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Oh he sure is, Tim Sweeny is pretty much Epic...

All kinds of lovely english real ales, I'm rather fond of organic ones.

YAY TIM SWEENY!

WHAT! That's insane!

Making games is hard, and time consuming.

Silence usually means they're damn busy, which indicates a deadline, or milestone... They're probably so busy because they're getting everything ready for some kind of announcement, or they've fallen behind. I can't say, because I don't know, but I honestly expect they will be showing something soon.

Oh Constintine, first Christian Roman Emperor, responsible for lots of stuff really, surely you've heard of him?

You've forgot something, Constantine I.

What exactly is so funny about that? The thought of you doing Odin's will with axe in hand. If I told you that actually happends rather often would that frieghten you some? Because it does, but I use the axe to chop wood for a fire, especially at midwinter, bloody freezing!

What exactly is so funny about that?

I was using the word in a more traditional sense. Not in a sense of anything else, I agree with what you're saying in regards to "race", and "human". The concept itself is hard to articulate accurately in words and not cause any offense or confusion. Thus I made a choice of simplistic wording to get the point across, I stand corrected. Oh I wasn't trying to imply that celt and germanic languages have or had anything in common, sorry for that confusion. All's said there is no real difference between them, so I found the whole Mongrel thing offensive as it's something often purpetuated in England. Most americans don't understand me when I speak, I have strong northern english accent, the local dialect is full of Old-Norse words, I would imagine that as far as I know of Old-Saxon and Old-Norse, they're close in the same manner that say Finnish and Estonian may be considered to be... By somewhat indistinguishable, I wasn't relating to the idea of them being the same, more that majority of words may infact but so close they're almost indistinguishable. A good example of this is that numbers in Estonian and Finnish are very close, and thus somewhat indistinguishable. As I am no an linguist I don't suppose I can really offer much more than my meager knowledge on the subject...

Happy to... Norse and Saxon tribes are somewhat indistinguishable and can happily be thought of as falling under the banner of Germanic tibes, which is to say that they're basically the exact same thing, linguistically at the time they spoke a language which was somewhat indistinguishable, much like American English and actual English, though naturally not exactly the same. Culturally they're almost identical on a grass roots level, beowulf, which is percieved as an Anglo-Saxon epic has absolutely no connection with the anglo-saxons themselves. The Norman were infact of Norse decent, so again its really just more of the same. The Celts, are not a whole other race, infact they've been distingushed as having the same shared common heritage, northern europeans are northern europeans and thus is a more correct perception of these people. To be blunt and to the point how can one consider people to be mongrels, when its just a bunch of the same gene's, same culture same same... It doesn't make sense to me for these tribes to be percieved as being wholistically different, so you can't really say that we're mongrels. Genetically speaking though there ain't much difference between any of us other than small genetic variances, which obviously serve the purpose of evolution, and increased survival in said regions of the planet, for whatever reason... There is no space in the conversation for supremacy. Just doesn't work like that. I was speaking in a rather blatent in a generalised sense. While I may have issues with some of the christian doctrine I wouldn't go so far as to say for individuals it is wrong and I can only speak of its overall impact, from Pagan forced conversions through to evangelical victorian era christianity perpetuating the idea of empire, to the modern day, christianity often fuels ignorance on a grand scale. There were negative impacts upon science, and phillosophy for many hundreds of years. I find great irony in the fact that it was Muslims who perserved the works of Plato for example. Why shouldn't I prefer Nordic or Classic religion? They certainly function on a level of morality I can agree with.

Baawww butthurt That stand has no intellectual basis and you should be shamed just for saying that Enlighten me then, if christianity has been so great for europe tell me one benefit its given to europe! I can think of none. So go on then!

Not true, I want to stay out of this conversation as much as possible, but I would also like to state that I am actually offended by your statement, as it is both a lie(which you're most likely not directly responsible for) and ignorant, an absolute by product of the age we live in, thus the sickening truth of an overly conditioned society, and the hypocracy of British governments since 1950's onwards. The truth is we've been duped into thinking a pack of lies is a fact, I suggest that one examines british history over the last 2000 years or so in depth. The worst thing that ever happend to Europe was Chritianity.

Hmmm, depends upon my mood and general impatience. If I want a game on release, I usually preorder it at Game. If I don't care when I get the game just so long as I get the game, or if I am looking for something which is fairly specific and difficult to get from a store then I use Amazon.co.uk, and the Amazon Marketplace. I would say that in general I purchase more from Amazon than I do from Game, as there are so few games I want on release, infact the last one I actually got upon release was NWN2. By being a bit patient and not minding waiting for a product to arrive I have managed to pick up titles for as little as

I read it, felt my IQ drop a little, saw what it was like to be an arrogant American looking at europe through shades, then decided to raise my IQ again to that of a normal human being. I didn't really find any of it particularly relivent in an era where the world economy is seemingly in decline this feels somewhat, retarded, and ill concieved. It paints a dim portrait, when infact there is no real need. BTW, not sure on the numbers but those poor Swedes sure pay alot of Tax. In future I think I'll stay outta the political threads, they just make me wanna rant about how cool it would have been if the Nazi's had dropped the atom bomb on New York.... Which in turn just upsets people.

That's some nice artwork also a fairly high resolution which helps

Monty only gets time to respond on the forums because he's the coffee boy

I agree

ALL TOGEATHER NOW! "1e and a 2e and a 3e!"

HE'S GUILTY! The silence says it all lol.

PUHLEEEZA Sound cards are a must have for superior audio quality.

Was it you Mr Brennecke are you responsible!

Well keep me posted Kaften me olde, I'm interested in seeing if it goes well for you!

Tell me that sand has just discovered sarcasam... The camera in NWN2 is a horrible horrible experience, it's almost like whoever coded the thing didn't have a clue about moving objects based upon time, and wrote all the rotation code in degree's instead of in radians. The NWN2 camera is CACK! CRAP BLOODY AWEFUL! Everything else is freaking cool mind.