Gorth

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

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).