Gorth

Gaius Suetonius Tranquilius: "De Vita Caesarum" Gerd von Rundstedt: "Lost Victories" Thucydides: "The History of the Peolponnesian War" Barbara W. Tucman: "The Guns of August" Meh, lots available...

"History" is a pretty broad definition Ancient history, Chinese history, military history, socio-economic history, religious history, recent world history, forum history?...

I thought you were supposed to pick up styles by observing the jedi masters while you fight and kill them? As opposed to have them spar and show you when you let them live and agree to meet them om Tattooine. Is there something special about Vrook and Juyo since you didn't pick it up?

How can you say that Myron had no personality?!? or Sulik and Grampybone?... or Marcus the supermutant?... I think they had plenty of personality, if not incessant "party banter" BG2 style

Thread pruned. Lets see if it isn't possible without insulting fellow forumites and the taste of fellow forumites in ways that are "unconstructive". Apologies to those who may have meant well and still lost a post as collateral damage.

Is "ain't" a real word in English? I seem to remember a songtitle called something like He ain't heavy, he's my brother. Listening to Fleetwood Mac - Gold dust Woman (Rumours album)

I've noticed that some people seems to find such activities very entertaining, at least judged by the enthusiasm they do it with There might be some criteria that can actually me measured empirically and agreed upon as being "good". Not necessarily more good than other good things, but "good". Things like getting sufficient hours of entertainment for your money, able to keep up a decent framerate, low bug count, etc. I think I stand by the conclusion of my first post though, there is no correct answer. Ok, maybe I should have changed it to, there is no universally correct answer (for the semantics pedantics).

Try winter bathing

Because they don't have anything better to do at that particular point in time

I know the answer to that one! Can I answer please?!?

I always wondered who watched them I watch a couple of hours of tv Thursday nights where they show some Danish and German crime series in original language. That covers my TV needs for a week. The first Tombraider was great, the second good, the rest up until "Legends" rubbish. That one was mediocre and "Anniversary" was a return to rubbish (Gorths summary review of the Tombraider franchise). As for "Good" games coming out? That is a rather subjective question with no correct answer.

Sounds better and better. I wonder if the cohorts really has no interactions whatsoever during the game? No big deal if they don't, IWD 1+2 didn't have any interparty banter either. Sadly, no words about the trading system. Waiting... waiting patientely... are you released yet?... waiting... I am not impatient... waiting... are we there yet?... waiting...

I am not sure that it could really be summarised in a way that would make sense The EU is the "Expanded Universe" of Star Wars, which means all the stuff that you can find in novels, books and comics. Some of the publications are good, some are bad. What is being discussed is the ideas and storylines introduced which were not part of the movies.

Moved to Way off topic. While it could be argued that it has similarities to a multiplayer The Sims, I don't think anybody is going to "win" in there.

I think you missed the point of the thread somewhere Krezack... try reading Walsinghams original post again. Using the black and white logic on a quote from Arthur Strahler (Arthur Strahler: "Understanding Science: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues" - Prometheus Books (1992): If science is capable of explaining the gathered information, make correct predictions about the future and explain everything that happened in the past, there can be no supernatural phenomena. Does that then automatically infer that if there is information that science can not explain, predict correctly or explain everything from our past, that there then has to exist something supernaturally? I don't think it is as black and white as you make it. Unless you refuse to accept only things that can currently be explained through science, but that is rarely the stuff progress and inventions is made of. Sometimes I think, scientist are the scholars documenting the results achieved by visionaries who doesn't put such restraints on themselves. Disclaimer: All anecdotal and subject to subjective interpretation Now, what I think Walsingham was looking for was a means of destroying ghosts. Besides dialling 1-800-BUSTER

DIdn't your motherboard come with some bundled software/utilities that can show CPU temperature? That is, if you can run it and read the values before it dies of course There is an entire industry out there making a living of cooling for this and that, including cpus. No need to buy a new cpu

I haven't played X3 yet, waiting for my Joystick to arrive. Thought that I would install the latest patch in the meantime. Guess what? It wants to install some crap called "tages" on my system Maybe I should just stick with the unpatched version. Ah well, let's see when I finally do get to play it, how bad or good it is without the patch.

Huh? Am I forgetting something, because I cannot remember those... I think the technical term for them is "Interactive Cutscenes". Just as fun as doing tax returns.

Minigames Browsing through boxes of old games, I considered briefly for a moment to replay Tombraider: Legends. Then I remembered that it was riddled with minigames. I really, really hate minigames that feels exactly like what they are, minigames. It is rarely done well

Have you never seen Leon? It's not gory violent, but it is rather gritty and outright brutal without being "graphical" Define happy ending? One of my favourite movies. I am a bit of a Jean Reno fan I suppose. Edit: Oh yeah, the thread is about Natalie Portman. She really shines in this movie, unfortunately her Star Wars performance leaves a bad, lingering impression. Edit 2: If you are going to watch it, make sure you get the integral version, not the censored one.

I would have failed the online test right there and then. Good luck Calax Started shopping around for a blu-ray player for my living room. My search criteria looks sort of like this: It either has to be easily changed to region free, or it has to be dirt cheap so I can afford at least two players (asia pacific and north america which is where I get most of my movies from these days). I have a region free DVD player, so that isn't a problem (and my TV has enough HDMI connectors).

. lol. Who the hell would carry a pistol and a sword and staff on a paranormal investigation? I wonder if he was wearing chainmail and a cape. Maybe it was a silver sword? Everybody knows that ghosts and lycanthropes have a thing regarding silver. Never leave home without at least a silver dagger It would probably be easier if people knew what they were looking for. Sentinent beings with an agenda or a purpose? Primal forces like an "imprint" of hate/rage/anger? Odd manifestations of kinetic energy? Strange visuals? What exactly is it we want to set up a scientific approach for? A zoologist that declares that he wants to study "animals" is likely to be ridiculed by his peers

It had sort of slipped of the front page a bit, but there is a very nice read here, with participation of a lot of Obsidian employees http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=49603

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