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Yes, always catering to the attention span challenged crowd. When I was young, loading times were so long that developers introduced games and movies/music to play during level loading

That would have been around the same time. Got into university studying computer science. In the beginning, it was mostly mail exchange with tutors, project advisors and contacts at universities around the world. Then transferring source files and documentation, downloading software packages (University of Illinois UIUC had made this fancy Object Oriented OS which we used as a case study). Working with Gohper and Archie protocols for searching the net was like making fire with two pieces of flint, but it gave you an idea of the underlying technology. The geek in me looks back through rose coloured glasses, the comfort creature in me appreciate google and browsers that support graphics. Ask people today how many has done anything in LaTeX and they look at you like you've just suggested something naughty

Probably no comfort to you, but you are not the only one (having been on the net since it was something "exclusive" used for information exchange to it became something "vulgar")

Still waiting for the cd's to arrive in my mailbox. Bought it together with the two Cthulhu carols cd's (and a tentacle)

Because we say so Never mind that they are not a uniform faction and led by former military personel, most likely looking to replace the current regime with a new, similar one, just with different names on the business cards.

"these are not the rebels you are looking for"...

Hey, it's called a CAPITAList system for a reason. News is commodities to be sold The demand for capital C's are up today, the market reacting nervously to other capital investments. Watch this space for further updates.

Too much talk about MMO's... nice clean thread here

Start of old thread End of old thread The all CAPS are back, news at 22:00

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong by fully automating your defenses?... as long as you keep the design document safe that is

A lot of things are better deep fried. I can recommend deep fried Camembert

I seem to remember that the most frequent cause of death was when getting too close to crates (or other obstacles), teleporting you up into the air with no way down again. Particularly bad on the droid machine level with the endlessly spawning droids As boring as the combat was, it was still miles better than planet scanning as a filler between the interesting parts. As much as I liked the game, it wouldn't have hurt to cut a third of the combat and three quarters of the planet scan out of it

Unfortunately, the game engine did not age well. A number of issues I can remember is that it needs workarounds form anything running more than single core, it doesn't like Vista/7 (the Miles Sound System driver doesn't work) and a number of strange picky habits with gfx cards. Each individual issue having separate workaround or fixes. Some issues may not be fixable. This place may have the answer to one of the issues Besides that and checking the stickied FAQ thread, I'm afraid I don't have too many suggestions.

I clicked the link and then made the mistake of allowing scripts temporarily. Zoing!... my browser was oddly shaped, looking at a &^%%$$ Flash site. Hate the game already. If not because of the game, then because of their PR people

The latter. There are not enough products for even a semblance of a unifying style to form. I'll disagree with your reasoning. There's some commonalities between the likes of Risen, Gothic, Two Worlds, Divinity 2, and even The Witcher for a subgenre classification. ...no? You've cited wildly different titles, half of which aren't Eastern European anyway. Origin is irrelevant to the classification. You don't class games by origin, but by similarities of game content and/or play. If you have a better name for the class, I'd welcome it. And I'll disagree that they're wildly different. Though my play with a couple of the titles wasn't thorough. Because it's painful to admit just how few RPG developers aren't developing in that style. Three, and they're all American. Don't take away my denial! Well, then there's the diablo clones. Do you count Bioware as 'American'? I could have sworn they were 'Kanadian'

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I'm not sure if PS:T really requires spoiler tags anymore... [spoiler]Best ending: You go to hell[/spoiler]

So the whole brouhaha is that Notch tried to trademark "Scrolls" for game purposes and Bethesda opposed it? Maybe it's me being a lawyer, but that seems like a pretty ****ing reasonable reaction from them. Don't think "scrolls" is/should be trademarkeable. If they can keep someone from trademarking it doesn't that mean they practically trademarked it themselves? I'm not a trademark specialist, but if I understand it correctly it means that you are the only one who can do a particular type of trade under that name (franchise/company name). If you can't get it trademarked it "just" means everybody else can use it too. There seems to be a growing resistance towards letting obvious common day items be registered as trademarks. There seems to be some weird rules about defending your trademarks too, sort of "use it or lose it" and possibly forfeiting it if you don't contest other entities' use of it (waiting for a lawyer to stop by and clarify). But the Bethesda trademark is "Elder Scrolls", how can they even propose to keep someone from using a general English term like "Scrolls"? I wonder if the objection is to them using it or to them trademarking it?

So the whole brouhaha is that Notch tried to trademark "Scrolls" for game purposes and Bethesda opposed it? Maybe it's me being a lawyer, but that seems like a pretty ****ing reasonable reaction from them. Don't think "scrolls" is/should be trademarkeable. If they can keep someone from trademarking it doesn't that mean they practically trademarked it themselves? I'm not a trademark specialist, but if I understand it correctly it means that you are the only one who can do a particular type of trade under that name (franchise/company name). If you can't get it trademarked it "just" means everybody else can use it too. There seems to be a growing resistance towards letting obvious common day items be registered as trademarks. There seems to be some weird rules about defending your trademarks too, sort of "use it or lose it" and possibly forfeiting it if you don't contest other entities' use of it (waiting for a lawyer to stop by and clarify).

Not really. I played "Another World" when it was new on the Amiga, but I haven't tried any of his games since. "Another Word" was a rather unique experience though.

What ending did you get? I stuck with the prince for this playthrough. Thought the outcome was hilarious and unexpected. Will do another playthrough next summer(too many games right now). Absolutely loved it despite the horrible combat and those 3 horrible minutes running around like a crazy madman. Wanted to break something at that point. Good man There are 3 rather distinct endings... might be more, but I only remember 3 (siding with Kuei Jin, The Prince and the Camarilla). I think there might also be a "side with yourself" option. You *can* kill the werewolf.

My English skills are failing me, not understanding 'moritoriums' in that context Would suspending capital gains taxes really be such a hot idea? It was reckless speculation that to some degree brought about the mess in the first place. I seem to remember once upon a time in the old country, they had different tax rules depending on how long you held onto your shares/stocks/whatever to encourage investment (long term commitment) and discourage speculation/manipulation of short term buying and selling. I seem to remember the discretionary spending being a not unsubstantial sum of money (yeah, followed the debate a bit on the news during that weekend before the deadline), but what exactly does it mean? Money that isn't "ear marked" for a specific purpose?

What ending did you get?

I always though discussion was okay, promotion and linking was not okay. The former can be useful, the latter two can have unfortunate consequences. Discretion is sometimes required to determine when something is 'promotion'.

Wait, you mean the Adamantine Golem isn't always in Firkraag's dungeon? That thing is immune to magic and to everything lower than +3 weapons, and it shreds melee characters as if they were made of paper. There are also the major werewolves or whatever they're called in english (I only ever played the game in french). Windspear, Umar, Planar Prison, That beholder cave of the cult of the eyeless etc. all have some added Oomph when you visit them later, at a higher level. So no, the golem isn't necessarily there when you visit Windspear. Nothing Jaheira can't fix with a staff +3 though, as the golem tend to get stuck in the doorway (and blocking the lesser golems in the process)