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An ugly blue guy and some orange stuff on the cover, reminds me of something... Planescape: Torment box art. Marketing 101: Needs Sie in an "Ursula Andress" bikini on the cover too.

According to my former Kiwi colleagues, it sounds like the Orcs in the LoTR movies, but close enough I suppose

I first thought that Krezack was talking about a girl friend when reading the thread title

The opposite seems to be the case. The distance between Earth and Moon is constantly increasing. Some day it will just pack up and leave. Besides the oddity of no more tides, Earth might lose some of its stability and be more likely to wobble than it is now

It looks like this particular discussion wasn't destined for constructive results? Maybe some other day...

Moved to proper forum, although it only seems halfway related to Kotor2. Maybe more info could help solve your problem?

You sure your boss doesn't read forums? Nice machine. As much as I love Samsung monitors, I can't say that I've had much luck with their HDD's. Seagate may be "noisier", but at least they keep working

Political discussion moved to separate thread. Let me know if a different thread title for that one is better. Enough thread hijacking for today

I hope I never get so caught up in my own views, that I can not feel compassion for other peoples misery, even if they're not somebody I care about. Celebrities die, it's part of life. Ask yourself what you did today to make your life worthwhile

Walsingham with a scalpel... psychiatry?... Uh huh Thread getting a bit long. Continued here

Start of old thread End of old thread Nothing interesting. Some work, a bit of reading, sleeping late, watching a bit of DVD, not necessarily in that order. Sometimes Saturdays aren't too bad

Kill Gnomes? I like the sound of that. Does that game have a demo? ...dreams of killing 1000's of Jan Jansens... Maybe something where the player can cause a blight on the turnip harvest too? Playing a bit of Dead Space. Managed to get myself killed repeatedly onboard the military "rescue" vessel, playing tetris with the bunks

...and that it is the simplest possible way show visually how many points have been allocated to each skill doesn't have anything to do with it? I suppose they could have made the skills as pillars (columns) and then piled points from bottom to top instead, but then, somebody would probably point out that it looks very much like one of Biowares Tower of Hanoi games But besides that, there isn't really that many sensible ways you can represent that information.

Thread pruned a bit. Lets see if we can't do it without the name calling of Obsidians competitors and colleagues? It would save me a bit of unnecessary work. Unncessary work makes me grumpy.

I'll send the bill to Oner

Interesting read I wondered who "Joshua" were too >_

Them Freudian slips... Here be Dragons

Start of old thread End of old thread Dark Heroic thread continues...

You hear that guys? My excuse is, that English is only my third language, what's yours? Best romance mechanics in a game was KOEI's Djenghis Khan (sp?). If I remember correctly, you needed to court future wives/concubines (successfully) to secure offspring or the game would end at the natural lifespan of your current ruler.

Come to think of it, it might have something to do with me preferring party based adventuring when it comes to crpgs. People gushing over me and telling me how chosen I am makes my tastebuds hurt

Some of my favourite parts of Kotor2 was when I got rid of the exile and could lead parties with other team members Same thing goes for Jagged Alliance 2. I don't always need a "protagonist", just a good story.

I probably did at some point. It was a general observation based on the last few thread pages. The mindset of people into those kind of things fills me with an equal mix of revulsion and fascination, not unlike watching some dead sea creature washed up on the beach. It really is very simple, yet people concoct all kinds of schemes trying to rationalise their actions, whether it be because they need to convince themselves or just feel defensive about it in general when not in the company of likeminded. Ideas range from advanced semanthic exercises to the outright pathetic whining, depending on who you ask, yet the one thing most people adamantly refuse to face is, that they are victims of a very base end primitive human trait: Greed We all have it in various degrees, some less, some more. It's the same thing that turns "nice" little old ladies taking their ugly doglings for a walk in the part into frothing killers in the warehouse, when there is a limited stock on a super sale, running over women and children with their trolleys and killing warehouse employees that aren't fast enough to dodge out of their way. People tend covet things they can't afford (imnsho), so we weigh our options and put the pros and contras of different approaches up against each other. Is there a way I can get what I want? Can I afford it? Whats the catch? When giving in to temptation, we try rationalise our weakness after the fact. Everybody does it, therefore it can't be bad. I didn't find anybody on my doorstep with a spraying arterial bleeding, therefore nobody that I know suffered any consequences. One self deceit more sad than the next. As if it was possible to master greed when we have no culture and no tradition for it in those areas of our lives. Strange that people put so little value on other peoples time and effort really, as I always thought time was indeed the most precious commodity that a human being had to offer and the use of which being one those things more deserving of respect than any simple tangible commodities, for what are those but things bought with the time invested in their procurement. Yet people gladly squander other peoples time, robbing them of the rewards of the time invested in something with barely a thought. Ah well, just a bit rambling in case people wondered what I thought about the subject (typos and all, it is late night here). A grumpy old man with days that have way less than the 32 hours needed to do all the things required of him

And if you dont crash it you'll feel good about yourself. Which is why I'll start with my moms 04' Saturn. It's not like every new driver jumps in a car and crashes it 100% of the time. Not quite 100%, but the risk is highest for young male drivers (I wonder how I survived my own teen years on the road)... You have the odds stacked against you National Highway Traffic Safety Administration numbers A bit of research into the causes Washington Post If you survive your 16th birthday, survival chances starts improving, and after the 25th birthday, you should be about as safe as you can be. No matter what you may think of advice given, whether well meant or as fun, drive carefully

I wonder if anybody actually read the Associated Press story or only see what they want to see? She wasn't being sued for for helping herself to stuff that didn't belong to her, she was being sued for distributing it. Even if it had "only" been for acquiring files that didn't belong to her, it would be ridiculous only sueing people for the actual value, as there is no deterrent in that. By comparison, if the worst that could possibly ever happen to you for shoplifting was that you were sentenced to pay the 0.50$ for the chewing gum or whatever, what would be the point? If they finally got around to sentence people to serve time, either behind bars or doing community service on a regular, frequent basis, would people still have the same cavalier attititude towards what is mine and yours if there was a visible risk involved?

Sometimes you have to give in to indulgence and just chose based on aesthetics. I.e. it looks COOL, so who cares? I wonder if this game could be reskinned to make me look like a WH40k terminator and the necromorphs to look like tyranids/genestealers...