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Top 10 games I've enjoyed in 2012... Standard Disclaimer: always subject to change at any given moment Planescape Torment Fallout: New Vegas Baldurs Gate 2 Icewind Dale Carmageddon Master of Orion 2 X-Com 3: Apocalypse Warlock - Master of the Arcane Crusader Kings 2 Tombraider A sad list really Almost made the list Mass Effect 2 Trine 1+2 Dragons Age 2 - Shadow of the Assassin (I would have mentioned Legacy if it wasn't for the stupid fire puzzle) Dishonoured (got to spend too little time on it yet) Kotor 2 with TSLCRM

If you go back a century or more, the same people you would (or not, depending beliefs) entrust with sticking a scalpel in your guts and remove your appendix if it's inflamed, are the same guys who would tell you that your heart did the thinking, plague could be cured by bleeding the patient (since the disease must be in the blood!). Those who study the workings and the chemistry of the human mind are by no means perfect, but they'll get there eventually. To be honest, I think in its current state, diagnosing mental disorders correctly is about as hard as predicting the weather correctly for a week in advance. You have all the signs and indicators and experience with similar situations in the past, but in the end, it is currently something very intangible you are dealing with. What doesn't help is the big money involved, and I know back in Denmark, somebody did raise the issue a few decades ago, about the medical practitioners objectivity when they were part owners or shareholders in the medico industry. Some clever investigator noticed a pattern between prescriptions and relations between doctor and manufacturer. Maybe somebody should take a good look at kickbacks and fringe benefits for those handing out the prescriptions and doing the treatment?

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The attachment is the "IWD Style" picture showing the female dwarf ranger (before her name was revealed). Relatively small resolution.

If you "think" you have a mental disorder, you probably don't. For most people, it's no better or worse than having an allergy, a skin condition or bad eyesight. In some cases, it can be so severe it's debilitating and help is needed. In that case, seek professional help, not the quacks, the self titled experts, the scientologists and similar who claims to have patented mental well being (whatever else you do, don't listen to random strangers on the internet).

I was checking out GoG's Christmas sales when I noticed this easter egg on Master of Orions product page... cute

Which is why a 'democracy' will always be a pipe dream just as much as 'communism'. The latter failed spectacularly and the former replaced ideals with consumerism in such insidious ways that most people don't even realize they have been 'bought' (because the fiction of control seems to calm the masses). Currently guns is 'big business' and therefore you will be up against insurmountable odds on the propaganda and lobbying side. Somebody showed some interesting research from Harvard, might have been here, might have been BBC, but the interesting observation was that gun ownership was on the decline. Who knows, maybe it dies out by itself some day and it becomes a manageable factor, like the tobacco industry (who once wielded similar power).

That troll fight was epic! Is that Kalah's lamp thing a mod? Don't remember ever seeing that.

Watching Rocky Horror Picture Show (25th anniversary edition) for the umpteenth time. Some things are just timeless.

Well, since Cantousent isn't going to do it this year, I figure somebody has to do it with the day peeking just around the corner. The unofficial Christmas greetings thread where we pull the rug under political correctness, gives consumerism the middle finger and wish each other a Merry Christmas, regardless whether christian, pagan, atheist, cultist or just don't care. As usual, those wanting to bash religions and traditions can take a seat on the back row and shut up. Just trying to survive? Missing loved ones? No roof over the head? Exams looming around the corner?... No idea who you are. Hope people have some good (less bad) days ahead and find comfort in some preferred company, whether family or loved ones. Merry Christmas everybody

According to the same logi No, Americans (as well as many other people around the world, don't feel all superior, Europeans, I heard about how a bunch of looneys in France thought UFOs would save them if they went to some hill in some tiny village on the 21st,) are stupid and gullible and easily fall for History Channel tinfoil hat BS. The Mayans never predicted the end of the world. This is literally the end of a calendar cycle in the Mayan calendar. A new one starts when the old one ends. And once again, the Mayan civilization died out 1000 years ago. According to the same logic, the world ends 31/12 this year, because the calendar on the door of my fridge ends there Just goes to show indeed how people are willing to believe in things, starting to reaffirming each others fears and concerns... and people wonder how cults, sects etc. pops out of nowhere. Wasn't there once a radio show, War of the Worlds that caused a mass panic? Or was that entirely an urban legend?

If you don't mind paying $15 (currently on a 50% sale) for NWN2 plus expansions, you can buy it digitally here Also includes the NWN1 stuff in the price if you for some reason want to check that out too,

27 degrees Celsius is not a warm spring day for Scandinavians, it's a heat wave (complete with warnings to seek shade and drink plenty of fluid) Took me a bit getting used to temperatures around 45-46 degrees in summer down here (that's around 115F)

With friends like Tale doing the buffing, who needs enemies

Sorry to hear about your troubles Hurlshot. My only real family issue is that they live more than 20000 km away. Not sure how to put it politely, but without more context, the letter sounds like writing of a "condescending" person.

I say, get Daystar and then off to Umar hills and shine a bright light on those pesky shadows!

Yeah, I thought Nepenthe had the dubious honour of playing Nodwick (for those who knows the web comic) Hmm, I've never actually killed the ogre in the circus tent. It probably tastes like chicken...

Tsk, as if we needed rational reasons for going there... Also, Tigranes fail at the colour yellow

Heh, sounds similar to the problem I had with ATI cards for a number of years, never lasting 12 months when you could run them at full speed (because of superior cooling), Voodoo... I had the original Orchid 3Dfx first generation card Edit: Slightly on-topic, put in an online order for a Corsair 240gb SSD (Neutron GTX) and a WD Velociraptor 1TB drive. Will probably add two WD Caviar Black 4TB after New Year (not that I expect anything delivered before mid January anyway). Darn Lian Li cases are still constantly *not* in stock.

Blind luck or just blindingly clever... I followed a hunch and tried something I had success with once upon a time with another archaic game that refused to run. Administrator mode does nothing and XP compatibility doesn't do it either. Windows 2000 compatibility FTW. For some reason (as I found out a few years ago), it works much better than XP compatibility for some games (for reasons I didn't figure out). I tried it on the config exe file and it worked

Dungeon Defender is a great game if you are into tower defense type games. Bought it (and it's DLC's) over time as they got released.

Yes but it wasn't ported by BioWare. I know ME1 wasn't (Demiurge did that), but I thought JE was ported by Bioware. Ah well, limited loss, I was curious what it was about though. Edit: Looks like I'm not alone. It's the most popular suggestion from google search, when search for "jade empire con..."

I thought the PC version of JE was much more recently released than ME1?

Looks like I wasted my $3.75. No matter what I do, it ends up at the configuration utility, which crashes with a "application has stopped working" error. Not impressed. ME1 seems to have been a much better PC port.

Hey, we all know what role "red shirts" are supposed to play in stories, right?