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Also, it's ok, Squinky is black.

Umm ... is he? I've seen his pic in the pic thread, and he looks pretty much caucassian (sp) to me.

EDIT: Nevermind, I posted too soon.

You should post your birthday here.

But Merry Birth Anniversary anyway! No presents?

Try contacting valve about it. That's what I did about 2 years ago when HL2 came out. They may take a while to respond, but be patient.

Gah! EAT IT dammit. There is nothing wrong with that banana! I always get people who'll chuck an entire banana away just because it has one brown spot! It annoys me so much, but I do get some kind of pleasure when I open the banana and prove to them that there's no black spots on the inisde.

Anyone can guess my AGS account. And the reason is I trust people on these boards!

Other than that I basically have about two different passwords that anything of mine can be, and they're both pretty easy to guess. I'm a very trusting guy and have never had anything hacked into, I have never had a virus or spyware (despite the fact the only internet security I have is firefox). I guess I like to think I live in an ideal world

This is pretty strange what happened to me:

Last year sometime I was sleeping over at a friend's house and we decided to play Monopoly. We were playing a special rule that all money paid went to the middle and if you landed on free parking you got it all. It came to my turn. I was 5 blocks away from free parking. I held the dice in my hand and concentrated every inch of my thought on it, willing it to be a 2 & 3. It was. My friends said it was chance. I dismissed this and we carried on playing. It came to exactly the same situation and this time I visualised a 1 & 4. It was. Now my friends were amazed, so I told my one friend to think of a number between 1 & 10. I got that right as well!

Pretty weird, huh?

Oh yeah and another time my friends and I were doing magic tricks to each other and I did the same trick again! I got it right again!

Now THAT's weird!

Hmmm, Bequeathers of Eternity?

Hi, I tried a version from the SiS site and it works now, (but not the expansion for some reason!)

Hi everyone! I have a slight problem, and that problem is this: I have a lan on this weekend and I know everyone is gonna want to play CoD/CoD II. The problem is I can't run it on my laptop.
Everytime I run it it tells me to update my video drivers, I've tried doing this by downloading a driver off the net and it didnt work. I have the second latest version of directX (9.0b), and can run everything else fine, (doom III [with lag], quake, warcraft III etc.)

The laptop I am running is an Asus running XP, pentium 4, 256 meg ram, the video adapter is an SiS m650_651_650_740 with 32 meg ram.

Does anyone know where I can get the appropriate drivers before Saturday?

Thanks a lot,

Zor

Mike Marlowe fully admits that he sometimes gave George Gillespie a hard time in that AOL chatroom.

But never in his wildest imagination did he expect to be sued in court for what he characterized as "razzing."

"We gave him crap," said Marlowe, a 33-year-old welder in Fayette, Ala. "I'm not going to deny it. I teased him and he teased me back. He gave it back better than he ever got it."

A generation ago, such petty personal beefs might have been settled with fists outside the corner bar, but now it's the Internet age â€" and Ohio resident George Gillespie instead filed a $25,000 lawsuit against two erstwhile cyber chums he met in the sprawling 900-room, mostly anonymous society that makes up AOL's chat universe.

Gillespie, 53, claims that Marlowe and Bob Charpentier, a 52-year-old Oregon resident, insulted him and harassed him in the AOL chatroom called "Romance â€" Older Men" to the point where it inflicted "severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it."

The complaint, expected in court on Jan. 31 for a pretrial conference, also names AOL as a defendant for allowing the alleged harassment to take place.

Gillespie alleges that the duo intruded into his "private affairs." The complaint states that Marlowe actually drove from Alabama to Ohio to photograph the plaintiff's home, which he then posted on the Web. He also allegedly went to the courthouse in Medina to dig up personal dirt on Gillespie, which he then also disseminated over the Internet.

The case is not simply "someone conversing in a chatroom" but also involves "harassing someone in Ohio," which gives Ohio courts jurisdiction, according to Gillespie's lawyers.

"Had the defendants stayed in the chatrooms, there would be no jurisdiction here, case closed" Gillespie's attorney Theodore Lesiak stated in the complaint. "Defendant did not."

But Marlowe said he works 60 hours a week at an autobody shop and laughed at the notion that he would drive from Alabama to Ohio to take pictures of Gillespie's house.

"I have never been to Ohio and I have absolutely no desire to go to Ohio," Marlowe said. "There is nothing there â€" the Cincinnati Bengals are there, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame maybe, and that's about it."

Even if Marlowe did take a trip to Ohio, posting a picture of someone's house on the Internet does not violate privacy laws, according to Chris Hoofnagle, attorney with the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

"Those norms require the aggressor to engage in behavior that is highly offensive to a reasonable person," he said. "Taking a picture of somebody's house and putting it up on the Web is not that."

Hoofnagle said Gillespie's emotional distress claim will also be tough to prove.

"We live in a rough society, as compared to Europe, where offending someone or directly cursing or attacking their dignity can give you a cause of action," he said.

Power Struggle in 'Romance â€" Older Men'

Charpentier said he first encountered Gillespie more than five years ago and at first, the two chatters were friendly. But Charpentier says he quickly became disenchanted by what he saw as Gillespie's mean streak.

Things really turned ugly four years ago when Charpentier traveled to Kentucky to meet another chatroom regular, a woman who was also a friend of Gillespie's. The blind date did not go particularly well, and when Charpentier returned to he discovered that Gillespie had gone on the attack.

"He just came in slamming on me, saying all kinds of derogatory crap: that I was a fat, bald, broke old man who sits around in a rusted wheelchair," said Charpentier, who has a chronic back injury. "I don't even own a wheelchair."

Charpentier, who has filed a response seeking to reserve the right to file a $125,000 countersuit against Gillespie, said Gillespie threatened to kill him and "made sick and disgusting remarks about the passing of my grandmother."

"He is an AOL computer thug, that is all he is," Charpentier said.

Marlowe characterized the dispute as a petty power struggle. He said Gillespie was the de facto leader of the "Romance â€" Older Men" chatroom, and didn't like it when he and Charpentier challenged his authority.

But Marlowe said he never took the chatroom antics personally â€" until he was served with a lawsuit.

"I don't know how four years of bantering back and forth led to this insane nonsense," he said. "It's just the Internet, for God's sake. It's nothing important."

Michael Gordon, an attorney for AOL, declined to comment, saying, "This is just the beginning stages of this thing."

Megan Gray, a Washington D.C.-based intellectual property attorney who specializes in cyber issues, called it "a loser of a case." She said the Communications Decency Act gives AOL immunity from chatroom misconduct.

"AOL cannot be held liable for the actions of people on the site," she said.

She also suggested the case against Marlowe and Charpentier was doomed.

"The Internet is such a vibrant, young medium, these types of cases are not taken seriously," she said.

Just found this ...

Yeah I thought it was you, Haddas. Just wasn't entirely sure

Wow, that's either a small griffin, or some long grass!!!

After each 25 can you post it here for the rest to read?

Congratulations on using gradients quite effectively. Certainly creates a lost in space, forlorn kind of mood.

One thing that bothers me is the big white light on the ceiling should come a little further up (towards the top).

Hmm ... I tend to disagree with Nikolas (of course in terms of musical knowledge I am nowhere near where he is!) but what I do know is that I like this tune a lot and didn't find it boring at all.

Good work and congratulations on this piece. (sorta reminds me of trance music a little!).

Not sure about the author of this, (someone posted it in IRC once.)



Obviously not an entry.

"

Smartass
You are 71% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 85% Arrogant.

You are the Smartass! You are rational, extroverted, brutal, and arrogant. You have many flaws, despite your seeming intelligence and cool-headedness. For instance, you aren't very nice. In fact, you're probably an asshole. And you are conceited and self-centered. Not only that, but you are very loud and vocal about all this, seeing as how you are extroverted. There is no better way to describe you than as a "smartass", I'm afraid. Perhaps just "ass" would do, too. But that's a little less literary and descriptive. At any rate, your main personality defect is the fact that you are self-centered, mean, uncaring, and brutally logical."

How amazingly true ... I mean, every word in there is 100% true!

Actually I could wholeheartedly agree with Jackdark on most of his points, esper. His points are valid and make a lot of sense. I would've reviewed it pretty much the same, I know perhaps I can't do better, but Yahtzee has sort-of set a standard for himself.

Grapics -- Bland, very boring.
Music -- Repetitive (The same track from the 'days' series?)
Walking Speed -- Annoying.
And that really annoying heartbeat? Eurgh.

Overall I didn't really enjoy this game a lot.

I'm loving these, very good sprites.

Doesn't Hermione have dark hair though?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Africa a continent populated by people in various different lands and cultures on that same continent?

Well ... aren't most continents?