Everything posted by metadigital
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The Great England Escape
The sign indicates the end of local traffic conditions. Also, you wouldn't have to pay any ticket you got. Last time I checked, even the voracious Chancellor of the Exchequer doesn't extradite foreigners for unpaid speeding fines, and there's no way to apply penalty points to a foreign licence.
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China: A Look at the Future of Capitalism
Where did you get that idea? Did you read the article I linked? So you are just parroting their opinion? Is this your opinion, or not?
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New Die Hard trailer
I see you have not seen Alien Versus Predator.
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What are you playing now?
I have two elder brothers and, during my upbringing, my family spent many a long weekend on our boat playing cards (think of it as equivalent to watery camping), primarily 500. I was a blackjack croupier for a few years (whilst I was studying at university), so I have an interest in the underlying mathematics of card games, as well as an interest in psychology. Both of these I can appreciate with a game of poker.
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Great news from Feargus
No, it would be Fallout 3. Fallout came out in 1997. Maria CaliB4NzZZZ0rZZZdD :D I spent many Saturday morning hours watching their adventures! :D
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Idea -- TOTSC-style expansion for NWN2
The "head and hairstyles" are part of the Electron engine. They won't change.
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Behind the scenes betrayal and OE games
Just because there are different opinions, doesn't automatically mean all opinions are of equal worth.
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Games you are looking forward to
The "parametric skeletal animation" sequence shows that they have been taking note of the way bodies balance about their centre of gravity, as Leonardo da Vinci investigated and detailed in his copious notes. Giant arthropods are anatomically impossible, as they don't have a circulatory system. When insects were larger, back in the Dinosaur days, the Earth's atmosphere contained about twice as much Oxygen per volume.
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Conan, The Nerfed
I wasn't criticizing your Barbarian build. I was simply making an observation about the level of charisma. I would think that uncharismatic toughs, even in a gang, wouldn't have friends. They aren't that meritorious, typically. The most charismatic becomes the leader ... the toughest will just be the gimp character that is brought out at the critical battle moments.
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New Die Hard trailer
Goodie goodie more formula ..!
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China: A Look at the Future of Capitalism
Where did you get that idea?
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Art Blog Farewell!
So it can come back as an undead blog? ... Zombie Art Blog FTW ..!
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Used laptops
Yeah, I wouldn't like to name names, but good design in a consumer culture behooves built-in obsolescence ... after all, what's the point in building a mobile telephone (for example) that lasts for twenty years when the consumer will be tossing it out for a new one after 18 months?
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Need some help with an annoying issue
I was going to suggest that you must have been fiddling with the BIOS (boot order of attached disc/ks), but as you fixed it I'll just add it as a postscriptum.
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Which LCD to buy?
ASUS PM17TE is a 17" LCD for
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The rpgtonight.com free online "virtual tabletop" site is now open.
I see you've added this to the appropriate topic, that has been conveniently stuck to the top of this forum. So I'll close this.
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How was the next day?
But ... you have a new puppy! Yes. NO WAI You aren't doing anything wrong. She is.
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LARPING? HAHAHAHA
I wondering if they actually rolled dice to determine if their spells (lightning bolt and was that a cure wounds spell?) were successful.
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Ideally, like Puck from Alpha Flight, but I'd probaly be lucky to get one who could juggle. I was forced into watching Gangs of New York this weekend and this movie was so bad I actually went blind in my left eye for about ten minutes. I'd usually take this time to rant about how Leo should just give up the whole "I can do accents" bit, but the real tragedy in this movie is Cameron Diaz. I'd go into a schpiel about it, but then I'd have to try and remember the movie again, if you've seen the movie then you would know my conundrum. Although I would be interest to hear Volo tell me why this movie is actually pretty good. See when I don't like a movie I quickly discontinue any memory of it. I've seen Gangs of New York probably about 3 - 4 times, why, because I either had no choice or my other choices sucked more...I barely remember anything from the movie except for the butcher dude and that dude getting clubbed to death, that was pretty cool but the movie failed when it came to actual story/themes/characters and all that jazz. Not to mention it was long as all hell, im tired of crap like that. Freakin bs lotr, no offense but sucked too. And no it's not attention span it's just not good film making unless you are really into lore and nerd stuff like that. The problem with the film is that it just had no point. It was just boring. Or was that because I just didn't feel any empathy towards the characters? Whatever the reason, I was expecting it to finish about forty minutes before it did, and hoping it would about an hour and a half before it did. And when it finally did finish, I couldn't understand why Scorsese choose to finish where he did.
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Anyone want to lend me a few dollars?
I bet someone will buy the lot and sell the contents off individually, for more profit.
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Books
Just finished volume one of The Greek Myths (Robert Graves); now I'm taking a small break from the relentless immaturity of the pre-Hellenic cultures (can be quite exhausting after 400 pages, though it is one of the most important books I've read, I think). I'm re-reading (and taking notes and finishing, this time) Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, now, and already (he wrote this a decade before Graves wrote his seminal work) the background I gleaned from my previous reading is paying off handsomely (including Persian Fire and The Spartans). I'm not sure I agree with a lot of what Russell has written, so far, though it is interesting to read his opinions. (He did win the Nobel Prize for this work.)
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Building a new computer
Depends on you. It is a niche (but growing) industry to build PCs, including from scratch. All you have to do is some small modifications. I'd recommend reading up on PC modding, though, I readCustom PC. Some people don't like to do any fiddling, not even installation of equipment. Others are happy to spend hours sanding with coarse and fine grades of wet-and-dry sandpaper in preparation for a primer and two-coat metallic paint job. I think you'd like it.
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Used laptops
Yeah, that's called reconditioned equipment, and I'd take it (with the included warranty) over a blind secondhand purchase over eBay ... some components (like DVD drives) have a significant failure rate when new ... Also, you can lease to buy (at least here in the UK), e.g. a 36 month lease where you can keep the equipment after 18 months, so long as you take out another lease (for another piece of equipment).Which is pretty neat.
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Post your PC pics
What about your X-Fi ... can you sandwich it in your motherboard with two 8800GTSs (... and a PhsX card ... ) ? C'mon, Bok, label your picture! :D