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It'll drop when the next model comes out, in a couple of months. Don't buy anything less than a 6800GS now, lest it is not good enough to keep pace with technology required for latest games. Scarily, one of the reviews said that even the X1900XTX (650MHz) 512MB DDR3 (1.55GHz, effective), (retail

Despite the X1800 being released late (Autumn instead of Spring), four months later (and on the original six month life-cycle schedule) the X1900 is here. With Crossfire. X1900XTX 512MB faster than nVidia 7800GTX 512MB in nearly all benchmarks (51/52). Linkie Specifications Features * 384 million transistors on 90nm * fabrication process * 48 pixel shader processors * 8 vertex shader processors * 256-bit 8-channel GDDR3 * memory interface * Native PCI Express x16 bus interface Ring Bus Memory Controller * 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads * Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs * Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test * Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1) * Fast Z-Buffer Clear * Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine * Support for Microsoft

Yes. We do get to level up (are you still level 1?). There are indeed bad people in the real world. No, we don't have open season on them, though. Escapism alternate definition: anti-stress (where stress is defined as the result when one is prevented from acting out the urge to strangle someone who acting like a berk). Training for 1337 ninja chimp judo. Or political scheming. Okay, or magic. Okay. *0 Okay. Yes. Not that interesting, really, just a facsimile of RL. *1 Right-O. Scope definition understood, if not agreeable. ... And, in fact, most (all mythical) literature. *2 Yes. But what about anti-heroes? The life of Spartacus has indubitably been romanticised, but that's kinda irrelevant, isn't it? If not, maybe this is what you need to elucidate on. Depends on the definition of the magic, e.g. "Divine domain" or "Death Magic", etc. Technology is alignment-neutral. A tool. Like an internal combustion engine: it can be used as to power an ambulance, or a tank. Unless a particular scenario defines a specific type of technology as evil like, say, harvesting live convicts' organs. Against their will. Or a rifle to hunt people rather than food. Irrelevant. Good writing uses whatever. Addenda: Dunno if, in clarifying your points, you have overly narrowed their scope. All the definitions are acceptable (if not agreeable), but there isn't a lot to debate given all the assumptions you have set out. I still don't see any relevance between magic-tech and ethics. Unless you are defining one as inherently good or evil. PS Writing style: ++ INFLUENCE GAINED ++

Don't give spoilers out without ROT13.

Quite possibly. I was not waiting months to post a topic with the subtitle shi'ite. Nope. Nuh ah.

The portraits on the right margin should give it away ...

No.

NASA.gov have good stuff. I found a great site, about a decade ago, which had PROOF of Gumby's image on Venus (using the data from the Venus RADAR-mapping satellite).

Skim reading helps, if that's what you mean. Also, I frequently have to wait for my computer to finish some task which takes too little time to play the game meanwhile, too long to just wait, and just enough to read through a couple of threads. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My name is Diamond, and I am a TOMBSaholic. ...

Amen.

Looking forward to NwN 2, too. Either that or it's got a nifty suit of polypropylene cling-wrap ...

I hope I never need to find out.

... AND a great storyline. "

*bows politely*

Don't keep their shape very well, either. ... What?

I played the game completely without the patches (or else I'd probably still be waiting to ...)

Blind maximum bets FTW!

You mean you don't? I haven't found any problems ...

What was that game? From a console (can't remember which) over ten years ago. Some sort of haunted housey-thing, iirc.

K2 patches were amongst the worst I have experienced. Then again, I don't recall having any show-stopper bugs EVER.

That was a quote from Dirty Harry.

Deer don't need to run in a nature reserve. Bizarre miscellanea: the fish have learnt where the boundaries of the coral preserves are in developing countries, like Indonesia and the Philippines, where poachers use dynamite to trap tropical fish ...

It looks like there's some sort of Alien embryonic doodad jumping out of her lungs at the end of the dance. PS Yes. I gots to know.

"Tread carefully, now!"

Are, yes, the wedding dress.