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Perhaps it is a farm cooperative? A castle might just be a tad too big and imposing for such an idyllic landscape. Maybe a house, bigger and more extravagant for the local mayor/lord/magistrate/whatever?

You might get into a lot of trouble if you condition it with darwinistic tendencies before hitting the "On" switch... It might decide that it is a superior being and need to ensure it's own survival against other threats

You don't expect people to remember everything you said with a postcount of 11,673+... do you?

:(" Lets see... 1) Definitely 2) Definitely 3) :"> 4) :ph34r: I suck at math, yet I've been able to make a living as a developer anyway. Regarding 3 & 4, I've found that being creative and having a vivid imagination can often make up for lack of discipline and math skills. Something I look for when recruiting new developers. Even better if you have a burning passion for something besides the development skills, like AI, Math, Physics, Image processing, games design etc. Something to apply your developer skills to. @Blank: Tough question. You say, you can commit to this about as much as it being a hobby. That sort of rules out a few things. Considering the place you are posting, it is a safe bet that you have an interest in games ? One possible starting point, just to get acquainted (Sp?) with basic programming paradigms (like starting to thing in decisions, branches, repetitions, algorithms in general), is to pick a game with a decent scripting language. Could be c-robots, could be Neverwinter Nights, whatever you prefer and sit down and write simple scripts. The "secret" behind programming is the way you think, analyse and model your world within the structures of the language you are working with. If you have a natural flair for languages, even better. A computer language is not that different from a spoken language when you have describe a something with the available vocabulary

Once more for the comprehension impaired: I pity you if your game was unplayable. My game (retail version + the official patch 1.2) worked quite well.

I haven't checked out version 3.0 of this socalled "patch", but if it is related to previous unoffical "patches", it's not so much a patch as a collection of bugfixes and mods, where you can't choose just to install the bugfixes and leave out the mods. Very poor design decision. Some people (i.e. Me) likes the original game minus the bugs, not being forcefed a modders interpretation of how I want to play it as the price for a bugfix. If a mod interests me, I'll happily download it and install it too. For what it's worth, recommended upgrade path is the original Kotor 2 game, official patch 1.0b and if you have a decent internet connection, the updated media files for movies and audio. After that, you can pick and choose which of the bugfixes you want to download and install from Team Gizka and others. I've only tried the Gizka ones and they seem to coexist quite peacefully.

Yaddle as well. You would think though, that with two members of the same species on the Jedi Council at the same time, someone would have thought to give the species a name. Bad hair day? Give in to the darkside...

As the lady said, adding more ram (a total of 1gb at least) is no luxury today. From top of my head (which means, it could be incorrect), the different voltages are related to the agp speed. The older agpx1-x4 cards used more voltage than the agpx8 cards. At the least, thats how I remember it. I bought my card at the time where x8 was becoming the norm and x1-x4 started dying out, so I kept an eye on voltages on motherboards and gfx cards back then (3 years ago).

Looks interesting enough. Disciples III is still my favourite "drool over" title, but interesting none the less. Now, if they could just put a demo up under their download page

The fix worked for me too. I had the same thing. Worked nicely in my very first (unfixed) game, didn't see them in any of the following playthroughs. The other fixes from Team Gizka are recommended too. I finally got to solve the fuel quest

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Humans

Well, I can tell a Singaporian customs agent from a Californian customs agent. The latter is genetically engineered to have no sense of humour

Hey, I've *literally* been around the world twice. I'm not getting any younger

She had the best tail of any npc ever

Rumored to be a wonderful place. Home of Peter Jackson! well... it's alright... it's know as "windy" wellington for a reason. which is really annoying when you have hair as long as mine (it's long enough to tuck into my belt now) coz it flies all over the place It's one of the most beautiful places in the world. I lived there for 2.5 years :cool: If I could pick any one place in the world to stay and grow old, it would be there. Alas, job opportunities are just more attractive across the Tasman

Born and raised in Denmark. At the moment living in Adelaide, Australia :cool:

The violent nature of chess: http://www.chessbase.com/eventarticle.asp?newsid=2000

What do you mean by full contact? Another example of full contact sports: http://www.kungfu.net/sanshou.html Other definitions here: http://www.answers.com/topic/contact-sport (search for "Full-contact sport" on the page). A full-contact sport is similar to a semi-contact sport, but which contains physical contact between the combatants with the aim of causing a knockout or otherwise rendering the opponent inable to continue the match. Injuries are much more common in full-contact sports since the amount of protective gear is often reduced, and the techniques are executed at full power. Makes Chess much more interesting

Happy birthday :cool: I'm sure that Arkan, being the nice and generous guy that he is, will give away any surplus birthday greetings to the needy and deserving

You obviously haven't tried full contact, real-time chess :("

Sledge Hammer, meet Testicle. Testicle, meet Sledge Hammer... *Clonk!* I miss this game

I miss my tame golem from IWD2 :'(

What's the penalty for throwing a BigMac

I liked the firendly fire accidents. Made it more "real" somehow. Sounds silly, I know, but it made me think where I went, to avoid getting into crossfire between teammates and enemies. If just my team mates would have shown the same consideration every now and then As for the control over team memmbers, FO2 got it exactly right for my taste. Give them general orders, limited by their personality and let them do their own thing. It felt like you and a party, Not you being a 7 headed hydra wielding 3 guns, 2 knives, 1 flamethrower & a gauss rifle at the same time.