws. I've been stacking up a bit on Spell Immunity spells/scrolls in preparation for the Demi Lich. Immunity Abjuration FTW Ring of the Ram is also priceless for that fight, ignoring magic resistance, giving you a good head start.

I like the little "Dream about vodka guy"

This is getting frustrating... the flickering is now constant and a pain in my rear anatomy. I still don't know if it's the motherboard, the gfx card, the monitor or the power supply that is not up to the challenge. I think I'll bring home a laptop to hook up to the monitor, just to rule that one out. It seems resolution independent, so even the humble laptop should be able to provide a test screen. I'm seriously tempted to buy a "disposable" gfx card after that, to see if it's the culprit and carry me over until the regularly scheduled system upgrade. If it's not the gfx card, then it will still be usable on my old (current) system as a "No. 2" pc. Some day, a card manufacturer is going to come up with a card that lasts for a full 2 year and the world will end.

Scripted encounters... one of my pet peeves in crpgs (together with minigames, QTE's and respawning enemies).

Hmm, I guess I'm a notorious liar I don't remember having to fight them at this point. Haven't played consular for ages either (favouring sentinels for their abundant skill points), but I seem to remember when I did play consular, favourite powers were things like the "haste" (whatever it's called) and healing, making my guys stay in the fight and whittle down opposition slowly, but steadily. Who are your party members and what force powers do you have available?

Not so much "action" sims, but I miss the glory days of SSI and all their strategy wargames. Microprose were the ones trying their hands at "dumbed down" strategy games with pseudo realtime (Nato Commander, War in the Desert and Conflict in Vietnam). Nice games, but their (Microprose) claim to fame were the early military flight sims. Utterly simplistic by todays standards, but damn, they were advanced for their time. Only "sim" I remember playing at LAN parties would be the original Delta Force. That was before games used 3D accelerators and what have you (what was that thing called, voxels or some such?).

My first crpg was Temple of Apshai (c64 version) My favourite was Rogue though, because of the randomly generated dungeons.

Wheee... Talk about going out in a blaze of glory. If I had been a dwarf slayer, my ancestors would have been proud of me! Well, better line up in the queue for when the next job opening comes up

Still playing a game of BG2. I had completely forgotten how much I hated that particular room in Watchers Keep ("labyrinth" level), where you enter a room of demons, causing fear and you can't use magic to remove fear and your scared party members keep running back and forth between a trap that doesn't disappear until you disarm it... Trying to remember what I did in that spot the last time I actually bothered playing through Watchers Keep (would be at least 6-7 years ago).

Meh, it's a step backward. I'm still campaigning for banning marriage altogether as an obsolete social institution.

I hate her guts. Only problem is, the opposition leader makes Dan Quayle look like a shining beacon of intellectual prowess by comparison. Good thing I'm not eligible for voting, I would be ashamed of voting for either or

I normally couldn't care less about multiplayer features in single player games, but Multiplayer in EU IV looks like it could be interesting. Up to 32 players in a game of war, politicking and backstabbing

Speaking of time... (and rather tangential, I know), the Australian PM, Julia "Backstabber" Gillard, has announced the election date... prepare for 8 months of election campaign. Being a very autocratic person, she's probably still pissed off that they haven't added "Dear Leader" to her official title.

Sorry to hear that Osvir Maybe we'll just leave the thread for now. You never know, somebody might resurrect it some day and share some questions and answers about algorithms.

Yeah. Strange nobody wrote a romance mod for Anath and a shapeshifter protagonist.

Not quite, but if you do it as the first thing, you sort of get it as a free "opening" shots (if you have two spell casters). It does count as a hostile action and initiates combat, but getting the first shot can be crucial when dealing with over sized lizards

Noooo.... You Only Live Thrice! As for the dragon, it helps a lot with a few clerics/druids in the party, especially the spell that gives you immunity to level drain and the mace of disruption given to one of your front line fighters. A pair of lower resistances and dooms to start off with before it becomes aggressive and it becomes susceptible to hasted fighters and wands of nastiness (lightning being my favourite, because with bit of geometry skill you can to some degree avoid your party members),

Remember, real men don't take backups

I would probably extend the search criteria a bit to make sure you get the right spot and not an accidental match. E.g. look for B9 80 02 00 00 F7 F9 89 and then replace the 80 02 with 80 07. Same for the E0 01, replacing it with 38 04 (if you have 1920x1080 resolution)

Mali is sort of two conflicts in one. I don't think anyone outside the African continent would have batted an eyelid if it had been a conflict between independence seeking Tuaregs and the Mali central government. Problem is the "new" guys who moved in after getting evicted from parts of Somalia and nobody, including Mali's next door neighbours wants those anachronistic parasites to get a foothold anywhere, having amply displayed their skills in nation destruction and none in nation building.

Queen were the greatest! Being an old Michael Laudrup fan, I've been checking up on his latest venture and see that his club 'Swansea' is doing fairly decently in the Premiere League. Good on him

I may have to see what they have in their store. For some reason, i keep thinking all they do is FF games, and after trying the FFVIII demo on PC, I'm never going within a 15 meter radius of one again. However, that is only one franchise in their portfolio these days.

A wise warrior knows when wizard say 'duck', he not talking about fowls - Gorthfucius