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According to Berlusconi because the left has uglier women

http://www.newsweek.com/id/236096 Will attempt to respond more fully later. That is both good and bad, isn't it? Those guys are supposed to be better than other people.

As it says in the Aeneid, "Beware of geeks bringing gifts"

The first movie character I thought of when watching the video clip was Simon Gruber (yes, different gender, I know)

Funnily enough, that's how I like it, actually. The entire game should be bleak and grey. I'm just afraid that if they try to make it more 'cinematic' and add more emotion and depth to characters they'll end up disneyfying everything. i.e. Do we really need to see Abigail or Triss break down and cry and tell sap stories about their past in TW2? I know that's not what you mean, but I'm just afraid of it being handled badly. The last thing the world needs is an emo Geralt

Bought a few games from Gamersgate... Against Rome (RTS in the "easy" category) Spellforce 2 Gold (to satisfy my curiosity) Beyond Good & Evil (heard a lot of good stuff about it. Can't go wrong at $5) Post Mortem (Point and click adventure) Still Life (Point and click adventure) Archon Classic (Remake of the Westfall/Freeman oldie) Druuna (Serpieri - nuff said) Syberia (Looked good in the reviews) Syberia 2 (Because it came bundled with the first one) Disciples II Gold (Because my old discs are getting worn and scratched) I guess I'll make up my mind which one to play first when they are all downloaded Edit: Oh btw, all together, 10 dollars or so more than Dragon Age

Zombie Driver. Good fun. Opposition gets stiff on later levels though.

I don't know about games, but I've bought dozens of dvd movies from various Amazon branches, all shipped nicely to SA.

I believe that the BioWare forums, the place that hosts the official Mask of the Betrayer forum, were closed when the new social site was launched. Not really, but it does sound like a bug. Isn't there an Int requirement for wizard spells? I.e. 18 to cast level 8 spells, 19 to cast level 9 etc. Whats the intelligence of your character. Btw, I'm moving this to the gaming forum...

I whimped out on the 24Gb kit. Four times the money for twice the RAM, I settled for 12Gb Corsair Dominator 1600MHz (CMD12GX3M6A1600C8) "Upgraded" my powersupply to an Antec Quattro 1200W. Quotation marks because I didn't really need more power I think, but it offers more physical rail lines than the old one, making the cable work easier to manage. Just for kicks, ordered the OCZ gaming keyboard. My almost 4 year old Microsoft Keyboard shows a history of every meal eaten at my desk. Rather gross really. Ironically, that leaves me with the graphics card (and watercooling block for same) to get sorted out. Need to put the new parts together first though. Wouldn't surprise me if the 5970 turns out too tempting. I'm bad...

*Drinks*

Ever wondered what Mike Thorton played as a kid?

Sorry. It just seemed odd using those two words in the same sentence. From what I've observed so far, porn appears more "mechanical" with perhaps some manic/frantic qualities to it. Sensuality wasn't the first thing I would associate it with People hanging around the street watching it on their phones in an "in your face" manner would probably bother me the same way as people playing excessively loud music on the their mp3 players. Not because I don't like music, but I prefer to decide myself what I want to experience. A bit like the old smoker vs non-smoker debate.

Maybe there is a business opportunity there, selling brown paperbags for iPhones?

Didn't the original Delta Force use similar technology?

Well, theirs was a release list, mine just a play list I seem to have missed out on 3/4 of the released crpgs the last decade.

You're saying that those are not soft-core porn? If so, what are they? People read those for the articles y'know

2000 Icewind Dale Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Planescape: Torment 2001 Fallout Fallout 2 Icewind Dale Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Planescape: Torment 2002 Fallout Fallout 2 Icewind Dale Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Planescape: Torment Icewind Dale 2 2003 Fallout 2 Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Planescape: Torment Icewind Dale 2 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2004 Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2005 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords 2006 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Neverwinter Nights 2 2007 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Planescape: Torment Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer The Witcher 2008 Icewind Dale Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines The Witcher Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir 2009 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines The Witcher Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Dragon Age Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn 2010 The Witcher Icewind Dale 2 Mass Effect 2 Can't remember when I got Baldurs Gate (the original), would be in the middle somewhere, completed it twice.

It has probably more to do with corporate image than any sense of moral obligation. It only takes one rotten Apple after all... Apple is probably trying to position itself the same way Disney does with cartoons. Safe for the entire family or whatever. I still think my ancient Nokia is way bloated with features because it has a camera built in (which I've never used).

We get the game before everyone else? Am I reading that correctly? Hey, we live in GMT +8/+10, with the exception of a few Pacific Islanders, we do things before most people every day Edit: Well, that and somewhere in Russias far east.

VirtualPC 2007 SP1 Free virtual PC from Microsoft. Can use either dedicated drive partitions or files as virtual harddisks. Excellent for running test setups or just that old Windows 95/98 program that you can't find any working hardware for anymore

Why not use VirtualPC for that?

Now that's what I call finding the "target audience" Somebody who lives in a part of the world where tonights episode of 24 shows will have to pass on the rest of the event to us.

Thread getting a bit long, so I split the last part of the discussion to a new thread. More fallout here

You and I soon have the exact same computer. I am using the Antec P180 case, the exact same motherboard (which I highly recommend) and a Radeon HD5870. There's no problem fitting it into the case, by the way. Sounds promising, thanks The 5970 is physically a bit larger than the 5870, but I could easily live with a 5870 too. Once everything else is in place (hdds rearranged, cage removed etc.), I'll measure it up with a ruler and see what my "disposable space" is I just saw the prices for 24Gb kits...