Everything posted by Gorth
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So they remade Conan the Barbarian
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*
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What you did today
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).
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Dragon Age 2
You guys write too much stuff. Dragon Age 2 continued here
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Dragon Age 2
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.
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What you did today
Are we talking about Charlie Sheen?
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Movies you've seen recently
Bought a handful of DVD's in a bout of boredom. One of them was the 'feature length' pilot for Caprica. Not as bad as I had expected, considering what I've heard about it. Found it quite enjoyable actually, as long as I managed to forget that it was supposed to fit into Galactica continuity (which it doesn't).
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What you did today
Then cure him of his happiness. Keep hitting him with a big stick until he realises that he has a problem. If he asks why you suddenly started whacking him with a big stick, just explain to him that you are exorcising the Happy Demon that has possessed him for his own good. Eventually he'll realise that he needs help
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Let's Play Neverwinter Nights
I admire your persistence. I gave up on NWN1 shortly after starting on chapter 4 when playing it originally Bugs made NWN 1 a total misery for me on release... I revisit it now and again, but I mostly played multiplayer. I bought the... silver box thingy? The one with the original and SoU (no HotU). I think it was fairly stable (if butt ugly). That is why I love this thread and should probably post more encouragement. It's like listening to a horror story rather than living through it
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What you did today
Start of old thread End of old thread 92, not bad. Definitely not an age to take for granted to reach. Sound like an interesting life, good and bad and all
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whennextgen? speculation and question
Announced 2012... first flawed models released early 2013 (burning down houses due to bad thermal design, poisoning your pets because of leaking cyanide vapors, frying your potted plants with their unshielded radiation etc.), second wave of releases with most life threatening issues fixed released late 2013 and being hopelessly outdated, lagging behind anything from laptops to iPad3 in 2014
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Best HoMM game
HoMM3. While I didn't mind the combat in HoMM4, the changes to the "management" parts and loss of races/troop types was a major turn off. My interest in the franchise really disappeared then. Only tried HoMM5 for around an hour (my little brother was stupid enough to buy it), hated it's guts, it's ugly graphics and the dumbing down of everything. At least it felt like that at the time. Never tried HoMM and HoMM2.
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Let's Play Neverwinter Nights
I admire your persistence. I gave up on NWN1 shortly after starting on chapter 4 when playing it originally
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Dragon Age 2
Finally got around to play the demo a bit. Wow... just wow... I know the demo is free, otherwise I would ask for a refund for the 30 minutes of my life. So, I wasn't the only one... That was my first and still lingering impression. I fear that this game is going to focus more on it's bad combat that on other things. A matter of taste. I didn't like it either. Beg to differ, I was frantically trying to zoom out, wrestling with my mouse, trying to get some kind of overview of the mess going on on the screen. Bye bye tactical combat >_ I guess I'll never figure out now if the Gorthling spawn that Morrighan ran off with is going to be one half swamp with, one half Gorth and one half old dragon essence
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Read a bit of the FAQ on their website. Ran across the following words within short order: Visceral, Epic, Action Combat. Didn't read the rest
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What you did today
Frag count... Raithe - 0 Computer - 1 Wondering if I should get myself a laptop some day. Might have to browse around a bit.
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GameBanshee preview and interview
I thought they had three stances? E.g. Lucas had the single sword, two handed for area effect and a 'recuperate' stance he could use when not being actively bashed by enemies.
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Dragon Age 2
I watched all of 7 minutes of Twilight on free tv. A curiosity thing, not a desire for self inflicted pain. Couldn't watch more of it though as it physically hurt my frontal lobes. Sort of like watching live acting anime Will watch the some of the linked/recorded footage after work hours
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Dragon Age 2
*Mumbles something about 'Twilight' and 'Bad influence'*
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What are the scariest movies you have ever seen
Yeah, exactly. Just add 3D and water.
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Dragon Age 2
I don't want to use the same account for anything. That might give them valuable info
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Dragon Age 2
Crossing the magical 500 threshold (I'm sure there is some superstition behind that). More Dragons here
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Dragon Age 2
Start of old thread End of old thread Um, yes. Sort of continued from the previous thread. They lost me there where it said I would need yet another account. Having one way back from Warhammer online, one for Mass Effect 2 and one for Dragon Age, I gave up. Not going to create a new one for a demo.
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Desert Island Discs
Obvious luxury item would be something to play those 8 discs on?
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What are you playing now?
My own computer is still locked up in storage (for almost a month now). There is only so much you can do on a work laptop with those intel display thingies Ah well, at least EU III: Divine Wind runs on it.