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So this summer you'll lose your hard earned status of a cyborg, that your girlfriend gave you. Shame. Better make all use of your special abilities while you still have them.

I'm a bot, and all I've ever said has been either random words or drunken rant. It's 1 PM, so this would be a drunken rant.

Bloody awesome. I want!

No, your mom!

Also, not one, but several argument on ags-irc, which is real life at its best, have been solved with an insult (imaginary)sword fight.

Time for you guys to help me. It's about OpenOffice, so if you know anything, please read further:


I wrote my bachelor's with OO 3.2.1... It's about 6200 words, so it's basically still a draft but anyway, I was supposed to send it to my teacher so that he could fix some grammatical errors. He though does not have OO on his work computer, so I saved as .docx which has always worked just fine.

But he couldn't edit the text file. He was able to paint over words or overline them, but not erase or add anything. Now that he sent ti back to me asking why it was protected, even I can't modify the text. Now I really would not want to write another 6200 words in German, I'd rather just edit what I already have, especially when the table of contents was such a hell to do with this program.

So anyone have an idea, what's wrong with this thing? I'm supposed to fix the errors and present it on wednesday, so I'm pretty much in a hurry.

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But since it's pretty much impossible to play an adventure game if you don't know the language at all, it's not really an important advantage. I still say go with text labels on the buttons.

Though I did complete Zak McKraken at the age of 7 and had no idea what was going on, just had the endurance. Also I completed Victor Loomes before I knew any German... but it's true, there's always a language barrier, nevertheless, I should think that most of the people who are ever going to find this game will be reading English just ok.

I think this thread would serve it's purpose well if people tried to come up with guiding genres or something. Also, Hope you don't think of my suggestions as heavy

I got 3220,01 this time. Managed to figure out how the special moves work

EDIT: 5549,88 ^^

Got to 730... but what the hell is going on in this game? :S

Here's some new albums if you don't want to go for the oldies:

Pendragon - Pure, out 2008


I just discovered this album, though I've known the band for several years now. Their best piece is from the 90's, Masquerade Overture. Anyway, Noe-prog.

Then there's:

Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up (2010)

Saw them at a concert just now, didn't really like them, but the album is fine.

Then there's a new album coming 2011 from bands such as Rush and Marillion, so I recommend you check them out at that point.

OHOH and my personal absolute favorite:

Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer & Anvil (2010)


Brilliant stuff, though all the records this year seem to sound more or less alike

EDIT: oops, forgot one.

Gazpaco - Missa Astropos


A great crossover band from Norway

Thanks a lot for the crush the castle links. It's your fault if I failed my exam

The only things that I find self-explanatory are speak, look at, and open... So I'd definitely go with text rather than images. But if you really want to use images, I'd recommend you used the older pull-icon rather that the new one.

I recall someone porting a game (Ben?) online with microsoft silverlight. Afaik, you could play those games with anything, though I guess that'd be through the net, not really on mac...

Yay, I feel like a handyman

Who chewed through it

You'll probably die trying, but how about rolling some wire over it on a spiral like this:


I broke mine too, but bought a all-around charger/psu for 19,95â,¬

[EDIT]: and no, I'm not going to post the figures because I already closed the tab and they're gone.

Don't worry, they ought to grow back in a few weeks. Girls trim and pick them daily. The best part though is when they star growing and you have a stubble on your forehead.

I don't want to argue. But the way I see it, a well provided and equal education and access to it only works for the good of the society. Tax money is equal in the sense, that everyone pays for the services everyone else has access to, payers included. When all the members of such society feel equal, the agreement stands flourishes. If you then decide to cut back this input so that people would only pay for what they needed or wanted, you'd create not so much a society but an environment of capitalist individuals who'd in the end compete for such basic elements as health care, education, and other state provided welfare. Such societies exist, where say, health care is not accessible to everyone but only those who can pay for it, and the fees are as high as the provider wishes, where the natural demand makes the market.

Something like education and health should not be something you'd have to fight for in a modern society, especially when the society could easily provide this to everyone with lesser costs if it weren't for the greed of certain individuals. I have noticed by living in a socially built country, that a tax-funded education not only makes the country a better competitor against others, cuts back the number of joblessness and provides an altogether happier environment to live in with a minimal amount of poor people. A high tuition fee system would result to two major setbacks: 1. educational areas such as humanism and art would be only studied by the elite, who had the money to invest in something that never readied on to a prober job. Say philology or literature for one, or drawing/painting /contemporary arts, paying for the education would be a lousy investment. 2. When the payment the universities was used to raise the level of the faculties performance, there'd be no limit to how high the prices could go, and in such cases the schooling system would end up like the health care in the US: only those rich/working could even consider attending classes, while those who had nothing to begin with, would just have to prepare for a life of no chances. A society that includes people with equal rights should provide equal possibilities, and this in the sense of positive freedom, which means that you have been given the chance to better yourself, NOT the way conservative countries work, now called negative freedom (the American dream) where you have the right to do what ever you want but you never have the means to do it.

And when we live in a society of men and women and children and the rich and the poor, there's no "it's all up to you", when everything you do help everyone, and everything the people do in the end makes the world a better place for you too. As I said before, I wouldn't be at the university at the moment if we had tuition fees in Finland. But when I graduate in a few years, I'll be the one paying back for my own education with the work that I do, the work my free education allowed me to at least try out.

Hmm, I guess Scandinavia here I come.

Welcome, it's free.

Seriously though, tuition fees have been a huge subject of discussion around Europe. They raised them in Germany, but there was no objection because they were low to begin with. It's a great thing the brits are showing how they feel about it. Our own government suggested entering tuition fees, which aroused a lot of anger in the student community. I too was protesting. It didn't go through, of course. It's impossible to make a change like that when the whole schooling system is based on equal opportunities by a state-run school+university. I go to uni free, and it's among the 100 best in the world, so their arguments fell flat. Had they raised the fees/introduced ones, there'd be a lot of lower middle class families who'd never have the money to educate themselves. I for one would probably be a car mechanic once my sister had used all the college funds my parents gathered. If.