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Enjoying the spectacle outside our lunchroom windows. We have a pair of Water Dragons, a red bellied male and what we assume is the smaller female (real world lizards, not the fantasy monsters) that has grown accustomed to getting fed. While they eat the ham and chicken they get served, it's nothing compared to the feeding frenzy when there is cheese on the menu. Since the bush turkeys and crows also seems to have taken a liking to the cheese, there is sometimes growling, flapping, hissing and a lot of threatening gestures taking place when there is little or no cheese left. Who needs TV anyway?

The only thing I remember from Kotor2 was I thought there was waaaay too many robots to fight. It probably didn't help that the entire introduction level was a fight against renegade robots. NWN2 scores no points for encounter design. Endless spawning enemies that hump out of thin air is a declararion of bankruptcy designwise. Not just because I wasted a lot of skill points invested in my rangers tracking skill.

"So, are we gonna kill something now?"

My native language is Danish. My second language is German and I can usually make myself understood in English too. I often wondered how hard it would be to pick up a "Latin" (Italian or Spanish) language when I was younger. Ended up learning French instead. Since I've forgotten most of my French skills, I sometimes wonder how hard it would be to learn an "East Asian" language, but the sheer workload is intimidating. New alphabet and mindset. Syntax and vocabulary is only part of the toolset, you also need to understand the culture and mindset of the language(s) you are trying to communicate with people in.

Just an odd, out of the blue observation, which might be coincidental (or not), but it seemed to me in ME2 that there was some correlation between planets with high Element Zero content and presence (either current or past) of organic life. Maybe Element Zero is the "fossil fuel" that Reapers need and so go around and seed the galaxy with enough technology (the relays) to make sure life spreads to those places they want them to in order to make a bountiful harvest of Space Diesel. Now, did anybody ever figure out why Haestrom's sun (where you pick up Tali) was suffering from rapid ageing? Some kind of superweapon? The gadget that is going to nuke the Reapers or just part of the process where the Reapers test their harvesting technology by baking the content of a planet into Element Zero fuel rods?

The ruling dynasty had. Don't confuse that with modern nationalistic bickering. Exactly. It was actually other way around. The French Plantagenets owned all of England

...and I thought *we* were being silly

Saw somebody post a link to part 3. There's no business like Glow business So that's where the Terrasque came from. Edit to add all three: Second part is up. And now the third part too.

We should forward this message to Merkel and Sarkozy. A way to make Greeks productive...

I'll say this low and slow: You didn't read the rest of my post it seems.. Also this seems to be a touchy subject? but I'm on your guys side, as I said, if the Falkies want to stay with Britain then that's how it should be. My question was more in the area of why this is such a big deal (for Argentina), this didn't seem like a very important piece of land - until I read about the oil Why did China want Tibet? Why did Sweden want Scania? Why did the USA want the CSA? A mix of economic, strategic and nationalistic interests. In the case of the Falklands, it's a mix of nationalism and resources. Potentially large oil reserves in the sea bed.

Talk about being late to the party

That has to be the worlds most heavily subsidized license plates.

Somebody reactivated Funcroc and beat you by a day Still, nice to see second part has come up. Fun, infomative and interesting in one nice package.

Coincidence? whoah... this is real? toooooo bad i don't know squat about making video games! cause i'd totally want to make an infinity engine game! Pick up some documentation try and start! The sky is the limit! (Though I've heard that GemRB may not be in the best shape yet.)

You mean like this? Yes

That reminds me, that I still have Mysteries of Westgate floating around somewhere on my games partition, waiting for me to have a serious go at it.

I'm not sure there is any. Unless they are very careful with what screenshots are released it's something that people will easily be able to see prior to release and judge themselves. Came across the orginal post make of it what you will. "It's a runtime memory cost, not a disk space issue. You need those anims for the non-combat areas... so they're going to be on disk regardless. In order to support exploration in the combat areas, you'd need to have all the anims loaded in memory... so that would be things like the 8-way walks, runs, incline anims, idles, idle twitches, male/female variant overrides, eye noise... etc. All in all (iirc) it came out to around 2-4MB, which is relatively significant. Also, as you've guessed, yes - I'm referring to the main game (as well as the demo" A shame there is no source for the above. Otherwise I would point at that next time somebody claims the game isn't aiming for lowest common denominator when developing for multiple platforms

Nice try at advertising, but I think it said Indie developer, not Indian developers

trust me... by today's standards it's nothing special, unless you're a film school student or a critic. Citizen Cane was the most boring movie I'd seen in a long time, I never watched it all the way to the end, couldn't bring myself to Ok, maybe I should give it a pass...

After all I've heard about it, I really should watch that movie some day.

That was a fun read. Informative too Does it make me look old when I think of the original Bards Tale as a modern game?

Turns out I had it's "predecessor" (current version) the Sony HDR-CX700V on my shortlist together with the Panasonic HDC-TM900K. Trying to catch up on reviews for those, plus a few more.

Maybe GuardDog has a spare coyote he could lend you? Read somewhere the best way is to bait a trap with cat food from tin and then deport it to somewhere away from your place.

Mostly outdoors landscapes, cities, vistas, wildlife etc. No macro insect shots or weird stuff. Just a way to share experiences with those who weren't there on my travels. That's why I need something with anti-shake and decent low light performance, as it's for all times of day and night.

In the case of Samara, it's not for lack of trying