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How about now? :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He has a square face. She has a pointy face. (I can't remember the exact terminology from my "Secrets of the Face" book, which used Chinese Siang mien archetypes to explain personalities.)

That must be a real pain to launder ...

Church wins? Is it a competition? That sort of fundamentalist talk needs to be scuppered right now! Church is inside the heart, not an inflexible set of recurring spacio-temporal co-ordinates! Good god, man, get a grip! This is serious gaming!

You seem to have quite a few subscriptions to gaming magazines. Don't you get Playboy over there? As for Oblivion, I'm giving it a chance. Although maybe I should actually get around to playing Morrowind one of these days so I can judge for myself what Bethesda's games are like. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's a hobby. (I was deciding which one I would subscribe to, by spending twice as much as an annual subscription on a few months' worth of magazines at shop prices. I think I'll plump for PC Format; although PC Zone isn't too bad. PC Gamer are just too gushy about any crap that a developer tells them. I might inspect modding magazines next, so that I can prepare for my next game PC build, in about six months or so ...) Playboy is a worldwide franchise, but I gave up reading it about a decade ago. (It does have good articles.) I really wanted Morrowind to be good. I did like it to begin with, but it just didn't grow, as an experience. It was the same in hour 40 as it was in hour one, as it was in hour 140. Just grind. There were some great ideas, though.

Like we need an excuse.

You didn't mention your OS. Always use the latest drivers, 5.7 has just been released. Not sure what you mean when you describe your problem. How can I duplicate your issues, if I don't know what triggers them. "When I look in certain directions," doesn't give me much to go on.

It depends on what class your PC is. If you are a Guardian / Weaponsmaster, then I would expect you should have no problem with a frontal assault, after buffing with shields. If you are a Consular / Sentinel, you should be able to flatten her with Force Powers. I had over 1000 FP at level 33 for the fight. (She has over 1000HP for the fight.) Using different Forms is advisable, too. I used the Super-Strong-but-costs-more Form to kick her (I couldn't use my FP fast enough; they would regenerate faster than I could spend them). I just spammed the Force Push / Stasis. I also picked up a Force Immunity belt (11 or 17 or something like that). And I had a Wisdom / Charisma of 44 or something ludicrous (cap? what cap? .

Until we uncover the faults they have created for Oblivion ... :D PS There is yet another review in this month's PC Zone, which I'll post a summary of once I get around to reading it ...

Well, I don't know who's in more trouble, if you're role playing Hunter S Thompson ... :ph34r:

... Monthy Python. Not sure if there is a *complete* series on DVD yet. Might have to check. ... One series deserves mention though for it's bizarre humour, even if it wasn't a dedicated comedy series and that was "The Avengers". Yes, I know, more a 007 type humour than slapstick, skit or sitcom, but occasionally hilarious none the less. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Benny Hill was a good comic, I suppose; definitely had more insanity than comedy in his soul. I wasn't a big fan of the lowest-common-denominator stuff that was endlessly recycled onto tv in the 70s, but he did have his moments. The most respected British "comic" would have to be Tommy Cooper. He definitely was brilliant. The entire Monty Python series of skits (including number seven, sans Cleese) were available years ago on VHS, so I expect you won't have trouble locating them. I didn't find watching them entirely enjoyable. There are a lot of flashes of brilliance, but there's also a lot of noise to wade through (and I have bought every audio collection they produced, so I regard myself as a fan: I would definitely recommend all the audio stuff. ) Ah, The Avengers! You do grok British humour ...!

So, nothing to do with Requiem for a Dream, then? (I never saw Pi, is it like the book, which I didn't read?) Is that because she couldn't understand any of the words? "

Series one, yes. Danny John Jules' portrayal of a cat in human form was hilariously accurate, I think. Series two, maybe. Anything after that was so tired as to be barely watchable. Fawlty Towers would have gone the same way if they hadn't had the sense to quit while they were ahead. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I knew nothing of the series when I chanced upon the novel, which I thought was spectacular (up there with HHGttG). I must say the tv series was quite a let down after the book. PS John Cleese and Connie Booth only ever planned the two series of Fawlty Towers. They didn't get to the end of series two and say "Let's quit while we're ahead!".

Don't take this as official, but my take is: Galactic expansion occurs. Mankind edges out into space. Highly technological core worlds are zap-gun sophisticated. However, the difficulties involved in transport and distribution to virgin terraformed worlds puts many of the residents out on the fringe in a much less developed state. Akin to 1800s, peppered up with a mix of tech handed down third hand or less from the Core. I think that at some point the core worlds, led by some kind of Anglo-Chinese organisation decided some law, order, and so forth had to be imposed on the smaller territories and independent colonies. This lead to some kind of galactic civil war. The independents, or Browncoats, got thrashed. The captain of the ship Firefly, Malcolm Reynolds, was a sergeant in the Browncoats. After the war finished, he took one surviving member of his squad and bought the ship as a means of staying beyond the control of the Core Alliance. At the start of the series he has on board this fellow veteran (who has a disturbing tendency to call him 'sir'), a devious gunsel, a kooky mechtech, a hawaiian shirt-wearing pilot with some great lines, and some other oddballs that you will enjoy meeting. Stories are a mix of crime adventure, and social stuff. Expect some surprises on the morality. A very good show. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wow. That does sound interesting (even the clich

That's France for ya. (That Baley: he's just role-playing to try and earn more TOMBS XP ...!) Doesn't Germany get automatic first right of refusal on France?

Spellmar is the all-powerful spelling and grammar bot. (Spelling + Grammar = Spellmar!) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I used to be unable to divorce the imagery of old ladies in rocking chairs whenever someone talked about grammar ... Spellmar sounds like one of those little eightball fortune telling bots ...

Oh, I'm up on Deck 6. (Miles ahead of you. ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I couldn't make it past the first level. I was about 5 minutes from the start and I hadn't even run into any enemies yet. That hologram that all of a sudden appears out of no where scared the crap out of me. :"> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hologram? Not sure where ya are ...? I played a Psi-dude (because ya just have to, don'tcha?) and the biggest threats were the chimps in Med, the exploding robots in Engineering (didn't like the mutants, but I managed to get around them) and then I got stealth so I could avoid most of those ninjas ... I'm acctually thinking of replaying as a Navy dude now (before I finish the first game) because I'm starting to want to use all those nifty weapons that are turning up ...

It's the new Guantlet game. (Didn't you ever play that game in the arcade, with a bunch of friends, that stole thousands of $1 coins for each sixty seconds of play time, as you all rushed headlong into a seemingly endless mad dash through a myriad of almost identical romms containing potions, magic and monsters?)

There are console games that already respond to vocal commands. Again, there are plenty of PC games that are just silly twitch reflexes, where as there are console titles like Pucelle Tactics or Gladius that require a finer strategy. People shouldn't make blanket statements about an entire platform. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :D I find you lack of taste disturbing. " No, but there seems to be an established marketing orthodoxy that stipulates consoles are for mindless FPS-type games only. Don't get me wrong, I would play any sort of game on any platform, so long as the medium didn't retard the experience. It's not my decision, however; it is the marketing wisemen who seem to have pegged the consoles as "thirty-minutes-to-kill-after-work-and-before-social-life" facilitators, and consequently there seems to be a dearth of deep entertainment for them. Certainly, the PC does have a natural advantage: consoles are seen as cut-down PCs with suped-up graphics (even though they display on tv resolutions) and no keyboard; whereas the PC started with games with no/very poor graphics and increasingly complex interactions to compensate. I would not be surprised to see some sort of portable mini-iPod-type device that handles telephonic, PDA and business functions of our lives (much as the mobile phone has become indispensible in little over a decade), and these devices being utilised for more and more complex entertainments, including games. It is not difficult to add a HUD ("eyephones" :D

Oh, I'm up on Deck 6. (Miles ahead of you. )

Very Japanese contemporary horror mythos ...

How do you regard yourself as a geek, then? What geekiness do you possess? (Do you bite the heads of small animals in a circus?) :ph34r:

Baley has a birthdays? Since when did someone become so sentimental as to nominate a birthday for a spambot? Just Kidding! You can expect to have several mood swings today. Some of the cause will be due to what the people around you are doing. Confusion will be the outcome if you don't communicate. Don't become introverted or you will not resolve anything. The Moon is in Leo making this an ideal day to entertain the people you enjoy spending time with the most. A little redecorating will make your place more inviting. Yes, she must be cold.

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