Hey, I forgot to ask, did anyone get Fable or Sims 2 yet? I'm definitely seeing some mixed reaction about Fable in the usenet feeds.

Also, has anyone played all the NWN expansions? I was considering picking up the NWN Platinum edition. Think it's worth it?

In the October issue of PC Lamer they include the complete version of Baldur's Gate for free. Been a long time since I played that, I may just have to pick that up.


"We only came to kick some ass. Rock the fuckin' house and kick some ass."
- Tenacious D

Is Half Life 2 out yet?

To clarify, you can download portions of the game via Steam in encrypted files and look at them knowing that parts of the game are ON YOUR HARD DRIVE, but you cannot play it.

That sounds like fun...doesn't it?


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The new Quake-43 game blows my mind. It is even better than Super Turbo Turkey Puncher.
Doom 3

By the way, I know some people on these boards are into online RPGs. Is anyone here currently playing Kingdom of Loathing http://www.kingdomofloathing.com ? For those that haven't seen it before it's a totally free, web-based RPG... no fancy graphics but with a definte humour all its own.

Could have sworn I've seen that before... Bluesnews search says:

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=48784

Welcome Nazi Super-Babies! Don't forget the lessons we learned in The Wrath of Khan, Jurrasic Park, and Gattaca.



"We only came to kick some ass. Rock the fuckin' house and kick some ass."
- Tenacious D

I definitely remember seeing this a while back, maybe a year or so ago, but I can't remember where I got it from. I thought it was Blues but maybe not... ah the vagaries of old(er) age.

By the way, I know some people on these boards are into online RPGs. Is anyone here currently playing Kingdom of Loathing http://www.kingdomofloathing.com ? For those that haven't seen it before it's a totally free, web-based RPG... no fancy graphics but with a definte humour all its own.

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Is Half Life 2 out yet?

Did you have to open that can of worms?

Answer = NO!


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The new Quake-43 game blows my mind. It is even better than Super Turbo Turkey Puncher.
Doom 3

Is Half Life 2 out yet?

Haven't be State side.

Not sure if this is a brand new section or not, but it looks like it should be quite good if you like those 2000AD comics...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/comics/



P.S. Anyone know much about DVD writers? Is there about to be a leap forwad in tech, or it safe to buy one of these first dual layer ones now?

What's really nice is that it will all be available for searching and data mining. For example, you are be able to do BLAST searches on unknown sequences.

Enter your own sequence here for fun and profit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/HsBlast.html

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Is it just me, or does the face in that illustration from the “People on Mars” article look sorta like Clint Eastwood taking a really big and hard crap, and enjoying it??

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That’s a deep kiss too, like the Europeans. You know the French they have to unhinge their jaw to show love.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the whole human genome project is very exciting to me. When you think of it, it's just programming instructions for the human body. Very complex and complicated instructions, but nonetheless... yes, there will be opportunity for abuse and major screw-ups, but in the end, I believe the genome mapping to be incredibly positive. It could very well lead (relatively soon) to the elimination of disease, for one thing. Or the extinction of the race from tampering, but I'm being positive here...

However...

"Volumes of genetic material lie in between the genes, which for a long time were dismissed as "junk" by researchers.

But on closer inspection, it seems this judgement was premature. The fact that sequences of junk were conserved for hundreds of generations suggests they have a function worth holding on to."

Hmmm, you think maybe?

Exciting times ahead.

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I'll make you a believer

A 'normal' Verizon tech can't do this or doesn't normally carry the equipment on their truck.

Sounds like another example of a company doing something the hard way and frustrating customers at the same time.



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The new Quake-43 game blows my mind. It is even better than Super Turbo Turkey Puncher.
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There's supposedly a way to install DSL without them, but Verizon refused to do that for me.

Essentially, they put a device in your house (or attic) where the line comes in.

We have one of these at work. It is merely an in-line filter for the entire line. Instead of filtering each location it filters the entire line.

A 'normal' Verizon tech can't do this or doesn't normally carry the equipment on their truck.

-TPFKAS2S
http://www.braglio.com

http://www.shamings.com

There's supposedly a way to install DSL without them, but Verizon refused to do that for me.

So do it yourself. I did. I have precisely one filter in my entire house.

And it's dirt simple to do, at least if you have any wiring experience at all.

Take the phone line coming from the demark and split it (either using a splitter or a block). One end you run to your DSL modem. The other end you put a filter on and connect the line that used to feed all your phones back in to it.

In my case I use a block (77 block I think; I don't know the terminology honestly) so my line comes in from the demark, I stripped the ends and punched it down into the block. Punched down another line to that and ran it to my DSL modem. Took a filter, cut off the plug end, stripped those wires, and punched it down. Punched down another line into another part of the block and plugged it into the filter. All my regular telephone lines are punched down downstream from there.

BTW, filters can go bad. I had one go bad and my DSL modem stopped working. Just grabbed another, stripped it, and replaced the filter and everything was hunky dory again.

And this is a whole hell of a lot easier than making sure you have a freaking filter on every phone. At least if you have access to the phone line nearish where it comes into your house, and aren't afraid to learn some things in fixing it.

the opening of that monday thing gave me Sewer Shark flashbacks.

three - six - niner!
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I'm not complaining that you have ads because I fully understand, but those ads are pathetic. Carbon copied faked personals constructed from pictures that I'm sure weren't authorized. So sad if someone actually buys into that crap. Oh, and girls using online personals probably don't look like the girls in those pictures. End rant.

That's the one thing I hate about DSL, those stupid filters.

There's supposedly a way to install DSL without them, but Verizon refused to do that for me.

Essentially, they put a device in your house (or attic) where the line comes in. The device is essentially a special kind of splitter that seperates the phone and the digital-data-line to 2 different wires. You then run the digital line to the room you want your modem to be, and thus no splitters anywhere, and the phone-signal line just connects to your existing phone line.

But, like I said, Verizon wouldn't do that for me (even though they sent 3 technicians to our house to install it).

Unfortunately, I don't know what it's called. I want to say "POTS Splitter," but I don't think that's it. It was so long ago.



"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurmama

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Oh, and can we select the Tickle ads with the bewbs somehow? Maybe specify a bewbcount (0-20) per ad?

Beware of the pods, dudes, they're evil marketing hype and the coffee from them tastes like paper. Stick to good ol'Bustelo, that'll never let you down.

A few years ago it looked like we were going to redesign and rebuild a machine that makes those coffee pods for a Portland based coffee company but it never happened. Pretty cool machine - well designed for making the pods but poorly designed from a maintenance standpoint.



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