Everything posted by Gorth
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What you did today?
Isn't that illegal in most countries?
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Mass Effect 3
I see your words and individually they seem fine, but as sentences they don't make much sense to me. I'm probably missing the context by not having followed the development and fan discussions of those games (DA1+2 & TW2) closely, so I can only base it on my own observations and opinions (and the odd press release/news item) Fwiw, I don't find TW2 particularly cool, not having been bothered to play my way out of the introduction level yet. Trying too hard to be like other commercially successful games and losing it's identity. Yes, I know it's business and they want to make money. More and more seems to follow the same path towards the same point, resulting in either market saturation or creating a singularity.
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Expostulation of the day
I rarely swear, except that one time when I kicked a cobblestone and split a toe nail. Instead I can be pretty blunt in my responses and assessment of things.
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Mass Effect 3
We probably are reading it differently I simply noticed that the good doctors are so full of praise of the success and game mechanics of DA2 and how they had reached the final product by listening to the (automated) player feedback, so I assumed that when speaking of lessons learned, that is what they referred to (and the approach they would repeat for ME3).
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Mass Effect 3
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So, we are going to get jedis running around in recycled space dungeons?- Do you use Facebook?
Uh, you moderate a gaming forum. No offense, I'm right here next to you wasting time online, but it just seemed a bit hypocritical. It's a fringe benefit of my job. I can either stare at the desktop wallpaper while thinking or I can stare a forum posts (and write a short contribution on the odd occasion)- Do you use Facebook?
My very first impression of Facebook. Less than 24 hours after having created an account and added two email addresses marked as not for public sharing, I got spammed on them with scam mails. Makes you wonder what they do with those email addresses people entrust them with (I would never say that they sell them outright, as that might be libel)... This Life's too short and precious to waste away online, rather than living it for real. Deleted all essential info on my profile except a freemail address for notification purposes (which now gets spammed by facebook with 'we miss you' messages every second month because I don't log in anymore. Found a few google pages on how to permantly delete my account which I'm probably going to do one of these days if I can be bothered to visit that pile of again.- new scientific discoveries
Say hello to our new Tau overlords... Death ti Pi I normally don't care about math at all, but this one just struck me as amusing, if nothing else, because somebody is shaking ye olde foundations of geometry (one of the few areas of math that ever held an interest for me).- What you did today?
Happy birthday you mad Kiwi, you... may there be many more drinks- Pictures of your games
ITS ALL ABOUT FIREBALLS! Gods I had so much fun with it! Well, if it's all about fireballs, then I will have to go back and rest after each major fight. My Mage only has 2 3rd-level spell slots (and one of those is typically a Haste). Actually, I suspect that the Web/Entangle is more important for surviving those fights. The Wights come in big numbers, and the level doesn't offer any good choke-points where your front-liners can fight them 2 or 3 at a time. First and foremost, you need to slow the rush. Doing damage is secondary. Web, entangle or similar to keep them in place while you pile a stack of druid spells on them. They are surprisingly offensive in IWD. The thorny one last for quite a while and what's its name the spell that sends spiky bits out of the ground (meh, don't remember their namew anymore, been a few years since my last playthrough) and my favourite against cramped/immobile enemies, La Ola (that portable tsunami spell)!- What are you playing now?
Sounds interesting. Maybe I should give the game a chance some day. For reasons I no longer remember I always just thought of it as the space relative of Civilizations, a game I found ridiculous in a bad way when it was released (a primitive strategy game, dumbed down for PC gamers, unlike the works of art available to the Amiga Gamer Masterrace). Lets grab some AC next time I shop online- What you did today?
Yeah, it's that key to remember.. Comments in programming need to mean something to anyone who reads it, not jsut the programmer. I used to get so much grief at Uni because I'd use literature or mythology references that meant something..if you understood them. That was a hard habit to get out of.... *Cough* Comments sometimes gets a bit poetic. Never really meant to be read by anybody As for stack based programming, does HP still have their calculators use that? I remember learning Forth many years ago. Taught you a completely new way of looking at the world. I'm sure Thuring was a Forth programmer. Real men use relative address jumps- What is the happiest country in the world?
8 months... I'll keep that in mind next time I feel like whinging over the 28 hour flight time to Europe (shame on me)- What is the happiest country in the world?
"However, it found Australians worked less than- new scientific discoveries
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.- What you did today?
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).- Class War - Greatest Lies of the 20th Century
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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.- Class War - Greatest Lies of the 20th Century
Well, we only have LoF's (and yours now) word for that... I would take it with a grain of salt- BioWare Security Breach
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.- What you did today?
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...- Games and Legalities
So, whats next, Tom and Jerry getting banned?