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I should like to express my gratitude to one Mr Baley for all his excellent work in researching and providing this utility for the OE members and their guests. Well done, I can only echo the sentiments as expressed by my colleagues, above. That was very cathartic, I was best pleased with the Wile E. Coyote lever-boulder-over-the-cliff technique. Once again, many thanks. PS U R teh r0xx0r!!11!!11one1!

1. This was a candid internet interview, with appropriate disclaimers, not a forum post. 2. Mr Avellone did not impugn anybody directly; he was very careful to protect the alleged guilty party with anonymity, which is not the form of an forum post by its nature. 3. Did it ever occur to you that the "person" he is referring to may not even exist? This is a creative person writing, after all, and there is no evidence other than heresay. 4. Mr Avellone is obviously a creative person; this was a well signposted peice of creative writing that appealed to his target audience, so it appears to be a well executed vignette. 5. Mr Avellone, in addition to the above, was perfomring a public service to the gaming industry; now the existence of another games industry sycophant has been entered into the public domain for the use of the workers within.

That is a ridiculously biased and foolish article. I'm a big fan of PCs. I love my Athlon 64 system. The best Athlon 64 processors on the market can't touch the Cell processor. The best ATI and NVidia graphics cards on the market currently don't touch the GPUs for the PS3 and XBox 360. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am afraid you are mistaken. For a start, my current pc has 1GB af RAM. I have only got 128MB of VRAM on my GPU, but then again my vomputer is nearly 2 years old. Right now, I can have as much RAM as I want (but even 1GB is more than the next gen consoles), and there are video cards with specs of: 256MB+ VRAM, PCI Express faster bus transport architecture, and SLI/Crossfire allowing dual video cards running in parallel. See the nVidea 7800, and the ATi X850: which is more powerful and can also be used in parallel with almost any other ATi GPX. Of course the article was biased; it was from a PC Format magazine! That said, every comment posted on this topic is biased; and I was being larconic (something I do quite often); still the fact remains that the next gen consoles will be using the GPUs released to the PC audience in the last few weeks, and pc users are able to configure them to higher specs. Don't forget that a console is restricted to a TV, and even HDTVs are only 1080p resolution; the nVidea (which is the Xbox's GPU, and so is only 1080i) supports QXDA (2048x1536) on a monitor. But then again it all really comes down to software; the games. 1. they will rival gaming PCs, but not beat them. Quite often the gaming mags have articles to build a PC for under

Tolkein wrote the LotR as one book. The publsihers wanted to divide the manuscript up into three "books" for their own reasons. Tolkein was not happy, and he was horrified when the publisher suggested "Return of the King" as the title to the third part -- giving away the whole point of the book! If you can't be bottered to research this stuff, watch the videos supporting the features on the Kackson films: they have interviews with the publisher's son (who was a friend of Tolkein). The point is that it is patently obvious that the plot has no conclusion. Call me names if you want, but you haven't shown any evidence to the contrary. PS BaSS update: I've just got access to the store room (Joey just did his Dalek impersonation!) and it's FUN!

Jeff Wayne's Album has been re-released ... piggy-backing on the tsunami of marketing hype that is a Speilberg/Cruise film ... (so at least some good will come of it ...)

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Welcome.

You just earned yourself a severe lashing from Darque. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm still trying to work out if that is a good or a bad thing ...

No! There is a difference between writing a conclusion and leaving the story untold, and this game was unfinished. Need I detail AGAIN the party members -- the NPCs we spent 40+ hours meeting, influnecing and generally trying to empathise with, only to have them ... what? What exactly happened to all of them? That is not a conclusion! And the big difference with K2 and LotR: Two Towers and even ESB is that in both those films, the third had been written (at least in some detail, for ESB, and completely for fifty years, with LotR), so although there was a cliff-hanger, the subplots were summarised before the end of the film and so we -- the audience -- didn't have to "use our imagination" to work ou what happened to them. If we're going to "use our imagination", why bother geting the game at all? I can imagaine a whole bunch better than a mere video game can deliver: I can lucid dream about flying, and there is no computer in the world that can give me that sensation. In other words, your argument is specious.

Hey, ever heard of lurking, n00bie? How about Search? Try putting your suggestions in the 6th volume of the thread (<{POST_SNAPBACK}>)

It's the sound that a psychopath makes just before bludgeoning his next victim to death ...

Just because the game finishes, does not an ending make. You are confusing a stopping of further progress with a written and directed conclusion to a story (remember a story needs a beginning, a middle and an end!)

Females in England hate very attractive women. They are pillored and ostracized (except by men, who tend to drool a lot and look at their chests ...)

None of you are taking this posting seriously

Regrets, I've had a few ... But then again, too few to mention ...

Now, now, no need to be hostile. As for wit, it's not really a witty subject, gender re-assignment; so it is a little difficult to make light. (Oh, I'm sure Billy Connoly or Chris Rock would pull it off, but then again none of us here get paid shedloads of money to appear on stage being funny ...)

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. Oh, that's nice. I'm glad they'll get something.

I wonder where the Mods are ... ?

I would certainly not make a pre-judgement; no -- I am quite willing to try them first. They did get rave reviews, IIRC, so they deserve that, at least. (I am quite fond of adventures ...)

I resemble that remark. I am ready and waiting for you to begin!

And for all of you out there in IhateMorrowindLand, here is the game beaten in 15 minutes! Talk about Warhol Fame!