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Sadly, my recommendations for dealing with corporate fat cats is not work safe and would land me in trouble. A shame really, as it is very graphical, almost a piece of impressionistic art As long as the personal risk for the decision makers is negligible compared to potential personal gains, you are going to fight an uphill battle for stability.

Not sure what any of them had to do with the Baldurs Gate franchise to be honest. The only really interesting bit in DA:O was the game mechanics which showed potential as a foundation to build and expand upon. It made a bland setting with mind numbingly boring factions a fairly entertaining game. Of course, the one thing they chucked out of DA2 was the game mechanics... At the moment my expectation is a 20 hour QTE where you can press the right gamepad button (is there even going to be a PC version?) at the right time to pass the "difficult" parts of the game and successfully romance everybody from your dog to your mother.

Which of course raises the age old (yet to be solved unequivocally?) question, what is an RPG?

Somebody's gonna get tele-fragged!

Anecdotal evidence (i.e. my own experiences), so far none. If you have some really antiquated, obscure (and unsupported) hardware, you might have trouble finding drivers, but anything released by most popular brands is updated a long time ago by now. Haven't found a game or application yet that hated W7 x64 more than it hated my hardware. Very old stuff can run on Dosbox or VirtualPC anyway.

Bless you... *offers paper tissue*

I would still like to know more about project New Jersey some day

Too much grind involved in oranges. Endless peeling. Apples are more accessible.

From various things around, it sounds more like Cerberus are infected to a degree with reaper tech , much in the way that husks are. Or at least some of the higher echelon are, but I don't think they've given specifics of whats what just yet. Enoch and Malcador beat you guys to it My 'why not' guess explanation: TIM has always been on the side of the Reapers. But the Reapers aren't monolithic. The Reaper handling the Collectors was part of a splinter group, going off the reservation with their "human reaper" experiments. TIM, allied with the main horde, was working towards the same goal via a different path-- making Shep into badass zombie cyborg. That he could test this badass zombie cyborg by using it to capture/destroy the work of a rival Reaper faction was a nice bonus. There is, as I see it, a certain similarity between both the Collectors' and Cerberus' pre-ME2 activities (sampling different weird galactic species and experimenting on them, etc.). Ah yes, makes sense. It's the faction that wants to build bigger and bigger reapers versus the faction that wants to build small, flexible Sheperd sized reapers. He is the 'prototype' without knowing it, getting pitted against the evolutionary dinosaurs of Reaperdom. There can be only one

@WDeranged: Is that a mod? I like the little "model" robots on the shelf

Well, the advantage (as far as I see it) is that I don't void the warranty. My old card started misbehaving about a month after I had replaced the cooler (and voided the warranty). It only just became really pronounced when I started playing FO:NV, because it was the first time in a very long time that I played something that didn't run on VirtualPC, Dosbox or otherwise didn't require much from a card. I've had very bad luck with my last two ATI cards, one lasting almost 2 years and one lasting less than 2 months before starting to act up. My old Leadtek Geforce 5900 Ultra is still running on its 7'th or 8'th year. I'm just trying to see if I would have more luck with nVidia again.

Let's just say time is for me a more valuable currency Which is why I sometimes don't have the patience for stuff that doesn't work.

That would make for a cool party trick

That's what happened in the book? Yup. Turned out that I needed to distract some trolls (that I had ignored at first and bypassed) and wait for the sun to rise, turning them to stone or some such (also a good hint from reading the book). After that, their cave was mine for looting, including the sword, which enables you to survive for considerably longer than without a light source in goblin filled caves. One of the traits of "Sting" is, that it glows when orcs and goblins are near. I think it even did that when Frodo had it in the LoTR movies.

*Whimper* Caved in an ordered this one 10 minutes ago. Even if it says 'usuall ships in 1 to 2 months'. I'll just have to suffer in silences. [silence]*suffering*[/silence] Not saying anything... Cruel world... Wouldn't make much of a differnce I suppose, as each an every Aussie online store has ETA unknown for all 590 and most (except from some brands I'm not familiar with) of the 580 cards. @Spider: I'm not sure I can squeeze two 580's in on top of each other. Heck, even the 5970 required some tearing out of things that normally is part of the casing

Define 'no news' Your knowledge of the combined works and publications on the subject is astounding (and frankly not credible). Pff, that probably sounded a bit harsh(er than intended). Rather than editing, just clarifying that it is an objection to the sweeping generalisation of 'no news' on the research area (or whatever the 'no news' is supposed to cover)

I would love to play some of those DLC's but still waiting for the inevitable bundle. How long did it take for FO3 before the bundled stuff was available for sale?

Define 'no news' Your knowledge of the combined works and publications on the subject is astounding (and frankly not credible).

Too lazy to browse more than a handful of pages back and see if it has been mentioned. Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip Found it interesting, amusing and scary at the same time. Sort of like the Cylon organic/machine interface thing, enabling direct contact between organic and mechanical information systems. Time to consider the blue pill? Cyberpunk becoming trivial real world literature? On a related note, I wonder if organic computers will not only be prone to virus attacks, but also senility. Maybe I should consider a career as computer therapeut for depressed computers.

You forgot the vertical bars and you didn't type the 'F's on top of the X and the U. Forgot the dash across the @ too. No wonder it rejected the first one

The first TR movie wasn't too shabby. The second one, well... I liked the Silent Hill movie too, but again, never played any of the games, so it was just a movie to kill a bit of time. Never was a fan of comic to movie transitions either, probably being more tolerant of the ones where I'm completely unfamiliar with the source material. Never underestimate the effect of expectations

I thought the 'Doom' movie was quite decent for it's genre (i.e. trapped with monsters on a remote research location, not video game conversation). But then, I never played any of the Doom games, so there wasn't really any expectations other than a some monsters, big guns and a handful of special effects, propelled along by strange conversations

That doesn't stop Uwe Boll.

Exactly I bought the c64 version, played it until I got stuck in the goblins caves and got killed in the dark all the time. In the end, I gave up and read that paperback book (which I still have on my bookshelf) that came in the game box. Turned out that I needed to find "Sting" first, stupid magical sword that glows in the dark when goblins are near. How was I supposed to know?!? Anyway, ended up completing 97% of the game (it kept score) and got hooked on adventure games for a long time after. Edit to add: I think I've hated dwarves ever since that game, Thorin and his endless sitting down and singing about gold when we were about to die. Nevermind a kleptomaniac Gandalf that kept taking my map away from me.

Last time I got lost in London I didn't even have a "dumb" phone Found some young blokes who looked like locals and asked where they would go and crash for the night if low on funds. They suggested a particular (tube) station which had a number of B&B's within short distance. Maps are for whimps