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You might want to consider Helsinki in Finland, if you don't mind cold and if you're rich. It's a nice little town with gloomy people and some history

Awww, Saberteeth ^^ it's Knut :'(

stuck a bit too

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just got past the lens problem, but now the food machine says it requires maintenance. None of my objects seem to work :/

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EDIT: nevermind

I haven't seen BGs this beautiful in a long while, which is funny. Anyway, can't wait to see the rest once the game is complete.

A question about speakers:

My speakers started making a machine gun-like rattle last night. I figured out it was either the cord going from the laptop to the stereosystem or my soundcard on my laptop. This I thought, because after I took the cord away and tried listening to a vinyl, there was no rattle no more.

But at the same time my tv-speakers started making a buzz. I have a digibox, then a flat 32'' screen with speakers and inbuilt digibox, I use the outer one though because it can record. The sound comes from the digibox... But there's an  annoying buzz on the background, like bees in a can. When I mute the digibox, there's only buzz. When I mute the tv, there's nothing. There used to be no buzz.

My guess is, something is interfering with it, but I don't know how and what and why. Also, I don't know if the speaker-rattle is related, but these two occured for the first time within an hour or so. Any ideas?

Where the hell do you get these maps? I'd like to see an explanation to why one would expect this crap fall down in Finland.

Also, from a European perspective that first map looked really fucked up for a while

A weekend party club for single women? I'm in!

Just call it The Weekend Club. At least you'd know what you're talking about.

I might sound lame to all you HC-animefanboys, but I really did have a soft spot for Love Hina, which is a short one with a romantic story. Also, I've been watching Urusei Yatsura for ages because it's so awesomely funny

More like a sextobeetle

Stilll... why is it called gas when it's obviously liquid?

I'm just saying there are some things disoriented people might do were it not for a law telling them not to.

I hope it'll never end. I fear the day people start making decisions by themselves and punching and kicking each other because they want to get ahead in the line at the ice cream stand, and no-one meddles, just looks away. Seriously a good aw is the only thing keeping our moral together. If there were none, everyone would have their own idea of what's right and what's wrong, what's expected and what's frowned upon.

Sounds like you should go and change your timing belt as quick as possible. Though I'm no mechanic, but I can ask my step bro, he's a professional.

The word adultery makes it sound awful and illegal. There's no matching word to it in Finnish, just sex outside of marriage, which sounds to me like something completely normal. If it were forbidden though, I'd be less happier. Although some illegality might make it a bit more exciting, kinky in a way... Like smoking joints.

Seriously though, I couldn't be even bothered to read through your hypothetic questions since I don't consider marriage important or at all relevant for that matter... so should something happen outside of it would be just plain normal behavior.

My green audio jack (hole) popped off the motherboard of my laptop...

Open it, check if the jack is fixable, probably not, and then take the whole jack out. If the machine says that plug is connected there might be a short circuit or something. This should be fixed when the whole jack is removed from the motherboard. If not, then the short has caused some damage to the board and the only thing left to do is probably getting that USB-audio.

yeah, I opened the whole thing, but realised the jack was under the motherboard, so I couldn't get to it. Soooo... I took my spike and hammered the thing in. The only problem, my HD connection is just right behind it, so I don't want to mess up the whole 'mputer. Anyway, the green stuff and a metal ring fell out of it, all shattered. Sadly it didn't work. But, at least my laptop still works, though now it's got a hole in the front panel.

I'm going to double post because I have my own question:

My green audio jack (hole) popped off the motherboard of my laptop. It's just loose there, and rattled for a while, but now nothing works. There's a connection failure (no shit), and it claims, that I have a plug connected to it. That's why it sends the sound into imaginary earplugs and not the laptop speakers. I should believe, that it were possible to just go around the green jack and play everything through the speakers.

They're both controlled by the same driver, so uninstalling the earplug driver didn't help. Yes, I know, I should buy an USB-audio card or something, but for that, I'd have to go a long way, there's no electronics stores in the centre, or the ones there are are dead expensive.

Well, nevertheless, any suggestions how to disable the hole in the front and to use the speakers? I realised this silence is killing me, especially when people keep linking me youtube videos.

Good question.

Dutch is in fact very close to German, well, both are Germanic languages. The difference is, that at one point, when the German language developed so, that certain diphthongs, such as ei, eu, äu were pronounced as differently, where as in Dutch most letters are pronounced the way they're written. The Dutch also have only 2 genders, one for he and she, and one for it, whereas German has der, die & das. There are quite a lot of differences between German and Flemish, but they do look the same. The thing is though, I bet most Germans could easily read a text written in Flemish, they couldn't understand it spoken. There's a funny classic story about this written by Johann Peter Hebel from 1808 called Kannitverstan.

In the story, a German man is in Amsterdam(?) for the first time and can't understand anyone. He finds beautiful, gorgeous things and asks people, who does this belong to. People always answer "kannitverstan", which ist the equivalent of the German "kann nicht verstehen", which means "I don't understand". But he doesn't understand it even though the pronounciation is close - he thinks this Kannitverstan is a happy, rich man who own everything.

Ok, I don't speak German as a native language, I just study Germanic languages, so I can't really say if some people find it easy or hard to understand on another. But I know a lot of Dutch people who speak good German.

Hi.

Just checking, if any of you guys knew anything about Humboldt University in Berlin or even studied there because I'm going there next autumn as an exchange student.

See ya

Almost missed this one while having a swordfight between my finger and a knife. I've never tampered with my nick, but I think I'm convinced that this deserves some copyright infringement Happy holiday, peeps.

No, not all of them.