Gorth

Speed Dating perk: Reduces the number of AP's you need to spend. I am such a romantic

I found the extended versions of all three to be an improvement Sure, there were silly things in The Two Towers, the one that springs to mind first and foremost being the "cheap theatricals" of Haldirs elves showing up. Pause... for... dramatic... effect... The scenes of the women and "cute little kids" refugees in the caves was like a badly produced Unicef ad too. The things that bugs me most about the third one (besides suffering from some of the things just mentioned) was the ending. The ending that lasted half the movie mind you, way too drawn out and and way too "Hollywoodesque" (used as a negative) with everybody happy and sailing towards the setting sun. Oscar Bait, I tell ya!

I thought The Two Towers was the best of the lot by far. The first is the best and the 2nd is the least I thought they followed the Star Wars movie patterns, the first was good and got me hooked, the second was awesome and I looked forward to more... then came the third movie and I was horribly disappointed. "Sell out" was the first two words that sprang to mind.

Been to The Glow much recently? Rad-X (two of them) are definitely a must before climbing down the first rope. A Radaway after finishing it is also a handy thing to have. If it isn't the glow... not sure where you can get lethal rad poisoning in Fallout 1?

Time to act completely undignified Wheee!

Which featured a succubus, a clockwork girl, a goat legged girl, a... whatever. A shame they never used the basement for anything. I don't get it why people get so upset over something, I doubt is more than a Tongue-in-cheek joke.

*Cough*Unreal 3 engine*Cough* I should play SoZ some day. It's been lying around on my shelf for a long time now. Need to beat Dead Space first though.

Tsk, tsk, tsk... I don't know of such a virus, but considering that I can reprogram and reflash my bios from Windows without even rebooting it, I can't see why it shouldn't be possible to create virus that makes itself at home there. If your hardware supports overclocking through software, maybe excessive speed settings might hurt your hardware if cooling is insufficient? No idea. These days, I normally malicious web code the greatest threat. As for identifying your motherboard, I think most of them has the make and model number printed on the board itself, although it might be on the "other" side (i.e. taking it out physically might be necessary). Depending on what you have, you might be able to hard reset it or even reflash it from a usb stick. Documentation is usually available on the manufacturers website once you identify it. DN got the right idea about your HD, although you don't need a linux system for it, just make sure you attach it as a secondary drive to a system with an up to date virus/trojan scanner. If it finds nothing, odds are, it might be something else that is causing your system to malfunction. What are the symptoms? No post?

Thats what you get for modding your torpedoes, no warranty for you!

Spoken like a true Ogre Bull I'll defer to your superior experience and expertise on the subject I find a brothel no worse and no better than have, say an arena? People whacking or maiming each other to please the crowds... Gorths rule of thumb, if it feels natural that it is there for the story/setting, it's all good. If it feels artificial because somebody decided it had to be there, even if stuck to the rest of the game with blu-tac, not so good.

Arghh... spoiler tags! Yes, I really should go see the library. Maybe this weekend...

Just sitting and wondering about the etymology of the word handkerchief. The word "hand" sort of implies a smaller, can be operated by hand, version of a kerchief, whatever that is. I could of course look it up with the help of Google, but then again, I started thinking about what people did in the past when needing information. It struck me that I haven't visited a library for ages. I know they had libraries in New Zealand, I am sure this country has them too. Maybe I should look up one some day. I miss reading books (besides the usual paperback junkfood).

Are we talking about the same Witcher game? Can't really say I noticed the loading times

Well, just filling them up doesn't do it, so I guess I need to train them to a minimum level, say Veteran (blue) or something? Sounds like Hitman is going to work overtime in my next game

A question for the JA2 1.13 gurus out there. As far as I can see from the readme's and the configuration file in the 1.13 data folder, it looks like you, the player, should be able to train "roaming" patrols. Is that just me reading it wrong? If not, how do you do it?

Woooo, a convert! Well, this and War in Russia were both made by Gary Grisby (as well as the upcoming War in the East - 2010). I meant Pacific War of course Yeah, started out by playing the old "Flat Top" board game from Avalon Hill. It went downhill from there. As for War in the East... (need a drooling icon), one of my most anticipated games in a long time. Has anybody by any chance played "War plan Orange"? I could use a review (sounds like an interesting game focussing on ship vs. ship action without air forces playing a major role). Otherwise, I'll just sit here and lick the screen when Alan posts his AAR detail while trying to catch up with the game mechanics on my end

I found Malkavian to be the hardest to complete the game with, since they aren't really well equipped for "boss fights". I had to side with Ming to complete the game The ending of that playthrough made me chuckle though, rather unexpected. My favourite playthrouh was as a Nosferatu. A very different game experience, not just a change of dialogue

I suppose you could say they both apply pressure on your neck/throat when used. The Guillotine is just a bit messier (and harder to smuggle through customs).

Sounds like the subject is somewhat past it's "Best By" date... Sharing other peoples work without their consent isn't really the nice thing to do. As for why people don't want their work shared, the reasons could be many I suppose, but that is a discussion for another day.

They just don't make them like they used to I've got an old Commodore Amiga with a 100Mb Seagate harddrive. 15 years later, the drive still runs without any hiccups.

I'll give it a serious go on Sunday, probably the only day I have some peace and quiet. Really looking forward to have a go at it. Even if I get my butt handed to me in beginning

A submarine sunk after a torpedo hit... there is a certain irony in there somewhere

"The Plant bears a strong resemblance to the popular caricature of the absentminded professor-inventor " Why does that make me think of Walsingham? One more of my Samsung harddrives has decided to crash and burn on me, bad sectors popping up at an exponential rate. Unfortunately the which my C:\ drive resides on. Been busy saving what could be saved from other partitions and then it gets the kick. 3 Samsung drives, 3 drives that became unusable in less than 12 months. I can't even be bothered with the warranty anymore, they simply go to the rubbish bin. And I get the joy of reinstalling Windows. Maybe now is a good time to try out the version 7 RC

Words of wisdom We pulled a prank once on a fellow student at university. One guy left his work station unattended for a while and somebody (not me) modified his logout script to send cheesy love letters to a list of female students. It took a while for him to realise why he was getting an increasing number of hostile stares when walking around

This decade ends in 5 months, doesn't it?