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Well, I think a good role player can get into the moment, with sufficient motivation. Be the pinball!

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Come on now, Zhullie, let me talk to Dana. There is no Dana, only Zuhl! ...

I've been strictly a PC gamer for years, and I'm getting a console as soon as the 360 comes out. More games are coming out for the console than are coming out for the PC these days. As consoles get more powerful the need to spend megabucks on a PC will get less and less. You'd only need a PC for work related stuff, and that cuts into your gaming! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Unless your gaming cuts into your work ...

The reward of patience, is patience. Saint Augustine

WHAT! ZOMG DID NIHILUS SURVIVE PERGASUS!"1!!2!Elelven!one!!??

I would hav played the Pong again ...

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 ...

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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.