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Flew to Brisbane to work this week. That is, when Qantas eventually decided to put a plane in the air a few hours late. Arrived in Brisbane and waited another half an hour for my bags. Then, catching a cab with an Indian driver, that despite having the address on print (real, physical paper) held in front of him and a friggin GPS system couldn't find a hotel in the city center, on a corner where two not unimportant roads intersect. I feel old and tired and is working my way through the mini bar to improve my mood

Shame on all of you! Free Fall Associates/Free Fall Games: Archon I & II, Mailorder Monsters, Murder on the Zinderneuf, Star Control... Electronic Arts would have been nothing without those early hits [/history lesson]

You mean... there are no hidden messages in the Da Vinci Code?!? Dusted off my DVD colection and saw Acoplypto and The Fifth Element.

Mexico knows firsthand the trouble you can get into when not integrating English speaking immigrants properly into society I think the problems back in Denmark has more to do with cultural differences rather than religious. But then, I always believed that religion was a reflection of the society that created it rather than the opposite way around. To "our" (quotation marks because it feels odd to say as an ex-patriate) worldview, some of the "imported" values seems completely out of place. E.g. a very patriarchal structures of families (a nice way of saying chauvinist behaviour), the taboos (things you can't talk about), the different priorities between religion and secularity etc. It is tempting to think "how medieval can you get?", but that is a cheap shot, because you only have to go a handful of decades back to find many of the same thoughts in the very same place where it is now scoffed at. Thing is, countries with little or no experience with non-local ethnic populations seems to have a hard time striking a balance between making reasonable demands of immigrants and demand them to give up their old cultural identity completely. Where the optimal balance is, is the subject of much venomous debate.

Get a PC from a store instead of a museum? Unfortunately, it seems to be the other way around. My fairly new (10 months) PC can run BG2 and IWD, but not BG and IWD2. Haven't tried PS:T yet. Seems like the oldest and newest IE games don't run on it. All of them runs smoothly on my "museum" computer

Went to a Football match (aka AFL aka "Footie"). It was my lucky day, that the match was particularly exciting and the outcome determined in the home teams favour in the last 15 seconds. A drama writer couldn't have put together a better piece... and the tickets were free

Please tell me that Conrad Marbug doesn't have a hamster

It is. Makes you wonder if the guy planned it, or he just got "lucky" If he actually planned it, then he must be a true geek amongst amateur astronomers

Underrated ? really?it was praised and played a lot around here. Actually i think i'm gonna go find my disc ang go play it. Most of the internet nerdery revolving around it when it came out, at least in the circles I traveled, was pretty negative. It definitely had some incredibly bits (that's the ending cinematic if anyone cares about spoilers, but it basically tells you nothing about the game except that you win). Still, I had a good time with it. I loved going through with the toxic guns in real-time mode. Took a lot of scientist time to make the ammo, but damn was it ever fun to make those aliens melt. I think I tried the real time mode for half a combat. Then I reloaded and never touched the real time part again. "Enemy Unknown" and "Terror from The Deep" were both brilliant games, each in there own way, but the combat and destructable landscape just added something to "Apocalypse" that few games can compete against (JA2 being the only one from top of my head). I remember cringing back then, when I heard the sound of those little brain sucker pods popping somewhere That tought me the lesson of working in teams, making sure that one team always had a fast reaction guy, with AP points to spare

Maybe his parents were Indonesian? My colleagues tell me that it quite common to have a single name there

I tried to get a court order to have Cantousent's basement dug up, but nobody believes what I am telling them

Seems like we have passed the "Best by" date I am sure there will be more Dragon Age trailers to come...

Practising your fence summoning is a good start I suppose. I'm trying to weasel my way out of having to go to Brisbane next week and get some annual leave instead. I need some sleep

Cane Toads were a good idea... on paper

Start of old thread End of old thread Post nuclear discussion continued...

How about tackling political stereotypes instead of religion? I think Hubology was the best jab ever at religion, very little can beat that In the light of the recent economic development, they could pit cooperatives versus entrepreneurs, crop growing farmers vs. cattle herders, evil money lenders against the rest of the world etc. I.e. over the top, stylised concepts against each other. Can be done without necessarily involving religion. Discussion continued here

You sure you are not Eldars alt?

I use my internet conenction quite a bit, most of it work related, but otherwise, I manage quite nicely without tv and radio (I have a clock radio, which gives me the 5 minutes rundown of the news in the morning) and my phone is switched off when I am at home. I conveniently "forget" my phone too, when I leave the office for lunch, as people are generally rude and always call you during your lunch break it seems. Apart from DVD/Blu-Ray movies, I watch on average 1 hour of TV a week. Mostly just the late night news. @Aristes: You don't even need a car, I managed to get lost on my way home the other night, wanting to take a shortcut on foot through the park lands (the taxi never showed up). I eventually found a major road where I could hail a taxi and get home. Studying a map the day after, it turns out that I passed within 500 meters of home (since I followed a railroad track across a river, I sort of know which path I took), but it being pitch black in the forest areas, you just couldn't see a thing. Who needs survival horror indeed?

No. Not really. It still has flaws and functionality issues. Well, it's close. Which is pretty amazing. For a mod. Even the unmodded one is one of the better ones around. Simple, easy access, easy overview. I spent an unseemly amount of time playing around with stuff, trying to see what would "fit inside" what

Playing a Nosferatu was my most fun game of VMBL ever. I startled myself, laughing out lol, when I tried to talk to the old lady behind the counter in the diner Edit: Wasn't it something along the lines of schrecknet.vtm?

Out of curiosity, do you think the opposite? I.e. the entire purpose of living in societies is strength in numbers. If we are no longer share any responsibility for our fellow man, why not just dismantle the country, get rid of the military, councils, governments etc. which are all part of a social "pact" where people contributes to for a common good. Heck, the state run military is one of the greatest socialist inventions. They fight for somebody other than themselves

You mean the Wizard of Oz. Yes Too much coffee, too little sleep

The patch doesn't really fix any quests, just a few odd hardware compatibility issues (if the feed back is anything to go by, it introduces more trouble than the patch is worth). Only patch I bother with is the media patch which gives you better quality music and higher resolution movies.

Angry Alien Productions AKA: The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library My favoury movie summary site. Many classics replayed in 30 seconds, starring bunnies Edit: One I remember from top of my head... Alice in Wonderland - a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete stangers to kill again.

Maybe a religious schism? Welcome to The Reformed Church of Fallout I think I fall in that category. I love the originals dearly, but I don't think it is impossible to catch that undefinable magic feeling in a new game. Fallout 3 just didn't look like it was doing it.