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I forgot which graphics card you have? The Sapphire ATI Radeon 4870X2. I've been very happy with it so far. I sort of hope its one of the other parts acting up.

As I said, I was just being silly and taking your idea that "anything they add to this, it isn't X-Com" literally. TFTD had some weird **** that didn't fit very well with the canon established in the first game, too. Wasn't that sort of the point though, that people cared about the gameplay mechanics, not the cannon?

*Grumble* I feel like kicking my PC. After the initial hassle with defect HDD's, the poorly performing motherboard and the unpleasant experience that was Samsungs socalled "support" when my monitor deceased, I finally thought I should just kick back and enjoy for a couple of years. Now the gfx card seems to be acting up, Emphasis on seems since i don't have a spare pc of similar technology that I can swap components with for testing purposes It displays random pixels and characters during POST and crashes regularly everytime it does anything powerhungry, e.g. running games or using OpenGL accellerated features like previewing in 3D applications. Even when not, I now get a windows error every now and then that the display driver has stopped working but recovered. Could be anythign from powersupply over motherboard to gfx card. yay Yeah, logging the temperature was the first thing i did. Looks all good. Too soon for a new PC dammit (although getting one where I can finally put 24gb ram in would be nice). [/rant]

Uh huh... Your "arabic" needs a little work though. Maybe we all have an inner German? Maybe yoga, hynosis, meditation, traumatic experiences etc. is what takes to bring it out? Maybe we all have the possibility of becoming engineers overnight? One of my favourite classic jokes... The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a realy sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand each ozer ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!

Maybe he can hire you as a guide for a fun night out in Wellington

Doesn't AvP already cover that market segment?

Unfortunately, shooters (and RTS's) also seems to just about the only thing released these days, like 13 a dozen. I don't really get it with X-Com though, because the setting of the first two games is about as bland and generic as you can get. Their selling point is the game mechanics and when you throw those away you have nothing >_ The name seems to be mostly known by the "wargamer" crowd, so I can't imagine that it would be because if brand recognition either.

Epic Fail!

You may find this interesting, visualizing one TRILLION dollars. Ah, you guys just need to have 11 weeks less vacation every year, problem solved. Where do I apply for the job as finance minister?

I don't know of one place that has it all. Queenstown is a nice tourist base. Good eating and nice hotels. More importantly, all the tour operators work out of there. Milford Sound is sort of a must see trip. For temperate rainforests, you might want to go to Kaitoke (a bit outside Wellington) and the volcanic activity, probably Rotorua somewhere on the North Island. That one also has kilometer long caves where visitors can see some parts of. Glaciers... the only one I know of is the Franz Joseph Glacier on the South Island. Climbing and skiing? Beats me. Not really my thing

Depends on your interests. Shopping, Culture, Scenic Vistas?

Time to call it quits guys... More NHL here

Start of old thread End of old thread Lets leave the trolling in the old thread guys. Saves me having to put people in the penalty box...

You guys do realise that, besides the parties directly involved, nobody is likely to know what really happened? Not saying that the posts doesn't make for interesting reading, but the horse can feature in the next Romero movie I don't envy the court that has to untangle the mess.

The only place I've bought games online from before. I've been sticking to buying DRM free games though, so I wouldn't know if such things would lead to any kind of hassle?

I know. I used to live in Europe. When the US Dollar was higher than the Euro, prices for Digital Rivers EU customers would be in US Dollars, when the Euro pulled ahead, they could suddenly change their system so people would pay in Euro (on a 1:1 exchange mind you). Parallel (sp?) import FTW

Did a squirting cucumber pee on your leg or something?

A number of posts about the Katyn event itself moved here

Who needs TV when you've got the internets? >_ Sounds like you really need to get away from home for a while. Study, education, work anything that takes you elsewhere and gives your a feeling of more control over your own life.

An act of God strikes down a plane full of counter-revolutionaries, and you claim that it's a great tragedy? This is divine judgment. So you're a Marxist

Yeah, they went to Russia to commemorate a large number of Polish army leaders being killed by the Russians. Did any of them by any chance piss off Putin?

There is a certain bizarre irony in there, isn't there?

It can be defeated, just not by conventional warfare, alone. Basically there are two options: full scale genocide or excellent counter intelligence work. The British used to be very good at the second option. Actually, they are quite good at the first one too. Look up info on the Boer war

For me, it might originate from a severe dislike of spam and pushy marketing. As I saw it, the camp might as well have had a huge Coca-Cola ® statue with the title "Coca-Cola revives and sustains" (slogan from 1905). People aren't always rational in what triggers their likes and dislikes