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I found ME2 to be a mixed bag, not uniformly dark. Sure, Freedoms Progress seems to take place at night and Omega 4 had just the right atmosphere for a derelict space station (my favourite place in the game), whereas Illium, The Citadel, Horizon etc. was all shiny bright colours. Heck, even SR2 was much brighter and lighter interior design than SR1. Whether it's absurd or not very much depend on how the consequences influence ME3. If they simply pretend it didn't take place or just send you the odd email/cameo, then it was indeed absurd. If you get to keep your surviving team members for a final showdown, much less so.

Sounds like you need to go to New Zealand some day... Mountains, volcanic wastelands, temperate rain forest, you'll find it all most of it (North African type desert might be a bit of challenge)

Don't encourage them! Connecting dots was tolerable exactly once. The three piece puzzle game was tolerable twice, maybe three times. Planet scanning was hate at first sight. None of them were ever fun, just time sinks to space out story points and prolong the game a bit.

Ooof... too much Cayenne Pepper in the food. Still has that burning feeling several hours after my nose stopped running

C64 Web server No, didn't try it. I did however use internet for years on my Commodore Amiga through a PPP interface and I remember reading about a C64 implementation of tcp/ip stack at the time

The Witcher gave me way more fun for my money/time investment than DA, but what I've seen so far from TW2 doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy. As for DA2, I've switched to the wait and see when the complete GOTY and all that jazz in one box at half price comes out camp.

Ah yes, wasn't it some epoxy manufacturer or so with a rather significant market share that got levelled with the ground. I remember having to buy a ram expansion at time when prices suddenly jumped around 100% >_

If I remember correctly, Windows 7 has it all stored in a driver cache now. Stuff on driver repository I don't know if it would work starting to delete Windows system files before reboot. Not sure I would do it myself without doing something as un-brave as backing up everything important first >_ People with better Windows 7 skills may have better suggestions.

That's what my character thought too that night at The Pearl

Did you hear that LoF? you are a right wing nut. Wikileaks might have been a good idea, but no good they ever do now or in the future will redeem them from that first blunder. Whether casualties will follow or not is irrelevant, that they were willing to sacrifice peoples lives for a good story and a bit of publicity means they already failed in my book. Other peoples mileage may wary.

I know we are supposed to recycle and all that but seriously... Original post Second instance of same post Third instance of same post (this very thread)

My own experiences with RAID 0 is probably different from the above, but it really depends on what you need it for. Speed gains can be anything from 0 to about 80% depending on the number of read/write transactions you do. Lots of random read/write transactions are significantly faster IMO which is why you would never use anything less than RAID 10 on a server for example (I.e. a either a mirrored stripe set or a striped mirror set. 10 is reputedly better than 01, but I they both have in common that the striping, i.e. RAID 0, is what gives the performance boost). If you mostly play nethack then it would be overkill and the gain nonexistent . Edit to add: I once, many years ago had a Hauppauge (Sp?) PCI tv tuner card with TTV and Radio. I absolutely loved it, but it eventually became outdated and retired.

So far I find Wade (the smith) to be the most interesting character overall in the DAO universe As for all the discussions about the "simplicity" of the graphics, I wonder if that isn't the secret strength of the game, keeping the framerates stable and the game running more or less smoothly (as opposed to go overboard on effects and flashy features).

Shiny new thread for discussing Tech Issues

The usual office fare at work... Greek salad with Feta and Olives, Tuna, Pineapple, Tomato an some unknown stuff and a sandwich with some chicken and avocado. Not bad

Paradox Developer Diary #6 Hordes mechanics Can't wait for Paradox to separate me from my money. The new expansion, "Divine Wind" sounds exciting

The End The Sequel

Start of old thread End of old thread Battle Royale Sort of a childrens version of "Survivor". The humour is a bit bizarre in places, almost comic book like. Mostly good, way (way way) over the top fun though.

How many of them did you actually play back then?

1) The choice of DRM is the publishers, not the developers 2) If it is Steam you are thinking about, it has an offline mode (need to be online once when installing, after that it isn't needed) If it is on a console, no idea. Haven't heard anything about those requiring a connection.

For the real geeks... RFC1149 Yes, some mad norwegians actually implemented the CP/IP protocol

Zork (1980) Sword of Fargoal (1982) (dungeon romp, like 20 years before IWD2) Matrix (1982) (Gridrunner on LSD) Fort Apocalypse (1982) (Choplifter go home) Reach for the Stars (1983) (my first real xxxx game) Oil Barons (1983) (yes, it was an effin big box with maps, counters and all) Archon (1983) (battlechess, go home) Jumpman (1983) (most fun platform game evar) Boulderdash (1984) (addictive as...) NATO Commander (1983 first "real time" strategy game. Bloody awesome too if you had the disk version) Summer Games (1984) (slayer of joysticks) The Lords of Midnight (1984) (first humongous open/sandbox world 1st person crpg and strategy game hybrid I remember) Ultima IV (1985) (Not the shiniest graphics, but an interesting plot and a large world to explore) (sadly, I don't have my map and ankh anymore) Racing Destruction Set (1985) (racing was never this fun before, nor after) The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985) (still having seen a combat/action game that beats the "feel" of the moves and blocks) Little Computer People (1985) (yes, Activision invented "The Sims") Populous (1989) (being a god is quite fun) and so forth and so forth... Could probably write 3 full pages of games. A lot of the stuff by Epyx, Activision, EA, Ocean, Broderbund, Firebird etc. was pure genius pre-1990. From where I'm sitting and watching, the gaming industry has been in a constant decline since 1989

Don't you mean whenever PC gaming died and developers/publishers moved on to console games? No Some of us predates PC gaming

The time between two servings of vanilla ice cream is usually the best time to talk about vanilla ice cream, no?

The quality of video games started declining when PC gaming became popular. Suddenly games had to be dumbed down so they could run on the low tech equipment that was PC's with it's inferior operating system, inferior performance, inferior visuals/sound, less memory, just bloody awful... (Old C64/Amiga 4000 gamer)