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These days it is equally unpopular when people leave three suitcases and an articulated rucksack unsupervised in the Hauptbahnhof. Odds are the bomb squad will run away with it before a thief gets to it.

It's a dirty trick to prevent dead horse beating, I tell you!

I know it isn't much help, but just a suspicion. A quick search on dual + core in this particular forum reveals quite a few threads where people have similar symptoms. They all have dual core cpu's in common. Can't say for sure if it applies to your particular situation, or even what the fix might be though, sorry :sad:

It could be that you just don't like that type of game. Or maybe anything you don't like is terrible, my apologies. BF1942, BF2, and BF2142 are three of the best games I've ever played. I got BF1942 and the first expansion (Road to Rome) as well as BF Vietnam. I love both of them and never really understood what the general dislike of BF Vietnam is about :sad: I tried my little brothers BF2 once and didn't like it. Never tried BF2142, something about it being online play only if I remember correctly. I might dislike the rumoured internal workings of EA and what they have done to some development studios in the past (I miss Origin), but I do like some of their games. Without EA, I would never have gotten the Obsidian games in the first place, as they are the distributors (of the Kotor games) in New Zealand.

Yeah, the "surface" combat wasn't so bad (I do have whichever one that allows you to choose firing modes from 1, 2 or A... I use 2). While being quite decent team workers, you can still outmaneuvre the enemies, especially if you don't have any qualms about letting the other guys on your side get some of the attention while you get around them. They probably never saw the headshots coming from their flanks. The problem is the basement, where I have to pass through a doorway, with what I think is two army guys waiting on each side of the doorway on the other side of the wall. I can't squeeze myself close enough to the wall to just face one at a time, as the other guys invariably gangs up on me in an area with little room for moving around. If I knew that once I was through, I would get a break, I could probably solve the dead lock with a grenade thrown at the guys on one side and then running through the doorway with my gun on full auto trying to take them out asap, still leaving a couple of opponents, but at least I would only have to face enemies in one direction. Besides, as I have found out, there is nothing to gain from prolonged firefights in this game except jammed guns and deteriorating body armour Reminds me a bit of some of the tactical decisions you need to do when playing Jagged Alliance 2. Now where is the C4 and detonator when you need to remove a wall?!?

I know the place you are talking about. None of the dogs really stood out in a crowd though and early in the game I used the "Take All" button, gathering bits and pieces of different animals, so maybe I was just unlucky and none was there. I've changed my approach and only take "go and find" type assignments when I actually have the xyz in my inventory Since I can't carry unlimited loot, I've had to made some hard decisions too now, like what to keep, what to stash in boxes around in the country side, in case i need it later and finally, just to leave stuff behind... A packrat like me really hates leaving stuff behind >_ I ran into an armed gang of guys guarding a big gate leading north. I assume I have to do something elsewhere to progress past that point. Currently I am stuck at the lower levels of Agroprom though.

So, finding a bit of time in between sessions of Europa Universalis, I play Stalker. Let me start by saying that, I love this game. Very much so. Unfortunately, liking a game does note equal excelling at it. Two problems so far, one insignificant and one that is more tricky. The trader want's a dog part, not just from any dog, but a pseudodog. I've killed every canine I've come across so far, yet no matching dog part (I got some tails I think, but not what he wanted). Any particular good places to go looking for that particular breed? That was the insignificant part. Not sure what happens long term when failing these go and fetch missions. More tricky is how the heck do you survive the lower parts of the Agroprom research facility? Especially the regular army guys (at least that is what I think they are) are making my life miserable. I survive the tentacled guy with the "predator" style cloaking skill allright (a bit of running, dodging and emptying my shotgun where I think his head is). But the army guys are very good at creating a killzone at the doorway I have to pass through, no matter what I try, they always end up being able to bring two guys guns to bear on me. Do I have to pass through these basements to progress the game (part of "Kill Strelok") or can I just skip this part and navigate around them and go elsewhere? Should I just spend some of my precious handgrenades instead? I had great fun with these when defending the first stalker camp at Garbage. I really need to practise my headshot skills...

One of my favourite parts of the forum guidelines: It seems like this topic has outlived it's intention and through the heated debate of posters rather than ideas add to the global average temperature. Sad attempt at witty closing remark, I know :sad:

Tell that to Bethesda! I hope you are right. I believe the world would be a better place without dependancy on fossile fuel. With the improved infrastructure and communication networks, I would love to see the number of cars in the world reduced signifciantly too because of a lesser need for individual mobility (i.e. pendling back and forth to work). Mayby that makes me a hippie in some ways Actually, my main concern wasn't really so much the search for fuel, as you mentioned it is for a limited time only, but things that happened in our own "backyard" just on the other side of the iron curtain (back when I lived in Denmark). Scary images of chemical wastelands full of byproducts of a society focused on productivity and little else. These are the things I fear might be downplayed if environmental conscience becomes a naughty word.

I am sort of of two minds regarding the whole "global warming" thing. On one hand, I am not convinced by the arguments, no matter how passionate and emotional, that the rise of average global termperature (which I do acknowlegde is happening) is caused by CO2 exclusively. Has anybody calculated what the effect of deforestation has on the reflection/absorbtion of solar energy etc.? On the other hand, I fear that losing the argument will be perceived in some circles as a Carte "License to Drill" Blanche to go completely overboard in ignoring environmental issues in general. Sort of using this as a precedens and point back and say, see you were wrong then, you are wrong now and then turn out the powers knows what crap in our every day lives :ninja10: A good cause but the wrong issue so to say.

Anger management?

Lets try this once... Subject title is: Al Gore get the Nobel Peace prize. Not "mutual head bashing" gentlemen, thats for behind closed doors at institutions of higher learning and certain countries parliamentary debates

Do you also go for things like metamagic feats, spell focus and spell penetration when playing a mage? I usually do everything wrong when playing a mage and can't keep hands off the physical combat stuff... which is why I prefer not to play my main character as such. I am just no good at it. It might be useful for me to listen to other peoples experiences for building the npcs in a game though

Too much Europa Universalis III for my own good

His "doodles" are always worth a visit.

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I feel for you Azure79. Happened to my parents car quite a few years ago. Although the lowlifes didn't get anything for their efforts, the advertising that claimed it was hard to steal was right. The dash board (or should I say smash board) was in a pretty bad shape, but the car stereo had refused to budge. I don't get it though, how much can a violently removed car stereo be worth to anyone? You would think it would be easier to put the same effort into a regular job.

Somebody beat you to it by a few days... http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=48164

Try the local chicken vindaloo when you get there. Stay away from the traffic in New Delhi. Don't take the train. An elephant has right of way. Stay safe

In case you haven't, try and see if you can find the original chaos rule books in one of those old second hand book stores. "Slaves to Darkness" deals with the aspects of Khorne and Slaanesh, whereas "The Lost and the Damned" deals with the other two opposites Nurgle and Tzeentch. Both are hefty 100+ page hard cover books with plenty of background fluff, from the nature of the warp (which is not unlike the planescape universe where belief can dictate matter) to the creation of the human emperor and why he was created. The Necron rulebook also provides a lot of good background material as to why and how the chaos gods were created in the struggle between the C'than/Necrontyr and "The Old Ones" Edit: Sloppy spelling

1 Major, 2 minors, 3 tweaks and a feature... Oooohhhhgnnnn!!! *takes deep breath* Patience Gorth, patience! (I seem to remember they didn't really aim at having all feature level issues solved before release)

So, what are they going to do, open up an IRS account in EQ/WoW and send out Orc patrols armed with heavy clubs to retrieve tax dollars from players?

I can't quite figure that one out either. Once, I had severe lag and stuttering on Dantooine (the grassy plains) and the Habitat part of Telos station. Installing the game a year later, it was gone and ran smoothly. The only change I can imagine is, that my drivers got updated in the meantime (the old drivers was probably 3 years old at the time, yes, shame on me). The only place(s) where it stutters now are on Nar Shaddaa, in each of the places where the "swoop bike" can appear when you have fixed it and can move around with it. As if the area trigger somehow goes haywire and does some crazy checking when you get it in sight.

What are your sources GDM, because frankly, your utter and complete unwillingness to accept that there may be more to an issue than your own (very) narrow perspective is scary. The second half of that post is quite well documented by just about anything (except perhaps Fox News). Try looking through things from BBC to Israeli news archives and your worldview might suffer irrepairable damage.