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Just in time for the spring festival up in the Botanic Garden

You are right. Ender seemed to have an issue with this one: Which is quite ironic as he himself has turned harassment and impersonating into an artform: And regarding public posting of mod disagreements: Italicised by me. He publicly named both moderators and the company (and by association, it's employees) as racists or supporters of racism. I used to have have a great deal of respect for Ender, but that has dropped considerably lately, with the "rules apply to everybody but me" attitude

I wonder about the cause of that. I live in Wellington and do have an internet connection (Q.E.D.), so it must be something more... Mystery! :p"

I love it, but I also know it's an acquired taste. It definitely helps if you are also into miniature collecting and painting as that is a large part of the hobby.

Will there ever be a Resident Evil game where you get to play the zombies, chasing Jill Valentines all over the place and eat them without getting shot to pieces ?

Is that why you have been busy "breaking in" new mods ? :D

I couldn't resist A) It's Darque, local liason for all things shuffling and horror survival and B) As a grinning skull, I'm partial to undeads

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This thread is fun

Ddin't we have a similar thread very recently ?!? Ah well, crpg's I remember for their music too: VMBL, PS:T, Fallout and Ultima IV (C64 Version)

I'm not sure if tabletop wargames count, if so, I used to play Warhammer and Necromunda. Apart from that, the only two board games I used to play were some old Avalon Hill stuff, one called "Wooden Ships & Iron Men" from the age of sail and one called "Flat Top" which covered the Pacific war in WWII. It has been quite a few years since playing though, mostly due to a lack of opponents

JS Made some good music for Icewind Dale. The Kotor music was rather forgettable (I try, but I just can't remember any of it). I still remember parts of the Kotor2 score though, so based on recent memories, Griskey gets the vote. Mind you, Kotor2 is the only MG music I know, so it's not really a fair comparison.

With a member no. of #666 what did you expect ?

*Mumbles something about Eldar, CoF and Mattresses...* :rolleyes:"

Heh, good idea... Jags for Mod! Edit: But only if he promises crates and ritual virgin sacrifices :D

Not sure how JE looks like or how it plays, but part of the IE games charm was the party based adventuring. And, that you could use terrain in the tactical combat (i.e. move around, use area effect weapons, ranged weapons, melee weapons etc. all at the same time). Something that I found NWN (and Kotor1&2 for that matter) woefully inept at in singleplayer mode... While I still have a game of BG2 going, NWN and the Kotors are gone. They might be technological advances, but they just aren't as fun. Heck, for all it's primitiveness, even Ultima IV is more fun :cool:

"Urrrhhhhh..... Braaains!....." :)"

Improved General Circle Detection Algorithm Tomasz Macura This paper considers the problem of detecting circles in binary images on parallel computers. The author presents improvements to the General Circle Detection Algorithm (GCDA) that was invented by A. Kavaianpour, S. Shoari, and N. Bagherzadeh. The GCDA is based on a transformation that converts circles in an image to families of straight lines. This reduces the problem of circle detection to that of line detection which may be solved by any line detection algorithm. Theoretical analysis of the performance of the Improved General Circle Detection Algorithm (IGCDA) suggests that speedup will be linear. The author's implementation of the IGCDA on a Beowulf cluster of generic personal computers achieved the predicted speedup. Faculty mentor: Matthias K. Gobbert http://www.math.umbc.edu/~gobbert/teaching...ports/macura.ps Not sure how efficient algorithms you are looking for Edit: If you are looking for something in pdf format: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~qji/Papers/paa_paper.pdf

Nationstates is hilarious, at least for a while until the events gets recycled Unfortunately, my old country (Gorthovania) doesn't exist anymore in the region of The Black Isle... (your country goes poof, if you don't make decisions for more than a month) So start up again, and join Obsidian! I just lodged a request there, to see if is possible to get it restored :cool:

Nationstates is hilarious, at least for a while until the events gets recycled Unfortunately, my old country (Gorthovania) doesn't exist anymore in the region of The Black Isle... (your country goes poof, if you don't make decisions for more than a month)

No, we're gonna pull uncle Bushies sleeve and remind him that we're part of his puny Coalition, he'll then (hopefully ) torpedo Canada for us as to return the favour. That would be a hard choice. Canada is our right hand. Depends who has the most oil. Who ever has the most Bush will think of some conspiracy to invade them. That would be Norway

Looks like the war is postponed a bit... :-" Edit: Ok boys, you can go home again!

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from Wikipedia: Mead is a fermented alcoholic beverage made of honey, water, and yeast. It is sometimes known as "honey wine" (for obvious reasons) and is generally pronounced "meed" (IPA: /miːd/), though South Africans usually pronounce it "med", to rhyme with "red" (IPA: /mɛd/). In Norse mythology, mead was the favorite drink of the Norse gods and heroes, e.g. in Valhalla, and the mead of Suttung, made from the blood of Kvasir, was the source of wisdom and poetry. The nectar and ambrosia of the Greek gods were probably draughts of fermented honey. A mead that also contains spices (like cloves, cinnamon or nutmeg) or herbs (such as oregano or even lavender or chamomile) is called metheglin. The etymon of this word is the Welsh word meddyglyn, meaning "medicinal liquor", as healing herbs were often stored as metheglin so they would be available over the winter (as well as making them much easier to swallow). Slavic miod/med, which means "honey", derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root. A mead that contains fruit (such as strawberry, blackcurrant or even rose-hips) is called melomel and was also used as a delicious way to "store" summer produce for the winter. Mulled mead is a popular winter holiday drink, where mead is flavoured with spices and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it. Hippocras is spiced grape wine sweetened with honey. A grape-based wine with added honey is called a pyment. Cyser is made with (hard) apple cider and honey; braggot or bracket is made with malted barley and honey. Mead is awesome. I'm all for making it the national beverage of Denmark again :cool: