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Ugh. At my work we've had Christmas music playing for a week already. I don't even mind (too much) that it's WAY too early. What I do mind is how very few songs can fit on to a CD, and how very few CDs we are allowed to play. This year might actually see me break down completely. As for actual gifts, if I get a few days off because I've finished my coursework early I'll be pleased. If not, I'll be working through it, pretty much.

Apologies. Whilst my point about the CoC is valid, I should've left the link where it was: it was relevant, and you weren't soliciting, nor do you have any personal interest in the game. Sometimes this kind of things can be a grey-area, but I'll put the link back. Sorry again.

Hey, Rya, I've removed your link because soliciting custom for kickstarters (amongst other stuff) is against the board's Code of Conduct. Whilst it's cool to talk about other games and stuff, like the Bethesda games mentioned above, advertising for them is not.

Okay, this is almost certainly a bug, or at the very least some wonky coding that ought to be fixed. Maybe one of you could email SW and make them aware of the problem? Linking this thread might help. Jeff Vogel rarely reads the forums, but I'm sure he's pretty good with emailc.

Hey now, play nicely please. Stranger, there's no need to insult other members. Bushwhacker: A lot of the information for the original Trilogy is easier to find in walkthroughs on external sites, rather than in threads here. This is because Strategy Central threads just weren't around at the time. Anyway. At the top of the forum page (underneath the "Avernum" game logo) there should be a series of links for each game. The information you need is in there (in A2's case, for example, clicking the only link available takes you here: http://www.harehunte...s/mainmap2.html. Clicking "Character Stats" across the top will get you the information you needed on traits and statistics in A2).

My first BoA scenario. It was very short and not very good, but I'm sure it had a couple of Bills, working in a forge.

Ideally I'd like to say "philosopher who draws on/from psychology', but realistically he's probably slightly more psychologist. Zizek, on the other hand is definitely more philosopher, so you can have Lacanian theory both ways.

Those guys were great. I'm glad I rescued them from Elderan and put them in AGB.

Actually, that might be it, especially if you're playing on a newer computer. I recall BoA did similar things when i played it on my newer (Win 7, 64 bit) machine. I'm not sure if there's any way to fix this though.

Well, the two main ways I'm going to be drawing on Lacan are both just extensions of other theorist's work, because that's where I think Lacan really shines. For my first point, I'll go beyond Saussure's work with signs/signifiers/signifieds/referrents and explain how Lacan describes a system of language with no fixed meanings (using his arguments about the slipping of the signified beneath the signifier (which closes off access to the referrent), and the function of the objet a). With no fixed meanings, many potential meanings are created which are often virtually identical to one another, but which only have meaning due to their differences. I'll probably digress into talking about the Derridean trace here, but my point will be that language functions as literary doubles tend to do. Secondly, developing the Freudian notion of the unconscious (which can basically be read as a second consciousness inside the consciousness that we're aware of (or as a double of our consciousness)), I want to talk about the various splits that the infant/subject is subjected to during it's ascension/descent into the Symbolic. In 'The Instance of the Letter', Lacan basically says that the subject is inherently split as a condition of existing due to the misrecognition/recognition that occurs during the Mirror Stage.With the frequency that mirrors (and other reflections of literary characters (like paintings) appear in the texts I'm studying, it seems like a no-brainer to chuck this in, even if it's not as interesting as exploring WHY these internal projections are externalised!

I finish my undergraduate degree in... sixty days. Which means that right now I'm juggling work on a couple of shorter (3000-5000 word) papers covering topics such as 'the production of desire' and the 'importance of counter-cultural voices in post-War America', in addition to my dissertation. My dissertation is 10,000 to 12,000 words focusing on deconstructive readings of the Doppelganger in contemporary literature, and the notion of splitting/doubling as the result of writing. There's a bit of psychoanalysis in there too, because I seem unable to write an essay these days without quoting Jacques Lacan.

Some medals have been reported to sometimes unlock earlier or later than their descriptions mention Very rarely do they fail to unlock; they don't "tend to be bugged" at al

I think this was actually a feature in Exile, but it's been so long since I've played that I can't be sure.

I really hate to be a massive flake but I'm not sure I can make it tonight. I came down with an icky bug yesterday and hoped I'd get better, but if anything I seem worse today. I've called in sick to work so I'm going to spend the day in bed. Hopefully I'll feel somewhat better later, but obviously I can't say for sure. Sorry, guys.

I think both of these are the new Vanahati.

I guess to combat those situations where an enemy will attack from behind? I've sometimes lost my Mage in that manner.

I actually just tend to hoard money. Once I've bought all the special skills and every spell, I let my fortunes reach the gold cap, and just forget about it.

I went ahead and downloaded the document as a .pdf file, and then uploaded it to my webspace. You can find it here.

Are they hard to get in the US? Whenever I've spoken to people in America about crumpets, nobody seems to have a clue. Anyway, thanks everybody. First order of business: There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the "Millennium Falcon". You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations.

Nalyd gave some instructions on how to fix this over in the Tech Support forum, if it's really annoying you:

I think I still have some pokemon cards, though I didn't have many, and never played with them, just collected them for the prettiness. I also have a set of Clow Cards and Sakura Cards which I think can be used in a Top Trumps type game, but I can not read Japanese unfortunately so I guess I'll never know.

I'm sure there's a thing I said that I could probably post here, but eh.

What makes something "fun to read" is obviously subjective. I think that fiction should be at least a little challenging and engaging, and that novels should be, well, somewhat novel. That's not to say that I don't enjoy reading books that aren't intellectually stimulating though - sometimes that's fine, but ultimately texts like that leave no real imprint on my mind or my life. I have fun with both kinds of books, but one whilst one kind stops for me when I reach the end, the other is only just beginning. Your second point is trickier, and I think I need to answer properly, when I have more time, rather than on my iPhone during a break at work. I'll edit it in later.

I just finished a book. A most ridiculous book. It was difficult, it was dense, it resisted any attempts to read it at all. It didn't talk down to, or pander to the whims of its readers or its characters. Much like the main protagonist, for much of the novel the reader spends their time with their head up their Maas (it took me almost forever to pronounce Oedipa's full name properly). But this is precisely why it's brilliant. The humour is heavy, black and viscous. The plot is as absurd as it is sinister as it is utterly bewildering as it is smart. The characters are hilarious (literally, in one instance), but in a way that is almost as absurd as the situations they find themselves in - a personal highlight was Baby Igor's hairspray bombing. This is a text that treats its readers as adults, and why should everything be easily understandable, or explainable anyway? Like Oedipa, by the end of I was merely content to sit and await the Crying of Lot 49.

He actually already did remake Nethergate - Nethergate: Resurrection. Until that game stops working on modern computers, it's unlikely that JV will spend the time to update it again.