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I think you might want a Quad Core instead of a dual (not the two dual-cores sandwiched together that Intel is selling now, the real Quad Cores coming out soon), also AMD could have a rabit up its sleeve in the next six months, too. Following that, I would wait (and am waiting) for a better motherboard. Lots of things happening with mobos ...

He wasn't posting here under the name "Azarkon", was he? "

Um, it's ... unusual to start your own birthday thread ...

I don't get it.

I think you might be underestimating just how complex the D&D ruleset is. What you seem to want is Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. But that isn't a complete D&D ruleset.

Well, I find myself agreeing 100% with colrom's last statement, so I must go and lie down.

Insane insanity = sanity?

If morality is subjective then it doesn't matter, as you're essentially defining the question away - "it's all a matter of perspective." But that's unacceptable. Moral relativism leads to dead-end arguments like "it's just as valid to kill a person as it is to hug him." For a moral system to be legitimate, it must claim to be - at least for the most part - objective. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just a point (following up what alanschu touched on, previously) and not specifically in response to the above comment and more general in scope; despite all the personification of nations and giving them moods and feelings (which may or may not be a useful and accurate model) and liberal hand-wringing posturing, there is (at least) one elephant in the room. Even if we agree (for argument's sake) that the USA, say, is hypocritical in trying to implement "moral" standards in the current worldview (zeitgeist?), then I put it to you that perhaps the End Justifies The Means

I just wish murderers and rapists sentences were of similar severity.

Modding is the Big Thing

You aren't FORCED to have the maximum number of party members (it's a maximum); just take the ones you want. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Meta: Reading Comprehension -5 pts. He wanted to know if there was any way to take even more companions, not fewer of them. Lucius: Yeah, textures can get a little pixelated when you zoom in. I'm also running on high textures. I haven't really noticed the pixelation so much sunce I'm usually zoomed out so much. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, I blame this cold. I feel like I'm reading

I'm really enjoying What If Our World is their Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dιck (Edited by Gwen Lee & Doris Elaine Sauter).

I'm waiting for the DVD. :D

Yes.

I read it on the train in about half-an-hour (it's not long); it is credited with being the most widely distributed pamphlets in history. The impact on the US Constitution is evident.

You aren't FORCED to have the maximum number of party members (it's a maximum); just take the ones you want.

Such a hollow feeling, really. Like using a rocket-propelled grenade on a balloon.

I agree. But I've heard so many devs claim ground-breaking AIs in their soon to be released games, but which turn out in the end to be just broken AIs. the Dark engine which powered Thief and SS2 was quite good for its time in creating AI's that could respond to sound and motion. Combat AI's in games like FEAR and Far Cry are quite good and are not rare anymore. Other devs have laid claim to emergent gameplay. I think Harvey Smith was big into that term when pimping DX2. But, hey, somebody is eventually goign to get it right. Maybe that someone is Ken Levine and maybe that time is mid-2007! w000t! or something. :joy: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Alan Wake is multi-threaded, with a thread for AI, apparently.

My friend complained to me that his game was crashing in one of the final battles. As he has a brand new system, with 4GB RAM and a E6700, I was dismayed ... until he mentioned that he never shuts down. (In other words, he has played the entire game without shutting down, whilst also simultaneously playing poker on an additional 30" monitor.)

I'm sure if you tunnel into the thing you'll soon get past the outer uninflammable layer. Does it have any purpose aside from extended tormenting of pyromaniacs, worldwide?

Tell that to Mr Buttle.

I know someone who lives in Auburn. They were best pleased by that game.

Blame those pesky European Catholics (Spain and Portugal): it was their persuit of God, Glory and Gold.

Watched Casino Royale.It's a great film, I like the way it parodies (e.g. Bond swimming in the sea) and even re-interprets the common elements of a Bond film using the prism of other recent films in the general genre, to produce a film that has evolved into a "modern" action thriller. I also liked that the film took pains to create a plot that almost seems not to have a beginning or and end, and use technology to create a "timeless" backdrop: it could be any time in the last few decades,or even the next few. In other words, it is a Bond film in name only, and it is the better for it. I always like a new actor playing the lead: the producers actually have to make a good film. Who told you that? :crazy: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A Mason.