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A much underrated game. I just wish I could run it without having to resort to all kinds of tricks.

Nice to know Thanks Sounds like there is wyvern bashing in the air tonight. Spent all of yesterday night (real time) trying to find the tenth sephirath (sp?). Just to discover after giving up finding it, that the "detective" has it I've activated all 10 obelisks, but I'll wait with the tower until the I've seen what those wyverns are guarding. Call me paranoid, but I don't really trust the game to let me get back there I really love those swamps. I hate to say it, but they are even nicer than the sewers Edit: I guess there is no point hoarding my 4 pieces of red meteorite, besides the point that a new sword is quite expensive to make. I'll never be able to afford that nice leather armour

Instant death is not good, no Looks like it has to be done the hard way. I finally got some literature on wyverns too, just to discover that they are vulnerable to silver, not steel. So much for me trying to slash them to pieves with my steel sword. I've stocked up on bombs, blade coatings, Swallow and I think it was called Tawny something (the one that regenerates endurance). I've more or less relied on the first Sign (the one that repulses/stuns enemies) so far, so now I've spent two handfuls of talents on Ignis. Lets see if that works better together with a buffed up Geralt. The sign that causes damage/pain to enemies ganging up on you is not to be underestimated. Saved some witcher butt more than once when getting swamped by enemies. The "shield" one is the only one I've found no use for yet, but I suppose that it because battles are over fairly fast. Either with dead enemies or a dead witcher Edit: Cheat question: Is the sword on the body a steel or a silver sword? I.e. should I leave my current nice blue meteorite sword at home in the Inn before retrieving it?

the detection of where you are on that thing is terrible. I got splattered several times because it thought I was inside the triangle. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks

Well, I am heading back to the swamp anyway to play with golems and lightning rods. Activating all three pylons and see what happens without it was a bad idea

Are the wyverns in chapter 2 a neverending respawning thing?!? I've been exploring the swamps outside New Vizima and found a small island in the north of the swamp with a group of wyverns hovering around a body. I first tried to fight the wyverns piecemeal, drawing out small groups, but two is more than a handful for me and three were too many. So, I tried to draw them out one by one and that is manageable. Things is just, it doesn't seem to matter how many I kill, there will always be at least three of the critters guarding the body (I got seven wyvern "steaks" in my inventory). Is it bad design (endless respawn) or am I just unlucky and giving up with the last three left? Is there anything of interest on the body and if so, I might just decide to make a run for it, try and grab what is in there and then run like crazy back to the ferryman

They did. And that despite those despicable terrorists who kept blowing up the nice Death Stars

No no no no!... completely wrong. Zombie Communism is the way to go. Brains should be shared. The ZCP is always recruiting

Are you thinking of the droid interface thing that is used by the droid swoop racer to control it's swoop bike?

The water block I ordered is a "full cover" model. Covers both GPU's, RAM, the whteverthebuschipsarecalled etc. with either direct contact or through some little "pillow" thingies you cut out with a scissor and stick to the chips and makes contact with the cooler. If I want to oc my machine I would have to solve the Northbridge temperature first, lots and lots of copper there, but it's barely keeping it under 45. How does that work, can it help out any board significantly. No idea. My Asus board has half a tonne of copper there, leading the heat to an array of cooling "fins" around the CPU area. The intention being that the CPU fan would suck air past them as part of the CPU cooling. In the case of passive/water cooling they provided two small fans designed to mount on the copper plating to make up for the lack of air flow. ... So, got home from work yesterday and voided the warranty on my Sapphire gfx card right away, tearing off the stock fan. Applied the thermal paste and those little pieces of "padding" to the various chips on the card. Fixed everything in place and was careful not to tighten the screws too hard. Attached the hoses, put the card back into the computer, switched on the power and... nothing. Oh yeah, forgot to put the powercables from the powersupply back After that, everything seemed to work nicely. Downloaded a little usitility to monitor the various temperatures on the card, everything looking Ok. Then for the big test, playing an hour of The Witcher to give it some workload and things sure started heating up a bit (50-55 degrees) but that was about it. Started an OpenGL screensaver to keep the card busy, checked the battery in the smoke alarm (in case the thing decided to catch fire) and went to bed. Checked the PC again this morning and while still running at around 50 degrees, nothing had fried and it was watertight Best of all, it runs quietly again. Now I just need to put my PC all back together

The promised comparison: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 10/10/2008, 21:12:59 Machine name: ILLIOS Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: P5E3 Premium BIOS: BIOS Date: 06/11/08 11:07:24 Ver: 08.00.12 Processor: Intel

I am running a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion on my system (64bit Vista) with no problems. Kotor2 runs fine. Disclaimer: I haven't updated my drivers the last couple of weeks. I'll check the driver version when I get home from work later today.

Hey, it has a home now Not much to say yet. Still too many "Coming Soon" buttons, but at least we can add a link to it in our browser favourites (those who are so inclined).

I don't want FO3, not even for free

I tried a 3D Pacman once. It just wasn't the same... 2D rocks! >_ Somehow, Mario with a pair of blades and an UZI, fighting ninja style through level after level, decapacitating opponents just doesn't add up. It would be Mario in name only! For some of those oldies, the stylised gfx were an integral part of them. Especially the fast and furious ones, you need effects that makes it clear and unambigous what is happening on screen, something you can't always do adding more polygons and colours (and a third dimension). Others could probably benefit from a "re-make", although I would settle for a bunch of oldies that would actually just run on my computer without resorting to emulators. Hmm... Forbidden Forest running on that Crysis engine on the other hand... *drool*

*Cough* >_

The final part for my PC arrived in the mail in the office this morning. It is going to be a long day >_ Then I can start assembling it and see if it all still fits together and get some of all my desk space back (looks like construction area at the moment).

Because your brain doesn't always listen to your ears

Your face is mundane. Today I'm bullying Krezack, just like any other day! Don't worry, Shryke will be back again No doubt with plenty of stories of booze and girls Too busy working this week. Not much else gets done

As I said, our experiences sometimes colours our perceptions I can only compare the parts of the story that are given with what matches things I've seen.

Yeah, our perceptions are probably coloured by our experiences. I've met parents who lost their babies (still born, not even an accident) that never truly got over it and I've met parents who somehow completely lacked that "bonding" thing between them and their children. They were something used to cash in on welfare benefits (i.e. abusing "the system"). From the available information, it sounds like this was something that happened in the latter category. It wouldn't surprise me if the guy is more concerned about jail time than the fate of the baby he was responsible for.

Qt, there is a world of difference between being concerned about your child and trying your hardest to do what is best for it... and then being concerned about whether or not there is enough beer in the fridge, the child be damned.

Hey, this split thread button actually worked as anticipated!

And death by wisdom teeth is?

Shh... don't give too many secrets away