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I still have it installed on my laptop. That's how good I think it is.

... don't tell me: a convention for people who like to dress up as squirrels ...

Excellent camouflage suit, Rover!

Almost daring to ask, or almost daring to dare to ask?

Not very happy bunch of tails, are they?

... Just so long as there aren't any air-holes in that tank ...

Look? Mods that look? When did that start being a criterion ?

Right, so talking to the characters is pretty important in the game, then ... "

Nope, it was given the scissor treatment. But there is a good chance it will turn up in the next episode, because it was at the E3 demo ...

I am not completely sure whay I got special dispensation in this comment. Perhaps it was "friendly fire", or perhaps there were just oo many juicy targets, and the least deserving got nailed ...

He's staring right at me! Brundell-Orang-u-Tan is smiling at me!

Here I am, trying to impart wisdom

Well, eventually we'll have to fight some of the Xen beasties. But I don't think that is now. (Remember the Blue Meanies in Half-Life? Man, they were tough!) There is still the mystery of the Blue Water-Tentacle-Thinggie ...

And

Didn't know when to give up, did he ..?

Y'know, I think you're starting to pick up your batting average on puns ...

TCP/IP is a protocol (agreed symbolic method for two computers to talk to each other across a network). The protocol admin allows for 65536 different "channels". E.g., normally, your webbrowser surfs on channel 80, and any mail to your mail server will be sent via channel 25 (SMTP), and received on channel 110 (POP3). These are common, "predefined" channels. (Try logging into a web-based mail system like Yahoo, and selecting "Secure logon", or even paying for something on Amazon. You will notice the address bar changes from "http://" to "https://". This is a channel change from 80 to 443.) The IM client will be using its own, proprietary channels (one in and one out). You just have to find out what they are, and tell your firewall. (It is possible on most applications to change the channels for added security.) Does that help?

Depends on the channel over the TCP/IP port. There are 65536 protocol channels (#80 for HTTP, #25 for SMTP, #443 https protocol over TLS/SSL, etc). Check the Help to see what channels it uses (one in and one out: typically all programs use different ones), then make sure your firewall lets permits channels unfettered access.

One tries to set an example. :cool:

To the average socially-challenged psychopath, yes. All good fun!

I believe there will be lots of out-of-towners in the City: the perimeters are breached, so all the Antlions, et alia are free to raid the streets. I wouldn't be surprised if Dog recues Alyx. I wouldn't be surprised if the Combine actually work on the same side as Gordon, either; after all, with the Xen portal busted, it's everyone for themselves against the bigger, nastier besties. Here's hoping we get to pilot a drop ship, or

Never played Swoop again after the total retrospective abortion it was on Telos.

I never heard that! He was right, though, the voice-over totally ruined the film and made it into a kindergarten play. Reminds me of the story about Cecil B Demille, who wanted to change the film to the Eight Commandments ...

One of the few films where the Director's Cut is actually a totally different narrative ...

... And you'll be taking a make-up extra-curricula course in stats ..?