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Huw I remember you man!

Hooray!

Now to go redownload AGS. All this nattering have given me some inspiration.

- Huw

I have returned somewhat as well. Not as if anybody remembers me...

I need a new avatar.

- Huw

I'd recommend an Antec Earthwatts for a PSU replacement. Will at worst set you back £50 (and that's for the 500 Watt one) and is a lovely PSU - cool, quiet and efficient.

- Huw

Sorry to revive this thread, but I've discovered a dead end...

Spoiler

Put glitter in rack. Get another bot to pick up glitter. You no longer have any glitter, and it is therefore impossible to finish the game.

[close]

- Huw

*I* find space and space exploration cool.

Hence, the US is spending some of it's wealth properly.

Really, I say that the future isn't so bleak for manned missions - China, Japan, Russia, the EU, Brazil and India (I think that's all the major ones) have space programs. And each one has the capability to make it work. Brazil, Russia, India and China are all having resurgant economies following the end of the Cold War.

Really, there should be a "global space agency", like an expanded ISS project.

- Huw

That's a BIG tower.

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The only word of warning I can give is this - DnD REQUIRES a group of people who can all work together and with the DM.

I played for a few weeks with a good DM, but the oldest player used the exercise to act up. The problem was that the other two players did nothing. So it ended up being a competition between me and this older player to play the game properly. I just quit after a while - even staying at home is more fun than being mocked by a DnD group for wanting to go into the ruins when they're just going to wander down lollipop lane...

- Huw

Well, there are lots of things you could do with that beast:

1) Play Crysis (Although you should have got an 8800GT, not an 8600)
2) Play Unreal 3
3) Get Steam and games like Team Fortress 2 or Portal and boast about playing them at maxed out graphics.
4) Download EVE Online with the Trinity Graphics update (Which makes it BEAUTIFUL)
5) Learn to make 3D Graphics
6) Laugh at others on internet forums about how awesome your computer is.

Of course, off the bat:

GO AND GET UBUNTU. Because it is a really handy operating system that won't steal all your resources like Vista does.

Anyway:
7) Wait until Spore comes out - all that processing power will be vital to get 100% awesomeness out of that game.

I'd recommend an upgrade to a 1TB Hard Drive sometime, though. All those new games really suck up space.

- Huw

You're not getting anything about Iraq at the moment? That's pretty shoddy - admittedly there hasn't been any real event for the last few weeks, but we at least get special reports and the "10 Days to War" series...

I'd just say vote for a little guy anyway. Screw the system - one vote won't matter for the big parties, but it will matter for small candidates like Neder and such.

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Well, one has it's election this year. The worrying thing about America and China is that they are so similar, yet neither really talk to each other.

- Huw

Well, when the richest and most powerful (theoretically) country on Earth gathers together to decide what the majority want to do for the next 4 years, I think that it is a pretty important event in its own right. You have to remember that this is a country of 250,000,000 people.

By the way, what is with all the negativity towards a bit of debate these days? Has everyone simply stopped caring? I try and up the posting activity with a little bit of political debate...



Anyway, I heard that the big three all made speeches on RAW a few nights back, though. Anyone see it, or got a clip? It sounds pretty interesting.

- Huw

EDIT: I'm a leftie too, for the record. The stagnation in the US political system is really a sight to behold. At least in the UK we have a "nearly socialist" party... granted, it's the Lib Dems (rather than New Labour), but still.

Well exactly, it's not happening for another 6 months, why should we be thinking about it now? Do we start to talk about Christmas in July because it's only 6 months away?

Whatever happens it's likely that the media will find themselves unable to cover the actual policies of the candidates and just go on about the fact that the Democrat candidate is black or a woman instead, so I can't say I'm particularly psyched up about the whole thing.

Well, considering that the Democrat race has just been given more oomph by Clinton getting back in the race, I thought it would kill two birds with one stone - it gets us talking about something, and it serves as an interesting discussion as the three knock seven bells out of each other.

Well, technically 4, but Nader can never get more than around 2% of the vote because of the rights that the Democrats and Conservatives to close down his meetings and speeches... "This is a democratic country... as long as we ultimately end up being in charge".

And I agree with CJ on the "ZOMG! A BLACK/WOMAN IS RUNNING!" comments that the US media will be able to shout rather than confusing the average hasn't-got-two-brain-cells-to-rub-together voter.

Of course, any fool can see that Obama should run... he doesn't have an annoying accent (6 months of Hilary... my ears will be ripped off and I'd have shot myself! ) and he has a certain amount of defence because of his ethnicity - being Black it is much harder to force an Ad Hominem attack at him (the bread and butter of US Presidential campaigns) - unfortunatly you can get away with rampant sexism - anybody woman who protests can be spun as a feminist, and I think everybody knows a feminist joke...

I think that Have I Got News for You sums it up - "Obama and Clinton are racing in the polls to see who gets to be beaten by McKane". If the depression hits hard before the autumn, voters in the US will go Conservative. Of course, the Democrats won the House of Representatives two years ago, maybe that momentum could carry through to the Senate?

- Huw

Seriously AGS-folk, I am dissapointed in you.

The biggest political event for the last 4 years is happening in November, and none of the politcally minded folks on these here forums have made a topic!

I implore you to spout opinion, throw mud, and generally harrass each other!

- Huw

PS: And, to have a more normal start to a thread...

Hey folks,

The US presidential elections are up in 6 months time, what do you lot think is going to happen?

- Huw

The solution is obvious!

(Hey again by the way, I need to check into my favorite forum more  )

A NEW AGS TEAM CONTEST! Or something like that. Send an e-mail to all the vaguely active people and try and grab them back into using AGS with a contest, or some way of putting more games together.

Pretty much all we've been doing for the last 4 months is waiting for the next Ben Jordan game. My policy is MORE GAMES! MORE GAMES!

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I'm strongly reminded of that Dilbert cartoon with Steven Hawking in, at this precise moment.

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Well, just because LA haven't acted before now doesn't mean they will not. Games Workshop shut down Damnatus, an indie film about their Warhammer 40k franchise, just after they announced its completion.

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For the record, "Hawking Radiation" is a reflection of Quantum Physics and Black Holes. The question came about that "If Black Holes absorb everything, how do they emit radiation?". A Quantum fact is that the universe is constantly spawning random positrons and electrons that exist in tandem and exist for the smallest of amount of time possible before rebounding and cancelling out each other. Now, if this is done next to a black hole the electron will escape but the positron will be sucked in. The electron that escapes is the radiation.

Positrons have negative mass.

The overall mass of the black hole is reduced, and this is happening constantly. As such, unless the black hole is absorbing enough mass, it will eventually "shrink" to a point where its gravity is not sufficient to maintain a singularity, and it explodes.

This is the idea of "Hawking Radiation".

If they created a mini black hole, it would be very interesting, but very unlikely and harmless.

- Huw

10 years of AGS. All of the oldies are growing up...  :'(

Congratulations!

- Huw

Richard Dawkins irritates me. I don't know why. I probably should go read one of his books before making a judgement, though.

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To be honest, when it comes to accepting scientific reality, the Catholic Church is a darn better than most other religious bodies.

Here is an example.

My local priest yesterday (Easter Sunday) decided to speak out about Chimeras - using Cow embryonic structure with Human DNA to make more fertilised eggs with which to work with - but instead of saying "It is wrong!" - which would have been uncharacterful of him - he talked about how MPs should have the right to vote according to their concience on it. I suspect he is against it - as are many people - but I am for it, but I fully agree with him - ethical grounds should allow MPs to vote properly, without a whip.

Do you get what I'm saying here?
- Huw