Gorth

That sounds strange. I run PS:T on Windows XP SP2 without any "compatibility" settings. Could it be your disk or drive that it doesn't like? Have you tried copying all files onto the hd? If not, have you installed any alternative player software that could conflict with the movie player that PS:T uses (can't remember if it is bink)? If neither of the above... no idea really

Ah, so that is where the expression "Getting Shafted" comes from...

After almost eight weeks on dial up connection from home, I finally got hooked up on the internet properly again... That experience was almost as bad as some decaf I once swallowed a few years ago Back to being on-line 24/7 again

Does the sudanese government have the sudanese peoples or the sudanese governments interest at heart then? And are the motives of such actions even remotely related to anything regarding names, teddy bears and english school teachers? Hence my previous question, who benefits from people being whipped into a frenzy? Does a person who only ever gets one view presented, really have a choice in what to think?

Thread pruned a bit. Lets leave the personal antagonism for other venues...

I am Gorth, all listen to the wisdom as explained in gorthology, the teachings that will lead mankind to a new and brighter future. We shall all build a new world, and it shall be Gorthopia, and happiness shall be enforced with an iron hand. Now, how to go trick some followers into building my new capital, Gorthopolis?... Took a walk down to the Circular Quay in Sydney with my camera, during my lunch break. Wanted to take some daylight pictures of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Turned out that the batteries had pulled a Monthy Python Parrot trick on me...

Emphasis mine. I don't blame religion (and I am not really a friend of institutionalised religion), as much as I blame culture, history, geography, ruthless ambitious individuals, poverty and qute a few other things for the phenomena of "angry masses". When playing on their unrest and directing their ire against a target, they are just that, an angry mass of people seeking an outlet for their anger. If not religion, then hooliganism, racism, nationalism, **ism, whatever. It would be better to address the causes for such things, rather than the symptons (although, I can perfectly understand why a certain english teacher is currently very concerned with the symptoms, as her life might depend on it). As Walsingham suggested, this seems choreographed, just like the "Muhammed Cartoon" incident. The question I would ask then, who benefits from such unrest?

A few people are already setting some very bad examples. Lets call it "hint of the day" and say, careful where you put your feet when posting?

As Steve said, the holocron thing depends on the answers you gave Atton way back at the beginning of the game, when he was held in the Peragus mining facility. Depending on your answers then, there is either nothing to do in the room (it will say something like the explosion damaged the holocron or similar) or, again depending on your conversation back then, there will be a small cinematic, showing Bastila giving you some information about what has happened since Kotor1. In any case, it isn't essential, just a nice catch up with some events.

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First page of previous thread: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=39652 Last page of previous thread: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?sh...5&start=495 I don't know how much life there is in the series yet, but the thread was getting a bit long. I've only got as far as buying the pilot thingy on DVD. I might treat myself to seasons 1&2 as a Christmas Present (i've been nice to myself all year)

I don't mind "rating" systems as such, but they sure are a bit on the hypocritical side when it comes to what they terms what. For me, realistic violence and certain themes would be a much stronger reason to make them less accessible to younger audiences than a pair of E-Boobies ®. If they would just stick to actually writing on the box what is in it rather than trying to rate it and then leave it at that (i.e. contains nudity, realistic violence, profanity, politics, animal abuse etc.). I had a look at The Witcher down at the store yesterday, much tempted to buy it. But since I couldn't figure out from the box whether it was the censored or uncensored version, it stayed on the shelf. Life could be much easier :sad:

...But you love me because I have no personality, right? Only because you murdered Eldar and buried him in your basement Looks like a Sunday that is about to be spent at work today... so much for pruning the wild plant life in my garden

The question has been passed on to those "in the know", although those may be doing whatever people do when it is weekend and such.

3 Years? Ouch! I had to wear such things for 2 years. The result of a car accident. The bones grew back together and my head worked pretty fine afterwards though

Yeah, there is a sticky thread called "Donations" on their forum, which explains it. And we are now down to 7 bugs

Feel the brotherly Scandinavian love! Edit: I am a rogue. Couldn't find a Demi-Lich anywhere...

I went back to an earlier save, before attacking the Duty guys. I am still on "friendly" terms with both (although I did kill the tower sniper, my last save before that is waaay too old). I am now busy strying to figure out how to survive the red forest. But thanks for the info. It just looked like both wanted you to sign up and maybe there was some kind of trade off between good and bad things for each of them. Now off to kill more Monolith guys... without getting myself killed all the time...

*Sigh* :sad: Looks like this game isn't free of the unfinishable quest curse either. I don't know if there are/were any benefits at all to joining either Freedom (one kind of nuts) or Duty (nutty in a different way), but a guy named Skull made sure I can't do either. He gave me a mission to take out a tower sniper, I said yes, after which the first thing Skull does is run out in front of me and charge the sniper tower single handedly. Of course he gets himself shot very dead. I took out the sniper without antagonising the rest of the Freedom camp, but now I can't finish it because my point of contact, Skull, is busy lying dead on the ground. I tried dragging his sorry corpse around a bit, poking him with my knife, no reaction. I tried to talk to all members of his squad, just to see if that would do the trick but no luck Then I tried another approach and see if I could join freedom. First mission, kill the squad where Skull was a member. Much to my delight, once I threw a hand grenade into their little singalong around the campfire, the unfinishable mission disappeared from my PDA... just to be replaced with a new unfinishable one. It apparantly keeps track of how many Duty squad member gets killed, and since Skull was already dead, they keep running around forever looking for something to kill. In disgust, I gave up and entered the red forest. I am now getting my butt seriously handed to me (repeatedly). Those Monolith (a group of real nutcases) guys have some serious equipment (I was about to rant about instantly (and constantly repeating) spawning missions, that I had never accepted popping up in my PDA, but then I saw that there is a new patch out that claims to fix it. Time to try it out) Anybody know if there is some kind of benefits to joining any of the factions? Anybody ever experienced Skull dying prematurely? If so, any workarounds?

A closet xbox owner...

I played mainly a spirit shaman (with a few levels of storm lord thrown in). I didn't anticipate another party member of that class. Not sure what I want to try next. Maybe just a pure fighter. All feats and no skills.

Minsc and Boo... and Minsc and Boo... and Minsc and Boo... And M... Hmm... how odd, a hamster in pocket, what is your name little fella? Interesting choice of NPC's. Based on ideas for the plot, or personal preference (i.e. "favourites")? Being no gnome friend, I would swap Jansen for Lilarcor any day, but hey, it's your world, literally

Nothing deep or profound to add, but... maybe they don't really want anybody to "rule" them? Not the coalition forces, not the "Iraqi Government" and not the Al Quaida. When coalition forces were the dominant military force, they fought them, when it looked like Al Quaida started to dominate the country side, they turned on them. If they are successful in eliminating those, I wouldn't be surprised to see them turn all their attention on the government forces... Well, just a theory. Only the people involved can really tell you.

Pure speculation... I don't think the monarchy would have survived in Germany, the Kaiser was in a precarious position already two thirds into the war. The ensuing anarchy and unrest might have led to a different outcome though (with no "backstab" theory to propel the Nazi party to power), with the communists as the likely dominant party in post war Germany. Maybe Germany and Russia would still be fighting today over who should be the center of world communism (with China as the laughing third)? It was probably more than anything a moral boost for french troops on the verge of nationwide mutiny and english troops that might have started thinking some very republican thoughts. Without the vastly superior numbers and production capacity that the US was able to provide, they (the orignal warring countries) might have fought for a few more years until all involved countries sunk into a state of complete civil unrest and rioting. Austria-Hungary was falling apart at the seems, Italy was disintegrating, the secret weapon of the germans (Lenin) was setting Russia on fire and France, England & Germany was killing their men faster than the homefront could possibly make babies. Edit: And maybe the Ottoman Empire might still be around... altough that one is very hard to speculate about. The British empire did a mixture of very stupid and very bright things in the campaigns against Turkey. If they were still around, there probably wouldn't have been a middle east conflict today, as jews and arabs would live under Ottoman law.

Mostly working these days... meetings and client visits during the daytime, job interviews in the evenings and then a lot of writing at night. In short, crunch time lasting until Christmas