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Watercooling is the way to go. So many nuclear reactors can't be wrong

Things that get me out of bed... Sore neck muscles during crunch time The realisation that you are late for a plane at the airport Sunday morning boredom Work Having a lot of fun with the OCBA (Thats the governments 'Office of Consumer and Business affairs') here in South Australia. Moving to Brisbane and expected to get my tenancy security bond back from the place I rented here. Turns out that some office clerk has decided to spice up his salary by embezzling the funds placed in their trust. Instead of doing the expected electronic funds transfer to my account, he decided that it wasn't possible (with some rather spurious claims) and issued a cheque. Guess what, he never sent the cheque, yet it was cashed in by "somebody, somewhere". He claims to have called me and I should have instructed him to divert the money (without any paperwork or signing any forms) to some address halfway out in the outback (where the cheque was cashed in). Doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened, he issued it to himself. Decided to Sic both the Ombudsman and the police on them... Ah well, it's only a few thousand dollars, but they are MY dollars dammit. I'm beginning to think Guarddog is right, governments are crooks, all of them

Unless that's all part of the dwarf origin, I guess I missed all of that somehow. I wasn't even able to get into the Senate chamber until the very end as I recall. Fuzzy Memory Disclaimer. You get bits and pieces along the way, leaving it up to you to piece the puzzle together. I was left with the impression that Harrowmont was the "conservative" force, being in favour of the caste based, isolationist society, yet looking like the "decent" short term option whereas Bhelen, being in love with a woman below his station is the "anarchist", trying to break down society in it's current form in order to get things the way he wants them, giving the short term impression of a lying, scheming villain. The beauty of it is, that long term and short term impressions aren't always the same. For me the best part of the game and beating the stupid Mage/Templar conflict by several miles

Dictator in Lederhosen: Those black leather trenchcoats just look more intimidating than lederhosen.

Lazy bastards, get a real job

The jellyfish species (sorry, forgot their name) nothing less than worships their crustacean overlords

Sorry, that just struck me as very familiar. Lock me in a room with real live people and I stare longingly at the exit after only a few hours. I generally hate intrusions into my privacy sphere. This place is nice and familiar and can be visited in both small and large doses at my own discretion. No companionship is forced upon me (hey, you taking notes Obsidian?). As Guarddog said, you get the width and breadth of international society, hearing views that you wouldn't believe existed. Between the surreal and the real, it's a great source of learning and entertainment in one nice package

Great to see somebody actually doing something non-violent for what they believe in for a change. Nice iniative

Lets get back to gaming news, new news, old news, strange news etc. More news to follow

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It starts uninstalling itself without asking you?

I've only played Midwinter (not the sequel), haven't tried Thief and Deus Ex 'Elite' was probably the first game where I thought that here was something you couldn't do with 2D. Would I be nitpicking if I emphasized the "dropping 2d in favour of 3d" part, I.e. where 3 dimensions isn't really a requirement for the game mechanics, yet was chosen in order to pitch a game idea anyway?

One of the original arguments I remember for dropping 2d in favour of 3d (like 10-15 years ago) was that it was cheaper just to create a 3d model that the engine could render in real time rather than having a horde of "painters" providing the art assets. Ironically the result wasn't cheaper graphics, just more sparsely populated (streamlined?) environments. Since the word "cheaper" was thrown around, noone dared suggesting using 2d artwork based titles to a publisher because you get shown the exit right away. 3d or nothing. 3d became the new black and was marketed as the thing every young hopeful game should aspire to purchase in order to be a cool kid. At least that's how my (occasionally) fuzzy memory keeps repeating it back to me. So it went the way of the Dodo, The Space Sim, 4X Games, The Isometric Perspective and Turnbased Tactical Squad Combat game.

Is he talking about art direction or the amount of bloom/pixels they can throw at people? Infinity Engine games still looks better than most 3d engine crpgs, yet that doesn't stop publishers from churning out one low detail 3D game after another, trying to save on assets I guess I have to check the link eventually...

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Doesn't really match my own experiences This is more like it. Working in a 400+ people software company, trying very hard not to make wrong calls that may affect 100's, sometimes 1000's of peoples livelyhood. Lots of responsibility, lots of focus on quality and always frothing at the mouth in a mad dash to meet deadlines... (and yeah, winning more domestic, regional and worldwide awards for our work than you can shake a stick at) I don't think size really matters, your corporate culture matters.

Gave the demo a break and then played through it a second time. Good thing it is my work laptop, because I was really tempted to smash my fist through the screen in frustration over the god awful camera. I think I spent 80% of my time fiddling and constantly (and vainly) trying to readjust the camera angle as my character moved around. I'll wait and see when the deal packages comes out with expansions, patches and DLC's included. Maybe they'll have fixed the camera by then.

While semantically correct, it is just that, semantics. In the end you are depriving somebody somewhere of their return for time and labour invested in their work. Nice write up of the situation in the the old USSR and eastern Europe It is indeed a similar situation in many places in current day developing countries. Way too expensive products for the local pay check available for a fraction from local crime gang store fronts that make a fortune from duplicating the products, having only the blank media and a printer as their expenses. Heck, I make a decent living and I still find that the current garbage to come out of the movie industry is way overpriced. Probably why I mostly buy 3 for $15 or similar bargain bin deals

They are leaking a lot of radioactive stuff into the environment at the moment. You never know what the future may bring.

He's dead. ****. I had no idea. Nearly four and a half years he's been gone, too. Goes to show how much attention I pay to movies these days, despite the fact they've made some real rippers from what I've heard. Yet to see most of them, though. Haven't seen the inside of a cinema for 5+ years. Did I miss anything? Apocalypto is probably the only DVD I've bought that I would have liked watching on the big screen. *Trying desperately to remember a remake that surpassed the original... fails miserably*

Spent most of yesterday driving around in Brisbane, checking out places for rent. After a day of increasing despair and disillusion I finally found my dream place as the very last place visited. Who says stubborness persistence doesn't pay off. After having gotten up at 4 in the morning, catching a flight, renting a car, driving all day (while trying to follow instructions from the gps) and flying back again, I pretty much crashed in my couch late in the evening. Woke up in the middle of the night and went to bed. Of course I couldn't sleep then Now doing the paperwork and filling out an application form. I want that place badly Edit: @Shryke: They look ugly, they smell and they are noisy. All the charm of a litter of rat spawn. I suspect parent glands secrete some kind of psychofarmaca that renders parents deaf and blind to the ugliness (seriously, it's the only rational explanation).

You guys write too much stuff. Dragon Age 2 continued here

Start of old thread End of old thread I haven't played the game, don't intend to, but find the discussion about loot vs. costumizing equipment interesting. I actually liked that in games like PS:T and BG2, that there were "signature" equipment that important characters preferred to use, whether it be Annah's punch daggers or Anomen's family shield. As long as it made sense in the context of the game. Never was much of a loot gatherer and never dug games like Diablo etc.

Are we talking about Charlie Sheen?