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That's because she wasn't a dwarf. Everybody knows that dwarves are the ones with Scottish accents.

Ok, thread pruned. My apologies to those posters who meant well and lost posts as "collateral" damage. Lets just repeat one important thing: Let's see if we can do this without me having to call in the firing squad?

There is indeed. Sounds like somebody needs to take a break and relax. Lets give this one a time out for a short moment...

Tried his signature too: "Pure Gorth. Pure Power." Good to hear that you are getting that stuff out of your system taks. I would hate the thought and suspicion of not being in total control of my mood, emotions, feelings etc. and always wonder if it was me or the chemicals thinking. It would probably drive me nuts. Hang on in there

Congratulations on your new rig I did wonder what that WEI was about when I got my own computer assembled, since my Vista wouldn't let me as much as run solitaire without doing that silly speed test first. I wonder how high they can go?

NWN2: Storm of Zehir is NOT out!... Well, not down here. 11th of December said the guy at EB Games when I went to check today Maybe they are shipping it on a raft, drifting on the Pacific currents >_

I used to do the same thing with my Commodore64 powersupply on cold winter evenings I know liquid cooling is not to everyones taste, but besides the way lower noiselevels, it did lower the case temperature as well compared to fans. My 4870x2 doesn't "radiate" heat the same way it used to before when working hard.

I don't know about the Asus, but when running The Witcher on my Sapphire, then I can keep a cup of coffee warm on top of my external radiator

Is that the same Ribsmasher as you have on your soccer team?

Hey, that was nicely spotted That would make a nice question for an interview someday, regarding inspiration.

...and I think that particular modus operandum of debating ends here. On a related note, I believe one of the obstacles to your suggestion is, that they can not receive any help that could in any way be construed as "financial support" or "monetary contribution", not even indirectly, or they'll have LA's lawyers breathing down their necks. Somebody hosting their forums for free is probably already pushing their luck

It's the Danish intelligence service trying in secret to undermine Canadian stability, in order to divert interest away from Hans Island. Tune in to this channel next to read about the renewed independence efforts of Quebec

You make on-line shopping sound like a viable alternative Edit: Being ready for Christmas? Not at the moment. Crossing fingers and hoping that those silly buggers in Bangkok vacates the airpoirt before that, or I'll be stuck with a worthless flight ticket to Europe (since it has Bangkok as a stopover on the trip).

Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, White Wolf, Arcanum (Troika's), Battletech, Heavy Gear, Call of Cthulhu ect. So many materials out there. If Obsidian managed to grow balls of brass after the release of AP and Aliens, they could look back to review one of the highly hyped but dropped IP during the Black Isle days: Torn. I don't know Heavy Gear and Arcanum wasn't really my cup of tea from it's description (I am not a steampunk fan), but the rest would make for a nice change. I am still dying of curiosity about what the project (insert state name) was that made an appearance as a forum section and then disappeared again was.

The facial animations and especially lip synching needs work though. It would bother me almost as much as if they had put Oblivion style lockpick minigames in it I suspect it is outtakes from work in progress, but it looks like a badly dubbed Hong Kong karate movie (the lip synching). Some actual dialogue choices would have been nice to see

Lara's posterior?

All I can say is, some people *do* have too much time on their hands I thought my brain was going to ooze out through my nostrils when they got to the singing part

Underworld? If so, is it any good? Compared to Legends? Anniversary?

I am glad I did That was worth it, even if you never did nor intend to care one inch about Guitar Hero. The last minute and a half makes up for it

Oh, so that is why there has been a distinct lack of guitar solos in the Alpha Protocol section Good to know that she is still alive and kicking

I hear Citibank is hiring

I think there are few games that I can think of which you either haven't played yet or hasn't been mentioned yet. A few personal favourites when it comes to atmosphere: Classics: Lords of Midnight - The game that got me hooked on immersive, vast and open ended (sandbox) type games. Has been a bit hard to find in stores since 1984-85 though. Alternate Reality - Large, ambitious crpg project that unfortunatly crashed and burned after the first expansion (or was it the second) of seven planned expansions to the core game was released. Has been out of print since 1985 too New games Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - Top of the crop. The game almost drips atmosphere. Other new games S.T.A.L.K.E.R., The Witcher EE, Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1, etc. I might come back and add more later as my memory gets a bit of exercise.

I'll give it an extra look through and see if I can find such a thing. Most of the "staged" combat had been nice so far. @Crashgirl, it wasn't so much that it was hard, more like a bit on the tedious side being a test of patience more than anything. I do sort of like the combat, just not when it becomes repetitive.