Gorth

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

Yeah, water cooled alright Got an EVGA GXT590 Classified Hydro Copper with factory fitted water block, covering the entire card (both gpu's, all vram, voltage controllers and just about everything else). I was too lazy to keep fitting water blocks on my cards when they rarely lasted 6 months. Crossing fingers and hoping it will keep running for at least a few more months.

It seems to be an intermittent thing. It doesn't crash my PC, but it sure as heck is a pain to look at. I had planned on a new PC at the end of 2013, I would hate to have start spending already (I wouldn't have the funds before mid-February anyway) >_

Gfx cards just hates me Not even 15 months old and it now has decided to put up a psychedelic display of flashing vertical lines in interesting patterns I wonder what deity I have offended?

Well, hardly hipster to use the correct term. The character at the end isn't zero no ? Came across this day, might be interesting to some and is remotely relevant to this thread - http://wordaligned.o...tar-programming Made me realize how much of my C is rusted. Heh, pointers to arrays of pointers. That was common practice on the Commodore Amiga Good old Linus, always wondered what became of him. We didn't use Linux as case study at the University though, we used Minix (Tanenbaum) instead.

Maybe I can finally play a Han Solo type scoundrel without the game forcing me to change class into a wussy, lightsaber wielding Jedi. The one thing I've never forgiven Bioware for. Such a promising start in the first part of Kotor and then *that*

I know. It's just... NULL just sounds so negative

Wasn't there some controversy when it got released? Something about only a censored version being available in the US (sort of a "reverse" fallout 2 stunt, where Europeans got the gimped version)

Nah, that one is there. I'm tempted to do a 'cleanup' and delete my override folder. I think I have an old zip file just with the Baldurdash fixes from 4-5 years ago. It might wreck my current game in progress though. I think I'm going to cheat and have a look with Shadowkeeper (and add a few of the scrolls if they can be found there). Edit: Yup, scroll still in game. Just seems gone from the usual stores. Added a handful to my poor party for the reading pleasure

...sorry, my attention wandered, can you repeat that? ... tl;dr; Technology evolved, humanity devolved

I'm a bit stuck in my dragon slaying endevour in BG2... I could have sworn that once upon a time, there was a spell called lower resistance which lowered the targets magic resistance. It used to be for sale as a scroll at Waukeens Promenade. Yet, now it seems completely gone from the game and the only visible oddity is that another spell is for sale, some silly 'Wraithform' I wonder if the disappearance of one is linked with the occurrence of the other, or if one of the mods has just made a mess of things. One thing is for sure, I'm not going to install Unfinished Business again (I can seriously understand why some some of that stuff was cut).

Maybe some bright guy eventually figured out the chances of getting him behind bars (put the coffin in a cell and tell him to stay there for 30 days)?

The music was better Main problems of the world of today? Too many people being born and too much complacency. Instant gratification and pandering to short attention spans have become the new drugs to lull the populations into a state of semi-comatose ignorance and lethargy.

I thought the morale was, don't open emails originating from China (looking at the map)

Not even pseudo code, but just one general idea for the travel planner... Two arrays one of integers Distance[3] and one of zero terminated strings TransportMode[3]. Assign values Distance[0] = 0 Distance[1] = 2 Distance[2] = 8 TransportMode[0] = "Legs" TransportMode[1] = "Cycle" TransportMode[2] = "Car" Outer Menu Loop, show menu and ask for Actual Distance Inner Loop - count i backwards from 2 to 0, if Actual Distance >= Distance then print TransportMode to console and exit inner loop Not exactly the first kind of programs I did (didn't get a c compiler until years later), but it sure is fun with those little "challenges", teaches the mind to think in algorithms

BG2... I blame Tigranes. My dual classed human male is currently a level 9 berserker and level 11 thief (it does suck a bit only picking Kits for the first class, would love a fighter/assassin combo).

Probably not. Moved out when I was 18 (even though I always got along well with my family) and as for being single, that was indeed by choice rather than necessity. My failures and successes are my own, not imposed by family.

I see, 29... that's bad. Life is almost over and you've got one foot in the grave already For anecdotal comparison, I started my current career path when I was around 31 (not pursuing a clear "path" before that). Still managed to squeeze a bit of mileage out of life.

Not so much a "discovery" as baby steps to put a discovery into action... Iter (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) A few pictures and notes from the construction site of a Fusion Power plant in Cadarache, Provence.

Have a little faith in the search function

Most of my "memorable" game music was from before half the board members were born (probably exaggerated). A lot of the stuff for the C64 in the early 80's were just bloody awesome, catchy tunes. The Commodore Amiga had some "classics" too, especially the Cinemaware games. Black Isle published games sort of make up the PC games I know and remember the music from. Notable exception is Kotor2 which had some of the best music I remember in any video game the last 30 years.