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A well thought out post. I wonder if we are going to wait additional 3 years for Kaftans reply to this?

You are late to the party... I predict a growing market for tinnitus treatments...

I think he started out, a long time ago by being a pain in the rear, but the years changed him. For the way better imho. Wherever you go now, take care.

I don't know if it is worse than Chernobyl, but it sure tries very hard.

X-Com 3: Apocalypse... I bought it originally when it was new and later "rebought" it from Gamersgate as part of their big X-Com package deal (all X-Com games, including Enforcer etc.). I think I paid like 10$ for that package including readymade dosbox configurations. Edit to add: Fallout: Tactics? : x Not sure how to "categorise" Fallout Tactics as anything other than a rts game? Edit2: Mind you, I haven't played Fo:T since the original demo was released (so my memory is a bit fuzzy on the specifics). I have the full version somewhere with my Fallout Trilogy pack, just never got around to play it.

I like FPS games who excel at the action part, Strategy games who excel at the strategy part etc. It's just that once in every 5 years, a rare gem emerges that manages to get the compromise right and create good hybrid. Unfortunately that rare gem is usually preceded by 9 disasters and succeeded by 10 hopeless clones trying to cash in on the success of "The One". I can't really think of a crpg from top of my head that got the mix (between action and "typical" crpg aspects) right, JA2 and X-Com 3 managed to get the strategy, tactical and managerial aspects mixed to my liking. A feat that is very hard to reproduce

For the first two games, I would agree, but for the third one not really. It had the best combat of the series, only rivalled by the combat in JA2. Of course, I'm a sucker for tactical use of landscape and destructable environment as well as use of all 3d dimensions on the battlefield, so I might be biased. For the severely attention span challenged, the turn based combat was optional and missions could be played as a real-time strategy games.

Ooh... denial

Just a guess (correct me if I'm wrong), you've never worked on a large software project?

Maybe the tablesaw is a motivation thing... is there a timer on the power socket in the wall?

Not to mention that nationalising corporate assets, besides making Castro go green with envy over the scale, would set a dangerous precedent. Both by making foreign companies more reluctant to invest in the US, but also because overseas nations might be more inclined to think, "They can do it, so can we" and help themselves to American assets in a dispute situation. Moving thresholds and lowering bars can be detrimental.

Well, I got Windows 7 Ultimate, which in turn made my keyboard unusable (No windows 7 drivers). Got the water cooling blocks and the gfx card too (XFX "Black Edition" Radeon 5970). Still need to replace the fan on the gfx card with the cooling block. I wonder why I even bother with a case, it's not like my stuff is going to fit in there again Still need to find a good keyboard one of these days. Maybe that DAS Keyboard somebody once posted a link to. Describes my previous PC very well (except it is 5+ years old). I still hang on to it. It just keeps running and running.

For what it's worth, the only "compatibility" problems I have is with ATI is old, really old, games, like Icewind Dale and Disciples II. I need to disable a few features to make the flickering go away. But once you create a normal everyday profile and an old games profile and save for easy switching, it's no biggie.

On the internet, we are all experts

Happens every now and then, both indoors and outdoors. Try to stay away from "corners" or you might end up floating on air. I found the view from above quite spectacular at the Normandy Crash site On the other hand, having finally cleared and endless stream of constantly respawning droids and getting stuck up in the air with no way down at the end of the warehouse wasn't one of the high points (pun unintended)

The combat is awful and the mini games atrocious, but overall the game is better than the sum of its parts. Well worth playing a few times

For all the media attention, hype, propaganda and mutual (presumably) lies, it isn't the largest number of casualties on a non-combatant ship attacked by Israel in high seas. I believe the attack on the USS Liberty holds that little enviable record with more than 30 dead Americans and 170 wounded.

I've got no idea what the story is about, but if the missing body gets dug up on the location he gave the police, wouldn't that be a good indicator of at least more than just random talk on his part?

I knew it, the Mayans were wrong. 2013 it is then... Time to stock up on matches, canned food and bottled water? If it hits Earth like an oversized EMP grenade, we might want to practise living without internet and computers for a while. Thinking about it, those were actually the "good" old days

Well, I got as far as . Adding a few modifiers to my favourite equipment might come in handy. Mind you, I like to hold on to favourite equipment, even if it isn't the most cheesy stuff. My ranger played most of the game with a scimitar +1

Try this; http://www.thieves-guild.net/index.php?pid=462 It worked! Well, off to a good start. My very own shield, two long bows and a short sword (before I realised it was working) Edit: Edit to say "Thanks"

*Cough* Can anybody explain to me how crafting works in SoZ? I've crafted the most wondrous stuff in NWN2 and MotB, but it completely eludes me how it is supposed to work in SoZ. It's like the the instructions just tells me, "you just craft stuff, how hard can it be?". I've carried two scores recipees, a mule cohort full of dead animal parts and the equivalent of a medium sized nations treasury in gems, rings, necklaces etc. all over Samarach (sp?) and The Sword Coast and I still haven't figured out how to use it

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