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The link to my key decided to work this morning. I am beginning to realise that I'm in a kind of sad relationship with technology. It promises entertainment and convenience but delivers mostly disappointment and humiliation. And I fall for it. Every time...

Thanks Lilith. I tried accessing it from my phone but that wasn't good either. If I can't sort it out I will email Spiderweb. Cheers.

Hi. I've just tried to unlock the Avernum 2 game and am having no luck. I went to the purchase page which gave me an option of paypal or amazon so I signed up to paypal (and paid for the key) who then sent me a link to humble bundle. I followed the steps to retrieve my key but the page for the final step says 'Safari can't open page'. I even signed up to humble bundle but still no joy. I then filled out the form asking for help but they said their 'Ninjas' would take about 3 days to get back to me. I this right? Have I missed something? It used to be that players could send c/c details to admin and the key was available immediately in one step without having to sign up to external sites. If there's a straightforward way to access my key (which I have paid for) could someone let me know please?

Thx Copernicus. I will investigate how to upgrade my clunky old beast.

The demo I've just downloaded says 'You cannot use this version of A2-TC with this version of Mac OS X'. This is most unexpected. My MacBook is from 2008 and uses version 10.5.8. Is my computer really too old to play this game? Ta's. waterplant.

We are all skeletons, deep down...

Deserts contain unique, fragile and intrinsically valuable ecosystems. Although there is scope to use deserts for energy production or other economic benefit, humans have a track record of mismanaging resource collection at the environment &/or local community's expense. Energy wastage is an enormous issue globally which could be addressed parallel to energy efficiency endevours. The UN recently estimated 1/3 of food produced globally is not consumed - the amount of resources used to produce this 'landfill' is surely significant.

guns r bad, ok.

Originally Posted By: Lilith what's all this fuss about baldur's gait anyway. did that thing of mistletoe hit him in the leg and make him all limpy or what An arrow to the knee...if ever there was one.

Originally Posted By: The Ratt Why not Geneforge: Forge? good question.

I'm disappointed to hear that someone has disrupted your work like this. How much better would the world be if everyone just left other people's stuff the hell alone. Hope you can sort it out quickly, Polaran.

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity I like the idea of a time stopping power, where I could just stop time for everybody else, for as long as I wanted. Unfortunately I don't think it really even makes sense. Do I stop time for the air? If I do, I can't hear anything. Or even move. And what about the air I need to breathe? Do I stop time for light? If I do, then I can't see anything. Even if I say that light can still propagate, do I let other people absorb and emit light? If I do, then time is not totally frozen for them, but if I don't, I can't see them. Would the planet stop revolving also? Wouldn't that create a whole series of other issues? The ability to grow a giant hand like in the Foo Fighters' Everlong video would be really useful for picking up large objects or cramming maximum M&M's in my mouth.

Originally Posted By: Harehunter ...it enrages me when I see legislation that would coerce them (the Catholic Church) into actions that are contrary to their beliefs. Is that what's happening in this particular piece of legislation, or just some political point-scoring? It would be up to the individual employee whether it would use any or all of the benefits covered by the insurance policy. Surely the Catholic Church would not impinge on a person's God-given (or Obama-given) free choice.

Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Excalibur What do you mean by libertarian? it's a word for librarians named Bert yay - free books!

Agreed. Enemies have staggered formations which makes some avoid AoE attacks. My party forms a nice orderly queue for spellcasters to hit.

Originally Posted By: Thin Gypsy Thief That is patently ridiculous. That's like saying after someone has seen what war can do to a person, only the mentally ill would consider being soldiers. Or that after seeing what age does to a person, the only rational course would be to commit suicide. The potential for negative outcomes - even grossly negative - does not eliminate the value of an activity, especially when a large portion of the information regarding drug use and what constitutes excessive drug use comes from biased, sensationalist, or simply unbelievable sources. Skepticism regarding what is and is not responsible drug use is not an irrationality. Nor does being open to using drugs mean that one suddenly begins behaving like a true addict. And even true addicts will rarely pursue their addictions to the point of the loss of all self-preservation. And people can certainly be coerced into drug use, but people are just as coerced - if not more - into drinking alcohol, simply because they're a part of a culture and society in which alcohol occupies a place as an acceptable drug. I would argue that alcohol consumption is consistently presented as the norm, and that deviation from that norm is socially discouraged, or at least looked on as strange. And in my personal experience, alcohol has a far more pronounced (and negative) effect on behavior than marijuana, in dosages excessive or moderate. As far as health, the health of a person is their own responsibility and their own concern, not the concern of legislators, society, or anyone but those directly dependent on them. Sound comment Gypsy. While ever a debate of this sort concentrates on the extreme effects it will ignore the vast bulk of cases where these effects aren't relevant. The abuse is often the problem not the activity itself. This then takes us into behavioral issues (which prison time will surely exacerbate).

The argument, as it appears to me, is whether a government should have jurisdiction over how people conduct their private lives - within reasonable parameters. I'm not sure how introducing thousands of young pot smokers into the criminal justice system every year is of benefit to anybody. The war isn't on drugs but, unfortunately, on drug users.

Elections in Australia happen on a Saturday. Some have said that voting on Tuesdays in US discourages people who can't afford to take time off work. Originally Posted By: Dantius I've never understood why people wouldn't want to vote. I haven't voted for many years despite being required to. The fact that the body elected by the populace to administer the nation is able to indiscriminately keep 'secrets' from the people they represent is not something I support. And there isn't a 'none of the above' option on the voting card. By participating I am sort of condoning a political/governance system (duopoly) that I don't believe is working.

I've been using armour with lower, or zero, to-hit penalty. Your armour % is reasonably high anyway so you could downsize to chest armour with lower protection but a bonus resistance (fire or whatever). I don't use any other armour with a to-hit penalty (greaves etc) with the exception of chest armour. By level 13 I was able to nail most boss foes.

Great article (the Guardian one). Europe's strength is it's culture. It kind of gets buried beneath a lot of this economics b.s.

Yep. My bad.

Originally Posted By: Kelandon If you want a conspiracy theory about business interests profiting from us invading Iraq, it's not the oil itself. It's the private security contracting and the rebuilding costs. Halliburton, etc. I don't know enough to say for sure how beneficial it was to them, but I was under the impression that they made out like bandits. By kind of acting like bandits. A doco called "Iraq for Sale" covers the Halliburton fraud fairly conclusively. War is a for-profit action. Robert (McNamara) stated in an interview that the war in Vietnam was never meant to be won - only sustained.

I want a confused smilie!!

Originally Posted By: Erasmus @Diki: congrats on the new avatar, it reminds of a game I used to play (can't remember which though) Very C64.

Originally Posted By: Erasmus Serves me right for trying to be a mitigator. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. That's what happens when you stand in the middle - you get belted from both sides . I agree with DK's Eschalon comparison in terms of the ability to be totally specific in character build. My party in EFTP works out - on the whole - pretty samish to every other Avernum I've played. Doesn't make the game unplayable for me tho'.