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Best of luck and speedy recovery to your wife! Have strength.

Oh yeah, the Saitek Cyborg Mouse... ¬¬ Chris?

Amazing thread.

Happy days!

Prince World of Warcraft power leveling Michael Jackson. What a hardcore name.

I played through the second episode a couple of days ago and mostly enjoyed it. Elaine was excellent and the LeChuck as a plot-twist didn't turn out to be annoying like I had suspected it to be. My major complaint about the episode is stupid. It is this: I didn't like the, however humanlike, non-human characters. They weren't nearly as bad as, say, the Jamaican monkey-fish-seahorse creatures in Sam & Max: Moai Better Blues, but they still didn't quite fit my Monkey island "universe". I can handle the zombie pox just fine, I only hope that the Season doesn't turn into a freakshow.

It's amazing how reluctant manufacturers are to including HDMI cables with their products, especially Sony with its PS3 who would still presumably want the customers to buy lots and lots of Blu-Ray movies. I have a neat Full-HD (1920x1200) monitor which I can easily hook my PS3 to. Unfortunately the television at my parents' house, where the PS3 (most of the time), an old Macbook Pro which amazingly still got repaired for free, and 5.1 surround system are, was bought when LCD-TVs were somewhat new so it is only 32 inches, isn't Full-HD and only has one HDMI port.

I actually already ordered The Sirens of Titan and Timequake as well as The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.

So I got Franz Kafka's The Castle for my birthday ages ago, bought Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics for a bit easier reading and downloaded Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle as an audiobook when I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. The Castle is incredibly well written, hazy and dreamlike, following its own logic that still makes sense to the reader. It is also, by far, the most frustrating novels I have ever read. Or tried to read, I gave up about a half way through. It's ok though, if I ever decide that I want to know if anything happens in the end* I can just pick from where I left because nothing significant hasn't happened so far. In case you'd like to read about a land surveyor with a brilliantly short name having troubles doing anything in a village filled with snow and bureaucracy by the castle, however, I can highly recommend this book. It's really quite good. I'm lazy so I'll just echo what Wikipedia has to say about Cosmicomics: "Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. An always extant being called Qfwfq narrates all of the stories save two, each of which is a memory of an event in the history of the universe." Some of the stories were good, some weren't very good. Sometimes the stories felt a bit too naive and sometimes they had an amazing hook in the end. It was an ok book. The theme didn't interest me that much to begin with and I would have rather read Invisible Cities or Mr. Palomar by the same author if this hadn't been the only Italo Calvino book available. Kurt Vonnegut is why I hate my preconceptions (or some other word that's more appropriate). I ignored him for so long for him being that German author of depressing and cynical novels about World War II and space. It was only after stumbling across his Wikipedia page that I found out that his books might actually be kind of interesting. I loved Cat's Cradle so much that after listening to about one third of it I went on and bought Slaughterhouse 5 and Breakfast of Champions, both of which I enjoyed very much as well. Now Kurt Vonnegut is easily one of my favourite writers of things. Actually, which Vonnegut book should I read next? *It seems that Franz Kafka died before he finished the book so it could be that nothing actually happens in the end.

My memories aren't sorted in a chronological order but I'd think the first game I played was either Tetris on some device or a bird quiz of some sort on a computer or a black and white game where you shot Saddam Hussein's giant face with a tank going left and right at the bottom of the screen. The first games I remember playing a lot were Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Golden Axe and a boulder dash clone with a computer hardware theme as well as various NES games I played at my friends house such as Duck Hunt, Super Mario, Captain Planet and that game with frustrating controls where you had to find parts for your spaceship.

That is a comparison between a time varying magnetic field and practically constant magnetic field of the Earth, though. The limits and guidelines are quite different for these two cases (see this 20 years old WHO thingy for instance). Nevertheless, the magnetic field strength in this application is still most likely to fall well below any of the safety regulations.

That was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid. I would kind of like to watch it again but I haven't found the courage yet.

Do you like Monkey Island?

When Windows XP was still my primary (and only) OS I actually used to do some desktop modding (or whatever) which counts as being something creative I guess. I used Samurize which was nice in that it had a WYSIWYG editor and that about 90% of the configs (~widgets) people made with the program were absolutely horrible.

Who was responsible for the "MOTHERFUCKING WIZAAARDS!" voicemail, by the way? That's one of the best "Wizard" I have heard. EDIT: Incidentally, this might be the best "Wizard" I have heard: Haven't watched the movie though, and I only know it in the Electric Wizard context.

I wrote a summary of an article about this technology a couple of years ago for an English class. I couldn't come up with a subject I wanted to write about so I just searched for an article with Tesla in it. Nice to see that there has been progress. I like how he was obsessed with both hygiene and taking care of sick pigeons.

hmm... edit: It was already mentioned in the update of the original story. Nevermind, I'm blind.

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2 And I agree in order to fill the minimum character limit.

I was absolutely stunned when I reached that level.

Was one of them some sort of cave? I stopped playing at that point, not because of the level itself but for some other reason I can't remember anymore. But I figured I wasn't missing much because the level didn't feel very interesting and I hadn't really been paying attention to the story anyway.

I played Desperados before I did Commandos but I, for some reason, assumed that it had copied pretty much all the gameplay mechanics from Commandos series. That's why I was very confused when I couldn't figure out how to queue actions in Commandos 2. You could do such awesome things with that in Desperados.

Awesome! (maybe) Commandos 2 is a fantastic game (although I liked Desperados a bit more for some reason). Never finished it though because I lost my saves at one point and didn't have time to replay all the levels. I guess I could cheat.

I know. It's just that I have decided to spread lies about you until I get the cyborg. :smilie:

Fun fact: Chris probably voted for this game in Independent Games Festival 2009 Innovation Award. (Episode whatever)