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I think once we get outside our "comfort zone", which often is a cultural thing, we start squirming and feel reluctant to even talk about it. Heck, I remember once seeing something from South America (I think) where natives of the Amazon were eating some awfully big, living and wriggling grubs. I felt rather uncomfortable. The same thing applies at the thought of eating something with human, bodily fluids in it

You don't have a powersupply with variable voltage? Then you could have fixed it with some office clips and sticky tape. MacGuyver would have died of shame if he heard about this.

How could that possible compare to getting Acrobat Reader 8.1 with the Dell?!? The Cyberpower didn't list any operating system, is that an additional cost?

Are they also interested in a Personal Forum History Statement?

Uh, why? i thought you guys would know alot about the game... I've played it a lot But as to why it won't run on Vista (which I don't have) with a gfx card (that I don't have) showing symptoms (that I don't have)... well, you get the point. Ok, so I am pulling your leg a bit, but moderators are not "know it all" about the game unfortunately, they are just gamers like everybody else. I run Windows XP Pro on my old PC, with a gfx card that is 4.5 years old, so I don't run into many "incompatibility" issues. Your best bet is, that over the next couple of days, some gamer with a similar problem discovered a work around and shares it. If not, maybe somebody can provide helpful links to places where people discuss technical issues with Vista and older games. In any case, I wish you good luck with it

Uh, why?

...Uwe Boll could learn to make movies... But yeah, you got a point. I always wanted to learn how to cook. Living for a 1000 years, I might get around to it eventually

Thread pruned a bit of the worst offenders (to which I shamefully count myself). I would suggest that people who have an interest in Stargate Atlantis contribute to this thread. Either reading it, adding to it and if not, either leave it alone or express it in a more constructive way

You need potatoes:

Thanks, but I am probably such an old SoB that Death doesn't want me I once scared the crap out of a couple of colleagues by crossing a heavily trafficked road, elegantly avoiding the cars. I told them that I was perfectly safe, as I got statistics on my side. "How so?" they asked. "Well, how many people do you know who has been run over by a car twice?" On a more serious note, I am not sure the human brain has the capacity to process the information of such extended lifespans. Is there really a point in living so long that you start "pushing out" old memories, losing who once was? Or will you hit a wall where you brain deadlocks and refuses to process new impulses?

I would probably ending up getting myself killed "prematurely" as I would give in to greater and greater excesses to avoid boredom. I am a person that experiences the world through doing things. There are only so many things you can do within reason. Then you start doing unreasonable things. I've managed to get myself run over by cars, falling down cliff sides, drowned (twice, once in ice water), electrocuted, survived pneumonia, earthquakes, fires, car crashes and floodings. And that in slightly more than 40 years. Just imagine the odds over a time span of 1000 year :ninja10:

Life is like a badly paced game, you get the sword of dung beetle slaying as a reward for slaying the last dung beetle in the game. Sounds familiar? Did your article mention anything about life quality in general? Would we spend 500 years with the physique of 30-40 year olds or would it be like 920 years with the bodies of 80 year olds?

For Reds, I usually prefer chilean and argentinean as first choice, south african and spanish as second choice. The rest are 'Meh!' as far as I am concerned. Usually I drink Shiraz... yes, I am a plebeian when it comes to wine. For whites, I do prefer either kiwi Chardonnays or some of the local south australian stuff. Rose ('e' with an accent that I can't find on my keyboard) "wine" is an oxymoron. A bastard child with none of the good qualities of its parents

Bought a couple of movies when I went into the local mall yesterday. Resident Evil 2 & 3, Battlestar Galactica Season 3 and A Knights Tale. Trying to decide which one is going to be the 'Movies you have seen lately'

Where has all the good taste gone?!? Taking a break from NWN2 for a brief game of Master of Orion 2, playing Human.

One of the topmost, stickied posts in their project forum has links to the mantis bug tracker where you can see outstanding bugs and progress (only progress on bugfixing mind you, not on the actual restoring of content).

[conspiracy] It does look very "Chult" like [/conspiracy]

Since I don't have a clever closing remark, I am going to borrow Gromnirs (without asking him no less)... There is another thread discussing the company and it's games http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=49079

why? Because it sounded like you were about to justify illegal activities as a perfectly fine and good thing to do (the "greater good") part. Piracy doesn't drive prices down and make stuff affordable, competition does. And as mentioned previously, you malaria example is irrelevant. People stealing for basic survival is a hell of a lot different from people stealing because they decided to spend their money elsewhere rather than buying what they are stealing. I am pretty sure that shipping 500.000 free copies of Halflife 2 to Bangladesh is not going to improve the infant mortality rate. A rather silly comparison really. As for your book example and photocopying, what you are stealing is the use of the book when copy it illegally (yes, a simplified way of putting it). People trying to explain why they are entitled to steal something, that nobody *forces* them to steal makes them look rather pathetic, like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

I am curious about that statemet. Care to elaborate? And I suggest you chose your wording very carefully...

Maybe we just don't have any decent training in proper argumentation techniques

I think we can agree on that. As I said previously, the events, technologically and culturally have evolved at different paces, creating some kind of anachronism. Voting with a wallet is fine, that is part of the capitalistic model. Only thing I take issue with is if it is done while "shoplifting" with the other hand. Nothing ruins ideals better than a bit of hypocrisy. @Newc: I disagree with your malaria medication example, because people are stealing a recipee to survive, which is a very basic instinct (survival). I don't think it is comparable with what is basically unessential entertainment. That isn't a question of survival, but of wanting a service without paying if you can get away with it.

Oh, I was by no means an angel in my young days :blush10: Some day, it just sort of dawned on me, that what I did was probably not a good thing. Quite a wrong thing really. It didn't happen overnight, but it happened eventually. As for lan games, I agree. Depressingly few publishers consider that people might want to have some fun in a group, but might not all be inclined to buy 15 copies each of 5 games for the few times they might get an opportunity to play it. A few games had the right idea, but the only one I can remember from top of my head is x-wing vs. tie-fighter which came with a "master" and a "slave" game cd, enabling at least two players to play. Maybe publishers need to seriously rethink their licensing when it comes to games that are aimed at co-op players, e.g. buy 1+x (one single player plus x multiplayer participants)?