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I can only think of one really good non-cheating AI and that was a 25 year old shareware game for the Commododre Amiga (a Battlemech clone). Most AI's seems "serviceable" and does the job of putting up resistance in single player games.

Still playing Kotor2 (Steam version) with TSLRCM and thoroughly enjoying it. Peragus still feels long and linear, but once you take off from Telos you really notice the difference. It's like playing a completely different game sometimes (I've "finished" Nar Shaddaa first and started on Dantooine). I won't post all the spoiler details, but the bug fixes alone are worth appreciating besides the restored content.

It may not be Seven Cities of Gold, but it looks promising. I just put $100 where my mouth is

I got a good laugh out of the LucasArt review (not so much spiteful as just funny).

Bought a new battery for the motorcycle. Never knew you would get it as a DIY kit. Been busy sniffing sulphuric acid Well, you couldn't really do it wrong, so now it's charged, replaced and it runs like new again.

I don't think Ubisoft has anything in their lineup anyway that would be to my taste, so not much of an issue personally. I would be furious though if I bought a piece of software and it tried to sneak some backdoor software in under the guise of being "necessary for the consumer experience". Ah well, maybe their wallets are hurting enough now that they see the light at the end of the tunnel?

Nah, it was after 2:00 at night, so I thought I better get some sleep. I just checked I had a save from 10 minutes earlier before shutting down. I'll get back to it tonight again. I didn't run into it again (might have been the option, might have been a random fluke and the engine crashing). It was in the very first dialogue with HK51 next to the dead engineer whatshisname. Made it to Telos without problems and the "lag" after combat seems more or less gone without having changed any settings. Turned that I had vsynch on all the time.

I think it's perfectly possible to believe in there being more to life than meets the eye without believing in religions run by religious leaders for religious leaders.

My old 5 button Microsoft Mouse has finally died on me after almost 10 years. It's like saying good bye to an old friend Not having been in a market for a mouse for a very long time, I was at a bit of a loss, so I ended up buying a SteelSeries Sensei Professional Laser Mouse (or some such fancy name). It kind of sucks buying a mouse online, because you can't try it out, how it fit in your hand. Oh, and I definitely need a bigger case some day, but that's a worry for another day.

Nah, it was after 2:00 at night, so I thought I better get some sleep. I just checked I had a save from 10 minutes earlier before shutting down. I'll get back to it tonight again.

Knights of the Old Republic II. Fun after not having played it for years. It hasn't really aged gracefully, but who cares, the music is still awesome and Kreia's voice artist does a great job.

Hmm, I might just give vsync a try. Slideshow, huh? Now you've made me curious Hit a slight snatch that killed the game after selecting a dialogue choice (application has stopped working etc.). Back to recent save. Luckily I didn't just rely on autosaves, remembering something about them not being as frequent as in say FO:NV (every area/locale transition). Almost made it to the Peragus dormitories.

I'm playing it now (with TSLRCM 1.8.1), the only "issue" so far is a strange being stuck thing after combat. Forward and backward movement with the keyboard seems paralyzed for several seconds, but eventually it unfreezes. I can turn around and if there are containers nearby I can click on them and walk there no problem. It just doesn't care about the forward and backward key for a while there. It's not stopping me from playing, just a minor nuisance.

Thanks for all the hard work (and for not giving up along the way) Just in time too, since I'm about to start a game of Kotor2 this week

The "Panzer Pope" Funny if you think about it, but the Catholics were amongst the first heretics, breaking away from the original/traditional Christian church.

A sad track record of half watch and two-third watched movies on the plane from Singapore to Brisbane. I saw two-thirds of "Battleship", then I couldn't stand it anymore. It would have made more sense to do it as a cartoon. Then I saw half of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Not a bad movie, but I couldn't relate to any of the characters and it's a movie that relies a lot on empathy (imnsho). Decided to re-watch something that I had seen on the way out and watched Avatar once more. Ok flick to watch for free, but not something I would buy on DVD/BD.

You are asking really hard questions... how many years is it since the last playthrough??? Since I bought the Steam version (gave up trying to get my old CD retail version to run), I'll probably try out the TSLRCM project at the same time. Who knows, it might jog some dusty old memories. I don't even remember who was "romancable". Might put up a real answer in a few weeks time.

Still playing a little bit of FO:NV every now and then. After finishing OWB, which I quite liked (nice change of "tone" and setting, only real beef was the same as with Point Lookout, the goons are too many of the same and way too much bullet sponges), I'm busy shuffling stuff between my stashes and stores with enough caps. Not sure if it's a bug in the sink, but half the time it doesn't seem to actually pay you for stuff you sell, despite listing a number of caps it's willing to pay. I lost 60000 caps that way, not checking that money actually went to my account. Once done with that, I'll probably head for Lonesome Road.

Deja Vu

Depending on how urgent it is, there is a real physical address you can send a mail to on the privacy page.

Play the demo as administrator. Been there, tried that (after checking out their forums). I suspect it might be the "other" reason, running setup.exe instead of the msi file? Supposedly the latter also installs some prerequisite elements. I've already deleted the download after installing it though, so it's a task for another day.

Tried to play the Underrail demo. Game crashes right away without doing much (besides offering to send a bug report Microsoft). A shame, as I was curious to see what the game was about. Maybe they'll update the demo some day.

The X-Wing/Tie-Fighter games. Elite 2

You can watch that whole thing now on youtube. I thought the presentation was totally underwhelming. Too limited options in combat, and the whole game feels more like a cartoonish theme park. I thought X-COM was supposed to be creepy and tenseful. Well, maybe the inevitable demo is going to change my mind. I hope for a real playable demo, because watching the first 5-7 minutes of this was painful. The constantly jumping around camera and unnecessary change of perspective ruined the experience so far. Might feel differently when getting your own hands on the keyboard/mouse.

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