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I would call it an acquired taste. First litmus test is whether or not you like Monty Pythons Holy Grail. The humor is similarly silly/funny/stupid depending on POV. Combat is old school turn based isometric stuff with funny, sometimes outright cute animations. Inventory management is very simple, each party member having a weapon and an armour slot. Upgrades found along the way. Selling point is really the setting, characters and dialogue though, and that can be very much hit or miss depending on taste.

Bought some Ralph Bakshi moves from Amazon a few months ago. I'm probably going to Watch 'Fire and Ice' and 'Wizards' tonight, accompanied by a bottle of red wine, some crackers and some dip.

Bought Grotesque Tactics 2: Dungeons and Donuts for $5. Tried out the initial bits and got a chuckle out of the skeleton hippies freaking out when you pick their flowers Then I reloaded and picked the monster behind door no. 3 instead. Now that was a challenge. Couldn't help cracking up chuckling when having a dialogue with Angelina shortly after

How about just changing the title to "The Hobbit Movie" or some such?" You can always claim to have created the first thread later next year when interest starts really picking up

The ladies go all nuts over him... Looks more like some kind of androgynous being. Are you sure it's male'?

I've heard about Santa, but who's Edward Cullen?

It can be a strange feeling when the brain realizes, that old friends and family are on the other side of the world and you can't just stop by for a cup of coffee, it can take a bit getting used to

Sounds like an interesting idea. Saw the Gamersgate page too the other day while shopping there. Read as far as 'real-time'

If he had mentioned 'Halo' somewhere in his post, I would have said yes

I was thinking of grabbing a HoMM game in the GOG sale-- is III the consensus-best of the part of the series that they have available (which I think is 1-4)? Some die-hard fans claims that II is better, but I've never played it, so I couldn't say. III did seem to be what made it "popular" (as wargames go).

Thanks, but I think the game just stays where it is then Maybe it's time to dust off the HoMM III I got from GoG?

Tried the Heroes of Might and Magic VI demo on Steam. Contrary to my expectations it wasn't an utter disaster. It still doesn't get close to III, but it sure makes the previous 2 games look bad by comparison. Anyone knows if the full game uses some kind of additional crap for DRM other than steamworks?

Why neocon? It's not uncommon to hire people on a contract/project basis. Sometimes they get extended beyond the original scope, sometimes continuation depends on milestones being met (and may terminate prematurely).

Seasonal greetings? Stuff it! Just sayin' Last man at work, soon to call it a day and take some weeks off. Northerners might not know, but in this side of the world, it's the long school holidays season and most things shut down up until sometime in January. Never cared about "Consumer Christmas" and all the hypocrisy involved in trying to outshop your neighbour, bowing for peer pressure, trying to show how awfully "christmassy" you are. Ho ho ho, here is my plastic card. This is not the place to bleat about "There is no God" either, if you want to do that, well **** You too and get out of my thread. Militant Atheists are often worse than religious zealots (the Westboro open lunatic asylum congregation exempt from comparison). I'm not an Atheist and I would make a piss poor Christian so I'm a lost cause for both camps. So, with that off my chest, wishing unification for those separated from loved ones, healing for those hurt, hope for those who despair, and those who lost someone may find something assuaging the pain. Drop the presents (or buy smaller) and go donate to your favourite charity instead. Don't care what it is, Salvation Army, Shelter for Homeless Cats or whatever. Make the world a better place, not a more superficial one. Merry Christmas ...or else PS: Dear Santa, I've been a good boy, can I have a turn based isometric crpg?

Was listening to an old live version on CD (Queen Live Killers) and went looking for a video version. Struck me as one of the better cover versions

Don't we all? Only game I've seen this in is Nethack and it was just incidental, not a quest

Getting a bit long. Continued here

Start of old thread End of old thread Just a new chapter.

Finland's had to cut butter exports because of an unexpected spike in demand. I gotta admit I switched back to butter earlier this year, so I guess I'm partially to blame. I've also lost 12 lbs. since then... SATW version of events

You should get them a job instead so they could earn their own socks. [/scrooge]

Like Virtual PC's. You create a 'bubble', which is a local copy (i.e. instance) of part of the game world. Two instances would provide two groups of people the same bit of the game world, but never know of the presence of each other. Yeah, sounds like a bad Star Trek episode

Depending on the age of your motherboard, it may or may not support sata out of the box so to speak. Older hardware needs Windows to load the drivers first IIRC. If your motherboard supports booting from it, you'll need to change the boot priority/partition in your BIOS settings. Where and the specifics depends on your BIOS.

Hehe... "floor pizza" Didn't know there were so many of them. Last time I checked they were up to

Bought the bundle. I wonder if one of the previous bundles later added Portal to it? It's showing in my Steam library. Can't remember ever having purchased it. Still got a bunch of games to try out from the previous bundle, like Dungeons of Dredmor and Darwinia.

They are "invading" some of the coastal cities and buying up all the butter.. So no need to donate.. Like the proper vikings they are. Go for Gold With this you can apparantly bribe a Norwegian to do anything these days...