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He'll be missed by many. It's just hard to accept how such a respected man can leave us so suddenly, especially at what should have been one of the happiest times of his life. Those triplets will never know their father now. On a somewhat lighter note, Rangers put Werder Bremen out the UEFA cup. I'll take Getafe in the quarter finals.

A good friend from the Bethsoft forums has died. He was only 35. After all he'd been through in his life; fighting war affects even the strongest of minds, it's cruel that his life was taken by cancer. He's survived by his wife and four daughters, three of whom were born only a month before his death. He was a great person in every way. Having fought in war, I can only speculate as to what caused such bad cancer at such an early age, but I wont let my anger get to me. I feel sick.

Please please please can we have our independence now? Looking at the BBC Scotland listings, I can watch two English FA cup games (crap teams playing for the record), but neither of the Scottish Cup games (involving four of the top 6 in Scotland) >_> I wants good football!

"Eh, righto." Sums up my general apathy these days.

Only £500? Where did you get all the parts? I'm wanting an upgrade myself, but money is tight. I need a new graphics card, but for PCIs I'd need a new motherboard. The best I can do just now is a 7800. Wouldn't mind a new processor either, and some more RAM wouldn't go amiss... Pipe dreams for now though.

I remember these! As Sil said, they were such a let down

It's probably nothing to worry about. They'll just be crashing probes to create a DF for a fleetsave. Although why they're sending two... Noobs

I was too far north to feel the earthquake. Which is just as well given that I was getting some much needed shut eye. Been in a strange mood recently. Life's strange. EDIT: Ok, now I'm seriously piffed off. Just got an email. The petition: The full government respose. And the only relevant part:

Biffy Clyro - 57 I miss her

Happy birthday

Daft Punk - Digital Love

Either that isn't a real sheep's stomach (possible, but the ends look real), or they don't know how to cook a haggis right Cheers guys, but there seems to be a problem with your forum software. It says I'm twenty. That should really say "tenteen" I can still be a teenager, right? Right?

7 Seconds Of Love - Ninja Best video ever.

Using Imageready CS2.

Yeah, I know some of the guys on that from the forums. One of them got made a moderator not too long ago as well. If easter eggs is your thing, Morrowind has the best. First, you need to get the sword Goldbrand from the most obscure Daedric shrine quest. Then you need to be a vampire, and get an obscure quest from a mages guild member. Then you need to have exactly 11171 gold in your inventory when you report success to get Goldbrand changed into Eltonbrand. Bluedev (Mark Nelson) is one of the craziest and best devs in the business in my opinion. I only found this easter egg by closely reading dialogue in the construction set. EDIT: Yay/damn, Princess_Stomper just got made a moderator. Yay because she's nice and friendly, but damn because she makes some great mods for MW and Oblivion, and may not have as much time anymore

Yeah, a lot of effort goes into the TES wiki and similar sites. I'd actually say the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages actually eclipse the official wiki by far now. If it's about TES, it's on there. The Imperial Library also has every TES ingame book written I believe. Some of them are sheer genius. Read the 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 14 I believe it is EDIT: Morrowind barely touches your graphics card, it just hogs your processor power. Because of this, mods have been made to give Morrowind near Oblivion-like graphics, albeit not so cartoonish. Check out this. I bought Oblivion on release. It took about a month to get it working. It seems Bethesda "forgot" to optimize it. Morrowind came with its fair share of bugs on release as well though. Daggerfall was one of the most brilliant games ever, but it was bugged to the point of being almost unplayable.

My advice for Oblivion: Ignore the main quest. In fact, ignore most the faction quests. All except the Dark Brotherhood suck. Main quest is just "close teh oblivion gate!" and mages guild is just "kill teh nekromancers!". Other side quests are good though. So many good things were promised for that game that never saw the light (some understandably, but some blatant lies were told), and so many good features were removed that had been in the previous games. As great a game as Morrowind is, I've lost a lot of trust for Bethesda, and I fear for Fallout 3 and TES V. It's funny some of the threads in the Oblivion section at the Bethsoft forums. I saw one which was discussing things they'd have liked to have seen in Oblivion. Loads of people were saying a joinable Imperial Legion, joinable Imperial Cult, etc. Most of those new to the series didn't know that Morrowind had all them and more. Morrowind just had such a wealth of factions. Mage's guild, Fighter's guild, Imperial legion, Imperial cult, Temple, Morag Tong, 3 Great Houses and 3 vampire clans, of which you could only join one per game... And the land, while technically smaller than Oblivion in terms of square miles, had far more packed into it and was so much more varied, to the extent of seeming so much larger. And it had werewolves! When you get bored of Oblivion pick up Morrowind. You can get the GOTY version for only about £10 these days.

I think the sad day has come to accept the inevitable. I've killed Morrowind I can't play more than literally 2 minutes without a CTD. Resting causes a CTD, loading a quicksave causes a CTD, even stepping into the wrong cell causes one. I'll need to reinstall, but I don't want to lose the 150+ mods I have running with it, plus script editors and the likes. Sad day. I don't want to revert to playing Oblivion either, because it's just not as good Gin and tonic for me. Need to get studying.

Other planets? Are you inferring that Pluto is a planet?

Happy birthday!

7 Seconds Of Love - Twister

So, I made a 41 frame .gif for my desktop. All very nice and purdy, except some of the frames towards the end started to merge together, as well as some pixels moving themselves across the frame seemingly at random. I'm not too sure what the file size limits are for a .gif to work properly on the desktop, but the file is 7.09Mb, so I'm guessing I'll need to reduce that. Anyone got any explanations/suggestions?

"Had" being the objective word there. It's been down for a while now.

Mine's a 41 image .gif, but here's a snapshot.

MOBs know how to play, a lot of them just don't have the time anymore due to changing RL situations. MAD had to leave to do military service, another got engaged, anothers kid took ill... They also don't post a lot of their HOFs. I was shocked when I went on their forums and just saw how many hits they were making.