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It sure isn't the sun Ironically, one of the most conservative people I remember, militantly opposing wind power were the Kiwis. Despite the fact that they the entire western coast of the South Island, from Greymouth and downwards being for all intent and purpose uninhabitated and somewhere between windy and stormy most days of the year. The attitude may have changed the last 5-6 years, but back then it was unthinkable to put up noisy, ugly windmills in the middle of nowhere.

Basically, a bride that is sold through the mail to a man. Often from less economically successful countries. For some, the end result is the 21st century equivalent of slavery and for others the end result is the express queue to visa/citizenship in more affluent countries (where they dump their "spouses" right after the mandatory duration of the partnership to acquire such papers).

I went shopping at EB Games on the Saturday, seeing if they had Ye Old Oblivion (since people keep saying that with 16Gb or so of mods installed it is fairly playable). Didn't find it anywhere, but picked up Fallout 3 with all DLC's for $25. Figured that once I grow tired of FO:NV, which isn't likely to happen anytime soon, I can see what the first Gamebryo version plays like. Still playing FO:NV and Disciples II... and trying to get to grips with GTA III. Probably spreading my attention a bit thin.

Well, we only have LoF's (and yours now) word for that... I would take it with a grain of salt

I believe the problem is more if you are a slave to habit and use the same account name and password for several forums, social sites, internet stores etc. since that is an obvious thing to try if you have access to such information. Also, your email contact address may be of value to spammers.

I'm sure this abnormal state will pass soon. If condition persists, please contact a medical professional. I thank you for the kind advice. Don't thank him before you see the legal counselling bill he's sending your way...

So, whats next, Tom and Jerry getting banned?

Theories about Funcroc's nature range from a genie in a bottle over the building maintenance guy having installed CCTV to being an alt for Feargus so he can share information without stepping on published toes. Alternatively, he could be a games news broker (think 'Shadowbroker') with a soft spot for Obsidian. With my luck, the next game will be an isometric, turn based crpg running on a smartphone that I don't have and don't want

I wonder if it is time to start deleting posts... Guys, give it a break. You don't like the thread, plenty of other threads. You think somebody is breaking the forum rules, say so, we don't need the fist fights.

I also bought FO1&2 and FreeSpace 2, even though I already own them. Really cheap backups. There's no need to buy FreeSpace 1 though, you can download the needed files to play it as part of the FS Port mod, which is legal as far as I know. Not that it's bad to own it too Hehe, at $2.99 my time is too precious to investigate that much I even think I have Freespace somewhere, got it as an OEM deal with some hardware (either an old Soundblaster or nVidia card, don't remember which)... or maybe not. I think that one was called 'Conflict Freespace'. I wonder if it is the same.

I got it too, and I only bought ME2 and DA:O. I did register that Cerberus thing too with ME2 though.

Old Bioware Forums hacked Basically, somebody gained access to the pre-social site NWN forums and pinched a bit of information here and there. From elsewhere on the net, I gather it was mostly account names and passwords (which means, if you use the same account name and password on other forums, it might be a good time to re-check and change your passwords), birth dates and some other trivial stuff.

Shopped like there was no tomorrow on gog's Interplay half price sale. Got the Fallouts (1,2,T), Giants: Citizen Kabuto, The Freespaces (1,2), Die by the Sword. Nabbed the Infinity engine games and ToEE too (even though they weren't on sale). Sadly, Die by the Sword doesn't run, even as a GoG version

Whats the GoG.com equivalent? Never planned on relationship, wouldn't know what to do with a woman if she was still there the day after Trying to resuscitate my old mobile phone, because I refuse to get one of those new smartphone thingies. Yes, my colleagues tease me outrageously because I still hang on to this 6 year old Nokia thing.

That's pretty much an RP fail. Try grocery shopping on a late Friday aftenoon and you won't need 'Detect Evil' to realise that little old ladies are spawn from hell in disguise...

Lets start with the narrowing down... what's your approx. budget? After that, any particular brand preferences (i.e. Intel/AMD, ATI/Nvidia etc.)?

I really *am* looking forward to Age of Decadence

Call me an old geezer, but I can relate to Montes point. It's probably one of the reasons I'm much less of a gamer today than I was 20-25 years ago. Style over substance and presentation over content. When in a nostalgic mood, I really miss the days where things like exploration and discovery were part of a game, searching pixel by pixel and trying the impossible in a bad case of OCD, trying to spot yet another secret item/location Today you get more warnings than a fighter pilot does on his HUD... Pull up, Pull up!, Low altitude, Stall! Turn left, Flashing question marks and exclamation marks. I think I still have some hand drawn maps on some moderatly yellowed and aged paper from a labyrinth in one the C64 Bards Tale games somewhere in a binder. Effin teleporter/spin-me-arounds making it a challenge.

Besides, if you don't bring a bard along, who is going to record the tale of your heroic deeds?!? There's always an insane gnome around for that. I hate gnomes

Ironically, IWD+HoW is one of the few games where a bard is actually feels useful. Besides, if you don't bring a bard along, who is going to record the tale of your heroic deeds?!?

Entirely IMNSHO, both are guilty of getting into the situation through complacency (and nobody really seemed to mind the state of affairs when things were "easy"), but currently only one part is being asked to make sacrifices to fix the collectively created problem.

Yeah, the problem is basically a clash of cultures. Central/northern strictness and high degree of accountability versus one of rampant corruption, living beyond means and not paying tax. It used to work before the Euro because, as mentioned, they just devaluated their currency rather than repay their original debts. Now they are trapped in a spiderweb and can't move in their usual ways. The last 100bn Euros they got has disappeared mysteriously and nobody can really tell whose pockets they ended up in. Sure as hell not where it was intended to go. The riots are in part because the corporate fat cats and politicians (whose corruption levels are something of a public secrect) tell people that, sorry we mismanaged so badly, you guys tighten your belts a bit while we retire to our mediterranean villas and relax in our (funded by public money) pools, so that we don't have to spoil our appetite for the latest caviar by listening to your whinging. Eat your sandals for jeebus sake, they are made out of good, nutritious leather...

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