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Yes, you really need to get your priorities sorted out

I always knew vegans were a breed apart. Never trust people who refuse to eat meat!

I think it's a 10 to 1 (approx, depending on snow density), so it's about 7 meters of snow overnight

Wrong thread - 'tis the hazard of writing at 2am. I have however been playing a little EU3, got the complete game free with the paradox newsletter. I got that one too. I already got the complete EU III collection though (including EU: Rome), but I guess now is a good time for Paradox to get people "hooked" as work on EU IV progresses. One of few games I'm really looking forward to. I seriously hope they fix the naval combat system this time around.

That would be, what 70 meters, of snow? On the open ended Suomi Snow Scale, probably it's a lot of water though. Poor suckers up there got badly inundated two years ago and now everything washes away again, like homes, roads, power lines, people etc. The measly 150 mm we got during the night in my neighbourhood was just a slight drizzle. It still looks like an exploded toilet though, with all the dead branches, leaves and mud that the wind decided to throw at my place.

Friends. You are going to need friends or at least people you think you are going to get along well with, even if you take turns to make mistakes, errors and wasting each others time by accident with getting grumpy, irritated or starting to bicker. Almost as important as dice.

The most useful aspect of the character portraits is the stuff that's not actually in the portrait: physical and magical effects, health/stamina status, mana remaining; that sort of thing. I wonder if a profile would work better? I can sort of see the benefit of both approaches. I liked that I could replace all the portraits in the Baldurs Gates games with some of my own liking (for both my character and the other party members), but I also though it nice in PS:T where I could see people looking battered and bruised when they had taken a beating. I always thought it could be an interesting place to show a party members attitude towards you through facial expressions. Are they friendly, hostile, servile, arrogant or possibly just faking it (metagaming you the same way you would try doing it to a party members)?

Going slightly mad, having been stuck inside for 72 hours. Just not my cup of tea Looks like "Oswald" is finally heading south and started pestering the people down in NSW instead. Good riddance to it too, ruining my long weekend (not to mention a lot of peoples lives, if not outright killing them). Some of the guys inland got a staggering 700+ millimeter of rain overnight. That's a lot of water. Small wonder some of the rivers are almost 10 meters above normal levels.

BG2... made it out of the underdark and is planning to do Watchers Keep before finishing off Bodhi and Irenicus. Not an "optimal" party, but just figure I would try something different. Featuring Viconia as a tank and Haer'dalis and Aerie as damage dealers (playing a thief myself). Got Imoen as the mage and Cernd just for kicks.

Slightly related, I thought this kind of funny. Carrie Fisher has come a long way... http://youtu.be/lZ97s396kb0

The trial and the keep are probably the only real "good" parts of NWN2OC. The grind fessts with orcs and thugs spawning out of thin air, the forced companions (looking at you peasant girl whose name I can never remember), the main villain that made you laugh for all the wrong reasons. He was supposed to be a tragic yet intimidating figure, yet all you could think of was that he came across as something out of a bad comic book. The game had many problems and IIRC the lead designer left Obsidian shortly before its release. NWN1OC on the other hand... I think I should find a walkthrough some day and see what happens after mid chapter 4. never could bother to finish it, just too painful all the way through. MotB was good, but ye gods I hate high level play. D&D just wasn't made for that. Could only bring myself to complete it once. Storm of Zehir is my favourite of the bunch, not at least thanks to the overland map. Completed it thrice so far. I've installed Temple of Elemental Evil (haven't really played it yet). Damn, it looks nice (superficially at least, subject to change). Why couldn't somebody produce a string of D&D games on that one???

Hire the team that Britney Spears use for her "live" concerts

Heh, came back to Brisbane at the end of the week, just to see the weather turn to utter crap. Ah well, at least Sydney was nice and sunny. Luckily my place is on the upper part of a hill side, so it's not going to get flooded. Happy Australia Day indeed (all cooped up, with trees falling down around me, at least my internet connection is working).

Anime - the Antidepressant thread?

Thread getting way long. More thread here

Start of old thread End of old thread Sorry to hear about your friend Shryke Wellington day, huh? I remember Guy Fawkes day as the one where Wellingtonions go crazy (that and the Cuba Street Carnival). Also, cats are awesome

A slight tangent (nice for "unrelated"), checking up on Infogrames history showed me where Ocean and Gremlin went. Those companies made some great games in the mid 80's

Vasectomy... that's like a lobotomy for men. just a little snip, yeah right

Moved to Project Eternity discussions

Lets just say, it's not as quiet as it used to be. My former Zalman radiator/pump used passive cooling and had no fans. May it rest in piece. My current system has the sort of mandatory PSU fan on the back of the PC and then 3 fans on the radiator (of which I sometimes disconnect 1 or 2, depending on need, I can also regulate their speed, but I already run them at low speed). So it's not "noiseless", but compared to the vacuum cleaner sound of a fan cooled high end gfx card under load, it's doing pretty darn good in comparison (unlike fan cooled systems, the noise is constant, even when put under heavy load).

A picture is worth a large word count... While it is now possible to see the level of nesting, there is no "author" until you have submitted the post.

You could try a hypothetical thread, "What you wanted to do today" (but didn't get around to actually do)

I was raised in the belief that NULL is less than nothing. It's emptier than an empty string and more zero than zero. Usually used to indicate that a the nature of a value hasn't been given yet (usually done first time it's referenced, even if it's just assigning zero or an empty string to it). Ah yes, memory allocations. Pointer exercises are a good way of becoming familiar with low level CPU architecture. Nothing like 'Segmentation Fault' to tell you that you forgot to initialize a pointer in your array of pointers

After "magically" giving my party some lower resistance scrolls, my party too out the shadow dragon. Nothing like a pair of lower resistance followed by a salvo of lightning bolts from wands to soften up the old lizard (whose name I can never remember). Now to see if I can repeat the exercise with Firkraag in Windspear Hills. Not doing too many rests along the way, since I don't want Viconia and Keldorn to have a go at each other before getting some red scales for a new suit of armour

Can you come work here, please? We have some classes written with methods like class Adder { public int add ( int x, int y ) { return x + y ; } } #define Adder(a, b) (a + b) Ok, there is such a thing as over simplifying